[gavel] >> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, march the 12th, 2013. madam clerk, could you please call the roll? >> supervisor avalos? avalos present. supervisor breed? breed present. supervisor campos? campos present. supervisor chiu? chiu present. supervisor cohen?

cohen present. supervisor farrell? farrell present. supervisor kim? kim present. supervisor mar? mar present. supervisor tang? tang present. supervisor wiener? wiener present. supervisor yee? yee present. mr. president, all members are present. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of the 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. >> colleagues, we have our february 5th, 2013 board meeting minutes. could i have a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor cohen, seconded by supervisor mar. without objection, those meeting minutes are approved. madam clerk, any communications? >> there are no communications, mr. president. >> and if you could read our 2:00 p.m. special order. >> the first item of business is the policy discussion between mayor edwin lee and members of the board of supervisors.

specifically district 4. the mayor may initially address the board for up to five minutes. the president will recognize the supervisor who will present her own question to the mayor. follow-up questions are in order as long as the entire discussion does not exceed five minutes per supervisor. >> thank you, madam clerk. mr. mayor, welcome back. welcome to all the questions we'll be asking you today. >> thank you, president chiu. i'd especially like to acknowledge our district 4 supervisor katy tang and like to say the supervisors hit the ground running. i look forward to addressing the important question you have for me today. thank you. >> with that i'd like to recognize our mayor district 4 colleague, supervisor tang. >> good afternoon, mayor, colleagues, and i guess i'm the only one who has a question today. in light of major upcoming and potential new projects in san francisco that may bring job creation and spur economic development sur as america's cup and the proposed warrior's arena, how do you propose or how do you plan on working with neighborhoods that are further in proximity to ensure that

these economic sunsets trickle down to all residents in san francisco? >> thank you for that question, supervisor tang. i want it say that making sure all our neighborhood benefits when we are successful attracting major benefits, which is a policy priority for me. if benefits aren't distributed equitably throughout the city, i think we will have missed a great opportunity. having said that, i do also say that events in general bring a huge amount of revenue to the city. obviously the general fund is greatly benefited from it and linking it to a past question i had at this board, especially when it comes to filling up our hotels as we're one of the strongest conventions and entertainment cities across the country for large events. that our particular

organizations that we've made beneficiary of the hotel tax also greatly benefit and those, both the general fund and the arts are much of the time subject to the decision making of this body as to the distribution of though funds. and i also say that there are three really major undertakings that we launch to ensure that equitable distribution happens with these great events. and those three fall into categories of advocacy, information, and information sharing, and capacity building. in major events such as america's cup or the proposed warriors arena are in their formative stages. we need to make sure that they incorporate our neighborhoods and small businesses at that time. for the america's cup we have a work force development and local small business inclusion plan. this plan sets forth the employment, contracting and small local business inclusionary goals for

america's cup 34, including promoting the employment of san francisco residents and generating business contracting opportunities for local small businesses. an example of this is that the america's cup is for the first time extending the construction [speaker not understood] wages to a private temporary debt and this is the first time it's done in the city's history. another example of this is during the construction of the warriors arena, 25% of the overall work force and 50% of the apprentice level workers will be san francisco residents. so, when the fiscal arena report says more than 300,000 direct jobs will be created, we know that is a statement that is something directly related to our local work force. these two projects are great examples of gains that we have made through advocacy. the second is information. we need to get the word out to

all of the neighborhoods about economic opportunities, partnerships with the chamber, for example, or the technology chamber, our downtown chamber with partnerships with sf travel, with the office of small businesses, with local community-based organizations both for profit and nonprofit, with you and your staff, supervisor, are critical components to make sure that all of our thousands of small businesses know about these opportunities. to date, 2000 small businesses have signed up and learned about contracting opportunities through america's cup business connect, the portal that connects small businesses with contracting opportunities associated with the america's cup events. we are also working with sf travel to drive visitors and attendees of these major events to our neighborhoods. the third area we call capacity building and that is at work that's necessary to make sure that our neighborhoods actually have the capacity to handle

event-related activity when it does happen. as part of our invest in neighborhoods initiative, performing assessments of 25 commercial corridors and those include tara ville, irving and noriega in your district, supervisor. and to build capacity we have also provided nearly $4 million in small business loans and facade and tenant improvements to provide critical assistance to our neighborhood commercial corridors. this approach, a sequence of advocacy, information and capacity building will ensure we create opportunities and connect communities all over our city to those great event opportunities. thank you very much for your question. i look forward to working with you, supervisor, on this issue. >> thank you, mr. mayor. i think that concludes our questions for today. madam clerk, why don't we go to our consent agenda. >> items 2 through 4 comprise

the consent calendar. an item may be removed and considered separately. >> colleagues, with would anyone like to sever these item? roll call vote. ant on the consent calendar, skim? supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the ordinances are finally passed. next item -- actually why don't we skip over the cpmc items, 5 through 7 until our special order and go to item 8. >> item 8 was referred from the land use and economic development committee without recommendation. the resolution granting street encroachment at 54 peralta avenue. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you very much, mr.

president. i want to begin by thanking president chiu and his office for sponsoring this item. we have seen this item continued a number of times until some of the issues that were raised by the neighbors were resolved. and i want to thank all of the parties, including the applicant here and the residents of this neighborhood, for coming together to resolve the issues at hand. and i especially want to acknowledge the work of bob besso, michelle kimbalt and acknowledge the work of the developer who worked in good faith to resolve these issues. and if i may, i'd like to ask john kwong of the department of public works if he's here. is mr. kwong here? okay, my understanding was that he would be here, but that's fine. as mr. kwong is aware, we have

a resolution that will involve certain work that will be done by this developer to address some of the issues raised by the neighborhood. so, with that understanding, i would ask that we move forward and approve this item. thank you. >> thank you. colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> item 9. >> item 9 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to rescind the sunset clause in the san francisco bonding and financial assistance program. >> same house same call? this ordinance is passed on first read. madam clerk, can you call items 10 and 11 >> item 10, ordinance a appropriating approximately $2.77 million of fee revenue for the planning department for fiscal year 2012-13. item 11 an ordinance amending the annual salary forectiontionv for i fiscal year 13 to reflect 8 positions in the planning department focusing on reducing the backlog.

>> colleagues, can we take these items same house same call? without objection these ordinances are passed on the first read. [gavel] >> item 12. >> item 12, resolution providing retro authorization to the planning department to accepted and expend a grant from february 8, 2012, to july 1st, 2014 for 200,000 from the metropolitan transportation commission for the inclusion of streetscape and circulation improvements in the central corridor draft plan environmental analysis. >> same house same call? this resolution is adopted. item 13. >> item 13 is a resolution providing retroactive authorization to the recreation and park department to expend a grant for the period of november 28, 2012 through june 30th, 2016 for approximately $77,000 from the california department of housing and community development for the park project and the mayor's office of housing park project. >> same house same call? this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> item 14. >> item 14, ordinance appropriating approximately 118,000 to the san francisco department on the status of women for fiscal year 2012-13.

>> same house same call? this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> item 15. >> item 15, resolution providing retroactive authorization to the recreation and park department for the period of june 1st, 2011 through march 31st, 2013 to accept and expend a cal recycle tire derived product grant in the amount of 150,000 from the california department of resources recycling and recovery to purchase materials for use of various city park sites. >> same house same call? this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> item 16. >> item 16 is a resolution authorizing the execution, issue and sale and delivery of a multi-family mortgage revenue note and spored matt multi-family revenue bond in aggregate principal in amount not to exceed 30 million to provide financing for the acquisition and construction of an 8 l unit multi-family residential rental housing development known as the 21 75 market street apartments. >> same house same call? this resolution is adopted. item 17. >> item 17 is a resolution

authorizing the mayor's office of housing to submit an application to the california department of housing and community development for funding under the calhome program. >> same house same call? this resolution is adopted gov >> item 18. >> item 18 is an ordinance amending the building code and adding various sections concerning seismic standards and making conforming changes. >> same house same call? this ordinance is passed on the first reading. [gavel] >> why don't we call items 19 through 22 around the western soma plan. a these items were referred from the land use and economic development committee without recommendation. item 19, ordinance amending the general plan by adding the western south of market area plan making conforming amendments to the housing commerce industry and recreation open space element. the land use index and the soma east soma mission showplace square, potrero and central waterfront area plans. item 20, ordinance amending the planning code by adding and amending various sections to implement the goals, objectives and policies of the western

south of market area plan. item 21, ordinance amending the zoning map street to revise use districts and height and bulk districts within the western south of market area plan. and item 22, ordinance amending the administrative code by integrating the western south of market area plan into the eastern neighborhoods area plan monitoring program. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you, president chiu. really excited to finally have the western soma plan come before the board of supervisors today. it's something that we have been working on since i started in office a little over two years ago and as many of you know, has been within the community for the last eight years. so, i almost kant believe that this day is here and that we're finally at the full board for a vote. this comprehensive plan is an effort to build a complete and diverse neighborhood in the western soma portion of the city of san francisco. it provides a path forward to accommodate the immense

development pressure in this part of the city with a mixed use integrated approach. and director john ram recently said that 80% of the growth and development is happening in 20% of the city and this is certainly a part of that 20%. this plan does recognize that there's a need for residential growth as population grows in san francisco. so, it does encourage more residential development, particularly when alley ways boehm residential enclayvs. the rich cultural heritage including strong filipino community and lgbt community often best known in the area for its folsom street fair. we also focused retail development along folsom street with improved pedestrian activity, catalyzing its growth as the neighborhood commercial corridor. folsom street has already grown immensely over the last 10 years with victoria park, betsy car michael and many small businesses that have moved in

from deli boulevard to radius citizen band and site glass. we incentivize creation of more affordable housing through higher impact fees and inclusionary requirements on sites that are a half acre or larger while maintaining the residential impact fee, the conversation we had at land use committee. we also provide an opportunity for arts organizations and light industrial to locate adjacent to one another in the use alley zoning promote preservation of historic building by offering less restrictive zoning and embracing the entertainment corridor on 11th street from harrison to the next block on folsom. this plan is really a powerful tool to promote balance, preventing further displacement of the existing community of residents and small businesses while also integrating new uses with minimum impact to the existing community. this also testament to community based planning where collaboration really helped to highlight a common interest. diverse land use can coexist

and not just conflict even on the same lot and where residents are partners in the process rather than just constituents. of course no plan comes especially of this size comes without any any opposition. we were able to work through a lot of the plan's most contentious issues and i really -- it's really a testament to our residents and community leaders for being able to work this out, one of course was 11th street which was originally zoned residential and now rezoned for commercial and entertainment. we are also able to work out with an existing property owner that had long had plans to build residential since 2006 and he has graciously agreed to build office instead. i'm really confident that this exhaustive community process has taken place and the sound reasoning that both the planning department and the commission have offered within the plan. and i do want to take a moment just to thank some folks just because through eight years there's a lot of people to thank and i'm sure i will miss some folks. but first, of course, jim meko,

the chair of the task force over eight years. he's actually watching us because he planned his surgery to occur after the western soma plan would go through. unfortunately we had some delays, so he is watching us from his hospital bed. and, so, we send our well wishes to him. and no, the plan is not older than jim meko. that is often a joke because of how long this plan has taken. i also want to recognize toby bee bee who is an architect and vice-chair. john elderling, henry [speaker not understood], scott, commissioner london hide, jazzy collins, [speaker not understood] and mark solomon and [speaker not understood] to its last days. of course to peter cohan and fernando martee for their technical assistance and also wanted to especially thank our planning department director john ram, of course. but especially our planners who spent countless, countless

hours on this plan working with our office particularly the last couple of months. cory teague who elegantly replaced paul lord who had spent years on this project and really came on, really without any kind of interruption and was able to continue the leadership from planning on the plan. jose campos, joshua, and of course paul lord who really gave a lot of his energy and heart prior to this plan. so, i do want to just appreciate this moment that we're finally here and, of course, ask my colleagues for their support for this plan. also planning department is here to answer any questions as well as i. thank you. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. president. so, i, as i've expressed in committee several times, i have significant concerns about the western soma plan.

but starting on a more positive note, i really want to thank and acknowledge supervisor kim for her work and leadership around this plan. our disagreement, notwithstanding, i am actually very -- i've been very impressed by the way that supervisor kim and her staff have worked on this plan because this is not a plan that supervisor kim branded herself. it's been in the works a long time. i think supervisor kim and her office really worked hard to try to acknowledge and where possible address concerns that were expressed and she accepted quite a few amendments. so, i'm very appreciative of that work and the flexibility. i also want to thank our planning staff who i think i joked in committee that they at this point deserve combat pay. this has been a challenging plan for the department and an awful lot of time spent, i'm very appreciative of that as well.

we also were able to fix a very, very glaring problem with the plan around impact fees in committee where transit impact fees actually went down for some larger projects which were not consistent with our transit first policy. we were able to work issue fees out in committee. i do, however, continue to have concerns about some aspects of the plan. in general, i think that this plan is -- the level of control and differentiation among different micro areas of the district, i think is too detailed, too, at some points micro managing of districts. i also have concerns about some pretty dramatic restrictions and prohibitions and office space in the sally area of the plan. and particular, i know he some colleagues may have heard from design professionals and

architects who are basically no longer allowed to be in the sally unless they're grandfathered in as a legal nonconforming use. so, if you are a graphic designer, architect, someone who has office space in the sally portion of the plan right now, and if you want to expand, you can't do that. if you want to come into that area, you can't do it any more. this is an area that comes very close to bordering on fourth and king which is more and more going to be a major transit hub in our city. and we are banning office space including for design professionals from this area of the plan. i also continue to have concerns around how the plan treats night life and entertainment. we know that night life is a major economic driver in our city and part of our cultural heritage. in the western soma area in