>> good afternoon. and welcome to the land use & transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors i'm scott wiener i'm the vice chair of the committee our committee chair supervisor cowen will not be able to attend today's meagerly to my left is supervisor jane kim to my right is mark farrell pointed out to sit in the committee 2, 3, 4 place of supervisor cowen i want to thank probation officer sfgovtv for broadcasting today's he or she phil jackson and jim smith madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes.

electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the january 26, 2016, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you very much and before we start could i have a motion to k350us supervisor cowen we'll take that without objection. supervisor cowen is excused to me one. >> grandfathering prediction to stanford chain to occupy a portion of the public right-of-way between phil ton to construct and have new improvements with the driveways and society foundation okay item number one i believe the department of public works is here to present shaw. >> game-changer shaw with the public works just to briefly go 0 into the description felt major encroachment application

for the 7th avenue the applicant mr. chang an 2014 requested public works do a major encroachment permit for the bridge driveway that was to basically grant access to the new building and the garage from the street and this bridge is basically stan over existing conditions which was a ditch that requires the bridge construction this was previously approved by the board and in 2004, however, that resolution constituent the condition this shall be constructed no longer than may 2005 and now a new encroachment is required this is why we're here today so public works went through the procedures and performed the review including getting approvals from the

planning department and another division after getting all the appropriate agency reviews public works held the public hearings after which the director granted a directors decision to move forward and based on the approvals and the what has been submitted public works recommends moving forward with this application. >> thank you very much colleagues questions or comments on item one. >> supervisor kim. >> i had a quick question for public works just in terms of the public comment that came out was there a comment in support or opposition. >> there was primarily opposition, however, many of the comments that came in were opposed to the actual building construction rather than the encroachment and therefore several of the comments we addressed - we informed the

people so 5ed one of the other concerns was the lack of the survey being submitted to public works, however, a survey was submitted on august 28th and after the review of the survey we determined the plans are enough to go forward. >> what were the objections to the actual building though not related. >> has to do with with the use of building i believe one of the main complaints was that there was an unauthored use of another room built below grade that was not part of our plans so i didn't see the actual floor plans. >> will there is a review. >> yes. by the planning department staff and building inspection we don't have jurisdiction we public works didn't have the authority. >> no, no i understand i wasn't sure were there was in the timeline. >> i believe the planning department and the department of building inspection have thoroughly gone through those

the owner of the building is here to further address that if you want. >> thank you very much. >> no other questions or comments we'll move to public comment is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak on item number on item number one seeing none, public comment is closed and colleagues, can i have a motion to forward item one to the full board of supervisors with a positive recommendation. >> motion by supervisor farrell can we take that without objection? without objection that will be the order madam clerk call item 2 >> item 2 a hearing on short-term rentals registration and enforcement activity with the current staffing with the short-term rental administration and enforcement and any resources to adequately enforce it. >> thank you very much madam clerk colleagues, i called for this hearing as a standing quarterly

oversight hearing to be take into account enforcement efforts and status by the zoning administrator's office and the city in general so short-term rentals play an important role in our city many residents of the city people who particularly own their own homes that rely on the income from short-term rentals to make ends meet and i want to thank the many short-term rental 40e69s that have really become vocational around this issue to make sure as a percolates in city hall and last year on the booklet that all voices were heard so it is important for us to make sure that people that are engaging in are short-term rentals in a responsible and legal way are able to do so and register are able to pay their taxes be

responsible residents and earn. to staying in their homes or keeping up with the cost of living in san francisco at the same time, we need to make sure that short-term rentals are being done in a responsible way we need to make sure that the short-term rentals are not can belittling the housing stock people are not evicted for short-term rentals to happen and make sure that we have reasonable perimeters around short-term rentals and that spirit this board of supervisors on two different occasions passed legislation for the very first time to regulate short-term rentals never been registration of short-term rentals in san francisco until the current law took effect february 1st of last year over the summer the board of supervisors made adjustments to that law that law is not one

year old i've been vocal about letting this law work and making sure we're appropriately administering it and putting up resources into the enforcement to crack down on abuse of short-term rentals awhile allowing legal short-term rentals to move forward and rather than rushing to make amendments to this law give this law a chance to work it to work there has to be good enforcement that is critical this summer the board of supervisors 55 the legislation created the office of short-term rentals under the zoning administrator's office in addition in the budget the mayor and board significantly there's the enforcement resources for the office of short-term rental so that the office of short-term rental can help people into compliance and people registered

and people understand what they have to do within the confines of the law while at the same time going after the bad actors and the abusive and illegal short-term rentals and cracking down on incentives if they violate the law there's a reasonable chance to get caught this law is in effect for 11 months and 6 months in the revised form and about of 6 months or so into the office of short-term rental and so the point of today's here to getting an update if the office of shareholder about register or register and enforcement and generally helping going our intent to convene this hearing quarterly do get ongoing update we can go ahead informed but

most importantly 9 public is informed given the dialogue around the short-term rentals it is important that the public so have confidence that enforcement is happening and have that level of oversight and transparency and so that is really the purpose of today's hearing so i want to note i network to say that supervisor campos is joining us well to the legislative and supervisor avalos i'll recognize you now. >> thank you, mr. chair i want to thank you for putting 24 item on the agenda it is the idea that we are on regular basis looking at the issue of enforcement i think that it goes without saying there's a different prospective that i have in terms of of how i see the enforcement ar