Good afternoon, and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco supervisors board today, on monday, november 16, 2020. I am the chair of the committee, aaron espeskin and joined by vicechair, supervisor safai and the committee member, dean preston. Miss major, do you have any announcements . Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect the Board Members and the City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, the members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stay at home order and declarations and directives. The Committee Members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting as to the same extent as if physically present. Comment is available on channel 26, 78 or 99 as well as sfgovtv. Org and are streaming the number across the stream. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. And its an oppo
Extra opportunities to them as well. I want to thank everyone working on this project for their thoughtfulness and for your listening ear. Thank you, commissioner. Vicechair, any questions or comments . I dont have too may be questions. I wanted to make a comment that i thought that the effort by the soma hotel to reach out to the firm fu for our Consulting Services for onsite artwork was creative, and something they think that does help, certainly, the older community. I want to commend that creativity and the only question that i have is really more on activation . And obviously were in covid and obviously we all know this, the comments from the public are like this and a Significant Impact on the hospitality industry. So im just wondering if theres going to be a slow rollout in terms of activation . Im just curious in terms of the activation of the space and the hotel itself next year. This is eric smith. I can probably field that question. You know, the activation with space and th
Else. Im here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to Parks Program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. Parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a Community Driven program. The program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted were here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. Yeah. We partnered with the pavement to Parks Program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot Community Ga
Morning . Thanks for giving us that beautiful shot. Thank you so much for joining us on a saturday morning. Im kira klapper. Vianey arana has your microclimate forecast. I havent seen you since. Yeah, it was just me and my boyfriend hanging out. It was cozy inside and as it should have been because it was cold. Right . Its cold right now. Were officially below freezing in the north bay. Fairfax right now is at 28 degrees. That is so cold, can you imagine the patchy frost out there, expect to see it on some wind shields because even in san jose, 34 degrees right now. The winds are light, not really a factor but its so clear. Were not seeing any clouds in sight. Look at how beautiful San Francisco is waking up. 46 degrees. Got nice pink hues overlooking the skyline there. Heres a closer look at what we are monitoring for this weekend. Also heading into the workweek. Dry pattern continues. Full forecast coming up in a few minutes. Wow. Below freezing in the north bay. Thanks so much. A fa
Died. Hospitalization rates are increasing dramatically. 50 in the last two weeks across the country, 55 in california. Consistent with these increases across the nation and state, we are seeing the local cases in hospitalizations continually decline. Many cases deaths and hospitalizations can be prevented if we follow the basic measures that we know prevent the virus. Now, lets look at some data. Slide one, please. This slide shows how the surge is in relation to prior increases in San Francisco. Today 14,600 people are diagnosed in San Francisco and resulting in 158 deaths since the onset of the pandemic. As you can see from this slide, we see an aggressive increase in cases week over week. For the weekending november 18, we averaged 118 new cases per day. Compare that to the prior week, november 11, when we averaged 95 cases per day. At the beginning of the month, the weekending november 4th, we averaged 73 new cases per day. As the slide shows, we are approaching the surge case rat