>> good afternoon. welcome to the board of supervisors land use & economic development committee my name is answering i the chairman to my right is supervisor kim the vice chair and to my left is malia cowen also a member of the committee in addition, we're joined by the

president of the board of supervisors sdpooufd ii want to thank sgovd specifically the staff as madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. the agenda will be on the next meeting. i also want to note we have an overflow room the north light could you recall u court given how many people are here today, we know the first thing is the sequa tree if you are intending to make a comment and have not done so there are blue cards in the front and fill one out and

hand it in and we'll make sure to call you. with that, madam clerk >> item one is an ordinance spigd the giant seconvey tree a landmark tree. >> i'm the author colleagues today before us is legislation to expend the landmark tree status to a giant seconvey tree on market street in the corbett heethsdz neighborhood this landmarking has support from the neighborhood association to this area. labored tree designation will help sure this tree is preefrdz for future generations this giant tree is one hundred feet tall and one the few big trees

in san francisco. the giant seconveys are native their rare the circumference is more than 12 feet it's been elevated by an arrest warrant boast we're here from the neighborhood and a they'll help to provide more background so colleagues if no opening remarks then we'll open up public comment on item one. madam clerk myocarditis >> i've not received cards. >> so folks here for public comment on item one about please come on up. i see gary weis.

>> good afternoon chair we're and commissioner antonini and commenting i want to introduce mankind's i'm with the landmark committee. i have two photos to show that's all i want to do >> great. >> so the first one shows the tree in the neighborhood. and the second one is also another shot of the tree if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them thank you >> thank you for your work on the council. >> next speaker. >> mr. weis. >> hi good afternoon. i'm gary weis the president of the corbett heats the tree in the the center of corbett height it

will be the first designated within a mile and also the first tree to be laboreded in san francisco it's magnificent and could be scenes from the noah valley it is 70 years it's health is clear and it is recorded in good shape it acts as the barrier to the streets. the approximate 2 hundred san francisco trees that have received landmark designation only 8 are native to california we hope you'll agree to landmark this tree. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is john murray i live two doors down from the

tree. as upper told the co-sponsor bits neighbors contracted with torrey young and found the tree to be in perfect health this provides aesthetics to multiple properties in the surrounding neighborhood it's location at the southeast of the property minute miss the shading and it's bushel to a garden and common component of the garden donates the giant seconvey trees are noted throughout the country and world the history the trees is from species several thousands even if years old striving in california the following supports the spooez specimens of historical significant one there

are no currently no giant see conveys in the landmark areas and if you designated landmark trees in the vicinity with the before at the for the closest distance one to one and a half miles away and of the approximately 2 hundred san francisco landmark trees only about one hundred and 65 are palms and only 35 are board sprees only 8 trees are native to san francisco the giant seconveys are native and we support this finding thank you >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> i'm leslie i'll provide the information about the historical part of the tree who planted if

abraham owns this from 4969 to 1994 his son ralph informed me his i his he parents bought the tree it was 11895 lived from 1948 to 58 a desz assailant learned from the aunt that hal's gave heroin of the 3 giant seconveys in the 940s to early 50s the adams home is exclusive and passed away and was a native and a graduate of the berkley of class of 33 he works in 19 thirty one of the criteria for

landmark status is the historical significance, you know, it helps us to understand the past and thank you for your consideration. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> i'm john, i live on corbett. the seway as 36 of market street is a rare tree. for sa francisco sequoathe tree is early planting for the area and has been preparing for years

there's itch livestock in the tree and one can see and hear a variety of birds and skwurlz it's observe that wildlife is depending on the tree for a micro investment it should be judged only it's historical saushgs and environmental characteristics it possessed all the qualities there are only 20 trees in the city since passage of the ordinance and none of the 20 are seways it's worth a dozen in a filing cabinet it is sound and attractive and non-threatening on a asset to the property and deferring of landmark status sequoa thank you

>> thank you very much. next speaker. sequoa my name is brenda nelson i live in connection next door to the tree sequoa i have a summary of environmental benefits i'd like to go over and make 5 points sequoa this is using i tree tool.org technology when is a state of the art software from the usda for the forest assessment tool they've assessed this tree and have found that air blood transfusion is a serious threat especially in an urban investment is, mitigate pollution by obscuring pollute it's an i believe you all have papers that show you the total of air quality

benefits sequoa the next point over the next 95 years the seway on market street will reduce the carbon monoxide by a total of 28 thousand pounld my third point over the next 99 years the seway on market street will intercept a total of 6 hundred 13 thousand gallons of stormwater if the tree is cared for it will provide a total of $5,000 of overall benefits over the next 99 years and benefit the documents that i believe you all have sequoa for any given year the energy savings by this seway are 54 kilowatt hours and 8.7

thermals so as you can see in summary, it - >> thank you, thank you very much thank you. is there any additional public comment on item one seeing none, public comment is closed i want to thank the members of the public for coming out and the upper forestry and colleagues this is landmark trees ask not something we do often but for special situations we have a tree it is significant i is particularly uncommon in san francisco it makes sense we having if you giant seways it's important for our state and this tree is a real treasure for the neighborhood which is why i took

the exceptional step of introducing this landmark in legislation and will ask for your support in no comments. >> i'm happy to move this to the board. >> with workers' compensation we'll take that without objection. >> madam clerk call item 2. >> item 2 is an ordinance administering the code for proximity residence for the on short term residential rentals. >> president chiu is the author of item 2. >> thank you, mr. chair i want to thank all the members of the public who came here to testify both for the seconvey tree and the non astrological topic of home sharing sequoa i want to

thank everyone from tenants to landlords and owners representatives of the hotel and tourism community both on the management and the labor side any public comment? neighborhood advocates and the super bowls and thank the members of the staff including the doesn't have and our commissioners the department of building inspection and colleagues you've taken meeting to tangle this topic and particularly my aid erica chang who is breathed this for the past two years sequoa i want to talk about where we are today this is a complex issue we need to get the policy details as right as we can sequoa and this is why my office spent over two years to research and refine and work and hear from an incredible variety of stakeholders sequoa

unlike a ballot initiative it allows to incorporate the comments from the public and i will talk about the amendments we've made several amendments i hope to be made in committee and additional conversations to be had i have said to everyone i continue to work with everyone as we try to move forward and crafted the best solution around home sharing there are significant differences in prospective i've tried to do with the legislation is balance the perspectives with the underlying affordability crisis i will mention from the timeline of working on this legislation we've introduced it about 6 months ago in the spring i over the course of the summer the planning staff has analyzed this before their recommendations to

move it forward with recommendations and here we are in the fall we can agree on the status quo is not working we need a regulatey fraction for the so-called home sharing sequoa i want everyone to know that the genius of our legislation the underlying valuation is how we address affordable housing and the context of the affordability crisis we're in right now given the new phenomena involving home sharing there are two aspects that it addresses to really insure we're shutting down activity that threatens access to affordable housing and assisting hopefully thousands of san franciscans struggling to survive and afford to live in

our city two halves to our legislation the first addresses the fact right now there are many practitioners of short-term rentals that are pushing san franciscans out of our city i know of landlords that have vks the rentals and they have entered into multiple leases and rent one unit and living into the other one as bed-and-breakfast it will organ a structure if you're using my home sharing platform like a b b to be used around the clock as full-time bed-and-breakfast they'll face one thousand

dollars a day fines and pro-active enforcement on the other hand, we've heard he r and i think everyone in the room has heard from 0 thousand thousand of san franciscans who are struggling seniors on a fixed income and student away from the sum and another wanting to visit their families and workers and artists our legislation says if you are a permanent san franciscan you should be allowed to gadget in a limit format of activity by permanent you need to live in the city i prove you live here 9 months you thought u out of the year for families away r away and travrlz who are out of the town sequoa i'll tell you we've heard from home

sharing that .6 months or more and landlords that thought another period of time was good what this legislation requires for the first time anyone engaged in home sharing needs to recommendation with the city so if there's quality of life issues you need to pay our taxes it's been estimate by some the city has lost tens of millions of dollars you'll need liability insurance we don't want this to undermine the rent control laws my tenant can't persist more than rent control sequoa we were at the planning commission in early august and the planning commission i want to thank director ram and commissioners for not only our analysis of the

legislation but for making recommendations we did at the beginning of this month we introduced legislation that included the recommendations out of planning commission they include the regulation to require the resident to register with the city and comply with the rules we've laid occult here we've include many provocations to strengthen enforcement from two agrees into one to remove the responsibility to the planning department if the department of department of building inspection sequoa our new amendments includes the penalties doubling fines for second offers and tripling fines for third offices required the regulation will have the numbers in online posting for online

documents we've heard loudly and clearly about how we don't want to cancel implies so we've got alleged policies to submit the affordable housing for the rental activity bmr units in the inclusionary affordable housing programming as well as single room occupancy we've heard about building code issues we've specifically said if you have any outstanding building electrical, plunging are mechanic, fire, health or housing e.r. violations any notice of violations for the notice of boiment access and

deist orders you'll be denied sequoa i want to ask we make additional amendments to our legislation today so first continue to strengthen enforcement to require the posting of online adds without registration with a violation subject to penalty and to have a hosting platform for the violations we've also continued to hear from neighborhood associations and neighborhood activists we need to look at new neighborhood nuance u nuisance so we'll ask for amendments if you've been provided is a registration with the city and somehow you subsequentially violate the police health or noise or ordinances your registration could be scald 80

so clarify only a permanent resident that has we want to clarify only a permanent resident can have one primary retains and one per unit sequoa i understand there recent another issues raised i look forward to the conversation and colleagues hearing our issues around for example, whether there ought to be a level of notification to property owners if there's a tenant involved whether or not the planning department has enough resources to gave me in proactive enforcement i know there are issues around insurance and others the point of today's hearing to continue vet and hear all the perspectives and at the end of the day i hope to move forward building consensus around something that is far better than the status quo i know there are perspectives in the room but we need to do in

the board chamber in the past we've tabled difficult topics and bring those forward and take the ideas and incorporate them sfwho the protective thank you, colleagues. i look forward to our dialog >> thank you president chiu sequoa i also want i know this has been an incredibly contentious issue i learned with with when president chiu took this on i knew he would be in for a protective ride poem have used this spanning the entire supreme it's an important issue this is a reality facing our city in terms of the existence of short time rentals not a - no

one is going to put the jenny back in the bottle the reality is in the world the current situation it is technically illegal under the planning code and happening all over the city and at some want it becomes a farce to say this the illegal and it's going to keep going under the radar i want to thank president chiu for taking the issue on its one of the issues no matter what you do there are people going to disagree with this and that and there's no way to craft this into to have a broad consensus but make the best policy possible there are a number of the pieces of this legislation i'll controvertible with there are few issues i have

issues with and you know, i building it will require amendments and i'm looking forward to the discussion i want to outline a few of the issues sequoa one it the issue of insurance sequoa and i know there are $150,000 and discussion whether or not that number is too low i personally think it's too low i understand that so long as i know that are currently not existing a policy to purchase to satisfy this requirement the assumption is that the insurance market will meet the demand and interested in the home sharing she ever see are doing perhaps purchasing larger umbrella policies sequoa

another issue has to do with the ability of loordz to know whether or not the units are being rent out i have no entire in having the city rewrite the leases for the tenant they are what they are they sub let or not mined the overall majority contain that and the city should not be stepping in and rewriting the leases, however, landowner should know about the leases and there's a good argument about notification of the landowner whether or not it has the

provision or some kind of notice to the landowner in terms of the are short-term rentals and like to have a discussion about the i guess the fee that's paid every year in terms of the registration of the short term rentals it's too low i want to assure the planning department has to be able to enforce the program one of the worse case scenario is to go through the process and not have the plaintiff to carry out the mandate so those are a few issues i'm interested i look forward to a discussion i don't want to say anything microorganism with that, supervisor kim. >> thank you chair wiener

sequoa i want to thank you supervisor david chiu for this complex issue when i first heard of air b and b i couldn't fathom the regulations of the new legislation it was first kind of a great way to visit other cities and who wants to make additional revenue in the city that is expensive i'm dissolving into the multiple layers i definitely support recollecting this activity it is something that has been happening to a great step up to the plate in san francisco and will certainly continue on we should grapple it as a city and make sure it's something that works for our neighborhoods and landowners as well sequoa kind of reviewing the