>> probably not up to 3-4 weeks, but still, we are dealing with more than one at any given time, it's possible we deal with multiple priority projects. we also have different type of priority. we have the fee base. we have premium review. we also have the -- have to issue a bulletin dealing with 100% affordable housing project. so that is what gives us the ticket to move up the 100% affordable project. to the top, but still we have to -- it's not like the minute or the week the priority -- a certain priority project comes into our department we can revie- >> no, priority projects are

restriction, we cannot review those projects right away. and then secondly, once the permit or the plans have been reviewed, our plan checker often have to issue review comments, because after identifying deficiency in the design. so in those cases, we will send out comments to the design team. and during this building boom, the design team, the architects and engineers, they're not like just sitting around waiting to address our comments. often they're dealing with multiple projects. so that could mean that our review could sit on their desk waiting for their response to address our plan reviewer's

comment and that could cause delay, too. >> supervisor ronen: do you work with carly, kate in the planning department to sort of plan this out and try to work together ahead of time to avoid delays and then when those projects are going to dpw and fire and the mayor's office of disability and possibly the puc, are you working to coordinate and get those in the top of the line? >> yes, under the late mayor lee's housing directive 17-02, the city has assembled a task force and we just finished the action plan, streamlining and strengthening coordinations between city departments to expedite the process. now, back to the point that i

make sometimes the design team could cause delay. and since i've become the housing coordinator, i have instructed my staff to take the initiative to contact the design team preemptively. if we don't hear from them in a week or two. so that's ongoing communication with the design team to shorten the review and approval process. >> supervisor ronen: and as the housing director, is there any additional changes that you can think of that can be made knowing these processes inside and out to speed up the projects? >> sorry, can you ask again. >> supervisor ronen: sure. you're living and breathing this work every single day. and i'm just looking, 3-4 weeks doesn't sound like that much in

a five-year process, but if we can save that month in every single department, we're tacking about a half a year that makes a big difference in a homeless family's life. >> absolutely. >> supervisor ronen: is there anything that we're not doing, that we could be doing, do you have any ideas what we could do to speed the projects along? any prioritization for these projects, that's what i'm looking for, these kinds of ideas. >> i have some sort of insight for dbi in being a housing coordinator for the department. and city-wide task force. i can assure you that each of the city departments is trying our best to stream line and expedite the whole process. >> supervisor ronen: i'm just -- >> -- my colleagues in planning could maybe shed some light.

>> just briefly, certainly with the planning department we have a number of things that we think should be improved about the development and review process to make all projects, but especially housing and even more so 100% affordable housing projects move quickly. we've done a great deal of work under the mayor's directive from last fall, both administratively, we've made a series of changes and tweaks. modest tweaks and adjustments, but they do have impact. we're drafting legislative proposals for your consideration very shortly that will provide more meaningful change, standardizing our practices with the idea being that we can throughout the development do things to make the public's role, our develop partner's role

and our role that much more straight forward. the time savings go straight to the top of the affordable housing projects and the remaining spectrum of housing projects. >> supervisor ronen: i might have more questions for you after public comment, but one last quick question. did the executive director 17-02 change at all the prior ziegs of 100% of affordable projects, since it brought into the category the projects that were affordable, did that slow down 100% affordable projects? or create so many priority projects that it's meaningless, basically? >> the answer is no. 100% affordable housing projects are still our top shelf priority. it does present a problem for those who thank are not 100% affordable, but i want to be

clear that 100% affordable housing projects are our top priority. period. >> supervisor ronen: ok. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you, supervisor ronen for calling the hearing today. i think it's an important conversation to be had. there is a lot of confusion out there, but the folks on the front lines, the nonprofit developers understand the process by which it takes to get these projects to reality, although once they hear about the project and a site, and it goes through one community meeting, they believe it's going to happen overnight and it's a really long process to bring anything to fruition. i have a specific question. so i know there was streamlining legislation at the state, sb 35 and i think one of the nonprofit developers is taking advantage of that.

can you talk about how that impacts the time line of what was presented and how that will accelerate? i think the largest process is the environmental review, is that correct? if you can talk about it how it impacts this and what it means overall on the affordable housing project? >> sure, thank you for the question. the conversation about sb 35 could be the topic of hearing. sb 35 provides that any housing project with more than 50% of the units at a certain level of affordability be stream lined. and to your point, that means among other things, there is no ceqa review for the projects because they're deemed to be ministerial. as you said, ceqa can often be the driver in terms of the time line fort project. so for projects that are eligible, that choose to avail themselves of sb 35, there is a

dramatically faster -- >> supervisor safai: so the nature is 9 months to a year. ballpark. >> let's take a 100-unit project, this is very hypothetical with a typical set of issues and impacts. this is really ballpark. so if you're proceeding down the 35 pathway, that same period of time that you are eligible to simply move forward with a basic level of review and yue out the door. >> supervisor safai: how quick is that? same scenario. >> zoning is required, let's say hypothetically, a couple of months. >> so talking about something from 9-14 months dropping down to two months. that's very significant.

i guess my question is to mr. adams, are you encouraging these projects that you put up on the board, are all of them taking advantage of sb 35, if not, are you encouraging them to do so, so we can accelerate, i know that's supervisor ronen's goal, to get affordable housing online. >> yes, we encourage all projects to take advantage of the tools that are available to receive their entitlements more quickly. we have in terms of implementing sb 35 for 100 affordable projects, we have cleanup legislation that needs to be passed prior to our ability to take advantage of that state law for our affordable projects. and that's due to the discretion action that is the approval of the ground lease and public funding that goes into the projects. so currently interpretation,

legal interpretation, those discretionary actions trigger the need for a review. so the sb 35, we're not able to take advantage of it in the way that the legislation intends we be able to and we're working with senator wiener's office to make those changes. >> supervisor safai: so this is a fix that has to be done bestate level? >> my understanding in our last conversations with the city attorney office, yes, it requires a state fix. we're exploring local fixes, but that's the most straight forward. certainly we want to take advantage of any other tool. there are other streamlining proposals on the state level for permanent supportive housing. >> supervisor safai: so are any of these projects that we've listed out, are any of them taking advantage of those? >> well, a number have received

their entitlements, they're beyond that. so given the cleanup that needs to happen -- >> supervisor safai: looks like someone from your staff. >> oh, somebody smarter than i am. >> one of the projects on the list is taking advantage of the sb 35, it's 681 florida. that was the offsite project in the mission. the ceqa is completed. we didn't run into any of the issues that dan was talking about. >> supervisor safai: any of these other ones eligible for that that haven't taken advantage of it or are they past that phase? >> the other project that has not been entitled is 3001 24th street and we're exploring 35. we're still in the early stages of plotting out the entitlement pass for that. >> supervisor ronen: i'll have

follow-up questions after public comment, but i want to open it to public comment. i have speaker cards. >> thank you for having the hearing. thank you to our community allies, our mission of no eviction. without all of us fighting together for the last two decades and since 2013, we wouldn't have the land we're

talking about. this is not just a five-year process we're talking about. this is the last two decades. and specifically, the three years ago, we only had three sites we were talking about and it wasn't without fighting we were able to get to the seven we're talking about now. i want to share, because they've done a fantastic job of sharing, as medicala and the partners and the development corporation. i want to share what we've been doing. we're about to break ground and are super excited. we were hoping to accelerate construction. with the challenges between financing as well as what we talked about earlier with coordinating with the different city agencies, it's been a challenge, and we think that our 1990 fulsome project, one of the projects we're developing is developed in less than three

years. that is super exciting for us. we wanted to share that we've been able to do this with building our affordable housing capacity from scratch. we have a team of 12 from 0 less than four years ago and we do this without doing this alone. we believe that without community input and without the community process review, we wouldn't be able to do so it. so we believe, whether or not we get ceqa review, we do that as a way of doing business at meda. we've heard from the counterparts that we should move [bell ringing] -- and we do need to continue to expand the pipeline beyond the units. >> the process we already have in place and having gone through this several times, do you see any ways that locally we could speed up the process? do you feel like you're getting prioritization for these

projects in each of the departments? >> we at meda did not know there were agencies in the room that had dedicated staff to this and there was a mayor's task force. i'm not sure whether the mayor's housing development knew. that's interesting in itself, the expediting has been in place and city agencies have been working together, but that has been a little less known to us. so if that does continue to move forward, we'd love to be able to be part of that. we're working closely with the mayor's office. we as affordable housing developers meet with them on a monthly basis and would love to continue to talk about how we expedite with them. so that would be number one. we should know that there are other agencies that have similar point people. right now, a lot of our architects and ourselves, we go to the different departments not realizing there are people who can move the processes forward.

>> i don't mean to put you on the spot, but do you feel like you're getting prioritization in planning in dbi and then in the department's we haven't talked about, at fire, at the mayor's office of disability, at the puc, at the dpw? >> i want to say that what we're doing throughout the entire time of predevelopment is parallel processes. so at the same time, while we're going after state financing, we're also trying to get permits and go through sf punch c. there are some agencies it's oblique what their processes are, and that's related to the

fact they have to come occupy to speed with the housing developments coming online. i'm not sure the expediting was put in place. when we started in late 2015 through 2016, i think we saw a lot more confusion about what the process was supposed to be and so some of our earlier projects had to weigh through the process while staff were trying to figure that out. without putting anybody on the spot. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. >> good afternoon. sam moss with commission housing development corporation. wanted to thank you for the opportunity to speak. without the community partners, save the mission, plaza 16, our mission housing and the rest of us wouldn't be here. you know, i do want to say that i think it's important for everyone on the panel to

understand that as a housing development staffer, we don't stack them on top of each other and call it a day. we put low-income health providers at the ground floor uses. we provide free computer labs. coding work. we're expected to help with workforce development and other job creation skills. i'm not making excuses but i want to point out when you talk about breaking ground, you're talking about breaking ground on a true community hub, where the nonprofit is expected to answer for all the woes that are generations of -- our generations of government has put on us. i appreciate we want to learn how to stream line and how better we can stream line it, but i want to truly say that the best way to stream line housing is for everyone on your side, on the government side, both

legislating and bureaucratic to talk to each other, coordinate with each other. until we can say that we're there, i think we're going to keep being frustrated. i want to thank you for your giving us the opportunity to speak. hello, i'm a resident of the mission hotel. i'm a tenant organizer for the central city sro collaborative. i'd like to first thank supervisor ronen for the hearing, she made a promise she is going to do it and she followed up on it. it's critical to the community in this area that desperately need this housing to know we have people who actually listen to our concerns and follow up on it. i want to add there is a human element to this, too. we've been talking about schedules and statutes and

regulations, but we have hundreds of people in the mission, who do not have low-income housing now. and we need it. and we need to think about this when we talk about how to stream line it, we're streamlining it for a reason. we're streamlining it so people who do not have housing, people in sros, people in tents, families in small rooms with 20 people, have a decent habitatible place to live. we want you to think about this. i understand that everybody has their issues and stuff, but this is supposed to be about the people who live here. and i want you to remember that we are a part of -- we want to be part of the solution as well as a part of the problem. and this is why we like these sort of hearings. i've learned so much just listening to you guys, now i'm going to go back and do research to figure out how to ask you questions and how the community

can work with you to help streamline this. so thank you for the hearing. please remember, we're talking about people who need housing today. ok? thank you very much. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. and thanks for reminding me, the whole hearing came out of the meeting with the sro collaborative and people asking when can i get one of those units? i said, great question, let's hold a hearing. >> there was one tenant who said she was trying to get housing for nine years and still is fighting it. so thank you very much. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i'm the engagement coordinator for mission housing. i want to echo the se-- sentimes

of the gentlemen before we. i want to speak on the community outreach and public engagement process we go through for each of our developments. mission housing, as well as our colleagues are committed to delivering a thoughtful community process. we are eager to engage in discussions and conversations with neighbors and the general public, both to be open and transparent about our projects, but also to shift the dial towards support of affordable housing. and away from the taboos that are often rooted in classicism and racism. this is some of the work we do every day. sometimes this can take a few months to accomplish. either our cac meetings to go to. there is house meetings. and with today's crisis even a few months can understandably feel like it's much longer process than it needs to be. but the benefits remain with the

individuals who changed w the breaking down of barriers and with the broad support for affordable housing. we hope to build at the end. thank you.

>> and then, we've got the mayor's 5,000 directive that focuses on that post entitlement process. and i think you're right to be asking for a studies to thoroughly examine. i am not sure thinking of who gets up at the top of the framework of the giant never ending pile is the right way to think about this when everybody going through that process is submitting 14,000 different pdf's for each step of the post entitlement process, and each internal department within dbi has different, often conflicting requirements. so you're asking everybody to

send in -- i don't know how many post entitlement pdf applications are going to dbi and going to one of those different departments. maybe the fire department has some requirement that why weren't those more incorporated into the initial planning process. those are the knowable things. what the fire department wants is knowable. it's write downable. right now, the fire department looks at it, and they make a judgment call, and they're inconsistent permit to permit to permit. we have a -- an opportunity to make a change, and i think that it is great that we're seeing a recommitment to see that post entitlement streamlining. i would love it if we did it for everything, including affordable housing. thank you. >> hi. steven buss with anything else

yimby. first of all, commissioner, thank you for bringing this up at land use today. these kinds of questions are essential for us to make good decisions. i've got a couple of suggestions. one, i was blown away that ceqa -- ceqa exemptions would drop unnecessary from an average of nine to 14 months down to two or three months. and it seems clear to me that if we want to speed up affordable units, then any affordable building that's being done on an in-fill site, like a parking lot or more or less abandoned warehouse, things like that, should automatically get ceqa exemptions. i think we can all agree, it's a public good to replace a parking lot with affordable housing, and it's definitely good for the environment to do that. second suggestion is there was a -- this was inspired by a

city that drastically reduced the amount of time that people would be incarcerated by forcing the prosecutor, the city prosecutor to justify the cost to society of recommending a particular sentence. i think we should apply that same logic to housing -- to our housing pipeline. when the planning commission recommends something be done, they should know how many it costs in time, in money, in effort. like, every single thing that the planning commission says, hey, we think you should do this. go do another shadow city, they should have to justify to the city that extra $500,000 that it's going to cost, and the extra six month delay that it's going to cost the people in getting into permanent housing. and also, let's exempt all affordable housing from height limits. >> thank you.

is there any other member of the public who would like to speak? seeing none, then, public comment is closed. supervisor ronen? >> commissioner renne: thank y you -- >> supervisor ronen: so i really appreciated all these comments and even wrote down where there's some disagreement what type of review and whether or not ceqa review is important or not, that there's some great ideas out there. i was concerned to hear that one of our community based affordable housing developers in the mission was -- isn't aware that there are people in each department that could help expedite affordable housing projects projects? if she doesn't know that, i don't know who knows that or how word moves on about that? so i don't know who is the appropriate person -- maybe --

and i'm sorry. i missed your name. are you -- perhaps dan, but karly or kate, since this is a role that you play? >> supervisor, thank you for that question. i -- i'm not quite sure what the right answer is. as a city, we partner to make sure that everyone is ware of all the right information. i think that this might be answered in collaboration with our partners at moe. you bet -- it's obviously a newer player on the development side. we want to partner with them going forward. dan, do you want to add to that? >> i think maybe the answer is -- the best answer is to say that there's -- it's a reminder of the need for us all to make our approval process more transparent than what it is today. it's complicated, it's complex. we've talked about dbi, we've talked about planning, but of course there's puc and dpw, and

there is a number of different components in puc and dpw. >> supervisor ronen: yeah. i guess what i'm looking for -- this isn't rocket science. you're 1 is 00% affordable project. and here is each department that's going to speed your project through, move it to the department of the pile and work with you hand in hand to make sure there's not a day's delay in your project. i know it's a complicated project, and you have to work on several processes at the same time, including very complicated financing for these projects. i know that -- that affordable housing development in general is very complicated, but parts of it are simplistic, and i just feel like if we really have this robust priority processing system, it should be much easier to -- to figure out who the person is, how we jump

to the front of the line, exactly how much time is saved. you know, that we're making sure that anything we can do in advance of things coming to the department once they get there are quicker and they get done. and i guess i'm just not seeing that level of prioritization of these projects, and that's what's concerning to me. i -- you know, i -- again, i have to go back to the process that mayor lee and i went through in opening that navigation center in two months time, where a significant amount of work was done to the building. and i have to say he brought in every single department, and he said i want this done by this date. i don't want any excuse. i want you to drop everything you're doing and make sure this opens because there is a public health crisis on the street that we can do longer ignore. and that's the attitude that i want to see in the city about the development of affordable

housing. there is a raging crisis as mervyn green so eloquently explained much better than i did of families and individuals that are diing on our streets every day, that are having to leave the city and take their kids out of school because they can't afford housing costs in the city, and it is the issue of our time. it is the issue of our day. it is ruining our city creating workforce crises and a number of other crises that all stem back to this, you know, root cause problem of the lack of affordable housing in our city. and so i just -- i'm not seeing that urgency in that level of commitment to prioritizing and financing these projects going forward, and that's what i'm looking for. and i know -- again, i echo, there's lots of great comments,

and big things we can do and little things we can do. and i'm going to follow up this hearing by, you know, having some offline conversations, but i want every single one of these 100% affordable projects, for every single departments that touch this project, think oh, my god, the mayor is breathing down my neck because that family might experience one morday of homelessness on the streets of san francisco and we've got to get this up. that's what i'm looking for, and i don't know that i'm feeling it. i don't know that this hearing brought it out perfectly in what's missing or what we could do better, but the answers are a little vague, and it is 's a little lucy goosy, and that's what i'm interested in changing. i'm not going to take up more time of my colleagues and belabor this point today. i will work offline both with community members and the city departments, but i don't know if this is something that i'm

going to look at legislating, but that's the level of commitment, urgency, and fervor that i want to see around the production of affordable housing. so with that, i don't know if you want to say any last remarks, but i'll just leave it there, unless you do. >> we want to do the same. we want to bring that same level of fervor. >> supervisor ronen: all right. thank you. >> all right. thank you, supervisor ronen, thank you, department staff. i know it's an issue that all of us care very much about throughout the city, so thank you, supervisor ronen. so with that, any further questions, comments. madam clerk, is there any further -- >> clerk: were you going to file an -- >> okay. i'll file this item. madam clerk, is there any other business before us? >> clerk: no, that concludes the agenda. >> okay. thank you. our meeting is adjourned.

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friend matt. >> thank you thanks for being with us we're in a garage but at the el cap center south of market in san francisco what we've done a simulated the garage to show you what it is like to make the improvements and reduce the reflexes of earthquake we're looking at foundation bolts what do they do. >> the foundation bolts are one of the strengthening system they hold the lowest piece of wood onto the foundation that prevents the allows from sliding during an earthquake that is a bolt over the original construction and these are typically put in along the foundation to secure the house to the foundation one of the things we'll show you many types of bolts let's go outside and show the vufrdz we're outside

the epic center in downtown san francisco we'll show 3 different types of bolts we have a e poxy anchor. >> it is a type of anchor that is adhesive and this is a rod we'll embed both the awe hey that embeds it into the foundation that will flip over a big square washer so it secured the mud sell to the foundation we'll need to big drill luckily we have peter from the company that will help us drill the first hole. >> so, now we have the hole drilled i'll stick the bolt in and e post-office box it. >> that wouldn't be a bad idea

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