have here. we have the company that we need stronger penalties and stronger measures to really change their conduct because we have a planning code. we have a general plan and we have housing stock and we have precious industrial land and they are all at risk. this is speculation. i'm speaking in defense of dog patch. on the screen is one portion of the map that we saw today. and this whole area in the study area is waterfront and includes the dog patch area and the american industrial center and the food bank, biotech and job ren rateors that we worked on in the neighborhood plan through eight years balancing all the goals of the general plan and what we wanted to do there for the next 30 years.

we had a limited supply of land. this e.i.r. puts this at risk. because the first time anyone in the community has seen this survey area for this institution is today at this hearing. so when exactly the academy of arts supposed to go to the community with this? the answer is they will not. when will they? they don't. you combine this kind of scoping for the e.i.r. with their business practices and their business model and you can see how it puts our entire planning at risk. when supervisor maxwell came into office, we had a wild west in the eastern neighborhoods and all of district 10 where people could build whatever they wanted. we worked hard for 10 years to install planning in the entire area and we can't throw it away

because the institution is being aggressive with their real estate speculation. we need better penalties and better prevention on this. >> hi, supervisors, h. brown. what you are practicing is extortion here and you know it. first of all, it's insanity to not want them to grow. the economy of this city is based on two pillars that are in quicksand. one of them is offices and they are always looking for a cheaper office someplace else and the other is tourism. you are one car bomb away from losing tourism. we have 100,000 students in this city, did you know that, folks? we need 200,000 folks. they aren't going to run away because you have a car bomb. i can't believe what you are

saying. you are growing too fast. you said some of those students stay in town. i know, i married three of them over the last 30 years. it's fantastic. you have been chasing artists out of this town for decades and now they want to stay here and you say no. no. no. we have to figure out how much you are going to give. the last meeting was 18 million. and paul says they are victims. that is a lie. you had the rent board up here and they said had two he vickses over 1,000 units. that is amazing. i would like to see a realtor that matches that. it is positively insane. you want students. this should be a student town. it already is a student town and you should encourage it, particularly students in the arts. representative chiu, you said they are a bad neighbor. you didn't give any specifics.

you're losing 16,000 students. and let's see you put the same rigorous study against the art institute. let's see you get mr. hallman's properties. you aren't going to do that. you are after this particular institution because you look out there and you see a fat cat with $450 million a year. you know what? that money is being spent inside san francisco. supervisor maxwell, i watched you with lenar for years, they providesonned their neighbors and destroyed the environment and chased people out and you think they are a good neighbor, but you don't like artists or students. it is positively ridiculous. nothing but extortion. thank you. chair maxwell: any further public comment?

the institutional plan has been the law since 1986. clearly in 1990, and this is based on other information on this chart, but since 1990, clearly they have acquired such sites that they had to comply with that law and file a master plan that says, here are our land holdings, this is our intention. the academy of art is one -- only institution i'm aware of that doesn't own its own property. no one knows what sites they own until extremely recently when they were forced to disclose it. 2003, there was a letter that went to the academy of art from the planning department saying you have an institutional master plan with us, no response. there was another letter that went out in 2004. 2005, i was in a meeting with two supervisors and the head of the academy of art because they

acquired st. bridges. you haven't complied with it. 2009. when is the e.i.r. going to be done? 2012. i was listening. that's what you were told. they known they have had an obligation for 20 years. they have been in violation of the law for 20 years. it's not convenient for their business model to file an institutional master plan. it's a business model. this is a business profit-making institution. this is not u.s.f. this is not golden gate university. and all of those institutions have institutional master plans on file. they comply with a model. the other thing is troubling, you have a map that shows areas they are interested in and this is the stuff other than in your district. these are the areas of interests. they are interested in cathedral

hill. here we have lombard street. what isn't on this map is all the sites they already own. you need to have a merged map, because if you did, you would show sites all over, pacific heights, what is called lower nob hill, the tenderloin, they own lots of buildings that aren't showing. they say, give us another two years. let's go through the process. they have been going through the process for five years right now. five years since members of this board, called them to account because of st. bridges and said file an institutional master plan. they went through three attorneys and god knows how many staff people and we don't have

much other than the paperwork that they are doing the process. you do not get bonus points from me. clean up your act seven years after the fact. chair maxwell: any further public comment? supervisors, do you have any questions that you want to call someone back up, other than staff? then i will close public comment. supervisor mar, questions snr supervisor mar: give us time line as to the followthrough on the environmental review. >> john ram. we are in this weird catch-22 on the issues. but just to be clear for members of the board and the public, we cannot legalize a use if there is not an environmental review to back that up. in this case, because there are

37 properties, the environmental review needs to be a full impact report and will take 18 months or more to make that happen. that's why we have been very cautious about only signing off on life safety issues. we have been taking great pains as chris pointed out to note that the approvals we are making are for life safety changes to the buildings and not for particular uses. the e.i.r. process is a little hard to pin down and i think the previous speaker is correct, it will probably take 18 months. so we are in a situation where the uses cannot be legalized until that process is done. the other thing i just wanted to clarify and i understand that the map that you have showing all those districts -- looks a bit alarming and i can totally understand.

we had to come up for a way for purposes of the e.i.r. of studying areas for potential growth because they have so many properties that are scattered in a number of different places. and if we are who to look at potential growth which an e.i.r. is intended to do, we need to identify districts that could potentially have additional facilities in. that doesn't mean when we get 18 months down the road, we'll say you can buy buildings in all these districts. the e.i.r. will look at those impacts. and the planning commission will say, no, the impacts are unacceptable and you cannot go into this particular district. we need to look at the worst case scenario in order to get to that result. chair maxwell: i'm just glad to hear that that is the case that they understand that that's the case. that's why this map was extremely important.

i want to thank you for doing that. i want to mention, someone said maybe they could buy commercial buildings and i would say no that's not a good idea either because when we look at the earn neighborhoods, we have tried to preserve. we have to have a base and that's part of our economic base. we have to look at case-by-case bacees. in san francisco, we believe in institutions of higher learning. we are a city that has grown up with institutions of higher learning. i appreciate that and that has helped san francisco be the city that it is and there are certain ways we have to deal with each other and that's what we are talking about here today, not dealing with each other but how we can. under the issue of rent control, how are we -- since we say that they're not -- they may or may

not be, but we are acting as if there are, is there a problem or a reason that they're not or we can't make sure that they are because they are an institution? does that stand? the way. >> no, the rent control board has said they are subject. the apartment units, that they have -- that they have purchasedr in fact, subject to rent control since they were built before 1978. and so the issue is how they operate and make available those spaces to students after they leave the university. and if they are allowed to remain in those units after they leave the university, at which point they would be subject to rent control. chair maxwell: and then the growth in the ceiling. what about that issue? someone mentioned that potentially maybe there should be and there isn't and the sky is the limit.

what do you see and -- state is trying to grow and do things. how does that work? >> just to be clear, the state institutions are not subject to local planning control, rightly or wrongly. but other institutions and hospitals certainly are. and we typically -- i think the short answer is we could get to that point but we won't know until we finish the e.i.r. we will be able to explain or help us determine what is a size over which there are unacceptable impacts. and we don't know the answer to that. chair maxwell: but there is a plan to try to answer that question? >> yes. in general terms. it will be hard to put a specific number on it, but i think we can work toward that. chair maxwell: colleagues, any further questions or comments? thank you all. i thank the planning department

for your work and especially on getting the team together. thank you so much for that. it has been extremely important and you have done a lot for all of us. the institution is better off because of it. and i thank the institution for recognizing that they are part of the city and really being a part and helping with what we are trying to do. so i want to acknowledge that you have done some work and thank you so much. and because we are neighbors and because we believe in values, that's why we are making sure to dot every i. thank you for your work. colleagues, any further questions or comments? supervisor chiu, you have been real quiet. thank you so much. and thank all of you. madam clerk, is there any further business? we will continue this until the

call of the chair. clerk calvillo: no further items. thank you.

>> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. we have our wonderful guests

from barcelona, but that officials, our international community of contel and generals. it is an exciting day. we are pleased to be joining with another beautiful city, barcelona, said the task of, and other beautiful city. it is my privilege to introduce someone who is very supportive of sister cities. we have 18, as you know. someone who has visited many of the cities. a mayor who has brokered -- this will be the fourth sister city in his administration. may i introduce the other two sister cities, the father of four cities, mayor gavin newsom. [applause] >> thank you all for coming out. charlotte, matthew, the protocol

team. getting you all here on the balcony in city hall. i want to welcome my friends from spain. thank you. thank you for your leadership. i want to pay particular note and complement to supervise a david campos for his hard work and tenacity and commitment to this sister city. he has been talking about this for months. i want to congratulate him on a job well done in helping to organize this and being a good steward in the process. i also want to thank --where is he? but they acknowledged supervisor bevan dufty. there is jose cisneros.

we thank him for his strong support. as well come a department head, commissioners assembled. this is our 18th sister city. formally, our relationships go back to 1957. the idea behind sister cities began when then-president dwight eisenhower recognized we need to reconcile that there were agreed -- disagreement between nations coming out of world war ii and the best way to reconcile the disagreement was people to people that love to say. people, representing cities, perhaps could get it right. that is when the sisters to the movement began. hear, it began with our first sister city in the osaka in

1957, 1st diplomatic relations between the u.s. and japan. we had the privilege of being there is a couple of years back to celebrate the 50th anniversary. if you walk into the international room, you will see that the mayor from a sock and had not been enlarged robot celebrating the 50th anniversary. since then, 17 others have been established. this is number 18. we recently celebrated some significant milestones. 38th anniversary of our shanghai sister city. that was a significant moment, in terms of the relationship, again not just our two cities, but both countries. the first formal relations between the two countries were formed through that sister city bond. we had the opportunity to go to

bed alarm as our first trip back there. we established a sister region between bangalore and the san francisco area. there was a delegation of leaders who went back there. obviously connected to china and asia. we felt like it needed to incorporate india. that brings us here, this 18th finding of a sister city that celebrates the contribution and connection between spain and the that it states, between the seven tesco bay area, and the region around barcelona. we of blessed to have a lot of similarities in terms of our respective cities. notably, commitment to economic

empowerment, innovation, well- established and informed through biotech, life sciences, nano tech, green tech. of course, spain has made its own contributions to that effort. we are also looking to creating a framework behind digital media and digital parts. -- arts. we also hope to be celebrating the artistic contributions of 10 individuals and our city. that is what a sister city relationship is about. framing it in a formal manner, and a way that transcends what you see here, and provide an institutional framework that will allow people, 30, 40, 50

years later, to continue celebrating and commemorate this moment. the celebration, if successful, 50 years from now, whoever the mayor may be -- he or she will be here celebrating the 50th anniversary. their respective parties, many of us will be around saying, i remember when -- thank you in advance for being good stewards. these sister cities are not only the vibrant cities, a robust, contributing as they should, but most are, and we are proud of that. that is the commitment of the sister city committee. it is my hope and expectation and certainly my belief that there arthis will be a robust ad

meaningful sister city. i have done only four and six years. i have done only four to make sure that there is a real commitment behind them. there is nothing worse than making false promises. i have a good feeling here. there was a commitment from the committee formed with the council's general. so i have great hope and expectation that this will be a successful sister city. congratulations, thank you. i will bring charlotte back and leave the continue with the ceremony. his signature as well as our signature will affects this sister city relationship. [applause] >> thank you. you said we were alike in many ways. how about our soccer?

>> i do not want to talk about that. >> the counsel of general said that you have not got much work done there. congratulations. supervisor, the mayor has said many nice things about you, with -- which are worth it. you have shepherded us through that process, said it would be an honor to introduce you. supervisor campos. >> good morning, everyone. i do not know how to speak in catalan so i will speak to spanish. thank you for everyone for the work that you have done. i appreciate the fact that throughout this process the mayor has made it clear if we are going to have a sister city relationship with any city, it needs to be meaningful, not in name only. in these economic times, it

makes sense for cities like san francisco to reach out to places like barcelona. if you look at the history of what has happened between not just the cities of barcelona and san francisco, and the region of catalonia and san francisco, it makes sense. we established a region sister russia shed with the region of catalonia. i want to thank the group freinds of gaspart. the president of the organization could not be here but they have been trying to foster relationships, not just between san francisco and barcelona, but the entire region. the mere talk about the commonalities, the economic ties. there are many other ties. there are works between the museums in barcelona and the de

jong. there are talks about the universities in barcelona with ours. sharing production with the our pride in barcelona. there are many examples of that nature. but something that is special to me, as a gay man, and i see my partner in the audience -- is the commitment to civil rights and the very special committee that that barcelona has played to the lgbt community. those of you who watched the movie "milk" remember the same how there was a protest in barcelona in the days of franco inspiring activists like harvey milk to say that we will be treated equally. that connection has been in place for decades. when i visited barcelona, i was impressed by