we would like to also collect information on the events being charged and the type of living situation the student has. is it a single room or a double room. we would like to have permission to charge a nominal fee to cover the cost of monitoring. >> susan has helped to address amendments along these lines, and i think it is important we want to look at what happens with this legislation. we are not looking to cram six students in a two-room suite. perhaps you can walk us through

some of the changes the mayor's office wanted. >> i am the deputy city attorney. i am having the clerks pass out the proposed amendments from the planning commission. that is the larger page, and the mayor's office of housing is the flip of a vote. sean dre egan unmentioned there would be a modification to the section, which would clarify the mayor's office would be the regulator staying agency and that they would have the ability to request the educational institution to give them

certain information so they could verify that 30% of the students are receiving need- based assistance and that they are being housed in a way consistent with the definitions and the ordinance, and as she mentioned, they would pay authorized to collect and monitoring fees. the you want me to walk through the other items as well? >> if you are comfortable, i am in support. supervisor maxwell: does this go back to the planning department or anyone else in the first year and at half so that otherwise would be on it. >> i do not think it is in

there, but i will the firm. we did have language and request the planning department review it. >> i think the planning department or a committee. >> the mayor's office is going to generate data. they are going to look at it, so i would be happy to have that. >> they would be able to monitor for the planning department and the board. >> the language states that the annual monitoring report should be presented to the planning department and the board. supervisor maxwell: i think that could be up to the president, but i think to a committee of the board.

>> colleagues -- >> if we open public comment, i want to welcome to him, since housing coalition with the organization sponsoring. if we could just welcome him up as part of public comment if that would be all right. just to thank him and his colleagues for their work curator >> thank you very much. thank you for this opportunity. am very pleased to have had the support and guidance in providing this.

the art institute of california, and what they have demonstrated is how much this is based on need, and this came out of a roundtable we had two years ago with about 10 schools, and in particular, one small college. the american college of medicine -- they convene day by saying if this is a school with an enrollment of 300, we simply cannot compete with schools of side of the bay area that have lower cost of living and housing. when we need some -- schools outside of the bay area that have lower cost of living and housing. we have about 120,000 institutions of higher learning in said francisco with an estimated shortfall of the dead

of about 52,000 they -- in san francisco with an estimated shortfall of about 52,000 deathbeds -- beds. they would consider it one unit, which seems plausible, so it cannot possibly be less than 10,000 units of housing. do not forget education is one of the top factors and the city. the defacto policy is craigslist. we essentially say, go find your own housing. if it is going to house 900 students, and i think what has been lacking is some uncertainty

to the process. i have been approached half a dozen times by groups who are interested, but they always stop and say, what is the inclusion mary going to be? how does that play out? -- the inclusion going to be? how does that play out? some of the schools that have helped me put this together have said, we have got 60% to 80% of student enrollment, and a significant fraction is low income students. that is already there. >> i think what also houses we also delineated suited housing -- student housing so this is

really perfect in that we have already done that in the planning process. you mentioned in boston. boston is similar in a number of ways. housing prices are higher. they have managed a way to do its. >> you could think of them as a city of neighborhoods also identified as a college town. the mayor said, why are we bringing all these students and throwing them into the neighborhood? i think there were possibly cultural issues as well, but they explosively took inclusionary off and certain other impact fees of about $8, and you will never guess what happened. they started building about 1000 units a year for the next decade. they require it go through a

decision-making bodies, but they got behind a policy that is going to deliver that, and i think that would be a terrific outcome. >> it has been important, so having them integrated in the city is did as well, because they have been a part of our entertainment. that is important, and we need to do that. next speaker please. >> student housing has come up. other institutions were trying

to find places to build student housing and looked at is a -- look at it as a good place. this has been ignored by the city. the redevelopment agency took the position they should not be involved. the city is going to have a new attitude. i did not give to commend him, because the commission gave me one minute tuesday. i wrote a year and a half ago because i was frustrated the city did take such a disinterest in the matter and education is such an important issue to the economy. i want to make four points to

better clarify and hopefully make sure the new law will take those into account. the first is that they can build housing on their own. we are talking about the smaller institutions public and private and proprietary, which do not have a build in infrastructure of planning officers. we are relying on the private sector, and that could be a private developer or a nonprofit organization, but it would be independent of the university. we do not have to be in agreement to build this. my experiences they do not wish to put a credit on the line, so the arrangement is going to be a

little looser, and the risk factor is going to be on the developer's shoulders common and not the universities. -- the developers shoulders, and not on universities. the rules need to be flexible enough that they can put together a joint venture. it is not going to be one institution. the rules need to be flexible enough so that student amenities can be built into the buildings such as a building that is going to hold students mainly to have young faculty in the building and now, too, so the rules cannot be drawn to tightly. this is a huge step forward, and

i urge you to pass it. >> thank you. >> madame chair, members of the committee. i am speaking on support of the amendment that came before the planning commission. when i first heard about this, i thought, this sounds great as long as it does not apply to the academy, but on reflection i realized, it needs to apply, because we are going to need a combination of regulations and penalties and fees to get them to change their behavior, and i think this would be in that category. i want to show you a couple of things. this is the map that shows the 17 areas they are planning to

expand to. this is the problem. they are too scattered. we are submitting a proposal for a compact transit-oriented campus of relief focuses on the mid-market area. they have whole bus lines to serve one building materials offices for the star motel. this goes out to two buildings they have been fisherman's wharf and north beach. they can get rid of those. they clogged traffic. they are crazy. i think what this does is get this back doing some of the innovative things. there are several important

clarifying amendments that clearly defined what student housing is and is not. they have been playing a game where they think they are housing units, but if you leave the school, you have to leave the housing. this clarifies the. the one situation -- the one point i made is that we include the right of private action to enforce this. we do it like a residential hotel where we define who has that right, and you say it is a non-profit fed has in their mission preservation of affordable housing. -- that has in their mission the preservation of affordable housing. you want there be a way to make sure they stay on the straight

and narrow. i would be happy to answer any questions, but i support the legislation. >> is that in there at all. do you want to go over the last part of it? >> i believe that is the purpose of the fee, for them to do the monitoring. >> we had a time where it was defined as whatever people want it to be, so the reason we have 18,000, which is the same number we had when we passed this law in they 1978, because we have the action, so without any disrespect to any city department, as a backup, it is

important to have that. i think if you take the language from the residential conversion and demolition of ordinance, that languages narrowed to be defined. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> we will wait and then ask the city attorney to advise us. >> my name is francisco. when i worked of the presidio common-law -- the presidio, in early 2002, we gave a lot of housing to university students. the gentleman before may has spoken about how the university

has deprived the city of a lot of housing, and the planning inspection has been slow, but in some of our discussions with planning, we have been able to ratify that. i have them to rally together. i am aware of those issues. i work with a few partners who do business not only in this nation, but abroad, and again and again, what has not been matching is that the banks are loaning money to institutions of learning, and this has not been mentioned. i heard the planning department say that something about the

institutions planning housing for having a plan for student housing so the city could work with them closely and in a better way, but as far as money is concerned, without money you cannot do much. the financial institutions today are embracing universities and institutions of learning to give them money. the other thing i want to point out is there are areas in our city where there hundreds of units that were there on the market, and some of them are brand new. people will not buy them. people will not rent them.

if this legislation passes, in the interim, we could look at some of those buildings, and the students come in, and they will give an input to the community. are you rooting to be our next mayor? >> no time soon. walter paulson. >> ♪ you never have to ask me why ♪ ♪ we will never say goodbye affordable housing ♪ ♪ affordable housing, affordable housing holds the city ♪

affordable housing ♪ ♪ affordable housing does it could for you and me -- good for you and me ♪ ♪ affordable housing holds the city kee for you and me, and it should ♪ ♪ affordable housing does it did for you -- good for you and me ♪ >> anybody else? any further comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i wonder if one of our deputy chair scattered talk about the suggestion about private right

of action. i have a sense this might require a referral. >> if we were to put a private right of action, it seems something we could do, but it would require referral back to planning. >> i just wonder if it would be possible to send a committee letter and to ask if they can opine on creating this mechanism. i am just concerned that i would like to see this reached the board.

>> it could be trailing legislation. we could look into that later. >> i will commit to sending a letter to major the inquiry is fully considered. >> we do not know who is going to be here later, so to have a backup is important. >> we could send a letter of inquiry, and maybe both should be done. i think it would highlight the importance of taking a look at this. supervisor maxwell: colleagues, as amended, including the reporting amendment.

without objection, the legislation is amended, and we will send a letter to our committee requesting that they look into having a private right of action, and that means somebody else is overseeing our housing and making sure we are following the rules and regulations. thank you, supervisor dufty, and who thank everybody who is working on this. item seven will be continued on december 6, but if there is anybody here who would like to speak on it, you may. >> item #7 the committee benefits program. >> public comment on this item? >> i would like to say my understanding is that this is

not to come before the public utilities commission until january. i served of the task force for the expansion, and we work with the people. i wish that you would delay this until after the puc, but the figures i have requested for the southeast community benefit funds. thank you. >> any further comments? seeing none -- sorry. >> supervisors, regarding this, we had a task force, and there is a document with suggestions. she is just giving you some sense she is one of those from

the task force monitoring community benefits. i have said it before and will say it again that at one point when the bond measure was passed, it was part of the clean water and the waste water, but they chose to go ahead with a clean water, and it is still ongoing. we are going to go, and it is going to come before the board of supervisors, some $600 million bond measure, so the short and the tall of this is that in the bayview, you need to visit the communities. people need help, and people are desperate. the other thing some of you may understand is that we have an influx of latinos that have

change the demographics, and they need help, sue. -- too. that is the way you look at the picture. they are mandated to satisfy 5% of the total budget for work- force, community benefits, and so forth, so you are astute enough to know, and you will be there, because soon the new supervisors will come in, and they may not know this, so it is good to remind them that whatever we do, even though it caters to the whole city, the impacted area is going to be the southeast sector.

that is where it will be reallocated. that is where tunnelling is going on right now. tunnelling is going on, but with tunneling, it is specialized, so not too many people can be employed, but for the other thing, lots of jobs can be given, and for once, the impacted communities should be helped common -- be helped, but you cannot help them by waiting until the last moment. you need a plan to do it right now. thank you very much. >> any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. that is exactly why we want to have a hearing. we want to have a hearing to find out exactly where they are going with this and how much

money does go to public benefits. right now there is no real clear idea, so that is why we have these hearings. i look forward to seeing everybody here december 6. madam clerk, is there any further business? >> there are no further items. >> this meeting is adjourned.