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larger part of a slow down campaign including the quality of upper life to over one million people that reside in downtown san francisco we feel like such legislation may benefit the individual awhile reducing the vehicular power we look at look forward to a peace we seek to deliberated two categories those maybe interpreted denied as any mechanic device to convert any person or vehicle and not to honks a double tap to slightly signify an damages motion
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payroll we feel as though legislations limiting 9 amount of honks in the city of san francisco can only improve the livelihood's of the non-offender and excessive force awhile maufrl a one thousand to 4 thousand pound vehicle would be ben beneficial we advise the high court to look at the municipalities before adapting some terms a lesson i didn't translated and follow the road to the future. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. we'll take item 6. >> yes. commissioners at this point i will pickup item 6 at 215 it through 54 market street
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this is a condominium conversion subsection. >> my pleasure to introduce my new member todd he returned from chid i can't think wyoming and sentiment in the city of the arizona and holds a bachz decree from argues argues university he's living in gilroy he works on his family farm he enjoys finishing and other outdoor activities todd welcome. >> thank you, john mr. chair and members of the commission good afternoon todd kennedy from san francisco planning staff item before you i hear and my manager maybe stepping in just a
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minute you i'll do a quick briefing this is the request for a see community investment & infrastructure subsection on market street located in the upper market neighborhood commercial transit district to describe the project a little bit the project proposes to convert 2 3 unit buildings into 6 condominiums in total there are no alternatives to the buildings proposed other than those that result from the department of building inspection reports under sections 1332 of the cities subsection code a see condominium conversion parole must be approved by the planning commission some projects of 4 or less are approved administratively duo to date the department has received no
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public comments recommendation the department recommended approval and believes the project is necessary or a necessary for the following reasons the property project is consistent that the general plan and the existing supply of housing will be maintained the application is subject to the restrictions of the subsections code and allows for homeownership opportunity for san franciscans the policy set forth are met project meets the requirements for condominium conversion under 9 california state map act and the san francisco map code that concludes my presentation. and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. opening it up for public comment
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sue hester. >> sue hester this is my old neighborhood i live in eureka valley for 17 years and this area and my old neighborhood used to be large source of middle-income housing i was so glad to her commissioner president wu and commissioner fong raise that issue i'm pleading with you to one of you ask the city attorney for assistance there should be conditions those units can't be short-term rentals period if those are really attractive locates for people who are tourist it is right on market street right convenient to muni and convention to the f line i've been pleading with i since
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i passed the short-term rentals legislation to impose conditions on conversions they not become substitute hotel units you can do it you should ask the city attorney if you can do it one of you there are 7 of you can ask that person for advice how do i draft a condition that says as the building is converted they're preserved as housing theirs preserved this one is middle-income housing and cannot be listed as a short-term rental one of you, please do it i can't ask the city attorney you can thank you thank you is there any additional public comment comment. >> good morning, everyone.
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commissioners my name is kenny example and we're assisting in the conversion the buildings there's nothing about this project that delineate it between the conversions you've approved to the speakers comment when we draft the cc&rs many times we're looking for specific language that prohibit the short-term rentals this is the same as the other 5 and 6 units thank you thank you is there any additional public comment seeing none, public comment is closed commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i think the speaker just spoke makes a good point we have those coming before use it is more or less automatic because of legislation passed about a year ago that allowed the people in the long line for tic owners to be separated into
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separate condos that was a good part of the legislation is there were a lot of bad parts those five and six unit will no longer be allowed and nothing else has a tic will be able to get do the lottery the good part in regards to sue hester's question there's probably we would have to have the legislation examined in detail before we propose my conditions in regards to short-term rentals and presumably when those become condo unit they'll be individualized homeownership unit or perhaps 1346 them are rental unit i'm not sure many of them are owner occupied in this case a couple of rental unit so
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whatever the law is applies to all of the others regardless of whether their recently became overwhelmingly or become ownership a long time if this is what takes precedent so i don't know how to 1i7b9 i single out one particular project is a global question. >> commissioner richards. >> i guess for the city attorney how are condominiums covered from the short-term rental legislation as i understand. >> deputy city attorney susan cleveland the current legislation just treats twelve in one category and condominiums are you know a dwelling unit so they're treated the same as a dwelling unit in the city the
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rules the director of the staff can speak to this your permitted to engage in short-term rentals for i i think up to one hundred and 80 days out of the year if you're the owner occupant of the unit; is that correct. >> the legislation took effect february 1st requires you to be the residents of the unit in order to represent it out. >> yeah. >> and i think it's 90 days if it's unhosted maine if you're not there are while it's rented there's no limit in terms of in the resident is there awhile it's rent short-term that's the current rule. >> i'd like to say to suggest it condominiums have a right to
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prohibit rental of condominiums units because of insurance matter and the cc&rs have quite a few of the condo i happen to live in one they have no renter permitted a primary renter but no short-term rentals. >> if i may add one more thing there are many as the second speaker commissioner moore mentioned many of those do preventive those on their own when you take action your assisting its not a discretionary review or a discretionary review it is only consistent with the general plan and it makes it i think more difficult to add conditions on the action. >> one more question i guess to
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the director and staff and to sue hester's .2 doors down two small hotel i'm not sure if their voeg sro's actually some people i know uses to live in the hotels and they were you know, i guess small unit people were coming to the city have a place to live affordable as of late they've been turned into slrldz and i have seen those check and make sure their classified as a hotel we should prohibit those are i've seen 2 happen literally two doors down. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you. i don't want to make this item will short-term rentals but i feel a need to comment from the public comment and the commission when we had
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our discussion we discussed this specific topic and the city attorney multiple times to make sure we're staipg only track for things proper and one of the things not sure about legislation but many contempters we are representing representatives of building owners or property owner and we've not seen the late of short-term rentals legislation but many opportunities to go back generally speaking the bigger issue not putting more and more restrictions but the restriction is there that's the issue can we count those 90 days and make sure their primary resident are the ones renting out we can't add on more restriction just want to make that point i'll make a motion to
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approve this item and obviously your comments. >> second. >> commissioner richards and a question to staff this is kind of an anomaly we afforded it is approved administratively is this an issue this is the first time it has been pulled off commended that's been rubber stamped. >> i'm sorry. >> is there a reilly reason we're seeing this. >> this legislation was passed we don't see 7 to 12 and that's not allowed. >> i guess one other question to the project sponsor is there a clause in the cc&rs for the condominiums there are conditions on short-term rentals or not.
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>> on this particular property we haven't gotten the cc&rs yet. >> okay. thank you. >> commissioners there is a motion and second to approve item 6 commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner president wu commissioner fong. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and the work program an informational presentation. >> commissioner, i building you've met kelly our director of planning gil has been here about seven months and has been working with the citywide managers on a 5 year work plan i think that president fong and
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vice president wu has is been looking at the longer than term prospective on the longs range planning and gil has prepared this and this is also in preparation for the budget hearings which will start next week as well and you'll see in the budget proposal you'll see next week you'll see some of the work reflected in that proposal as well dwindling it prepared to go over the report audience good afternoon again gil kelly director of the citywide essentially the upper design unit i didn't bring any try corner with me as prior speakers nevertheless, i hope to not entertain you peek our interests on some of the ideas keep our
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attention and keep the roar the crowd down today, this is a little bit unusual in terms of the workload and the items you typically see that tend to get focused on the project or site level sometimes in a district or corridor level this is an opportunity to stand back and look at the long-term future of san francisco through the lens we've developed i want to begin by acknowledging a capable program management staff in the citywide division their seat behind me ask them to stand a moment to be acknowledged i've been really, really fortunate to inherit this bright dedicated group of planners in the distribution i want so is we've k4r5ubd as a groip group we've having had to think about the
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work we do and be aware of the voices in the community that are not represent in the planning discussion and find a place in the long term as well as invoke that resident response in anyone we talk to what we believe ♪ their hearts in the future of the city it's through that lens we've duplicate that we've engaged the entire citywide staff through the series i myself have had a number of the conversations throughout the community justify and embellish the work program with that in mind you have materials in our packet we've amended those slithering i'll point out the changes i have extra copies for the public if you want to see
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those posted on our website director ram mentions we're not here to discuss the budget but the ideas that shape the budget request as part of our hearing so i'll drive this machine at the same time, we have a year of 200 vod and back tans what's the future we want to see in san francisco 2050 is the question and stepping back what can we do to make sure that we lay the foundation this is that one generational crisis for the years by the time we get through this in 2020 that is to share or insure that the next generation of san franciscans we want to be
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socially and economically so this is a quick outlines we're depositing four key challenges that drive this i'll audible u talk about the elements in tour core we'll respond to the derivatives and deposit a set of 5 initiative ways in which he think challenges and issues can be addressed closer to the ground but the first question we've asked ourselves and possessed to od's others why plan for the longer and why do it now there are several compelling reasons? a 4i8gd part san francisco dna to take a long look at we take a block by block fabric but there are moments in
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time i think where it's needed to step back and really look at it and we know we're really at ta a moment in history the challenges restraining order great the potential challenges to the soul of the communities are profound and development is happening and changes we want a longer-term look we have to be strategic in what we take on and how we look at issues and as well as imaginative in the kinds of solutions and engagements we precede with as is making restraining order level we saw those 6 trends that effect many cities throughout the glob but landing hard on san francisco one the organizations transit out in the bay area
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there's more and more interest in jobs and housing in the closer e core of the region that's only represented by the fact that the plan bay area of the 2040 project numbers are in the first four years we've hit 40 percent of the job growth it's happening faster than in the plans that are anticipated san francisco is lucky and behind we're seeing no north america talent and capital clustered in the major centers and san francisco is one of those probably honey gold era or new york is a major cluster and capital hill we think with the university spelling the last name system and the collection of people there's a lot of
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talent and permission to obtain internal we see that regardless of temporary krblz and climate change a a global phenomena and driver we have been built into our consciousness of how we design the city that also scientists have set 2050 as a critical year of bend the curve on climate change we also see social and demographic changes like immigration to the bay area and san francisco but the silent trend are the millennial and the baby boomers are the trends in the population they have the particular set of needs and preferences for how they live and what they do it's important to pay attention to that the
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other thing the boundary we think about your future no longer property owner no city is alone anymore and to think regionally how the housing market function and our systems like transportation it is as important lens to look through and finally health brothers from individuals and public level is something else that we think is an issue coming into clear focus we'll be driving your planning consciousness and portions of our work >> let me know if i'm going two fast or slow the first of the clajz champs and the commission vice president allude to this role the top clajz changes are remaining in the city and this goes to a number of aspects of
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that including affordable housing, of course, but also things like job based offers and employment making whole community that work for families and kids and so on that's a huge driver of the work we do next we deposit assess and 340eb89 personally i think san francisco is at the tipping point we're growing into our adolescent years we need to be very, very aggressive including more and more choices will mobility and about the services that are close to us where we live and work and business trips as well resiliency and long term stunt reflecting back to the climate change will need to drive a lot
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of our responses here's the image of the seawall that is over topping during storm events the consensus on the 2050 or 20/2050 another 3 six the storms will building more spins and more severe we need to plan and there are many areas which will be inundated by floods if we don't respond that's one aspect of sustainability that is a critical one and finally did fourth big driver we see as we become more urban population and much more attuned to europe live and walkable neighborhood we need to pay attention on making great places in every
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neighborhood its not a matter of building disdain but thinking about the pab public as you our living potential we're not adding more and more streets larger parcels to be vechtd how do we rethink the public right of ways we have in a way that promotes 21st century living so there are some core work programs activity that are citywide we're 4r507b89d i won't go into all of them before you affordable work that needs to be implemented we have one in front of you we hope that is adapted so we can return to the resolving work in the affordable housing needs currently we're engaged in addition protections for pdr space and we're keeping the pdr distribution with the
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fair space and we've embarked on a joint mission that 9 pool systems this being a place for families their seeing a growth in enrollment that's interesting and with access and mobility we do want to update the city's transportation that's the guiding principle for the city and the big picture of the mobility objectives we'll be noifsh that this year and that will last ore over the next couple of years particularly we'll be updating the regional transportation plan, of course, with our other agency partners and, of course, much the street design work and the project noshgsdz we do helps us keep an eye towards the mixed use development and making sure that the access to transit and that
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the fees offsetting impacts are driekd in the right ways the resilience of sustainability we're dealing with the urban forest and this is on a citywide basis and the planning we'll talk about this is a phenomena and on the public place making piece again this is really a combination of being opportunityic there are street reconfigurations possibly to make a more complete street and taking a forward look at the parks and plaza and then doing making sure we're paying attention to the projects development project reviews to a
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qualify their contributing to those are ongoing core activities we need to do in addition we staff our commission we staff the directors working group a collection of the agency heads that meets monthly we're trying to formula lists that group and have a number of referrals we deal with amendment as well as requests for information and graphic and so on and so forth 80 so we're busy with that work we have claefrd off half of our work capacity to deal with we're calling 5 basis initiatives 5 years and your materials they have projects society with each one i won't go through them but happy to answer questions first the heart of san francisco which is again to look at the