rent to the landlord. year after year, the rent goes up while our income stay the same. typically, half of our income goes to rented housing. i pay $4,000 -- i take home $4,000 a month. my rent is $2,700. this is part of why one out of five single working mothers and their children live below the poverty line. please, we need secure and predictable housing. we cannot keep moving our kids around the country are priced out. there are affordable housing units that offer economic security to us, and they are sitting empty. 48, to be exact. 15 out of the 65 bmr units on the market in 2010 have been sold. seven are sitting empty. we urge you to support single working mothers. by allowing a one-time waiver, you will match the moh waiver to

the reality of our lives. you will allow us to get out from under the cycle of renting, invest in our children's futures, use land wisely, and stimulate the economy. it is a win-win for san francisco. thank you very much for your time and consideration. chairperson maxwell: think you very much. public comment is closed. colleagues, without objections? supervisor chiu: do i'll understand the need to make some amendments? chairperson maxwell: we did not do the new amendments. on the new amendments, without objection. as amended, without objection. supervisor chiu: i want to thank the planning department and staff for the board you have done on this. it has been a long road. think you for working with us

and others to make sure we maximize affordable housing for san franciscans. chairperson maxwell: thank you all so much. madame clerk, will you read the next item, please? and just let me say before we go forward that item six will be continued until november 15. if there is anyone for that item, it will be continued until november 15. however, if you are not able to attend next week you can have public comment today, and you can also have public comment next week. i wanted you to know that in case you're sitting there. thank you. >> item 5, ordinance amending the planning code to require a new memberships to certified card a share organizations to residents of certain new development projects and to

promote car-care services as a component of transportation management programs. chairperson maxwell: this is your item. supervisor chiu: thank you for consideration of this item. i am excited about this legislation that the planning staff has been working on for many months. it dovetails with my own thinking about car sharing in our city. we all know that our city is one of the densest cities west of the mississippi. during the day, will swell to over 1 million people on a seven by 7 mile area. we have enormous congestion on our streets. if we are going to continue to grow, we have to reduce congestion. i think it is a no-brainer to expand car sharing. as a city, we have already been a leader in car sharing. every shared car on the street takes away anywhere from 10 to 15 private cars off the road. it decreases our vehicle miles,

are vehicle emissions. i should let folks know that i am a member of city car share. that experience for me has made it much easier to live in our city without a car. i and thousands of other members of either as a car or city car share -- of zip car or city car share have not had to worry about parking, repairs, car theft, accidents. it has been a wind-win for everyone involved. a month to think the planning staff. we have ms. rodgers here to explain what the legislation does. my office has been working with the city administrator's office in hopefully rolling out the first examples of on-street car sharon. it exists in our parking garages and new developments, but we want to start to provide options for car sharing on our city streets, particularly in neighborhoods that do not have much in the way of new

development or parking garages. on my neighborhood, russian hill, it is a real issue. we are looking forward to rolling that out in the coming months. i would like to invite ms. rodgers to talk about this legislation. chairperson maxwell: when you say street, do you mean there would be stalled set aside for car share dax supervisor ch? supervisor chiu: that is right. right now it is available in garages or parking lots, but not on the typical residential street. chairperson maxwell: i want to add that just because you car share does not mean that if you park your car in the wrong place it will not get a ticket. supervisor chiu: that is exactly right, but car sharing allows you -- there are designated parking spots for those cars. if you take a car out and move it back to that spot, you do not have to worry about the car being towed or ticketed or

otherwise running into problems. chairperson maxwell: thank you. >> amy rogers, planning department staff. i want to thank president chiu for sponsoring this important legislation. there are many benefits to the city and people of san francisco in car sharing. this is an effort that was initiated about a year ago. the department identified several barriers to successful implementation of car sharing in san francisco. we launched a three-pronged approach to revamp. the first was a zoning administrator bulletin. the second was adoption of the commission policy. they announced their policy preference on a number of issues, including on-street parking. the commission was wildly in support of doing further research are making that available so that car share would be reliable across the city. the third is the draft

ordinances before you today. let us talk about the draft ordinance. this would codify three of the four changes we initially launched in the zoning administrator bulletin, including establishing the car share permitted in the same manner as residential parking is permitted, including the voluntary conversion of residential parking to per-share spaces. it will expand the parking to all zoning districts. it will establish the car share spaces may satisfy or substitute for required residential parking. the commission felt it was good not only to codify those items, but to go beyond them. the commission requested that the board make two additional amendments that are before you. chairperson maxwell: did you say that the car share parking can substitute for residential parking? that means that if the

development can have 45 -- if five of those are car sharing, it is saying that is 45. >> yes. there is an ordinance that allows a building to rent spaces to people who do not live in the building. if you are allowed to look read it to people outside the building, -- if you are allowed to rent it to people outside the building, the commission thought it was appropriate to open it to car share memberships that live in the neighborhood. the additional changes would be to include the promotion and encouragement of car share services as another option in the transportation management program offered in section 163 of the planning code. leslie, it amends the parking requirements to enable the commission to require car share memberships for future membership -- for future residents when that is added to conditional use authorization.

this is for an area where we have a maximum cap and the development is seeking more parking than would be committed -- would be a right. if the commission feels convinced there is a public policy need to grant those spaces, they can also require the project sponsor to provide memberships and reduced vehicle ownership in the building. it is not required, but it is an optional tool for the commission. those are the five changes that are before you. chairperson maxwell: thank you. supervisor mar: thank you, ms. rogers, for the work on this. i am looking at the gis maps for city car share and zip car. i am looking at how far west it goes. at 20 fifth avenue, there might be one or three spaces -- at 25th avenue, there might be one

or three spaces, but nothing in richmond. how would this expand for people on the west side of town? >> there are two types of spaces, the type required by the planning commission, which is a majority of the spaces, and the vast majority, which are provided voluntarily in places where they see demand from membership. we have met with both zip car and city car share over the last year. they are committed to expanding. they need to expand in an incremental matter in -- manner. that is something they could answer better. the city cannot force them to relocate other than in conjunction with development proposals. supervisor mar: we have a letter from rick hutchinson, which is our nonprofit.

what is their ownership? >> that are a private company. i do not know much about it other than that they are private, for-profit. supervisor mar: are there other nonprofit or for-profit car share communities that may be coming in the future? >> we used to have a third organization, but there are currently only two. there are other organizations nationally. in san francisco, the other issue about the required spaces is that when the commission requires spaces that are provided in that area free of charge to a qualified car service agency. in order to get those free spaces that the commission is requiring, you need to prove to the city that your management practices reduce vehicle ownership, reduce trips generated, and meet the transportation goals we are seeking for the city. chairperson maxwell: any further

questions or comments? supervisor chiu: the only other quick, i would make is that if you look at the map of where these car sharing options exist, that are currently in the corridors we have in the city. my guess is that in your district and supervisor chu and supervisor elsbernd's district, there is less transit, and more people drive because it is further out. the more we can figure out in hong to assist par sharing organizations to give -- the more we can figure out to assist car sharing organizations, i think that is good. chairperson maxwell: when i think about my district, i think people need to do a better job

-- we need to remember people that car sharing exists. i think it has to be motivated by the number of people who want it. thank you. public comment? >> i am david glover. i recently signed up with zip car. i lived in patrol on the hill. i can walk to zip car station. if i could not walk, and i am not sure i would have signed up. i think it is based in boston. i was on the phone with them five times in my first three- hour rental. it occurs to me that if we do move forward with this we might encourage public companies to come into the area. with congestion pricing on the horizon, this might become more

important as well. chairperson maxwell: i think you are right. our district should really have been more available. supervisor chiu: you only have a couple. chairperson maxwell: patron hill, thank goodness. it lends itself to the kind of developments we are seeing, denser development. as we all reach out to try to do that, we will probably find ourselves, hopefully, having more zip cars in our district. we have close public comment. supervisor mar: could you add my name as a co-sponsor to this? i think it is great. chairperson maxwell: me too. without objection, we will move this forward. >> i need to read item six. ordnance amending the administrative code appeals process under the california

environmental quality act to clarify procedures to provide public notice. chairperson maxwell: this will be continued, but if you wish you may speak on this today and i also speak on in november 5. public comment on item 6? public comment on item 6? >> david glover again. to eliminate abuses of ceqa by demonstrators -- by developers or neighbors, we need a process that is transparent. it helps major environmental analysis and planning evaluate if on a project there is a balance between environmental protection and development. this legislation before us gives permission to the environmental

review office to inform the public at various junctures on a discretionary basis. i think we need more education, outreach, clarity, and transparency built into the process. for example, a developer could apply for a room addition. we do not want a neighbor to use a ceqa appeal in a petty fashion. we do not want a developer to get approval on a small component and use that approval to sell through much larger components that will have greater impact later arm. it does not seem to be any provision to make sure that mitigations are understandable and enforceable. there seem to be short cuts. effective legislation would set up a clear system that indicates what kind of projects and what kinds of project sites have a general basis for ceqa appeals and environmental impact

reports. there could be education workshops required for developers and the project -- and the public. it would require in that information the specifics on plans. instead, this legislation titans various windows to 14 days and 20 days, which does nothing to make this more understandable and does a lot to stop ceqa from working. it is about protecting the environment, not just developers versus communities. all should be considered. please reject this legislation. chairperson maxwell: these think if we have more process, maybe, and a process that said the developer is required to have community input and meetings, so that it is really something that is documented, and that they have to make sure that their

project is out into the community, that if we did that that maybe we had more up-front, that maybe that would help with your? >> i believe so. there could be more of a community culture around how ceqa is used. it is a necessary tool. a thing developers would benefit from the necessary -- i think the developers would benefit from the unnecessary process. smaller developers do not have a clue. i know developers who work with ceqa on a professional basis, in the presidio, who do not understand. ceqa is complicated. the showcase process in district 10 is a great example of

community getting together. something similar could be applied to ceqa. chairperson maxwell: we have a model, then. thank you. do we have further comment? seeing none, public, is closed and will be reopened november 5 when we hear the item. is there further business before the committee? >> there are no further items. chairperson maxwell: colleagues, this meeting is adjourned.

>> good morning, everyone. i see bright smiles on faces. can anyone guess what i do? raise your hand. what do you think i do? jimore? what is your question?

close. police officers wear uniforms. chef, wow. what about you? a bodyguard. what is your name? firefighter. exactly. my name is joanne. i am a firefighter. i came into the department in 1990. none of you were born. maybe your teacher was. i am the fire chief. i have been working as the fire chief for almost seven years. mayor gavin newsom appointed me as the fire chief about seven years ago. today is a really important day. does anybody know what we're about to get ready to do? a fire drill. you are close.

an earthquake drill. fire drill, earthquake drill. is the same message, everybody needs to be prepared. we're working closely to make sure we keep each and everyone of you, your families, your school, and your home is safe. the big message today is that in san francisco, we have to be prepared for an earthquake. one of the ways we do it is to prepare ourselves by having a drill. every october, is a really important month for disaster preparedness. in 1989, there was a large earthquake in san francisco. we learned a lot of lessons from the earthquake. [unintelligible] thank you. [laughter] there are a couple of people i wanted to introduce. i wanted to introduce sncc hennessy -- nick tennessee, in

charge of the emergency number. the director of 911 is here with us as well as one of my colleagues, battalion chief jose vella. we also have someone else who works closely with 911. i want to say that this is one of the best parts of my job, to come out and talk to the students. we hope that you will learn something about how important is to practice and be prepared. what you are going to do today is a drop, cover, and hold drill. you will then exit to a designated area. we want you to go home and tell your families about what you have learned and prepare a plan for your own home. what the plan would be, how he

would meet with everyone, and so forth. talk to your families and educate them. you are students and will be like a teacher to teacher families things that you will learn and practice today. would you like to say anything to the children? >> you did a great job on the first drill. i was here for it. let's see you do that again. remember to hold on when you get under the best -- desk this time. wait for the signal. i am very impressed with all of you. i can see why you thought she was a chef because you have been talking about food all morning. >> it is getting close to 10:21. there will be something under public address system here at school. this is a siren. you will not be scared by it. every tuesday at noon, this siren goes off. it is a test of the emergency warning system. today is a special day.

it is 10:21 on october 21. we're getting ready for the drill. the mayor is coming to say hello to everybody. we have mayor gavin newsom saying hello to the fourth graders. welcome to alamo fourth grade. you are right on time. we have a wonderful teacher in fourth grade. >> what does that mean? what do we do? do we start? >> not yet. i believe we're waiting for the prompt from the schools so that everyone can do it coordinated. >> the chief tells me what to do. always pay attention to the fire chief. >> here we go. >> please duck, cover, and hold.

>> good job. is there any room for me? [laughter] what do we do? ok. is this real? this is a drill. >> it is still shaking. [rattling] >> this is a long earthquake. [laughter] [rattling] >> you are doing a great job. listen to your teachers.

>> attention, this is the all clear for the emergency drills. please exit the building at this time. >> it is time to evacuate. the job. -- good job. walk. do not run. >> no running. >> [excited chatter]

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