. >> good afternoon. welcome 340b8gd this is the regular meeting of land use commission i'm supervisor cohen the chair of committee and to my right is

supervisor scott wiener and to my left will be jane kim our clerk is andrea ashbury i'd like to recognize jessie larson and jonathan who will be toifgz today's meeting madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the april 14, 2015, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated excellent. thank you so colleagues, i building he have staff from the department of building inspection here to present on item number one. >> would you like me to call u call item one. >> i'm sorry yes. >> number one amending the building code for the determination of permit fees. >> seeing the staff is not here

item 2. >> anticipated the planning code for the off-street parking and loading requirement and a presentation for item number 2 mr. johnson thank you. >> there you go i can hear myself good afternoon the item before you is a small set of planning code changes that supervisor breed is calling the parking flexibility the city h had strike parking spaces they were required to have new parking garages below and above ground as well as parking pads that are green spaces or yards and the first floor for vehicle parking in the past decade with the push

for more gave them ground floors the city has greater flexibility the space methods like tandem lifts and minimum parking requirements in the transit dense neighborhoods are lax that is important to point out they don't limit the parking as they choose but give more options so businesses and homeownerships and others can park on their property this is the conversion of parking to active street units and conversion of the freed spaces for other uses and helps to restore first responders first, the g f a limits the space on land but out

of rh3 parking doesn't count in terms of limits on the commercial are housing you can have but not on parking if you have exist parking spaces you don't need g f a may stop you from converting other city policies courage ground floor activity but g f a force people to use the parking there's a limit amount of spaces do we want to prioritize parking over how are you above ground access parking counts but underground park will remain intact and 245i8 use the first floor for retail and housing existing buildings convert unused marshes if they choose about giving people the

opportunity to kwhuz and the parking will allow the off-street parking to be located within 6 hundred feet third, the legislation gives the zoning administrator the authority to microwavely remove an inner acceptable requirement in recent years the city eliminates parking rishth or added exemption in rfp so we shouldn't be holdings property and fourth it exempts buildings from the parking requirement if it's ones a designated e designated traffic lane it gives people the option not to convert it so houses in district 5 can turn their garage into housing variance it reduces the

bicyclist time and lastly it allows minimum parking requirements if doing so limits the rear yard and yard requirement so many building owners pay to have off-street parking but if people wants to remove the spot they can restore character to the neighborhoods the legislation passes the planning commission unanimous on february 26th the newest is the substitute that incorporates 3 small changes by the planning commission as well as one other issue that came up i'll address that we've incorporated a grandfathering progression for existing in the van ness district d for projects in the pipeline i'm happy to go into it

in detail the legislation has options we can activate the improvement of bicycle safety and restore the yards hopefully that was quick enough i'll be happy to answer any questions supervisors thank you for your time. >> thank you very much any questions if the colleagues seeing none, is there any public comment on this item? item 2 seeing none, public comment is closed is there a motion on that item colleagues. >> all right. motion made and supervisor kim with a positive recommendation seconded by supervisor wiener that motion passed unanimously thank you very much thank you very much madam clerk call item number one >> number one is the ordinance amending the classification of the data sources to use to determine fees. >> there you go. >> hello we have a presentation from the dbi welcome.

>> thank you supervisor bill strong with the legislation affairs with the building inspection this provides clarification so everyone is clear that dbi in putting together its cost schedule to assist contractors was based on must not data sources i think that there would be something some confusion or thoughts this will help to clarify that's why we're introducing this. >> a that's it is that it. >> that's it. >> very short update colleagues questions or comments all right. moving to public comment any public comment on item one please come forward seeing none public comment is closed at this time is there a motion for this item? motion by supervisor kim and

seconded by supervisor wiener unanimously passed by this body with a positive recommendation to the board madam clerk call item 3 >> an ordinance for the planning to monitor the city's housing balance and publish a bio annual report. >> by supervisor kim. >> thank you supervisor cohen and for your consideration of the legislation that legislation is part of housing balance discussion that began last summer those discussions were sparked by the need to insure while we continue to build and develop in the city we need to make sure we're building a city that is affordable and prioritize it public and private goals by the mayor in 2014 that at minimum a third of the thirty thousand new units by 20/20 b will be affordable by the

residents this was affirmed by krauk in november and prop k announced that the city policymakers mandate a housing to make sure that the acquisition is affordable to san franciscans to that end i've been working with the mayor's office and the planning department and community stakeholders to stabilize lists the existing community for initiative for affordability in san francisco in the fall of last year the board of supervisors amazing approved interim issues for the central selma r50ig9 the conversion of pdr to office use or residential utilities pending the central selma plan the second piece of legislation coming out of the housing compose is the housing balance count legislation which is a implicit the to the voters of san francisco to make sure we have the tool as decision makers

to see how we're doing relative to our goals it requires the planning department to provide a bio annual right away report to the planning commission and the board of supervisors which calculates housing affordable to mocking zero to one hundred 20 percent of the medium income within a 10 year timeframe this calculation is for affordable housing unit that may have been eliminates or the loss of rent control earl or sro unit we'll consider the housing balance goal of 32 percent of housing constructed that is affordable housing and annual data will be recorded at various income levels from zero to thirty percent thirty to 50 and 50 to and to one hundred and 20

percent as well as one hundred to one hundred 50 percent bmi we know that the affordable units is important to the mayor the planning department must monitor the cities progress push information on the planning department website and report to the board of supervisors about the calculation and other city land use emgsdz e regulations board of supervisors has held a hearing to achieving 33 percent and other officials and departments are to report to the board of supervisors relative to the balance hearing we want to thank our stakeholders including the council of housing and todco and the tenderloin development and south of market community action north e network there are over 40 individuals

that attended the hearing the commission unanimously approved this legislation thank you sierra club and the anti displacement coalition and ace that endorsed that finally thank you to eastbound dennis and aaron and others for their work on this legislation and the ongoing work to insure that the decision makers like the planning commission and the board and mayor's office that make policy decisions based on realtime dictated the data that is part of the balance is provided by the information and with the addition of the 10 year balance we've able to analysis our initiatives that is seeming like a simple legislation there are a

lot of issues to make sure we had one did 2k3i7bd definition of affordability this is important we insure we're building at 1/3rd of affordable housing in the city planning department and our office have add r agreed to the mandated presentation to the relative bodies so i do have a couple of amendments we worked on with the city attorney's office i'm happy to read into the record after public comment i see our city attorney marilyn a burns may have additional comments. >> deputy city attorney marilyn thank you through the chair i have one question about one of the edits i don't care if you want to read into the record first and i'll add my question or jump in now but a

clarification. >> i'll read into the record before the public comment those are the amendments we're making one we wanted to change within thirty days of the effective date on page 8 lines 12 i have left copies to the members of the committee by june 1st, this is for the first report for the two quarters citywide by supervisorial district and neighborhood we have left the planning area out that is incredibly important under prop k one of the agreements that was made by our offers and the mayor's office 33 percent of new construction as new area plans like the central selma that is coming before the board at the end of this year or next year we changed when the reports are after and the reports thereafter

on august 1st and march first so as recommended by the planning department we also wanted to change we originally said that any relative body with the planned area will automatically get a report with you we've changed that upon request by the planning department staff and finally we the last amendment that the annual report by the brardz needs to be accepted by resolution by the boards those are the amendments i'm proposing today. >> deputy city attorney marilyn a burns one was the last amendment the board of supervisors needing to accept the report by resolution i know that language you know is fine i might recommended the board of supervisors shall hold a hearing

on the report that way whatever action the board wants to take they may wish to not hold an action or reject the report. >> in the original resolution it was just a hearing that was a hearing to add the resolution point i know we want to keep that piece in there that's our preference. >> i'll change to needs to be accepted to shall be accepted. >> we'll change that thank you so i see the planning department is here to make some comments so through the chair if we can allow the planning department to present. >> please. >> good afternoon from the planning department i would like to thank supervisor kim for working with the department for drafting this legislation and moving forward

supervisor kim provided a great summary of legislation i won't go into that the commission unanimously supported the amendment to help to track affordable housing production and to proactively plan to maintain the city affordable goals for the balance for the new market rate and affordable housing and this balance will be calculated based on a metric the ratio of affordable housing and all housing development bans the 10 year period and also the bio manual report the breakdown of the affordable housing and the income and thank supervisor kim for accepting the planning commission recommendations for modification and first was the change of dates by which the reports will be

published which is march to september 1st, i noticed you mentioned august 1st, you modesty want to maintain the six months september either one will work and the second to modify the requirement for visitation of the report to all geographic bodies all that have geographic per data the recommendation will work if adding upon request and the modification plan areas as the geography to report the housing balance thank you i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> do you have any other. >> no, i don't have questions for the comments any comments from the committee members. >> seeing none why not go to

public comment and we'll accept the legislation. >> i'd like to open up for public comment we moved quickly for the 12 members of the public to come by 2:00 p.m. i want to make other comments thank you director ram from the planning department for his personal commitment to shift the responsibilities they were able to have the first housing report by march first, i want to appreciate your ability to and the commission to direct resources to this area this is important we have this data on the affordable housing bond that is set to come. to the voters in november and that we have one shared foundation of what the count is so for and how we're proceeding towards the dowel and want to state my commenting commitment to advocate for additional staffing for the mayor's office

and also for our board the city has really made a clear mandate that the mayor and the planning commission addressed the affordable housing while their many initiatives at the table having the ability to prioritize the resources is primarily necessary and want to thank the public's to speak in support and at this time open up for public comment. >> first two cards (calling names). >> please okay. thank you arrest i'm the program manager for the coalition at the lawyers straight community services i'm here in support of initiatives

we see more and more tenants in sro's but in primary unit being evicted and a 13re9 needs to address the affordable housing in san francisco we think it will help restraining order the planning department and other city agencies to participate more in you know think more about affordable housing and the new development planning and take this information to the tenants and the community to help them understand they should get for engaged in the planning process in san francisco you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi thank you i'm the outreach and campaign coordinator at the mission born and raised and still living in the tenderloin of san francisco yeah. some of us still do exist

very few of us left first of all, i'm in support of city's monitoring and reporting agenda stem and thanks to supervisor kim for leading the effort the basic issue is pure transparent all we're asking for the data the public deserves to know the levels of affordable housing being built seemingly like to the number of unaffordable housing that's market rate housing this is an important issue to sro tenants in the city and a lot of low income working my family and i were working immigrants and any additional unnecessary density to the argument that the city is moving targets the philanthropy of issues regarding the how's

crisis is secondly,y i'd like to speak in support of this to monitoring that report is virtually data we can use to try to make sure the city is affordable for everyone and not only if you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors as a missionary i've been to sal reiterate and used to live in the tenderloin and golf street near the center as a missionary i have to get along with the headquarters felt people chinatown, and city hall and i go to insure my missionary action targeted objective in good use so overwhelmingly from the missionary action i entered

into the destiny of such a possibly most likely the true destiny of greater so in chinatown to come to my fire chief girlfriends wife and to create the point i know they're trying to make fun of me to draw me away from that location while i date my girlfriend as a missionary i end up talking the action from a longer and the police have encountered me on different occasion like i went to the hospital one time okay. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervises

peter cowen i'm happy to see this ordinance moving forward and thank you, supervisor kim for your leadership on this n and really thanks to the planning staff this is counsel into the weeds ordinance and the staff did a good job with thinking this through to make sure it's a workable tool it is in excellent shape to support the amendment and the timing in the context that is out of the prop k policy resolution means called for a need for a regular and better reporting on how we're doing with the production streams and affordable market and rehab of new construction, etc. this is very useful full to help us with all our policy

discussion and build on the housing element i know that supervisors you've adapted the housing element for and against in the first reading or second reading this is a main document for the city this provides a regular process report on how we're achieving our goals and lastly has wide support i know that today people have a lot on their plates and supervisor it is earlier than accepted we saw a showing for the planning commission to show how useful this will be in the various neighborhood in the western edition or south of market different neighborhood struggling it is clear whether you're looking for middle-income or whatever it is