developer with so much input project is ultimately universally approved and unanimously supported and been a true gem and our community. it turned the lives of 114 families around. this particular project, the way it's designed, the weights drafted is a demolition program. it requires in order to get the bonuses of two stories or three additional stories the additional envelope to build to form density, as they call it, they have to demolish to the ground. it doesn't make any difference what is there. there is no provision that allows you to reinforce the building like we did with a soft story program. when we retrofitted for seismic concerns. that enabled also to businesses including the office space to work and when i ran a union in san francisco and they did all this to work while we were in the building. i don't see why

that can be done as part of this program. it was no consideration of this. it spells out demolition requirement. what's the point of that. we can build luxury condos and we can do soft story we don't require demolition but for affordable housing which i believe in, we have to demolish. that's really an interesting point of view. i don't agree with it. let me point out a couple of things. i have a soft story list of actually counted 256. there's about 50 of those sites that only have a block and lot number no educator i couldn't find it on the planning department maps. i live in the inner sunset and grew up near cole street when i was a kid. i went over to one side of 929: street. it consists of pharma, finnegans wake and a restaurant. three well-established, rooted in the community businesses. if that building goes, that whole block is going to go. i talked to

each of the owners. they're not at all happy about this prospect. directly across the street is the garage for cole's garage. i only want to make this point because one of the things that's happening is because the prices are going up in the city landlords are raising rents. so across the street which is not a soft site but would clearly be a soft street as soon as 921-929 goes is a grudge. >> dennis, i'm sorry. the thing is when i hit the reset it didn't trigger it. >> can i finish? >> you have 30 seconds. >> thank you. ivory coast read the landlord came to the owner of the lodge 25 years of good week: karen is going from 10,000, two $40,000. he's gone is been desolate trying to find a place in san francisco. he

can't. the reality is that talk to a lot of business people, a lot of them, just this last two weeks. they cannot find other places. they know they can't. i think this program needs a great deal more input from you guys two years ago not two weeks before goes before a possible speedo. and the communicate thank you. >> thank you for coming up. next speaker, please. make sure we- >> yes, i'll make sure >> minus paul weber m on the executive committee but telegraph delegate to the coalition of san francisco neighborhoods. tonight i'm here on behalf of phd and we are opposing the program. we are about is a quintessential neighborhood as one will find in the city. to think of what

this would do to small businesses, but wanting a break from that and clear up a couple things mentioned earlier. number one, this rent-controlled fixed the city talks about is very very limited. first of all it doesn't apply to those who want to use a state program. repeat. does not apply. what does by there has to be a replacement all right, but there replaced by affordable housing. by means tested housing. no rent-controlled tenant going back in there. secondly, even for the two programs that have been discussed it only applies if the rent-controlled property is still standing. there's nothing to prevent the developer from becoming an and demolishing a whole building and coming in

applying for the program. some of you have mentioned this is just one of the few programs, but i think one has to focus. the density increase-and this could be 35%-the height limits can go up by two and three stories. i can't believe-i'm sure you don't either that's not have a significant impact on the value of those properties. so, let's talk about now how is can affect small businesses. i'm very close to small businesses where i live. i go get sandwiches and milk and i eat in restaurants. those places will all be gone. they will all be gone. in our neighborhood we have very strict formula retail. so by definition these folks are not part of chains. moreover, not only will they be gone good they can't afford to wait 2-3 years and try to get back in at a market rate. you know as well as i do those marked percolate

to the astronomical. moreover, the we pressure somebody else where the lenders for those buildings have a mcdonald's go in. so, we urge you tonight to not approve this program sent back to the drawing boards and that the neighborhoods participate in it at this time. >> thank you very much. >> stephen cornell. first thing i want to bring up we talked about changing the see you go with the property or go with the business owner making it easier, it usually goes of the property. what can happen to the old cu. if you're in one property it has a cu for a sega restaurant in la want to go us to get to the old one keep its cu? somehow the landlord's goes out if they lose it were now you have two additional

uses for nick and neighborhood room you only have one before. it's opening the hornets nest that. i think all the stuff the devil is in the details. i'll tell you my story. i businesses over 100 years old. we had to go under retrofit for earthquake retrofitting. my landlord's came and said i have to move out for two months minimum. this would be a nightmare for retail store. i found a place across the street. i had to go through the cu process and i stake for individual businesses, wipe them out, and make one new place. it goes above the 2500 square-foot limits they had and the square footage in the cities not just street for. account everything. basement even though it's not open to the public. it counts as part of your square footage. i the

neighborhood association present with me. the merchants association present for me. the city was all a long look at this was a 4.5 month process work every thing going perfectly smooth. but one civil person against it. that's a lot of rent for small business to be paying double. to rents going to all the steps and a lot of anxiety in between. that's what can happen when all these things move. i think you have to take that into consideration. for moderate sized business, a hardware store, a small places not good. new buildings are built in multiple stories celica single-story building. they now the stairwell going up. kevin elevator going up. have air conditioning and everything else going up. so, what was a 3000 square-foot footprint in the single-story building, now is going to be something like three quarters of it am a 2200

square-foot. it makes a big difference. you don't have as much usable space and you usually don't have a basement that's going to be very important. thank you. >> my name is-i'm a resident of the sunset parkside district. i'm here to urge the commission to continue this item until the planning department has made a presentation to the council district merchants. i have talked with a board member of the caravelle parkside merchants association who supports this idea. what i have here on the overhead is one of the soft sides which was in the presentation today. this is in the sunset parks. it's on 20 as it is currently a gas station.

another soft site is a noriega at 30th, which was also in the presentation. this is actually a safeway store. so, it appears that apartment doesn't want us to pull up our tanks or also does not want us to eat. we say we encourage neighborhood serving businesses and even protect them with formidably kill legislation. on the other hand, were willing to displace them if they're in the way of building more housing. to me, this seems a bit schizophrenic. please give the neighborhood serving businesses a chance to weigh in on this before the commission makes a final recommendation. >> thank you. any other members of the public?, anna. >> my name is-president of the northeast business association. we have met. we've seen the legislation and we discussed it. after the discussion at the end of the day we decided to oppose it. it's true and

developer can come by building, tear it down and go to the audit process, but this is another way to do. it's another technique. not only that we were talking also about the process of the construction. but say they don't demolish the building. they start doing the contract. what would happen to the business itself? a lot of things are involved in that. the right of return, that means something else to me. it's great but let's go find another landlord that would let the business-i'm talking only about north beach. we have a ban on formidably to get every civil business in north beach the small business. mom-and-pop. we've are restaurant owners that come in with her kids and

wives. my family and i were semicolons café for you could be there for 60 years. moving for a year or two is impossible because you can't find another landlord would sign you a two-year contract. you can rent until you find your spot that. so, i would really encourage the commission to think about the small business. more than 90% of businesses in the united states did speaking about the moms and pops. >> thank you. any other comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, there've been some excellent comments made. i, for one, would like to know more about how we how 30,000

sites becomes 240 becomes 90. i'm not attempting to over simplify. i'm attempting to quantify. there's any way to do so. so, i'd like to know more about that so that i'm not accused of oversimplifying it. there is no question that interruption of business and whether it resulted in a suspension of business or relocation, whether temporary or permanent is problematic for any business. i own a small business by so. relocating my business would be tumultuous, to say the least. so, i don't think any of us would minimize the impact in both expense and basically your business awareness of your present location. especially if you been there a lot. we don't mean to trivialize any of the things. that being said, i think were also not here to be obstructionist. we have to figure out what is the

reasonable thing for this city is a city that needs more affordable housing and must do construction projects. it's not good to happen without that. so, were all good have to find a way to get to a place where we have a compromise even if we have to agree to disagree on certain points. i, for one, feel the need to know more. i don't know about my fellow commissioners. i do feel making any kind of decision to support or not support tonight is problematic because this is the first time that we've heard this in this amount of detail and it's the first time that we've heard any public comment on the matter. i would like to have another public comment session where people came with suggestions, not just criticisms

. not saying those criticisms are not justified, but i think it's always best to get to a place where not only do you that the obvious problems and criticisms, but you try to find solutions that you think in your camp are acceptable with the goal of trying to strike a compromise. so, anyway, i like to know more about that and i to hear from the public on that as much as i'd like to consider it as a commissioner. i don't know if my fellow commissioners have other comments in that regard. we will start with commissioner adams >> i would agree with you, for once. the one thing this commission did approve, and we worked with planning on that, was the soft story issue. we all sat here and agreed on that >> i wasn't your >> i know commissioner dooley

and commissioner riley was. there are some issues right now with soft story. know some very good landlords who are working with their businesses while they do their retrofit projects. some have actually, i know of some cases in the marina with the landlord has actually had businesses relocate , stop the lease and lease resumes once i moved in. they were made recently wanted to get this project done. they got that rare opportunity. yet some good developers i'm in good landlords that. one of the things in that process is, we do not hear from a lot of other people being affected. i would like to hear-i would like to hear from them. what is the timeframe on this legislation?

>> the legislation was introduced september 29 by the mayor. it's been at commission for several hearings. they're having another hearing on the 25th of this month. should they choose to act it would be sent to the land use committee or if they continued that, they have more time to deliberate note be sent to the land use committee. i believe that there'll be multiple hearings of the board of supervisors before the final legislation. if you want to make your recommendations both to the planning commission and the board, we can meet again this month or if you want to send one message to the commission and later to the board, >> i do have like commissioner dwight a list of the businesses and the one thing is the size of the space. right now in upper market under market octavia-i think this was a student in market octavia which

i do support, company use that word because in market octavia when looking at large spaces now they're sitting vacant. not letting formula retail going tois. i will cite a very good developer angus mccarthy and his development that no we and 16 the market st. which is just outside of market octavia. he got formula retail in the one large space which was allowed, what that did it about three small businesses to get below market rate into those other spaces in know your three minority owned businessesis and they are thriving. i think that's good. you also with keisha, whoa block down who wound up playing with her space. now you have a restaurant and a bar. which the neighborhood wanted. so, i

personally if i had any recommendations, go to smaller spaces. i would like to have more public comment from some of the other neighborhoods. we're hearing a lot from inner sunset and north beach. i'd like to hear from some of these other neighborhoods and their concern. some of them are valid. but like i said, we economist up with the soft story because i'm hearing some horror stories out there with a soft story right now. oe wds working with its people enough that the tote of ew's doing a great job with working with a lot of these people because i hear that. what you do is very good. i don't want to-i feel like we have a second chance this legislation in that because women have some small businesses lost. although, the flipside is its middle income housing and you've got to build

this stuff. we have a housing problem in this town. whatever it takes, i'm sorry they want to build high-rise higher buildings out in the sunset, but you know what, they're going to need higher buildings in the sunset to meet these goals of putting people in housing in the state of san francisco. so they don't need to move outside help the city. i want to make sure, this is a citywide problem and not by district. i do agree with you that it should've been more public comment i had of time. and more involvement because your project across that's close to my neighborhood. i looked other than lower twin peaks. i know people who live there. what you did between the two schools there is amazing and i looks beautiful that's part of the neighborhood. we should have more of that. but

we do need in san francisco to build more housing, higher up, and we do need to house some of the smaller businesses workers because what's getting scary, these restaurant owners they can keep staff anymore. small businesses can keep staff anymore. they're all leaving. we need to do something to address that to get some other type of housing in here so these people don't leave. that's what concerns me. i'm a small business owner but tonight i want to thank the speakers because i did open my mind up some. i appreciate that i thought there would be more public comment i had of time before i heard this, but-that's when the soft story thing popped into my mind because you have issues with that and i feel like let's make this one right. let's get some more public hearing on this and hear from some of these businesses.

those are my concerns >> if i could add to your request our team has been compiling all the public comment we've received from. one thing i could there for you for future commission hearing all the comments we received as it relates to your issues. given that 30 community building could >> i do not know that >> copy happy to bring that document to you. we have about 30 of them. >> great. >> commissioners, a couple things. just to clarify we have the september 22 meeting which is the money. it's an afternoon meeting >> do you mean february? >> i'm sorry. february. the monday before the planning commission meeting. >> okay. commissioner dooley >> on fairly similar with this project and like my fellow

commissioners that over some major problems with this. you just can't go forward as it's written. when we bring up a few points. first of all, the dependence of small businesses on their located i myself am a living example of that. when i business had to relocate by two blocks it hurt my business. we are now assuming that they're even going to be up to find something two blocks away. local businesses depend on their neighborhoods. they cannot be relocated and be thinking they will succeed. especially with the fact even if we put in a right to return it's going to be a market rate. believe me, those developers are not to be kind about that. they're going to be thinking we don't need that mom-and-pop business. we'll just get some high-end whatever and charge three times the rent that normally would have been before. the other thing that is disturbing to me is where all

touting this and as it's written right now, 70% of the units will be market rates. 70% , 18% per middle income and 2500 a month that i work with lots of people like you restaurants. they can afford $2500 a month. so, were basically giving a developer several stories, be able to displace a small business permanently, and for what? for a few thousand affordable housing? that's just not a trade-off uncomfortable with. our small businesses are always touted as the heart of the city. it's not acceptable for them to be pushed out in order to allow developers to make basically 80% non-affordable housing. yes, we need housing but this is not the way to do it. >> commissioner zouzounis

>> commissioner dooley said what i was here as a kid that's not something that feels incentive based to me either. yes, i feel it's not consistent with the title of the legislation and the overall goal of the legislation. i would like to see if there's any room for negotiation on that piece. >> informally, for me in conversations with the developments 30% is something that i've seen from him. maybe it's not a formal precedents but doesn't feel like it's something new. for this legislation i could be wrong. but i have heard that is

something that developers party have to abide by >> i be happy to come back and review any project that's expected to go above that required 12% had there been a few good draw through development of the myths that include zoning to subsidize that. in the case of some of the more recent ones they've also included public subsidy to help them get about that. i agree with you the city is working hard to get the percentage of affordability up but in any case, were going above the baseline we are tying it to some sort of public offering be in development or sensible or public subsidy. our redevelopment plans, before the state goal redevelopment, use tax increment financing to get the affordability levels of. that usually require some sort of incentive or subsidy >> i think the most recent example is high-profile large -with the supervisors got

involved. i don't know if that's oppressive been set for development of the size. >> after 30%? >> yes. the high-profile arts wrote the supervisors weighed in on and i do need to say any more about it. this a different situation. >> you're imagining these projects i hope the bigger picture helps you imagine the book were talking about much smaller buildings. and were talked about much smaller developments. but smaller developers. a lot of these outlying neighborhoods, we haven't seen a lot of development because it so hard to even make it affordable. it cost just as much to build the units in any part of san francisco. labor costs are the same. the hard costs are the same. the rents are higher in some of our more transit ranger did it rose. there is a reason we need to help offset that

additional demand and these lower-cost neighborhoods >> so then, when you refer to the permanent affordable housing of it, these 5000 units are not at risk to be change market rate? >> that's correct. unlike rent-controlled i should move out of my rent control unit would go back to market, is targeted for certain household income that household chooses to leave, it's been sold or rented to a household that same target income. >> so, public comment is over on this. i think i want to know more because i want to make sure were not creating some bizarre new windfall incentive for redevelopment of these properties at the expense of small business, the unintended

consequence being that of just making life even more difficult for small business in san francisco. i think this is a call to action for more public comment. whether it happens here at this commission or more importantly at the planning commission. i think it is also a call to action for clarification of the sites actually impacted. so let's figure out the real impact is. so we can quantify the problem. i also think this is a call to action for some recommendations from the public as to how you recommend we move forward. that is to say, that no, is not the right answer. the answer is, yes, but. if were going to make affordable housing in this city, how do we balance the

needs of the residents and the needs of small businesses. there is going to be impact. there's no question about it but i think it's very clear to me that we need more discussion about how we moderate or mitigate the impact on small businesses that are already at risk in the city. i completely agree as a small business owner and minibus up are either small business, have been small business owners, or our clients are small business owners and we all know the difficulty if not basically the death sentence of having to suspend or relocate our businesses. especially in an environment that it's not as simple as finding some other inexpensive place to move to. every alternative is of greater expense than the place we are in today. so, with that, we

have more commissioners who want to comment which is great and will proceed with that. i am of the mind that we need more discussion and i also want to encourage the people who've been here for public comment tonight to rally your colleagues and let's find some other people in other affected areas to brainstorm how we move forward on this important issue and how we get to some of the answers to similar questions come up tonight. commissioner adams >> i would definitely support and motioned that. that we move this to the next meeting. this is a piece of legislation i do personally supports. however, the small business piece does make me nervous. a lot of mike clients are small business owners and to be honest, we had one of our public comment was these people are already being squeezed more than they are. it's just downright scary. i

like the fact that let's come up with a solution. we've had some people here involved in other projects before and i would really love for them to come back and give us your ideas. we are here to service you. what would you do? instead of saying no, what would you do to make this piece of legislation better and will be a win-win for the small business owner and the people actually need some of this housing. >> commissioner ortiz-cartegnea >> i think i just want to echo what pres. dwight and my colleague commissioner adams said. definitely, i'm also housing advocate i'd share when the biggest nonprofits housing advocates but my purview is small business and i think having more understanding how this directly affects, impacts small businesses and providing data for the net new commercial

spacing available in getting feedback for merchants in our community which i appreciate because you guys highlighted some questions. i don't want this to be a sob story have unintended consequent appreciate you two ladies from your department and coming in with solutions and asking this commission would weaken. so, i would feel comfortable just like you gentlemen if i had more information and more feedback from the community the business community and how it affects small business. >> i think we have a motion to continue this to our next meeting. if anyone would like to second the motion. >> i'm sorry. commissioner adams motion to continue the meeting >> it's going from the 3000

it's going from the 3002 the two 5290, i want to get my head around that. >> were working on some visuals look it we did all the math on excel and word learning not just your commission is that a lot of people want to understand. were going to come with i don't overpromise but a graphic. >> i would encourage you-i mean we have a zionist in a former member of the planning commission who questions those numbers and it's not out of the question for you guys to go caucus outside of this and understand so that we get here the next time we don't have this same dispute that i don't agree with you how you came up with those and let's get to what it is. if it's command of excel, go find someone who can do that. that's not been a be a legitimate defense. you need to

understand what sites are affected. also, beyond that, we need to have some advice from the public as a how we might move forward in a more acceptable fashion. so, we have a lot of experts out there that involves with far more developed than issues that any must appear. let's get the collective wisdom of the crowd before it's too late. >> i would like to see, in any legislation the matter where this goes, that oe wds part of this and because that's economical workforce here. what they do in these neighborhoods is just so-actually we have not had that for years in this town and its working. in relocation

on make sure that's all part of it. i would like to hear more. >> we have a motion and seconded to continue. by commissioner zouzounis. call the roll, please >> so, commissioner adams bs aye aye dooley nay >> you don't want to continue this >> no >> commissioner dwight aye aye tighe aye aye to mr. riley aye the mission or zouzounis aye. commissioners, that is six in favor of continuing the item to next meeting. one not. >> to our present is, thank you very much. this is the spirit of democracy. brought here to be obstructionist. were

here to encourage good lawmaking. we know once it's written into law it's a lot harder to change than before. to consider the nuances of. i want to thank members of the public who came out tonight. it's been educational for us as commissioners. it is also why we have these meetings so that people can come and voice their concerns. and make recommendations for making better laws in the city. so you're applauded for taking the time and making the effort to come here tonight. i encourage you to continue this conversation amongst yourselves bring more people into the conversation to continue this conversation at our next meeting is certainly to continue this conversation with public comment at the planning commission. nothing precludes you from making recommendations to any of our committees outside of these meetings. so direct your comments in the meantime to the people that

were presenting tonight. don't hold back. the worst thing you can do is wait and take potshots at commission meetings because you only get 3 min. and it's not enough time to vet the issue. go through the process and take it off-line and try to make substantial movement outside of these meetings is only come to this commission meetings were talking up the good work that's been done between meetings. these meetings are here to highlight the need for more work outside of these meetings. we can never invent all the stuff in the one hour or three hours we sat around talking here. this is the place where we get comments and suggestions and it's only through the power of having people come here to state their case, whether it be someone proposing legislation or opposing legislation or recommending change it but go forward due as we should.. think you very much. we are

through with this item. on to our next item. for if i recollect >> item number four directors report. >> do we have any directors >> under directors report, there is you do have a number for tabbing your binder. i want to just-i'm not allowed right to much run the super bowl this weekend, but to highlight for you just on the stuff inside that we did ensure at our emergency command center, we had a person for the private sector in case any issues arise the private sector needed support. i do personally want to thank-for staffing all weekend. just to let you know this is one of the things in terms of our urgency management

disaster preparedness in any big activity like this we are now go ew team going to ensure somebody in the private sector staff. business portal update. we're on track for having a pdf conversion to be completed this quarter. also, implementing the signature solution. there's a couple places like our clerks office over not going to be able to do that because that requires state legislation. but we are working with our state representative on that. that may come down later. that's a small number of entities that will not be will to implement that solution. so, jane will be will to provide you an update, march commission meeting. and that you know where we are and what are the next steps, next to things she's going to be doing to enhance the portal.

then, as commissioner adams mentioned this last meeting but to reiterate that jane is receiving the impact award or good government award nominated by myself and todd russo for that. if you're interested in attending along with greg kato from tax and treasurer's office, that is march 21. small business week. we have send notifications and sign-up forms the sidewalk sales are either may 21 or may 28 that are deadline is february 29 for the merchants to get that in. then, at the last ivan at the december commission meeting, the commissioners you had talked about wanting to maybe we think about the award program. what you want to do. a certain amount is codified and i've attached in your binder

there is a ordinance that says we need to facilitate an honoree program. i know that traditionally with most other sort of with the commission on the status of women and international lease for the board of supervisors is done at their meeting. again, i would like to hear from you when you think you might want to begin this discussion because ever going to change anything substantively we need to have that discussion now. so, if you want to agenda as it for the next meeting that i like to hear that from you and if you like individual conversations with you or to have a president and the converse about it and we can have a little bit of a discussion about it in terms of getting some direction. >> i would like to put on the agenda the recognition program so we can have a discussion at some time not closer to 8 pm at the evening.

>> okay. then, the small business leaders to meet quarterly with the mayor were planning a planning session with the group to develop some long-term strategies to-so it's strategies the commission notes about and is aware of and that you can take into consideration in your deliberation. the mayor the board of supervisors, the partners things that we can work on for four years and out. that is scheduled for february 23 11:30 am-3 pm. traditionally, commissioner dwight riley and freshener zouzounis have attended. not always on behalf of as commissioners but sometimes as

organizations but just note we do have commission representation at those meetings. then, i have some updates in terms of want to go through some staffing position. again, we are back to having to submit our list. i'm not go into great detail run the complexity around hiring a civil service position but when there are lists-and there are times when there are lists we have to submit the job to to see if there's any interest. that list has been chosen by myself. we are waiting back submittal of that list to those individuals to see if we have response or interest. if not, the next step may be eligible to post it. i will keep you

apprised of that. the small business accelerator team the position the mayor had budgeted, we will be doing interviews for that and the next couple of weeks. definitely one to get that position on board so we can start assisting restaurants through the permitting process. then, i'm putting together the job description and developing was called position authorization request for the legacy business position hopefully to having time for the july 1 budget. then we do need to think about some expansion with our office, especially having the small business development center in the assistance center office of small business has been a

benefit both to the our delivery of services but also to the small business development center. would like to stay together but with the need for bringing our legacy business person angel also added a staff could we are going to need to expand soon-to-be meeting with department of real estate to begin to have some discussions about what we can do about office space. >> with the possibility of location? >> possible or partial. then the legacy business registration and preservation fund, have a little bit of a slow track because of this particular issue. thinking of my time over the last couple weeks. i have not made too much advancement in terms of dealing with the regulations around the preservation fund. >> have there been applications? >> in terms of the registry were starting to get applications or anticipate ibm

this week i can give you a list of who's applied. we are still-still a bit of a dance of those that submitted applications but i haven't received the absolute recommendation from the mayor of the board of supervisors >> one approach would be to separate just applying for the registry to those applying for him kind of fun. so that we can work to those who want to be on the registry if there is a distinction to me being right now or only people applying for funds? >> this on applying for funding at this point because you can't apply until you been designated as a register. so we need to get through that process and i is great because now they have to go through the historical present preservation april will be your first hearing >> we will figure out how we proceed if we don't have a staff member to help us because i think were going to need to

figure out how to move the ball forward and i for one am willing to dedicate some time to review and applications especially since they party been bedded at a certain level. at least making recommendations for the registry itself because that should be more straightforward than the decisions to grant funding for anybody. >> thank you. then, we do have one definite piece of legislation assigned for the next meeting, which is the all gender toilet facility legislation. lee forwarding that legislation to you tomorrow. then just wanted to keep you apprised that on january 29 supervisor tang, along with the departments mayor's office on disability department of building inspection, dpw, had a meeting

with-to clear up some of their questions, concerns around her mandating the accessibility of the entry. so i think we've made good progress that think will be will to now see this legislation fully moved forward. >> okay >> that concludes my report. >> awesome. item 5 presidents report. i've nothing to report this evening. next item >> item number six as vp's report. >> of a couple quick things. i did attend an awards two weeks ago. here at city hall. business or cbd of the year was geneva avenue which is kind of cool. i also want to thank elite wg and regina the office of small business during super bowl week in the castro last week we got a lot of play. espn interviewed michael sands on

saturday so newsweek ashley did an article last week about super bowl and people getting into the castro and into the neighborhood. i also was talking with the film commission experiencing a record number of permits that were issued to film crews from all over the world. they're shooting around the circuit so that was really great and just a wee wg pressing questions and sending people all people out to the different members. the only interesting thing is carnival it only salt lake saturday was a lot of denver bronco people. i do not see one person form carolina in the castro. i was over in fillmore street and again it was all denver people. the city did a good job with delegated people and i thought it worked out very well.

that's it gets >> commission reports is next. >> item number seven commissioner reports. >> commissioners, anything to report? seeing none, commissioner reports as close >> item number eight the general public >> another opportunity for the general public to suggest matters that we might consider in the future. anybody that would like to do that, please step forward. >> i just want to say thank you because i think i really appreciate you guys have open minds and you listen to us and are asking for some responses and i want to tell you how much i appreciate that >> thank you. we have to do. we appreciate you doing it. yes, sir >> i also want to thank you. i want to tell you that this

conversation is so big that it's really big. it's as big as the map we saw. it really is going to take time to talk about it. when i raise that point about involvement in the community and merchants, had everybody been involved in the last two years we probably wouldn't have much of a conversation now because we would've come up against these problems. as a lifelong san franciscan on 76 years old. i still can't believe how often the left and right and don't talk to each other and how many times things are presented which i perceived to be arrogant because they were dismissive or ignored the people which were all stupid. i don't think people are stupid. i don't think anybody really is very stupid. i think most people figure things out and

they don't speak up enough. i appreciated the fact that you guys were digging into this but i think this conversation needs that input before it goes forward. i think what you said, it's hard as hell to pick something after it's adopted and legislation last a long time. i guess that's the big concern that we have is that you're talking about-i talk to peers in a number of times you what are you rezoning 3500 when you have two. i start examining the 240 ongoing wait a minute. those are just empty sites. it just bothers me because i know we can do affordable housing >> this item this is a violation you talk about an item. >> i want to thank you for coming out and educating us on important issue. it's always amazing how few people come to the people's palace. especially

in a city like san francisco so the mayor calls it that. repeatedly and we should encourage more people to come here and do as you've done this he did so thank you very much. will have more opportunities to discuss it and hopefully will have an impact on the process as a result of the nice conversation. if there are no other members of the public that want to, now we'll move on to item number nine >> item 9 is new business. >> ivan item i like to amend for new business and that is that i think it is wise we sponsor a post sp 50 small business survey to everyone is fresh in their mind. the experience they had during this major event and to talk about what best practices when i look forward to at the next major event whether it's super bowl

liii or some later one or any other large event. i think we kind of-i think the america's cup is such a resounding disaster that no one took the time to figure out why because everyone will that was messed up so let's move on. i think super bowl l was a mixed bag with a lot of positives and some negatives that occurred some especially as i personally went down to the ferry building dr. merchants my product at the ferry building by first-hand knowledge but drop-off in sales. i want to understand how the major venues affected those in the vicinity so we can anticipate that only other major events. and no better time when it's fresh in our memories. it's very easy today for us to put together a survey into it on a free site like survey monkey or something and i want to put this on the agenda so we can encourage the public to come and recommend how we might conduct this

survey because i only know a call about a couple questions i want to want to do a survey if i only had asked that question. so, we ought up figure out what that survey isn't promptly issue that survey and i know that a wee wg has interest in this eight efforts to our keep the pressure on. that's our job as a small business commission to make sure we also do a post analysis. not just figure out trying to slay the unintended consequences but understand them after the fact. going forward we can apply that learning two fugitives anybody else have any business that led to put on the agenda moving forward? >> so we are done with item number nine. sfgov tv, if we could have the slide again.

>> yes, one last time, our public service announcement which were going to tediously remind the people because it's important. the small business -the office of small business, is the only place to start your new business and san francisco. it's also the place to bring your questions should you have questions about how things work as you are engaged in small business. so, my script is as follows: the office of small business is the city center point of information assistance and referrals project endorse and small businesses in san francisco both new and established. we provide a free and one-on-one assistance to each client achieve their business goals to address their needs. our services include a check list of required registration permits license and zoning requirements get so don't go to those agencies first. come to us first to find out what you need to go next and don't listen to outside sources before you talk to us first. our advice is free and probably a little more accurate

than other sources. we are also here to connect you to the city funded business resources and partnerships that provide business planning, access to finance, legal and technical support and other assistance required to start and maintain a small business in san francisco. the office of small businesses here to support you through all stages of your business development. please stop by our office which is here at city hall in room 110 on the ground floor. it's open monday through friday 8 am-5 pm. you can call us at 415-554-6134 or you can visit us online at the business portal.sf work. we provide services in english, chinese, and spanish. thank you. >> thank you. now we can return back to the meeting. item number 10, adjournment >> to have a motion moved and seconded. all in favor say aye. it is done. it are 9 pm.

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>> thursday, february 4, >> thursday, february 4, disruptions of any kind. proceedings. and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to call roll at this time. commissioner president fong commissioner vice president richards commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore and commissioner wu commissioner johnson will be absent today through the chair commissioners i'd like to call commission matters out of order to take up future agendas commissioners due to the increased volume of applications

your advanced calendar has ballooned through april the continuance of the affordable housing bonus program took to february and other continuance impacted the advanced calendar the additional to stay here until you midnight or 2:00 a.m. so i don't think you want to do that i suggest we reinstate the march 31 to the 2016 schedule and possibly discuss the hearings easily the day like 10 or 11:00 a.m. you could we arrange the agenda to take up certain items for commissioners that may not be able to attend

i'll leave that up to you initially take a vote to reinstate march 21st, 2016. >> commissioner antonini. >> i've very much in favor of that project sponsors were concerned about trying to get on calendar i explained the calendar is busy you i think that is wise for us to reinstate that day and also whether to start of the mergers earlier not a lot on thursday so might as well start on 10 o'clock it is just a consensus. >> no motion required to start earlier the day but you will need some consensus to open a hearing. >> as far as the 31st. >> the 31st we need a vote. >> i'll move to add the 31st. >> second. >> on that motion.

>> comment first. >> commissioner hillis so, yeah i'm supportive of adding the extra day and possible future extra days i have difficulty with the 10:00 a.m. start date i go into the office in the morning and just would be impossible to do that and work a half or a couple of hours before coming here on thursday i'm happy to add dates but avoid starting earlier. >> commissioner moore. >> we have been put on notice for a few weeks things continue to be filled calendar so i believe that even at the beginning of the year we left it on we'll be reinstating the 31st i'm supportive but any earlier starting i don't think it is appropriate i'd rather have full

other meetings than coming before that. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> i also not in supportive support of an elder start time but a half an hour earlier and not take a break in the afternoon but more efficient to take a quick break starting at 11:30 verse 12 no lunch. >> commissioner antonini. >> anytime we can gain restrictions some of the commissioners would be helpful i think things come up as we'll hear about later in the calendar probably have a session not as long as usual today and continuance frequently occurs calendar seemed to be jammed they can quickly become less busy but we can't put anything in this items are continued to

calendar more day is a good idea. >> commissioner moore. >> many of us work and spend the morning i want to hear from commissioner hillis whether or not thirty minutes is amenable to you or would that be a problem. >> so i am not i'd like to keep it at noon and moving to 11:30 avoid that move it to dloushgs and not take a break. >> i appreciate that a normal work break is at the noon or one together and one person appealing off earlier is difficult i'll stand in support of what commissioner hillis explained. >> commissioner wu. >> i'm post to the 31st seems fine i suggest we keep it at

noon and take a shorter break try tee eat lunch before coming. >> (laughter). >> so jonas may suggest the consensus is for the 31st to keep the meetings at noon and not take a long break and commission a couple of few weeks this starts to bloom we're not gaining on the number of items and perhaps one meeting that start earlier to catch. >> we're going to there is a motion and a second we should take public comment on the march cynthia i 31st. >> commissioner moore i'll ask is for the president and the vice president to very careful work with the director for more balanced schedule for the commissioner vice president richards raised that when we came on the commission he noticed an imbalance and there's

a reason for coping but not coping particularly you want to tip the scale and leave at 4:30 or 5 and leave at midnight i know we can't extend the public comment but think historical experience to be able to kind of guess what we're expecting a lot of people an attempt to get a balance. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> i agree with commissioner moore maybe be a little bit more be fine tuning the way we balance things part of public comment i hate to keep cutting public comment down and down and down when people come here for hours and get a minute i'd like to have rather additional meetings i've learned quite a bit. >> speaking of which any

public comment on the addition of march 31st meeting? not hearing or seeing any public comment is closed. >> thank you on that motion commissioners to add march 31st to your schedule commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner wu commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and places us under our continuance calendar item one at sickle is april 29, 2016, and item 2 hill avenue has been withdrawn new commissioners you may have notices there was a lot decorations for the super bowl there is an event held today and as much as i put in a

request for found if any disruption with the super bowl to our hearings on monday we received a call requesting that our hearing conclude at 5:00 p.m. this is not a hard stop if you choose to we'll go beyond 5:00 p.m. there will be more security due to the super bowl event in cooperation with the officers i will recommend that we continue items 12 ab for cases and market street conditional use and variance one week until

february 11th item 15 case at commissioner bassham berry land to the reinstated date of march 31st and the two items under the discretionary review calendar items 16 and 17 at temple street a discretionary review and item 17 for case rose mount place a discretionary review for one week to february 11th my understanding that both of the department of human resources may be withdrawn so it shouldn't pose them too much difficulty future for your consideration the project sponsor at 2100 market street is willing to wait

to see if we get through his items prior to 5:00 p.m. i'll leave that for your consideration. >> is your recommendation to potential propose continuance for items. >> one and two, 16 and 17 to the date proposed and act on those now and market street when it is called in the normal course of business. >> commissioner moore. >> i have a very basic question and it is just adding for clarity could you give me like a short overview of why this particular event tonight is different from any other civic event like the opening of simplify we are observers from

the balcony ass are san francisco's finest i might have come into a fully tradition of 50 years nfl give me one sentence i'll be more informed to understand. >> well, this is obviously the super bowl 50 it is not so much the event itself but the heeding security around it i believe that there are demonstrations that were scheduled throughout the super bowl week i think the building management including the city administrators is concerned about safety of the building itself with this sort of hi profile of members of nfl membership participating this after that. >> commissioner antonini. >> i think that mr. highland's put it well, it is an event with

national significance and a possibility of things that might be disruptive on a national scale that is what separates it if the local events but i am in favor of what is proposed i'm going to move to continue item 1, 2 is withdrawn so it is not continued and items number the end of the calendar items 1, 16 and 17 to the following dates the first item is continued until april 28th and march 31st and items 16 and to february 11th and see about the item that might be heard today. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. >> commissioner vice president richards one question on the process with the 2100 market

street if we don't have enough the times we'll move to continue rather than hear it and continue it after that and reopen again next week. >> yeah. when the item is called we can't get through it we'll choose to continue is one week until february 11th. >> one question i have we look at the audience and not see a quick show up and they're in route because we're hearing it we want to make sure we understand that. >> and to reminder you that is a public request this is a public building known will will be not limited to to our room if we go past 5:00 p.m. we go past it. >> commissioner hillis. >> just a question parties to those items you know both neighbors opposed and the project sponsor aware we may

continue i don't want to set up the expectation the public is not coming so a big event and they anticipate this being continued and we'll maybe hear it so save on the public comment side and continue it to make sure that people are able to comment who may want to comment and 0 not say it was anticipated for continued or because i have traffic a demonstration and assess was not possible. >> the project sponsor is fully aware the circumstances and the risk he and his team with taking whatever reason i'm speaking with the representatives of t t n a not ware they're here and prepared. >> commissioner moore. >> i this is a little bit confusing bus i received a response from the public incumbent there was the presumption the commission had continued the item and that is

not the case we have been asked to continue culp lane, however, from the staff to the monday e.r. tuesday was responded by the mr. president, copy to all of us some living which is communicated or not communicated i'm the middle because of culp lane it is not happening and it puts us in an awkwa situation - the project sponsor assumed it will be continued we can't for a fact say for certain that the commission as a whole will agree with the continuance

so if you choose to as a commission you can still hear culp la cumberland today - sir, you tells you whether or not you want to continue can you come to the microphone please. >> thank you commissioner vice president richards yeah, we have been working on this presentation for about a month and land use committee assuming it was going to be heard today. >> you're ready. >> not ready at 12 and then we got some last minute flurry of past communications i was the one is wrote the letter to say there might be a continuance we were not at all in favor of a continuance for a week but 6

weeks so a week is not time to deal with the issues with the communication with director rahaim and this was on monday i don't know the project sponsor is president the in one week but note that will happen or continue it for 6 weeks and have the opportunity to really discuss the issue. >> thank you, thank you okay opening it up for public comment i do have one card joe h joell. >> the continuance of april 28th it is a notice was not sent the language of tagalog this is an issue we have a large

filipino the outer mission and been informed the spanish transmission says the attached document is in reference of the address for the compassion a requirement to have the planning commission it may our no where in the spanish transmission it states this proposed combsz and the translation says it maybe be schedule for today, the actual words makes it sound like trifle and the notification was brooushths in spanish and english his neighbors only speak spanish it is also alarming the planning department is not required to send out now noticed but it is continued to a new

date and isn't it a fact the official notice on the ourd of sickle as destroyed by the rain it was not covered in a protective matter more residents or the members of the public are aware this may be continued interest the improper notification their it is disturbing with a proposed 4 medical cannabis dispensary for the outer mission thank you. >> is there any additional public comment? >> hi. >> my name is lincoln i took off today, i mean hundred sickle next to my parents only read chinese no notice change anything yes. that lady is right no communication ever and the days

before the owner coming say they want to beatify it on the situations 3 times and there is a female a baby looking at all those things we went to the committee meeting and the days you know do you notice two parked next to the store she saw where i say lincoln park. >> sir, i'm sorry but right now, we're only speaking to the matter of turns. >> it is like the work never coming out from you i just pop out today okay. >> thank you. >> i understand. >> is there any additional public comment? >> on this item. >> or on the - >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm bruce i

support of continuance of item 1 cumberland to march 31st i was one of the original dr requesters we were informed by the planner on tuesday that the project was definitely going to be delayed most likely to march 31st it takes a while for the neighbors to come down to the meeting we were appreciative and able to communicate that will not be happening today at least the motion passed we were told it was going to be postponed. >> we touched base with them that march 31st works and a hardship for people to attend we support the parole to continue to the newly scheduled fifth thursday meeting we appreciate when the agenda is over

scheduled like today sometimes public comment is reduces and cases don't start until far into the night we appreciate the consideration. >> i'd like to add that the planning department previously informed us in writing it was the mayor's office that directed the department to schedule this case despite the departments knowing the agenda was to full and despite the fact we were working with the planner on march so we want to commend you for experiencing your individual judgment for the rescheduling of march 31st thank you very much. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on continuance? game-changer commissioners i'm tom with the deboss triangle association speaking in regards the 2900 market street we put

together a short presentation in anticipation of the reporting to the hearing if so taken off we know want to know when it will be as support a continuance for 6 weeks we think one week is not enough time to address the issues we have to talk about with them thank you >> i don't see any public comment is closed. >> commissioner vice president richards i guess one comment on one public comment p public commenter said it was alleged that the planner said on a residential project the mayor asked for is certain date that sound strange do have any comment.

>> not that i'm aware of that. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further there is a motion and a second to continue items 1, 15, 16 and 17 commissioner antonini. >> commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner wu commissioner vice president richards commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 6 to zero he appreciate your consideration to that. >> commissioners, that places you under your commission matters consideration of approval of the draft minutes for january 21st, 2016, commissioners unfortunately, the minutes were draft agenda if you choose to adopted them today i'll note the correction or c. >> commissioner richards as i thought that was a draft agenda i'd like to actuate a week additional look at it and wait

until next week. >> certainly commission apologize we can certainly continue this for one week. >> commissioner moore. >> i did the same and overdrive to toss those we have the real agenda for next week so i did that. >> so commissioner vice president richards is that a motion. >> continue to next week. >> thank you, commissioners to continue the draft minutes to february 11th commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore commissioner wu commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and places you on item 4 commissioners questions or comments. >> commissioner wu. >> thank you. so, now that sick eldest is on the april date is there any requirement for the planning department to renotice it and -

>> technically with the continuance you don't meet to renotice it but ask the staff to get the proper no, sir i'd like recommend it sounds like it doesn't go out but it needs to go out in all the languages again. >> commissioner antonini. >> thank you. i have the good fortune to go to super bowl city and the nfl zone within the last twherng extremely well organized, clean, save diversifies and actually had occasion to dine with one of the restaurants and it was reasonable so very impressed with the way it is done and i think those of you it is interesting particularly the nfl zone find out how faubldz are made and others interesting

items good job commissioner vice president richards i'll try to be brief because of the time crunch 3 quick things as you may know you read the joe article in san francisco magazine on more than 3.org she took the 5m project quotes and ran it through the sausage grinder to find out what the affordability rates interesting enough it is a great exercise i think the director came up with a number like what was percent get you truly but one thing that disturbs me we as commissioners and staff heard of the project that has 33 percentage affordability yet his calculations i'm not saying they're right or wrong but less than 33 percent we commissioners

were didn't have the full grasp on the true level of affordability his calculation were based what needed to be given and what was spraubtd out so i asked any time we have a demonstration agreement with a threshold affordability the exercise is given to us it is a great transparent to look at it afterward i'd like to a or so a consultant take apart the numbers secondly, there was an article in the chronicle on the 28 that was lecturers hearing, talking about areas being affordable and walkable and now the world wants to live close together and walk to everything the post millennial generation only 14 percent of the country is more walkable and two place the u.s.

have those washington, d.c. and seattle a third of maintenance convert to school or work by foot compared to they were percent of baby boomer so we're seeing the jarsdz that is impacting where people want to live and we're not able to draft this as quickly as we need to take into account this change and lastly commissioner antonini said this use to be italian and irish and now supply lights bookstore i saw the making of the mists and how much the ethnicity change streetcars with delores and to the 70s and it is interesting i flipped through it and wanted to understand how the out migration happened so during commission comments i'll let you

know things that are interesting and start read to tonight. >> cliff notes commissioner moore. >> i would be interested to have this commission have a configuration with the house commission and dreamforce i saw on tv about a week ago redwood city has food pharmacy where food panries and banks are advised by public health practitioners about the combination of heath food with the for example, diabetes we have a lot of health clinics pubically supported and supported and it will be interesting to have a targeted program like that so i'll send did article to you director williams you have those discussions but a fabulous idea to have a way of assistance and

food and health programs for the choose the foods for the healthy living. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further we can move in to the department matters drouchlt. >> i have nothing urgent in the interest of time. >> the board of appeals and historic preservation commission. >> good afternoon aaron starr manager, legislative affairs and lulgd the supervisor avalos ordinance which will require a conditional use authorization for the removal of any dwelling unit the city the commission harder it on december 10th and voted 5 to one to recommend approval and supervisor campos recommended the legislation to include the amendments pe at the land use committee supervisor wiener had several questions of staff related to the implementation of that

ordinance specifically how it impacts the homeland security and who couldn't afford to pay for legalization and the change the outreach in response the planning department at dbi noted there were fund that may become available the next budget and dbi set aside funds for code violations and some spoke in favor how it stops displacement and speakers in opposition with the builders association and the organizations representing the land use they ask for a exempt that the ground floor in c-3 from 317 controls, however, the concerns by the committee members were not adequately addressed so they continued is

one week until techniques hearing and also a resolution for interim controls placing the sustained standards on the showcase square, potrero hill and central wasting this passed out of committee and will be considered at the full board next the full board of supervisors the 100 percent affordable housing eliminating cruz u cus pals it first reading on supervisor yee dissenting and also the board was a resolution to schedule a hearing on february 28th from the charter amendment that changes the colleagues, can we take that without objection? requirement the resolution was amended to essentially allow the ballot initiative to pass the rules committee it passed 6 to 4 and continued until february 9th by a unanimous vote one introduction it was by supervisor peskin an ordinance

that will prohibit formula retail the polk street commercial district that's all i have for you today >> commissioners no board report and the historic preservation commission did meet yesterday only one item on the regular calendar that will be brought to you under our regular calendar for budget they're recommending approval if no questions commissioners on to general public comment not to steady 15 at this time, members of the public may address the commission to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when address the commission up to three minutes. address the commission up to three minutes. i do have couple of speaker cards. >> yes. georgia and thoosie.

>> ask the starch the recalculation for all pending dr cases and the 311 for the rh1, rh3 two excuse me. i think the reason it is important because maybe they need drs southern the executions with mr. sanchez and commissioner vice president richards it was discovered that was a 40 percent issue that 40 percent of time some of these should have been calculated as demolitions and those remodels so i would hope that if you're going to go forward and have the staff consider how they calculate in the future that perhaps at least consider it for pending dr case and thing that

these that involved involve major altercations and relocation of a unit as i said it was discovered at least 40 percent likelihood they're not calculated correctly the samples i submitted for the case study there they're the ones he had photos of whole process of demolition and the new project that is a lot i didn't get mid process maybe we missed some but at least 40 percent i think that is mandatory drs are necessary it will have a loss of five and six affordable housing so if this is okay with you i'm hand that in i'd like to put that in the

minutes thank you very much. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm thoosie i'd like to bring uo your attendance the planners frequently accepting revisions from project sponsors without requiring them to submit them to the planning department this is a problem not knowing what and when provisions are submitted the public is the dark and at transparency is lost how else can we find out if the plans are nothing but in his opinion and tucks and 6 thousand square feet mcmansion a monster home

when we complained previously we were told that was the expectation to the rule and only being done with the project sponsor was unsure how to respond to the pdr the planner can give me a quick look and submit to the building inspection right afterward this is expanded and it has expanded dramatically to the point that almost may be one 3rd of planners are letting this happen and almost most projects and most revisions if a revision is under review is the concern for the neighbors the opportunity to engage the department and engage with staff and negotiate with the project sponsors and then slapped with a 311

notification what is the recourse file a dr this will add to the volume of drs and you'll be more occupied hearing those department of human resources my question is this do we have a standard operating procedure for accepting new provisions in not will we have one and require the planners to follow them that's it thank you. >> thank you. >> any other general public comment closed. commissioner vice president richards i just want to comment first georgia is referring to a meeting the zoning administrator mr. duffy the bring to your attention from dbi and myself and she had an addendum an architect she has been coming to the commission with a demo here's the original house the

succeeding house we had a meeting december 18th and we said look at 5 of those and take into account what happened two mr. sanchez said they look at the clauthsdz were wrong it is a complicated process and you know everybody you know people that will new they don't say have the experience georgia is referring to you asked for the approval mr. lindsey look at the calculations and just in the case this can be a training issues in terms of planner i think secondly, mr. rahaim was talking about something we talked about and closing the loop and with the threshold i don't know if you took if in k some sort of magnitude with the project with the neighbor so everybody understands what the

project is once we get more dr i don't know if everyone else want autopsy seeing nothing further item seeing nothing further itemseeing nothing further ittsm 7 no action is required on your behalf only for your review and comment. >> thank you good afternoon miami director i'm here joined by several members of the senior management team as well as deborah you've met your new finance manager who is been on board a few weeks and nevertheless, has done a lot of work we're here to present our new two-year budget that will coffer fiscal years 2016-2017 and 2017-2018

no surprise given our workload we're seeing a humble increase in applications and therefore the budget is proposed to there self million dollars over this year's budget we're therefore proposing the education e addition of staff possessions to address at backlog and the policy issues you've been dealing with and several other positions with that, i i'm going to turn it over to my colleague to go over the details of the bulth we're asking for your feedback and proposing action and next week's hearing and as recorded the historic preservation commission did review the budget yesterday and recommended your approval of the proposed budget you have the item before you today with that, i'm going to turn it over to tom thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm tom i'm the director of the administration for the planning department it is my pleasure to present the

departments proposed budget and work program for 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 copies the presentation are available on the table to my left for members of the public before i begin i'd like to acknowledge members of my staff deborah and donny and others who helped us put together the budget who wouldn't be able to do all the work to help the budget. >> today, i'm going to over the update from the mayor's office an overview the instructions, the current year planning permit volume and revenue, and then the proposed budget plus both the revenue and expenditure does the division staffing, the proposed budget by distinction and the departments performance measures and finally, the budget approval

calendar. >> the when the mayor's budget office gave the numbers we were to assume a two year fixed budget and predicated on that this week the legislation was not approved at the budget and finance so we know right now the two-year budget will continue until further changes to the process the mayors budget instructions asked departments for one .4 percent reduction the general fund since we received on $2.5 million it is a small reduction to the department that represents $38,000 next year and $76,000 in 2017-2018 and budget that is in front of you includes those reductions

in the current year this graph shows the year by year increase the building permit and through the ended of december we've had more than 84 hundred encroachment cases overview they project a 13 plus growth in volume from the current fiscal year as you can see the graph the fourth bar to the right a little bit over 14 thousand cases submitted last year this year we're anticipating over 16 thousand cases so about 2 thousands of growth of 2 thousand the budget for 2030 assumes a 4 percent growth and flat in 2017-2018s from the chart regarding the budget for this year that 13 percent growth in

volume translates into a surplus of $5 million that we're expecting in revenue over budget the - that $5 million is used as part of projection for next year's revenue assumption so going into next year budget for 2016 to 2018 on the revenue side of the house the largest part of budget is kcmo composed of fees for building and planning case as you can see to increase from $35 million to over $42.03 assumptions in that number in the $42 million the volume that will continue at the rate that we're seeing this year that $5 million that we're seeing extra will be seen next year and on top of we're

assuming a 4 percent growth and the cpi is 2 housing unit 9, 6 percent the previous 3 years we've not assumed growth over prior years actuals but multi year growth 14 percent and 12 the year before and we always assume in the budget that we will realize the same level of applications but we continue to see year by year growth we'll assume some growth in next year budget and the 4 percent is consistent with what we're seeing other federal, state, and local and the city is a assuming the 4 percent growth in the general fund and the feds are are assuming a 4 percent so the 4 percent is consistent with at

parts of country the next item the grants budget next year the grant assumed to stay stable the 2017-2018 grant we're proposing to reduce by several hundreds thousand dollars that will see from the grant are available two years from now the grant opportunities are vail we'd be appropriate that through the grant accept and expend in front of the board and in a governmental revenues will reduce because of the part time revenue from the transportation authority for geary boulevard and $97,000 for ocii for the revenue work with them and the development impact fees admin fees part of impact fees we collect and implement the impact fee project

programming their projected to remain stable and expe recoveries are recoveries from others city departments that we received for services we provide to other departments their expected to slightly increase and the general funds support is going down by the 1.5 percent reduction that was requested the mayors budget directions let's see on the expenditure does the two major areas wear proposing increased expenditures slayer and fringe and contract the salary and fringe line item it recommended to a one percent increase in benefit rates about one $.4 million of that increase is related to a 3.25 rate increase that the employees ceived october and another wage increase that is coming on july one that was negotiated in

the current union contract with all the collective bargaining unit the remaining of salary increase for the projected positions we're proposing in the budget that i'll detail shortly and the next overhead is charged to non-general fund revenues to grand jury the general fund for the city like progressing the employee paychecks and the services include the contract expenditures we're proposing several million dollars increase in the contract budget to support contract for various issues the property like at civically and the public realm design work and analysis of market and street van ness called the hub citywide feasibility studies. >> housing policy work-related

to the sustainability program and the city to parks program and the technical feasible study our material and supply budget will increase due to maintain and the refreshing of it infrastructure replacing the data and supplies like drives and printer and others equipment and to accommodate the staff our budget analyst report will decrease several projects that includes recent channel connection upgrades and work space expansion to accommodate additional instead of this is proposed to reduce by 4 pointed $5 million for projects that at one time funding like add backs

introduce the board of supervisors phase of budget last year the parks to pavement program was budget at a capital improvement we're budgeting to the contracts line item will go away that ending of the plaza work we received one time document review and budgeted in the current years one time piece of information that goes away and the fees for legal services the rent we pay to the department of real estate and citywide technology support will stay stable over the next two years. >> our grant budget this is the detail of what is constituent next year we're projecting a $600,000 for transportation planning,

caltrain grant for sustainable and other various projects in the department we also annually receive this california historic preservation to do accident survey in 2020 we project by project a grant if the union street epa for a streetscape design. >> this chart shows a breakdown of the department south africa levels as ftes proposed in next year budget the 2016-2017 fiscal year as a reminder fetsd are different from head count the ftes calculations is a function of positions must attrition and others good things are 13wr5uk9d from that the fte it decrease and that

includes 14 point now ftes in the budget as well as excuse me. 3.6 that are annual lists from the prior ized from the prior year. >> and have 200 and 21 ftes proposing to increase to 239 in 2016-2017 and 244 in 2017-2018. >> no i'll go over the summary of new positions requesting 14 ftes in next year's budget is annual listed to additional primarily under 4 initiatives, 7 ftes for project review backlog

and two for new policy work, 2 ftes that analysis for the process improvements and then 2 ftes for community outreach this is the detail of those positions fwlts backlog you'll see that the majority of those proposed positions are in the current planning provision there are two quadrant planners to address permit and volume backlog a design review manager and another planner to do design review and an additional planner to deal with the observation volume and the wireless facilities two planners to work on the environmental review team and one transportation planner the environmental planning division and additional planner

enforcement in zoning under the policy we're proposing 2.31 ftes that annual listed iz 2017-2018 that includes one it was requested by the one planner to work on housing planning work and a planner next year to work on the new transportation demand management and an additional to work on that program under our process and improvements initiative we're proposing two ftes that annualized the 3 positions in 2030 this includes one planner to work on process improvement in the department, and in fact, in our finance office to work on financial support dealing with the increased volume we're seeing in

the department and the graphic artists that provide the graphic artists support to all the departments and finally under the community outreach initiated we're proposing to add 2.3 ftes or 2.12 that annualized to 2.5 neighborhood outreach mr. larkin planner the exclusive office on the community development projects and community outreach an additional community outreach planner to work on the priority projects coming out of the department and then finally more of a took adjustment we received the specialist port commission position in our budget not fully budgeted the last year but fully to an fte. >> and then finally our performance manufacture for the past several years they've been

tracked to share we're discovering services in line with the violation of the department in an effort to improve the measurement of the planning department activities the department began working with the controller's office 0 evaluate your measures this is in concert coyotes controller's office upcoming design with the citywide metric system so we are proposing a series of new performance measures that focus on the high-level output rather than counting the types of applications like how many residential additions or process within certain timeframes and small residential construction programs 100 percent affordable housing projects, community salutation our parklet 0 program we're proposing i won't go through them all but proposing

to report and count the metrics under those various items and finally our budget calendar on the 20 of january we went to the historic preservation commission on the 3rd of february sorry on the 3rd of february yesterday we went to the historic preservation commission and requested a recommendation to approve the budget there is a comment letter attached to your package from the hpc we're here today to provide the budget information to you next week we'll come back to the commission to ask for approval of the budget the difficulty budget to the mayor's office on february 22nd and june 1st, the mayor will submit it the board of supervisors and late july the board will take final action to