saying, you know, what protecting lgbt people is the right thing to do and we'll go to congress and say actually those billion dollar corporations are actually already with us and give them the police cover to get protections for sexual orientation and gender identity and it will start here today you guys are a have an opportunity to do that what a wonderful thing on our last day to be a part of >> thank you. next speaker. >> i am with the local homeless coalition i think this ordinance is critical we've seen in 2013 thirty percent of our homeless population is lgbtq and we see the homelessness among the transgender people it's critical

we continue to protect our lgbt community i started working with the aids positive people that we have housed 10 years ago this city was a message inadequate for lgbt now we have 1 out of 5 homeless again, we can't let this happen in san francisco i think this ordinance will add to the protects and he should continue to protect this community that's been here for 20 or thirty years. thank you for supporting this ordinance >> thank you. >> hello commissioners tom. co- president of harvey milk club asking you to support the lgbtq housing ordinance san francisco has a well deserved remuneration for national

proposals leaders like harvey milk and others have supported a coalition as so go san francisco so goes the innovation with the advances of the lgbt rights who were born in san francisco. from domestic partnerships to the ribbon flag what happens in san francisco spreads across the country it helps us to share lgbt commitment to the rest of the nation by asking simple questions we can engage the equal treatment of the lgbt people that take for grand to be extend for people across the country i encourage you to continue san francisco's leadership and to support the lgbtq equal housing ordinance

>> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm here from the san francisco human rights commission. teresa submitted a letter for your consideration in the packet i believe before you today, i wanted to introduce myself to the commission and echo the sentiments in director sparks letter it's at agency responsible for enforcing the ordinances against discrimination last year about 20 percent of our 0 his or her discrimination complaints were filed on sexual orientation or a gender identity. as some of the previous speakers stayed the there's no federal protections combinls this form of discrimination and the human

rights commission does view this ordinance as something that will have a positive impact on the lgbtq community throughout the united states. the simple pleasure will provide for a key point of information that's currently mercy housing from the national discourse interest or. so the data collection will not be onerous and they'll find the measure to be a report for the board of supervisors for the assessment of how our policies and procedures could have a national impact >> thank you is there any public comment?

okay seeing none, public comment is closed. >> supervisors or commissioners commissioners one thing i've forgotten to say it will be in the administration code and not the planning code. >> thank you to the members of the public who come out to speak i'm happy to support today happy for san francisco to be in the leadership position for the nation. >> commissioner moore. >> happy to support and happy to see san francisco in a leadership position and commissioner president wu comments the fact that prejudice and discrimination are unfortunately well and are alive and stronger than i thought ways haven't in gay pride to look at this it was quite disturbing made a chill go down any stein spine in light of that it was

made me aware we don't have housing protection for lgbtq we don't pay attention to the detail it's not only overdue but part of the basic right and for san francisco to take the leads for the observe is something i strongly support and move to approve. >> commissioner borden. >> as a no brainier i can't mower authentically support this and having worked for a large corporation and seeing the equal rights corporations to adapt the policies and change the way they treat their employees is powerful i'm happy to be part of that. >> commissioner antonini and i'm supportive and i think the discussion mentioned it's positions at a verygalactia glycogood place the developers

coming before us who want to build, you know, would need to have this as part of their companies policies. and it's a lot more effective to do it there's something they need it's more difficult if i have a difficult situation and the other thing the national impact because many of the companies that build in san francisco are national companies and so as members of the public pointed out this could very well create a policy in those national companies that doesn't currently exist so i'm in favor >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes. i'm orleans my fellow commissioners, i want to have some little clarification which may for benefit of the public. there was a gentleman who

testified that said he was glad that the developer would have to have a policy that's not addressed in this i think i'm correct i see heads nodding and i think staff can clarify that; right? >> diego rivera sanchez correct. >> so i i made more than 10 units ape have a permit application and ask those questions i could basically answer no with all of them and still go ahead with development; is that correct. >> that's correct. >> okay. just so that people don't get the wrong idea. this only happens with the permit application is filed so for example, if i filed and had a policy in place and submitted

to time department i got my entitlements and built the building and flipped it the subsequent owner who wouldn't have to provide the information to the department; is that right >> that will be neeltd to provide for the occupancy for the legislation written now. >> but if i sold the cement a year later the new owner is not provided to provide that information. >> as it's written now correct. >> i don't know if that's something to take into account you, you know, you hear all the time buildings are being flipped is maybe the supervisors office can take a look at that. >> thank you commissioner moore. >> mr. sanchez isn't it stronger being part of the administrative cody hear it more

as a board policy statement when someone reads accident admin code it ripples through all kinds of things. >> we believe it's stronger in the admin code it fits better there than in the planning code for a number of reasons. >> commissioners there's a we have a motion and a second to adapt the recommendation for approval with all of the elements and commissioner antonini. >> commissioner borden. >> commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes that is proved unanimously 5 to zero >> commissioners that will place us on item 11 the 2013 downtown mortgaging report an informational presentation.

>> good afternoon, commissioners i'm here to present a highlight from the 2013 monitoring report. so i mentioned this is the annual update which garters data from a variety of different resources from the downtown c-3 h that is the red area in some sections we'll take into a greater downtown red bylaw plus the white on this map and next

year we'll be preparing a 5 year report that goes into more detail and will be detailing important trend and patterns for the downtown. as you can see hopefully around 2/3rd's the city's office space $2 million square footage along with 60 percent of the hotel rooms and 16 percent of retail space they're down citywide and the do you only and hotel occupancy is up to 83 percent. average office rents downtown are up to $54 were square feet an increase of 5 percent and hotel rates are up 22 percent to

$214 per room per night. in terms of employment the number of jobs increased across all sects downtown and citywide those numbers are from the first quarter of 2013 for consistency with our previous updates but the lastly numbers indicate we have over 6 hundred and 20 thousand jobs in the city that's an all-time high for employment. our collections for business and hotel taxes are up this year. so looking at towards the future we have about 3 hundred 7 million square feet of office space in the development that i'm for downtown. that's about a third of the citywide office pipeline.

the other two major locations are for office space are in candle stick point and mission bay we've got 90 thousand units of housing in the pipeline that's where the greater downtown that serves the red and white on this map. i should note that's the largest area in the city that not part of the master plan development like treasure island or candle stick. the downtown plan sets some ambitious goals transportation goals we'll monitor the transit and the average vehicle occupancy we've added information on the regional transit providers the ridership is up across the board but especially at the stations and

portions of the system that serves downtown. just over half of downtown workers use transit to get to work and a 3rd of downtown residents take transit. and one of the goals of the downtown plan is that thirty percent of fewer downtown workers drive to work as far as those we're meeting our goal of downtown workers driving to their jobs. while vehicle occupancy is declining we believe that is part of a larger downtown trespassed people are taxiing bikes i carpooling less. and finally the downtown plan recommendation the sufficient

housing be built and downtown should improve the public realm by providing new open spaces so similar we produced under $2,000 units an increase in the previous year and roughly a quarter of those units were located downtown. with the commercial development rebounding as well we've counted one new privately owned open space at the lastly on howard and first. and lastly the development continues to connect your job linkage and impact collections t collects have increased dramatically as well. this report is available on our planning department website and also published the law data

information on sf.org. with that, i'm happy to answer question >> any public comment on that item? seeing none, public comment is closed commissioner sugaya. >> just a quick clarification ordinary person 7 transportation slide in the model split between c-3 listing the c-3 workers workers and resident one is 2010 and one was 2012 and right the information for where how employes get to work based on their location of work is only available ever 10 years from the census and for residents available everyday so for residents we have more up to date information. >> a last question the hotel tax resumed by 68 percent.

>> yes. that's work. >> that's a combination of increased prices and occupancy i presume. >> yes. i believe so, yes. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. very good report i saw within the busy time it has the figures you mentioned 6 hundred and 20 plus though jobs currently in san francisco and they also released a number of san franciscans that were employed i don't have that figure but 4 hundred and 20 thousand something like that. but assuming we have a split out of 50 percent of the people work in san francisco don't reside in san francisco will lawful you with 3 hundred and 10 thousand san francisco residents also working in san francisco so i

think you start to get an indication of how many of our workforce are working outside of san francisco that's a really good figure to explore we've heard about lincoln having a good presence as we dig down and look at it for who are the resident working in san francisco we want to target o businesses and address cut down on the number of san franciscans that have to commute to their jobs that may not be within the downtown scope but i think it's well worth looking at. i know it downtown is technically the area indicated in read red the c-3 and the other area in the white zone.

i assume your figures are - well, some show the entire area and some only the c-3 we should be looking at this in reference to what's occurring in the last decade with the center of the business activity seems to be moving south of market and the new commercial building spaces occurring in those easier maybe time to go towards the boarder defines what are downtown area is. >> yeah. i agree that's a good point that's why we sort of changed the geographics a little bit this year with that in mind that the idea that both residential and major remain and commercial have sort of moving south. thanks to policies that we've passed. thank you. >> thank you. >> on that point if i might

commissioner part of the value of doing that with the c-3 to compare the downtown platoon so theorize a value but also a value in the geography of downtown, if you will, to try to compare it's important to compare both with the original c-3 with the larger downtown area i want to thank polling. >> commissioners that places us on item telegraph hill a request for a conditional use authorization and this is before you a request for a kwifks to have a paint store doing business as a tenant space with

the placing shopping center it was currently occupied by block video it will not produce a new formula retail that will have a minor store xhouchlt improvement, however, no endearments are proposed it has more 39 hundred locations around the united states it inquires a confusions the shopping is anchored by shopping centers and includes many other retailers it is in keeping with the general plan and the project is on balance and necessary and desirable the department recommends approval if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> project sponsor.

>> good afternoon, commissioners ma lipped with the ruben and rose i'm here on behalf of the sherman williams we're happy to be here i have gary the district manager and another colleague if you have any questions for them. ems sherman williams is a high provider for paint and supplies and have a reputation in the industry worldwide we are a neighborhood shopping center for more than 20 years and collared that by the supermarket we feel that will be an appropriate use for the area. there would be the only store that's offering paints and coveting as he supplies, in

fact, the next one close is more than a quarter of a mile away as a result they'll offer residents a range of products not available in the area and also won't be displacing any arrangements they won't be adding an additional formula retail that was more than recently a blockbuster retail. we're going to have minor tenant improvements and the signage will be will consistent with the district. we also anticipating that sherman williams will initially hire 5 new employees who will be managerial will positions we feel that sherman williams will meet the needs of the neighborhood and meet all the finding of the code for the formula retail at this location. at this time i want to ask gary

garcia to speak briefly about the company in this location >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. just a little bit about sherman williams we're an american corporation off and on in 1946 we manufacturer the description of paints and the focus of the store at lakeshore will be the architecture paint priorities to the homeowner in a professional paint krooshth contractor we're interested in coming to san francisco there are no full supervisors in the neighborhood. we also provide a full line of zero 4 example 0 c product.

fm we get involved in the community that we live in and work in and in the past several months we've nachltd our time to the boys and girls club and the plays workers education and for the last several years donated 5 hundred gallons of paint to the organizations in san francisco >> thank you. >> all of our comments we're available for questions you may have. >> any public comment on that item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner moore >> only one quick comment the commission has always been supportive of formula retail moving in the support of formula retail space with a specific kind i size and mostly in the locations particularly whether

they're part of a center their conducive of continuing their occupancy move to approve. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i'm in support of this it's nice to have a good paint company at a place you can have the parking and go in and get supplies without cycling around the building so this is very handy. >> commissioners, we have a motion and a second to approve with continues on that motion. >> commissioner antonini. >> commissioner borden and commissioner moore arrest commissioner sugaya. commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes that unanimously 5 to zero. commissioners that place us on item 13. at 3130 street a request for

conditional use authorization >> you have before you a case to allocate one thousand gross secret at 31 throwing, 20th street the subject is in the mission san francisco. the 41 thousand square feet lot has a 3 story building. and a private off-street parking it has pdr institutional and office used on the two and three stories. on february 10, 2013, we were issued a letter for the square footage of office space on the third floor the proposal

recognized the and designates 2 hundred and plus square feet as principally permitted office space and objected space on the grandfather to account for the ground area the combination exceeds the 25 thousand 24er8d and thereby requires the conditional use authorization the total request represents 2.5 percent of the office space that's available for projects that include between 25 and 50 square feet of office. since the publication of case report we've gotten two letters no support and i'll pass those out now. the department recommends the

approval the project is in consistent has a mixed uses and permits office uses and has 2 hundred 5 percent of office space and the office space conversion will help save lively activity within the neighborhood and has pdr space and a currently it appraise fees that will benefit the city and county of san francisco and it's a consistent with the policies of the general plan. that concludes my presentation. and i'm available for further questions. thank you >> thank you project sponsor. >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and members of the commission. greg miller for the project