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That or today that in our downtown area is probably one of the most safest areas to walk buzz we pay a lot more attention to that area. But there are a lot of other places where we havent considered the issues of lowering the speed, as weve done around our schools with walk sf. We havent done enough study around the data, completed the data of collision and pedestrian injuries as well as we should have to make it safer. So, our pedestrian strategy really is in draft form. We have completed it in this month, and we plan to introduce it throughout the various public agencies and commissions and ...

The San Francisco playgrounds history dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for 27,000. In the 1950s, the center was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. Thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe Neighborhood Parks bond, the Sunset Playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. Here we are. 60 years and 14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brandnew rec center completely accessible to the entire...

Emergency department. 2011, the last year we have data on, that number is now 182 shooting victims. While this is a substantial drop, i submit to you that one is too many. These numbers represent the patients who are transported to the hospital, not the victims who died at the scene or do not come in for care. Many people are killed from homicides, but suicide taking ones life with weapons is much more common in the united states. It is a silent killer since more than twice as many people die of suicide than homicide historically in the united states. There is an hep dim i can of Violent Crime...

Seems unnatural. If you look at a map and see what goes on there the city flows like a funnel. It flows down Market Street the other point is that mission is a great street it is not the grand boulevard of our city neither our citizens are people who come here want to travel around the city on bicycles are not going to want that to be the main mode of traffic. So bicycles and pedestrians should be the last thing that is moved down the corridor. And i was surprised to learn and hadnt seen all the numbers that that option is the most expensive and the 10 percent is sprooifgz its not a daunting i...

One other point is you mentioned the Mission Street option and this hadnt made it into the press yet. The Mission Street would require moving all parking east of that; is that correct yes. So we can move all the parking lot on Market Street. So under the Mission Street option we wouldlize one side of the parking on Mission Street. Yes and so for the publics certain it didnt just cover the question about street assess by also parking. You can see the ranges are very large. You can argue with the market and mission is couple of options for a relatively small cost it covers two streets one could ...