to start out, however, i'd like to bring up ann marie rogers from the planning department to summarize recent recommendations from the planning commission. >> thank you. ms. rogers. >> good afternoon, supervisors. ann marie rogers, planning department staff. i just wanted to [speaker not understood] reiterate the planning commission's commitment to inclusionary housing program and they feel these updates are crucial to the success and clarity of the program. they originally recommended approval in december of last year and there are some recent additions that are before you and they just last week, they recommended approval of those. so, here are their recommendations from last week. and i reviewed the proposed amendment and everything is in line and thank you very much for having us here today. >> thank you, ms. rogers. mr. adams? >> so, as ann marie mentioned, the planning commission last december approved an update to our procedures manual and that update really codified a series of best practices and lessons learned over the last five years of managing the program. we're very pleas

aye lane warren from the city attorney's office, sarah jones ann marie rogers and bill wii co-before he retired. john ram, of course, and an dress power in my office. ~. this laze been a wonderful collaborative effort. so, with that, colleagues, if there are any introductory remarks. yes, president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. and let me first start by thanking the members of the public who have all engaged very intensely on this topic. and let me start by saying that i think this intense debate has caused ceqa to become everyone's new favorite four-letter word. [laughter] >> let me also state a more serious note that i have met with supporters and opponents of the various versions of so-called chapter 31 reform. and let me suggest that i think that everyone in this room shares the overall goal of legislating clear procedures for handling appeals of categorical exemptions and negative declarations. as supervisor wiener just outlined, our main guide on these appellate procedures is a publicly available 2008 city attorney memo that reads like a conflict version of choose your own adv

. >> ann marie rogers, planning department staff. so, we did get a copy of the digest from your staff. so, we think we could look over the ordinance and publish a written report by next week on the 18th for hearing at the planning commission the following week, the 25th. unfortunately there is no hpc except for the first and third wednesdays. that's why we get the first time we could bring it to the hpc would be the first. [speaker not understood] to date so far the hpc has acted every time we've brought an ordinance to them. it is within the recommend many of reason they may take action on the first reading. did they take action on the reading on the first, that would enable board to make any amendments that were in your ordinance at your next board land use committee hearing. >> supervisor kim. >> again, my preference is that the legislation that i introduced does get fully vetted by both the planning commission and historic preservation commission, especially i would also love to expedite my legislations in general. i do find that