embrace so mappy different families. london talked about sharon yelling and screaming and cursing, and i've definitely been the target of that, as well. and she never let you know if you didn't commit to bringing contributions and holiday gifts to all of her families at clear every holiday season. sometimes i used to dread her phone calls because i knew she would just yell for a very long time. but at the end of every single call, like president breed said, she always told you that she loved you, and that she knew you would deliver, and she was proud to live in the city. sharon eventually moved in the tenderloin, and she switched gears, and she basically became a community grandmother to all of our filipino arab american, muslim american, latino families, and i saw a few weeks

ago and visited her. ve she signed one of my forms, and she was in top form. she had just gotten out of the hospital, and she was sick. she knew there was not much time left, but she was still telling people what to do. which families needed which vegetables from the roof top garden that she tended. she continued to run so many events in the tenderloin neighborhood, making sure that all the organizers and families were in sync, building for stores in the tenderloin and converting them from liquor stores. i had actually called her fwo weeks ago because she was my first choice to be an honoree for black history month in february . i called her a few times, and she said you really need to honor the next generation. she's like, we've done our work. i'm hoping you can really honor

someone in the next generation, that she didn't need the accolades. i really miss sharon. i really miss you. i just want to thank you so much for being a role model. losing you and rose pack in the last two years has been hard. you taught young women how important it was to speak up, and to fight book, and to fight hard. i just want to thank you for agitating for a better scity every single day, and literally giving your body and all to our communities. >> thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor peskin? skbl i think all of the supervisors have said all of the profound things about sharon, but we had the same birthday. she would call me year in and year out, call and wish me a

happy birthday. the rest of the year, you would never know when she would call, because she was watching from afar. when you would mess up, she would call and let you know in no uncertain terms. when i was chair of the san francisco democratic party, she realized i was going to have a vacancy, before i realize it, and she would tell me who i was going to appoint to that spot, and i would just do it. thank you, sharon. we'll miss her terribly. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. >> thank you, president breed for me to have an opportunity to thank publicly sharon's contributions. i've had a chance over the last week to reflect on all the money gifts that she's given me personally, as well as what she's given personally to the city and county of san francisco. she was an incredible woman, truly a force to be reckoned with, and i also personally

want to express my thanks inform heto her family, who have suffered a great loss. i know she loved district six, but i think it's safe to say a lot of her heart was in sunnyvale. it was ground zero of her work really started, and i recall when i was just a candidate, late nights, coaching me. she was not a morning person, and would keep you on the telephone for hours into the evenings, coaching, mentoring, chastising, all of the above, of what it meant to be in service and how to change your language, and how when you change language, you change your thinking, and to move away from the i and move more into the collective we, and so there are many elevelessons that i'v learned and i'm truly grateful for the tremendous amount of opportunity i had from here. i want to let dede know that we

will continue to support her children and grandchildren throughout this ordeal. want to honor her ex-husband, chet, who has also suffered a profound loss. this is a profound transition that we're in, when you think about the sudden loss of life of rose pack, of mayor lee, and now of sharon hewitt. this is a tremendous transition time from the old guard to the new guard, and i would implore my colleagues here and the colleagues that are out in the field and on the front line in the resistance to remember and to lean onto those teachings that our elders have given us. thank you. >> president breed: thank you, supervisor cohen, and each and every one of you for adjourning the meeting in sharon's honor.

dede, you are loved, and we will be there for you. and also, i just want to let everyone know, the funeral service will be this coming monday at 11:00 at third baptist church. yes. so the last item i have is i just wanted to invite everyone out to celebrate the end of black history month. yes, i know it went by really fast, and here we are. tomorrow's the last day, and every year, supervisor cohen and i, we host a black history month celebration in the rotunda. it will begin at 5:30. it will go until 9:30. there will be performances and speeches and food from african american restaurants here in san francisco. it's just a way to invite the community in to city hall and celebrate the rich history and culture of the african american

community here in the city and county of san francisco, and you all are invited. at the very much. the rest i submit. >> thank you, madam president. given that it is 3:08, madam president. >> okay. >> did you want to call the special order at 3:00 p.m. or keep going with roll call? >> so we're going to finish up roll call and come back to our 3:00 p.m. special order. >> thank you, madam president. supervisor cohen? >> thank you very much. i have an inmemoriam i'd like to offer on behalf of my very good friend kimberly smith who just recently lost her father. mr. howard eugene smith, age 78 years old of yucca valley passed away peacefully in his home, and he passed away of natural causes on february 28, 2018. he was a graduate from edison high school in fresno.

he lived an incredible life. he spent many years working as a professional musician. he went back to school and obtained a nursing degree from mount san antonio college which was located in walnut, cleveland. he obtained a bachelor of chiropractic from cleveland college, and he ran his business as a chiropractic doctor for over 23 years. howard lived an accomplished life with interests and talents from being a guitarist who played on occasion with artists like james brown and ike and tina turner. he was a motorcycle aficionado and often took apart and rebuilt his harley davidson bikes from the ground up. he was preceded in his by his mother, mother, wife, brother and sister. he's survived by a whole host of family members: children, his children, many cousins,

nieces, nephews, and grandchildren. six great -- grandchildren and five great grandchildren. his services will be held at 11:00 a.m. at community baptist church in fresno, california. this is in loving memory of howard eugene smith. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor fewer? spie supervisor kim? >> theank you. i also have an inmemoriam and that is jessica smith. she was an accomplished artist, an accomplished pianist, who live index rincon hill for the last 25 years. she attended the berkeley college of music in boston,

receiving a bachelor's degree and performance art. she's a classically trained concert pianist who knew how to play bach by heart, and she recorded for a and m records. she moved to hollywood in 1980 as new wave, goth, and punk and synth pop was starting. while she was a contemporary with cyndi la u9d per -- lauper and gwen stefani, neil young wrote a song about her, an unknown urban legend in 1992, where he wrote somewhere on a

long highway, she rides a harley davidson, her lock hair flying in the wind. she appeared in many magazines and was featured in a coffee table book, chicks on bikes, and starred under her stage name, goth girl in a discovery channel movie, motorcycle women, and she wrote the sound track to that movie. she was the founder of devil dolls, the first female motorcycle club in the country in 1999, and she had a profound influence in her community. she did not feel that she did politics, but she did culture. while she lived in rincon hills, she became an environmental activist at the neighborhood, fighting to save trees in the city, and in this endeavor, she was often successful in working with our office in rec and parks in a major redesign of a $3.5 million pocket park, which was directly across the street from her residence. her profound influence on modern culture, women, musician

style will endure and far outlast us, and i want to recognize matthew steen, the partner she leaves behind, and her family. the rest i smith. >> thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor he is pin? >> thank you. madam clerk, colleagues, today i'm asking for a motion to convene a committee of the whole between the board of supervisors and the san francisco ethics commission on april 3rd in order to consider and with any luck, finally adopt the sweeping reform to our council member paampaign f conflict of interest codes. i don't believe the circumstances have ever been more pressing for us to do this than now. for the past two years, the ethics commission has pursued broad finance reform to regulate independ dent super pacs, and other conflict of interest issues pertaining to

developers and city contractors. on february 16, the ethics took the step to pass the torch to the board of supervisors and now it is our job to finally pass these reforms. while third party soft money pours into unregulated campaigns, we have an opportunity to shed light on that hidden economy and to enhance the public's trust in the work that we do in this building and in these chambers. i look forward to this discussion and to collaborating with our ethics commission to passing the sweeping rebuttal to unrestricted campaign financing since the supreme court's decision, citizens united. this morning at the transportation board meeting, i announced your support, a tax to meet the city's growing need. there are things we can be doing to impose if equity at

the local tax. i've been working with the city attorney because san francisco's now in a situation where we are catching up to the common sense tax structures that many states and localities have already imposed as a result in the changes in behavior. with the growing population and impacts to match, san francisco is constantly searching for a revenue tool that is equitiable. this would be a general tax for the november november ballot, and i look forward to working with each of you in the days and weeks ahead to strengthen it. in addition, i'm introducing a resolution urging our state legislation to introduce a law allowing san francisco to impose a fee to pay for the structure, our city streets, which are badly in neat of improvement. finally, i have several in memoria that i would like to submit and ask the board meeting to be adjourned.

first for sigfried hessie, a remarkable attorney who graduated from bolt hall in 1950, and was instrumental in defending that the -- the 800 individuals that the california university system brought in the free speech movement. my condolences to his widow, sarah, his son, eric, his daughter, andrea, his daughter, renata, and his daughter, ca carla. i'd like to adjourn the meeting in memory of -- [ inaudible ] next village, the movement that was taking care of folks ageing

in place. she will be sorely missed. very courageous woman, and my condolences to her husband harvey and a community who misses her. finally, certainly, not least, my friend of some 20 years, norman tyler larson passed away peacefully in the presence of his family last week, on february 20th. he was a fourth generation san franciscan who unlike the previous two individuals that we are -- that i'm adjourning for, was not a lefty. he -- he was a remarkable person who really kind of reached across lines. i -- in the late 1990's, was trying to preserve the columbo building and didn't know what i was doing and wrote an article in the first examiner, and he somehow managed to find my

phone number and asked if ecocontribute that cause, and he helped us through the effort to save the columbo, number 1 columbus avenue, which has since been restored. and i want to thank him for that. he had a zztop white beard, and in 198 0, bought 557 haight an ashbury, that corner where the grateful dead were photographed in that s e -- picture. in 2006, asked the supervisor to landmark as the doolen-larson residents and storefront landmark in 253, which later in 2011, he got registered on the national registry of historic places. he was a proud day guy who took me on my first day bar crawl in

2000 when i was running for supervisor, which was funny because i was a lefty, and he was a proud conservative. my condolences to cisteve, christine, amy, lucille, emma, and claire, ed olson and marilyn olson, and stay tuned for a large celebration of life honoring norm hopefully to occur during the spring. i just want to say he was an incredible historic preservationist, and donations can be made in his honor to san francisco heritage, of which he was a proud member for many decades. and i will submit the rest. >> thank you, supervisor ronen?

>> the first is a resolution of the case janus versus afsme. groups supporting the antiunion side include americans for prosperity foundation, and the american legislative exchange council, known as alec. clearly, this move is part of the trump agenda's overall and part of a right wing strategy that is seeking to use the amendment as a weapon against government protections. the case follows a similar case that the supreme court heard calls fr e drichs versus california conservative

association. when late justice scalia passed away, the vote was left at a tie. we now expect that the new supreme court justice, neil gorsuch will deliver the win. so what's exactly at stake in this case? this case could decimate unions by greatly reducing the dues that you know downs collect, severely limiting protections. according to the bureau of labor stratsticks, union membership has been steadily declining and has lost 2.9 million members since 1983. organized probusiness efforted have expedited the decline of unions. janus is part of this assault. this is a critical moment in our labor movement, and i believe we need to take action in san francisco now to forestall the impact of a negative decision. this resolution affirms that

the city and county of san francisco supports of freedom of all city employees to exercise their voice and dignity on their job in joining together in strong unions. it also urges the mayor and department of human resources to engage in good faith discussions with the city's union, to implement a gold card memory bes membership. it would provide annual membership commitments, and city labor contracts would ensure adequate release times for union rank and file leaders to communicate to members and nonmembers the implications of a negative janus members, and to encourage membership to their city colleagues and employees. it is time for us to stand in solidarity with our unions. i want to thank local 21, suif 1021 for partnering with my

office on this resolution. i will be asking the department of human resources about this during our up coming closed session, and i'd also like to thank my cosponsors of this resolution for their support. secondly, i also have an in memoriam today for a woman named alice. i'm very filled with sadness over the fact that alice passed away this past saturday. she was a 65-year-old homeless woman who had been living on the sidewalk in front of the burger king at 16th and mission for at least the past three years. she died saturday at 11:45 p.m. at st. francis hospital. according to the floor nurse at st. francis, her final hours were peaceful, but she sadly did pass alone. i never would have gotten to

know alice if i hadn't been working to clean the b.a.r.t. plaza every week with b.a.r.t. commission director. we -- whether it was raining or freezing or a beautiful day, alice was always sitting in a chair in front of the burger king, knitting surrounded by her belongings, a big suitcase, overflowing with her possessions. we called her alice, but we learned later her name was alicia gonzalez and that she was born in the philippines and had a dual citizenship in the united states and philippines. i alerted a volunteer to my office about alice's situation, and she eventually became a daily visitor to alices place on the sidewalk, hoping to persuade her to take the offers

of shelter by various city agencies. there were several nights alice insisted on staying out in the pouring rain evening on thanksgiving. finally on a morning in december, alice was even more sulliv vulnerable because her shopping cart with all her belongings had been stolen the night before. after a day long effort by multiple agencies in the city, she finally took our pleads to go inside and started at a drop-in center. then, she finally allowed medical workers to assess her, and unfortunately was diagnosed with a terminal illness, and accepted supportive housing at a mission district sro. there she was followed by a primary transition team, a primary care doctor, and visited by ann who reported back to me almost daily with his condition. alice retained her dignity and strong will toward the very end. she had a very likeable

personality. she was feisty. she was a person who had dreams, plans, preferences, needs, perconnection and so much more. her tragic story teaches us that we have many ways to improve in this city in terms of our system of care, and that's something i will continue to work on, holding her close in my heart and mind as i do so. i also want to thank heather knight for recording on her compelling case. it meant a lot to me to look at the paper this morning and see her face on the front page of the bay area section, and the fact that so many of us were going to acknowledge her existence, her story, her life, and her passing. i also want to acknowledge and thank ann gallagher in our office, who made sure that alice's last months were spent with dignity in a warm bed and receiving quality medical care, but most importantly, that she had someone by her side every day who she considered a friend

and in fact called ann her best friend. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor safai. >> i just have a couple brief remarks. first, i want to commend supervisor stefani for leading on the italian heritage day resolution, working with supervisor cohen, supervisor peskin. we have a rich tradition in my district of many, many proud italian americans. they are the every day working people. they're the front lines of this city's workforce. they are the descendants of many of the people named in this great city, helped to build this city, so thank you for leading on that. i also just want to add a couple of words to sharon hewitt's passing. sharon was actually one of the very first people i met on my first day of work at the housing authority. we battled every day. some of you might not believe,

but i might have rubbed sharon the wrong way a few times, and she let me know about it every step of the way, but one of the proudest things i was involved in with her and president breed and i had this in common was we were both trying to build a recording studio. i was building a recording studio in sunni -- sunnyvale, and president breed was building another one at the same time. she went out of her way to prove how tough she was, and she went out of her way to prove it on a daily basis. but once you won her over, she was your mentor for life. i was proud to have been -- worked with her on the front lines out in sunnydale with daily gun shots and people diing. she was a front line person, and she had no fear. she would get in the biggest

and strongest person's face, and she would also be the most gentle person in the same breath. the last way i remembered her is after she started to clear, she started this angels program, where during the holidays, she would ask you to come in and she would pair you up with a family that did not have the means to buy presents for their children. and when i was out campaigning this last time to be elected to this office, i bumped into the person that she paired me up with. and the woman was standing there on the corner with me out in front of the balboa b.a.r.t. station, and she said it was so good that sharon was able to connect us. my daughter still talks about that to this day. so sharon truly was an angel in this city, and dedicated and as supervisor kim said, truly gave her life, and you could see her begin to wither because how much she internalized all the

different things she was involved in. she was a warrior, she was a leader, and she was someone that i considered a friend, and i'm proud to consider myself her mentee. i'm proud to be adjourning this meeting in her honor. the rest, i submit. >> thank you, supervisor safai. supervisor cohen, you asked to be rerefered. >> thank you. so colleagues, i have two other pieces of legislation that i'd like to discuss. [please stand by for captioner switch]

the last few months to come to a settlement and agreement leading to the appellant's dropping or

withdrawing this appeal. i know we have to hear public comment on this item, but after we do so, i will be making a motion on 36, 37, 38. >> thank you, supervisor kim. with that, i would like to open this item up to public comment. this is not general public comment. it's on the item before us, the appeal. it has been withdrawn. is there anyone who would like to make public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor kim. >> i would like to make motion. >> supervisor kim has made a motion, seconded by supervisor peskin. without objection, the motion passes unanimously. madam clerk, let's go to general public comment. >> thank you, madam president.

the public may address the board of supervisors. item 39, whether or not you believe the board should continue into closed session on the labor. public comment will not be allowed when an item has previously been subject to public comment. pursuant to the board rules, please direct your comments to the board as a whole, not to individual supervisors, and not to the audience. if you're using interpretation assistance, you will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. if you're interested in displays a document on the overhead projector, state that. remove the document when you would like to screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. >> thank you. before this begins, sir, there were three people in line.

i'm not asking you to leave. in the future, if you could be considerate of those who are already lined up before you move to the podium. thank you very much. first speaker. >> i ask for your resignations. you eve violated your oaths of office. you swore to defend the constitution against all enaemis foreign and domestic. a joint project of the san francisco campus. $100 million per year. citywide -- performing involuntary medical and surgical procedures upon residents of this city and county. it is able to do this only by depriving its patients of life and liberty. citywide also denies freedom of

participation and freedom of association. citywide perpetrates unreasonable searches and seizures in violation of u.s. constitution 4. citywide deprives its patients a right to jury trials guaranteed by u.s. constitution amendment 7. citywide cruel and unusual punishment. citywide deprives its patients of purposeful security and integrity by amendment 9. citywide offers -- denies equal patients equal treatment of law. you're knowledgeable of these violations yet you do nothing to prevent them. therefore you have violated your oath of office. i ask for your resignation. back to you, madam clerk.

>> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> and thank you. before the next speaker begins, if there are any members of the public who are in line who have issues for standing for long periods of time, please feel free to move forward to the front. next speaker, please. >> yes. i'm here to complain about the difference of treatment. i'm real upset with each and every one of you. each and every time you have a housing opportunity, you claim that you're an equal opportunity housing organization. this is the big bank of information of instructions that is supposed to be followed by you pertaining to each and every apartment building complex that's being built and brand new in the city. specifically the buildings that are being built in the mission bay and mission area. for example, this mission rock building, the instructions in this big bank of information

says all in detail as follows, that the community development law section 33413, 15% of all new complexes developed should be available and affordable housing for very low and low and moderate incomes. viewer, can you please show this document. that information comes from this section of the big bank of information i just presented to you. and it's not being followed. 15% of 1,500 apartment units, which is the amount of units that's at mission rocks, means that 225 apartments are supposed to be for low income and very low income people. as a result, you disregard that

information and perform price-fixing. the lowest income available in that unit starts at $36,300. it's only at 2%, whereas you have three incomes at 121,000, 96,000 a year. >> thank you for your comment, sir. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm peter warfield, executive director of library users association. i've been talking to you last

year about the libraries intention to get privacy threatening radio frequency identification technology, rifd. well, february 1st came, and the library commission approved funding $3.5 million for an implementation. unfortunately, it represents, as far as i can tell, the city librarian final poison pill present to our city. i ask you to do what you did 13 years ago and 12 years ago when the library commission likewise forwarded this in their budget, and that was you rejected the funding for rfid. and i hope that you will do that again this year. some interesting notes at the

library commission. when more than one person complained about rfid's toxicity to patron privacy, the staff gave two reasons why they asserted. there is no threat to the public. they said, first of all, the library's databases are unhackable. unhackable. knowing what we know about library databases and other databases, that is a pretty far-fetched claim. in addition, it doesn't take hacking into the database to raise and to make privacy threats. and the other reason was that they said it has only a 30-inch range. well, that may be true for certain commercial applications, but not for all. and even show, there's no need to get that close. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. my name is john fitch. sometimes our eyes are too wide open. if the legal link in the chain had been followed that was already set place by the founding fathers as to how the city would be governed in the event of the sudden death of a mayor, would ms. breed be an active mary, why wasn't she giving a choice in maintaining and being the active mayor or remaining being the board president. you didn't let her decide for herself. she was the only one allowed to make that decision, whether she wanted to do one or the other. members of the board did that for her. when you did that, you broke the link in the legal chain that was already established by our founding fathers which could turn into expo facto because the

interim mayor was a legal link in the chain. the interim mayor was no part of being qualified. what qualifications did the interim mayor possess to put him in position where he could be considered to be interim mayor? why was he so important? for whatever reason, the reason was they wanted their own people who they could control. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is denny leonard. i wanted to say that i have had a great experience with the italian american community. i'm from an indian tribe in oregon. a gentleman named joe travelo in italy. we did a debate on italian

television. we had never met and became lifelong friends. he and his wife and my wife and i had many meals together. in that time, in 1992, the san francisco foundation decided to change the parade from columbus day to italian american. now we have a new program, and i think that all of us together have spent so much time with many italian-american people at the cafe and around the north beach area, that it is important for us to understand that we are now in 1992 to 2018, a much more connected people. we should celebrate that among ourselves. i would like to say that norman yee, when he stated that it's time for us to recognize each other and to ms. cohen to take the courage to bring that to us. let us make that possible, what

we have not had for many years, a celebration for our cultures. maybe we need a cultural minister or a cultural cabinet here in san francisco to celebrate all of us together. so i hope we can work toward that end. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i would like to ask supervisor cohen to come up here and open this up, please, to any particular page. >> sir, your time is ticking. >> okay. i won't read from it. that's a province do. at 6:32 a.m. during the blue moon that we haven't had since president andrew jackson, the president called michael savage. he called him at his home on his cell phone. yesterday i heard that he's actually thinking about putting his hat in the ring against feinstein. i pray this will take place. i'm telling you what. i really want to see that

debate. that was a very rare occurrence. another rare occurrence -- but that could have been planned, a psychological warfare against the democrats, you know, which would be a wise move. anyway, but you can't plan a total solar eclipse from coast to coast. when did that happen? 1776. when jesus was asked about the end of the world, many times there's a double application to prophecies, but i'm surprised we're still here. for the last 13 days, i'm surprised, but something bigger than the blue moon, something bigger than the total coast-to-coast eclipse last year, is what did happen 8,013 days ago. 6,013 days from 9/11 and 3,000

days from what i'm convinced is the actual beginning of the last trump. there's not eight trumpets. there's seven. the culmination of the third row is the seven vials. he's coming back soon. it's going to be judgment day. it really is. if you don't know jesus christ, there's no hope. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is george wooding. i'm the president of the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. i'm here to talk about sb827 from state senator scott weiner. he introduced several new

amendments, so my testimony will not be the testimony i was going to originally present. i just want to mention, first off, you should consider the residential infrastructure which his legislation will cause and how the city is so unprepared for it. secondarily, i want to talk about the destruction of the single family homes in the residential neighborhoods. and now in closing, i would like to read our resolved resolution for 827. resolve the coalition for san franciscoen neighborhoods, cssn, land use committee urges all members of this organization and anybody else agreeing with this resolution to communicate to the state legislature for the

district in which he/she resides to oppose sb827. be further resolved, the california state senate assembly to oppose sba27. finally resolved that the board of supervisor's resolution of february 13th, 2018, which may or may not change now. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is paul weber. i'm a north beach resident and a delegate to the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. i'm here to urge you to adopt a pendi pending resolution to oppose

sb27. we received an avalanche of amendments to the bill, which we have not had an opportunity to look at. on a quick reading, however, it appears that the most critical ones were not changed. i will comment on those. and that is the bill, as amended, will replace height limits based on proximity to something called transit rich corridors. it would set minimum heights for projects in these areas, 85, 55, 45 feet depending on street width and that would go even higher. in addition, it eliminates many of the local controls on density, ratios and parking, as well as certain design standards. we urge you to oppose 827 for a number of reasons. there's no need for the bill, first of all, the state density bonus law can achieve the same

results and require on-site construction of affordable housing, which 827 does not have any requirement for any new affordable housing. under 827, applying local inclusi inclusion area or affordable rules. that would mean those who need the transportation the most would be ineligible to be considered for the housing. finally, the definition is such that it could be managed by local agencies, simply by changing the frequency of bus intervals, which is too center diptous and subject to abuse and the winds of change in the political climate. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> good afternoon. lisa framer, president liberty hill neighborhood association.

like the previous speaker, i'm here to speak on 827. we have not had a chance to analyze all the new amendments. i remain concerned about them. eliminating seqa is a serious flaw, and there are real environmental impacts. the basic assumption that high density transit oriented development reduces greenhouse gas emissions has become unchallenged dogma, but closer scrutiny shows flawed data. sb827 assumes that since the entire city is close to public transit, high density nearby will reduce car use, but on average, car results in lower per capita per mile greenhouse gas emissions than mass transit. public transit is assumed to

operate at full ridership capacity, which it doesn't. and the greenhouse gas emissions it generates are not factored in. let's face it. san francisco's public transit could use some improvement. packing more people into taller, larger buildings is not so environmentally friendly when you look at the metrics of human health. incidents are increased of widespread diseases and those people are exposed to thousands of toxins. there's serious mental health impacts too. high density housing near transit is not a very good environmental solution to our housing problem. people relate to the world on a human scale. we need to see the sky and the sun and the trees and the flowers. kids need to feel and see and relate to their natural world so they can protect it. we're going to look at the amendments but i remain

concerned -- >> thank you for your comments. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is bruce bowen. i'm from delores heights. i'm here to ask you to join the growing number of cities who realize the

existing capacity of 143,000 additional units, we need to carefully plan smart growth. that goes hand in hand with transportation and water. if changes to existing zoning either quantity or location, then the city should use its own planning tools to make changes and not be subject to the clumsy constraints of sb27. supervisors, we've had a money bomb go off in san francisco that's rendered the city uninhabitable. we shouldn't let this bomb of a bill to do even more damage. thank you. next speaker, please. >> katherine harra, the sierra club. the sierra club opposes sb827. we believe it's a heavy handed approach to development that will lead to less transit being

offered and more pollution among other unintended consequences. sba27 fuels opposition so future transit development. remember, this is a statewide bill. because it marries transit development to a loss of local zoning control, this approach could increase opposition to fully needed transit investments in various parts of california. it can and will promote displacement. some areas near transit stops consist of disadvantaged communities that already face extreme pressure from gentrification. this could result in communities losing protections that prevent economic pressures from driving people out of their homes. this could result in replacing single family homes with luxury units not available to people with moderate or low incomes, increase of cost of land can increase rents and displacement. displacement forces residents into areas further from their jobs and city centers,

increasing commute times and greenhouse gas emissions. sb27 combined with sb35 to include public health and environmental protections. this would increase the amount of unmitigated pollution in these communities while stifling public input. developers should prevent and mitigate their pollution. this potential avoid answer of seqa is unacceptable. we support the need for affordable housing in california. we support higher density. we support in-field development, but sba27 has too many unintended consequences. it will increase pollution, discourage transit, and potentially displace disadvantaged residents. and we oppose it. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm here to express our collective and organized

opposition so senator weiner's latest bill sba27. this is an extential threat to life in san francisco, if not california. a lot of people have said many things about the density in san francisco and how having uncontrolled growth and up zoning as it's been proposed by the bill is going to be changing the quality and livability of this city. every mayoral forum i've been to, there's talk about the muni infrastructure that's currently affecting our residents. supervisors, right now, we're at the capacity for our infrastructure. we have issues with our public transport system, and here we have a very much flawed bill that is going to be introducing

wild, wild west when it comes to building. this is not what san francisco needs. we are all the way for affordable housing. we're all the way for the government spending money for affordable housing, but we're not free for all in taking the government control. after all, what is the point of having a city planning department. also, today we found out that mr. weiner has introduced a number of amendments. one of them, interestingly enough is protection of local demolition laws. that's why we're urging you to pass reform of demolition laws, demolition controls, and better legislation that's going to make sure that illegal demolitions do not take place in this city. right now we are facing an epidemic of illegal demolitions, things that people pass as remodel, but they're, in fact, demolitions. this bill is