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Granting jurisdiction. Im not sure there is a way. Well, if the permit holder is willing to continue negotiating, the amount of time, approximated 3 months if we granted jurisdiction into having the matter heard. It would be the same amount of time depending on the outcome or the permit could be revoked altogether. So there is risk. I dont think we can make the parties compromise on the spot here tonight. I feel based on my earlier comments, that jurisdiction is warranted here. I would move to grant. Okay. Just a quick comment for both parties. Im not prepared to revoke the permit. But i am pr...

With 20 pedestrian deaths recording in San Francisco. We have seen an unprecedented number of accidents along with enforcement and better infrastructure education is a need to prevent these injuries. Im hoping to get started the education piece within the next month or so. In district seven we wanted to do some pilot program. We are asking students in our Public Schools to participate as crossing guards. Right now there is two schools that have shown a strong interest and we are hoping to take it off. Why i was interested in doing that is really the education piece where you start educating ch...

People think its about driving, but its speed. 60 percent of the injuries occur in intersection. Our public needs to be aware of this. Too often people are not yielding to oncoming pedestrians. We need a shift that will require everyone to Pay Attention to the streets. San francisco is ranked as having the highest total rates of fatalities and major injuries to pedestrians and bicyclist by both vehicle miles and by population. I know we can do better. We are a city that knows how to do things so lets get it done. This will call on the Transportation Authority to convene a working group of Pede...

Driver. So thats my attempt. And what we are finding out and maybe everybody might know this, but for people that dont know this, speed is responsible for 10 times the number of pedestrian injuries in San Francisco, more than driving under the influence. A lot of people think its about driving, but its speed. 60 percent of the injuries occur in intersection. Our public needs to be aware of this. Too often people are not yielding to oncoming pedestrians. We need a shift that will require everyone to Pay Attention to the streets. San francisco is ranked as having the highest total rates of fatal...

Them. And so we have partnered with, or we are partner withing planning to kind of see, whether they will have that and whether we will have the staff at the job in times and figure out what that looks like. Commissioner walker . And may i suggest that we really do an out reach to our Code Enforcement partners. Yes. And get them in early . And like in the november training . Yes. That would be really good because they, and i am sure that they will use this ace temperature a lot. And yes, we have identified the target stake holders and they will be included that we have emails for and we vil wi...