option that the gentleman suggested within the purview of this body we can give them less money in order to allow them pronouncing to finish their supplemental document those are the of your choice you as a new commissioner, i think have ever right to spend time not an easy decision and maybe we should look to some of the other new members as to what there will is and perhaps if you need more time to look at it with all due respect to the tjpa executive director he may differ given that high speed rail is not going to get there until if everybody is luke w8 /* /-

lucky. >> i'd like to do that to understand this before i vote on this this is is a multi billion dollars the configuration doesn't make sense we have people analyzing this. >> you know you have more experience you continued is one i'll respect the judgment of the chair. >> it was in committee and came to the full commission and got continued this is the first time it is heard why not hear from commissioner ronen and then commissioner fewer and then visit with staff unless anyone else wants to weigh in commissioner ronen. >> commissioner ronen if you turn that microphone on. >> that would be helpful. >> i'm feeling the same way i have a question for you what

would be the impact if we continued this a month or 2 down the road. >> we have the distributions with the tilly chang in last year and brought it to the commission commissioner peskin had a lot of questions at a time and responded to all the questions if we take another month almost a 9 month delay given we're almost done with phase one i'm eager to move forward with phase two all the allocations is the design for the 40 percent completion and we're not - we're going to wait to finish but not including anything else happening as part of the r e b study for the baby

steps for the project if you look at the r e d you have the alignments of the dtx then the avenue and the third street alignment you work along second street the work on the box and the pedestrian connector for bart if the r e b study stays essays this is the alignment it shown in orange those are extension active and could happen while the dtx is under construction if the 85 percent of the work along second street and the box and the green box as well as the pedestrian connector that work will think e be preserved for the fourth street alignment 0 i urge you to move

forward to continue on the project and come back with the r e b study will be completed next month and adjust as needed. >> one thought before we hear from commissioner fewer perhaps a will to continue this to our next meeting that at that meeting we actually get susan who is in charge of the r a b study to present at the same time to see all of that before we make a decision with regards to this allocation commissioner fewer. >> thank you chair peskin i also would like to see p continued i have a question about the capital actually, the money part of it i actually have more questions about the design

i would feel more comfortable postponing this vote until we get the adequate research thank you. >> thank you commissioner fewer commissioner kim. >> i just want to say i'm glad we have new commissioners on board and think that is important for the four new members to said understand this - and, of course, it is complicated is involves several agencies caltrain and caltrans and high speed rail and the connected for the original terminal project will be the new transportation thank you, everybody, u hub for light rail and the downtown extension and now through many years of

delays and a complete divestment for the transportation for light rail we're seeing phase two continuing despite the fact that a box is constructed in phase one with the terminal ready for the train to come into 9 downtown area i want to see all this happen and the high speed rail in san francisco and in many ways the terminal will help us get there and many want to see this in san jose we have a lot of deinvestigating with the points an alignment that was approved back before i was on the board of supervisors and now there is a question about whether this alignment for the new light rail and caltrain downtown extension i want to currently the new members to understand this project and a lot of questions i think at some point we need to move forward

with the funding on the skwien i'd like to see that happen but acknowledge that i mean this is a complex project and going back in time there were many decisions i would have made about those those two phases would have occurred and recognize the executive director for leading the helm there are there's a lot of moving parts and a lot of actors and players thank you commissioner kim. >> commissioner safai. >> hi yes. i'd like to echo what my colleagues have said new commissioners i think that is important that we're briefed on this i'm sure a lot of requests for funding given the level and magnitude of that project it would be nice to have a better understanding of how that will be looked like and effects the

decisions and have an opportunity we don't need a lot of time but you suggested next meeting give staff the opportunity to come and talk with you individually and then move forward thank you. >> commissioner safai and commissioner tang i wanted to announce the planning department staff reached out to all our offices to offer a r a b tour their take place at 2:30 one of my aids will be going and if any of our legislative aides their meeting at the northwest corner of b street will take an hour and bring walking shoes and end i believe fourth and king the rail yard station if you need another details but that same from the planning department

and i did ask myself to ask the staff to point out this is in the middle of our board meeting most of our staff are otherwise disposed but thank you for appoint and i do acknowledge that is a process that staff wants us for familiar recalled of how we vote on sxheshz for a continues we'll clarify in a second many any role as chair will work with our staff to bring the r a b study head here for our next regularly scheduled full commission meeting for a presentation at least any desire that everyone is engaged is proving true we're off to a good start

maybe the gentleman doesn't feel that way but commissioner sheehy would you like to propose this be continued to the next regularly scheduled full commission meeting. >> yes. i have a a motion by commissioner sheehy and seconded by commissioner ronen colleagues would like a roll call vote on it i'm seeing - >> all right. we are going to take that same house, same call? the matter is continued until februa february 28, 2017, >> allocate prop k funds to the bay area rapid transit for the park station additional scope project subject to the task schedule this is an action item. >> ms. lombardi 0.

>> ms. tilly chang who will make the presentation. >> we went through the programs. >> indeed in any comments from commissions any any public comment? seeing none, same house, same call? the allocation of $653,000 of prop k plus is approved next item, please. >> item 8 approve a resolution from assembly bill to occur the self-driving cars an action item. >> colleagues, i brought this item up and introduced it for a hearing in support of assembly mesh ting one of our assembly members representing san francisco to support his assembly bill 87 san francisco curve and otherwise regulate and propose enforcement relative to illegal self-driving cars i'm sure you read it in your passage

any questions or comments from commissioners seeing none, is there any public comment on this item number 8 seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? the resolution is adopted we have done item number 9 mr. stamos could you please read the next item. >> 10 introduction of new items. >> are there any in any items commissioners seeing none, any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. and general public comment are there any members of the public who would like to make general public comment, sir >> thank you, again supervisors so as you may know we have a new executive chief washington and

the same advocates on the private sector involvement and i'd like to talk about that in context of a new translator there is the way it works in the private sector you have the ridership and we have ripped we've got a two capacity so if you go to the private sector if you build another translator that is a good chance they're going to be taking the new one and even there will be extensive shut downs and that is the private sector will step in your job as supervisors is so work on the book end to make sure that on the san francisco side you're able to make the translator on embarcadero and the private sector will take over you have to work with them and my advice

in oakland to look around the whole plaza it is where you need to go to satisfy the sector that brings us to the dtx because now there is no way to look at those numbers they don't add up okay. but the reason for that we have so many people but if you have traffic in the east bay a lot of traffic will not stop they'll carry on with the dtx, etc. now you may be able to have a meaningful conversation about the dtx with the private sector thank you very much. >> thank you, sir are there any other members of the public for general public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. and we are

>> good morning ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon want to welcome you balk to the land use & transportation thank you sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting thank you leo and nona melkonian i want to recognize our clerk eric can will help us run the meeting smol and i'm

supervisor cohen the chairman and transportation authority jeff sheehy i think this is your first land use & transportation meeting mr. clerk, any announcements? >> yes. electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. >> thank you. >> items acted upon today will appear on the january 31st agenda board of supervisors board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> all right. thank you very much call item one. >> the ordinance amending the subdivisions for the design of a subdivisions for a mc-2 or park map provides for community facilities to each parcel. >> ladies and gentlemen, supervisor farrell is 9 thorough of this item and today jeff here from his office to present welcome. >> thank you supervisor cohen jeff legislative aide to supervisor farrell interest for

hearing this item he's out of town a non-controversial issue i promise to be brief the video services are a part of our everyday lives we view this with the power and services we view the future and make sure that again subdivisions are create on the residential and commercial side those have the supportive for the communication services for the public the policy is straightforward currently our local law no requirement for the invention so for the communicates this ordinance will implement the state law provision that allows san francisco to add that within a subdivisions installation of the infrastructure from a cost and labor perspective is minimal and in some cases raise the value the property given the communication services we want to make sure the necessary

infrastructures are in place to support the technologies that serve our resident and businesses i humbling ask you're support. >> supervisor peskin has a question for you. >> thank you, madam chair the only question? more of a question for the city attorney in as far as the definition of communications service provider references the various state public works codes as section 5840 and plus other sections the one thought i had maybe we want to say as they are defined today so that every time the state changes their definitions this law is not inadvertently impacted. >> sure. >> a technical thought and maybe john gibner, deputy city attorney.

is dealing with his sons class came and visited the board chambers might be able to answer that. >> that's not a bad idea we want to make sure the communications services are by the state and in the approval process to be in the public right-of-way. >> it ammunition. >> supervisor peskin will you be making that amendment. >> maybe before that jet john gibner, deputy city attorney. thoughts on that. >> why not go ahead and seethe to public comment. >> ladies and gentlemen, this is an opportunity for any member of the public to speak on item one, two minutes on the other items on the agenda two minutes a soft chime indicating thirty seconds remaining and public comment is open i welcome you to come up to the microphone seeing

none, public comment is closed. at this time thank you. >> all right. well mr. peskin. >> should we go to the next item and wait for city attorney john gibner, deputy city attorney. and welcome the gentleman back. >> can you get the deputy city attorney mr. clerk item 2. >> amending chapter 41 for the hotel conversion for the redefinition of transit and tourist use and with the low income household. >> supervisor peskin is the author of that item. >> thank you, madam chair for scheduling this item i want to open up the hearing with give you a little bit of background this law is on the books for a long time over a third of a century and fine fwund a quarter of a century ago as the world changes it needs to be fine-tuned again, the district i

represent in the northeast corner of the city is arguably the most historic one that along with the tenderloin houses sit portions of the housing dating back to the 19 century those neighbors have housed the low income longshoremen and the manila town throughout the city seasonal labor depends on the sros for lodging awhile following pay as you go work opportunity sometimes working to support families elsewhere filipino and chinese and japanese in japantown and african-american recognizing from the south found a home in single-room occupancies hotels in san francisco unfortunately,

a wave of demolition swept across san francisco an unwarranted america throughout the united states decimating believe it or not one million sros unit between the mid 19 san jose and 90s to diminish and convert those low income units many into condo and some hotels and to was no exemption in between 1970 and 2000 almost 9 thousand unit were demolished and within 1980 and 2000 i'm sorry 24/71970 and 19802000 were diminished and substantially another 64 hundred and 70 were you converted the country in san francisco didn't the to replace the unit and throughout but united states saw increase in the homeless population as displaced were about pushed

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>> supervisor peskin i want to be added as a co-sponsor many sros remain a source of affordable housing and your 34ur will protect this housing stock and protect low income residents from leaving did. >> supervisor sheehy thank you. >> welcome it's good to see you. >> thank you supervisor peskin for such a detailed and succinct

history of an ordinance been around since 1946 state and local or shortly before the ordinance in 1981 a moratorium the city passed to protect those units that was seeing those residential gift rooms despair there was a housing emergency so for this type of housing that was opted out by then elderly and disabled so as you said supervisor this ordinance has not been amended since 1990, 1992 and been around a while and we do have currently quite a few measures to enforce the ordinance primarily to treat ios residential units if being

xhefrntd there be approximately 20 thousand a little bit less than 20 thousand gift rooms and 5 hundred hotels three hundred for front of the hotels the rest run by nonprofits along with the nonprofit buildings are participate in city programs and the la of the problems are for profit hotels and others conversion of a lot of the residential gets guests rooms this will be addressed and slide

>> artists necessarily the business records they need for tax purposes and other reasons we've in the past seen the coming back of the books, if you will, of records that didn't reflect how the building is operated enough hotel do this they talk about the proper rents this is an important part of the legislation we are doing this for a 7 can i rental if a breeder hotel is out there a lot of them are renting for 7 days

ask for a lot more information we'll have a better understanding and be able to monitor and be fair in the residential for the residential use so there are other issues in the ordinance 3 would be helpful to the department if it is violated one of the things that is taken away a taller change the occupation so have 25 percent of the residential guest rooms that's abuse and if

somebody is constantly not giving an accurate picture they're representing the room on essentially for tourists use as part of investigation will be able allergy to see the significant evidence that will be taken away that is given - create a situation we're not encouraging to the app unquote record we're encouraging them to file the ordinance and preserve the rooms with that, i don't have anything else to add at this point if you have any questions i'll be happy to answer them. >> supervisor peskin. >> if you can explain the preservation fund and the in lui

conversion funds work. >> thank you, supervisor when residential hotels was the cal hotel contaminate i at a time we were looking $50,000 a unit and one hundred and 50 thousand we're told they have research by

the mayor's office of housing those units should be at a point around three hundred thousand a unit without that kind of upgrades to the legislation we're at a disadvantage with the reminded that is needed to preserve those rooms. >> thank you particularly for the seniors and the immigrants for facilities this was a housing stock that

needed to be protected we find we're continuing to lose the units in the 1990s many of you came to us and the organizations to ask for stronger enforcement and allow for nonprofit a point of action to support our city and city attorney's office in suhr we're protecting those units your on the ground and see the units that we see for the protective status it is great to see that over the past two decades this was one of the most important and effective collaboration that the city has with our nonprofits and our community leaders in assuring we don't losses more sro hotels given the immense housing crisis that is unprecedented over the last couple of years we're seeing

that many have never we never thought we'll see the sros rooms of thought it couldn't happen but i think this piece of legislation is an important next step in further the sro conversion ordinance and glad to be a cory represent the district with the most sro hotels i'm proud of the fact that not only do you search warrant this but the strong i did community leaders that helped us to shape this protective through the work you're seeing on the ground and the difficulties you face in lower-income the sro i want to thank the central city thank you and commissioner peskin an others for putting this

altogether before us today role proud to honor your work all right. supervisor kim. >> before you got here supervisor sheehy and i added our names with all due respect we're going to do this ordinarily when that bell rings your time is up thirty seconds a remaining of 30 seconds left from the sro collaborative (calling names). >> so in order to help move in

transition let's cue up and get ready when the speakers speak either microphone works. >> the floor is yours welcome. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> good afternoon, board of supervisors thank you for this space you've given us to express ourselves. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm an outreach working in the mission four sro hotels. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so i'm going to ask the lady to translate you can stand over at the podium. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> my worry agency a outreach

worker in the hotel - >> (speaking foreign language.) >> is that in those times we're losing a lot of the hotels for families use. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and the few that remain are at a high price. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and we know we're living if difficult time and the salary that our families are earning don't allow them to find a place better than what they're at. >> (speaking spanish.) >> they're in small spaces and suffer from mistreatment. >> (speaking spanish.) >> and discrimination.

>> (speaking spanish.) >> so i ask you if you believe that all of our children have the right for dig if i did housing. >> (speaking spanish.) >> why up to now so the has been done. >> (speaking spanish.) >> the right thes of our children are violated. >> (speaking spanish.) >> thanks - thank you hopefully ♪ moment you'll do something on behalf of our families >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi thank you, everyone my name is katie a staff member at the mission sro collaborative thank you for having this space and

hearing us we really appreciate it for the sro collaborative one of the things we go door to door and do the outreach at the sros and help them with each other to build a community i think we have a unique preserve agency on the ground witnesses to this work i'm here to present data if our research that shows we need stronger bombardment i'll speak about 5 hotels in the mission the merry a bell on 19th street in 2015 the report in january 2015 that three filed recorded zero tourist unit and the tropic can has one residential tenant remaining we have booked on airbnb and recorded tourists zero

e line captain have told us everyone is tourist and don't let us in and one of the interesting things they have 43 vacant out of 80 puss rooms in a tourist city like san francisco hard to building those are 3 examples and you know there are more we can can you be where clearly the report so not lining up with what we see on the ground and at the rate this is going in this past two years an 8 percent loss of sro stock in the mission alone not counting loss if market-rate housing but that rate means in less than 25 years all sro housing will be gone with the conversions to market-rate housing that that will be less. >> thank you

is - come down. >> good afternoon. >> born and raised in san francisco, california and currently a mission sro collaborative program corridor and here to say that during this time we ought to be doing everything we can to protect the vulnerable pomths with the families residing in the sro hotel and close the loopholes giving advantageous to landlord and we need to move this to the full board thank you for your time. >> thank you for your work. >> hi good afternoon, supervisors i'm also born and raised san franciscan and currently at mission housing i'm representing

the mission that is a coalition of 20 community-based organizations with social work in the mission and former leader of the sro collaborative and thank you to supervisor peskin for taking the lead and thank you to all the organization that do a lot of the people power work that is needed to bring those problems and bring solutions here as well this is something i was working on when i was at collaborative that was necessary innovative is not an act worthy ever continuation we must find ways to insure that people are supported you must be willing to reexamine the regulations that in times of crisis protects the vulnerable

that legislation not only protects the housing stock but sending a message to those who seek to personally gain the jig is up the mission stands behind those changes and considering you have at me as a cory think things will change thank you. >> thank you next, i have tim. >> (clapping.) >> hi, everyone thank you for being here and thank you to supervisor peskin office for leading this charge of it and i just want to say especially in these times in san francisco is committing ourselves to be a /* skaurng city if you make laws

you have to update them we are going to keep the laws as is for example, if you believe in the alternative that those hotels will build more units if they rent them out you can look at the hearing what will happen verse 6 hotel unit in the central city that hurts because the knew that was pretty much bs the rooms are not confront you need to update those laws to have the facts rather than looking at paper so you know this in addition to the fact that you know if you don't get the hotel owners to you know have the buildings inspected by dbi you know if you don't have

peace things will not get better thank you. >> for the record that was 2 more the >> next speaker, please. >> all right. (calling names) >> thank you good morning supervisors i'm gil dbi commissioner and here to let you, you know on behalf of the commission we thank supervisor peskin office and supervisors that co-sponsors this back in the spring at the commission we were walked through the conversion process we recognized that many of the clauses and rules in chapter four 1 were antiquated and for today's housing market needs to be updated i sent a letter we appreciate the inclusive way that supervisor peskin and supervisor kim's office went about crafting this legislation and many of the secrets cd i

crafted to enforce the laws and help the community we involved sro owners who many of them want to do the right thing and have a shadow cast on in bad operators with a profit and here to say we support support this legislation and thank you on behalf of the commission thank you. >> all right. >> next speaker. >> is tommy oh, please come on up if you want to come that's fine. >> (speaking spanish.) >> good afternoon. i work for 17 years with families that live in residential hotels.

>> (speaking spanish.) >> and this is a kwofrt moment our families having lived in residential hotels. >> (speaking spanish.) >> first, because the rents have been raised x abundantly families used to pay 3 to 5 hundred now 15 hundreds for a one-room hotel. >> (speaking spanish.) >> it's to painful to see that families are suffering so much. >> suffering against great discrimination. >> (speaking spanish.) >> discrimination by the rich and powerful because they're not

thinking about the wellness the children only about they're on benefits. >> (speaking spanish.) >> and i remember 17 years ago in the beginning of any work the conditions were very bad and work togethered with dbi and made a strong effort to make sure those conditions change. >> (speaking spanish.) >> because people with report what is going wrong and dbi can send someone that can help them.

>> (speaking spanish.) >> and now that is conditions in the hotels are better that they are cleaner the rich and powerful do come to take the places of our families. >> (speaking spanish.) >> that's why ladies and gentlemen, of the board of supervisors we ask to come together with you to make changes for the most eventual families. >> (speaking spanish.) >> thank you. we believing in you and want to continue to believe in you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> >> hi tommy from the human

rights committee we're 100 percent in for the support of this legislation and grateful to supervisor peskin for bringing this this is long overdue we've noticed in the clinic as we see tenants come in from sros and reporting what is happening and the fact they can't afford the sros anymore i won't repeat what other people said i'm in agreement with the speakers before this mike i want to add something that is not pointed out yet that is the divorce hotels have always been a place where lgbt folks find a room if you go back not 70 during harvey milk times the sros were for the working-class and especially young people that were they came

here and the sros were their residences before they got an apartment not the case no more unfortunately, because other speakers said the cost of the hotel rooms are high and 40 percent of homeless youth in the city that are lgbt and homeless can't afford a hotel room with the converting of those rooms to hire price is making it more difficult for those folks to get a hotel room i know that everyone is in support and hope it gets quickly we are certainly need it. >> thank you randy shaw. >> thank you supervisor cohen and other co-sponsors and for me who was here in 1980 with a

brawl and battle to net e get any water down version of this ordinance passed and spent every year in the 1980s to get any ordinance passed and wasn't until 1990 they closed the major loopholes that was a process in august of 89, 6 hearings and didn't become law until later this is a change of eludes and people not coming down in opposition if he's a great time for the city of san francisco it is a loanly battle to save the sros looked at people didn't know what sros were every time someone joined the board of supervisors we need to explain you have a no the private kitchen not a private bacterium

and you spend that much money and now you guys get it alice griffith the internet made that forum necessary when we passed the 7 day rental you can't with the internet trying to move ♪ 3 days and everyone else is moving out it is a scam we have to see the change and thank you all and supervisor peskin thank you for your support >> randy part of that process of evolution that has to do with with our team educating people 0 thank you pursue all right. i have

have (calling names). >> hello, welcome. >> hello >> (speaking foreign language.) >> good morning supervisors i'm with the association. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> today, we have tussle over 50 members to attend to close the loophole on the usage of sro and all the members standing

upright behind us. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> we are very much against divorce owner that tries to use many opportunities to convert those residential unit into tourist hotel. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and i was very much disgusted the owner tried to cover up the so-called displacement units that are compatible. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and deliberately leaving

vacant and not renting them to residents making it even harder for immigrants and low income families to find affordable housing. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> to many low income families and in any immigrants and seniors living choosing to live in an sro is not a free choice.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> it is often the only choice for low income families and they have not other choice we don't want tenderloin and the mission turning into areas welcome for tourists the acts of those owners are purely profit and disrespect for residents.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> the very purpose of those lose that were originally to be protect the families and now people using the loophole therefore i ask city hall to look at this problem seriously and approve this amendment and measure thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> thank you good afternoon just for the record davies i live in the sro but i support h across o this is our town not company town i come as a person that lives in a sro that is located with the district but the majority of units including mine have private bathroom believe it or not that means i could be kicked out in a wet street as a

transgender woman i need that more than a tourist that goes out for the golden gate bridge and scarf out double double i saying as a segregated transwoman i'm worried about deputy superintendant will do i shouldn't have to worry about dying on the street and mini tourism i want to say i'm glad supervisors are supporting this coming together to support this i want to say in conclusion don't be trump like please keep marginalized people in their homes. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. >> okay ladies and gentlemen, i hate to rain on our parade we have to no applause rule there we go if you like what you hear give a wave it looks really good if you don't like what you hear

thumps down we appreciate you for that. >> next speaker. >> welcome thank you. >> it's yours. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> hi supervisors good afternoon i'm one of the sro families. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm in full support of the legislation i'm a single apartment in the family i can't afford expenses when -

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> for us without sro unit we become homeless so it is very important we could keep the sro unit and pass this legislation. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> at the same time like all sro families we are seeking

better housing for our kids so we hope that we all work together to push for better housing for all for our children. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> okay

hi, everyone hi supervisors i'm one of the sro families in chinatown i'm in full support of amendment i came to the u.s. in 2005, 2015 a couple of years ago at the time the rent is around one thousand over one thousand dollars for a small room we couldn't find any place it was hard looking for sro unit we have no way of squeezing in our in laws tina sro like matchbox size no room to live no room to sleep however, this is the situation

we're facing. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> okay we have been - i have a lot of friends looking for sros they couldn't get any no room available we're not renting to families with children and then owners are converting some of the sros into tourist

rooms making fewer and fewer opportunities for us to look for even sro housing.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> okay because of the divorce housing even making us the families and people in sros worry about being evicted becoming homeless, even affordable housing out of our reach we have seen 6 hundred 70 size room is about $2,000,000 that's not affordable for the lower-income people it is out a lot of luck -

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> thank you. >> thank you. >> now that - supervisor peskin had come up with that amendment we hope sloan we can pass it and keep our affordable housing thank you. >> (calling names) that's me. >> okay come on down. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm raymond i work for the

market action network some cam bans in the in with sdmaimz district so thank you supervisor peskin for bringing forward this legislation and the rest of the supervisors support in legislation we're also part of sro collaborative i want to talk about the families we serve on the side of south of market the sro conversion is one of the costs and one of the reasons that families are pushed out into the street and that's why families are leaving the city the main reason of gentrification in our neighborhood now you you know we say homeless we're not you know not with an person but families who be homeless we have families you know we've

been trying to help people apply more affordable housing that is a long process it it takes time and years ; right? that's why that is important we protect and preserve our sro housing sro housing is not ideal but over our heads you know it's a good stepping stone families with waiting to get into affordable housing i of the you to thank you for supporting this legislation let's work together and keep our families in that city thank you. >> all right. thank you next speakers i'll have (calling names). >> thank you supervisors thank

you. i'm with the local 2 you know the hotel market we've watched over the last few years its record high as property value that is a growing incentive for owners to convert to tourist hotels doing that would be a tragedy not just for the city but our city hotel industry many live in sro hotels with dozen at cluster of 6 hotels that most recently convert to tourist to push people out of the housing means pushing the workers that keep our economy vibrant and this further exacerbating in crisis that working people have in the town and making our economy at least to function the way and hotel workers desire to live in

the city and residential housing we need to do more to protection this this is common sensend vote this into law. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i'll judah south of market activist as an organizer i help the families apply more affordable housing but because of the high cost of living in the city and the affordable housing for families we end up applying for housing in an sro this is the only source of housing our families can afford so we urge your supervisors to please save our sro hotels and the metrics to prevent owners from converting and on behalf of the families we stand in support

of supervisor peskin legislation thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon committee members i'm kevin i'm a pedestrian safety organizer with the sro alcoholic and in support of hotel conversion i've lived in sros for almost 15 years not glamorous and not socially acceptable housing it is still housing and afford and a lot better than or else on the streets or in a shelter i have nothing against the hotel tourist industry but for the sros unit their threatened to be re7bd out from people not wanting to live in turn and with the homeless in san francisco how can we do that in people will not get into a place to

live i want to thank supervisor peskin thank you for all your hard work and urge you all to support those amendments and save our sro units and stop renting them out to tourists thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> >> (speaking foreign language.) >> good afternoon, board of supervisors my name is a al had an i'm a immigrant and here with the mission collaboraticollabo e

collaborative. >> i'm asking for no more evictions of people so the units are converted for tourists use. >> (speaking spanish.) >> so i've been without a home important a period of time i've been hopeless and thinks how hard it is thankfully i was able to move out of that situation and find a place in a hotel but

i have been kicked out of my hotel room twice and i'm here so that didn't continue to happen in the mission. >> (speaking spanish.) >> so i've been living many a hotel room for two years in the tenderloin but i fear with those rising prices and values of rooms i might lose any housing it will be difficult to find oath place with those high prices. >> (speaking spanish.) >> thank you and hopefully, you can support this amendment we're fighting for, thank you. >> thank you tony rob else after tony a few more cards

(calling names). >> supervisors thank you for introducing this piece of legislation my name is tony i work for seniors and date action seniors have been very hard hit by the affordability and they've shoulder much of the burden of this crisis for many seniors the sro hotels are the only housing they can get and to put that in danger is to

put seniors in danger of being homeless i've seen that scenario happen we know when seniors and people with disabilities become hopeless their lives are very much in danger this legislation and the amendment is very much an issue of common sense a its been a long time coming and it desensitize the illegal conversion and the ramon and other schemes that sro owners and operator have used on their tenants for many, many years and gives dbi the enforcing powers to monitor the sro heretofore and again seniors have and people with disabilities are a hard enough time justice

navigating day to day living issues and having the stress of that they shouldn't have thank you very much. >> thank you teresa. >> good afternoon teresa and i'm today representing north beach tenants committee because the past year and a half people are afraid their lose their sros rooms the new owners or management is not no longer renting to permanent residents or san franciscans rather to tourist they're very worried when they ask about maybe having a senior friend who is looking for a place to live they're told no. we're not doing any more renting but rooms are remaining vacant i want you to know because the communities the sros i'm familiar with in my

neighborhood one in particular was - was sold was bought and attempted to evacuee people and so create a tourist hotel out of this this is where 82 yearly person working as a fisherman his entire life but one person came to his rescue and so i'm glad that supervisors are again coming to the rescue we need to preserve those communities they are community people depend on each other the fisherman and the longshoremen and the sros i'm fume with i know there are families i know there are elderly in other sros also in the neighborhood i'm so glad you're doing something about that remember those are people in the community so let's

keep their homes affordable i also found an ad for the same place where that is actually advertised as a tourist home and $1,500. >> welcome. >> yeah. >> thank you. next speaker. >> ma'am, your glasses. >> teresa your glasses were left up here. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon my name is a dining at manager of the sro collaborative a program of delores street services wire enthusiastically in support of the hotel conversion ordinance amendment we particularly support the new definition of residential rooms from 7 to 3 two days that will

close the loophole that allows tourists to book for 7 days and check out early this is a common practice that sro and landlords use to get around the fact that they have to report all the tourists staying where they are you will probably get environmentalist from any sros and landlord their renting it out to families and i encourage you to visit those sros and met their so-called tenants you'll find what we find a hotel full of tourist and site approaches and no accurate reporting landlord will pay sro tenants they would make them ought to be bad people that don't pay rent landlord have protections against people that violate their lease and sro tenants need

protection that's a fact we work with sro tenants and visit those sros everyday and found that the tenants are thoughtful and working hard families students, children, mothers and arts and people with disabilities they're smart and their politically engaged so we love the amendment to the hbo and thank those who are sponsoring and co-sponsor and will work tirelessly to help our live changing work thank you. >> thank you, thank you. >> brenda washington. >> brenda. >> sorry i got brenda washington up next okay. >> hi good afternoon, supervisors thank you for hearing us today my name is linda washington i'm

with the divorcing collaborative and work with the disabled action also i'm a senior and lived here my whole life a resident of sros that i've been living in permanently for the last seven years and i was around back in the day when randy talked about how they used to shut off us like cattle go to this hotel and that hotel everybody was pushing a cart with their belongings and going back and forth and been on the committee to catch 40e89 people that would renting their room overnight i heard it with my ears and seen it they are trying to get us out it all about money i appreciate me and and companions we get to the bottom

of this we need our sros really, really bad thank you. >> thank you brenda. >> i love brenda. >> all right. >> next speaker. >> come on down. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> good afternoon. my name is merri merriam. >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> it's more much more attractive to lease rooms. >> (speaking spanish.) >> to lease rooms on a short term basis to tourists and students from families that have a lot of money. >> (speaking spanish.) >> one of the things as someone that works in the soma

looking at the critical conditions our families are living under. >> (speaking spanish.) >> where families have the beds and a little bit of clothes maybe a tv and something to eat a refrigerator to eat on top of. >> (speaking spanish.) >> they don't have their basic necessities not a bathroom not a kitchen. >> (speaking spanish.) >> and i really wonder where those families will that have so little resources to be able to

pay a high rent here in san francisco. >> (speaking spanish.) >> and i ask you since you have this in our hands to consider the reality we are living in in san francisco and across the country. >> thank you. >> okay. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. supervisors noimdz a gail and i'm a tenant organizer with the sro collaborative i'm here in support of the divorce hotel conversion like brenda i was on that committee that made phone calls and walked in to the sros that were not supposed to be rent to tourist and they were we

have quite a while it is important for the community and those of us in the sros and those that need to be in sros that we just want 24 law and thank you supervisor peskin. >> thank you, gail. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> cabinet members /* /- good afternoon. welcome i'm sorry a proud member of a sro collaborative a project of the community services i'm here to support supervisor peskin changes and owners of the hotels they need to be held responsible for the h co violations to change this proposal will give the dbi the authority to do just that. >> i'm sorry my notes are kind

of. >> that's okay. >> finances should be increased to insure compliance and measures put in place so the charter services serves the people it is meant to serve with the state of emergency on housing here in the city the city please don't let the residents of san francisco go down supervisor peskin thank you for thank you for all your hard work and hope you guys continue to serve our city well. >> thank you. >> good evening supervisors and listening supervisors i'm asia ac e i have big, big problems with those bogus vendors that are managing those

sros i only recovering from surgery general hospitals so all the policymakers's know i'm getting housing when i get the application it stops because of the sro and over 15 one of the owner is standing up there acting like he didn't know who i'm talking about randy shaw with 13 or feinstein buildings one of the biggest reciprocates of this funding and most are landlord and landlord now the thing i was at rowland was one of the boater ones managers and people got stabbed i told randy i'll not pay another damn dime until they pay for mine and

people are evicted and ax ace was going to pay but randy said i refuse to pay the money for ace so i am so sick and tired of all the developers and the city and county funding people hundreds of misdemeanors for people they don't give a damn i'm speaking for the residents and mine and randy shaw i don't know why you funded them i'll further any investigation to show the investigation of the sros thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon land use and transportation i'm randy a community organizer and a sro

collaborative to support the amendment and actually give any time to michael. >> thank you, roy appreciate that. >> my name is a michael harrington work with the san francisco collaborative those on church street i'm also one of the people that were making phone calls to try to catch the 40e89 owners renting to tourist i live in an sro and blessed to see one i don't want to go back on the street we need to update the rules and regulations. >> thank you fernando is the last card anyone else that wants to speak please do so quickly come up to the podium and last call for (calling names). >> good afternoon corey smith on behalf of the housing coalition.

we're supportive of the legislation thank you. >> next speaker >> good afternoon, supervisors and thank you for prorng in legislation i'll fernando with the community counseling organization and want to point out that the definitions for the comparable units with the housing developers is important as we saw in the hotel conversion attempt in the beginning of the end of last year that when potential conversion units are presented they actually become low income unit that are defined in the amendment that are represented to you for example, that proposal that came before the planning commission was proposing as the conversion a project that was presented on their website as a project that would before ma illegal units

here at the pretty much for the 21st century urban user group folks that live in the tenderloin in south of market in the mission and sros we need to create housing that serves those folks thank you. >> thank you very much please last speaker come on up. >> good afternoon. i'm raul hernandez i'm here representing the divorcing uniteed collaborative thank you, supervisor kim and others for in legislation and we are facing an unprecedented housing crisis in the city that is not nudes we have more than 3 thousand plus homeless children in san francisco unified school

district the sros are a last resource now it is there becoming a hot commodity because the gentrification of profits the city is facing we are here to provide our only conditional support and thank the department of building inspection for the support of our sros thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen, public comment is closed. at this time supervisor peskin thank you supervisor sheehy and for all the moving testimony and testifiers thank you one and all i have one tina technical minor amendment on page 6 at line 21st and would like to make a motion that we strike the last 4 letters on that line so that that ends at permanent resident

and perspective permanent resident. >> without objection that legislation passes and like to send the item as amended to the full board with a positive recommendation for hearing next tuesday, january 31st, 2015. >> all right. without objection we accept that motion thank you. >> thank you supervisor peskin. >> (clapping.) >> congratulations for all the hard work. >> all right. mr. peskin madam clerk bring item one. >> ordinance for the subdivisions code to require the subdivisions for the map parcel map with the communication services building for each parcel. >> thank you, madam chair. >> after a brief side chat with john gibner, deputy city attorney. i have not had a chance to speak with the office of maker i'll

i'd like to suggest we insert some language that says as those 3 public utilities commission code sections maybe amend from time to time er words at that effect if mr. gibner will incorporate into the matter i'll make that a motion for item number one. >> motion accepted and that motion carries unanimously thank you all right. madam clerk >> item 3. >> no ma'am, minute recess thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone we are going to come back into session thank you mr. clerk i think the last item of

business item one i think we introduced the amendment and we accepted the payment but doesn't vote on the item as amended that's correct. >> could we get another motion and take a vote. >> madam chair as far as i made the amendment i'd like to move the amendment to the full board with a positive recommendation that item passes thank you all right. madam clerk item 3. >> amending the planning code for a transportation demand management to require the development projects with the design features for the port of sustainable forms of transportation. >> i'm the author this is the third consultant of sustainability program that is aimed to improve the transportation program as the city will accommodate for new

growth the planning department and mta have been working on this program for two years what we have is the result of a robust outreach progress by the planning department and mta staff with the public and transportation advocates developers and stakeholders so colleagues supervisor peskin you may recall supervisor sheehy we heard this item we continued this item brown from december since then the planning department and mta and my office have been working to resolves the outstanding issues i'll be introducing a number of false imprisonments amendments resulting in light conversations but first want to acknowledge the team of the planning department and we want to recognition mta staff who have been working on this program and done an

incredible job thank you very much and now want to bring up our director of the planning department director rahaim he gave me a frown i don't know maybe he's not illustre after director rahaim we'll hear from sinking from the mta board and commissioner were you sheryl and now wade. >> with craft from the planning department that will be making the presentation wade we'll call you up last. >> thank you. i'm john rahaim with the planning department and thank you for working with us i would like to thank our partners at the mta and the ta both of

whom have been involved in the process and thank you for a lot of work this is how we address the transportation impacts from the new development as you pointed out the 3 part strategy that included the changes to the fee structure and second changes how we analyze the impacts and this is the 3rd of a way of addressing the demand for transportation that is created by new development so as you pointed out we've had a lot of outreach over the weeks to address some of the final concerns from many members of the community we're at the point the stakeholders are in general agreement and further discussion the legislation before you sets out the policy and regulatory framework for the tdm, if you

will, the memo of items that the developers may choose from it maybe amended overtime they did on thursday fact of the matter made changes to the program they approved a few months ago we believe those amendments will alleviate the concerns from a small subset of projects that are small projects and large projects that were coming out i caught in the program as we defined it so we do think that it - we're at the point we'll urge you to move forward given the transportation challenges that we face and the growing number of promotions that are coming online we hope to get this online to address did transportation amendments from those projects and move forward so with this i want to introdch

brinkman from the mta. >> thank you supervisor cohen and supervisor peskin and supervisor sheehy i'm cheryl brinkman i'm now the chair of the program there's been a lot of changes to the program since you last heard from us in november or december that addresses the concerns again say what sets this program apart a few things the flexibility this ordinance calls on point the fact of the matter for the flexibility of how they're met to respond to the specific projects concerns and it is responsiveness the ordinance is built to be responsive to the city's landscape it changes a lot of

everyday we'll make the - we're committed to incorporating new information and keeping this program up to date like many of the programs and policies and projects at the sfmta that will be a living program and make changes as we go it has a commitment to monitoring with the developers moved to be held accountable for the demonstration of ongoing compliance but the city with the enforcement to make sure the projects follow through on the commitments and the transparency never before has the public the neighbors and others and the concerned individuals have as much sight into this and a new interactive online tool will help to do that and morning aside from reducing the trail

miles reduces the green house gas emissions and promotes active months of transportation and with the vision zero by reducing the number of vehicles on road i ask we move forward as quickly as possible the sooner we can see the benefits on the transportation system and keep up with the growing city thank you for your time thank you, thank you. >> well, wade wait craft oh. >> no problem. >> hi, thank you chair cohen and supervisors cooperate for the transportation authority and wanted to add our voices to with the executive director tilly chang sends her apologizes she can't be here she's in negotiation with caltrans torso we're proud to be here with the

colleagues if a breeder strong interagency team that develops this ordinance and programs we greatly appreciate the work we've been able to do with the mta and folks with the city attorney's office and making sure that all of the dot all the i's and cross the t's this is really a program san francisco, california be proud of both because that is already stronger in and of itself and because it has several ways to make sure that it keeps improving over time i'd like to add two main points to one director rahaim and director brinkman made first is cost effectiveness we oversee the sales tax we pay attention to the cost effective of the public investments and we know that people who have transit passes will use muni more and people with the bike lanes are those so

to people that live and work are going to make your transportation system work better and reducing the impact of the growth from both traffic and a carbon stand point the second on monitoring and elevation evaluation as a county km a the transportation authority will support the implementation of the tdm through the monitoring and evaluation like in the design of the program we're committed to bring a focus in a performance based approach we are confident those will continue with the investments and the transportation services emerge so finally join any colleagues and ask you to implement that as

soon as possible thank you. >> jeff i've got one the question if i may madam chair. >> absolutely. >> let me start by saying we are i think all pleased to see a collaboration between 3 agencies that are truly independent of one another obviously the mta which has its own independent charter and the transportation authority that is actually, the other hat that the board of supervisors wears as commissioners that actually is a subdivisions of the state of california and not part of the city and county of san francisco and uses separate legal counsel what have you and i'm not trying to be knit picky i don't think we wearing our board of supervisors hats can actually as a matter of planning code law

commit to separate sate agencies to anything that says shall we can encourage i think - i realize the deputy city attorney represents the board of supervisors not that transportation authority commission but i think the language on page 13 i don't think that i'm not a lawyer trying to play one on tv i don't think that is legal the ta can do it in the absolute authority but at the top of page 13 that the city and county of san francisco can bind the transportation authority in fact, of policy that's we don't want to break that precedent either attorney. through the chair. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney. got a couple of different versions so page 13 it says

every 4 years following the report of ta. >> uh-huh. >> the planning department shall prepare a report containing the same information so the board can direct the planning department to take actions throw by ordinance and could make those conditional on the ta actions but as you said the board can't direct the ta. >> your read is the shall applies to planning but not to the county transportation authority. >> is that correct? >> okay. perfect. >> thank you for that classification john gibner, deputy city attorney. >> wade come on up and begin the presentation thank you. i think you provided a copy for us; is that correct. >> good afternoon wade planning department staff and as you heard i'm once again here

with a great interagency team has been discussed i'm not going to go over this at length this element this component of the overall transportation sustainability program is the last to be adopted of this program we had two hearing and seeing none, hearings and i was asked to look at this we've heard and building we have done that. >> just a reimbursed this shifts from sro trips to the option this occurs through the lovely acronym transportation demand management or tdm and/or onsite amenity and programs for new development this program reduces the amount and distance of the vehicular travel for new development and therefore the goal to reduce vehicle miles

traveled the program has received unanimous support from the planning commission both in august originally and then with amendments look various other boards and commissions as well other advocacy grasps as director brinkman referred to the initial goal to reduce the miles traveled but other additional benefits like the vision zero goals because every mile we rows if driving is less traffic exposure particularly for our month vulnerable citizens and those walking and bike i'll go over the 3 program basics as we've gone over this before but the program will basically have 3 basics and those basics will live in what's called the tdm standard that is

referenced in the ordinance which the planning commission has the authority to adopt and easement over time the first basic component a point that every project needs to achieve that is unique to each project the points the fact of the matter will be achieved through project sponsors selecting transportation transportation demand management measures with a memo of options and so through the reflection of those measures will create a tdm plan for their projects the memo has 66 options for importance to have flexibility how they create the tdm plan and etch option is assigned a point value that is point driven not policy driven based on how effective those measures reduces

the vehicle miles they reduce the vehicle miles to an extent some more so than other the few look at the bottom of the slide thing on the low range that reduces and points with commercial development to the more memoranda and to provide for bicycle beyond what the code required and then on the high-end one of the most effective tdm measures to reduce the parking supply and the third component of the program and maybe the most important is the implementations strategy so there are two parts this is the first is that we would evaluate and update the program over time based on research that we do so we want transportation demand

management a come a time field we want to be nimble and update reflect that the second part you've heard the program standards will have a pro-active monitoring and reporting this occurs through a preoccupycy site and reporting and once every 3 year site audit this consists of an ordinance that sets the policy that director rahaim talked about the box for the program the regulationsism will live in the tdm standards i mentioned earlier the ordinance just references the creation of those standards the tdm program standards are

living documents and they are created and amended by the planning commission they are not subject to the boards approval today but they implement the policy that will be and so forth in the ordinance which is before you. >> and they include those 3 basic components the point, to death the memo of opposition and the implementation strategy this document as mentioned was adopted by the planning commission in august and then we had some amendments that were adopted last week and again, this document is a living document and can be amended over time by the planning commission and the reign we want the document to be updated over time to reflect new research and to address the significant comments to make sure the program works and that's exactly what occurred last thursday

these - this slide summarizes the amendments made at the planning commission last thursday we transmitted this morning or afternoon the resolution and staff report from that commission hearing i'm not going over those but to point out something future that director rahaim pointed out that the program prior to last thursday worked for the vast majority of projects and the amendment we're making were dealing with the projects at the margin and some amendments to individual measures. >> in terms of next steps staff plans on posting those amendments tdm online and those maximums will be incorporated into a web-based version of the tool we realized released for the decision

makings to see how the program works the toll is a some version we plan an incorporating those from last week into that in terms of the legislative process obviously you're aware we hope to go to the full board after the committee hearing and then when the ordinance is effective really we all consider the fun will begin we'll hire staff that has been approved in prior years budgets and do initial evaluations to make sure the program works and we would evaluate and amend the program standards over time with the planning commission this is again, a living document that insures the program works with that, that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any questions thank you, thank you colleagues in any questions.

>> why don't we open up for public comment ladies and gentlemen, come forward and public comment in some amendments i'll take into the record after comments. >> how do i switch to the overhead awesome i'm jonas from the hayes valley association we cautiously enforce the transportation demand management program before you but reject that the two amendments that went through the planning commission last week, we don't think that was in the right direction we on the tdm ordinances was too generous on parking parking is the strongest tool in transportation demand management so we were appointed to those those go through the

commission as a living document an ordinance that will be revisited that i urge the city to look at the baseline for the parking right now it is 13 points for the first 20 parishes and go up one point i'm going to get into the weeds this is market octavia you've got thousands of new parking spaces coming in here and i don't on the planning department if you look at the eir for example, for one oak understand this generates car trips to the 101 ramp to the south bay the methods right now are not picking up they're old methods used in transportation analysis that really underestimating the impact of this parking space