on behalf of the san francisco s.r.o. hotel coalition, and numerous other individual owners of s.r.o.s. we felt -- we filed a law a letter which you have before you today, we are here to object to number 2 on the proposed amendments on a number of grounds which have been discussed at length before. procedurally, the city has failed to give notice as required by law. the planning commission still does not meet the recommendation and there's a hearing on the merit and the litigation this friday so the question why this is being rushed through at the last minute right before that hearing. proper environmental review has not been done. instead of completing an initial study, the planning department has written itself a memo and instead of completing an e.i.r., the city his relying on negative declarations from the 1980s. one of the negative declarations is older than i am and i say the circumstances have changed dramatically in my lifetime. even if things haven't changed, none of those negative declarations reviewed the poten

san francisco is the worse of the country. it's like if we have a problem or complaint about an s.r.o., where do we go? we have nothing.t's just -- i think this is the wrong way to go because we need something else to monitor this. >> supervisor peskin: thank you sir. seeing no other members of the public for public comment, public comment is closed. the answer to the last speaker's question is the housing division of the department of building inspection is where you go. colleagues, do we have -- let me take a step back. you want to remind as you said earlier, this legislation was actually introduced in november of 2016 and signed by mayor lee in february of 2017 and has been on the books since subject to litigation since then and with that, colleagues, is there a motion? >> motion to approve the item as amended? >> supervisor peskin: motion to send the item with positive recommendation. we amended it at the last hearing. it need no further amendment. that will be the order. next item please. [agenda item read] >> supervisor peskin: okay. this resolution of intention was set forth on our last calendar and the author s

s.r.o. units. many owners refused to rent their units to seniors. our members cannot stand eviction pressure and will move out of san francisco. she neither can afford the rent here nor senior housing for her to apply. guess where she moved now? san mateo where she doesn't have a single friend. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: what contributed to society when we were young, but now we had -- without economics it prosperity, seniors don't have a place to stay. we hope the city can care for the needs of low income, senior and allocate more resources to develop more housing so we can stay in our home. >> thank you. before the next speaker, i want to say that i have to go to the bond committee meeting at this point, and i really apologize that i can't hear everyone from the public who provides testimony. i also apologize to my colleagues on the committee that i have to leave, and hopefully you will continue listening to the important messages of the public. i heard your messages today, i've been hearing it for a long time now, and what you are saying is something that i fully support in terms of we need to more