seniors is something that's been important to all three of us and in fact if you are happen to have time tomorrow and i'm having a hearing on residential care facilitys and impact up and down whether it's acute care and so fourth and someone already has more focus hearing last week and this week and but what i'm looking is to see what is the city can do to reinforce that trend of loosing on these bids in the city fur interested and you are more than welcome and i'd like to make a motion forward with for a positive recommendation to the board. >> i second that. you need to amend the motion to approve the mayor's nomination. appointment first. >> ok moved.

>> so second amended with the board with positive recommendation appointment of mr. michael pappas to the adult and aging services commission. with that objection. thank you for your service commissioner pappas. >> thank you very much. any other items. >> that concludes our business for today. >> motion to adjourn. >> excuse me. >> that is not on today, sir. >> one.

>> commons 3rd thursdays is a monthly event series really activate service center and un plaza food and music and other social activities oil stephanie the vice president of operations for this. >> in 2016 an initiative called the service center launched an effort by a bunch of the city agencies along with institutional stakeholder and community partners to have a program that is how to get people out here on a monthly and weekly and daily basis. >> my name is a - i'm with

the program manager and also commons 3rd thursdays will have live music important in the. >> the city approached us to provide food and beverages at the event kind of the core anchor to encourage attendees to food gives people a reason to stay i really like this like it is really nice like everybody is having a good time. >> our goal to enjoy the space and eat and drink and listen to music we wanted to inspire people with the un plaza as a place to hold they're community events. >> it is a great way to get people to know about global music and cuisine a great way to bring people together. >> a natural beautiful backdrop the asian art museum and . >> it is welcoming.

>> two more events left in the series so, please come and enjoy and check it out we're having a great time. >> we love our city being a san francisco based on company it was important to engage request san franciscans and tourists alike. >> we want to inspire people and everyone interested in providing and coming out for a large or small-scale event reach out to the commons 3rd thursdays and we'll direct you're seeing to the right people to get to >> all right, good afternoon, what a beautiful day it is in our city and every year around this time, we see more visitors who are coming to san francisco to shop. we are a destination shopping

place for people and while everyone is shopping we want to make sure that you have a really great and enjoyable experience so today we'll talk go all the additional resources and things the city is doing to make sure that experience is the greatest one can you have and do your shopping for your family and all the people you shop for and just last week, we actually had the lighting ceremony for the snow flakes and as we go in to the holiday seasons, there's several more events that will be taking place and most importantly, is to make sure while you are down here that you feel safe and that you really enjoy what you are down here for and so at public works department, we are going to be adding a lot more addition al resources here downtown especially from the hours from 11:00 to 9:00 you will see more street cleaners

around here to make sure that you know when you walk around everybody is clean and your trash cannes are clean and we'll add some additional steam cleaning and night crews will be here making sure that the city is presentable for the next morning and so we're going to do everything we can to make sure the downtown area is nice and presentable and you will hear from our police chief he is going to talk a little bit about safety and the man who heads this and the man who started this program 17 years ago when we started with nordstrom there was a small group started this during the holidays is no one other than our mayor ed lee, please welcome here. [applause] thank you, muhammad, mr. clean. you know the theme of course every year in association with our union square association our chamber of commerce were here today is that we want people to experience safe and clean holidays and so yes, we'll

invite and union square attracts millions of visitors every year and they're not going to ever get less because this is just a center piece for our city and so we expect hundreds of thousands of people to be here over the next four weeks and it adds over $6 million just in the next four weeks to our economy and it works because our police department is very alert and of course they're going to give a lot of hints out but people just have to be smart when they're bringing their families and their friends in from town down here just be alert and listen to every piece of advice that the chief, his commanders, his captains and staff because they're walking this beat along with all of our wonderful, beautiful, red embassadors that are behind us. [applause] and they're a delight to have and they've been growing over the years to accommodate all the families and people that are down here with information

guides about where to stop and where to get the best bargains right and also, just being here at this winter wonder land i know karen is excited because this wonder land grew out of the need to have a place that was outside of the construction immediate zone or to change that zone for the holidays so john is glad to do this more tor yum and we'll talk about extended construction later on and during the central subway construction, i think we used our innovation to really work together to invite people down here and hose up that construction for a period of time which starts now and won't end until after the new year but this is calm and quiet and you will hear less about construction and more about the voices of our family and kids and people just excited to run through here with all the

activities on winter wonder land we're here to make sure it's not only safe but clean, welcoming environment, helpful environment and there were be hundreds of thousands of people down here thankful a wonderful fund and we're encouraging everybody to take advantage of this winter wonder land and all the excitement that happens and also shop locally and make sure you spend time and all your merchant corridors is this is a center piece of it and it's also clean and fun and making sure everybody is safe so congratulations everyone, and for all those that are going to be visible, thank you because the visibility of the officers on the beat will calm everybody down and just be alert no matter what part of the city you are in and drive safely and don't drink

and drive, thank you. >> thank you, mayor lee, we can't do all the great work we do without this partner is our fine san francisco police department they work with us and they make sure that we are all of us in the city are protected but most especially the work that the public works department does and i have to say for the many years i've worked for city government, our chief who joined us the way he is running the department and changing things and everything is working better so i appreciate that and i appreciate that partnership you know, welcome to scott. [applause] >> good morning, thank you. so i'm going to repeat a couple things that have been said and first of all, this is my favorite of time of year because the mol day season is it about

tradition and family and community and none of this can happen without us as a community i'm talking about city partners, the department of public works and the public-private partnership we have with the bids and the embassadors it has to work together so i want to talk about a couple things about our traditions and one of our traditions that we want in this city and we must have is that when people come here from where they come from and they come here from all over the world, we want them to have a safe experience and a safe and clean experience and i was out here on saturday night with my family i had a great time and i got here too late for the beer garden but i was off duty. i was off duty and i missed the beer garden but he had a great time with my daughter and she brought a friend from out of town and it was a great time but more importantly, what made me so happy is that i saw the city working like it should be working. we had officers everywhere they were engage and we had people

cleaning the streets and it worked like it was supposed to work so that's what we want to promote. we want to promote a tradition of safety, cleanliness so people enjoy their time when they come to san francisco and they enjoy the experience so they bring their families and their friends and couple of things of safety tips and some of this is basic and you will hear this repeated, we don't want anybody's holiday season to be torn apart by being victimized of crime, so a couple of things, first of all, when you are doing what you do shopping or just enjoying the city, take a break from the cellphone if you are going to use it use it responsibly and pay attention to your surroundings i know this is a life line but pay attention to your surroundings i can't emphasize that enough. also, when you are shopping, when you carry around your package and when you are using

the a.t.m., again, pay attention to your surroundings, if you are using your a.t.m. and putting your pin number in make sure you shield it so people can't steal your pin number and make sure if you are going to your car, that you don't leave your valuables open where people can see them and get to them and break in your car and steal what you worked so hard to buy and that is a basic thing but you would be surprised just how many people forget to do that if you return to your car, get some thought to move your car to another location and sometimes people that are out to do harm they will watch you put your packages in the car and you resume your shopping and come back and your things are gone so make sure you do that and the mayor mentioned that we want people to have a safe experience when you walk across the street and a simple thing, obey the law , obey the traffic signals, don't cross against the red

light, don't cross against the red hen this is a simple thing but you would be surprised how many people don't take that simple advice one of our goals here in the city is to reduce pedestrian and fatalities and that is a simple thing that will help in that regard and also if you are driving the mayor mentioned it, this is a season of festivities and there's a lot of spirits and a lot of good spirits around but you don't want to do that and get behind the wheel of your car because that's not going to help anybody and it's probably going to hurt more than it helps so if you are going to drive, drink don't drive and be responsibility with your use of alcohol in terms of your shopping habits, it's always good to have someone with but, also with your packages if you happened to have packages mailed to you from where you are

maleing them from make sure that you understand there are people that will steal your packages so i was at may see's so coming is delivered this week but i want to make sure i take precautions to let me neighbors know that things are coming or whatever so people will look at for each other. look out for your friends, neighbors and watch out far each other and again this is a community season so it's all about caring about and looking out for others and being responsible in whatever you decide to do this holiday season so thank you. [applause] >> thank you as the chief said, awareness is everything so you should always be aware where you are at and what you are doing. if you need to make a phone call if it's an emergency, call 9-1-1

and if it's a quality of life call 311 and we'll respond. nothing happens without the partnership of the community and the next person i will introduce i've had the pleasure of working with throughout my time at public works but her work in the private sector forming many of the community benefits district and they create the embassador program that we see here that is here to help people but they also make sure that the areas are clean, they make sure they're free from graffiti and 9 downtown is pren able and welcome from the business improvement district. [applause] >> thank you so much and welcome everyone inform union square and our second annual winter walk we're so delighted to have you here and i'm executive director of the union square business improvement district and we strive to create a positive experience for all the visitors who come down here and clean and

safe is our montra during the holidays. i would like to thank the mayor ed lee for your leadership on clean and safe issues all year around and muhammad may have mentioned i had the pleasure of working for mr. lee at the maintenance yard so we were cleaning up the streets then and we're still cleaning up, right mayor? and i had the opportunity to work with muhammad at the yard and still today and muhammad, thank you for your partnership year around and this area has never looked better and we thank you so much for sending the fix- it team down here we've been working with sandra and paint the polls and remove unwanted furniture from sidewalks and paint crosswalks and it should look really great for the holidays down here so thank you and of course, we have beautiful hanging baskets now thanks to muhammad and the gateway here to union square which is never looked better with the holiday lights so thank you and last but

not least, i can't forget our partnership with the san francisco police chief chief scott has been an incredible partner this year giving us additional beat officers we're up to eight officers that walk the beat every day work very closely with all of our embassadors here in red to create a strong public-private partnership together so we believe we may have some funding coming through my staff has worked hard on filling out paper work to also allow for police officers, if i say that and everyone collectively cross your fingers on that one so, good news to come and it is my pleasure to lead the staff here of our public safety hospitality and cleaning embassador standing right behind me in red so look out for them during the holidays and they're here to answer questions and point the direction to tourists to shops and restaurants and let them know where they're going and they help with quality of life issues and they wipe off from

gee tee and they sweep and paint and hmm the city comes through and additional resources on the cleaning side on the safety side it's just amplifying our effect even that much month sore we can make union square shine so come on down for the holidays here in union square, shop, enjoy the restaurants and the winter walk will be opened every day from now until new years from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. we have two beer gardens this year we've got food trucks as you can see behind me and reindeer scooters bring the family down and, shops so come down and enjoy a wonderful, safe, holiday season. thank you. [applause] >> thank you are, karen. and outside of the shopping season, there's a lot of projects on the drawing board and if you have gone down to holiday plaza you might see plantings down the rail and there's decorations that we will

put up and they're getting ready to do work on the tunnel so it's a project the public works department is in and the better market street the improvement for market street we hope will break ground on but there's a lot of opportunities and lots of designs and lots of work that the whole city family is doing and in closing i want to thank mayor lee for all his leadership that he brought to san francisco you know, i have worked for mayor lee for 17 years but what mayor lee has brought to our city is really all the city departments talking to each other, working with each other and doing team work together we make a lot of progress so mayor lee i want to continue to thank you for your leadership and bringing us all together and really you know no lines all of us in one place and trying to make the city a better place for everyone. so that will conclude our press conference and enjoy your shopping and this is the season and come down here and there's the winter gardens, there's union square, there's all these beautiful shops here and spend

some money and enjoy the holiday season. thank you very much. [applause] . >> shop and dine the 49 promotes loophole businesses and changes residents to do thirds shopping and diane within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services we help san francisco remain unique and successful where will you shop and dine shop and dine the 49. >> my name is neil the general manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if san

francisco this is a neighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both national chains and neighborhoods by the neighborhood stores where coming you don't want to - one of the great things of san francisco it

is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their own- that's

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anything, by assess though the club program website arrest call 4147 or 311 and stating you wishing to file and complaint point controller's office the charita >> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors transportation and land use for monday, december 4, 2017. we want to thank the clerk of our committee and jim smith and jesse larson at sfgov tv for streaming the meeting.

do you have anything else? >> items, aed upon today will appear on the december 12 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> ok. thank you. item number one. >> an amendment to implement charter section 16.129 providing that the city should maintain street trees and be liable for injuries and property damage resulting from the failure to maintain trees and making appropriate findings. >> thank you. i will turn it over to supervisor sheehy. >> thank you. good morning, colleagues. today we're here to consider an ordinance amending the public works doed implement charter 16.129. in november of 2016, the voterses paed proposition e which provides that the city shall maintain street trees and thus is liable for injuries and property damage resulting from

the failure to maintain street trees. prop e passed with almost 80% of the voter's support and set aside $19 million a year to run this program, which went into effect july 1, 2017. thus public work code needs to be updated to reflect the city intention, which is that the city will be responsible for maintaining our street trees. i do want to give a shout-out to my predecessor, now senate -- senator scott weiner for his leadership. there is a three-year holding time before thety is eligible to take a tree. new trees arened mraeed from a variety of sources, including individual property owners and developers. after three years, the city will look to see if the tree is established, meaning that it has met specific criteria to be accepted by the city. simply, the street tree s.f. makes it possible that the city does not take on maintenance

for trees before designated time period and, thus, reduces the city's liability. it is important that we continue to work to sustain a long-term vision and strategy for our street trees. this will help us achieve beautiful streets and help the environments. i'll now turn it over to karla short which is part of the department of public works. >> thank you, karla. >> thank you. so, we're here today to consider some proposed code changes as required by the ordinance to the public works code. i'll justs give very brief background to how we got here. as you all know, budget. -- budget cuts to the tree program over the last decade

resulted in inadequate public works through the public forest. as a result, they transferred them to property own ores. a hugely unpopular but necessary initiative. it was lousy compared to other cities. the report provided recommendations for improvinging the situation. one of the key takeaways was to adopt sustainable funding stream to provide public works with the resources needed to properly care for the city's 125,000 street trees. we looked at best practices in other jurisdiction and potential surrounding scenario and came up with a proposal that premiered on the 2016 ballot as proposition e. as the supervisor noted, the proposition was passed overwhelmingly by san francisco voters. street tree s.f. guarantees public works $19 million a year

in general fund money for street tree care without raising taxes. street tree s.f. went sbaoe effect on july 1, 2017. transferring maintenance responsibility of all street trees to the city. the ordinance also includes a provisions to protect the city from liability when inheriting more than 80,000 for maintenance on july 1 and essentially if it was identified as an issue prior to the july 1 takeover property owners do share some of the liability for that condition. it also required a code amendment to bring the public works code in line with the new measure. so that is where we are today. there were a few key changes to the code that i'll just highlight for you today. the obvious one is that it eliminates the section that makes property owners responsible for maintaining the tree in the right-of-way adjacent to their property. and equally as important, it

eliminates the provision to allow the department to relinquish responsibility. for example, if a developer is required to plant a number of trees as a mitigation for their building project, the city will only accept those trees for maintenance after they've gotten established properly and we have inspected and determined that we'll take them on for maintenance. it also adopts a process to it a how property owners to opt out and hire a private contractor to perform street tree maintenance. we have many property owners who have taken great care of their trees over the years and they would like the option to continue to do so. so, the code change allows that. another important provision from my perspective is it requires property owners who damage trees to take steps to repair the damage.

and to remain liable for the trees until the city determines that they are healthy and structurally sound. if someone tops a tree and that results in damage to the tree, which is going to have a poor structure and be prone to limb failures, the city does not have to inherit that problem. and we can require them to structurally prune the tree and restore it to a structurally sound condition before we take maintenance responsibility back. and it also adopts rules and standards for contractors performing work on city trees. essentially prop e does not cover planting costs of new trees so we'll have to seek other funding opportunities to cover the cost of planting and establishing trees. but we hope to grow the urban forest by 50,000 new street trees and the future vision of street trees in san francisco will look something more like this.

thank you for your time. >> colleagues, any questions? if not, we can turn to public comment unless supervisor sheehy had more. >> i think dan flanagan was going to be here. but i don't see him. >> anyone wish a comment on item number one? >> i'm gail bau, and we've been working with karla and d.p.w. on restoring the octavia boulevard where the street trees have been neglected. i've also seen something similar on divisidero and potentially on cesar chavez where there are center medians that have trees and i'm not sure -- i'm really asking the question of karla, if those trees are covered by this new

ordinance. >> anybody else before -- anybody else wish to publicly comment on item number one? ok. seeing no public comments now closed, supervisor sheehy. >> those trees are covereded, yes, karla? all right. >> supervisor p/esskin? -- supervisor peskin? >> i just want to thank you to the staff for getting us up to speed on this long-awaited change on policy and thank the voters and my former colleagues and supervisor weiner for gettinging this thing before the voters and finally solving a many decades' problem and can't wait for it to be rolled out. >> ok. thank you very much. any other questions? if not, colleagues can we get a motion? >> so moved. >> move -- >> would you like the send this out as a committee report? >> that would be terrific.

by motion supervisor peskin to send this item forward as a committee report and we can take that without objection. so, colleagues, item number two is sponsored by supervisor breed and i think we're waiting on her getting here. let's go to items three and four first. call item number three. >> item number three is an ordinance amending the transportation dozed prevent motorized scooters animo pedestrians to park in designated motorcycle spaces and making appropriate findings. >> ok, mr. thornly is here. welcome. >> i'll take this spot. i don't have a presentation to make for you, if you don't mind. i'll just give you a verbal. i'm andy thornly of the pr*up transportation agency. we brought to the committee a little bit of legislative business. and pardon me. the sequence of things we are

talking about, the motorized scooters first, i believe. let's see. let me verify that. so, we actually -- two items here. these are both mine. so, these both have to do with shared mobility. the s.f.s municipal transportation agency having watched with a small pilot how small changes to parking policy would support a shared electric moped system. we have scoot networks runninging the system in the city. we tried a year of relaxing time limits in resident permit areas. we decided from our analysis and listening to neighbors and your constituents that we should create a permit. we now created a shared electric moped parking permit for $325 a year. a qualified moped operator can get such a permit and scoot's moe -- mopeds are now all

showinging this particular permit. have a look at that. in the code, we discovered that the parking infraction for parking if a marked motorcycle stall was not quite exactly right. right now in division one of the transportation code, it's an infraction. you can get a citation. if you park something other than a motorcycle, in a motorcycle parking stall. well, it's been the m.t.a.'s policy and practice for quite a long time that we allow mopeds, scooters, other motorized two wheelers in motorcycle stalls. so we're asking for a very minor correction in the language of division i, in the infraction having to deal with parking in a motorcycle stall. that's section 7237. and we are proposing to add a couple of words to that.

so that you are now ok to park a motorized scooter or a moped or a motorcycle in a motorcycle parking space. it's taken me longer to describe this than the legislation. we respectfully request that the board of supervisors make that change to division i. >> thank you. just quick question. would you mine just, for members of the public because we get the questions sometimes between where we are today, where we've been the last year and what we're approving now? >> where we've been, we have had now since june of this year, the m.t.a. has had a permit program in place. for qualified moped sharing organization, such as scoot networks. currently they are the only one recognized by the m.t.a. for an operator of shared

electric mopeds, you make seek permits. the permit exempts the moped bearing that permit from a few parking regulations. you may first park in a permit area and not worry about time limits. you can also leave that moped in a metered motorcycle stall and not pay the meter at the motorcycle stall. and then thirdly, you can park that moped between vehicles and conventional parking spaces, metered spaces and not have to pay the meter. that last one we get raises eyebrows about. you say i can park my moped between two parked cars at a meter? yes, that's been legal for quite a while. you're able to share one of the stars or your vespa or your harley. that is all legal. as long as you're not obstructing traffic. but if you are the fellow on the vespa and pull up at that meter and it is not paid, you have to pay else when the parking control officer comes,

you are all in jeopardy of getting a ticket. so, this permit forgives the moped of having to pay the meter. . it basically liberalizes acts of mopeds from parking from a meter and the clean-up that we're bringing to you for your help is the infraction for parking your own vespa or shared vespa in a motorcycle stall, strictly speaking, isn't legit right now. even though for decades the m.t.a. and d.p.t. have permitted motorcycles and mopeds and scooters from parking in stalls. this is good housekeeping on the infraction that if you parked a humvee at a motorcycle meter, you'get a ticket. we're just opening up that infraction to say you can park a motorcycle or a moped so that we can take a permit and exempt the electric moped from that. >> question for you.

have there many people, aside from scoot, who have been working with that applied for or gotten these permits? >> we have not had a second party interested in this. sort of surprised. i expect at some point we'll have a second and third. this is not unlike the station of the spike share systems that the board has talked about and worked on. at this point, it's just scoot networks who are operating. and they have 570 of these permits in effect. >> got it. and we talked about this before. but my concern has been big parking spot, or a parking spot. and if residential zones and they come in and park in those parking spots. so now you're taking them away from people who have been coming home from work. and scoot has been good at alleviatinging that as much as possible and i appreciate their willingness to work together. my fear would have been, had there been a ton of them and there is no working relationship with them that that would get exacerbated.

but potentially that is not the case at this point. >> indeed. that is our sentiment as well that having this relationship with scoot and having a permit binds us to them. they have been good players all along and working with district two office, we've had good fortune. we find this appealing because it is an interesting and policy positive mode to get around but also to have a relationship that is built on this kind of bind or bound -- we're bound together. it does have a little more control. >> thank you. supervisor? >> it's with regard to the fee per vehicle which i assume has to pass the prop 26 cost recovery? >> correct. >> how did you determine the costs and how often is that fee nexus audited for accuracy? >> this is just only our first fiscal year. so we're only a few months into this permit. but if cost recovery calculation includes lost meter

rev gnueer, administrative cost, my time and some other folk's time and a little bit of enforcement time. as you know well, it's hard sometimes to gather up expenses to make a politically palatable cost. there are some folks who would say it should be much more than that. >> so, how much of the fee is dedicated to the admin side and your involvement time-wise. >> it's been mostly -- mostly lost meter revenue and the other half is administrative time. so, i think we projected as as 1,000 permits, times $325 for a year. we will certainly be auditing and truing up when we come around the corper into next fiscal year with real data to look at the actual cost that we incurred. >> it sounds like you are getting off to the better start in the case of the google bus stops relative to that fee

calculation. but let's look at nit a year. >> supervisor tang? >> thank you very much. i think our neighborhood had a little bit of a struggle when companies like scoot first came to the neighborhood and i say this as someone who is a -- who rode a scooter and i love scooters and i love that it is an electric moped that they're using. certainly when they were directing people to just flood certain neighborhoods with parking, even though it was like the little sliver in between driveways, that's legal, it really was creating a situation for neighbors where it was difficult for them to get in between two mopeds to get into their driveways and so forth. i'm glad there are new strategies in place now. i'm wondering did -- was there any analysis around the fact that these mopeds will be able to park in parking spots, where there's ample parking for motorcycles that are paying to use them? >> great question.

there is a finance supply of motorcycle parking, we the m.t.a., places motorcycle parking not a systematic, premeditated way but in response to demand. your constituents, for instance, will tell us. i'm really having trouble. three of my neighbors are with motorcycles. and we'll strike motorcycle stalls in response to that. obviously opening up space, making it more accessible for mopeds and scoots right away we're paying more attention to do we need strike more motorcycle parking and we're looking for supervisor officers and constituents to let us know that it's gotten tight. we know, for instance, at the cal train station at 4th and townsend, it's always been contentious there so we'll make sure that we provide more parking at that location. but to supervisor peskin's point, balancing and paying attention to how much paid parking scoot is using to provide all constituents access to that parking without throwing the balance off. so, excellent question.

we're paying attention and please you and anyone watching at home, if you see a need for motorcycle parking, 3-1-1 it in and we'll get it on the list. >> ok. thank you. i do look forward to further analysis on this. >> ok. thank you very much. anybody wishing to comment on item number three? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues can we take the same in house -- ok. same house, same call? so moved. ok. ma dad clerk, item number two. >> item number two is a resolution imposing for 18 po*nls incoming zoning controls to limb off-street parking for new development and remove the possibility to apply for c.u. authorization to increase such parking in the area known as the hub or the market street hub and making appropriate findings. >> ok. thank you, colleagues.

this item was, again, sponsored by supervisor breed who's just joined us in committee. i'll turn it over to her. >> thank you. >> one minute while we get our microphones sorted out. >> thank you for your patience. colleagues, today i'm presenting legislation that will impose interim controls for the market street hub area, also known as the hub. the hub is the most eastern side of the market octavia plan and includes the intersection of market streets with valencia, haitt and goff streets. it's currently amended by the planning domestic called the hub project to better reflect the needs of one of the most

dense and transit-rich areas in the city. the hub project provides us an opportunity to better ensure that the area's growth supports the city's goal for housing, transportation, the public realm and the arts. recent ri there was a, ceqa appeal of a high-rise in the district. and a current iteration of the plan, developers can seek additional parking with additional use permit and through one oak was granted a c.u. for their parking. it brought to light an important part about parking and it relates to cumulative impacts along the hub. as long as our city grows, buildings get built and our neighborhoods get more dense, the more crowded our streets get and the more impacted our services become. all of these developments for all this new parking has a cumulative impact. we know it and we see it.

yet the guidelines that we use to measure impact say there isn't a significant impact. we all know that is flawed. so, we as legislators have found our own ways of making sure that we're developing in a smarter, more sophisticated way. we're the most expensive city in the country and we must be more responsible about how we build. in the hub alone there are about six projects in the pipeline. imagine if every single one of those asked for 136 spaces. imagine what kind of impact that would have on traffic, which we all know in that particular corridor on market and van ness, it is constantly backed up. this iss a matter -- a major transit-rich corridor t. traffic is crazy as is and the van ness v.r.s., all the delivery trucks and ubers and lyfts and you get a big mess when you put all those things together on a consistent basis.

with planning amendments -- what planning plans to do, we can't afford to have new projects movinging forward in the interim with parking options that are counter to what is the ultimate goal of the hub and the market octavia plan. this legislation puts interim controls in place for the next 18 months until the hub project is complete. specifically it removes the conditional use option for conditional parking for new developments within the hub area. those already in the pipeline will be grandfathered in. but all new projects will have to work within these guidelines until the final hub area map is approved. this is straightforward, practical legislation that will help prevent new development from coming to the hub before we have a final plan, new parking -- prevent new parking that will come to the area before we have a final plan in place.

i have some clarifying amendments that have been distributed. they further clarify that these interim controls are intended for new development and projects that have not received an approval of a development application prior to the effective date of this legislation. happy to answer any questions and i would appreciate your support. thank you, colleagues. >> thank you, supervisor breed. supervisor peskin? >> so, we have gotten a bunch of e-mails with regard to the exception on page eight. and supervisor kim has asked that we consider a compromise amendment that, rather exemptioning affordable housing projects that instead -- and i just passed this out to you colleagues and i would support this amendment, that subsection b would read will provide on-site affordable housing after the city's inclusionary

affordable housing program and add where 25% are affordable as are defined under planning code section 401. so it kind of really requires a very robust affordable housing project before one can receive the exemption. >> ok. thank you, supervisor peskin. supervisor breed, any comments? >> i just have a question for supervisor peskin on the amendment. do you know if any of the current developments in the hub are actually doing more than 25 affordable housing? >> i believe that there is only one project, which is the former city-owned 30 van ness property that is proposing on site affordable housing and i do believe that that one is, or is said to be 25%. >> and just for clarity, your amendment will still require

that if they want additional parking, they still have to go through a process. and get a c.u., specifically, for the additional parking. >> so i believe the answers to that, that is current law and that is not affected by the interim controls at all. so, the answer to your question is, yes, they would still need a conditional use. >> so, basically they would have what they have based on my legislation by right in terms of if their percentage is .25, if their percentage is .40 and so what i'm doing with my legislation is requiring that there be no c.u.s granted and you are adding an amendment to do an exception and that exception would definitely require a c.u. >> no. well, the -- currently the way your legislation reads, which can i am a proud co-sponsor of, is that these interim controls

shall not apply to any development that, a, has received an approval of the development application prior to the effective date of this resolution or, b, will provide on-site affordable housing under the city's inclusionary housing program, period. so, this actually further defines that as at least 25% on-site tooerable. >> thank you. and thank you to the chair, to my co-sponsors on this legislation. to supervisor peskin and supervisor kim, with that, i turn it back over to the chair. thank you. >> i'd like to move president breed's amendments as well as supervisor kim's amendment that we just discussed and once we take those amendments, would send the entire matter to the full board with recommendations. >> ok. we have a motion, before we do anything, we'll take public comment. let me first do that.

anybody wish to comment on item number two? come on up. we'll have two minutes. each. >> good afternoon, supervisors. the executive director of livable city. we just wanted to thank supervisor breed and her co-sponsors, supervisor peskins and kim, for bringing this forward. you probably recall the t.d.m. ordinance that you all approved a few month ago. and the findings for that showed that and the project provides the biggest single factor in how many automobile trips it generates. now we've seen the rezoning with the market in octavia plan and spot rezoning of the hub. a huge amount of development coming in here. high density automobile development is untenable.

but what we've also seen is a real abuse of this conditional use process. conditional use requires findings of necessity and desirability and excess parking requires an additional six findings per section, 304 of the planning code. 303, sorry. these get abused all the time. so, basically the only criteria in the planning department has been using for excess parking is did the developer ask for it. that's not protecting the public. that is generating a terrific amount of automobile traffic in the downtown, in our transit corridors and so on. so, we think that closing this loophole in the hub is important. it should be that's all you get. right? it's either permitted or not permitted since the c.u. was so badly abused and we think less is better for automobile parking in the hub. not only do you generate a lot of automobile trips, but there is a lot of data showing that if you add parking to a unit, you increase the cost of that unit. what we're allowing developers

to do is to up scale project, right? they can pitch projects in these transit-rich areas to a more affluent market and make them luxury products where they might be more affordable without parking. it is an affordability by design strategy to reduce parking. that was included in the home s.f. ordinance. >> thank you. next eke spaoer, please. >> good afternoon. my name is jeremy pollack here speaking as an individual. i would just associate myself with the comments of mr. radulovic, largely. one thing that would be helpful is to get some input from planning and the universe of projects that we're talking about to understand what the actual effect of this is. if i could have the overhead, sfgov tv. through my research, i've take and look at what i could find and i found five projects that were in the pipeline, in the

hub. three of which were requesting the c.u. for additional parking and sfgov tv, if you could show the overhead, that would be great. and so, you know, looking at them, i see that 33 goff is one project on the city college parcel where their preliminary project assessment shows that they're subject to an 18% b.m.r. requirements. there we go. and so i think -- then we're looking at, and seeking a c.u. for an additional 130 -- jeremy, can you push that down a little bit so we can see it? >> yep. oh. wrong way. not sure how well that is coming through. right. so, basically we're talking about there are three projects seeking conditional use for an

additional 400 parking spaces. i think at least one of them, 30 otis is one that's not seeking the c.u. the p.p.a. says it's already subject to the additional 25% b.m.r. requirement. i think, you know, on-site affordable housing is an excellent idea whenever feasible. but this idea of trading parking for affordable housing seems problematic. and lastly i would say the uncertainty that the c.u. creates for developers on the public is really problematic. that is something we've heard over and over again in the housing debate. madame clerk, because of the sfgov tv problems, can you extend his time by 30 seconds? >> thank you. i would just say the uncertainty that the c.u. process creates a lot of difficulty for developers and not knowing . -- developers look at this and expect that they'll get that c.u., the public that you hear from here looks at what's principally allowed and expects that projects