he concrete that we would send someone once a year to a place you'll go three or four time a year; right? so as we develop more sustainable practices in our city we you know requires small labor and resources if needed we're trying to get to 0 o a level to look after what we have now. >> one last question you showed the pie chart for this year's budget and then i know you have several slides you talk about individual budget so in regards to the budget year 2015-2016 what would be the total ask this year's is $237 million. >> uh-huh. >> what would it be what are

you asking for . >> i guess i can add it up. >> i did not get the question. >> what is our ask for next year's budget. >> we've submitted the baseline budget meets the requirement and added what we call enhanced projects but what alleyway is one of them the reason we asked for that people that are divert can go back to the neighborhoods and we've asked for a few more gardens. >> right i'm asking for the total. >> supervisor yee the total is $246 million not including the engagements that mohammed talked about until we have a final budget as the mayor's office

we'll not have the final total. >> so 2 hundred and . >> 46. >> the includes the total. >> not that's in addition. >> got it. >> supervisor tang. >> thank you very much i wanted to thank you for the opportunity to thank public works i know that many of the projects you've engaged in is in the process of transforming the neighborhood in a long lasting way we've done our best to come to creative solutions to make the improvement long term i would say i'm very glad you included constituent a plan for effectively managing the landscape along the boulevard your team has been working to address that and lastly i would is especially given staffing and budget challenges that really encouraging public works and rec

and park to continue and built by an the apprenticeship and other programs those address the staffing issues we have but moving forward train our next generation of people to help us take care of our wonderful city so thank you very much mohammed. >> thank you, mr. neuroso up next our planning department i see john and his team thank you for being here look forward to our discussion. >> thank you, mr. chair i appreciate having those hearings that is a great way to have the budget process i tried to match the tie i'll do better next time i've been going on over the things keeping me and the staff up and a another night and go into the trend and want to close

with a kind of 5 year work plan we've developed in our long-range planning if we could get the screen thanks. >> talk briefly we've been working on the first is improving how we look at the project reviews case in permit permit volumes continues to be strong the highest in the history of the department we've hired many new staff with the revenue, of course, and in the last 4 years we've primarily hired the staff in the current staff that looks at the planning division over the last 9 months cutting into the difference between projects coming out and out we've improved by 10 percent in the last 9 months the number of

cases we've closed in the department so we really building by the end of this year we'll kit into the backlog we've done a number of improvements to make that happen last fiscal year we had of the approximately 08 thousand projects that come into the department do 16 hundred last year what we call moved upstairs for a better review from conditional use that requires a notice and the result was that we have six months backlog in assign projects but cutting into that as i said we had a disproportionment amount do require notification and we initiated a small project

team that only look at projects that don't require a public hearing three hundred and 40 project have been assigned to a small budget amend team and crank out a lot of budgets and in addition we've added additional historic preservation commission to phone call on hr e r historic evaluation reports and we've also made improvements to our community plan exemption that's a plan in second many of the large and mid sized projects within the plan areas can get a streamline environmental review and many in the market octavia and downtown is happening as a result of projects in plan areas where plans were improved and those plans xhchtd and were able

to do a more style environmental review another improvement is the priority processing for small business applications those are applications typically changes of use in our neighborhood commercial districts that are straightforward that require a conditional use but are fairly modest changes we've streamlined our promissory note progress by removing the paperwork and 90 days turn around to the commission and played played those that on the consent calendar so we have the requirement for conditional use and public comment but with a reduced amount of time and reduced maturely paperwork and thirdly, in terms of active for this year we're working on a number of issues no surprises to any of us housing programs and

housing policies this is larger in the mayors directive on housing and as well as the malice and overall the hours crisis we see ourselves in we've done a number of things in this case we're processing in a priority promotions that are fair and reasonable affordable projects or have 40 percent private project that is unthe housing on site we've made did two 70 hope projects a priority in the department we duplicate a number of training and public information improvements related to the city permit process we've gone through a process www the department of building inspection to discourage the removal of on logically dwelling unit if it can beleaguer listed not to lose a unit but see if it

could be legalized we've implemented did eir that was a big plus allows us to move forward with a lot of housing initiative and initiated with the mayor's office with oh, my god and myself a public sites program that looks at pub owned property with middle school housing and as supervisor yee we're starting that process inform balboa park we are i'll talk that in a minute beef developed a 5 year work plan for long-range planning in the specific neighborhood plans have been implemented and finalizing central selma and we're focusing our policy over the years we

think that is less about the small neighborhood plans. >> focusing on growth and on existing neighborhood coordinators and i'll talk about that in the second ward to the short-term rental program i've spent more time on this topic i think many of you have also the legislation that was adopted, of course became effective february 1st of this year we've hired 3 people it work on modification of the program and enforcement we've- that's not been enough we are using existing staff resources to cover some of the work to give some numbers as of may 1st nearly 6 hundred applications that have been submitted for short-term rentals 6 heed and 79 and issued three hundred plus

registration certificates and about 50 in review and another 2 hundred are waiting review because the application process requires us to meet in person with the applicant to look at materials we have to schedule appointments and i'm sorry to say 25 percent of the appointments made 25ers percent are no shows people don't come it is frustrate to staff but i'll say we went live this week with an online scheduling appointment it is easier for people to make appointments and reduce the amount of time appointments make and on the enforcement side there is right now 200 and 889 active enforcement case respect to short-term rental i want to briefly mention the start

designation program the historic preservation commission doupts a work plan for us to do research open the potential structures or places in the city that could be landmarked and, of course it must go through a process they're reviewing the process and comes to the board of supervisors for your final approval and recently implemented landmark designations for the ruth goldberg and the swedish-american on market street and soon to have hearing onlookers for the urban forestry of mount last but not least ladies is on university street and japantown the neighborhood has been interested for quite sometime finally finally we went left leg or live with our pious of the project with the tracking system the new system we've been

working on with dbi replied updating outdated legacy and when it goes live we've allow the public much greater access to the project and what phase and where they can be involved in the process we think this system over time actually ruled in efficiency a lot more data to work with in terms of reporting and once dbi goes live we anticipate in the next three to four months we'll go live with the public disagrees and be able to have the public track the approval of projects but staff and manages track whether the pinch points are and where their hung up in the process just get into now the details of the current.

>> commissioner tang. >> sorry just before we move think you mentioned a new online appointment system for the short-term rental program can we do something similar for people that want to set up appointments with planning in general. >> we have some appointment that we can set up on line not off the top of my head. >> i just think many say again i don't know if it it curling or currently exists i know when you go to the the countered you have to pull a number and not have the time to wait hours for an appointment and perhaps you started the small project review team maybe a way for people to make appointments online with meeting certain criteria and make appointments with the specific ones that don't require

the public hearings again we've held the neighborhood workshops with planning and dbi that have been successful we appreciate our staff going out there and appreciate the opportunity not to go downtown if there's an easy way to help people online that would be helpful. >> okay. looking at then case and permit trends i think that is useful to talk about the trends at unprecedented levels to digress the city population is growing at the rate of 10 thousand people a year and has been for the last 5 years but it is even more striking the job growth which appears to be around 90 thousand jobs created in the last 5 years those numbers are unprecedented and well, it is the faster growth since the 940s

and we anticipate and the city economic itself anticipate those are accelerate over the next three or four years it clearly effects our work in a huge way the numbers as you can see on this chart are the case and volume trends the darker bar is the building permit and the dark err the more implicated projects and the dark line is the actual change in the trespassed what we were anticipating while the change in the growth recite will not increase over the next 3 years we anticipate it will stay at a high-level so this is the top of the gray bars you see on this chart what is also happening with respect to the city's growth is it is really accelerated the

dpandz on the department or policy work and other work-related to the growth and housing crisis we're deal with a broad range of policies we've not had to deal with as n an intevens way housing affordability is the top on the list and work with the mayor's office of housing task force and their recommends they've come up with we've been involved that policy and regulatory on formula retail and short-term rentals accessory units and the office prop m process is becoming into play and just implemented the recreation and open space element after a 3, 4, 5 four or five progress we're getting much more involved in a robust way in dealing with those long-range

planning projects on the staffing side related to the volume the case in permit volumes have increased by 40 percent over others past 5 years we've as of respect been to catch in terms of the staffing in the process and time it takes to hire staff but we've capture with most of the trend and in the proposed budget weeping we'll be asking for additional staff not based on the fee we're generating and proposal that requests additional staffing in the long-range or citywide side of the house to deal with the complexities policy issues we're being asked to address this chart focuses on the high volume applications the building permit and conditional use and

so on and so forth they take much of our time that goes to the review the current backlog of application is 2 hundred and 58 and building permits hundred and 50 those numbers have not grown we've made progress of 10 more, more case rectifies over the last 9 months because of the small projects team and the community exception process and because of the increased staffing another that rate we'll be able to reduce and capture with as many cases coming in the door and significantly be able to reduce the backlog and this chart shows the project through august of the actual reduction in caseload as we move forward i want to mention 5 long-range planning initiate we've

presented this to the planning and our proposed 5 year work plan and long-range those are the 5 geographic areas in addition to the cross cutting policies like affordable housing and transportation first is over coming the heart of san francisco role the market street corridor and the abutting neighborhood that the core of our city we think that it needs some help at this time we're working closely with the public works on the better market street in the internal revenue phase of that project and in addition to the public improvements to we're working with the tenderloin neighborhood and the tenderloin development strategy we're working on a streetscape plan for the transit area that is tremendous growth right now and start a project with a ground part to this part of town and working with the

nonprofits and rec and park department and looking to update the market octavia around the van ness and market street corridor to reflect what's going on in this part of town you'll see within a 3 block radius 6 thousand of new units in the next few years the next is the city of neighborhoods obviously the city is known for its extraordinarily neighborhoods we're not proposing to do a wholesale zoning district but focus on areas that are not expected to absorb a lot of new housing and jobs we're working closely with how those neighborhoods can be k34068d primarily through the commercial yoerdz our focus is the invest

in neighborhoods and neighborhood action plans resulted and where we can i know that engine. >> has worked closely with my staff where we can put strategic investment for new growth in those neighborhoods third major area of the focus over the next 05 years is the seating yaupt of the thank you through market street to the south the 75 percent of the city's growth is expected in this year quadrant of the city and scott wagner the city it is expected to grow hundred and $90,000 jobs on the jobs we've seen half of the growth in 5 years challenges, of course, are how those neighborhoods have integrated into the rest of the city making sure the departments reflects the diverse populations we think this will include noted

a major rezoning ambassador for the transportation among other items the last two initiatives are longer-term and a little bit more challenging but something we have to get started on the waterfront itself it is obviously central to the city's economic well-being >> liveability and in recent decades the waterfront is from a industrial to one that is piggyback assessable and continuing to evolve of course, sea level rise we now building the city's targeted number we expect that the sea level rise will come to 36 inches by the end of the century we are work with a number of department to try to take the

first steps to address the city's responds to sea level roadways and see that frankly as an opportunity to think differently about our waterfront we think it is different how the waterfront is designed to accommodate for open space and public assess at the same time think about and addressing the real issues of sea level rise and finally the last initiative is about getting more engaged on a regional basis the city's long term environmental vital is regionally that's particular important to work with the neighbors to the east oakland and alameda and northern san mateo county to develop new relationships with elected officials and our counterparts if the cities their experiencing triumphs demands on their growth

comparison san francisco is 47 square miles and the second densest city and oakland is 65 thousands and the new york is 3 hundred and 40 reconciles in oakland it is essential part of umbrella of the city as i think that in terms of people's living and work choose we have to think in terms of that they don't los angeles county governmental borders it is important to work regionally that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions i'll is on year plan i'm happy to have other discussions and really get our input as we move forward thank you very much. >> colleagues, any questions. >> supervisor tang. >> thank you for that presentation and overview i would say that one of the questions i have is really

related to kind of the essence of the economy. >> what is it that we do in terms of. instructor: to address that for example, you you know during the bad economic times we laid off a lot of planners or people working dbi a has there been thought how to maintain staffing during the bad times of having a bad backlog. >> one of the things thankful approved in last year's budget a project that allows us to have fund in place of a 2 and a half-year period for a core group of staff that was out of looser budget that project funds 16 staff positions and we each

year trying to add some to the project to keep staff on board for a longer period of time the other thing shifting staff to easier during the down times in 2008 and 2009 we were able to successfully seek some grant for work especially, if areas like public planning and that sort of thing and staff was working on the effort and can be reassigned i dare is it it noticing not a straight line we'll see the ups and downs the other thing you allowed united states to do last year approve unfunded staff position to cut down the hither time if the funding is identified during the fiscal year it allows us to hire more quickly when the fund come in.

>> supervisor yee. >> you mentioned in regards to the what-do-you-call-it short-term rentals. >> yes. >> you have some over 2 hundred cases you're looking at people that might be breaking the rules or whatever i'm curious of those cases what are they breaking i am not what are we looking at in terms of enforcement. >> so there's 2 hundred and i think 89 active enforcement cases we've received a complaint complaint based entity there was a complaint illegal activity going on i would say that what has been happening the vast majority of the cases are clearly cases no one is living in the apartment or home which

is in itself a violation neighborhoods know their situation if someone is living in a unit i am sure the short-term rental requires an onsite for some place to be living in the unit and a vast majority no one is in the unit that's itself preliminary violation. >> and you proved that as the violation what's the penalty. >> there's a- enforcement notification it go out and if the violation is not corrected there were there's a notice of violation sent tout out two-step process and in not corrected a fine i don't remember i'm sorry see fwho 2 involving and day i'll get you that information.

>> i'll appreciate that. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you, mr. realm regarding the long-range planning instead of calling one part of san francisco the market street area where there's the most complication of wealth and power i like to that of how city represented by many can we be a city of the heart when we're lingus the artists and poets and on my concern it is looked at on the bias side as we think about the heart of san francisco one place and maybe some issues that the city of neighborhoods i wanted to raise that concern of bias and a little bit of that power analysis the way we're getting this framed to us i want to say i appreciated working with our staff on the efforts to reform our