the other thing about adu and the review process of adu, there are two ways to prioritize adus. i could put them in intake and move them to the front of the line. or what we chose to do with the fire department, set them off on a separate track. so as the adus are identified on intake, they go off to a separate track and we have a designated team within the fire department that focuses on adu and large development projects. that consists of a captain, a fire protection engineer and a fire inspector at this time. we're looking to grow that. what we see coming down the road is that this program will be expanded to other types of affordable housing, not just adus. the other thing we've done is we've set aside every monday, one day of the week, where we meet with building departments and applicants, we set the whole monday aside for pre-application meetings to meet with applicants. moving forward, i think what we're looking at, and i'm in discussion with the building department, over-the-counter. is it really over-the-counter when you have multiple counters? in my point, it's a litt

so why is adu such a challenge or delay in processing adus? it's not such the dwelling unit, it's that's you're building the dwelling units within existing buildings. you have older housing stock here in san francisco, that today, themselves, are existing nonconforming. so now we're going to build a unit within that building that has to meet current code. that is the challenge. and quite often, the designer cannot meet prescribed code as mandated by state law and state code. we as the local authority cannot be less restrictive than state code. we can find alternatives, alternative means, equivalencies to offset deficiencies and that's where our focus has been. in the past, typically, when an

so why is adu such a challenge or delay in processing adus? it's not such the dwelling unit, it's that's you're building the dwelling units within existing buildings. you have older housing stock here in san francisco, that today, themselves, are existing nonconforming. so now we're going to build a unit within that building that has to meet current code. that is the challenge. and quite often, the designer cannot meet prescribed code as mandated by state law and state code. we as the local authority cannot be less restrictive than state code. we can find alternatives, alternative means, equivalencies to offset deficiencies and that's where our focus has been. in the past, typically, when an application comes in, it begins with planning, works through building and eventually gets to fire. we're at best third in line to review these applications. in the past, when we knew this was coming and we knew it was a priority, affordable housing, what we did was we identified a select group within our plan check team, our plan review team. we have 14 pl

we're holding adu fairs. we are looking for a financing product that will help mom-and-pop owners doing it. i'm not totally sanguine. it's a relatively small percentage of the entire package. i think it's worth analysis, the fee structure. and certainly i agree that lower fees are an incentive, but i don't know this is where the bottle neck is occurring. so as to f-6, it's not a big deal, but partially disagree and say that the recommendation requires further analysis within six months of this hearing date. and maybe during that time we can get the controller to do further analysis to determine the effect of permit fees on the construction of new adus. and i think that is more consistent with our recommendation which is that further analysis is required. so i would make that suggestion relative to f-6. >> supervisor kim: thank you, supervisor peskin. i agree that does make our amendments more consistent. so what i will take the friendly amendment and change the motion to have it be resolved that we agree with

adu, alternative dwelling units, and modular housing. the jury was pleased that respondents agreed with most of our findings and many of our recommendations have already or will be implemented. it was rewarding for the jurors to learn that mayor breed is calling for expedited permit process for adus and is committed to building a modular housing manufacturing facility here in the city. we appreciate all those that took the time to meet with us and answer our questions with thoughtfulness and candor. i'd like to introduce p. siegel, a member of the housing committee and will talk more specifically and answer any questions that you may have. thank you very much for your time. >> supervisor kim: thank you. >> hello. i was one of the principle writers on the housing report. and when we began the jury, of course, we had to consider looking into the housing issue because it has reached crisis proportions in the city. at the time that we began our investigation, we looked at the housing pipeline for 2016 and saw that 157.5% of market rate housi

that also looked at both adu production and modular housing. we'll be going with other members of city departments to the government accounting and oversight committee, gao, which holds its annual hearing. that is coming up sometime later this month, so suffice it to say, we did complete and have now sent to the court our responsiveness to the grand jury's recommendations in those areas. and i did also want to mention that we've been working closely with the mayor's office of housing. the mayor's office, the fire marshal and the fire department on a relatively new interpretation from the state fire marshal as to what is the definition of a high-rise, including an occupied roof as an occupied floor. this does have immediate consequences for especially affordable housing projects in the city. so dbi is part of the city-wide team that is trying to push back to the fire marshal to emilrate the interpretation that took place, but would be subject to projects going forward from april 4th of 2018. so we're still in discussion about that and as we have

we are looking at his credibility now as a grown adu adult. and if you believe dr. ford, then judge kavanaugh is not telling the truth. and if this were the only instance, it would be one thing, bad enough, but there are many more. over and over again it's hard to believe what judge kavanaugh swore under oath at the committee hearing to say. just yesterday nbc news reported that either judge kavanaugh or people close to the judge were in communication with his yale classmates to get them to reput allegations by deborah ramirez later published in the new yorker. beyond the unseemliness of a federal judge pressuring former classmates to support his nomination, it seems that judge kavanaugh was at least very misleading to the judiciary committee about miss ramirez's story. when asked by senator hatch when he first heard of ramirez's allegations, he answered, quote, in the new yorker story, first heard, based on the nbc reports, if they're correct, that was not truthful. and it would be one thing if that were one isolated incident, but again, there are far too many miss

. >> if it's an r3 they can get three legal units in adu as a fourth unit. >> the zoning, at the time, where the legalization would have occurred and in 78 it would have been down zoned to rh2. they could, under this -- we have three legal units. they can add one a.d.u. now. >> especially since parking is no longer a requirement which is hinderance prior. >> ok. >> thank you. how many people are here for public comment? can you raise your hand? can you please lineup against the wall and hand -- for this item. public comment for this item. if can you lineup against the wall and hand your speaker card when you come up. >> first speaker, please. >> you can go ahead sir, if you are the first one. >> my name is doug madowell. i'm on the board for san francisco little league. i also run the flag football league out on treasure island. michael's good neighbor. this is a good initiative. this will help provide him with the space. i know he is gotten engage. he has talked to me about starting a family. this is his house. this is his dream. this is what he would like to do is have enough space

with regard to the adus, the overall number, approximately 50% get approved and sent out. some with comment, some without comment but approved. about half are on hold with needn't, waiting for -- without comment waiting on comment. >> commissioner veronese: i know that housing is a priority for the mayor's office. it would be good to have some of those details in this report. and including also if you could how many reports we have not gotten to, if any. like that are on deck. i know this process is a give and take until it's done. so, it's kind of hard to track those. >> i could speak to that briefly. at the time of this report that i forwarded to chief gonzales, our backlog was zero. when i refer to backlog, that means those that are pending that we haven't started review on. everything else is either on hold or been approved. so, the backlog was zero. i know just yesterday we picked up a batch of about ten plans. so, our team -- nothing has been over a week. they are cranking these out and so far so good. >> commissioner veronese: thank you for that, chief. that's it. t

. >> and those are adu sweaters that is, you know, hanukkah sweater. [ cheers and applause ] because >> jimmy: absolutely. >> i want you to be able to s haveater that works. >> jimmy: you've got to have a a fun sweater. >> got to have a fun sweater. that's right. >> jimmy: and dude, look at this cat. >> and that one lights up. >> turn it on. [ cheers and applaus] ♪ >> there you go. [ cheers and applause ] there you go. that's right. so you can get that little -- that bark -- that's right. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: can we dim the lights a little bit? just so you can see the full effect of this guy. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that is what it's all about. but then, comes that last day of the year and you're thinking, "how am i feeling?" >> jmy: yeah. >> 2018 is going away, you know. and you start to move your hands. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: no! come on! now you -- i thought you were going to ask me to do that. >> no, no. [ ughter ] i don't want to get you into any more trouble than you can get yourself in, okay? >> jimmy: i want to talk about "nobody's fool." you

s now i know what the adu felt like on "mad men" all this time. >> seth: yeah. >> working with peopleth: y >> i'm like, "this is what it was like." no, it's so fun. it feels kind of like a college dorm. >> seth: that's great. >> in a certain way. and it's super fun, and it's great. >> seth: considering basyo on "mad men, like, middle school dorm was a bunch of people drinking at an ad agency. >> exactly. >> seth: this great. >> yeah, and smoking herbal cigarettes. >> seth: i think that you deserve -- >> yeah. >> seth:ou deserve this. definitely. >> seth: this is very cool. you were on -- you had your own billboard times square. >> i know. >> seth: and there are certain things that no matter what ou happens incareer that are really cool. >> yeah. >> seth: and so you actually went out, and you took a selfie of yourself with the "sabrina" billboard. >> yeah. >> seth: that's really cool. >> yeah. >> seth: how was that experience being out there, and seeing it, and taking the picture? >> it was not as effortless as that photo makes it out to be, to be quite honest. because it was one of th

terrible depression, when the unemployment rate, which today is about 8.5% officially--the numumber of adusooking for work as a percentage of o our laboror force. if you k at the comparable number in the depths of the depression, it was 3 times s that--25%. really very bad. and interestingly in the 1930s, the american people pushed back. they were not passive. they were active. let me tell you what they did, because it's a part of our history that americans tend not to learn too well in school for reasons i will leave to your speculation. we had the biggest labor movement organization that the country ever had. something called the congress of industrial organizations organized millions of workers in the 1930s in the depths of the depression. workers who had never been in a union before. we'd never seen that in the united states. we had never seen it before, and we've never seen it since. in the midst of that misery of a depression, of that poverty, american workers decided that a labor union could maybe save them, and they were ready to join. and joining was often tough, w working against