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Party here in San Francisco, we are the local democratic voice for our communities and, you know, we are here to oppose the i believe they are recommendations 4 and 6 to impose time limits and begin charging. As was alluded, director nolan, i appreciate the comments that you made at the beginning regarding the economic impact. You know, theres another issue behind this. We believe that we acknowledge that there is fraud in this system. However, we dont believe that the fraud is so pervasive that it is vital, the only way to save the system is to advice rate the benefits that it offers and we w...

Its not an overnight thing, we are not issuing all these new spots as of this vote, its something you are anticipating doing and as you are doing that you will also be working with the state so we will have this multi pronged approach when the new things come in. And we will continue to bring new legislation on the board. Other communities around california, moving in this direction . So when we go to the legislation, others are supporting this . Ill let bob take a crack at this one. Theres a lot of interest in what were doing and local governments tend to always support local control, right ....

Restriction. Also i dont think we mentioned in the presentation that were going to change the requirements to 4 percent. Were starting to prepare for new requirements we believe to be coming to us any way. We have heard some concern in the feedback if we increase blue zones but cant implement the rest of these recommendations then instead of effectively increasing the general parking supply, were decreasing it. Correct. Thats something that well be cautious of as we develop the transmission plan for increasing the number of blue zones and as we implement it. Its not an overnight thing, we are ...

Should be paying the equal amount as everybody else. We may not be there yet but i think this is a great step in the right direction and i appreciate the thautdful comments from everyone and the thoughtful amendment in light of the low income considerations. I think its a challenging thing to address because of the administrative feasibility but were looking to staff to help us out with that and i appreciate the help of staff with that. Thank you, director. The last point you made and mr. Hale made easier, it is not an easy thing to do, to determine who is a low income person with disabilities...

Eyeopening and i appreciated mr. Plantholds about this was a dialogue that enabled people to change their mind and figure things out. One of the comments that struck me is the comment that theres uncertainty that any one of these would work in isolation, its really a package deal and the idea is to get all these working together which makes an awful lot of sense on that but on that it seems we are able to do some of these things ourselves but we are not able to do others and have to wait for the state and i wonder about the timing of that. I realize theres a desire to move more quickly so it s...