account transit i know that's a difficult challenge. we brought on the right popcorn who tackle it in objected cities so i think it's good to be excited but it but not two excited we're going in the right direction hopefully, we'll explore all the option that will fencing san francisco >> commissioner moore. >> i would be triggered to see a couple of analogs a majority of the cities have the same problem perhaps not as the freeways that come close to do you only how did the plan for future i can think of a couple cities in europe but i'd like to see us have a catalog of analogs

that's intriguing and exciting. >> okay. thank you very much. the commission is going to take a short lunch 25 >> week to week to the san

francisco planning commission i'd like to remind members of audience to turn off mobile devices and when speaking before the commission please do state your name for the record. >> conversions we left open on item 14. the planning code repair uses this is an informational presentation >> stove with the planning department staff. before i goat into this i'm going to introduce some of the co-sponsor start with john with the economic workforce development >> thank you good afternoon, commissioners. john leo with the economic development i'll have some brief

comments. so many of us recall the debate in this hearing room leading unup to the eastern neighborhoods planning process the debate around spiritual distribution repairs and whether or not there was any demand nor the uses in the city whether there will even if be a demand in the future and if we should keep any land at all reserved for those activities in san francisco. with that backdrop today's decision shows you hoe we engage the dialog of providing for space for light and spiritual businesses in san francisco for bio today and tomorrow shows how far the conversation has evolved. part of the growth in

merchandising san francisco is not struggling to find space for small and memoranda sized industrial businesses to locate and expand in san francisco. as we've proposed this is really how our districts are supposed to work. from the competition a whole angst range spiritual folks ultimately competing monk themselves their streamlining the process and having new merchandising space. so the pursuit is an ongoing collaboration with several city offices and our industry partner

so supporting the local survival of the local merchandising merchandising was the mayors project and he was pleased to recommend this with that supervisor campos and commissioner wu and also commissioners recognize this not only this proposal but ongoing pr issues. i know this is informational but some of my colleagues b will get into the details but we're here along with other members of the team to help answer questions >> thank you. hi, commissioners andrea with supervisor campos office. john talked about you how harvey

happy we're to create new p dr space. people authenticity we were going spot wrong direction to promote properties for space. but we've spent a lot of time therapists demonstrated to our merchandising industry is actively growing and diverse first degree. so about a year ago we were brained stomping with the planning department staff and members of the board of supervisors at the around how can we make new p dr space easier to find in the city interest the planning staff is going to 0 go through the

details but the sprifrts has spent a lot of time about the affordability crisis we're going on going through additional terms of housing and supervisor cowen thinks about it in terms of housing and preserving real blue-collar jobs. the p dr provides job opportunity with a people of a variety of educational skill sets to provide livelihoods in san francisco so anything we can do to help preserve the workforce in the eastern workforce and in the city. we've been meeting with a lot of stakeholders and the advisory council and we're open to meet and serve feedback this is why it's an informational item.

there's a lot of consensus around objectives but the key components that we believe in this legislation that are incredibly important are a program to support new construction as p dr space in the city and a of you discrete areas encourage better p dr space and have incubator space and make it easier for common p dr folks to meet by changing the requirement. its also important we're not significantly changing the development program or the types of uses that there have been

contemplated. we have a tremendous r tremendous amount of respect for the feedback. i'm going to turn it over to one of our other co- sponsors supervisor campos office >> i'm from supervisor campos officer. much p of what supervisor campos office has presented is we've got to the policy to make the p dr space for affordable for jobs in san francisco and the best use of those parcels that be under developed in san francisco we're going to work with strrltdz so each of the people that this effects are at the

table and a looking forward to progressing some of the things that are causing problems and looking forward to working with the community and making sure this piece of legislation goes forward. thank you >thanks. i'm launch into the legislation to create space for p dr spaces and make it easier inform p dr spaces available. so let's speak to the creating more spaces so far the p dr businesses. there's a lot of demand and the distribution and repair the p dr tracks with the economy the businesses are doing well. in the production development it

is growing. adding any high paying jobs without having to have a four-year degree. p dr can't command enough in rent so they need supplements. we have affordable housing and transportation that needs to be relied on. we created two new work spaces both of which relied on p dr spaces speaker we recognize this wouldn't provide larger spaces for some p dr companies. this includes two proposals the

first is new development antonio on large parcels if they provide a substantial amount of p dr space they have to be north of 20th street and the building is 33 percent p dr. to insure it's a quality p dr space we have a plan that conveys how to keep the rent low available. we can this is an important poise and we're working with the city attorney for how to make that requirement. to insure this office space doesn't have to have a lot of parking space and all those projects require conditional use to clovls scrutinize the

process. if i could have the overhead. i just want to show everyone a map of where those would potentially be. perfect. while - i'll just wait a minute. a hero on this map you can clearly see (laughter) >> the pink spaces which are few and far between on the northern side. i'll try it again (laughter) thank you okay. so here the p dr districts in purple this is the northern

portion i'm tripping myself out with this technology. this way so people can understand it. there's along 7th street think of the old greyhound station for example, the others are scattered throughout the district those are meeting the criteria i'll talk about we don't actually think this will get development on love of those sites this is the basin criteria and up to the planning commission to see if there's a viable opportunity. so we can come back but i want to add a couple of points on office. the amount of office proposed by this prop 13wr5g9d p dr this new

legislation has now visible a impacts. we've heard those offices b will take up too much space so we've we've got it at 33 percent. they determine that for one feasible development was 12 percent but nobody felt comfortable so we set the bar to percent and give this we don't expect many 69 locations to move forward with the proposal and when we do wholly we'll see the substantial amount of p dr space. i think we can take this overhead off now. the first is to allow self

storage practices to rebuild. this is based on the storage facility and if no other change. we want to make the p dr to share assessable retail for people to sell their wares and we've seen this at industrial center where businesses will benefit. and to tweak the enterprise workforce space this is based on sf data that the preponderance of their companies will benefit and to promote p dr better safe than sorry we're going to have a business plan to what we just discussed. we want to make it easier for p

dr businesses to get permits. those are mostly food and bermgz based on the companies in the last 5 years and especially small-sca small-sca small-scale brerz. finally, we have two changes one is to move the chemical lashes out of the definition of p dr and cleaning up 9 p dr section of the code which p dr was created we allowed property owns to get refunds for certain things. we're including the benefits of the p dr use they can - the property owners who were not

involved in the property sensitivities. the discontinues of the enterprise zone there's no more common line and that's information that's collected. the complieks is an administrative burden for the city. we're rigging the p dr companies to provide a plan. recently their becoming conditional use after 5 years unless we change things they'll become a come use so the commission can review them. that completes the nuts and bolts and happy to answer questions >> opening it up for public comme comment. i have two speaker cards. thank you. kate and john

>> hi, commissioners it's good to be back and see a few familiar faces. the last time i was here was the close of the eastern area planning process and stood here wondering about the future and how much space will we need for merchandising industries and the team has given us the good news and a adding 10 percent more employment. the san francisco's manufacturers in the city have expansion space because of the jobs we have 5 hundred and 34 of them now per over thirty percent are younger than sf and unless

we're concerned about the jobs 80 percent are for immigrants from other countries and we condition to see the trends. the tough news is the lack of being able to find industrial space is now the number one threat to the growth of the sector payroll it's not just a question of the internal competition. as i stand here today one of our best loved chocolate factory is moving to the east bay and on the other end my fascinate and only 3-d mustards who created 20 jobs in the last year has signed

a lease in as an landing prove or disprove there's some degree of urgency to come up with solutions to implement and i want to impress that urgency upon you. we're excited to be collaborating for the last few months to bring forward the legislation it's has data for over 5 hundred companies and 40 in the admission in the bayview that has directly informed the legislation. i very much appreciate our consideration and your forward-looking to preserve the bird we have in hand. thank you >> hi, i'm john senior vice president of the brerz.

i want to talk about my farther topic merchandising manufacturing we've doubled our workforce and we've seen remarkable growth. i'm sure you're aware of we're commented to staying in the city of san francisco we we'll e double our workforce in the next 5 years. you may find it interesting to know your entry-level wage for part time 18-year-old kids is 17 and a half dollars an hour that's our beginning wages. skilled was this go up much more dramatically.

one of the things that's important we're working on the pier 48 project and now it's our opportunity to give feedback of our own. our continued future success is the city continuing to encourage and develop a thriving merchandising segment. we have a growth that will continue to sustain the various components of the infrastructure in the city that we think we will continue it need as part of the long-term commitment to stay in san francisco. been here for one hundred 17 years we hope we are going to see another one hundred and 17 years in the city. i encourage you as strongly as i can to get behind this legislation. thank you very much >> thank you.

>> good afternoon, commissioners i'm tim colon and this is not a housing issue but i want to say how excited i am to see this proposal come forward. it's going to bring flexibility to land use. one of the things i keep hearing they didn't get how p dr was going to work and didn't do much about that it seems like the market isn't going to deliver the types of uses we envisioned we're talking about 2016 and 2017. that possibility of taking land

that hearsay extremely low job density that's a vast amount of more jobs nor folks. that's one of the premises of p dr but? a pragmatic concrete way to deliver on that. i think supervisor cowen deserves a lot of credit and sf made. it's a great step forward for the city i hope you'll do that >> any public comment on this item? >> good afternoon peter koelg we sent you this morning some comments. you know, we really appreciate supervisor cowen's provision.

we've got affordability crisis for our small local neighborhoods serving businesses and for light industry i'm glad to see it's a regrowing. i've chaired the advisory board and we came up with recommendations for how to reinvigorate light industry. i still have one the hated. we're not strarnz to the business community especially light industry. we were active in the rezoning for the eastern neighborhood and p dr was a huge part of that. one there was a focus on public benefits. the idea of taking the old cities light industrial land and

converting them to a higher value what did the community get in return. the community was at the table on that. interesting ideas on here i'm not sure i agree about them being modest but when folks only hear about this at the cac at the beginning of the month nicole we're somewhat reactionary. i'm glad you've continued your duplex process we've been working with sf and supervisor cowen's office but to ghetto our recommendations the key think i think we agree on it increasing more p dr space. there is some disagreement.

if you're increasing land value to the engine for p dr you need to have accountability that's permanently p dr space and that's the only way to have a public benefit a that's meaningful over time. there's a lot of technical issues but if we can san diego only how to do it but agree on the intention we can come up with something. >> good afternoon again. jim with the formerly with the western selma planning process. first, let me say we wouldn't be xerpg such a shortage in available p dr space if we

didn't have the planning department gobbling up nearly a dozen zone to move forward with their center selma planning process when is fueling speculation in the entire area. innovative p dr was a gimmick proposed by the mayor's office at the tail end of the adoption process that was meant at that reward well-connected property owns with the ability to introduce office uses which the department had just spent 5 years progressively were incapable with the preservation of working jobs. here we go again, the planning department is playing santa clause instead of saving jobs. the need for the legislation is

based on the stone growth witnessed in the p dr sector over the last years and the desire to see this sector continue to thrive something is working in this town and they've set out to kill it. in the earner neighborhoods there was p dr all the time until they commissions the study which concluded that p dr couldn't compete with the industrial sector. to allow more tweeters in one of the last under developed parts the city the real motivation here is more office space. the p dr is being throne under the bus. this permits other