>> good morning. welcome to the san francisco full board of

supervisors meeting of tuesday's october 7, 2014, go giants yeah. >> embolism caller. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos president chiu supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee mr. president, all members are present. >> ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god,

indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> colleagues, we have our board meeting minutes of can i have a motion we'll take that without objection. madam clerk any communications. >> none today. >> could you read our consent calendar yawned females 4 through 6 comprise the calendar are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. >> colleagues any matters to be severed roll call on item 1 through 6. >> supervisor campos supervisor chiu supervisor cohen per supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang

supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed there are 11 i's. >> those items are passed. >> item one to encourage the development of the environment and the port to develop a policy of hazardous fossil fuels of coal and oil and crude oil. >> colleagues today, we have a hearing this resolution we have before you today builds off the work by the vice president of the environment the commission on the environment as well as our very own ports department to prohibit the transport of he'sus you crude oil and coal and petco those hazards materials pose a threat to our community the

shipment are increasing that throughout the country including northern california and resulted in one million gallons of split crude in the last decade while the public attention he it a he o attendance our court has incredible industrial and maritime development potential a few months ago i was approached by the community advocates who expressed concerns about the environment of a new bulk cargo facility specifically it might be used to transport those hazardous materials our port and port commission has veementd leadership consistently will i rejecting the port tenors transport of material this policy needs to be applied long

after we're begun and the current leadership of the port is gone the leadership of colors found in the bay area community who already suffer will bear the brunt 69 it's it is requesting that the city departments continue to formalize their leadership and develop a set of the i don't believe we yet have all the answers how best to go about this i think it's par important for the protective body to express importance on the negative impacts of the community and the environment i'll ask for your support today, i have baird director heinecke benson from the port to answer

questions you may have thank you. >> colleagues any further discussion can we take that same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. this is adapted. >> colleagues why don't we go to item 7. >> item 7 is an ordinance to amend the web series to the film production uses and to establish the notice requirements to films that results in the traffic congestion that lasts four or more hours. >> colleagues, same house, same call? ? this ordinances a passes. >> item 8 resolution to approve a contract between insult with the systems protect rehabilitation to remove the doors and shift the remaining balance of the funds to rehabilitate the trucks l r v

not to exceed $74.6 million and supervisor wiener >> thank you, colleagues as you recall we approved an important contract to purchase the next generation of light rail vehicles from seman's to replace the inaccurate light rail fleet it is the top source of unreliability in the muni system we don't have enough of those vehicles muni didn't purchase you enough 20 years ago with the vehicles with various disconnects and their performance is unacceptable it absolutely degrades subway service not enough vehicles in the subway and tremendous overcrowding and the fleet is insufficient to carry the number of passengers rely on it during

the rush hour it creates headaches for the folks with the purchase of the light rail from seman's we'll double the number of vehicles those vehicles will be more irresponsible and require less politeness and see a dramatic improvement on all lines, however, we know it will take a number of years to phase those vehicles in although we'll try to accelerate their production and delivery we will be holding hearing to talk about how to bridge the gap to make the absolute most of the inadequate fleet we currently have to make sure that all the vehicles are in operation so today is contract before us authorizes the mta to have significant number of its light rail vehicles 41 to be precise

retrofitted in terms of their doors and steps and your supply units those restraining order significant challenges of the cause of breaks down and so allowing this retrofit will allow them to serve more frequently and reduce the number of breaks down and help us limb long with the light rail system until the californiay can arrive. >> colleagues, same house, same call? this resolution is adapted item 9. >> is a resolution to declare the intent of the city to reimburse authorizing the mar to submit an application and related document to the

allocation committee with the mortgage bonds not to exceed to $60 million for mission bay southwest and authorized the execution of the documents to ratifying and approving the documents in relation next with this project. >> colleagues, same house, same call? and item 10 to provide and a an exception for permanent residents on short-term rentals under certain conditions to establish the procedures and an application fee for a short-term rental registry for the tracking and men and women e acknowledging the mr. larkin code shall not change the unit type as residential and making the finding. >> at this moment i'd like to

call the sponsor. >> thank you. i understand that supervisor tang is one of the few members not submitting an amendment so let me first thank you, everyone for what's been a long journey close to two years of work and countlessly testimony this is the democratic process i want to thank our tenant advocates and landlord and property owners and the tourism whodunit u community as well as neighborhood advocates and the home sharing community and the department of building inspection and their commissioners and staff our city attorney our land use committee and particularly amy chang. >> also want to thank colleagues we've worked to revolve those on sequa reform

and logo listing inlands and thank you for your patience one thing i think every everyone in this chamber the status quo is not working we have seen an contemplation of short-term rentals at least 5 or 6 thousand listing that's been stimulated it last year over one hundred though tractions and we all know under current law this illegal no regulatory enforcement that's been implemented we need a real regulatory framework the basis of the legislation is framed through the lens of our housing affordability how we can afford to live in the city without the changes in the current law there's positive and negative specs aspects to short-term

rentals we know that short-term rentals is making housing affordability more difficult and easier at the same time our city policies need to reflect that reality on the one hand the practice of short-term rentals is pushing san franciscans out of our city (clapping) we have we know of landlord that have ellis act entire buildings and turned them into full-time year round hotels and tenants that entered into one unit and lease multiple unit as bed-and-breakfast this legislation will establish a regulatory infrastructure saying that activity is prohibited if you're using airbnb or housing to be used around the clock and year as vacation rentals your

will subjected to daily one thousand finances and criminal penalties if i continue with that. >> i'd like to remind everyone we would like to respect those who are speaking refrain from positive or negative sound. >> on the other hand, we also know that home sharing has allowed san franciscans so afford to live in the city seniors students traveling for the summer or contraband parent visiting during christmas artists or workers traveling one day of the week and under our legislation if you are a permanent resident that's someone living in the city at least 9 months out of the year and play by the rules we'll permit you to give the amendment in limited activity our rules

you'll register with the city any issues come up we know who is responsible it requires a host to pay fuel taxed it's estimated we could be o'clock collecting a lot of tax and host to get insurance and requires the host not to do anything in violation of your life and safest building codes what i property it requires you live in san francisco at least 9 months of the year this coincide with a season for a student during the summer or family that's traveling or workers out of town for one week of the month or one week i understanding that most the home sharing community thinks

this is too stricken gent we've heard hundreds of folks that is a it should be closer to six months and others think it is closer to a few weeks i think st. what i propose strikes a balance i want to thank the incredible amount of work by the planning staff and commission i hope you've read their analysis and we've made close to 20 amendments in numerous public meetings on this topic let me touch b upon the key amendments we've made first of all, we've made many amendments to strengthen the enforcement we have consolidated it from two agencies to one and moving the responsibility of improvement if the department of building inspection and increased the penalties for increased violations doubling the finances for second and tripling the

fines for third we've required them to issue rummage numbers to be included in the posting to improve observe the enforcement and documents we've made it without a registration violation subject to enforcement and subject the platforms to violations and this is something we've added we require all hosts one a year to report the number of days of short term activities they've engaged in in order to maintain a good standing and asked by the affordable housing community our legislation explicitly exudes affordable housing from participation in the short-term rental activity chugging below market rate the bmr unit from the inclusionary and the single room occupancy units is and subletting or short

term rentals at the request of the department it regulates single-family homes we require the residents of single-family homes for compliance with the residence requirement we have life safety and building safety requiring that anyone that registers with the city must be in compliance compliance with the plumbing and other interest would codes in order to be granted permission it so be revoked if there's new nos of violation orders of abatement access and deessentialist nos thank you supervisor cohen for her suggestion we require the posting of fire survivalist in each unit hosted supervisor wiener and supervisor farrell suggested we increase the liability insurance to one half million dollars to indemnify

folks and i supported those amendments and also, they proposed that we require property owner notification when tenants have completed applications to rent let me he'd the process this has been a longs conversation that's taken two years to research and refine and work with the stakeholders thank you as we started this process the tenant advocates promoted we include requirements around primary resident and hotel union leaders pushed for the collection of hotel tax i support and it was about that time the landlord and property owners ask for the existing leases as well as the liability insurance and colleagues thank the fact we're