are incidently renting five spots or less. if you try to enforce this, the reading i have got from owners that have these is not that they will step forward but start terminating tenants and stop renting. that will be more cars on the streets, a lot of empty garages and parking lots around residential buildings. this affects condo owners. there are a lot that may have a deeded parking spot but don't own a car. it is very common for them to make a deal with a neighbor in the same building to rent them the spot because they have two cars. under this law they would have to pay a 25% tax from renting a unit to a next door neighbor in a condo building. this would affect a lot of small owners, single-family houses that may rent a garage that the owner doesn't need. it could affect the ability of various car share programs to actually locate out in the neighborhoods because with this tax you

are not going to find a lot of owners willing to do this. what we are really talking about is extending a 25% tax to small owners. i think you are better off carving out the five units or less and exempting them from this tax completely. thank you. >> katherine roberts from san francisco apartment association member. it is wonderful organization. they have helped me with a ton of stuff. i'm eternally grateful to them for lots of things. this is actually the second time today i have disagreed on a policy issue. i'm really opposed to this legislation. i think it is a terrible idea for a lot of reasons. i have no parking in my building. but it took me five years literally to even find a house in the neighborhood that didn't have parking on the ground floor.

i live in upper haight, a 100-plus year old neighborhood. almost none were built with garages, so any time there is a garage it's been converted. and they destroyed the front gardens, destroyed trees, destroyed on-street public parking for that matter to put these in their houses. i have seen the damage it's done to the neighborhood. i have seen, you know, the pressure it puts. the user conflicts, negative affect on muni and also seen how it has increased the value -- the prices of the property in the neighborhood to where most people can't afford to buy in my neighborhood anymore because the cost of the parking increases the cost of the building so much that somebody like me who couldn't afford to buy a house with a garage, it took me literally five years to find one that i

could afford because everyone had put garages in. i don't like that you are doing anything that will encourage people to think, well, if my tenants won't rent it, i will find five others who will. it puts more pressure on people to think it is okay for me to spend money on the garage when really the grounds should be used for housing. we are having a terrible housing crunch. i think anything that goes in a different direction is a really bad idea, thank you. >> good afternoon, tom radulovich, director of lable city. we were part of the conversation that created that quarter mile rule. we knew a lot were renting to folks to nearby residents. we thought that was okay but wanted to regularize it and talk to stakeholders

like livable city. we want to create a market for residential parking but don't want to open the neighborhoods up to commuters. that is a real change in policy. the residential spaces would no longer be residential, we are changing the use entirely. we think there's a lot of great things in this. we love the simplification and amnesty but we don't think the planning code change was vetted with anybody. i did wrote a note to commission, i wasn't able to go, a disadvantage, a lot of neighborhoods will be affected. five units or fewer is pretty much every residential parcel in this city. we are a city of one, two, lee-unit buildings, a city of small apartments. virtually every residential unit or building in district 11 or in district four would be open to commuters coming in from outside the neighborhood. district six, i think about the work with western soma, all the enclaves would be open to commuters coming

into downtown. it is a big policy shift. a lot of people will be affected. policies will be undermined or strengthened so we feel like this doesn't belong in a parking tax simplification ordinance. we would urge you to pass this along but maybe hold this planning amendment, this planning code amendment here in committee. then in planning commission but i think more folks need to weigh in. we need to understand how many propertis are affected, which neighborhoods are affected so we don't create a huge mess and turn these spaces into commuter spaces for folks living outside the neighborhood, thank you. >> good afternoon, minute did kirschner, a real estate broker and property manager. i'm here on behalf of some * of my owners. i respectfully disagree with past two speakers. most buildings that have -- small buildings that have

small garages, those spaces are generally filled on. should there be one, two, lee other spaces, owners need the flexibility to rent them as they can because parking does go with the units by and large. one has two buildings, one has parking, another doesn't. she is able to offer to tenants if there is a spot available. she has put in four electric charging stations. we want the flexibility to rent them to people with electric cars or city car share. making this process simple and functional is the process of city government. we appreciate you bringing this forward and shepherding it through. thank you. >> thank you.

next speaker. >> good afternoon again, supervisors. brook turner, with coalition for better housing. may i begin by thanking supervisor wiener for his work, that is helpful, mr. cato and mr. cisneros if he is watching for working on this. it came as i think a reaction to constituent complaints about bills coming in or enforcement unknown tax law where there are some folks who had to pay huge fines and huge back tax on us and are continuing to do that, even as we speak. they still have to do this. although ignorance of the law is certainly no excuse, it is -- it was not known

by most anyone that this was necessary. if they did know, had i known that they had to be fingerprinted and bonded, $1,000, all these thing, you can expect they wouldn't rent out their parking spot or they would not report it. we think that the amnesty part of this is very important. we appreciate that. i think mr. wiener's correct, you will get a lot more people who will come up and pay the tax, pay the penalties and back taxes if you do that. we do understand, of course, the concerns of smaller property owners in that they shouldn't be treated as big parking companies because they are not. these are folks who have maybe two units, are renting out their driveway or garage in their building to help pay for the mortgage. it is a concern that they would be hobaled by a great

expense. hopefully this won't be the case with the new legislation. we can start with a clean slate, pardon me, and move on from there. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, i'm dennis ribal, a property manager in san francisco. thank you, supervisor wiener, for your work on this important issue. while i support the direction this proposal is moving, i don't think it goes quite far enough, i think it is difficult to enforce this requirement as far as the tax collector's office. from my own experience i though the property en errs penalized and forced to pay past due tax and penalties, the net in which they are ensnared is if they have their property managed by a management company who gets

a periodic visit from the tax collector's office to audit payrole and ask to see books and records. that is how they catch the property owners who were unaware of the law. as far as mom and pop property owners out there, there's no mechanism way to audit this or subject them to the same requirement. so it is not fair to someone who is using professional management is more likely to get ensnared in this thing. as a property manager we are in a weird position. because of the law we have to discriminate against a tenant who doesn't have a car in event we have an apartment for rent that has a space available or have to take someone who doesn't have the car and then we end up not renting the space and lose income because cost of compliance

is so burdensome. i would complete an exemption from the parking tax ordinance for owner who's rent five or fewer spaces, thank you. >> thank you. other members of the public who wish to comment on item number eight? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have a number of items to -- places to take action on. we have an amendment i think that supervisor wiener has articulated, which is to have billing go from quarterly to yearly and adjust amnesty from january 1st, 2013 through june 30th, 2013. do we have a motion? >> is it sufficient that i stated the summary or the exact language? i can do that if need be. >> if you could state the exact language. i got the date but not the -- >> okay. so on page five, lines 16

to 17 will read, the billing owner or manager who registers for relief under this section between january 1st 2013 and june 30th 2013 and satisfies -- then continues unchanged, then the second change would be on line 19. simply changing march 31st, 2013 to june 30th, 2013. then finally higher up on that page, page five, line five the word quarterly will be changed to yearly. or i guess annually is the correct term. so quarterly will be changed to annually. >> thank you for articulating those changes. colleagues, that is an amendment supervisor wiener has put forward. can we take that without objection? we will do that without objection. then to the underlying item

as amended. colleagues, do we have a motion? supervisor kim? >> i will make a motion. >> i will make a motion to forward this with recommendation to the full aboard. do want to thank supervisor wiener's office and groups that have brought this forward. i actually ones aware of this issue with our smaller * -- i wouldn't call them smaller parking operators because they are probably residents and homeowners that rent spaces in their residences to other san francisco residents. i did want to say i thought it was a difficult issue foranyone, whether it is planning or to enforce kind of the limb station. though i understand where that had originally come from, ensuring we didn't have commuters renting spaces in residential homes but i think limiting it to san francisco residents is easier for us to enforce and kind of largely deals with a lot of the

constraints around commuters from outside san francisco renting within san francisco. i do think that this reaches a delicate compromise from a lot of what we heard from public comment. whether to completely exempt residents from having to pay the tax to heavily enforcing to make sure we have a transit-first city. i appreciate what's come before us. i think residents should be paying taxes. they are charging and creating revenue for themselves through renting out the parking spots. i appreciate we are moving to an annual level. i think that will take some of the burden from residents renting out one or two spots to other residents in the city. >> thank you. we have a motion to send the item forward with recommendation. i would say i did hear the public comments. you know, frankly, the comment about it creating a situation where we have commuter -- areas where people are parking, i'm not sure that would really

happen. i think that in some of our neighborhoods we already impact that way. in the sunset for example we have tons of commuter who's park on our neighborhood streets and take their routes. i think that is something that is a larger issue we would contend and deal with. with that can we take that motion without objection? we will do that without objection. thank you very much. >> thank you, colleagues. >> are there any other items before us? >> the agenda for today. >> thank you, we are adjourned.

>> president chiu: ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting. madam clerk, could you please call the roll. supervisor avalos, present. supervisor campos, present. president chiu, present. supervisor chu, present. supervisor cohen, present. supervisor elsbernd, present. supervisor farrell, present. supervisor kim, present. supervisor mar, absent. supervisor olague, present. supervisor wiener, present. mr. president, you have a quorum. >> president chiu: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, given that it is september 11, 2012, i'd like to ask that we take a moment of silence to remember the victims of 9/11.

>> president chiu: thank you very much. if you could please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> president chiu: colleagues, we have our july 31 board meeting minutes. motion by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor farrell. without objection those are approved. madam clerk, any communications? >> angela calvillo: i have no communications. >> president chiu: could you call our 3 pm special order. >> angela calvillo: first item of business is policy discussion between mayor and linley and board of supervisors. this week representing the even

districts, specifically district 4. the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. the president will recognize the sproofers who will present her question to the mayor, as long as the entire discussion does not exceed five minutes per supervisor. >> president chiu: mr. mayor, welcome back to the board. >> mayor lee: thank you. good afternoon, supervisors, and to the public, thank you again for inviting me here to present answers to your questions. before i begin, i want to welcome everybody back from the august break. and, also, just to add to the moment of silence, we had earlier for 9/11 victims, if i might just ask you to remember our local heroes, as a part of that, and in addition to the -- some almost 3,000 people who lost their lives for us in san francisco, one of our many connections, is betty yong and

mike bingham for saving the people that they did and struggling with that tragedy. thank you, mr. president and the board. we're back to work, and appreciate the question. >> president chiu: thank you, mr. mayor. our one and only question for today was provided by our colleague from district 4, supervisor carmen chu. >> supervisor chu: i am pleased to offer the one question. the question is the area you have to support economic growth in our neighborhoods in march we invited you to participate in a merchant walk on taraval street where you saw blocks of vacant storefronts and saw thought of city investment. what specific physical improvements have your departments completed in the naks six months on taraval, and what specific actions has the office of small business or the office of economic workforce development take in in the last six months to reach out to property owners and business between 31st and 33rd

avenues. >> mayor lee: thank you for that question. on our merchant walk on taraval street, it really did emphasize to me the incredible potential and opportunity for transform in change in neighborhoods. i'm pleased to share with you that as part of the 2011 repavement and street safety bond, that the department of public works is implementing, we prioritized 1.6 million dollars for improvements along taraval, particularly between the streets of 46th and the great highway. these improvements are based on a conceptual plan that was prepared by one of your community members, and was given to me while we were on that walk with you in march. the next steps will be to work closely with your office and certainly to organize a series of meetings so that we can confirm, with feedback from the community, and then refine this conceptual design, and we would be prepared and dpw and the

other agencies will be prepared to start construction pursuant to that agreed-upon plan as soon as summer of 2013, which is next year. in addition, the office of economic and workforce development has funded the sunset neighborhood beacon center. in fact it's funded, that center, since 2009, in terms of hosting a part time corridor manager that specifically dedicated to assessing and addressing the unique needs of that street and that area. this corridor manager talks to property owners and businesses along the street, encouraging them to upgrade the storefronts, what were they see fit, to be able to utilize effectively the 311 system, fill, and have ideas to fill vacancies, as they occur along that avenue, and participant in the neighborhood cleanups. because i believe we can do more, i also made sure that taraval street was part of our

new invest in neighborhoods initiative, which will leverage resources from the various departments, and all of the economic development tools that are currently available to us. on public safety, we are also working closely with our police department to increase the number of patrols along taraval, particularly in response to the uptick in criminal activity, especially in front of that seven-eleven store on 31nd and taraval. you know, although it's slightly outside of the few blocks that you've identified in your question, supervisor, i want to mention that we have partnered with the community and your office, to increase visitors to the area, including the promotion of movies in mccapen, a series that had great success this past month of june. in fact it had such success that we intend to provide funding for a second series of movies that will begin every friday night during the month of september. i'm also pleased to report that

we're laurening a new ad -- launching a new ada improvement program in district 4. for you other supervisors this might be something you would be interested in as well. we're partnering with the the asian neighborhood design and mayor's office of disability to complete free assessments for businesses around ada compliance. some of you have deliberated around what the businesses are facing to ada compliant matters. so providing this free assessment would be helpful and i would be glad to entertain other requests from your supervisors as well to help our small businesses. and then after these assessments are done, supervisor, the businesses will then be encouraged to apply for grant funding through the sf shines program to make these improvements. i would like to invite everyone here to come and continue this conversation at the community

coffee, which will be held this saturday, in district 4, saturday, september 15. and i know supervisor, your concern about your constituents as the others are, and so am i. i look forward to productive working relationship, both this community coffee, as well as the community clean team effort that's scheduled for this saturday for both district 4 and district 7. thank you very much. >> president chiu: thank you, mr. mayor. i think that conclude today's question time. >> mayor lee: and i want to especially acknowledge and thank the other supervisors for their questions as well. thank you. >> presisident chiu: with that, madam clerk, why don't we go to our consent agenda. >> angela calvillo: items 2 through 5 compromise the consent agenda, and will be ablthd upon by a single roll call vote. if a member would like to discuss a matter it shall be removed and considered separately. >> president chiu: colleagues, anyone want to sever any of these items? roll call vote on 2-5. >> angela calvillo: supervisor

farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor olague, aye. supervisor wiener, aye. supervisor avalos, aye. supervisor campos, aye. president chiu, aye. supervisor chu, aye. supervisor cohen, aye. supervisor elsbernd, aye. there are 11 ayes. >> president chiu: those ordinances are passed. items 6. >> angela calvillo: an ordinance amending the police code to eliminate certain requirements for secondhand and antique dealers, modify permit requirements, and to set the secondhand dealer permit application fee at 200. >> president chiu. >> president chiu: thank you. first, i want to thank the sponsor of this legislation, supervisor wiener, for his work in moving this through and i think he's dealt with a lot of the issues that were raised, both from the public safety community as well as from the

secondhand community. there was one question and i have an amendment to address the situation. i want to appreciate the fact that this legislation really does help to minimize bureaucratic hassles for secondhand dealers interacting with city government and to focus on goods that are more often than not the subject of criminal activity. one of those goods that was emoom rated in supervisor wiener's legislation vosms jewelry. i was approached by several small business folks within my district, who asked to ask that we exempt out jewelry that involved minimal amounts that typically would not be involved in criminal activity. so i have circulated a brief amendment that states that jewelry and watches would be encompassed by this legislation unless they have a fair market value as a secondhand good of $40 or less. this was a number arrived at after conversations with the police department, looking at

these activities, as well as by secondhand dealers dealing in jewelry and watches. i want to thank supervisor wiener for his engagement in this conversation and ask for your support. >> we have a motion by presidet chiu. supervisor eastern. >> supervisor wiener: i wanted to note i support the amendment. >> president chiu: can we take that without objection? without objection. can we take this item, same house, same call? same house, same call. this ordinance is finally passed. madam clerk, can you call item 7. >> angela calvillo: an ordinance amending the administrative code to authorize the airport commission to enter into leases with entities providing aviation support services without competitive bidding for a term not to exceed 10 years. >> president chiu: colleagues, same house, same call. this ordinance is passed on first read. item 8. >> angela calvillo: and ordinance waiving the fee in the public works code for temporary street space occupancy as part of the ocean avenue arts and

cult festival october 15, 2012. >> president chiu: same house, same call, passed on the first reading. >> angela calvillo: item 9, an ordinance setting san francisco's property tax rate and establishing pass-through rate for tenants 2012-2013. >> president chiu: same house, same call. this ordinance is passed on first read. >> angela calvillo: item 10, resolution approval a port lease commission with ammunition llc for office space located at 10 lombard street, roundhouse 2 in the northern waterfront with a 52 month term. >> president chiu: same house same call. this resolution is adopted. >> angela calvillo: item 11 a a resolution authorizing the exercise of a 10 year option to extend the master lease at 124 turk street with department of health. >> president chiu: same house, same call. this resolution is adopted. >> angela calvillo: item 12 resolution authorizing a contract amendment increase with