Its the only thing we have to fix it because if someone has alleged and shown there is work beyond the scope of permit, i guess what else could we do other than to correct that through the permitting process . But then again, it happens again. And there is mr. Fixit again, which enables it fixes it, but enables. Thats strike two. Right. So in addition to my, you know, dislike of section 317, there is also weaknesses in our enforcement process, whereby generally for assessment of penalties, its only if someone is nonresponsive. So if you speed, you get a ticket. And that ticket is going to cost you something. That does not exist in the planning code. At most, what we do and what the code allows, we can assess its for our enforcement time so time and materials and then 2,000 added onto the cost of the permit. And that is what we have in order to penalize. What i understand, this is happening once or twice, where is the penalty . How do we stop someone from doing this again . I dont have
Incorporating more technology in communicating with our riders about our services and such. We partner with slide wheel to allow our paratransit taxi riders to use their app to request a taxi. In particular, if you are a wheelchair user, you can specifically ask for a wheelchairaccessible taxi using the app. We have launched a taxi online portal, which allows for paratransit taxi riders to pay their portion of the taxi of their taxi debit card as well as view their trip history and report lost or stolen cards through this online interface. And we have two advisory committees who advise the m. T. A. Paratransit about the accessibility issues that they face throughout the city. One of them is the paratransit council. This is comprised of paratransit riders, Service Providers and communitybased represent i haves. They advise the m. T. A. On Service Quality issues with paratransit as well as help assist us in policy development. The second one is the multimode accessibility advisory commit
Does anybody have anything to say . Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. The next agenda item is number two, approval of the minutes for december 17, 2019. We will need a motion to approve. I move to approve second. Any Public Comment on the minutes from december 17, 2019 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner perez [roll call] all right. The Meeting Minutes have been approved. The next agenda item is a report from our executive director. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. Its been since november since ive seen you all in this setting. So this is fun to be back. Happy new year. And i wanted to take a moment and thank Senior Analyst rice, dylan, just for being Commission Secretary tonight while crystal is on a welldeserved vacation. My only update for you all this evening is relative to new years eve. This is one of our biggest evenings of the year that we prepare for and we provide information to all of the other city agencies for Situational Awareness abo
Clerk. I would also like to thank jim smith and matt at sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Do you have any announcements . Thank you. Please ensure you have silenced your cell phones. Your speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items today will appear on the december 17th agenda unless otherwise stated. Do i have a motion to excuse supervisor brown. So moved. Thank you. Mr. Clerk please call item two. Resolution authorizing the Planning Department to confirm existing and create new and resized designtions of Priority Production areas by the association of bay area governments and the metropolitan Transportation Commission as part of the planned bay area 50 update. Thank you. I am proud to expand this citywide alongside supervisor fewer. It is important for San Francisco to plan for our own future to pro actively say where we want more housing and to plan for increased housing density alongside improvements to Public Transit and important in. Structure. We must do this with the
[ ] i am the supervisor of district one. I am sandra lee fewer. [ ] i moved to the Richmond District in 1950 mine. I was two years old. I moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here. [ ] when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. It seems so far away. For a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. The stress was storage of the birthplace of that. My father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. It just started to grow very organically. It is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the Richmond District. As russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. So parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the Russian Community and immigrant Russian Community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [ ] i think as l