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Van to be able to discharge their van and they have curb ramps it allow you to get from the street level on to the sidewalk. So increasing the number of blue zones, our recommendation was to take that to a 4 percent saturation level in San Francisco. That would be a 70 percent increase in the number of blue zones in San Francisco. We would be getting approximately 470 new blue zones. This is something that the mta has already committed to starting as a project, they have already begun the process of serving locations and blue zones citywide and this is something that San Francisco can initiate...

Have supportive help from the dm vplt, i have to say, from the medical society, from any number of agencies but we really are trying to find a way to fix what some of us have felt is a broken system and a system thats easy to gain and that doesnt benefit us. We who have a disability need to be able to easily find parking and have parking thats near where we want to go to eat, to shop, whatever our issues, whatever our needs, our interests, we need to be able to get close to those destinations. Its important also to acknowledge that we came from Different Levels of information. Some of us had v...

Placards from paying at the meters. But the placard is meant to increase Parking Access for us. The payment exemption reduces that because it encourages or allows people to park as long as possible, up until the street needs cleaning, which can be 3 days or a week in some parts of the city. Its also important that this is a disability accommodation. Its not an incomebase the or economic benefit. The payment exemption started years ago because the Parking Technology then was not accessible. You had to be able to grasp coins, lift your hand, put it in a slot, turn a lever, you had to be able to ...

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...

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...