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that you have that you have enough informing have looked at it enough and in the next following sentence you proceeded to show that you don t understand the concept of the waiting list or the issue with it. such as the people waiting 15, 20 years and sluging it out the of this time at very low-income and having to work hard shift where s there is nobody there. they finally are ready to get their medallion and it s not going to be worth it for them to buy it. you are telling them that okay, at least you have the opportunity to buy it if you are on the list. it makes no sense. everybody on the list gets a medallion i mean the medallions don t get sold to anybody who is not on the list and the people at the top of the list, it s not worth it for them to buy it most of the time because they are too old. they are been doing this for 20, 30 years already. so you need to to explore this a little further. and then as i said before, barry toronto shared some of the emails wi ....
the main objections have been from nearby restaurants who don t like the food truck, but otherwise, we re not aware of any specific concerns other than the fact that the food truck is not thought to be consistent with the closure of the street. it is kind of an activation of that commercial street. it allows people to have something to go to. if you go there, you will see people gathering food from the food truck, which is consistent with a lot of other uses for a street of this type. as i read it, this would be a full block change in the restriction. so the reason why i asked the question, right? i mean, conceivably dpw could license more than just mr. wexler s truck and i guess my concern comes in, we have to balance the needs here. and thank you for the update. and i can understand why a restaurant that came to and participated in an effort to have a pedestrian right-of-way near its business would not want a food truck parked directly in front of it. i understand i ....
additional food trucks because again, we re starting to run into areas of what we believe to be some saturation, that the intent of the legislation was to, according to the board of supervisors was place these food trucks into so-called food deserts where there is little foodservices in the area. and based upon that logic, we re really looking at what is appropriate and what is not specifically. and so this food truck, since the gentleman runs a restaurant on that street already, it s slightly a different situation? in this case there are four restaurants on the street, but the food truck operator is one of those restaurants, correct? yes. that is correct three restaurants have outdoor seating. thank you. in that situation i m happy to support staff s proposal on this one. i think we have a little technical problem. at least two of us already voted for this. director lee and i had this as k; right? yes. and we only removed l, m and n. when did be ....
dpw business concerns turns it into a food court. that is my concern as mta director standpoint. i understand. the dpw process is not a business-only process. they go through a full public process as did then we subsequently went through a public hearing process before bringing this proposal forward. so there are two steps of public process. i don t think anybody would suggest that by approval of this, it would be a statement of the mta board that pedestrian issues aren t of concern. i think our folks would look at this from safety and sustainable streets perspective and find it s not of concern . well,, okay, because it s one truck. i think the point of all of this and i m happy to support the staff proposal in the end, but the point is assurance to our restaurant owner and his neighbors and friends and colleagues that at least one director here does not want to see this turned into a food court at the expense of pedestrian right-of-way without a lost of a lot of ....