Consider Banning Motorized Commercial Vehicles, Including Robotic Commercial Vehicles, from Sidewalks and Commercial Drone Aircraft Used for Deliveries.  (Councilmember Matarrese) [Not heard on January 2 or 16, 2018, February 6 or 20, 2018 or March 6 or 20, 2018]
Yes. This is a consideration of a ban in motorized commercial vehicles. This. The example was a few months ago there was black box on the West End and the complaints that I received was the robotic package delivery system was driving down the middle of the sidewalk and people were walking on the sidewalk to get out of the way. The robot doesn't have a license, doesn't pay a tax. You know, we're responsible for street damage on the sidewalks and the homeowner is responsible for sidewalk itself and bought boxes making money and taking jobs. So. I think we should ban them. And then if there's something that comes to us, we have the consideration to lift the ban rather than just have to react to something when it's happening. The same with the and we all it sounds like it's far fetched. The deliveries by drone. And I'd rather have them banned and then be have some future council have to be convinced that the benefit outweighs raise the risk and the disturbance then us having to react something that is hasn't been. And so it's a simple request that we consider putting this ban in place for both. So this is a referral. So yes, you want to make a motion that we take here the that the processes that the referral base. Well I can make the motion we. Because it's your. Second. Okay. So now any other discussion? Because I can call the question this time because it's just the referral. We're moving the referral forward. Right. Right. Okay. Number ten. Yes. So we have this workshop coming up in a little over a month that we just talked about. And so I'm just wondering whether I guess we could vote to move this for the thing is, I'm aware of one one email from one constituent and just because I haven't seen something with my own eyes doesn't mean it doesn't exist. But again, I'm also mindful of staff time. I do appreciate the rating that you gave it. It's not important, but that I just have. Relatively. It. This is one where I would probably like to hear from the city attorney's office. That will be part when it comes back. Well, yeah. Whether okay I it's part of the referral process. I mean, the stuff and I'm ready to. I mean, I think it's not farfetched. I mean, in regards to the. Drone, I mean, I think I think it's not farfetched. I mean, you hear what's going on on Twitter, in in in Washington this week. And that, you know, the White House seems to be intent on driving away the post office's biggest customer. So if that happens, they're going to do this. So we got to and if that happens and they do that, they're going to take away jobs from me to the post office or, you know, people like UPS and things like that. So I don't think it's farfetched. I mean, I, I would be willing to say let's bring back a ban, just like you're suggesting, and not really have a discussion a second time. You know, just bring back the ban. I think I'd want a legal analysis to see if we can do a ban as opposed to I mean, you could I'm okay with staff looking into making sure it's legal and bringing that up at once. But I definitely want to see. I think that's should be a quick analysis because we don't allow ups to drive their trucks down the sidewalk. Right. This is the same thing. We don't allow airplanes to fly at house level down the street, dropping packages off. This is I mean, to me, this is pretty simple. We can have a ban. But I perfectly agree with you. Having the legal analysis to support it. Thank you. As the non-lawyer up here, has the attorney give us legal now, what. Do you think? I think definitely, as with any ordinance we would bring forward, which would include. The ban that we would do. A legal analysis to support it with you would make it okay, wouldn't bring it. Vice Mayor So rate it not not urgent. Yeah, I, I actually, I actually do think that this is some, I think it's very timely companies like UPS that I will fully disclose that I, I represent some workers at UPS. And I do know that that UPS, among other delivery companies, are looking at having robots start delivering and having, you know, a one vehicle caravan operated by one driver who's operating a number of different bots potentially. I think that there's a number of different issues that potentially come up relative to security and safety and everything else, as well as ADA issues that come up if if somebody is coming down the sidewalk and there is a delivery bot that's been an issue in San Francisco where they've been testing them because they haven't. What that's been one of the issues because they're not in the quote unquote line of sight. So I would you know, I fully support this. I think that it's prudent to kind of say no and then look at things and see if there's, you know, if the technology is there and if we feel comfortable with everything that's happening and then making the exception. So I'd like to call the question. Okay. Well, wait, there is some. Okay, so we. Already. I would vote no on that just because I don't think the mayor's had a chance to weigh in. Thank you. I appreciate that. Well, I don't they talk. For hours on it. The only thing I want. So I just want to clarify when I'm actually. Okay. Looking at changing the low urgency, low importance. But at the 18th, I'm okay. Okay, look at it then to see if we want to move it up. And at that time of staff, I'm not sure that this actually will take a heck of a lot of the time to come up with the ban. So you may have a time estimate of how much time you need to look at this one compared to some of the other issues that we give to you. Okay. So that now all those in favor I. And that with the clarification that we're keeping the rating the same as this time. Yeah. Okay. On that basis I'll join in vote. Yes. Okay. So that passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Next item nine C. Okay. This is a referral that I had brought before. I think it was addressed this evening. However, I would like us to have at some point a bigger discussion and then vice mayor brought this up to really clarify.