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what happens if you own property and it's listed on there? what impact does that -- what legal effect does that have other than that you just happen to be listed on this inventory? >> it wouldn't have any direct legal effect. it would -- the management plan that is underway could provide some best practices for people who own natural areas, but it wouldn't have the force of law saying, this is what you must do or not do with your property. that's not the intent. >> what about if they want to make some change to their property, when it goes to the planning department [speaker not understood] you're listed on the inventory. so, this is a problem. whether it's under ceqa or something else? >> it will not change whether it's allowed under the planning code to build on property. the only thing that might happen -- again, this might depend on future practice -- is it might suggest different types of landscaping treatment that might happen with the development on private property. but it would not -- we could
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not and are not intendling to, captain under this documentary strict what they could do, otherwise do in the planning code. >> how about in terms of ceqa? ~ does that have any bearing on ceqa? [speaker not understood], you try to put a shed in your backyard, you think that's a natural area? >> again, if it's something that's otherwise permitted in the planning code, i can't imagine -- i can't see how ceqa would come into play on that. it ultimately would depend on the management plan and what it says about private property versus public property. again -- again, it would make that distinction. the management plan would clearly make that distinction. there is no intent here to restrict development on private property. that's clearly not the intent and it's not what this document can do. >> in the management plan you're referring to, vis-a-vis private property, what is that management -- i can understand again with another public
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agency. i get it, using the bart, for example, bart, you know, may not have the internal capacity to care for a natural area so maybe one of the city agencies, partners with them through a management agreement to help them take care of it. but with a private -- help me understand what that means in terms of a management plan. >> at this point in time, i don't know the specifics, but i would imagine that it would address things like the types of landscaping that we might suggest on private property if that property is changed and developed. in other words, if they came to us for permits to do something on that property, we would suggest -- we might suggest changes, what type of landscaping might be appropriate on that property. >> okay. i don't really understand that in terms of how that would come into play and what that would mean, but i appreciate that explanation. i still don't -- i still don't really understand what that actually means on the ground when you say we would suggest that they would -- >> there are a number of places
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that are not -- there are a number of areas in the department where we have recommendations that are not codified in the code. here's best practices for these types of activities, and this would be one. we have a landscape palate, for example, we would suggest to residents with natural areas. it is not codified, but simply suggested as part of -- part of the process that we put forward, for example, like a director's or zoning administrator's bulletin that says here's suggestionses for the types of activities that might occur on this property if you choose to develop it and if you're within a natural area. it's not uncommon for us to have those kinds of recommendations to private property owners. >> okay. >> colleagues, any additional discussion? supervisor wiener? >> mr. president, can we defer this till later in the meeting? i know we need to act on this
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today. given the ridiculous parameters under the charter for what we can do if general plans -- or general plan elements that we have to vote up or down, we can't even move a comma, can't do -- make any change to it whatsoever, and we have a limited number of days to act on it. if we don't, then it's deemed approved and it becomes part of our general plan. it's very frustrating, but the charter is what it is. so, i'd like to defer this till later in the meeting. >> colleagues, any objection to moving this till later in the meeting? without any objection, we will do that. [gavel] >> why don't we november to item 7, madam clerk. >> item 7 is a ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by contestimony promotions, llc, against the city and county of san francisco for $375,000; the lawsuit was filed on september 22, 2009, in the united states district court for the northern district of california, case no. cv-09-4434 si (mej); entitled contest promotions, llc, v. city and county of san francisco, et al.; other material term of said settlement include resolution of notices of violation for unpermitted general advertising signs. ~ in united states district court for the northern district of california. >> supervisor wiener? >> thank you, mr. president. so this, we continued this at least once, actually twice,
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this settlement. i think for a lot of us, we are -- there's a lot of frustration with these, plainly what appear to be illegal bill boards that pop up under the guise of being a business sign, advertising raffles for products that are not even sold inside the store. the settlement i know has been of concern to a lot of people. but when you actually take a close look at what's happening here, the problem isn't with the settlement. the problem is with our planning code that has a lot of challenges, both as identified by the federal court, but also in being, in my view, too permissive in term of allowing these kinds of disguised bill boards to occur in our neighborhoods. and, so, i've given this a lot of thought. i believe that we should
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approve the settlement, ~ but we should also -- and we are working on amendments to our planning code to try to tighten up this kind of situation so that people cannot put these what are in effect billboards masquerading as business signs in our neighborhoods. so, i'll be supporting this settlement. >> colleague, any additional discussion? single roll call vote on this item? >> on item 7, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> this ordinance is passed on first reading. [gavel] >> colleagues, i'd like to go
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to our 2:30 special order. we have actually two items today. first will be offered by district 6 colleague, supervisor kim. >> thank you. today's commendation is for a member of our city family who has unfortunately been recruited to another city. i will not name that city in this -- in recognizing her. but a really incredible opportunity and challenge for this amazing individual. last month mayor eric gar set i nominated our very own [speaker not understood] for the los angeles department of transportation. [speaker not understood] has been with the city for only three years. she has dedicated the past 16 years of her life and career to elevating the issue of public health issues related to peaed and bike safety and advocating for innovative and engineering solution. [speaker not understood] has been a valued member thev san francisco mta agency where she has led three teams in the livable streets subdivision
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responsible for innovation policy and coordination for complete streets projects city-wide. [speaker not understood] also served on the transportation research board pedestrian and bike committee and the walk score advisory committee ~. she is also, and i did not know this, past president of the association of pedestrian and bicycle professionalses. prior to joining mta [speaker not understood] managed the san francisco and seattle officers of [speaker not understood] working for the city of oakland public works agency. she has been described by her piersas a lifelong crusader for public safety and worked with our office in the livable streets division. from everything to [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood] said she is most proud of delivering a master list of the vision zero project which we are proud of too,, which is designed to be implemented through a coordinated inter agency effort. [speaker not understood] utilize the resources each city department has and have a city-wide work plan to run
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clear communication. in august 2013 she helped launch bay area bike share which has been a tremendous success in our district and which we hope will continue to grow on to the rest of the city. she has also led [speaker not understood] bike streets safety project. [speaker not understood] from scott to baker have largely been perceived as a bike project. [speaker not understood] also championed projects including the neighborhood livability project. shes has consistently claimed ped and bike safety [speaker not understood]. and she has driven sfmta project on both of neighborhood scale and city-wide vision for efficient transit connection. she is a driving force behind san francisco workforce initiative, our city's data driven approach to fix our most dangerous streets. she also helped us spearhead lobbying efforts for speed enforcement -- thank you -- in sacramento in order to help slow our traffic down.
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on our last walk to workday, she led a group of our residents in the tenderloin talking about how temporary build outs and daylighting could effectively save lives in our neighborhood, some of the most dangerous intersections and corridors ~. she was recently confirmed by the city council by unanimous 13-0 vote [speaker not understood] los angeles department of transportation, and i can't emphasize how important it is to have women lead intion policy and transportation. we will miss your leadership but mostly your passion advocating for residents here in san francisco and we want to honor you today for the incredible groundwork that you have done that we will continue to push on to effect cultural change at the city level. so, thank you for putting us on the map for pedestrian and bike safety. i recognize that a number of the member of your team are here today to recognize you, too. and there will also be a special farewell happy hour for
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you at martuni's at 4 o'clock. i'm sure we'll join if we make it out on time on valencia and market street from 5:00 to 7:00. so, serita reynolds. (applause) >> thank you. would it be okay for me to say a couple words? >> yes. >> okay, great. so, i just want to thank the board for your leadership. in the time that i've been here, i've been working on safety for people walking for 16 years and it's really hard to compete with some of the very cool glamorous innovative things that we have in transportation, thing like bike share and cycle tracks and s.f. power supervisor mar signals. but i'm so, so thankful that pedestrian is finally getting its day and i really, really hope that your leadership inspires the city of los
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angeles -- [laughter] >> -- when i get down there because i have made a pitch to every policy maker that i've met that the one thing that san francisco was able to really get on the same page about was safety, and that i hope that they are inspired by your leadership and we can bring that down south. and i really look forward to partnering with the city of san francisco on automated speed enforcement sometime in the next legislative session. but i just want to recognize my, my supervisor bridget smith, leadership of jerry robbins, ed reiskin, my fantastic team, you all, and really the ; isn't that right and amazing aides that you have in your offices. they have really been our partners on some of our most difficult projects. and kudos to you for bringing aboard and supporting such smart passionate folks to drive and deliver an agenda together
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>> our next and final commendation for the day will be provided by supervisor mar, who i understand has a number of commendations. >> thank you, president chiu. as many people know, this past sunday was the one-year anniversary of the tragic crash, asianic errol flight 214 crash from july 16, 2013, and i'm humbled to be here with five amazingly courageous he roic -- heroic airfield security officers from our san francisco airport. and before i call them up here to come accept these commendations, i wanted to reflect a little bit on the one-year anniversary. so, the crash of the asianic flight 214 occurred at 11:28 a.m. on july 6. the plane carried 291 passengers and 16 crew members. more than half of the
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passengers were chinese nationals, many of them were students along with a large number of south korean and american nationals as well. three died [speaker not understood] and 181 people were injured with 12 in critical condition. these heroic airfield security officers risked their lives and saved many people and helped kind of many as they suffered on the airfield. today they are also here with many representatives from the service employees international union, their union as well. and i wanted to thank arianna kass nova from seiu and [speaker not understood] from the san francisco airport for helping us honor these amazing five public employees. their names are henry choi, who was the first on the scene. so, we talk about first responders. hes was the absolute first person on the seen.
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also john [speaker not understood], alexis [speaker not understood], ryan [speaker not understood], bernardo [speaker not understood] and i wanted to read a little what each of thea brave folks did. the first on the scene was henry choi who was ~ -- who assisted a flight attendant that was trapped inside a plane. he's been serving as an airfield security officer for seven years. john bekowski found the hand of a flight attendant who had been ejected from the plane to encourage her until help arrived. understand there is a burning plane by them risking their lives hoping the plane does not blow up while they're saving others. alexis is an 11 year vet with the s.s. airport. he carried three people off the plane and stayed with them, stayed with an elderly woman who could not move a safe distance from the plane ~ and he stayed with her regardless,
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even though there is the danger of explosion occurring right by him. he risked his life to save others. ryan horn is a 14 year veteran airfield security officer. he helped to coordinate the actions of all the airfield security officers. i believe there's about 20 at the airport, but these five were really critical in helping to save lives. and lastly, number five is bernardo magana who discovered and sought help for critically injured flight attendants and he's been serving at s.f. security officer 12 years. all these airfield security officers provided a great service and are deserving of our appreciation from our city of san francisco. they risked their lives to help save others and on behalf of the san francisco board of supervisors and our city and county, i wanted to thank and acknowledge them. i want -- before we ask if other supervisors wanted to say a few words, i wanted to ask if we could show a short clip on their heroism on july 6, 2013. i think we have the video set
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up and victor lim from my staff will hit play. [video presentation] >> [speaker not understood]. >> [speaker not understood] more than 30 feet from that fire. they were really standing on the wing. i had to get everybody away from the aircraft. >> safety officer mentioned a lot of people walking, walking wounded and people coming off the airplane. [speaker not understood]. hopefully there's a lot more coming off walking. >> right. and knowing i survived it is probably the best [speaker not understood] and i'm only no more than 100 feet away from it. and it was pretty much -- thats was the most i had to choose.
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do i run or do i stay? because she is in no condition to run. or even so much as move or carry her. but that's when i just [speaker not understood]. and just pray much, did a lot of praying that nothing exploded. and you can hear it in our radio, the recordings of that day. there were sick minutes of us just coordinating everything, working together and getting the assets out to ambulanceseses and everything. >> i see a human flash that catches my eye. it can't be [speaker not understood], and there it is, somebody waving at me. and, so, i got on my truck and ran up to him. it was a flight attendant who got ejected from the aircraft.
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[speaker not understood]. i ended up finding that girl and making the call that we needed an ambulance. >> essentially for all the [speaker not understood] that we had out there, we were their hope. ~ [end] >> thank you. i'd like to ask if [speaker not understood] could escort our heroes, [speaker not understood], alexis, brian horn and [speaker not understood]. >> skew me, you forgot one. ~ excuse me can you all stand up, please? thank you for your service. >> can we have a round of applause? [cheering and applauding] >> thank you, supervisor mar. (applause)
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>> first of all, to eric mar and the rest of the board of supervisors, i think i can speak for everyone when i say that we are very humbled that the city of san francisco has elected to honor us today. keeping it very short, collectively a we've talked about this over the last year, the question has been, were we trained to do this? but just recently, just speaking solely for myself, i recognize now that it whatant all about what we were trained to do that day or whats was the right thing to do. rather we were doing it because people needed our assistance, many of them who couldn't move on their own. so, we just committed ourselves to doing the right thing, and that was helping our fellow man. so, once again, i'd like to thank you very much for honoring us. while only a small percentage of us are being honored today,
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>> thank you, supervisor mar. and thank you to our amazing first responders. with that, madam clerk, could you please call the item related to the annual budget which would be item 8 through 9 with the exception of 12 through 13? >> purchase student to chart section [speaker not understood], item 8 through 39 except for items 12 to 13 are for introduction purpose he he. the board shall not adopt the budget items, fee ordinanceses and grant resolutionses associated with the annual budget and appropriation ordinance to appropriate the estimated receipts and the annual salary ordinance to enumerate position in the annual budget and appropriation ordinances for fiscal years 2014 through 15 and 15 through 16. >> thank you. and, colleague, as our clerk has just said, these item will be continued to our next meeting under our city charter. with that, madam clerk, can you please call items 12 and 13
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related to the general obligation bonds having to do with transportation and road improvement? actually our clerk asked to us do a motion to technically continue these item. if i could have a motion to continue these budget item. motion by supervisor farrell and seconded by supervisor mar, we can continue all of these item to the 15th of july. without objection that should be the case. items 12 and 13, madam clerk. >> items 12 and 13 are the ordinances and ordinance and resolution, the general obligation bond election calling for the general obligation bond election for the transportation and road improvement to call for on tuesday, november 4, 2014, to submit to the voters a proposition to 500 million in bonded debt for the city and county to finalize the construction, the acquisition and improvement of certain transtransportation and related transit improvements and costs
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necessary and authorizing the landlords to pass through a 50% of the resulting property tax increase to residential tenants under administrative code chapter 37. >> supervisor tang. >> thank you. i first of all again want to thank all of the members of the board who have co-sponsored this item along with mayor lee for this general obligation bond. also, of course, again thank sfmta staff and everyone who did participate in the transportation 2030 task force for their thoughtful input on this measure. i was really great to see this item was passed unanimously by the budget committee previously and, of course, the unanimous support from our city family i think really just really demonstrates how important effort this is. as we all know, the transportation task force that was convened to ensure that our city's transportation system is reliable and prepared for our future growth, identified $10 billion worth of infrastructure improvements. a lot are need over the next 15 years. i am excited today that we stand united in this proposal
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to raise 500 million dollars general obligation bond for november to improve our public transportation system so that we can serve not only us, but the generations to come. the great thing about this bond measure is that it is not just about improving our public transportation system. it is also about how we make our roads safe for pedestrians, for bicyclists, for everyone. discussed in the budget and finance committee about 300 million of the 500 million dollars of this bond measure will actually be spent towards achieving our city's vision zero goals where we hope to eliminate traffic related deaths within 10 years. so, i am proud today that we as a city are finally making the necessary investments in the most critical feature of our city and i look forward to everyone's continued support on this item. thank you very much. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you, president chiu. i'm also very happy that we're moving this bond forward today. and thank you so much to supervisor tang and the mayor for advancing this with my colleagues. i think that transportation 2030 task force deserves a lot
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of credit and i think this bond will go a long way to making permanent improvements to [speaker not understood] that was started recently and investing rapid service or geary and other key corridors and arterial streets. i think as supervisor tang said, unity is critical. not only in passing this bond, but also as we move forward like in 2016 with a vehicle license fee and other revenue sources that we need for our transportation system. for us on the west side and southern neighborhoods like my district in the richmond, supervisor tang's in the sunset, supervisor cohen's in the bayview, and avalos in the excelsior, i think there's a need for much more efficient transportation that serves the outer areas of the city, not just the inner core. and the funding that will come from this bond will be spent equitably. i'm very proud that the transportation task force and community and transportation advocates have really moved forward and equitable bond that will really help neighborhoods that need it the most. also i'm looking forward to moving this forward as well as
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the charter amendment that will ensure that there is equity and that the spending is done with accountability as well and for the blf in the coming years, too. i think we need to stand true with our transit first policy in our city, though this year hasn't been as strong as one for transit as i would have liked, but hopefully this bond measure puts us on a great step forward for better transit in our city. >> any further discussion? then colleagues i want to thank all of you for your work on this and for moving this forward. with that let's take a roll call vote on these two items. >> on items 12 and 13, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye.
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supervisor chiu? chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution is a doddthv and the ordinance is passed on the first read. [gavel] >> colleagues, can we go to the items having to do with the schlage lock project, items 48 and 49? >> item 48 is ordinance amending the general plan to amend maps 1, 2, 4, and 5 of the commerce industry element, map 6 of the transportation element, maps 4 and 5 of the urban design element, and the land use index to implement the visitation valley/schlage lock special use district, which generally includes the properties bounded by bayshore, blanken and tunnel avenue to the san francisco/san mateo county line to the south, including the properties fronting bayshore boulevard from arleta avenue to the san francisco/san mateo county line to the south, and including the properties fronting leland avenue from cora street to bayshore boulevard; and making environmental findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101.1. >> 48 and 49? >> item 48 is ordinance amending the general plan to amend maps 1, 2, 4, and 5 of the commerce industry element, map 6 of the transportation element, maps 4 and 5 of the urban design element, and the land use index to implement the visitation valley/schlage lock special use district, which generally includes the properties bounded by bayshore, blanken and tunnel avenue to the san francisco/san mateo county line to the south, including the properties
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