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is really tine. tiny. some of the people who are opposed to it have an additional assessment of like $140. that's typically what the number is, it's very small for a good part of the people who rejected it. so, to me, while you have people who are a part of a property, or a small part of a property they own, voting against it, i don't think should spell the end of the community benefits district. i do believe we'll see real positive benefits out of it and urge my colleagues to support. president chiu: colleagues, if we can take a roll call vote on item 44, whether the resolution to establish the ocean avenue c.b.d. should be deamented. madam clerk: supervisor alioto-pier, alioto-pier no. supervisor avalos. avalos, aye. supervisor campos, campos aye. president chiu, chiu aye. supervisor chu, chu no.
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supervisor daly, daly aye. supervisor dufty, dufty aye. supervisor elsbernd, elsbernd no. supervisor mar, mar aye, maxwell aye, supervisor mirkarimi, mirkarimi aye. there are eight aye's and three nos. president chiu: the resolution is adopted. if we can now go back -- actually, i'm sorry, we have a couple of more 3:00 special orders. items 45 and 46. madam clerk: items 45 and 46 are the board of supervisors sitting as a whole -- objecting to the proposed resolution approving the redevelopment agency's lease of land commonly known as 701 golden gate avenue to mary helen rogers senior community for the purpose of developing housing
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for very low-income senior households. president chiu: we have a proposal to consider redevelopment regarding the mary helen redevelopment. do we have initial comments from the redevelopment staff? >>ed good afternoon, supervisors, president chiu and members of the board. the item before you is the disposition of by lease of agency land applied with tax increment funds. under state law, the agency comes before the board of supervisors to get approval for dispositions of property applied applied -- acquired with tax income and funds. this is this part of the properties acquired from the agency by the city that were basically the parcels underneath the central freeway. the agency has disposed of parcel a, which is at golf and
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turk, and it's a completed afordible senior housing project. we disposed of parcel g at fulton adjacent to the performing arts garage and that is in the process of being constructed to house formerly chronically homeless individuals. parcel q, at octavia, is just in the process of being completed and that will house persons who are developmentally disabled. in this particular transaction, the agency is leasing to a limited partnership that is managed by both china town community development center and johnson interests for the purpose of obtaining tax credit investment, an equity investment to build 100 units of very low-income senior rental housing in a development named after a long-time western addition
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activist, mary helen rogers, called mary helen rogers senior community. we will lease the land for 70 years and will be providing a minimum -- requiring a minimum payment of $15,000 and the balance of the annual lease being subject to the availability of cash from that particular development. in addition to the lease, the agency is providing a subordinate loan of approximately $15.5 million to ensure that the building can be constructed. and the agency commission recommends the board's approval. thank you. president chiu: colleagues, any questions to redevelopment staff? supervisor? >> i just want to add some comments. this building is technically in
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district 6, daly's district. mary helen rogers happens to be an icon well known to many of us throughout the city but formerly a resident of district five in the fillmore in the western addition and this building is aptly, i think, should be named after her. her legacy is well known and well felt throughout the western addition in the city but in particular in areas that have been confronted and challenged by policies of redevelopment in urban renewal. she stood up and she stood out where others did not. she was really able to galvanize where others couldn't. so i think this building, rightfully so, recognizes, in part, some of that legacy, and i know her family would be proud. president chiu: supervisor maxwell? supervisor maxwell: with that,
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she also made huge changes in redevelopment, huge changes that, in my community when we had a redevelopment project area committee, it made a huge difference because of some of the things and policies that mary rogers and a lot of the people that work with her put in place so i think it's very appropriate that a building like this be named after her. thank you. president chiu: any further questions to redevelopment staff? let me get a show of hands of how many folks are here to comment on this item. okay. if we could hear public comment, two minutes per speaker. mr. washington? >> [speaking foreign language]
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madam clerk, supervisor alioto-pier, maxwell and carmen chu, meri christmas and happy new year for you, for your family, for everyone you like and everyone you love. and the rest of our grateful supervisor, chris daly, i watch you, and i wish you have good luck after you leave us. please, give my message to your lovely wife and tell her that abdullah tell you merry christmas and happy new year. i never, ever going to be forgot like some man like you. you come into this village as man and you go outside this village as men. yes, you have big mouth and we love you.
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you talk like me, like the nice people in your heart, you make mistake, we forgive you, we make it successful, we love you. ladies and gentlemen, i hope the new year can give us a chance to see the new government and also the former mayor gavin newsom, i wish me grow up and to understand he going to be under the bus of sacramento. when the bus want to him, he must go. but when we want him here to talk with you, he have right to said no or make it veto. gavin is no veto in sacramento anymore. gavin, whatever you did wrong, we going to forgive you.
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but we going to watch you very well for any successful job you try to work on the future. [bell] president chiu: thank you very much. i would like to remind members of the public of the fact that we are discussing a specific topic, the redevelopment agency land at 701 golden gate way. next speaker, please. >> the name is ace washington. first of all, let me say, without a doubt, i'm supporting mary rogers and the building itself. let that be perfectly clear. i don't want any misunderstandings to get back to the rogers family or anybody. i'm protesting the elephant in the room, which is the redevelopment agency. first of all, here in your documents, you don't know if it's in the western addition or if it's in the daly's district. let's get that straight. the other thing is, the money that is going there, let it go,
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but the developer, which one of the developers, johnson, m. johnson, has two other developments in our community. one of them happens to be on fillmore, which happens to be part of the restaurant deal >> denny thing. -- it feels not going to be in a pretty picture. i have been arrested, but i told
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redevelopment i was coming today to say i support the money for mary rodgers building. i was with her in her last three years of living, but to do something out of compliance when we do not have no way of doing something, but when the police come and out three and us -- apprehend us, in our community, there is a free and to teach -- it ain't no mystery to check your history ♪ >> thank you very much. final speaker please. >> ♪ i leave this land, i just cannot wait. ♪ it is on golden gate ♪
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have the ball, have of all ofit -- it all today ♪ >> any other members of the public wish to speak or sing at this public hearing public comment is closed. if we could take a roll call vote on this resolution. [calling vote sins]
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>> ther are ten ayes. this resolution is adopted. the mayor has requested a five- minute recess so we can join hands in a signing ceremony at related to the america's cup bill we just passed, so i would ask that we do
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>> welcome back to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting. i have been asked if we could rescind the vote on item 46 so we could retake that the vote. could we do that without objection? could i have a second to rescind that vote? seconded. if we could take a roll call vote on item 46. >> on item 46, supervisor alioto pierre? [calling votes]
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there are of love and -- eleven ayes. >> this resolution is adopted. if we could now move to item 38. >> terms ending april 27 to the community stabilization advisory committee. >> can we do this? this motion is approved. >> item 39. >> motion for the work force investment community advisory committee. >> this motion is approved. if we could now move to item 49. >> item 49 is the lottery to approve force superiority
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pursuant to rule 6.21. >> we have had four newly- elected members who will replace outgoing members, and through a lottery, we will determine their seniority. i will ask the clerk if she can help do the honors. >> our legislative director will pull names from the lottery draw, and i will read them aloud.
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>> supervisor a light, mark favre on -- elect, mark farrell. malia cohen. scott weiner. jane kim. the following order will be the official order of all continuing and nearly an elected board members -- elsbernd,
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mirkarimi... chiu, cohen, weiner, and kim. seniority determines the order of board members for the assignment of offices, seats in the legislative agenda and compensated positions, and that concludes our presentation. >> we can now move to item 50. >> the items are considered by the neighborhood services committee at a regular meeting and reported to the board. to strengthen the use of pesticides.
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>> this is fast. item 51. >> item 51 is requiring cellphone the tellers to expose specific absorption rate values to customers. >> this ordinance is passed on the first reading. >> the next item is considered on monday, the 13th, 2010. an ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuits. >> this is passed on the first reading. item 54. >> item 54 was referred without recommendation. it is a resolution authorizing the mayor to cast ballots as owners of 11 parcels of property over which supervisors have jurisdiction or that those would be subject to assessment.
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>> roll call vote 7? [calling votes] supervisor daly: no. >> there are 10 ayes, one no. >> item 55. >> item 55 through 57 were considered by the land use economic development committee and were forwarded to the board as committee reports. item 55 was recommended by the board, an ordinance to establish
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new requirements for personal wireless permits, to increase certain fees, amending the administrative code and making provisions of the ordinance retroactive. supervisor avalos: thank you. i live in a district that has very little underground utility poles, and what happens is they are a prime location for wireless technology for cellphone to go up all across the city. what happens is there is no aesthetic standard put in place for these facilities when they are put up on a pole. over night, residents can come home at night, and they will see a huge box sticking out of a utility pole in front of their
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window. there are many places in my district where that has happened. between lisbon and paris. there is a part of the sidewalk where you have to walk between the utility pole and the bay window. this is happening all over the city, and we can do better to make sure we have standards about creating value through our utility poles for the city and county of san francisco. there is public notice on private property, but for the public, there is no notice. this as a few things. it establishes a different review process, starting a three-tiered system based on visual impact. there will be tier one, relatively small, and it will
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have of permitting process that will not necessarily go through a review. tier 2 will have a different process, depending on whether it is installed in a protected location. that would be next to a park or in a commercial district or adjacent to a historical landmark for a historical a significant district. it would require further review by the planning department for the recreation and parks department. 23 would have no size limits, but they would require an automatic review by the planning department and allows an opportunity to protest before final approval of the application. it adds residential and neighborhood commercial zoning districts as protected areas. currently protected areas are determined by the planning department. public parks will also go through an additional review.
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it encourages the planting of trees to increase greenery and serve as screening. all wireless equipment will eventually come into compliance with this ordinance. this process went to many stakeholder meetings and conversations with the city attorney's office, the planning department, the department of public health and neighborhood associations, and over the past year, they have addressed concerns of constituents, as it is legally defensible for all departments. local jurisdictions are severely constrained about what we can legislate on utility poles, so this must not go as far as we would like, but it will make the process much better, especially
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around the aesthetics of our wireless facility. the planning commission held a hearing in october and voted unanimously to support the legislation, yet the land use committee unanimously recommended it for approval. the co-sponsors i want to thank -- supervisor campos and mar. i want to give thanks to the deputy city attorney who worked on this. doug lorranger, david bancroft.
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i also want to thank francis, who did monumental work to make sure this legislation came to us today. >> if we could take a roll call vote on this item. [calling votes]
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>> this ordinance is fast -- is passed. >> item 57 of aids the community fee and the fund -- item 57 is the community and find. -- fund. >> this is passed on the first reading. we now go to roll call. >> today i have an in memorium for jonathan simmons. jonathan was an artist whose
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personal story can inspire all san franciscans to become their best when making the most of their individual talents. jonathan was told he would not make enough money to support himself. he traveled to new york and learned the skills of photography, painting, and eventually engineering. this man became a technical illustrator who worked to design the lunar module, designed in ejection seats from fighter planes and solved numerous problems. all the while his sensational -- insatiable quest made him a collector of rare items