. >> thank you very much, chair kim. so, i just held a hearing on commercial store fronts and i think what you said, though, does not really answer the question about continue the affordability. so i think that as we start out with the intention of it being affordable, it's a state of where retail is today and also nonprotections for them, from landlords. and actually, increasing, i have many businesses in my district that have been there 34 years and the rents are being raised five times. and so they will have to go out of business and so i think we don't want to see this area as a revolving door of businesses, we wanted to see these businesses that actually serve the new residents since it is 40% affordable, below market rate housing so these residents can actually enjoy a continued operation of a business, and i think that president breed had a very good point. my question is, is that how have we collaborated with the san francisco unified school district to serve all the new residents, and i think this is a really im

chair, can we take a roll on this motion? >> yes. on the motion of appointing commissioner kim as chair and yee for vice chair.ll call] >> proved. >> thank you for your support of nominating and voting me in as chair of the treasure island mobility management agency. i look forward to serving with commissioner norman ye, e in 2018. >> item seven, public comment. >> thank you. commissioners, any new items that you would like to propose or comment on. seeing none, we'll open it up for public comments on both item six and general public comment item number seven. any members of the public like to speak on either items? seeing none, public comment is closed. mr. clerk, any other items before this body? >> no other items. >> meeting is adjourned. thank you, colleagues can. we'll see you in a few hour adjourned. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shop & dine in the 49 with within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 4

madam chair, supervisor kim. i'm ed snyder of department staff, and today i'm going to talk about the actual legislation that is before you, the planning code map and southbounding amendments. but before i do -- and supporting amendments. the over yaul land use program is in sync with surrounding districts, and it is appropriate citywide from a planning perspective. it has a broad range of mixed uses. it both has sizeable amounts of residential units and jobs, and this is particularly important of its location to regional transit, including the caltrain station and several of the muni lines. we worked with the giants and the port in looking at the urban form modelling arrangements with the city, both to aassure that that form creates a pleasing addition to the skyline, but more closely looking at the building massing and how it relates at the pedestrian scale that the heights and the bulk are well considered. a k -- at key street and open space locations. so back to the actual southbounding maps and planning code

. >> good afternoon, chair tang, supervisors kim, safai. my name is bruce, and i'm speaking in support of the items associated with the mission rock development. i'm involved in the community, serving on the board and transportation rep of the south beach, rin son hill neighborhood association, however, my public comment today is being provided specifically as a native san franciscan and a nine year resident of mission bay. over the past six years, i've had the opportunity, along with my neighbors, some for up to ten years being involved in the process fof the planning of the mission rock development. this included providing feedback on a variety of public documents and had numerous community outreach meetings and wosh shops. nod to current residents and local businesses, the developers of mission bay were also involved in the process. this is good for us as neighbors, our community and ci city. as i mentioned, this helped shape the project we see today, striking a delicate balance on the amount of parks, waterfront access, housing, neighbo

. >> good afternoon, chair kim, we reported specifically on the development and disposition agreement with the developer for today and we also in our report, i won't go into detail, covered the infrastructure financing plan and issuance of bonds which will be considered by the board sitting as a committee of the whole on tuesday. terms of the disposition and development agreement or d.d.a., board did endorse the initial terms of that agreement in 2013, as miss menicini said, the term is the return to the developer for their capital contribution to the project. under the original term sheet, 20%. under this d.d.a., it's 18%. but the developer does get more participation in project revenues and that is on page 19 of the report. in terms of sort of the project financing, public financing for the horizontal infrastructure, the developer under the d.d.a. will construct the infrastructure. funding sources are shown on page 14 of our report. the sources and uses are estimated to be about $700 million, that's in current dollar value. the developers and the project source, project revenue fina

after public comment, vice chair kim amended the ordinance to remove a provision that allowed hotels up to 300 rooms in location in which residential uses are permitted. this motion was unanimously approve. the committee then voted to recommend the item to the full board. at the full board this week, the inclusionary affordable housing programme amendments proposed by supervisor peskin received its first read in past and adopted the finding reduces the exemption for 2417 green street and that is all i have for you today. >> thank you. >> so, as far as i know there are no other items reported on the board of appeals and then regarding the historic preservation commission, they did host their elections and elected andrew wolfman to continue as president as well as aaron highland to continue as vice president. we'll move on to general public comment. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, exempt agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to addr

chair? breed aye. commissioner fewer aye. commissioner kim, kim aye. commissioner peskin. >> chair peskin: aye. >> clerk: commissioner ronen. ronen aye. commissioner safai, safai aye. commissioner tang. tang aye. commissioner yee. yee aye. motion is approved. >> chair peskin: all right. thank you again colleagues and with that, item number eight. >> clerk: item eight, update on the caltrain pennisula corridor electric -- electrification project. this is an information item. >> chair peskin: mr. hartnet thank you for your patience. and i want to thank ms. broussard for the meeting we had yesterday in my office. for those who don't know mr. hartnet, he is the general manager and ceo of the san mateo county cta as well as the chief officer of caltrain as well as the head of san trans. with that in his capacity as the head of caltrain. he is hear. welcome and thank you for coming to our chambers here in san francisco county. >> thank you mr. chair and commissioners. it is a pleasure to be here. we are happy to report on the status of our electrification pro

. >> thank you, madam chair, supervisor safai, supervisor kim. this is a very basic change to the building code which mr. strom here can speak to, but basically legislation would allow the department to engage third party experts for evaluating permits for complex projects. this grows out of discussions and hearings that we've had around the millennium tower issue. and bill, if you want to make a -- or mr. tom, if you want to make a quick presentation. i know my colleagues have been in this committee for hours and hours, the floor is yours if the chairs so like. >> thank you very much, supervisor and thank you for sponsoring this. i think you framed it very well. we're in the process, as i believe you know, of setting up through an rfq process, a pool of third party future tall building peer review experts, and that process actually is going to conclude at the end of this month. so having this cost recovery fee mechanism in place is very important for the department because it will then enable us to make sure we can issue the contracts and we wil

chair tang. committee members kim, safai, yee and stefani. thank you for including oewd about these informational items. we recently completed a study and our strategies for addressing store front and other commercial vacancies in our neighbourhood. today i'll be co-presenting with my colleague amy cohen and with our retail study consultant sarah graham strategic economics. our joint presentation will start with an overview of national retail trends and key findings from our recently completed can study by strategic economics and this information will them city department, policymakers and the public understand the restrictions that we're working within. the retail centre reviews current research and best practice which is will help inform and guide our policies and programmes so we may better support our store front businesses and neighbourhood shopping districts informed by the notable shifts in the national retail sector and local economy. amy and i will also share afterwards oewd's goals, strategies and considerations in support of vibran

kelly, and joined by chair supervisor kim. any questions at all? great. i want to say thank you, i know that i came into this not really knowing much about it, and i think that we have come a really long way from our first drawings and i think it gives more coverage and looked to the continuance of two parallel pipelines again in my district and actually, that would give it a loop, and then actually the extension to connect it to the existing awss pipeline. so, i would now like to call public comments and i have three speaker cards. eileen brooker, tom dudier, and ace on the case. every speaker has two minutes. thank you. >> eileen broker, i'm reading a speech prepared by nancy wilfull, unable to read. a hearing on the status of the city's emergency water supply system since 2010, my opinion is that the sfpuc has wasted valuable time but not formulating an overall plan to expand the awss system into the city's western and southern neighborhoods. first january report of firefighting options does not include proposal to build a coast side pump station to dr

thank you, supervisor kim, madam chair. we're really happy to be here with you today. we wanted to just touch on some of the design aspects that make mission rock so unique within the city of san francisco. jack mentioned the views that we have from the grand park to the center square, and what we've done with our design team, including urban planners, transportation experts, landscape architects is to make sure that the streets and the buildings themselves actually help to enhance the design of those parks. each of our streets will have a slightly different feel, depending on the location within mission rock and particularly at the ground floor. we spent a lot of time looking at the ground floor design, and it was really enlightening to listen to the discussion that preceded around retail because we -- [ inaudible ] we commissioned a neighborhood study that actually went and looked at the best of streets in san francisco and all of the great main streets of neighborhoods in the city

and we're joined by new vice chair supervisor jane kim. welcome. welcome back. and, of course, returning member ahsha safai. our clerk is victor young. and thank you to s.f.gov tv. any announcements? >> yes. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. i would like to note that we currently have a quorum of the board constituting a quorum. >> i forgot to mention, we're joined by fewer, yee, stefani as well. i'm going to ask you to call item three out of order because we need to make some amendments. item three, please. >> item number tlaoe. ordinance amending the planning doed accomplish the gear ri-masonic special use district in the area generally bounded by the geary boulevard to the south, masonic avenue to the east and assessor's parcel block numbers 1071, lots numbers 1 and to the north and west. >> thank you. supervisor stefani, the new sponsor of this item. >> thank you, chair tang. colleagues, thank you for hearing this i

talks.he extended the invitation through his sister, kim yo jong...who is visiting south korea for the olympic games. sot jung pak korea studies chair, brookings institution "this is a big deal. north korea under kim jong un who came to power in december of 2011, has been fortress north korea. so the fact that kim has invitedpresident moon of south korea to visit north korea is a big deal. especially since kim has yet to meet a foreign head of state." this would be the first meeting between north and south korean leaders in more than 10 years.a senior research fellow at the korean peninsula future forum says the invitation is north korea's way of trying to gain the upper hand. sot duyeon kim, visiting sr. research fellow, korean peninsula future forum"this is also kim jong's ploy to try and pull south korea further away from the u.s."saturday's invitation was extended during a meeting between the two countries at seoul's presidential palace. vice president mike pence stated on his flight back home from south korea, after leading the u-s- olympic delegation, that he'svery confident the united states and south korea are going to conti

kim absent. commissioner peskin. >> chair peskin: present. >> clerk: commissioner ronen, present. commissioner safai. present. commissioner sheehy present. tang present. we have quorum. >> chair peskin: all right. could you, please, read the consent agenda and then we'll take public comment on the minutes. >> clerk: items two to three compromise the consent agenda. item three was approved at december 12th board meeting and considered for final approval. staff is not planning to present, but presenting if desired. if a member objects, any items can be removed and considered separately. >> chair peskin: is there anyp on item two, the minutes of december 2017 meeting, mr. rice? >> public: yeah. i want to point out and explain part problem is transportation roads are deteriorating. next time you talk to caltrans, charge them. they spend billions of dollars tearing down the bay bridge when all it needed was renovation -- >> chair peskin: mr. rice, there will be an opportunity for general public comment. this is just public comment on the minutes of december 12, 2017. >> public: all rig

>> so, may i -- >> sure. >> in my conversations with supervisor kim, it is expected to be resolved in the next day or so. >> ok. so chair, then i would respectfully dw q that this be continued to the meezing of february 15 in hopes and we will continue to speak with the sponsors and in all likelihood since you haven't spoken to the other sponsor of this initiative that it might be resolved within a couple of days and, therefore, even though we schedule it, it might not be heard. >> what i'm trying to communicate to you is i'm not scheduling it on february 15. >> oh, you will not. >> i'm not going to be scheduling it. so, the opportunity is either we pass it out and move it forward today or we hold it back until march 1. >> so, supervisor yee, i will defer to you. or i see that also supervisor stefani, do you -- >> hold on. catherine stefani is a member of this body so we'll hear from her. >> if we were to continue it to next week with the understanding that if it were resolved purchase saounltz to the elections department determining whether or not there is enough signatures, would there be a commitment on behalf of the

. >> supervisor kim: thank you supervisor fewer through the chair. and i want to acknowledge supervisor fewer's work, since 2009 or '10, she has been advocating for a school in mission bay and last year was the sole voice on the board of education to push for dedicated funds for mission bay schools and the bond and i appreciate you being the voice, even though you don't represent our district, last year in those discussions and making sure we got on to the bond and i want to thank the giants for agreeing to committing and supporting the study process moving forward. supervisor peskin was joking next to me it was only one night, it was more than one night, it took a lot over one night. so i don't see any other comments from colleagues, so through the chair, if we can open up for public comment. >> i'm going to say something quickly. if you look at the timeline properly, supervisor, this is your culmination of two terms on the board of supervisors. this started in 2010, conversation culminated with the famous evening of negotiations, i think i saw you

thank you, kim, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, chair, safai. i want to be clear. there's three pending measures on childcare before the board and voters. nor the signature or the ordinance that would six votes the board have any type of poison pill measure on any other type of gross receipts for childcare measure. what is in the measure supervisor safai's referring to and the one with the 18,500 signatures say type of poison pill but specifically says, if you read the language if another measure of a similar subject matter passes than our measure wins. that would mean if there's a competing childcare measure on the ballot and we got more votes than that childcare measure, our measure would win but it does not provide a poison pill on this measure which say different subject matter that has to do with affordable housing. i think it's great to say people will be running a positive campaign but when you're running a positive campaign for a measure, it explicitly has language that kills another measure, you have to run a negative campaign because of the language in th