we have >>supervisor aaron peskin: and >>supervisor london breed:. i would like to recognize leo daisies and from sfgovtv.org. they provide transcripts to the public. madam chair, would you like to make any announcements? >> yes, please silence all cell phones and any copies of your speech should be submitted to the clerk. >>> thank you, madam clerk. i have acknowledged all in today's meeting. please call item 1. >>clerk: hearing on existing building standards in seismic safety zones, including infill and waterfront neighborhoods; and requesting the department of building inspection to report . >>supervisor jane kim: thank you, this item is to continue to discuss the structural safety concerns at 301 mission street. will for clarification purposes, today's hearing is related to file no. 161299, a motion passed by the board to issue a subpoena for professor jack moiler. a structural engineer who designed the 301 mission as a third party in 2006. i understand that madam clerk. supervisor peskin would you like to make a comment. >>supervisor aaron peski

we have >>supervisor aaron peskin: and >>supervisor london breed:. i would like to recognize leo daisies and from sfgovtv.org. they provide transcripts to the public. madam chair, would you like to make any announcements? >> yes, please silence all cell phones and any copies of your speech should be submitted to the clerk. >>> thank you, madam clerk. i have acknowledged all in today's meeting. please call item 1. >>clerk: hearing on existing building standards in seismic safety zones, including infill and waterfront neighborhoods; and requesting the department of building inspection to report . >>supervisor jane kim: thank you, this item is to continue to discuss the structural safety concerns at 301 mission street. will for clarification purposes, today's hearing is related to file no. 161299, a motion passed by the board to issue a subpoena for professor jack moiler. a structural engineer who designed the 301 mission as a third party in 2006. i understand that madam clerk. supervisor peskin would you like to make a comment. >>supervisor aaron peski

we have >>supervisor aaron peskin: and >>supervisor london breed:. i would like to recognize leo daisies and from sfgovtv.org. they provide transcripts to the public. madam chair, would you like to make any announcements? >> yes, please silence all cell phones and any copies of your speech should be submitted to the clerk. >>> thank you, madam clerk. i have acknowledged all in today's meeting. please call item 1. >>clerk: hearing on existing building standards in seismic safety zones, including infill and waterfront neighborhoods; and requesting the department of building inspection to report . >>supervisor jane kim: thank you, this item is to continue to discuss the structural safety concerns at 301 mission street. will for clarification purposes, today's hearing is related to file no. 161299, a motion passed by the board to issue a subpoena for professor jack moiler. a structural engineer who designed the 301 mission as a third party in 2006. i understand that madam clerk. supervisor peskin would you like to make a comment. >>supervisor aaron peski

make the newspapers all four intrshgsz as well as director hui were singled out by supervisor aaron peskin and were presented with the certificate of commendation for their outstanding business and we sing their praise and so thank you guys and thanks to the board of supervisors and particularly supervisor peskin for recognizing them and didn't happen often enough but thank you a big thanks to dbi staff that answered questions for the professional services during the weekends of annual chinese new year's and jimmy chung as building inspector housing inspection technology services and the fire department (calling names) were at the dbi booth on sunday and were there on saturday and sunday as well as director hui this is the year of the fire rooster and people born in the chinese sign for hard working and observant and we admire those in the dbi staffers thank you and thank you to the builder inspector thanking our colleague for the timely friendly attitude and coordination and housing inspector dennis got a thank you letter for helping families to get heat in their building that had problem

. >> reporter: supervisor aaron peskins it's not what was in the letter that was the problem. he reviewed another high-rise project on tacoma and it was scrapped, considered too dangerous to build. >> he knew that there would be dewatering next door and didn't mention anything about it in his letter. he knew that there had been no geotechnical peer review but doesn't mention it in his letter. you would think that a professional like this would at least cover their behind a little bit. >> reporter: peskin questioned why he did not push the planning department for a geotechnical review. >> it really wasn't my place to demand that there be one. you know, i was hired under a specific scope and was operating under that scope. >> my biggest concern is an earthquake. >> reporter: pat dawson, who lives in the tower, confronted them asking why her home was built on soil instead of bed rock. >> he didn't take the opportunities. >> reporter: peskin calls this a systemic failure. the next step, finding a way to fix the building. elissa harrington, abc7 news. >>> we're learning new details

we have >>supervisor aaron peskin: and >>supervisor london breed:. would like to recognize leo daisies and from sfgovtv.org. they provide transcripts to the public. madam chair, would you like to make any announcements? >> yes, please silence all cell phones and any copies of your speech should be submitted to the clerk. >>> thank you, madam clerk. i have acknowledged all in today's meeting. please call item 1. >>clerk: hearing on existing building standards in seismic safety zones, including infill and waterfront neighborhoods; and requesting the department of building inspection to report . >>supervisor jane kim: thank you, this item is to continue to discuss the structural safety concerns at 301 mission street. will for clarification purposes, today's hearing is related to file no. 161299, a motion passed by the board to issue a subpoena for professor jack moiler. a structural engineer who designed the 301 mission as a third party in 2006. i understand that madam clerk. supervisor peskin would you like to make a comment. >>supervisor aaron peskin:

>>supervisor aaron peskin: thank you madam chair, supervisor breed. i'm more disturbed about this process. this field is really not that long and i'm not picking on professor maile. i know the department of building inspection is trying to right this and we will have the contract with the peer reviewers, we will do the scope of work, but the way it's gone on with the developer being in charge of the peer reviewer, here we have peer review light. why the department insisted on half a loaf is disturbing to me and why they write on a letter that it complies with your code but he tells me he did not make any representations as to the geotechnical conditions. it kind of makes a mockery out of what peer review is supposed to be which is a third set of eyes on top of the developers eyes and the structural engineer and the director's eyes. this is a third set of eyes, it looks like an mediocre process that clearly did not do on 301 mission street what it was designed to do which is to perform. with all due respect, professor maile, concrete is your specialty,

on november 8, 2016, and declared elected to that office district one suzy loftus, district 3 aaron peskin and 5 supervisor president london breed and district 11 congratulations to the members. >> (clapping.) >> and finally the controllers has communicated to the board his renewing er filing the official shutter bond for newly appointed and appoint members of the board madam president that concludes any communications. >> i tomato acknowledge we're joined by forming willie brown, jr. >> (clapping.) >> we - we also have in the audience my former colleagues supervisor mar district one and - >> (clapping.) >> and supervisor campos district 9. >> (clapping.) >> i also like to acknowledge and if you could hold our applause we're joined by city attorney dennis herrera and our treasurer jose cisneros and our assessor carmen chu and the district attorney district attorney george gascon and sheriff hennessey thank you all for being here. >> (clapping.) >> and i also know that we were joined by the former supervisor and former state senator mark leno who is highland in the crowd. >> (clapping.) >>

contribution to certain politicians jane kim putting forward this - i appreciate that supervisor aaron peskin that trying to get the developers out of politics and trying to say that developers shouldn't be donating to the campaigns we need a take the politics out of development and not case by case decisions a lot of people spoke about the multiple years that took to hammer out this negotiation that is 7, 8, 9 wasted that is time lost we're in a housing crisis the rules needs to be the rules if you follow the rules we get your permit awhile i think this housing desperately needs to be built and don't have time to draft this and renegotiate we need to make that process faster and fairer and not have cast a shadow on projects like this they have to make dpoopgsz to get the projects introduce the process if we have a fair and equitable system housing that is so desperately needed get built we need to follow our own rules thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm sonya i support this project and look forward to it pga i'm here i did one of the original versions don't see why w

according to "the examiner," london breed and aaron peskin want to know why the agency hasn't spent the half billion dollar bond. at the time, muni said it urgently needed the money. as of today, only 2% of that money has actually been spent. muni acknowledged a lag in the spending but it says several projects are in the works. the supervisors want to call a special hearing now to get to the bottom of that issue. >>> this morning, some deja vu in the senate, another all-nighter for democrats trying to sway a confirmation vote, this time against the president's pick for attorney general, jeff sessions. i want to show you a live look here at the senate floor. you can still see some people there, no one speaking at this very moment, but much like what we saw yesterday, this is just slowing things down, likely won't change the outcome. democrats are concerned sessions faced past allegations of racism. the sessions vote will happen this evening. it's expected to go through. i'll keep an eye on things there this morning. reggie, natasha, back to you. >>> senator elizabeth warren is banned fro

>>supervisor aaron peskin: thank you, you took the words out of my mouth. this is an outmoded way of doing exempt bond. we don't do them anymore. there are only two in san francisco especially with the south beach marina apartment issues. it's down to this building and the fillmore center, and what supervisor kim said is just right. this is the only instance where the owner is not being cooperative and i want to again thank olson lee and his staff and his previous staff, sophie hayward who have been willing to put our money where our mouth is, maybe not as much as equity would like. i mean, it's just horrible that at the dawn of the 21st century we are looking at a scene out of a charles dickens novel a hundred or more years ago. we are better than that, sequoia is better than, mr. carter is better than that, ms. mccheery is better than that. quite frankly while there is no disagreement as mr. mcdonnell, counsel for the owner says about the rights, there is something that i have to say for the record and that is relative to the investment in so far as 80% o

on november 8, 2016, and declared elected to that office district one suzy loftus, district 3 aaron peskin and 5 supervisor president london breed and district 11 congratulations to the members. >> (clapping.) >> and finally the controllers has communicated to the board his renewing er filing the official shutter bond for newly appointed and appoint members of the board madam president that concludes any communications. >> i tomato acknowledge we're joined by forming willie brown, jr. >> (clapping.) >> we - we also have in the audience my former colleagues supervisor mar district one and - >> (clapping.) >> and supervisor campos district 9. >> (clapping.) >> i also like to acknowledge and if you could hold our applause we're joined by city attorney dennis herrera and our treasurer jose cisneros and our assessor carmen chu and the district attorney district attorney george gascon and sheriff hennessey thank you all for being here. >> (clapping.) >> and i also know that we were joined by the former supervisor and former state senator mark leno who is highland in the crowd. >> (clapping.) >>

on november 8, 2016, and declared elected to that office district one suzy loftus, district 3 aaron peskinnd 5 supervisor president london breed and district 11 congratulations to the members. >> (clapping.) >> and finally the controllers has communicated to the board his renewing er filing the official shutter bond for newly appointed and appoint members of the board madam president that concludes any communications. >> i tomato acknowledge we're joined by forming willie brown, jr. >> (clapping.) >> we - we also have in the audience my former colleagues supervisor mar district one and - >> (clapping.) >> and supervisor campos district 9. >> (clapping.) >> i also like to acknowledge and if you could hold our applause we're joined by city attorney dennis herrera and our treasurer jose cisneros and our assessor carmen chu and the district attorney district attorney george gascon and sheriff hennessey thank you all for being here. >> (clapping.) >> and i also know that we were joined by the former supervisor and former state senator mark leno who is highland in the crowd. >> (clapping.) >> an

>>supervisor aaron peskin: thank you madam chair, supervisor breed. i'm more disturbed about this process. this field is really not that long and i'm not picking on professor maile. i know the department of building inspection is trying to right this and we will have the contract with the peer reviewers, we will do the scope of work, but the way it's gone on with the developer being in charge of the peer reviewer, here we have peer review light. why the department insisted on half a loaf is disturbing to me and why they write on a letter that it complies with your code but he tells me he did not make any representations as to the geotechnical conditions. it kind of makes a mockery out of what peer review is supposed to be which is a third set of eyes on top of the developers eyes and the structural engineer and the director's eyes. this is a third set of eyes, it looks like an mediocre process that clearly did not do on 301 mission street what it was designed to do which is to perform. with all due respect, professor maile, concrete is your specialty,

aaron peskin the phase two of the reorganization planning focusing an article 7 i want it explain why the department started this so the planning code is a large and complicates document some of that complexity is necessary a dime city and with the san francisco's values and aspirations we're a city of neighborhoods and preserve the identity for the land use control we expect the planning code to be complex, however, a part a code over the years without much thought for over will you explain control not often easy to find the controls and some controls get lost because of complexity that makes that difficult for planners but confusing for the public so i have i've a visual that hoping will illustrate i don't know if mr. moore i think this is the planning code from 1948 27 pages long 4 of the pages are techs for the planning code the other 23 have the land use map that is pretty short then go into the 70's and we have a planning code from 1979 the code is quite a bit long and complicated but 200 and 14 pages and then finally we have today's planning code 3 volumes with 13 hundred pages

my name is jane kim, and to my left is -- i'm sorry to my right is supervisor aaron peskin and to my left is supervisor president london breed and i want to thank our committee - i would like to thank our committee's clerk, erica major and also recognize the staff of sfgovtv, charles kremenak who make our meetings available online, as well as transcript. madam clerk, any announcements. >> please silence all cell phones. >> thank you, madam clerk and can you please call the first item. >> item no. 1 is ordinance amending the environment code to adjust the incentive in the solar energy incentive program. >> the author of this item is president london breed, if you would like to make opening comments. >> yes, thank you i know we have laurie mitchell here who will be making a presentation shortly, but i just wanted to make a few comments about your go solar program in the city. we're making a few technical amendments to this program today. despite the fact that other utilities around the state are ramping down their incentive like the city of palo alto and silicon valley, for example, i'

. >> reporter: that supervisor, aaron peskin, arguing about the role that the engineer played when herote a letter approving the foundation in january 2006. today, peskin pressed nailer why he would write that letter when he knew there was not a review of the soil under the foundation. >> why would you do that? >> the foundation is client with the requirements of the code. and i'm not saying the foundation design has been reviewed by me and that i have determined that the foundation is going to work and et cetera. it doesn't say that. i'm not qualified to do that. >> reporter: outside the hearing, peskin told us that no matter what he says now the letter he wrote is proof he supported what turned out to be a faulty foundation. >> the city relied on him. he is basically saying you should not have relied on me, that is what we heard today. so yeah, it's more than frustrating it's just embarrassing. >> nbc bay area news. >>> well, the governor takes on the president. former governor schwarzenegger's quick response to president trump's criticism of the celebrity apprentice. the national p

supervisor aaron peskin believes the text containing a nazi term was concerning him.have the story. >> reporter: a picture of the text sent tuesday. you see the word gestapo in the text. referring to failed legislation by a jewish-american. peskin says he takes it personally and is demanding an apology. >> when the mayor is talking about a jewish-american person and using nazi terms, it -- it chills me to my core. >> reporter: the peskin-backed legislation that triggered this would have made witnesses testifying before the government audit to remain under oath. perjury could result in punishment. what we got was a statement from mayor lee's spokesperson deidre hussy when read in part, mayor lee apologizes for inappropriately and insensitively using the word gestapo to describe supervisor peskin's failed legislation. it goes on to talk about the concerns the mayor has with that particular legislation calling it mccarthiesque and stating that the mayor reached out to jewish and faith communities to apologize for the inappropriate word. peskin says he's tried to reach th

san francisco mayor lee is being called out by supervisor aaron peskin.kin believes the text was aimed at him and says it is out of line. now he wants an apology. abc is in san francisco with more on that text. kim? >> reporter: jess, in a private group text, mayor ed lee uses the term gestapo in describing legislation pes cosupported. today the mayor is learning a valuable lesson that nothing is private when it comes to text messages. this is a picture of the text sent by at aide to mayor ed leon tuesday. you can see his one-word response gestapo in the text. the word referring to failed legislation from supervisor aaron pesk kin, a jewish american and he says takes it very personally and is demanding an apology. >> when the mayor is talking about a jewish american person and using nazi terms, it chills me to my core. >> reporter: the peskin-backed legislation that triggered all this would have made witnesses testifying before the government audit and oversight committee to be under oath. perjury could result in punishment. today we tried to talk to the

we have >>supervisor aaron peskin: and >>supervisor london breed:. i would like to recognize leo daisies and from sfgovtv.org. they provide transcripts to the public. madam chair, would you like to make any announcements? >> yes, please silence all cell phones and any copies of your speech should be submitted to the clerk. >>> thank you, madam clerk. i have acknowledged all in today's meeting. please call item 1. >>clerk: hearing on existing building standards in seismic safety zones, including infill and waterfront neighborhoods; and requesting the department of building inspection to report . >>supervisor jane kim: thank you, this item is to continue to discuss the structural safety concerns at 301 mission street. will for clarification purposes, today's hearing is related to file no. 161299, a motion passed by the board to issue a subpoena for professor jack moiler. a structural engineer who designed the 301 mission as a third party in 2006. i understand that madam clerk. supervisor peskin would you like to make a comment. >>supervisor aaron peski

now, according to "the examiner," london breed and aaron peskin want to know why the agency hasn't spent0 million bond. muni said it urgently needed that money for repairs and upgrades. as of today, only 2% of that money has been spent. muni acknowledged the lag in spending, but it says several projects are in the works. the supervisors want to call a special hearing to get to the bottom of this issue. >>> and it just keeps going and going. senate democrats pulling another all-nighter trying to sway a confirmation vote on the president's pick for attorney general, jeff sessions. and much like what we saw yesterday, this is just slowing things down. likely won't change the outcome and a look here at the senate floor, live look from washington, d.c.. democrats concerned with the sessions nomination because of past allegations of racism against him, although he's expected to be confirmed with no problem in the senate controlled republican controlled senate, i should say. so, again, they continues to give those speeches in opposition to sessions. the vote, though, will only happen sometime t

my name is jane kim, and to my left is -- i'm sorry to my right is supervisor aaron peskin and to my left is supervisor president london breed and i want to thank our committee - i would like to thank our committee's clerk, erica major and also recognize the staff of

supervisor aaron peskin and residents criticized the professor yesterday for not sounding the alarm earlyh. >> he knew that there would be dewatering next door and didn't mention anything about it in his letter. he knew there had been no geotechnical peer review but didn't mention it in the letter. >> the other things that the board of supervisors thinks i should be looking at were not in my scope. >> he says he does scapegoated by the accusations. he said he did his job on the review completely which was to look at the tower's reinforced concrete structure. >>> only on abc7 news, the amazing recovery of a san francisco police officer. he enarrowly escaped death in the line of duty and his story will inspire you. officer kevin downs was shot in the head responding to a 911 call back in october. the 25-year-old was rushed to san francisco general hospital where he spent six days in intensive care. now his doctor said that the bullet narrowly missed a major artery in his brain, just by a centimeter, the diameter of a fingertip. >> definitely was someone with a greater power watching me that

this is the regular meeting for today tuesday, january 24, 2017, i'm the chair of the authority aaron peskin our clerk is mr. steve stamos call the roll. >> roll call commissioner breed commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissioner kim commissioner kim? present commissioner peskin commissioner ronen commissioner safai commissioner sheehy >> commissioner tang commissioner yee. >> we have quorum thank you. can you, please read the next item. >> chair's report an informational item. >> good morning. thank you again for your support in helping to guide this body 0 through it's next big chapter the transportation authority i think you will all of you know and the new members will learn the steering mechanism for san francisco mechanism and growth strategies with our input and guidance we'll make smart investment for the bold plan with our city and region in 2015 we should with the san francisco municipal transportation agency and association of the bay area government to update the plan bay area with the blueprint one plus 3 seven hundred thousand jobs and housing betwee

my name is jane kim, and to my left is -- i'm sorry to my right is supervisor aaron peskin and to myvisor president london breed and i want to thank our committee - i would like to thank our committee's clerk, erica major and also recognize the staff of sfgovtv, charles kremenak who make our meetings available online, as well as transcript. madam clerk, any announcements. >> please silence all cell phones. >> thank you, madam clerk and can you please call the first item. >> item no. 1 is ordinance amending the environment code to adjust the incentive in the solar energy incentive program. >> the author of this item is president london breed, if you would like to make opening comments. >> yes, thank you i know we have laurie mitchell here who will be making a presentation shortly, but i just wanted to make a few comments about your go solar program in the city. we're making a few technical amendments to this program today. despite the fact that other utilities around the state are ramping down their incentive like the city of palo alto and silicon valley, for example, i'm happy to see

this is the regular meeting for today tuesday, january 24, 2017, i'm the chair of the authority aaron peskin our clerk is mr. steve stamos call the roll. >> roll call commissioner breed commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissioner kim commissioner kim? present commissioner peskin commissioner ronen commissioner safai commissioner sheehy >> commissioner tang commissioner yee. >> we have quorum thank you. can you, please read the next item. >> chair's report an informational item. >> good morning. thank you again for your support in helping to guide this body 0 through it's next big chapter the transportation authority i think you will all of you know and the new members will learn the steering mechanism for san francisco mechanism and growth strategies with our input and guidance we'll make smart investment for the bold plan with our city and region in 2015 we should with the san francisco municipal transportation agency and association of the bay area government to update the plan bay area with the blueprint one plus 3 seven hundred thousand jobs and housing betwee

to a multimillion dollar question involving muni according to "the examiner," london breed and aaron peskint to know why the agency hasn't spend the half billion dollar bond that voters approved more than two years ago. at that time, muni said it urgently needed that money for repairs and upgrades. as of today, only 2% of that money has even been spent. muni acknowledges a lag in the spending but it says several pronts are in the works. the supervisors are now wanting to call a special hearing to get to the bottom of that issue. >>> the senate is expected to vote as soon as tonight to confirm alabama senator jeff sessions as attorney general. his nomination cleared a procedural hurdle yesterday. none of the 52 senate republicans have said they will vote against him. the democrats have criticized him over his background on civil rights and stances on voter access and immigration. they took to the floor yesterday to reiterate their strong opposition. >>> one senator who won't be debating, senator elizabeth warren. she is banned from taking part in any discussion after being silence ld by majo

. >> a motion to appoint supervisor aaron peskin to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation board of directors for a 2 year term. >> a motion to excuse supervisor peskin moved by - without objection supervisor cowen is excused on the item madam clerk madam clerk, please call the roll. >> supervisor fewer supervisor kim supervisor ronen supervisor safai supervisor sheehy supervisor tang supervisor yee supervisor breed supervisor cohen supervisor farrell there are 10 i's. >> the motion it approved unanimously next item. >> a motion to appoint scomplooepd to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board of directors for a 2 year term. >> is there a motion to excuse supervisor president london breed without objection supervisor breed is excused roll call. >> supervisor fewer supervisor kim supervisor peskin supervisor ronen supervisor safai supervisor sheehy supervisor tang supervisor yee supervisor cohen supervisor farrell there are 10 i's. >> motion is adopted. >> item 22 mr. chair. >> implementing a motion to appoint jeff sheehy to the golden gate bridge hi

. >> a motion to appoint supervisor aaron peskin to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation board of directors for a 2 year term. >> a motion to excuse supervisor peskin moved by - without objection supervisor cowen is excused on the item madam clerk madam clerk, please call the roll. >> supervisor fewer supervisor kim supervisor ronen supervisor safai supervisor sheehy supervisor tang supervisor yee supervisor breed supervisor cohen supervisor farrell there are 10 i's. >> the motion it approved unanimously next item. >> a motion to appoint scomplooepd to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board of directors for a 2 year term. >> is there a motion to excuse supervisor president london breed without objection supervisor breed is excused roll call. >> supervisor fewer supervisor kim supervisor peskin supervisor ronen supervisor safai supervisor sheehy supervisor tang supervisor yee supervisor cohen supervisor farrell there are 10 i's. >> motion is adopted. >> item 22 mr. chair. >> implementing a motion to appoint jeff sheehy to the golden gate bridge hi

contribution to certain politicians jane kim putting forward this - i appreciate that supervisor aaron peskin that trying to get the developers out of politics and trying to say that developers shouldn't be donating to the campaigns we need a take the politics out of development and not case by case decisions a lot of people spoke about the multiple years that took to hammer out this negotiation that is 7, 8, 9 wasted that is time lost we're in a housing crisis the rules needs to be the rules if you follow the rules we get your permit awhile i think this housing desperately needs to be built and don't have time to draft this and renegotiate we need to make that process faster and fairer and not have cast a shadow on projects like this they have to make dpoopgsz to get the projects introduce the process if we have a fair and equitable system housing that is so desperately needed get built we need to follow our own rules thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm sonya i support this project and look forward to it pga i'm here i did one of the original versions don't see why w

contribution to certain politicians jane kim putting forward this - i appreciate that supervisor aaron peskin that trying to get the developers out of politics and trying to say that developers shouldn't be donating to the campaigns we need a take the politics out of development and not case by case decisions a lot of people spoke about the multiple years that took to hammer out this negotiation that is 7, 8, 9 wasted that is time lost we're in a housing crisis the rules needs to be the rules if you follow the rules we get your permit awhile i think this housing desperately needs to be built and don't have time to draft this and renegotiate we need to make that process faster and fairer and not have cast a shadow on projects like this they have to make dpoopgsz to get the projects introduce the process if we have a fair and equitable system housing that is so desperately needed get built we need to follow our own rules thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm sonya i support this project and look forward to it pga i'm here i did one of the original versions don't see why w

my name is jane kim, and to my left is -- i'm sorry to my right is supervisor aaron peskin and to my left is supervisor president london breed and i want to thank our committee - i would like to thank our committee's clerk, erica major and also recognize the staff of sfgovtv, charles kremenak who make our meetings available online, as well as transcript. madam clerk, any announcements. >> please silence all cell phones. >> thank you, madam clerk and can you please call the first item. >> item no. 1 is ordinance amending the environment code to adjust the incentive in the solar energy incentive program. >> the author of this item is president london breed, if you would like to make opening comments. >> yes, thank you i know we have laurie mitchell here who will be making a presentation shortly, but i just wanted to make a few comments about your go solar program in the city. we're making a few technical amendments to this program today. despite the fact that other utilities around the state are ramping down their incentive like the city of palo alto and silicon valley, for example, i'

i will be chairing this committee and joined by the vice chair aaron peskin as well as supervisor katytang. i want to thank sfgtv for covering today's meeting as well as the clerk of our meeting alisa somera. madam clerk do we have any announcements. >> yes. please silence all cell phones and electronic devices and electronic devices. all documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the submitted to the clerk and on the february 28 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> already. madam clerk will you call item 1. >> >> womb one is the environment at code for green building requirements for municipal builds and findings. >> okay. we have staff here from the department to speak on this item. >> good afternoon. thank you chair farrell and members of the land use and transportation committee for hearing this item. we're ready for the over heads for the presentation. okay. what you have before you are amendments to chapter seven of the environment code. now this

he is, and aaron peskin welcome back.hank you all so much for being here and we are also joined by the former clerk gloria young, thank you so much. before we get started i would like to take a moment of silence to acknowledge the folks who have worked through this chamber, who are no longer with us today. something that we agree on is that people love coming to san francisco, settlers and immigrants began arriving after the first independent homestead was erected near what is today is known as port mouth square in 1843. the town was growing very quickly, and was renamed san francisco on january 30th 1847. the california gold rush increased our population over night, from 1,000 people in 1848, to 25,000 by december 1849. in february of 1849, the citizens of what was known as the district of san francisco erected a legislative assembly. which they empowered to make laws not in conflict with the constitution of the united states nor the common laws thereof. today, is about recognizing the legislative chamber and all of the

>>supervisor aaron peskin: yes, i would like to say i really appreciate those who are here on the board as i said the other day in some film that i prefer to enter the arena with honey, but if you are going to enter with vinegar, you should get the large bottle out. i hope that we are able to enter this arena with honey and i understand that parts of sequoia equity's thinking in this that you don't have other properties in san francisco or you don't contemplate having them in san francisco, so you can be my words, not yours, reckless and unaccountable in your behavior because you have nothing to lose, how far that maybe true because that's how it's reported to me. let me say something about that which i am going to ask the city attorney if we can't come to some equitable resolution to explore doing precisely what we did in the millennium case which is bringing suit for failure to disclose to these individuals that their bmr units would go to market rate at some point and the fact that that is not according to my knowledge in any written instrument, i believe maybe, i'm not a lawyer, but

this is the regular meeting for today tuesday, january 24, 2017, i'm the chair of the authority aaron peskinlerk is mr. steve stamos call the roll. >> roll call commissioner breed commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissioner kim commissioner kim? present commissioner peskin commissioner ronen commissioner safai commissioner sheehy >> commissioner tang commissioner yee. >> we have quorum thank you. can you, please read the next item. >> chair's report an informational item. >> good morning. thank you again for your support in helping to guide this body 0 through it's next big chapter the transportation authority i think you will all of you know and the new members will learn the steering mechanism for san francisco mechanism and growth strategies with our input and guidance we'll make smart investment for the bold plan with our city and region in 2015 we should with the san francisco municipal transportation agency and association of the bay area government to update the plan bay area with the blueprint one plus 3 seven hundred thousand jobs and housing between now

this is the regular meeting for today tuesday, january 24, 2017, i'm the chair of the authority aaron peskine stamos call the roll. >> roll call commissioner breed commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissioner kim commissioner kim? present

please next item. >> item 20. >> a motion to appoint supervisor aaron peskin to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation board of directors for a 2 year term. >> a motion to excuse supervisor peskin moved by - without objection supervisor cowen is excused on the item madam clerk madam clerk, please call the roll. >> supervisor fewer supervisor kim supervisor ronen supervisor safai supervisor sheehy supervisor tang supervisor yee supervisor breed supervisor cohen supervisor farrell there are 10 i's. >> the motion it approved unanimously next item. >> a motion to appoint scomplooepd to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board of directors for a 2 year term. >> is there a motion to excuse supervisor president london breed without objection supervisor breed is excused roll call. >> supervisor fewer supervisor kim supervisor peskin supervisor ronen supervisor safai supervisor sheehy supervisor tang supervisor yee supervisor cohen supervisor farrell there are 10 i's. >> motion is adopted. >> item 22 mr. chair. >> implementing a motion to appoint jeff sheehy t

aaron peskin the phase two of the reorganization planning focusing an article 7 i want it explain why the department started this so the planning code is a large and complicates document some of that complexity is necessary a dime city and with the san francisco's values and aspirations we're a city of neighborhoods and preserve the identity for the land use control we expect the planning code to be complex, however, a part a code over the years without much thought for over will you explain control not often easy to find the controls and some controls get lost because of complexity that makes that difficult for planners but confusing for the public so i have i've a visual that hoping will illustrate i don't know if mr. moore i think this is the planning code from 1948 27 pages long 4 of the pages are techs for the planning code the other 23 have the land use map that is pretty short then go into the 70's and we have a planning code from 1979 the code is quite a bit long and complicated but 200 and 14 pages and then finally we have today's planning code 3 volumes with 13 hundred pages

this is the regular meeting for today tuesday, january 24, 2017, i'm the chair of the authority aaron peskin. steve stamos call the roll. >> roll call commissioner breed commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissioner kim commissioner kim? present commissioner peskin commissioner ronen commissioner safai commissioner sheehy >> commissioner tang commissioner yee. >> we have quorum thank you. can you, please read the next item. >> chair's report an informational item. >> good morning. thank you again for your support in helping to guide this body 0 through it's next big chapter the transportation authority i think you will all of you know and the new members will learn the steering mechanism for san francisco mechanism and growth strategies with our input and guidance we'll make smart investment for the bold plan with our city and region in 2015 we should with the san francisco municipal transportation agency and association of the bay area government to update the plan bay area with the blueprint one plus 3 seven hundred thousand jobs and housing between now and 2020 w