amendment makes that explicit. another makes it explicit there are no further appeals if the ero affirms her previous determination that the modification doesn't do that and that appeal determination by the ero is not further appealable and finally clarifying that the environmental review officer referencing the section of the administrative code that defines what the ero is, who the ero is and that is administrative code section 31 .05 and including the subsections so those are the three amendments i am proposing colleagues. supervisor kim. >> thank you, and so we did agree we did not intend for project approval to not move forward and we believe the legislation didn't do that but we are happy to add in that

language that clarifies that and for line 21 i want to clarify with the city attorney a new determination by the ero triggers a new appeal period. >> a new determination by the ero that the exemption -- basically that the exemption no longer applies? is that your question? >> yeah. reissuing a new exemption for the modified project does trigger a new appeal period? >> right. >> yes. i think we agreed on the out set and issued it clearly appealable to the board of supervisors. okay colleagues if there are no additional comments ms. hayward from the planning department. >> thank you chairman wiener and supervisors. sophie from the planning department. i want to

reiterate and we looked at the ordinance and passed the resolution in support of the proposal. the planning commission considered the item last thursday, july 18, and did make a motion to approve supervisor kim's proposed legislation but that motion failed. they did want me however to convey to you the votes and that is commissioners moore, sugaya and [inaudible] approved the legislation and an tiny and fong voted no on the legislation and they need a majority so they need four votes to pass the resolution and without that the commission wanted to convey how the failed votes were divided to this body. thank you. >> thank you ms. hayward. we will now open the floor for public comment. if you want to make public comment please come forward. mr. brooks.

>> good afternoon one last time. eric brooks representing san francisco green party local grass-roots organization "our city" and as coordinator for the ceqa improvement team and make sure and i think we reached an agreement and eyes wide open here and i don't believe and maybe the city attorney can confirm and anything in the new text and with the amendments says that we can't use this process for a subsequent modification, and if we are not able to appeal subsequent modifications i don't think we would support this but i don't think it says that so i wanted to clarify that so you supervisor are aware of it. >> i don't understand the point you're making. can you restate -- >> in your remarks you seemed to indicate we're only able to use this once on one modification --

>> no, no. >> okay. then we got it, and so the main thing i wanted to say it's amazing nine plus months. all sides were playing some hard poker at the very beginning but i think as we got through this process we finally realized for the first time in 10 years we were going to come to an agreement. the community ceqa improvement team had to swallow hard on the first approval thing but when first kim's office proposed the ability to appeal modification we realized that was our way that we could -- if we got something substantial on that and that's what this is today we could support the full package and after a decade of battling this out it's a positive sign that all parties have come to the table and get something on the table that we

will all grumble about but we can live with and kudos to all three of you and you made this happen and good that it's over and we can get some rest. >> thank you. ms. hilton. >> good afternoon supervisors. i just want to thank supervisor wiener for bringing up this challenge to the entire public comment and for having the patience to stick with this and listen to both sides and thank supervisor kim for bringing forward this modification legislation piece and because of the kinds of the last approval and supervisor chiu the consensus maker in the whole process so i am glad to see you are all willing to adopt this legislation as a good faith effort and the positive perception the board and hopefully at the full board of supervisors and i appreciate

all your efforts and working with all of us. thank you very much. >> thank you. ms. rogers. >> alice rogers. i just want to commend you as well for the legislation supervisor wiener and i commend supervisor kim for what i think is the soul of the legislation, and supervisor president chiu for bringing the two together and molding something that is going to work for everyone. thank you. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on item 10? seeing none public comment is closed. supervisor kim. >>i would like to make a motion to move the amendments. >> okay. >> and then to move this recommendation to the full board as a committee report. >> okay. so on the amendments can we take the amendments without objection? >> i am happy to after nine plus

month toss say this last piece of legislation will finally get out. i'm not going to make any analogies beyond that and i will say i might miss the hearings at at land use and ceqa -- almost. >> i'm not sure what we will do in the fall and thank you president chiu and i know everyone compromised this and had to swallow hard and i am appreciative where we are and in is the final piece and i am glad to make the motion. >> we had five hearings before you had to sit through one. this has been quite the process and thank you for participating. so on the motion to accept the amendments can we do that without objection? the amendments are adopted and on the motion for item 10 to

forward to the full board as a committee report take that without objection. that is the order. madam clerk is there any other business before the committee? >> that concludes our business for the day. >> then we are adjourned.

(music) >> herb theatre,open rehearsal. listen to the rehearsal. i think it is fun for them, they see our work process, our discussions, the decisions we make. it is good for us. we kind of behavior little bit when we have people in the audience. msk (music) >> we are rehearsing for our most expensive tour; plus two concerts here.

we are proud that the growth of the orchestra, and how it is expanded and it is being accepted. my ambition when i came on as music director here -- it was evident we needed absolutely excellent work. also evident to me that i thought everyone should know that. this was my purpose. and after we opened, which was a spectacular opening concert about five weeks after that the economy completely crashed. my plan -- and i'm absolutely dogmatic about my plans --were delayed slightly. i would say that in this very difficult timefor the arts and

everyone, especially the arts, it's phenomenal how new century has grown where many unfortunate organizations have stopped. during this period we got ourselves on national radio presence; we started touring, releasing cds, a dvd. we continue to tour. reputation grows and grows and grows and it has never stopped going forward. msk(music) >> the bay area knows the orchestra. you maybe take things for granted a little bit. that is simply not the case will go on the road. the audiences go crazy. they don't see vitality like this on stage. we are capable of conveying joy when we play.

msk(music) >> any performance that we do, that a program, that will be something on the program that you haven't heard before. string orchestra repertoire is pretty small. i used to be boxed into small repertoire. i kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. if you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. is our gift. msk(music) >> and then you have strauss,

extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. string orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a long time. i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel.

there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note. and that is our encore on tour. by the way. i am proud to play it, we are from san francisco. we are going to play that piece no matter where we are.

>> and welcome to the san francisco land use and economic development committee. i am scott wiener the chair of the committee and to my right is jane kim who is the vice chair and to my left is david chiu. our clerk today is lisa miller. i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting today's hearing and specifically jessie and mark and those that can't sit in the room we have an over flow room. we

have public comment cards at the front. if you're interested in speaking fill out a card and the item number that you want to make public comment. madam clerk any announcements? >> yes. please silence all cell phones and pagers and all cards should be submitted to the clerk and will be on the agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much. madam clerk can you call item one. >> item one is an easement for pacific gas and electric in san mateo county for $15,400. >> and john updike from the department of real estate will present. >> good afternoon. so pg&e is embarking on a safety plan that upgrades their lines. several of those lines ran adjacent to our sf puc lands. there are

some instances additional easements are needed beyond what they have from the city. this project, the crystal springs station is one of those and includes automated valves and technologies and want only make their lines safer but protection to our critical infrastructure. this is located not far from the crystal springs rest area off the i-280 if you can picture that location. this is literally a spoken's throw from that location. the value was set at aiment -- $15,400 and we agreed on that amount and over an acre in construction easement rights. those rights will expire in six months and in addition to that modest amount of compensation

we have insurance and endimmity language related to the new easement rights but the existing ones as well to further protect the city. there is a letter from planning. the sf puc commission approval and the ceqa findings which note this project is categorically exempt. i am happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> thank you. colleagues any comments or questions? okay. we will open it up for public comment. is there any public comment? and without objection that is the ord. madam clerk please call item two. >> item two is for muni and how it will be paid for and jowbl

growth. >> thank you want i requested this hearing to have a frank discussion how we should be planning for the expansion and bolstering of the public transportation system to meet the future needs of san francisco. we are estimated to grow as a city and we need to make sure that muni and the rest of our transportation system is going to be up to the task of servicing our growing population. a few months ago we held a hearing at this committee where we talked in very precise numbers about the challenges that muni has, challenges that any of us that read the system see everyday and i believed it was important for all of us to understand in terms of the hard numbers and we learned a few things. for example, that muni is performing at approximately

a 60% on time rate which is far below what most of us consider an acceptable level. we learned that muni does not have nearly enough light rail vehicles and that on 50% of weekdays muni does not have enough light rail vehicles to even cover basic service. we learned that we also have a shortage of electric trolley coaches, and we learned that muni has 2.2 billion dollars in deferred maintenance and has huge unmet needs in terms of capital repair rehabilitation and replacement. we learned other things as well and i won't repeat everything, but i think it's fair to say that muni right now despite its best efforts is struggling to meet the needs of san francisco's current population. san francisco is estimated --

that we will grow by adding 100,000 people over the decades and the bay area will hold 2 million people. we will be adding a lot of new housing welcoming new people to our city and that in many ways is a positive thing. we see new construction going along around market and mid-market and having people in the proximity of that subway and exactly where we should be putting new housing and treasure island and the development at peas 30 and 32 and hunter's point and mission bay and pier 70, et cetera we have development going on in the eastern part of the city so the muni that we have day, a muni

that is struggling because of deferred maintenance and under investment for years and struggle to meet the needs of the current population is a system that 10-20 years from now is going to be that much older and expect to meet a larger passenger load and it's critical that we as a city plan carefully how we're going to stabilize and bolster the muni that we have and how we're going to grow service capacity to meet the growing needs of the population. it's something we should have focused on 10-20 years ago but need to be focused on it like a laser now and move forward so the purpose of the hearing is hear from the mta office and the mayor's office and for growth

and not just planning because it's not good to have the plans on the shelf but how to acknowledge that growth and we have a task force meeting and we're working hard to move forward plans and funding plans but i thought it would be a good opportunity to hear from our agencies from where we are are and where we're going and i would like to start with john ram and 10 ken rich from the office of economic and workforce development and ed reiskin our director of transportation. >> thank you supervisor. good afternoon. if i could have the projection power point that would be great. i am happy to be here today to talk about transportation and land use and i will say that as in the short time i have been here, that i guess isn't that short anymore, five and a half years, there has been much better cooperation and working relationship between the transportation agencies and the

planning department as we fully understand the connections and the importance of policy development between land use and transportation and i think that is key to making the system work. if i could have the overhead that would be great. >> sfgtv overhead. >> well, i will just start in the interest of time. there we go. just as a snapshot and i won't go through all of these in detail but as a snapshot of statistics in the city today the current population is actually closer to 820,000 in 2013. and it is a little over 1 million during the day. there has been an increase in jobs in the last decade and that's an important fact. just on that point for a long time since the early 80's

the city hadn't seen any net new job growth. the job and spaces built in downtown and south of market were off set by loss of jobs in other parts of the city particularly the industrial sector. what we're seeing now for the first time in 40 years is a true increase and south of market and industries moving into that part of town. as you know the major transportation systems are at capacity. we are at record highs in the ridership and you see the numbers here coming into san francisco. so just as supervisor wiener mentioned here's some of the facts about growth in the area and in the city. plan bay area which was just approved last week by the abag board projects by 2040 the region will have

2.1 new people and 1 million jobs and requiring thousands of housing units. that is 50% more than that exist in san francisco today so the reason we will see one and a half san franciscos in terms of growth. that plan calls for most of that development, housing -- excuse me,. >> two and a half san franciscos. >> yes. okay. i think we have about 400,000 today, seyeah, right. so that plan calls for most of the growth to happen along transit corridors which abag defines as development areas and housing and two thirds of new jobs and the city, even though we are central to the region, we are expected to accommodate about 15% of the growth and as a percentage doesn't seem like a high number but it's 200,000 jobs and

people and 93,000 jobs -- housing units, excuse me. >> could you hold on. could we please close that door? could we please close that door? could shn tell the sheriff to close the door? i'm sorry mr. ram for that disruption. you can go ahead. >>i think perhaps most importantly with respect to this growth is that it's the pace much development that would actually require us to consider. it does mean about 65 new jobs every year and. >> >> and housing units every year and a higher pace than we produced in the past but it is something that we are increasing in our capacity to build that additional housing. these graphics simply show where the incr