San Francisco has started publicly displaying an array of data related to the Mission District\u2019s two BART plazas, which have become a priority for Mayor Daniel Lurie\u2019s attempt to clean up city streets.<\/p>\n
In a video<\/a> shared on Instagram on Tuesday, District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder announced the release of the \u201c16th and 24th Street BART Plazas Activation dashboard<\/a>,\u201d which shows statistics on illegal fencing, drug use, 911 calls, street-cleaning requests, and more at both plazas. The dashboard will update every month with data from various city agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n The dashboard dataset starts in March of this year and marks the start of a 90-day push<\/a>, announced by Lurie in June, to improve conditions around Mission BART stations. He indefinitely extended<\/a> that effort in early September.<\/p>\n Mission Local has its own data dashboard<\/a> tracking conditions at the 16th Street BART plaza that is updated daily with arrests, citations, and more.<\/p>\n Fielder, who said she advocated for the city to create a dashboard, called it a \u201cgood step in the right direction\u201d but said she is not satisfied by what it shows: little progress across most metrics.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI am a little disappointed with how things are going,\u201d Fielder said. \u201cI\u2019m disappointed BART ridership at the two Mission plazas went down slightly in July. Drug dealer arrests went down in the activation period. And 311 reports of human and animal waste is largely the same as June and up from March.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Fielder, who regularly receives resident complaints about street conditions, said the data tracks with what she\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n The dashboard shows the following:\u00a0<\/p>\n 911 calls for drugs were 19 in March, went up to 35 in May and are down again to 17 in August.\u00a0<\/p>\n 311 tickets for trash have been steadily increasing, from 88 in March to 113 in August\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Street-cleaning requests within a one block radius from the BART Plazas have dropped from 420 requests in March to 316 in August<\/p>\n Fielder, for her part, said it is \u201cprobably not feasible to get to zero\u201d street-cleaning requests in the Mission. But, I would like to see us get much fewer 311 cleaning requests,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n She said the Department of Public Works has done more proactive sidewalk cleaning, and hopes that will be reflected in the data.\u00a0<\/p>\n She also cautioned that there are caveats about how to interpret certain numbers \u2014 911 calls may not reliably measure drug activity, for instance, because some are false alarms and residents do not report every instance of drug use.<\/p>\n Tackling the Mission BART stations\u2019 open-air drug use and illegal fencing has been a long-term project for Fielder, Mayor Lurie and the city. In March of last year, after Lurie vowed to crack down on drug dealing and street fencing, the two BART stations saw more police<\/a> and community popups<\/a> promoting the plazas as family-friendly gathering spots.\u00a0<\/p>\n