with the naumd and now mayor ed lee we intend to celebrate this in may in a grand session and there's no better way to launch this what the first issuance of the statesman. i look forward to next year and many more years to come and i hope we'll have an asia series. thank you all the friends who helped us to participate so i want to thank the asia officers association for having - to help us. thank you. (clapping.) sherry map tang from the cultural center and so many things he's done and supervisor

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have a great day. (drums rollin forever stamp. have a great day. (drums rolling)o san francisco planning commission regular hearing for thursday, march 13, 2014. please understand that the commission does not permit any disruptions and please state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll commissioner president wu. commissioner fung. commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. and commissioner sugaya. commissioners firgs first on your calendar is care and caution for items proposed for continuance but along with this and another item we would like to juggle your schedule from the mayor's office and the

supervisors office and commissioner president wu as agreed to take item one out of order directly following item 6 on the overall project of the plaza program. also just a heads up to the audience and commission item 9 will be taken out of order and will be considered first on your regular calendar. commissioners in that case we'll move into commission matters itself minutes for february 27, 2014, >> is there any public comment on the minutes. okay. seeing none, public comment is closed.

commissioner antonini >> move to approve. >> on that motion to adapt the minutes for february 27th commissioner antonini. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya and commissioner fung and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that places you on the next item unanimously 7 to zero commissioners, any questions or comments? >> we'll they said san francisco real estate was hot unfortunately, that week with the unfortunate fire i want to give great credit to our fire department that was on top of that people's 3 and limited the damage to the buildings it only spread to some windows to

accompanying structures and the fact we did over the years since the great earthquake and fire since 1906 took a lot of steps with a large fire department emergency services and water certainly was effective in the problem that occurred this week and there's attention in the newspapers we spend money on the homeless with no apparently homeless identified on the streets. i think it works out to a little bit over $30,000 if you agree with the figure find 6 thousand homeless and half is on permanent housing and that's money well spent i would certainly b be in favor to spend more but in connection with

that, i think we have to have rules once that's spent and the housing is established to accommodate people we never see a reduction in homeless we attract people to san francisco because there's no rules. if we provide the housing and mandate those individuals housed are treated for any problems as far as chemical addiction and alcohol and mental problems and job skill, training they need to live their lives independently when we put restrictions on that and not have people lout to be sleeping in public or private spaces without the consent of the private property owner you'll see slower migration of

people who are likely to become homeless in san francisco. i want to pursue this through a bond measure or junior year to year financing i think the bond would be better to support the housing we need along with the restrictions i know it would be something the voters would be supportive of if it's balanced. >> commissioner sugaya. >> oh, yes, just to a question to the director can you give us an update on what we're going to hear about the university situation. >> i think we're going to have a hearing next month we're trying to get it on calendar i don't have a specific date

hopefully in april. >> and, secondly, back in 2004 apparently the board of supervisors passed some legislation the homeless people scored and victory by asking the board of supervisors to set aside homes for homeless people this created a surplus system for the properties to be set aside if we could get a status on an update. >> i'll be happy to check that. >> thank you. director ram did you have further this is commissioner

moore >> director ram i would appreciate if you'll keep us posted on how the fire in mission bay might impact surrounding construction and other mrepgsz which come before open space, etc., etc. and how you strategize see that as a shift in the overall planning area the area is a mature area and i take it a major set back what we what your position is and what we can do for the problems that are awe raising. >> haven't had a chance to talk with tiffany in the infrastructure that is responsible for that area you'll when i do i'll report back. >> that includes on the one hand how the community benefits

are effected some of them only kick in when it's completed i want to hear what we're doing to help. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further department matters directors announcements. >> other than that i was going to mention the fire and talk to the score agency other than i have no announcements at this point. >> commissioners item 5 the past events and the board of appeals and preservation. >> amy rogers here to give you a report. this week there were two ordinances that were adapted the first was a zoning map change for the church it will enable the sites to use tdrs and the

second is a planning code text that's related to the apple store amendments and will allow certain non-conforming structures to be rebuilt they've both been approved there's two introductions first is an introduction from supervisor campos, supervisor kim and supervisor avalos and mary all jointly introduced this to include certainly informational questions regarding anti discrimination for mixed use projects in association would be an annual report from the data on the application, and, secondly, supervisor campos introduced an ordinance that

relates to the mission the alcohol and special use district to allow mini golf courses and other similar things segregated with restaurants to obtain liquor licenses. those are the new electives i'm available for questions >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and the board of appeals met one item is 340 fremont was a rehearing that the site had been appealed and it was reeblthd on that item last time also the board issued a decision on rehearing and this was a perfect decision because they will

rehear that on april 9th. >> commissioners there was no historic commission yesterday so general comment not to concede 15 minutes members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda it will be afforded when the item is met in the meeting i'd like to remind the public to silence our electronic devices there are no speaker cards. >> i'm dennis here to appear on item 6 and i know technically this is not general public but you moved item 1 onto the regular implanted when the

public has been informed this matter is continued until next week we don't have to comment today because the item is not up until the 20th. it's very, very unfair and proourld for you to be moving the item >> let me clarify the decision to move it is to allow the commission a chance to continue it for a longer period so we can listen to public comment and take the continuous matter after so - >> patricia neighbors and merchants. mr. ram your comments about transportation and incorporated with projects is correct.

currently, we have a problem online and lombardy the mta wants to take away the only bus stops that 54 low income southerners have that he presidio apartment if we lose that they can't get to your grocery stores or decreases and more than one is ada more than 50 percent is ada. i want you to be aware those problems are happening in the city and the merchant will not trotter anything against our citizens and handicapped >> thank you any future public comment seeing no more than

general you you been pits closed. >> and places you under your regular calendar we'll be taking item 89 out of order. amendments to the planning and building codes for the process to dwelling unit constructed without the required permits that's an ordinance by supervisor chiu for dwelling constructed without you 0 permits >> before you today is an ordinance proposed by supervisor chiu to grant legal status to unauthorized unit existing right now. before i started my presentation i want to acknowledge supervisor chiu who would like to discuss the proposed ordinance

>> good afternoon planning staff i appreciate the opportunity to come and present and let me say to the outside i appreciate you calling this outside i have another meeting coming up but my aid has been involved will be here to help answer any questions about this legislation. i'm sure you're aware of we announced to allow the existing unit without permits to provide for legal status this was lefbs that was developed over the course of 10 months with tenant organizations and housing organizations and property owners and a a number of organizations including the staff. this creates the process to allow a property owner to leg illegal lists one existing unit

that was constructed before january of 2013, the property owner will go to the building strishgsz are sprishgsz to determine whether or not it meets the planning codes and could secure any permits for construction. i want to talk for a moment about this legislation we're aware there are an estimated tens of thousands even if dwelling will unit to 50 units that have been added since world war 23 by converting at ice cream and other spaces for folks. the illegal status i'd like to refer to those has a negative impact on both tenants and owners the tenants may not have

the protections and the state codes may not be legal. spit despite this the owners can lose the units and hundreds of them have been taken off the marketplace and have penalties they serve as a vital source of homes we know from a day-by-day study those are units overwhelmi overwhelmingly antidepressant by low income resident that pay an average of $1,250 a month exercised compared to the overall rent of $3,500 a month.

it's to bring this vitality stock of housing to help preserve legal housing to reactivist legal units that may be kept off the market. those dove tail that your mayor ed lee directed agencies to take action to preserve the cities housing including going through a leg process. of course, our goal of preserving the in law units can't come at the expense of safety and our legislation is to be client with our building codes to make sure there's entrances and exits. and through that your legislation assures that your tenants live in safe living

zones. now our proposal helps homeowners to make a long-range investment by legalizing the situation and allowing the homeowners not to fear the enforcement action and to allow the action to be temporarily suspended if a good faith effort t is made to legalize the unit. for decades the in law units have been allowed to exist and essentially our city has had a don't act don't tell policy i believe the proposal in front of us allows a balance of preservation and safety goals. i want to conclude we thank our

staff for the review of the legislation and we're in agreement with the recommendations with to exceptions namely the first and second recommendations if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. again ask for your support and consideration >> thank you are there any clarifying questions before he has to leave. >> commissioner antonini. >> yes. president chiu a legitimization couldn't occur is this retroactive from the package or after the package. >> it's after the package of the legislation. >> that was confusing and

didn't seem like it was fair it someone abducted by the law. >> we don't want to create any incentives for those evictions to happen. >> so the date would be the clock would begin to tick at the 10 year period no one could be convict and if the compression has to take place they couldn't do the evicts. >> yes. >> that clarifies it thank you. >> thank you, president chiu. >> thank you. i also have received two letters of support or comments. that i'm submitting and i have

copies. supervisor chiu provided a great copy of the ordinances and i'm going to talk about the proposed ordinance it changes the planning code to provide certain exemptions for this legal shin process that provides exemptions for open space requirements and one to exposed the city limits. it will not contempt those from the housing codes they have to comply with the code but there's certain things that are allowed. and this ordinance raised visitation remits to a renal building in general and the unit

will remain subject to rent control and other requirements will be maintained like the setbacks and street requirements and bike requirements that are triggered. so, now i would like to briefly discuss why the city should establish the process to legalize those inauthorized units. it's been discussed the rent in san francisco have been rising 33 per hundred bedroom in a recent report. evictions have increased at the 35 percent. certain types of vibrations like the ellis act has increased about one hundred and 70 percent. unauthorized or legally unit

have been reported as a source even if affordable rental housing in san francisco. in the midst of this housing crisis we're making every effort to law it's important to

highlight not all illegal unit maybe eligible to pursue the process. the proposed ordinance doesn't allow the life and safety fire codes and building codes and many of those units may not meet those requirements. the major units that will not be eligible for the life and safety codes as reported by dbi staff are the the access requirements of fire codes and the sprinklers in the safety units of 3 unit are more. i also want to acknowledge tom from the building inspectors and

my boss from the dbi are here for any questions. the department strongly supports this ordinance and asks the commission to approve that with some modifications. i'll go through all the modifications that were laid out in the report. so the first thing is remodifying we're proposing to modify the screen. as supervisor mentioned if there's no evictions during a certainty period those units will no problem not be eligible for the provision and we're going to move the screening process so property owners know they'll not be eligible it comes later in the process we don't want the applicants to start an

application and find out they're not eligible for the application. if we can show that are that was the first thing i'm going to explain 235e together. the intention is to legalize those units, however, some of the provisions make it a discretionary process usually the provision around the zoning administrator. the anticipation of the supervisor and this ordinance is to streamline the permitting process for this. we're proposing modification to remove the discretionary process and make that an a.d. central process and make the