>> president turman, i'd like to call roll. >> president turman: please do. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: commissioner turman, you have a quorum. also present with us today is the chief of police, william scott, and for the department of police accountability, miss sandra marian. >> president turman: okay. members of the public, welcome to the may 2nd, 2018 regular meeting of the san francisco police commission. this evening, we have a long closed session calendar, so -- which is likely going to be very time-consuming, so due to

the complexity and the length of closed session, public comment is going to be limited to two minutes. and with that, i'm going to turn it back over to secretary kilshaw for the first item. >> yes. thank you, secretary kilshaw, i'm going to interrupt the president of the commission tonight because this is a very special night, and it is a very hard night for some of us. tonight is president turman's last night on the commission, and he may not know this but tonight is a very special night for him. i have with me a proclamation from the mayor of san francisco, and julius, he may not know it, but today is julius turman day in san francisco.

[applause]. >> president turman: it would have been nice to know that at the beginning. >> well, you know, plenty of time left in the day. i'm going to read the proclamation. it's actually very appropriate. whereas the city and county of san francisco traditionally recognizes individuals who have made significant and remarkable contributions to the vitality of our city, and the dedicated and vital work of l. julius turman sincere rerepresenting the city of san francisco at its best. he has served the city and county of san francisco in various capacities, joining the police commission in 2011, stepping into the vice president, and then serving as the president of the body over a year. president turman might run commission meeting with a pragmatism of suffers no fools demeanor, he has been witness

to comments delivered as jives, poems, raps and beats, whereasture mass was instrumental in overseeing the police reform efforts, successfully revising several key policies, including use of force, body worn cameras, written communications and complaints against officers, ensuring the department operates the highest national standard, and whereas recruitment is often an arduous process, turman exercised his acute judgment of character, supporting chief william scott after a tremendously long and collaborative journey that included public input as well as filing key positions at the dpa and the commission office. whereas according to the sometimes ungodly hours of the julius turman e-mail which we've all received, he doesn't sleep, ladies and gentlemen. he's been known to land in your

box that seems to need no more than 45 minutes of sleep a night, which means that the remaining 23 hours and 15 minutes are split between his time at his firm and helping the sfpd reaches the highest pinnacle, making sure every person knows in the department how important his or her service is, and everybody feels safe and able to live their best san francisco life. therefore be it known that i mark e farrell do here by proclaim may 4, 2018 to be l. julius turman day in san francisco. [applause]. >> and we're not done yet. we have some special guests here, too. so on behalf of the san

francisco police commission, i'm not going to read this certificate of appreciation. this is to you, julius, for your hard work, and for everything you've done as a commissioner, and you know, i give this to you with great pride. you know, our friendship. i see former president susie loftus is here today. you know, in my career, i have served with some notable and incredibly successful people. on this commission, president loftus, president sparks. i've served in the department of justice with judge ryan, robert mueller. i served in the d.a.'s office with kamala harris, and you're there in my life as people who have defined who we are and who the city is. i have to tell you from the day i first met you, i found you to be honest. the first day you meet someone, you go he's okay, or no he's a

blankety-blank. you know, in a city that believes in a lot of identity politics, you are a michigan wolfe wolferine, a former u.s. assistant attorney out of michigan, a managing partner of a law firm. you are a family man, your whole family comes out to celebrate with you. you're a great person, and a great police commissioner. you're really going to be missed. you're a great commissioner, and on behalf of the commission, i'm going to miss you, buddy. i think former commission president loftus has a few words she'd like to add. >> commissioners, good evening. i don't think this is the public comment section of the agenda, otherwise this would have been my first time to make public comment to the police commission.

>> two minutes and you're out of here. >> your time is up. i wanted to give you that opportunity, president turman. it's so wonderful to see everybody, hello. president turman, i'm here for you. i haven't been back since i left the commission a year and a half ago, but i couldn't miss a chance to come back and honor what you've given to this city. i think it was former chief greg sur who used to remind us sometimes, you know, julius is a really fancy lawyer, and he would ask how much you actually get paid every hour. i think it's high up there. as a government lawyer, please don't tell me. i don't want to know. but over the seven-plus years you've been on this commission, the hours that you have spent in discipline hearings, in time when we've been in closed session struggling with some of the biggest issues this police department has faced, you have been dedicated every single moment so what is best for this city, what is best for this department, and you have shined in your integrity, president

turman. you make the decisions for the right reason, you care deeply about this city, and you have given a tremendous amount. it was an honor to serve with you, and thank you for the kindness and the partnership you showed me and you've shown all of your colleagues over the years because you've made things better, and the city is very grateful. thank you. [applause]. >> president turman: are we done now? >> i think we're done now. president turman wants to get back to the agenda, and i'll -- >> president turman: i was just going to say thank you to everyone, and i will come back during commission comments and make my comments, so thank you so much. thanks so much. >> should we tell him now? we were going to save this, but you're invited to come back to every police commission and talk in public comment moving

forward. >> president turman: thank you so much, but you know, be careful what you ask for. all right. madam secretary, we'll start with the first line item. >> line item one. [agenda item read]. >> president turman: commissioners, in your packet are the meeting minutes from those dates, march 14, april 4, april 11, and april 18, 2018. hopefully, you had a chance to peruse them. if you have any comments or revisions to them, please let us know. if there are none, then i will entertain the appropriate motion. >> move to accept. >> second. >> president turman: all in favor? any opposed? thank you. those minutes are adopted. next item, secretary kilshaw.

[agenda item read]. >> president turman: okay. chief, did you want to say anything further? >> nothing -- nothing further. >> president turman: okay. all right. so as i understand it, la casa de la madres is receiving this from dignity health, and they've sent us $10,000 connected with participation in the bayview domestic violence high risk program. i'll entertain the appropriate

motion. >> move to accept. >> second. >> all in favor cler. >> clerk: can we have public comment on that, commissioner? >> president turman: i'm sorry. public comment on that, item 2. seeing none, public comment is now closed. with public comment now closed, i will reopen the floor for the appropriate motion. >> i think you just call the question. >> president turman: okay. call the question. all in favor? any opposed. okay. that is now approved. secretary kilshaw. [agenda item read]. >> president turman: good evening, chief scott. >> good evening, commission, commissioner turman. i'll start out with crime

trends for this week and start off with violent crime. homicides are down 28% from this time last year. we had 13 homicides as of the last reporting period. our shootings -- shooting victims, i'm sorry, are down 17% with a total of 39 year to date. homicides with firearms, we've only had six for the year, which is 54% below where we are last year, and our toting gun violence is down 25%. our total violent crimes, that includes all the part one violent crimes, we're down 36%, and part two violent crimes, we're down 14.55%. auto blaerz are down 25%, which is equivalent to 2,000 less auto burglaries than last year, and all the strategies that we've put in place will

continue, and hopefully, we can continue to push that down in the right direction. in terms of special events, items of interest, the department continues to provide opportunities throughout the city as part of our youth engagement efforts. our youth wilderness hikes is one of those things. this happened this past week, and that was at our lady of visitacion. students went to angel island, and st. john's students went to mou mount -- i'm having trouble pronouncing this. tamalpais. one event to report this week, our peace parks is a continuing effort. i spoke about this in a prior meeting. it's a collaboration with rec and parks and the san francisco police department to give programming in some of the parks around the city in

concentrated in various rec centers, so it's really gotten off to a good start. we believe this is part of the solution to address some of our violent crime, giving young people activities and programs in the parks, so that will continue. the next peace park event for this week is tomorrow -- actually, tomorrow through sunday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at hearst park in the ingleside district. and cinco de m 5 yo events occur this sunday at 10:00 a.m. it's an annual street events celebration. we don't -- we anticipate we'll be adequately staffed for that event. and that concludes the report for this week. >> president turman: thank

you. chief. any questions for the chief? hearing no questions, thank you, chief. let's go directly to the report by dpa director henderson. [agenda item read]. >> certainly. we are currently at 258 pending cases. last year this time, we were at 407 cases. i'll continue to -- every week to that similar update when we meet. we are still at 34 cases that are past the 270-day point. as a reminder, the majority of those cases are cases that are being tolled from other civil or criminal pending charges. we are continuing to fill folks in the management positions so we can continue to process the

contract that we had from the department of technology to take over our department and bring the department current, both with software and with hardware. our -- the majority of the investigation unit right now is at a training, one of the things that folks had asked me to do was to provide more training for our investigators, so i've sent the majority of the investigative team to aele training, which is use of force training, so they're in vegas right now, but i'm sure they're watching us on sfgov tv. this week, one of our lawyers who are here in the audience with us today, samra marian, spoke on dr. maeshrshall regarding violence -- biased

policing. those are my updates for this week. >> president turman: thank you, commissioner henderson. sorry -- director henderson. any comments, questions for director henderson? no? okay. hearing none, let's move to the next item, please. [agenda item read]. >> president turman: well, as commissioner mazzucco has said, today is my last day with the police commission, and this is -- the kind of work we do here, i guess you can never say, my work is done because there is plenty to always do. but it's been seven years. i'm proud to have had the opportunity to serve with such

talented, intelligent commissioners. out of all those list of priorities -- high ranking officials that commissioner mazzucco named in his remarks, i want to tell you that susie loftus, who was my friend and in whose foot steps i followed was probably the most instrument in helping me learn how to do this job. and this has been good work. i'm proud of the san francisco police department. i'm proud of its leadership and its chief. i'm proud of the department of police accountability. every day, they strive to make transparency and public interface, and the work we do even more accessible to the

city and county of san francisco. and the people you don't see behind -- the behind-the-scenes people, you don't see what they do every day, the people who serve on our commission staff, the people who advise us from the city attorney's office, and others who work hard to make sure we live up to the mandates of the charter of the city of san francisco. they deserve our highest respect and thank you. and thank you to the citizens of san francisco who have constantly given me reminders in many, many forms of what they believe san francisco should be, and i hope to some measure i have lived up to that in the last seven years. thank you for the time, the attention, and the ability to serve. thank you.

commissioners, and i'll say -- commissioner dejesus, i'm sorry. >> commissioner dejesus: so i also want to say thank you to commissioner turman. you've been refreshing, you've been plain speaking, you've been pretty blunt with us. it was refreshing to have that bluntness, but you also had understanding of complex and difficult issues that we faced. you know, you and commissioner loftus led us through some pretty trying times in the community and some trying community meetings, but i think most of that was successful, and we have come away with a body of policy for this department that really moved us into the 21st century, and we have to continue that march into the 21st century and best practices, and hopefully by doing this, we're going to be changing the culture of the department. so i want to thank you for your dedication and long hours. as you said, people have no idea what goes on behind the scenes, so thank you so much.

>> president turman: thank you. commissioner hirsch? >> commissioner hirsch: i also want to thank you. i've only been on the commission for a year, but you've been the president for that year. and i've learned a lot from you, actually, in the year. ands and as i told you, your bedside manner can be rough, but your heart and your mind is admirable, and i appreciate your leadership. >> president turman: okay. next line item, secretary kilshaw. [agenda item read]. >> president turman: anything anyone needs to schedule? >> no. >> not for me. >> commissioner? >> president turman: go ahead. >> i was just going to mention for the members of the public, the commission will be dark next weekend. we do not have a quorum.

>> president turman: and please check your website because we're not quite sure how long we will be dark. so there are some commission appointments that need to be filled to bring the quorum levels back up to speed, so please make sure you're checking our website. >> we should be clear with the public. it's not that the commissioners here are not willing to attend. we are willing to attend, but we will not have a quorum with commissioner turman leaving -- the president turman leaving. we have two commissioners pending reappointment, and we have two -- we have two openings, so we don't have a quorum. as soon as the board of supervisors moves on that, then hopefully, we can recon convenient oreconvene our meetings. >> president turman: all right. public comment on-line items 3-a through d. any public comment?

3-a through 3-d? hearing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> president turman: secretary kilshaw, public comment. [agenda item read]. >> clerk: please limit your comments to two minutes. >> president turman: any general public comment? >> hello.

hi, everyone. good evening or good -- you know, i just wanted to say i'm sorry that you're leaving also, and i know we had a few brushes together, but thank you for being here. and i also want to say i want here last week, and i know last time you were on the board, you said you were going to have a letter written for dpw. you weren't here, so the vice president said he would sign it. but i guess they had to wait until you got back. >> president turman: i signed the letter today. >> okay. thank you. and the other thing is can i use the overhead, as i come every time to talk about my son who was murdered august 14, 2006, we still have no -- no

closure, no one's come forth. i bring the names all the time of the people who murdered my son. thom thomas hannibal, marcus carter. we're still looking for closure, and i always talk about our posters being out there, say where was you when i was murdered? we still need to see you for our children to be out there, so the perpetrators can see their victim. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> president turman: thank you. any further public comment? all right. hearing none, public comment is now closed.

next line item, secretary kilshaw. [agenda item read]. >> president turman: all right. so ladies and gentlemen, members of the public, what we're about to do is we are going to consider our closed session agenda which has some personnel matters on it. now, what we're doing now is we're about to vote as to whether or not to go into closed session. we're giving you the chance to give us public comment on that-dwthat that -- the vote as well as whether or not we should go into closed session. so with that, public comment is now open on that. any public comment? all right. hearing none, public comment is now closed on item six. [ gavel ]

[agenda it [agenda item read]. >> so moved. >> second. >> president turman: okay. all in favor? any opposed? all right. ladies and gentlemen, we thank you for attending the first half of the open session. we are now about to go into public -- or closed session. we'll return after

>> clerk: commissioner, you're back in session on an open record and you still have a quorum. >> president turman: okay. next line item. [agenda item read]. >> move not to disclose. >> second. >> president turman: all in favor? all right. nondisclosure, we are in -- that is a unanimous vote. thank you. >> clerk: item nine, adjournment, action item. >> well, i'm going to move that we adjourn in honor of commission president julius turman, who you are he going -- who's going to have julius turman day in san francisco, so i think we should have a par aid -- parade. a lot of good things was said tonight about julius, but one of the best was integrity, and he was able to make good decisions despite disparate political forces. he's totally a straight shooter. so god bless, and i'd

>> good afternoon, welcome to our land use committee of monday, may 14, 2018. eye supervisor tang, supervisor kim and supervisor safai, we would like to thank sf gov tv. >> clerk: please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be

on the may 22nd board of supervisor. item number 1 is resolution approving and authorizing the acceptance of yerba buena gardens from the office of community investment and infrastructure. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. i don't know if we want to go to department first, or if we want to go to -- anyone from -- sorry, mr. updike, you're over here. >> good afternoon. chair tang, members of the committee, john updike, director of real estate. yerba buena gardens is bounded by market to fulsome, 3rd to 4th street. it's three blocks on a complex set of cultural amenities, beloved open space, retail restaurants and hotels. all thriving in a similar to the

city's real estate department. this resolution seeks approval to effect that transfer at the end of the fiscal year, consistent with the property management plan as approved by the state department of finance and their economics commission. we're pleased to recognize the nature of the development and did not take action to tear apart the partnership of commerce, supporting civic good. resolution authorizes the following actions. city acceptance of the deed from the ocii interest on these three blocks. city assumption of lease and agreements per an assignment and assumption agreement. acceptance by the city of all funds into a separate account consistent with controller direction. the assignment and the jurisdiction of the assets once

transferred to the city will be in the real estate department. this will be an escrowed transaction and that's to provide adequate title insurance to the city, to allow for a clear transfer of funds and post escrow reconciliation to account for year end adjustments we expect to be made after july 1. the effect of the transfer is that tenants will pay their rent to a new address and new account. real estate staff will play the role currently executed by ocii staff today, in managing the affairs. but this should be seamless to the thousands of patrons of the yerba buena gardens. probably more in your mind today, this summer the board will see a master lease between the city and yerba buena gardens conservanc conservancy. that will provide a more nimble path ahead to manage the assets. that master lease is under

negotiation now. the team has made tremendous progress in the last couple of months. the main issue under discussion is how to best describe the elements of the gardens and for each of those elements whether they be retail, cultural, the level of authority vested in the conservancy and long-term fiscal issues also. currently the board is setting up their by-laws and conflict of interest rules collaboratively with city staff. i want to provide a few thank youings. i would like to thank josh keen of my staff for his dedicated efforts to advance this complex matter. we would not be in this position to accept and to feel comfortable managing, and accepting these assets without the help of council, eileen and

heidi, jim of occ and hilldy and denise. without them, without the team effort and literally years of discussion to ensure this transaction is seamless to those who enjoy yerba buena gardens couldn't have done it without these folks. happy to answer any questions you might have. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. and i'm going to actually turn it over to supervisor kim now. >> supervisor kim: well, actually, mr. updike did cover the four corners of what we were discussing here today, but i want to express my support and thanks to many of our stakeholders that are part of the yerba buena gardens initiative from the onset, decades ago when we began the redevelopment. and to mr. updike and his team for working on the transfer. while it seems like a simple action, it actually took us a very long time to get to

figuring out a funding stream, what was appropriate to make sure we were investing in the maintenance of this park and it's long-term future, to continue to be a jewel for the yerba buena neighborhood. so i also want to recognize the yerba buena stakeholders, including john and the yerba buena community district for helping to mediate and negotiate this. we do still have a lease that is in negotiation that will come to the board later this year, but i do support us moving forward with the item, but before we do that, can we open up for public comment. item number one is open to public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i'd like to move this forward with recommendation to the full board. >> we'll do that without objection. resolution imposing interim zoning controls for 18 months to

require conditional use permit and specified findings for any conversion of retail use to non-retail sales and service use in the c-3-r downtown retail zoning district. >> supervisor tang: we're joined by supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you for scheduling this item. as you know, district 3 includes union square which has been a destination retail zone for generations. and whether it's the amazon effect or changing trends, this retail landscape has been challenged for the last number of years. and i'm actually contemplating two pieces of permanent legislation. one around permanent controls as there is more pressure to convert retail space particularly at the upper floors

to the more lucrative use of office space for which there seems to be endless demand in san francisco. as well as to capture an impact fee for the change from retail to non-retail uses and those two pieces of legislation will be forth coming and i want to thank my staff, as well as folks at the union square bid for working on the legislation. and ultimately, those impact fees would be used for a host of street scape improvements in and around union square that, the union square business improvement district has championed, ranging from maiden lane to a long discussed redesign of the plaza. plans for claude lane, campton place, and others. as to these interim controls, they would require that the

planning commission make additional findings prior to approving any conversion of retail space to non-retail space or office space in the downtown zone, c-3-r district. and just by way of background, what we're trying to do is incent property owners to hole onto retail space. i want to note that the planning department, has been considering this for a couple of years. there was actually set forth in the resolution, two hearings over the last two years at the planning commission based on work and research that the planning department staff and oewd have done. the intent of the interim controls is to keep pushing planning and oewd to the extent they are contracted to conduct a

survey of the existing uses and get the recommendations we need to implement permanent controls to the downtown c-3-r. i totally get there are properties that are mid sale and they are concerned from the uncertainty that this changing zoning environment has caused. as we grapple with the evolving use mix in this area. but i'm confident that these controls will ultimately help restore some of the certainty sooner rather than later. i have one amendment that i'll offer and we're going hear a little bit from folks at planning and oewd. that would be on page 5, bring line 3 -- beginning at line 3 and that will further resolve that if applicant has filed application with the planning

department for conditional use of conversion from retail uses to non-retail uses in the c-3-r zoning district prior to may 18, such conversion shall not be subject to these interim controls. that's done with the understanding if the projects are exempt from the interim zoning controls, they will nonetheless be assessed whatever impact fee we craft at the issuance of the building site permits. as to projects like the conversion of the macy's men's store at 120 stockton street, even though they have actually received their entitlements, we still have the ability and they're aware of that to impose the impact fees. to that, i want to thank the project sponsors and applicants who have approached my office.

and i want to thank claudia from planning and lisa from oewd who provided valuable insight. if they want to offer anything to the committee, they are free to do so. with that, madame chair, i turn this over to you. >> thank you very much, did any of the department staff want to comment on the item? now is your chance. ok. no? ok. colleagues, do we have any other questions, comments? we can go to public comment first. we're going to go to public comment first. so item 2 is open for public comment. >> yes, hi, supervisors, eric brook. san francisco several years ago we worked to defend the conditional use and other california environmental quality act protections in san francisco when they were under attack. so i want to stand up in support

of additional conditional use controls in this legislation with our legislators in sacramento doing their best to undermine the local community's abilities to set their own rules for their local community in regards to development. this kind of progress of setting more controls is crucial. so definitely support this. and also, support permanent controls, the ones that supervisor peskin alluded to, be great to have the controls permanent. also great to figure out a way to help local small businesses now that the space is opening from the bigger players. it's probably happened in most of the neighborhoods, it's happening in my neighborhoods, the local small businesses because of rising rents are being deb devastated. they need an outlet, an affordable place to go.

to try to make it so small businesses can have a piece of the action. thanks. >> thank you very much, next speaker, please. . >> good afternoon. rueben juniors and rose, our office represents several property owners the union square area. one of those projects is 120 stockton which is currently used as the macy's men's store, but is no longer owned by macy's and was approved for conversion. 50,000 square feet of office on the 6th and 7th floor. i would like to thank supervisor peskin and his office for cooperation and availability on the legislation. we appreciate the amendment that will grandfather pending and approved applications. that said, we do have one additional concern. i wanted to see if there was a possibility of doing minor

amendment in that regard. for 120 stockton with the recent approval, the project team is moving forward with full speed on the leasing efforts. and we're concerned about a scenario whereby we might have a potential tenant for the upper floors that might consist of another non-retail use, similar to the ice cream museum and the color factory. these uses are non-retail and fall into the arts activity category and would be subject to the interim control. however, they're very appropriate for example for the 4th and 5th levels and would bring people into union square and help with other retail uses. we do not have application pending for that change, but that could be relevant in the near term and nabt to move forward, could jeopardize that ability. so what we're asking for is exclusion for the upper floors

potentially and while i use the museum as an example, that use could be any other type of non-retail use, arts, entertainment or institutional use. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i'm the executive director of the union square business improvement district. we represent the property owners and merchants around union square. we're the c-3-r district. and we have been working with planning around oewd to really look at our district and understand the best use when this was introduced. we appreciate both aaron's time and lee's over the past week to weigh in on the legislation which is so important to us. we're not taking a position. honestly, the board has not had

time to be thoughtful about it and take a position, but we certainly have heard from a number of projects coming forward. and appreciate you grandfathering in the projects that have been approved. i know there is two more an planning on thursday and sounds like they'll be included as well. we do appreciate that. we're concerned about the next round of projects, the pipeline. it's squary to have a -- scary to have a moratorium, we appreciate any projects willing to give back and improve our district and revitalize the alleys. it's important if you take something away, you're gaining upside to give back to the community. we do want to support our stakeholders and the overall vibrancy of the district. we would like as much retail and vibrancy as possible. we hope to work with you over the coming and make this moratorium quick.

>> good afternoon. my name is william rutland and i represent macy's which has been a retailer there for decades. we believe that we are in agreement with what supervisor peskin is trying to accomplish. we have a little bit of concern about some of the language that requires us to get information, that it's hard for us to get. i understand the planning department is trying to get. it also requires us to seek out non-retail use space for potential tenants that could compliment. we know we're trying to accomplish the same thing. and that is maintain the vitality of this great district. we also want to maintain the economic stability of our company and the city. we'd like an opportunity to work with you to accomplish just that. thank you.

>> good afternoon, supervisors, jim lazarus, san francisco chamber of commerce, i wanted to thank supervisor peskin and his staff for working with us and the union square association and our members. we're in a changing environment downtown, but actually if you think back, it changed a long time ago. growing up here, there were half 0 dozen locally owned department stores, multilevel stores that don't exist. one of them is a garage above ground floor gap retail, banana republic. so things have changed they're going to continue to change. we're in a period now of trying to figure out what is the driving need for retail in downtown above the ground floor. so i urge you to really think carefully about this. to be open to further amendments over the 18-month period so we do not prevent change for

occurring where it's necessary and where minds can meet over the uses of upper floors. we believe that retail -- interesting, entertainment, destination focused retail, major department stores in the downtown area will continue to thrive, but we've had a lot of vacancies on one, two and three-story buildings in the union square area for a long time that need to be dealt with. and holding out hope for upper floor retail may only continue those vacancies and that doesn't help the retail community as a whole. so we look forward to working with you, supervisor, over the next 18 months craft this. and hope you would be open to looking at it during that period of time. thank you. >> good evening, board of supervisors and audience. yes, i agree with that, so you

won't say i'm off the subject, but you would be remiss, if ace on the case didn't get up here, you're all talking about orders and retail, let me tell you what really smells. come down fillmore street and see if we have retails that look like me, a-c-e, happens to be a black man. you will see all this hoopla, this rhetoric. what happened on the fillmore street? ladies and gentlemen, you should have been there saturday. i tell you about that later. my name is ace, i'm on the case. i know you pleased with this, i can say this now, don't get me started, any of you, supervisorings, this is public hearing, i already said i support it, but be remiss if i didn't get up here and tell you what we missing in the fillmore. i'm going to do that until the day god kills me. the fill no more.

no retailers. what have you got, no retailers, no merchants, all you got is me, a-c-e. so i'm here to tell you all today you're in for a good show at city hall. i call it silly hall. we're going to see things about the government, things about you elected officials should have been doing a long time ago. got 29 seconds. let me see what i'm going to say. i'm getting good at this. listen, i just want to say one thing for sure, i am hardened, my heart is hardened for the black folks in the city by the bay, because it seem like nobody care about us. ed lee, may he rest in peace, but i'm here still talking about the fillmore street. my name is ace, i'm on the case, you're all in for a good show today at city hall. i call it silly hall. >> thank you very much, any other members of the public that wish to comment? seeing none, public comment for

item 2 is closed. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, madame chair, i want to thank ms. flood, mr. lazarus and mr. rutland and others who spoke during public comment. i do want to address one misconception which we have clarified with planning and i'm sure our deputy city attorney mr. givner can speak to it. but as to any conversion of retail to another form of less traditional retail, including but not limited to museum use, including some of the stuff that has been proposed for the 4th and 5th floors of 120 stockton would not be subject to these controls. if you want to address that, but that is our understanding from planning. and then with regard to the larger question of the 18 months. it is my profound desire and intention to have permanent controls and impact fee done within that 18-month period.

if we can get that done this calendar year, these interim controls would then sunset when we had the permanent controls and the impact fee and we're working as quickly as we can to achieve that. i'm not interested in having interim controls in the sake of having them. planning has been talking about this now for two years. this is going to be a gentle nudge to finally consummate that to the form of permanent controls. >> supervisor safai: just want to say briefly, i really appreciate the spirit of this -- these interim controls. i think it is our duty as one of the bodies that sets policy for land use we be cognizant of not just what is happening in trends today, but what with epredict and want to see the shape of the future of the city. when we have a retail district,

in my opinion is one of the best downtown shopping districts in the entire united states, that when there is tremendous pressure on that to convert into something other than retail, whether it's a second, third or fourth floor, we have to do everything we can to preserve that. and this is in many ways one of the reasons why people come from all over the world, on top of so many other things about san francisco. so i applaud supervisor peskin working with the planning department and the community benefit district and all the retailers and shop building owners in the downtown district. but i would say not just thinking about what is happening today, there is insatiable desire to create more office space in this city. and we're going to have that conversation about certain parts of the city that is being re-zened for millions and millions of square feet. the question before us and will continue to be, is the union square shopping district the

place to have office space? i would lean on the side of no. i appreciate this and moving forward. but i'm cognizant of people owning property. i look forward to supporting you in that. >> supervisor peskin: through the chair, to supervisor safai, thank you for that, and i want to throw out one statistic. a very recent study for 2016, showed that union square generates approximately 37% of the san francisco's sales tax and general consumer goods which is a remarkable figure. so there -- we also have financial interests in making sure that the retail vibrancy continues unabated and so i wanted to make sure we don't end up regretting decisions to convert to office space where if we were creative -- even if we had some pdr and manufacturing uses that actually used to