produce more and faster we need to insensitive vice affordable housing. this has a few syrup things. currently under our law when a developer has a choice even if either paying a fee for affordable housing doing affordable housing off site or building on site of a minimum of 12 percent of units in the development under this legislation projects that decide to do their affordable housing on site and build 20 percent instead of the minimum of 12 percent the affordable housing in the project will not count against density controls for that project. we have a number of areas in the city where the lot size determines the maximum number of units in the building we know

there are plenty of situations where more units can you been built by limited by the density controls we're saying if you build at least 20 percent of affordable housing on site those units will not count against the city limits you can build more without reducing the number of market value unit so developers will no longer have a disincentive. the legislation in effect for affordable housing developments in terms of developments that are one hundred percent affordable typically built and our nonprofit partners the density controls based on lot size will be eliminated for those projects so the affordable housing developers will have the option of including for unit in developments and so colleagues

again, this is a straightforward piece of legislation. as we know in addressing our housing crisis there's no one solution it requires us to do a number of different things this try to move towards a more affordable city colleagues, i ask for your support i'll note the planning commission voted unanimously to remedy the legislation w so with that, i'll call up my colleague for the presentation >> good morning kristen planning department as scott wiener pointed out the legislation was voted unanimously and they were aware the changes and supported the change. in our packet there's the full commission resolution and the case report weighing all this

information and generally anything that helps you with the affordable housing goal if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> such. supervisor kim >> actually this is a question although for planning i support in legislation and i'm so glad we are moving forward but i want to know are there real life past situations where we've had affordable housing was limited because of the density issue? or i see shaking of heads so >> there are various situations where the consent controls impact what's feasible we have an affordable project wants to have a protective pro process and they go to a commission process that will remove a

number of projects some projects are smaller to the time is not necessary so i think this will help to expedite a number even if affordable projects. >> i notice in the protective if the developer commits at least 20 percent on site they'll be eligible for the bonus that only enforces in the long-term or the future up to 20 percent even if the developer risks more so i'm curious about that mechanism. >> that was we put on amendment in larry last week at the suggestion of the city attorney's office to make sure that the b m rs will be permanently enforceable so the district attorney's office gave us that and the commission recommended the purpose of the amendment to insure it was

permanently enforceable 10 down the road. >> so but the way it was written we will optional enforce up to 20 percent so if the developer committed to 30 or one hundred percent we will only enforce to a maximum of 20 percent that was how i read that enforcement piles ordinance. >> hold on one second which lines are you referring to? page 4 line 9 for the project sponsor to pursue the commitment of 20 percent on site is that it >> if you give me a little bit

of time i'll find that portion if you want to go to public comment. >> okay. so dwhiel we figure out this question we will now open up number one for. any public comment on that item on item one? i have one public comment card joe did i >> i'm here representing the san francisco housing actions coalition on on behalf of the one hundred and thirty members we strongly support the incentive bonus legislation it's a great piece of legislation doubling the amount of housing on site without changing the building envelope and as we know we desperately need the affordable housing now. the san francisco housing action

has been participate in the mayors group to reaching the goal of thirty new housing you unit by 20/20. we believe that's consistent and a step going in the right direction. this will help the developers to build more affordable housing on site. we look forward to other legislation regarding the bonus legislation we believe this density bonus legislation is a great way to encourage more affordable housing and to pass today. thank you >> hello, i'm betty trainer i'm here from the snvr and disability action. i'm not exactly speaking for them because this is the first time i've heard about the legislation by so we will have to look at it more carefully but was pleased to hear about it we,

of course, support affordable housing and increasing that limit i personally have felt that 15 percent was low and reduced to 12 are percent to your at least trying to move it up to 20 percent in the tenderloin i've been to meetings where the developers build new condos and they give us 12 percent no, thank you this is what you're required to do if you say 20 percent we'll thank you. it makes sense so we'll look at it more closely but i want to thank for this legislation >> thank you very much. is there any additional public comment on item number one seeing none, public comment is closed. so supervisor kim it appears there was a drafting from the

city attorney's office it appears that with john gibner, deputy city attorney is confirming that i think there are two places that needs to be changed page 4 line 9 i believe the phrase at least should be inserted and committing to at least 20 percent on site units restricted own line 6 instead of saying up to a maximum of 20 percent but say restricting the project under the code - of 20 percent or more of the unit i believe. but before we do that lets wait

for mr. gibner to come back so we will go and call item number 2 and then we'll get back to item 3 after item 2. so madam clerk call item 2 >> item 2 a hearing from the vice president of building inspections and disables for the elevators for the single occupancy hotels and supervisor kim. thank you. i want to appreciate the land use committee many of you read about in the newspaper a very important issue that's impacting many of our residents particularly our our residents and retinas of disables in our elevators in our single room occupancy hotels in district 6 and in the mission. we've heard the stories from the

retinas that talked about being prisoners and missing medical appoints their terrified to leave their home because they may not be able to get into their apartment we've heard horror stories about climbing many stairs. in april of 2014 mayor ed lee committed to replying elevators with the seniors but the problem exists with the elevators meeting modernization with the hotels as well whether euro a you are in a hotel or apartment in the festive overview event of a fire resident said when they up and down they're waiting for the firefighters to come and

carry them up and down the stairs that's not the solution we want to see for the problem our emergency frrnd are not the solution we took an initiative to correct this in hotel and made surveys online available as well as distributing hard copies to understand the scope of the problem and it's hard data is presented to have solutions. we'll be hearing about the solution today >> thank you for raising the profile of this and working tirelessly for the city and the resources behind the solution. just to this date the city has implemented some solutions a provision in the elevator repair where more maintenance workers are addressing the issues and

having on site people to run medication and food for the strangled but there's more we must do we can't wait for tragedy to strike we're here to talk about the scope felt problem and how to mitigate the situation for residents when elevators are out of service due to repairs or whatever. and haernd their ability to replace more more than slates and talk about the actions the city may take the challenge in hotels that made it different from public housing those are not owned by the city but the modernization is private property owners but our city contracts with the hotels providing rent funding and other source of services so this is

where the city link we often place a lot of our residents in those hotels in the in the end e end the solution has to be a combination ever different parties. we have a list of presenter the mayor's office of housing and the department of building inspectors and department of public health and telling then we'll open up for the public. but first carla johnson our director on stability >> thank you very much calory weiner and supervisor kim and supervisor cowen. i'm carla johnson the director on the mayor's office of housing we're the coordinator and so our roll so to make sure all cities programs are accessible as required under the ada and the

single occupancy hotels are primarily privately you he owned but there's s r os fund by city whether those are operated by nonprofits receiving city fund or whether those are leased rooms for city programs operated by public health department. and what their funded by the city our office has to insure their educational or at minimum the city achieves program access and that's where we look at the program as a whole and provide some accessibility anticipate a mechanism for a reasonable consumptions if someone needs to be relocated or placed in a unit. regardless of the ownership single room occupancy hotels provide affordable housing for a

significant number of people that are older adults or people living with disabilities. there's a term i want to introduce into the decision that's called the maintenance of existing assessable features the maintenance of this has a legal meaning under the aids but having the possibility of having a more practice wording this item means in if the ada applies and your building has to be accessible under federal law it's not enough to have elevator you have to maintain them and keep them in good operation and it becomes a civil rights violation stloo there are minor disruptions for service. in using this term i want to be

cache because the ada has limited application to existing housing like the s r o the ada applies to the publicly funded housing like the projects funded by the mayor's office of housing or our housing authority but other examples of former s r o that got renovated with public fund they got new sclaits slates lake the arlington hotel and kelly on golden gate in the old ymca. and those big jobs were rare turns out to be able to not only do full escaping scale renovations but to you didn't want upgrade those in capsize and practitioner. we were lucky at the economic

downturn we received funds through the tarp to do the critical renovations our office provided the field sticks services by the way, we've worked on smaller projects to upgrade the existing elevator we are curling working with over halls in 14 elevators i've met with the housing authority to look at the preliminary plans one of the things that was interesting to hear concepts of what is it takes on a prefer elevator basis to do a major off halls i mean to describe something that is everything but increasing the cap size like making the doors automatically open and the controls at the right height and providing the bells and whistles like the

obvious indicators and the housing over halls run 3 hundred thousand per slate. now the term maintenance assessable features so where have a practical application for properties in the future the city can choose to work at the local or state level to change the laws and provided fund for the property owners to upgrade their elevators. because we have a few elevator facts the average life of an slate is 35 years those s r o oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light have been built before the accessibility codes and at the don't meet the current requirements for can be or panels but they get you, you

upstairs they make the building usedable and if you use a cheer or walker that maybe the only way to get in and out of our building the older elevators have maintenance problems sometimes parts have to be fabricated and a and they can take weeks ago and most. there are two things that extend the life of the slate the first is maintenance the state has few requirements where an slate company comas and look at the moving parts and through the property owner has to maintain their property in a safe fashion that may mean shutting down the slate if there's a hazard and

you're not serving the public. the second thing that can extend the life is to schedule a major officer hall our office has to practice the hospitals in '8090 we starred to hear if the users of the clinic they were experiencing elevator disruptions and one of the things we started to track the number ever elevator oejz so we can really look at the trend is this regular maintenance or indication of a more systaltic problem. we saw that problem it helps us to determine the best route to fix the problem in this case it was the offer alleyway hall so it includes new wirings and

panels and switches and doesn't have to include a new shaft it's technically infeasible to change out an elevator state of shaft if you try to enlarge s it you might trigger other concerns pursue just to be clear our office in not recommending we ask the property owners to change out the shafts in the privately owned once we we ask for maintenance to improve the slates and ask for financial support. over the last two years the mayors disability council asked for help one of the 0 two things that come out was a housing resolution they issued i've brought copies to be

distributed. i wanted to emphasis that package 2 says there's two changes where the mayors disability council asks for more restrictions including elevators and the mayors disability council asks to pursue other measures to help property owners to obtain the funding for those features and the s r o especially those that have contracts with the city and county of san francisco thank you for your support if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them and i've brought additional copies of the housing resolution today >> thank you, ms. johnson is this what you are referring to oh, that's the copy.

we've often had discussions with our stakeholders around how this is a local and state issue bus osha does the enforcement around the elevator but we can do things at a local level to better address this i'm curious what those are >> that's a again, yes i have a recommendation at the local level would be s r o property owners have to have a regular maintenance visit on a determined to be scheduled like weekly or quarterly instead of having a contract where someone responds if you have problems if you do maintenance periodically you can extend the life. >> and around accountability we

place s r o folks so if we knowing place a resident with physical disabilities where a broken elevator is disrupting do you have my what are some of our thoughts in terms of our responsibilities and it's a major challenge and potential liability so with when those matters are brought to our attention we try to work with the individual department to see what other building in the portfolio to get people roenld one of the things we've considered in the past is increasing the budget for temporary relocation costs. for place like the department of public health so that someone

might have an option to stay at the regular hotel so a s r o for the duration of the elevator repair >> thank you so much ms. johnson. >> so next, we have department of building inspection and we both have director tom huey and another colleague so director hughie. >> good morning. i'm director of the department of building inspection. as you see starting march this year i created a camera because we see the problem with the elevator and we had a survey first of all, i want to acknowledge my staff my chief

housing inspector and rosemary and their spending one thousand hours to survey roughly one hundred and 61 s r o buildings have elevators and all 5 of them is not working. and also this is the first time in history the department to do all this statistics to find out each elevator in each building what year they built you know what cart they have and from thereon i ask my staff to, you know, have a series meeting with all you tell public and our staff to come up with some kind of recommendation still on next monday we'll schedule another

one. you know, as director carla johnson mentioned they've got lots of issues but dbi is trying to revolve issues there are lots of issues regarding this kind of elevators when we look at the history most of them over one hundred years old and how to maintain that it that's the challenge for our department and the homeowner and how to upgrade. like director johnson said we don't want to enlarge the elevator slaft because it will have a large impact on the space like the tenants we move out and the reduced number of unit seismically we have to upgrade

we'll work out with all the tenants and the groups and, you know, come up with a recommendation afforded by next month and submit to you but meanwhile we'll give you more insight by my staff and rosemary to give you more details >> thank you. can i just clarify you said one hundred and 61 s r o hotels have elevators and only 5 are broken >> that's right. they're not working but sometimes they maybe the commission is not working but they fix it >> ize. okay >> thank you. >> good morning board members

housing inspector to clarify what director hughie said elevators get raider and break and get repaired and break new parts have to be made and it creates details in 2014 we've written as the department of building inspection 14 nos o notices of violation on elevators not being fundamental in hotels and a cough of those residential hotels because of the elevator situation and other violations those cases were referred to the city attorney and now part of a lawsuit dealing with the maintenance of resident hotels. one of the things to explain about the elevator requirement is back in 1995 the fire code had a provision that elevators were required for