aaron starr, manager of legislative affairs on behalf of the planning department. the proposed modifications are, one, to retain the original height and bulk districts for eligible parcels, two, to remove the term habitable and replace it with clarifying language and three, clarify that surface parking lot eligible for 100% affordable housing projects may be permitted or unpermitted lots. that concludes my presentation but i'm happy to answer questions. >> thank you so much, and i do support these amendments and also understand the importance of permitted and unpermitted as a number of these parking lots are not necessarily permitted. so that distinction, i think, was very important to include. i have no further questions comments or questions on this item, so madam chair, if we can open this up for public comment. >> supervisor tang: thank you. any members of the public wishes to speak on item five, please come up. >> good afternoon, members of committee. peter smith to support the legislation. as the need for affordable housing gets more acute, a lot of us in the

aaron starr from the planning department and get their feelings on this. >> thank you, supervisor. planning commission heard this last week on july 26. during the hearing, some new information was revealed about a bulb out along 19th avenue. the staff's recommendation was to approve the ordinance with a modification to not remove the nine-foot set back. this was in order to help protect the pedestrian realm of it. during the hearing, we couldn't verify one way or another if the bulb out was actually going to be approved, but we did get confirm mission from sfmta that it will be. so the commission's recommendation is to approve the ordinance as is, and this was because we confirmed that the long bulb out would be in front of it, and that concludes my presentation. >> supervisor tang: wonderful. that's great to hear. as you all know it's potentially impossible for us to get new housing on the west side and especially on a transit corridor, so we wanted to at least preserve that option. all right. any members of the public who wish to comment on item three, please come up. >> irene be

. >> good afternoon, aaron starr, legislative affairs. at land use, supervisor safai and tang's ordinance to amend 312 controls 1 their districts the committee heard this and continued it one week. the committee voted to forward to the full board with positive recommendation. the committee heard supervisor safai ordinance to allow catering in restaurants and it was continued. the committee voted to forward to the full board with positive recommendations. the committee heard supervisor stefani's ordinance that would allow existing massage establishments to legalize in union area, which it has been prohibited in that district. heard it on the 15th, and included an 18-month timeline to legalize the massage development use. and, two, to specify only current massage businesses can yield themselves of this. at land use committee hearing, supervisor stefani made a notion to incorporate both modifications and made a motion until july 31. next, co-corrections ordinance to improve the readability of the code. you heard it april 19 of this year and