very enlightening hearing at the budget committee to get a presentation on the planning department's efforts to enforce the short-term rental law and so-called ab and b law and it was a very informative presentation and i have to give a great deal of kudos to the planning department staff who were very forthcoming and the long and short of it for those of you that watched this hearing is what we heard from the planning department staff was essentially that that as currently written this law is un forceable and it's interesting a number of issues were raised but one of the fascinating things is that over the course of discussing this legislation, we have heard from hundreds if not thousands of

folks who are engaging in short-term rentals and the unfortunate thing is that i was, as was noted by the hearing by the apartment association which i don't necessarily always agree with, there were more people in that room coming to testify about this law than actually had signed up for the law itself. and when you look at the issue of enforcement, i think the only thing that i can say in terms of describing the situation is what a mess. what

the and i believe this law will be essentially an un forceable piece of legislation and i think whatever differences we may have about the short-term rental legislation i think that we can all be in agreement that when we pass a law by this body that we want that law to be enforced. this data is critical for a number of reasons as i mentioned to help our planning department staff in their enforcement of the law second it's also important in terms of understanding the impact of this new short-term rental law when it comes to our housing stock and the other

thing is that the thing about enforcement is that given the nature of this industry without information to verify whether or not the rules are being followed, enforcement is simply impossible and the last thing that i would note is that we know this ordinance will address the issue of providing information as we move forward. we're also looking continuing to look at the issue of making sure is that the information that has been requested by the department which is information that is retro spective that that information be provided and hope we don't have to go down the path of having to subpoena ab and b and other platforms to get this information but we, in my office are keeping this option open to give our staff

the tools they need to enforce this law the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor campos supervisor cohen? >> thank you madam clerk. i have just a very few brief remarks i want to talk about the legislation i'm introducing today. it's legislation to ban the advertising of sugar sugar sweet ened beverages and you have heard remarks earlier today supervisor wiener as well as supervisor mar and i want to let you know there's room on this roster for other sponsors for those that would like to join with us and it's simple it's actually mod led after alcohol advertisements and we hold to a product that's slowly

killing us and in 2013 alone this beverage companies spent 866 $866 $866 million advertising these beverages 4 times as much as they spent advertising pure fruit juice and water and the beverage industry targets low income communities and they also happen to be some of the communities with the highest risk of diabetes and includes the south eastern part of san francisco and according to a 2011 report by the yale center for food policy and obesity african-american youth see eighty to 90 percent more ads for sugary drinks than their white counter parts and this is just not acceptable. our youth

deserve to grow up in an environment to messages that promote health and thank you and i recognize that there's plenty of opportunity for others to join but there's always room for you. thank you. >> thank you supervisor cohen supervisor farrell. >> thank you madam clerk colleagues today i'm introducing legislation formally that i mentioned a few weeks ago and to ban the smoke less tobacco. prolonged use can cause cancer and even death

among individuals and can can be disastrous to our children and tobacco in any form should no longer claim the lives of our family and friends. chewing tobacco is not allowed on athletic fields across our city and not dictate to what individuals do off the fields. it has a very similar structure for the city's landmark antitobacco and smoking ordinance and similar requirements and penalty structures in place and in order to allow coaches and teaches and individuals to prepare for this it will not take effect until january 2016. each year over 500 thousand 500 thousand new children ages 12 to 17 try smoking tobacco

for the first time and it's a real issue affecting millions of children across the u.s. and certainly here in san francisco. i want to reiterate that my motivation for this as someone that used chewing tobacco back in the day. i'm doing this for my kids. we're blessed and i don't want our children's future or the future of any child here in san francisco to be a future with chewing tobacco no more and colleagues i hope we we can step up on this issue and single out supervisor mar for his cosponsorship. the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor farrell . >> thank you very much. i want

to update you on a hearing that we held yesterday supervisor cohen and supervisor kim were there and i had the pleasure of hearing our double parking hearing which i'll be honest was highly discouraging and i hope colleagues you will join me in putting pressure on the mta and the police department to actually enforce our double parking laws. a year and a half ago we healed an oversight hearing on double parking and i think we all know it's pretty rampant in the in the city it's a bit of the wild west there's very little enforcement outside of the downtown core and our double parking has significant negative impacts on our transportation system one double parked car can cause a multiblocked traffic jam and even shut down an entire muni

line and one double parked car can cause a large number of bikes in a bike lane have to veer out into traffic and it seems as we add more bike lanes many drivers appear to view these bike lanes as just an additional parking lane and very very little enforcement so we held a hearing a year and a half ago and the the mta committed to the land use committee that it would improve the enforcement of double parking so we held the hearing and do you want to know what we learned? we learned that the mta issued fewer tickets and to be clear 2013 was a small number of tickets so we're not talking about a peak and it went down so it went from bad to even worse according to the mta to the mta the reason for

for the decline in the number of double parking tickets was because they didn't have the staffing to do it so we asked them to come back with a plan to have the capacity to enforce double parking we're growing as a city our streets are becoming more and more congested every day with cars bikes pedestrians and trucks and every kind of vehicle and we need to make sure we're appropriately managing our transportation system and i'm a big fan to enforce again people blocking the box and we need to make sure we're doing a better job enforcing against double parking and we're going to be keeping a close eye on this because this situation has to improve. >> that concludes the introduction of new business. >> at this time madam clerk can you please read public comment? >> the public can comment for

up to to 2 minutes to include the policy discussion between the mayor and the board and the minutes yet to be approved and items without reference to committee calendar. public comment is not allowed on items pursuant to the board's rules direct your remarks to the board as a whole not to individual supervisors. if . if you would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector -- >> thank you madam clerk. first speaker, please? sir, there's another microphone that --

>> god bless you supervisors in the city and county of san francisco. my name is keith dennis and i was going to talk about the horrible -- [inaudible] that goes on in our city but i better reiterate what i spoke about last year because i'm seeing it unfold right in front of my eyes. i said that there was a downsizing in the fillmore district they took outside the jazz ye wash and this one i'm about to say markus bookstore probably is the first black bookstore in the nation okay? we need to stop downsizing our communities okay? we need to take a good look at what we have and build upon it, okay?

markus bookstore is a treasure and we need to find a way to get it back in the fillmore and we need to keep the fillmore the fillmore. it's it's nationally known as the jazz district so ladies, may i say to you -- happy women's month i appreciate all the services that you supervisors do. thank you very much supervisors and keep up the good work. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please? >> good evening.

>> for good human so human soul. actually one time in chinatown one time convention and i saw actually -- even last

year. i work for the -- indisce rna ble. >> >> thank you next speaker please . >> senior >> we're holding the belief that they would be considered logical canned candidates and gain residents in in the newly

apartments and our city government is being run by an administration comprised by a majority asian american panel few african-americans hold management positions in city government and permitted the lottery system for new housing within district ten. i believe we must play on an even playing field. give everyone access. there must not be a biased agenda in giving seniors of other districts preferential status. >> san francisco has some --

seniors of all races residing in hunters point and bayview a fair shot. >> thank you next speaker, please. >> my name is nancy cross and i was inspired by the presentation by supervisor kim particularly in relations to apartments and apartment fires i've been very apprehensive in brand new buildings there's a failure to observe the the fire code for low income tenants and you will be looking into more because you need so

much housing in the low income the advertisements of the apartments say that their modifications on request of the applicant but i found this is doesn't exist they ignore it. and if you don't continue without ever having a definition of what the project can be and to comply and not satisfied with no compliance with san francisco housing code, you lose your opportunity for the housing and just because you wouldn't sign waivers and inindemnities that if you did sign you would lose all the benefits. that would make things right so i would appreciate more attention for people who might be very low income people and needing housing that they actually get opportunities with code compliances necessary to prevent fire accidents and

injuries to the health of the people looking for housing. >> thank you. next speaker, please? >> good afternoon supervisors i'm peter war field executive director of library users association and in about 1 week mid-march the library will go to biblio commons and it has many serious problems. i'll be using the overhead as a mentioned to you a number of times it's privacy smashing in a variety of ways. biblio commons is biblio censorship in a whole range of ways and they take upon themselves the

right to toss out any comments on for example books that free people in their system of 200 libraries and 4 million plus registrant flags and with no review no due process and that's not appropriate in a library which is a limited public public forum and it exploits the patrons by taking themselves the right as they put it to sublicense to use and publicly display and perform and adapt create and distribute content that the patrons have provided. biblio commons is

highly deceptive in a variety of ways. contradictory statements within their terms and when you are in biblio commons it's not clear that you can for example reserve a book without registering for them if you click on the one click feature and the library users 2004 at yahoo.com. >> thank you very much next speaker, please. >> thank you president breed and other victims my name is chris and i live at 6th and howard and i'd like to comment on the mass transportation the existing model was pulled by horses on dirt roads and we've

managed to replace hay with gasoline and to put the driver inside the box otherwise nothing has changed, bart our favorite transportation system was promised to be fully automated by by 1990 and the system was supposed to provide a continuous flow of movement to and from the center and bart was going to be free because we wouldn't have any drivers to fund pensions and healthcare for. does anyone else remember market street the the big pit? i can stand on the sidewalk at night and hear the sound of rats i remember the pit and i remember those promises they are making more promises don't believe them there there will be no more need for bart we will finally manage to put all drivers inside a chip and we'll raise the density and safety of

street traffic by an order of magnitude and multiply the average trip speed by 3 and replace a single 100 percent train car with 5002-person robo cars such a deal will not be ignored thank you president breed. >> thank you next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors i'm amy fair way and in a time when developers scouring the neighborhoods let's celebrate and enhance local culture and work hard to prevent the demolition of the cultural assets still here and let's celebrate it read the purpose

of the theatre is to become the center of community life and enhancing the enjoyment of its people and the theatre served the community for over 7 decades as well as a gathering space for social justice movements and worship but it's been boarded up and blighted. neighbors prevented the harding theatre from being demolished with the help of the planning commission in 2005. i first noticed it back in in in in 2007 and in 2012 it was taken off the market and then last year refused a 4 a $4 million offer that would have transformed it into a bookstore

and multimedia performance venue . if you truly care about preserving arts and cultural venues in san francisco board of board of supervisors thank you very much next speaker please. 3

. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please.