and live unmolested. we did not pursue that much farther because it was quite complex. it s not that it s an unworthy idea, but just as a mid level clerk untrained planner, i find whoa, this is really not only complex but takes you to a place of literally evaluating people and we need to be careful. this agency has a resident permit parking program for instance, that s a precedent. the qualification for a permit is very clear and even at that there are arguments among people where i should get a permit and four permits and that. that simple permit program is already really challenging to figure out how to administer equity. that cuts to it. i want us to get to a point on this policy where we can go ex ahead and take a vote on this. it sounds like, although i appreciate the after to take it and work on it again, i think that what i am feeling from this board is we are close. we can get this to a point where we can take a vote on this. from what i am hearing, what language or
really is a chicken in a egg kind of thing. you will just continue to go down the path of criminalization, which is something that sounds like you do not want to do. so keeping that in mind and being aware while the criminalization aspect has funding and resources, the permanent path out of homelessness does not so how do we resolve those issues without further criminalization? thank you. thank you mr. wu. anymore members of the public. seeing none, public comment is closed and i d like to ask supervisor kim if she would like to address this now. good afternoon, board of directors. thank you so much for letting me interrupt this very important policy discussion. i wanted to speak on the next item that is before the board today and this is on the townshend street improvement project. first of all, i do want to thank this board, in july, for working with our office to fast track this project. working with our bike coalition, and our community and also again to thank you for
it s fair to force the neighbors on dewolf street to wait and be held hostage while we come up with a city wide solution. other neighborhoods, other streets have received this accommodation when they have presented it and when our staff has approved it and i think that street and those residents are entitled to the same and equitable treatment here. so i will favor this. i will also note that i think we are considering this request in a very different context than we considered it at the last meeting. we now have a positive and hopeful framework for how we will deal with these requests going forward. i have every confidence to director borden s concern that our staff will do that here to the extent it will work with our partners and other city agencies to do that. i feel i was ready to vote for this last time and i feel better about voting for it this time and i do again extend my thanks to my colleagues who forced an issue and put us in a better place here today. is that
and live unmolested. we did not pursue that much farther because it was quite complex. it s not that it s an unworthy idea, but just as a mid level clerk untrained planner, i find whoa, this is really not only complex but takes you to a place of literally evaluating people and we need to be careful. this agency has a resident permit parking program for instance, that s a precedent. the qualification for a permit is very clear and even at that there are arguments among people where i should get a permit and four permits and that. that simple permit program is already really challenging to figure out how to administer equity. that cuts to it. i want us to get to a point on this policy where we can go ex ahead and take a vote on this. it sounds like, although i appreciate the after to take it and work on it again, i think that what i am feeling from this board is we are close. we can get this to a point where we can take a vote on this. from what i am hearing, what language or
we really didn t nothing came out of that. the thing with the permit program, the issues was the city had nothing to offer. so why get this permit because there is really no motivation or reason because other than people wouldn t get harassed for sleeping in their vehicles, and that was about it. that s where we got to a point of not moving forward. i think that s about it. i m distracted because we re running a campaign right now and this is the election day. [laughter] i can t believe i m here right now and i ve been on my phone and so i m looking forward to getting back there because everyone is texting me. thank you, very much. next speaker, please. ok. so, my name is melody and i m just going to ask you to please do not do this because where will these people go? it s unfair of the sfmta to shut down streets with no alternative and please don t do this and every time you shut down streets where vehicle dwellers park it escalates the problem to those who have no