As our aggressive plans layout and of course many of us may still need to drive at times including people with disabilities and those jobs which cannot be reached by transit and we need to encourage others to walk, bike and other kinds of modes of transportation to in decrease congestion. Also we need to challenge what San Francisco State University author and big writer cause auto mobility that everyone feels the need to driver in our city. I think we are making progress to improve the safety and effectiveness of many other options. Like today in our new law goes into effect at 3 foot bike buffer so that bicyclist can have at least three 3 feet of space away from cars and major corridors as they are riding their bikes. It will help make our streets safer and improve our efforts towards vision zero in the city making biking safe for children and families. Today im calling with supervisor avalos for a sponsor for improving bike access on muni buses and light rail vehicles. It included e
The support negative necessary to hire a lawyer and remain here with their families. I want to thank supervisor campos for bringing the item forward. I think this is a great effort and i hope this makes a real difference and i hope we can get reports on the progress. Thank you. President david chiu colleagues, do we need a roll call vote . Can we do this same call same vote . This item passes on the first reading. [ applause [ cheers and applause ] president david chiu with that, at this time why dont we go to general Public Comment. Madam clerk . City clerk sf Public Comment. Public comment at this time, members of the public may address the board on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the board will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting with one exception. When the agenda item has already been reviewed in a public hearing at which membe
Can we do this same call same vote . This item passes on the first reading. [ applause [ cheers and applause ] president david chiu with that, at this time why dont we go to general Public Comment. Madam clerk . City clerk sf Public Comment. Public comment at this time, members of the public may address the board on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the board will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting with one exception. When the agenda item has already been reviewed in a public hearing at which members of the public were allowed to testify and the board has closed the public hearing, your opportunity to address the board must be exercised during the Public Comment portion of the calendar. Each member of the public may address the board for up to 3 minutes. If it is demonstrated that comments by the public will exceed 15 minutes, the pr
Can we do this same call same vote . This item passes on the first reading. [ applause [ cheers and applause ] president david chiu with that, at this time why dont we go to general Public Comment. Madam clerk . City clerk sf Public Comment. Public comment at this time, members of the public may address the board on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the board will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting with one exception. When the agenda item has already been reviewed in a public hearing at which members of the public were allowed to testify and the board has closed the public hearing, your opportunity to address the board must be exercised during the Public Comment portion of the calendar. Each member of the public may address the board for up to 3 minutes. If it is demonstrated that comments by the public will exceed 15 minutes, the pr
Improved the Response Time for if i fixing broken lights there is more work to do and focused on streets and not sidewalks. The legislation im introducing today will establish city streetlights in a number of way. First a uniformed shared standard for streetlight repairs so that simple outages need to be corrected within 48 hours of being reported. Too often we hear about lengthy delays of a report of a burned out streetlight and streetlight being repaired. The legislation will require that city policy be to transition our streetlight system from streetlights that light roads, streetlights that are pedestrian grade in other words that lights our sidewalks. These streetlights are so critical to neighborhood safety and our quality of life that makes no sense to have lighting that are lighting streetlights and blocking streets from trees below them. This requires that at any time that 50 percent of Street Lighting on a street is being upgraded or added, an evaluation is conducted for conv