se that guide the industry what sort of a 2350ur78 perhaps from my colleagues and sever as a department of you don't have a conduit to people that are holding the cards in this case. >> we've tried to have the initial kefdz and i go debiting night the conversations will be a good strategy with our department will be happy to be part of the meetings and the larger public through forums and discussing what's champed in february now we know a little bit more about the program than last fall. >> i'll wrap up thank you for your patience with my lengthy questions i think those of us who have concerns about the home

sharing there is a lot of pope hope an attempt by the city to enforce the guidelines will be successful and so i think anything we can do to make this process actually work you can needs to be prioritized so timelines budget goals conversations those all seem to be worthy next stems in making this work i appreciated mr. sanchez comments the people that are involved are happy but a self selecting group so our goal needs to be to bring in the uninformed the stagger letters the folks and try to get them to comply. >> thank you, supervisor supervisor mar and let me do my best to be brief so we can hear

public comment $50 fee needs to be increased it could be done administratively and i appreciate that mr. sanchez and ms. rogers framed this in order to have a regulatory enforcement we have to keep in mind the goals are affording our housing stock i appreciate the bigger picture to supervisor campos point of the recognized from that m many rogers just to get airbnb platforms to coordinate is a struggle i want to put it out there for a $13 billion company to be dhaim claiming to be part certificate sharing to make that

mechanism work is hypocritical i'm hoping we look at suggestions you've given about the data minding software and other efforts to solve that problem if only the platforms will participate we'll have a success that's the elephant in the room and finding the bad actors to make that work there's a lot of good website sources from the anti eviction mapping program that highlighted 2016 that we know the multiple listsers if airbnb wants to be sharing the economy and work in coordination that's the least they could do to coordinate but to force a subpoena is outrageous i appreciate many rogers lacing out the changes in

the law i want to note the cap i believe in seattle and other places as one suggestion how to coop the potential number registered people and the one hundred and 59 current registrations and the 24 appointment is on 4 hundred by the end of april my hope better outreach as we said and looking at the law to make the enforcement part work better the penalties are good ones as well. >> thank you supervisor mar colleagues if no other questions or comments why not open up for public comment i have a number of speaker cards when you hear your name called line up against the wall you have two minutes

(calling names) last names karen p as well come on up let's get going. >> hi my name is justin i live in the mission in district 9 my partner and i have a platform for airbnb for about a year and a half we did it with the permission of the landlord and get the permission from the neighborhoods so we're very i testified in support of the home sharing law we're using b income to my partner is pursuing our education it's a rainy day fund it's helpful currently we're trying to comply with an appointment set up there's a lot

of steps and unfortunately we're in a weird place we don't own a car that's part of the reason we live in san francisco but we can't have our utility bill in our name and clearly don't have the - i've got the voter registration covered our landlord is engaged with us and our neighbors are supporting us we literally can't he remember register we are losing that income and trying to comply maybe a way to simplify that process would be helpful yeah. thank you very much. >> thanks for your work. >> hello, i'm naomi i've lived in san francisco so for over 25

years in district 6 and a member of the association i love sharing my san francisco like the everyday san francisco that tourist don't see and my magical place come out and people making this like their own san francisco sealed i feel that my on san francisco port commission san francisco is a maze of compliance i'm exactly the type of person that everyone had in mind for this legislation 6 years ago my partner eye bought a naked lady and we preserved her for our neighborhood home sharing has been a significant benefit to our renovation fund i share my former unrented young room with visitors and it is not my full-time job i'm not a

full-time landlord or a manager which means coming ♪ business hours is not super convenient, in fact, it's difficult i'm here today because this is important we have the homeowners exemption didn't have to go to the assessorsors office with 3 sets of id to prove we're the homeowner but the planning department seems those are a big burden those appointment once we obtain our business licenses you'll get more people the next available appointment it 6 weeks ago weeks out we're not able to comply with the law until our appointment i want to share that >> thank you>> thank you.

next speaker, please. >> hello my name is beth i live in district 8:00 been renting out a small room that is not suitable for long term renters for guests that travel from all over the world and country and people are needing a landing pad while they navigate the living experience in san francisco this is i've met wonderful people i want to comply that the regulations my situation i'm a renter and not a copy of my lease and under the impression that the law doesn't require the lease to be shown but on the

planning department's policy it has to be shown i want to know how to move forward nobody at airbnb can answer my questions i was given the planning department e-mail address i e-mailed in january and hadn't received a respond so last week i made a call and left a message to make an appointment to go ahead and try to navigate the process i haven't received a call back to get on appointment time so i'm just trying to find out the best way to move forward and comply legally and 23450e789 i have guest that are still making requests until the summertime i don't know what to tell them. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker,

please. >> good morning and thank you for the opportunity to speak i'm kevin i'm speaking on behalf of my family we've lived in san francisco district 2 in our family home since 19989 i hope in being practical we made an appointment as quickly as possible by calling the planning department again last week and the in person appointment was made for february 3rd we received our permit about three weeks later and surprised to see this is the 14 permit it took a little bit over a month, however, no time to get a business permit we've done and happening happy to do as much to be in guidance with the law i don't believe we're alone in the endeavor i hope our case is the mostes

penalty the appointment are detailed for some individual until april and many, many more to come i'm here to insure that the long details is being considered with regard to enforcement namely i suggest leniency until a finer process is established in my opinion enforcing the law with the compliance is antagonist and i appreciate everybody's efforts thanks for your the court: thank you, very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors and planning commission and thank you for having this hearing and thank you for this legislation i'll deanna i think that home sharing i'm new to home sharing it is an amazing service in the

city it seems like a fantastic revenue stream for the city i know that brunner heights has been wonderful in the short term i've been involved with airbnb my guests have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in restaurant and they've barely gotten out of the neighborhood they love it and part of the city they wouldn't have seen if in a hotel many of the guests are coming for new babies that are born and i house people for - they wouldn't have come if they had to pay four or $5 to stay in hotel i'm for widow odd women in san francisco my experience with the planning department was great i had an

appointment two weeks out february 10th and if have time to do the business taxing by mail i went down there this was a slow process and a lot of confusion who was paying the tax and sophisticated that airbnb was not paying the hotel tax i don't want to pay a tax on my on behalf of and anyway, i think that i would like to see more staff in the planning department to be able to register people i think this is one 60 i heard that my numbers were wrong. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm john a home sharing in supervisor mar's district and lived in the district over 18 years i support home sharing and commend the board for legal

missing home sharing in san francisco last week, i implemented the short-term rental intact with the planning department the most difficult part of the process was connecting with the departments staff due to the voicemail intact system and playing phone tag before or after this occurred 3 times each you're waiting four or five days to get a phone call back from leaving a voicemail message the phone in take system definitely added a few weeks to the registration process that possibly having an option someone what opt to wait on hold until 0 someone was valuable to answer a question might be considered i want to commend the staff at the deck on 1515 mission did a

great job for example to thinking outside the box to get a document to print for proof of resident i'm curious about the need for oriental utility builds when many of us have gone green and no longer receive copies of our bills i think the mention of having to drop hours is a great idea for people getting down at a specific time more difficult you know, i would courage the board the legislation is new and i think that will work i'd like to see give is it chance to work before moving on to amending the legislation. >> thank you. appreciate it as the next speaker comes up i'll call a few more names

(calling names). >> where do i start. >> hi, good morning i'm greg live in north beach and i'm a long term resident of san francisco since 82 i've worked a chief chief in san francisco and circumstances i've lost my vision and for many years i don't know how to survive i searched in garbage cans for things to eat i did everything i could my land lady knows my situation one day i heard about the airbnb and decided to give it a try it's survived my life i literally would be homeless it would be a double wham i didn't

i'm not a person to feel sorry it allowed me to get back to my community i've worked in my community and businesses and restaurant and bicycle shops and clothing and everything that maintenance the vital of my neighborhood and allows 234e that he missouri me to be an integral part of my neighborhood at the same time it is what i've made of it i put the work into my place even though i rent i've put money into painting and cleaning the carpenter and fixing the doors i'd like the commission to have a balance approach to the whole thing i'm ready to comply with the law i want them to keep in mind their some of us are doing the work legitimately and it's a tough housing market thank you very

much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello thank you very much for allowing me to speak i live in the 0ur9 richard and supervisor mar i'm a proud constituent i agree with the housing and your service. >> my family leaves the family each summer for two months rent out our houses and it pays for taxes the place where there's no hotels and the tourist dollars are going into the richmond as opposed to mostly downtown i agree with the short-term rental rental market people shouldn't be taking short-term rentals off the market i want to comply with the law the planning department was asking for people

difficulties they've had so far this is our experience my driver's license didn't have my current address when you registration for a change of address they don't send you a new driver's license my husband is going to center to register register the house. and what else our car register is in my name we can't use that for a proof of address the utility bill it can't be a copy an original you have to contact pg&e to have them send you one so my property tax bill has my last name only two letters of the lace name is shown that creates a problem those are things that are invisual in a bureaucratic process to make you aware of the difficulties we've had and lastly with my last

seconds i can't be the only one but want to go on do record for the around to is that true them with the information airbnb needs to be sincere in their claim they're not interested in depleting the rental market and make sure they're helping the city to comply most of the people that are home sharing want them to i don't want to be involved in an organization for hurting the city future for passing the law >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. i'm karen first, i want to thank you for requesting this report for the planning department just 6 weeks into the registration process second i really want to thank you for giving the opportunity of our employed hosts to drop in after work i know this is a

stumbling block for young hosts i know and third i'd like to thank you for requesting another report to be done in the fall as a former generalizing member following up on reports where departments have said recommendations quote will be implemented unquote i know how easily it is for much is to fall off the radar of the departments and the board of supervisors and in the first week of february he personal found registration process fairly easily it is great to hear the board of supervisors members and this planning department seeing the need to work on the process to make it easier for us herod's and the neighborhood meeting at my house in district 78 i learned registered hosts were

give dirt information that brought issues other host were experiencing in prerpg to register it will take up to two years to get everyone registered at the speed we're doing now i rir7b8gd february 12th but not received my reggie know that others haven't either and finally, there's i'll recommend that more thought go into developing the enforcement process why not ask the hosts like me who are in fact resident of san francisco for their input we'll be the object of enforcement let's work together. >> thank you, ma'am. >> call some other speaker cards

(calling names). >> hi, i'm michael i'm a resident in district 9 a large home and was wondering wanted to quickly share my inheritance i was on a holiday being february while i was impacted as well as i got back i got a call to the city and attempted to actually found out i need a business license and did more research and find out the process and the planning department thank you for that went down to the treasurers office 2 itching hour process and went smoothly other than the issue who is paying the tax this timeframe is confusing it is not resolved it would be nice for us to comply that i understand that airbnb is collecting the tax i'll be required to remit that

tax it is confusing it would be nice if this is roved i went down to the planning department that was a relatively easy process 3 phone calls a believe it or not and it requires us to take time out of our daily lives i understand we are trying to enforce the law and in support of enforcement but it's hard when and if an online platform is there it is helpful i was unsuccessful in getting through the process because any driver's license it is about to be renewed but has my old address i was unsuccessful one of the 2125 that didn't tlet get though the process. it's not totally eased with the

documentation available so we should try to shorten that up >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning thank you for the opportunity to comment on this today i'm alex i own a home in noah valley and love the neighborhood and the city i'm able to host for two reasons i travel a lot and my goifrl and i split the property so i'm not there. >> when i'm doing with the revenue is i have a solar company actually allowed to hire two more employees san francisco is an incredible expensive place i'm one of the hosts that finally made it through the process the process was at planning department was great the

treasury department i got specific information and the treasurery department said airbnb doesn't have the authority to collect taxes that thought contradictory and in closing, i wanted to ask you for 30 things i've heard a lot of comments about extracting information it is misguided the platform has different model and since all of the departments don't supply the same information i don't think the platforms should have the same information and please help to have the outreach and the planning department was great and have been talks with the platforms so everyone knows who

is collecting the take i want to be a good citizen and want to collect the tax from my hosts thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning my name is george first off, i want to thank the supervisors especially planning i feel like planning has been pretty much badly used by this legislation it was dumped on them with few regulations almost impossible to enforce this process i think best you're going to chief a limited amount of

enforcement regardless of what planning does with the platforms when david chu passed the second legislation he had the dbi to do the enforcement inspects so far only 7 applicant we're talking the numbers of 5 thousand plus so the thing i'd like to see if the model that is him or her especially in the character of neighborhood because they're not deal with a the homework association not dealing with checking in what's happening is you have a situation that's being created which is crazy pitting neighborhoods against neighborhood and neighborhoods

versus neighbors which is very unhealthy for the character of a neighborhood when they'll be calling planning impersonal i think you're creating a mets and it's airbnbs fault. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. i'm esther i'm a resident of san francisco district 4 for the last 18 years i have room in my house i decided to rent my husband has parkinson's disease at 49 the medical bills are piling up i have two small children i have to put them through college hopefully tofu for this opportunity to share my process on the process of