n look at a global picture from a high-level the new ordinance courageous new units in uthsd building, however, the structural engineers said those are the weakest of the building and ab takes the achilles heel anti but at the end of the day decrease a game bit of building in the community we're giving incentives to the weak buildings even though they've are mandatory they're still weak building in my letter i had help from the committee to write we have two concerns we want strong buildings and housing; right? the basic gift of discussions landed on we want to encourage new units in the stronger

buildings not urge encourage new units in the weaker buildings it may be a possibility to discuss with the supervisor i think there is open channels for discussion about following this we want your support to help spur those cultivations into something meaningful but a possibility maybe a new possibility for an upgrade an added occupant to that building or maybe other provisions that we can workout but the idea is that we really want your support in getting the mess out to the community we want seismicallyly sound builds at the end of the day the upgrading will be not to

the level people assume it is not be up to code levels and up to 40 one it is something much lower than that we don't want to encourage housing into places that are not necessarily the b.a. best places for people >> in a nut shell. >> commissioner walker i'll be interested to hear from you on this if you can talk about that before i get to my comments. >> pass i'm hard with the eyewitness names i'll be interested to hear our comments on the soft story. >> good afternoon chief

resilience officer first of all, commend ned they've been champions to make sure our housing is more safe if san francisco and how they apply to the building code i want to make a quick comment only ab 94 is it provides incentives for 3 and 4 incentives not required to follow there are still small property owners that need this protection. >> what protection is written so does one - what our proposing does that account for what comes. >> i'm sorry i don't we can do this together. >> please ab 94 to stay in place means a

rewrite no standards there are no standards for three and four unit buildings only standards for a 5 unit building is needs serious jerry. >> so to aimed that. >> i recommend the commission good attacks to leave ab 94 as an incentive program and another initiative that supervisor wiener school district but maybe ab is more robust. >> in our world as someone that went through this based on your experience whereas did most efficient you know a way for people. >> the most efficient keep ab with general hours keeping to make sure for the small business owners i think the cac is appropriately

looking at the changing the environmental code it is something that be solved quickly as well. >> thanks i think we need to open to public comment. >> public comment. >> he's been standing they're for two hours. >> i have some money to give to our department. >> you should have told us. >> the soft story to improve the performance not all buildings will be perfect create a bell shaped curve on some buildings most of the average better than what we were before i also 20 percent in that bell shaped curve this is what we can for the record we have a program which is actually my idea that's

why i'm here defending it we can add those assessor retrofits and there's a concern that we're adding additional unit and buildings that may not be perfect but we're in a housing crisis seriously so, yes adding units in better builds but adding units in those buildings one suggestion i'll make of the 6 thousand buildings we're talking about this is a highly tech term so retrofits that's the end of the bell curve will be 20 percent of the reevesing building about thirty percent opt in to add a unit 18 hundred housing units that are by their nature affordable because their smaller units what we should be

doing is making sure there's a firewall betweenthe $18.0 and we have to bump up the standard or put firewall we're not alexander units based on our program great idea but we're talking about 50 to one hundred units that maybe in this cross over and in the total soft story program 62 thousand units we shouldn't lose site of the soft story program is is huge program if we can add units here let's do that. >> thank you. >> commissioner walker please. so to the issue of being able to seattle which of the retrofitted

units in the dangerous part of bell curve is there a way we can maybe determine that in the evaluation and apply to the standards i mean is that what our looking at to mop that is code advisory maybe because i agree i mean, we're in a housing crisis but providing housing is not - >> the difficulty i work with love engineers with all due respect mean they gooedz quickly as an item of so, so gosh we could hold a years of hearings it took us to look at to get foam to write it so the local engineers felt comfortable following it i think we can get to that question i haven't asked

the engineers i don't know how they'll get our arms around but maybe we'll get something to show us who the dogs what i'm hearing other things some of them are coming out nicely maybe a combination of hay if you have a stronger building than we saw under for me gosh we're the ones that want the unit in there need to be something else put on the issue i think it would be resolved i don't know if it is going to happen but it will get there. >> i mean, that's from my prospective we need to. >> yeah. >> yeah, but to the loaned of milk and honey.

>> in the process their needs to be more details about identifying the dogs as you say and either providing strengthening methods to them or clustering them i mean it's a different existing building as see when you add a unit it is a

different. >> right and i think we - i think there is a really philosophical thing that's happened engineers are used to the idea you fix it or not so this is the great thing about the fema document oh, we only want to fix it a little bit that took a long time to get through this now we want to fix it a little bit better on some but i think we can have this discussion. >> they're asking personnel we want them to do it that's an additional factor not only in the ab are the soft story. >> yeah. the engineers he never were you asked ho what if the building had more people than

yesterday would you be recommended only working on the ground floor sew that is the ground floor and quite frankly under the assumption there were no residential only commercial. >> right. >> a different scenario. >> i asked my engineers open the subcommittee okay. what's the next step hey you're getting something what do we want they said we're not sure what more to ask for without a full upgrade i want to ask them the same question would you fix the diagram at the ground floor we're not asking them to fix certain diaphragms and maybe get a big pay back that adds the

value to a new building. >> and i think that pat brought up a good idea when you submit the collaborations i think with our frames we have a crappy building maybe we'll say you're out of this unit. >> exactly just to appoint to the commission in charter b there's been a section in the languages that says no other anglo cellar work to comply po to 34 b is the intentional to help to improve the workflow to the dbi can continue to issue those with the short timelines the things that worries anywhere is good or bad

retrofits what remain worried about expanding the timeframe under a tight timeline this will add the opportunity to come up with some kind of methodology currently there is not a simple mechanism this is one of the go believes that has been said this morning? a hardline to determine one of the other things this has been said it is hard to point out this is a hard soft story retrofit the people that be doing larger retrofits are not granted a larger housing i think that a thoughtful look at adding retrofits is a policy to add units there is a bigger universe to see this effort to add the unit but it is the right

trajectory but need to be done quickly without sdaenl the ab 34. >> so you're suggesting to do it as a separate action. >> correct. >> i mean there seems like it is a tremendous amount of effort obviously the cac will weigh in and obviously with w work with the department to come up with the right plan and maybe some sort of a particularly process so the planning department does it and to - >> commissioners there's a policy today that the soft story program a kept separated from the additional unit. >> okay. >> appreciate our patience is this an action item. >> all right. i move we

approve the first one item 10. >> 10. >> and then table item 11 any more discussion. >> no table 11 is they want us to have it into effectful in this process. >> don't do anything table it we have discussion with cac and others are going to have it if we table it it stays. >> okay a good point city attorney is that resonate. >> you could at the other end of the table it and when it comes a new item or continue to the to the call of the chair it copes it alive as an agenda item before the commission and take it up. >> continue to the call of the chair. >> okay. perfect.

>> second those motions. >> so there's a motion to approve item number ten ab 004 and we're tennessee item abnexa to to the call of the chair isn't that correct. >> commissioner president mccarthy commissioner vice president mar sdmshg commissioner walker okay. that motion passes i need to do a bit of housekeeping are we hearing item 13. >> so then let me state. >> so moved. >> any public comment on continuing the items those items

are continued. >> we're on item number 13 commissioners questions or comments and staff at this time the commissioners may make acquires to staff recording or read into the record the precipitates to the commission. >> this is more particular for i guess the director to reporting on the novs i thought it might be helpful important future agenda items. >> taking oakland army base for future agendas. >> we lost a quorum. >> we don't need a quorum we're not voting. >> so you can't continue to meet as the bic any further to discuss items so you can either. >> i could let the director

know what i want i'll work with the chair next month to month. >> i do want to say something under d. >> i have to insist you came back to the chair. >> if i'm going to finish this thought on the code enforcement report rather than just the number of inspections that is just fine it is the way it is but good to separate out how many of the novs which time period they fall into for example, are those novs been sitting here two or three years the other thing i thought it would be good to start tabulating when is the nov revolved from issuance to abatement or we just you know it

just is over so this kind of because i think we've been getting very good reports on but we don't get the end results. >> commissioner walker i believe. >> yeah. i just want to there's been a lot of public attention to our commission and the allegations of corruption from the city attorney's office as previous sitting officials as a commissioner, i take allegations of corruption me seriously wouldn't comment on specifics until those issues are fully vested the public needs to know we take it seriously and are coordinating fully.

>> thank you anything foster. >> i want to second commissioner walkers comment. >> any public comment on item 13 ab seeing none, adjournment. >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> all commissioners in favor we're now adjourned it is 211. >> well done commissioners. >> thank you

>> good afternoon, everyone. the meeting will come to order this did the san francisco land use & transportation committee i'm supervisor cohen chairman of the committee to my right is supervisor wiener and to my right supervisor kim our clerk is the talented andrea ashbury i also want to recognize the gentlemen jessie larson and jonathan that will be televising this madam clerk, any announcements? electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the april 21st, 2015, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> all right. thank you very much excellent timing.

>> excuse me, sir madam clerk one. >> amending the transportation police administrative regulation code with the vehicle for hire. >> thank you very much and supervisor wiener is the author of this, please supervisor wiener share with us. >> thank you very much madam chair item one an ordinance recommending to the regulation of the taxi by the mta they recommended this legislation to us and we're hearing it today, the legislation will do several things first 2 repels the out police code in the regulatory oversight of the taxi through the transportation i'm sure you're aware of the taxi city

also governed under the police code and transferred to the mta's jurisdiction the legislation will also make the mta investigative process around taxi more efficient and expeditious and improve the mta's ability to enforce the various rules related to the taxi industry so the legislation is straightforward that is really more of a clean and reorganization then anything else i ask for your support we have kate if the mta and the deputy director and assessable services who is here to make a brief presentation. >> hi good afternoon, supervisors kate sfmta taxis and essential services and this legislation has been a long time coming we're thankful it is here

and thankful to supervisor wiener so for carrying it forward this is a clear up piece of legislation and prior to 2009 the jurisdictions of motor vehicle so for hire was under the authority of the police code and all permits and enforcement by the sfpd and to this day you can find the rules under article 16 of the police code after 2009 the mta assumed authority and created a separate code with enforcement to be 478d by the sfmta the sfmta ruled under article 11 of the transportation code currently they're in the code and there are duplicate realize and because of motor vehicle vehicles for hire no longer under the jury instructions of the police we're requesting article 6 be repelled additionally the legislation

will authorize the mta to subpoena the documents and records as needed in the administrative proceeding with the taxi operation operations without a without a permit under art 7 a misdemeanor, however, it is enforced with the feinstein up to one thousand dollars the administrative penalty is 5 thousand dollars and so the ordinance will bring those more into alignment with the police fine final offers to 5 hundred and second to 5 thousand dollars new misdemeanors it will be a misdemeanor without having a financing taximeter and misdemeanor without a limo holder to not present a permit

the parking citations we'll strike the e nurngz and left general language allowing the director of transportation to provide authority to staff for the implementation through the vehicle code what took so long we had an issue with the board of permit appeals to outstanding lawsuits against the mta that u a w and they asked us to pause moving forward until the resolution of the lawsuits those have been resolved and the jurisdiction of board of broiltz is clear the mta is not required to go to the board of permit appeals to hear independent cases but the mta will continue to go to the board of permit for the permit cases and if the mta

does decide it wants to shift away from going to the board of permit of appeals we're going to have a public process that's my report i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> supervisor kim has a question. >> thank you. >> this is largely straightforward i have a couple of questions about some of the articles i've read i only ask this i know that motor vehicles is in terms of other entities called ridership as well as - two questions you said if a limb zone couldn't provide a bill their though the regulate by mta. >> we have the authority and that's all right. existing to request that we - this 0 authority will not be new.

>> what's a waybill. >> it could be a piece of paper or trip information and sits in requesting the waiver bill the trip would have been prealigned the distinction between a taxi and temp is the arrangement by requesting the waiver bill the piece of paper shows this trip was preranged and in an allowable type trip. >> yeah. facilitates it rerg9d but not to do street haldz. >> right. >> i understand this primarily impacts taxicabs under the jurisdiction on page 5 when you define what a motor vehicle for

hire is a motor vehicle will not capitalize taxicab any limousine or motor propelled whether under the city and county of san francisco when i read that that means you can include ride share and the definition of motor vehicle so the impact on this category if any. >> my understanding that's not a redirection you can find that in the police code if i go back to the police code i have to go back to check to be one hundred percent but 95 percent the language is the same in the police code so the same definition so although the landscape is changing a lot of the issues have been defined