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he's done an exceptional job of a tough issue i support his legislation as is. i want to point out one simple economic fact the home sharing is for people like me that travel a lot people need the space and share it and consume less resources why we all have to have our own home here we go only vacation and instead by sharing we're reducing the amount of all the products that the world needs for a sustainable place from that aspect this needs a lot of the things for the generation to provide. the second issue it's made my neighborhood nor liveable someone else mentions for people like me i work in palo alto that go to work
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there's no otherwise foot traffic other than the if i people in the area there are not a lot of jobs so this is bringing restaurants and retail shops back if you walk around the neighborhoods like taylor's park there's more activity i'm in favor and thank you, david for all the work you've done on this. >> hello thanks for hearing us i'm a tenant i've been in san francisco in the tender knob for seven years it helps me to live here i couldn't live here without it. i know apartment owners and officials have been
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here to talk i'm a musician an artist it's completely destroyed i work full-time when i go on tour and i have an empty place i air b and b it out to people artists that i know people that do videos are leaving for oakland because it's two expensive to live here and we're all trying to protect some of platforms but aside i use it to live here even if there is a not dead yet festival a so the microscopic scene is not dead it's part of the tapestry they're losing artists not being able to afford this place. as
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far as guests i've never had a problem i screen them highly it's, you know, my main problem is the registry i absolutely don't want anything to do with the registry the shiners would be great, the taxes i've paid all of my taxes went to my full-time job i want to not break the law and work with you and remain the city we all love we're artists and musicians all love it thanks. >> i first want to thank ms. kim
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and mr. chiu and this is a how important this issue is my age i'm 76 years old i've been a public school teacher in oakland for 40 years. my wife and i share a small room without kitchen but with a bathroom as many of the people that i've spoken with that are my age being seniors i'll ask you not put limitations on single-family homes particularly occupied as seniors you'll notice a lot of the folks that are my age ask for the same thing. we believe in recollecting human resources for the benefit of the city for
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the comfortable of landlord so the multi unit owns not be abused by taking the home units off the market we're happy to put in our share it was benefits for the businesses in the outer district like the western edition and the bayview i've benefited through this having expensive dental work i've put off for years i thought chided by my university of pacific doctor and i noticed supervisor wiener was interested in the liability insurance we're covered in a comprehensive umbrella as well as business insurance my wife called several insurance companies but ultimately we were insured
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beyond the - >> good evening hi, i'm nancy. i want to tell you how moved i am i was here from the beginning the authorness and the thoughtfulness of the questions and the collaboration has been awarding to seeing our process. i've lived on katrero hill for 45 years bought a two unit building in 1975 i couldn't afford you today so i support human resources in this city i have historically charged below market rate because i want someone like myself to live there i was a social worker and
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didn't have the of figure. i'm one of the people that hosts in my home optional be when i'm present. i only host on my on choice 10 to 15 days a month it makes a huge difference in my retired income as someone who was a social worker i want to say i do said the concept of limiting activity to preserve neighborhood character and i do believe that 90 days is overly rieshg active so, please consider those that are there in our homes monitoring our guests, you know, having the relationships and my situation is the same. i'm also someone that has insurance before i started that i had to change
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carries to get the insurance company and made sure that not only was it included in my core policy but having i have a small commercial writer. >> good evening i want to thank you for sticking around so people like me who worked all day and got down here to get my voice heard i'm sharon. my husband and i moved into our house and the following month my husband collapsed and died with a massive heart attack the two girls went out of the state and since structured jobs out of state i have a hard time with
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maintenance human resources has helped me to pay the property tax and also has allowed my daughters to have their rooms when they come home to visit that portion of our homes would not be rented out if i was unable to home share it didn't effect the rental market my neighbors s are aware and want me to be able to stay in my home and remain their neighbor the west portal 0 knows me my daughters and dog knows after 17 years of supporting my business they too supports human resources and glad my guests enjoying enjoy the conveniences that west portal provide those
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visitors were would not be spending their money here i'm asking you to support human resources and take a real close look at our limitations especially the 90 days if i'm limited to a 90 days of sharing my home i'll not been able to keep my home thank you for your time. >> next speaker >> good evening. i'm a tenant and voter in district 7 in selma i wanted to touch on the issue of the 90 days i was seeing it was discussions and offer a few points one the people that need air b and b the most are the people that are needing the money if you constitute the 90 day policy people that have the
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income can afford to limit it but the people most effected are the people that are going to be on the lower income scale second, i will in selma but it's december late so having more people around that want to come and visit the neighborhood is a good thing for safety walking around year round and season alley a lot of people will have to if they have the 90 day rule a lot of the people will have to report to renting out in the beginning of the year so the holidays come the city coffers will have less during the last part of the year and the last
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aspects like tax and state tuition for example, and a lot of those have been solved by having less stringent to be state retains with the tests is less stringent for one hundred and 80 days of the year. thank you. >> my name is george i live in san francisco for 40 years i own a 3 units building. in san francisco and two, 3 bedroom apartment so i have a difficult time to a single-family i rent out to 3 gentlemen, we signed a lease and about 7 people live in
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the same apartment so between the tenants they're fighting all the time and the driveway some people live in their car the place is a mess the reason i support air b and b example it is a way to have another income source thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening martin i'm a native san franciscan i've been asked to read this statement by sally because they're she's still working. dear supervisors i'm sally my family race operated in produce since 18 in the triangle church street neighborhood. i'm in support of home sharing and to plan it is
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good for local biz that show case the districts of our city i'm going to turn it over to neighborhood is diverse and my family has enjoyed a long-standing clientele but with the arrival of chain stores the stores restraining order having a hard time we're having an influx of folks that tend to spend they're meeting i'm meeting many visitors from europe families with children who discover us awhile comploers or who have been given us as a recommendation many small
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businesses are being discovered we welcome the businesses in getting to know your install corner of san francisco some human resources provides very long groups so all loophole businesses bring extra tax revenues to the city and promote the culturetion of san francisco around the world thank you for considering my verifies sally. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is dr. steven cigarette all i'm a resident of san francisco i've been moved by the stories tonight i think it's noted surprisingly because home sharing and the sharing economy is a powerful idea i moved her from new york city didn't know anybody and purchased a place in selma it was really sharing i
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wanted to meet people and a lot of of the people i hosted were not transferred from overseas but local hope they're my friends i've invested in their businesses and one is my roommate it's a powerful idea there symshould be a bright listen between collaborative and the hogging economy there are people that are purchasing multi unit dwellings and putting them on the air b and b to make money it's not a bad thing but really this enhances the social fabric of our community it's about what kind of city we want to live in and frankly it's embarrassing that air b and b get around like
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lift and uber it is illegal in san francisco. you can think it and make it a reality but not legal because it's not. >> hello, i'm woody i support of the sharing economy i'm a tenant of san francisco until recently, i shared my extra room with guests from or in or around the world supervisor wiener it is a pleasure to hear your clarity and supervisor kim nice to meet you i don't have plans to get-together i look forward to speak but with you at the parlor and thank you for your patience and attendance span. i moved here to san francisco from san diego in 2008, with girl
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dreams i had the cheapest represent under 6 hundred bucks on golden gate park we were at the peak of the recession i made the best of it supervisor kim in d of a medium represent in d 6 is $3,500 a month if that trespassed continues if prop g a omitted when i was laid off out i modest the decision to join another commentary machine and another notch in my career belt or start a career with deeply replaced coworkers human resources keeps me living within any means and helped me in times
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of recession last month my landlord served me with access and deist for bedbugs and of all things please allow me the opportunity to include my landlord in the pricing process and with respect to taxation please don't - >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening. my name is michael michael thank you for staying here for to long i've been here for almost the entire process i went home and watched tv to make sure that my landlord was not watching i have used air b and b for the duration it's
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greatly helped to supplement my income i travel for my work and required to pay other out-of-pocket for that my expenses i host while i travel while i'm away from home i vest my guests carefully to make sure they leaving leaf my home in good condition and not disrupt my neighbors i feel the sharing of business is a boom to the economy in san francisco as well as i approve of the proposed legislation thank you. >> good evening. my name is
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grazie support home sharing i'm a single-family home in the district 9 i'm a hosted and non-hosted rental. air b and b is about community i grew up in berry in her heights i've been inside of everyone's house what i bring to the table as a host for air b and b is the community i strongly feel that that is changed in san francisco and despite the debate of home sharing it needs to be on community in the respect of a lot of commuters in the tech community and the sort of overall sentiment of the san franciscans san francisco has lost the sense of community air
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b and b is injecting interacting with the host and being an ambassador for all my international guests helps to shine a lights on the city regarding the legislation i'm opposed to my 90 day rule. i'm opposed to the registry for the statements for some of the data sharing project that was given earlier today. i do not oppose the hotel tax, however, i would be spelling the last name skeptical about the money being tacked into the general fund and how it effects my neighborhood specifically thank you. >> >> next speaker. >> mr. welch. >> calvin watching san
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francisco information clearing house. 7 doables when mr. owens spoke i believe it was 7 hours ago i was struck by the arguments of every sunset home share the last speaker said they're all for the legislation they want no limitation on the uses and not sure how to collect the taxes here's the difficulty i have if you can game a system of speaking before the board of supervisors which i think was gained tonight, you, game a system that doesn't have registration and limits and not
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data to be collecting taxes on. let me try to intaebt itself hate to tell every owner of property already has our name and address and it's a public record on the internet now. all that the registration process that we support that the planning department said is added to that you're a short time remedy your name and address is all right. on the internet if you're a property owner in san francisco. how do you collect hotel taxes if you don't know how many days you have render our unit as a hotel. how can you view that without registration. so to say your for the legislation except you don't want independent rental and
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limitations. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on item 2. yes. >> (inaudible) i'm glad to say (inaudible). >> supervisor scott wiener oh, no. there's we go do we get to start the clock over since i've lost 15 seconds. >> yes. >> i'm ma lipped i'm in twin peaks in supervisor wiener district i support human resources i think 90 days is basically going to kill everyone that don't this i have insurance and i and i believe that more
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products will come online for uber and lift we're not a threat to hotels our occupancy was up to 90 percent in the city my spare bedroom is not a hotel room it isn't so there you go. i think there's great safety in hosted rentals. i think in the tenant or the landlord present it makes all the - i've tried to do better hosting because of human resources in an earthquake will be those leaders that people look for i think f that creating wealthy is of high value and it's a wonderful thing. that our city becomes a place that is generously that
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golden state that opens it's arms i appreciable are appreciate that people get loss in the regulation but we're smart people and can get it done so, please legalize home sharing last thing on the taxes. so get into this and fix it but you can't tax something you have as legal i'd like to tax marijuana but until it's legalized you can't pass in legislation thank you. >> is there any additional public comment anyone who wants to comment on item number 2 seeing none, public comment is closed okay. colleagues the item is back into the hands the committee president chiu. >> first of all, i want to take
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a moment and thank all the members of the public and colleagues thank you yourself patience as well as city staff this is a difficult and complicated topic. i have as i've mentioned earlier escalated some amendments to deal with a number of additional issues we've heard after our draft on september 2nd about a half a dozen amendments we would like to suggest we adapt today. first would be to insure that primary residents need to be proven by at least two documents of the following motor vehicle registration and tax documents, or a utility bill and then to clarify that a permanent
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resident can only have one primary residents and an additional number of the amendments to require that only one permanent resident can be associated with one particular residential unit so we don't have multiple individuals to game the system. and third set of amendments will explicitly add hosting platforms to the administrative penltsz and civil penalties provision so that we make that clear a fifth set of amendments if there are sunset violations around life safety the department what a stunned you have to be free and clear of visions building and electrical
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and planning housing police planning but we want to give the planning department to spend a suspend a violation until it's secured. another amendment will require a permanent member to offer a unit and a sixth amendment to maintain records of tax paying records to the planning department upon request those are the amendments i've calculated one additional amendment for the record to clarify something around cover amenities and conditions and restrictions again to clarify cc&rs will not be over ridden by the legislation on page 19 subsection 5 line 15 i'll read
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