One thing were careful about is maintaining commercial look access so loading can occur on Market Street but we want to minimize conflicts with people biking on that sidewalk level bike lane. With the bike way, we determined that its best if we retain the loading bays concept like we have today where theres designated loading spaces on each block but weve brought it up onto the sidewalk and created a flex zone and theres a Cross Section and this space is 16 feet wide and leaves enough space for commercial vehicles to get up onto the sidewalk on a onefoot curb. The commercial vehicles can pull over to the side and theres enough space for us to maintain a clear space to be bikes to get around the commercial vehicles. We want to minimize the times we have commercial vehicles crossing the bike space. And so were pairing this design with commercial loading restrictions. So the morning when bikes are going downtown we have no loading on the south side of the street and similarly in the evening we would have no loading on the north side of the street. If loading needs to happen during those peak hours there would be additional loading spaces on the cross streets. Muni service will see an improvement with this design. Combined all of these changes will improve muni Service Increasing travel we are extending the muni only lane and we woke tend it all the way to main which is where we have the most buses running in any street and i dont know why there wasnt a money in the first place and in addition to keeping the taxis out and because there would be lessor no bikes in the curb lane and we would encourage the Curbside Service as well. We have the slain with Rapid Service with the f and the nine and the nine are and the five and the five and the remaining routes providing local Service Every block in the curb lane. On the bottom left im showing you what it looks like in the centre. Theyre about twice as big as our current transit stop in the centre and they all provide a wheelchair ramp access to the f line unlike some of our current transit stops and and the local stops on the bottom ryan are designed to minimize conflict between people biking and people accessing the transit stuff. We have used railings and shelters to carefully channel pedestrians into two or three marked crosswalks across the bicycle way at each of the stops. And these crosswalks will have yield triangle zoos that peopled to people accessing the transit stops. Those unable to make the walk, would be able to transfer between the rapid and the local at civic centre where we have closely spaced the rapid and the local stops on purpose. Im doing something wrong with this pair point. I apologize. Another exciting element of better Market Street is the f loop. We have much more demand for riders for service on the f loop and between fishermans war of and in order for us to provide more service and Fishermans Warf were adding a turnback loop allowing the trains to come on to mcallister and turn southbound on to charles which is an ex tense of seventh street and turn back and head east. During the daytime we will double or service and maintain going out to castro. And weve been we have tracks on streets and we have agreed to only run daytime service so that hotel guests are not impacted by the trains at night. Carfree market. Weve been hearing a lot about that. This is where i will go into the details about that. We are restricting private vehicles from using Market Street from 12th to stewart and in both directions except for eastbound from 11th to tenth and from drum to stewart and those two exceptions, which are shown with the green arrows so we can main local access to the buildings on those blocks. Commercial vehicles, air transit and taxis would still be allowed to use market and of course private vehicles would be allowed to cross market. If you are on stockton, you can just continue on to fourth street, golden gate goes to sixth street. You are just not allowed to turn on to market within the red dash areas. Theres a higher level of restrictions proper posed around van ness avenue which is shown with a different dash pattern on the left side of the drawing. And that area we are also proposing to restrict commercial vehicles and thats an added level of restrictions which im going to go into on the next slide. We will be adding more than 200 loading zones for both commercial vehicles and passenger loading on the cross streets so that we can have safe loading for people who want to get to Market Street and we have a number of changes just outside of the area that are complimenting this package. First, we have two streets that were converting to be two way. Again to maintain local access and that is jones and sphere for their first block away from Market Street. And were also proposing to make ellis one way, away from Market Street for two blocks from stockton just like its already oneway westbound and that is allowing us to reduce congestion at the intersection of forest, ellis, stockton and market and also do some additional place making and Pedestrian Safety improvements at that intersection. Were proposing to add additional turn restrictions from eastbound market on to valencia to deal with issues with cars turning right there and bikes coming quickly down the hill. And also from mission on to stewart in order for us to make market carfree starting at stewart. I have to learn to not press the down arrow. We have restrictions coming out of the city planning departments pub planning process and the pub is looked at all the developments of coming into the intersection near van ness and 5,000 units and expected to be one block within this intersection so the planning process developed these proposed and it takes of the advantage we have much less of this point and we have six and seventh going west past van ness and weve accounted for the value widen and significantly and ensure we can retair rada that bike lane. Wove to make it muni and taxi only and remove the curbside lane. Private vehicles and commercial vehicles will not be allowed to travel eastbound or westbound. This allows us to move the westbound turns to the west side of van ness to both our transit stops are on the west side allowing us on the eastside to make a great improvement to connect bike boys and also it allows to sim not fight and i will prove the ftrack but its called a y track on 11th street to make the track which is there more efficient. To see the benefits and we have a package that will implement in january in january of 2020 including market market car free from 10 street to the east with expending the lane and and painting safety zones and the most dramatic is the battery bridge where you have a slip lane on to mark wet no private vehicles. As part of the quick build implementation we will include the twoway conversion of jones street and the oneway conversion of ellis which we will make sure that were aware of what the impacts of that has as well as some additional turn restrictions at la ven see a for bike safety and turns at mission and stewart that i mentioned. Well turn it back to christine a better Market Street project manager. Through out the project weve had a Robust CommunityEngagement Process and weve had five rounds of Community Workshops and open house and weve held hundreds of stakeholder meetings and we have an active Community Working group who has met over the past eight or nine years. Our website uptodate and we have a turn by turn web map that shows you the change in your travel patterns given better Market Street changes and weve done surveys and mailings and multi lingual posters and weve held tabling events and also a popup at the strand theatre. Weve received several comments and letters and which provide input and feedback from the community. Weve heard strong support for our project goals and as well as the separated sidewalk level bike way and the carfr carfroe market. And having the narrow the pedestrian area and bike way where there are bart and muni portals, loading zones or transit boarding islands. There is also discussion about the conflicts at the sidewalk level loading zones and concerns with more see vehicle access around Market Street. We have received input on the design itself including the separation between the sidewalk and the bike way. The photo and the bottom line of this slide shows our study at pier 38 this past sum tore identify a detectable separation materials and weve received input about the locate of our loading zone on side streets. Weve received numerous comments about the surface transit with regards to stop spacing, 85 of transit riders surveyed support walking further for faster transit. Weve also heard concerns about the rapid stop spacing in the centre lane and connection to central subway. This has resulted in a local rapid transfer points at civic centre station as well as a modification to the curb lane stop at fourth and market. With regards to the floop weve heard support for operational benefits from the waterfront and Fishermans Warf area but this is us modifying the stop location and exploring noisereducing designs and construction techniques. With regards to the vehicle circulation in the western variance, theres been concerns about a less district car route due to the carfree zone as well as the new oneway on ellis between stockton. Theres been concerns about transit operations with only two lanes near van ness and market. This is our Environmental Review schedule and project approvals. We started our Environmental Impact report in january of 2015. Just last thursday, october 10th, the Planning Commission certified the e. I. R. For project approval we held a public works hearing last friday and our directour approved the project this morning. Todays m. T. A. Board meeting and then because we have federal funding, we will also be getting federal environmental clearance and we have an environmental assessment, which is underway. And we expect the final e. A. In early 2020. Also part of our implementation, we will be converting the pilot between goff and 12th street into a pilot for better Market Street. This means adding or raising to a walk level which is six inches high and the separation and we steady last summer anstudy last. Quick build to begin january of 2020. The Pilot Project will be next spring or spring of 2020. Well advertise the construction contract for phase 1a in 2020 and we hope to begin construction in either late 2020 or early 2021. And we expect construction of the first phase to take two years. That would be followed by construction of the f loop which is scheduled between 2023 and 2025. The schedule for constructing future phases is depending on securing additional funding for the project. Weve also received a lot of concerns about construction impacts to businesses. We are working closely with m. T. A. , puc, office of economic and Workforce Development and other City Partners to develop a construction mitigation plan which would include our Marketing Campaign or signage and embassadors to help direct customers. Incentives for our contractor to complete the work ahead of schedule and direct business support, a project office wheree people can receive services. Having strategically placed staging areas that do not disrupt people trying to walk along Market Street. A detailed muni Transit Service plan including f line replacement and transit improvements on Mission Street. A little bit more on the funding of better Market Street. To date, we have secured almost 144 million for planning Environmental Review, design of phase 1a as well as construction of phase 1a. You can see from the slide that 106 million has been secured for the construction of phase 1a. The over all total project cost shown on the slide is 604 million which was based on a 10 design of the full corridor. Funding for phase 1b has been programmed in the twoyear budget and five years Capital Improvement programme which will be coming to this board early next year. Were also looking for additional funding which could come from federal state and local sources. Shown here including fta, one bay area grant funds, regional measure 3 and possibly even the tnc tax. To review the board actions for today, this is a summary. You will be approving the better Market Street project, adopting the seek wha ceqa findings and e mitigation monitoring and reporting programme. You will be approving all of the parking and traffic changes that are proposed for Market Street from stewart to octavia and you will be amending the transportation Code Division to for transitonly lanes. Thank you. Thank you, very much. How much Public Comment do we have . 66 people have turned in speaker cards. Of those 66 people, how many folks want to see this project approved quicker . [laughter] i can give you a rea really easy to have it approved. I would not have brought this tie vote if i didnt have four maybe more votes to approve this. This is everyones hall so if you would like to speak, you may. You will have one minute each. When your name is called, please lineup over there by mr. Gilberty or the camera so we can tom, raise your hand again. You cant block the door. Thank you. I have one minute each to speak on the better Market Street proposals. Are there any clarifying questions for staff before we go to Public Comment which i would like to do before we have our discussion. If theres a burning question that you think will inform the Public Comment, please ask it. I just would love if you could just show on the website theres an interactive map to walk people through it. I think that its hard when people are talking to visualize exactly and maybe you can just point out some of the additional loading zones and the intersections that are changing. Because i think if people can see it, its a better conversation. It helps with peoples comments as well. Ill ask a question while you are getting that going. You talked about mitigations during construction and you mentioned a bunch of city agencies but were you working with the bcds and all of those people because its not so much just the customers but the delivery people and the loading of the delivery and all that sort of stuff for the businesses and the public will figure it out. The businesseses need to figure it out. I should have mentioned our Community Partners. Were working with the chamber of commerce and the cbds and other business groups. Business organizations along Market Street to make sure that we have their input. The chamber of commerce has been supportive but they want to be a part of the discussion moving forward and part of developing those support services for businesses. It doesnt look like we have an Internet Connection so i dont think i can bring up the website. It is available on bettermarketstreet sf. Org and if we get an Internet Connection ill pull it up. Would you call the first five names, please. Clerk ron mcgill, christopher peterson, james bryant, jim morshell, amber castleburg. Im ran mcgill. I chair the better Market Street working group and its a stakeholders. They are all representative and have been pretty much since they asked me to chair the First Committee in march of 2011. Were finally there. I appreciate the fact that you want to move this along. I do too. Im not going to be here much longer to see this happen. Move it along. Thank you for your service. Christopher peterson followed by james bryant. Is mr. Peterson here. I songly support and Going Forward this project, how can you ensure that the construction proceeds as quickly as possible. Again, thats repeated problems. It will raise Serious Problems and buses have to be diverted off market during the construction and the plans for how that will be happening as far as i can tell why nebulous at this point so i hope you push to ensure that those plans ensure that those detour is done as efficiently and hopefully for a shorter period as possible. Mr. Bryant. James bryant, jim, amber and. James bryant and im here to discuss with the you and first of all i support the project and second of all i want to make this clear that the new director, whoever that is, along with the Board Members you must understand the African AmericanBusiness Community and part of this project. It should have emphasis having our Community Partners and our community. The outreach was terrific. The coordination between planning your staff and the whole hub process was excellent. Im glad i showed up in the old man commenting to the planner photo that you showed. Im glad that you went with the western alternative. Its an improvement and the outreach process was better for having been able to get that into the plan and interesting to see and the article about 14th street closing to traffic and how it had unexpect and no prob