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Campaign to increase awareness of the program. The program was able to connect with the Hotel Council of San Francisco and we are able in the partnership to put on a Green Business forum to put on hotels of San Francisco and their partners and the forum was very well received by the council and so we are actually moving forward with a fivepart workshop series to assist the hotels, to green themselves so this is a very industry specific out reach that we are trying to do here. And other items that the program is moving forward with, is a set of translated checklists for the Office Retail and th...

Neighborhoods that reflect the different conditions on the ground, the different economic levels different rates of activity and the different areas served so is this a regional hub . Is it a local hub, or a city wide district, and we want to make sure that we have a good balance and then, we want to make sure that the districts that are chosen in terms of comparison have it a balance of formula retail that we will study. So will there be Big Box Stores in addition to Smaller Stores . And we want to make sure that we have all of our possibilities covered in there including, perhaps, entities t...

Regional hub . Is it a local hub, or a city wide district, and we want to make sure that we have a good balance and then, we want to make sure that the districts that are chosen in terms of comparison have it a balance of formula retail that we will study. So will there be Big Box Stores in addition to Smaller Stores . And we want to make sure that we have all of our possibilities covered in there including, perhaps, entities that are not currently considered formula retail but may be in the future. And for example, gas stations, or gyms or other personal service. And chains that we doents cur...

Copy if youre interested and a look at the process. As the city invented these types of spaces we learn how they work so we have been working out as we go and this is the first attempt to codify the policies and i can also say this document is used by cities around the world as they implement their programs and borrowing our learning that we did in San Francisco. Im not going to get into the application process. Here is a few images of parklets. Here are one space parklets, threefour space parklets, a diagonal parklets and residential parklet. We talked about powell street which is a couple st...

Have concerned and impact and upkeep and should it close and this hearing will examine the issues and let Community Measures to share best practices. I would like to introduce paul johnson to give an overview of the program. If i could make a brief comment before that. I want to call you for calling the hearing. I am a huge fan of the Parklets Program and its not because my aide created it in the Planning Department. I think its part of a continuing trend in San Francisco and other cities to create more and more public space and parks are terrific but theyre only part of the picture. Having pu...