Create those, versus this group were trying to target. The subsidy is not there. So its more expensive to build those units in many ways and with less return than marketrate unit. And thats what a lot of investors and investments are based on. Well continue this conversation. I appreciate the chair hosting this and moving this conversation forward, and well work with these departments and members of the public to further an idea on how we can created a ages a create additional revenue. Councillor tang i wanted to say, maybe even a year or two ago, it was difficult to have this conversation, so i do want to thank supervisor safai and city staff for working on this. Its a real issue. We have the data to show its an increasing problem and were not here to take away housing from other people. Were trying to broaden the pot, as supervisor safai said. So i look forward to being engaged on this issue with all of you. Thank you, supervisor. Echo those comments as well. With that, a motion to file item 5. Councillor tang so moved. Okay. We take that without objection. Madam clerk, do we have any other business . Clerk that concludes our business for today. Thank you, everybody. Were adjourned. All right, good morning everyone, what an exciting day in San Francisco. Let me begin by introduction myself, i am the San Francisco public works director muhammad. Were here today to break grounds on the Second StreetImprovement Project and project that will change the look and feel of this busy corridor in the south of market area. Its not every day that we get to rethink a street, to figure out how it can better serve the people who use it and most importantly, make it safer for everybody. Through smart planning, strong partnerships among multiple city agencies and funding from the federal and local sales tax revenue, and community support, were able to move forward with the Second StreetImprovement Project. It will turn in to a stretch that better serves our city for the 21st september century. At the end of the construction of this project we will have upgraded sewers thank to our San Francisco p. U. C. And a smoother road and most importantly a safer and more attractive neighborhood. But before we get started, and well hear from all the several agencies that are involved in this project i want to take a moment to thank the project team who worked on this project together so this point, first i would like that thank project led by our City Engineer john thomas sitting out in the crowd there. [applause] we are a number of project managers, christina oneil, mike rigor and richard from engineer ing and we have steve lee, jackie ying, Michael Smith and jane ko and from our last division who had work to do with the trees and Street Furniture and the designs that will come john dennis and david folig and robin welter and from streets and highway kim chang and from our Communications Rachel Gordon , the very best. Now id like to bring up our mayor ed lee. Mayor lee is someone who knows the importance of improving our neighborhoods and making our streets safe. He has been a big supporter and champion of street scape improvement throughout the city and we are very, very pleased to have him here today to help us kickoff the Second Street project. Please welcome our mayor ed lee. [applause] well thank you, good morning giants fans were here on Second Street thats probably one of my favorite corridors to walk down and get to the giants game and if we were reminded what this street is all about probably a couple of days ago when the water main broke right there at second and harrison it was a good reminder of the fragile infrastructure that we have particularly when pipes that have been touched for over 150 years and so when you saw that water, those are the exactly the water system that muhammad would mention with that the p. C. Will replace for this corridor going north and south. I want to sank supervise or kim foreign inviting us to her district its the eastern soma neighborhood and also a neighborhood that i know that has been working with public works and all our transit or m. T. A. Is here, county, transportational authority and all of the different agencies including planning and others for probably over five years and working together theyve been able to really plan out what will be a twoyear project and i know muhammad was celebrating a vision for its finish but for the next two years i want the media to know. Please dont blame me for everything that goes on for the next two years weve broken this up in to four phases trying to mitigate all of the construction that will happen but we have the walking folks that are advocates , we have the coalition working with us and we have pedestrian avenue vow kits that ultimately want to embrace all of the goals here along with the Small Businesses that are willing to suffer a little bit with everything from reduced parking because theyre going to ultimately gain a safer street, a street that is hundreds of thousands of people use not just during giants games but if you notice even during the offseason as a well traveled corridor and so its an effort to make it safer and to make it more pedestrian friendly and make it more bicycle friendly and make it more walking friendly and to allow more people to use this in the safeer way including cars and trucks. Soy want to thank all the agencies for working together on this and there will be an effort to mitigate all of this by breaking it up in to segments so that it doesnt interrupt everybody who wants to get to the giants games or also the next concert here but also to frequent all of the wonderful restaurants and bars and entertainment thats what makes this street so popular and all the businesses as well so we all as a city have to understand that construction does interrupt a little bit in order to gain something more valuable and its both beneath as well as above and on the streets and in fact, someone to figure out how to underground all the utilities all along this way thats another maiming or contribution that the residents and the businesses have strived for in this detailed collaborative effort so i want to thank everybody for their years of working together and getting everybodys goals in to this project and making sure we did it and that its all not going to happen overnight but will happen in segments to respect as much as we can the activities going on here so, that is my way of saying thank you to everybody for your patients and as we go on and please be safe when you are traverseing this corridor because i dont think any of this is going to stop people from use particular but we just have to be more safe and appreciative that the end goal will be beautiful trees, sidewalks that are widens, bike lanes that are protected, street and Traffic Signals that are respective for a higher level of vision zero or safety for everybody and less breakage of the water system thats beneath thats over 150yearsold. With all of that i say thank you to everybody lets get on with this project and ill blame you if anything gets delayed. Thank you [applause] thank you, mayor lee. Give him another big hand for his leadership under his leadership were doing so much great work. Next weve the supervisor from the south market and other neighborhoods here in the south of market area and jane has been a huge champion of the Second Street project and shes been there with us at all the Community Meetings zester years ago she attended them and she helped us secure funding and has made sure that we have met the Community Needs and particularly safety for people who walk and bike in this area and that all those needs will be met and she was also welcome jane kim. [applause] interview when i first got here someone thanked me for coming to the Ground Breaking and i had said i would not have missed this for the world and for those of thaw have been working on this project, this is something that i have been working on almost since the beginning when i started in office and end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 and this was probably the first major vision zero project victory that we had in our district and i really worked with a lot of people in the community and public works and all of our agencies to fight to make this a reality and its a big project and its a complicated project and im so proud that were able to make it here today and i want to thank a lot of people that were involved in the years of planning and community out reach that it took the south market hasnt always been a residential neighborhood, it was commercial and production and manufacturing and as the people in the neighborhood change our streets didnt and the sidewalks are narrow, we have multiple lanes made for big trucks and cars that are commute ing from their offices downtown and to their homes all around the bay area and many of our residents were unfortunately the victims of the neighborhood that we have been building and Second Street was really the corridor that we had intended to be our neighborhood corridor and one that our residents could bike and walk down safety. Like first street and third and fourth that are meant for cars and Second Street was the corridor that was for our residents and our Small Business owners and its exciting to be here today as we work ok protected bike lanes on follow com follow so many street so we have streets dedicate for our pedestrians and psyche lists and i want to thank public works in particular christine and you really ran some of the best out reach meetings i have seen with doortodoor knocking and really large turnouts which is very difficult to do by the way and also i want to thank michael rig or as well for your work, many years of planning but of course, to our neighborhood residents because as much as we need a corridor for us this is still a major change for our residents and katie liedel who heads our south beach rincon mission Bay Association and alice rogers who is part of our south Park Improvement association who hads fought for it finally this year we were able to cut the ribbon on the beautiful new playground and park at south park and bruce part of our trance Bay Committee and Patrick Valentino who often came and were maybe the only voices or were minority voice saying we need wider sidewalks and protected bike lanes even if that meant loosing parking spots and loosing lanes of traffic onto the bridge and im excite inside is finally happening and this is the corridor that our neighborhood deserves and millions of dollars have gone to this both from the San Francisco county Transportation Authority as well as other granting authorities so i want to thank them for working to make sure that we were able to make this again this promise a reality for our neighborhoods so congratulations and i look forward to working with everyone during the construction process and i know the construction process is often the toughest part so we want to make sure we support our Small Business owners during this time but its going to be a fabulous corridor and i have to recognize of course the San FranciscoBike Coalition brian wedmire is here and also to leah sheaham who is here during the time we were advocating for this. Thank you for sticking with us and being strong making sure we got the core dough we wanted, thank you very much. [applause] thank you. Next we have the sfmta who is a key partner in the remaking the Second Street this project is part of the citys San Francisco bicycle plan and the Vision Zero Initiative to make the streets safer for all of us. Lets welcome district or race kin from the sfmta. [applause] thank you. Good morning everyone, its great to be here because Second Street is such an important part of the citys Transportation Network and its a unique street in some ways and it connects from the ballpark to Market Street and it has proximity to the freeways because of its ta possible ra fee its a street topography its good for taking the bus, it gets a lot of car and truck traffic and because of the vibrancy and the great mix of increasingly residentss but a great number of Small Businesses , and larger businesses its a very vibrant street so it attracts a lot of people on foot and it also has the dubious distinction of being part of the citys High Injury Network which means its one of the 12 of the streets that are responsible for more than 70 of the citys serious and fatal traffic collisions. As muhammad said, this is a vision zero effort, vision zero being our goal in San Francisco to eliminate traffic deaths by 2024 and by redesigning streets such as this one that are host to a dis purchase disproportionate amount and it has been a very long and challenging process redesigning completely transforming really a street is very challenging and so its been a Great Partnership between tractortrailer our Partner Agencies and our Neighborhood Partners the residents, the neighborhood association, the local business association, working together got us the point where when we brought this forward for the sfm ta board of directors lead by our chair to legislate these changes we were able to do so with the support of the local community with the support of the supervisor with the support of the mayor and that is what is necessary to get these projects done and i want to acknowledge a couple of our folks from the agency worked on this project but i want to acknowledge specifically Ellen Robertson and matt lasskey working with jamie parks on on the leadership of louise montoya in concert with ricardo ola working together with all of our agency and Community Partners to make this happen but, also, i want to finally again thank the leadership that makes this happen and when i sit down with mayor lee, he is always asking me how can we get these projects done better and faster and supervise supervisor kim we dragged muhammad and i in our office and said we need to get this project on track and get it done because its important to the people that she service and our chair who ultimately are those who have to make these tough trade off calls of parking versus safety versus all the other things and always leading with safety and putting safety first to make this project happen and i want to acknowledge the Disability Community which was an important partner. Part of the trade offs making sure this would work for the Small Businesses in terms of parking and loading making sure it will work with people with disabilitys as were doing new and different designs its a important consideration and working together to make the street better and fix the instruct under and above to make sure it will be last and something we can enjoy for generations to thank you to everybody who has been working on it and were starting the next difficult phase and we have work with the mayor and to do what best we can to minimize disruption so we can all be smileing and just as happy when were at the prib on cutting a few years out so thank you and congratulations to everyone. Interview thank you, as you heard this project is a huge project and its from king street all the way to Market Street that is about eight city blocks it is over 20 million that will be spent to make it safe for everyone as part of our partnership in securing funding, the San Francisco county Transportation Authority provided tax funding in the range of 1. 5 million for the project which was needed to match some of our federal grants we had to support this project lets hear from tilley chan the director from that agency. [applause] interview thank you so much, good morning everyone and thank you. To all my name is tilley chang and on behalf of the 11 members of the transport agency led by supervisor kim we want to congratulate the community, public works, the city family and all the neighborhoods who had the vision and stuck with that vision for Second Street to make today a a lot. They were pleased to provide matching funds in the form of our half cent transportation sales tax but importantly to Program Federal funds that are nine or ten Million Dollars of one bay Area Grant Fund programs that are allocate by by the metropolitan Transportation Commission when kim serves as a commissioner so were very grateful to the region for providing key fund withing our legal matching funds onethird of the project in recognition there are many folks here who had already been living here customers visitors, families as well as many more people who are coming new workers, new families coming to this area this rapidly growing part of our city and the purpose of the one Bay Area Grant Program funds and when they passed prop k was to provide