Be outside. People must say 6 feet apart and wear masks, and please, use caution when actively eating or drinking. Now, i know this is not how we imagine this is not how i imagine this Holiday Season, but unfortunately it is the Holiday Season we need to have this year top truly show the people that we care and to protect the people we love how to keep ourselves, our families, our friends, our communities safe. We need to protect our aging parents or grandparents, and this can only happen with caution and diligence that includes that masking and that social distancing and limiting interactions. But Everyone Needs to do this part, and do it with caution and care. We will get through this together, and i continue to thank all of you in San Francisco for doing your part. Thank you. Operator at this time, we have a few Health Related questions for you when you are ready. The first set of questions are from alex bareireira. Are the numbers today from business openings attributed to these activities . So we are taking a break from reopening based on the science, data, and facts on the most risky. We know that the virus is likely to be transmitted indoors where people take their masks off, so the decision the difficult decision that we made today is based on the data that we know how the virus is spread, and that those activities increase the risk. We also know that the virus is more likely to be transmitted in large groups or gatherings, which is another reason why weve reduced the limit on gatherings today. Operator thank you. The next question comes from gerald chin, San Francisco bay. Does the city expect the state to put the San Francisco back in strict [inaudible]. So what were responding to is the local date on that we have, and as data, that we have, and as you saw, i just showed the recent data, you saw the slides. We are going to continue to watch the state, we expect the state will shift us to another tier, but we need to move fast here. We need to look at our local information, and thats why were responding so quickly right here. You saw that that rate of increase. That increase is very concerning, particularly the fact that it exceeds the rate of increase that we saw at that summer surge, so we need to act to turn the tide now on this fall surge. Operator there are no further questions, and this concludes the press conference. Thank you, mayor breed, and dr. Colfax. Chair peskin good morning and welcome sto tto the Transportation AuthorityBoard Meeting on november 10, 2020. I am chair aaron peskin. Miss milton, will you please call the roll. [roll call] clerk we have quorum. Chair peskin thank you, madam clerk, and colleagues, vice chair mandelman is going to be 20 minutes late, so id like to make a motion to excuse him from the first items. Is there a second . Supervisor stefani stefani, second. Chair peskin and we will move onto the c. A. C. Chairs report. The floor is yours. Starting with item 5 on your agenda item, the prop k allocation funds request, there was a [inaudible] curbside pilot instituted in response to the covid19 pandemic. Some of the c. A. C. Members felt that because the Curbside Pickup zones were benefiting other services, the private sector should be paying or contributing to the pilot given the track record of these companies, were limiting their data shares, some members thought this should be segregated and voted on separately, however, other members voted against the sever. In the end, the prop k allocation request recommendation before you was approved on a 74 vote, with a request that a more indepth presentation on the entire citywide curbside Management Strategy be presented to the c. A. C. In the near future. Moving onto the portsmouth Square Community based Transportation Plan final report, members were supportive given the levels of access in the square and a more overall inviting space. With respect to the public buses at the hilton hotel, a member noted that these buses need to pay a transportation fee as do other forms of shuttles. Chair peskin mr. Larson, can you repeat that last im sorry. I repeat that, please. The better Market Street project . Chair peskin okay. Gotcha. I thought you were still on portsmouth square. No, the portsmouth Square Project had unanimous support. This on the better Market Street project. The more specific concerns on the downsizing included questioning the wisdom of putting bicycles into the street and sharing space with vehicles because of the unexpected increase in the number of bicyclists. An early indicator of success of the better Market Street successes thus far. Other observations included that the down scaling of the project seemed to be driven by a grant deadline imperative to start building, that there might be missed opportunities to coordinate the street anticipating with current projects underway, and a question about revisiting the scope once the election and additional prospects for funding are clear, and that completes my report, mr. Chairman. If theres anything else i can clarify or additional questions, ill be happy to take them. Chair peskin are there any questions or comments from members of the sfcta . Seeing none, mr. Larson, thank you very much, and we will obviously be taking up item 5, and i have similar concerns as to the consenting members of the c. A. C. , and i want to note for the record that vice chair mandelman has joined us, but we will get to that in due course. Seeing no questions from members, are there any members of the public that would like to comment on the c. A. C. Report . Operator theres currently no Public Comment. Chair peskin okay. Then we will close Public Comment, and madam clerk, will you please call item 3 . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair peskin is there any Public Comment on this item . Operator there is no Public Comment. Chair peskin okay. Public comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve the minutes of october 27 . Supervisor mandelman moved by mandelman. Chair peskin is there a second . Seconded by yee, and on that item, a roll call vote, madam secretary, please. [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. The minutes are approved. Chair peskin next item, please. Clerk item 4, appoint one member to the citizens advisory committee. Chair peskin miss smith . Good morning. April smith, Community Planner at the Transportation Authority. The Transportation Authority committee has an 11 member citizen advisory committee, appointed to a twoyear term. [inaudible] make recommendations on appointments. To qualify for the c. A. C. , applicants must be San Francisco residents and must appear before the board at least once to speak to their interests and qualifications. Attached to the packet is a list of applicants, and there is a list describing their interests. [inaudible] and with that, i can take any questions. Chair peskin thank you, miss smith. Commissioner stefani, this is the district 2 appointee. Supervisor stefani yes, thank you, chair peskin. It is my pleasure to recommend appointment, reappointment for jerry levine on the citizens advisory committee. Jerry has been a strong voice advocating for the needs and concerns of our community. Jerry and i recently met to discuss his prior term on the c. A. C. , and his ongoing priorities for the committee, including an emphasis on regional coordination of the 27 transit agencies throughout the bay area to create a robust and seamless transportation body through San Francisco and the enti entire bay area. I know he will continue to advocate for greater Pedestrian Safety efforts and keep in mind the need to protect our most vulnerable users of our streets and sidewalks. During my time on the t. A. , ive made an effort to highlight the needs of vulnerable individuals, particularly seniors and people with disabilities, and i am confident that jerry will continue to be a voice for these residents in district 2 and residents throughout the city. Jerry, i want to thank you for your service for the residents not only of district 2 but the entire city and your leadership and proposal of ideas and your continued dedicated service. Chair peskin mr. Levine, the floor is yours. Thank you very much, supervisors, and thank you for that introduction, supervisor stefani. I am seeking reappointment, and do appreciate the trust that supervisor has shown in me, and her desire to renominate me. Prior to my previous two years with the c. A. C. , i served four years on the policy advisory council, which gave me a particularly broad view of the regional needs for transit in the bay area, and so with this with this newly new emphasis on the need for regional coordination in these times of covid, its my particular interest to continue in that vein. So i look forward to that, and im open to answering any questions you might have. Chair peskin thank you, mr. Levine. While weve got you here, given the c. A. C. Report, and given that you were one of the four not dissenters not did dissenters, you were one of the four that wanted to sever that item, is there anything you would like to tell this body . Im sorry . Chair peskin anything you would like to inform this body about your position in this matter . No, not at this point. Ill be interested to hear the discussion and, if its possible, be able to comment at that time. Chair peskin you are always welcome to comment as a member of the public. With that, seeing no other questions from members, are there any other applicants to this position the district 2 position to the c. A. C. Transportation advisory board, Public Comment. Operator we have one caller. Chair peskin okay. Please proceed. Operator hello, caller. Your line is unmuted. Hello. Its david pilpell. I just wanted to speak in support of jerry levine. Hes a great person, has great experience with regional transportation matters and all of that, and would be a great addition to the c. A. C. Thanks very much. Chair peskin mr. Pilpell, you are becoming famous or infamous. Are there any other members of the public that would like to comment on this item. Operator there are no other callers. Chair peskin seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor stefani, would you like to make a comment . Supervisor stefani yes. I would like to move the reappointment of jerry levine to the Transportation AuthorityBoard Community advisory board. Chair peskin im going to do something rare. Im going to second jerry to the board. I dont second a motion often, but i hold jerry in high esteem. Roll call vote, please. [roll call] chair peskin he appeared and disappeared, so he may have had to go to his other thing, so he is excused. [roll call] clerk we have ten ayes. The appointment of mr. Levine to the c. A. C. Is approved on first reading. Chair peskin thank you, madam secretary, and congratulations, mr. Levine. Thank you, commissioners. Chair peskin next item. Clerk item 5, allocate 745,651 in prop k sales tax funds with conditions for three requests. This is an action item. We have three asks today. The one is citywide daylighting. This request supports the board of supervisors resolution from may 2019 that urged the sfmta to create a daylighting plan and systemately implement and creation a location. This work will be completed by march 2022. Our next question is the Visitacion Valley and portola Community BasedTransportation Plan in which the neighborhoods will collaborate with Community Transportation groups to address priorities that support growing Community Values in Visitacion Valley and portola neighborhoods. It will include recommendations for streetscape improvements and a funding and implementation plan. The funds will provide the local match for a 350,000 caltransplanning grant, and sfmta expects the final plan by 2023. And finally is the curbs side pick up zones pilot. Sfmta requested a streamlines way for businesses to use the curbside for delivery pick ups and other outdoor activities. This would allow sfmta to survey the use zones. It will include guidelines for the inclusion and location of pick up zones and policy recommendations for the future of the curbside pick up zones program. The plan will be complete by next july, and based on the c. A. C. Discussion, which weve already heard about, we have provided sfmta to provide a broader overview of the curbside strategy, so i can take any questions on these items now, or i can bring up sfmtas slides for them to present. Chair peskin so why dont we start and see if supervisors walton or ronen have any comments . Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you, chair peskin. Im going to wait until the presentation is over, and then, i have a few comments. Chair peskin thank you. Supervisor ronen . Rena supervisor ronen thank you. I just wanted to thank you for including Visitacion Valley and the portola in that. Im looking very forward to engaging in the planning effort. And then, i think my guess is that supervisor walton and chair peskin want to talk about the 200,000 for the curbside pick up. I could be wrong there, but i am not happy about that. So i will waive, as well, until that presentation happens, but i would chime in and say that that would not be my choice to fund that program. I dont understand why were providing public space to private companies that isnt even treat their workers as the employees that they are. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, commissioner ronen. Well stated. Well go back to you, mr. Pi pickford. I will ask francesca from sfmta to make her presentation. Chair peskin great. Please proceed. Good morning. My name is francesca napolitan, and im here to present an overall adoption of our curb management strategies, as well as provide a proposal for a shared spaces pick up zone evaluation. Chair peskin whoever somebody needs to mute. Somebody needs to mute. Hold on, francesca. My apologies. All right. Chair peskin which one of you needs to mute. All right. My apologies. No problem. I wanted to start with my agencys per Management Strategy because i think that would provide the framework of how we would be looking at this evaluation and why we would want to collect this data. So i think we all know that over the last ten years, weve seen an increase in the modes of transportation that are wanting to share our street spaces, including uber and bicycles, while at the same time, our agency has long supported muni put service, paratransit, and taxis, which still need curb access, all of which is putting increased pressure on our limited curb space. Next slide, please. So an increased demand for curb access in combination with lack of adequate loading space has resulted in safety hazards, such as crosswalk and bike lanes being blocked, problems with accessibility, and bike lanes being blocked. So the sfmta has referred on our curb color program, which has resulted in a mismatch between supply and demand for loading space and also does not really reflect how people are getting around today. Inventory of our current curb space allocation found that 90 of our citys curbs are allocated for storage for vehicles, while only 1 is for paratransit, community loading zones, access, and ride share. So the current Management Strategy proposes a new approach and thinking about the curb, shifting away from curb car parking, focusing on a holistic approach and focuses on a way that represents the changing transportation landscape. This strategy is also designed to support our citys wider goals, such as our vision zero and transit first policies, our Climate Action strategy mode share goals, improve equity and accessibility, as well as support our Small Businesses and improve transparency in our planning processes with the public. The strategys comprised of three elements. A set of hierarchy, a set of recommendations, and strategies. Today, ill just be highlighting the hierarchy, which is how well approach the curb coloring in our projects. So the first step in creating the hierarchy was to think about the curb, how its used, and whos using the curb. So we came up with five key functions that the curb services. The first is active people. This is things that move people to and from the curbs. The second is access for goods. This is space for deliveries, both traditional as well as the new models that were seeing, such as ondemand parcel and food deliveries. Then, we have things like pit stops, private vehicle park is, reserves parking for specific reserved parking for specific users, and curbside parking, a. Next slide, please. So the second step in creating the hierarchy was thinking about how the adjacent land uses affect the way in which the curb was used and how these needs change throughout the city. So we identify six land use types. The first you see is low density residential. These are primarily singlefamily home neighborhoods, so we have midto highdensity residential, which are multifamily housing with locally serving retail such as laundry mats, core laundromats, grocery stores, and other businesses. Then, we have active retail, which is the most dense part of our city, and then, we have other needs which may be temporal, and then lastly, we have our p. D. R. Neighborhoods. So weve created a prioritization matrix to help guide how we allocation curb space in our projects, and as you can see, this is a shift away from how weve been allocating our curb space historically, which as youve seen in the past has been predominantl