concept and we'll move on from there. >> this is resolution number 2015-02. council resolution supporting the san francisco municipal transportation agency's plan to adopt vision zero a 3 point action plan to reduce traffic fatalities to zero by 2024. whereas at least 800 pedestrians are injured and an average of one hundred pedestrians are severely injured or killed on san francisco streets each year and whereas the san francisco department of public health has found that pedestrian and cyclist injuries and death are highly concentrated on a subset of city streets and these streets are just proportionately concentrated in

low income non english speaking communities with high density seniors and people with disabilities and whereas they tend to be most adversely effected by traffic accidents that result in death or more severe injures now therefore be it resolves to make the streets of san francisco safer for all including seniors and people with disabilities. is there any discussion on this resolution from the councilmembers? none? okay. we'll move to a vote to approve in concept. donna? >> oh, we need to make a motion. would someone like to make a motion? >> okay. i so move for the acceptance of the resolution to accept this resolution.

>> i second. >> now we'll have our vote. >> councilmember supanich. >> yes. >> senhaux. >> yes. >> wong. >> yes. >> all right. it's approved. thank you gentlemen very much and we'll take a break. 10 minutes. >>

>> the city of san francisco sfg tv meeting of the mayor's council on disability will resume shortly. >>gentlemen very much and we'll

take a break. 10 minutes. >> >> the city of san francisco sfg tv meeting of the mayor's council on disability will resume shortly. >> all right. we'll resume now. okay we're up to agenda item number 7. information on the proposed amendment to the city's planning code. presentation by kearstin dischinger from the san francisco planning department. thank you for taking time for this ordinance. as i mentioned

i'm here to give you an update on something that we have approved. i'm here representing the planning department. . we've also been working with carla johnson to make sure this legislation represents the input from your teams as well and we really appreciate your support on this legislation. this is legislation required by the state and must be completed before we complete our 2014 housing element update so we've moved it forward as quickly as we could and the reason this requests a reasonable modification to residential properties to eliminate any

barriers to access their home. land use zoning and building regulations in the san francisco planning code that doesn't impose an undue burden on the city of san francisco or constitute a fundamental alteration to the zoning and planning program. these modifications include changes to residential property. the modification must serve the disability and be necessary to provide the equal opportunity to live in that neighborhood . current ly requests are addressed by the zoning administrator on a case by case basis. applicants are not offered a clear process which can lead to delays in approval. in developing this program department staff researched policy of other municipalities

and reviewed department records to understand the types of reasonable modifications that are generally requested. the most common modifications included the addition of access ramps and changes to parking and the addition of elevators and additional habitable space. the department created an administrative path for these requests. additionally these accommodations are important for people to access their homes and do not propose a hardship as regulated by the planning code. >> the program will provide two review and approval processes. the first is the administrative reasonable modification and the second is a standard variance. parking as i said the most

commonly requested are available through this administrative process which is less time and less of a barrier for people requesting these whereas things falling outside of the norm would still go through a more deliberative process as they do now with our zoning approval. i'm going over quickly the ones we created the expedited process for. parking can only be approved admin istratively the policy implications approving modifications such as parking were discussed and understand how much parking should be allowed and make sure it's consistent with the neighborhood. >> the second -- access ramps.

any ramp that could be easily removable can benefit from the administrative process. and elevators -- sorrow sorry, elevators may be granted administratively. finally additional habit habitable space such as a bedroom on the ground floor can facilitate mobility given that the addition doesn't result in an additional dwelling unit. spatial connections between floors and requests continued to be reviewed by the variance

process as i said. any requests that don't meet the guidelines even if they fall within the categories of parking or ramps can be still considered through the zoning administration. we appreciate working with the mod staff and we're here for questions and comments. i think we need to seek the mayor's signature and 30-days later later will be in effective. thank you. >> thank you. councilmember wong? >> thank you for coming out to do a presentation regarding this. i'd like to find out how people qualify and how it is funded if a person needs to, you know, pay out of their own

pocket. how does that work? can you maybe elaborate on that? >> all right. the innovation in this legislation is a change in the city's review process so any funding available to them through the standard programs would still be available but this program doesn't offer additional funding or revenue sources for those types of approvals we talked about this a little bit in our meetings and i think it varies case by case landlords are responsible in some cases not all and homeowners would be responsible for their own improvements. >> oh, okay. >> perhaps it would be useful to talk about filing fees for the administrative process versus the zoning variance hearing hearing. >> great. that's a good point point. we do have standard fee

rates and the administrative process is a lower fee i don't know the number off the top of my head and with all of our fees we have a hardship process if people cannot afford to pay the processing fees we have programs that can dee if that that can defer or offset the cost of those fees thank you. >> with this proposed legislation or updates to the housing elements is that typically accessibility or requests for reasonable modifications goes to a zoning hearing and this streamlines the process to a very simple and easy to grant decision are going through a much quicker and cheaper process rather than having to go through a full scope -- what do you call it?

deliberative process. >> okay. let's see. one last thing -- can you provide us your contact information maybe verbally let us know and do you have a business card. >> sure. you can reach the planning department. my name name is kearstin dischinger. should i spell that for you? >> maybe for the record. the last name is dischinger. >> uh-huh. >> you can reach me through my sfgov e-mail or my phone number is 558-6284. >> can you repeat repeat it? >> okay. thank you. >> i have one question. on the parking issue, you use the phrase that that i didn't quite fully understand and that was consistent with the

neighborhood -- the parking -- it had to be consistent with the neighborhood? >> i'm not sure what i said but with the parking piece we wanted to make sure that people could have this benefit so long as it didn't create a negative impact on the surrounding neighborhood complex for example you can't park on the sidewalk you have to leave certain spaces available and for the case of the administrative or the expedited process, we're not talking about a new structure for the parking. we're talking about just parking on the existing lot in a way that's not inconveniencing the existing properties. >> so it's just like in a sense that there's a lot of houses that -- is that what we're talking about just adding concrete? >> well, we're not talking

about that example explicitly. but yes there's spaces on many developed lots in in the front and back of the building that could accommodate cars but are not currently permitted to do so so we make this accommodation on a short-term basis. >> thanks for clearing that up. any further comments from staff? none? i have no public comment cards for this item. is there anything someone in the audience would like to comment? no? is there anyone on the bridge line that would like to comment? no. all right then i want to thank you very much for your presentation. >> and we'll keep joanna updated as we progress through the legislative process. >> thank you. >> great. we'll be be at the land use committee january 26th

and following that sending it to the full board for first and second reading. thank you. >> okay. our next item is co-chair elections. required by bylaws to have 2 co-chairs we can't have an election today because we don't have quorum and it will have to be moved to next month's agenda and we'll have nominations and discussion and a vote then. okay. next item is agenda item number 9 a report from the mayor's office on disability. joanna? >> good afternoon and happy new year council members. joanna here and i'm the director for access and as you can see carla johnson regrets not being with us here today. she's on a

she's on a well deserved vacation so today i'm filling in and i'll update you on 3 items that the mayor's office on disability has been involved in over the last couple of months and a summary report on on complaints and inquiries and first off your previous october and november meetings focusing on employment for people with disabilities the department of human resources heard you loud and clear and has convened an advisory panel. the members of the panel include the state department of rehabilitation and lighthouse for the blind and