WRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE
(6/30-9/7/23)
• Barbara Ebel (9/6/23) Public art
• Dana Dillworth (9/5/23) Comments on Public Art Proposal • Dana Dillworth (9/7/23)Additional information for Art Installation 9/7 agenda • Christina Florkowski (9/6/23) Complete Streets Safety Committee - and the safety of Brisbane
• Dr. Michael Abney (8/28/23) City Sign
• Dana Dillworth (8/23/23) Additional Comments for 8/24 PC Meeting • Sarah Kinahan (8/7/23) Child care needs in Brisbane
• Dan Dudley (8/4/23 ) new business
• Steve Kerekes (7/8/23) code enforcement
From: Barbara Ebel <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 7:47 PM
To: Council Members <[email protected]>
Subject: Public art
I find this art unengaging. It speaks nothing to Brisbane. --
Barbara Ebel
From: Earthhelp <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 12:35 PM
To: Padilla, Ingrid <[email protected]>
Subject: Comments on Public Art Proposal
Dear Ingrid,
Please make this document available to the Public, the Council, the Planning Commission, and members of the Art Committee. Thank you. Dana
To: Brisbane City Council
From: Dana Dillworth
RE: Privately Installed Public Art Proposal
September 7, 2023
I am disappointed. I love Art. I have spent my life going to museums and documenting Public Art that creates a sense of place, that honors the community, that’s a “wow.” I have waited so long for the same for Brisbane.
I am disappointed that we are getting recycled Art for expediency and not Art that reflects any knowledge of the mountain, the Bay, or the community of Brisbane. If that’s not required, then this is o.k.
I am disappointed that there are no women artists among four potential artworks. I am disappointed that there are no local, Bay Area artists. I am disappointed that there are no artists of the BIPOC community, etc. If that’s not required, then this is o.k.
I am disappointed that you are continuing the lie that this is Public Art. A glimpse from 101 “wow.” All the art is inaccessible per ADA requirements and inaccessible to the Public via the Bay Trail. But, if that’s not required, then this is o.k.
If we have to accept this, then I have a few suggestions rather than leaving details up to the developer.
Carbon Dioxide Molecule
I like this work the best, however I caution that it may look like Mickey Mouse from some angles.
I welcome the discussion of placement (and movement) of the oxygen molecules. Somehow, if it represents Carbon dioxide, maybe Carbon fiber can be a considered material to reduce the weight and infrastructure costs. Additionally since atoms are moving energy and there is a lot of wind out there, the opportunity for a kinetic sculpture has been missed.
There is mention of lighting, have you considered interactive lighting? Lights that change and move as people get closer. There are opportunities for laser or projected light and seasonal lighting that should be clearly part of this budget.
There is mention of raised landscaping, however reflecting pools have their place. Since a great deal of your cost is for hard-scaping and “green patches” exist elsewhere, perhaps you can consider native plants.
Seated Figures
I’m just as offended as the council members for lack of variety in gender choice, but I don’t get the nexus between life sciences and lumpy women. When the applicant mentions they were part of the selection of the the Twin Towers double helix human figures along Bayshore, my response is... “and we get this?”
I think location “C” should recognize the winds. The sculpture could capture the wind and be kinetic as well. I’d adorn the figure with gossamer wings... or have “Dress Michelle” contests.
Ready for the “Shitting Diana” jokes? Ohhh, the art performances I can imagine “Smell what Diana Ate” contests... This is Public Art, right? I’m ready to book my first performance.
Please send this back to committee. I am not happy we are getting second-hand art. Please require a more open, more Public Request for Proposals process to include local talent with criteria that recognizes the Bay, the Mountain, or the environmental community. Even be part of the Bay Trail. Make art for Brisbane, not Palm Beach and Orange County.
I would come up with alternative “B:” take the money, set up traveling art show platforms in the future Sierra Point Open Space Park and along the Bay Trail, which would be ADA accessible and have context to the entire community, not just Geneis workers. San Francisco has hearts, Oregon has Salmon Row, Brisbane has lumpy women. “Wow.” Thank you.
Dana Dillworth
From: Earthhelp <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 7, 2023 6:54 AM
To: Padilla, Ingrid <[email protected]>
Subject: Additional information for Art Installation 9/7 agenda
Dear Ingrid,
Please make this document available to the Public, Art Committee, Council, and Planning Department officials.
Thank you. Dana
19 Stunning Staircases Transformed by Artist’s Around the World:
https://mymodernmet.com/stunning-stair-art/
Consider the Possibilities:
72 Interactive Art
Installations https://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/interactiveart-installations Interactive Sand Box
https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/uc-davis-augmented-reality-sandbox Something spectacular, visible from 101... or not
forwarded message:
From: C Florkowski <[email protected]>
Date: September 6, 2023 at 8:55:50 PM PDT
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Complete Streets Safety Committee - and the safety of Brisbane Reply-To: C Florkowski <[email protected]>
Dear Mayor Davis,
Over the last few months I have begun following the work of the Complete Streets Safety Committee hoping to be able to influence the safety and sustainability of Brisbane. Month after month, the committee has been distracted (in my opinion) with the topic of parking permits.
Looking at prior agendas, this looks to have been going on for more than a year. How this has anything to do with safe streets is really difficult for me to understand - especially as the current proposal makes no effort to use this as an opportunity to discourage oversized vehicles that are a real danger to pedestrians.
Given all the exceptions that are being considered, we may be surprised to find that our parking problems are caused by residents and others with a legitimate (as defined by the exceptions.) Have we done a simple sampling of the parking permits that a street might generate (by polling the residents) and then compare that to the actual available parking on that street? If we do issue permits, will we charge by the size of the vehicle to maximize parking availability?
In the meantime, we have actual safety issues on the streets of Brisbane that need the committee’s experience and attention. And for residents wishing to reduce our climate impact, we also need the committee to look at safe bicycle infrastructure for bike commuters and improving public transit support. And if we really wish to make it possible for seniors to age in place with dignity, we need to improve the walkability and transit options in Brisbane. And then there are our kids. (I hope they can manage to safely navigate passed the parked cars we seem to be so concerned about.)
Instead of these concerns, we are asking the committee to spend their time reviewing an approach to codifying the storage of personal property on public streets.
I would really appreciate an explanation for how parking permits will improve the safety of the streets of Brisbane and why the council has prioritized this effort. ~Christina Florkowski
cc. Brisbane City Council, Cristian Cabrera, Karen Kinser On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:11 AM Michael Abney <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Cliff
I couldn't remember the best way to contact the city council. I found your email and decided to contact you since you might remember our conversation.
I have an issue with the sign the city posted at the entrance to the city stating you must give bikes 3 feet. This is dangerous because its not enough room. The city is allowing cars to white line cyclist which is illegal. All other cities have either bike lanes or stamps on the road indicating you must share the road with bicycles. The city could also put a notice in the star stating the rules for passing bicycles. Ie. it is just like passing another vehicle; use a blinker, move into the oncoming lane and pass.
Just to give context I ride all over the bay area and Brisbane is the most dangerous by a wide margin. I'm hoping there's something that can be done as I'm nearly hit on a weekly basis. Just last week I was nearly hit on Visitacion Ave. when a car didn't stop at the stop sign on Mendocino. I was doing 20 mph they were doing 10 I was nearly flattened .
Thanks Dr. Michael Abney
Health, Happiness and Prosperity
Sincerely,
Dr. Michael Abney
Doctor of Chiropractic
Brisbane Chiropractic, Acupuncture & Massage
Phone: 415-467-3456
Fax: 415-467-3530
[email protected]
[email protected]
brisbanechiropractic.com
From: Earthhelp <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2023 12:25 PM
To: Padilla, Ingrid <[email protected]>
Subject: Fwd: Additional Comments for 8/24 PC Meeting
Hi Ingrid,
Please make these documents available to the Planning Commission, council, public and OS&E members. Many thanks, Dana
From: Sarah Kinahan <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 7, 2023 1:36 PM
To: Council Members <[email protected]>
Cc: Christine Padilla <[email protected]>
Subject: Child care needs in Brisbane
Dear Mayor Davis, Mayor Pro Tempore O’Connell, and Councilmembers Cunningham, Lentz and Mackin, On behalf of the San Mateo County Child Care Partnership Council, we’d like to share Brisbane’s Child Care Needs Assessment Profile from our recent San Mateo County Child Care Needs Assessment. In 2022, the Council retained Brion Economics to complete a needs assessment that included estimates of child care supply and demand at the City and County level, a parent survey, a workforce survey, and economic analyses related to increasing the child care workforce and raising wages for those workers.
In case you have not already seen the results of the needs assessment, some of the highlights for Brisbane are as follows:
• With new proposed developments and job growth in Brisbane, there is projected to be a shortage of 1,134 child care spaces for children ages 0-12 by 2032. This shortage is for families of all income levels in Brisbane who are working and could use a formal child care space. o One of working families’ greatest needs is for infant care - in 2032, only 2% of the demand for child care for infants will be met.
• The shortages are worse for families with lower incomes. In Brisbane, there is subsidized care for only 2% of the children ages 0-4 who would qualify for state child care subsidies. o The City needs an additional 63 subsidized child care spaces to help lower-income Brisbane residents obtain affordable child care while they work.
The full needs assessment can be found on the San Mateo County Office of Education website, https://www.smcoe.org/about/child-care-partnership-council/needs-assessment.html. If your city would like a short presentation on the needs assessment findings and to learn more about the Council and strategies that are being pursued to address the child care shortage, please contact Sarah Kinahan at [email protected].
Sincerely,
Sarah Kinahan
Coordinator, Child Care Partnership Council
Christine Padilla
Director, Build Up San Mateo &
Chair – Access Committee, Child Care Partnership Council From: DAN DUDLEY <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 2:02 AM
To: Padilla, Ingrid <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: new business
To: To: City Council members
From: Dan Dudley email address [email protected]
Good day,
I ask that you add this additional information to all city council members consideration and suggestions in locating property for the staging, storing and recharging area, for the potential of providing your constituents with a mobile electric vehicle charging service.
This company, B2U Storage Solutions, Inc. 11400 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 200 Los Angeles, CA 90064 B2U Storage Solutions includes “Our EPS system enables the EV batteries to be easily installed in outdoor rated, thermally controlled cabinets in the original pack casing, utilizing the pack’s existing battery management system, eliminating repurposing costs.” “all powered from onsite solar” B2U Storage Solutions
These EV battery packs, using onsite solar, may be able to be utilized as the power source for any potential staging and storage site, and used for the recharging capability of the individual EV charging mobile trailer or pod units.
An additional potential use of this company’s original pack casting of the used EV batteries of all manufactures of electric vehicles, including Ford, General Motors, Tesla, Rivian, Fisker, Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai, Kia, BMW and Audi, Polestar, Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz, if agreements were made with them, is in “The EPS system’s Cabinet Controllers connect and disconnect batteries that are connected in series and parallel strings, so that weaker batteries with lower capacity do not limit the output of stronger batteries. This approach enables our system to achieve efficient energy yield despite the variance in capacity, inherent in second life batteries.”
In this potential for additional capacity and sources of systems for mobile EV charging, it may be possible to include these B2U Storage Solutions using one or more of these second life batteries to be manufactured in the individual trailer or pod systems, if again agreements were made with the USPTO approved Patent holder(s) of No. 12/847,354, Kamen et al US PGPUB 2011/0025267.
Best regards,
Dan Dudley
On Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 11:50:31 AM MST, DAN DUDLEY <[email protected]> wrote:
If you agree that this would benefit your constituents to have the option of using this service, and all the all the additional new job opportunities it will provide, I ask that you forward this to Tesla and/or any additional auto manufacturing companies, to send proposals to provide the customer service, additional infrastructure and battery systems for this.
All city council members may consider that if you are willing to agree to show a commitment to
the potential of approving the property for this staging and storage, with the overhead covering or rooftop solar panels to be used as a source for the recharging of these mobile EV battery systems, that every auto manufacture that sells electric vehicles in this country may also agree to commit to reallocate the portion of their battery manufacturing capacity to the designs for “a mobile electric charging service” that are detailed in this USPTO approved Patent No. 12/847,354 by Kamen et al US PGPUB 2011/0025267.
Best regards,
Dan Dudley
On Friday, July 28, 2023 at 06:43:17 PM MST, DAN DUDLEY <[email protected]> wrote:
To: City Council members
From: Dan Dudley email address [email protected] Good day,
As city council members, working with additional departments and officials, are the ones who make decisions regarding new business and land use, I ask that you review this information
and for your opinion if this service would benefit your constituents.
I filed a patent with the title of -Providing a Mobile Service For Charging The Batteries of Electric Vehicles- on 05/14/2021 with USPTO confirmation No. 6207, as I believe that adding this mobile service would have a positive impact, and promote the ownership and future sales of electric vehicles.
Even after the years it may take to install as many public stationary EV charging stations as there are gas stations, and the goal of having some available every 50 miles on interstate highways, this Mobil EV Charging Service could continue to provide a major contribution, as many may either be full charging other EV’s with owners having to wait to plug in, or not all charging ports operating for need of repair.
Persons with Electric Vehicles would have the convenience of ordering this service to be delivered to their vehicle while at a restaurant, theater, the office, a hotel or apartment or home without any Electric Vehicle Charging ports.
How many parents knowing that their daughters or sons who may drive electric vehicles, learn of their vehicles only having a partial charge and without access to a charging port, need to make an overnight trip. These parents would have the opportunity to order this Mobile Charging service so they would not need to stop in the middle of the night to recharge by themselves at a public charging station.
I recently received a notice from a USPTO Examiner that my claim was rejected as being clearly anticipated by Kamen et al US PGPUB 2011/0025267 – (USPTO approved Patent No. 12/847,354) Regarding claim 1, Kamen discloses a mobile electric charging service [figs. 1-2 & 5; par. 33; a charging vehicle 104 can charge another vehicle 102, thus a “mobile electric charging service”] This Patent No. 12/847,354 also includes [0029] A "charging device" or "charging station" may be stationary, parked, mobile (such as a portable trailer or a pod), “the charging vehicle 104 may include any power source, including but not limited to, any external or internal combustion generator, solar panels or fuel cells.” Mr. Kamen and additional listed patent holders have the option of applying these mobile charging applications themselves, to come to agreements with others to provide the customer service and additional infrastructure and battery systems, or for the reassignment and transfer of ownership of this patent.
I have been in contact and sending information and suggestions to holders of Patent Number - 12/847,354 via http://www.dekaresearch.com/contact-us/#1470173215984- 9d6b4822-ce42
And US mail to Correspondence address - DEKA Research & Development Corp. 340 Commercial Street Manchester, NH. 03101 603.669.5139, also to the auto manufactures of electric vehicles, including Ford, General Motors, Tesla, Rivian, Fisker, Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai, Kia, BMW and Audi.
This patent holder could choose to apply any of the specific methods and systems of charging electric vehicles. This may include a large capacity battery with the capability of charging an electric vehicle (similar to the Tesla Powerwall) manufactured with the North American Charging Standard (NACS) connectors and adapters for Combined Charging System (CCS-1) connector.
These large capacity battery systems could then be retrofitted to any of the existing roadside assistance fleet of vehicles (similar to AAA roadside assistance).
In the potential for additional mobile EV charging capability, the trailer or pod detailed in patent No. 12/847,354 could be designed and manufactured to include any type of battery with the self- contained charging capability and connectors, then possibility using the ridesharing business model similar to Lift and Uber, hire, and dispatch these independent contractors in any of their personal vehicles that have towing capabilities.
In the rural areas of your state, these independent contractors who would like the job opportunity to provide this mobile EV charging service may have the space available to store these trailers or pods, and recharge them by plugging into their home electrical power supply. This could also be accomplished in using solar panels installed on top of these self- contained chargers, and perhaps adding additional recharging capacity to these units using portable ground placed solar panels.
In your city where any potential independent contractors may not have this space, I ask if you would consider to begin to locate state, city, or privately owned property that could be used for the staging, storing and recharging area for these EV charging portable trailers or pods, which could also include overhead coverings, or rooftop solar panels installed and used as a source for this mobile EV recharging capacity, saving your state power grid supply.
I would appreciate your response as an incentive for the potential of this patent holder to begin to apply for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that invests $7.5 billion in EV charging.
Best regards,
Dan Dudley
From: Steve Kerekes <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 8, 2023 9:50 AM
To: Council Members <[email protected]>
Subject: code enforcement
I have a question. The other day I called the code enforcement officer about a couple of RVs that have been parked in peoples front yards for years and having been a member of the parking and traffic committee years ago I know that is not up to code. What I was surprised that when he checked with I guess the city attorney or city manager I'm not sure which, and they said that unless I filed a formal complaint, they will not enforce the code. This also applies to cars that have been parked on the street for many many months.
I was told that the directive from the powers that controls such things says that the code enforcement is reactive, not proactive. Meaning, unless they get a complaint, they will not move on a violation.
I really don't understand the thinking behind this. I mean if the police drives by the same car for a year that is covered in cobwebs and leaves they won't cite it unless someone complains?????? One of the major complaints in town is cars left on the street for months or years without moving. I'm curious why is this allowed? I've never heard of another city enforcing the law in such a way.
I wonder why it is the neighbors of these cars and RVs and other code violations that have to be the ones to report. While I don't want to see enforcement such as they have in San Francisco but there has to be a happy medium. From my desk here I'm looking at a car that has been parked for a year or two in the same place. I called PD a couple of years ago, and the car was moved for about two days and then re-parked in the same spot.
I plan to attend the city Council meeting to address this situation, but perhaps there is a excellent plausible explanation for this situation that you could explain so I won't have to waste the city Council's time.
Thank you,
Steven Kerekes
103 Ross way