♪ >> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors land use and transportation committee meeting for january 8, 2018. i'm mark farrell chairing the committee joined by commission peskin and commissioner tang and i want to thank sf gof -- gov

for announcing the documents. >> items acted upon will appear on the january 23 board of supervisors agenda. >> commissioner: madame clerk item one. >> the clerk: revising 42 definition of gross floor area and remove redoundancies. >> commissioner: we have planning department here to speak. >> good afternoon, supervisors. the proposed ordinance would amend the planning coat to make amendments to the area. the department has not received any public comments and on september 7, 2017 the planning commission approved the ordinance. they could be packed as calculated in the planning code. the first amendment would remove

the distinction removing the accessory buildings from the definition of gross floor area. and accessory buildings in the calculation of gross floor area. it's problematic. the code does not define accessory buildings and parcels could be interpreted from being an accessory building and the definition are included in the definition of gross floor area. therefore there is no distinctive dove mission for the purpose of calculating gross floor areas for structure. the second amendment would remove the car share parking retirement. required car share parking say mandatory condition imposed by the city. they're mandate ford projects

that meet certain conditions. it's a betterment to the public and development community to exclude it from the definition of gross floor area in all zoning districts. this concludes the presentation. thank you. >> commissioner: colleagues any questions or comments? supervisor peskin -- we'll open it up to public comment? seeing none. public comment is closed. can i have a motion. >> i would be happy to make it forward with a recommendation. >> commissioner: we can take that without objection. mada madame clerk, item two. >> the clerk: the planning code article 8 to clarify nighttime typographical clarifications. >> commissioner: thank you. same thing. planning department speak on

item two. >> the proposed ordinance would amend the planning code to make clarifying amendments to article eight. the planning commission vote to approve the proposed ordinance. due to multiple revisions text has been dropped and spelling errors and some are not reflected in subsequent legislation. it's intended to correct errors in the code. this concludes my presentation. >> commissioner: thank you very much. any questions or comments? public comments is now closed. >> i'll make a motion for positive recommendation. >> commissioner: seconded by supervisor peskin.

>> commissioner: to make them happy. >> madame clerk, item 3. >> the clerk: prohibiting non-retail professional services and limit lot mergers and catering within the mission street nct and making appropriate findings. >> commissioner: thank you very much. >> good afternoon, planning department staff. just for background on the legislation, this is part of the many strategies identified in the mission action plan 2020 endorsed by the planning commission and transmit to the board last much. up on the slide will be the goal of 2020 and the categories under which the strategies and plan fall from tenant protection to economic development to advance the target goal and objectives of the plan. most of the strategies are already being implemented. this is the second you've seen this year and we'll have a

bigger legislative package with alcohol and controls in the mission related to what is next on your agenda today. i'll pass it to my colleague and i'm available if you have questions of the broader map 2020 process. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm staff at planning. just to give you a little bit of background about the specific amendments that we're proposing today, they are aimed at -- they come out of the map 2020 claudia mentioned and aimed at curbing business to business uses on mission street. they're aimed at easing land use pressures on retail businesses on mission street. expanding options for art activities and catering uses within the nct compatible with

neighborhood uses. protecting the mission street and continuing to provide space for project. so the specific amendments we are proposing include the removal of non-retail professional services as a permitted use known as administrative uses and catering on all floors, limiting lot mergers in the mission nct. on parcels fronting mission street to 100 linear feet and for projects with frontages with 50 and 100 feet it would require a special space less than 2,500 square feet. they'd have to break up larger ground floor spaces to including one that is smaller.

so just on the last issue of the lot merger issues, it's probably the one amendment we've had the most back and forth upon we originally had a 150 foot limit. folks of theed requested a 50-foot limit and we wanted to limit lot mergers but not discourage project require a higher percentage of vmr. we looked at the soft sites adjacent to each other in parcels in the mission nct. we saw if we did a 100 foot limit and all the parcels were developed to full capacity we'd get 105 units, 25% of which

would be below market rate. you can get smaller projects below the 25-unit threshold for a 25% inclusionary so you end up in fewer vmr units is how we came up with the 100 foot limit. that concludes my presentation. i'm happy to answer any questions about any of these amendments. >> commissioner: colleagues, any questions or comments? we'll move on to public comment. i have a speaker card for item three, mark loper. if there's anybody else, feel free to come forward. >> good afternoon, supervisors. mark loper. i'm testifying on behalf of a sponsor for mission street. it's a 75-unit mixed income project. the project was first proposed in 2014. we filed formal entitlement applications in 2016. it was approved by the planning

commission less than two months ago on november 30, 2017 that was nearly two years after entitlement application was filed. this project does involve a lot merger over the 100-foot trigger talked about. while we believe state law protect the project from zoning change that are i am -- imposed we think a grandfathering clause would clarify the point and is common practice for legislation that affect housing projects like 2019 mission that are approved that haven't started construction yet. for example, this bord include provisions in recent legislation related to affordable house. the transportation demand management program in san francisco's own density project just to name a few.

grandfathering in this narrow instance recognizes the housing project that complied when the project was proposed and should not be further delayed or be subjected to different requirements after receiving approving. we request adding language to the ordinance specifying the ordinance does not apply to those that submitted a complete application prior to the effecti effective date. >> commissioner: thank you. next speaker, please. >> cory smith on behalf of the san francisco action coalition. i've been following this for a little while. regarding if it's a 50 versus 100-foot merger we've been work with people on this in terms of the ground floor. we want to make sure everything

second floor and up isn't negatively impacted. we don't want to see anything inhibit our ability to put subsidized affordable units on t the market. there is restaurants or retail or whatever we won't have an opinion on that. and specifically relate to the comments of the previous speaker as well, this has been a long-time conversation in san francisco about changing rules and moving the goal posts once everything is establish and we also ask projects already approved are not impacted by this simple, hopefully straightforward grandfathering. thank you. >> commissioner: thank you. next speaker, please.

>> good morning. commission economic development agency. i want to speak in support of this legislation and touch on a few of the important elements i think that are here and how they'll help with the stabilization of mission street under stress right now. i think limiting the lot mergers is important in terms of keeping things within a scope and scale that is community serving. historically we see which project end up being community serving. the accompanying store fronts -- though the legislation not specific to them, plays into that. i think the addition of adding art and catering is important as it will provide significant new opportunities for our displaced art and cultural groups and new

groups to grow and thrive. we have a growing system. we're having a all in all we have provisions for the street as well. >> commissioner: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i am here to speak about the controls. given there is a conversation now about what's happening with the permanent amendments i want to weigh in on those.

first, supervisor ronen is supportive and sponsored the proposed amendments. the outreach and the discussion that have gone on in preparing these has been take joan -- taken in time and there's vetting of data and there's been a result in the proposed amendments. they were introduced at the full board in november. frankly hearing about the concerns about the lot mergers today has been a surprise. i think any consideration of whether or not there's to be grandfathering shouldn't happen today. the supervisor will take it under advisement and we'll be able to look at what the potential effects are and if the supervisor wishes to submit an amendment i'm hoping she'll be

able to prior to the full board hearing. i think that's all i need to say. we noticed there are large lots on mission street and the fact that we're trying to preserve smaller ones and ensure diversity of scale for the housing and retail use she's reason behind this. thanks. >> commissioner: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm with the latino culture district in support of the legislation. we're trying to make sure the smaller businesses in the mission are able to survive the gentrification in the neighborhood. there's pressure on the small businesses with rent increases and investor-type businesses

coming in and restaurants coming in and we want to make sure the playing ground is equal. it's one of the few places that are left that cater to low-income working class folks in the neighborhood. a lot of the restaurants that have moved in are expensive and not affordable for a lot of us. we also see the spaces below are being kept vacant for a long time. developers aren't able to rent them out. in particular the development on mission street, we wanted to work with the developer to get a neighborhood serving type business in the space but he refuse to deal with us and we're looking for large developments coming in to have smaller spaces at the bottom to cater to the local neighborhood.

thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, san francisco and everyone else watching. i support the mission district and everything they're saying. i wish you had someone other than a black man to come and support us. we don't have no businesses on fillmore. or have you seen fillmore lately? and i'm not here to point the finger at no one, particular queen bee. i go to district 5 and i can't get action because he's playing both parts and i know y'all don't want know say this but i'm not saying it for y'all but for the african american lack negros however you want to say us. i hope you hear me, peskin, because you did a wonderful job for herman. you opened up the box and we can't stop. this is to the city and county because they say i'm not a media

person. this say news bulletin being published so i'm part of the media. i don't want problems tomorrow when go to the chamber and i'm the only black person you stop. my name is ace, dammit in the city by the bay. i've been trying to see our acting mayor. i went to her office, i can't get in there because they don't know what the hell's going on. i'm the acting supervisor of the district 5. my name is ace. contact me. i know everything in the fillmore. when she was a little girl i was working in the fillmore. when she was born in the projects, i was working in the fillmore and i'm not saying this to get at you like this way but you need to see me. i'll be in your office in two minutes. my name is ace and i'm on the case. that's a bulletin. i don't need a press pass

tomorrow. you know who i am. >> commissioner: thank you, ace. anybody else wish to comment on item number 3. supervisor peskin. >> i don't know if this say question for staff or the city senior but i want to make sure the legislative digest the amendments i don't think is correct and explain what the legislation does. instead of saying that it would restrict lot mergers by requires lots along mission streets to be at least 150 feet wide is to be no more than 100 feet wide, right? >> deputy city attorney. our office committed a corrected legislative digest to the court this morning. it's in the clerk's file now and will be in the file going forward. >> commissioner: i wanted the

chairman to know i'm reading all the fine print. >> commissioner: the chairman appreciates it. supervisor tang. >> i have the same confusion this morning and i wanted to check in win supervisor ronen's issue. i'm hearing folks in public comment and i'm confused. said she supports the amendment but you meant the legislation -- >> right. she is not proposing any amendment to this package at this time. the concern about the grandfathering provision has an effect on the specific proposed project underway has not been reviewed and vetted and nothing -- no decision's been made about any grandfathering

provision. >> i don't know if there's been a reason given because i talk generically. i'm curious if there was rationale. >> has not come up to this point. >> commissioner: colleagues, seeing no other comments -- >> commissioner: the only comment i would make is based on the public comment of the attorney representing the project at 2918 mission street. that attorney represented he believed they were grandfathered. if that's true i suggest there's an off-line conversation. it's not scheduled as a committee report. you have until the 23 or 24 to have the conversation. i say we not take that amendment

and have that conversation and as council said he believe it's offered anyway. if that's true there's no reason to include it but why not have an off-line conversation. >> commissioner: okay. thank you. i think that would be great to have happen and understand what's going upon with that said, motion by a colleague. >> i'd move it to the full board with recommendation. >> commissioner: motion by supervisor peskin. supervisor tang. madame clerk, item 4. >> the clerk: in term zoning controls for cu authorization for commercial and storefront mergers by mission, cesar chaf he is and protrero.

>> so this is a resolution for interim controls. there have existing interim controls in place passed by the planning commission. the series of controls meant while some are expiring after their limit of a two-year term. there is one control, one interim control in place that is not yet reached its two-year term and that is the requirement that spaces being converted to restaurant use would have to go through a condition use authorization process. because there's time left on that interim control and because the need remains while the process of reviewing overall retail use and protections continues, we would like to --

the supervisors would lake to propose to continue -- would like to propose to continue the control and additional use requirement for storefront mergers to create a space over 2,000 square feet. these would provide protection for diversity we see disappearing on mission street and i'd be happy to answer more questions. >> commissioner: thank you very much. colleagues, any questions or comments? we'll me of on to public comment? anybody wishing to comment? public comment's now closed seeing none. any follow-up? >> commissioner: we instituted

controls and they've been successful. i'd be more than happy to send this as a committee report tomorrow with board of supervisor. >> commissioner: we have a second by supervisor tang we can take without objection. adam clerk item 5. >> the clerk: and the western shoreline area plan and wern shoreline area plan to restore the ocean beach shoreline and make appropriate findings. >> thank you, adam clerk. we have our planning department. >> first, i would defer to supervisor tang but i'd be happy to co-sponsor this legislation. it's in supervisor tang's direct. i would like to thank staff in particular work the coastal commission in such a fashion unlike many of the coastal plan

amendments that get rejected. this one -- if we approve it -- i should not put words in my colleagues' mouths but it should be approved at the february or march meeting. >> thank you. through the chair, i want to thank all the staff involved in this particular effort. i know it was a lot of community meetings and so forth. i will say that just to point out some of the obviouses we need the amendment to be able to include issues such as addressing coastal hazard and sea level rises. in terms of factually we know there's issues we're contending

with.

>> we have not amended our plan since 1986. this is the first time we're changing the policies and coastal hazards are the driver. they're erosion and climate

level rise and those with problems we'll have more problems in the future. erosion can happen. it led to emergency measures by the public utility commission and public works permitted through 2021. some parking lots have been removed as they become unsafe. we're figuring out the right balances for the coastal zone. this amendment does not change anything in golden gate park. it adds a coastal hazard section and we're trying to restore the

shoreline while protecting resources and infrastructure and existing development from coastal hazards. there's six policies some of which are focussed on the near term treat plan and some are long-term standards because erosion are problems we'll continue to deal with forever. this has been a multi-year process and so from the project launch through some data and model work in policy development we had a community advisory group for the professional and interagency advisory group because again there's extensive public lands with city and federal in the area.

we had fire interagency meetings. we all understand what the proposed amendments are. it's had an informational and initiation and adoption hearing. they recommended adoption in october last year and pending local approve we'll submit to the coastal commission for certification. as supervisor peskin noted if they reject it, it will have to start back at the planning commission. i think we have done our best to work through the problems so you

don't have to do this twice. that concludes my presentation. i'm available for any questions. thank you. >> commissioner: we'll move on to public comment? i have two speaker cards. mike grizle and bill mclaughlin. first person, come on up.

>> one relates to this restrictions on new development in the erosion area. recently the sf zoo has build their own science center atop at the apex at the erosion site.

this is areal concern. there's been new blocking for the public and the zoo wants to build their own parking garage. we need help anything you folks can do. thank you. >> commissioner: thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm with the surf rider chapter and work in a leadership type role. and we'll look at whether it can be relocated as an important

>> there's a curiosity about the recycled water plant. we have information about that occurring in the same location as the retreat is going on.

>> next speaker, please. >> i'm here on my own behalf. at the community meeting may second of 2017, two issues were brought to staff's attention, one issue is the u.s. geologic survey how san francisco bay is contributing to erosion on the southern portion of the ocean beach and accretion of build up on the other portion. the other is the sanctuary. it's reviewing its management plan. it's reviewing the possibility of incorporating the waters off san francisco into the sanctuary. these waters are an exclusionary area and known as the donut hole. they were brought to the attention of the planning commission on october 5 of 2017.

this commission recused herself. >> commissioner: thank you, any other members push to comment? supervisor tang? >> thank you to those who came out to speak. i do know that in speaking with the various agencies and including spur we haven't

settled on anything yet regarding parking. it's not something we have arrived at a solution yet but it's not to say we have for sure taken away all the parking yet. it's an evolving situation.

>> i want to thank you the coastal commission for their work and look forward to passing it onto the full board as a committee report and getting to vote on it again at the coastal commission. >> commissioner: we cannent --

entertain a mission. >> and we'll move it forward with a positive report. >> we can take that without objection. clerk, will you call item number 6. >> the clerk: item number 6 the resolution imposing interim zoning controls to require cu authorization for personal services uses. >> commissioner: we've been joined by supervisor who proposed the legislation.

>> they put together a neighborhood plan. we have been continuing until may or june of this year. it will have been a full year plus. the department of planning and office of economic and workforce development have led the effort with 26 members of the working group all neighborhood residents from all walks of life. we're happy with the process. the zoning control is meant to put a pause on these and hopefully by the time we're well along to put together the planning, these zoning controls if this board and body supports

that will then will have the tuns -- opportunity to come back and adjust later. essentially it would require institutional uses, private community facilities, social services and personal service uses like hair salons and nail salons and also other uses that aren't necessarily promoting of light retail in the corridor. [please stand by]

. >> and so when we come back to the planning commission and hopefully, eventually to the board of supervisors, we'll be looking at public mobility, land use and housing, which obviously these interim controls would impact, and how do we support the existing small businesses and continue to make it a neighborhood where folks can open up shop, continue to be entrepreneurial, and continue to support their families. i'm happy to take any questions, but it's important to think about these, thinking as a city, how can we advance toward those goals, and i think as the supervisor said, putting a pause on some of the things

that happen in the neighborhood can help us get some breathing room and space so we can bring forward some legislation that advanced us as a neighborhood strategy. >> thank you, miss tanner. i also wanted to bring up one other point. we have over the years, we have a group that's been there, working, the excelsior action group, and they have been working on a lot of these issues over the last 15 years, working with stakeholders, merchants along with the excelsior outer mission merchants' group, so there's been a lot of work that's gone into this, and the work that i've done in the community has been listening to this, kind of reflecting that desire. also, there's been behavior that has been not permitted that we're trying to help control for a lot of uses pop up that are not even permitted uses, and so this is to put an additional eye on that, what

types of uses need additional scrutiny. so that's it, colleagues, hopefully, if you have any questions, let me know, and we can move the conversation forward. >> colleagues, any questions at this point in time? okay. seeing none, we will open this up to public comment. item number 6. seeing no public comment, item is closed. >> i don't need this to be a committee report. this is fine, we're going to have some more conversations with planning and economic development and then we'll go from there. >> okay. so colleagues, could i have a motion to move this item forward to the full board? >> supervisor tang: so moved. >> and moved by supervisor tang and seconded by supervisor peskin. okay. madam clerk, do we have any other business before us today?

>> clerk: no, we are done. >> okay. that concludes our calendar. we are adjourned. issue. >> homeless in san francisco is a challenging issue that effects owner in the city in many different was as of the 2014 homeless census over 64 homeless in individual in the city to try to address the issue we've got a

program for chronic homeless welcome to the navigation center. >> this pilot project is for people living on the street what makes it different the navigation center is able to accommodate homeless encampments lowell u allowing people to keep their pets and bring their personal bloonlz. >> the full realization that people don't want to be homeless not refuse services but from the services don't meet them and not relevant they're not going to be successful if you look at the budget losses we've got a community sacrifice important people to get food and laundry we're standing next to the bathrooms it is designed to be a

dynamic and brief residential experience where right of on this site city staff to connect you to homeless places to return to family dine is up for medi-cal and all those things that are complicated for people. >> the other exciting thing city agencies come on site and provided the services for folks this is existed to see when the goal of streamlining a a whole processes of getting people on go gentle assistance into housing as much as possible. >> way totally different you can come and agree as please and get laundry services and showers any time of the day and night it's twenty-four hours a day whatever and twhefr it's not like any other she recalls.

>> they come and help people for what it is they're required the issues they need and reach out and do what we can to say okay how can we accommodate you to get you set up and straight never in my mind imagined a program like this this place it different and a a lot a lot that better it works. >> the navigation is center is a collaboration of partnerships too city departments one is the homeless outreach team managed by the san francisco distributing i look forward to the navigation center we'll have our agents go out and help and say don't go anymore over and over send our dayshift out they've meet the population and hang out and hang in the encampment and transport

people and be with them and make immediate impacts with me and my staff. >> bringing our wloongz whatever you go presents a problem this place their help with the storage i don't have to worry about it staying here you know you're getting things done they need to get things down done to get off the street avenue of the hope alsoness is gone. >> they help you if you're hungry go eat if e you need to go places go. >> they're 4th district it awe auto. >> it was funded through a unanimous donation and of may 2015 an additional $3 million to

help to continue the program beyond 18 months. >> you see people coming out they're ready to being so the future homes you know how variable the navigation center is my message for the constituents yes something can be done do break chronic homelessness it is being done. >> this is a community that sets an example but i how to pick an area that was funky they've seen we're trying to do is help their neighbors they've seen getting sicker and more frail and broken down on the streets and welcomed us that's a powerful statement people are exist and president in they're becoming to see the movement for folks and people on the streets are only survival modes where is there next meal and their itch more carefree.

>> the staff here is interpretation the first day i have a appointment and everything was made all you do is go through them this makes a huge difference. >> to get settled in a helping hand, to get on my feet, take care of the issues i have and get out of bed and help. >> even though the navigation center has been up in march 2014 the program is creating successful outreach for it's clients. >> a month ago they came to me and asked me to go into a new program i moved into here and now 3 months later i have my own

place it is mine i lock my door don't worry about my stuff it feels human again patrick. >> welcome to another episode of stay safe i saw us prepare our crawl space on this episode

we'll saw the sheer wall you'll see the finished product hi, i'm patrick and welcome to another episode of stay safe? the second part we're retrofitting the triple wall as you can see we've installed one of the sheer ply wall on the first episode we provided blocking to secure the ply we'd and bolted and provided the

connection with the floor i'm joined by thor madison. >> thor structural engineers and thor knows more about sheer walls than anybody i've met in my life. >> it provides the stable ability that would rock before and after during around earthquake the nails along the edge of the plywood will reduce the chance of the building falling down. >> what else should we consider in getting ready. >> one thing about plywood a natural material that absorbs moisture and the panels can swell depending on the moisture if they swell they'll bulk out it is important probation officer leave a gap between the panels so before we install the next panel we'll drive in a

couple of nails used to as temporary spares. >> what are the nails. >> 16 penny singers a good saying that and we don't need to be concerned with the exact nail size only the gap the next panel will be held with the existing panel we'll pull those down. >> we have peter from the construction why not go outside and cut our second panel

so, now we've got the plywood let's go ahead and get it put up see if we can get it in place. >> by looking at that a perfect fit why not get peter in here to nail it down. >> so peter did a great job with the nailing but important to know this work requires a permit in the department of building inspection whether you're doing the work or a left hand contractor make sure you have the proper permit and additional to the nailing anything you want to talk about thinking about the plywood. >> the more plywood to install

the better and make sure that the nails along each edge of each panel so you can't forget and hedge and had it perform the same thing. >> another example of little money you can substantially rusz reduce the >> in 2017 we've had the lowest number of fatalities on our streets in our history. we still have a lot of work to do. and doing this work is a team effort. it is of course working with the department of public works and the sfmta to discuss infrastructure issues to make it safer for pedestrians and bicyclists who are vulnerable to ve