Good afternoon, everyone.

This meeting will come to order.

Uh welcome to the October 21st, 2024 regular meeting of the Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

I'm Supervisor Mirna Melgar, Chair of the Committee, joined by uh Board of Supervisors President Aaron Paskin and Vice Chair Dean Preston.

The committee clerk today is John Carroll.

And I would also like to thank Eugene Libatia from SFgov.org for supporting us in broadcasting this meeting.

Mr.

Clerk, do you have any announcements?

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.

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Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda of October 29th, 2024, unless otherwise stated.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Clerk.

Please call item number one.

Agenda item number one is an ordinance approving funding and an offer of dedication and grant deed for real property from the Bay Area Rapid Transportation District for D Long Street between Santa Cruz and San Diego Avenues, conditionally accepting this segment of DeLong Street for maintenance and liability, delegating to the public works director the authority upon completion of the street segment to first declare it as an open public right of way.

Second, dedicated to public use.

Third, designated for street and roadway purposes.

Fourth, finally accept this street segment for city maintenance and liability purposes subject to specified limitations.

And fifth, establish official public right-of-way widths in street gate grades, waiving the application of ordinance number 1061 entitled Regulating the Width of Sidewalks to allow establishment of official sidewalk widths through uh administrative action.

Adopting findings under CEQA, making findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight party policies and planning code section 101.1 and authorizing official acts in connection with this ordinance to be taken by the public works director and other San Francisco officers.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Clerk.

Uh we have Esther Lee here from Supervisor Safai's office, a sponsor of this ordinance.

Welcome, Ms.

Lee.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um Chair Melgar and members of the land use and transportation committee.

My name is Esther Lee.

I'm here on behalf of Supervisor Safai to present item one, DeLong Street public right-of-way acceptance, which will establish official sidewalk widths and street grades.

The DeLong Street ordinance has been 20 years in the making, dating back to 2006 when Habitat for the Humanity developed homes along the San Francisco San Mateo border.

At that time, BART offered San Francisco the responsibility of maintaining the segment of DeLong Street as seen in the original offer of dedication letter from April 12, 2006.

For many years, Supervisor Safai's office has heard complaints about the condition of the street, which has been a constant source of frustration to residents.

This ordinance is our chance to finally address these concerns and bring DeLong Street up to the street standards San Franciscans expect.

Thanks to the sharp minds at the CTA and the persistence of our deputy city attorney, we've ensured that no additional cost for the city to accept the long street to the San Francisco family.

WART has offered us this property along with 75,000 to help cover the cost of surveying the street.

CTA found $350,000 through an existing Prop K grant for public works to handle the remaining construction and maintenance needs.

The $350,000 funds were approved at the September 24th, 2024 CTA meeting.

Funding allocation is contingent on the approval of this ordinance at the Board of Supervisors.

Once these upgrades are complete, our Director of Public Works will have the authority to finalize the acceptance of the street and ensure it meets our city's high standards for public use.

In short, this ordinance allows us to take ownership of DeLong, finally resolve decades of complaints and make the street safer and more accessible for everyone.

Today we have non-substantive amendments to reflect that we have a letter of support from the Director of Public Works in lieu of public work orders.

These amendments are offered after discussion with DPW staff as at a reasonable compromise in order to keep DPW process flow consistent and with the understanding that there will be various technical documents prepared at a later date for which they will exact their surveying mapping and engineering expertise.

We also have a letter from the real estate division recommending the Board of Supervisors support this legislation and a letter from the planning department conforming uh confirming the it conforms with the general plan.

Supervisors, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have about this ordinance.

Alaric, the the cr the graph in red DPW deputy director of strategic initiatives is also available.

Thank you so much, Miss Lee.

Uh, and please uh thank uh Supervisor Safai on our behalf uh for seeing this through after all these years.