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generated additional problems custom tiflg there are amendments suggested today, i think custom 86 those are subject and it should be made to the public to analyze as well as the commissioners before you take additional action. >> thank you, mr. plant hold. >> good morning supervisors i'm david the former president of the twin peaks council supervisors if you approve that plan with the redefinition of the affordable housing you'll be destroying go a hundred years of mr. haney and zoning and what affordable housing means in san francisco west of twin peaks council district 7 over 70 percent through their representatives on behalf of the
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representatives off the forest hills and sherwood heights and others west portal and merced and twin peaks we ask you to have the courage to table this plan and send it back to planning and say this is rezoning all property in san francisco to bed-and-breakfast without any notification of the protocol we need you, you to not partnered to a bunch of lawbreakers 5 thousand of the homeowners and the airbnb owners this can go away with enforcement you passed a new law you want to enforce i know there's a huge amount of pressure from airbnb they want to make san francisco as a
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flagship it is a huge sell out that will change the character of san francisco. >> thank you, sir. >> okay. i'm emily h i want to thank you for your work i'm pro home shairgz i've been subletting part of my home there airbnb i fall into the camp of single room occupancy owners to raise my children i rent between 5 and 6 months of this year i'm not taking properties off the market because two or three months i have family out of town investing i'm in favor of what is being proposed of packing taxing and being insured for the safety recommendations you're
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putting forgot and i want to work in a legal regulated way and have concerns about the 90 day cap on the single-family homes i am requesting you're not having the cap of the 90 days and it would make it harder for me to stay in san francisco or pursue the bed-and-breakfast permission i've discussed so that people in my situation can continue with this. >> thank you, ms. sage. >> 81 hello, i'm gore bellaire thank you for letting me come here today, i'm so much four home shares airbnb anything that can help become ambassadors to this city we so much need
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because we can produce a lot of money into this city through being hosts and having guests come and also everyone that i know 6 is trying their best to be legitimate i'm part of home shareers they have different groups and we meet and we come to as much of a concession as we can and personally, i don't want to see a cap on the time limit and also the number of dollars that would be lessened coming into the city by having a limit is opportunity when you talk
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about taxes that can be a good flow and having a secure register how can you be secure there is no way and furthermore, i'd like to say that you know i'm here in support of them meaning all home shareers i have nothing to gain from being a home sharer i am honest i've been shut down that's okay. i'm dealing with it i'm living with it i'm here i'm upset but follow the law as etch in home sharing. >> thank you, mr. bellaire. >> supervisors i'm doug i live on pacific in san francisco ems i was one of the founder of san franciscans for neighborhoods affordable housing and jobs
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which has an initiative that has collected 17 thousand signatures that does not contrary to what newspapers band short-term rentals in san francisco but has strong provisions to allow enforcement we decided to go through a legislation progress we're actively engaged with a coalition of labor unions and housing activists and tenants and landlord and neighborhood groups and others we supporting a series of amendments that hopefully, will make it legislation workable and protect our housing stock and neighborhood character i wanted to speak about one of the amendments we talked about dollars to the city f that even supervisor chiu might agree with
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there's approximately somewhere between $5 million of taxes that have not been collected. and they're due from the hosting platforms that collect the taxes on behalf of the hosts that's airbnb, the treasurer, seis next year's past in april of 2012 a requirement to collect hotel taxes from their hosts and renot limited to to the city have not been followed you know how much the city needs the dollars airbnb is a $10 billion corporation can forward $20 billion >> before i go up i have two speakers i have (calling names) so i don't see leahy know here
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so jeff is the next speaker and i'm going to call 10 more speakers if i didn't call your name i respectfully ask you to sit so the next names (calling names) if jeff b is not here on to chief administrative officer vin welch of the 10 cards i've called already. >> good morning. my name is is doug and my wife and i live in district 8 and owned our home since 1987 it is a one bedroom
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cottage with a private bathroom and private strangers and no kitchen wantonness the size restrictions so it can't be rent for a long time tenant it will go unused most important if we are liked to a 90 day limit it will be a lost income we paid our property tax and the earnings still don't cover all our expenses i'm retired and my wife will retire we want to live in our house if there's a limit to the days we represent our cottage that will prohibit us from living out our dream and scaping our house and living in san francisco i'm not driver's license in this predict a lot of
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hosts are in this predict minded in the years i've hosted guests i've not had complaints from neighbors and quite honestly our neighbors refer us business for the relatives and friends to stay in our cottage our girlfriends supports the businesses throughout the year i know for a fabricate the shopping bags and the fruit boxes and the comments they leave when they review us it's for those reasons i'm asking you to not put the limitations on the number of days we can rent by the way, i carry a policy of one million dollars for liability and i'm in support of the hotel taxes that yes, i did. >> new revenue for the city
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thank you, sir >> hi, i'm brous b i wanted to give a kind of valuable to my vacation i'm a single-family home owner we've got 22 reservations a earning host since february 6th months so far we've had zero complaints from our neighbors they like having us having our airbnb room open so some of the new family members can come and invest and stay with us locally we're in a neighborhood that has no hotels or by the evidenoard of directo one is kate she came from erlgd
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they stayed with us for a bus that's nearby you'll see the common theme in my presentation jennifer came to stay and her friend was getting married so she stayed with us next one brad he lived on the one side of monterey boulevard and it was close for his family so come and visit i carry an umbrella insurance company through state farm as the second personality talked about i'm not in favor of the cap as well as the home registry one-on-one
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that pits one neighbor against another neighbor it is not good for the neighbors to know what's going on i should be able to operate a - >> thank you, thank you bruce. >> hi supervisors a president of order i noticed that the transcriptions are inadequate because we rely on actual transcriptions a lot of the phrasing was inaccurate that this is an important hearing i was shocked by some of the responses from the room the staff were giving visually excuses why san francisco can't say that some economic or health and safety as this develops
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hundreds of years ago when epa desks were recognized he holes were made to change their sheets every traveler who checked into a hotel the police officers looked at the charts to see if a criminal was in the area if a hitman decided to use airbnb and which the pink mustache travels around and gets out of town and elizabeth we were through ebola someone can sneak out of liberia and using the same housing transmit the diseases this is a
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scary situation and the people are using the terms home sharing is a farce thank you. >> thank you. >> hi, i'm loraine a registered voter and i'm opposed to changing the language of the short-term rentals it's clear to me and potential most of us a lot of thought needs to go into this by the way, before we really make enormous changes i've already had - they've had an enormous effect on our housing stocky think the transz convenient hotels should be regulated with close supervision
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i see from following the media this is is going to take an enormous amount of money to enforce i don't think what i've heard is specific enough even the high figure of $12 million i've heard you can probably do you believe that it wouldn't cover the amount of workload on our city departments another one of any issues is the zoning for transparent convenient short-term rentals i'm under the idea this should be limited to the tourist easier there's a rush to sell every neighborhood in san francisco this is detrimental we could turn our city into the first city sized theme park in the country and lastly i have sympathy for the people that
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have the place they live in they're being used against their wills to provide protective a false legitimacy to the investors for the buildings. >> thank you, ms. patty thank y you. >> hello supervisors i'm bruce alison representing for the record magazine we're opposed to or an i know of 12 units in the fox plaza that are being used this way and i know about one hundred others i'd be willing to give you their names and addresses if you're interested thank you for at least putting some at least on this thank you.
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>> thank you, mr. alison. >> hi, i'm pam i live in katrero hill for 2 years the home sharing i'm able to stay home with my baby he's about 3 and a half motherhood and we've had housing for our family and if it weren't for home sharing we couldn't be able to afford to stay especially in the katrero hill area additionally our guests provide business for the local businesses like in katrero hill
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there are not a lot of hotels and the restaurants appreciate it that's it. >> thank you pam thank you little one thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm president of the small property owners of san francisco i talked about transparent we believe the registry should be public they're open for everyone there are a couple of other items that are important the first is section 37.9 that covers evictions it says the tenants is a using this is a just causes permitting a rental unit for being used for an illegal purpose the landlord shall not endeavor to recover this that's
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procedure within thirty days this is given pricing rise to violating our leases this is wrong and should be removed if the code on page 11 line 3 owner includes my person as the record of property as used in chapter four 1 a the term owner includes a lessee where they're offering the unit for guests this is only for a month to month lease and for enforcement we self-confident there's a reasonable line of enforcement before we recommend this.
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>> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors i wanted to start off by reminding folks about some of the laws in the city we have a condo conversion and an sro conversion law that have been in the books for thirty years we the we have this we value our diversity by maintaining our rent control shock of housing housing when we lists is gone forever the short-term rentals are being taken off the market or individual bedrooms that are taken off the market i've lived with housemates since 1990 i could and have render out my room on airbnb and have a house mat again, i'm doing my part to solve the housing countries
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thank you supervisor chiu for putting this dough e tote but the only way it will do as it's is intended to do not lose the housing opportunity meaning a registry that includes the number of days that people rent out their unit not visible but the enforcement agencies so they know with the things are happening so individuals can enforce we understand the limited capacity of agencies to enforce and that there is a clear 90 day maximum provision for all hosted and non-hosted cases as planning director director ram said there is importance of the clarity of the maximum of days we hope you'll pass this with strong enforcement mechanisms thank you,
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supervisors. >> thank you, sir. >> supervisors peter connecticut with the housing associations let me add to fernandez comments we're getting there but i urge you supervisor chiu to not rush this forward it's some of the best policies that needs to be done slowly and a lot of things to get it right a few things we've suggested that needs more attention altitude affordable housing of any types of short-term rentals should be regulated you've done sro's and any kind of affordable housing where we use the dollars for the restriction on line it
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opens up a legitimate question about the in-law units o were below market rate for folks that need them what kind of unintended kwubz when we allow those to be short-term rentals it's a question they should be regulated another question to actually have hosted and non-hosted rentals 90 days the 90 day period of short-term rentals is enough frankly more than enough for vacationers to have a place to stay for folks to cover their rents or mortgage or make a few extra bucks 80 but to open it up for a small business that's a different story supervisor kim i asked that request lastly how about
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treating it as a pilot process. >> thank you before our next two speakers come up i'm going to call the next 10 cards (calling names) thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors nooichl is leah and i'm a bay area resident the costs continue to arise with the residents struggling to keep up with the rents some of my neighbors have turned some of their bedrooms to
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keep up with their daily expenses in san francisco airbnb has been a critical source of extra income for many families especially during tax time as they work in a family of two incomes it's difficult in san francisco we realize that renting our home in san francisco when we go out of town it helps to provide a way to go out of touchback we're able to enjoy and help people in san francisco restrictions on home shoorg would be another below i ask you to act quickly so home sharing is available to more residents. >> thank you. >> san francisco information clearing house speaking in the affordable housing slice here i want to make some points that
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have been made i'll make mine briefing one it is critically important to amend the current legislation to includes the in-law units in-law units were promised to be a rent control resource for low income people certainly not the categories san francisco has a step in trying to address did affordable housing issues in this city we have pioneered single room occupancy we va have are a program large on the state of california we have used local money in creative ways to extend the affordable housing opportunity and limit income
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recipients of that fund to afford the opportunities for san franciscans we think there should be a limitation placed on single room occupancys for the public money for the purpose of creating housing opportunities for the restricted populations i strongly urge that the question of shiners be addressed it's a question that's necessary to insure that the highest level both the owners of the property at the s c r unit are not the owners or the tenants it's not necessary to stipulate a dollar amount but scripture a sufficient amount of money to be applied - >> thank you, mr. welch.
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>> supervisors a simple fact you've heard it in testimony and in real estate listing two to three times more lucrative to represent to tourists than people that live and work in the city if you don't put a clear and limited cap certainly in the morning that 90 days hosting or unhosted the effect of the protective codifies the market conditions to drive up marking costs in the city if it's your intent sell it if that's our intent of the legislation what is the better for the working class in the city is you put a clear 90 days i limit the number of units that this legislation
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permits over a time period two years, that you can study and see the clakz impacts you know that portland is an interesting compare but portland is a quarter lucrative as san francisco the pressures of housing in this city are more times greater than this kind of activities than in portland that's certainly worth studying and can't hurt anyone from a sunset clause i urge you to put in a 90 days and limit the number of days in this city thank you, mr. lewis. >> hello, i'm barbara fields my family owns a 27 unit building in noah valley we want our tenants to ask our permission before they became an
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