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Ear infections, eye infections, and theres also virulent versions of streptococcus that can actually cause severe illness and even death. Moriarty our goal with Surfrider Foundation is essentially to have the city understand that the water is, in fact, dirty, and then work with the infrastructure and the various issues to change that. Narrator but building more systems and more plants cant work alone as a sustainable solution. And, as in pittsburgh, as in new york, part of the answer lies in pro...

And allow us to preserve what we love about the city, so going to the slides im going to speak a little bit to where we are and what some of the needs are but i think you alluded to this in the opening remarks, so in terms of opportunities within the Transportation System here in San Francisco when you look at transit what we have going for us is that we have a very dense system with high ridership, High Percentage of trips again in San Francisco are taken on transit. I think its Something Like ...

But you have to get beyond what youre used to. As long as people recognize theyre moving to the desert and give up this notion that they have to bring eastern vegetation with them and make the necessary adaptations in their own life, desert communities can continue to live. Man the biggest water user in the desert is turf. Turf uses a lot of irrigation and uses spray irrigation, so what weve done here is use artificial turf. Youre never going to be able to achieve the look of back east or the lo...

Paying any transit impact fees potentially. We also saw when the renewal of the Impact Development came to the board of supervisors lasted year the board sort of partially eviscerated it in terms of reducing its ability to generate meaningful revenue for the Transit System to reflect development impacts. What can we do to make sure that development is consistently paying to mitigate transit impacts that support the Transit System . I think as my understanding that the main vehicle across the boa...

Will happen. These are areas that we have produced plans over the last 1015 years. As i said the next 25 years we will see 1 3 increase in jobs and you could see the numbers here. Primarily in the town down Downtown Mission bay Hunters Point and produces the 1 3 increase in jobs and the same with the housing side and the plans note you see the notes here in terms of the actual numbers that are expected in each of those planned areas and i will say one of the things that i am particularly proud o...

Own automobile so i think we have a lot of opportunities as we look to address the lack of investment as well as the growth that is coming. But the flip side is that there are challenges associated with our system, and i think you enumerated these somewhat, but theres a lot that we need to do in terms of reallocating the space on the public rightofway and prioritize transscpit it provides a better option. To capture some of that latent demand. In terms of the pedestrian environment i know all th...

Latent demand, a lot of folks who would be taking transit if it was functioning better so in other words a lot more people we have been serving and in terms of walkability were one of the most walkable in the country and there are a lot of Transportation Needs done on foot and done comfortably and enjoyably. In terms of cycling we see there is Strong Demand and laitant demand and even during the time when we didnt see improvements and we still saw riders and a tremendous investment on the infras...

Francisco live within a block or two of a muni stop so we have a dense provision of transit in the city, and likely a lot of latent demand, a lot of folks who would be taking transit if it was functioning better so in other words a lot more people we have been serving and in terms of walkability were one of the most walkable in the country and there are a lot of Transportation Needs done on foot and done comfortably and enjoyably. In terms of cycling we see there is Strong Demand and laitant dem...

I think its Something Like 90 of the residences in San Francisco live within a block or two of a muni stop so we have a dense provision of transit in the city, and likely a lot of latent demand, a lot of folks who would be taking transit if it was functioning better so in other words a lot more people we have been serving and in terms of walkability were one of the most walkable in the country and there are a lot of Transportation Needs done on foot and done comfortably and enjoyably. In terms o...

And laitant demand and even during the time when we didnt see improvements and we still saw riders and a tremendous investment on the infrastructure and the benefits of moving people and finally in what people call the sharing economy. Car sharing, electric bike sharing, shuttles, and bike sharing of course happening this summer. Theres a lot of new and innovative ways that people are finding that they can get around the city without needing to own and use primarily their own automobile so i thi...