supervisor mar: good welcome,

everyone. welcome to the land use and economic development committee meeting for monday, you're 27, 2012. we are going to hold off for a few minutes.

supervisor mar: ok, we are ready to go. welcome to the land use and economic development committee. it is february 27, 2012. i am supervisor eric mar. with me is supervisor malia cohen and scott wiener. our clerk is alisa somera. clerk miller: -- supervisor mar: we have three items. could we move item number three to the beginning? with no objection?

could you please read item number three? clerk miller: item number three, creating a new definition of student housing. supervisor mar: supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: thank you. today on the agenda, we have legislation creating a definition of housing, where none existed before, and clarifying and creating some rules, so we are creating additional housing and converting it to student housing. i am going to be offering some amendments to this legislation. we were not able to get them reduced to writing by today, so i would like to continue to march 26. that would also give us some time to back into the discussions, because i know there are some folks in recent

days that have expressed some views, so i've afford to hearing from people who would like to discuss the legislation. please feel free. colleagues, we do have several from the planning department here. barring that, i would move to continue this. >> let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone else from the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, without objection. supervisor wiener: can i just ask if that date is any problem? supervisor mar: ok. supervisor? >> thank you, supervisors.

there is a need for having some sort of control for housing. for students. primarily, hopefully, new construction of housing that would provide a and save the housing that is needed to and expand the housing supply because of the critical shortage supply of housing, but there has been some concern about this, whether there be conditional uses that might be provided for this, and there would be some question whether that would be policy if you were, in effect,

saying that you could convert existing housing. the important reason for that is, as you all know, the existing housing is the most affordable housing we have, and once we do something that converts it to other uses, that really changes the affordability, and also, that changes the demographics of our city, and that has been happening for two or three decades. i would urge that this legislation be continued to examine it more closely, and if they will permit housing to be done, it in terms of uses, and

the vehicle by which those new legal -- will then use it as a basis for making their conversion, and i do not see in the legislation that that is provided for, and i would urge before it goes to the board that this be scrutinized carefully to determine this. otherwise, we may be doing a terrible disservice. supervisor wiener: if there are folks who have that concern, i would ask it possible to send an email or a letter outlining what the basis is for the concern, because this is an issue that we are frankly getting a lot of pushback from folks who would like to allow more conversion.

i am trying to compile all of that so we can consider everything. >> supervisor, i think that it is a person's right to ask for that kind of thing, but they should also have the burden for the city and not really in making things worse. supervisor wiener: i completely agree. >> oh i was concerned about whether this would be reported to be accurate by the board. supervisor wiener: if this carries, this will be moved to the land use committee, and if we make amendments and then, it is possible that it may have to go back to the planning commission, as well. >> thank you very much. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> thank you.

espinola jackson, the view hunters point. this has been discussed for over five years with the city planning. what you need to do is get the report in the minutes of all of the discussion that has gone on dealing with student housing, because maybe some of the people may have died now because of the fact that -- it is a fact. a lot of us have been coming down here to the supervisors' meetings, and you are just getting here. you are new. what you need to do is get some of the old information from the people who were discussed, and turning them into students, please get information. some of those people are probably dead and gone, because i am on the same committee.

thank you very much. you need to get other information. this is nothing new. planning has been dealing with this for over five years. maybe six or seven years. thank you very much. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is caroline, and we are representing -- i just wanted to come up and say some things. we appreciate the proposed continuance with the amendments that have been discussed at the hearing. i think a little more time is appropriate in that regard, and we certainly appreciate the amendments that would help assess the very specific concerns about this. in particular, we think they'd prohibition is problematic.

there are arguments on both sides, and we appreciate your help addressing those concerns, so thank you very much. supervisor mar: is there anyone else would like to speak >> my name is john centre -- back to speak? >> my name is john sanger. i happen to be out of town when the board of trustees was asked to represent the art institute, a soap by would appreciate continuance, but we look forward to the opportunity to speak with supervisor wiener's staff. supervisor wiener: you are representing --

>> not at all. not the academy of art. the art institute. it is an important distinction for us. 70 years' worth. supervisor wiener: apologies. we are very happy to sit down and speak with you. >> we appreciate it. supervisor mar: is there anyone else who wishes to speak? there is a motion to defer this until march 26. what the objection? ms. miller, please read item number one. clerk miller: item number one, the planning code automobiles sale or rental. supervisor mar: we do not have supervisor elsbernd.

>> this is by conditional use authorization only. there are on this map about 12 areas in the city encompassing 28 properties that are currently zoned ncs, and they are throughout the city, and you can see them in that red part. approval of this legislation was recommended, and they found that the typical physical layout of the property is zoned -- properties zoned nc-2 would be compatible. however, not every one of these is compatible for automobile rental, and that is why you have this before you in the ordinance today, said the commission can review each

proposal on a case-by-case basis and make sure it is compatible and appropriate for the community. that includes the presentation, unless there are any questions. supervisor mar: any questions? seeing none, let's open this up to public comment. we have a few cards. if there is anyone else who would like to speak, please fill out a card. we have two, one from the park merced and another from the chamber of commerce. >> from the chamber of commerce. from time to time, we need to look at these. we have done this. we encourage people to rent vehicles, whether it is you hall type of vehicles, there are parts of san francisco that could be better served by allowing that type of business in with community support, a

neighborhood commercial zoned area that has got sufficient parking lots available as part of the development, so we would urge the committee to recommend this with the full board. supervisor mar: bank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is deedee workman. i have court with the supervisor on this for over a year. the park merced shopping center is one, which and large parking lot that accommodates more than a few cars. there is ample space for an automotive rental business like u-hall. there are no other businesses like in nearby, so people tend to drive to pacifica or another

city to get theirs. we recommend this. allowing the automotive sales is good policy for the city. it will establish neighborhood- serving businesses, creates new jobs, and will produce significant tax revenues for the cities. this is a win for our neighbor shopping centers, job seekers, and san francisco. not all nc-s are suitable, but some are, so we urge you to recommend approval to the full board. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. are there any other speakers? cnn.com public comment is closed. can we move this forward without objection? ms. miller, please read item number two.

clerk miller: item two, a hearing for the potrero annex and terrace project . supervisor mar: we have supervisor malia cohen. >> this is a hearing, and there will not be a vote. this is one of the next hope projects that will be transforming more than 600 public housing units into a mixed income community with additional retail and open space. as this projects and other hope projects go, it is important to ensure that the needs of the residents in the surrounding community are met. today, where representatives from the mayor's office on housing and the project sponsor to provide the board with an update on the status of this project. we also have several community

members here who will share their perspective on the importance of revitalizing the site and some of the challenges in completing a project of this scale. this project is still very much in the early ages. if you would like to hear from the project sponsors, how they are going through the community process, this is identifying what some of the challenges would be. first off, we will have the mayor's office of housing and mr. olson lee. >> i appreciate the opportunity to come before the board of supervisors about rebuilding the potrero property.

at the conclusion of the presentation, the staff of both the mayor's office on housing as well as the development team and my colleague, henry alvarez, we are all here to enter questions that the supervisors may have about this particular effort. i would like to turn it over to amy. >> thank you, olson. thank you, supervisors, for giving us the opportunity today to talk about hope sf and specifically the potrero

property. this is a good time because we will have more properties come on line in the next 1.5 years. we started this way back in 2007, so we are in our fifth year with a rope -- with hope sf, and we are very excited about being able to offer new places. we will put the presentation into context. in the presentation, we're going to give you an master plan overview and go over the community engagement process, and then we're going to talk to you about the wonderful accomplishments we have had with the project over the last 2.5 years. we have the project manager for the project you can provide feedback. he is with the mayor's office on housing. are there any questions? so just a really a brief

overview. many of you know this from the presentations we have had before, but the hope sf is to change these to mixed income communities, and what makes this so unique is is not just about the physical realizations but also about changing the lives of individuals in the development, so in the last five years, this has been our dual charge, and we take both of those things equally as serious. at the end of the initiative, this is because our goal is to create a matter of housing -- a ladder of housing and also market rate housing. we want to introduce additional work force units to the city and introduce additional