and a small amount of individuals have been adding money and time to the project. a million dollars in legal costs almost 3 years of delays while the community waited for a project they very much said. i hope the political insiders who use sequa to yield power over their communities that sequa won't derail this project. please remind us in those debates we don't have the power but we look to you for the power to help things stay balanced.

thank you >> thank you very much. next speaker >> supervisors david. the rooms tenants association we support supervisor kim's legislation. we support it among other reasons because it's superior noting requirement. and show more respect for historic buildings. we were blind sited by the installation of two humanely signs on the post office recently. this is a gem of a building and was designed by the architect of the hotel. those signs demonstrate the clear need to strengthen the

planning process and improve noting and respect historic buildings. we live across the street are from the long shore building where the developer wanted to destroy. i understood a planning commissioner said he would have voted against the building if he'd known the history. we need adequate noting of the show stopping information that's known throughout the planning process. we live directly across from the water front at the 75 howard street. this project would exceed the height limit by 70 percent i only found out about this

project with when i ran into a port office on the street. the sequa process needs to be strengthened not weakened. >> thank you very much. >> howard paul speaking for 70 tomorrow. the sequa and as i participated in many projects. month projects as you know are not stag in another they evolve. and with some great minds as the 4 of you i think we can come to

a progress that will be fair to all public. the public participation part of this is very important to s f p t. at one time financial interests had much more somewhat then many, many things in this city including from small to large projects. the kim legislation we have worked with and have found to be evolving but does have some argument that we like more than the other legislation. fully assessable to the general public and particularly to the average citizen and

disadvantaged community. sequa is only one part of the community i would urge the board to look at all the elements and make them clear not just sequa but zoning and many issues have come to it. >> thank you very much. >> i'm i'm with the san francisco preservation and aquatic park majors i'm going to finish what i said a couple of weeks ago. if we were forced to have an appeal ready within thirty days we would have lost our historic resources. there was an 80 years old

building that was approved for dpoogs. we didn't know wisp only neighbors who would lose an 80-year-old building. the developer solid us out he do a lot of dirty tricks. we went to the planning department and tried to find out why they were cutting the hitching i historic building. and finally we talked to someone and they said file a sequa appeal. so we saved the home. so if we only have thirty days from the ideal we would have lost that building.

so i you're going to you really consider that first approval as being something that's very limiting to some of us who are professionals in this preservation and really take a look at kim legislation and take the best elements of all the legislation and wait until we have a change to look at it everything. >> next speaker. >> hi i'm roland. i'm here representing the preservation. so first of all, sincerely thank you for sponsoring those.

supervisor chu difficult compromise i want to refocus on the guerilla in the room and that's the planning department. they need help. they've had 10 years if not more to establish procedures around sequa. hire an consultant. now the reason why they need help is they're under manned they need all kinds of help. this is an administrative procedural topic. how the e r o project has changed give them the assistance to define scope and substantial modification.

give them the assistance they're so obviously craving. they don't want anything that's going to cause them more work and i don't blame them they're under staffed. when 869 north point came up it was because of her the planners were able to identify the flaws in the process. we've achieved things together one appeal for sequa that's fantastic. and a thank you, mr. brady. >> thank you we're the independent partner. the proposed legislation before

you is limited to its impacts on parks. how to improve our parks is always challenging to balance the priorities. we do have a gap in how residents can appeal certain decisions made under sequa. president chiu i am encouraged by your proposed amendments. supervisor wiener's legislation has been thoroughly vetted. we believe this legislation officer a significant improvement over the statue quo. we believe that gid sequa mrojz will be able to proceed in a

timely manner. we've heard from commits about parks and other issues impacting our systems. and we look forward to continue to work with constituents as those projects are selected, designed and implemented. supervisor wiener's proposed sequa reform is in the right direction. >> i'm with the sadly commission. i want to ask you wait until supervisor kim's and wiener's legislation are side by side.

and from i don't know if two weeks is enough but we definitely need more time. it's not just about developers it's about what our community is going to look like. this is about supervisor kim and against developers h that has nothing to do with that or community groups are brainwashing our constituents we're actually helping the planning department by educating the constituent they refuse to educate we actually good talk to the community and have meetings to educate our community about what's going on and the community will decide whether they like thing or not. this body does not see because

they're not coming out to our neighborhood. it's important that we have the continuance for 2 or 4 weeks won't hurt the legislation. but whatever comes out of this legislation will hurt argue community forever please take your time. >> hello, i'm here to support supervisor wiener's legislation. supervisor wiener did reach out to the community. i don't understand all the things of sequa but i've witnessed loot good projects. i think we can all say that sequa is used as a political

tool big or small and this was never the intent of sequa. project sometimes is good. of course, i want to know about a large project >> wait there is an audio devise on and it's - oh, it is - looks like there are headphones

too. yeah. why don't we get >> we're having some technical audio did the if you could. >> there's no rush, want to get it right. sorry to interrupt you >> i need 3 minutes. >> okay terrific. >> of course, i want to know about a large pet project but those will still have a review

there are should be a deadline and it's important to meet a deadline. i appreciate that supervisor kim wants to see the sequa approved. especially owners of older homes we also talked about family flight and while personally agree that financial forms are the reason for flight. and many people talk about protecting rent control but creating more bureaucracy is going to encourage flight from our city. this will lead to blithe neighborhood we can't afford

those processes. am i done? >> that is the bell. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> afternoon. the legislation i have 3 concerns we want clarity definition circulate. the legislation is based on the issuance of a basis vague description and i want you to see some of those vague descriptions. this is a project and it's new single-family residents and it's vaguely. now those are all scopes. vertically extended feet those

are vague considered scope of the project. as you know it permits a building permit. some of the things are mechanic and electrical projects and it's adena for that one. etc. when you have no addendum and vague descriptions you're going to disagreeing have 0 problem. maybe they need to be tweaked because sometimes in the end their 0 full permits and i want a definition. believe and planning have different dings and permit are set out, too early. the permit was withdrawn in 2011

it was filed 40 in 2008 if we filled the first permit in 2008 it would be too early. >> actually before we get the next speaker let me call the final batch of speakers. >> (calling names) those are the calls i called - cards i called. >> hello, i'm robert woods i'm the chairman of the black human

rights leadership of san francisco. we have a different type of problem in our community. our problem is we talking about a lot of things that you do that in terms of notification is done by commuter and we're looking in our community we don't have a lot of commuters, a commuter is a luxury. we when you start talking about letting the community know and you put it on community you have not done a darn thing in our community. the target is we got the large developers coming out to the community and they don't talk to the black community they come

down here and talk to you guys. we get the news it's a done deal. we like to see the community get involved in the process in terms of - in terms of in the of those things i just noticed you there's not a lot of commuters in your community. and also, we looking at some kind of notification that has many languages that because of our community has becoming very diverse now and with the diversity we're looking at diversify notification. we would like to see that done. i'm not against this sequa or - but the thing about what we're

looking at - >> thank you very much. mr. cowen. >> good afternoon peter cohen. you know that affordable housing covers a lot of rage we have affordable developers who are doing the process and the bureaucracy like a marketing developer. and so the process side of environmental review and the system is also something by the respect terrifically. as you move into the web enter

face there's some folks who engage better through methods of traditional paper notification. so it's important we try to insure both of those methods. we had a chance to have supervisor wiener office and supervisor kim's office and we hope that a couple items are obviously very quick and line up well. we also had a particular required amendment. we've actually written that up and submit that and would ask that you consider that as an amendment as this goes forward in the process. of course, there's an implementation questions.

on that note we notice that one ordinance is going to planning commission and we hope they'll all line up on the land use committee at the same time >> thank you very much. next speaker >> good afternoon. i'm a board of directors of the homes. this is the size the city hall combined and because of this deinterrogating continue we have a huge project and i consider myself a developer. to be serious we need a comprehensive process outlined by sequa instead of a top down approach and approved by the

planning department it requires the condemnation from neighborhood associations. i could see the freedom west will involve a series of hearings and i hope your platoons will be unanimously heard and approvedly agencies. it would allow environmental organizations and the business community and the housing activists and instead of negotiating the projects in order to create a plan that all parties could stand behind. a community used the process early. and with something so large and complicated as at the

development of freedom west there will be new and excepted modifications. while i want to be a developer that my community would accept. the kim amendment is a necessary and a balance approach on city planning and development. the current legislation >> thank you. thank you. thank you, mr. c. >> good afternoon i live in district 6. i look back and i didn't really pay attention to this issue when it first started 10 years ago because i didn't come to city hall because the prior commissioners i - i try to stay

in the middle on issues so i can look at both sides. so in saying that i'd appreciate if you'd consider to weigh it out because we do drag our feats on others things because we're not spending all the time i don't believe in it. if you could hold it and give it another month because 2 weeks isn't enough time. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm the the community of housing organizations. i want to foil with what my colleague peter said earlier. i want to thank you for reading up on our amendments and thank you for some of the amendments

that were introduced today. i want to talk about b the point we raised earlier. what we see is central? this discussion. when we got together and talked with the community advocates. they pointed out the real issue is why are redoing all this stuff to address eir appeals. the problem is the length of time to go through the environmental processes. and the discussion are can we all the time this legislation to include a process to giving priority determinations for the kinds of appropriations the city needs pedestrian safety, transportation, housing issues. they are key to the cities

future that were so we've presented those to you thank you supervisor kim asked us to come up with a proposal. i think it's ought to be the kind of thing codified in the code. we've talked to supervisor wiener's office there's already a bull tip that hadn't worked for us we want to move forward. thank you very much we we want to see those two proposals in the future >> afternoon supervisors. my name is andrew i'm a member of the d 5 action. i agree with president computing u chu when he said there's a lot of intensity around the issues.

i lived in a state where vendors had their way and it doesn't improve live ability or awe set of facts. thousands of projects are approved it's not like they're not approved. do we need to over haul sequa because a few people's abused it? i support supervisor kim's legislation it codifies the process but also facing more weight on community input. so i think we need to slow down. make sure we have the right legislation and quote