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wait to see what will had happen with the selma plan and what the long time solution is in district 6 and district 10 and the city as a whole john will talk about what we would like to see in the long term but it's important to note that pdr and office are not exclusive many artists and pdr is small businesses are comparable with the office and in some cases with affordable housing pdr small businesses of today are not as noisy and polluting as the light industrial of the past there's a new way to advance pdr that can - >> thank you very much >> next speaker. >> good afternoon john with
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the took could group we urge you to support and exhaustive that moratorium that supervisor kim has extraordinary it's crucially important to protect what we have today in the businesses today to be evaluated and drafted and hopefully approved by the planning department and the board in the future we want to present our draft from our community plan we've been preparing this from well over a year and talking to many of the businesses and the local community stakeholders it's a starting point we hope for discussion it's a tiered system the flower mart for example, will have to be flu replayed where the zoning is less restrictive and for a are replacement of the pdrs new
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developments or conversion our goal is yes south of market will see substantial growth we want to see in addition to the flower mart la jolla at least one million square feet of floor space continue and we need to assist businesses hopefully to buy their property for a business to be stabilized we want to forward this to you and the planning department for action hopefully, when the selma plan comes back to you in 2015 i'll drop this off with you now. >> thank you very much i have a card for gabriel medina. >> thank you. i'm gabriel medina for the agency it's good to see you
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i want to express our support for supervisor kim's moratorium on the pdr we've seen pdr stanley under threaten it's important for our clients and the development agency because many of of our clients have a high access or high disappears or barriers to a living wage job because of urban efficiency and pdr offers a high wage you see the smith chocolate factory that's been there are for many, many years and we had a lot of our clients employed there but currently not occupied because a lot of landmarks in the city are holding land space hoping for hire rents and i'm sure you're
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aware of some pdr spaces are converted to office pdr generated $2 plus p is secret in office space so weigh seeing a lot of illegal conversions and we need a comprehensive plan to protect pdr in san francisco we're happy about the moratorium to protect our businesses in san francisco. >> thank you very much. next speaker. excuse i'm david silverman working with the local families with the building on 660 third street for several years to obtain their scombiements e entitlements specifically for a historic building in a historic district i'll vote in support of the
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amended language of the ordinance and appreciate the opportunity to speak thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, members of the board peter we fully support the moratorium are the enter controls and thank you supervisor cohen for being a supporter this takes me back 12 years with the internet boom with the lighting industry and the earn neighborhoods obey displaced it took the interim controls time to stabilize the plan for the controls to be put in plasma are effective we're in the similar situation south of market in an unstable place but to allow the things to take
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place public utilities there's no longer an argument over wrote a lighting industry has a place in san francisco committee we had badgering back there they thought pdrs were dead now frankly a greener greater demand we can be looking this in a pro-active way we know this is jobs for folks who need it and folks that will live and work in san francisco those are not commuters but local folks that's the kind of growth we want it's a good time to be lane planning and a good time to invite back lighting into our modern committee. >> thank you very much. is there any additional public comment on item 4 seeing none, public comment is closed supervisor kim. >> so colleagues i'd like to introduce the amendment as
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spoken read into the record by emry rogers as an amendment so i'd like to make a motion to move forward. >> okay supervisor kim has offered an amendment we'll take that without objection. that amendment is adapted. >> and finally would like to make a motion to move this forward with a positive recommendation. >> to the full board with a positive recommendation we'll take that without objection. that will be the order. >> thank you, colleagues. >> madam clerk call item 5. >> item 5 is ordinance amending the planning code for uses of residential places in commercial. >> and supervisor chiu is the author and they've asked the committee to continue until october 20th so if no comment colleagues public comment on item 5 or the motion the
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possible motion to continue it to october 20th is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues a motion to continue tosto october 5th. >> so moved. >> any objection so item 5 is continued until october 20th. >> madam clerk can we recall item 3 is that need to be said again. >> item 4 is an ordinance regulating short-term rental and establishing an application fee. >> we're recalling number 3 we end in the middle of public comment and supervisor kim said e you shouldn't speak until our name is called we're going to continue to enforce that rule so
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everyone is on an equal footing i'm going to call cards 10 at that time, and we'll call the first batch please don't come up unless your name is called (calling names). >> good afternoon, supervisors 5i78 or not i'm a long time resident in the south part of the san francisco i'm opposed to short-term rentals and rh1 neighborhoods homeowners living in the areas zip codes for single-family residences has bought their hoenz homes with the clear understanding those homes are
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for single-family homes and those who now want to turn their houses into airbnb knew that short-term rentals are not allowed and redefining this as residential not use just didn't seem right it's a commercial use and san francisco has a problems are families leaving san francisco commercial listing this will make that worse short term renter don't constituent is neighborhood we have a short-term rental problem as longer register are converted another point that's not been mentioned houses and apartments that are successful as airbnb and they might help
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the residents to earn money but they'll be sold at higher prices as investments that raises the price of housing that's affordable. >> is that two minutes yeah. thank you very much this was the 2 minute expiration thank you very much. next speaker. >> my name is carolyn as a homeowner and a single-family i understand the concerns of the speakers that claim the importance of the short-term rental to continue to live in san francisco louver the negative impacts of the short-term rental i think the enforcement is the biggest issue in the rh1 and other areas most questions related to apartments
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and landlord not to the rh1 or rh1 d areas the legislation includes the landlord notification but what about the residential notice that who will address the concerns in those areas a june san francisco chronicle documents the housing the impact on the san francisco housing supply the store notes it favorites tourists over san francisco tenants and residents the oral quotes the results compiled in may 2014 by the harvesting company connote chief strategy officer states there are chronicle housing shortage and the around model has a
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significant impact 2/3rd's of the 5 thousand rentals were for whole houses and with pricing averaging 8 hundred plus dollars a night what is the insensitive to make that affordable legislation contradicts the housing shortage lowers the availability of the housing - >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm marla knight i represent north beach committee we formed in january of this year in response to the ellis act and now for the vacation rebel they take place in whole buildings such unit whole buildings are designated now illegal as vacation rentals
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i support the intiks inspector by dbi of the properties inside and outside for fire and safety code probably violations, and i support that as part of the registration process i'm very concerned as other members in my committee we're represent about 2 hundred tenants plus a handful of owners in the area weighing we're very concerned about the process it seems like it's sound but the money unless we have funds designated so far registration, investigation, how the regulatory measure is not going to work if this is not done with due diligence in a timely fashion
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and a i understand the only money allocated to the 50 there's registration fee and the money from the finances i'm wondering how is this going to be furnished to be funded properly thank you. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm tresh i'm here representing seniors and sdrablt action group i think that enforcement has said it needs to be insured well before this becomes effective and money need to be in place in order to do that enforcement so money such is back taxes own e owed phone number for the loose two years and money not to be taken from the general fund in order to have teeth in enforcement also it is a commercial have you
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ever seen the short-term rental it is benefiting obviously individuals i'm not sure it's benefiting community because the word community has not been used at all in this discussion nor in the previous discussion it is important because the folks are losing their sense of security transparent convenient people coming and going on and two advancing dropped off 6 visitors this weekend to walk them down the alley of an entire building used as vacation rentals for years the owner is a real estate attorney and realtor and that needs to be stopped right now it's still illegal and i hope
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you'll stop that it is pretending my neighborhoods 80 and 83 and 87 lingus to prevent them from finding a place in the city. >> i'm dale with the housing neighborhood and affordable housing jobs measure waiting on the filing of the election department i want to talk about the night to providing that transparent public and assessable short-term rentals when we were campaigning this is something that the nazi would do in the prior days of rounding up jews it's something that the
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american government did prior to rournd up japanese and today, we heard if a homeowner that's worried about his safety if you had a short-term rental no one is going to know when you're out of time and as far as privacy goes why should this public record be treated any differently than a business license or a public relations transfer where we know who is buyer and the seller and the size of the mortgage the buyer might carry if we're going to rely on the public as at planning department now does to enforce this legislation the registry needs to be public as an important tool for the public to use to determine what's going on in our neighborhood and
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building for heaven sakes it if i applied for a permit to remodel our bathroom the mere application generates notification for every property owner in 3 hundred feet there's no justification to keep those registrations unanimous. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i'm lauren i know i had a card in there i'm not sure i was called. >> yeah. we didn't call our name. >> thank you that's fine. >> next speaker >> hi supervisors my name is bryan i believe my card was called thank you for letting me me be here i'm a proud and happy resident of bayview supervisor cohen we're a single-family home
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in bayview and an airbnb host ami isle i've got two children i'm proud i stated a few weeks ago make it clear for us hosting for over 3 years not a single safety problem with the average guests in the bayview i've been living there four and a half years no crime no problems a family orptd neighborhood my favorite place 3 i've lived in the but i really support the idea of safety posting supervisor cohen appreciate i bringing that up and supervisor chiu the idea of self-report i like the idea as a single-family home owner of being accountable and give a shout out to the airbnb finally
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prioritizing the taxes thank you airbnb for e-mail me and let me know that a taxably system is going to be place villaraigosa soon there's a prejudice against bayview i felt it every passengers when i talk about bayview oh, wasn't that a dangerous neighborhood it's not i like to share that first hand with people and finally, i offer to the supervisors a ceremonial key to my house i'll mail that to you (laughter). >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> okay. we'll go to the next batch
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(calling names) you can come on up i'm david thomas first a comment about insurance you can obtain insurance on a home or a 4 unit building quite easily not to restrict short-term rentals to those who have large units 5 unit or more that remains a building second a comment on
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enforcement rewarding the 2 hundred and 75 requirement for living in the unit and the days that you are being rented out it's easy to go on airbnb for example, and check that out there's probably no need to send people out to look at parents at 6:00 a.m. in the morning or whatever critics say you can tell from the reviews what kind of unit and so on and so forth and third on the question of hosted and non-hosted the 90 day possibility i think it would be a mistake to have 90 days across the board there are many people many people including a tenant i have who need more than 90 days in order to pay their rent
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if you want me, too i'll evict them and make more money and they like a lot of people will be out living somewhere who knows where we, keep those people in affordable housing for them if we can have more and more 90 days as a hosted rental thank you very much. >> thank you very much >> next speaker. >> my name is in a i will with my husband we own a single-family home next to an austrian investor who turned it into a hotel managed by a company out of san francisco it's a from in the matter how is it sleeps 12 a party vacation
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house the majority of our problems are floiz noise complaints my husband is a surgeon and needs more sleep we had to call the police officer 3 times for vauchl and we woke up with 10 people on our roof drinking beer they scaled our house because we had a better view on our roof than the roof next door i'm in favor of any kind of endorsement but this bona fide i hope the hotel in connection next door to me will be shut down. >> may i ask a question sue have you recorded.
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>> of course >> who did you report this to. >> i've worked with kimberly and she's been terrific but you can't without. >> you're working with the planning department or the department of building inspection. >> she's with the planning department and she's been wonderful but without financial translations you can't track this so, i mean she did the website which is a woman that runs the website for the website a year ago it said perfect for are parties up to one hundred this is in my next door neighborhoods house that he was easy to get that taken off the website but you can't manage what she explained it's hard to prove that - i mean, she would have to sit there and how many months ago did you report this to the city.
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>> when the hotel first opened i saw their website a year and a half. >> recorded it a year and a half ago and we have not been to shut that down i'm sorry that was more of a statement we're still doing on investigation on a year and a half for something it's clearly a hotel. >> yes. >> i'm not looking the planning department. >> i'd like to talk with you further about it i'll give you my card. >> i know we have a lot of public comment i'd love to come back to this issue i'm stunned with our existing laws that are much clearer than the law we're about to pass and we're already not able to you know prohibit this type of activity a year and
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a half is stunning i'm worried if we have less guidelines i hope we can address that after public comment. >> thank you >> next speaker. >> >> i'm matthew i live in san francisco i urge the city to allow the short-term rentals to continue their counter applications the kifshz should apply to those newer ones and management by personal loans maybe the chief development mortgage and insurance anybody's paid every month please don't yank the rug out from under mom and pop that have been representing san francisco welcoming visitors is not possible for a corporate run
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hotel which are sold-out it applies to buildings with 4 units or less and most have been painting and purchasing comfortable beds and twouldz and hair blowers and other necessities they buy and sell hardware such as credit card readers and it's hard work scrubbing bathrooms and refilling amenities and stripping and making by these between visits they must be communicated and refund when necessary and visitors that do the shopping in the city have to haul away maps and packing materials and empty shy boxes it's constant hard work it won't
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take a short-term rental market to collect money that provides one hundred percent occupancy i'm saying that this will not create affordable housing at all thank you. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm bryan i'm in supervisor david chiu's district i want to say that number one most of the protective we're talking about today and a lot of the provision in the finally provision are already covered under several different laws it san francisco already has on the books for example, if i ellis act building i'd be prevented from doing so we never