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President buell, commissioners, general manager ginsburg, ms. Mcarthur, my name is phil chen. Im the chair of the committee for better parks and recreation in china town. The committee is a voluntary organization that has worked with the commission of open space issues over 40 years. We starred in 1969 despite attempt business a developer to turn a playground into a garage. Im here to speak on the proposed regulation regarding prioritis for the transbay open space impact fees. We are recognized ...

Buzziest corridors in San Francisco. Its in the planning phase and looking at alternatives for the project. The draft environmental document is expected in 2013. The project has a dedicated Citizen Advisory Committee and give advice on project issues. This Committee Meets quarterly, has 11 members with seats for representation of key neighborhoods along the corridor as well as at large representation. Currently we have one vacancy on the committee. We would like to fill that shortly. We have giv...

Commission did on october 18th. To prioritize spending those impact fees in the china town neighborhood. I want to note quickly the ipic committee on which the Rec Department has a seat is body charged with the actually allocation of those fees. I believe we talked a little about that in the september hearing but happy to answer more questions on that, as necessary. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Please come forward. Good morning, aim may chan. Im a legislative advisor for david chu....

Housing and new office space in the plan area would affect not just the downtown and south of market by china town. What is before you today is affirming and supporting what the Planning Commission did on october 18th. To prioritize spending those impact fees in the china town neighborhood. I want to note quickly the ipic committee on which the Rec Department has a seat is body charged with the actually allocation of those fees. I believe we talked a little about that in the september hearing bu...

Share a larger income for an average valued vehicle. We should note that only 35 percent in the households own one or more vehicle. Houses own vehicles that are valued than the value. Although higher income would pay a smaller percentage on the average vehicle. They maybe likely to pay moreover all as they are likely to own more vehicles and they are valued higher than the average vehicle. I should add there has been some research that indicates higher income households are able to pay less vlf ...

Be part of the solution and ill give it back to claudia thank you, ken i want to also acknowledge olsen lee who has walked in to join us. One of the Program Goals that ken described we want to have this for the growing needs for jobs and services. We dont have to prove or explain that the city is growing and we need more Affordable Housing as well as transportation and open space and others. We want to also those sites are shafrtd throughout the city so we have those sites be a good model. Its i...

Central soma. A two and one way alternative will be used in terms of their lanes. We are going to widen the sidewalks and dedicate bicycle facilities and look at different transit options through there. One thing we have done recently because the eir process looks like it wont be completed until 2013, we looked at pilot on folsom street as a bicycle lane as part of that pilot and we are going to kick that off during this holiday season. We would like to see how it does. Before putting it into th...

Its dedicated lanes, priorization, what specific things we can do with the bus, so the buses arent stuck. We are looking at the physical roll out. One of the things that was asked was when do we look at improving Transit Service and what was the criteria for looking at Transit Service for frequencies. We have a state of practice we do with all the Transit Agency is look at passenger load monitoring for the morning and midday and evening peak. We have a factor now of 85 percent crowding. If its m...

Look at the john updyke how to approve the city process. So thats separate but were indefinitely coordinating on what hes doing and lastly even though those sites are owned by enterprise agencies they should benefit the public. As ken mentioned we dont have a list today of specific sites we can say were looking at some mta sites such as a folsom doing something there and for example, the puc there the balboa park plan thats been discussion. We feel first, we need to do the Site Specific analysis...

Has worked with the commission of open space issues over 40 years. We starred in 1969 despite attempt business a developer to turn a playground into a garage. Im here to speak on the proposed regulation regarding prioritis for the transbay open space impact fees. We are recognized as a es for the transbay open space impact fees. We are recognized as a high needs neighborhood. 40 of our stock in china town is made up of sro units, single room occupancy units that are eightbyten. There is barely e...