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tv   Mayors Press Availability  SFGTV  February 13, 2017 6:40am-7:01am PST

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terms of supply and demand and the the president of the merchant associations is seeing how much is coming online we have all those have a doubt spaces not a supply and demand problem but a demand the supplies is enabling we have - the rents are decreasing i'll trying to figure this out in the remain are plat toad brought more online and the spldz we should see that in retail we're not seeing it in my neighborhood and another discussion in the mission a lot of the issues i read in the report resonate me we'll have floor plates of operability that are vacant but small floor plates 3 thousand
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square feet or less i put that in context of the pbs with a retailer of 10 thousand location one other thing i've spent the last two weeks in new zealand i cringe had i look at the newspaper and see yet another bizarre in washington, d.c. we're becoming the (laughter) stock of the world people come up and say are you an american i want to say i'm a canadian or californian one the things i want to why am i bringing this up we as a commission are not partisan i think this act money and the utopia in washington, d.c. we in california don't have to be a part of how we act as an
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commission and really sets the standard for people to say we want to function like them not out of washington i want to say that from two weeks away out of the country. >> thank you commissioners, if there's nothing further, we'll move on to department matters director's announcements. >> thank you jonas no new announcements today thank you. >> item 8 review of past events of the board of supervisors is no board of appeals report the historic preservation commission did not meet yesterday. >> good afternoon aaron starr manager, legislative affairs with supervisor president london breed's organization a must hotel and motel to gave him with the tragically the outreach will be prior to any approval they met on
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january 5th and recommended approval with modification it will contempt the hotel and motels this modification was included in the ordinance another land use and transportation committee no public comment and the committee members had a few clarifying questions they accepted the proposal and recommend to the full board next on the agenda an ordinance by supervisor kim allow arcades in the south of market and the eastern neighborhoods mixed use commissioners you've heard this on october 29th of last year and recommended approval to limit the ordinance for sli zoning district after the supervisor indicated to limit the ordinance to the sli district due to public outreach because of formatting and drafting the city attorney recommended the item be
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continued for one week to address those issues last an that is agenda two ordinances related to 950 market street to construct affordable housing and one that allows the city to accept this they considered this last year at the same time considered the entitlement for 950 market the commission made 3 requests the first is whangz to the ordinance and one to strengthen the link between the - and the benefits will be delivered with the land dedication to the city supervisor kim made both of the requested amendments to the ordinance the third request for additional information the commission thought a better understanding the project costs and revenues as well the affordable housing to be delivered under the existing law
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and under this proposed law typically they meet the codified and standard housing or the commission reviews an agreement with the fiscal under the influence with oewd in response to the planning department request staff had information provided by the project sponsor and mohcd the members considered this with the ordinance and without the ordinance that contained 31 bmr units with $14.7 million to the project sponsor with 68 smaller offsite bmr will yield 17 during the land use supervisor kim expressed comfort in a funding quest for the mohcd to build the housing units and the deal
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appeared to have an additional value of $2.4 million supervisor peskin and supervisor farrell expressed disappointment in mohcd for not vetting the impact more thor the committee voted to continue is one week for staffs additional formation at the full board this week some good news the transportation demand management mass the second reading on its way to the mayor and last week, a few introductions that were not published in time for this hearing first, the planning code for the accessary dwellings sponsored by supervisor peskin and also a resolution for the compton cultural district in the 50 market a hearing by supervisor tang on streamlining of restaurant permitting processes, and there was a hearing request for housing for families are children sponsored by supervisor yee that will take place on miracle 7 and the board
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for the community as a whole and finally a hearing for the transportation demand management sponsored by supervisor yee, supervisor fewer and supervisor cohen that concludes my remarks. >> thank you mr. starr. >> my commissioner questions or comments. >> seeing none, we can refer next item. >> under general public comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest 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 the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may i have one speaker card for georgia wishing and ms. swedish. >> good afternoon. i want to apologize wleerng hear i brought
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the r d g by commissioner vice president richards in the early winter of 2014 wanted to have a combination i said where does that fit in with the budget i said 25 years that only 14 i apologize it is great you'll be doing this in the fall thank you for that information here is something i kind of go forward it at first but at the top can i have the overhead, please? a demolition well, not a demolition an alteration hello sfgovtv narrow here it is it is not on. >> here i'll give it to you it is - okay anyway an alteration and the 311 i mean on alteration
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according to the 311 but there it is a thing on the top and nobody - there it is i thought i'll bring it up we'll talk about 317 this year. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment general public comment. >> commissioners good afternoon mary gallagher the earlier, you voted on what i'm thinking of an expedited consent calendar but norman when a dr is filed 3 to 6 months down the road sometimes the dr is withdrawn when both parties afford a lawyer and in the dr filers can afford a lawyer this leads some filers to avoid that the consent calendar allows the parties to come to an agreement
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on the building envelope and bring the changes before you on the consent calendar and enforced by the city not by the lawyers in court animals there are private agreement private sponsors and attorneys want as many hours and possible but dr filers will not have to pay an attorney they get the assurance the changes will be enforced by the city and a record on the proper information act this is an incentive for the dr filers to set they get a hearing as soon as the will agreement is reached in closed hearing that to say the sponsor must avoid a dr hearing this answer as mentioned - it is an unusual event the third party pulls a
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case off the consent calendar for a fire chief hearing what would have happened if not a settlement i want to thank jonas for getting this going it may result in addition settlements allowed the 431 caesar chavez's to be heard today monopoly has to use that process the initial case report online didn't explain the agreement and this happened because the department didn't have a comprehensive detailed staff of procedures and had a set of procedures existed so where just want overseeing procedures with the new template for the case report and instead it was me saying hey
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this case report thank you, mr. ionin and others in my opinion in order for a public agency to function with consistency and transparency needs a detailed pubically available procedure maybe you can put this in the work program thank you for your time. >> thank you, ms. gallagher. >> next speaker, please. >> glimpse commissioners i'm denise i live in san francisco in district 3. >> this is my second time here i am here bugs going i don't approve the unmarked cars driving through taylor street up that grade across from the center do you know how many people get
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hit pedestrians everyday a huge safety issue i no longer feel safe crossing the street at the corner of california crossing california from taylor and huntington paperwork i want to see my dog friends my husband is 6 two and he's not with me to help me cross the street if we like it feels like a video game you don't understand this is a dangerous dangerous place when the hbo came to town it is way too dangerous we need it to have police officers and chief of police officers and arrest people for speeding and continually running the lights
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and almost hitting the pedestrians and he didn't have a leadership number that's why no leadership the uber drivers are taking off the leadership understanding running around it is ridiculous - this is ridiculous i don't understand why you approve this i'm disappointed now i am two afraid to leave the house i came for my neighbors i've bypassing been hit by a car walking to school that was years ago it is not a fun experience i'm lucky to be alive i want to stop assuming the people will follow the rules and please, please, please put
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chp on the corner please arrest people thank you for your time and remember not unring a bell and you owe to residents not just residents but people thank you for your time. >> additional public comment general public comment. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> a couple of points to the speaker that talked about i understand the department is on the verge of time progressing we've put in the budget for last year but there the city processes has taken longer and want to get it condition in place for tand the speaker that talked the z not our domain appreciate you bringing that up and supervisor chiu legislation for d one in the colonial for
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commissioner wu and supervisor peskin thank you next item josh. >> commissioners under our regular calendar item 2 for case 964 - 966 oak street this is a conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon commissioner wayne planning department staff the item before you is a request for a conditional use to legalize on existing housing unit that is operated without permits since 2000 the project sponsor is pursuing funding from the mayor's office of housing and community development small site program to convert the property into portal affordable housing for existing and future
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tenants the project doesn't propose construction only for the existing conditions since the time of the packet published it was published we've received one public comment in opposition the staff recommends approval with the app bilk zoning and will create permanent affordable housing i'm available to answer any questions. >> thank you. is the project sponsor here. >> you have 5 minutes. >> good afternoon tyler from the san francisco land trust we're here to answer questions we're simply trying to legalize the property so just a to get the proper label on that have a nice day. >> commissioner moore. >> i'm in full support.
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>> i'm sorry, i didn't take public comment any public comment? >> i'm in full support and want to hear about the background hover on drawing a-3 i understand it is a drawing for 10 bedrooms in the center of the plan is are two bedrooms that create one bedroom that doesn't follow the code that's the bedroom that if have my access to regulation and light and my suggestion is that if those bedrooms would be flipped to share half of the bay in the direction this a cab conducted it to not based on a bedroom. >> i couldn't agree more i should have clarified the mayor's office of housing and community development asked us
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to legalize all parts of project including the physical department you're talking about today all we're asking to do is clarify we have not solved all the problems we've been coming back. >> thank you for the support to adapt traditional floor plans to this amount of bedrooms is difficult but if nothing else we'll support this housing sidewalks. >> thank you move to approve commissioner johnson. >> commissioner koppel commissioner melgar commissioner moore commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president hillis so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to
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zero. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, commissioners on item 9 for capier 70 mixed-use district project a draft report please note the written comments accepted until february 21st, 2017. >> good afternoon commissioner president hillis and members of the commission i'm melinda planning department staff the item before you is a review and comment on the pier 70 mixed use project draft environmental impact report or draft eir pursuant to the california environmental quality act or ceqa and san francisco's local procedures for implementing procedures the item before you to receive the comme