Project. And we heard mixed reviews overall we got support for the project and why were bringing it to you, the board. The second question about loading zones. Loading areas and meters and areas where were reducing park. Can we put in shorter trim meters to encourage turnover. Well talk with the Supervisors Office and businesses. We can put in one or two of the spaces can become a 30minute green zone to increase the turnover. There are loading zones and we do feel they serve business loading needs but we can continue to work to add more if thats necessary and if its something businesses want. Are these biking protected bike lanes . Theyre buffered bike lanes. Twofoot buffer in a bike lane. Can we go back to the parking im not an engineer but we have talked a lot about parking and i feel ive learned a lot and a feel its not the number of parking spots that dictate the success or failure of a Commercial Area its our ability to manage. I dont want to let the speakers statement that each parking spot costs them 100 million to stand as anecdotal evidence. My understanding is if we handle the parking spots we try to manage to an 80 capacity. If you can just talk about that a little bit. I never heard a dollar amount associated in San Francisco with each parking spot. We adjust the prices on the meters to try to hit that points. I do agree its more about turnover than the National Number of spots which is why well look at quick turnover parking spots especially for deliveries and if its something business interested in look to other quick spots. I dont want the speaker im fighting with you about this because i love your shop and do visit it with regularity but i walk there or take the bus or ride my bike there and think theres other ways to help you. One thing ive learned we at the mta cant deliver you more customers by cars. Its geometry by space and we can deliver you by foot and bus and this is another time where ill ask for more Parking Management if we have businesses saying customers can get to them we have a lot of solutions for that so thats great. One other quick thing, to go to the outreach, the last time we had a big pushback about a bike share pod and people said they didnt know about it or hadnt heard about it. Some members of the board came up with the idea we would do on the ground pilots so people would know something was going on and then they would look for the information if they had been missed in the outreach. Do you think this type of project is something that could benefit this . It doesnt seem its necessarily a quick build project but this type of project seems like a good one where wed model something and people would say i better reach out and find out whats going on in the corridor. We did popup events where we had tables on the street and having people come talk to us but we can do more of those. Good, thank you. Im so supportive of this project and if i didnt already make a motion to approve it, i will now. Ill second. I do think its useful to pull sales tax data before and after. I think its worthwhile because its a metric we can look at and its true different parts of the city peoples behavior is different. How do we help encourage more people to walk and take transit for maybe we need bike share pod that arent there. Whatever interventions to help. Ultimately the reason people want to go to these places is because theres great amenities and the reason you live in San Francisco is to have everything in walking and biking distance. It makes it easier for people to get there and to track how were impacting things to figure out what interventions on our side if we need more 30minute meters and other Creative Solutions to come up with. One question. The last speaker mentioned a series of places where stop signs and other Safety Measures rattled off intersections i dont have in my head. In general, does the project help what hes talking about or if not can staff follow up how to address those. One location, judah, were add beacon. At taraval well be building more there as well. Were going to be addressing the locations you mentioned. Director torres . I have to agree with mmr mr. Wiener. His testimony has always been about people who cant ride a bike or bicycle have one alternative and thats drive somewhere. Those chronologically gifted find it difficult to ride a bicycle much less a scooter. And so some of us have to drive to a location. And increasingly for me its becoming impossible to find Parking Spaces in the city of San Francisco. And i do use sf park as well. Accessibility isnt always accommodating to ride a bicycle or get a bus or, which i prefer not to do, use other tncs i believe ray real serious problem for the city. I hope youre sensitive and id be interested if at your popup tables did you ask them how they arrived by scooter, by bus, by pogo stick in the future or by car. I dont have the answers of the survey here. I can tell you the removal of parking are specifically for safety improvements. I have consistently supported those efforts. But youre saying theyre just for safety is why theyre being removed . Safety for bicyclists and pedestrians. Theyre for day lighting purpose so pedestrians can see vehicles approaching and drivers can see pedestrians waiting on the sidewalk. And also to implement a bicycle lane where now theyre sharing the travel lane with moving vehicles. So you live in the city of San Francisco . Im not sure thats relevant. I think people making these plans ought to have a connection to the city. You dont have to answer. Director, if i can speak to that a little bit, i live near the area and frequent that one establishment among others, we very much understand that not everybodys going to get on a bike or scooter or pogo stick, lets hope that never comes, but part of what were doing in the in the Bigger Picture is making the more sustainable modes of traffic more supportive. So those who have to drive or want to drive can still do so. So as you an example were hoping to advertise a project soon on 19th avenue that will help improve 28 service which is a half block where the store were finishing improvements in the inner sun set for the inner inn and judah. By making improvements on traffic and in this case to make it more attractive for people to walk and bike in the neighborhood. Were hoping well be able to get more folks in the neighborhood by the other means so those of us who want or choose to drive it will free up capacity on the streets to get there. Were not trying to do improvements to the exclusion of any one mode. Were trying to make more sustainable modes more attractive by making them safer and work better which then frees up capacity on the streets for those who want or chose to drive. Choose to drive. Well have the perception were row moving them and dont removing them and dont understand why and thats the comments i get from a lot of people especially in my age group but i am supportive of the project. With that, if theres no further director comments we have a mention and second. Ill entertain a vote. All in favor of the project . Aye. Opposed . That passes, thank you very much. Clerk mr. Chair with regard to items 13, staff would like to continue that item to the next meeting in interest of time. Very well. Clerk if thats acceptable to you youre at youre 3 00 special order. We can take a break while we fill the room. Usually we take a break while we tim the room. Today well empty the room. Today well fill the roo is clerk item 14 naming chinatown station as chinato chinatownrose pak station. This is how it works. When your time has expired well let you know and please sit down. Away it on the hear from fellow citizens. If several are here together and want one person to speak on youre behalf thats welcome were well versed and you can identify focuses on whos behalf youre speaking and several people can convey the message in one minute. With that well start Public Comment but before we do, we have our former mayor here in the audience. Mr. Brown, would you like to go first with your oneminute . Yes. Your honor, senator torres wants to say something. Youre being preempted. Mr. Brown was my boss as a member of the assembly as the longest serving and greatest speaker of the state of california ever had. Ill stand by that until i die, mr. Mayor, mr. Brown, mr. Speaker, welcome. And one minute . I cant say my name for one minute. Can you do that for the record, please . Naming streets and places in this city is very important. Its an expression of thank you. In the chase of the chinatown station rose paks name with it will be an indication in the all the years of the city until rose pak stood up and executed an operation that led to multiple opportunities for chinese in south african San Francisco and post the earthquake of 89 is the most standing achievement. I hope youll honor her with the name rose pak. Wonderful. Id like to note two things for the record. One, he finished in a minute and two, he followed my instruction. Mr. Mayor, thank you for being here. Youre message is well received. Thank you. Proceeding. Clerk ill read the names. We have many today. Ill read at least five in advance so if there are people downstairs in the north light court who hear their name, you should come upstairs so you are present in the room when it is your time to talk. Ill read five in advance. Mr. Lu, annie chung, kito chung, gordon chin, Malcolm Young. See how this works . Our fellow citizens are lining up and we can do this efficiently. Ms. Lu, welcome to city hall. Thank you. Id like to cede my minutes to Malcolm Young to represent us as a group and i come from the rose Pak Community fund. Well have one minute and one speaker and it will be me and ill quickly read off who we represent so you know whos here in the room. Its a number of Community Stakeholders who have been in and around the subway for decades. We have gordon chin founder much Chinatown Community director and phil chin from the Transportation Research and improvement project. We have annie chung from selfhelp from the elderly and queena chung from the dem club. We have kit min chan where rose served as general consultant for three decade. We have the president of the Community Tennis association and i just want to say. Commissioner thank you for doing this efficiently. My question is are there other people youd like to identify aligned with your comments . Thats it. This is an orderly representation and ill take from the tshirts youre in support of naming this the rose pak station. And you have a wonderful first name. Clerk chung lee, shalina fung, maggie wu. If you hear your name, line up, a va chee, eric wang, chin cosgrove. Many people come here and are Common People from grass root. Its not easy to come here. They take time off and nobody buys a shirt for them and they have to overcome their fear to come up here. Different from politicians described. Rose pak is respected in the chinatown. She intimidated people and controversial and people have to overcome their fear to come here and tell what you the think. Transportation station is for transportation purpose. This board makes decisions three years ago to use the freeway to help people navigate and make transportation decision. This is not for political gain or purpose. Today i want to be here to state what i have to say. Folks, stop clapping. We dont do that. Its not respectful to the people who went before or the speaker. If you want to raise your hands in the air, do that silently but everyone is welcome and the last speaker said some are coming win with fear. Therell be no clapping or booing and listen to everyone with respect and silence. Next speaker. Clerk john lee, maggie wu, eva chi, eric wang. Good afternoon, im here to express my opposition to my name is chen lee. To express opposition to the rose pak naming and address two points used as justification for having rose paks name on the chinatown station. She helped secure the funds from the trade commission. One thing is rose pak may have been a voice but only a voice of many. There were countless people would have gone to washed washington, d. C. And they said the Chinese Community support the chinatown public and its unfair to single out ms. Pak. The entire Community Supported the station. Commissioner thank you very much. Clerk [reading names] theres been coercion and the power brokers in San Francisco. We need to hear why are these people feeling unesy uneasy with the name. What do you think is the last name for the bart station and she said chinatown station. This is the list. Commissioner thank you very much. Clerk maggie wu, eva chi, eric wang. My names maggie wow. Im here to oppose the chinatown station to be named after rose pak. Id should be named the chinatown station. Rose pak is not a good role model according to the San Francisco examiner in the news article it states chinatown power broker rose pak received a condo for half price through the City Affordable Housing program. Despite regulation decided to discounts real estate. This prove rose paks actions are morally wrong. According to evidence from the report in 2005, rose pak was guilty of contempt and charged 5,000 penalty by supreme court. Thank you. Clerk eva chi, eric wang, cathy goa. My name is eva chi and i want to talk about the naming of chinatown station of rose pak. Freedoms are protected by the constitution but she has help suppress religious freedom in San Francisco. They lobbied the San Francisco board of supervisors against human rights also for the Buddhist Meditation Group but when the population felt threatened they thoerd crackdown order the crackdown in july of 1999. Commissioner next speaker, please. My name is eric wang. They were eager to please the Chinese Community in exchange for business deals. Due to her mingling and interference a simple resolution to denounce the human rights violation failed to pass at the board of supervisors meeting. After she received the red carpet treatment. The mayor said quote, the president was happy and particularly pleased with the effort to strongly oppose the resolution. Rose pak will be condemned by history acting as an agent and were against naming the station in any way after her. Commissioner thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Clerk rose pak was not an honorable person. Theres an fbi investigation and she owned three real estate properties. She bought a second house in Oakland California and named herself as lowincome. Do you know any other lowincome person that can buy two houses . Then the she bought a third house. The person testified said theyre away of her improperly obtaining the Affordable Housing unit but since they needed her Political Support they were reluctant to have the matter investigated. Next speaker, please. Clerk my name is cassie grove. Clerk hold just a minute, please. Susan lu. Vicky jang. Please. My name is cassie grow and id like to play radio now. My work as San Francisco supervisor first with the introduction of resolution in 2001 which met significant resistance from both the chance consulate the official representatives of china here in San Francisco as well as representatives from the Chinese Chamber of commerce. Who seemed to work against my resolution a resolution between the consulate and Chinese Chamber of commerce in terms of opposing. Discriminating against anybody. Commissioner thank you, both, very much. Stop the video. Next speaker, please. Clerk hang wan. Susan lu, roy wang, chippy yan. Commissioner welcome. Dear board of directors. My name is swan win. Im against naming the subway station rose pak. I want to talk about a person who used to own the Largest Store on stockton street. Because we had different political view she kicked me off the association. The owner signed a petition to oppose naming the subway station rose pak. 400 shops voiced opposition. She carried on the mission to suppress religious groups ib San Francisco. She has called violence. I dont want our future generation of Chinese Americans to face this. Clerk susan lu. Vicky jang. Chippy yan, quan zang. Good afternoon. I work in downtown San Francisco. I strongly oppose naming rose paks name on public facility. Lets hear from merchants in chinatown. We would like the station to be named chinatown station. It has to be chinatown station because people dont know who rose pak is. We want as Business People chinatown station because its important people need to know this is where we get off for chinatown. If you put rose pak i doesnt mean anything. I think its a bad idea the merchants dont like it and weve been supporting director peskin many years and he should consider the fact that for his idea this time there are no supporters. Commissioner thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Clerk susan lu. Roy advantage, chippy yang, qian zang, jennie zang. I want to show a Message Group screen shot. This is what a merchant said doing business in chinatown for 50 years and this is what they talk about in the naming of rose pak in the group and said shes a free loader and taking things without paying. I didnt want to say bad things of a deceased person but the naming group did not do their homework. If there was help to be given by rose pak it was not free. Ask any chinatowner and he also told me if they didnt go with what rose pak wanted she would threaten them to write a newspaper report to make their life difficulty. In the 70s she was a chronicle reporter. Clerk [reading names] [speaking foreign language] i live on 16th street. [speaking foreign language] 14 of us volunteers went to the Chinatown Stores to ask for their signatures to oppose the rose pak chinatown station naming. [speaking foreign language] we put on 130 store windows who greed who agreed naming it to only chinatown. [speaking foreign language] [voice of interpreter] they think it will help their businesses. [speaking foreign language] [voice of interpreter] a lot of the businesses say she didnt pay for services she received such as haircuts, food, rest van restaurants and the way she acts is like a gang member or mafia but people dont say. [speaking foreign language] [voice of interpreter] it would be a big shame if rose paks name appeared on the chinatown station. [speaking foreign language] [voice of interpreter] so chinatown has existed 160 years and rose pak cannot represent the past or present of chinatown so best thing to do is just name it chinatown station. [end translation] commissioner thank you. If youd like to leave a copy, wed be happy to take it. Clerk [naming public speakers] the proposal is to chame name it chinatown rose pak station. So chinatown will be in the proposal . Yes. Im been living and working in San Francisco after college and frequented chinatown and use regularly the public system. I look forward to using the central subway. I was shocked it will be named after rose pak. I was shocked. I dont think her name is something we want to preserve. Four former american intelligence officials asserted rose pak was likely an agent of the Chinese Communityist party and used influence over San Francisco politics on behalf of the Chinese Government and organized junk its or trips to china where the purpose is to surveil the official. The quote from the article is every room is bugged on these trips. So rose pak didnt work for the benefit of the people. She played political cards for personal benefit and for a foreign regime. We dont want such a persons name on chinatown and chinatown stations fine. Commissioner thank you. Next speaker. Clerk chippy yang, christina chan, ritter cornelia, may chen. Commissioner welcome. Good afternoon, directors. Im chippy yang and here to voice my opposition to naming the subway station rose p of pak. Theres a systematic infiltration from the communist party in the United States down to the garment level and thats represented in what rose pak did and what she was doing. Her generosity or whatever she contributed came with strings. She wasnt doing it for the benefit of the community. Many sources indicated shes an agent of the Chinese Communityi communityist communist people and doesnt represent the chinese american community. I dont think we should name the station after her name. Next speaker, please. Good good afternoon, mta board of director s. Im a software engineer. I stand here oppose naming the station after rose pak. Over 400 merchants signed the petition against the naming. Many have been afraid to speak out against the injustice suffered at the hands of rose pak for fear of retaliation. A report hinted to the merchants. Most Chinese Media have served and its taken courage for the Chinatown Community to openly oppose rose paks name and please follow the will of the people. Do not name it after rose pak. Commissioner thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My nameseny. Please do my names jenny. Dont name the station after rose pak. She was a chinese agent. Rose pak had a specific and demonstrable ties to the Chinese Government. She was an overseas executive director with the coea. This is the Foreign Affairs organization under the direction of the Chinese Governments state consul. And the leadership is exposed entirely of Chinese CommunistParty Officials and represent various affairs and oversee the government. The engage in an aggressive p pop Propaganda Campaign in the u. S. Leave your copy there. Theyll take it. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is christine chang. Hi, everyone. According to the fbi investigation, rose pak was on projects. It is now obvious rose pak help the fund to secure its deals in various developments in San Francisco. In return, rose pak obtained good afternoon assisted two bedroom, twobath condo through her relationship with the Mayors Office and relationship with admiral fund inc. After october 21, 2008 interview win admiral fund the fbi report did not mention new progress for a year. What happened during that year . On december 4, 2009, fbi investigation had an update. That is requests to close the case. Commissioner thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Request, mta directors. Thank you everyone for the hard work of extending the t line into chinatown. My name is cornelia ritter. Im a middle and High School Teacher working in San Francisco. Ive been living in San Francisco chinatown and a frequent muni rider. Im baffled by some peoples efforts to name the Chinatown Union station after a controversial figure rose pak. The world is commemorating the People Killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre and persecution of the peaceful meditation group. Pak has received commissioner thank you. Next speaker, please. Im may chen from saratoga. Im opposed to the naming of the subway station to rose pak. Number one its very confusing. We all love rose park but people think why would you name it after rose park. Rose pak is a different name. Secondly, its controversial. You consider all the people here opposing the naming because shes done something not very kind to part of the community. Number three, todays june 4. Everybody knows the communist party in china has committed horrendous deeds to their people and her close alliance to the communist party is a blemish and i hope the supervisors consider not putting that blemish in a public place. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, board of directors. I want to bring to your attention to how rose pak and the chamber of commerce collected petitions by misleading. We have a lot of evidence. First, she used a ravel raffle to create petitioners and second, she gave a couple dollars to a homeless man to sign the petition. Third, the reporter caught them filing the petition twice. One person was misled and wanted to cross it off the petition forms and rose pak refused to allow her to cross out their name. Rose pak and the Chinese Commerce i dont like her name at all. Commissioner thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Clerk what are you trying to do, sir . Play a video. Clerk just start speaking. Your time is running. My name is ethan lao. I want to play the video of the supervisor speaking. [indiscernible] commissioner thank you very much. Thank you. Commissioner next speaker, please. Clerk joel lang. Sabrina lee. Zang long. Good afternoon, everyone. Im joel lang. A forge father of four. If we name the station after someone he or she must be an honorab honorable person thats a role model. Rose pak is not such a person. According to an fbi report she was not as low income as she claimed not only did she not qualify for below market rate housing the interview said pak is believed to have accounts everywhere including macau. Another report shows pak always used her associates to threaten political candidates not in line with her. I would say rose pak is not deserving the namesake on any public facility. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Helena lee, sabrina zang, shawn long, silvia lu. [speaking foreign language] [voice of interpreter] my name is helena lee i escaped my town because of persecution. I was attacked by rose paks thugs and filed a report. [speaking foreign language] [voice of interpreter] rose pak when show was alived was alive used her status to cause a lot of mental and physical pain for the local practitioners who thought they would be free of harassment in america. [speaking foreign language] [voice of interpreter] how does the u. S. Government look at the issue today . Recently an official from the state department told religious groups the u. S. Government is imposing stricter vetting. This also includes holders of green cards and naturalized u. S. Citizens. Clerk thank you. Your time is up. Commissioner thank you very much. Clerk sabrina zang, mr. Wong, shan long, silvia lu. Tony tan. Good afternoon. My name is sabrina zang. As a u. S. Citizen and this type of practitioner i was assaulted by rose paks gang. First it took place in chinatown in 2000. A practitioner was doing meditation. His jacket was torn. His glasses were smashed to the floor and broken. Examiner reported in october 11, 2001, quote, the attorney for him was beat up by the crowd in the square said the first place they went for help after they were arrested was rose paks Chinese Chamber of commerce. She should not be named in the station. Shan long. Silvia lu. Tony tan. Ma wae wea. We can call on supervisor peskins people to join us after as well. [speaking foreign language] [voice of interpreter] my name is william wang. Im one of the people who got the signatures from 400 Business Owners. And what they want to say is chinatown station only. Someone who has so many faults shunt be someone that a station is named after. Its not a problem to name it chinatown by any means and the board of supervisors are free to do that but if its name rose pak chinatown station i think the Chinese Community will be split up. The clearest thing is chinatown station and there wont be controversy. [end translation] commissioner thank you very much. [voice of interpreter] hello, members of the board. I oppose naming the station after rose pak. Over two weekends i visited over 100 Business Owners and got about 150 signatures from them. Its about 80 of the Business Owners i visited were opposed to this naming. A lot of people who knew rose pak had questions about her mor morals. Some people say she was very selfish. She did things for her own personal benefit. Some say shes very corrupt. Some people said she threatened people not to be opposed to her. Some said she ripped off other things on the windows and put up her ads only. Some people said rose pak doesnt have money on the surface but she actually has homes in three places. Some people say she represents the Chinese Communist party and has close relationship with them. Commissioner thank you very much. Please finish the statement. I think if a person has moral lacking no station should be named after her. [stand by] thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Welcome. Good afternoon. My name is tony. Today is june 4th, 30 years ago, thousands of students were killed while calling for freedom and democracy in china. The chinese communism regime sent troops and fired at peaceful demonstrators. Today, on the 30th anniversary of the massacre, i am here again in San Francisco to name the new subway station after rose pak. In 2008, prior to the beijing olympics, rose pak openly opposed a resolution of the San Francisco board of supervisors that criticized china for Tiananmen Square massacre, and its repression of the press and religious groups. To this day, the Chinese Communist party denies the tee and amend square massacre, and they were not there to speak up. Lets commemorate the life lost in the tee and amend square massacre. Freedom is not free. Thank you very much. People are brave enough and individuals i am here to play a recording the recording is supervisor peskins interview in regards to rose pak. The names are somebody who has been a gatekeeper in the chineseamerican community for many years. She is well known in the press, and her name is rose pak, but it is not just about her, it is about the interests that she represents because rose pak has been able to work with people to get undue influence in gaining city contracts, in gaming gaining land use approvals to build New Buildings in San Francisco. It is really about political influence, and how political influence works. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. All right. Supervisor peskins aid, welcome hello, everyone. Hello, commissioners. Thank you for having me. Im so glad that we that you all had an opportunity to hear what is a daily conversation here at city hall. I just came from a very contentious vote at the board of supervisors around the closure of the juvenile justice facility , and i want to address this notion that political influence and having a voice, and having a seat at the table, and advocacy is something that is correct, and it is something that should be looked at with disdain, and it is somehow immoral. Speaking of political influence, it is absolutely correct that anti rose, as i liked to call her, because she was a mentor of mine, who was always advocating for people of color, for a. P. I. , leaders, for women, to have a seat at the table, and to be able to influence the decisions that are being made about our lives every single day. She lived that mantra and took it to d. C. When no one else, one central subway was a pipe dream, when other neighborhoods did not want central subway to expend to their neighborhood, auntie rose was somebody that stood up and said, no, i will organize the community. I will organize Business Owners, i will organize youth, i will organize seniors, i will organize workers to go to d. C. And secure almost a billion dollars in federal funding. I wish thats what the project was still costing these days. In funding, to realize a vision that was able to connect chinatown to jobs, to the tourism industry, and, you know, to help support affordability programs for seniors and for youth so that workers that are working throughout the city can also travel to and from the south of market to chinatown. She has always been an advocate for neighborhood access, she has always been an advocate for transportation equity. Something that, frankly, it is interesting to me that so many people are laser focused on this thought that it should be about chinatown, because i will be very blunt. There would not be the chinatown that there is today if it were not for auntie rose