DOWNTOWN PARKING REFORM MOVES TO THE FULL BOARD Board of Supervisors Tuesday, February 7, 2PM City Hall, Board of Supervisors' chambers The legislation reforming downtown parking was unanimously recommended to the full board of Supervisors at today's Land Use Committee hearing. This legislation will help reduce traffic congestion downtown, improve the affordability of downtown housing, create more car-free housing downtown, and preserve and enhance the quality of downtown streets for walking, bicycling, and public transit; see our campaign page ( http://www.livablecity.org/campaigns/c3.html) or the PDF version ( http://www.livablecity.org/campaigns/C3%20Parking%20fact%20sheet.pdf) for more information about the legislation and how to get involved. The legislation amended at the January 19th Land Use Committee hearing, where amendments were adopted that bring the legislation into line with the planning commission's recommendations. At today's hearing, Board President Aaron Peskin became the legislation's sponsor, with supervisors Chris Daly and Sophie Maxwell signing on as co-sponsors. The legislation moved forward more or less intact, although Supervisor Jake McGoldrick put forward an amendment allowing units greater than 1000 square feet and with two or more bedrooms to have one space per dwelling unit, rather than the three spaces for every four units proposed for smaller units. Units with two or more bedrooms represent about 10% of the units built in the downtown. This amendment allows the higher parking ratio for units smaller than TLC would like; our recommendation was that it only apply to units over 1500 square feet and with three or more bedrooms. This legislation is scheduled to go to the full Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. Please call, email, fax, or write the mayor and your supervisor to let them know you support the legislation, and urge them to support it, and to go no lower than the 3-unit, 1500 square-foot limit for higher parking ratios. The Mayor threatened to veto an earlier version of the legislation, so we want to get a veto-proof 8-vote majority. Contact information for Supervisors can be found on TLC's campaign page ( http://www.livablecity.org/campaigns/c3.html). Our friends at the SF Bike Coalition have set up a web page that allows you to send a customized fax to your supervisor: https://www.sfbike.org/?c3reform&PHPSESSID=73b558495834101c8b480a182f06f616 SUPPORT SUPERVISOR DALY'S RESOLUTION CALLING FOR HIGH-SPEED RAIL AND TRANSBAY TERMINAL/CALTRAIN EXTENSION FUNDING IN STATE INFRASTRUCTURE BONDS Author James Howard Kunstler called suburban sprawl "the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world". Governor Schwarzenegger seems determined to get in the running for the second-greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world with his abysmal "strategic growth plan", which calls for 1,200 new miles of highway lanes in the Golden State. The governor's proposal is one of four competing proposals for a massive statewide infrastructure bond to be placed on the June 2006 ballot, which include Democratic offerings An committee of the legislature was recently convened to draft a compromise proposal. Unfortunately, both the Governor and Democrats are talking about delaying the statewide vote on a $9.75 billion bond measure to build the California High Speed Rail system. This measure, originally scheduled for the November 2004 ballot, has already been deferred once by the legislature. The Caltrain Downtown Extension/Transbay Terminal project, which has twice received the mandate of over 70% of San Francisco voters, will serve as the Bay Area terminus for the high speed rail system, and is counting on $475 million from the high speed rail bond. Delaying the statewide bond yet again will delay full implementation of the project. SB 1024, the infrastructure bond option put forward by Senators Torkakson and Perata, includes $1 billion for project-specific level environmental studies, planning, engineering, right-of-way acquisition, and construction of grade separations, bridges, and tracks in each of five proposed high-speed rail corridors across the state. To date, the Mayor and the Board of Supes have been silent on the city's priorities for a statewide infrastructure bond. Transit champion Supervisor Chris Daly has put forward a resolution at the Board of Supervisors that puts the city on record as saying that $1 billion of any infrastructure bond should be dedicated to High Speed Rail, and that, should the legislature decide once again to defer the vote on the full $9.75 billion high speed bond, that any bond this year should include the $475 million for Caltrain Downtown Extension/Transbay Terminal, in order to allow the project to move forward as soon as possible. Please take a few minutes to call, write, fax, or email the Mayor and Supervisors to let them know you support Supervisor Daly's resolution. The text can be found at http://www.livablecity.org/campaigns/infrastructure.html. CAR FREE TALK PREMIERES Friday, February 3 7:30 PM Cable Channel 29 The first episode of Car-Free Talk, will air this Friday, February 3, at 7:30 p.m. on San Francisco Cable Channel 29. The show is hosted by the lovely Sue Vaughan, one of the city's leading car-free living advocates. Her first guest is Dave Room, policy director of the Post-Carbon Institute, based in Oakland and Vancouver ( http://www.postcarbon.org) and the subject will be the coming oil and gas peak. Tom Radulovich Executive Director Transportation for a Livable City 995 Market Street Suite 1550 San Francisco CA 94103 415 344-0489 www.livablecity.org tom@livablecity.org DOWNTOWN PARKING REFORM MOVES TO THE FULL BOARD Board of Supervisors Tuesday, February 7, 2PM City Hall, Board of Supervisors' chambers The legislation reforming downtown parking was unanimously recommended to the full board of Supervisors at today's Land Use Committee hearing. This legislation will help reduce traffic congestion downtown, improve the affordability of downtown housing, create more car-free housing downtown, and preserve and enhance the quality of downtown streets for walking, bicycling, and public transit; see our campaign page (http://www.livablecity.org/campaigns/c3.html) or the PDF version (http://www.livablecity.org/campaigns/C3%20Parking%20fact% 20sheet.pdf) for more information about the legislation and how to get involved. The legislation amended at the January 19th Land Use Committee hearing, where amendments were adopted that bring the legislation into line with the planning commission's recommendations. At today's hearing, Board President Aaron Peskin became the legislation's sponsor, with supervisors Chris Daly and Sophie Maxwell signing on as co-sponsors. The legislation moved forward more or less intact, although Supervisor Jake McGoldrick put forward an amendment allowing units greater than 1000 square feet and with two or more bedrooms to have one space per dwelling unit, rather than the three spaces for every four units proposed for smaller units. Units with two or more bedrooms represent about 10% of the units built in the downtown. This amendment allows the higher parking ratio for units smaller than TLC would like; our recommendation was that it only apply to units over 1500 square feet and with three or more bedrooms. This legislation is scheduled to go to the full Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. Please call, email, fax, or write the mayor and your supervisor to let them know you support the legislation, and urge them to support it, and to go no lower than the 3-unit, 1500 square- foot limit for higher parking ratios. The Mayor threatened to veto an earlier version of the legislation, so we want to get a veto-proof 8- vote majority. Contact information for Supervisors can be found on TLC's campaign page (http://www.livablecity.org/campaigns/c3.html). Our friends at the SF Bike Coalition have set up a web page that allows you to send a customized fax to your supervisor: https:// www.sfbike.org/?c3reform&PHPSESSID=73b558495834101c8b480a182f06f616 SUPPORT SUPERVISOR DALY'S RESOLUTION CALLING FOR HIGH-SPEED RAIL AND TRANSBAY TERMINAL/CALTRAIN EXTENSION FUNDING IN STATE INFRASTRUCTURE BONDS Author James Howard Kunstler called suburban sprawl "the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world". Governor Schwarzenegger seems determined to get in the running for the second- greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world with his abysmal "strategic growth plan", which calls for 1,200 new miles of highway lanes in the Golden State. The governor's proposal is one of four competing proposals for a massive statewide infrastructure bond to be placed on the June 2006 ballot, which include Democratic offerings An committee of the legislature was recently convened to draft a compromise proposal. Unfortunately, both the Governor and Democrats are talking about delaying the statewide vote on a $9.75 billion bond measure to build the California High Speed Rail system. This measure, originally scheduled for the November 2004 ballot, has already been deferred once by the legislature. The Caltrain Downtown Extension/Transbay Terminal project, which has twice received the mandate of over 70% of San Francisco voters, will serve as the Bay Area terminus for the high speed rail system, and is counting on $475 million from the high speed rail bond. Delaying the statewide bond yet again will delay full implementation of the project. SB 1024, the infrastructure bond option put forward by Senators Torkakson and Perata, includes $1 billion for project-specific level environmental studies, planning, engineering, right-of-way acquisition, and construction of grade separations, bridges, and tracks in each of five proposed high-speed rail corridors across the state. To date, the Mayor and the Board of Supes have been silent on the city's priorities for a statewide infrastructure bond. Transit champion Supervisor Chris Daly has put forward a resolution at the Board of Supervisors that puts the city on record as saying that $1 billion of any infrastructure bond should be dedicated to High Speed Rail, and that, should the legislature decide once again to defer the vote on the full $9.75 billion high speed bond, that any bond this year should include the $475 million for Caltrain Downtown Extension/ Transbay Terminal, in order to allow the project to move forward as soon as possible. Please take a few minutes to call, write, fax, or email the Mayor and Supervisors to let them know you support Supervisor Daly's resolution. The text can be found at http:// www.livablecity.org/campaigns/infrastructure.html. CAR FREE TALK PREMIERES Friday, February 3 7:30 PM Cable Channel 29 The first episode of Car-Free Talk, will air this Friday, February 3, at 7:30 p.m. on San Francisco Cable Channel 29. The show is hosted by the lovely Sue Vaughan, one of the city's leading car-free living advocates. Her first guest is Dave Room, policy director of the Post- Carbon Institute, based in Oakland and Vancouver (http:// www.postcarbon.org) and the subject will be the coming oil and gas peak. Tom Radulovich Executive Director Transportation for a Livable City 995 Market Street Suite 1550 San Francisco CA 94103 415 344-0489 www.livablecity.org tom@livablecity.org _______________________________________________ TLCNews mailing list To unsubscribe, click here: mailto:News-request@livablecity.org?subject=unsubscribe ListInfo: http://livablecity.org/mailman/listinfo/news_livablecity.org