With us tonight is mike. Mike is president and ceo of the center for arts and culture in and a longtime Historic Preservation. He led San Franciscos Historic Preservation nonprofit. He has been the oat director of advocacy of the los angeles conservancy and for the Historic Preservation. His present racial mark in angeles the subject of tonights talk in here in San Francisco. Thank you for being with us mike and welcome and i will hand the microphone over to you. Thank you so much frances. Such a pleasure to be here tonight with my longtime friends and colleagues aliso beach and Stephen Schafer to talk about their stunning new book preserving los angeles how Historic Places can transform americas cities. Published by angel city press. Dare i say this book is a monument is a monument to statement and major contribution to preservation field. Kevin devoted much of his career to enhancing the unique architecture of Cultural Heritage of los angeles. I had the shoes to fill and ken has left
Construction in 1989 tyson years ago weve been looked at the loma linda earthquake and more recently in mission bay. In early march we were very, very fortunately of fortunate to be able to contain that fire to the building but within 7 minutes that fire took off and didnt have fire damage about 75 feet across the way it was an 8 Story Building but the building activated the fire sprinklers and the main street were dealing with is curb to curb 52 feet across were the ultimate team players i feel thats my roll when we have the opportunity to get it right with with all due respect when we have the opportunity to get it right we think from our operational needs we need more stays can we make it work in the infrastructure yes, but with all respect which i saw geary that was wider and now one hundred and 20 its comparing apples and oranges i believe the 1906 picture was 18 feet across and now one hundred and 20 its like a freeway midway through our student im glad you brought the mission ba
The year 20039. The Infrastructure Network must be engineers to meet the needs and safety of the, you know, most yours of the public rightofway you such as pedestrians and people with disabled and bicyclists and traffic unloading and this is for persons with disabled and the utilities and emergency phases given to obstruct and pga lanes and parking and other factors. This slide here was referred by my staff is shows how a truck with a wheel base of 40 feet can make the turn of 60 or 34 feet into a street that or 26 feet. Next id like to im going to turn it over to ken lombardy from the Fire Department actually before we go to the Fire Department i have other questions. So you sent a letter i sent is a letter to the p u expressing concerns about the changes of the street clearance from to 20 to 26 feet and you sent me a letter back i have a few statements with questions. What is the anytime street clearance in San Francisco . Under our codes . The minimum street clearance is 26 feet and
Street Cross Sections in the agreement so, you know, i dont think it was a written number and the street needs to be dealt with later. Okay. Im happy to answer questions but i think for everyones sake if i could ask our City Engineer to address you on the specification and deputy chief lombardy. Well ask the department of public works to address us. Good afternoon, supervisors im the City Engineer and Deputy Director for public works. We have a presentation to share with you but before we start im here with the engineers from our street design, mapping and the others and our a. D. Coordinator and address concerns. Thank you supervisor wiener for calling this hearing to discuss the very important issue of pedestrian safety. As chief joanne mentioned we had a good meeting involving mta and others. I want to start by saying were all in agreement on is that Public Safety for everybody is of paramount importance to all us we want to make sure we have a sound policy. As we review and approve
This is a general plan and not fireman and the specifics will be worked out and the exact street width street by street will be determined in this. Im not going to go around in cycles im sorry what were you saying. Back to the presentation, please. So the infrastructure plan stated the streets shall be determined during the recommendations of the procures for granting the sections. Also the Fire Department sense of the infrastructure clearly stated that it was not in any way or the plan in any way should not limit the authority of the Fire Department in this section. Those charter sections are the general charter sections that create the Fire Department . I believe so ill have the Fire Department present when they talk about their portion. So this chart shows some of the major milestones for this project and as you can see starting with 2010 the general infrastructure plan and we continue to work on this this year to continue to work on this massive project between now and the year 200