Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE Transportation Authority Full Board 20170321

I am just going to start giving that time is of the essence. There we go. Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for today, tuesday march 21st. Mr. Clerk, could you call the roll . Roll call, commissioner breed . Breed is absent. Cohen. Present. Farrell. Absent. Fewer. Present. Kim. Present. Peskin. Present. Ronen. Present. Safai. Present. Sheehy. Absent, tang absent. Yee, absent zeshgs quorum. I am sure that the alarming President Trump federal budget is not a surprise, but nonetheless they remain disturbing in stark contrast to invest in infrastructure, he has proposed the budget of 16. 2, billion reflect as a 13 percent cut, with major impacts to transit, and hitting urban and Rural Community as like, the budget proposes eliminating all future funds for grants that we know as the new starts program when are not a part of the signed full Funding Grant agreements. This will effect several major transit projects that have undergone years of review and development and leverage significant state and local voter approved funds, including cal train, and barts expansion and, vehicles and train and control and other local and regional priorities such as better Market Street and brt improvement and cal train, but the impact would not be limited to the region as jobs that are associated with these projects span across the state and nation, in the hundreds of thousands. I want to thank the representatives from cal train, the Transbay Joint Power Authority and the Planning Department who are here to speak to several of these important projects. I know our federal delegation and local leaders are working with counter parts across the state and country to oppose this budget and to keep the current transportation programs intact, as we debate and fight for our priorities the roads and Transit Systems deteriorate and, congestion mountains, and grapple with the affordability crisis, all that have with the Sea Level Rise at our doorstep that is why as we advocate for our priorities we will do everything that we can to advance, state and local and funding measures to transportation and to thaend, this month, we held the initial, meetings for the launch of the transportation, 2045, task force with the Mayors Office and staff from the cta and the mta. The diverse task force will convene with the local revenue and options for the voters to consider in 2018,vy made it a top priority to insure that Community Voices are deeply engaged in the process from the outset and that we are able to learn from successes and failures of the past. Our over all goal is to present a coordinated proposal that integrates closely with the plan, bridge toll measure three thanks is also targeted for the ballot next year. In the meantime, we keep our fingers crossed that the governor and legislature can reach an agreement for our highways and local roads and Transit System wez need Strong Partnership as cross all levels of government. I want to thank the mat and Planning Department and all of you colleagues for your support for my station bike legislation and that i think we send a strong message that San Francisco urban realm and safety will not be compromised by corporations seeking to privatize the ak sets. Continuing later today i will introduce another resolution with commissioner fewer, calling upon our state legislator to allow local jurisdictions to gather information on the sector known as the Transportation Network companies, the request for data on tnt, trips continue to be denied by the California Public utilities commissions when retains, Sole Authority on these, while dense cities like ours, bear the impacts, the residents of San Francisco know from experience that the streets are congested with tnc vehicles that dont know the network or the local road laws. But we need data to back these experiences. Certainly some aspects are beneficial but as policy makers, i think that we growing concerns for the impact of transit, Bicycle Safety and Disability Access and the impact to 2,000 taxi cabs locked in agreementwise the city, i look forward to explore the appropriate strategy and our staff work on the issues tlut up coming Ability Service and Technology Policy study that is conducted and with that colleagues, icon include my remarks. Madam, executive director . Public comment on item two . Is there any Public Comment on the chairs report . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Item three, executive directors report, this is an information item. Thank you, good morning, chair peskin and commissioners this month, i begin with an up date again, on our state transportation revenue discussions as chair peskin mentioned. The federal out look say bit bleak, although we will note that that is still an opening position and there will still be several months of congressional budget negotiations. Meanwhile the state continues to work on a potential funding package. We know that there have been a lot of discussion thz month among the leadership and the Governors Office on the three containing revenue proposal wez have heard that a deal may be announced at the end of march and we are keeping our fingers crossd on that. There is also immediately following that, regional street sessions that we anticipate will get going as well. At our own local conversation about revenues. Meanwhile the plan bay area, 2040, plan is getting ready for afinal release and adoption. As you will recall, the adopted preferred land use and transportation sdooen scenario was decided in december and there is continuing work on equity and affordability on the housing front, after the adoption, this spring, we anticipate pba 2040, will guide investment and land use decisions over the next four yearsn april and, may, they will hold, county and open houses including having a hearing at our board in april, 24th. And as soon as we have those dates for the open house we will share that on the website oolt open house, seeking public input and to share the up dates on the work from the seg frment San Francisco to san jose, the events will be happening in all three counties with the first meeting on april, 5th from 5 00 to 8 00 p. M. And the public is again, invited to come and learn about the project and the alternatives being considered as well as the Environmental Planning process. The california dmv, last week, released vehicle testing regulations. This has been long anticipated that i think california is the first state to promelgate the detailed testing regulations for atonig atonomous. California has more manufacturers testing the vehicles in any other state and that the new rules are designed to protect the Public Safety proeshgs moet innovation and, layout a path for future testing of driver technology. For those interested, please, visit the dmv, site and they are taking comments but april, 2 4g9. And we wibl developing the comments at sfmta and other agency and hope to bring you an up date to you next month. Turning to local issues. We have also initiated as the chair mentioned the service and technology study, this is a long anticipated piece of sector work that we identified back in the last county wide plan to take stock of the emerging technology and transportation market. To understand the range of service frz traditional, car share and bike Share Service to the Shuttle Service and the Transportation Services as well as technologies around both goods and Passenger Movement on the atonomous side. We want to be able to take stock of what is available today, as well as what is being planned. Look at the Regulatory Environment at the federal and state and local level and provide a policy framework so that the board and the public can consider each of these as they come not as a single opportunity, and set of issues but as a whole and it has a coordinate tded approach across the sector. We want to bring this work back to you in the next few months, in coordination, and as the chair mentioned we are not wait og these policy frame works but we are actually taking action that is consistent with our city goals. The communities of concern in San Francisco, and across the region have been defined several years ago. I want to up date you on good staff work that we are doing with the sfmta to up date the definition of community of here in San Francisco and the region and the state uses these definition to prioritize funding for competitive grant project and for other policy purposes, previously, the mtc analysis captured a set of disadvantaged communities at a larger geography, that the census track and that generally, reflect what had we believed to be the correct, geography, but there are a few that we wanted to take a closer look at. In order to do so, we captured smaller geographic tracks, and focused our analysis on block level dem graphic soez that we will be tiebl have a more fine tuned definition of communities of certain. And so we are using these factor and threshold to up date the definition on a more census block and we will be bringing that to the board in april for your consideration. There are two calls for projects speaking of funding that are out one is the one Bay Area Grant Program and this is, the frantransportation opportun to distribute, 40 million of federal funding over the next five years. We released the framework and you adopted the principals last month and we will be bringing back our recommendations to the Authority Board in april. And your april, 26th meeting. For folks who are interested in learning more about this funding opportunity, please visit sfcta. Org obag two. In addition a smaller spot of funds, 725,000 was available through the transportation for clean air fund, call for projects. This is air District Fund that is based on the vehicle registration fees and it is able to Fund Projects that improve the air quality by reducing the vehicle emission and things like the Shuttle Service and bike project and signal, projects and the nonvehicle and the projects that are, the top priority projects again in our evaluation criteria of zero sxshths emissions and the projects like the new bike facilities. And other types of services. The application deadline is pri april 28 and this we are hosting a workshop at ten a. M. At our offices at 1455, Market Street, 22nd floor. Walk to workday, around the corner on april sixth, we are supporting walk sf in the efforts to coordinate the important date of shine a light and raise awareness of all of the benefits of walking through the healthy and sustain able transportation. Turning to property je proje delivery, it is nearing completeing in district ten and thank you for your offices whep that over the years. This project is allocation that has leveraged about 40 million in infrastructure and houses source to create new walk able transit access for sacility to provide the sidewalks and Street Lighting and other improvements for the units of mixed Income Housing at hunters view. And thank you to the departments that are working on that project. The neighborhood transportation Improvement Program, kobts to make progress and working with commissioner tangs office, and to scope, two new capitol projects on the feasibility of a round about. And in the intersection of sky line boulevard as well as pedestrian and traffic calming improvements to the lower highway and, in addition the final report foz district five, the Western Addition plan and district nine, the interchange and permit study are also being presented to our citizens advisory next week and it will be coming to the board this week, actually tomorrow and it will be coming to the board for approval next month. And finally, we have a great open house, and the dbe, lbe networking opportunity yesterday, attended by 70 folks from the 65 numbers companies, it is the annual meeting to promote awareness, and this time we were able to publicize opportunity wtz ta and our treasure island, Management Agency and the public works and the cal train as well. The event included representative frz many of these agencies sfmta and cal transand the Small Business network, following the presentation there were a lot of folks that were able to meet with property ject staff as well as get together with one another and network. We have sign up sheets available for those who were not able to come meeting and contact us at our website or sfcta. Org doing business with us. Thank you and with that icon include my remarks. Thank you s there any public on the executive directors report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk, could you please read the Consent Agenda . Compriseded of items four to eleven, staff does not plan to present on these items, the member rejet knees ject, any could be removed. Anyone like an item or items severed. Mr. Clerk, could you sever, items nine and eleven and, on the balance of the consent aagain darks a roll call please. All right. Is there any Public Comment on the Consent Agenda . We will hear nine and eleven separate separately. Seeing no Public Comment, on those items Public Comment is closed. And on the balance of the consent a roll call please. Commissioner breed . Aye. Coab sebt sent. Farrell, absent. Fewer. Aye. Kim. Aye. Peskin. Aye. Ronen. Aye. Nsafai, aye. Tang, aye. Consent agenda is approved. Those items are finally approved, item nine . Allocate 34,566,349 in prop k funds, with conditions, for six requests, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedules this is an action item. Good morning commissioners Deputy Director of policy and programming at the Transportation Authority. There is one item that would i like to call your attention to a change in the funding request between the meeting last week and todays meeting. Subsequent to the meeting on the 14th of march. The sfmta withdrew its prop k application for the design phase funding for our boulevard traffic signal up grades, in order to fund that work with prop a general Obligation Bond funds. That is the up date i have for the board, if there are any questions, i am happy to answer. Are there any questions for miss lafort . Seeing none s there any Public Comment on item nine . Commissioner, fewer . Thank you very much. Chair. Thank you. So after my discussion i think that we so i see that it is at zero percent on the 23rd, and is that still included in the budget . I think that we were after the discussion i was under the impression that we were going to continue those discussions about further development of that project. That got zeroed out at the last meeting and it is so reflected in these documents with the red line. Thank you, i wanted to confirm. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on item nine. Seeing none. Public comment is closed. We have a different house, could you please, call the roll . All right, item nine, breed. Aye. Cohen. Aye. Fewer. Aye. Kim. Aye. Peskin. Aye. Ronen. Aye. Safai. Aye. Tang. Aye. The item is approved on this final reading. Item eleven, please . Item seven, major capitol projects up date. Central subway, this is an information item. Could we have a presentation from the brief, presentation from the staff . Yes, we do. Good morning my name is lus ia and we are the consultant to the authority. And i would be present thanksgiviing this subject. On the first. What excuse me. We have a little technical problem, here, excuse me for a second. This is the one. Okay. Just sgogoing to move othe m funding for the subway has been allocated basically the only part that remains is the portion of the federal funds. And they rep funding. That most of those are here for the schedule Revenue Service is now forecasted for september 2019. The project is passage in the mid point, and it is the first contracts are complete, and the contract and the assistance and the station contract is 51 percent complete. Here you have something that you can get a sense of the breadth of this project, and a picture from the excavation of the china town station, the mining. The union square, the park decision site and this is this and you can see twot tunnels on the back of the picture. And on brandon station the db has been programmed, they have got, they have contract specific goals to you from 6 to 30 percent, up to now, 180 Million Dollars have been awarded through december, which is 21 percent. And the stations assistant contract has a 20 percent goal. The challenges and opportunities. The ongoing advocacy needed for the remaining fronts, we will understand that the skinny budget includes funding for projects already in the ffga stage, and so, it is looking good from that aspect. But we need some Authority Funding to replace the 75 and a half million in rif funds, and the other opportunity or the challenges that the forecast is now september 2019, as opposed to the december of 2018 as originally planned. If you have any questions, i am happy to answer them, the Program Manager for this project to see it through from mta. Are there any questions from members, seeing none, we will open this up for Public Comment. Mr. Lebron . Thank you, supervisors. And good morning. I have no idea you were going to give this presentation, and i am so happy that you did. But i really want to do right now, is to attract your attention to attachment two on page, 19. Because the information there is actually going to form the conversation that under the item number 14 later. Specifically i would like to you look at line a3, which is the terminal design contract for 8 Million Dollars. And i will repeat that, the time now and the contract for 8 Million Dollars. And also, line b 3, which is construction contract. Or 214 Million Dollars, currently running 6 Million Dollars under budget. And the last thatvy i have on this item today you did this just now and it was brief, i think that it would be really helpful to have probably a spot of the workshop a full presentation on the central subway. Specifically you know, how it was a conceived and how it was fund and how the project is being you know, implemented as we speak and when you do, you will discover that the city, currently has a team that is capable of delivering the dtx on time and, on budget, for a billion and a half, thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Lebron, and i think that was a compliment mr. Funge. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public here on this item . Seeing none, this is an information item, mr. Clerk, could you please read item 12 through 14. Together. All right. Item 12, up date peninsula corridor electrification project update on the railyard alternatives and i280 boulevard Feasibility Study proposed allocation of 4,549,675 in prop k funds, with conditions for the downtown extension preliminary engineering; 915,000, with conditions, for the downtown extension tunneling options engineering study; and appropriation of 200,000 for oversight of the downtown extension, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedules. These are all information items. Thank you, mr. Stamos. Colleagues we are joined today by jim heart net from cal train and the cta as well as Michael Burns, the former head of San Francisco mta. And the valley Transportation Authority, and now working with cal train on electric identification, thank you for being here. Michael, if you could give us an up date on peninsula project. Thank you very much chair peskin. The ceo was unable to attend the meeting today tlchlt is other briefings going on. The memo in your packet provides a summary of the status of the project. I would like to summarize and restate important fact from the memo, february 17th, the electricfiation project met all of the statute or and regulatory requirements for an sfga, and the only thing that shoelding up in sfga, is the signature of the secretary of transportation. In the follow up to that, cal train, ceo and myself and several others, members of the staff have been in dc for the previous two weeks and, we were joined by a private sector representatives and the contractors, and mtc, and sil con Valley Leadership group and others to attend meetings with legislators Committee Staff and, fta staff and to discuss the project and, to present the merits of the project to the decision makers. We also targeted members of Congress Whose districts have jobs that would benefit or would be created as a result of moving for ward with the electricfiation project. Senator hatch . Senator hatch, i met with him, personally. And he was very, productive meeting. In mentioning senator hatch, our vehicle supplier, if the project moves forward, will build a manufacturing facility to build the vehicles. Creating over 550 jobs and 50 Million Dollars private investment in that facility. So we attended i would say almost, 50 meetings, dozens and dozens of meetings. And throughout those meetings, we did not receive one question on the merits of the projector the benefits of the project. Nevertheless, we are facing two significant challenges, the first is despite the evidence that the project has independent utility, despite the fact that electricfiation was proposed, and advanced long before the high speed rail, bond authorization was approved in 2008. Despite the fact that we have a decision that up holds the independence of the call train electric identification project from the high speed rail project. Oppose the grant, and based on their opposition to high speed rail. We actually met with some of the members who have voiced opposition to the grant. They dont have any problem with our project accept that there is a connection for future benefit to high speed rail and that high speed rail is helping to fund the project. The second major chal ij is the one that the chair talked about in his report, and that is that the president in his preliminary or skinny budget last week, recommended the elimination of the capitol Grant Program which would mean no new funding agreements for new start projects small start projects or court capacity projects. This action is drawn a bit of attention from agencies business members and others who are looking to marshall a strategy in an effort to save the program. The i saw a really good quote yesterday. I think that it might have been randy who said it. That one of the things to keep in mind is that this is the sort of the first out lay in a Budget Proposal that we have a long way to go. And it should be considered in the first inning of a baseball game and it is going to occur before the president s budget is finalized, and submitted to congress and then there will be negotiations after, after that happens. We are the only project in the Capitol Investment Grant Program that is ready to go with a signature. So in the face of these challenges, we are continuing to stress the tremendous support and the benefits and the need for the project. We are continuing to work with the department of transportation and the federal transit administration, to conference them to include our project in the president s ultimately proposed fy 18 budget. That is the threshold that the department of transportation has told us that we must meet for a full Funding Grant to get executed. We continue to advocate with our congressional delegation in other elected official and Business Leaders who have jobs in their districts. And benefit from the project. We are also working with our delegation two support continued funding for the project in the 2017 budget which will inform the fy 18 budget. We are currently in the fy 17 budget for 100 Million Dollars. And we have 73 Million Dollars of previously appropriate ated funding eligible the project once an sfga is signed. In addition to these actions, we are exploring other potential Funding Options particularly with this state. One of the issues that was raised by the republican delegation was the use of high speed rail, funds, prop one a funds in our fubding plan. And so we are exploring whether there are opportunities to substitute those funds with other funds. And leaving no stone unturned, we are also working with our financial advisors, and private sector partners to explore other potential Funding Sources in the event that the full Funding Grant agreement is not executed. So in summary, we are continuing our advocacy efforts it is meeting what the president says that he wants, the project will modernize obsolete infrastructure and ready to move into construction and create jobs. As a memo described, we have extended our contracts to june 30th. The president s detailed budget is expected to be issued in mid may. And so we will have a good sense for where we stand probably early may. And we continue to evaluate potential alternatives strategy and work with all of our regional partners. And continue to build support for the project. So, that is where we stand. We are not giving up. We will not give up. Project has too many benefits. And it is needed immediately, to address our capacity issues not to mention for the longer term. And has tremendous, tremendous, support from virtually all aspects of the stake holders that are associated with it. So that concludes my report, mr. Chair. Thank you, mr. Burns. And while we have not yet heard from the department of city planning, with regard to the rail yard alternative, and i280 boulevard, Feasibility Study, what would cal train, what is cal trains comments on the rab study if any . We have been working with the Planning Department staff and the Mayors Office. Coordinating information flow back and forth. We actually have a meeting schedule for some time in the next couple of weeks. Thursday. To get a briefing on the current status. We quite frankly have not had a briefing in some time. So, you know our concern or our issue is that we just need to preserve cal trains operational needs, maintenance needs, and meet the needs of our customers, and also doing so, in doing all of that while we continue to work within our p budget. So, in terms of i dont have anything specific in terms of a comment on the rab stud y but we have been working with the staff. Thank you mr. Burns, and are there questions for Michael Burns from members, seeing none, any comment from cta staff . Seeing none, why dont we open this up to Public Comment, i have got, two speaker cards on, well, actually, you should all do your Public Comment, because we have called items 12, through 14, why dont we do this, hold Public Comment until we hear from miss gege at the Planning Department on the rab study. And mr. Zabony and mr. Cordova with regard to the prop k allocation and so director ram the floor is yours. Big decision for the next 100 years and we have to make it this year. Thank you, thank you for recognizing this is a 100 year decision. John ram with the Planning Department. I think that our powerpoint is up here but maybe not. So, i think that as you pointed out, we are making some very substan hall long term decisions here. And i wanted to kind of give you an up date about where we were. The best way that i know how to describe this work is that between 16th street and downtown, we are slated spend something on the order of 7 to 8 billion dollars in infrastructure over the next ten to 15 years on three Major Projects. The dtx, the high speed rail, and the electricfiation of cal train. And we got involved in this study about a year and a half ago, precisely for the reason of looking comprehensively, at this area. To understand not only how these three Major Projects interact, but how they can best serve the future of the city and the region and, just importantly how they best interact with the land use decisions that we need to make in a part of the city that is seeing substantial growth and represents a potential for really serving the city long term. So the study has a very, unfortunate long name, and we should come up with a name, but we have not done that yet, but we will soon try to do that. It does have five components i think that you know we briefed you a few months ago tlshgs is a come poentment of looking to the alternative foz alignment, to reach the transbay transsilt center. There is of course, a potential looking at a loop out of the Transit Center, and the potential of looking at a different configuration, or a rail yard, or a location for the cal train, rail yard, there is the component of looking at two interstate, 280 in this area and, finally looking at all of the land use and related public benefits. And having said that, our goal today, in the next few months and, over the last few months has been on the first component. And which is looking at the alternatives for the alignment, that is our primary focus right now and, it needs to be fox cuffs the citys efforts and we believe that that is and, the reason for these other, and looking at these other component making sure that we are not preincluding possibilities in these areas, but the primary focus of this effort right now, in the near future, is the actual rail alignment. I think that you know that we are looking at three alternatives one is of course, is the existing alignment here as the base line alignment in green and, it uses a street and the sektd and going, fourth and going into the Transit Center. The other, the second alignment, right where we are looking at is closely associated with that. And it is pennsylvania avenue, and shown in yellow, and it ducks down below the grade and, well south of 16th street, and but, follows generally, the alignment, and adjacent to, if you will, the existing cal train alignment. And the third alignment is what we are calling the mission bay alignment, which will vere off the existing trains to catch the third street and go through mission scomba bay and hit, Second Street in the same location as the current base line alignment, those are the three alignments that have been further studied. We had a fourth alignment where the tunnel would extend under the 280, freeway, but that proves to be physically infeasible given the structure of the freeway. We have been working with the group and you can see the members working here and identified here and representing a number of constituencies in this area, it might be appropriate for me to pause here, you did receive comment about lack of notification, or some challenges of not notification, there was technical difficult as parentally with the email addresses but i will say that these meetings are posted on the website and open to the public and make sure to correct those issues but these meet vgz been open to the public and the public has been attending along with the members of the Citizens Working Group which we have found, very beneficial and this is an active engaged group of people and we very much appreciate their work on this. And we wi continue to meet over the coming months. Make sure that you get waddling and awful the members of the cac. Absolutely. And i dont, i still cant figure out why he was not getting the notice but we will make sure that we have the email information correct and make sure that these are posted as well. Thank you. So, the other thing that we have been doingn terms of studying these three alternative and working with the Citizens Working Group, is looking at, or how, or what are the evaluation criteria that we need to judge these three alternatives. We have the break down of the criteria on the much larger spread sheet and, in the nutshell, those areas are the technical feasibility and of course, and meeting the needs of all of the Respective Agency and the mobility for the short term and the long term and the capacity of the system, and the other policy and Affordable Housing goals and vision zero and, the other policies that clearly relate to this part of the city. And the social criteria for example, the need to knit the neighborhoods together, when are they continuing ongoing themes of this work is how to get mission bay and, the hill back reconnected to the city as a whole. And to get, and to deal with the potential barriers that are represented by those tracks and we are looking at schedule and we are looking lastly at cost and on that last point, i want to say, the cost that we are looking at are very broad range of cost, it is not just the cost of each of these three alternatives but a whole range of costs. The land recapture that might be available for looking at different alternative and the land that might be freed up to help to em employ the land, technique and we are looking at a broad range of cost and benefits of each of these alternatives much more than we normally would with a project like this. Because of the nature of the project, and the scope and the magnitude. And so, we are in the thick of developing those costs right now and, those benefitwise our consultants right now. And we hope to have the preliminary answers in the next three to four months. Excuse me. And then, of course, when all that have is done, we will use that criteria to develop the Decision Making tools for you all. For the Mayors Office and for the city as a whole. To understand what the potential cost benefits of these each of these solutions are. And they are not the same costs. Because the actual Construction Costs are going to vary and so we need to understand the potential benefits that will go to the alignments. And we need to understand how we should prioritize the various benefit tlz is some obvious benefits that are not quantifiable, but we should try to capture them as best as we can, it is important to recognize and we believe that given the schedule for the high speed rail for cal trains need and our needs on this project s that the city should make a decision by the end of the year about whether we will pursue on the table. And we believe that it is important that before the end of the year, we as a city family decide which alternative that we would like to pursue fwe do decide to pursue a different alternative there will be further environmental analysis that will have to be done for that chosen alternative and for the engineering work. But we believe that we need to make a decision bit end of the year, whether we will need to move ahead with the different alternative. We have a number of Community Meet thagz we have had in the past. And we have had the sit tens working group that is active and we have additional Community Meetings in the starting in a few months, i think that in june. And ongoing, work as i said, and participation from the Citizens Working Group. And so that we can get to thor and to you and the Decision Making bod yz before the end of the year. Mr. Ram is there any alternative that has been studied relative to the current alignment that could be done without cut and cover . For the San Francisco Planning Department. We have looked at it, but from a perspective of actually engineering something and showing it beyond just a best engineering thought process. The answer is no. Because it is too shallow, it is actually a combination of where the station is located, depth wise as well as the width, so by having three tracks to tunnel, have you to have a certain amount of distance over the ton sxl that means that we had to be much deep sxer then have you to get back up to the Transit Center and so, we could look at that in the future. And im not saying that there is not a possibility, currently we dont see it as a possibility. How many streets would be ripped up for how many years . As part of the conversation that you are going to have with tjpa sxlt money they are looking at, some of that additional work will help nail down the length of time along the street, it is between, second and 7th. Or the limits. And through the environmental process theshgs looked at what the worse Case Scenario is, and i am going to let them talk about that when they are up here. Any comments from cta staff . Why dont we hear from mr. Zabone from the transbay joint powers authority. The allocation, to excuse me. Sorry. We have revised our allocation to i am trying to look it up here. 4 million. Yeah. 675 dollars. Yes. We have two parts, one part will be for four and a half Million Dollars to do the engineering for the Common Elements, and in the dtx and that is common to all alternatives being under consideration. Mean s the work on the Second Street and the work in the box itself and the pedestrian connector. So that allocation, pertains to the work along this elements that are common, and under consideration. And are we in agreement between miss gege and the cta staff and tjpa staff that the Second Street that, i mean, my understanding is that if we did the alternative of a third street line, that given the depth of the station at 120 feet, that it would have to, it would be far below the alignment that you are looking at coming from townsend street and so i want to make sure that everything on the Second Street alignment is actually, on the same plain. In the study we will take all of these items in consideration. So when we are looking at t we will be looking at what we have and what the latest from the rib study has for it and for the pennsylvania avenue. So there is a great difference that needs to be made. Yes, and he is chomping at the bit to give his presentation. So mark what i am going to do is i am going to sit you down for a minute. And we are going to hear from eric, and we will come back to you. And we will go through the nice powerpoint. Commissioner peskin you are asking the hundreds of million of dollars question. You are asking the experts and to take a look and answer that question, in my opinion, it is a bit premature to say right now thanks there is no, and it is going to be underground it is something that has to happen, we have more due till against to do and that is part of,. Do you want to go through your powerpoint. Yes, do i. In five minutes, a number of us have to depart to a press conference with the mayor, i was hoping that wrap this up before eleven, so lets see if we can plow through it. Doesnt seem. Lets plow through it right now. Our request is in three parts. Engineering, tunnel options studding that you are indicating which is right on the money to make sure that we go ahead and take a look at that. And finally the enhanced oversight. And so the request in front of you, for the 4. 5, is the reduced scope of work like mark said and we are focusing on the elements common and we are going to go to the engineering to 30 percent. And for the new elements that are modified in the supply mental eir and the intent is to meet and complete by december, 2017, so that we are working in unison with the city Planning Department and with tjpa in that regard to make sure that we are all on the same schedule. We have special conditions from an oversight protocol that we have talked about before that we have started implementing with the tjpa. That is a picture there, and just so everyone is clear, the area that is in shaded kind of in rose color is the common alignment portion that we want to focus on there. Second, the tunnel option study it is important that we look at the issue, and we are going to focus on three areas, the west side of the terminal where the throat structure and the trains come in and fan out from three to six tracks and also looking at townsend and is it says here from 4th to second and really frts 7th all the way to Second Street and, finally looking at ventation, issue and in the corner of third and also if i correctly, second and har soin, our intent is once the notice is issued to complete this work, within three months, and basically share that information with the world. With the city familiacitily fam critical. And it will inform, the evaluation of the alternatives and rab. So i think that this is very good timing in that regard. The request for 915,000 dollars, and then finally the appropriation for the Transportation Authority, our intent is to go ahead and use our on call list that was approved last month, bring in the specific telling experts and, review the cost with also, some construction contract type of entities and, make sure that from a rightofway acquisition standpoint is that we look at the impacts there and up date the cost estimate and that is part of the tjpa work and we want to bring in the independent experts to the table from the on set here in that regard. And not be in a mode where we are reacting but part of the development of the solution, par participating workshops and etc. And, provide recommendation and the request there is for an additional 200,000 dollars. Thank you why dont we open this up to Public Comment. I have a number of speaker cards. Brown, jim, bob, ana lern and, james haze and peter f you will like up to your right and my left. Thank you. You have six minutes and sit down to below two, correct . That is correct. My apologies. No worries and i thandz have you a press conference. I am going to keep it brief, i like cal train and my recommendation is like the tdts we need to rethink this thing and, cancel both contracts and, focus on the procurement and that will carry the passenger level. I think that have you read my letter from march on the dtx, goit nothing polite to say about the base line you cannot do it for being under freet way, because you want for go back and, you have to bae tok to the daily if you want to do that. And then you get the issues and the station location and, then the solution to your questions, supervisor about townsend is to locate the station on the 7th, between 16th and townsend, that will not impact anybody, because you just got the freeway tracks there right now. And then, i am going to wrap a very briefly i am strongly opposed. On the assignment about the central subway and the contract, 7 Million Dollars, i am strongly opposed to any further studies, and you should look on page 123, of your packet. You will find that the design is 200 million. And that is from has to stop and thank you very much thank you, for your emails. Next speaker, please . Hi, im jim, and patrick and company in sn, in reference to cal train it seems to me that we should be rethinking this project a little bit. How about a hybrid engine that is electrical and diesel . And they can be used once the tunnel is built and, they can be in the line and it solves a lot of problems, that does not seem to be an equation, as near as i can see. This is a critical path, in the third and townsend, 10,000 people a day come in there and we have had our Planning Department build all of these highrise buildings downtown but we have not connected the transportation system. And since i was a kid and let me tell you, let the record reflect that was a long time ago. We talk about bart to the airport thanks is natural thanks is like falling off a log, but we cant get the train to downtown where the action is. I just dont understand it, i dont think that this say 100 year decision, if have you heard of the stuff that musk is doing, things are going to charngs a 100 year decision, i cant buy that, on sounds good but not true. I heard the planning decision and there was a value that went, by me quickly. I find that discouraging and very poor city policy to design something where we can get the land and make the most of it later. And therefore, you are always going to go where the best land sources are. And we want the best solution for the product at hand and then the things will fallout where they may. And to go to the other way, and i know that we had a great land acquisition, relative to the transbay thanks was because the freeway was in place, and it went down in front of fertry building and that created all of those things, to go out and plan a project to take the maximum land value, that is just bad policy. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Patrick, next speaker please. And i have one more speaker card from ben summers. Go ahead, sir. Good morning, chair peskin. Vice chair and, commissioners my name is bruce and, i am the chair of the tjfrment pa cac and a member of the rib study and high speed rail, Citizens Working Groups of board member and transportation rep for the south beach, Mission Bay Neighborhood association, my comments are as an individual and Public Transportation advocate. I am in full support of the 5. 4 Million Dollar prop k funds requested today by the tjpa and the cta. As you heard the work includes funding for the Design Elements of the dtx will be use inned any of athlete alignments considered in the reb study and for the review of the alignment to minimize the cut and cover and, minimizing in the cut and cover, is critical, and as this construction method will bring the neighborhood, including muni to a stand still w this said, we are all concerned about what we heard on the uncertainty created by washington, delaying or eliminating the 647 million of federal funding identified for cal train electricfiation, and in addition we are concerned with the operating deficit for running the Transit Center and based on this, we might say what is the sense of urgency to authorize the funding now, should we wait and, these are real concerns, however and, i know that i am preaching to the choir as a region and i state, our economic engine and jobs and quality of life are pending on the structure. And we need to find a way to get it built and without it we will experience grid lock, have confidence in the elected leaders. In agencies responsible for the bay area fund and we will figure a way to get this done. And find the funding for the extension. In the meantime, we need a 30 percent design in the study completed as soon as possible. As the stake holders, include thanksgiving commission, so they have the necessary information to make the decision on the dtx alignments. Once the decision is made we, will have cleared on the next steps and path forward. Thank you. Next speaker, mr. Haws. Im jim hawand i am delighted to be here because for the first time i am not here to complain. What you have before you is an acknowledgment that that the existing tjpa, plan, for the dtx is out loaded, and the Planning Department as you have heard has been working on making something plan which will be workable in the future. I am here to support the new budget, and that has been proposed. And i particularly like the 200,000 of us being set aside by your staff, to over see and to coordinate things, because as you are well aware, this is a very complicated project that involves a variety of agencies, some not everyone is on the same page and not everyone gets along with each other. And so it is very important that we, sort of get this together. And this is a major step forward in the goal is to have within a year a plan for bringing the train downtown which everyone can buy into. Now having said that, we are all aware of the funding problem. Analyst vz suggested that although, the president may be populous and most of the congress and the good deal of the people in the administration, are hard right people who are involved with the heritage foundation, and the reason the foundation who are opposed to the transit across the board. Well that is a per poster yus notion because it effects all towns and cities and that will ee vain shally go atwlashgs is no reason why we should not continue to work on our plan to have it done so that we can work within what comes forward. Thank you. Good morning, my name is bob and i am the chair of save, muni. We fully support cal train and we courage the continued growth and we hope that it grows by double, and triple and quad dru ple, electricfiation seems to have the plan that has the most support at the current time. We urge cal train to look at just in the unlikely circumstance to look at the locomotives as a mean of getting cal train downtown to the transbay center. That said, i want to express support for the prop k allegation, for the Transbay Authority to continue the engineering stud yz, i think that this is important to not let this lag, and to continue with these Common Elements as been described by mark and others. Finally the stud y this is the biggest that is purpose traitd on San Francisco in a long time. Only, supported because you have gotten over a million and a half dollars, of the log rolling from mtc and i am sure that the good citizens of freemont, and santa rosa, who have unwhitingly contributed to this pathetic study i am sure that you do not have much to explain about it when a connected sabal puts forth their plans for some toll roads out in the suburbs, finally, i compare this reb study to the year, 1520, when the king of spain, commissioned a study to discover what was the world was actually flat and compared to the alternative and it is about as meaningful. Thank you. Next speaker please . Good morning, board members. Adena leven and i am a member of the Community Working group on the rab and representing friends of cal train which is a nonprofit with 6,000 participants from here in San Francisco, to san jose and beyond, as well as the friends of dtx. And here to support the fund and move this forward. I am glad to hear in the presentation, regarding cal train with the effort to work on plan a to get this project fund and moving forward as the most shovel ready project in the country. As well as looking into the planned b glad to want to select a preferred alternative and converge the plans by the end of the year to move forward. Even though the weather is chilly in dc as know that it is a good idea to have td plans in hand when funding frees up, so please, do move forward, one of the things that i am spired by here in california, is hearing leaders i urge you to move forward. Next speak frer district three. Hi, how are you . I am here representing four or five people, because they are in meeting and, all of another wonderful things that keep the economy humming. So i want to read a quote from a couple of emails that we have been exchanging from the San Francisco residents. She says that i feel strongly about this as anyone who rides, cal train, and isnt going to a giants game. In is an opportunity for all of you to have a big impact on individuals lives. And those of us who need to get to work on a daily basis would tremendously appreciate it and it is something that we are watching. So, thank you. Thank you. Mr. Strauss . I am here to support the allocation of the 4. 5 Million Dollars plus to keep this project moving forward and, the downtown extension and is the highest rail capitol priority after the central subway, and i am encouraged that we are not only pursuing as we must, plan a, as it has been called, but also, our investigating a plan b and plan c because of this is essential that we keep this project moving for ward. We are invested in the Sales Force Tower and the rail terminal, and underneath it already. And the projects supported by this 5. 4, Million Dollars, are consistent with all of those and i urge you to keep us moving forward, aggressively, on these elements and on this over all project. Thank you. I want to say that i strongly support this allegation, i think that the tjpa staff could use more than this, but this is a good start. A word about grab. I used to run stud yz like this when i was at p engineering and i can tell you that if i had been 36 months into a study, with no numbers, they would have fired me, and they would have been right. It is disgraceful that we dont have anything to look at, other than planning concept after all of this time, on sektd street, i am glad that hear that the rab staff has it straight and, there was a time not too long ago when they were saying that they were going to tunnel everything, and the tgpa was doing a cut and cover. And now it is necessary to cut and cover, the north end because of the track way widen to 165 feet. And you cannot tunnel a thing that is 70 feet underground and 165 feet wide and so that is why the north end is cut and cover. And then you have all tunnel and this is Second Street, and all tunnel until you get right down close to the existing station. And that is, there is the tunnel has to come up very close. To grade, only about 25 or 30 feet below grade. You cant tunnel 25 or 30 feet over or under grade. A little bit on this allocation and, this as you have heard, some of that could wait until high speed rail is closer, the tunnel plug at the south end was accommodation to the ideas of the rab study, that is 100 Million Dollars that could be cut out and replaced with a knock out panel. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public here on items 12 through 12 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Any comments from members, seeing none, mr. Clerk, could you please have a roll call on item 14. Information item. Oh, you are correct. And with that would you move to item 15, please. Item 15, is introduction of new items. And together with commissioner fewer, i am introducing the resolution urging the state legislature to amend the california vehicle and Public Utilities codes to enable the local california jurisdictions to access trip data and to permit and conduct, the tnz. As warranted to insure, the safety and access and manage congestion, thank you commissioner fewer. And is there any general Public Comment . Thank you, again. And very briefly, it is a follow up to a comment that you made earlier on, about the tac, getting involved in the discussion. I want to bring to your attention that item number 14, is on two more evenings, and constant. And calendar and it is unacceptable and, there has to be a full presentation from the tjpa to the cac, explaining what we are doing for the robust discussion to inform you when this comes back to you for approval tushgs very much. I concur, mr. 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So, we thought about it and worked with general manager at the time to form an advizry committee to talk about how to include local businesses in the region. I was on the First Committee back about 10 years ago and the job changed over time. In the beginning, we just wanted people to know about it. We wanted to attract contractors to come into the system which is a bidding system and bid on some of these projects. Our second job was to help the sfpuc to try to make themselves more user frndly. I like that they go out of their way, have contractors trying to teach and outreach to Small Businesses and lots of creative ways. Help the community as well. There is so much infrastructure going on and repair, new construction that i think is helping to get construction back on its feet. My faiv rlt part of the committee has been that we have played a opportunity for many Small Businesses. [inaudible] Women Owned Business to come in and [inaudible] sfpuc. It is a great opportunity because some are so small they have been able to grow their companies and move up and bid other projects with the sfpuc. Everyone i was talking about with any contractor [inaudible] and super markets and things like that and i realize the transition was on the sfpuc. He got that first job and knows about the paperwork qu schedule and still works on this type of job, but he works with general contractors that also did other things. Pretty soon it is like he did that one and that one. It completely changed his business. My name is nancy [inaudible] the Office Manager and bid coordinator for [inaudible] construction. Worked on 10 plus puc, lbe contracts. Today we are doing Site Maintenance on the [inaudible] chr site and currently the gentlemen behind me are working on every moving and basic specs of plants. In order to be success you need to work hard, bid low and keep a look at the sfpuc website for future bidding opportunity. This is a Successful Program because it provides opportunities to regional communities that might not have opportunities to work for large scale projects. The sfpuc is a fortunate agency we have a lot of Capital Program that span over 7 counties who also to see how some businesses like [inaudible] and bio mass started as small micro businesses grow and expand and stay in the program and work on several projects before they graduate from the program. That is what warms my heart. My name is college willkerson, the principle for bio mass. Bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. Small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible and show the city and county of San Francisco we can also perform services. This program had tremendous impact to the region. In fact, the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. This has h a major positive impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded 50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. And, i significantly helped the business. It is one of the major contributors to our success. All right. Good afternoon, everybody welcome to the board of supervisors land use and Transportation Committee meeting for monday, march 20, 2017, my name is mark farrell ill be chairing this committee and joined by supervisor peskin sitting for supervisor tang we have supervisor jane kim want to thank adrian and phil jackson for covering this meeting and mr. Victor young mr. Clerk, any announcements . On the mayor 28 agenda oracles. Okay just to be clear shall we be choosing supervisor tang. Make a motion at your discretion and supervisor kim and seconded by supervisor peskin 0 without objection item one please item one ordinance for the downtown support special use district to authorize a contribution inlieu fee to satisfy the open space requirement excludes feature fraefrnz from the gross square and spent foreign the lighting on victoria manolo draves park okay. Thank you this was sponsored by supervisor kim im going to turn it over to her. Thank you chair farrell the International Congressional hotel approaches my office as privately owned public space in the hotel on the 4 and 6 floor are their interesting in figuring out an alternative for low usage by the public given the floor and offered their interests in renting out this space for private use when the popo was required on the abruptly Congressional Hotel during a time he we were go developing a concept of a usable and privately open space this was one of the bad examples of a popo and wanted to work to figure out a way they can either fee out or found on alternative shugs space in district 68 as you may know district 6 has a few it and smaultd parks in the city of San Francisco and second only narrowly beating district 3 supervisor peskin and so parks and open space are incredibly important to the neighborhoods in the south of market and the tenderloin we spent the last 3 years working on a proper solution to this issue exploring a number of alleyways we can merit into open space and finally after years the Community Outreach realizing after speaking with the Community Month folks want existing open space in the in particularly at victoria manolo draves park is only multi use park in San Francisco now this is the first project sponsor that is seeing out of their current popo requirement and so we spent a lot of time with the Planning Department and figuring out what is the probing appropriate proximate and changing the popos in the south of market they become usable and happy to see the Planning Department has recommended that all popos on the ground floor and insuring halfhour use unlike the project sponsors to build popos in upper market floor is difficult for the public to find the proposition before us today is over years of negotiated fees looking nearby area plans abby seeing what that costs to improve maul open Space Acquisition in jangle 2015 the Planning Department made a preliminary recommendation that identified the acquiring of open space and Park Improvement costs their recommendation resulted in a fee of 2. 3 million vbs of time we dwoefrd that actually, the requirements for congressional was slightly larger than we had originally that the Planning Department had in popo were not acquiring the open space the city cant legally ask for acquisition dollars and capped the fee at 200 and 50 thousand for improvement costs and added 15 percent to that amount and then we had the required open space of 18 hundred square feet resulting in a fee of 2. 5 million 200,000 more than recommend boo the Planning Department two years ago this was before the land use and Transportation Committee in the month of december and we had learned that the intercongressional left a rental proposal for this privately owned public space on the website i want to recognize and thank you to the hotel to make sure that before we approve this inlieu fee we worked on making sure that they paroling accounted and remitted for this as a private function space they were transparent with us they had inappropriate use the space for 6 hundred days between 2016 having an penalty to the of hundred and thirty days of overflow is a penalty of ultimately without actually any indication from us the project sponsor that they complied with the fire code that allows the fourth floor of popo to be a total of one and 80 days per year we worked in the weekend to in of the hotel can use this space as a private dysfunction and expanded the one thousand plus days and this generates a roughly 300,000 the interCongressional Hotel agreed to make a 300,000 gift to the city for the district 68 located park the San Francisco alliance will be the sponsor and the funded sdrblthd by the Parks Alliance were working closely with the supergreen Congressional Hotel to make sure those funds are appropriately used the Community Says one of the needs of the interparks is expanding and making the park usable in the evening with the winter when it gets dark around 4 or 5 oclock that requires the light it is inadequately lighted it opened to a later hours members of the community cant see very well in the evening those fees will be utilized for lighting at park and hope to work with rec and park to implement that as quickly as possible to make sure our baseball and are curiosities can be utilized in the evening and a well utilized park for dogs and while were not building another open space in the district we are expanding the hours as a multi use park i want to recognize the supergreen Congressional Hotel for working with our office over the last years to find a proper solution that has the support of the Community Members and the office of Economic Workforce Development proposal and recognize the p pa with worked us with us to come up with a fee that is adequate for relinquishing the requirement for a popo International Hotel Scott Sanchez for the support for the process over the project and the vetting of the proposal and from the Enforcement Unit for walk through on the office of the Enforcement Office and to the City Attorney for helping to draft this legislation i also see members of the friends victoria manolo draves park who are here today with calling names as well as jane thank you for working with us for a solution in support of neighborhoods and so i was hoping to bring up one of the project sponsor of oewd to go through the history how we calculated the industry payments good afternoon, supervisors aaron from the office of Economic Workforce Development i i guess i was asked to the take a look at the proposals working with the Planning Department represents and the original recommendation he was started with a 5 hundred per square feet fee applied to 4 thousand plus of open space and so when i started looking at it i realized the original are ordinance called for 8 thousand 6 hundred square feet of open space my initial recommendations to immediately file the 8 thousand 6 hundred and in speaking to Planning Department staff as well as rec and park staff and the department of real estate it became clear that while a search to find open space in d6 we can apply this fee to there didnt seem to be anything available, however, the Planning Department staff provided some nearby hard and soft costs fees or hard costs and soft costs they had if nearby plaza and open space projects including the emotional and the mint and the alleyway proposed costs that ranged from 61 square feet to 4 hundred plus a square foot and using the Citywide Development impact fee a negotiated fee not a impact fee there was no nexus study for the fee of this site so using the beacon and looking at the eastern neighborhoods in todays dollars is one and 1 per square feet and using the basic factors of a range from 6 is to 430 in the impact fees and open space from one dollar up to 1,600 a square foot and kind of land in the middle so we can apply a fee that all sides can agree on. Thank you so much. You said the original plans for 8 hundred hundred but built 46 hundred. Did requirement was 8 hundred and 6 thousand square feet my understanding is during the approval of the hotel the Planning Commission recommended is another 4000 square feet my understanding that 4000 square feet was a one time fee that was paid to the contribution to the mid plaza so 4000 to cover the costs of 4000 also just to clarify the Planning Department report identified when the identified the potential represents of the fee of 2. 3 million had said that the supergreen come requirement of popo was 4000 plus and they were mistaken what was the original code requirement of open space was 8 thousand 6 hundred square feet at the time the Planning Commission recommended this was not great open space for members of the public they recommended that the supergreen congressional i guess pay an additional square feet in open space fees. Thats my understanding another 4000 square feet probable 8 thousand 6 hundred and they basically bought out a part at the beginning. Bout out a park they pay a one time fee towards the plazas at the time and in my understanding was that was for the park space in the mountains of the 4000 square feet. Thank you i dont see any other questions from the members of the committee we do have Scott Sanchez our Zoning Administrator from the Planning Department if there are any further questions if not open up for Public Comment. Four speakers none 2 minutes calling names line up on the far wall. Is this so hi supervisors thank you commenting my name is jane im the district 6 representative to prozac and i live a few blocks from the emergenintercontinenta want to thank the group that works tirelessly and staffing will go a long ways to improve the park and large improved rec center will be a help the popos do nothing with the fancy hotels are doing nothing to move the life the mid market has said we have the least amount of open space per person as of 2014 district 6 two tenths of an open space versus 26 percent person in c2 were getting denser by the week it is faulty to allow the developers to create the open space for the neighborhood it is a theyll build what they want with the dark corners heightened inside of trump towers these are not visible from the street and doomed to be a homeless encampment encampment of anti social behavior this was the highest acquisition and the potential acquisition will be coming before you soon we need more than one park we need as much as we can get now not in 10 years 10 thousand new units that were opened in a timely way thanks thank you jane. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is Heather Phelps a south of market arrangement for 10 years work at united playaz and part of victoria manolo draves park it would be really easy to just close this and say the community negotiated a deal in 52007, 8 and see this the deal you said youll do the popos and thats it i want to applaud janes office for drooifld and saying does that space serve the community i think that everyone can agree that didnt serve the community that and so instead of standing by saying this is on the promise that folks shouldnt see out of open space and thoughtfully considering how to best serve the communities and open space and residents this is a great example where community has driven a solution that makes sense with the dmv is a huge safety issue it brings the usable hours of the park it increases it by a huge percentage families are using the park in the afternoon and opens the space for adults in the neighborhood to use it for sports leagues and social events and dogs it really a multiple use park this will be enhance by the kind of improvements my using to approve this not in fear it will set a precedence for other developers but how to best serve the community thank you there. My name is jackie and im working with Betsey Carmichael i started working with them and one of the assignment to find a spot to it had to be at least four blocks and walked around the soma and couldnt find a park for students and patents to meet that was intreps i go in the excelsior were blessed with the parks not one place that felt inviting to walk to school were trying to get the kids to walking and biking to school and not having a meeting spot is difficult in the excelsior it is one of the Biggest Challenges the fact we dont have a park nearby the park is one block away not constituting a gathering space thank you for finding the solution to this space that didnt workout and bringing up light to the park that would be great but keep in mind you need more open spaces in the area and more parks thats all i have to say. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, im tim a member of the b n d and the rec center and worked with the rec and park reply and people dont realize that south of market has one of the biggest parks in the city but for the hall of justice they tore down the park and the city promised to put up a park but in 1990 when the jean center came up and so that area is also had few open space it was mentioned south park and some it is amazing if you think about it ever since ive been there because of organizations and they deal with this how allow a gang issue in the south of market i worked there for 40 years it is because the kids were playing this park is across the alley from the school and makes it an easy access for the kids after conditional but putting up lights and enhancing the park it will add tenfold to what it was and you know it will maybe bring back it is amazing how the years go by people forgot and transition happens one of the biggest parts of the city was the park thank you very much. Thank you is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak on item one. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor peskin thank you chair farrell separate and apart what was accounted i know that supervisor kim has been working on it for a long time and i was involved in the original entitlement of this project and here for the december hearing where it seems like the violation was still happening it really raise a large populate question maybe i can ask plans relative to the elizabethcy of the Planning Department enforcement action around the popos in general, you have any ongoing of the monitoring how many popos not use for their original purposes and the Enforcement Actions do you and the department undertake and why did this one take so long. Thank you, supervisor we take it seriously over the past foe years the legislation to approve improve the signage for the popos when that was proposed the staff reviewed it for all the code compliant and found some not in complete compliance with the code since that time a couple of years our staff try to make periodic investigation for the popos we have active closing statement for one popo generally, the enforcement it bans the complaint but try to do the proper enforcement and have been doing that with the popos in t in the Continental Hotel a couple of items not just the popo but the enforcement related to the popo the knowledge of the violation so for the signage that had been corrected what was new information about their use the use of property for something other than the public activating that was more of a few information we never received complained to the office about that use of property for nonpublic uses but certainly under the code and outlined to the project sponsor given this type of outside open space it didnt need to be made public assessable 24 7 for the guidance of popos terraces maybe public assessable continue 10 and 5 00 p. M. And beyond that for private events. And relative to other Enforcement Actions you guys assessed and or correction for penalties. One that i just issued a notice of violation for so if they dont respond under compliance penalties for the assessable property. And relative to the proactive enforcement you have sufficient staff to go and randomly or comprehensively go and check them. Im happy to report excellent support from the supervisors to increase the enforcement staffing back at the time the complaint came in we have before a fulltime staff now more than doubled it with the will enforcement staff on focused issues and signages and shortterm rentals so i think were wellstaffed now we are going to be more proactive in looking how to improve the other tools and well be working with the City Attorneys office to try to improve our be enforcement tools to make them more efficient and effective looking to initiative legislation to make the tools more robust. Between the december resolutions and this committee that the violations were ongoing and in todays hearing my subsequent actions taken by planning relative to enforcement in this case. No issues of notice of violation were issued for the property but had discussions with the project sponsor about prop c and in compliance with the passage of this legislation there will be a path to obviously to make it so theyll not have the popo requirement but legalize the structure and pay out the steering wheels for the process to evade violations on the property. I had the honor and privilege of being worked out appointed to the California Coastal meeting and attend my first meeting they assess heavy Administration Penalty in their law and i have to say it remarkable when you assess some of those and entire communities of violators all of this relative to Public Access to you know the coastal line if you dont say the penalties tools you need this board of supervisors to give them to you im more happy to participate in 3 legislation. Thank you supervisor kim. Thank you chair farrell and just to follow up on supervisor peskins comments we learned some of the violations we did here an enter around the history over the last decade and going to have a hearing hope in april with the Planning Department with the Enforcement Capacity and history as well i think it is a to fold issue one make sure we are writing the legislation and the planning code in a way the city could a enforce our laws this is one issue i think that certainly recommending moving forward the popos are on the ground floor will help in that enforcement arena and second a violation how to support the Planning Department in issuing these notice of violations and something that the penalties fees and so figuring out the resources weve been expanding the number of issues that the Planning Department has enforced in the city recently with the expansion of shortterm rentals in particular that is important to have broader conversation on the enforcement finally i just wanted to ask the committee for ill make a motion to move forward with a positive recommendation i want to thank the members of our community and the south of market so for working with us along with the Planning Department office of office of Economic Workforce Development and also to the congressional helt to bring forward in proposed negotiation that supports victoria manolo draves park and 300,000 for the acquisition and programming throughout the next foe Years Committee members he ask for your support and happy were bringing over two to three years of discussion to a close hopefully today at the board of supervisors. Thank you, supervisor kim and ill say im happy to support in item today, i think that anytime you have you know those popos i agree with supervisor kims comment about the Planning Department staff is Going Forward more for the public it better he wonder whether the popos were not id like highway they were created and the Community Comes together my frustration that item is lined not outside of city a staff but my office has been working on it setting the 2017 budget and legislative Analyst Services audit plan police department. And it came forward i dont know what department but want to go forward i would certainly expect Something Better and different if we calendar this we need all the information well in advance with that said, this is a good thing for the community and want the hotels the intercongressional to operate freely and use those spaces so happy to support this so supervisor kim is that a admonition supervisor kim to magnified with recommendations without objection all right. Mr. Clerk item 2 item 2 ceqa findings sewer system Improvement Program, southeast Water Pollution plant new headworks facility. Chapter three 1 including the adoption of mitigation and reporting programs to raise the funding for the ceqa findings sewer system Improvement Program, southeast Water Pollution plant new headworks facility. Okay thank you very much i know the puc is here to speak on this item so lets get going. I believe we have a fingertip presentation as well. Yeah. And john will be preparing good afternoon chair farrell im karen the wastewater entries director at the San Francisco public works and before i move into the details i want to give you a little bit of background about the Improvement Programs and the ahead works facility the map in front is to orient you have the wastewater and be stormwater treatment use within the 49 square miles of the city we operate during dry and wet wleefrn and up and down showing in orange we have two drainage spaces and john, i want to highlight the Treatment Plant to the west the young i did point oceanside up to the northeast the wet weather the north plant and lastly the facilities where the work will be occurring southeast the bayview Hunters Point the southeast control plant that was planned r planned in the 1940s and exclusions in the 1950s thats where the budget will be occurring some of the challenges are odor and noise, visible, maintaining Water Quality as shown the infrastructure schematic safety the wastewater has not been upgraded as the departments in the city and rational liability and now having a Sea Level Rise so our solution for the 0 Improvement Program has 3 components gray meaning building more pump stations and operational green counting stormwater to slow down the movement from the system because it does get overwhelmed and the maintenance for the clean ocean as part of program established a level of service enforced by the commission and guide the project acceleration i want to point you to the first one all of these are obviously important but the ones that focus on southeast plant i think like the compliances with the regulatory permit with the regulatory and the commission of the crome safety to operate in a wide range of southeast plant not been you got were at risk of aging system failing and making us not compliant that is the styling of the urgency were under and the ssip is 6. 9 billion shows the definition of treatment and the Collection System weve within authorized for phase one that is the first column 2. 9 billion to billion dollars of the fund are going to be have found in the southeast plant for facilities if you look at the highlighted like that in yellow that is the new ahead works facility that total is 359 million for this project of the project of the 359 million 200 and 56 million for the construction the Construction Funds are only controllers appropriation reserve that is to the Commission Approval you received in february 28th and your consideration adoption of the ceqa vpthdz im presenting to you today, i want to advise you that the puc is pursuing low Interest Fund for the costs so this is happening in parallel the next the aerial of the southeast plant every skweech is covered an impacted site it is in bayview Hunters Point it treats 80 percent of citys wastewater 24 7 it is a constrained sites by residents and businesses and has caltrans in the back their aging and while we do the construction well be operating the Treatment Plant not a back up plant but id like challenges that we have this is the plant for the future these are some of the new facilities that will be built the blue is the facilities that were back to talk about that another day the green where the ahead works is where everything enters the plant from the north and setting the ahead works it moving large obstacles like tires and bricks and two by for us on the system and has to remove sand and fine grit so it takes up valuable capability an esteeming odor reduce portion so much air is a changing place not got the more than control ulthd for the schematic the standards were different than today so those are located at overview advanced this is a shot of what the new facility will look like a lot of the focus on the grit removal for the fine screening to get that out of the system before that enters the rest find plant and enhancing the control for the status quo control system this is a cut a 3d cut of new head works a challenging facility it has to be able to operate at dry weather and maximize in wet weather the new 200 and 50 million from left to right the facilities screenings and brick handling a a distribution structure and has a control room and electrical facility if we look at the schedule we have received the final mitigated negative declaration from the Planning Department we have authority from the commission to move forward february 2ndyear budget with the committees recommendation well begin construction in august a 5 year construction period now as i mentioned the project has received a negative declaration and determined the project area has a sensitivity for agriculture site if on previous geoagricultural points now at the bottom that was conformed using tier engine for operating the enlistment and diesel not to exceed the pollutant for the oxygen dioxide and lastly in the future when your driving down evans theyre working with the agricultural and the city intervene on the agricultural concept that slide a concept that is approved in phase one and will be turning to the review for approval shortly the gray white patching is an area we are having a public art place for the selection and that art is underway so at this time i wanted to ask for the adoption for the negative declaration the ceqa and the monitoring and reporting program and direction for the controller to release and like to ask the committee supervisors to Carry Forward a motion to correct a clerical error the wrong index code on this page we would like to get that fixed and ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. About the project or the ssip. Thank you very much supervisor peskin. So sorry for my ignorance generally ceqa documents are adopted by the department of decide planning why are we making the findings for the adopted diagnosis. This has the requirement in the funding of the legislation payroll this is an unusual thing pointed out by the manager as well youll be seeing this and returning at other private documents we want to make sure all the dot all the is and cross the ts on this it was wart of the funding. And relative to the correction on line 12 for the project number is that what youre referring to. Yes. Recycle. Line 14, page one. No numbers on line 13 but. Well 12. Whats the correct number. C w w ssip example s e i two. It says and thats incorrect. You want it to be. C w w ssip s e zero two. I get it. And relative to Community Outreach any controversy. This one we received no comment on the viral process we had great support on this project i think that the project that is attracting perhaps more Public Interest the project just this past weekend a working group an open house out at a boyer opera houses attended by 40 residents to learn about the projects we have there has not been the level of controversy or questions been support or people realizing that is a project for the Wastewater Treatment a understood and relative to outreach what kind of outreach do you do relative to noticing. Many, many Public Meetings and workshops. We had been 30 or 35 meeting in the neighborhood about this project it is with do you want to come up. I guess what im trying to get at karen month folks think of ceqa documents as going to planning so people in various communities that follow those are following calendar and not following the hard calendar 99 percent go the answer you noticed everybody in the same way that planning notice people for a fundamental document thats what im getting at. We be continuing do the working class forward at this. 2000 on the southeast plant er bike tours we are trying to get it so everybody is aware of what is happening at the wastewater plant. Thank you okay seeing no further questions open up for Public Comment. Thank you i have one card i know that is david pilpal. You are like the soccer star and anyone else. Mr. Pilpal. I want to speak in support i served 3 and a half on the Advisory Committee and 10 years on the wastewater im familiar with this component project that was an important project that took place for the aging infrastructure babe bar screens and other attempts further up the line to remove odor and contaminates this is the first opportunity to remove grit and other materials that interfere with the treatment process so i believe this will improve the efficiency of the process and reduces the oertdz and replace the infrastructure blah, blah that was properly followed and staff karen and others have done great work i support it i believe you have an amendment to the bearing the same title and it corrects the project title under the old Financial System and makes minor changes for about the admin code so i commend that and urge your support have a nice day. Thank you mr. Pilpal. Supervisor peskin. I want to thank puc staff and the deputy City Attorney mr. Pilpal we do have an amendment of the whole before us ill clear on the language on line 12. That comes to us from city staff ill adopt it but not from the public just the chance in the index code i dont know what version that is. This is kind of weird kind of annoying ill check to see if this is on the website at the top that says amended in committee 3, 2017 and today is monday, march 20, 2017, so weve not taken an amendment i dont want to sound like a process queen but on the website how you guys took action before we take action how do you take an action on our on behalf mr. Pilpal is correct it says amended in committee monday, march 20, 2017, how do you guys put something on the website before the legislative body has taken action. We were working on the draft and it was disdisclosed were moving at this time. Just to be clear on page one. Who knows it is amended as a whole no red line and the road to hell is paved with weird stuff like this. So you couldnt ask them to the City Attorneys office or the staff. Ill propose to do this what karen said i will make a motion at line 12 on page one cu w 20 and replace that with c w w ssip c zero two and make that amendment. Just to be clear on line 12 page one well adopt about motion i by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor kim as amended. Thank you and then the other line item to move and seconded by supervisor kim and without objection thank you. I appreciate it everyone. Deputy City Attorney Pacific Islander pal. Mr. Clerk, call item 3. Transportation demand Management Program. And methodology and justification documents. Okay. Thank you very much so were on item 3 well go back really quick we have to make a set of amendments to supervisor kim can i have a motion to rescind the vote. On item one. Motion by supervisor kim and seconded by supervisor peskin if i can talk without objection and supervisor kim. My apologies for missing this we thought we contributed this in the subsequent legislation that came in a little bit later i mends in a foul fellow up that the Property Owner project sponsor had been illegally using the private space over the last 3 months worked on a gift to address and remedy the violations that they had been making i had stated that this gift was returned up to 300,000 to the San Francisco Parks Alliance to be used for activation and at the victoria manolo draves park i had submitted those amendments now to the clerk and members of the land use and Transportation Committee to provide an additional amendment we have acceptance of Additional Fund for the victoria manolo draves park or other existing underutilized parks in district 6 at the 300,000 and so that language is now before the land use and Transportation Committee and looking for the City Attorney to see if this is adequate and efficient. John gibner, deputy City Attorney. Yes. The amendment reflected the one hundred thousand dollars for popos maintenance as well and the details are in the copy for the department. Thank you mr. Gibner and so id like to make a motion to amend item number one, to rehabilitate the summary that i have just articulated. Supervisor kim through the chair not to be a process queen to items in a row if you can hand me a copy of that that would be great before i second. Well pause for supervisor peskin. I want to appreciate the members of the board are looking at this before they amend it. Just to be clear supervisors i got these before committees as we raise the committee about who to adopt it. My apologies i was not aware of that the amendment were not distributed to the Community Members well remedy this next time. Not a problem heres in page 3 sub 3 there is two changes one is the board authors a payment in the fee of 2 housing unit 6 million instead of 2. 5 million and at the end of the sentence one thousand dollars for the Maintenance Cost that typically a copy is popos this is the responsibility of the private owner this is an explanation for the 2. 5 to 2. 6 and then the three hundred thousand is the gift acceptance so for pages four or five. I didnt state that when the item was up we worked with the rec and park in coming up with the one hundred thousand to be added to the inlieu fee payment and rec and park stated that 2,600 is the cost for the maintenance of once we installed it we estimated that 31 years is the period of time that popo will be in use poor so the total Maintenance Cost for 35 years is 2 is 91 thousand we rounded that up to one thousand for the inlieu fee payment so the 2. 5 authorizes is the capital plan and the additional 1,000 is maintaining the light as our pd has summarized. And there are to copies so just so you have a copy of the amendments i have read them and can second the amendments. We have a motion to approve number one, by supervisor kim and seconded by supervisor peskin without objection and as amended supervisor kim and seconded by supervisor peskin and we without objection that passes. Thank you were back to item 3 colleagues this item was sponsored by supervisor yee, supervisor fewer and supervisor cohen i see supervisor fewer and supervisor cohen in Committee Welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee and im going to turn it over to supervisor yee well turn it over to you first. Okay. Thanks chair farrell and other Committee Members and i want to thank supervisor fewer and supervisor cohen for cosponsor this i called this hearing today to get a deeper understanding of behind the methodologies of the planning of the city Transportation Demand Management Program which the board of supervisors approved earlier this year i think we can finally agree that the city should doing everything we can to encourage the vehicles miles traveled traveled in cars the at least not the best the best and the least that is the ultimate of Transportation Demand Management Program. I understand the program is ever eventually to choose from the needs Transportation Demand management goal is a living document that is why i wanted to bring the Planning Team to this committee to talk through some of the thinking that allows us the ability to engagement in the process as it develops in my own district we are using Transportation Demand management to discuss the transportation and parking the potential balboa park housing site which is used by the city college as a parking lot want to when the Planning Department brought this proposal to me i thought the study will stud anothers existing impacts and help to suggest Short Term Solutions to the traffic as it exists today of course, i was assured it was part of Transportation Demand Management Study not only the aspect will go future planning and deferring people if driving in the first place so the bathroom, came before i was in the agreement i had many questions about the point system and how the formula works it is is on ongoing process for the community and myself i know that the team at planning and sfmta has studied the data steven i want to provide on overall the that the commission does not tolerate outbursts of any kind and talk about the methodologies and want to thank the staff for allowing us the opportunity to deplete into this and ask for questions before i bring up the staff i think supervisor fewer want opening remarks. Thank you supervisor yee im new to the board ive not been here for previously discussions but i had a question around the options and the thinking behind that im in support of Transportation Demand Management Program i think that it is really forward thinking to do that and i have concerns about the overall city goals and whether or not were looking at other measures besides the vehicles miles traveled and options thinking they can compliment other city goals we have collectively decided on as a board and city so thats why im here today and i hope to learn a lot but again, im concerned about the options and able to perhaps double down on the citywide goals in muni versus with the levers to lose move this initiative were reducing the vehicles miles traveled thanks. Okay so why not get started i have here wade. So im carli if sfmta ill kickoff and wade will from planning will go through the second part. Its all yours carla thank you for having us. Were delighted to be here with supervisor peskin with the Transportation Demand Management Program. With you as you may know we care deeply about and proud of as those of you, we can talk about it for quite a while we appreciate the invitation to talk that it more with you as you mentioned the Transportation Demand Management Program. Was adopted by the board of supervisors about a moa month and a half go went into affect the Transportation Demand management ordnance is the third component of the Transportation Sustainability program and oh, im sorry please it went up thank you all right. Were be looking at the lines so the Transportation Demand management or the shift component establishes reminders for plan use projects to integrate onsite amenities or services into their projects to support site users in making the trips they need to make by sustainable modes modes other than cycling and it links the other to consultant of Transportation Sustainability program by encouraging and 7eleven using transit and walking and biking with the will component invests in and reducing the vehicles miles traveled this is the focus of the lined components and murray measuring a more robust Environmental Review to the board of supervisors adopted the policy framework in approving the Transportation Demand management ordinance the Planning Commission adopted the regulations and various specific detailed of how the program will be implemented in their action to approve the program the regulations are brought dough in a document called the tdm weve been asked to share the details of today an overall of the presentation overall were here to explain the technical aspects of the tdm and the purpose of tdm program and how we define the measure for the purposes of this program to go over the tdm venue including generally in the memo and specifically how points of allocated for measures and let the progress to update the tdm process over time and including two examples of projects how the tdm program applies to those projects and how they will work in light of the details were walk you through so first, the purpose of program the purpose of the whole Transportation Sustainability program to keep the city mo magic as it grows the tdm reduces the vehicles miles traveled that is a core focus of this program so when we talk about reducing the vehicles miles traveled in a Development Project were talking about reducing vehicles miles traveled for that project compared to what would otherwise happy for that Development Project in that location the vehicles miles traveled or v m t measures the amount and distance that people would drive to in using and assessing a site and vehicles miles traveled is a function of diversity of land uses and options for nondriving and driving transportation area those are elements of vehicles miles traveled but an individual project cant affect the things that a project can effect are the kinds of amenities offered and how much other things we care about the vehicles miles traveled in San Francisco is you know from the transportation perspective for the reducing the vehicles miles traveled is critical to reducing the congestion and demand on the roadways that is a limited reservoirs in San Francisco and not expanding vehicles miles traveled reduction also has a benefit of environmental benefit of reducing noise and Energy Consumption and air pollution for local pollutants and Green House Gas emissions and vehicles miles traveled reduction also is closely aligned with the vision zero reducing the motorist trips and distances is critical to reducing the x pours to vehicle crashes and injuries and to get into that a little bit more that might not be an intuitive concept to but well show you a couple of studies that are referred reveal a fundamental relationship between vehicles miles traveled and safety multiple traffic and safety studies show a correlation between higher b m t and crashes but of causality between total miles traveled and crashes so more b m t more crashes and more serious and fatalities in San Francisco were serious about in fact, the vision zero representatives came and testified in front of the board of supervisors saying that the tdm is an important tool in the tool in the tool box so to remind you the way the Program Works every project has to select from a memo of options in order to accrue enough points to achieve its required points the target so we identifying would measures should be in this memo of options first, we had to define whether or not the tdm measure for this purpose of this program clearly the project programming is reducing the tdm so the measures have to be measures that effectively reduces the vehicles miles traveled they have to effect the trips of sited users retained and workers that are visitors to cite and under the control of Property Owner because this is something were asking the developer and the future Property Owners to be responsible for so the rules we identified the measures to evaluate for inclusion in the memo was during a litter review of what tdm measures have out there that are demonstrated to be effective looking at the planning code for what were already requiring and how to build off the existing requirements and looked at it other injured across the country in best practices in terms of requirements and Transportation Demand management measures implemented voluntarily that could be are great tdm measures that will be challenging to assure and monitor for compliance as you may recall in insuring the projects are delivering the measures that theyve committed to a core component we want to make sure that every measure in the memo that was something we can describe how you can be compliant and we the city will make sure your complying im going to turn it over to wade from the Planning Department to get into the details of the memo and how the points are allocated well both be available for questions. Thank you carli and good afternoon, supervisors im wade senior planning Planning Department great to be back here again to talk about the tdm hopefully on acronym we all know and im going to pick up where carli left off in that once we choose the measures that met the tdm measure put them into a category as shown here those 8 categories car share and delivery and familyfriendly, highoccupancy vehicle and information to communication, land use and Parking Management those 8 categories contain 26 tdm measures some of the measures have additional options what different requirements and this resulted in 6 of options all of the options have been allocated points reflective based on how ritualistic in reducing the vehicles miles traveled this we used a variety of different sources to assign the points for we look at other literature some works was a comprehensive report done by the California Air pollution transfers how effect for reducing the bmt and the Ongoing Research by the California Air Resources Board as part of nfl 375 land use and Transportation Planning requirements and an example of where we look to other jurisdictions and the research they did in washington, d. C. There was some research around how effective bike share in if environment and tried to apply that research to San Francisco and looked at it other Academics Research as well that was on top of what we spent two summers in San Francisco particularly looking at the effect parking space supply had at the vehicles miles traveled at individual Development Sites based on the results of that research that echoed research that we have read statewide and nation wide that more people are driving we looked at two other jurisdictions to see they how they weighed the factors and by looking at the Expert Opinion how effect they were some manufactured like the messengers that carli mentioned around familyfriendly not really literature whether or not they reduced the vehicles miles traveled but banks our professional opinion we felt they can needling we cast the point value for any measure that didnt have the dabbed evidence so the nursuntil we collect fora to see if theyre effective. That resulted in the memo of options with a point allocation that you see here im not going to go over the measures but highlight a few of them based on conversations weve had the first ill mention is improved walking conditions to options here both are allocated one point and then we acknowledge that walking conditions and connectivity have important, however, an spentsz that an individual developer improves the Walking Around the site are limited there are circumstances but get into situations with a Development Agreement where a development can influence those circumstances are rare and this is because most walking conditions improvements were requiring area for quarter wide improvements to really reduce the wlt effectively with that said we district staff to look at those measures a little bit more the walking measures that is and we tint on doing that along with the measures that are on the memo one of the other measures is the shuttle bus measure we heard a number of comments on the process i want to highlight this measure it bans literature proven to be quite effective thus i point value quite effective at reducing the vehicles miles traveled but we dont anticipate this measure will be selected except for rare and unique circumstances and this is because this measure is very costly the frequency requirement of running the shuttle as defined in the measure are quite effect frequent is a large operational cost and unique in that it requires really city staff Vincent Van Gogh and approval of this measure we want to make sure from the developer has suggested this measure that there are no hazards associated with the location zone that measure is not duplicating a Public Transit service that is near the site there would be some vetting associated with this measure and then i want to mention on this memo there are some items that are geography based a unbundled parking and parking supply and health food and underserved areas by chair manipulating based on the geography of the site and characteristics youll get points for those measures pr and we intend on updating in memo over time as we discussed previously and supervisor yee mentioned that the tdm seem like is dynamic we want to be up to date in that dynamic fold we can update those measures this can occur as carli mentioned the board of supervisors adopted the policy and then the Planning Commission adopted the regulation there are certain amendments that what require the Planning Commission approval those are outlined here staff will be conducting research to see how effective the tdm measures are over time whether new ideas that warrant conclusion in the memo or clarify measures to make sure theyre more effective all of these amendments will be data driven in regards to vehicles miles traveled production we intend on reporting those to the Planning Commission and as request do in the board of supervisors after one year and every 4 years we also will be reporting on things like the frequency measures that are selected theyre effectiveness and inside of projects that are subject to this so that concluded the Technical Details i wanted to run through two project examples to illustrate those a little bit further both examples i want to stress are hypothetical but they may reasonably reflect the projects in two different geography locations the example demonstrate the geographic pointed values in some of the measures ive referred so the first project will be located at ocean avenue with 60 units 40 percent booemz and onsite affordable unit and one space per parking space per unit and based on those number of Parking Spaces the target we didnt go into some the presentation but there target is 17 points that is the number of points that project has to achieve to comply with the tdm program ill show 3 slides for this example all the slides have images from a webbased tool it you all member of the Public Developers can use i have a link to the tool on the last slide so for this project the project will get 3 points between the geography based measures on unbundled parking and parking supply and unbundled parking as well as another measure bike parking are planning code requirements so this is something that arbitrary mentioned those planning code requirements are effective at reducing the vehicles miles traveled were giving credit for that and select on this slide car share that is above and beyond what the planning code requires so the Property Owner here will be required to provide more car share spaces and also car share membership for each unit combined on the slide the project is halfway has 8 of the 17 points to get the rest of the points sort of scrolling on the webbased tool need 9 more points ive selected familyfriendly measures and between the combination of those car share and the percentage of two bedrooms on the site the project will get two more points what were demon a tdm package other measures are are signage and the project will get points for the amount of level of fundamental to combined with this project have a number of measures that will become their tdm. And quickly ill go through another example it is similar in sort of character but smaller in size and in a different location here at geary and 6th street this t has 40 percent unit onsite Affordable Housing and 40 Parking Spaces so again the project is one parking space per one unit and given in project has 20 fewer Parking Spaces from the previous a target of fewer points shown on the slide is 50 points so and in example the project will get additional points for the geographic location for unbundled parking and zero points for parking supply and selected some additional bike parking for the project and car share parking again on this slide it gets 7 points and then on the last slide to get the additional 8 points ive selected slightly different the amenities and again familyfriendly amenities and a measure that didnt require space in the building and this is contributions incentive . In this events a subsidy to each unit in the building for a muni pass a transit pass and again the project will get points for onsite affordability and combined the project meets the territory of 18 points so hopefully, this priority a better explanation of the details of the tdm project were happy to discuss further and that concludes my presentation. Thank you thank you wade. Any questions here for any Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Chair farrell Public Comment is closed. Just to be clear anyone want to comment on item 3 seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And i have some. Can we ask about the shuttle piece that you gave an example for for the ocean avenue well, yeah youre probably bordered that particular site but the shuttle piece for a shuttle that is coming out of the balboa and, of course, the motivation for students to also students get out of their cars if one does a shutter there how does that work what kind of place would you assign to that and one, is that the shuttle is not necessary because of the Public Transportation or whatever can you respond to that before so i heard several questions let me make sure one the question is the balboa came forward and said we want to achieve your points through a shuttle how will we evaluate you may or may not thats would be one of the questions and another question how to design that Shuttle Service you asked how does that work im not sure the other part. How does the point system work. Oh, okay so assuming we said, yes how will the point system work the first one to answer whether we how well evaluate it is you know mta did is working on Guiding Principles for private transportation of all types of and those principles are like reducing congestion and bmt and accessibility and equity and transparent of labor standards and monitoring and impacts on sfmta operations and revenues so we will evaluate the Shuttle Service, however, it was described by the project sponsor they will likely give the routinely and the power and the frequency well evaluate it whatever their proposal based on the principles and criteria that were we will set up now say we said sure there is a gap in transit accessibility or assess there all the your operations are great you have perfect places for loading and unloading and committed to Safety Practices for the operators e in terms of their points there is basically two and the points are you get more points for the higher frequency so 7 points for providing 15 head ways during peak hours and less and 13 for 7 and a half minutes head ways during peak or less during peak hours it is really the frequency of service and if you think about the points reflecting how much of an impact on vehicles miles traveled it will have clearly a shuttle is something twice as frequently it is more likely to be a dependable options than less coming less frequently we see that with the transit thats how the points are elevated and assigned if we say check all the boxes just to be clear for the record im not it does for this site but that conveyer. Just curious that was a real site and not the recommendations for shuttles. Thats a topic a different topic. I know, i know. I wanted to trap you guys in having shuttles. Thank you. laughter . You know can so youre assigned the points and so forth and hoping that the developers will then follow through with their commitments and i guess the question is given how difficult it is to and in development whether that is for we have all the regulations and then but we know that the dbi department of building inspection and so forth sometimes they dont necessarily go back and inspect things and wait for someone to complain how will you enforce those elements ill ask wade ill say this is something that sets this apart from neither here nor there anything else in the planning code correct and so. An earlier item today that was talking about complaint and most of planning code is complaint basis weve built into a proactive monitoring and recording to with the various fees associated with the tdm program a developer will have to fee a portion of those fees staff assigned to do staff audits 0 review annual i should say going on monitoring and reporting reports from the developer so right before and to illustrate before it development a occupied prior to the certificate of occupancy Planning Department staff will parlor that physical measures are in place how many car share shares will you provide and how many are there as well as that there ready to implement any programmatic so the transit measures ive mentioned previously the site is opted out and 18 months that is ongoing monitoring reports will be required by the developer or the Property Owner so theyll have to show documents that those car share spaces are there and providing those subsidies and pay on ongoing fee to planning dedicated Planning Department staff just for this effort. I have a question for in regards to familyfriendly elements and how would the impacts be measured differently in the development has hero children your specifically if i understand how have assigned points to take an average or whatever of the conditions and if the development is familyfriendly would the correct number of units and childcare and Everything Else a family will really look for would the points be different. Yeah. Thats a good question if i can rephrase your question from the project said theyll have 100 percent two bedrooms or three bedrooms will they get more points for the familyfriendly measures that is something we hope to study more in the future those measures were actually things ive mentioned in the presentation we dont have a lot of literature to support how effective they are but we think they work and by given the lack of material we cap it at 2 points at this time we hope there is more literature out there someplace and collect our own data i know that the desire for familyfriendly housing is a real one and i think those measures support that but a lot of the other measures are in are not deemed familyfriendly are supported because it is a different category didnt mean it didnt support familyfriendly like im sorry, go ahead. There is the bonus points if you do the both familyfriendly measures and i think that is category option c for the car share and a certain proposition is that 3 or 2. 40 percent two bedrooms or greater two bedroom unit onsite there say you do all those things a mega package bonus points. Labeled in the two examples that i showed. Thank you supervisor fewer do you yes. Thank you supervisor yee. So thanks for your presentation im narrowly it down my concern is that i get youre with mta and planning and this is around transportation and vehicles miles traveled however, i think that i was thinking about how do we see this memo to further other City Initiatives that are equally as important as reducing the amount of vehicles on the road so when i look at those options the option kickoff in the sister low and this is one of my sequesters also that we are planning in a silo were not planning aligned with some of the other goals as Affordable Housing or goals of reduction of vehicles so im also looking at some of the transportation Marketing Services what do you mean and looking at when you say Federal Reserve ill thinking of the implementation of transportation im not seeing more large projects the option to fund a new transit stop and pay into muni to actually have services i dont see any of those options what im thinking we talked about the familyfriendly for low income families dont have cars so i dont see an option of actually having a resale basis within the project for a Grocery Store for example, or a laundromat or those kinds of amenities for families theyll actually need a vehicle to or take a car or use a vehicle in order to do that so im i guess my thing about this my main concern and maybe not so much an objection but a critical thing is that it seems we can, e be using the levers to advance to the citywide measures not in acy low around the vehicles miles traveled how many vehicles miles traveled i think we need to look at this with an eye to reduce the amount of vehicles on the road that reducing the amount of private vehicles on the road or by corporations or run by corporations that are unregulated in the community such a uber and lyft im looking at levers looking at this as there could be other mothers that help us with not just this goal but through a new memorial system were all working together thats my main complained im learning about it honest i i dont know a lot about it but were thinking about it in a low we heard a presentation on the fascinate housing here which actually could be a way to push that forward also you know the value over Something Like bike share membership or showers or lockers like the points system could reflect this is sort of a greater need we give the developers more points for doing it possibly a society it means more so that is my push back on it i know youve that worked a long time and a lot of planning around this i know im coming in late to this so i just want to say i appreciate thank you for all your hard work my push back it a rereluctance to and then the planning around other City Initiative that are also trying it was with little resources this is one of the reasons we used to promote some of the things citywide that it didnt just about vehicles miles traveled that is liveability and will remaining the exit and ruining the families and low wage workforce that serves us in San Francisco when i look at those things im looking at it really is one lens of this measurement and youre just trying to accomplish one thing but id like to rethink this actually, we might be able to accomplish many things thats my comments thanks so much thank you supervisor fewer you trigger another thing i forgot to ask i think there some assumptions here and i cant argue with it one way or another but speculate just something that been in my thoughts and other peoples thought for quite a while a generation of people that are using or owning vehicles less than a generation before at the same time when we talked to not generation of people many of them even though they unite not own a car depends on vehicles not necessary Public Transportation all the time meaning their constantly taking uber or Something Like that this is the taxis thats what is happening and i dont think we do enough Research Arena when what is 40 thousand cars are running around San Francisco driving constantly trying to pick up somebody so and he kind of wondered it is like somebody said well, you dont need a parking space but 40 thousand vehicles running around operating all day long and at least one that drives like sometimes myself from my house to here im parked and im not driving my vehicle around and around and around causing more pollution so this is a tough one i think we need to these indicators whatever you call them seriously we have to look at that aspect because your assumption is that oh, they dont have a vehicle wow. We publics driving less and if someone is telling you in the survey oh, half the time im taking lyft to work it sort of there is no your assumptions out the door basically what is better to have you know 80 vehicles driving around our home running for you if you ask them to drive them or someone to drive and if we can reduce the vehicle usage ever people that live in San Francisco and those that are coming from all over the place to pick up the slack for those not ownership a car that would be great i dont know if that is happening any responses to that supervisor yee. Great observation and the prevalence of for hire Transportation Network companies e has increased obviously in the city over the last foe years were doing the city is doing a number of efforts to understand the began as part of transportation for the California Environmental quality act were curbing undergoing Data Collection at sites to see see prevalence of people using those types of services and you referred to asking people how much theyre using them and theres i think that is also the real benefit of this program right now this program is built absolutely on the fact like you said more parking people more driving as well as the number of other things built into the program but we can update this program over time to rehabilitate the last research if we determine it that you know maybe parking supply didnt have the effect as two years ago as two years from now we can refine overseeing measures and the target based on the research and mta has nothing further to add. I want to say further it will be hard to study those vehicles for hire when their gray or brown listing you. Gray balling you. May i. I want to piggyback on it i will not in favor of my policy that promotes the use or even gives an option for use of private transportation to hire i think that we have not studied it weve not regulated it i think it is in constitution with the Public Transportation and if there was an article in the negotiation times about the reduction of use in the over speculation of the vehicles and so if you want to get serious about vision zero say you frustrating to me we need to write in the policy about concession that will adversely to vision zero goal i mean, i am not a social scientists but i like 45 thousand or whatever uber or lyfts on the road for cars will be more accidents in cars or people driving cars yes when i looked at this i was hoping that your not thinking of actively giving points to partner with a private Shuttle Service like this this is simply not acceptable it is different if you have a Shuttle Service that is notforprofit but thinking about offering 7 points for Shuttle Service that is privatized that actually works in xeemgsz with our own Public Transportation system then i have to say im not against that we have to reassure we will have a Public Transportation system that is viable that is assessable, that is remarkably priced and effect for everyone in San Francisco regardless of how rich you or how how many resources you have to hire someone privately i think we had a trouble taxi system but lets remember hes a and not expiation of labor when i read that that was one of the red flags about a Shuttle Service i thought man that is actually promoting the use of a private Shuttle Service im not in favor it is it i look at what is happening in new york and the place again that is taken over not just uber and lyft but other companies that is needs to be regulated very soon before i mean, i think we should have a hearing on the back of our workforce and the impact on transportation, whats the impact on vision zero and good life and our roads and is maintenance of roads and we havent done that yet so im when i looked at this memo of options that is the one thing that freaked me out you im trying to piggyback on supervisor yee is saying this is needs to be studied and actually should be outstanding it very, very carefully we know that soon there will be Automated Vehicles lyft and uber are working towards feel well not put a slow down it to protect the Public Transportation system thank you. Any other comments seeing none, are you public . We already had Public School sorry i want to thank the staff for coming to this hearing and presenting and im pretty convinced you know staff is working on it considers about this issue and how it can improve the lives of san franciscans and im glad to hear that theres some sense of Flexibility Program and you have absolutely corrected it but a start i think that it will be good for us to have you come back in a year to see what has happened so we can weigh in and point out other things to consider at this time, id like to go ahead and close this hearing okay supervisor yee made a motion shall we file the hearing. To the call of the chair. Well ask for a hearing in the future. Motion by supervisor kim and without objection thanks supervisor yee and supervisor fewer mr. Clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body . That completes the agenda for today. 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