a question for all of us is, what is the mta and the cta -- sorry, repeating myself, does the mta integrate of the plants with each other? in my area, polk street, there is something called the vaeness plan (sounds like) they will take up parking, take out left turns, all kinds of things but that plan has nothing to do with the plant they are looking at on polk street, window is only one block away. the cta says what happens on polk street has nothing to do with the vaness plan. a spokesman for the mta says that what happens on polk street has nothing to do with vanesse. it is almost like saying, the city doesn't have anything to do with the golden gate bridge at cousins not our agency so we don't have to think about it on our streets. nobodyould say that but that is what they are saying to us when it comes to vanesse and polk street, and what happens on vanesse affects mission street. what happens on polk street affects fillmore street, it is a much bigger thing than just looking at things narrowly. that is something i hope that can be brought out in hearing the maybe you can find out to c

i'm a strong supporter of our mta policies but i think a lot of planning that's gone on in mta shouldn't be looked at as a threat but a starting ground. i'm appreciative to everyone coming out and speaking. it's opened my eyes. like supervisors farrells district but the p dr is complexities and i'm looking forward to understanding the complexities. >> this won't be is last time we're talking about those issues. but especially in the northeast mission you saw the turnout from that neighborhood we're going to continue to monitor this. we want to marry it's done right. that i encourage the mta to really look at the prince that have been outlined by the coalition. i think the statements do reflect the times that free on street parking are gone but you do have to listen to the neighborhood and to make sure you don't do something that ends up hurting those businesses and is truly in line with the neighborhoods best interests >> it's not artifical in that people do have an opportunity to get heard and their comments are implemented. so with that we have a motion to file this item. thank you ver

under the mou, mta has 12 months to complete the construction in the parking garage. work in the garage will include installation of a temporary construction wall, demolition of an existing circulation ramp in the garage, and the temporary loss of 129 parking spaces. at the end of construction in the garage, mta will replace the ramp and they are going to restripe a portion of the garage to restore approximately 20 spaces. but all told, union square garage will permanently lose 109 parking spaces as a result of the construction of the subway station. using funding from the federal transit administration, mta is going to compensate rec and park for both the temporary and permanent loss of parking spaces. they hired an appraiser to determine the value of the parking spaces that will be taken to build the station. and the appraiser used a methodology known as the income approach to value, which looks at the annual net income of the property, as well as an estimate of the value of the property and a capitalization rate. using this methodology, mta's appraiser determined t

why isn't there the neighborhood business committee of the mta. the businesses are very much a big part of this whole thing, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please? >> that concludes the public comment if anybody else would like to speak you could line up on the side. we have one more, my apologies. >> hi commissioners, i am the president of (inaudible) dog patch merchant's association and i may have to wear a helmet as a say this, but our association has looked at the decision over the last couple of years and there are many aspects of the power program that we would like and applaud and that we see great development coming into our neighborhood and we recognize the need for a management, or a managed parking plane. however the wholesale application that has been adopted in in areas by the mta does not seem to work. for instance, taking all of the parking away on polk street or introducing the meters in the north east mission that will allow the commuters to feed the meters for eight hours is not going to do anything. for the

so i think the one solution is the mta needs to work with us. i've give i all copies of what we want that to be. we've also had a business we had over 50 businesses in the area signed a petition saying they oppose. and then he had an online ballot and some large and small. i can read you the parking lot proposal. you've all got copies of. and a thank you very much for your presentation >> so at this point, i'm going to open up u up to public comment if you haven't filled out a card please come up and fill one out. i'm going to read a bunch of names. (calling names). please line up on the side and if your name's been called come up to speak. >> thank you for seeing us today, i'm mary. i've met with most of you. i'm going to be brief because my throats not good today. mta job is to help us get where we need to go not tell us how to get there. where we have a number of problems that are coming hard to ignore that are becoming well documented by the media. the sfmta has taken on too much and is doing nothing well. regardless of the power the public

i believe that the mta will be providing a rationale how we manage parking overall. this originated from a lot of folks in san francisco about their fear of a creep of parking meters in our city. 10 east it is my belief that in san francisco that residents and merchants like to have an adequate input about products that would effect their quality of life. i think it is important to have the discussion. i want to be sure that we have a comprehensive parker plan but works for our neighborhoods and merchants that work there on a daily basis. i want to say i'm very much cabins expanding parking meters into our neighborhoods. and look forward so talking publicly about the plans and the lack of plans in their neighborhoods in san francisco. i've made it clear about the parking meters here in san francisco and i know points supervisor is going to be talking more about. this is not about expanding parking meters hours but expanding the locations of meters. people don't want to be surprised and i want to make sure we have a public discussion and how the mta manages that. i wa

i just hope tha mta continues to - i hope that mta was just listening to a lot of of the public comments that we've expressed today and would ask that mta would be more flexible and making sure we are able to match the needs of our very diverse community and i'd rather seeing the mta focus on all the times to the south earn and parts of the southwestern parts the san francisco. >> thank you. >> actually, i would like to thank the mta staff i see lauren and all the residents speak audio on behalf of the your neighborhoods especially the small businesses it's even looelg e lightning to here this to think things through but to respectfully bring it to the neighborhoods before it's implemented. by strong presentation i think the presentation by mr. riskin hopefully, people will have a bigger picture. i'm a strong supporter of our mta policies but i think a lot of planning that's gone on in mta shouldn't be looked at as a threat but a starting ground. i'm appreciative to everyone coming out and speaking. it's opened my eyes. like supervisors farrells district but the p dr is complexities and

with mta. we initiated the meetings and trying to be inclusive. >> thank you. >> and don't think everything is set in stone. >> i'm going to give the final count. you are all awesome for coming out and preaching to the choir on this one with me. william, i love what you said, parking being taken away. and steve, you're right. i had the same issues when i was working with mumsy (sounds like) and we did not have a choice or say, and when we did find out about the project , they had already started instead of taking away parking from market street, which is a problem today. this is one thing that i want to address, the city will tell you, we are not building any more parking. period. we have to change that attitude. san francisco not only is an international this mission, but a regional destination. in some neighborhoods there is no parking anymore i cannot tell you how many times i hear people say we are not coming to castro or potrero anymore, there is no parking. we are all losing business. in

i will say that the mta is a human institution therefore it's not perfect. the demanding that we should have what with he want when we want and drive a car await discretion to use for lengthen is unreasonable. san francisco is a city of neighborhoods one size does not fit all. thank you very much. next speaker please. >> hello, i'm a commercial photographer and i live at 20th and bryant. i'd like to clarify that the coming from my business my p dr business requires people to come out with gear and the stylists come out with garments to bring so there's lots of coming and going. a that's part of the charm of this neighborhood we've been able to park here and there's a significant a lot of these photographers in mire community and a i've graph tatd toward this area. where at least south of market it offers you some parking lots to at least take advantage of for the day there's one lot with just 40 lots that's not practical for my neighborhood so in the summer i'd like to support angelinas request for the parker permit. i realize you're going to put some miters

mta job is to help us get where we need to go not tell us how to get there. where we have a number of problems that are coming hard to ignore that are becoming well documented by the media. the sfmta has taken on too much and is doing nothing well. regardless of the power the public has a reporter to weigh in on that. the mta was authorized to balance the muni budget transit first menus fix the budget first not congest traffic. no one is going to take a bus that never arrives. it's to get the buses operating not to coerce people to change their lifestyle. we need to a citywide parking solution. the citywide policy should be formed by public policy not government policy. we shouldn't have parking restrictions when there is no muni service such as a nights and holidays. we have emissions from sfmta that the process is not designed according to law but it designed to control us. when the agency - thank you >> thank you very much. next speaker please and >> just before you get to speak we have a policy to hold applause so if you want to show support you can wave

the second request is allocation for mta for $1.3 million matched in mta funds, that match is being brought forward earlier up to 75 $75 million for the for the project to cover the contingency part of the request. it's preliminary engineering and we bring this to 24 months. there is an increase in budget versus the appropriation in the summer brought 2010 and this is due to shift and responses due to increase management from authority and consultants to mta and there is associated cost in rates due to the timeline taking longer and sequencing study. >> a quick snapshot of the project funding. we have $107 million in unidentified funding it's about an $18 million funding gap. we are in a pretty good spot for this phase and in potential areas for closing that gap. it's rated high for the costeffectiveness. the schedule for the project, we are in the middle of finishing up the final environmental document and as i said we plan to bring that to the board for the summer for verification. well complete the final environmental process. the design and implementation with construction starting in t

yesterday the mta board award the last contract for the major subway which mta reports in the case of $420 million over estimate. from what we understand from the examiner article oversight report indicates that it was known as october of 2012 that the central subway contingency amount had dropped to 65 million as the federal project oversight

the planning commission initiated the adoption and later on may 7th san francisco mta readopted the 2009 bike plan with the new sequa finding. and the action before you today is to adopt the action plans but to be modified environmental finding. the san francisco bike plan dedicated an entire goal to assure bicycle parking for enhancing the significant use of bicycle parking over the last 5 years. and that's why i focus the rest of my presentation on bike parking our new proposal. we're excited to be here today. this come a long way since august of last year where this commission approved the planning code and to comprehensively update those requirement. since the hearing the department has reached it out out to many starmdz. we have reached out to the union square and he san francisco real estate department and the san francisco mta. we have received any meetings with the stakeholders. also, we arraigned on best practices in the comparable cities with are for example, vancouver and it's standards are laid out. based on the comment we received and the research we're here to print our fin

this is just shows that we are progressive city and we are growing as a city and i really feel that mta does not sit down and say how can we take part? and this is a learning process for both the business community and the mta and i think like everybody here said, it has to be targeted to the specific communities and i think that we can get through this and it is a learning process for both sides and i am excited and like my commissioner co-commissioner julie said there has to be some representation on this mta side. small business. >> thank you. >> commissioner white? >> yes, obviously, i want to take all of the small businesses for coming out i am actually also a small business owner and there is also out reach issues for things that happened in our community. since we know that it is a big vital part and we are hearing all of the concerns of the small business with the loading issues supporting their workers. >> to come to work for them. to, you know, be able to conveniently and not taking the business elsewhere. my question is hear those things and not knowing the other side from th

and we will be inviting mta here back. because this is an ongoing issue around the city. and i think that it is very important that both sides talk like this. so, i really like to thank everybody for coming out tonight, and i thank my fellow commissioners and you guys have great comments. and i think that we can move forward here. i said that we can learn from the past. but it is what we do going forward that will make the difference. so, i just wanted to thank everybody for coming this evening so thank you. >> next item? >> commissioners, item 7, discussion and action to approve a letter to be sent to the sfcta regarding the san francisco transportation plan.. mr. president i do have a few remarks to make before you consider the letter. >> okay. >> commissioners, this there was a presentation, late last year, regarding the san francisco transportation plan that was made to the commission, the san francisco transportation plan identifies the long range goals needs and investment in the transportation system is developed on the san francisco transportation authority and th

i have never been a fan of the police work order to the mta. i actually think that nexus is tenuous at best the mta should not be paying anything to the police. in terms of quote/unquote security on muni that's the police of our public spaces and that should not be paid directly from muni. it's positive to be moving down from $5 million i hope it's not a one-time change i hope it becomes a permanent baseline >> i hope it's no a permanent baseline i hope it's a first step. >> i was hoping. >> almost all traffic agencies pay for their own security. but there's no other transit agency that pays for the police. again there was a decision made many years ago when the general fund was under constrain we're in a different time now i think it's great to hear frndz the mayor's office >> i understand part of the muni money got swipt over to the police department. but it sound like we're is it a fair statement, to correct that >> and i guess i'll wait until the budget cites to see the mechanism. so that's the good news i'm sorry >> i'm like my colleagues

i have never been a fan of the police work order to the mta. i actually think that nexus is tenuous at

yesterday the mta board award the last contract for the major subway which mta reports in the case of $420 million over estimate. from what we understand from the examiner article oversight report indicates that it was known as october of 2012 that the central subway contingency amount had dropped to 65 million as the federal project oversight management required at least $460 million the 55 is over cost. from what we could gather we think the contingency may actually be around 3 percent. now in the context of projects you probably recognize for difficult deep tunneling much more excavation is needed. they recommend a $300 million contingency. there was a chance this project could reach $2 million. independent audits of muni projects say that projects go over 39 million the enabling subway is going over budget >> >> thank you. next speaker, please >> wouldn't is about nice to have muni fry the likes of you and me. and soon the prize is up to no more in a city cable car attraction. see some city action without a doubt it be nice to have muni free and i think that we could all agree soo