is there any questions? we will open this up for public comment. does any member of the public wish to speak? seeing then, public comment is closed. there are four seats and four applicants. i think all applicants are qualified. does anyone want to make a motion? supervisor walton? >> definitely want to make the motion in support of the nomination of all four candidates but i want to thank jr for coming in today and being willing to serve. this is a very important committee and as we continue to deal with affordable housing and make sure that we are responsible as we have growth in communities and voices on the intake are very important. i want to think everybody who is willing to serve ditto. thank you so much and thank you for being here today.

you made a motion to move jr a blur for seat one, irma lewis for a seat two, jolene you for c3 and keith goldstein for seat four. without objection, that passes. please read item number three. >> three is a hearing to appoint one member term ending january 6 , 2024, to the small business commission. >> i see commissioner -- i see the commissioner here. would you like to come up and address the board? >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for the opportunity and your consideration. i was born and raised in san francisco in the mission district. i have a passion. i'm a small business owner myself and just knowing the intricacies of real small businesses, especially businesses of color, minorities, we have a moral -- we have a challenge especially if english is not your language of birth. we do not get the same

opportunities. having an advocate the looks like the people we serve is very important, especially as it comes to the permitting process in san francisco. during my 10 year, i was part of digitizing the san francisco business registration process, which should be something in san francisco we should be leading the way, but it wasn't. through my 10 year, i have done that. i have spee-5 spares -- personally started an initiative which will get set in 2020 where we go paperless. no more stacks of paper when we or get all the pamphlets. i'm implementing tablets. those are the little things, but my countless work, you know, i know every single business in the bayview, in the mission, i don't know maybe as much as you, supervisor mar, but they know me when people have problems, they call my cell phone at whatever time. it takes years for commissioner to build up the relationship and understand the intricacies of how to open a business in san francisco. it has taken a very long time to get to this point where we are able to help the community

navigate crazy business processes. little things like that matter in a city that they always say small business is our backbone, but people worked here because -- moved to because of the flavour of our city and our small businesses. i represent that. i am honoured for your consideration for another term as the office of small business commissioner. thank you. >> thank you so much. i wanted to thank you for all your work as the one who recruited you to move into this rollback in my legislative age days. it has been such a pleasure to watch you shine on this commission. you truly are a commissioner of the people and are so available, not only to supervisors when we have questions, but to business

owners and helping them navigate what has become a byzantine process. we have a lot of work to do to write i think what i think we have done wrong in terms of making it virtually impossible to open a small business. as you said, many business owners go broke before they ever open. that is upsurge. we are happy to change that. it is certainly something that i am looking into and that i know many of you on the small business commission, together with been blame and who is an entertainment commissioner, but also a small business owner, are looking to all the small business owners to help small businesses and that is a phenomenal idea. i think it is way overdue and i wanted to express my gratitude to you for all of your hard work >> thank you. it means a lot. >> of course. any other comments? thank you. thank you so much. >> thank you, supervisors. >> is there any member of the

public to speak -- who wishes to speak, now is your time. public comment is closed. i would be happy to do the honours of making a motion to reappoint william to seat three of the small business commission seeing no objection, that motion passes you nonthem as they -- that motion passes unanimously. >> item four is a resolution reparenting -- appointing harlan kelly junior for a four year term ending june 30th, 2023, as the director of san francisco bay area regional water system financing authority. >> would anyone like to speak? public comment is closed. supervisor mar? >> i would move that we recommend reappointment of harlan kelly as a director of the san francisco bay area

regional water system financing authority. >> without objection, that motion passes. is there any other items? >> that concludes the agenda for today. >> fastest rules committee meeting of the year. the meeting is adjourned. shop and dine on the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within neighborhood.

we help san francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant. where will you shop and dine in the 49? san francisco owes the charm to the unique character of the neighborhood comer hall district. each corridor has its own personality. our neighborhoods are the engine of the city. >> you are putting money and support back to the community you live in and you are helping small businesses grow. >> it is more environmentally friendly. >> shopping local is very important. i have had relationships with my local growers for 30 years. by shopping here and supporting us locally, you are also supporting the growers of the flowers, they are fresh and they

have a price point that is not imported. it is really good for everybody. >> shopping locally is crucial. without that support, small business can't survive, and if we lose small business, that diversity goes away, and, you know, it would be a shame to see that become a thing of the past. >> it is important to dine and shop locally. it allows us to maintain traditions. it makes the neighborhood. >> i think san francisco should shop local as much as they can. the retail marketplace is changes. we are trying to have people on the floor who can talk to you and help you with products you are interested in buying, and help you with exploration to try

things you have never had before. >> the fish business, you think it is a piece of fish and fisherman. there are a lot of people working in the fish business, between wholesalers and fishermen and bait and tackle. at the retail end, we about a lot of people and it is good for everybody. >> shopping and dining locally is so important to the community because it brings a tighter fabric to the community and allows the business owners to thrive in the community. we see more small businesses going away. we need to shop locally to keep the small business alive in san francisco. >> shop and dine in the 49 is a cool initiative.

you can see the banners in the streets around town. it is great. anything that can showcase and legitimize small businesses is a >> 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 lot of influence at the federal and state levels to tie local government's hands and our ability to regulate this industry responsibly and commence rat with the desires of our citizens. beginning when i was two-years-old, with the federal telecommunications act, i'm sorry, i just missed that by 32 years. the telecommunications act of

1996, it was the first overhaul of telecom regulations in a half century and extending to changes to our state public utilities code and public utilities commission which even went further than the federal f.c.c. our ability here in san francisco has been con trained as it relates to regulation of public-health and safety matters. over the past several months, my office has undertaken a review to understand the difference between what is required of us relative to federal and state law pre 'emion and where we may have done more as required for us and where we con trained our authority to regulate in this area.

some have contended we've gone above and beyond what is required by federal and state law. others contend that the city has reaped certain benefits such as the fact that the city charges rent for cell sites and telecom companies are obligated to replace utilities polls in exchange for the ability to install on these facilities. i also want to recognize the public policy imperative to ensure that all of our citizens and residents have adequate access to the entertainment. which has become an indistance able commodity in our society daily lives but i believe that 5-g, the fifth generation of cells in smartphones is more than just cell phone internet access is about an explosion of network devices that are and

continue to be part of every facet of our lives. in as much as the health concerns maybe real relative to use of devices these wireless cell sites enable i have concerns about wireless devices in our homes and our public rights of way from self-driving cars to wireless security and wireless household a compliance. it's not just health. they are also about privacy implications and i've noted, for instance, that ring security cameras were the subject of controversy for being to subject to widespread hacking. even the federal government has banned a chinese 5g infrastructure because of cybersecurity and privacy concerns. i want to acknowledge staff in a

number of departments starting with public works and ms. debra ludsky and john scarpula, the health department, dr. thomas aragon who have been revisiting a almost 10-year-old study that was undertaken by the planning department and marcel boudreau, the city administrator office, mr. bill barnes and of course the city attorney's office bill sanders who unfortunately cannot be here today which will lead me to ask that this item be continued to the call of the chair because i think he is important to this conversation and i want to thank you for meeting with my office and my staff, to further understand and get to the bottom of this regulatory arena. thank you in particular to public works for agreeing to

hold off on adoption of your objective standards while we create this space for this hearing today and any follow-up that will come from it and thank you to that has indicated within the next quarter, they will present their updates to their 2010 recommend dumb which i just referenced and i also note the board of appeals in july of this year also requested that update from public-health. while much of this boils down to a very frustrating legal conundrum that is the result of federal and state pre 'emion i want to turn this over members of the public who wait merchandise time for this hearing and despite my

frustration, at having most of our well intentioned ideas rejected based on pre 'emion, i'm hoping this hearing might facilitate new creative thinking about how to protect the health and public interest including i'm sorry she couldn't be here she's out of town and that's how people's schedules work. so colleagues, if you have no

comments or objections i would like to open this item for public comment for good ideas and public testimony. please feel free to testify. >> good afternoon, thank you so much for having this hearing. a lot of our people are coming at 2:30. we underestimated your speed today. hopefully you can hear some of the other speakers. i'm going to go through some talking points that i hope that you all received supervisors safai and haney. it would be great if you want to

take a look at them as i'm going through them. multiple small cell installations within the public right-of-way will negatively impact property values, pose a threat to the public-health safety and welfare, create traffic and pedestrian safety homicide address, impact tree health and where i where trimmif branches or require removal of roots create visual lights, and potential safety hazards in extreme weather and as san francisco is what of the destinations in the united states, to live and work and visit we want to make sure the leaders design laws. everything you have in front of you are fully within the s.e.c. order and prior regulation. i i want to be very clear on that. whatever other folks are telling you this is vetted and all the ideas are within the bounds. the very first thing i'm going

to ask you to do is there are different, as we learned, thank you, to bill barnes, actually, this is an easterly year ordinance governing all polls in the city and county of san francisco and we urge the board of supervisors to write a resolution requiring the public utilities commission and the municipal transportation authorities who have another polls to amend their contracts and standards to be consistent with those that we're requesting to be made. >> thank you. thank you for your work on this matter. next speaker, please. >> thank you so much. i'm going to continue with the talking points. ironically, on my phone. so option one is do not implement 190-19 until marc march 15th. the court of appeal will act between january 1st and

march 15th. if the court rules in our favor we don't have to implement this and we should vacate 1950-19. we respectly request that you wait to consider to implement 190-19 until after march 15th. if the court rules the f satisfy guard san franciscos and the beauty of san francisco. we need to make sure the ordinance has the possibility of being voided if the court of appeals rules against the fcc. it will be vacated if the federal court rules the local municipalities are not subject to the scc orders of september 2018 or the telecom act of 1996 or middle-class tax relief and job opportunities act of 2012. at that time, all personal wireless facilities slash small laws and regulation as prove the date relating to personal wireless facilities and cellular an ten as. if they're vacated, the planning

department, the department of environment and the health department, the department of public works shall add to the general plan ensuring the safety and well-being of all who live, work and visit san francisco. they should not be and to maximum towers for safety. they should be no closer than 1. they should be by directional and down the street. the towers are going up all over town and yet the new standards are not in place whom is approving these permits? will you commit to getting them to stop. telecom vendors must have liability insurance protecting the city. >> thank you for some of those very helpful commentses it relates to the litigation in march. >> good afternoon. i have a pitch here. it's with graphics here.

♪ do you hear about what i hear ♪ ♪ do you hear what i hear ♪ telecom soaring in the night ♪ remember don't give up the fight ♪ ♪ and make this item turnout right ♪ ♪ turnout right ♪ see the light. >> thank you. >> thank you. mr. wooding, please ex forward. >> >> good after, supervisors, coalition for san francisco neighborhoods and why rush to sell off san francisco. they have significantly over reached their authority and threatening san francisco sovereignty to keep up with

china's 5g program. more than a dozen u.s. cities are challenging federal regulators in court over a recent decision that gives telecom companies millions in financial and other breaks. as they race to built next generation wireless network powered by 5g mobile data. officials from los angeles, portland oregon, bell. >> interview: washington among others, asked the u.s. court of appeals of the ninth circuit court to review and rule change by the federal communications decision which restricts city's ability to charge. and this is what i really want to make is that you have a fiduciary responsibility to the city as well as the health. under the scc's new policy, telecom carrier seeking permits to install the network equipment on public infrastructure must

have their request reviewed more quickly by city officials. they are also regard to charge carriers 270 per year and access fees. before the new policy carriers would expect to say more than $500 annually. why rush to sell us san francisco. >> thank you, mr. speaker, please. >> >> thank you, my name is dr. thomas kouwenber cowen and d and worked in san francisco for 15 years. i don't know much about politics or ordinances. i don't know a lot about the health ramifications of wireless radiation. in 2000, a man named neil cherry analyzed the rate of childhood

cancer compared to the distance the children lived from sutro towers. the children who live within a mile of the tower have nine times the rates of cu lukemia, 5 times the rate of lymphoma, 31 times the rate of brain cancer, and 18 times the rate of total cancer as children who lived more than a mile from the towers. it will increase the disease rate in the population of san francisco. this includes heart disease, diabetes, cancer and a host of neurological diseases in children and adults including particularly the rate of. >> al: in san francisco. we are at a ross