From william sandavere professional manager of clear water [speaker not understood] and study related to the proposed street encroachment at 54 peralta. We as neighbors need the assurance that this development is not going to have a negative effect on the flow of rainwater that often races down the steep roadway in the winter rain. The analysis presented by the developers has been has been termed inadequate by mr. Vandavere as a representative of clear water hydrology and we feel it would be prudent for them to follow the amended guidelines set by him to try and determine a plan that would do the least harm before moving forward on this project. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is carl [speaker not understood]. I live at 8 peralta, same block. Id like to read a short thing here. I believe no one should have a right to make any park, that any park of the already steep sidewalk steeper. Some of our residents would not be able to utilize an even steeper sidewalk. Within this on
Is supervisor david chiu. Our clerk today is victor young and on our sfgtv staff are Jessie Larson and carolyn lauber. Mr. Clerk, are there any announcements . Yes. Please turnoff electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Item acted upon today will appear on february 26, 2013 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. And before we begin, supervisor kim has an announcement to make. Thank you, chair wiener for allowing me to make this announcement. Going on not just for those in the room but watching on tv. In the north light court we are hosting a bone marrow drive re industrial and it is an opportunity for anyone that is in the building to come in and get schwabed to potentially become a donor for someone in need of a bone marrow. For a friend who did it recently, it is an Incredible Opportunity to save someones life. We are doing it in honor of an individual that has be
Was jumping and it would jump theoretically as they suggested, jumping over the sidewalk, jumping over the curb onto the sidewalk, it would have happened previously. The picture doesnt show that. The video didnt show that. Also they showed the sidewalk thats running down behind the retaining wall. While it was wet, there was no runoff. There was no rainwater that was noticeable running in a stream like a [speaker not understood] in this case. So, theres nothing that was happening that we can demonstrate that can be clearly demonstrated even on the rainstorm that theyre suggesting. Finally, there was a previous video that showed rainwater running along the yard at the front yard area further down on a previous video on the last presentation that we provided. Well, one thing we recognize. With the construction of the building as proposed, the footprint of the building, all that rainwater that would normally run down the hill as rain would be capture and had brought into the rainwater lea
Allocated to urban agriculture. So, that identified that these departments were playing a leadership role. The second recommendation, the one that im here to speak a little bit more on key tail on, is that the rec and Park Department should be the lead agency for the urban ag program. And finally, that San Franciscos public spending on urban ag is significant and should be used to leverage new private investment. Were really excited to have someone on board who can help us look for private funding to leverage this position and i also want to emphasize that were hoping that this addition would be a permanent part of the city budget so that rather than it be a temporary thing obviously based on the success of the position, that this role would continue for the foreseeable future. So, just briefly, in the process during the Strategic Planning process during the fall, the rec and Park Department was asked to put together sort of presentation for substantiating why would the department want
Similarly, there are bus shelters, because of our bus shelters are rather wide, there are some sidewalks where you almost have to walk single file to get past the bus shelter. So, one of my legislative aides is here and we have some photos were going to show of some examples around the city in terms of our placement of Street Furniture. ~ andres powers is here is that andres power with supervisor squalor. Ill show a quick set of slides with some of the issues weve asked the department to speak about ~ and as the supervisor has mentioned in his introduction. So, here, we see sort of a large kiosk intersection crowding at one point a pedestrian crossing. We is see all kinds of random pieces of furniture on sidewalks blocking pedestrian access. Some of it, again, useful, some of it questionable. We have a large advertising kiosk and hidv that is you may or may not be able to see the pedestrian crosswalk, visibility obviously is quite obscured. We have portable we have toilets, public toil