Rollout city wide is fantastic. To your point, it is probably almost invisible to most people who use it except people will be able to park more easily and the apps that will be available to let people see what those rates are because i can see that might be someones concern they park the car and it was x per hour. They dont maybe know if they dont check ahead of time if they went up two blocks it would be cheaper. Are we going to on our lovely new web site let people know which apps to use not while driving but before they go out to try to park . I think that is a good idea. We did that with sf park. Not endorsing anybody if you are interested in finding the information these are the places to visit. I will write that down i support this and continue to support sf park. It has helped merchants, drivers, street safety. I love it. Directors do we have questions . If this is going to increase at most in 20 . So 80 is unchanged and of the 20 some will go down and some up. At most by 1 per year, is that right . I cant guarantee the breakdown how much is going up, staying the same or going down. The tests have indicate 80 the same. What i am hearing it is a small fraction of the meters we expect to see any kind of rise in parking rates. That is a very compelling point. Also because a quarter every quarter basically. It is not like anybody is going to see the rates jump up to 5 or 6 even if it goes there, it would take a couple years where the rates are now, right . And demand driven, right . That is correct on the first point only 20 change based on the analysis we have done and how things are today we expect that small number one out of five in the city would see the initial change. Over time the dynamics of the commercial areas and neighborhoods change. Having this policy in place will let essentially the driving market determine that. It may be over time that 20 grows or may shrink. Potential will be there for anywhere in the city to reduce the meter prices when too high and increase when too low. It is a very good presentation, and i am not for the very reason you say i am not concerned the potential for increases violate the indexing policies around the meter prices. This is demand driven and focused. I dont have that concern. I dont think this should be viewed as a blanket parking meter increase. I am glad you raised that. Then just to follow up on what the chair said. I know you have written it down. You said people wont notice. I know that the increases will be modest, but i think what the director said is important and why we need to communicate the act of people to see their Parking Options before they leave their homes or wherever they are going. At some point one of the dye namics people are looking at pricing for parking maybe driving isnt the best option here. It will have that effect on dynamics. In any event i dont have the concern about the overall rate increases. I would very much support the idea without advertising letting folks know through the website the ways to monitor the information in advance. Just to comment on that. We are inundated with people interested in getting the data. I have met personally with a lot of groups. I think there are some so yes, absolutely. We are working in that direction. I think there are people interested in broadcasting this information and interested in broadcasting to the public that they have this information to get the word out. I am very supportive. This is great. A lot of people have seen great turnover. I find that on the rare occasions that i am in a car somewhere it is easy to find a parking spot. The comment on the higher end of the side, looking at what private garages and also valet are charges, right . You can get to the higher end when we go too high we push people to private garages or valve lay parking instead valet parking. When we start on the downtown water front where increasing the rates we are competitive. We are obviously very competitive today. Any more comments i am looking forward how much safer the streets become. When parking is easy it is the dangerous time to ride a by success on friday night through my ride a bicycle on friday night. I look forward to the opportunity to make parking easier so people are less frustrated and less double parking and the flow of the street is so much nicer when people can find places to park. Whatever we have to do, i support it ease of payment has helped with the new parking meters so many option to pay. The safety of the streets we will see a Merchant Group come to ask for the meters to run later than 6 00 p. M. In the evening. Do we have Public Comment . Is elyza here . Christy wang here . All right. Is david still here . Jim lazarus. It will be christy, jim, followed by howard. We promote Good Government in the strain bay area through research and education. I am here to express support for the city wide demand responsive pricing program. We believe by applaying the pricing we can better manage demand and reduce congestion. Being smart how the city uses the supply will support safety on the streets and encourage the commercial activity while keeping us moving. We have seen the success in the sf park pilot which successfully demonstrated demand responsive parking can decrease parking search time and increase shopping time and reduce hourly parking rates. I will stop repeating things. I hope we can extend these positive out comes to the rest of the city beyond where the pilot was. I want to mention we know you are looking at the future of the curb, an area that is a valuable piece of real estate. It is a great sign that we will be looking at the curb as an important park how we look at the city. Thank you very much. That is it. Next speaker please. With had the pleasure of being an early cosponsor to urge the federal government to make the grant to the city six or seven years ago and welcome this program. Those around a long time know parking meters for something out of the 1950s. Some remember when you can put pennies in them. We still have policies and i think it was mentioned why 6 00 at night . Why not sunday when stores are open when they used tok closed . I have been down that path before. I look behind. There werent a lot of people following me. I think it is something to think about. But i certainly appreciate the success in the pilot programs downtown through the merchant areas where this is rolled out. Usually sum full. It is a good program. For the first time this isnt occasionally raising rates just to rate the rates. They are tied to demapped. They will go down demand. They will go down at peak hours you can see it in the civic center area. We support it and look forward to publicizing it with our neighborhoods throughout the city. Thank you very much. Vice chair. I note that jim stayed through the meeting to make that presentation. You have been supporting the program. Thank you for your support. We very much value what our Business Community says up here. For you to come down and tell us that and wait through that is meaningful to us. It is great to close on a happy note. Hearing this great report and covering everything. I would say that there is a paragraph in the book that shows how people walk to save a dollar or two an hour in parking and everybody finds their budget. I support you. Someday maybe we will extend the times to sunday. We heard from the synagogue. They asked for free parking on saturday. They didnt do it. Maybe they should. Go on with this. It is great. Then this business about using the curbs maybe we will have more parks and that will drive it out. More yellow and. Zones that we need. You will know what will happen you will be able to infer what will happen with the parking rates when you do these important things with the curb. Not only do you use it for adjusting rates but you will have it right from the meters without the complicated expensive things in the sidewalk. Thank you. Last and not least. Steven cornell. Good afternoon. I am representing the Council District merchants and our president. There is a couple groups out there. The district merchants which is in the neighborhood the Overall Group this. Is also something the nta set up a Small Business working Group Meeting over a year. Almost every other month. Both of these groups this subject has not come up. This program has not come up to us. It sounds like a good thing. I know a lot about the pilot program, but what has happened what are the statistics, where we go from there is never brought to us. I think since it is happening in the neighborhood as a group it would be a good thing to do. What we are asking for is postponement of your decision until we can sit down, hear about it, hopefully come back and say we love it and go ahead with it. To be left out of it as a group is very upsetting. That is one thing we have been asking for a long time. I think the Small Business working group is what is formed because we have been left out all of the time. Here is an example of that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any more Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. I will close Public Comment. Could i ask a question. I know that we did outreach to the chamber. I dont know if anyone presented downtown to the group. Perhaps that can speak to outreach to the small Business Community as i mentioned, i sent emails to just about every Merchant Group we could find Contact Information for. I started by trying to contact every Merchant Group in the existing park areas to say this is going on for five years. I would love to hear how it is going. I talked to many of them including the Market Business Association chair. I talked to him about it in 2016 and sent emails to all of the people we could find the Contact Information for. We got about 13 that said yes, we would love to have the presentation and i gave out the presentation we focused on the council merchants. We reached out several times with an extended cop very session with the head of that in october when it looked like there would be on the calendar for october 17th. I sent follow up emails within the past couple weeks thanks for the information, thanks for keeping us in the loop. That is the story of the outreach over the past 18 months i know you have been doing outreach. I would say council might want to start with them and work from there because i think that people would be supportive otherwise. I think because people didnt get a proper presentation i think it is important because you know our Small Business is the backbone of the city why people live here and why it is so vibrant. It is an over sight. I understand you made efforts and it might have been easier to go to the council in the first place. I support this. I heard steven. I am disappointed. Henry sent out something in the last few days. I dont know what happened. Whatever we can do to get out in front sooner with the merchants because i think they will be supportive as long as we just give them enough time to know about it. Than you very much. Do i have a motion to approve. Second. All in fair aye. Hearing none. This motion is and proved thank you very much for your work and presentation on it. The better Market Street project directors, the better Market Street is a project you have had great interest in over the years. I started working on it two or three years before you hired me for this job. It has a long history. That is in part because you know Market Street is probably the most complex street this is a slow process to advance the idea that as we fix the infrastructure of Market Street the lions share of the project we can build it to be a better street to work for the different ways people want to use it. The good news is the bad news it has taken along time and we tested your patience and my and others. Good news in the last year or so or less than that we had a breakthrough in terms of identifying a path that might optimize the various modes. In the Environmental Review process we look at numerous alternatives. Working with different agencies. We found something that is the most promising solution. We wanted to give you an update. You have been asking for updates for a while. This is an opportunity to give you a complete look at the current thinking for this complete Street Project and looking forward to your feedback. A number of different public works and mta staff here. The project manager for better Market Street has been for quite some time now from public works will lead the presentation. Thank you, directors. I have a presentation. It did not make it safe error make them feel safer. It was designed so that paratransit and taxis to cull up on to the cycle track and access the sidewalk. They took advantage of that to park in the bicycle lane. We installed is hit posts. We spent time and money creating this condition. We realized it didnt deliver on the safety improvements we wanted. We went back to the drawing board as the city. We were able to come up with a new proposal which again achieves the same core functional improvements for the street, transportation improvements part of those original alternatives, safety and street scapes are still in this proposal. We have a new proposal for the bicyclists. That is to create a sidewalk level bicycle lane. Right now in the east of eighth street on Market Street the sidewalks are 35 feet wide. This proposal would move the curb towards the center. It is 37 feet from the Property Line to the curb line. Then we devote a portion of that new widened area to the bicycle lane. It is not like the embarcadero. It is very clear. 8foot wide. It is a little washed out. There is an 8foot wide zone for bicyclists there is a clear buffer to separate from the vehicles and pedestrians. It is important to make sure itt is safe for both pedestrians and there is a true sidewalk 15foot through zone for pedestrian circulation and the buffer is 5 to 10 feet depending where on Market Street it is. On the right side you can see an example when there is a curb side the bying bicycle lane is behind. The bicycle lane would separate the bicyclists from the road. I wasnt able to tell this. Is there a grade differential between what we call the sidewalk and the bike portion of that . I realize that is a grade differential. 6inch curb to separate the sidewalk and the vehicle lane from the vehicle lane. The grade would be graded to allow drainage. The grade would be the same for the sidewalk where the pedestrians are walking the buffer zone and the bicycle lane okay. Thank you the next series of slides are renderings. This is the existing condition. We have very wide sidewalks. They are at the current time under utilized. The amenities, benches and street scape elements installed in the 1970s are swept off and we have wide sidewalks that are mostly empty. Our proposal is to dedicate a portion of that to pedestrian circulation zone where people are safely walking. You can see the buffer with the plantings, bike racks, benches, seating, trees, a buffer to ensure the bicyclists cant move at highspeed and pedestrians dont wander to the bicycle rain. This is from the other side where you can see the vehicle lane, the 6inch curb. Buffer suppar rating the vehicles from bicycles and the lane and behind the bicyclists the buffer that separates the bicycles from the sidewalk area. We included plans to show typical situation this is the packet. This shows how the bicycle lane and all of the vehicle travel lanes and sidewalks work with a Center Island on the bottom and curb sideboarding island on top. This will make sure we will be able to provide loading on Market Street. We include the picture to show we have come up with a way to consume date loading on Market Street we call the plex zone moving to the same level as the sidewalk. A rolled curb of commercial vehicle. It will go up over the curb across the bicycle lane to the parking zone. If there is a lot of maneuvering going on and the bicycles need to they can use the rolled curb if it is safe to pass the loading vehicles. Here is some nice examples of the version of the state of good repair we need to address. The paving itself needs to be redone. That gets us to 500 million. The big blue block is the transit structure. It is dedicated to the investment in running the surface transit lines on Market Street. The green bar is the street scape paving and the elements and new paving for the entire street. The schedule we are in the Environmental Review. It is an Environmental Impact report there will be approval actions this board will bring to the board and we are looking for approvals in 2019 and the city is looking to accelerate the design of one of the faces, the project of this size is in phases. We are accelerating the design to get to construction in 2020. A lot of details on the slide. This is to show a Public Outreach ongoing right now we are planning over the next year to be bringing this new design. We are meeting with stakeholders to present the design. We are planning a series of Public Meetings in february. We will have another series of meetings with the results back. The goal being to get to the draft Impact Report significant public input into the proposal not a surprise what the proposal from the city is in regard to better Market Street. So again i have staff from public works and sfmta here to answer questions. We are in the Environmental Review and we have started the conceptionual engineering for the project and doing outreach. This month we are starting a loading study to go doortodoor to