pickup truck >> once this merger take place and the lots are annoyed the way the floor plan is laid out it's not going to be going back to two units unless someone spends a lot of money. then you have a house in this area that essentially a ann

anonymously. and that's what i'm concerned about. and it's different i think from condo mergers we've had the one where they were worthy a couple of million dollars that got merged south of market it seems different in this case it's on its own piece of land so to speak. i'll vote for the motion but especially the triggering mechanisms it should be examined and look at it as the city is taking on the housing issue. lastly and we're not aware of these but whatever i have confidence that the staff made american people analysis and had the information to be able to go

in that direction rather than having to come to the commission >> director ram. >> we tend to air on the side of caution so in this case it was well beyond the 1.3 number so relate to the larger issue. one of the things i neglected to men tomorrow is the first meeting of the monthly task force the mayor has asked to set up or i'm co- chairing the number of department heads to look at the range of issues that the city needs to address with respect to the production of housing so i'll be continuing to meet over the next several months >> commissioner hillis. >> just a question any

prosecutions for merging lots to me it's more not an affordability issue but your disrupting that pattern. >> the code doesn't establish the prohibitions but for opt mergers that are within that can be approved administratorly those can optional be done in rh one property the rh 2 it couldn't be done administratorly it has to be done from 9 commission. >> commissioners there's a motion and second adding a findings the two building are two separate building the merged building would rain remain the

appearance. >> sdmn. commissioner hillis. commissioner sugaya. commissioner wu and president fong >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 6 to one with commissioner moore voting against. that places you on any public comment? there are no speaker cards >> be seeing none, public comment is closed and the first meeting of the year is >> hi, i'm corn field and

welcome to doing building san francisco, we are doing a special series, called stay safe, how you can stay in your home safely and comfortable, and we know that an earthquake is coming and there are things that you can do to reduce the effects of the earthquake on your home. let's take a look at that. >> here at the spur urban center on mission street in san francisco talking about staying in your home after an earthquake. i have guests today, pat buscavich and his dog, harvey and david, and both structural engineers and we want to talk about things that you might do before an earthquake to your home to make it more likely that your home will be ha bitable after an earthquake, what should we do? both structural and maybe even important non-structural things. >> you hear about how to prepare an earthquake kit and brace your book shelves and

water tank and that is important. what you have to be careful is make sure that you are not going the easy things to make yourself feel better. if you have a bad structure, a bad building, then you need to be looking at that and everything that you do to keep your collectables in place is small and compared. if you have taken care of your structure, then there is a lot of stuff that you can do in your house that is non-structural and your chimney and water tank. >> let's talk about what the structural things might be. >> and he is exactly right. you don't want to make the deck chairs safe on the titanic, it is going down, you are going down, you have to make sure that your house is safe. there are basic things that you need to do including bracing the water heater, not just because of fire hazard but because of the water source and the damage, but basic things are installing anchor bolts, and adding plywood and strapping your beams to column and posts to footings and

foundations are really easy things to do and most contractors can do the building department is set up to approve this work, and these are things that every home owner should do, and it is a little harder because you have to get a building permit and hire a contractor. but you want to be able to after a big earthquake to climb in bed that night and pull the covers up and say i don't have to worry about going to a government shelter. >> that is the main focus that it is great to have an earthquake kit to be able to bug out for 72 hours. here is a better idea, stay in your own home and in order to do that you have to be make sure that your structure is okay. if you have a house, the easy things to do with the wood construction is feasible. if you have a renter or you live in a concrete building, you need to talk to the building own , and make sure they have done their due diligence and find out what the deficiencies are. >> when i have looked at damaged buildings,vy seen that

a little bit of investment in time and money and structural work provides great dividends. >> especially if it is the wood frame, typical house that you can do the things that i was talking about, the anchor and the plywood in the first garage area, you know if you refinanced in the last three years, get some of that savings and it is a really good investment. and the other thing that i try to tell people, earthquake insurance is not the solution to the shelter in place, if there is a big earthquake and your building is damaged, you are not in your house, you may be somewhere else, if you work in the city, it is going to be really hard to commute from sonoma, you want to do what is necessary so that your house is retrofitted and a couple of years of earthquake premium could get you to a level that you could be in the house after a significant earthquake and it may have damage and there is still a shelter in place where you are at home and you are not worried for the government taking care of you and you are living in a place where you can go to work and you want to have

your wood frame house is really easy to get to that level. on top of the wood frame house, i mean every wood frame house in the west half of the city have a water tank and the water tank fall over because they are gas fired and start fires. and that is something that you could do for yourself, and for your neighbors and for the whole city is make sure that your water tank is braced. >> if you look at the studies that are predicting on fires, we are going to have a lot of fires and for every water tank that is braced there is a potential of one less fire that the fire department is going to have to fight and we don't want to have any more fires than we need to. so bracing the water heater is the first thing that you want to do. >> and so easy, and you go on-line and you google, earthquake, water and heater and you google the sites where you can find the details and you can put them out there on the hardware store and you can hire a small contract tore do that for you. that is a couple of hundred bucks, the best investment. if you are in other types of building it is complicated. if you are in a high-rise

building you just can't anchor your building down because there are no anchor bolts, but at that point, the tenant should be asking questions of the owner's and the managers about earthquake preparedness >> and don't take the easy answer, oh, our building is safe it was designed to code. that is not the right answer, ask the tough questions and see if you can get a report that has been given to you. >> what is the right question? will i be able to stay in my home after the expected earthquake? is that a good question to ask? >> yeah, you may be more specific if you talk to the owner, if it is not a recent building, if it is ten or 20 years old see if they had an inspection done and there you will have a written before that will tell you all about the structure. >> thanks, pat. >> thanks, harvey. and thanks david for joining us and thank you for joining us on >> hello. welcome to "culturewire."

we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful

mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe starting in the middle and working out. >> [inaudible] the flower of industry. >> it is like a compass. there's an arrow pointing north. >> within the great bear consolation, there are two pointed stars here. they typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. so i thought it has a layer of

theme. >> let's talk about some of the other elements in the peace. we are walking along, and there is a weather vane. there's a sweet little bird hanging on the side. what kind of bird is that? >> [inaudible] the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. >> you want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send? >> [inaudible] around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. >> what is this bird here? >> that is the california quail. >> coming up here, we had a little blustery theme. what is this area here? >> this is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge.

>> there it is. >> there are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the work. >> what are your hopes for it? >> that in a way it just becomes part of the area. i think it is starting to have that feeling. people utilize it. they sit and, and have their lunch and play on -- they sit and, and have their lunch and play on that -- they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. just for it to be part of the neighborhood. that is my hope. >> is such a beautiful addition to our public art in san francisco. thank you for joining us. it was nice to meet you. and thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. thanks for watching

"culturewire." good morning. welcome everyone welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget & finance committee meeting are. i'm that supervisor farrell and i'm joined by supervisor avalos and we'll be joined by supervisor mar. i want to thank jennifer leo and is clerk linda wong. also to the people in the audience if we don't get through the yawned in time we'll be breaking for the swearing in of a member.

madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> >> yes. please silence all electronic devices. and all copies of documents shall be submitted to the clerk. the items today will be on the january 14th agenda >> thank you very much. we're going to take one item quickly out of order so call item 5 first, please >> item 5 is an ordinance amending ordinance reflect the two addition of 5502 for the recreation and parks capital improvements. >> okay. we have don here from rec and park. >> rec and park just foul on our appropriation this item was continued until today to get the

information to the budget analysis office and as you're aware i believe in november 2012 voters passed another 1 hundred and it 5 thousand funds. this requires additional staff to make good for the public. we appreciate the budget analysis support and we've move forward forward on some items we'll be introducing those next week for architecture services >> so many mr. rose. on, on page 21 the new project mortuary position will help with the manager services to help

with the bond promises as provided and that's shown in the tangible on page 21. on page 22 of our report we point out that including the fringe benefits the total annual ongoing salary of infringement are 21 thousand for the requested two new positions. this ordinance says the positions will be filed in january and those two positions couldn't be filed until at least april 1st, 2014, with that start date the total cost will be approximately 82 thousand instead of one hundred to tell us plus. our recommendation is we recommend you amended the

position to 5 f t e for the positions in 2014 and we recommend you approve the proposal >> everyone is in agreement if no comments we'll open this up for public comment. anyone in the public wish to comment seeing none, public comment is closed. >> we have a motion to approve the amendments. >> just a quick question those are positions that are considered permanent or project funded. >> project funded supervisor. >> thanks. >> ongoing can we make a motion to first amended. >> so the motion to approve the budget analysts recommendations and then i think to appropriate a line. >> as amended and we can take

that without objection. >> madam clerk, call item one. >> approving an emergency protract contract that to appropriate 82 thousand. >> good morning supervisor farrell and supervisor avalos i'm the project manager for the commission. the measure before you is for emergency contract to replace the monitoring system for the seat belting earner plant the san francisco public utilities commissions asked to monitor the system to be replaced. this process is known as a head works project that's for the

sewage coming to the treatment plant. the plant observed a underwriter of their movrpt system. basically this monitoring system as name suggests monitors the low objection didn't even and other potential hazardous gas. it required immediate repairs to mitigate the risks for the treatment plant and protect the health and safety of the plant operations and also insure osha and and it is to be awarded to the construction in the amount to exceed $225,000. the reason for the m k working or in this emergency contract

they're working on two existing contracts and their mobilized on the site. they have technical resources to repair this. we recommend you, you pass this forward if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer them >> okay. thank you any questions. mr. rose your report, please >> mr. chairman and supervisor avalos on the bottom of page 3 not to exceed 2 hundred and 25 thousand procurement one hundred and 35 for labor. those costs will be paid from the 2013 revenue bonds that was previously appropriated by the board of supervisors and we recommend you approve this >> no other questions open this up for public comment. anyone to comment on item one

seeing none, public comment is closed. >> so a motion to approve the resolution. >> okay. and we can do that without opposition. >> this is on enter agreement with pg&e for the servicing of the halls. >> thank you very much. we'll hear from the puc. >> i manage the - this resolution authorizes the puc has general manager to enter a long-term agreement for one hundred and 65 project located they symphony hall. the city must enter into the agreement. the puc is cricked several projects in the past for one hundred kill waits loektd at a

muni facility. the current agreement is for a denomination for the electrical grid for the life to exceed 10 years. the agreement doesn't require any costs by the city the pg&e and puc ask you approve this agreements >> any questions? okay. we don't have a budget analyst report. any any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> okay. can i get a motion. >> this is a resolution to direct the property to be sold square feet for the development rights from the memorial rights and to convict this for action

necessary for have the corners in the signing code. >> thank you. we have mr. updyke to speak on this item >> good morning supervisor farrell and supervisor avalos. we're seeking authority to sell up to 1.1 million from a city property that's located at the thirty 1 to 401 van ness. i will walk you through this. it's unused historical rights from the significant guess so that can be transferred from sale in order to develop the developers floor area on their property. it could be directly from a

donor site. for a victor to walk i threw the t dr site. the donor site will not be improved in the future so there's a volume of the site that won't be upgraded. the t dr can sell it the folks find a small footprint but entitlement for height that they can't get to because of floor area ratio. so the t dr allows the developer to maximumize their height. this is a picture of how that

can happen. t dr can only come from 3-ds sites or if the code was replaced for the c-3 zone districts >> so this has been an opportunity that's afford to the city since 2004 not graufl used from the city. t dr can u be used to increase the areas or for the prestige districts. heersz a map of what t dr can be used. as you see it's focused in the financial district not surprisingly and along the market street corridor again not spiraling where we have small footprint particles. then difficulties for the developers to get to the height

limitations. so i want to make it clear the t dr process in no way trumpets the process. the t dr allows the developer to maximize to their sgiements e entitlements. the proceeds of the sales >> can i stop you real quick on on my question and thanks for speaking will be the item. the concept will have taller skinnier building but this won't trump many part of the process but given f this is a newer practice i'm curious as your thoughts if a developer

purchases those t dr can they use one hundred percent of the t dr rights in the building therefore the commission has a hard time saying you can't use the full amount of that? >> if the receding sites has the entitlements in police radios to produce that volume of development i'm not sure there's a process that could prevent that from happening outside of the normal sequa or euro process that the developer would be going so there. it's sort of a maybe >> they would only purchase those after the entitlements so how could they get the entitlements to a building if they're limited. >> well by right they have

certain height and bulk restrictions. so your question might be more to the point of development factors that still are an entitlement and review process >> right. >> that's continued. >> i guess the answer is because this is somewhat of an unused process and i understand the policy behind it i agree with it. but it's untested yet if a developer you know how that kind of entitlement proposals works afterward and how did he people are seeing how the developer pays for one hundred percent of the t dr >> what's been tested is the city entering this market. t dr is not an untested pru