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>> supervisor yee. >> thank you, president chiu. i want to thank supervisor avalos for making those amendments and providing the opportunity to look at one pathway to the solution. i actually went out to somebody's home this morning who is having -- who is being -- facing foreclosure and it really hit home again, reminded me the difficulties of homeowners who get their mortgages bought by a secondary company and then all of a sudden there's a lot of issues. whether the accuracy of the information is provided to the secondary mortgage companies and then all of a sudden you get a notice that you're foreclosed. i think we need to stand up as a city the difficulty
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homeowners are having with lending institutionses. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you. i just wanted to -- there's been a lot of work on this resolution over the past many months. so, i want to thank people from the city attorney's office and the controller's office for their work on this. we had multiple meeting with community stakeholders and the private investors who will be partnering with the jpa. and i also want to thank jeremy pollack in my office for all of his work on this as well. he's done a tremendous amount of work, including ghost writing the op-ed, the examiner this morning. so, with that, colleague, i really urge your support on this resolution and i really think it's in the right pathway that can put the fire power of the mayor's office of housing or the controller's office, my office, and whoever else wants to be involved in the process to start looking at real programs that can make a
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difference. working class, middle class houses that are struggling with their mortgageses. >> and with that, colleague, unless there is any more discussion, let's take a roll call vote. >> on item 32 as amended, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you please read the in memoriams? >> yes, today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. on behalf of supervisor tang at the suggestion of supervisor tang on behalf of the full board of supervisors for the late mr. louis van [speaker not understood]. and ms. priscilla [speaker not understood]. >> i want to thank sfgov-tv with nona melkonian and jim
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smith for bringing this meeting to us. unfortunately while we were sitting here our giants were down. it is our duty as supervisors to root for our giants to make sure they win the world sear i. with that, madam clerk, are there any other item before us? >> go giants. >> with that, we are adjourned. go giants. >> good afternoon, everyone. everyone welcome to city hall the hall of the san francisco giants. >> yeah. (clapping.) well, today, we have an important piece of legislation to be signed let me begin at the outset this is a movement going on in the city called the sharing economy something that
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not only have we been watching with the roll of technology and the abilities to connect people you up to an time information and resources and the ability to connect with more and more people but taking place in our city and cities across the country is a movement called the shared economy that is based on a simple understanding that in order to be successful if america you don't have to own everything as i gripe as a child of 6 kids in the city of seattle i had to share i learned quickly i couldn't own sometimes even my own pair of socks that we had to share in order to survive and succeed we had to build a family economy around understanding he each other's needs and trying to help that out and, of course, share a lot of information well technology has brought about a
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huge revolution in the ability to understand what we're doing in the economy and with the interpretation interests in people in the city to say that we can also succeed in this is economy we're already doing it we have all kinds of riding sharing applications you don't have to own what i say a second and third car in the city that can go around and get the tasks define we've got zip car and others and companies that are even having scooters being able to share electrical obscurities all around the city not having to depend on a mode or owner their own car and great transportation city and county system we invest serious monies in and prop a i have to get it
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in there we've got to pass we have task sharing and now a the ability for people to do space sharing i have behind me a great group of thrifty's of people that want to find ways to invite more people to the economy by is sharing information and space they have may this is the first effort in the history of this space sharing movement we've been able to regulate so i want to thank president chiu and all the supervisors supervisor scott wiener here and supervisor tang and i know we'll be joined by supervisor malia cohen and others to bring a strong majority to pass this legislation and in an attempt to regulate an industry and to make sure that going forward we collect all revenue for the city as well when we invite people to be part of the economy i think the city wins as well so a
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win-win win for everyone i want to thank all the speakers today and the representatives from the companies and the employees people living and working here that are finding ways to make it successful for themselves this is i think a great story coit of our city we have an economy that shares the ability to have space, rides, tasks, more and more and i'll tell you often the larger companies are doing the same thing if you look at the what's happening in the bio science wourld you'll understand they've been sharing their laboratories and big pharmaceutical companies find the ability to have their laboratories shared in order to bring the pharmaceutical products out this is another industry that is happening virtually in all industries so i
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join this group in celebrating this occasion we're regulating and suvenl get more revenue that will support the services that the board of supervisors and i know will be coming at us tvn let me from the author and sponsor our board president david chiu (clapping.) >> thank you, mr. mayor after two years of credibly hard work and countless meetings and testimony and a lot of discussion in the city we're feinstein at the point i want to thank everyone behind me and san francisco thank you for sharing (clapping) i want to take a moment and
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specifically thank some of the stakeholders we worked with tenant organizations and landlord representatives and small property owner owners and labor and management we worked with neighborhood advocates all over the city and worked with many departments the department of building inspection the city attorney their staff and commissioners, i want to thank my aid amy chang that worked on this two years of her life and the colleagues the board of supervisors in particular supervisor wiener supervisor tang and supervisor malia cohen and i want to take a moment and thank an individual not with us ted was one of the first leaders in the tenant community we worked with over a year and a half ago he helped that the legislation in april with us in spirit and thank the thousands
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of individuals from all over our city the seniors and artists and tenants our landlords and homeowners that represent the amazing diversity of home sharers here in san francisco thank you for being with us today (clapping.) i am very proud of our san francisco board of supervisors in recent years we've worked together to resolve the land use issues recommended to sequa and confirmations and we've done it again why are we hear we're here because everybody knows that the status quo of short-term rentals is not working we've seen an consolidation in short-term rentals in our city technically it's not been legal yet no regulatory enforcement structure for years we've not had a
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solution everyone knows we need an approach the heart of our approach is addressing the affordable housing how can we all afford to live in our city without changes in local law short-term rentals has made housing be fooblthd more difficult and easy at the same time, we need city policies that reflect that on the other hand, current practices have pushed many san franciscans out of our city whether or not you're a landlord ellis acting a whole building or a tenant that entered into multiple leases and engaged in bona fide we'll have a regulatory and enforcement structure that says no to you if you're using airbnb or others to allow housing to be used around the clock as vacation rentals
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you'll face penalties for multiple offenses on the other hand, we've heard from thousands of home sharers who have been struggling san franciscans to struggle to live in our great city seniors and workers from all ero e over san francisco if you're a permanent resident that lives in the city 9 months out of the year and play by the rulings you get liberate insurance and registration with the city and abide by the law safety laws and may your 0 full share of tax you'll be allowed to live in san francisco i want to thank the planning commission and the board of supervisors for having made dozens of amendments to increase enforcement and mayor we're protecting affordable housing and making sure we're maintaining our quality of life but at the end of the day that is about how san
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francisco once again buildings in teaching and showing the world how we share today, we have two thousand of home sharers that are you here to tell their stories one has a name that sounds like a baseball player ray deposit inform can you say a few words (clapping) and. >> as a senior and former teacher i'm proudly proud to be standing here we going to sharing our world to add more security to our retirement in the need of fixing my together it allowed us to help our son with his graduate school not only has home sharing behind us but contributed to the success of the small businesses in the western edition as well spreading the misconduct to all the neighborhoods in the city
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not centered downtown and i'm going to introduce tourists to other parts of city that we wouldn't have experienced one example is on embarcadero street a couple said going to eddy's for breakfast they returned to eddy's there after without home sharing we wouldn't have been able to share your guests will milestone like a couple becoming engaged honey murndz and first visits for grandparent and marathoners and families going home after a successful surgery supervisor chiu said at a recent meeting no, i shouldn't - supervisor chiu said he was initially opposed to the idea of home sharing until he heard how
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it helps people stay in the homes in our city city of meant a lot to me to be a participant to speak on protective that changes that will have a tremendously positive and life changing folk for home sharers across the city we thank commissioner hur for peterson thank you to supervisor breed supervisor cohen supervisor tang and especially supervisor wiener who chaired the land use committee thank you, mayor ed lee and thank you all (clapping). >> again there are so many people to thank but we have a person that representatives thousands of people in san
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francisco nancy (clapping.) good morning mayor ed lee and supervisor chiu and keep in mind guests i'm honored to tell my story on potrero hill as we sign the mayor select short-term rental activities in san francisco seeing our democratic process in action and participating in that process had not been an sxrirgs i want to thank our board of supervisors for their thoughtful deliberations on this complex legislation their attendance to all our e-mails and hundreds of stories how sharing our homes helps to benefit our lives and neighborhoods and city i thank in particular president chiu for his navigation of our city politics supervisor wiener for his skillful advocates and supervisor malia cohen for her
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votes and passionate remarks at the last board meeting and thank you to amy chang i must also acknowledge pier 27 for his sponsoring i arrived in san francisco 42 years ago and have would on potrero hill ever since bought a two unit building in 1975 i couldn't afford to buy today, i rent the second floor and contribute to the human resources historically charging that below that market rate i want to make my space available to a regular person like myself a retired social worker over the last 3 years i've offered a private bath 10 to 15 days per month 0 only when i'm present that makes a difference it is a
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lifesaver this year with medical expenses and secures my ability to remain in my home and san francisco because i'm spared depleting my savings and thus postponing selling my home the income literally allows me to subsidize my long-term rent i carefully screen my guests in my private space they're an asset to may be neighbors they're wonderful people who are respect nell full and quiet and they've been very appreciative of the home sharing commerce and love our city i cherish my neighborhood and welcome those who are giving our activity a bad name i see our planning department can and will enforce those provisions it introduces
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me to wonderful people around the world especially my follow hosts who believe that we can belong anywhere this experience makes me feel a great sense of community and belonging in my own city i'm grateful to have been part of this historic initiative thank you (clapping.) ready? >> ready. >> there you go. >> yeah.
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to discover the award-winning concession that conspiracies us around the world. sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry there's many restaurant and nearly all are restaurant and cafe that's right even the airport is a diane designation. so tell me a little bit the food program at sfo and what makes this so special >> well, we have a we have food and beverage program at sfo we trivia important the sustainable organic produce and our objective to be a nonterminal and bring in the best food of san francisco for our passengers. >> i like this it's is
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(inaudible) i thank my parents for bringing me here. >> this the definitely better than the la airport one thousand times better than. >> i have a double knees burger with bacon. >> i realize i'm on a diet but i'm hoping this will be good. >> it total is san francisco experience because there's so many people and nationalities in this town to come to the airport especially everyone what have what they wanted. >> are repioneering or is this a model. >> we're definitely pioneers and in airport commemoration at least nationally if not intvrl
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we have many folks asking our our process and how we select our great operators. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the food option in san francisco airport are phenomenal that's if it a lot of the airports >> yeah. >> you don't have the choice. >> some airports are all about food this is not many and this particular airport are amazing especially at the tirnl indicating and corey is my favorite i come one or two hours before my flight this is the life. >> we definitely try to use as
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many local grirnts as we can we use the goat cheese and we also use local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 percent open that. >> wow. >> have you taken up anything unique or odd here. >> i've picked up a few things in napa valley i love checking chocolates there's a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. >> now this is a given right there. >> i'm curious about the customer externals and how people are richmond to this
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collection of cities you've put together not only of san francisco food in san francisco but food across the bay area. >> this type of market with the local savors the high-end products is great. >> i know people can't believe they're in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i don't have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. >> how long has this been operating in san francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it
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coffee. >> we have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. >> so let's talk sandwiches. >> uh-huh. >> can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can answer that mia anyway you want. >> our broadened is we're going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if
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scratch people appreciate our work here. >> so you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. >> this is its own the city the airline crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and we've established relationships it feels good. >> when i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like i'm not city. i was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true >> we have a lot of regulars we didn't think we'd find that here at the airport. >> people come in at least one a week for that the food and
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service and the atmosphere. >> the food is great in san francisco it's a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. >> i'm impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know, we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. >> this is a little bit of things for everybody there's plenty of restaurant to grab something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. >> tell me about the future food. >> we're hoping to bring newer concepts out in san francisco and what our passengers want. >> i look forward to see what
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>> good afternoon everyone. my name is david campos and i'm the chair of the neighborhood services and safety committee of the board of supervisors of the city and county of san francisco. it is our regular meeting of october 23, 2014. we are joined today by supervisor mar and scott wiener. the clerk of the committee is derek evans and we'd like to thank the following members of sfgtv staff who are covering this meeting today, jessie
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