Bertacelli. Supervisor farrell. Phil has been here every step of the way. This started with this started with two organizations that have now merged into a really wonderful one organization. Those two former organizations were brought us two great people to work with. They were Isabelle Wade and karen kid well. I dont know if either one of them is here today. ~ now we have matt owe grade i speaking to you from the merge park trust. Im sorry, San Francisco Parks Alliance. ~ we cant forget that, theyre doing so much. This is our parks citizens parks group. Okay, lizy hirsch, please come up. We want to raise hands with you. applause mary hobson. Jeff miller. [cheering and applauding] okay. And carina bonamo who was this incredible playground in the most beautiful park in San Francisco, weve already heard that online. It is now officially the most beautiful park in San Francisco. [cheering and applauding] with the most amazing playground. And this was a dream that carina had. She moved it
The big scissors. Why dont you guys come on in here. All right, hold on, were not there yet. Lets not do it yet. Be careful. All children with scissors, please be careful. All right. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Yeah ladies and gentlemen, Lafayette Park is officially open yea hello and welcome to the department and building inspection lunch program. We are talking today about earthquakes and we are going to talk about the issues that make us particularly vulnerable in San Francisco and talk about the policy issues and do Earthquake Response and hopefully in our earthquake recovery. Pat, who is a Structural Engineer and a guy that has looked at earthquake building upgrades in San Francisco, yeah. Than anybody and he has his earthquake dog harvey. Okay. Thats enough. And john paxton who is a part of caps and its a Community Action plan for seismic safety and sponsored by the department of building. And what are the significant impacts of earthquake and how can we mitigate that to meet
Hello and welcome to the department and building inspection lunch program. We are talking today about earthquakes and we are going to talk about the issues that make us particularly vulnerable in San Francisco and talk about the policy issues and do Earthquake Response and hopefully in our earthquake recovery. Pat, who is a Structural Engineer and a guy that has looked at earthquake building upgrades in San Francisco, yeah. Than anybody and he has his earthquake dog harvey. Okay. Thats enough. And john paxton who is a part of caps and its a Community Action plan for seismic safety and sponsored by the department of building. And what are the significant impacts of earthquake and how can we mitigate that to meet the goals we want to make. One of the things we want to talk about are, what are your reasonable expectations . People have different goals about what they expect. A lot of people say, i live in a house, the city wouldnt let me live in a house that wasnt safe, would they . I liv
Hello and welcome to the department and building inspection lunch program. We are talking today about earthquakes and we are going to talk about the issues that make us particularly vulnerable in San Francisco and talk about the policy issues and do Earthquake Response and hopefully in our earthquake recovery. Pat, who is a Structural Engineer and a guy that has looked at earthquake building upgrades in San Francisco, yeah. Than anybody and he has his earthquake dog harvey. Okay. Thats enough. And john paxton who is a part of caps and its a Community Action plan for seismic safety and sponsored by the department of building. And what are the significant impacts of earthquake and how can we mitigate that to meet the goals we want to make. One of the things we want to talk about are, what are your reasonable expectations . People have different goals about what they expect. A lot of people say, i live in a house, the city wouldnt let me live in a house that wasnt safe, would they . I liv
For the individual transit rider or for the muni vehicle . At appears that the proposal are for the vehicle to get to point a to point b at the sacrifice of the passenger to get from starting point a to their final destination point b. Elimination of stops. This means that the individual rider will have to walk a greater destination and the time it takes to walk from the discontinued stop this does not help the individual getting from point a to point b and this certainly hinders the elderly, the disabled and parents with small children by eliminating stops. One of the best features of muni it has convenient stops for its ridership, but yet, that seems to be in jeopardy. Please note it will still take the same amount of time for a passenger to board and disembark a vehicle whether its at one stop or another. So its not a major savings by eliminating stops. The other element, stoping to pick up passengers and blocking lanes. Every time a bus stops it blocks a traffic lane and that will