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them we're joining as angle inspire industry to make sure we get to zero infections in the city we are about to launch the opening of the wednesday center in the castro this is successful such a great state of the art to help us going get to zero in a short amount of time this year is a one hundred year celebration of our world fair it, of course, allows us to think back a hundred years ago the innovators in our city i mentioned that in a context of this historic preservation commission as part of they're great work to understand and make sure that our city's history is connected to us this building is part of that history but so many other buildings give us that link to
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the history so it shouldn't intries you one hundred years ago people were doing it and how we're doing it today is understood that by our kids that's what the historic preempt will do i told you earlier we're on the ground with making sure we end as much poverty and misery for people as possible we're challenging ourselves by oifsz the 5 hundred most impoverished families in the city and giving them the most intense support to end intergenerational poverty for them i can't do that without the wisdom and guidance of our human services commission and bay the appointee to this commission today george is now going to begin pious o his 40th
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year on the commission thank you, george for a lifetime worth ever work (clapping.) you know my passion important local business when we appoint local business enterprise committee we're making more local businesses to be start and successful to engage in this strong economy we have because for me, the local businesses is really what it is all about and yes we want to grow local businesses to international businesses as well long term care for the couldn't a vital to our ability to delivery services to people that are challenged in the city we need a functioning body to give us the populated considerations whether it's more nutrition and food or more sports for the staffing or the people of the industry that is helping us do
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long-term care retirement board r rent board wow. what a commission but the careful ability to balance between landlord and tenants very, very important to the city it is a sensitive position one we trust of those we appointed to make the right decisions sf that hopefully in most cases is a win-win we can't have strife within landlord and tenants more harmony in the city there is a housing crisis we are doing something about that we are making sure we were the good k345e78gsz going on our conservatism core they're being called up because we video a drought and a lot of open spaces to rehab and change to make sure their drought tolerant work is being done on the open spaces
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and we also need a conservatism core to help us do that our mta advisory committee we invested greatly last year and will continue to do that because the voters said, yes it's important to pass a $500 million bond for a transportation system a great museum is for pedestrian safety the sizing had will help the priorities that vision zero and all the others have as part of our great transportation and walking and bicycle riding city southeast community facilities commission they transition going on in the southeast part of our city i want to make sure the people that little there for generations are directly involved in the future development of that area that's what the southeast sector will do they themselves and their
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facilities are going on changes we need good leadership to make sure the community is directly involved in that that conversation wow. urban forestry council meeting we need to have admonish trees and we need to make sure that is clear who is responsible for them because those trees are commonplace and part of our investment we need to do better as a city we need a you have been talking about council to guide us in the potentially conflicting things we all care about we care when our common place trees your workforce investment in important nowadays people need to sustain for the future we don't want people victimized by the economy and
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the workforce is required their looking at around the corner and understanding the emerging industries making sure we have a workforce that is ready for the industry and finally the most unknown body today is called an oversight board it is kind of like a whistle blower investigator it is a body where former redevelopment agencies are own e organizing to make sure we get it right we're not violating our tax obligations or financial obligations to the public i'm sure that is sun shining something that carmen is interested in; right? carmen see i'm going to catch them all
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anyway, i went over bayshore's these because their incredibly important to the function of our city i again want to say too all he each of the appointees today thank you for your commitment and volunteering rhythm and the love of our city and with that i'd like to ask all off appointees to please stand up and raise your right hand as i say i, i would like each think one of you to say loudly this is the only time you can yell added me after you get sworn in people will yell at you and sigh loudly to the commission you're being appointed and we'll precede with the rest of the oath are you ready? i >> (repeated.)
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>> i. >> do solemnly swear. >> ( repeated.) >> that i will support and defend. >> (repeated.) >> the constitution of the united states. >> (repeated.) >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> (repeated.) >> against all enemies. >> (repeated.) >> foreign and domestic. >> (repeated.) >> and that i will bear true faith and allegiance. >> (repeated.)
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>> to the constitution of the united states. >> (repeated.) >> and to the constitution of the state of california. >> (repeated.) >> that i take this obligation freely. >> (repeated.) >> without any mental reservation. >> (repeated.) >> or purpose of evasion. >> (repeated.) >> that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties. >> (repeated.) >> and during such time as i hold office. of. >> (repeated.) >> for the city and county of san francisco thank you very much congratulations everyone thank you (clapping) thank you all right.you.
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>> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in landing a contract with the sfoifk is pretty champ but now with the opened contracting center visitors can get opportunity at the new state of the arc facility and attend workshops and receive one-on-one technical assistance and learner what you need to become a primary contractor or what information to be a subcontractor and a created bed
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public commission it will help people to assist people to compete for and performance open city contract a lot of small businesses do have the resources to loblth the opportunity so one of the things we wanted to do was provide ways to access contract >> access to the plans spiefkz and a data place basis ease contracting opportunity and funding or capital training. this is and other documents that needs to be submitted. to compete is a technical skill that it takes to win a scheduling for a popular to you can win a professional services job or how to put together a quote it's all those technical pieces. looking at the contracting
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assistance center is our touch point with we get the people to come and see the planning specks and later than about projects earlier is he get training so you're ready to go arrest hello engineering it has all the tools that a contractor small or large can come here. i can't say enough about the center it's a blessing. we do business all over the country and world and a place like the contractor center to identify the business in san francisco >> the reality is you need training and that's what the center is here to train and make you better qualified to go work with the city and county and to
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be successful at the end. >> that will give people the competitive edge e edge at receiving contracts with the city. >> we have krafshth services here that help you find out where you need to get the skills forbidding. >> i mean local businesses participation in city projects is a winning factor it helms help the business their local businesses they're paying savings and a property tax and payroll tax and normally adhere san franciscans so their bowing goods and services in san francisco it really helps the economy of san francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city.
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the contractors center is 5 thomas melon circle in the bayview area open 8:30 to 5 welcom. >> 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
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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.
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>> 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
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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
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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
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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
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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 grandfatheringrogression 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
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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
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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.
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>> 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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'
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