and wapted to see this change be made. so i will now hope that you can support our request that you split the file and that you move out of committee this section of the legislation. once you split the file that makes the changes that are outlined before you. >> thank you, supervisor campos. if there are no questions, let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? and there is a limit of 3 minutes per person. there is a small buzzer or ding that goes off with 30 seconds to go. >> so we need the microphone on. >> it's not on? >> there we go. this is my second time before this committee. i want to thank you

for considering this new piece of legislation which actually it was a lot of questions why the mission district was left out from the legislation originally. i know it is very complex legislation and it has to be split in different ways, but, you know, they left the mission district out of it and i would like for you to consider this new addition to the legislation so we can move forward with a project that has been pending for about 8 years. in the meantime, some other businesses have grown out of the mission district and we are losing a lot of money at this point, not obl the money but also at the same time we have been 28 years in business, many of the workers, which there are about 40 of them, have made a living out of this establishment. so i urge you in the name of the businesses as well as those people that have been working with us for a long time to move this piece forward so we can go ahead and

start building. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other speakers? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleague, is there a motion to split the legislation? without objection we're spliting it. >> no objection. >> and then miss miller, so we vote separately on both of the items. which one do we vote on first? >> the original legislation. >> so for the original legislation, colleagues, can we move that forward without objection? great. and on the split --. >> mr. chair, the original legislation i believe is being continued and the divided legislation is being recommended. >> so let's rescind -- we didn't vote on the first item, so is there any objection to continuing the first item to the call of the chair? i don't see where -- to the call of the chair. is there any objection

to continuing it? seeing none. now a vote on the split item that's before us. can we move that forward without objection, colleagues? thank you. . >> thank you, colleagues, thank you, mr. chair. >> you're welcome, mr. campos. >> miss miller, item 3. >> item 3 is an item amending the san francisco administrative code by adding section 1.60 to require the mayor's office of housing and the planning department to report to the board of supervisors. >> our president, mr. chiu. >> that has been trailing the trust fund amendment that we have placed on the november ballot. there were a number of policy that is we wanted to legislate in the wake of that

particular charter amendment and this is one of them. should voters approve the trust fund measure when it goes to the ballot, we would like for this piece of legislation to go into effect and this was something that came out of discussions with the mayor's office on housing. given that the trust fund measure is going to be put into place policies that will last for the next 30 years, including a decrease in inclusionary housing requirements by 20 percent, as well as an increase in the inclusionary program from 5 to 10 units, i wanted to make sure the city was regularly evaluating the impact of these policies on affordable housing policies by requiring the planning department to rrt on the policy by reporting to the board of supervisors every 5 years for the 30 years the legislation is in place. this would require the board to take legislative action should it be necessary to achieve our city's

affordable housing goals in the future. we are some helpful changes that we have made and i wanted to give an opportunity to the mayor's office to make some initial comments and i understand they have also one additional change, but mr. olson lee, it's good to have you here. >> thank you very much, olson lee, director of the mayor's office of housing. the mayor's office of housing did have one modification to the modifications suggested by the planning commission, and that is to clarify the valuation of the programs, the housing trust fund, be based on different income categories including those above 120. one of the programs of the housing trust fund is the first responders program, done payment assistance first responders, they are likely to be over 120 percent of median

income and we want to be sure any evaluation captures that part of our program going forward. the income categories suggested by the planning department plus a category of over 120. >> and mr. chair, i should clarify, the changes that the mayor's office and housing have recommended is in the amended version that i just circulated to all of you here and i would ask the committee after public comment to adopt that and hopefully move it forward with recommendation. >> thank you, president chiu. if there are no questions, let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. so, colleagues, can we adopt the amendments without objection? thank you. and on the item itself, can we support this with a positive recommendation without objection is this thank you. thank you, president chiu. miss miller, please call item no. 2.

>> item no. 2 is an ordinance amending the planning code to consolidate requirements for privately owned public space and (inaudible) bulletin for privately owned public open space. >> also sponsored by president chiu. >> thank you, colleagues, for consideration of our items today. as we all know san francisco includes the densist urban neighborhoods outside manhattan and we are always looking for ways to improve livability as well as open space. the legislation you have in front of you is to help ensure that all of our citizens have access to open spaces that are known as popos, privately owned public operate spaces. i know there are -- this is sometimes thought of popos as slang for the police, but it is not that in this instance, these are privately owned public open spaces. popos under our planning code were required under the 19 85 downtown plan.

for every 50 feet of office space, 1 square foot of public open space was required. we have over a dozen such spaces in plazas, roof top gardens, atriums, small parks, mostly in our downtown area and most of them are in my district, district 3. unfortunately, over the years, very few citizens know about the existence of popos because signage requirements have been extremely inadequate. i want to thank spur, john king of the san francisco chronicle as well as the planning department for their strong advocacy to ensure this legislation would help move forward better signage requirements and i also want to thank supervisor wiener for his attention to this topic as well. we have a brief presentation from the planning department and i'd like to invite planning staff to make that presentation. >> good afternoon, chair mar

and supervisors, kemia hadadar from the planning department. i'm going to go over the issues we found out through (inaudible) also our own trips to these spaces. there were multiple issues this legislation is trying to address. one is the size of these plaques. currently the code doesn't regulate the size so that made these signs to be in different sizes so, like, for example in this one we have a small like 6 by 10 inches sign plaque here, it's 55 second street. on 55 mission we have a slightly bigger one with lots of text in there, small font, and then empire park is a large sign with

language in both chinese and english. the second issue was the information that's provided in these signage. currently the code regulates some of the content of the information in these signage and there is some good examples, like this one, the intercontinental hotel, it tells us where the space is because most of these issues are that the spaces are interior, they are accessed through a building rather than being outside so it's going to make it hard for the pedestrian, seated spaces without actually knowing they exist. this is another example that provides some information. it's good but still doesn't address even the current requirements of the code that talks about what features there is, if there's seating, if there's a restroom in the space. so it doesn't talk

about that. then this one, which is not a good example, is just a sign on a glass window and doesn't really provide any information on where the space is. another issue, the location and placement of the sign, for example, on this it's located on the surface on the ground, it's hard to see. this one is 101 second, it's actually a really nice space but this other door from second street doesn't even have a plaque so if someone's on second street they wouldn't know there's a space public here. then this one, the intercontinental hotel, the orient shows where the plaque is and this is really far from the pedestrian walking by. this is kind of, like, inverted in entrance and people won't really see the plaque if they don't know there's a space over there.

then last issue is the clarity, both the material of the plaques and also the contrast between the contents and the back grupbld. as you see, it's really difficult to see this sign that's engraved on a glass window. this one also is like silver color on a white surface, it's hard to see it. so the modifications that planning commission proposed are more regulations in terms of improving the sign and also applying it to existing popos that are not in compliance with existing requirements and then the other changes the planning commission suggesed was basically to consolidate the 3 different sections in the code that regulate these plaques to just make it easier to read and easier to understand. so we're going to, the

planning commission has commended regarding size and fonts in a zoning bulletin that has, you know, all the contents. it would have goe logos for the features that's in there, hours, and then this would also be available in a digital format for project sponsors to get and just order the plaque. i have the plaque in the real size here just to see how it looks like. it looks like this as an example. so that's basically all the

modifications is just to make these spaces more visible and easier to find and make the public aware of the existence of these spaces. that concludes my presentation. >> thank you. i just wanted to mention two other things. we had introduced the initial version of this legislation that went to planning and i want to thank the planning staff for proposing some guidelines for existing popos, what we had stated was if there were new requirements, if there's a change of use for an existing popo, then the new requirements we have in this legislation will kick in. if there's existing signage that dosment meet current code requirements, again the new requirements would kick in. there are some very small amendments that i have circulated to you. they are on page 14 of this legislation. i

want to thank boma and the representatives of the building management world for feedback here. it was suggested we not require the email address of owners who were responsible for public access. right now the requirement is for a name, a telephone number and the postal address and we had email address as one of the requirements but i'm happy to suggest that we take that out. and then we were also, it was suggested to us by spur that the description on the informational plaque includes the type of open space, in other words, is it a plaza, is it an atrium, as well as the location of the open space and in cases where the space isn't visible from an open sidewalk, directions how to get to the open space and i think these are all very good changes to the legislation. colleagues, i would ask after public comment if you can adopt this amendment and move this forward with recommendation to the full board. i want to take a moment to thank not just the planning

department but spur had brought this to my attention and again john king who writes for the chronicle has been excellent at pointing out these secret spaces that should be made for public for all of us to enjoy. >> thank you, president chiu. i'm looking at the spur web site and the guide to san francisco popo, secrets of san francisco, but there's a lot of good information from sf fist and spur online. if there are no further questions, let's open this up to the public. anyone like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i just want to thank president chiu for taking leadership on this and addressing something that should have been addressed, frankly, a long time ago. we know that a public space is not just a traditional

open space like parks, they are in a densely populated 7 by 7 urban environment like san francisco. we need to take advantage of public spaces wherever they are and they take all sorts of different shapes and forms and popos are certainly an important part of that mix. so i just wanted to express my thanks to president chiu for moving us forward and i move that we forward it with a positive recommendation to the board. i also adopt the amendment. >> i also really appreciate the increase of awareness of these public open spaces from redwood park in the shadow of the transamerica pyramid to the incedible roof sun terraces at the crocker galleria.

i see no other comments. can we adopt these amendments without objection, colleagues? thank you. and on the ordinance itself, can we support this with a positive recommendation without objection? thank you. thank you. thank you, president chiu. miss miller, is there any other business before us. >> no, there are no further matters. >> great, meeting adjourned. thank you, everyone. (meeting adjourned).

>> so again good morning everyone. i am ed risk. i am the transportation director in the great city of san francisco and it's my great pleasure and delight to welcome you today to a great celebration. what we're celebrating here is the partnership that many of you that are with us today that have gotten to this point. we are celebrating the fact that we have gotten to this point and the investments that will central sup way will bring to san francisco and what it means for this city and this region. i can't tell you what an honor and privilege it is to serves as the transportation director in

this great city. we ordered san francisco weather to deep the dust down and we are in a construction site and it's a great time for transportation across the nation largely because of some of the folks you will hear who are to my left and your right. it is also a great time to be in san francisco because we have leadership here in the city that are encouraging innovation, that recognize the importance of investment and infrastructure, and there is no better manifestation of that than this project and that prt is man manifested in a way that i can see no more strongly in our great mayor who have been been a public works director, a city administrator, and helped build the city's plan he really gets this stuff. he is really engaged in this stuff. i don't think a week has come gone by

that he hasn't asked me when this day is coming and it's a pleasure to introduce our mayor ed lee. >> thank you for your wonderful leadership. over 20-25 years ago when we were struggling with the earthquake, when people in chinatown said "gosh we're really going to suffer, and if we're going to be participating in our great economy in san francisco we have to find a way for better transportation routes to transfer people up north and down south of the city, and when we call ourselves a city as a transit first city there is no better example than that than what is reflected in the plans for the central subway. this project is a vital enhancement

of our public transportation system. it's going to significantly improve the movement of tens of thousands of franciscans and if you were here this past weekend when people were predicting it would be jam san francisco instead of san francisco you knew that folks were educated because of the great leadership at our mta, our county transportation, all of our transit systems and were at the highest level of educating the visitors and others to use public transportation. it will work for all of us and as we build the housing units we identified in hunter's point and treasure island and welcome more people to our great city and we are growing as a result. we are going to have the greatest subway system that can connect to our bart, to our caltrans, to up and down our muni lines.

this central subway will be a great success. it will connect to some of the most densely populated and rapidly developing areas, and it will improve access to all of our vibrant communities, and really is investments like this that will foster loyalty among all of our public transit customers while we reduce carbon emissions, make our city cleaner and cleaner. i'm not the only one that thinks this way. you know i'm among many, many friends today in the audience, on stage and i would like to invite at this time someone who has made it a practice to visit our city regularly, to make sure this project was being planned well, that the initial funds that were granted to us by president obama and with the great work of our

congressional delegates and speaker pelosi and senator feinstein we would make sure to use it in the right way and creating the jobs and the investment that people wanted to see. u.s. transportation secretary ray lahood. please share this announcement. >> hello san francisco. i am delighted to be here to celebrate with all of you three very important champions for this project. senator feinstein who doesn't often call me, but when she does i pay attention, and four years ago when i went to see her about a number of issues this project was number one on her list. we need to get it done. we need to get a full funding grant agreement. she

has been a champion for this project from the beginning going back -- i am sure she will tell you, i don't know how far. speaker pelosi, a champion for this project. [applause] speaker pelosi doesn't call me very often, but when she does it's always important. four years ago when i took this job i went to see the speaker. this was number one on her list. how do we get this project done? jackie spear a strong advocate for this project. you have three great champions, and i will also tell you that in working with senator boxer on the transportation bill this project was always at the top of her list.

[applause] so i am delighted to be here. i don't know of another place i would rather be, and i know that all of you are so thrilled with the opportunity that this will create. every one of you sitting out there deserves credit. you've all played a role in this in some way or another. this is not about you. it's about the people. it's also about the next generation of transportation for the next generation for san francisco. that's what this is about. this is your vision. it's a clear vision, and so i am delighted, and very proud to announce today $942 million to the san francisco -- [applause] for the san francisco mta to

extend the central subway light rail system from the downtown business district to chinatown. thousands of people will be enabled with good transportation as a result of this project. now, i have a long speech here but i'm going to stop because i know every one of these other people has more important things to say. thank you to the champions. congress women spears, speaker pelosi, senator feinstein and senator boxer you will well served in washington d c and the people will be well served by this project. thank you san francisco. >> secretary lahood. thank you very much for that wonderful news. >> [inaudible] >> it's a really truly a great day for san francisco. great

cities need great public transportation systems, and you know what? you know what makes our city great with all these leaders? they listen. they listen to our communities. they understand -- because for years our communities pleaded we need better transportation systems what makes our leaders so great they listen and they act. that is so wonderful. that is what standard that we have for all of our public officials. secretary lahood if you could thank president obama from all of us. yes. [applause] because i know today we're going to spend a lot of precious moments thanking leader pelosi and congress women fine 79 and

boxer and. >> >> we're going to thank all of our community members and from china town and all of them have worked very hard. these are not easy projects. they're very complicated and people had to work at the highest levels to make sure that every aspect worked, and a person who has worked tirelessly for 20 years and we join in celebrating 25 years of being in our congress and sought at every stage to make sure these funds were projected, to make sure we're doing our part, that congress is doing their part, all of the federal agencies, the person that first called me to share the news we're out of the white house and into the congress and wait our magical 60 to 90 days and lees