2014, and we also have done the survey result and we have good things to share about that and we ask some questions, specific about jefferson street, and some questions that we have asked throughout the years to see how the people think about the wharf and gauge it what we have seen the down trend of the neglective comments and the respondents were asked an open question and do you dislike most about the wharf, the number one response is that there is nothing. And so i love that and so the issues are regarding the public realm that shows the wharfs improvement, and the answer is too crowded and lack of seating appeared in all three surveys but the numbers have decreased as you can see in 2006 it went from 25 and up in 2010 and now at 15 percent and the people that answered and lack of seating and they dont like it decreased 3 to 1 percent and when one of the goals was to create an atmosphere that stays at the wharf and those staying one hour less been on the decline in 2006, eleven per
Counts at the wharf. So a lot of people. And we are tracking phase one and the impact that it has had on the community and that is what i want to share with you right now. Impacts of jefferson street one and we track 18 businesses on the block of jefferson street from july to november of 2013, this will be the first months that the street opened and we could really gauge how it was having an impact and when impairing the gross sales to the same period in 2012, businesses increase month to month and between 10 and 21 percent on average they generated 1. 5 million more han the Previous Year and added 150,000 more in sales tax during that 5 move period. With the changes to the phase one and how the signage was accompanying the street and the parking lot known as the triangle parking lot, and with the parking control officers in place from june to august and restricting off of jefferson street the public is accessing a lot from the sources like powell and taylor streets and in 2013, there
Wanted to say is this is a generation that faced the greatest scourge of our lifetimes. My parents who were in two wars have not even seen this. I want to thank my colleagues, my friends, who stood up here to talk about this. To live to this point, to survive, then to be faced with this, loodsing your income, back in the day i lived in virginia for 28 years. They said long before hiv or aids killed you, it would strip you of your dignity and thats what will happen when these people get to that age and they loods their income and they lose their homes. In our program they say the First Priority is to keep your house, the second is to be fed then they will worry about all the other thingses. Echoing the getting to zero, it may not be aids related but i guarantee if they are homeless on the street, taesz bus of hiv and disability. I think the system, you have to give hope to the people. Actually ill just leave it at that. You have to give hope to the people. They have already been through
Written directors report the prototype plan we have convened with the yerba buena for the arts and the james Arts Foundation that is funding that this week well be 45 installations of plans on Market Street to prototype a different way of using artists and arithmetic and Getting National and a, in Fact International attendance it is very interesting we at the present time, a lot of people in town to look at what we can do for market those are temporary but prototypes for future installation under from the 9th through the 11 a website thats attached to our website it is linked youll see a number of events happening that does that for me thank you. Commissioners item 2 review of past events. Good afternoon tim frye a couple of items this week first of all guarantee joe i dont have a form report but a couple of items one was last week, we held a mills act workshop within the tenderloin register district we had Eleven Property owners there i think about thirty members of the public attende
To jefferson street and also the expansion of tail lor street and the pier 43 promenade where a lot of seating was added. Something else that exciting to see that in 14, 15, 121 million, by private businesses and there is one on here, no, i remove this sorry, but the wax Museum Building and the pirepresentative, and the hotel and all of these businesses have been putting a lot of money in, considering 14, 15, 121 Million Dollars is more than the years of 2013, 12, and 11 combined and so this is a trickling of a Capitol Improvements being put in by private businesses in the wharf and the visitors reactions have been good as well when asked what they thought about the changes and three fourths of the visitors approved or strongly approved of the changes and only less than 2 percent dressed any degree of disapproval of what has been done and phase one of a redesigned jefferson street in june of 2013, and two years since this completion and we see these numbers and these survey results to