Good morning supervisor [inaudible] San Francisco travel association. As you know in 2013, 16. 9 million visitors came to San Francisco and contributed 9. 4 billion to the economy and many enjoy using moter vehicle tours. It provides with a number of option tooz learn about the city. This includes lanchlg and small operators [inaudible] we are appreciative and encouraged by your efforts to address the safety of not only the residence but the visitors who use these options. [inaudible] requires all tour drivers to use hands free communication technology. We caution the board to make sure any regulatedtory approach developed will not have the unintented consequences of limitingtory options by making the [inaudible] small and less popular options cannot apply. We are aware the supervisor has engaged in discussion with thetory Operator Industry and encourage the city to be open to continue that dialogue as this meser moves forward and also as it is imlmented in order to insure and address
As a last reminder please address Accident Commission you should know that they dont respond to questions during any Public Comment . No order to allow equal time for all. At the end of the comment if he e they may request staff to respond or not. With that on item 2 which is the president report just two quick observations in the interest of one off our supervisors commissioner mcdonnell i want to expedite comboet through as many items as quickly the Zoo Committee has all of the evidence on occasion from meeting at the zee and at city hall well meet anothers city hall for the next meeting. That concludes my comments that i comments from 9 president report seeing none, were on item 3 the general managers report audience deploring borrowing groundbreaking were hosting a groundbreaking on saturday on march 4. Its been opened and san franciscans have enjoyed the festivities we love that park to death but thanks to a over 71 thousand san franciscans have voted for improvements and prepare
Collecting boxes and the initiate it cutting down trees and closings trails and spraying areas of herbicides. It is not making sense. The concern is the health of people. It was pier seafoods there are 3 major problems trying to turn back the clock as indicated with the species and education efforts are expensive because plant keep come back and the education is established at the system and the plant need intensive care. When the blue barker i love trees especially and i participated in the planting of native plants and this was a disaster please keep the efforts in our park beautiful and kay says the prelims is gone too far and not improving the status quo. Im shocked at the number of healthy trees being cut down in grand canyon and many other as a San Francisco said theres areas im demanding a oversight now im opposed to kci terminal the trees of grand park cannon its bad for the system and Richard Johnson i was one of the persons working on accident major plant in south of sutter p
Community planning process deputy a conceptual plan for the renovation of south park. I have my colleague here to talk about the park and walk you through the other item your bagging being asked to approve today and a david. Im sure everybody is familiar with the park itself. Those are imagines the new configuration of the park restores the park part the master plan wants to address a few things the traffic calming slowing down traffic around the park and drainage issues regrading it settling. And hopefully accepting stormwater from the streets so no net increase from stormwater from of the park. You can see the plan there would be a large shared open area that has a pathway going through that on the right a grove of trees in the middle and about three or four plazas where the path thick evens to allow people to gather and picnic tables and lunch a childrens play area theres larger there now. Vegetation we want to maintains the existing trees and add the california native bike junk can
That i Electronic Device thank you, your honor turn them off their disrupt during the meeting and any conversations please take them outside if you want to comment we do request you fill out a blue card underlines the president announce otherwise each person will have 3 minutes to comment on each item. As a last reminder please address Accident Commission you should know that they dont respond to questions during any Public Comment . No order to allow equal time for all. At the end of the comment if he e they may request staff to respond or not. With that on item 2 which is the president report just two quick observations in the interest of one off our supervisors commissioner mcdonnell i want to expedite comboet through as many items as quickly the Zoo Committee has all of the evidence on occasion from meeting at the zee and at city hall well meet anothers city hall for the next meeting. That concludes my comments that i comments from 9 president report seeing none, were on item 3 the