roll for attendance. [roll call] clerk: madam president, you have a quorum. president cohen: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please join me for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president cohen: thank you. madam clerk, any communications? clerk: yes. i have one to report, dated this morning, december 4, from supervisor fewer, requesting to be excused as she s out of town. president cohen: thank you. may i have a motion to excuse supervisor fewer? seconded by supervisor tang. without objection, colleagues. without objection, supervisor fewer is excused from today s meeting. next we ll go on to the approval of minutes. colleagues, we re approving the minutes from october 30, 2018, for the full board. is there a motion to approve the minutes? motion made by supervisor mandelman, seconded by supervisor ronen. can we take this without objection? without objection. thank you. without objection, the meeting will be approved after public comment. madam clerk
why wouldn t we give developers that discretion? to re-emphasize, this policy is already basically in place. we already have removed the minimum parking requirement here in san francisco. we already allow you to replace it with bicycle parking. we already allow you to figure out other incentives and ways to reduce the parking minimums. this does not change anything. it is, of course, symbolic, and i think the symbolism is very important. i think more than impacting san francisco itself, it really impacts land use and housing development and thinking throughout the country. what i m hoping for here today is that san francisco is a leader in that. i want to emphasize. if you want to see parking and projects in your district, you will get parking in the projects end your district. if the community, who the project sponsor is endeavoring to get support from, hears they must build the minimum or the maximum allowed, you will see that in that project. in fact, it s always the oppos
president cohen: thank you. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i want to welcome you to the december 4, 2018, meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. thanks for joining us today. madam check, please call the roll for attendance. [roll call] clerk: madam president, you have a quorum. president cohen: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please join me for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president cohen: thank you. madam clerk, any communications? clerk: yes. i have one to report, dated this morning, december 4, from supervisor fewer, requesting to be excused as she s out of town. president cohen: thank you. may i have a motion to excuse supervisor fewer? seconded by supervisor tang. without objection, colleagues. without objection, supervisor fewer is excused from today s meeting. next we ll go on to the approval of minutes. colleagues, we re approving the minutes from october 30, 2018, for the full board. is there a motion to approve
important to acknowledge where we ve come from. the geary corridor was muni s first transit line. the b. geary electric streetcar ran down here in 1912 and has long been one of the highest ridership service transit lines in north america. this neighborhood has also long been one of the most and interesting neighborhoods anywhere in the world and home to very strong populations of japanese and african americans. this is also a place where japanese americans were expelled from, were sent forcibly to internment camps during world war ii. also the area where post war era the redevelopment agency demolished of blocks displacing thousands of residents and businesses in the name of urban renewal. geary street used to be one lane in each direction lined with businesses owned by japanese and african americans and all of that was destroyed to make way for the eight-lane geary expressway. and so though we re so proud of this project, we also must acknowledge the project area s history a
we ve come from. the geary corridor was muni s first transit line. the b. geary electric streetcar ran down here in 1912 and has long been one of the highest ridership service transit lines in north america. this neighborhood has also long been one of the most and interesting neighborhoods anywhere in the world and home to very strong populations of japanese and african americans. this is also a place where japanese americans were expelled from, were sent forcibly to internment camps during world war ii. also the area where post war era the redevelopment agency demolished of blocks displacing thousands of residents and businesses in the name of urban renewal. geary street used to be one lane in each direction lined with businesses owned by japanese and african americans and all of that was destroyed to make way for the eight-lane geary expressway. and so though we re so proud of this project, we also must acknowledge the project area s history and to acknowledge that this is