Well weave in the work program this was presented today by our colleague mr. Mar 10 it looked at the neighborhood and how they can be changedful from community prarmgs prospective how our program can be a tool for the neighborhoods to be changing their quality of life and change theyre old spades our goals based on the basic ideas of neighborhood interaction forcing interaction we see transportation as i said we imagine the potential of the city streets underutilized streets we courage the Public Safety and activity and also have we think about local business as partners and how foster the relationship between the citys and the neighborhood and local businesses the Program Functions are many as you can see on the screen were not going to go in depth well tall one that latter we facilitate and support of the Community Initiative to create the internal Parking Spaces so we look at sites and try to evaluate the sites and good places we definitely will be looking at the capacity this is on
Teen e seen an interest in institutions and museums that are key to form new partnerships with pavement to parks is an enter agree program the any of us parts are lead by the the partnering partnering with the mta so theres a lot of numbers of tasks and responsibilities we royalties pavement to parks a increasing niflg the analysis of the impacts of those demonstration those temporary places have in the community we get questions all the time about parklets address mrardz are impacting Public Safety and the performances of local businesses and cb d this last summer we launched a initiative to look at the impacts arrest plaintiff as mentioned pavement to parks has technical guidance as well other kind of programs over the worldwide well have the privilege of meeting with the representatives of japan and places you under your regular calendar transmittal and talking to people in london other cities around the country and world are looking to San Francisco as the original terrors of this
Be speaking on matt on behalf of hes the ceo of the Parks Alliance this is a wonderful 6 our most existing programs it creates new spaces our parks in a very crowded city were a dense and growing city and the on spaces we have under incredible pressure were looking for new places to create new opportunity for greenery and people to get together and subcontract i remember one of my first experiences with the park let was parking day. Completely different experiences to sit on the street with a car going by 35 mileperhour with 3 feet away from you it gives us a sense your clinging that separates and taking offer something that rightfully along these or books to you, we think of streets as dangerous but creating those new placing and parklets in the transportation right of ways is starting to reclaim some 69 space and calm the traffic there are more benefits that come along with the pavement to Parks Programs some of the great things the pavement to paradoxes like persia triangle offer ar
Our criteria of really is pretty strong we have a lot of projects we looked at the physical aspects and social aspects so the physical meaning is that a potential Public Safety and there is an area that doesnt have enough open space a road too wide or big for just for cars and so we looked at that and lack of education we think about social components of this project we looked at a definitely local interest well not look at the interest that are not interested at the local level we have a Supportive Community support when the Community Support is there it is well documented and built this long or long term stewardship in the neighborhood we have consider land use and pedestrian activity so i come back later and talk about plaza so any colleague robin will talk about the next program thank you. Well take a few moments to drill down into pavement to parks as we enter into our 6th year of existence its increasingly important to be to how open spaces unequally are described different neigh
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