Street running north to south between beginning at silver and ending at geneva. Cross traffic does not stop at the silver intersection. Nor peru nor currently avalon nor naples nor brazil nor persia or russia or france. Finally eight blocks away at italy theres a fourway stop. Ive lived on naples going on 37 years and i learned quite early that if i want to go north south i dont go on edinburgh. Thats why naples is a main artery. I would imagine the residents appreciate the relative quiet of their streets. You start putting stop signs at every corner, no cross traffic you will get that. By placing a fourway stop here, people unfamiliar with the neighborhood might assume the other stops on edinburgh are four way as well. There is an environmental issue as well. Traffic stops increase gas mileage and pollution not to mention added to the stress of drivers because of the delay making them more aggressive which will turn to more accidents. I did a survey this morning from 7 45 to 8 15 at that intersection. There were 198 cars going down avalon, there were 48 cars going to edinburgh. Ok, so thats the most well trafficked street. At the intersection of two blocks east at avalon and vienna, there was an accident. Thank you mr. Jordan. Next speaker. Shannon wells. Good afternoon. I am shannon wells and i am the district 9 representative to the cta Citizen Advisory Committee wells a resident right by the intersection of avalon and edinburgh. We ask you vote yes to a fourway stop. The accidents and near misses at this intersection including two pedestrian injuries and three serious collisions in the past two years make it imperative to increase safety at this intersection. If you would like to see theres a photo of the most recent one which was the last couple of weeks. The statements of avalon decreases visibility at this intersection and encourages speeding. Also the parked cars make it very difficult for cross traffic and pedestrians to see on coming vehicles withouting the next. Fourway stops being placed irregularly makes drivers actually unsure whether theres a fourway stop and i witness this behavior with my parents trying to drive through the neighborhood. Right or wrong, drivers do approach the intersection from all directions and cross traffic drivers appear to assume it is a fourway stop when its not, without really looking. Ive seen this happen a lot. It does no harm to add these two new stop signs on avalon and will no doubt improve safety. We have, as a neighborhood group, we have applied for a fourway stop three times in three years, including the last two years and its been denied. We have spoken with a dozen of our neighbors in the and one block within the intersection and there is unanimous support for this stop sign. With an increasing number of small children on our block, safer streets is even more important. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Is there a member of staff . Tom, can someone speak quickly to this . I can speak to this. I think the last speaker actually summed it up well. There have been numerous requests for a stop sign here. There have been reports of dangerous conditions or collisions there. Weve had a request from the Supervisors Office to prioritize this. We see no adverse impact to putting a stop sign here which is why weve put it on this agenda and recommending it for your approval. Thank you very much. Do i have a motion to approval. So moved. Second. All in favor aye. Aye. Any opposed, hearing none, 10. 2r is approved. 10. 3c. Melody has asked to speak. Great. Melody, would you like to come up . And this is no parking any time except cityowned vehicles. On the west side at gerald. Yes, melody. Thank you so much for your time. My name is melody and im opposed to 10c. As you know sleep is a primary resource needed to make good decisions and police media strip us of our right to rest. They strip us to our resources to recover from our circumstances. Interrogators in every country know a total of sleep deprivation is a form of torture. My mere existence is breaking the law and this law and these signs are telling me i dont have the right to exist. Since these new parking signs have been posted im thrust to parking where im not safe nor is my vehicle safe. Drug users, urinating around my vehicle loss of time cleaning up after them, ive been broken into, et cetera, im treated by the meter made like im a criminal and im spoken to as if im vermon and they still allow the meter maids to terrorize me and insinuating its for my own good. Allowing this mind set without education nor correction is appalling and though it is my responsibility, im not the cause of my homelessness. And again, i ask that the board of directours for a safe place to park because without your support, i cannot overcome my circumstances and thus i am a scapegoat of societial hypocrisy which demands i overcome my circumstances while stripping me of every single resource required to do so. Thank you so much for your time again. Thank you, we are going to have a larger discussion on this and today and do i have a motion to approve . Do i have a second. All in favor aye. Aye. Any opposed. Hearing none 10. 3c is approved. Lets move on to 10. 9. The director to issue a request for proposal to solicit to develop the garage site into a Convention Hotel and Affordable Housing. Alex asked to speak. Good afternoon again, commissioners. My name is alex lance burg and im a representative. Ive been working with the local Building Trades and this r. F. P. Came tour attention courtesy of our friends at local 2. In reviewing it, and i contacted lee a couple days ago and it may have been too late under the time lines that yall were running on, what i noticed was there were two really missing provisions in there. One, is labor harmony language for the construction of the hotel itself as well as improvements related to anyone who occupies the place in terms of retail done. And something that i think that the commission ought to consider, again, also in its proprietary interest and its electric safety language. Making sure the men and women building this hotel are at the highest caliber of training going through programs and having observe a training and really having the skills in capabilities to pull this job off. On budget and on time and safely. To the first point, labor harmony language when i mentioned it to lee she was dubious or she wasnt quite sure where the City Attorney was on this thing and i just have actually a copy with me. I wasnt able to print it but i have a copy of a letter that s. F. O. Entered into with the San Mateo CountyBuilding Trades. Basically adapting labor harmony language for its facilities. You can incorporate it into the r. F. P. And i was hoping to bring it to you. Second in terms of electric contractor safety language, this is something thats really been getting a lot of widespread use in los angeles. Los angeles county both the city as well as the other cities in the county as well. I forwarded a copy to lee and hopefully she will be able to forward it on to you and other project managers on your side of this thing. Before you approved the r. F. P. I hope you can amend or at least include the language to put those two provisions in there. Thank you. Anymore public speakers on 10. 9 . No. Yes, please come forward, sir. My name is sam soho. My son and i we have a retail store in that facility. We just took over on september this year. And we would like to say that our lease says that when they approved to build the hotel or whatever, we have six months to leave. We understand that but are we would like to take a humble request if we could be accommodated in the new hotel or whatever it is and provided some kind of a retail space. We would appreciate that. Its too early to do that but i wanted to make it like a point. I would appreciate if you can accommodate us in some way. Thank you, very much. Much appreciated. District or racekin, this is in front of us if there were the desire or the requirement on the part of the city to add labor almost on and safety language can it be done at the time of awarding any contract . Well, maybe we can ask staff to speak to the issue of this. I wasnt aware of this issue. I would remedy pending on what staff would say, or one thing you can do is approve this item, the issuance of the r. R. P. And district us as staff to work with the trades to see the extent to which we can incorporate that language. We would want to put it into the rrfp but let me ask our staff to update you on whatever conversations that there may have been. Sure, im ray from the facilities and Real Estate Division of the sfmta. I would echo the comment he made. The resolution that is before you does allow us to subsequent minor changes to the r. F. P. For those kind of requirements for labor workforce requirements, those kinds of things. So we can talk to the City Attorneys office and discuss with the gentlemen who is here at the podium about any additional labor requirements that we can include in the r. F. P. And our guide was question have issues and the solve and real estate but we are interested and obviously having robust labor requirements within the r. F. P. Director. Putting it for the r. F. P. Would you like to speak to that . My colleague from the economic and Workforce Development can provide thoughts on that. Good afternoon director, thank you. Yes, so we did consult the City Attorney about this very question even before alex raised the question to us and weve been advised that weve put sort of the most rigorous amount of labor requirements and workforce provisions in our r. F. P. However, i did double check with the City Attorney after receiving a call from alex. What ive been told by the City Attorney is that we dont take a position on labor piece, especially in our solicitation. It doesnt mean the city cant participate later. If something has been proposed by whoever we select. But at this point its not our policy to sort of proactively include language of that kind. But as director riskin said, if you chose to approve the authorization to release the r. F. P. Today, before we release it, we can have another conversation about that with the City Attorney. Just to clarify, it is the policy of the city and county of San Francisco not to include labor harmony language . I dont want to speak for the City Attorney but im happy to clarify that with him. What i understood you to say was theres a policy that including this sort of language would not be with that policy. Im trying to understand whose policy that is . Ive been advised by the City Attorney its the citys policy. I dont want to misquote. I would rather have the City Attorney come and describe the policy in writing. Where this leaves me as a district or is ill state it would seem to me if its appropriate and within the city policies to state this and its something the agency wants to pursue anyway to include it, but, i also realize that these things arent lightly drafted and that attorneys have been consulted and all that. Im a little bit hesitant to do it on the fly here at the meeting. And rather, if were told this is something that could be done later with amendment power to do that and not hold up the issuance of the r. F. P. For this. So that was my recommend day. Not to try to do anything on the fly. The option again would be to approve with direction to us, to work with the City Attorneys office with oewd and with labor just to explore what language we might consider adding. I dont know if it would be i would guess its a practice than a policy but you know, we certain want to consult with the City Attorneys office and would do so. I know theres also local business, preference and an all kinds of other sort of its firstsource hiring. Other qualifications for other businesses that may not, like Small Businesses that are a retail shop thing that may not be unionized so it might be one that i dont know. One of the reasons because we do have requirements around all those other things as well. Its not to say that its inconsistent but we have a lot of different priorities. If i may, i would add two things. One, part of the r. F. P. Is premise on the part of the sfmt will continue to own the underline parcels, if and when a development is actually approved and so there are going to be many future points at which whether its through the Lease Agreement or the entitlement through which all of these workforce provisions will be cot a fied and the r. F. P. Does include, because of the ownership of the city, they include a very holistic set of workforce and Employment Requirements including, local hire, a mandatory requirement goal, not just a goal, first source hiring and others. Thank you, yes. Thank you. Sorry to put you on the spot and have to serve the role of someone else and all that but, you did it ably and i appreciate that. It gets to the larger point of this. This is just the issuance of an r. F. P. Were not making a decision here as to what is going to be built and how its built specifically. Were starting the process for something that clearly has a lot of merit for a lot of policy needs. So with that and subject to director kristen and ill move the item for this . Ill second it. And to go back to the gentleman who has a Retail Establishment and do we have a consideration for someone who is already operated a shop within one of our sites, perhaps give special consideration Going Forward . I have the privilege of speaking with the gentleman earlier today who had expressed that concern and we will work with Economic Workforce Development and work with a selected developer to try and accommodate those interest as best as possible. Excellent. Thank you. I have a motion and a second. All in favor. Aye. Any opposed. Hearing none . 10. 9 is approved. Moving on, item 11, presentation and discuss regarding the Transportation Task force 2045 recommendations. Thank you. Im sorry. Its ok. Ive been under the understanding that the presentation was going to be pre loaded. Can we go out of order so i can get the presentation up . Yes. Can we go to item 12 if mr. Thornily is happy to come out of order . Ok. Lets see, who gets your presentation up first. [laughter] so well go to item 12 then. Presentation discussion regarding management and vehicular habitation. This is item 12. Good afternoon members of the public presence and viewing through s. F. Gov tv. Im andy thornily im senior. In this beautiful, wealthy, intelligent city, every night perhaps 7500 folks are out on the streets. We know, we have a fair estimate from the bienial point in time from presence on the street, about 1200 people are living in cars or vans on the streets of San Francisco. The demographics are various. Their individuals, there are families, there are elderly folks. And not only is there hardship of being vehicularly housed, but citations and towing can just make it worse, and can only one lose her home to towing, but often, possessions are lost. Everything can be lost in a stroke. The issue is complex and multidimensional, to be sure. This agency asks us to address punt amount tally different questions about who we are as a city. We must address these questions if we are to become our vision of a truly great city. This city has charges regulating the curb, so i want to make it obvious. This is a transportation agency. The city charges the mta with regulations limiting parking, stopping, etcetera. This is our charge. Its not something we do as a hobby. We are responsible for managing the curb in a safe, equitiable and efficient manner. Lots and lots and lots of things pressing on the curb. Transitways, parkways, daylighting, and that is challenging enough. If all we were doing is refere refereeing the curb for parking and other uses, but some of what is parked are vehicles, and some of those vehicles have folks living in them. The Public Works Department has some enforcement responsibilities, the police department, of course, is an essential partner on this business of regulating use of the curb, but it really is up to the sf municipal transportation agency. Want to acknowledge that while i assert the prime task of this agency is to manage transportation and streets, we obviously are not apart from the rest of the city. You have heard folks make that comment, in fact that last consent item was this city recognizing and having an opportunity to be a participant in addressing the housing crisis. Personally, im thrilled. We will lose a garage, perhaps, but well gain Affordable Housing and also, depending on how that turns out, a hotel to help serve a very important aspect of the local industry. So this is a very complicated thing that the mta has struggled with, not just bridging the responsibilities of the transportation and streets management with housing and habitation, but finding cooperative harmonious arrangement with other agencies so that we can focus on transportation. Vehicles used as housing present a significant policy challenge to the sfmta. Again, directors who have been here with me for the past several years know this, directors who have joined us more recently havent had all of those conversations, but we have struggled with this for a while. First, ill start by reminding everybody that under police code since 197 1, its against the l 1971, its against the law to live in a vehicle. The enforcement of that law has been challenging for the police practically, and also i think as a compassion issue, so it may be illegal, but thats not enforced as strictly as it could for various reasons. Inhabited oversize vehicles present social and safety problems. Youll here, im sure from members of the public about not only the issue of blights, having r. V. s parked along a certain street, but it becomes a refuge for mischief, to put things lightly, we hear about drugs being bought and sold, prostitution, fighting dogs, all sorts of trouble. We hear about the disposal of waste in ways that are not only unpleasant but unsan unsanitar. Your staff, frankly are sitymid to address this challenge.