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test. >> okay. thank you we're on good afternoon, everyone. the the meeting will come to order this is the regular meeting 0 for the san francisco budget & finance sub-committee i'm supervisor cowen to my left it supervisor jane kim our clerk andrea ashbury also want to recognize jessie larson and jonathan will be testifying this committee on sfgovtv thank you, very much. to staff madam clerk, any announcements? questions electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will
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appear on the march 24th 2015 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you very much madam clerk ladies and gentlemen, just wanted to let you know that supervisor wiener requested for excused supervisor kim may have are a motion to xu supervisor wiener it is unanimously approved item one. >> a resolution relieving to extend the access for licenses. >> i believe that dph it is a of will especially presenting on this. >> good afternoon public works what you have before you today is a request to extend an existing license for a intersection on west bay at 7th and mission bay drive in the location of that street the major intersection is seen on
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the overhead projector in blue incorporating a cigarette of 7th street and perpendicular to the mission bay drive is is improvements along this area a director of public works determined that the project is complete and read for its use and further the city entered 20/20 agreements one for the temporary use of a portion of the area and entered into the agreement with the developer fossil and the second another temporary assess use agreement with real equality for the acceptance of the approval the two temporary use agreements have expired but require a
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continuance until july of this year we'll i've - you while they're being for this hatched area owned by fossil and this area by ar e alexandria we repealed the roller coasters enter into this oh, supervisor kim. >> thank you through the chair a quick question i noticed the extension is on through july 24ig9 only a few months are we thought confident the conveyance of the street will occur. >> it will for for the acceptance of the streets we're
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confident it will happen in not we'll come back for an estimation. >> is there anyone from the public who wishes to comment item one. >> seeing none, public comment is closed supervisor kim may i have a motion. >> i want to make a motion to with a positive recommendation. >> thank you. this motion accepted unanimously madam clerk call item 2. >> item 2 is an ordinance wore the general plan for the housing element and adapting the 202005 element. >> we have a staff from the department that will be presenting on this item. >> good afternoon supervisor cohen and supervisor kim i'm from the planning department to present the 2016-2017 housing
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element housing element part of the guidance for the city as an overall for the strategy future policy will be evaluated for the consistency, however, adaptation of the housing element doesn't change the city law or practice it is required by state law and many infrastructures for the involvement are tied and adapt for the housing element housing element is breakdown into part one data description of the san francisco's population householder and another characteristics and housing needs part two objectives that define the cities policies and goals it is for implementation of the programs to help implement the
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housing policies and objectives to data the department works with the california housing and development to have a timely accomodation of the elements two hearings were held with the commission recommending the elements adaptation and additionally a website was created and video to highlight the key components of the element existing housing element was updated if other groups including the advisors board and working groups adapting it the staff began the outreach for directing the last housing element early in august of you notifying noting the outreach that occurred the stockholders agreed
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that the future housing goals for the city the 8 issues of the element are providing a strong framework for the initiatives related to housing noted that the first 5 are unique to san francisco recognizing our structural needs and give the populated framework is strong the efforts are focused on part one to make sure we address future policies and audrey will be highlighting key components. >> good afternoon supervisor cohen and supervisor kim i'm audrey i'm from the departments information analysis group i'm going to go over the major highlights of the part one from the analysis section implementing san francisco's is growing and will continue to grow into the future today 8 had
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had and 18 thousand people strong and the association for the projection for the population will grow over one million and an overall increase of 1 hundred and 75 thousand people for the next one hundred years and san francisco employment seven hundred and 60 thousand jobs by 2024 increased in the construction and health care and other industries householder growth and the demand for housing indicates a need for over one hundred 34 thousand new unit over the next 75 years to accommodate the growth based on those those trends the state housing of community
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development has the allocation for housing production in every county in the bay area 70 percent are affordable housing for the households with varying incomes. >> do you have a copy of the presentation your marking. >> yes. >> okay. >> feel free to continue. >> thank you recently a bag has released the period of 2015 to 9082 the new packet to produce 29 thousand unit with 38 thousand entitled units n the pipeline the city may reach the new target the 38 thousand includes 24 thousand for the
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developments at hunters point and park merced and treasure island however not all likely to be conducted by 2022 this will accommodates the needs for the city and to insure the city meets the target the policy framework the issues support a number of initiatives from the american housing working group and the initiatives before the committee like 9 legalizing of the in-law units and as well as homeless shelter legislation staff recognized a need to upgrade the policies where appropriate we've
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old short-term rentals and other dispart time and issues we have the affordable housing bonus eye and the prop k to insure the special use district going forward we ask you to enable the city to keep a timeline for an effective housing unit thank you again for your time staff is available for questions. >> we have a couple of questions. >> thank you. >> first great to anal women committee the land use praesht that thank you for upgrading the housing area and supervisor cohen are happy to see this happening in the two districts
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we represent i appreciate the updates around making sure we are discouraging the displacement that go reflects the policy we've been having back to our slide on the 20152022 those are goals that are set by a bag in terms of what we need to produce over the next seven years the pipeline is some of it is predictable and some of it is left to the un known do you know what percentages of each area we projected to meet over the at the same time period. >> i'm going to ask audry our in the know person. >> i think it is hard to predict this, however we've are in our past periods we've ranked
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third of the counties in meeting our each other target. >> i'm we rank what. >> third in meeting that but that is along with the policies and implementation manufacturer in the housing element i can see this increasing a lot with our future kind of efforts around affordable housing that i'm sure my colleagues can touch on. >> what counties are number one and two and meeting of the arena target. >> alameda is number one and i'm not sure what number 2 is and number 3. >> sorry wanted to add how we're meeting your affordable housing goal and audrey you mentioned we're 53 percent of our affordable housing we think we see in the pipeline and
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moving forward and other ideas that came out of the mayors working group like the inclusion program and the consent bonus and other initiatives like the retrofit are the ways we're to rely on the strategies from the mayors working group including any resources and even though mechanism. >> i'm aware of the policy we're involved in the prop k goals i'm more curious where we're at currently so what's in the pipeline do we know what percentage and the low income and market rate so we know what the gap is how much 0 do we need to meet to set the gap how many more low income and moderate so we're talking about policies we have a goal in mind of what wire
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trying to achieve. >> in the pie chart the altercate we're looking at right now is this more orange colored in the pie chart as of now we can't tell as we go through our quarterly report we'll be able to find that information for your. >> i know your you housing balance legislation is coming to the planning commission on thursday hopefully that will assist in getting the nebraska's numbers of the numbers are not what we want to see we want to make sure we're getting to the policies we all want to see. >> thank you. i have a couple of questions audrey for you whoever in this the data on the slide in the pie had a right from the period from 2022 on the bottom it says the units in the
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pipeline as of 2014 there's 38 thousands their entitled to be built. >> not entirely they're building depraved the prettiest have been issued or the other combination of all. >> do we have a sense out of the 12 thousand 5 hundred plus above moderate i guessed those are are those entitled projects? so the numbers you see on the chart are the tartsz we have access but the 38 thousand is the number of unit in total we have in the pipeline and again the numbers on the chart are targets not did actual breaks down >> do you know how a bag came to the conclusion of the target. >> it's based on a number of factors but the trends of the
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projections of population and job growth those are a couple of indicators that are used to make those productions. >> in the slide before the 02 householder trends can you explain that what exactly is the trends. >> this picture is basically in the middle you'll see today, we have 3 hundred and 45 thousand households in our curiosity housing stock and 2040 ax bag projects our householder growth will be 4 hundred and 50 thousand by 209040. >> does that include public housing. >> sorry this is based on population out of i don't know an answer.
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>> any other questions supervisors no thank you very much for your presentation. >> public comment is open please come up to the mike you have 2 minutes. >> patricia with the neighbors and merchant i represent 4 different neighborhoods i'm skiing not to vote for this at this time for several reasons just what unify heard it's pie in the sky they're saying yes, we're doing affordable they use the word affordable but don't talk about the income ranges of what is available and moderately and who is the high and low and what is low it's never defined number 2 a lawsuit about part of this that will end up in court by rushing it through because it is part of the 204 and 2009
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lawsuit i'm not sure you can vote on this bus the big issue is avenue, i represented at risk youth for thirty years i'm in came back with all of them they're looking for places to live and want to stay in san francisco and can't currently i have a case of a couple that get lead poisoning and trying to find another plays for them to move it's in the same location that is not safe all of this has not been addressed i've tried to get meetings with both of you and tried to get meetings are london on this issue i would like you to not vote opens this until that gets defined i'm tried tried of hearing we're going to do affordable housing and when you see the reports it - they just
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don't do it they're not saying half three of those tall buildings denounced are into the housing deal we've asked the planning department they don't have the money to chase after it. >> thank you very much i have a question for the city attorney's office are their legal issues preventing us from voting. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney no on the eir but previous housing elements the city is relying an, an addendum to the eir and the city can rely on the eir the memorandum even though their pending legislation. >> so we're able to vote. >> yes. you, you are. >> next i'm here representing spur thank you for the opportunity to comment we commend the planning staff for the work on the
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element and support the the adaptation of the draft to allow the mayors initiatives to get implemented nevertheless, the time set back our city is troishg jobs and brangz resources but putting pursue on your housing stock the city needs to produce between 4 and 5 thousand unit and more for the existing deficit it is inlikely and reduce the neighborhood planning in maishgd and on that are producing the visit majority on one plan in process we want the planning department to start planning to expand the long term housing in the city the second to making sure make it easy for neighbors to have the existing units this is one of the ways to
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audio homes supervisor wiener is doing an excellent job we think we should continue to grow the effort and third the launching of middle-income housing we need to meet the needs and focus on experiments to produce for housing like student housing and conversion of underutilized hotels and other mike units two more things reject the idea of metering those are a misguided strategy and focus on the maximizing affordable housing and to fix the process and make that less expensive and get approval to add housing.
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>> thank you very much. next speaker. and president of the western central council resource organization for 20 hoa's and neighborhood associations in twin peaks i have a comment first objective number 3 the plans that san francisco is a city of renter i'll say in large part, yes this ignores the 35 percent of san franciscans that are homeowners i represent the people in twin peaks their entirely homeland security so they have a stake in what's happening second the policy 2.06 of the plan talked about insuring the housing supply to the de facto of the short-term rentals it states the city should use daunt care and points
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out that some forms of short-term rentals could be considered defactor conversion to a hotel use we in western twin peaks are considered the short-term rentals neighborhoods are convert into hotel neighborhoods on a defactor in violation of the zoning laws and last the city housing values number 2 is listed as preserving neighborhood character the character of western twin peaks is single-family dwelling that's part of the characterization of san francisco along with all the other concerns that the speakers expressed thank you very much. >> thank you are there any other speakers. >> thank you. >> i'm kathy on behalf of the san franciscans for liveable
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neighborhood when i represent we october to the 2018 and the requiring memorandum to the eir for 2004 and 2009 housing elements on the grounds set are forgot in our 2015 to the planning commission copies are attached my my letter the court of appeals says they're not completed the review and it's been carried forward to the policies of 2009 element but the 2009 element has not finally completed the eir the housing element is currently being reviewed by the california court of appeals if the court rules it is valid the conclusion in the
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adu democrat and the city acts as it's on risk before the adequacy of the eir is determined the city should refrain from relying on an eir as a review of the building inspection of the 2014 until the proceedings are commit my letter of comment was included from the agenda so that no one know about the objections or acting on your own risk and the environmental impact report requires a 72 heirs notice of the documents submitted to the bodies that relate to the matter you can't act on this unless you correct
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the amendment. >> thank you to the sdafks city attorney's office can you speak on that. >> the board can act on the notice that was provided any members of the public they can submit the notice but the meeting was appropriate and the planning commission submission to the board was adequate. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm the chair for the coalition land use and transportation committee i'd like to read a resolution as roved urging the board of supervisors not to paragraph the elements and to not recommend the 2013 because
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the environmental review carried over into the 2014 housing element was based on on the analysis xhikd and the concludes in the eir by the way, the o 4 and 09 housing element and the eir is still being considered by the appellant courts of california i'd like to say supervisor kim you're right the planning department didn't provide the information as to the acceptance r sense of the goals for that i'll tell you the market rate was they've met the market rate they're low and met over 80 percent the workforce housing the type of housing the data analysis states we need you think 25 percent or so very low the housing element bans that on
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the housing element was in the past they've rolled is over to the new one so we're working on a policy that failed this housing element needs to be redone so that the results will more match the nodes of the city and in the past it has not done so we're behind in work how's people in the did not have a hard time just applying district work. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> madam chair cowen and supervisor kim i'm john good afternoon you had a very, very profound
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bit of testimony from the lady a moment ago regarding the deficiencies that have been addressed in the court and still being reviewed by the court and also the fact that her statement which is a very important statement in making your decision in making the merit before you was omitted from the passage that was prepared for the public for you as supervisors for this committee hearing and the supervisors if it were to pass by this committee the packet was deficient and that is an outrageous situation for you to be