. >> i'd like to welcome you to the regular meeting of land use commission i'm supervisor cowen accident chair of the committee to my right is supervisor scott wiener and supervisor kim our lovely clerk is andrea ashbury i'd like to recognize jessie larson and jonathan who will be broadcasting this meeting on sfgovtv madam clerk, any

announcements? electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 102015 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated great. thank you very much my apologies for starting a little bit late ladies and gentlemen, let's go ahead and call item one. >> a resolution encompass the zoning controls for commercial permits for a 12 month period. >> the amendments made required us to consider it again, today i think supervisor kim has some comments today for item number one. >> thank you supervisor cowen and thank you, colleagues for your enter controlled comments i appreciate your support want to offer some non-substantive amendments to the finding i'll

submit to the clerk that has the preexisting office space were converted without the permits on market street in the south of market and actually we're learning throughout the city so for your information i have those amendments before us mr. city attorney today read all of them into the record. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney because we don't have a written copy i suggest we read them. >> there's 4 whereas the board is aware during the course discussing the economic downturn with an asterisk economic attraction but the economic situation has changed and offend use in the area is in demand whereas the unpermitted places are housing for the city and

preserving the housing stock affordable units and relative lack of foreseeability is of paramount concern on december 18th an directive mayor ed lee asked the city department to preserve and prompt rental how's and when 0 housing is proposed and whereas the city controlled the uses from the planning code with outstanding submitted uses didn't afford the planners to consider the impacts of such and - >> the copy that i have when surrounding circumstances are made a change. >> sorry i think my office only gave me one page thank you those

amendments are now and then substantive i'll make a motion after public comment. >> let's move to public comment i've got a few public comment cards three or four 4 names if you want to speak on the item transportation authority is chris (calling names) cash and tommy just a reminder each of will get 2 minutes all right. let's go chris. >> please line up on this side of the chamber. >> hi and i'm a tenant in the mid market area lived in a rent control unit in 13 years and

courage you to move this forward do whatever we can to sorlt hit pause on this magnificent happening not only in my mid-market area but spaces residential rent control spaces that the city has stated a desire to maintain and be converted into office use and put a pause while we study it or consider the extent when a to what's happening and thank you. i courage you to vote yes. >> do you live at 1049 market. >> yes. >> thank you very much. next speaker. please you cue up let's go. >> hi, i'm naming i didn't ann cooper on 1049 market street for

17 years a retired teacher and on a fixed income hoped to substitute here so i could get some - it would really effect my life baeld balanced to move out of san francisco the tenants in my building are low income and disabled all over the there's a variety of people that many needs the housing and we really urge you to please put those controls in place because we are worried about our own situation and also about san francisco losing it's guest especially the school system as being kind of gut because so so many teachers can't afford to live here please help us and the on the people in san francisco to have affordable

housing thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm carl hass i've been a tenant on 1049 at market street for 10 years a 0 small business owner i've seen what's happening to the city first hand because i'm facing louis my place but the inability to find employees because people at the level i hire at can just get jobs outside the city they're not going to consultant in if i can't find people to work for me i'll have to close my business please protect this sort of business. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm defied lucy and on

behalf of our all those people behind me we are living at 1049 market our landlord is malia we're in the same situation we're threatened to get evicted and i know our floor being turned into, you know, commercial space and that's what happens in the second-story we our floor the third floor yeah. we have been there since 2012 if we get displaced we'll not be living in the city we holdup hope you guys pass the bill so we can live here and everything so thank you. >> next speaker

>> hi, i'm tommy the director of counseling programs at the housing rights committee as you've heard from the last speakers this situation the problem that supervisor kim is trying to address in her legislation with goes beyond 1049 i know that the buildings on fulsome at the human rights committee we get complaints in the mid market area the same situation commercial a space is for lucrative the landlords want to evict the tenant we i'd like to take this opportunity afford to leave i came from a conference a collective called station 40 for tenant that have been there for years they've being evicted their space is

commercial but lived there for 40 years the landlords knew that was a commercial space but it was much mower lucrative at 16th and mission to rent arranging than commercially now the table is changed it is more lucrative for commercial so, of course, the lymph glands want to evict the tenants they've been there 12 years the city need to protect those tenants i hope you'll pass this legislation to the for a vote request a with a positive recommendation we have to preserve rent control units at all costs and safe people's leases thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. hi this bill closes a simple will that 1049 market has been

through so much lawsuits and other issues because someone signed a piece of paper we didn't have a right to comment the public explicit the city doesn't consider what was the best interests of the city the loopholes closed the folks get to be considered and the landlord has so much money over this issue and the rent controls have been in place this is about protecting other landlords from this nightmare closings the loophole helps everyone there was a discussion last week why this is a targeted area in area is where the loss was created the concentration was omitted each characteristic of the neighborhood the block other 1049 and 1067 is the center of

the historic market street theatre and loft district on the register it has lots of buildings we've designated as such this block is the epic center the reason we care about lofts we care about them this is about protecting the people in the neighborhood thank you. >> thank you very much i have two more speaker cards pat and ryan any more members of the public please come up. >> good afternoon, supervisors gun i'm patty was a structure engineer that worked on the building for 3 years for the previous owner there was 3 issues that were a challenged to legalized elias one is the ventilation a san francisco code change i spent 2 years working with the dbi staff that were

supportive to s supportive of the code which would have made it easier to legalize this continuity i uvent the commission at the time decided not to delete the amendment i hope you do the other requirement was egress the state building code requires egress from and are bedroom window that is the challenge to be able to provide that that requires dramatic work on this building the other thing we need to be aware of this building was designed important commercial i have converted legally in other commercial buildings that had the necessary egress windows that is landlocked and interpose a safety risk for the space heaters the city should be aware the landlord is not coasted for

the use this insurance is for commercial and we need to be upgrading police and fire for the district and adjust the parking thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. hello commissioners. i'm ryan patterson an attorney for the owners of the two property at 1049, llc and 1067, llc i'd like to incorporate my previous comments from last week on this foil as well as the owners representatives and consultants that spoke the 223 amendments that are included in this file make that resolution more retroactive which is illegal for a permit today's

amendment we object to the last minute changes not given to the public not posted we don't have a clear understanding in the community to evaluate those changes to determine if their substantive or not or the effect the property owners have relied on the permit and the city's reputation and have a you vested right to complete the work importantly 68 notices to their retroactively valid dictated could subject the property owners to a liability based on the permits after the fact of this legislation this is unclear whether the final issues of the permits for the conditional use authorization under the controls new provision that such a permit

quote shall not have a project team for the kwufks under the code there are far more problems with the proposal that can be listed in two minutes we believe we should have a continuance to address that that was mentioned moms ago. >> any public comment on this item? seeing none public comment is closed arrest colleagues, any future decision okay supervisor kim. >> thank you. i apologize there is one other piece of the substantive amendment that was not articulated under page had the further resolved line 21 just adding subject to posted notice and the requirements a lot of to read the rest during the dependency any commercial

use that are converted without benefit of a permit shall be deemed abandon and the subject for the 15 today's that's my stated fact of amendments i ask for a resolution to amend. >> so you've made a motion to amend we'll take a vote on the amendments. >> is there also a motion to move to the. >> i was going to do the motion to amend first. >> no, we have a second for the motion to assassinated all right. by supervisor kim and supervisor wiener this motion is amended what would you like. >> ami i'd like to move this forward with a positive recommendation. >> that's wonderful a motion made seeing that there is no objection this motion passes

unanimously with a with a positive recommendation for the committee report. >> madam clerk item 2. >> item 2 an ordinance amending the planning code for the dwelling unit for the limit not a specified code requirement and supervisor wiener is the author and will lead the discussion on item 2. >> thank you very much madam chair for agendizing this piece of legislation and thanks to my co-sponsor supervisor breed the housing legislation that will i think be a win-win for san francisco in essence when a building is flowing seismic retrofit while their at it the property owner can add one o