specifically you mentioned sledding in the beginning, and although

online in other languages, but we didn't have it in other languages at that time. one of the things that i'm sure you all read about, which was connected to the flooding, but if the house wasn't flooded, some of the houses experienced sewage coming up through the houses. we had residents asking our office was it safe to clean up. i actually don't know if we -- this is something we'll discuss through the hearing, but is that d.b.i., department of public health, p.u.c., where is the

appropriate contact for residents to find out if it's safe for them to clean up. so, yeah, i just wanted to share some comments here. we'll get more answers at the hearing, and i do think this is an opportunity because it was 12 hours impacted or if this was a larger disaster. thank you so much. >> thank you. uh-huh. >> just wanted to give kudos to some of our personnel from our homeland security unit. captain chris put together an exercise that basically involved the station being incapacitated. we had an opportunity to pull out our continuity of operations, and it's an enlightening exercise. there are a lot of areas we need to get better at.

captain has done a good job and it's something we plan to do in other districts in our police departments. just for the group, if you haven't done that in a while, it was a very good exercise. i know from a city-wide -- and i know you have been working on table tops as well, but i wanted to put that on everybody's minds. those opportunities rarely come up. it's always good to practice. >> yeah. thank you. that's music to our ears. someone opened their c.o.o. plan. anyone else? >> yes, i just wanted to let people know that the hazard plan is our hazard mitigation plan required by fema every five years. it will be sent next week, and i wanted to thank all the departments, all the people, every department here has a strategy in that plan. it really takes some bold steps to move us towards mitigating

disasters and being more resilient. i appreciate you and if you could pass it to your staff that helped formulate strategies or spent time looking at the different hazards and putting it together. the department of public health, planning department, department of emergency management, and department of the environment. thank you all for that. we're going to continue to work on this as it goes out. we're not going to wait five years to open it up again. we're planning to do public outreach in the next year and to continue making it much more of a living document where people have access to the hazards, to the strategies online or through public meetings. thank you so much for that. >> thanks brian. anyone else? okay, with that i believe we can adjourn the meeting. thank you all for being here and we'll see you in the new year.

[♪] san francisco, 911, what's the emergency? >> san francisco 911, police, fire and medical. >> the tenderloin. suspect with a six inch knife. >> he was trying to get into his car and was hit by a car. >> san francisco 911 what's the exact location of your emergency? >> welcome to the san francisco department of emergency management. my name is shannon bond and i'm

the lead instructor for our dispatch add -- academy. i want to tell you about what we do here. >> this is san francisco 911. do you need police, fire or medical? >> san francisco police, dispatcher 82, how can i help you? >> you're helping people in their -- what may be their most vulnerable moment ever in life. so be able to provide them immediate help right then and there, it's really rewarding. >> our agency is a very combined agency. we answer emergency and non-emergency calls and we also do dispatching for fire, for medical and we also do dispatching for police. >> we staff multiple call taking positions. as well as positions for police and fire dispatch. >> we have a priority 221. >> i wanted to become a dispatcher so i could help people. i really like people. i enjoy talking to people.

this is a way that i thought that i could be involved with people every day. >> as a 911 dispatcher i am the first first responder. even though i never go on seen -- scene i'm the first one answering the phone call to calm the victim down and give them instruction. the information allows us to coordinate a response. police officers, firefighters, ambulances or any other agency. it is a great feeling when everyone gets to go home safely at the end of the day knowing that you've also saved a citizen's life. >> our department operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. >> this is shift work. that means we work nights, weekends and holidays and can involve over time and sometimes that's mandatory. >> this is a high stress career so it's important to have a good balance between work and life. >> we have resources available like wellness and peer support groups.

our dispatchers of the month are recognized for their outstanding performance and unique and ever changing circumstances. >> i received an accommodation and then i received dispatcher of the month, which was really nice because i was just released from the phones. so for them to, you know, recognize me for that i appreciated it. i was surprised to even get it. at the end of the day i was just doing my job. >> a typical dispatch shift includes call taking and dispatching. it takes a large dedicated group of fifrst responders to make ths department run and in turn keep the city safe. >> when you work here you don't work alone, you work as part of a team. you may start off as initial phone call or contact but everyone around you participating in the whole process. >> i was born and raised in san francisco so it's really rewarding to me to be able to help the community and know that i have a part in -- you know, even if it's behind the scenes kind of helping the city flow

and helping people out that live here. >> the training program begins with our seven-week academy followed by on the job training. this means you're actually taking calls or dispatching responders. >> you can walk in with a high school diploma, you don't need to have a college degree. we will train you and we will teach you how to do this job. >> we just need you to come with an open mind that we can train you and make you a good dispatcher. >> if it's too dangerous to see and you think that you can get away and call us from somewhere safe. >> good. that's right. >> from the start of the academy to being released as a solo dispatcher can take nine months to a year. >> training is a little over a year and may change in time. the training is intense. very intense. >> what's the number one thing that kills people in this country? so we're going to assume that it's a heart attack, right? don't forget that. >> as a new hire we require you

to be flexible. you will be required to work all shifts that include midnights, some call graveyard, days and swings. >> you have to be willing to work at different times, work during the holidays, you have to work during the weekends, midnight, 6:00 in the morning, 3:00 in the afternoon. that's like the toughest part of this job. >> we need every person that's in here and when it comes down to it, we can come together and we make a really great team and do our best to keep the city flowing and safe. >> this is a big job and an honorable career. we appreciate your interest in joining our team. >> we hope you decide to join us here as the first first responders to the city and county of san francisco. for more information on the job

and how to apply follow the links below. >> my name tom hewitt. first of all, i would like to welcome everyone to come to this fair. this safety fair, we trying to educate the public regarding how to prepare themselves during and after the earthquake and then to protect themselves for next 72 hours. >> hi. my name's ed sweeney. i'm the director of services at department of building inspection, and we put together a great fair for the city of san francisco to come down and meet all the experts. we've got engineers, architects.

we have builders, we have government agencies. >> well, we have four specific workshops. we have the accessible business entrance. >> my name is leah, and i am the assistant manager with the department of small business. i am leading the new accessibility ordinance that helps existing owners better comply with existing access laws. so all buildings that have places of public accommodation in san francisco, they must comply with this ordinance. >> the a.d.e. was setup by the board of supervisors, and the ordinance was passed about a year ago. >> one of the biggest updates that we have is that the deadlines were extended, so all of the deadlines were extended by six months.

>> and it's really to help the public, the business community to be specific, to cut down on the amount of drive by lawsuits. >> so on this workshop, we're going to be covering what the compliance looks like, what business examiand property owne need to know how to comply with the ordinance. we'll also talk about the departments that are involved, including the office of small business, department of building inspection, planning department, as well as the mayor's office on disability. >> hi. i'm marselle, and i manage a team at the building department. today, we'll cover the meaning of a.d.u.s, more commonly known as accessory dwelling units. we'll talk about the code and permitting processes, and we'll also talk about legalizing

existing dwelling units that are currently unwarranted. >> this is the department of building inspection's residential remodelling workshop. my name is senior electrical inspector cheryl rose, and at this workshop, we're going to be answering questions such as do i need an electrical permit when i'm upgrading my dwelling, when do i need to have planning involved in a residential remodel, and what's involved with the coerce process? we're going to also be reviewing inspection process, and the permitting process for residential remodel in san francisco. there's always questions that need answers. it's a mystery to the general public what goes on in construction, and the more we can clarify the process, the more involved the consumer can be and feel comfortable with the contractors they're working with and the product they're getting in the results.

if you have questions that aren't addressed in this workshop, you're always welcome to come up to the third floor of 1660 mission street, and we're happy to discuss it with you and find out what you need to do. >> the program is very successful. the last piece is already 60% in compliance. >> well, we have a very important day coming up. it's sept 15. last four has to be compliance, which means that the level four people that have to register with us and give us a basic indication of how they're going to deal with their seismic issues on their building. >> i'm francis zamora, and i'm with the san francisco department of emergency management, and today we talked about how to prepare for emergencies in san francisco. and so that's really

importantiimportant. in san francisco, it's no secret. we live in earthquake country. there's a big chance we will be involved in a major earthquake in the next 30 years, but we don't have to be afraid. these are going to be your first responders outside of the police officers, paramedics, first responders, these are going to be the people that come to your aid first. by getting to know your neighbors, you're going to know who needs help and who can help in case of an emergency. one of the great ways to do that is for signing7for nert, san francisco neighborhood emergency response team. it teaches you how to take care of yourself, your loved ones, and your neighborhood in the case of an emergency. information is just as important as water and food in an emergency. san francisco has an emergency text message alert system, called text sf.

if there's some kind of an emergency happening in san francisco or your neighborhood, it could be a police action, a big fire, a tsunami or an earthquake. all you have to do is text your citizenship code to 888777, and your mobile phone is automatically registered for alert sf. >> my name is fernando juarez, and i'm a fire captain with the san francisco fire department. we have a hire extinguisher training system. you want to pull the pin, stand at least 8 feet away, aim it at the base. if you're too close, the conical laser that comes out, it's too small, and the fire won't go out

on the screen. if you step back, the conical shape on the screen is bigger, and it will take the fire go out faster. so it can tell when you're too close. >> my name is alicia wu, and i'm the director of a san francisco based nonprofit. since 2015, we go out to the public, to the community and provide training in different topics. today we're doing c.p.r., controlling external feeding and how to do perfect communications in each topic, and also, i hope that they can bring it home and start gathering all the supplies for themselves to. >> on any given day in san francisco, we're very well resourced in terms of public safety professionals, but we all know in the event of a large

scale disaster, it will be hours and days before the public safety professionals can get to you, so we encourage people to have that plan in place, be proactive. there's websites. we have a wonderful website called 72hours.org. it tells you how to prepare yourself, your family, your pets, your home, your workplace. we can't emphasize enough how important it is to be patrick. >> welcome to another episode of stay safe i saw us prepare our crawl space on this episode we'll saw the sheer wall you'll see the finished product

hi, i'm patrick and welcome to another episode of stay safe? the second part we're retrofitting the triple wall as you can see we've installed one of the sheer ply wall on the first episode we provided blocking to secure the ply we'd and bolted and provided the connection with the floor i'm joined by thor madison. >> thor structural engineers

and thor knows more about sheer walls than anybody i've met in my life. >> it provides the stable ability that would rock before and after during around earthquake the nails along the edge of the plywood will reduce the chance of the building falling down. >> what else should we consider in getting ready. >> one thing about plywood a natural material that absorbs moisture and the panels can swell depending on the moisture if they swell they'll bulk out it is important probation officer leave a gap between the panels so before we install the next panel we'll drive in a couple of nails used to as temporary spares. >> what are the nails.

>> 16 penny singers a good saying that and we don't need to be concerned with the exact nail size only the gap the next panel will be held with the existing panel we'll pull those down. >> we have peter from the construction why not go outside and cut our second panel so, now we've got the plywood let's go ahead and get it put up

see if we can get it in place. >> by looking at that a perfect fit why not get peter in here to nail it down. >> so peter did a great job with the nailing but important to know this work requires a permit in the department of building inspection whether you're doing the work or a left hand contractor make sure you have the proper permit and additional to the nailing anything you want to talk about thinking about the plywood. >> the more plywood to install the better and make sure that the nails along each edge of each panel so you can't forget

and hedge and had it perform the same thing. >> another example of little money you can substantially rusz reduce the >> my background is in engineering. i am a civil engineer by training. my career has really been around government service. when the opportunity came up to serve the city of san francisco, that was just an opportunity i really needed to explore. [♪] [♪] i think it was in junior high and really started to do well in math but i faced some really

interesting challenges. many young ladies were not in math and i was the only one in some of these classes. it was tough, it was difficult to succeed when a teacher didn't have confidence in you, but i was determined and i realized that engineering really is what i was interested in. as i moved into college and took engineering, preengineering classes, once again i hit some of those same stereotypes that women are not in this field. that just challenged me more. because i was enjoying it, i was determined to be successful. now i took that drive that i have and a couple it with public service. often we are the unsung heroes of technology in the city whether it is delivering network services internally, or for our broadband services to low income housing. >> free wi-fi for all of the

residents here so that folks have access to do job searches, housing searches, or anything else that anyone else could do in our great city. >> we are putting the plant in the ground to make all of the city services available to our residents. it is difficult work, but it is also very exciting and rewarding our team is exceptional. they are very talented engineers and analysts who work to deliver the data and the services and the technology every day. >> i love working with linda because she is fun. you can tell her anything under the sun and she will listen and give you solutions or advice. she is very generous and thoughtful and remembers all the special days that you are celebrating. >> i have seen recent employee safety and cyber security. it is always a top priority. i am always feeling proud

working with her. >> what is interesting about my work and my family is my experience is not unique, but it is different. i am a single parent. so having a career that is demanding and also having a child to raise has been a challenge. i think for parents that are working and trying to balance a career that takes a lot of time, we may have some interruptions. if there is an emergency or that sort of thing then you have to be able to still take care of your family and then also do your service to your job. that is probably my take away and a lot of lessons learned. a lot of parents have the concern of how to do the balance i like to think i did a good job for me, watching my son go through school and now enter the job market, and he is in the medical field and starting his career, he was always an intern.

one of the things that we try to do here and one of my takeaways from raising him is how important internships are. and here in the department of technology, we pride ourselves on our interns. we have 20 to 25 each year. they do a terrific job contributing to our outside plant five or work or our network engineering or our finance team. this last time they took to programming our reception robot, pepper, and they added videos to it and all of these sort of things. it was fun to see their creativity and their innovation come out. >> amazing. >> intriguing. >> the way i unwind is with my photography and taking pictures around the city.

when i drive around california, i enjoy taking a lot of landscapes. the weather here changes very often, so you get a beautiful sunset or you get a big bunch of clouds. especially along the waterfront. it is spectacular. i just took some photos of big server and had a wonderful time, not only with the water photos, but also the rocks and the bushes and the landscapes. they are phenomenal. [♪] my advice to young ladies and women who would like to move into stem fields is to really look at why you are there. if you are -- if you are a problem solver, if you like to analyse information, if you like to discover new things, if you like to come up with alternatives and invent new practice, it is such a fabulous opportunity. whether it is computer science or engineering or biology or

medicine, oh, my goodness, there are so many opportunities. if you have that kind of mindset i have enjoyed working in san francisco so much because of the diversity. the diversity of the people, of this city, of the values, of the talent that is here in the city. it is stimulating and motivating and inspiring and i cannot imagine working anywhere else >> good afternoon and welcome to the land use and transportation committee for today, monday,

december 16th, 2019. our last land use committee meeting of the 2019 calender year. i am aaron peskin, the chair of this committee joined to my left by committee member supervisor matt haney and our clerk is ms. erika major. we welcome, in her own right for her first trial by fire experience is land use committee deputy city attorney anne pearson. do you have any announcements? >> clerk: silence all cellphones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents that include as part of a file should be submitted to the clerk. items will appear on the januarf supervisors agenda less otherwise stated. >> we are joined momentarily to my right by vice-chair of the committee supervisor ahsha safai who rightfully comments that it is quite warm in these chambers

so, ms. major, when you have a second after you read item number 1, if you could ask them to cool this place down >> you can ask them through the chair. send some heat to my office since i don't have any right now. that would be great. >> sure thing >> transfer the heat from the board chambers to room 256. >> clerk: item number 1 entitled regulating the width of sidewalks to reduce the sidewalk width of certain locations along the westerly side of pierce street in front of the maxime health center at 1301 pierce street >> sidewalks are important which is precisely why these instruments come to the board of exercises. this is a proposal to actually

reduce sidewalk widths but, apparently, in the public interest, in supervisor haney's district on behalf of the department of public works, which i guess we now call public works, which one of you is here to testify. please come forward. >> good afternoon. i'm kevin jensen, disability access coordinator with public works. >> yes, the for examplio for fri remember you >> coming back with another one. this is the health center across the street from kimball playground city clinic. we're proposing a fully compliant building code and a.d.a. compliant passenger loading zone at the front of that facility which includes a street level passenger loading aisle. that street level passenger loading aisle is alongside the passenger side of the vehicle pull-up space which is the best

way to do accessible passenger loading zones. which we feel is important this being a clinic and all. as planning also agreed with our position on this, it doesn't effectively reduce the pedestrian through way zone in the sidewalks so it's consistent with the better streets plan in as much as the pedestrian capacity of the sidewalk is uneffected. i have slides if that would be helpful. >> please proceed. >> the location of that clinic. kimball playground is the large patch to the right of the subject site. this is the facade with the building as it stands today. you can see the existing sidewalk has cross which we're correcting with this work. head-on shot there. looking back the other way. it's about a 4% grade down the street. official legislated sidewalk with its 15 feet.

rendering of the project. we've done some remodeling including putting in an elevator which is a long-standing need in this clinic. the site plan. you can see the indented passenger loading zone with the curb ramp to the rear of the vehicle space. it's directly opposite the entrance ramp and stair at the primary entrance at the main entrance. this is a drawing of the working drawing of the plan which shows dimensions. you can zoom on that in a little bit here. i'm sorry this has slopes. the next exhibit has dimensions.

>> one has slopes. here is the dimensions here. here are the exhibits if there's any questions. >> thank you mr. jenson. if there are no comments from committee members, are there any members of the public who would like to testify on item number 1? if there's no objection and it will be one heard on the seventh day of january 2020. >> without objection that will be the order. colleagues, i'd like to skip over item number 2 pending some amendments that deputy city attorney is working on and madam clerk, call item number 3 out of

soareorder >> clerk: to receive public input on the appropriate periods to implement the hotel conversion updates. >> thank you, i want to thank my colleagues and city staff and the owner community and members of the advocacy community for sitting through last week's long committee hearing. given the length of that meeting we continued this meeting after receiving brief presentations from city departments. this is to receive input from stakeholders to implement our 2017h.c.o. update hotel conversion ordinance update in order to ensure that any property owners wh owners who ny

recoup investments they may have made relying on a tourist versus residential use. the amortization ordinance continues to after that it raises it to 30 days to provide staple residential uses instead of short term tourist uses. the purpose of the city's law has been that residential s.r.o. units are intended for residents and not for tourists. the definitions have not been as clear as they could have been. today's discussion is focused on trying to provide an appropriate buffer for those s.r.o. owners who have been running on a tourist hotel model and rendering for short term use. the purpose is to restore s.r.o.s who what they have

been and immigrant families and those living on fixed low incomes. a request to contain this meeting can be convened. i still a intend to amend the legislation and get back to the original policy intent that existed since 1981 that all residential rooms are ended for residential uses not seven day tourists and i will ask it in the beginning of the year persuade opursued on a parallel. we'll ask questions as well as take public comment and then i intend to make a motion if you colleagues will continue to t to the call of the chair.

we heard a brief presentation on the background of the h.c.o. but i'd like to ask joseph barber from d.b.i. to come up and let's see if we can get at sometime of the things we cannot have the chance to discuss last week. thank you. i will not make any comments about where to put your jacket. >> on ton of the vilers leasing to tourists for nightly stays and operating a hotel they found an additional 13 hotels that were specifically being advertised toe tourists to tour.

it is in the northeast corn of the city represented by this supervisor and the supervisor to my left and a hotel that was supposed to be 75% residential and 25% tourist. that listed 100% of all of the units as tourist rentals and another couple of buildings and listed a number of rooms for tourists so the question s. how does the city enforce listings and ensure that residential rooms are not going to tourists? i say that in light of the fact that our short term rental ordinance does not cover s.r.o.s. >> i mean, just broadly, we generally respond to complaints

and different hotels suspected of unlawful conversion. there are usual suspects that come up every now and then. we respond to complaints. we go down in the hotels and check records and as of now we're enforcing the seven will have da-dayminimum and it's lime can discover who say tourist or not >> we stipulate today that >> you know, if we find they're not keeping their records correctly, we can find them and we do so -- a problem we do encounter is it sees there'there's not daily loo us. while we're on that subject.

i was actually going to raise that, which is mr. lutins did refer to quote cooking the books in two sets of books. and can you state from your experience what impediments there are to d.b.i.s ability to enforce the h.c.o. is record keeping a problem and have you ever caught an operator or operators not keeping correct books or keeping two sets of books as you said there's a problem with cooking the books to reflect the number of tourist rooms and vacancies. can you address that? >> yeah, i mean, we have caught a few but it's sort of anxiety that there's a lot more out there we don't know because it's hard to go after additional records. the legislation that you passed including supervis subpoena powd

it's not showing us the true occupancy of the hotel by giving us the daily logs that they fill out and having a computer system or something that tells who is in the hotel and who pays for rooms >> the administrative supervisor power >> i continue to hear from folks in the community that the practice of keeping units vacant or as its commonly referred to as warehousing, it's prevalent, particularly in certain neighborhoods like lower knob hill, the tenderloin. do you have a sense of how many vacancies are out there and why property owners are holding them off the market. given that the practice of warehousing of precious residential units in the midst of a housing crisis seems to be at odds with the contention that some property owners are making that they are trying to make

back their front-end investments and hence our am terrization comments >> i know it does happen. many units are kept vacant for extended periods and i'm not sure why that would be if you are trying to make money off of those units. i see it where wore just processing our annual unit usage report inform. we haven't completely assembled the data base but it's also self-reported and there's some data there as to how many vacancies there are. it's a snapshot when what we have asks for data from one day throughout the year. and we've looked at that before and we can certainly look at it again >> what's that snapshot tell you overtime if you can produce that out of? >> in terms of having sa vacancy

units are occupied in october 15th of the year. they turned it in on november 1st so they have information from that one day. i can tell you it does happen. >> i'm sorry if this seems obvious but it's important, which is the difference between a residential unit and a tourist units. are there different amenities provided? are they market second-degree d? do some come with bathrooms and some not come with bathrooms? how does that work? >> really, it depends. they can be exactly the same. i'm been in buildings mix tourist and residential designated rooms and there's no difference between two rooms m will keep their tourist

designated room on a different floor and i don't know for what purposes, for cleaning the rooms and after people move out but there's no nessie difference between the rooms. there's not any enforceable -- the room has to be this versus that. >> what are some of the indicators that a room may have been unlawfully convert. i'm aware of one s.r.o. hotel that hired a artist to do to cater to a hipper, class of tourist demo graphics that the boutique industry billed itself around and got rid of a beauty salon to usher in a international art bar and pride and permit on top of a liquor license transfer meaning they had to get sign off from the

tenants above. only it turned out there were no tenants left. they were only renting out to tourists. i know of another s.r.o. that actively advertises personal tours of local and regional attractions ranging from monterey, carmel, yo sem tee. are these amenities in line with a tourist use or residential use? >> generally it's tourist rather than residential. >> are adding these amenities consistent with a residential hotel, do you think? >> it's up to the owner. due have to. it's not necessary. can you rent the rooms out for seven days at a time and

advertise online. as far as advertising for the rooms, they used some of the same services basically where at least most testify is done online anyways so you are on airbnb getting a temporary unit or craigslist for more prominent listing for the s.r.o. housing stock. >> i would agree with that >> >> dough know if s.r.o. owners make a profit from the operation and maintenance from the s.r.o.s without adding these types of tourist amenities? >> >> sure, i don't see why not. the housing market such that it is you can charge quite a bit and per room >> understood. >> and is there a component that

makes payment options. i know that some low income residents who don't have credit cards or wish to pate their installments were concerned clarifying the definition might mean they would no longer be able to pay on a weekly basis or pay in cash. is that accurate? >> no. we thought about that a while back when this was discussed before and i don't think so. as long as it shows me this person has stayed there for a long period of time or they have rent receipt 0 that person paying there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to pay on whatsoever basis they want. they can bay in advance, by week, however they want. just as long as they're a resident. that's what we're looking for in terms of this law. >> so they can rely on the same business model they've take weekly payments from tenants for lodging and make a reasonable

return on their investment in that way >> yes, from our enforcement standpoint, yes. >> thank you. >> i'd like to tell the story a i was sitting in this chamber in a hearing that then supervisor scott wiener called back in early 2016, in february, when kelly, who was then with the department of public-health before we created the department of homelessness and supportive housing stated in a span of four years, the city had gone from 360 stabilization rooms to 65 and i'm hearing it's been further reduce today 53. at the time she cited factors from illegal conversions by the academy of art to little tourist conversions and can you tell us what obstacles the city has come up with against with respect to acquiring buildings and master lease agreement witcity agreeme?

>> i'm not sure i would able to -- >> the department of public-health. >> i haven't been involved in those so that's not -- >> it's not in your wheel house. >> the chief housing record wanted me to read a comment in the record. >> the floor is yours. >> of course i moved it.

>> take your time. >> i would be remised if i didn't include my boss' remarks. >> that's important. >> so, we'd like to thank you supervisor peskin for your tireless work in the preservation of affordable housing regarding the hotel conversion ordinance. we call had the h.c.o. thank you to sunny, your legislative aid, kristen jenson, andrea reece, in the city attorney's office. we're all grateful for the work they've done. the consensus they've achieved was solved a problem that effects department for some years and the problem being some hotels would rent the same room to a different person each week regardless of their being a resident or a tourist on holiday. even if it was a residential room for some 40 years or so and

they could claim protection for this use of the exception of seven day exception. clearly they're not occupied as residential or a way that most of us under the word residential and to mean it so it became basically a loophole. and you know, many hotel owners follow the spirit and letter of the law but there's some that are available themselves of the loophole and it's not fair to them either and it's also defleeting our housing stock in a time we don't need that. and you are unanimous legislation was seen as closing the loophole in a way that would prevent it from being exploited in the future. it's a tax loop hope if you have a tax loophole that someone a

veils themselves of and congress passes a law to close that loophole, do we really owe them something going forward because we close the loophole that it doesn't exist anymore? what about the people that never got the chance to take advantage of it? what about the other hotel owners who never vile eight the law. so, basically it's a consideration is how do we balance the interests of hotel owners through seeking the versus fairness to owners and operators who are actually complying with the spirit o spie law and have residential hotels. >> thank you for your boss' events. let's it open to public comment. i have one speaker card from ryan padder son and if you would like to testify on item number 3, if you are line to my left your right, mr. patterson. >> thank you on behalf of the

san francisco s.r.o. hotel coalition. i want to thank you for working together with the hotel owners to try to find a resolution to this. snag we are definitely interested in talking about. and you have asked for the s.r.o. owners' assistance with what we seem to be an unconstitutional taking of their business. specifically, you are asking for constitutionally protected private financial information. while we want to work with the city, this needs to be done in a way that protects the privilege and confidentiality of that information that you are requested. we reiterate our suggestion for a continuance of this matter until we're able to work with the city attorney to have that discussion in a privileged and confidential sitting. before doing anything, the city does need to come into compliance with the court's order of september 24th, 2019. thank you very much.

>> thank you mr. patterson. as i indicated at the beginning of this meeting in my opening remarks, we will continue this item to the call of the chair and if you turned your head to the left you will see christian jenson who you know and you are welcome to speak and set. we are speaking about the h.c.o. >> thank you. i just want to say here comes santa claus, right down santa claus land use lane. i know you are glad he came. bells are ringing, children singing. everything is merry and bright. i hope this hotel hits the highest high. >> happy holidays. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors, next speaker, please. >> >> good afternoon, i'm the senior director of housing

development with tndc. i'm thankful to have a second day and i missed the main events that were offered last week. we own several s.r.o. hotels in the tenderloin. we were founded in 1981 to protect and preserve existing housing serving low income people in the tenderloin recognize pressures on the neighborhood with the extension of union square and the financial district. i've lived in san francisco since 2003 but i began working here in 2012 and i was really impressed when i first got here around the strength of the housing conversion law and how effective it was in effectively preserving this housing stock to serve to low income people and as we've seen over the last five to 12 years pressures are so strong and the income potential so high it's happening. i'm very grateful to the supervisor and the other folks throughout the city who have

worked to close loopholes, things working in the past that aren't working now to protect this housing stock so i want to express gratitude and we are ready to think through policy or implementation or anything like that to continue to preserve the stock. thank you. >> thank you mr. lamont. are there any other speakers on item number 3 who would like to offer public testimony? seeing none. public comment is closed and colleagues, if there's no objection, we will continue this item to.call of the chair. amendments to item number two are not approved as to form by deputy city. >> clerk: the hearing on the implementation of ordinance number 19019 personal wireless service facility site permits. >> thank you.

every since this board of supervisors passed legislation earlier this year to bring san francisco in a further compliance with federal and state law regarding wireless cell site regulation, we've all heard from countless individuals in the public about their concerns ranging from health concerns, anesthetic concerns, underground conditions and private concerns and i think many of these are quite legitimate expressions to members of this board. it's been a frustrating topic of discussion. i've had the pleasure and pain of participating in these discussion and appeals over the last two decades. largely in part because the telecom industry has, as i said to ms. blackstone, fairly and squarely purchased a