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[bell ringing] >> hi, supervisors, christie wong. thanks for the opportunity to weigh in on this proposal. we've strongly supported this program since supervisor tang first introduced it in 2015. and we think we believe the intention has been for home sf to be a local attraction. unfortunately, there has been a lack of demand for the program, perhaps due to the affordability requirements, the examples in

the staff report that included four projects that had filed applications or revised applications are really instructive. home sf would create 178 units and 58 affordable units instead of 8. a number of projects in these eligible areas passed up home sf and chose state density bonus or didn't use one at all. we support the effort, but we're concerned the feasibility is still risky at the proposed levels coming out of the planning commission. it's great to learn from experience and data. we support setting a limited time frame for approvals and the approved process changes. and we support the recommendation to eliminate the limit on the zoning modifications allowed. we appreciate the intention of

the legislation and hope the city will continue to monitor and adjust into the future. thanks. >> good afternoon, supervisors, peter cohen, i just wanted to give a little context about this choice developers are making, about this time last year, as you all know, because you were sponsors of both, home sf and inclusionary were adopted as a pair and we tried to -- phil tinge was try to true up the local inclusionaries so it wouldn't be impacted negatively. that bill lost. that's the experience we've had for the last year, state density bonus is not only more

attractive to home sf, but under mines the inclusionary policies. that's still a fix we haven't been able to solve. so it is a frustrating situation, there needs to be adjustments to home sf to lower the requirements to meet state density bonus, but that is where we are at a city and local policymakers. it's just a cautionary tale about what can happen at the state. the planning commission had a couple of recommendations we think are smart in terms of policy. one you mentioned to have indexing that mirrors inclusionary. there is no reason to not start that now, but it seems there should be -- five increase each year. secondly was a requirement that entitlements have an expiration

date. lastly, there is worker around 100 affordable projects that need to be tweaked and we can help you with language on any of those projects. thank you, supervisors. >> hi, good afternoon. i just want to say thank you for the work around affordable housing. one thing that i do want to mention, when we first formed we did outreach to the community we reached 4,000 in the neighborhood, businesses, homeowners, artists, youth, everyone that makes up the neighborhood in the mission. one thing we heard constantly was affordability, over and over again. affordability in renting commercial spaces or housing in general. one thing we're concerned about is making sure we maintain the affordability for those folks

making -- and maintaining the percentage of 15%. i think any lower will be detrimental to the latino community. the mission has been completely decimated in the last couple of years as far as the displacement happening within the city, the gentryification. we want to make sure that the families making average of $44,000 a year, are able to stay. they're our most vulnerable population and their safety nets have been removed. that's why we're seeing them become homeless. we have to make sure the mission is protected, thank you. >> good afternoon. neighborhood council. yes, i believe that providing

these three different tiers would definitely entice development community to actually take advantage of home sf and maybe there are going to be -- there is going to be more affordable units created using the tier solution. now, here's one criticism that i have of this program and that is the removal of the conditional use authorization. commissioner hillis, president hillis, was saying that they've yet to see a home sf project at the planning commission, so it doesn't look like the planning commission is a stopping block for people to bring home sf projects online, because there are plenty of developers that do the state density bonus, go through the planning commission and they're not terrified of showing up before the commissioners. i would appreciate it if you maintain the conditional use authorization for all tiers of

home sf projects. and to second what mr. cohen says, use it or lose it is important, not only because it's go to entice builders to get busy and build it, but it will dampen the speculative behavior in the development community. and in general what has fueled the fire of affordability crisis we're facing. one last thing that i would like to request. i know it came up at the planning commission. the map of the eligible sites. particularly now that myself we are faced with a possibility of a site that might actually become available. well, it is available for construction of just -- >> that's your time. i think her time. >> sorry, i didn't hear it. i apologize. everyone has two minutes. >> i'm sorry. if you want to submit it, you

can submit it to us. >> just wanted to mention we would appreciate if the planning department would give us the site of eligible sites throughout the city, because the map exists but it's very hard to get. >> ok thank you. >> hi, my name is kevin. i'm with the latino democratic club and housing activist. happy birthday to supervisor jane kim. so i wanted to speak on home s. and the modifications. we did a lot of hard work. and you know, we've had the map 2020 planning process that came out of that. so we're looking for equitable outcome in the mission and we need to make sure that 25% affordable is required for the mission at all tiers. and especially the lowest tier when it comes to 55% of ami.

we should keep conditional use for all tiers, because it seems we rarely have a home sf coming through the planning commission. it's a great policy we should implement, so they're not holding onto projects and just doing the two years out and keep extending it out. and we also need to include some level of very low income affordable housing as a traditional development of the state density development in the mission. there is a major concern with all allowed unlimited modifications concerns. the map we saw shows that we have 13 sites that are developable, specifically down the 20th street range. we have bite unite, a startup project that is coming for cooking. they're like $3-400 classes to the project on 20th and south van ness, which has 75 units,

they use the state density bonus. lingerie, high class coffee shop. the one is that of concern is in the middle of the district, 24 and sought van ness, where we have two murals that depict carnivale, so we need to protect that area. thank you for your time. >> hello again, land use attorney. i want to speak to use it or lose it. it's been ten years since our great recession of 2008, we're beginning to perhaps forget about it. but the economy can crash quickly. it doesn't go back to normal very quickly. i remember the days after 2008 when the planning department would call people like myself and say, please, where are your clients' projects, please bring them in? and there was legislation to entice people to build their projects. that could happen again. and i'm afraid i haven't read

the use it or lose it provision, but if it provides, it's automatic that it's not through a vote of the planning commission, that is if the revocation is not through a hearing at the planning commission, i really believe that is important. forgive me if it's already in there. and i ask that you consider making it longer, again, when the economy goes, it doesn't come back very fast. there are very few reasons that a developer would just hold onto things. the issue is usually cannot find investors, or can find the investors but not the loans, or find the loans but the interest rates have gone too high. i would like to hear back as to how that is written. i urge you to consider giving that a little more time. thank you very much. >> thank you, any other members

of the public who wish to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we actually don't have a provision, we're not planning to adopt the planning commission recommendation around the use it or lose it provision. currently, entitlements already have a three-year time frame, so if product sponsors don't create something within that time frame, they have to reapply -- reapply or go through another hearing in does the planning department want to weigh in? >> so i think what we're hearing from the community, they wanted it shortened by one year. at this time, i'm not planning on making that change, but maybe you could speak to the current process. >> entitlements do expire, so currently i think the projects, they have to basically come back and ask for an extension, but it's not automatic. >> after three years, the

planning department and planning commission can revoke permits if they haven't started to build, but it's not something that happens automatically. if they're still making due diligence to pursue the project, then we don't institute something until they stop making due diligence and we feel it's solved. >> thank you for that clarification. i heard a lot of comments from individuals from the mission community. a lot of the mission is off limits to home sf. the mission mostly comprised of urban mixed use zoning is also not -- does not qualify for home sf. i wanted to reassure the community about that. i heard a lot of comments about eliminating the cu requirement. that's not something we're doing, so i'm not sure where that came from. it's still the same approval process.

still has to go through a planning commission hearing just like it was before. planning staff, i don't know if you want to speak on the mission area, just because we heard so many comments and concerns about that. i'm looking at the map, i don't see how home sf, a lot of it applies to the drblth. -- district. >> sure, with planning department staff, so much of the mission was rezoned as part of the eastern neighborhoods and so much of the mission zoning is density decontrolled. so it's the specific type of zoning that does not allow. where home sf is not allowed. also it's not allowed on any parcel where there is an existing residential unit, so that takes out a vast majority across the city, but especially in the mission. there are parcels within the mission that were not rezoned as

part of the area plan, so those parcels, if there is no housing on them, could potentially be eligible for home sf. but largely the vast majority of the neighborhood is not eligible. >> supervisor tang: area plans were excluded, neighborhood transit corridors and then on top of that, all the restrictions around no demolition of units that have existing rental units. so again, a large, if not the vast majority of the mission is not eligible for home sf. colleagues, any other questions or comments before we adopt any amendments? ok. so, if we can get a motion on the amendment that i proposed. i also forgot to mention one part, for the 100% affordable housing program, we no longer have to make amendments about this because it was part of the

mayor's process legislation. supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim: thank you, i want to thank supervisor tang for working on the revamping of this pilot program. i do want some consideration around different levels for homeownership. i'm happy to support this out of land use committee today. i do understand that the tack will be studying the proposal and looking at how we should appropriately tier. i didn't understand the big difference between a two-year versus a three-year, use it or lose it, amendment, so i'm happy to support the three years. finally, i'm happy to see there is -- this is the discussion, a strong requirement two and three bedrooms which we know we need to see more of being produced throughout the city. looking forward to what if this

does incentivize develop understand to look at the home s --ers to look at the home sf program. since we have a little bit of time before the board meeting next tuesday, i'll wait to hear and see there is alignment around a number of the different asks there. >> supervisor tang: originally, we were going to add that 100% of affordable sf home projects could be approved by the director of planning and that provision was taken care of in the previous legislation. >> got it. >> just point of clarification, do these amendments require us to hear at a following meeting, or do we send this to the full board? >> supervisor tang: we can send it to the full board. if we can get a motion on the

amendments. >> motion to approve the amendments as proposed. >> supervisor tang: on the item as amended? >> so supervisor? proposed to send this item as amended to the full board as committee report. >> supervisor tang: with positive recommendations. >> with positive recommendations. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. and next items 4 and 5. >> item 4, summary street vacation portion of burnett avenue north, parcel black number 2719 c, assess block number 2745. and item number 5, ordinance amending the planning code to rezone parcel block number ab 2719 c, lot number 023 located at burnett avenue and burnett

avenue north. >> supervisor tang: thank you. with that, i'll have a representative from sheehy's office. we'll have to correct something. >> thank you. our office is in full support of the zoning amendment as well as the summary vacation. as well, we have audrey butkus from the planning department to answer any questions, as well as mr. capper from the city attorney's. rob here? no. and then we also have kevin birmingham who is the property owner to answer any clarifying questions you may have as well. >> good afternoon, supervisors, the planning department shlg here to just give you an idea of what happened at the planning

commission. the commissioners and i heard the item on december 21, 2017. three members of the public spoke against the rezoning and one member of the public requested that copper alley be extended to connect burnett avenue as part of the rezoning. the commission voted to continue the item. the planning commission heard this item again an january 18 of this year and were presented with scenarios if the ordinance was approved. after hearing, they voted unanimously to approve the ordinance. i'm available for any questions. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. colleagues, ok. i guess we'll have the presentation first. >> hi. my name is gary ross. i'm the president of the burnnet -- >> hold on, i'll call you up during public comment.

but are there no other staff? i will open this up to public comment. flush flush i want to start by saying that our homeowners association is endorsing this resolution that is long in coming. there is a detail in this that is worth addressing now. we refer to this as burnett avenue, north. this land is not on burnett avenue north. the land is part of, a piece of land owned by the city on which you'll find a street called old burnett avenue. not burnett avenue north. the reason for that is if this

street, if this is ever approved, it's going to be confused with our street, which is burnett avenue north. and their driveway and their access to that land will have nothing to do with ours. it will be confusing. and it's currently very confusing as is, because our street intersects directly onto burnett avenue. so a lot of our mail and visitors and packages are constantly redirected to the wrong place. so i'm just pointing out, we talk about this being burnett avenue north, but it isn't, that's the street to be vacated. thank you very much. >> supervisor tang: thank you. any other members of the public who wish to comment on the items, 4 and 5? ok, seeing none, public comment is closed. and i also understand that there will be legislation following gao and the government audit and oversight and this is a long time issue i'm happy to see

there was a settlement. colleagues, any questions, comments? ok. seeing none, can we get a motion on items 4 and 5? >> so moved. >> supervisor tang: we'll send this out as committee report to the full board, and we'll do that without objection. thank you very much. colleagues, i apologize, we need to go back to item 3 because -- well item 3 should not be sent out as a committee report, first of all. >> i noted it. it was recorded not as a committee report. >> supervisor tang: great, thank you. can we resume the vote for item 2, because we need to duplicate the file and keep the building code portion in land use for follow-up amendments, specifically as it relates to the pre-application meeting requirements? motion.

and item 2, if we can glen again, like to duplicate the file and we'll send out the other one as amended to the full order of recommendation. >> second. >> supervisor tang: thank you. without objection. items 6 through 8. >> ordinance amending the general plan by adding the central sfarkt area plan on the western portion by 6th street, on the eastern portion by second street, on the northern portion by the downtown plan area and on the southern portion by townsend street. land use, index and the east soma and west area plans and making appropriate findings. item number 7 is ordinance amending the zoning man of the planning code to create the central south of market special use district and making other amendments to the height bulk

district map and making appropriate findings. item number 8, ordinance amending the business and tax regulations of the central smarth housing sustainability district. >> supervisor kim: thank you, chair tang, i will be extremely brief because of some procedural issues we are actually not going to be hearing this item today, but will be hearing it next monday, july 16, because it's been agendaized we do have to allow time for members of the public to speak. for those who did not come, we did ask people not to speak, because we're not truly hearing the item, but if folks are worried they didn't come and speak their mind on this area plan, no worries, the real hearing is going to be next week where we will be making a series of amendments and having a

serious presentation and discussion on these items. i do want to acknowledge that the planning department is here. both lisa chen, marie rogers, i appreciate you being here today. and our staff and my office is working very closely with this team to get central soma up and ready for next monday's hearing. we'll have a very long series of amendments that our office will be proposing and we're currently working through all of those right now. sorry, we will not be able to do that here today. madame chair, i ask that we open up for public comment on the items and i don't know if planning department wanted to say a few words before we open up for public comment. >> supervisor tang: public comment is open on items 6-8. any members of the public who would like to speak? last call. ok, we'll see you next week.

public comment is closed. madame clerk, any other items? >> no further business. >> supervisor tang: ok, this meeting is adjourned. women's n

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>> president kwon: good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the tuesday, june 26 meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. call to order, madam secretary. >> roll call. [roll call] we have a quorum. >> president kwon: thank you. item 3 is approval of minutes from june 12, 2018.