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At to review their best policies, best practice policies, for how they had addressed this problem. Because the reality is that california is not alone in having this problem, San Francisco is not alone in having this problem. Some of the other cities that we researched included chicago, new york, arlington, virginia, houston, philadelphia, arizona, and each of these cities had tried to address this problem in the past and what we learned is that when we looked at the different best practices, when they tried to address the problem with enforcement only, they found that they really couldnt make...

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...

Change our minds. And thats important so that you get a feel of this was a give and take process and it wasnt a slamdunk from the beginning. I want to go on now to this next slide. Here you see, as you saw someone in the video, pictures of cars with blue placards. Thats helpful many times for us but sometimes its also a question of how come we cant still find parking . So we cant find parking, there also isnt enough parking turnover to ensure that we can easily get close to our destination. And then unfortunately and regretablely, there is a Public Perception that people who have a hidden disa...

Address the removal of an accessible Parking Spaces . The idea of removing Parking Spaces was not part of our you know consideration. We were looking to expand Parking Access where parking is allowed. Ill give you examples that we didnt really go into detail. Right now the current city policy or guidelines says if theres a tow away zone you dont put a blue placard zone there. Well, why cant i still be as responsible as you on monitoring the clock and moving my car if i have one. Were suggesting that mta revise its guidelines so as to allow a blue placard space in a tow away zone on bush or pin...