prove we need a sustainable funding source thank you to all the departments and so with that we will now move to public comment i have 3 public comment cards (calling names). >> afternoon i'm dan flanagan with the executive director of the friends of urban forest and with the urban forest council i think many great points have been made i want to make the point this was a cooperative effort between a lot of city departments and also friends of urban forest in addition to the urban forest council this is the product of many many months of work and is really overdue because the city is in desperate

need of as supervisor wiener seven hundred we need a road map in dealing with the street trees one of the most important recommends is the sustainable funding source for street trees in san francisco history of street trees in san francisco is very long and very 2r0ub8d because it supervisors - board of directors has given money prefixing and taken away money this is not the way to take care of urban trees they need to be taken care of i strongly recommend the supervisors endorse this plan. >> thank you. >> john i'm on the board of friends of urban forest and want to thank you for having this hearing and urge you to approve this plan and

recommended to the board of supervisors for passage as you've heard as you introduced and you've heard from the speakers trees add a tremendous value to our community add million dollars of value and improve the quality of life the promotion of the uttering is vital to the offer all health of the city as mentioned we're a green city one of the areas where we're in need of improvement improvement at a policy level and improvement at the activity level as just mentioned one which the key component of the plan is the funding plan that's something we've seen it's been under great pressure over the years and as trees compete with other limited resources unfortunately at the end to lose out one the key components to create that stable funding plan that will allow us

to really grow the effort and maintain it's health over the longer i urge you to pass this plan. >> actually before we precede with public comment i'm sorry, i didn't royals you were here for this item so before we precede i want to give the mayor's office on disability and call the department up so - >> i really appreciate your graciousness i'm actually here for another item but when i saw this on the agenda i of the i wanted to join the conversation that which or last night i returned from nufrlz and atlanta that the trees make the city and it was a very stark reenterprise into san francisco when i saw how 2350u trees we have here and how the many trees of the other beautiful cities i

visited made any sty so much more enjoyable there's another side that is a well maintained street tree he has us to make the pedestrian environmentalist when we neglect our street trees and allow the roots to drive up the sidewalk we're creating barriers in the public right-of-way 24 plan i've seen the capital plan previously is a rational and thoughtful effort another looking at improving our street trees canopy but also looking for the long term maintenance of the street trees and sidewalks thank you. >> thank you, my apologizes. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm mark christianson the president of the triangle association i support of the urban forest plan, however i support transferring the maintenance of the street trees from the property owners back to

the department of public works but the budget for this must be restored the board of supervisors has systematically taken money out of the 50ur9 3wu7bd u budget over the past temple to 12 years i want to see it restored to the helpfully of 12 level when there there were more arborists only after the recession of all diverted fund should you consider supporting this ballot initiative for the taxes to increase the funding levels thank you. >> thank you very much let me call more cards (calling names). >> thank you as we've seen from the urban forest master plan we're losing

more trees than we're planting this is a shame and question definitely do something about it as the urban forest present to reiterate what someone else said a rational plan the city to take to restore the trees and or to restore to make urban forest the best it can be so thank you. >> thank you. >> hi doug friends of the urban forest i'm excited to see this moving forward and there's been a lot of work you've mentioned both with carl a short you i was reviewing our plan in 2006 but very few specific examples of trees and very general notes it's exciting to be moving forward especially look at the focus on the financing so again i'm stoked very excited to have

this moving forward thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker good afternoon with the friends of the urban forest i want to say i very much support in and anecdotal we get phone calls from folks that had a tree relinquished and don't have the know-how or resources to take care of it is scary we can recommend a ash bolster to take care of it but that is costly i think the only way to take care of this for the city to take back the trees and make it so it's a safe urban forest. >> well said. >> next speaker thank you very much i'm laura with spur and also on the board of the friends of the urban forest i'm pleased to be here to

support i mostly helped to support and looking forward to see this comprehensive plan laid out in terms of what we need to do being the code is sfoeths all the benefits of the urban forest that everyone has described cleaner air and traffic cadging and public safety and 09 things i wanted to speak to the one benefit that's not been described the equality issue as john distributed some places have more of an effort than others it's a geographic issue and some people have more resources and ability to take care of the trees in front of their homes there's an elderly woman that lives on my block is he she could barely walk i've observed this happening and offered to help but it is very

staircase and from my own prospective of how this policy that we have with the property owners taking care of their trees it is increasing the risk of the forest and finally an equality issue i was speaking about one thing i worry about is that our kids will say to us where are all the trees and 90 why not plant more and take care of them we have to think about protecting and managing our urban forest this plan go a long way to do that. >> thank you, very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors tom from liveable city very much in support of the plan another thing you might look at an prelims stopping step to see what the requirements are for developers when they you know

tear out and replace sidewalks that's a great opportunity to get private you know this happens when people are building a lot in this city and i think we could do a better job of capturing public value from those private investments a few examples only 18th street two we have conversions of garages into storefront i was waiting for the property owners to put the street trees where the driveways up to the time cut maybe someone in the platt missed it so opportunities when a driveway is removed and we have hopefully in the future of maintaining you them but not installing every tree we'll do it when other people are working on the site on the corner of sanchez and

market they did those smallest if you turn the corner on 18th street they also did a similar small tree baselines but would have made the trees healthier i think you can emigrate more value off the private investments if you look at the controls and the planning code and look at the standards and the public works exposed when properties are developed. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, i'm sonya with the presidio graduate school of sustainable management and work with john and carla on the issue of looking at the different

because of reuse of any wood removed by this program generally when the wood is removed it's removed from original seconds i want to be clear not only because they want to remove trees we really look at the benefits of having that sustainable cycle and keeping the beauty into the city and keeping the carbon that they collect over their entire life i approve that and keeping the sustainable cycle alive is important. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on item 4 seeing none, public comment is closed i want to thank everyone who came out and the departments for their work putting this plan together as well as the work generally to improve urban forest and thanks to the friends

of the urban forest for their work they do amazing work in the neighborhood every week to get more trees planted and take care of them for the first 3 years in a way that engages the neighborhoods to colonel together and make it a come municipal thing it's about the community and not the individual trees and want to thank awe distresses power he was to the planning department and done a lot of work on the issues as well as any office it's been mentioned we i did announce last last year their forming a working group for a urban forest funding solution in the near future so we're beginning the work on this and start meeting next month i look forward to coming up with a solution a

because we need to make sure that whatever we do it is a completed solution there's been too two many bandaged solutions i'd like to restore our fund to the urban forest what it was in 2003 the problem of that happens in this year's budget cycle i'll have absolutely no confidence it wouldn't be slashed next year or 5 years because we've seen over and over again there when there are budget challenges trees are the first thing to be slight out of the budget i won't have confidence we want to with the urban forest fund to make sure we have the lockbox funding for the trees that the city has the creation felt funds is conditioned on the city taking

back the robot so if the city starts dumping trees the fund won't go away so we have longshoreman funding so i a look forward to that so with that supervisor cohen could i have a motion to forward item 4 to the full board we'll take that without objection. that will be the order thank you, everyone. >> okay madam clerk call item 2. >> item 2 is an ordinance

inform compelled definitions for article 2. >> and the author of item 2 is our planning code is perhaps the most amended portion of our municipal code with hundreds of pieces of legislation over the years solving for various issues for the restriction of others over the years with so much amendments sometimes moving forward with lighting speed it has errors and other flaws that need to be corrected this legislation is a very, very sexy i can make a reaction to the issue the updating of the reorganizing and consolidating consistent hundreds of pages of the planning code it was supported and the legislation didn't make substantive amendment but makes it easier for everyone even the public to

rely and read the code thank you aaron starr for his work i don't remember the last time we considered so many pages and our city deputy city attorney if so has worked to keep this current every time we amended the code there are challenges and consisted to deal with and tom for his work he put a lot of time with this ordinance i have a few oral amendments i'm going to describe before we go to public comment a general amendment to conform that with the changes in the formulating ordinance and second correcting

inversely minor errors in the table with that i'll invite mr. star up. >> thank you supervisor wiener it's a very sexy ordinance i'm excited about it i'm aaron starr the planning person this amends the section 10123 and create zoning control tabled and make other updating clarifications of the code i'm excited this is the beginning of the end that took about 2 years to complete i'm excited it creates the usability of the planning code most of the time we discuss ordinances to how much thought toward the end yourselves this places all uses into one section of the planning code and lists them al bat out

of hell the definitions and out dates the old definitions and only those table must the use of controls for the zoning district they provide most of the development information you'll need to know in one easy to read chart the planning commission heard it and voted unanimously with the modification these have been incorporated into the ordinance that's before you this is phase one of the 3 phase process more sexness to come this - and to reference the new set of consolidated use extinctions we want to thank supervisor wiener for taking on the sponsoring and another person i'd like to thank it judy

for the incredible amount of work and tom for the incredible amount of work that concludes any racks i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you mr. sharp and for your work. >> with that opening it up for public comment i have one public comment card tom mcdid you have vindicate. >> from liveable city i'm ahead to see this moving forward it's been a folks have been working on this for a few years i understood this is a long need those tables are a mess and the controls are parolee organized with had we did the neighborhoods it was confusing and i understand this is the third effort at doing this i wanted to commend aaron and his

colleagues people were cynical it is non-sexy it is essential we try to make a code usesable and thank you, supervisor wiener for doing this i'm glad to have a supervisor that likes to clean up messes and this is a big one. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on item 2 seeing none, public comment is closed. okay. so first i previously described some minor amendments supervisor cohen can we take that without objection okay. the amendments are adapted and to recommend to the full board we'll take that without objection. that's the full order could i have a motion to excuse supervisor kim we'll

take that without objection. she's executed. >> madam clerk call item 3. >> item 3 an ordinance admiting the planning code. >> oh. >> for the code recommendation for the disabilities. >> i'm the author of item 3 this legislation is part of ongoing work around the update to the cities 2014 housing update and it proscribes is process with a person of disability to apply for a reasonable process to eliminate barriers to housing it is important for people to have access to housing we need to make sure that people with mobility challenges or other challenges have the same access to housing as everyone else this is a microwave active variance your planning code we've learned

is thousands of pages long we regulate all the planning code as well as to the building code this legislation makes sure we're providing fair and reasonable process for people with disabilities to make modifications to their homes so they can stay in place while the land use controls are in effect we have a colleague from the platt. >> thank you, supervisor wiener and supervisor cohen i'm from the planning department i'm going to provide a brief overview and recognize that carla is here from the mayor's office on disability and as supervisor wiener said this is a required part of the 2014 housing element the planning commission approved this on november 20th and the planning staff attended the mayor's

office on disability meeting so for the reasonable modification it provide a reasonable modifications to the property to eliminate barriers to their homes those require the residents with the disability to assess their homes and it must further the disability to provide equal opportunity currently a reasonable modification their addressed decide the zoning administrator so the standard barrier and they're not offered a clear process this leads to delays and approvals in developing the program staff and at anytime's within the state of california talked to the mayor's office on disability and reviewed the department readers to understand where the modifications have been made the most common modifications included did access ramps and elevators given those are the notice commonly

talked about process we - additionally those are important for people to access tear homes and don't put a burden on the building as mentioned in the planning code the second process to continue to be reviewed for the exciting variance if you're not requesting elevators or the additional habitable space you'll have to go to the section 3 of the planning code this ordinance meets the needs of the persons with disabilities and this legislation will make the homelands for people with disabilities easier from the planning code regulations the planning commission as well as the mayor's office on disability recommendations approval of this legislation i hope you pass it to say full board we're vertebral valuable for questions. >> thank you, very much do have to make my racks.

>> thank you for the opportunity to speak supervisor wiener and supervisor cohen i want to especially thank you, supervisor wiener for sponsoring this legislation and it's been a wonderful experience working with the planning staff staff and i want to thank the staff as well as the planning commission for moving forward on this our office emts is the city's ada corridor and this year 2015 is actually the 25th anniversary of the finding of the ada it is most appropriate that at this point we should put in place a process to do something the planning department is actually been doing ongoing all along grant the modifications when it can to the planning code but it lacks a clear process four both the staff and members of the public to transmittal understand and have access to the benefits of that consideration this legislation is important to

me pernicious i have worked with the planning department an individual cases to advocate for people who needed to make modifications to their home one of the most recent ones was barbara brendon in her that came forward with lou garters disease and wanted to live in her new year's eve valley home but in order to continue to live there she needed an elevator and under the zoning ordinance she wouldn't have been able to put one in the planning staff was helpful in walking her through the various process what is so efficient about the change to the planning code it will make the process simpler and clearer and more readily assessable to

all thank you, again, for this legislation and we strongly are in support. >> thank you. okay any public comment on item 3 seeing none, public comment is closed. one question i have for planning which i don't know if you'll be able to answer but i'll ask it. >> okay. >> partially rhetoric and partially really the one area that will still require secondary review in terms of the issues is the restoration we've seen a number of just because i know it's true for all my colleagues when their challenges and stuck in the planning department and taking too long for whatever reason we see them coming through our office it is by far and away it's not close

call in the top source of of the things getting stuck and becoming dramatically more expensive has to do with historic preservation review it's highly frustrating to the members of the public and to me and i everything to people in the planning department i want to make sure of course everything has to think thoroughly reviewed when a reasonable accomodation is being requested but what confidence level in a situation where someone who like the historic preservation commission that touches everything most building are over 75 years what confidence lastly of level when people are requesting accomodation to live or stay in their home and have access it's not going to get stuck for various percent and we won't see

a cost elevation. >> i don't know if i can answer our entire question by the way we're planning with the mayor's office on disability to create a form that identifies the modifications and i'm working closely with our historic planners to make that form very clear to be identified as a historic property and having training with all departmental staff that staff the counter so our i don't know if that helps to answer the question. >> i guess i was just asking two examples including the redemption of delores park but the public and private we've seen dramatic delays for things getting stuck with dramatic cost