Airports and kaebz and went to the airport with the letter g and also businesses who have allowed their employees to get gs just to go to work they dont live in San Francisco and have letter g. I do losses of preservation for Northern California i see the letter g. S all the way to sacramento they live in sacramento and have a letter g. For San Francisco thats not right. I go to the Baptist Church been there since i was a baby they need to check the parking slips and because it is not helping causing neighbor against neighbor friends against friends we dont need thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Im cheri im one of the many people who are opposed to r vp in the area when i first harder about the proposal i thought i was in the minority but i have found the vast majority of people oppose that especially the way the some is set up on the creative side that makes this little bubble it seems like everybody is for it when the vast majority of people does not ap
Narrow and a lot of the hop on hop off busses have been shifted over to mccallister street instead of being actually operating on the square. Another thing i wanted to mention was with regard to the travel association saying that obviously they are disappointed since they have alamo square on their brochures, they might have to change this, but i did have a question as to whether the neighborhood was ever consulted with in the first place when this was put on their brochures. To my knowledge i dont think we were. And i strongly support option 1 and i appreciate all the research and meetings and help that jerry robins has given us in the past few years. Next speaker, please. John morris, todd geist, todd olive. Switch over to the overhead. There you go. Good afternoon, mr. Morris. Theres the view thats become so popular. Its funny, that was the view on the opening of full house, the television show. Looks like we have a full house here today, a very important issue for us neighbors. Ive
John dallas, christine that odonnell good afternoon. Thank you for hearing us, im john dallas with the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association. A couple, 4 years ago i kind of started this ball rolling because i was trying to have a conversation on my sidewalk and i couldnt hear the person i was talking to, it was a saturday morning and the busses were so loud and so frequent i thought this was starting to be a problem. When we began, when alamo square originally contacted mta and asked about our options we asked for a ban. We didnt ask for option 1 and we didnt ask for option 2, we asked for a ban of the buses in our neighborhood just like the 52odd other areas. I dont think we need to accommodate them with a parking area, i dont think we need to lose neighborhood parking. These guys dont belong here, they are too big, they are dangerous. The reason they are being blocked in all parts of the city is because they dont block, they are too big. They are bad neighbors, they dont belong, we
Street as well. And on hayes street as well so i dont see any advantage in restricting them only to that particular avenue. The problem of course with option 2 is that hayes street will simply become a kind of a boulevard for tour busses and there will be a lot of them. And i certainly wouldnt want to be a resident on that street under those conditions. I urge you to support option no. 1 because i believe that those tour busses are completely out of scale to the neighborhoods in which they navigate the streets and they are a hazard to all vehicular traffic as well as pedestrian and bicycle traffic. There is no way that you can logically expect a bus that advertises that if you think this bus is big, you should see our airplanes, could possibly make a reasonable turn on any of the antique streets that surround the area. So i believe that you need to seriously to eliminate them completely from the Historic District and allow the Tour Companies to come up with smaller options that benefit
For many people thats not a way that will work for them, for example a business person who is here for meetings may only have a couple hours free time to experience the city. Someone who has arrived for a longer visit may like the idea of an introductory tour to give them an overview so in those cases guided tours such as we provide are a terrific way. We take very seriously our responsibility to deliver high quality tours for our visitors. No. 1 they are paying customers and no. 2 we are in many ways ambassadors for the city. It feels like as neighborhood after neighborhood becomes off limit to tour vehicles pretty soon were going to be restricted to Market Street van ness and lombard going to the bridge. You cant experience the real character of San Francisco just on those streets. The neighbors have very legitimate concerns but option 2 is a legitimate compromise. Good afternoon, my name is e. J. Potente, i live on fillmore street which is on the route of the double ducker tour buss