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That we would be potentially able to pilot Going Forward. My last comment is following what has been going on the Ev Working Group meetings and based on what i have observed during the budget season. There is a lot every assistance to switch to different typings of vehicles or to zero emission vehicles. I hope that we can push these departments to see this is the direction we absolutely have to go. It is not an option. We need to be creative in reaching the climate goals here. Thank you for the comments. There was some recent articles with regard to automatic shut off systems in the m un i fleet and have the fleet has these. I discussed this with mr. Riskin. The other half of the fleet do not have them. What is the status of procuring those . That is a question the transit colleagues are better equipped to answer. I can look into that and get you a response to the status of those switches. That would be great. Any steps we can take relative to our fleet. We see this in buses idling in the yard or brake and they should turnoff like my prias does. Is there any Public Comment . Seeing none. Public comment closed. Thank you for the update which is an information item. Any introduction of new items . Seeing none. Any general Public Comment. Andrew yip. Tender loving care for one another as necessarities for life. Hate crimes and violence. Today we are deprived of true happiness. Our leaders mist stay close to the people with loving kindness like they do in portland. It will have close objective of social pros pair be, Civil Justice and National Unity with achievement of improvements and holiness. Signs in philosophy in creativeness as well as quality of life and tender loving care. We must expands our reasonable acceptance and forgiveness for people so we can maximize our great love on our people toward a World Society of common good. These are the rules and changes for quality of works and our way of justice, improvement of solving world tragedies. Freedom should be true liberty and true justice for all. Thank you. Thank you. Any additional Public Comment. Seeing none. Public comment is closed. The ta is adjourned. Clerk good morning and welcome to the Committee Meeting of the Treasure Island mobility management agency. I want to thank our clerk, steve stamos and thank mark bunch at sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk would you call the roll. Clerk commissioner kim . Present 678. Commissioner peskin . Present. Clerk commissioner peskin present. We have quorum. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please call the next item . Item two to three the agenda. These are considered to be routine and staff will be prepared to present as desired. If any object, they may be removed and considered separately. Are there any questions or colleagues from colleagues on the consent calendar . Seeing none, can we take a motion . Sure. I make a motion to approve the consent calendar. We have a motion and a second. Can we take a roll call on the agenda . Clerk take Public Comment. Oh, my apologies. Thank you, mr. Clerk. At this time well take Public Comment on items 2 and 3. Seeing no comment Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk can we please take a roll call on the consent agenda. Clerk on two and three commissioner kim . Eye. Clerk and commissioner peskin . Commissioner peskin aye. Thank you. Can we please call the item . Clerk the Resources Group in a combined group not to exceed 2 hon,000 for oncall services next item . Thank you. We have mr. Tishler to present. Hello. Good morning, commissioners. So im here to seek approval of a staff recommendation to award an oncall consulting contract for Modeling Services to two teams lead respectively by wrsp and rsg. The combined total for any awards under these contracts would not exceed 200,000. So the background behind this is that timma has historically relied on services and the Analogy Division and our consultants through the tta oncall modeling contract. The current contract with wsp is very close to expiring and this new award would just continue to give us access to oncall consultants for ongoing modeling work. So in the past, timma has used the oncall modeling agreement for work such as Model Development for parking pricing, parking capacity constraints for Treasure Island demand modeling, weekend activity monitoring on Treasure Island and for various rounds of model applications. So the because in recognition of the current oncall contract being close to expiration we issued a request for qualifications for Modeling Services under six expertise areas, model application, Model Development, Dynamic Traffic assignment and so forth. The request for qualifications were issued jointly by the San Francisco Transportation Authority and by tima that we would select the same teams for tima. We received three statements of qualification. Two of them are by the teams that were recommending contract awards to. These are wsp and rsg. They include subconsultants under the rsg statement of qualifications there is pjkm which is dbe for a 10 dbe, inrow, a traffic Assignment Company and Booming Research consulting and the Team Includes ws solutions, transportation local analytics also a local dbe and the university of kentucky which has a professor that has a lot of experience with working on our Model Development work and also inroad the same traffic assignment specialist company. So both of these firms have extensive experience working on our models under the current oncall agreement rsg is actually a subconsultant of wsp and they have now both proposed operately. Weve had some representatives from the two teams so there is mr. Able r and mr. Jakham and also we have a representative from wsg solutions if you would like to ask questions. Both of the contracts awarded have met the requirements a 5 goal. Rsg has submitted for 10 and wsb for 5 with their subconsultants and the contract would be for three years with optional oneyear extensions two times. So we so the selection committee, the Selection Panel consisted of the three people, Staff Members from the sfmta and sfcta with the option to conduct interviews we decided not to because of the high call of the snqs because of the size of the staff and experience and they covered all of the bases. Also, for recommendation for awarding contracts to two different teams we will, in the future, whenever issuing a task order, Seek Proposals from the teams where they would submit a scope and budget and then choose between the two teams. So there is an option Going Forward to have a little bit of competition in each desk issue. If there are any questions im happy to answer them or refer them to appropriate people. Thank you very much, mr. Tishler. Any questions from Committee Members . Seeing none i would like to thank wsp for an tending and at this time i will open it up for Public Comment on item number 4. Seeing no Public Comment we are closing Public Comment for item number 4. Colleagues, can we please take a motion on item number 4. I would move that we award the threeyear professional Services Contract with an option to extend. Thats my motion. Thank you, commissioner peskin. And we can do that without op can we do that same house, same call . Same house, same call. Mr. Clerk, can can you please call item number 5. Clerk item number 5, update on the management mobility program. Thank you. Can you please call item number 6 as well . Clerk number 6 on transit design. This is also an information item. Thank you very much. We have mr. Cordoba to present on item number 5. Good morning commissioner kim and a pleasure to present on the Treasure Island management mobility program. Ive got a fiveminute presentation here that ill run right through. There we go. Lets start with the punchline here. As you may know some of the develop approvals have taken a little longer than anticipated. What that has done, in essence, is set back the launch date. So there on the screen you show the previous launch date which would have been in early 2020. Now were projecting the launch date of the mid time frame of 2021. We want to make sure that we dont in essenceincur costs for Transit Services without having an essence fee and the homes that we have built at a minimum. So, in that regard, it is semi good news but, tame, we are making sure that we use our resources judiciously in that regard. Okay. Let me get into the details of the infrastructure and engineering schedules which is really my bread and butter in that regard. Lets start with the south gate road infrastructure and realignment project. That project is a 30 million project. It is basically 100 funded with federal, state, and Bay Area Toll Authority funds. Weve been able to work with caltrans to, in essence, get them to change the offramp and how it realigns with the environment. Were starting the phase and design concurrently to start the construction of that by, hopefully, the fall of annext year. These are the improvements that are basically on the south side of the bay bridge on the other end of the offramps that we completed already. Im going to go now and thats a project that the Transportation Authority and the Capital Projects group is in essence, administering all the way through construction. Youll see many items here over the future in the next year related to that. Secondly, lets talk about the west side bridges project. West side bridges is basically the Treasure Island road and hillcrest roadway on the west side of the island. There are approximately eight bridge structures that are seismically deficient. We have obtained federal and state funding to that project to the tune of 66 million with a tied match of about 1 million so were leveraging our funds well in that regard. The project is just completing its environmental revalidation because we did some engineering exercises the past year and made changes to the project. Now were ready in essence to start the final design for them we are going to implement the design, im sorry, the delivery and construction of the project through what is called general management contracting. Were going to bring in the contractor early as part of the design. Our intent is to bring in a contractor early next year to work with our design team and work out the nittygritty details. There are some geotechnical issues here and slides that are present in this area. So its important that we bring in the right expertise early. The plan is to deliver that to construction and have it done by the midpoint of 2021. Now, lets talk about the macalla road reconstruction. That project is part of the redevelop project. So what well have is a new roadway across the island as we finish with the south gate road realignment as well as the macalla road reconstruction. The Construction Team expects to start that next spring or summer and have it completed by the 2019 time frame. What you see there, eventually, macalla will become a oneway roadway downhill. Macalla does have some steep grades in that area. Lets talk about the tolling and that contract youll hear about that a lot in the next year. What that is, in essence, is putting in a infrastructure and our target date is what is called a go live by the summer july time frame of 2021 to coincide with the Major Development of the island. This graphic here is simple graphics showing a little bit of the shift to the buildout and the delay associated with that to the 8,000 units. The ongoing activities that well have here and well give you quarterly updates at minimum are to go ahead and continue our outreach with the businesses and other stakeholders. Another key program that were working on is developing an affordability and transit pass design. Youll hear more about the transit pass here in a few minutes. We continue to receive operations funding and Grant Funding from all states and regional. Ive mentioned the toll engineering. Were looking with sfmta and transit to establish with sftma transit and also new bus service. We are also having basically Autonomous Vehicles that well have as the intericd vehicle and were excited about that. We are also considering Ferry Service. Were working with the Ferry Service to work with all of them on costs and how we can best implement Ferry Service coming to the island. Lets talk about the Grant Funding update here. Im very excited to report as part of a joint effort with sfmta the city was awarded 10. 9 million which well receive 5. 3 million 300,000 for the onisland shuttle. We anticipate later this month or hopefully no later than the november time frame to have, in essence, that authorization so we can start to use those funds. Rm3 and if i recall the senate bill has been signed already. Weve been basically working with mtc in that regard and well be looking to, if it is voterapproved, to go ahead and request funding for ferry capital and operations. And then finally, as i indicated before, were looking at other grant sources as listed here and well continue to do so. So that actually completes my update here, and im open for any questions if youd like. Commissioner kim thank you, mr. Cordova. It doesnt have to be at this hearing but i would like to see proposed routes for the shuttle and inputs on where the shuttle should go. I think its great to have this. I want to get a little bit of sense in how were developing the routes and who is providing input. Definitely. Well provide a full update in that regard when it comes to that. Commissioner kim thank you. And with regard to increases, i know weve had a discussion on whether these tolls will impact those coming from the east bay as well. So im just wondering where the conversation is on that point. What were doing right now is taking taking into account the revised Development Schedule and rerunning, in essence, our traffic model, as well as our tolling revenue model. And were about to embark with the Bay Area Toll Authority in terms of working with them and their fair share of the tolling. Because they do have the rights to toll on and off the bridge. And then recognizing that coming from the east bay is already youre paying 5 or 6 coming from the east bay. Were looking at that and seeing how we, in essence, dont have to take on an additional toll potentially, but thats still in the works. Commissioner kim thank you so much. All right. Commissioner kim so for item number 6 for the update on transit pass design we have mr. Ahmhed, the transportation planner, to present on this item. Hello. I am pierre ahmhed and ill be presenting on the transit pass today. For todays agenda, well go through the transit pass overview, goals and objectives. Ill go through our proposed alternatives and our transit value principles, our ongoing outreach efforts and next steps. So this map shows the Transit Services that are planned on Treasure Island. We have muni, ferry, and a. C. Transit connecting Treasure Island to two different the east bay side. And our goal for the transit pass is to make the transit users experience seamless and easy. So, for that reason, we are designing this transit pass to encompass all of these different transit modes. So it has showed there are two mandatory passes. First, one is market rate pass and one for hotel room. For our transit study, we have increased our user group. We have included workers and market housing in our transit pass. So with that we have market rate households, below market rate, legacy, workers, and visitors. So the goal of this transit pass is to figure out the benefits, the new fare that would be required for a. C. And ferry, and how to implement this pass. So before we designed the pass, we looked at case studies in San Francisco. So the first is San Francisco State University gator pass where all San Francisco state students are eligible and this includes the pass to the bus station. This pass is mandatory for all students and included in their tiewiation. The transit easy pass. This is a discounted easy pass for universities in the developments. The pass cost is figured on how many are bought and the accessability. So it ranges from 55 to 188 annually. The Housing Development which is in San Francisco this, is an optional pass where residents can opt in to receive a 100 cash value. And they can use this 100 on their clipper card or uber ride or split in between. The other pass is 100 points program. This is a mandatory pass for residents and employees and they can choose between the cash or a muni fast pass. And we have developed commissioner kim i am sorry. Im going to stop you right there. Yes. Commissioner kim this is the first time about hearing about this development and when they first move in, is this a annual cash value . And how do they you know, why is uber included in this . This is the only program that works with t c as opposed to transit. Yeah. This is given by developers so residents can opt in each month so, each month it is a 100 value. And they have they can do either the muni or either put it on clipper to buy a fast pass or uber rides. Commissioner kim so the developer is providing that this is a benefit of living in the development . Right. I believe that chair kim to your question, when this project was approved, the developer committed to funding the because its a rental market project, versus say the Hunters Point shipyard and Treasure Island, which is also ownership. The developer promised to provide 100 of that subsidy. And so it is their program that theyve designed. Theyve decided to add uber as one of the many choices and if they allow for that. I mean, this is something that weve negotiated as a value to the residents, to allow the subsidy go to other than private services and i believe it must. So we ask follow up on that. Commissioner kim yeah, that would be great. When we developed this in 2011t es are not something that we thought about, so i think we need to check on the language about that. So with those in mind we have developed a golden objective for our transit pass. So the first goal is to provide maximum transit coverage for our residents, workers, and visitors. That means that all transit on and off the island should be covered through the pass, provide Affordable Access for our lowincome transit users. That includes easy to gain and use the pass and enhanced customer service. That includes for all customers to be able to receive the pass and use the pass and also provide Consumer Value through the passholder, which can be integrated through different modes such as parking or towing. And implementation feasibility we looked at the existing fair policy and the time line and for the financial sustain ability, we wanted to make sure that we do a farebox recovery. Can you please speak into the mike mic a little closer. Yes. So these are our First Alternative analysis that we are doing this on, the transit pass this includes all rides on muni transit bus ferries from San Francisco and this is the pass that will include the three modes. The second one is the transit island cash, an amount of cash value that would be uploaded into the fare holders clipper card. They can use it on any transit that has the clipper and that is most of the bay area. So this shows the alternate comparison summary between the two alternatives. So the first one, as i mentioned, it is an unlimited access on all muni and access to Treasure Island. The cash will be all Transit Services that accepts clipper. So for access pass, this there is no penalties where transfer cash will have a penalty and a. C. Transit and if you are going between ferry and muni. Access pass, the pass holder pays for the three agencies regardless of what they use. So if somebody worked and lives on Treasure Island they still pay for the transit portion, where transit cash only pays for what they use. So given that the value will cover the full cost of a access pass user if they are within their three modes where cash may not cover it on their usage and the frequency of their usage. And the common feet yours features for the pass are available on clipper and theyll be available through tma and and it is available as an optional which will have a 50 discount from the market rate. The pecked we looked at how to determine the cash values. And here we developed three major principles through which we will determine the cost of the pass. The first one is type of recommendation. So it has recommended that it should be the same price as the muni pass which is 75, so our pass should not be less than 75. Second. Its customer value. We want to make sure our pass is comparable with existing pass and what service they provide. The third is Financial Sustainability. The pass should be revenueneutral and have reasonable administrative costs. So the first thing we looked at, what are some of the pass costs in the bay area. So the first you can see, they are all agency passes, which are retail value. So people are they offer these passes to everybody. And the pass ranges cost goes from 38 to 345, so its a wide range. The second row, as you will see, these are institutional programs. So these programs, where built are opting people are given this pass as part of housing or a school program. And this pass cost will go from about 4 to about 188. So its a both of them are a wide range of prices that we looked at. So from this from this information we are doing an alternative analysis where we are looking at the Financial Sustainability to make sure what we know the pass costs will be. And i want to give you an update on the research efforts. We did research on Treasure Island and we went to a meeting, food pantry and Advisory Board and conducted a timma open house. And during the outreach effort, we conducted a survey, which looked at existing transportation usage. And we also tried to gauge interest in understanding some of the new programs that we are designing. And some of the feet yours we found are that 64 of all participants have clipper or a transit pass. So many of the transit the surveyors have a muni fast pass or part of the muni lifelong program. And we asked what they would like to see which is easy pass, the pass options and we got that they wanted easy to transfer. They wanted to be able to transfer between different modes easily. So with this feedback, we are Going Forward with their alternative analysis. We also are starting our Community Outreach for fall, 2017. This time we are doing a focus group with existing business and residents and future residents and visitors. The dates are listed here. We are also going to a board and Community Meeting and the Treasure Island food pantry. So next steps, as i said, well be completing alternative analysis and proposed pass values. Well develop a revenue sharing principle with other agencies, incorporate feedback from community and stakeholders and finally, proposed path design fare and transit pass value by spring of 2018. Thank you. Any questions . Commissioner kim thank you, ms. Ahmhed. I just have a couple of questions. When you say others have transit passes, what other transit passes exist other than the clipper card . The other ones that i mentioned are muni and bart pass and muni lifeline. Commissioner kim and have you in your outreach also reached out to Community Partnership and health rate well, not perhaps health rate 360 but the develop Homeless Initiative as well . Yes. Commissioner kim are they as well helping with the outreach . Yes. Commissioner kim okay. When you see the proposal, the tipi recommendation and starting point of making it 75 right. Commissioner kim will that include what you see here the transportation access for muni . Yes. Commissioner kim for Treasure Island residents. This is for Treasure Island workers if we provide a pass. Commissioner kim so the 75 would include the transit . That would be great. Yes and connects it to San Francisco. Commissioner kim i know we are talking in many ways when we were looking at this program and many have decided to move away from the metro card and system. Are we exploring this for the future . Technology is changing so rapidly now that, whatever we are looking at today, may be completely out of date in even a year. So i just want to make sure that whatever we plan for isnt based on what exists today. Right. Commissioner kim but what will be present in future options. Yes. So in this design process, we have a an where clipper is one of our stake hollers. They are going through their clipper rfp process. So we are going through what the new technology is that theyre considering. We are making sure when they design a pass, it can be available for a pass option or some of the new features that might happen. And thats one of our one of our criteria to make sure that the pass is available to a new feature. Commissioner kim and clipper now works with the boik share in San Francisco. Would this pass include the bike share on it . And clipper now works with the bike share in San Francisco. Would this pass include the bike share on it . We are looking at this passion. Commissioner kim no, i think that would be an option to include as well. Thank you very much for this presentation. It is very exciting. Thank you. Commissioner kim are there any other questions on this item . Okay. Seeing none, we will open it up for Public Comment on items 5 and 6. Seeing no Public Comments, Public Comment is now closed. And these two items were informational so no new action needs to be taken. Mr. Clerk, can you please call item 7 and 8. Clerk 7, new items. Commissioner kim colleagues, are there any new items . No. Clerk and item 8, general Public Comment. Commissioner kim so at this time we will open it up for Public Comment. Good morning. Andrew yield. And through the process, and you must put kindness and in consideration and different matters and where one by nature making new improvement and conditions with people and one will be the unified universe. And beyond civilization in the progress and they will supervise with the leadership and they will look at the projects while delivering for the needy of general assistance and for the wellbeing of our people and we will look at the leadership and we have a system of unification, and holiness and for a mission and through the proceeds. Thank you so much, mr. Yip. Is there any other Public Comment . Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk, are there any other items before us . Clerk item 9, adjournment. Commissioner kim thank you. Meeting is adjourn adjourned. 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Thank you very much, everyone, for being here. Im Assembly Member phil ping and 57 was for all of us who spend time driving underneath 101 or 280. You see many spots that we wonder what could we be doing with these parcels, other than seeing them. I think the city was able to envision this many, many years ago with the skate park and dog park, which the city leased for 20 years at 4. 8 million. And our bill allows the city to work with caltrains at a 30 of market rate. And these are not used or not really whew exactly. There is excitement everywhere. We could have the wedding move over here next. So we are very excited to work with our cities so we can make these underutilized parcels of land into parcels of land and open space. Especially these neighborhoods, the land is very underutilized. A lot of this area is highly industrialized. You dont see parks. You dont have spaces where you can go play. I know the dogpatch this district has already taken a lead with the Mission Creek area with their volleyball courts and they have shown how we can do this and how its going to be much more prevalent. Im very excited to have worked with our city and bring this to our residents. It is the district bill for San Francisco. I would like to thank ca ltrains and the mayor has talked about this but there are a couple of parcels that theyve already identified at some point soon theyve negotiated and we can start the process of turning these vacant lots into open space and parks. So, with that, let me introduce our mayor, ed lee, who really worked with me hand in hand and championed this effort. Thank you. Let me say Assembly Bill 857 is a winner. I want to take this opportunity to thank. Phil ting who spent years here and were not only benefiting from his life but senator weiner and david and all those who contributed to making sure this bill didnt have a cingular purpose but multiple purpose. Thats what i like about our organization. When they are creating benefits, its not just about one thing. It is multiple things. Thats why people working in parks like former supervisor Julie Christiansen, people are working with our bicycle coalition, people are working with our Parks Alliance are all assembled together to say what can we get out of space . That, for many of us, has been dead space. You know, when you look at freeway land under the freeway, youre generally talking about assemblymen assemblages of people who are homeless, negative activity, maybe some industrial uses. And in a city as concentrated as San Francisco, how do we creatively and innovatively use space that is kind of dead and inviting of a lot of negative activity in to really opened, creative, vibe rant spaces vibrant spaces . And i encourage everybody to participate. Walk your dog down there. Get a basketball court. Get a volleyball court. Maybe you even want to do a little boating, kayaking along the Mission Creek. If you walk down there, youll see the best example we have today on how we turned space that was going to that has been very negative for all of the residents around there. And in conversations with new residents around that area created space that descamps laments what i that complements that park where everyone lives that is what were doing with spaces around caltrains property and were doing more in the much few years because of scotts leadership and scott and david chu but phil was the one that really turned the corner. Because as kind of small as it might be about the that and how it should be needs to have open space and needs to have it within a 10minute walk, this is the most treative effort creative effort we can share. We have 10 spaces. And, by the way, they dont just get created overnight. With the partnership in the Parks Alliance, these are private spaces that will be taken care of 24 7. And id like more than like. This is absolutely necessary in todays world where the housing crisis is impacting everything that we do. And we need to build more housing in areas that weve never built before. But we need to have for that spacing the comp lap meantary open spaces. But we need to have for that spacing the complimentary open spaces. And a benefit that phil ting has allowed us to have the conversation that, if were in a housing crisis, it is 10 times more of a crisis than those on our streets. An we need to have areas of temporary shelter to serve that. So, as can you tell, im excited about this for all of the right reasons. The people standing behind me informed this, these language changes to make sure that our parks, our bicycles, our way of life can continue with quality of life contributions that our open space has. And the Mission Creek Sports Complex is just one of many things that weve done through our recreation and Park Department in creating these opportunities for partnership was our private sector. Because when you when you go down there, youll see people walking their dogs and people doing all of the things that were not done under caltrains property for many years. And now were getting an excitement that we are going to turn pretty dead negative spaces into really positive, vibrant open spaces and connect them up with the critical housing that we need. Its going to be, i think, a gamechanger in San Francisco to work at all of space under the freeway. Some work and some dont, so well be very selective about them. But i think youre going to see a very good transformation on these dead spaces into very lively spaces. This will be i think the positive excitement we have with our delegation in San Francisco that is making a difference, not just at the state level, but bringing back both the language to resources, to innovative approaches to making sure that our housing crisis is dealt with, our homeless crisis is dealt with, our openspace challenges are dealt with in a very positive way. So i cant say enough about how 857s going to benefit from us. But youll see the same thing happen in open. Youll see the same thing happening in san jose. Because they are all suffering from negative uses of the freeways for inappropriate kind of tent cities where its dangerous. Youre going to see Harm Reduction because of the collaboration we have with all of the other agencies to make these spaces vibrant and useful for everyone. So phil ting, thank you for your leadership up there. And, of course, as chair of the appropriations committee, were going to ask for more because we know were going to get a lot out of ya. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much, mr. Mayor, and to the entire city for working with us. Next i wanted to introduce senator weiner, who was a partner in this every step of the way, myself, senator weiner, and david chiu, so it is part of a team to make this happen. Thank you, phil. So we have we are lucky that we have a very cohesive delegation, myself and david chiu in this era where Southern California has so much population and representation, we really need to stick together so that we can San Francisco can continue to punch up its weight class in sacramento, which were continuing to do. So we look out for each other and we love to partner on these bills. He he want to thank phil for his leadership on 857 and i was happy to coauthor it. This has been a terrific bill. I think in recent years the theme in San Francisco and other cities, were trying to rediscover urbanism, trying to get away from the era where it was all about housing sprawl and moving away from Public Transportation and focusing on the needs of cars, not people. And now we are refocused on dense, compact housing and walkable neighborhoods and bike infrastructure and better Public Transportation, and rediscovering urban public space and one of the things weve been doing is rededicating land that was really car focused into peoplefocused places. So whether it is the paving the Parks Program with Jane Warner Plaza in the castro or the noey town square where we turned the city into a park or what the city did with oct avia turning it into a square. Now this the freeways caused problems in the market, and potrero hill, dogpatch and we know that anything we can do to make them usable is great. And this bill will empower the city to be able to work with caltrain, to create new parks and to really invigorate these neighborhoods. So im really, really excited about this step and i know that San Francisco will take the next step and actually make it a realty, so thank you. [ applause ] thank you, senator. Next i want to bring up those who have been an advocate of the public land and that is around urban areas and for communities that hasnt historically had much recreational space. Mary . Thank you so much. Thank so you much, Assembly Member tang. Im so excited to be here this mourn because somebody who grew up in San Francisco and able to have ocean beach as my neighborhood park. This is a city of innovation. This is a city figuring out next years, the next decade of issues and challenges. Im super excited about your leadership. I like spending time in San Francisco. And you have the cream of the crop in San Francisco. You have innovative leaders who are figuring out ways to figure out these challenges and mayor lee and mr. Weiner are champions of parks and open space. They know that being champions for parks and open space are being champions for climate resolution and champions for all of that. And we have a organization that creates access to communities for access to nature for all. We do that with mayor lee on parks around the city including vodecker park a couple of miles away. And what this bill is starting to figure out is how we solve the issue of population growth, of the scarcaty of land for parks and open space, and the increase of costs for parks and open space. And this bill is solving it is beginning to be a piece of the puzzle to solve all of that an as we do work around the country, we are looking at this as a model in communities across the country and in communities across the state. This is an example of how your leadership in sacramento is responsible for passing impactable policies that are going to make a difference for real neighborhoods. This is something that folks in their communities are going to feel. So were very excited to have supported this bill, really excited about the passage and the governors signature for ab857 and grateful for senator ting, weiner and mayor lees leadership on this. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you, mary. Next, id like to bring up former supervisor Julie Christiansen who is the executive director of the dog patch in northwest potrero green, north district. I think her district has really demonstrated how to make this a realty. Theyve established that in the neighborhood and they were one of the groups to reach out for this legislation to say hey, how can we help . Were very excited about this and finding ways to work together. These were neighborhoods that were historically filled with warehouses, not people. As weve torn down some of these warehouses and theyve been replaced with office space and housing, theyve shown the way how we can do that responsibly. Thank you. Is it afternoon yet . Good morning. So for those of you who want to follow this story a little further, i really welcome you to come to dogpatch to a place called progress park. Its between indiana and iowa between 23rd and 25th. Its ai lovely space. I have pictures of children swinging in it, people playing bocce an people working out. It was not built with the other budgets and clout with some of the other projects that senator weiner mentioned it was done with spit from the other neighborhoods who went to a chainlinked fence, a weedchoked lot where neighbors could gather and have open space. So please come down to progress park. This measure tackles two important issues that those of us involved in positive civic planning struggle with. One is how do we mitigate the negative impact of our freeways that slights through our camping areas . The fires, the debris that collects in these spaces, especially as our residents and workplaces inch ever closer to those freeways. Secondly, how do we provide open space and green space for the fastestgrowing neighborhoods in San Francisco, nearly all of which line those same transit cora ders. So senator tings measure as the mayor said actually tackles two problems and puts this way ahead. We appreciate very much the heavy lifting that ca ltrain caltrain does and we have neighbors when they used to look out on other Family Residences like theirs and they now face chain linked fence and razor wire and encampments. This is an opportunity to knit our neighborhoods back together. My common line is that these freeways severed our neighborhoods twice, once when the elevated freeways went in with their noise and their pollution and trash, but then a second time when the areas below the freeway were consigned to less optimal uses. Potrero hill is cut off from vacant lots and rusted containers. This is an opportunity to get some of that back. Were very grateful for it. So my deep thanks to Assembly Member ting. He said he was going to do this his perseverance and determination paid off. Were grateful to all who have helped with this, mr. Weiner and assemblyman ting, were grateful to have them. Im grateful to the economic workforce and robin abhod is here and all of those who have worked with us and who will continue to work with us. I want to acknowledge jean and allahson from the green benefit district. The gbd is an amazing, amazing construct. Neighbors who voted to assess themselves in order to spend extra funds to clean and green their neighborhood. And dogpatch is the first one that we know is the first to exist, dogpatch and potrero hill. So im happy to represent them. This is a great day. Hopefully, well be having some of these in these parks before very long. Thank you all for your interest. Thank you. Thank you, julie, again. It is proud to author 857, ab857, which now allows the city to transform some of our freeway underpasses into parks. Again, i think julie put it very well. There are not always positive things that are happening under these underpasses. Again, its our opportunity for the neighborhoods, the neighborhoods of dogpatch, potrero hill to take over this land. So i want to thank everybody for coming today. I appreciate it. I know people will be available for individual questions on the side if you have any interest, but again, thanks so much for coming out today. I appreciate it. [ applause ]

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