statement for world cities is not a notebook and cranny country but paris i appreciate this warning to the planning department and staff mr. kelly to really take a board and anymore comprehensive look at this juncture i don't think that the central selma plan can pass which indeed address what was presented as you're looking across the city the one neighborhood you didn't mention was chinatown the closing of the empress of china with no mitigating idea yet presented it will fall within a legacy registering rather than

considering building replacement that is inphantomable and chinatown as a co-he has state of our heritage is an speedometer into the future i know there are other issues but some suggestions being made that the empress of china joins the registration of cultural importance and i hope that you and other presentations will mention chinatown because while they're still many living owners probably generational changes go as much in the making we need to help to address this and front on and overall possible techniques for this to go throw the proper process. >> thank you for appointing the empress of china it's one of our

legacy bars and restaurant and sadly one the businesses that is most enthusiastically about the initial round in the early 2013 so it's challenging a real loss for chinatown if that occurs. >> for the empress that emphasis if the owners want to sell the building for over $20 million how can a open space compete with that pressure to help them stay in place. >> i hope that what we are saying will ultimately trigger a larger discussion and help the different strategies how business and business and business by hopefully, this discussion will be carried with an argument of what historic and cultural preservation so the

discussion becomes broader then the dollar amount mentioned that's not for us to resolve but i want to hear you talk about the importance of this i'm concerned about this is being the first ringing of a bell in that part of town. >> thank you commissioner johnson. >> thanks a couple of things go fantastic presentation saw the booklet with the restaurant and bar really great work i have a couple of xhments comments and question again, i definitely echo the comments starting it our commission president about looking at the cultural and social heritage with the plan just a couple of things one a

comment oneself determination in neighborhoods the idea there are community and neighborhoods that may have the resources to stay their businesses may know chops to save and i will say especially, as we look at central selma the new development in the southeast in particular just germany think we need to be aware that their community that may have institutions they want to staying sigh they have not the means to raise a concerted voices so when we think about programs of the legacy businesses and other cultural intermits we need to be aware there are silent voices but don't have a history of being organized so that needs to be part of a program we can't all

wait for the grassroots because it's not going to happen the next thing financial incentives i want to do a plug of some of the things we're doing the mayor's office of housing economic and development and the the investment fund and separately in some places together do provide a lot of financial he help and technical assistance for businesses that have cultural heritage in the past, present, and future so i want to say there you go there or there's programs we need to look at extend some of those these in addition to laying on the programs and legislation to assist those businesses for example, the community fund we invest our tax credits being one million dollars in monthly cultural institutions like sf

jazz and the mid-market and other opportunities for institutions that have been there that's another example of things we're doing and in question for you is reading your report what can we do if anything about businesses that may have recently closed or closed within the past few years mid-market is working through their issues and hopefully, they'll be there but other one point it was dire they were thinking well, we can't refinance in the community under those not enough resources in the community inform raise the dollars to stay there let it fold and have a plaque that says here lies marcus book store

hopeful that will not happen but my question we have other institutions that happened to so what can you say about either bringing back the businesses that are strong cultural resources that closed in the past and if they can't open in the same location do you as an expert of this sort of stuff think that provides value to open up somewhere else is there a tie between the business or service or entity and the place where we were. >> i'm going to take the last question first this is an example of how heritage cultural are different our legacy bars and restaurants recognizes a few

establishments that have relocated joe's is one is it is in a space in north beach same for the others as well but specifically for marcus books we're also with working with greg johnson and the family and they've submitted a letter just recently in support of supervisor campos legislation which incidentally addresses that issue by allowing businesses that have closed to still quality for the registry between two years after closer and the assets of community in london this is the same it's 5 years in london if the business closes they can still quality for the protection if they reopen we feel the intangible heritage can move to another

location we see vail in the original historic place as well and that's the ideal somewhere we love for marcus book store to stay in the original building it's beyond that but has a rich history that answers our question for the second question in terms of what to do to help businesses to reopen the legacy is ann an important first step it can be built on overtime the transfer fax rebate wlb will be a benefit that marcus books could take advantage of where they purchased a new this or entered into a new lease the owner of the building will quality for the rebate, however, we're pushing the planning

department and supervisor office to look at the existing incentives like the property tax abatement and for those of you who are not familiar where the 10 years they agree to maintain air historic property we want to see in the kinds of like twin peaks a city landmark could quality for the property tax benefits a legitimate term of the contract could be continued occupancy by the historic business so and then you'll mention the city has many existing programs that will be leveraged to the businesses we didn't talk about the new market tax credit in the report but sf shines and the development in the neighborhood it provides money for the 24th street cultural strict we think that by recognizing this class of resources it provides apple

avenue to target city assistance for them i think if the legacy business legislation passes 2 it will be a great opportunity for subsequent recognizes for the office of open space and we look forward in participating in that. >> thank you, again yourself presentation. >> thank you very much and again, the commission will take a 20 minute break. >> random members of the that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind please silence all electronic devices. that may sound off procedures and and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. commissioners we left off in our regular calendar on item 15 m

and e he urban forest master plan street trees general plan amendment. >> good afternoon, commissioners and commissioner president wu i'm john with the department staff i'm here to request the urban forest phase one street trees. >> on october 9th is commissioner unanimously adapted a recess of contemptuous to initiate a reservation and open space element that will adapt the ooufrtd phase street trees by respect the commission scheduled today is here in order to consider a proposed general plan i'll explain in detail the

actions we're requesting first i'd like to give you a question refresher on the plan and the result of its creation plans was a collaborative effort before the san francisco planning department and san francisco urban forest and with support if the city's department from the rec and park department as mentioned in previous hearings did city's urban forest will take place in 3 phases additional phases will be developed for trees and open spaces and trees on private property plastic bag has apple extensive series of meetings and judisprudence and public forum and think tanks with landscape professionals and urban forest specialists from 2012 to 2014

the drafted plan was released with a 6 week public comment period followed i the with a 6 week public period the department held office heirs to receive and gave me with the public in person the department incorporated my comments into the months plan period the plan balances an trg of a wide variety of stakeholders the outreach conducted signaled a high decree of passion to our city's local environment vision of the san francisco urban forest our urban forest will be a healthy and well maintained and sustainable greenery s that bring benefits to san francisco key recommendations that

summarize many of the that has donate missing the social and economic and environmental street trees by planting 50 thousand new trees over 50 years and finland a citywide maintenance program throughout san francisco fourth represents to manage trees throughout their entire life cycle from the wood that remains after dead preys trees are removed so today we are requesting the commission to adapt the plan by taking the following actions approve a resolution to adapt the open space element of the san francisco general plan to reference and incorporate of the uttering plan phase one street trees by reference including

making the planning code section consistent with the finding i'll just read the text of the amendment to policy 3.6 of the rose the planning department in collaboration with the department of public works changed has created a plan to promote san francisco's wrooufrt a focus on street trees the 50u6r9 phase one street trees adapted by reference identifies policies and tragedies and fwroe and protect the street trees population general plan findings the plan identified a number of policies and objectives this support the program important the policies of recession and open space and transportation and your own design elements and those policies are included in the

draft resolution before you in terms of the planning section consistency finding the plan is consistent with the policies and that it will not negatively effect retail and housing or character and not decrease the city's supply of housing and improve the streets without impacting 9 neighborhood parking and not result in the displacement of industrial and service sectors for commercial office and not negatively affect the preparedness for earthquake and not effect city parks or open spaces with access to sunlight we request you to adapt the resolution before you i'm happy to answer questions. >> thank you. well open for public comment first then

commissioners, if i call your name goading go ahead and come towards the podium (calling names). >> good afternoon please do not pass this urban forest master plan actually, it suspects a citywide xoop not a local canopy second the definition of urban forest is flailed it strips other vegetation unquote a throw away line for emphasis this is a master effort plan a greening plan is something else an urban forest plan should plan and 1- bmw our efforts otherwise known those as trees not shrubs we're

37 percent in dmrooin declining in the last year tlvts there was been a hundred percent increase in the removal of trees and 21.7 decrease of trees planned those are astonishing trees are removed without replacement there's no articulated vision for our citywide canopy planning department switched from it snatched out of a hat of 25 percent of canopy dowel to a 50 percent increase in a street tree canopy goal 50 percent sound bigger; right? wrong difference is many thousands of trees why did this happen pressure from those who wanted vegetation

principally shrubs to be counted as part of our urban forest there will be a phase 23 and 3 but no funding for either phase that would be years away i'm 70 years old i'm to see this vision in my lifetime aldolph said more trees should be planted tony than removed mr. do not approve this plan in its current form thank you. >> at the. >> next speaker this agenda semi e item is so important and the plan has so many pieces tests impossible to comment on it for 3 minutes it

deserves a whole meeting is embraces many aspects of the remaining the ooufsht u urban forest it didn't fail in its urban analysis missing a ceo he has structure for obtaining it's goals in the outlining strategies two major questions first, it baekdz how the 5 goals and 19 streams will be implemented by 73 separate actions led by the various city units involved dpw leads 49 of the 70 trees 67 percent 2/3rd's including all the actions required to fund the fourth goal it has a lion share with the physical requirements of an enhanced uttering to do that the

forest needs a complete mock over it is in the lowest tier the dpw part of the environmental services and urban forest under the operations headed by a deputy director who reports to the director there's no oversight body for dpw no explanation how dpw can barely deal with maybe 40 though street trees currently can take on al all the tasks little financial capacities needed under the plan in portland a separate commission overseeing a structure it deals with the urban forestry is pointed out a head forest person and it's requirement for new trees in how

it enforces the easter it's a model for san francisco to folly have another questions how the bonds and parcel taxes will eastbound shared between the uttering and the parks rec and park has its own source of revenue undertaking in addition - am i done. >> 30 seconds. >> the budgets allocations dpw does not with all due respect those are two major issues not addressed in the plan and should be before it is sent to the board of supervisors it's a serious problem because all the cash needing to be raised who is going to monitor how thank you thank you is there any additional public comment those who wish to speak

can line up on the screen side of the room. >> i'm dan the executive director of the urban forestry i strong recommend you guys enforce that plan it has been worked on the dpw and planning department with the urban forestry council they're working closely in the process of creating this plan is it the perfect plan it's a darn good plan and this city spell needs needs a good pathway to address the issues phasing urban forest there are a lot of initials or issues that will be spoken about oh, my god they're talking about invitation and we decided to set a very ambitious stretch godfather goal to increase the number of street trees by 50

percent over 20 years we've done an enormous amount of work that is embedded in the plan what people are saying is that if i they're afraid by defining the urban forestry by greenery and trees and vegetation below they're saying that's a way in which to get rid of trees traditionally people talk about urban forest as an under story and how can we increase the number of street trees in san francisco and how we can afford to do it, it's a good plan i strongly recommend you folks approve it and send to the board of supervisors they desperately need a guide so thank you very much for addressing this issue.

>> thank you very much. next speaker. >> it was a better plan before they added other vegetation after the word tre when defining urban forest page four of the urban forest master plan quotes to include the vegetation other than trees the light our mapping system used in the document includes anything over 8 feet tall is considered part of the forest even though it's not a tree so those two things render the documents that purports the documents useless shrubs are fine by they're not forest a tree makes a forest a forest this is to increase the inadequate street tree canopy they put at all slushes and they

count as urban forest and that defeats the purpose felt document please require the planning department to delete the words vegetation and for the definition of easter and had not allow 8 foot tall slushes to be part of the canopy thank you. >> thank you good afternoon, commissioners eric brooks the statue of liberty chair inform the san francisco green party i worked for forest forever specifically on policies to restore the water sheds for the past thirty years i've been studying the compliment crisis and ecology and bio different in depth i have to concur with a couple of

the speakers it is dangerous to put this language of other vegetation and other plants and allow 8 foot shrubs to be considered trees ♪ document that should be struck there is 15 years ago a movement that was originally a good movement that was speed limit to protect bio diversity not to endanger the species has morphed into 0 frankenstein monster there are a lot of people in their mind want to wipeout every tree that is not a species it was previously growing in san francisco and basically to turn the entire city into a bunch of gray i didn't fields and most important

the i pcc international climate change reports came out and the i pcc is saying what many of us are saying for the past decades the climate crisis with meth in the atmosphere is extremely dire we'll 80 got to rivera reserved it quickly to plant as many trees as quickly as possible and if this bad diversity crowd gets ahold of language other plants to be added to the document they could use it to help their causes of cutting down trees like the trees on mount davison with the clierment being as bad we can't put-down a slippery slope we need to aggressively

plant trees this is one of the worse city's i've ever seen for tree canopy it is terrible to allow scrub and brush to be considered part of trees is not going to serve the purpose of an urban landscape of defending our city from the climate warming so thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is jake i'm with the formal ad hoc group meeting over the years we deal with problems of natural areas in the city your probably