now that you've done that you can tape our 2014 consent calendar. the hearings scheduled for the 2014 proposed meeting dates. commissioners i've provide you with a draft hearing schedule for 2014. january 2nd has been cancelled as a result of this hearing schedule but it will appear here. january 30th is a fifth thursday of the month and you generally cancel those hearings. on thursday may 29 is a fifth thursday. july 3rd is cancelled for the jout. july 31st is a fifth thursday and you generally tack a hi, ate in the last two weeks of august.

and then there's the holiday for thursday september 25th i believe it's rancho an that's being recked and october 30th is scheduling cancelled it's a fifth meeting. and thursday, november 30th is thanksgiving and christmas is cancelled and january 1st for new years eve. i would recommend you cancelled an additional meeting between january 30th and may 29 you'll have a four month stretch without any breaks. march 27 falls in there but there's an item that needs to be heard for you. april 1st is april fools bay day and we have easter

>> okay. and just for not that it is important but commissioner antonini. >> i'm going to be out the 16 and libel the 23rd. >> of january. >> of january. >> okay. did you have any other comments and i did have other comments i didn't know if you're going to tack public comment before we comment but i'll be happy to comment first whatever >> i'm sorry, i didn't hear you. >> i don't know if you wanted public comment first. >> a point of clarification. i don't know about the secretary but those items people were commenting before we i feel like our items we comment before the

public they can then over comments after us. we tack public comment and then we spank and they haven't had the benefit of commenting >> commissioners it's entirely up to you. but, yes the public should a have is an opportunity to public >> i did it both ways but i was expecting comments that might influence our discussion. so i hear i. let me see first mlk for the proposed calendar 2014 >> so public comment is closed. >> there's some days i want to add back for the following reasons. the 30th of january because it's the fourth thursday that we're

meeting it's technically the first sthurz we're optional meeting 4 times that month and typically the new year things pickup and we've been successful getting out off our meeting so i want to condense this. i'm not proposed to some sort of break in april in the commission feels they need to do that the 17th or the third or both probably okay with me. but then i would also think for the same reason in the month of july we should add back the 31st it's only the fourth thursday of that month because we're off the 3rd of july because of the fourth of july holiday and when we get into august we've got the

hi, at the so there might be a back up of items. i assume the secretary has chaekd checked that the 25th of september is in fact the first day of rancho an. so and then also the possibility might be to consider adding the 30th of october sthoo we don't have to as we get to the end of the year our calendar gets more con depsz and we have 3 non-month to month days in november and december. i'm not as emphatic but adding the 30th of january and the 31st of july make sense >> just if i may add commissioners, i generally tack you basically have the 11 cancelled hearings per calendar

year. >> on average. >> on average. >> so that means you the tenth. >> commissioner sugaya. >> oh, sorry. i would suggest we tack some time off somewhere in the four months. it doesn't matter at the end of march or april. other than i'm okay with the schedule >> in response to that caring or considering the four month stretch i'd like to say that i'm trying to keep track of fortune absence on january 23rd that commissioner antonini maybe out i know i'm going to be out on the 23rd of january.

on 16 of january commissioner hillis and commissioner antonini will be out. commissioner borden >> i have a question i'm looking our advance calendar as we know in terms of of case numbers and all that kind of stuff. so right now it doesn't hallow we have much on the calender we could add back the january 31st meeting. there's only 1 or 2 items unless i understand the caseload we need to schedule back a meeting. so again although i don't have a problem having that hearing or if all the cases that are assigned to the 23rd won't be

advisable to move to the 23rd to the 30th that would be an advantage because two commissioners are out on the 23rd. that makes sense in our bar remote and maybe i can give me feedback open the ability the ease of moving the items from the 23rd to the 30th and a or some of them >> i'm looking at the 23rd calendar there are 3 items that were continued from previous dates and if you choose to basically cancel the 23rd. >> i'm not suggesting that but if there's a concern i'm saying to move from them from the 23rd to the 30th.

>> those noticed would be challenged and generally they only go out 20 days in advance and the told me that were continued to january 23rd we could continue them to the 30th again. so that's internal up to you. >> i could go for any of those. not to meet that the 30th but whatever you choose it should inform whether or not we go with the hearing. in terms of breaking and entering i think april would be ideal i'm not just saying that because of my birthday >> let me recap there are also a consensus for april 17th to cancel. and then recapping our comment along with commissioner antonini

reopen january thogd but slide the items on the 23rd to the 30th or spread them out between the 6th and the third >> you're shaking our heads. >> commissioner sugaya. i don't know what we're talking about >> commissioner antonini suggested bringing the 30th book. two people are missing open the 23rd so if we add back the 30th we'll move told me items from the 23rd audits i believe you can move those items to february 6th with two things on the calendar >> i guess whose going to make the decision from the items be

obey moved from the 23rd to the 30th. >> we can decide items the further out it goes we don't know the promotions but we could have promotions coming in late and a i don't see a reason to add back the 30th is my point. if we're concerned about absence we can deal with that. in terms of we can bring back and cancel the meeting for some reason director ram do you see - i i know the calendar have been relatively lighter in the latter part of this year. do you see the workload in the department generating more items for our hearings >> actually, i do. >> we're in a bit of a lull

because we're between the period where a lot of the promotions being built are already approved. next year i anticipate a lot of eir hearings as well as major projects. i expect your workload to increase nooeks next year >> i'm going to make a motion to advance the calendar with the expectation of april. commissioner moore. >> i'd like to ask the city attorney we have an "x" number of meets and since this commission doesn't participate in creating the calendar we can't have a meeting which i consider to be an empty container in which the staff puts the stems.

intend we see the advances meetings their schedule. if the public comes because they see something they might be interested in and say okay. i want to get myself ready for february or so. i want to make sure we're following paroleely because this group didn't participate in putting together the calendar. we need the president and vice president to pit those together. we don't have the leverage to arbitrarily change changes if we have 5 thursdays in a month and i support commissioner antoninis orange county's we have 4 to attend to irrespective if they fall on the first or fourth or

fifth thursday of most. the fifth thursday meetings we could still take care of matters. i'll look to the city attorney. president fong. the charter doesn't set forth any minimum of number of meetings the commission has to have. the commission rules and regulations in section 1 under regular meetings states that regular meetings of commission shall be open in public and held each thursday of each month unless there's 5 thursdays. i will leave it to the commission but it sounds as to each thursday the commission needs to plan to meet unless

it's a fifth thursdays. there are times the commission can't achieve a quorum so the month to month is cancelled. but i think that for now, the commission should probably keep that april 17th open the calendar if there's difficulty a achieving a quorum for a meeting the commission has cancelled meetings in the future or on as noted basis. >> i appreciate our giving us this note of advised instruction because while the 17 of april falls within the timeframe that is important that being easter that importance might not weigh with other. at the end of the month with four thursdays we'll basically

only moot 3 times so i tack your advise. the last sentence clearly provides the opportunity of cancelation based on holiday that the secretary shall present to the staff a list of daums by voice vote the hearing clungd i concluded possible cancelation dates to accommodate holidays throughout the year christmas being an example and thanksgiving. i don't see easter being any exception expectation >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i'll speak against

this motion and try to meet the city attorney has stated 4 the it doesn't mean we can't cancelled a meeting but we should schedule 4 with the ability to cancel one. if this motion is compensated i want to add back the 30th of january and the 31st of july. i have a lot of folks who call me with conditional uses and their told it's a along period of time for getting open the calender. i don't know if it has to do with the process that has to go through it's not a product of not having enough meetings but i've heard this from a number of sources and there's projects

that involve people's own homes and trying to getting get through the process of dr or cu. if we give more opportunity. it kind of goes backs a couple of years ago with the board of supervisors they used to meet an mondays and they moved they're meeting dates to tuesday's because there's so many holidays so they tack tuesday off because there are holidays then. i'm saying having them in session more is good but in our case nothing happens nothing is going to get started until we make a decision. it's a little bit critical than the laws of the board of supervisors are passing which, you know, maybe not as time critical as some of our items owe for them to consider items

we have a pass judgment before they can go to the board of supervisors. so being available it important. i'll have a rice motion if this one fails >> commissioner moore. >> i only observing that in 12 months of the year we already have 5 months in which we either have two meetings or 3 meetings. so by adding more tacking the thursdays out of japan and july we're adding seven months and with april another suggestion we with 8 months with 3 meetings or less. that's actually a large number >> commissioners is a motion and second open the floor. >> could you restate. >> the current motion on the floor is to adapt the hearings schedule it was submitted to you

to include april 17th as a cancelled date city attorney would aligning me to specific april 17th hearing so to accommodate aefrt. >> but it doesn't occur on a thursday. >> on that motion to adapt the hearing schedule and to include april 17th to recognize aefrt commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. sxhifg >> commissioner moore. commissioner wu and president fong >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 5 to 4 commissioner antonini voting against. >> thank you, commissioners for

that. commissioners that will place you under departmental matters directors announcements. >> thank you, commissioners. a couple of things you had asked a couple of weeks about the status of the academy of arts university. we're moving forward and i'm planning at our request to schedule a date in february. we'll anticipating a draft and we're making progress we're making slower progress than i like we're making the progress on the eir & as we move forward. secondly, in your packet today, i think it was the annual report from the last fiscal year. i would like you to tack a long time that and if you have any questions the staff put this

together we're xhaufl the format it highlights some the historic preservation work we've at a later date two new historic districts and this is for the first time in many, many years. we're proud of that work. and thirdly i want to give you a copy of the mayors report that effects the department. i wanted to spend a couple of minutes on that if i might. the collective directive it is to protect the housing rental stock. it establishes a working group that i'll talk about in a second. the group is comprised of department headings heads and will be charred by the department of building inspection and include the fire

department and the rent board and the mayor's office of housing. it will include the property organization and nonprofit organization and staff potentially from public works and oc ii and the administration office. the dick active makes romgsz to the mayor's office to promote rental housing and the second is to expand sorry. the second is to expand the potential for commission discretionary reviews. when any loss of a unit or any displacement of a tenant it involved in a project. and third to act as a advisory

body and for code consistence checks that are being withdrawn from the market. i'm happy to get into more details i wanted to give you this report today. mr. huey and the director of dbi has set up a meeting so as we get more details i'll report back to you. thank you >> i think we all appreciate a bit of reporting book. i'm glad to say the mayor's office has stepped up and asked for this. >> if there's nothing further we can review the pats of past event of board of supervisors.

there was no pertinent information at the boyle's and the historic preservation commission didn't meet >> thank you secreted i'm here to give you a summary arrest on monday there was a report to consider the mile contract and they recommended the contracts to better have upkeep of the property. planning staff working or worked directly with the planning staff. they recommended the full board approval. that will have the contracts in place for the 2014 tax year and to - first they'll amended the

criteria for the loss of a dwelling opt and to alter non-conforming unit and third they'll move all the criteria into section 317. the amended ordinances would also respond to ellis evictions. it would expand it and have a prohibition on the loss of a unit through morgue if it had been the subject of a no fault eviction brown september 10th of this year and the prohibition would be in place for an ellis act and 5 years for an owner moving eviction. that passes on final reading and also the food ordinance will allow the cottage operation for

dwelling unit and allow the assessable to 1/3rd of the floor area. and all residential unit in the residential district. there was one new ordinance i'd like to share it concerns production and repair. this ordinance makes general amendments as well as p dr uses in small enterprise zoning control. it's not been sent to us but will be here in 3 months that concludes my presentation >> commissioner sugaya. i'm happy to see the mills act coming across san francisco has the fewest number of the contracts know what we're up to

but san diego had over 2 hundred >> our coordinator wanted you to know. commissioner antonini >> yeah. and in general particularly with reference to the late legislation proposed and sxhovls is it the practices of the city when legislation is property that the city attorney opines on whether or not this seems to be responsively before they pass it and found if it's challenged or not. we've had a lot of instances with are with its been disallowed it wastes time and money to have laws passed that are not supportable >> i would defer to the city attorney on comments.

okay >> commissioners, if there's nothing favorite u further that places you under general public comment. the public comment may comment on the subject expect agenda items. however, where the public comment is closed this is your opportunity to address the commission such a in item 15 when the san francisco ground water impact report. with respect to all other items your item will be afforded to be addressed up to 3 minutes. i have 3 speaker cards >> thank you. >> (calling names).

>> you may come up and speak now, sir. >> good afternoon. here i'd like to comment on this 2013.1316 c regarding oh. the interpretation of sale of alcohol in the front. it's like i live in the neighborhood there are so many businesses that sell alcohol already i drink alcohol myself i have nothing against alcohol i live in the building inside this and this restaurants is going to be below my apartment. so it's going to generated a lot of noise and they already have a business next