i want to say thank you to the people that made this possible. this is only one of many phases of transformation in the physical. this is one of the milestones in the spirit and emotional. if you can bow your heads at this time and i want to say to made god, my heavenly father and those praying to your god. i am talking about one god. the spirit muffs among us. it is someone that is bigger, stronger than us that knows this right here was going to happen. i share with you earlier today walking in the building the young woman said do you remember me? do you remember me? my name is faith.

i said what? my name is faith. it comes to me transformation is happening. if you believe, if you have faith that change is going to come, i want to say today change has come. i want to say thank you, lord, for the people that continue to move through even in the midst of darkness. thank you to the people recessient in midst of pain. thank you for those that gave their lives when they didn't know that they were. i want to say continue to bless the space that these new residents reside in. may you continue to put your loving protective arms around the space, the place and the people that reside in this place. may you continue to remember that there are a group of 90% people that still need to move

into a new space and those putting up the spaces and places. remember these are people that have memories and places and spaces that are yours, lord. so may we continue to bless this day when we continue to bless this space and the people. may we continue to be resilient and still remember there is heaven in the middle of some of our hell. may we remember beauty among the ugly. we ask this day continue to be flowing. may we remind people to be responsible and accountable for the people we are in charge to move forward. forgive us for things we may not know that we have done. amen. >> thank you so much. a men. can we say amen.

you are due for a treat. you have a powerhouse group of speakers, you have the distinguished mayor, supervisor district 10. in our community we know if you feel us, if we hear you back. now we are ready to do this work, to build a set of 100% affordable housing units in the community for the first time in a half a century. it takes a mission-driven developer. the leader of the incredible and extraordinary partner who is behind this incredible building cynthia parker from bridge housing. [applause.] >> thank you. i appreciate that. what a crowd. you know, i am so impressed that so many people came out here to

help us dedicate this building, but particularly i think what is so wonderful we have had so many people from the resident community who are so excited about this. last saturday we had an open house for the residents to allow them to come through and tour the building and get a chance to see it. they are just so jazzed and so are we. last week we had our first resident start to move in. i have to tell you it makes my heart so glad to see this ham. i have been at bridge for nine years now. it is hard to believe. it went by like a second. i have to tell you this was the first project i got involved in. we had been awarded this development awhile ago, two years before i got here, and we had a very lengthy entitlement

process. a lot has changed in san francisco during that time. the housing situation has become much more acute but we also have leaders like mayor breed who have said we are going to step up to speed up the process to make the development of affordable housing a priority in the community. we have seen that happen. we are now seeing permitting and entitlements under expedited process happen under senate sb35 which senator wiener introduced which allows us to get things developed in a quick fashion. we see those entitlements by right go through in 60 days as opposed to nine years. it really makes a difference when the community when the leadership of the city says we put this first because we need this kind of housing.

i would like to give a couple shout outs to people who made this happen, you know. we have our residents, on you mayor, we also have maria. thank you for all of your support. i remember going to your office and you were right there with us. i thank you for that. jeff sparks is the district director for senator wiener. thanks. we have a couple bridge board members who are very supportive. dennis o bryan is in the crowd and ron is our board chair. we also have folks from obviously hope sf and the mayor's office of housing. thank you, kate, for all you have done. you have been an awesome director for the office of housing. i also want to acknowledge dan

aldoses dams. i accused had -- dan at dams -- dan adams. he is still helping us out. thank you, dan. just a real quick compilation. this is going to end up going over 1675 units of housing. we would like to squeeze in a few more because we need the housing in the city. it will have affordable development across the street and market rate development which we want to see in the next year or so. there will be 15,000 square feet every tail, 25,000 to 35,000 square foot community center open to the neighborhood, daycare spaces and three and a half acres public space. this has 72 affordable units. part of the problem is people

are living in public housing. i know they are anxious to get out. we want to help that happen. we have to build the units in order to move them out. that is going on. this space was created first. next spaces will carry things down and move people in. there are spaces for resident services and programs. this is a leads gold building. we are pursuing that. it shows our commitment to suggestion stain ability. -- sustainability. it takes a village. you are our village and you helped make this happen. i appreciate it. [applause.] are you going to introduce the mayor? i don't mind. i would love to. i would like to with this introduce or beautiful and lovely mayor of san francisco, london breed, who has just a

tremendous appetite to make things happen for afford annual housing. thank you, mayor breed. [applause.] >> i can't believe how cold it is in potrero hill. usually it is warm. i am so excited to be here today. this is a long time coming. i often go back to my experience of when i lived in plaza east in the western addition. at that time during the hope six project, we tore down 300 units of housing and only built 200. we made mistakes and moved people out of san francisco. sadly, a lot of mistakes that i am glad that today we are not repeating those same mistakes. we are making sure residents of potrero hill have a place to move in directly in their

communities. that is a big deal with all of the challenges that existed in the past. the breeds have history in potrero hill. the breeds -- that is my sister for those who don't know. my mother lived at connecticut and i spent a lot of time in potrero hill for so many years. eddy and brenda were a sustain in the community. we are grateful they were like mommy and daddy in the neighborhood. get in the house. it is too late for you out here. this is an amazing community. it is filled with so many incredible people who deserve to live in better conditions than what has existed for far too long in public housing. you know addressing the challenges with public housing is my number one priority.

when you have had to live in the kinds of conditions where you had no control and no money to make any changes, there is nothing else that would be more important to you than changing those conditions when you have the ability to do so. i won't get into the details of the challengeses. don't get my started on the mold and pipes and roaches and drama and calling a number no one would find out and you had to pay somebody $5 to pick the toilet so you didn't have to use the neighbor's toilet. i can go on and on about the challenges that existed. today is significant. the work we have been able to do and this happened when supervisor now board of equalization member was on the committee. they worked together to make sure we addressed those challenges by investing in this

community and not displacing this community, which was so critical to the success of this project. i am reminded of the thing mayor lee used to say. it is not about new promises, it is about old promises. today after years afternoon years and years of struggle we are fulfilling an old promise. one building at a time, one family at a time, joyce. we are doing it. we are changing the face of public housing, not the people but just how these places look, how they feel so that people can live in dignity. some of you know i have been on a mission to make sure we build more affordable housing in san francisco. part of the work along with supervisor walton are duing. when there is extra money we carve out money for public housing to address the

conditions that continue to exist all over the city. a couple days ago we introduced a $500 million bond including $150 million for public housing. (applause). we also know that in order to make sure that communities are able to afford to live in the communities as we build more housing, neighborhood preference is a critical tool to making sure that as your kids grow they have a shot of being able to live in the community they were born and raised in. we know there is to much work to do. today is an incredible start at a great future in this community. i am looking forward to breaking ground on more buildings. i am looking forward to moving faster and getting red of the red tape that makes it difficult to build 100% affordable housing in the city.

look out for the charter amendment to allow for 100% affordable future housing projects to be built as a right. no more delays, no denials, let's build it and build it now. [applause.] this is honestly a dream come true for me because as i said when i think about my own childhood and growing up and living in public housing for over 20 years of my life, i think about my grandmother and the conditions we suffer through, my family, my friends not with us today and the conditions that we suffered through, and i am so hopeful because now as a result of this work that so many of you contributed to making this dream a reality the next generation of young people in public housing will have a completely different experience. that gets me excited.

i want to thank the community for their patience, delays don't mean denials in this case. i want to thank bridge housing for their work to wells fargo to the mayor's office of housing and hope sf and the leaders who continue to fight to make sure so many places in san francisco especially out east which supervisor cohen knows the battles and now supervisor who is taking this over will be there with everything to make the changesness so that communities can live in dignity throughout the city and county of san francisco. thank you so much.

[applause.] >> thank you, madam mayor. i have a dirty secret. downtown in city hall not everyone cares about potrero hill, lets be real. having served under multiple mayors. this mayor come in a short period prioritized hundreds of millions of dollars for public housing. i want you to give her a proper thank you to mayor london breed for all of the support to this community. [applause.] thank you. thank you. she is not shy. as mayor breed mentioned, this is all about the residents. i have the highest honor to

introduce a resident who has lived in this community a decade and who now calls 1101 connecticut home, mr. johnny ledbetter. >> thank you. first, i would like to thank everyone for coming out and i am one of those promised. god is first in my life and my world. i am johnny ledbetter, a san francisco housing authority. i just transitioned to bridge housing. i want to tell you how i got here. i was a single father raising my daughter, homeless, living in the shelter in 2010.

i got a phone call from san francisco housing that said i was approved. i was overwhelmed with joy but scared at the same time. also because i had never had my own apartment. being a sick el father raising a -- single father raising a daughter is challenging. being homeless is worst. through my challenges and being blessed with housing i have built a strong solid community with my neighbors and with san francisco housing authority and staff. also with other organizations such as public housing association, and this i never had before. also, i am blessed to seek

employment or keep a job. i had again been blessed to work with a nonprofit organization that helps residents from san francisco housing authority transfer over to bridge. i would like to thank mattie, elizabeth, for guidance through the trying but fulfilling time especially as i glare out my window. that is a blessing. my new spot in my new 1101 connecticut street, you know. i want to thank everyone and you, too, mayor london breed, for your effort. thank you. i am that promise.

[applause.] >> thank you so much. next we are going to bring up a community leader, fighter the supervisor of district 10. mr. walton. >> good morning potrero hill. we are energetic. this is important. good morning, potrero hill. there we go. this is very personal to me. missouri and turner terrace. 1720, 25th street. all of those potrero hill addresses are very personal to

me. the first address is a family resource center where i became the director in the early 2000s where we worked to provide services for families to make sure basic needs were met, where we had a food pantry that served over 100 residents every week with the grandparents group here. i see eddy here, joyce is here, i see a community of folks that worked hard to serve the community. the second was the address of the food pantry where so many families. as you know we don't have grocery stores in close proximity in the southeast sector where so many families access quality food from the food bank so they were able to get through the week to support their families and feed them and provide nutritious meals.

we focused on making that happen. the third address 1720 25th street is where i lived at a young age with my aunt, cousin, mother right up the hill. we rode bikes with no brakes. i would hospital to go to west point where migrate mother and you cancle lived and where i lived as a youth. this is exciting to be here to witness the rebirth, to witness the beautiful homes on this side of potrero hill. i also want to say that i remember having conversations at the family resource center and when bridge first started bringing on community connectors and bringing folks in the community and we started having conversation about

revitalization of potrero hill, what it was going to look like. like mayor breed said it is a promise. i have had many conversations with residents. nobody believed it was going to happen. we have our first 75 units at the. i want want to shout out to malia for her hard work not only on this project but for all support for hope sf and everything we are doing with public housing in san francisco. her dedication, work to get the financing to blink the community together is very important in this fight as we continue to do everything we need to for our communities. [applause.]

i want to end with saying there is more work to be done. we have four communities just on the southeast to make whole. things are not perfect right now, but we are going to continue to work hard to make sure that we do the best job to bring everything this community needs, not just housing but grocery stores, activities and things for young people to do. things are not perfect. in the words of janet who sung the theme song for the jeffersons. we are moving on up. [applause.] >> leave it to supervisor walton. moving on up. amen. if you look around and see the finishes, the courtyard, the views, the landscaping, this is first class. this is not public housing.

this is for our people in potrero hill. it takes a lot of money to do this. it takes investors, funders, folks willing to commit to the principles of hope sf. the senior vice president of wells fargo investing daniel pearl. >> do i get to wear the hat if he left it here? i am here on behalf of a group in wells fargo called community lending. there is about 200 of us around the country including many in san francisco. i want to start by thanking the long-time residents, leadership council, bridge housing who brought us here, mayor's office and the mayor and hope sf for leadership.

we provided low income housing equity. we participated in the construction loan and it is an honor to invest in the community. we are lucky to be part of the hunters view and made the tax credit investments in the bay you and other neighborhoods in the city. one personal connection for me. i moved to the bay area about 11 years ago and i had a friend at that time working at bridge housing. he knew i didn't know many people and i had time on saturdayen. he said we just started working on this development out here and having a barbecue would you come? i didn't know what bus to take now, i know it is 19. i spent the afternoon here. little did i know that 11 years later i would be here. we are ready for phase two and

thank you to everyone who made this place what it is today. thank you very much. [applause.] >> thank you, daniel. you passed the pest. my also daughter is the only one who can wear this hat. i tested you right there. last but not least i want to bring up one of the partners at bridge, the project manager. i want to acknowledge mr. fred blackwell, chairman of the san francisco foundation here with us who is such a partner along the way. we mentioned the esteemed director of the mayor's office of community development who made this happen. barbara smith is somewhere around. thank you, barbara. samuel. >> i have been given the job to

give the last thank u.s. i want to thank the residents of the annex and terrace. this project is more than 10 years in the making. thank you for making this happen. iit is a process. here we are today. also, i want to thank the residents from park view down to those down. it is months of almost years of inconveniences with traffic detours and construction noise. i hope this is an improvement to what was here previously. i want to thank our financial partners apartment city bank and wells fargo as well as the mayor's office of housing and community development. our contracting team that including matt, mike, jim and matt.

our team of fred, michael. our landscape architect tour team justin and gary. civil engineer mark hail. i want to thank faith and phillip at city hall for keeping the wheels greased and our bridge team. stacy and damian. i want to thank everybody. i hope you enjoyed the event. now if you are here to take a a look at the units. we will do the formal ribbon-cutting ceremony right here. [applause.] >> let's do this. five, four, three, two, one. (applause)

>> good afternoon and welcome to the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors for today, monday may 20th, 2019. i am the chair. joined to the left, matt haney,

and vice chair supervisor who will be sitting to my right. our clerk is erica major. do you have any announcements? >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and come copies of documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will appear on the june 4th, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. please call the next item. >> item one is an ordinance amending the administrative code to acquire the department of homelessness and supportive housing, a.k.a. h.s.h. to establish a safe, overnight parking pilot program. require h.s.h. to collaborate with the m.c.a. to develop an ongoing parking citation and toe and storage fee abatement program, and affirming appropriate findings. >> okay. is there any public comment on item number 1? seeing none, public comment is closed.

we are going to defer action on this until later in the agenda. madame clerk, please read item number 2. >> item number 2 is then ordinance amending the ministry of code to allow applications for mills act contracts for historic properties to be filed concurrently with applications for designation of the same property. >> thank you. this is a pretty straightforward , very simple piece of legislation that does precisely what the long title says, which is it allows somebody who has applied to landmark their property to apply for a tax relief at the same time, and are there any questions from committee members >> that was for the previous item, sorry. >> okay. is there any public comment on item number 2?

seeing none, public comment is closed. insofar as this has got my name on it, i would like to make a motion to send this to the full board with positive recommendation. can we do that without objection that will be the order. please read the third and final item. >> yes, item number 3 is an ordinance amending the planning code and business and tax regulations code to authorize the addition of an accessory dwelling unit in the construction of a new single-family home or a multifamily building, clarifying the ministerial approval process and creating an extra board of appeals process. >> thank you. i just wanted to give some background on how we got here today before we dive into the weeds. i have a few amendments on the site in. essentially, there is multiple pieces of a.d.u. legislation that would be coming before us. they are working their way through the legislative process. this is one of six currently.

the way that the existing law works, is we have two parallel programs to entitle and a.d.u., a local waiver program, and a state or no waiver ministerial program. this is state legislation that has allowed for this process to go forward, and we are now putting this legislation forward to enable and get ourselves in compliance with state code. currently the planning code does not limit the size of the a.d.u. , and we are looking at at least having an minimum size on that. we do not want to have people having larger units and a really small a.d.u., so currently, we need to fix and bring ourselves in compliance with state code. this ordinance pretty much closes the existing requirements of that. we also talked about historic preservation if you're in a

historic district, some recommendations that have been made to and by the planning commission. this has worked its way through the process over the last number of months. i have circulated to my colleagues copies of the amendments that were made today, but i wanted to talk about those before we open it up for public comment. first, the planning commission made a recommendation for setting a maximum size of a.d.u.s involving expansions of existing envelopes. the city attorney added new subsections to specify the a.d.u.s under the no waiver ministerial program proposal and lots containing existing single-family homes that involve expansions, you may not exceed 1200 square feet. that is on page 16, lines 21 through 25. it may not exceed 1200 gross square feet. >> and that is to bring it in accordance with the state law

changes, is that correct? >> yes. not to exceed -- through the chair to the city attorney, can you give some background on that addition to what i just said? >> deputy city attorney, that change is not required to comply with state law. >> sorry, recommended by the planning commission. >> right. what they wanted to do is balance out the size of the a.d.u. with the overall square footage of the unit. sorry, the next one is to bring us into compliance. second one was -- i am adding a historic preservation review for the a.d.u.s. again, in the no waiver section, that would be page 15, line 17 through 24. essentially, if we were in a historic zone, a historic neighborhood area, we wanted to ensure we had the opportunity for that to be reviewed with the

historic preservation commission to ensure we were following into that character so -- or into though -- into that area's character, so that it would not then have to be referred back. >> and threw myself to peter, just because i don't want to butcher your last name, that last sentence, such project should not be required to obtain a certificate of appropriateness or permit to alter that is to conform it with state law changes that preempt. >> essentially, yes. that state law requires ministerial consideration of those accessory dwelling units. the start preservation commission has discretion under the existing sections of the code. they have passed a resolution, with standards that would be applied ministerially, and the a.d.u. would not be subject to

the existing code requirements but would be subject to those ministerial standards. >> thank you. >> yes, so those are the words out of my mouth. thank you. the third one was some clerical amendments involving offstreet parking. we thought it was important based on some of the moves the city is made in terms of abolishing the vehicle parking minimums. >> those are the three critical amendments adjusted by the historic preservation commission >> correct. >> did you want to speak on behalf of planning? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm with the planning department staff. so we already covered those critical items of the ordinance. i just want to also emphasize that related to the review of no waiver a.d.u. and historic resources, the historic

preservation commission didn't adopt these objective architectural review standards, and that was during the april 3 rd hearing, following that, the h.p.c. also delegated such reviews to staff during last week's hearing. this does conclude presentations staff is available if you have any further questions. >> i do have one question. i realize it would be good for staff, h.p.c. recommended getting rid of the waiver for open space planning commission and they did not. >> okay. insofar as all of the proposed amendments were read, it sounds like you are agreeing with planning, and not taking the waiver of open space. >> we did not include that, that's why it was not mentioned. i know you would ask about it.

i'm just kidding. i do want to say, there is another thing to clarify and that was a really important point. i was what to bring that up because we did not want to have any more confusion about the no waiver, it is one of the most important ways for us to ensure rent control, and that is one of the dialogues that we have. i was asking the city attorney clarification clarification question. thank you for bringing that up i wanted to ask the city attorney between now and because of these amendments which will require, it one week continuance, that we amend the residential standards in article seven and eight to referenced 207 c. four and 207 c6. if you wanted to talk a little bit about that so you can explain what we are asking for, but it would make us some

currently not reflecting on our tables about vehicle parking and some other things. you can specify that. >> these are conforming amendments to the tables in article seven in article eight to reflect the changes to the a.d.u. controls who are being made with this ordinance. >> we have a number of amendments on the table. i may offer some other ones. >> we'll talk about it after. i just want to clarify one other thing. part of the reason we can't talk to one another, so we have to hear about it for the first time here in committee, but i did want to say the approach of this , if i didn't say clearly with all the competing a.d.u. legislation, this is about new construction and new property. there is going to be subsequent pieces of legislation that deal

with additional space and so on, but this is primarily focused on new construction and how we can ensure the ability to have additional units in new construction. that was my emphasis and approach on this. >> understood. why don't we open this up to public comment? i have somewhere in all of these papers on my desk, some speaker cards. we will open up public comment for item number 3. georgia, michael murphy, and jeremy schwab, and anyone else would like to testify, you can line up to my left, you're right >> hi, i'm georgia. a.d.u.s formerly called in loss have been a good way to provide avoidable housing in the city. prior to the legalization with supervisor weiner's legislation, you can often find them all over the city, in every neighborhood, often in a single-family home, with tenants living in the in

law unit, as they were called, paying a very reasonable rent commensurate with their income and allowing them to save money. rent control of new units and new construction is a new way to continue this historic pattern which existed prior to the extreme speculation and housing that san francisco has experienced in the last decade. this will give new generations opportunities to live in san francisco. however, the a.d.u. in new construction must not be encouraging step back you later is to demolish livable single-family housing to add the a.d.u. this is particularly important in single family housing that is occupied by tenants who would be evicted to allow the construction of a large single-family home within a.d.u. this is an unintended consequence that would slow down the production of a.d.u.s, per mayor breed's statements, and her statement sitting the affordability of an a.d.u. as mayor breed stated, quote, i will not let all bureaucracy stand in the way of building

more housing, especially new rent control housing. i think it is important that we make sure that housing be preserved as well as added at the same time. thank you very much. >> thank you for your that comment. i agree. speaker, please? >> i am michael murphy. i am a retired research attorney of the state court of appeal. i've take it upon myself to analyse the estate law on a.d.u. and single-family homes. last june, the planning commission reported that only 12 % of a.d.u. permit filings related to single-family homes. why has a.d.u. construction lagged? my memo shows that dual failure, a failure to comply with state law, regulating the a.d.u. in a single-family home, and a failure to implement the effective policy, encouraging this form of new housing.

the two are congruent. effective a.d.u. strategies will comply with state law. portland has experienced a surge of a.d.u. construction and single-family homes. it can probably happen here with an appropriate framework with the ordinance in the a.d.u. handbook. the amendment proposed here, for the first time, displays a commendable attention to state law, but my memo shows that its impact will be somewhat marginal a serious study of the issues presented by the a.d.u. and single-family homes is needed. i hope my memo will be helpful. >> hi, my name is dylan casey, i am from the california renters legal advocacy and education fund. i want to lend my support for this ordinance and also mentioned that the two changes

that are proposed will provide a much better process for single-family home owners to add a.d.u.s or establish a.d.u.s in a new single-family home. both of these changes are necessary to bring the san francisco ordinance into compliance with state law. i think san francisco could go further than this. the current ordinance applies some zoning standards that were written for single-family homes to a.d.u.s, and it makes it very difficult to put an a.d.u. on a single family home property. visa be the rear yard requirements that are fairly large, and they don't leave a lot of space for new a.d.u. the last thing i want to mention is that it has been a long process in getting this ordinance to this stage, and i hope the board will move quickly i hope the planning staff his processing applications in accordance with state law as the state law requires.

thank you for your time. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i understand that the role of a.d.u.s and in meeting demand for housing, and with minimal disruption or distortion of markets and opportunities for expectation for need for housing by outside capital. i understand this bill is intended in part to conform with state law which is understandable, but i like to point out this is another opportunity for the city to take steps to strengthen protections for tenants and others against this or possible other state law more and more we need to be vigilant to protect ourselves against the consequences of current and proposed legislation , no matter how benign or well-intentioned as this law is, or potentially even more malign or harmful as other proposed state laws can be. in this case, we believe more protection for tenants in the form of rent control for a.d.u.

to allow for new construction is a worthwhile amendment. by deleting the requirement that there be an existing rental unit on the lot, the city can issue waivers that could subject every unit in a new building within a.d.u. to rent control. we also support the unit equity that would prevent the construction of sham units of a.d.u.s. other items to be addressed, we still face this very real issue of presenting landlords from severing existing tendencies, and we encourage changes to address that issue. more needs to be done in this proposal and in others to ensure that the opportunity to create a.d.u.s and the values that they create does not become another incentive for demolition. we already have enough demolitions occurring in the city. there are six pending. tenants are used -- losing garages to a.d.u. is, a and new

construction being proposed. they would give a non rent-controlled a.d.u. is, and we would hope that the amendments will address these issues. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, jennifer with a san francisco tenant's union. i wanted to speak in favor of this legislation and especially a couple of amendments that have been proposed, the costa hawkins waiver that will give rent control to new units. that would be great. we would love that. and then the other one about making a 50% minimum size, but i do want to bring up this housing severance issue. we brought it up with several of your offices for a very long time, that the way the a.d.u. legislation is currently written is harming existing tenants in their leases, and we have been asking for a fix for that. this seems like a very good place to finally do that.

and especially, there is a lot of state law coming. it will do the same thing where it will sever their own laws and disregard what we do here. i just want everybody to be cautious when we love a.d.u.s, but when you are jumping on this bandwagon, to also look at what's happening at the state level in deregulation that is not always the best course. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, i'm here on behalf of san francisco housing coalition. i'm speaking in support today. number of the speakers in front of me said i said a lot of good things when diving into the details. i know we work with michael on a ton of stuff regarding the legality that exist between the a.d.u. laws and state a.d.u. laws. one of the things and thinking about a conversations -- the conversations that we have had over the last number of years since i have been involved, i am

relatively certain that no one has had more conversations in this room then a supervisor peskin, it is something that they have been very active with for a very long time. the speed at which we do things, considering the magnitude of the emergency that we are facing in the state right now, even in these cleanup spaces of legislation, i feel like this is the sixth or seventh or eighth time i've spoken to this body about it, so however we intend to act to avoid these consequences is really good. thank you to the continued effort of everyone up here, hopefully we will get these people into new homes so people have places to live. thank you. >> next speaker. >> hi, renee, i 25 year resident of san francisco. i am a tenant advocate and a tenant myself in the building with a.d.u.s. i strongly urge you guys to

adopt the amendment regarding rent control to any a.d.u. being added, including two new construction and single-family owner occupied houses with i want to echo we don't throw away any kind of regulations for losing their services. i am fighting my landlord to maintain my bike parking. i seem to be winning, but that is because i am a thorn in his side. i know my rights and i am fighting for them. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am here to represent the a.d.u. amendments that amendment that is going to allow rent control for the new construction , new a.d.u. is a new construction for single-family homes. this is a great idea to help us

and do value capture. i also want to suggest having title control on replacing legally leased space spaces that the tenants have with a.d.u. i have been involved in several issues that were brought in to the detention -- the attention of the planning commission, as well as the board of appeals. believe it or not, every single one of us want to this, because it has to be just because. if you are doing displacement, be it personal displacement, or belonging displacement, it has to be a just cause. we do not have that in our a.d.u. legislation. even though we are a city with a rent ordinance, that is going to preclude landlords from evicting the belongings or the persons from property that is rent-controlled. we do need to have an amendment that will interest us. we are tired of showing up and

reminding commissioners that i cannot approve a project. it is a great step. thank you so much. >> i remember when supervisors first put forth this idea of creating an a.d.u. in unused spaces so that tenants who are on rent control, who have been

displaced can find a unit to live in, and they would still be protected. so somehow or other, this morphed, i think when supervisors came in to take up garage spaces, take up places where people do their laundry, and people store things, and these are part of the lease agreements that tenants have, and it is really a hardship to be without them. a person on dialysis for not to have access to his car to go for daily treatment, elderly people not to have laundry facilities, so i thank you need to go back, in your haste, to put forth wonderful provisions. you forgot about the tenants. thank you.

>> good afternoon. i'm with senior and disability action as well as a long, long time north beach resident. i am thrilled that you are adding this amendment in terms of rent control for a.d.u.s. of course, it won't immediately be affordable if it is built today, however, one day it will be affordable, and so for the majority of san franciscans who are seeking affordable housing, this would do the trick in some time. in addition, i want to make sure we find a fix for severing those services. i do know of laundry facilities that are being taken away from tenants, meaning that at the same time laundromats are closing, they are being sold, they are being developed into other housing, which can be a really great thing, however,

what do you do about needing clean clothes? i do know that it is an issue in north beach because there can be one laundromat that actually takes care of about 300 tenants in other areas. a fix is needed for that. if you have storage space, i know of a vietnam veteran who stories his scooter in order to be mobile, in his storage unit, and now he is being threatened and harassed to give up his storage space so that an a.d.u. can be built, which is great, but does that a.d.u. have to be 600 square feet? that is the other question. let's make sure tenants are not hurt, that we are indeed adding affordable housing, because this would be great. thank you so much. >> thank you, speaker. >> hello, i am testifying in

support of passing a.d.u. law that is compliant with state law there's no particular reason why you can't pass something in compliance soon, even today, and do other amendments later. a lot of the things that people are talking about have to do with the city's multifamily a.d.u. program, and our main issues are with the a.d.u. program that has to do with building a new sickle family house within a.d.u. or allowing someone to put an a.d.u. in a single-family house. i thank you can probably get everything done, but i urge you to do it timely, soon. we brought these same issues up before this version was passed. thanks. >> my name is ben, i live in the tenderloin. i would like to commend you all

for working to bring the local a.d.u. ordinance into compliance with state law. i think it is great that we are moving forward and encouraging this housing type. it has been here forever, and it is a fantastic opportunity to build new housing in parts of the city that haven't seen a lot of housing production. i would encourage you to move a little more quickly, if you can, because right now, the longer we wait to bring -- improve the law to make changes to the law, the more people who are trying to build a.d.u.s in living in limbo , not knowing what the standards that they might have to comply with. i think it is good to have clarity with these things and i hope you will take that into account. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, supervisors. jeremy shop with architects. i fully support this proposed legislation today, and as

mentioned, i am an architect, so i want to bring across the point that we're talking about planning department policy, but after planning reviews its set of building permit drawings, it will go to building department, and they don't care how many units are in it. they want the fully realized set of plans. if we show them that it is a single-family and then we wait another year and come back with an a.d.u., it just adds more time and process to it. we want this legislation approved now so we can start creating units now. thank you. >> thank thank you. next speaker. >> it afternoon, chairman. i am with the california leader -- legal act -- advocacy fund. on the issue of severing tenant services, we had a good discussion about this about a week ago at the board of appeals , and there was discussion about adding a notice requirement, and