With that bit of knowledge, we might be able to better advise the entire board of supervisors. I volunteer president hyland and myself to make sure that we make that appointment to go see you took the words right out of my mouth. So well do that. So the last thing that i have to say on this is that i was going to recommend another mural be either commissioned or competition amongst the students or some other suggestion, so thank you for that, commissioner black. I think its time for this generation to have their say in this continuing story. Can i make a quick suggestion related to that . We live in a very technological time, and news and rumors move very quickly. But heres the teaching moment. Every year, the students of the school decide or every four years or whatever, and do a digital mural that then, you know, is captured on the schools website, and potentially, you put together a book of these things so that every single generation, not just the runs from 1968 and you know, that get the voice and the ones now, that all of them get the voice. Thats the teaching that is missing from this whole conversation. Okay. So what well do, commissioner ma mizuna and i will work with staff officers. And once we have better information, we reagendaize it here. We can certainly do that. Then, we can send to the board of supervisors. Well, at the very least, we would report back to the commission. And commissioners, would you like to see this letter before we send it out or do you trust me . We trust you to do that. Thanks, everybody, for your comments. Clerk if theres nothing further, commissioners, item 8, for the better Market Street project, this is an informational presentation. Commissioners, id like to introduce this item. From the Planning Department staff, im annemarie rogers, Planning Department citywide project. This ambitious and challenging project seeks to accomplish many goals, including improving safety for all users of the street, improving transit performance is a key goal. Replacing ageing infrastructure as it comes up as a critical issue as well as revising the corridor and landscape. Streetscape. Currently, the Draft Environmental Impact was published last february, and our environmental Planning Department are working on preparing a response to comments document which will be published sometime this fall. Todays representatives of the project team are here to answer any questions that you might have on the concept designs of the street. Id like to introduce the project manager, kristina olague from the Planning Department. Good afternoon, commissioners. Kristina olague, project manager, Planning Department. This project stretches long Market Street from stewart to octavia boulevard. We presented at the Architectural Review Committee earlier this year. Were here today to provide an informational presentation which makes up for the may 20 joint meeting with civic design review. Our presentation is divided into three sections exiting conditions and the need for the project, an overview of better Market Street, as well as the design details. Well address Historic Preservation throughout the presentation. Now id like to introduce nicolle bonn, executive director of the Mayors Office on disability. Good afternoon, commissioners. Im nicolle bonn, and im the executive director of the Mayors Office on disability, and ive been asked to speak of the disability improvements that the better Market Street project will allow for. One of the things that we know when we provide for better accessibility, we provide safety for everyone, so this project is going to allow us to update and renew our projectable warnings. For transit islands improvements, our current transit islands unfortunately do not meet straight accessibility requirements. We want to make sure or ramps are requirements. We want to have appropriate signals and bicyclist paths and navigation. We know that market is a High Consumer area for people with disabilities. Its also one of our high injury corridors, and fatalities have included wheelchair users, unfortunately. We have a very large demographic of people with disabilities in San Francisco, 90,000 according to the American Public survey. Its probably more than that. We know that at least half are under the age of 65 and folks with disabilities are using this area and to a high degree using public transportation. Specifically, too, some of our requirements under title 2 of the americans with disabilities act, which is what the Mayors Office on disabilities helps to oversee citywide in terms of project compliance, this will allow us to provide for the appropriate color contrast between our accessibility elements. And then also, i already mentioned we need to make sure we have compliant transit island. And we also have an obligation under title two to make sure that all features are accessible in a public rightofway to everyone to the greatest extent feasible. So one of the things, again, that this project will do are provide for better mobility, safety, and accessibility. One of the things that we look at in terms of our paver material in terms of providing accessibility is making sure that our surface texture and roughness are consistent and allow for some degree of slip resistance. We need to make sure that we have appropriate contrast. I mentioned that before, and making sure that the joint spacing in between our pavers are usable and ideally pane free to folk wis with disabilities. Part of the reason i mention that pane is we did some Consumer Outreach to folks with disabilities, and we learned some things on the current brick pavers. We know that we replaced them, and there are Current Locations, and when they become loose, their trip hazards. We know that we need differing color contrasts again between our different surfaces. We found especially that the brick, especially when its raining, are very slippery and to the point about this pane, one of the things that weve learned is that when you have pavers that are spaced to the degree that our current pavers are, the level of vibration that that causes especially for electric mobility devices can be painful for folks. So thats a very quick overview of some of the accessibility features. I will allow my krecolleagues m the public works to continue and then im happy to answer any questions. Okay. Thank you. As public works, were stewards of the public rightofway and were responsible for the safety of our residence dents and visito. This slide shows why the need to improve safety and accessibility on Market Street is an important part of our mobility goal. Market street is on the citys high injury network. The collision rate in the project area is over 20 times the state average. The corridor also contains three of the five worst intersections for cyclist and car intersections, and two of the top intersections for pedestrian and car injuries. We also know there is a high concentration of vulnerable people, including children and seniors with disabilities who live and work along the corridor. In 2010, the Partner Department set three project goals place, project, and market development. For mobility, the goal is to provide safety and accessibility for everyone using Market Street, and under Economic Development or goal is to improve transportation. Were also replacing our failing infrastructure which is nearing the end of its useful life, including water, sewer, passive poles, paving, even the brick is worn in some areas. And then, marie mentioned weve held five rounds of community out yaech since 2011. On you are last round of outreach was in june in we held outreach on Market Street . Were currently conducting outreach beyond the project limits, and that is west of octavia. Wed like to invite them to a Public Outreach at sanchez elementary next tuesday from 6 30 to 7 30. Weve also held popups at the strand theater and we have a committee that meets regularly. Some highlights on our schedule, we are scheduled to attend the Planning Commission in october for certification of our Environmental Impact report. We expect to have some of our key project approvals somewhere in october . Our nepa certification we expect to have early next year. Our first phase of construction is market between 5th and 8th street. Well be advertising the contract march of 2020, and we expect construction to last two years, from 2020 to 2022. This is a crosssection of the proposed better market design. Starting at the building phase, we have a sixfoot frontage zone, pedestrian through way thats a minimum of 10 feet wide. We have a delineation zone to separate the bikeway from the pedestrian area. Our bikeways approximately 8 feet throughout the corridor at sidewalk level, and then we have a buffer between the bikeway and the road way. The bikew the we are replacing the bricks with accessible pavers that meet our current standards. For the delineation zone, we needed to identify a profile or a geometry that was detectible by cane and by foot. To conduct this, we conducted a separation study at pier 38 with testing happening in june and july of this year. We tested three different profiles in two widths. You can see them on the left side of the slide. There is a trapezoid, a truncated dome, and a slide. The study recommends using the trapezoidal shape, so the one on the top left. With that, ill introduce john dennis, our Landscape Architect from San Francisco public works. Thank you. Yeah, im john dennis, urban designer for the landscape streetscape project, and id like to introduce myself as the grandson of a conductor on the railway, george houcka. Im honored to be entrusted with a most important endeavor which is redesigning and managing our most important street. Ill start by providing an overview of paving. Ill give you an overview of all of the basic Design Elements and some of the details. So better Market Street project will repave the entire section of Market Street from building phase to building phase using concrete unit pavers at sidewalks, including the pedestrian through zone, the street life zone, and the curb side and center transit stops and boarding islands as shown on this section here. The sidewalk level bikeway is proposed to be paved with asphalt to provide a contrasted material to help separate bicycle and pedestrians use areas. The muni only lanes at the center of the diagram will be paved with integrally colored concrete similar to the 3rd street walkways and as proposed for the vanness street project, as well. And then finally the road way curbs and the central boarding island curbs will reuse the existing sierra granite white curbs that exist on the street today. Heres a basic diagram of our proposed paving design as it plays out on a majority of the corridor using concrete pavers that are aligned in both directions with two different sized pavers, 4inch by 12inch pavers, and 12ink by 24inch pavers. I brought a sample of the proposed paver, showing color and finish, if anyone is interested in seeing that. This slide shows a visualization of what the street would look like with the proposed unit pavers in a pattern thats both linear and aligned with different scale paver used in the frontage and street light zone. The detectible delainiation zone that kristina described will be installed between the buffer zone and the pedestrian bikeway. So ever since mr. Jasper ofarrell laid out a plan in 1847, the marrying of the dischordant map of streets north of Market Street and south of Market Street has created unique conditions on Market Street. This has resulted in attractive buildings. It has resulted in unique view sheds to the north and to the west, and also opportunities for plaza spaces. We think these intersections provide an opportunity to celebrate the unique geometry of our street, and weve incorporated this also into our paving design. This plan view diagram illustrates our proposal to use a pave shade of paver at these nexus intersection using the same size and pattern as the rest of the corridor, and were proposing to create a sierra white granite band where the two materials come together. And heres a closeup view showing some of the detail at those intersections. And this sketch provides an overview of how those many components will come together, including streetlights, street trees, sight furnishings, etc. So start out with a discussion on street trees, we conducted an analysis of the existing trees on Market Street. Many its no surprise that many of them are struggling for survival, and we wanted to understand why, and which of those trees are worthy of saving and which of the trees are recommended for replacement. We convened a Market StreetTree Working Group to identify this. And one of the recommendations of that group was to that we should introduce diversity into the urban forest on Market Street in order to better prepare ourselves for unknown challenges related to climate change, unforeseen disease and pest infestations. And so the current Market Street uses only one genus species of tree. The Market Street recommended one species and providing a short list of species for use on market which include sycamore, elm, oak, and bris babri brisbane box. And i should note that a proposed 200 box are proposed to be protected because they are in good health and of good structure. And so our basic proposal on how to introduce this diversity is the light green band shown on the diagram. Thats where our deciduous trees would be, and then on different corners, we can introduce a different tree that might be more susceptible to the high winds at those intersections and also ameliorate those conditions yearround. So here is the tree, same size and shape with the mature size, but diversity. And that diversity would coincide with our nexus intersections. And heres a little closer look of what that might look like. And other trees would be provided at other islands and intersections. The western swallowtail butterfly is one of the insects that lives on Market Street and we want to ensure its survival and and encourage the health of other beneficial pollenators on the corridor. So we call this sidewalk use zone between the pedestrians through way and the bikeway the street life zone. And this zone ranges between four and 20 feet wide and is about 20 feet and length. Our street trees and lights are lined up with this zone, and this zone also accommodates all of the elements that bring life to the street, including art vendors, bike share pods, mobile food vendors, florists, shoe shine stands. Theyre all located in this space. Also new b. A. R. T. Portals, and the newly designed rest rooms and kiosks will also share this zone. On the picture is a depiction of the seismic wave bus shelters, that weve talked to Clear Channel regarding what options we might have with the view. One is we can go with a different colored roof on the bus shelter, and were proposing to go with a clear roof rather than the yellow that exists today. So those new site furnishings are all of a family of silver stainless galvanized steel, so all the proposals that we have, well require that they relate to the current sight furnishings, including leaning rails, which will allow bicyclists to lean at intersections, and way finding signage that promotes walkability and of course bike racks. Our project will increase the number of bike racks on Market Street by quite a bit. [please stand by] these images would aim to illustrate the history of the street and would include 308 plus Historic Architectural resources along Market Street, as well as stories about the Civic Engagement, the importance of Civic Engagement on Market Street can be illustrated, also, easily. As well as more individual human stories of people who have coincided with Market Street. The lighting is very important, but i wont go into too much detail about it today except to say that our path of gold lights will continue to provide the light for Market Street as they have for more than 100 years. The luminaires will be upgraded to Energy Conserving l. E. D. , and the p. U. C. Is conducting a pilot right now to test light color, light levels, and the constructibility of those new fixtures. In addition, we will be replacing all of the polls poles on Market Street, in a slightly larger size, which will necessitate the need to recast the basis, and i brought a color chip of the color that the p. U. C. Recommends this is based on their analysis of the existing fixtures that they have. Finally, public art will be incorporated into the project. Were still working with the Arts Commission on exactly what that public art component will be, and what the budget and scope will be for that artwork, but it could be they could partner