Sanchez questions DOT on containerization and daylighting enforcement

I want to move on to containerization and Vision Zero.

How does DOT triangulate Empire bins with the Vision Zero framework?

For example, a stationary on-street container looks like it could be in the daylighting areas.

Have we or are we considering that?

What is happening there?

Also, can you talk to us about what's happening with daylighting parking?

How are we holding drivers accountable that are parking in these daylighting zones?

And what can we do?

Because you have put up these plastic little things, but they drive over it.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Yeah, there's a few dimensions there that you highlighted.

I think, and in a way it also relates to the last conversation, I think, perhaps around some of the aspects of towing.

There's so much happening at our curbside, right?

And that's why we're excited to be creating this Office of Curb Management, which we're currently putting together.

We're going to have more to share there.

But their job is really to be looking holistically at all these different dimensions, which in the past would have been handled at different parts of DOT.

And so for containerization specifically, that's something that we're communicating with DSMY pretty constantly, actually.

It's one of the bigger efforts going on right now that impacts us on the curb.

And I'd say we have a great collaboration with them.

I think some of the bins may be too high to actually put to use for Dayline because they would actually impede.

the visibility.

So it depends on the situation, but definitely we want to be thinking creatively every time we're putting something on the curb.

Can it also serve a safety function or provide some other benefit?

Right.

So, you know, absolutely.

Can you just speak a little bit about what's happening to hold the cars accountable that are in the daylighting zones right now?

Yeah, and this is one of those things that we're always continually trying to sort of build upon, right?

We want to build.

There's an urgency to rolling out safety improvements citywide, and to do that, it means building things quickly.

But then when we build things quickly.

They may have some of the issues that you mentioned.

And so, you know, over the long run, we want to keep moving towards both a higher quantity, but also quality.

And that's sometimes why I talk about this in the context of some of our discussions around different kinds of targets.

We want quantity and quality.

And so in this situation, we're always evaluating how is it being used?

How can we continue to improve upon it?

And, um,

So in the case of these painted curb extensions with the flex posts, maybe it's an enforcement thing we can work with PD on, or maybe there's a design solution we can keep innovating.

It depends on the situation.

Is there any enforcement right now?

We're continually collaborating with PD on enforcement.

So is there a method for enforcement right now?

Like are cars getting tickets?

That seems like a question for PD to answer.

daylighting cars that are parking in the daylighting areas.

What is the enforcement looking like?

Okay, so...

Are they getting tickets or what is...

I can't speak to daylighting.

I can speak to enforcement generally.

So I don't know that we ticket vehicles as it pertains to daylighting, but just in general.

So maybe a conversation to be had with DOT.

I think the council member raises a good point, especially as the administration is expanding daylighting, that we're also, in terms of increasing summonses and violations, that we're also accounting for ticketing for cars at daylighting.

I'll now move it over to Councilmember Dynowitz, followed by Ressler.