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they're all sitting over here, and to keller kirkpatrick, our acting budget director, can we give her a round of plauz? [applause] >> and i want to acknowledge my chief of staff, jason elliott, jason, thank you for everything. [applause] >> so before i dive into the specifics of the budget, i do want to acknowledge where we have been over the past seven months. i think we all remember where we were when we heard about mayor lee's passing and the shock that i felt. no one could have possibly anticipated that our mayor would have been taken from us in december, taken from the city that he loved. we all have endured a lot since that fateful night. many of us have cried, many of us have mourned, but we have come together as a city. we have definitely had our disagreements and debates over the past seven months, but we
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have stayed together, defending the values of san francisco. and while our local economy continues to thrive, san francisco faces real challenges every single day. well, you all understand that a mother should not have to choose between paying her utility bill or paying rent, the potential of facing evictin or homelessness. we know that clean streets free of syringes and needles should be the norm, not the exception. that parking your car in san francisco should not induce a panic attack because you think it will be broken into. we all understand that residents in historically under served communities did he serve the resources and -- deserve the resources in a booming economy. they deserve it from san francisco. and as the trump administration
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attacks so many of our communities, our immigrant community, our lgbt community, our women in san francisco, and the rights of all san franciscans, we must fight back. we are stewards of the gret city in the world, and we will rise up to the challenges of today. thank you. [applause] >> now, homelessness has plagued our city for decades, but the situation has never been so dire as it is right now. we will not solve this epidemic with one single answer, and this budget takes a multifacet multifaceted approach to making a real dent in the issue, to help stem the tight of homelessness and push back on the challenges that have confronted us for years on our streets. i also understand the roots of this tragedy are complex, they
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are not simple, and they are also not unique to san francisco, which is why over the past few months, i have partnered with ten of the mayor's of the other largest cities in california and advocated in sacramento, advocated with our governor, spent hours in sacramento together as mayors to ask for more than $1.5 billion in our state budget so that cities can address homelessness on our streets because we know the solutions that are working. and i want to say a special thanks to assembly man -- senator weiner, assembly men chiu, and this budget, as large as it is and as large as the investments are within homelessness does not reflect a single dollar of that ask, and we have had great results in
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sacramento in committees over the past few weeks, and we are hopeful that additional funding will be coming shortly from sacramento. this budget invests in measures that prevent people from falling into the clutches of homelessness to begin with, while also supporting programs that ensure once they are housed, they will have the support and services that they need to avoid slipping back into homelessness on our streets. we will be compassion driven in our approach, but we will also take strategic common sense measures, measures such as our encampment resolution teams, because no one gets better by living on our streets at night. the first fiscal year of my budget will include $30 million in new initiatives for homelessness. that package includes an investment to double our home ward bound budget, a measure that reunites struggling families with their loved ones, and last year alone over 900
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people were served by project home ward bound, and less than 10% of people returned to the city of san francisco to access services. this is to prevent and divert people from a life on our streets here in san francisco. and when someone leaves the throes of homelessness, they will leave permanently with the resource necessary to make sure they get back on their own 2 feet. in the next fiscal year, this budget will create 200 new supportive housing units in san francisco. with these units, san francisco will have more than 7,900 permanent supportive housing units in the city of san francisco, the most percapita of any city in our entire country. along with our new units, i will be investing $1.5 million
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additional funds to support additional housing at our permanent housing sites. this includes $15 million to continue our nav fact center pipeline, helping to secure the creation of four new facilities ri h in o city, including the first one dedicated specifically to women and expectant mothers. these resource heavy centers are critical to breaking the cycle of homelessness, poverty and addiction on our streets. we will fund programs that support families, we will fund program that's support the youth that are homeless on our streets, and i will continue to support funding for operations that clear our streets of unsafe and unhealthy tent encampments. again, no one's life is getting better by sleeping in tents on our streets. we must also address the core roots of the issue of homelessness. we must offer help to those on our streets struggling with
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addiction, mental illness and other behavioral health challenges. last month, i announced the creation of a new street medicine street which will deliver opioid treatments directly to people living on our streets. this dedicated unit under the direction of dr. barry zevin will offer medication to people living on our streets. it is a first in the nation program, and it will produce results here in san francisco. every day we are hearing more and more stories of people who have really inspired the rest of us by treating their dictio and making onto a better life. and for those -- for those that are on our streets that cannot help themselves with buprenorphrine, we have an obligation to step in and offer assistance. we are investing in
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conserveatorship beds to those suffering from mental illnesses and living on our streets. earlier this year, i announced the opening of san francisco conserveatorship beds. and we will continue to invest in them and other programs that represent help for those struggling with addictions living on our streets. we will continue to operate under the premise of laura's law, who help family members who cannot help themselves. too often we have approached homelessness as an attractable issue and the residents experiencing these issues as lost causes. i refuse to accept that narrative. we will not solve this issue overnight, but we have made a
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dent over the past six months, and with this budget, we will make great strides in addressing homelessness on our streets. not only in the immediate future but with an eye toward making a dent, and make a permanent lasting legacy of san francisco. we also are fortunate to live in the most beautiful city in the world. stunning vistas, we have the golden gate bridge, we have the castro district, we have livly commercial corridors. but too often, our picture perfect city is blighted with scenes of trash, litter, human waste, drug paraphernalia. we've seen it all. and that's why i'm adding 44 new street cleaners in this budget to be split up evenly
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between our city's 11 supervisor asorial districts. we've asked the department of public works to work with our supervisors to make sure they are placed exactly in the areas that they are needed in our city. we are also funding a dedicated street pickup team in the soma district. five days a week, manual labor pickup to pick up the trash to make that neighborhood better. in addition, i'll be funding new pit stops, which are safe, monitored public toilets, and a proven model to reduce human waste and litter on our streets. no one should be confronted with feces or the smell of urine walking the streets of san francisco. we'll be adding five new pit stops in high volume corridors and expanding at other pit stops. they are win-win solutions for
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our communities. they offer struggling residents dignity and safety and keep our sidewalks and streets safe and clean. these additional investments will be paired with ongoing programs, including our dedicated street medicine team, specifically, a team that was created for nee pick ups based on resident complaints, and our fix it team that does such great work in our neighborhoods, and with this budget, we will be expanding from 25 to 35 zones throughout the city of san francisco. we all know that a clean and vibrant city is an economically successful and healthy city. and just as our city needs to be clean to thrive, it also needs to be safe. last year, we reported 31,000 car break-ins in san francisco. that's about one break-in every three hours on our street. s that's unacceptable. to the credit to our police
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department, they're doubled our foot patrols, creating a dedicated unit within the central police department, and increasing the burglary and serial crime units. year to date, car break-ins are down0% in the city of san francisco, but we will not rest on our laurels heren approximate our city. this budget will reflect ditiadal investments in our public safety departments. in particular, our police department to make sure we do not slip back. the center piece of this public safety goal is the addition of over 250 sworn police personnel over the next four years. i have often said that we have some of the best police officers in the country. we just need more of them. let me be even more specific. i believe we have incredible men and women of our police department. they put the lives on the line for us every single day, and they deserve our respect, and i
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am proud of them. but san francisco is a growing, changing city, and we need a police force that grows and changes with it. in the next fiscal year, 130 new officers will be in the police academy, setting the foundation for 250 more officers on our streets. i want to make it clear that these new officers will not be just focused on our property crime epidemic, they'll also be working within our communities to make sure our residents feel safe in the city we all love. these new officers will have the tools and training we have implemented under our current d.o.j. reforms, such as time and distance strategies, deescalation tactics, and most important, the policy and practice of sanctity of life. my budget contains additional investments that bolster our department of police
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accountability. we need our residents to trust our public safety officials, to believe that when they need help, they're going to get the services that they need. our department of emergency management teams are now answering approximately 89%f their 911 calls within ten seconds. 90%'s the nshl standard. we are investing $9 million to bolster that department to make sure we exceed the national standard and make sure the residents know when they pick up the phone and dial 911, they're going to have a life person on the other end of the line. it can mean the difference between life and death, and san francisco can do better. we are also investing in significant new equipment for our firefighters to make sure that they are able to respond quickly and that they are able to do their jobs safely for our residents. we have also been a city that has opened our doors and right
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la lane -- welcomed the refugees of hate, bigotry an and oppression. we make sure that every person understands they are an integral part of our city. regardless of where you were raised, no matter where you come from, no matter what neighborhood you are from, you are a part of san francisco. [applause] >> and i am well aware of the persistent disparities that exist in our city, and without these budget dollars, without accountabil to o comes will not be successful in reducing wiread disparities. i'm also well aware that too many communities and populations are systematically stuck outside the prosperity of
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our city, particularly communities of color. this budget continues to invest in these communities that are marginalized and most vulnerable. our community's most impacted by the delusional policies of the trump administration, and those communities that face persistent and widespread disparities. we're investing over $7 million over the next two years to provide representation for immigrants facing deportation among other legal and support programs. we will be providing our community-based organizations who are on the front line every single day with resources so they can support our own immigrant communities in san francisco. i'm here emphatically once again to say that we will not cower in fare to president trump and the federal administration, and we will never embrace their ideologies of bigotry and hatred ever.
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and if our city is to truly succeed, we need to lift up every single community and put the right support between everybody that calls our city home. that is why this budget includes over $7 million for additional criminal justice reforms, including initiatives to expand pral monitoring and bail alternatives, ending onerous local fees, and supporting our street violence response team. we will continue to fund workforce programs so every san franciscan from every neighborhood can be a part of our growing economy. i want to thank our union partners who are collaborating with us to making sure the residents can call san francisco home can also be a place where they can work. we're ensuring that the next generation of san franciscans, which is who we are fighting for, have good paying jobs and
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good benefits. and thanks to the passage of the soda tax, we will now dedicate $10 million annually to address health inequities, with a specific focus on communities, low-income communities and communities of concern that have disproportionately been affected by our health crisis. and we will provide support and resources for vulnerable communities when our city does not. as evidenced by the $4.2 million that we are investing for hiv and aids programs, backfilling local initiatives that were subject to federal funding cuts brought on by an administration that once again does not even respect our local communities and has no trace of empathy for compassion. in san francisco, we do it different. i am proud to make sustained investments in these communities, and i'm also proud to do it in a fiscally
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responsible manner. we need to maintain our long-term investments, and this budget includes nearly $450 i don't kn -- million in reserves. i don't think anyone in here has forgotten the great recession, and it's not a question of if, but when the next town turn happens. in april, i issued an executive directive to expand our economically -- our economic resiliency plan so that our first in the nation policy will now have detailed and specific recession scenarios, allowing us to plan and then respond accordingly when signs of the next economic downturn arise. there is a reason that mooney's have upgraded our bond rating tohe highest in approximate our city's history, and to the
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highest level possible. it's the result of responsible fiscal planning, an approach we mirror when dealing with our long-term investments and our capital projects. and for the second consecutive year and the second year in our city's history, our capital plan will be fully funded. we are providing historic levels of investments in our parks, on our streets, and our seismic infrastructure. the capital budget will strengthen our seawall and repair, rebuild, and work on our critical infrastructure assets, such as the yslais creek bridge and our 911 call center. we are providing more than $100 million for street resurfacing projects, ensuring our roadways are smoother, safer, and easier to travel on because i don't believe anyone thinks the conditions of our streets today
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are acceptable. these are not just investments in our bridges, our streets, and our roads, and our waterfronts, these are investments in the very future of the city of san fransco. [applause] >> and because i care very deeply in the future of this city, the city where i was lucky enough to be born, lucky enough to be raised, and where i have lived my entire adult life, i am honored that this budget fulfills many of the legacies of our late mayor ed lee. i truly believe this budget would make him proud. i believe in the greatness of our city, in our residents, our leaders, and i want to leave this office a place where the next mayor, whoever that may be, will have every opportunity
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to succeed. to that end, i do commitment to the next mayor my full support both personally and with my staff to make the transition before -- between our administrations as smooth as possible because i believe that no matter who holds the office of mayor, as san franciscans, we will all have a vested interest in the next mayor's success, and i pledge my complete and full suppo to make that happen. the poe el dylan thomas said the following about our amazing city. he wouldn'think such as place as san francisco can exist. the wonderful sun light here, the hills, the great bridges, the pacific at your shoes. beautiful chinatown, every race in the world. the sardine fleets sailing out. the little cable cars whizzing
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down city hills, and the people are all friendly. that is a san francisco we all love and know. that is a san francisco we all aspire to be, and that is a san francisco we will be. thank you, everyone, for being here, and thank you for your time. [applause]
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[gavel] >> good afternoon, everyone.
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welcome to our june 11, 2018 land use and transportation committee meeting. i'm katie tang, chair of this committee. we are also joined by supervisor jane kim and supervisor asafi. our clerk is erica major. madame clerk, are there any announcements for us? >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of a file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the june 19 board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much. please call item number one. >> it is planning, build codes for acter is sorry dwelling units to waive or modify bicycle parking requirements for an accessory dwelling unit and affirming appropriate findings. >> is thank you very much. so, i am the sponsor of this item and unfortunately it did not make it out of planning commission on thursday and so i
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will, after public comment, ask our colleagues to continue this item to the july 9 meeting. so, without any further comments or questions, any members of the public whwish to comment on item one? >> good afternoon, supervisors. my concern with this legislation is the word "proposed." i hope that when you see this legislation or what comes from the planning commission, that it does not mean demolitions to insert an a.d.u. when an a.d.u. should be an existing building and to maximize affordability, there's been a project that did demolish a perfectly fine house in noe valley and the rationale was it was ok because we'll put an a.d.u. in, so i really hope that you'll consider proposed to not mean demolished.
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thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is rose hillson, coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. i turned in a letter on june 4 and you were all copied on it. and i want to summarize that the letter was unclear as to the fee out, not requiring street trees for a.d.u.s and requested number of trees planted within a certain period of time. requested noticing for nonliving spaces to living spaces, fill-ins of existing structures may not coincide with rear and back setbacks for the code. it can include any existing a.d.u.s meeting fire code regulations. at planning commission, there was an issue regarding the housing accountability act in regards to the a.d.u.s and the issues involved the conditional uses that would be as of right approvals to the h.a.a.,
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housing accountability act, and planning commission pushed this out to june 21 to be heard. i'd like these bullet points to be put into the minutes under sunshine 67.17 and i have copies for you. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. catherine howard. in san francisco, our open spaces provide not only habitat for wildlife, but also habitat for people. families use their backyards and children can play safely there. therefore, there can be significant impacts for the enjoyment of people's properties with the introduction of people living in previously unoccupied structures. neighbors deserve to be notified of this possibility. please amend the draft legislation such that neighbors shall be noticed when conversions are proposed. also under the proposed legislation, fill-s in of existing structures may not comply with existing code for rear and side yards.
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if these setback areas are not respected, two-store pop outs would be allowed to go into the entire width of the lot and rear of the yard. lastly, the possibility of blanket upzoning of areas of the city must be evaluated. we just fought sb-827 at the state level and the board voted to oppose it. it is discouraging to see legislation that might inadd verdict tently have the same result. i'm hoping that this will be corrected in the revised legislation. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please? >> good afternoon. supervisor tang, your amendments effectively are back door upzoning which is exactly what the planning commission called them.
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we are concerned about the possibility of creating a situation that is going to put the city in jeopardy of lawsuit by organizations that are going to be using this and using the housing accountability act to come back and stop us from demolishing affordable and sound housing. we really urge you to take away this particular amendment that is going to allow addition of an a.d.u. in new construction that are not in-fill. it's ok if you are king the approach of zoning, a gas station or up zoning infills such as the one that is in my neighborhood, the real food that's been siting there for 15 years empty. but allowing people to demolish their homes and use that to put up a mcmansion of 4,000, 5,000 square feet plus an 800 square foot so-called a.d.u. is not a good approach. we don't have any issues with
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bringing certain neighborhoods, certain parts of the city, add more housing. even on the west side, i'm sure there are areas that could be studied and e.i.r. at could be issued for them that they could be upzoned. but this is too broad of a brush and i certainly urge you to reconsider taking that amendment off. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please? >> good afternoon, supervisors. teresa flanderic can senior disability action. i'm so happy that this will be delayed at least until july. that was our intent in asking to please put this on hold because there will be perhaps unintended consequences in this as it currently reads in that number one this violates the housing services rights to tenants so that if laundry areas are removed, or if storage areas are removed, these are also laundry -- everyone needs to wash clothes.
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this is also happening at time when laundromats are actually closing or they're being demolished. and so we need to remember that there are people that may be affected and to make sure that we have things in place as safeguards. the other reality, which is really ugly is there are some very bad actors out there who have been abusing permits, getting serial permits, etc. or going ahead and actually digging out the backyard saying they were doing landscaping. a permit was there just for landscaping. but the entire yard was dug up so that a foundation could be laid to put in three a.d.u.s. this is outside of the building envelope and this is today. so these are -- these are people who will be affected, of course, by any building and so what safeguards are in place to ensure that they can continue to live in their home while building is happening without
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risking their health as well as -- and again there will be those who try to get around that. so, we need to make sure that we have safeguards in place, that there is safe construction and that services are not cut off by intent to get people out so i'm glad that this is put on hold also so that tenant rights groups can meet to discuss how this affects the rental ordinance. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm jeff hodges, a tenant at 14th and i'm in support of this legislation. anything that gets us more housing, hog capacity that is lower than the amount of people that are being born here. it's far too low. we need more and i'm excited about this position. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. corey smith on behalf of the san francisco action coalition.
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also disapointed that this isn't moving forward today. dwelling units are one of the best ways we can get affordable housing. it has been a goal of n supervisors about 5 years now. so figuring out the right way to move it forward is certainly necessary. i also just saw a fun fact recently regarding open space that every single san franciscan lives within a 10-minute walk of a public park, which i thought was a neat statistic. thank you. thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. jersmy paul. i'm a permit consultant working in san francisco. around i'm in favor of anything that increases transparency and openness in thelic press. and this a.d.u. exception for a new unit going in makes perfect sense. there are many situations right now, buildings in the pipeline
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that have vacant spaces being built for recreational use or use with the other units that are intended for a.d.u., but an a.d.u. can't be put in until a building is completed and certificate of final completion and occupancy is issued. it doesn't a lot of sense as public policy to have a process that works that way. we should be transparent and say what our intents is as we start the process and discuss it with our neighbors and our community. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public who wish to comment on item one? ok. seeing none, public comment is closed. i'm going reserve most of my comments on this item because it will be continued and imagine there will be some changes made to the legislation. be but i would say overall the goal and intent of the legislation was to ease some of the process that some property owners have shared in terms of trying to safe fill under canty lever decks to create full
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a.d.u. units instead of having this empty space that exists underneath some of these areas. again, as some of the public commenters said, i do feel that a.d.u.s are a great way to be able to provide afble hoandallow multigenerational families to live together. it's a great way to accommodate ses migh not want to access the second floor, you name it. but i have jotted your concerns and read your letters and l be in further discussion with the planning commissions and community members on all of those comments that you relayed to us. with that said, colleagues, we close public comment and i'd like to ask that we continue item one to the july 9 land use meeting. can we get a motion, please? >> motion to continue i july 9. >> ok. and we'll do that without objection. ok. this item is continued. item two, please. >> item number two is the ordinance amending the planning code for review on downtown and
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affordable housing project, notification requirements, review of altercations landmarks and appropriate findings. >> and we have comminer chang here to present on balf of the mayor's office. >> thank you. good afternoon, supervisor tang. i have a power point. a little background on the or dinance before you today. in may of 2017, we were directed to come up with plans to build or rehab 5,000 units per year. in december, the planning department issued their process improvements plan in response and follow up with more specific legislative change needed to implement that plan in march. this legislation includes some of those changes. the ordinance can be grouped into four buckets of changes that is will quickly cover. so, the first one is
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streamlining the entitlement of 100% affordable housing projects. these projects no longer require hearings and and could be aproved administratively. there are roughly 1700 affordable units under review or in the mocd pipeline that could benefit. the second is streamlining the approval of downtown residential projects. we would reduce duplicative processes by allowing the planning commission to grant standard variances, thus eliminating a redundant variance hearing. 1100 units are approved each year in such projects. the third is minor alterations to historic structures. we would exempt minor scopes of work from the requirements to obtain a certificate of appropriateness or minor permit to alter from the h.p.c., allowing for these to instead be approved the same day at the counter by a preservation technical specialist. these minor scopes include a.d.a. push buttons, business science and the historic
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landmark plaques. these new processes would save about one-third of preservation staff time to be focused on more important preservation issues. and lastly we have changes to the public notification. notice requirements have become unnecessarily complicate and wasteful. we have 30 different combinations of notice and format which are time consuming and invite simple areas that delay review. the requirements alone generated over three tonnes of paper last year. as you can see, a majority of notices essentially for larger projects are for 20 days. if you are requesting a variance, you get a 20-day notice. if you are doing a code-compliant process, it is a 30-day process. 10-day notice is currently required for d.r. hearings, large downtown projects and eastern neighborhoods projects. many forms of notification do not reach tenants. they are not provided in multiple languages and not access tonight the general public.
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notification requirements for retained scopes of work today the planning department review backlog. planners have 40 to 60 projects assigned to them and keeping track of various notice requirements creates room for error and delays. this ordinance proposes a simplified notice that becomes operative january 1, 2019. consistent notification requirements for all application hearings, including a 20-day mail notices to 150-foot radius of te nanls and property owners. one poster every 25 feet and 20-day period of online notice which will be more accessible to the public than the newspaper notice. plans would no longer be mailed, saving three tonnes of paper annually. instead, neighbors will receive a half sheet with a link to plans. all notice will be multilingual and available online during the entire notice period. this is an increase in notice for large downtown, eastern neighborhoods which are mission and soma promise, getting longer notice and going to tenants as well. and timely, we're proposing one
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substantive change to notice. the extremely common rear yard pop-outs would no longer require neighborhood notice. as for any other building permit, permit approved purchase saounlts to this section will remain appeal tonight the board of appeals and to address concerns of immediate neighbors, we're happy to require preapplication meetings for these pop-outs. the department of building inspection will also conduct mail notice to adjacent notice with a $15 day period to the board of appeals. they are limited to extending 12 feet into the rear at a single story. they're about 300 square feet and do not exceed the height of a fence, which is permitted without notice a. two-story pop out must be set back five feet from each side lot line and doesn't exceed 360 square feet. approving these modest additions will save two full-time staff positions every year. time that can be spent on permitting housing. these pop-outs cannot encroach into the rear yard or mid block open space. you need a variance for that. they are code complying and
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consistent with the residential design guidelines. and they're very much prevalent throughout our city's lower density neighborhoods. in higher density areas like soma, north beach and the mission, lot sizes are often smaller precluding these from being built without a variance or full lot coverage is already the case. in conclusion, i'm going to leave up a summary of the ordinance and jacob from planing is here to discuss the planning commission's recommendations. >> thank you. i'd like to quickly go over a number of modifications proposed by the planning commission at their meeting on thursday, june 7. first of these is to trefrns urban design guidelines in section 315 for the administrative approval for the 100% affording housing. secondly a number of amendments related to the notification requirements, the first to restore language that the
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zoning administrator can give staff more clear direction for specific sites for the poster requirements when the requirements in the code are not physically practical on the site. the third modification to require hfp -- to add language to the posted notice requirements that will be visible to the nearest right-of-way. fourth amendment to the notification requirements to require a minimum size for the mail notice of no smaller than a half sheet, 5 1/2 by 8 1/2. that is a half sheet postcard mailer at a minimum. the fifth recommendation was to have a notification period, universal notification period of 30 days rather than the 20 days proposed in the ordinance. another amendment from the planning commission, number six and the resolution that you received is to have the limited rear yard additions that she was speaking about to continue to have notification. and i should also clarify that you have been provided with a corrected resolution from the planning commission which i
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proto vided the clerk at the beginning of this hearing. there was one minor correction which was issued by the correction affairs staff this morning. simply to strike out a finding in the resolution that was no longer applicable given the commission's recommendations. that is the resolution that is before you right now. finally, there were a few other modifications suggested by the planning commission. again, in the notification requirements, commission recommended that the specifics of what should be mailed and the size and content of posters should be specified further via a planning commission policy so that we can have that discussion at the planning commission and with the community. so the commission to that end recommended a modification to the ordinance to reference that planning commission policy on notifications that the notification would have to be delivered inmannethat is consistent with what's written in the ordinance but also consistent with that commission policy. the commission also recommended that such changes to the mail notice not go into effect until the commission policy has been
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adopted. the commission also recommended regular reporting from staff. that's not a matter before you as part of the ordinance, but so you know that was another of the recommendations from the commission staff will be complying with. and section 315 again going back to the 100% affordable housing, commission recommended that for those projects, for the administrative approval, that projects should be required to provide a prevailing wage, a san francisco prevailing wage for those projects to be approved administratively. similarly, the commsion reco ended that those ects should -- that the planning code should specify those promises be consistent with the san francisco building code to be approved administratively. finally, the commission recommended that those promises, the 100% affordable projects approved administratively by staff should also be in conformity with all applicable standards for affordable housing development as according to the mayor's office of housing. i'm here to answer any further questions about the commission's recommendations. thank you very much. >> thank you very much for those.