Public comment via phone. Equal Public Access will be taking Public Comment as follows first on each item on the agenda. Those in person will speak first and then take those waiting on the remote call in line. For those watching on channel 26, 28, 78 or 99 on sfgov. Org the call in number is streaming across the screen. Number is 4156550001. Access code 2497 343 6447. You will hear the meeting but in mute and listening mode only. When your item of interest come up and comment is called those in person line up to the hite right on the phone dial star 3 to be added to the queue. Remember to turn down your listening devices. We will be taking Public Comment from those in person first and moving on to the remote call in line. You may submit comment in writing to myself. And if you submit e mail tell be added to the official file and forwarded to the supervisors. S one moment, chair. They were not hearing the pc line double checking if we need restart. You may submit your written comments u. S. Postal service to city hall. Actions appear on the agenda of october 18th unless stated. Madam chair. Thank you. To add to the announcements masking k is recommended although not required throughout this building. Be respectful and provide spacing if you are seated in the chamber or lined up for comment. Call item one. A resolution various locations within and near the leather and lbgtq district in recognition of the history and contributions to leather and lbgtq community the process set forth in public works code. [inaudible]. Members who wish to comment should call the number 4156550001. Access code 2497 343 6447. If you have not done so and would like to speak press star 3. Madam chair y. Thank you. We have bob here. The president of the leather and lbgtq cultural district had will make remarks and we have brian, supervisor dorseys office on stand by for questions. Thank you. Hello. Supervisors. Im bob the executive director of the leth and lbgtq cultural district a 25 year resident of San Francisco and 45 year regular payment in activities in soma. The Leather Community is the reason i moved here in 1997 and thing Leather Community put down rot in soma in the mid 60s when we were displaced from the embark defero. In 1980, there were 40 leth exert lbgtq venues, bars and businesses in soma. We now count 11. So again wore displaced by gentification and redevelopment. The installation of the sidewalk plaques will commencement rit our community in soma. A xount halead to events the folsom street fair worldwide attention for the city. Not only for the event itself but leather culture flourished due to diversity and communities that are marginalized. The sidewalk plaque project am be a feature help draw people to the Area Visitors and residents alike. It will be a symbol of San Franciscos acceptance of all. Rafael machine man will join as a cosponsor and i would like to invite to you express your support by joining as cosponsors. And i urge you to support this legislation. Thank you very much. If you have questions i will be help to answer. Thank you. Do we have questions for bob. Joy will heed his admonition and like to be added as a cosponsor. As would i, thank you. Do you have questions. No. Thank you. Thank you. 3 for 3. A notation from our web ex connection a bit of my announcement was heard i will repeat a few instructions. Again we are at the this is land use and transportation mittee for october third. If you would like to call in the number is 4156550001 access code 2497 343 6447. If you would like to speak press star 3. You can submit comments e mill or postal u. S. Our address. You can e mill me to be added to the official file. Erikamajor sfgov. Org lets take public ment for item yen one. You have 2 minutes. Good afternoon supervisors. If you can speak in the mic right there. Why okay. Good afternoon, supervisors. Thank you for gospeling mow the opportunity to poke to you this afternoon. Im bob brown, im a president of the board of the San Francisco leather and lbgtq cultural district. Im here in support of the passage of this resolution for the designation of cites, street plaques and leather and lbgtq leather history crews. Lbgtq community established in soma through the 60s and experienced significant can displacement to gent sxifkz redevelopment. Our district working hard to maintain our presence in soma sponsoring the establishment of murals on local artists and existing businesses. We are refurbishing the alley. And we are supporting our existing and new businesses. We consider it voilths to establish a physical place making markers such as those in sidewalks and plaques to commemorate our rich history. That has been contributing to the fabric of the city and lead to word recognition of San Francisco as a place to hold events. I urge you to support this legislation and thank you for your help. Thank you for sharing your comments next speaker, please. Im david high man on the board of leather and lbgtq district. I spoke to many fascinated by the history of San Francisco and our special neighborhood the area once known the avenue of the kings. They want to know it was located where and bh. How they evolved and why they were lost. The plaques would be lasting reminder of those accomplices we realize that memories fade and the internet is unreable. Not just for visitors and tourists locals care about our history, too. Plaques give us provide and make us feel responsible for make the area pleasant and welcoming i hope you help make these historical markers possible. Thank you for the space you made for us. Im jay ortega a board member of the leather and lbgtq district. I hear from many people of all genders and identities and being a part of the district before there was a district. These politicals are a step for preserving our lbgtq history in the city. With the tax on the lbgtq community this is also a major step ensuring San Francisco remains alli of the lbgtq community. I thank you for giving us the time for speaking and hopeful you will help pass this legislation. Thank you. Hello. Im danielle cherry. Leather cultural district arts. And i am in support. Im not good at this stuff. I want to say thank you for having us and letting us share our voices with you. Thank you very much. Byebye. Thank you. Other members of the public had would like to speak on item one . We will move to remote line. We have 6 listeners with 2 in queue. If you can unmute the first caller. Please. Hello, caller . Move to this call exert take the next caller. Good afternoon this is cal the manager of the lbgtq cultural district. Im sppth this measure. Establish the place for the history but it commemorate the the rich culture that exists once and still exists in the district. And as jay connor said in a time had the community is under attack cross the country and the world. This sends a powerful statement that San Francisco stands in our support. Thank you and i urge you to approve. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller . That completes the queue. Thank you very much. I like to make the motion we sends this to the full board with positive recommendation. Supervisor peskin. I did not close Public Comment. Public comment is closed. On this motion supervisor peskin aye. Supervisor preston. Aye. Melgar. Aye. Thank you very much that motion passes. Lets go to item 2. The San FranciscoMunicipal Transportation Agency to empower parking control roches for site azs for power scooter safety violations and modify permits to power Scooter Companies to mandate cease of operations for all devices not equipped with antiwalk sensing technology. Member who is wish it provide comment call 4156550001 access code 2497 343 6447. And if you have in the done so and like to speak press star 3. Thank you. We have [inaudible] here and also jimmie parks with mta. This is supervisor peskins legislation. And i will turn it over to you. Thank you, chair melgar and thank you for scheduling it and thank you to the 4 members who cosponsored this walton, chan, ronnin and stephanie and by history in background. Some time in late 2017 or 2018, i was at a Coastal Commission meeting in Southern California and one of my counterparts on that state wide body let me know that e scooters were the new thing in wherever that was santa moncamp the commission was telling mow about and this was one of those instance San Francisco was not the trial guinea pig for the testing of new technology. And the commissioner warned me that it was only a matter of time before San Francisco would see these device deployed. And i went to the then head of the San Francisco mta and asked him if he knew these were like low coming and he was somewhat aware and was fourth aware that the mta did not have in it laws in the authority to regulate them. And so hoe and i worked with the City Attorney and came up with a regular over site authorize that the board of supervisors bestowed upon the mta so they could revving lit and issue permits and the like. That was as all the advent of all new things tex the subject of media attention. And it was known thing legislation had been introduced and was at the end of the 30day rowel and about to come to the board of supervisors for approval when bird followed moments later by scoot. No. Excuse people bird was scoot. Bird by lime decided they would jump the gun is deploy thousands on the street without permission nothing that scheme was days away. And then dpw pound them and put them in trucks and not so referred to this period of time as scooter getton. And any rate, eventual low, the mta was given that authority, short low after and had their own regulation and permitted back in 2018 or so, 3 of the companies scoot spin and lime. Am i right . Yes. Skip. Right. And over the intervening years have continued to run that program and well hear about this from kate who in addition to taxis has scooters in her portfolio. I think all of us have heard although i disproportionately here you see on the maps that a number of those devices are deployed in the nerth east part of the city. Prepandemic buzz of activity that existed downtown as well as the number of tourists that are used to exist in now are back. At the wharf. When you look at the heat maps in the presentation you will see the vast of number of these the lion share are in the Northeast Corner we see them all over the city and we can quit and may be we will hear whether or not this is what the mta representatived a first last Mile Transportation solution. To decongest our streets to get people out of cars and around the city. This is not the purpose of this hearing the purpose of the hearing from the beginning to this day the skoerj of these devices on our sidewalks is not only driving people crazy but is dangerous. And we have plenty of instances of that fatalities increased 3 fold. Injuries including tragically to the head of the Mayors Office of disability. Continue to mount and all of these or many of these on sidewalks, which is to my mind and pursuant to luan area for pedestrians. For the disabled community. For strollers, wheel chairs. But not for these devices that go 15 Miles Per Hour or in some case faster. 2 years ago, or so the mta worked encourage the permittees to adapt adopt antisidewalk riding technology there are several out there ranging from gps to cam are technology to Vibration Technology that detect sidewalks and slow these down or bring them to a stop on a sidewalk. I attended the 2 public dem strigzs of this in the south of market on brandon street and the other recently long the embarcadero in district 6. And i have been patient. I have been waiting and waiting and waiting and here we are, the number of complains is going up. Enforcement was nil for sidewalk riding. And i had it. And this is really simple. All i want is for the law to be enforced which is these devices can be in the bike lane and the street rightofway and not on the sidewalk. And the 3 incumbent companies have not been aggressive riding technology only a small percentage of the fleets number 5,000. Have this technology. And so i introduced a resolution urging the mta to do 3 things. One, is to only allow the devices that have the technology to be deployed on our streets. Number 2, to up the enforce am game it suggests and staff enforcement and it is sidewalk riding and improper parking. And embarrassing instances promise blocked tied you name it. 2 up the enforcement parking control and the third is an interesting one there are fines they have irrelevant stiff low the requirement to the riders. Lets be clear about the business model. All 3 permittees benefit from mass amounts of the account they are mall a race to gain market share. They dont want to stop anybody from consuming their brand. As a result, they pay the fines. In we will hear from the companies themselves. Than i dont want anybody to have market advantage. All 3 pass some of the fines for the simple if you do it and i money i will tell you hai get this 84 dollar ticket for staying in the metered spot, i remember to feed my meter. The same concept when somebody is paying the parkingly ticket. Those other 3 simple things. It is not that sdpichl we will hear from the mta that those companies have permits that last until the end of this fiscal year the middle of 23. June the 30 and there are things they do immediately. I encourage and offer amendments to the resolution to encourage them and after, there are more things that they can do. This is may seem pedestrian but this is actually important and it is another one of those things that drive people crazy, freak people out. If you happen to be the supervisor who represents the Northeast Corner of San Francisco disproportionately so. I want to and i say this sincere, thank kate and her staff and philip criminal for the w they do. I send a huge number of come plains there way there is one gentlemen who made it his work to sends all of us literally dozens of e mills a day. And so far we are all kept us aware of that if. I did have my intern take some of the videos that this gentlemen has sent us and credit a 3 minute may be fun but in the funny, vo, and if i can ask the clerk and thank ray from my office. Our fall intern for her work on this erika, if you can roll our 3 minute vo, which is sped up not because im trying to make it look faster but because im trying to compress 5 minutes of video to 3 minutes. Thank you. Double write specialing there are scenes from a couple weeks ago an elderly chinese gentlemen who got nailed by one in a crosswalk and picked up by an ambulance. Central station captain farmer says that they have become the get away vehicle of choice in robberies. The list goes on. Todays resolution and hearing is about sidewalks and keeping the damn things off the sidewalks. Thank you for humoring this supervisor. Thank you for your lead everiship. Hi. Kate the director of taxi, access and mobility for the sfmta. Thank you melgar, preston and peskin for your leadership in this area. This is a daily conversation that we are having. And so we have a presentation today that it is quite long i will go through in of this quick low we want context for the permit program. I want to thank phil concerna the Legal Affairs manager for the sfmta. And represents a team effort. So there is a lot of staff behind us working on had effort. So thank my team. And i will say, we share the concerns about safety concerns for pedestrians those that are the met vulnerable and thats why we have a permit program that has improved when we had scooter getton. Thousands of complates of improper riding. Numbers were off the charts. Since the permit program you will see when i get into the presentation, come mrinlts a number of toll trips has been reduced dramatically. Not to say that there are not a lot of concerns we have to say we have seen a lot of success with our enforcement and have more to go. Today i will prosecute void a brief background of the Scooter Share Program and initiatives and next steps. Im happy to answer questions as we go or toward the after the presentation. I appreciate you are take at this time time to have us here today. For our desired out come. These are all goals we share. State, scooters provide mobility option. We want scoot torse remain a viable mobility option as part of the transportation network. And there are many promises of shared scooters we want to make sure to ensour they are delivered on. But what we are seen is that we have alots of desired out come the challenges remain. So the Scooter Share Program as supervisor peskins introduction highlighted. There are still improper riding behavior continue and unsafe riding includes, the supervisor mentioned; riding on the sidewalk. Double riding. Could mean riding the wrong direction down the sdproet this is i concern for us. And so again in order for scooters to remain a part of the transportation network. Those other key issues we need to address. Also part of the context is some of the root causes related to the unsafe riding where some may feel unsafe riding in the roadway where they are intended to ride. Mta spent resources and attention and focus to ensure that there is bike infrastructure and those bike lanes and protected bike lanes. If someone does not feel safe riding on the street where they should be and elect to roadway on the sidewalk illegally the domino affect is other vulnerable pedestrians are impacted in their safety is impacted this is a concern for us. There are many treatments to the problem. The currently we have 3 permitise. Bird which was scoot, line and spin. Authorizeed operate up to 1300 devices authorized to operate up to 2,000 each. The Current Program term spires at the end of june. This gives a snapshot of some of the basic high level statistics we have more detail. We have high level. There were 2. 4 million on scooter share. And issues 13,000 citations and received over 9,000, 311 complaints. Wil