eighth overtime. our current regulations micromanage our eating and drinking establishments in san francisco. controls and in various districts city-wide -- whether a cafe can have ten chairs or eleven chairs. and if a bagel can be toasted. if ice cream can be served in a cup or a cone. job creation and economic investment in the neighborhood. the legislation was endorsed

unanimously by the planning commission, by the small business commission, but a land use and economic development committee. this legislation has been introduced for over a year and is the result of significant outreach and collaboration. we worked with numerous neighborhood groups that have had questions or concerns. we made a series of amendments. the first land-use hearing, we actually had some minor amendments today that will not require a continuance. we have bent over backwards to listen, be responsive, and make sure that we are improving our economic environment for food and drinking establishments while also respecting the uniqueness of our neighborhoods and things like formula retail controls that are so vital to the character of our city.

i also want to thank a few people because this has not been at st. ford or easy legislation, as important as it is. i would like to thank my co- sponsors, supervisor carmen chu and supervisor olague, who have been starlet -- to have been a stalwart supporters. andre in my office has done enormous work as we go to the process making sure various concerns have been reflected through amendments. and i would like to thank the planning staff and my constituent who is here today who played a huge role in getting the ball rolling on this important part of our planning code as well as anne- marie rogers and scott sanchez to have done a lot of work on this. it has truly been a team effort.

we have distributed amendments which are primarily cleanup and typographical errors and ensuring consistency within the legislation. in addition, one amendment i would like to point out that will not require continuance, but i want to knonote it, in the the upper market and castro neighborhood commercial district, a conditional use authorization would be required for alcohol and intensification, going from a beer and wine permit too hard liquor. that is already the case in a number of other neighborhoods and it was inadvertently left out for the castro and upper market areas. i do moved those amendments and with that said, i respectfully ask for your support. president chiu: supervisor wiener has made the amendments.

is there a second? can we take the amendments without objection? supervisor chu: i simply want to acknowledge the great work supervisor wiener has done shepherding this to the legislative process and being open to the different recommendations people have put out there and to my other cosponsor, supervisor olague. i'd like to thank the planning department for thinking through these issues and doing what many businesses have asked us to do for a long time and that is to make things easier to help us get to a point where legislation is easy to understand, easy to implement, and easy to administer. i think this legislation does exactly that and helps to narrow down from 13 different permit controls to 3 broad categories that actually allows us a couple of things -- to help businesses understand it better and administer better from a city's

perspective and also give small businesses the flexibility to change items as the b-2 to adapt their businesses in a way that most responsible to our customers. as a supervisor weeder points out, it does continue to control what we want to control -- the sale of alcohol, which is vitally important to make sure we have safe and successful neighborhoods, and it makes sure we have other controls that are already in place, the controls on other fast food stores or formula retail. in allows neighborhoods to preserve their unique character. i think this is a step in the right direction and it is a step in what community members and small businesses have asked us to do, which is to make it easier to do business in san francisco. given the public input, i do hope for your support. supervisor olague: i have been

working with the planning department staff for some time, like for the last pieces of legislation that i worked in collaboration with the staff on as a member of the planning commission. it has been at least a year and there have been extensive public hearings. we have at least two at the planning commission. the small business commission also reviewed this legislation and i believe it passed out of both bodies with unanimous support. i think it is clear this is long overdue. i would like to thank mr. starr and ann marie rogers from the very beginning of this process and supervisor wiener for taking leadership and his staff, mr. powers, who was able to process a lot of the concerns and amend this legislation to address the concerns that were raised in the past couple of weeks among the many members --

i believe it was telegraph hill association and a couple of other individuals. we may see some trailing legislation. i received a call for members of the upper fell more, so we will be discussing that with a supervisor farrell. policy does not happen in a vacuum. certainly it did not in this case. it was a response, in response to actual hardships endured by small business entrepreneurs and i think san francisco sees itself as a city that values small business and individually- owned and family-owned businesses and restaurants and those types of endeavors. i think this is in keeping with the values that we have. i am happy to support it. president chiu: i would like to

echo and sank a supervisor winner for his work with constituencies in my district. supervisor chu: i also want to thank my staff for their work in working with the planning department at getting the message out to all our merchants. she has been doing a great job with outreach making sure the material was culturally sensitive as well. supervisor kim: i would like to thank the co-sponsors for bringing this forward and i have already heard from some small- business owners in my district. would have taken them several months in opening their restaurants and i'm glad we were able to simplify and make the process more transparent while doing the regulation we need to do while having balanced neighborhoods and i would like to be added as a co-sponsor. president chiu: with that, could you please call the roll?

[roll-call] their are11 ayes. president chiu: is passed on the first reading. why do we go to roll call. supervisor wiener: i have one interaction for someone who was hit by a bicycle in my district on march 29 and passed away on april 2.

on march 29, he and his wife were on their way to pick up my glasses. it walked across castro street from harvey milk plaza and while in the crosswalk, he was hit by a bicyclist and died several days later. he is survived by his wife and son. there has been a lot of discussion around bicycle safety, but it also points out the continuing need that i'm sick of doing in mori m's for pedestrians killed in crosswalks. i know some of my colleagues are as well. enforcement and education are important and that's not just for bikes but automobiles as

well. it also points to the combat -- the continuing need to invest and upgrades for pedestrian safety of our intersections. we have a city that despite all the work we have done is still in large part designed for cars. castro and market, for those who have crossed it multiple times a day, is incredibly wide. at 16 and market, it's a disastrous intersection. 15th and sanchez, a horrendous intersection. you just keep going on and it requires the best -- requires investment and prioritization in making these expenditures because it does save lives when you reduce crossing distances and increased visibility for all users of the road. this is just another reminder that we need to keep moving forward with enforcement, education and the investments to make our city the pedestrian

friendly place we know it needs to be. thank you. supervisor farrell: today, have won the submission, a hearing request are on how our city government manages our real estate portfolio. last year, after reading a number of surprising articles in hearing comments from staff, i submitted a request for our budget and legislative management to conduct an audit of a real-estate management practices here at city hall, including inventory of vacant or surplus properties in our portfolio. the results were concerning at best. despite many -- despite no response from many departments, including the port andpuc, analysts identified 20 parcels are not in use and have no plans for future use that are on our books. we currently have a decentralized property management system across our various departments despite

having an official real estate division here in city hall. i would like to thank john updike for his help in this matter and his encouragement moving as ford. we have a reporting process mandated our charter that has not been followed through on. as we continue in city hall to approach our budget season when we suffer through manual -- through annual budget deficits, the onus is on us as a city government to be as efficient as possible and given the massive dollar amounts at stake, solving our real estate management issues is a really big deal and a big step in that direction. i look forward to hearing from the city departments involved and the rest i submit. supervisor kim: i'm really exciting about the hearing supervisor farrell is calling

for today. my time at the school district, it was frustrating to see surplus property line around it could generate revenue or generate bell you for our district weather was teacher housing or other usage for our youth in this san francisco. but the district often is not a real estate division and it's frustrating to the city is mired with the same challenges. i have three items i would like to submit today. the first and a good news, i am submitting a new safe san francisco civil-rights ordnance today. i know we just engaged in a lengthy process where we have heard our original ordinance and have gone through committee and two votes. this past week, after our last boat with a potential impending veto by the mayor, the mayor's office and the coalition sat down and work really hard every day to try to hammer out a

compromise that would address three of the main issues the coalition was working to address through the original version. the first was to address the issue of racial profiling. in this version we are introducing today, this ordinance does treacly referenced a loss of the state of california including but not limited to the inalienable right to privacy guaranteed by article 1, section one of the california state constitution as well as the laws and policies of san francisco applicable to the police department and their policies, procedures, and orders. but this is without directly, the key provisions of the general order which i know was of contention whether it was appropriate for the board of supervisors to do. the second issue we were trying to address to the ordinance is the sun shining of the mou. we had previously a engage in a

process where secret mou's could be engaged in and the mayor's office was in full agreement and wanted to ensure we sunshine the process. in this new version, we will have a hearing and approval at the police commission before it is signed by the police chief. the third issue is how we did reporting. the chief of police shall provide to the commission a public report with the appropriate public information on the police department's work in the prior calendar year, including any issues related to the compliance of this section. this ordinance will not engage in all of the specifics of originally in the mou and the community will monitor our future progress with the fbi and

this will require more of that. but we are satisfied we are able to address three of the primary issues we are trying to address and we will be able to move forward on that. i submitted that and i do want to thank our eight co-sponsors we had for this ordinance, including our original co- sponsors and our new co- sponsors and i just want to thank the coalition and mayor's office for working so diligently. they spent many days to craft something by friday and i think largely we are very happy this is moving forward. the city is standing together as a family to say this is not the kind of activity we want to engage in. we want to make sure there is sun shining and monitoring. many of our members of the committee are back today to witness this.

thank you for your work and advocacy in advocating for the rights of our communities. thank you. second, i am introducing a resolution to initiatives shelter reform working group and are urging our new director of hope to start coordinating these working group meetings with several departments that met last thursday, including our 311, the mayor's office of disability and several other departments as well. there were several issues highlighted in hearing we are hoping to have some real outcome come out of over the next 90 days. one is simplifying the shelter reservation process. we have clients, many of whom are seniors and disabled to wait starting at 3:00 in the morning for hours and move to other sites to try to secure a

resource bed. through some of our work, we are hoping we can engage in a different system that is lottery based as of the mayor announced today. the second we are hoping to address is capital improvements to our shelters that specifically address our clients who are disabled. many of our shelters are aging and we have actually offered to improve our shelters, but do to some of the complications and the way we do our contract is that we contract with nonprofits for three to five years. i'm very worried we are actually in violation of federal law and seeing what we can do to mitigate this issue. one of the issues that has come up this is not just economic reasons that keep people homeless. it's also health issues and what

we can do to shift our resources inside our shelters working to address the actual medical needs of our clients and i'm excited to actually do in public health assessment of who lives in our shelters so we actually have a snapshot of who we are serving. what we will find is an overwhelming number of shelter clients are seniors and disabled. we have gone on the number of females and from our senior community who are excited to get engaged in this process and we are excited to partner with them as we try to gather data to have appropriate services based on the needs are shelter clients so we can continue to address chronic homelessness. i want to submit and in more a.m. in memory of one of our district six community members.

she took her life on easter sunday. she was 27 years old. as someone who has worked extensively with our youth and young adult leaders, our community was greatly saddened by this loss over the weekend. she was born and raised in san francisco and many of you may have known her or seen her at our committee hearings. she was an active member of the medical cannabis community and many of her friends and advocates are here to remember today and want to recognize her and celebrate her life and leadership in san francisco. she is a proud african-american disability advocates and christian who constantly encourage others to live their lives for my place of love. she was outspoken and advocated for safe access to medical canada's for our low-income community as well as advocating for job and come -- job-training

for those coming out of our unemployment system. she volunteered for many places and her church. many of us remember while she is doing in her community work in championing cultural diversity and inclusiveness he. her work advocating for reforms impacted many people in and out of our shelters and she always passionately supported those who are struggling to the most difficult times whether access in care or housing. she will be remembered for her smile, her encouragement, her friendship and her talent as a vocalist. she is survived by her mother, brother, and hundreds of patient advocate to mourn her death and celebrate her life shared in the community. the rest, i submit. president chiu: colleagues, have a number of items today.

but i would like to congratulate the community advocates working on the joint terrorism task force as well as supervisor kim. i thought this issue would be resolved in the way it is being resolved and i am glad that is the case and i hope it can move this legislation to its completion as quickly as possible. i had also prepared and in mori and today who, as supervisor wiener mentioned had been a 30- year merchants in chinatown. supervisor wiener had also mentioned that this is an individual who that community knew as a devoted father, husband, and a grandfather. i want to add my condolences to his family and friends and particularly his wife of 46 years. we are all saddened by the tragic loss because his life ended way too soon and it serves as a reminder we need to do more

to keep our streets safe. earlier today, i convened a conversation with a san francisco bike coalition and the bicycle advisory committee and representatives from the nba and san francisco police department. in looking at what we are doing to improve safety on our streets for all of our users for drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists. i am introducing a resolution today that outlines the a number of new steps and efforts to produce safety in our streets that i hope will be accelerated. this includes the rules of the road on traffic and transit systems, expanded education efforts for all street users and it includes insuring our police department makes education enforcement decisions based on the most dangerous intersections which happen to be in supervisor

kim's district as well as my own in the excessive speed and right of way encroachments. my resolution is asking the board of supervisors to support various agencies sharing data so that we can better target education and enforcement measures and asks us to support what the san francisco bicycle plan, the grand jury and bicycle committee have suggested are on the creation of a bicycle citation program. today, also calling for a hearing to review the inclusion rehousing was which would include development 1 packs of different housing sizes. yesterday, there was a significant hearing on the affordable housing policies and there were many issues that surfaced but i hope we will have that entire and separate hearing with the deeper examination of our inclusion 3 laws.

i want to make sure the review includes an evaluation of the impact of these laws on housing of different sizes. we've all heard different impacts and perspectives on how these laws have affected the development of housing a different sizes. for smaller housing sizes, many of us have heard anecdotal observations that inclusion are rules may have made a more challenging for projects to pencil out. for high-rise projects, we have heard the opposite. that inclusion requirements may not be adequate. ron miguel recently asked why a developer that is selling $6 million condo's gets to pay the same fee as a developer that sells $600,000 condos. i ask that we have a hearing on this subject, hopefully in our land use committee. last, a solution to endorse the

compliance reports for the 2011 and 2012 language access ordinance. the office of civic engagement immigrant affairs must analyze our language programs and prepare annual reports. this resolution endorses the findings of these reports as well as indicates our support for additional community input and for more recommendations on how we strengthen the efficacy of our ordinance and how we can better serve limited english proficient residents. thank you very much. supervisor olague: i have a couple of things today. i'm going to request a hearing on students and employment in the construction pipeline. we had a successful hearing on student careers and jobs and technology and continuing with this line of information gathering around jobs, i would

like to introduce a hearing on strategies introduced by the school district and a labor partners to prepare young people for employment opportunities in the construction trade. i have spoken with a number of high-school students in my district who are interested in careers in automotive, plumbing, and labor industries. i want to support those students who are not headed for a college track profession better looking to break into successful careers in labor. shop and other courses have been eliminated from school curriculum to the detriment of a sizable sector of our student body. not everyone will go to college, but everyone who graduate from san francisco school district should be prepared for a livable wage job. i called for this hearing to get a better understanding of how our education partners are ensuring students graduate high school with the skills and knowledge necessary to enter the

workforce. we have instituted local hiring "-- that was led by a supervisor avalos. are we doing all that is necessary to connect our young people with living wage jobs? there are projects in the pipeline that will hire local labor. many of the projects are phased in over 20 and 30 years. that is a lot of future employment. let's make sure our young people have something to look forward to after their public education and labor jobs in the public sector. i'm also introducing a modest piece of legislation that would allow for gas stations on 19th avenue to have a car wash. i would like to think my colleagues for their co sponsorship on this item. colleagues for their co sponsorship on this item.