Amount of office space in believes that are dedicated as a historic landmark it was amended to incorporate the recommendations of the Planning Commission and unanimously recommend the approval of that legislation lets take Public Comment on this item any Public Comment on item 3 . Okay seeing none, Public Comment is closed at this time colleagues any further discussion all right. Motion made by supervisor kim for a with a positive recommendation seconded by supervisor wiener this motion passes unanimously thank you very much without objection madam clerk call item 4 item 4 a hearing on the pavement of Parks Program. Great, thank you thank you, supervisor wiener is the author of this item and will present and lead the discussion. Thank you, madam chair i called for this hearing on the xachlt program to receive an update on the program how its pressed and this champs and make sure it is succeeding in the philanthropy as ill recall the pavements and Parks Program is a Innovative Program t
We can focus our effort to maximize our goals of providing open space throughout the city this past year the paperwork alliance helped us to identify a number of facts and circumstances where we might start looking at specific areas of the city we also work with a variety of sponsors and sponsor types of were familiar with the cafes but particle moving forward were looking forward to creating deep and meaningful relationships with nonprofit we have projects with the museums and Art Galleries we will get into later our response depended on the types of projects theyre working with the city we have a dive type of responsibilities to their pavement to parks is an Interagency Program and Planning Works closely and work with public works as well as mta to administer many of the functions related to the projects also moving forward we recognize that it is really important to understand what the impacts of our projects are what are the Community Generated installations projects doing for they
Zero we also, of course foster the approach and courage the Public Safety in our neighborhood we support the local businesses and are strong with partnerships and working with the stewards so businesses are part of the process so we also support the local business we have the program has many functions and generally our idea and our work is reidentified and facilitated through the Community Issues to create the public spaces we assess the potential we look at the geography equity and moetdz modes of transportation below our capacity to the strpd we offer the design and work with all the agencies of the city and the elected offices and the stakeholders we do enforce the very thorough and strong standards Design Standards for Operations Maintenance also and we do Quality Controls to look at post elevations and provide leadership nationwide as youll see in the rest of the presentation our criteria theyre both physical and social so it is important to us to look at places that have very wi
Wonderful example of what the park let can do heres diagonal parking in the outer sunset and we also see how the park let form can be adapted and malleable here on powell street for two blocks on both sides of the street having an acute pedestrian population a couple of the parklets rep where were pushing the program and the exciting collaboration like the annex it north beach and the path and design in the dog patch and laurie will talk about our case studies. Thank you looking at our plazas we we mentioned easily we have 6 plaza installed for the administration stage and 3 are upgraded to permanent and we have done a lot of work around those and the idea of the plaza to take a process that minimum ice cream the planning process by accelerating in terms of prelims we have rather a Robust Community outreach and the week traditionally starts with within demonstration that helps to like a seed for recipe to see change coming to their neighborhood it helps to visualize the Street Corner o
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