>>i want to make a motion to uphold the appeal in light of the brt. >>if the board is passing that motion we have to adopt environmental findings and we have to put this on the overhead so commissioner lazarus if i can ask you to deny the appeal and uphold this in light of the br and the environmental findings and with that one that motion rt >>[roll call vote] >> >>and we have one absent so with a vote of 3:1 with one absent that motion does carry. and president honda there is no further business before the board at this time. i think we need to establish this is a new record for the board. at least everyone was a winner in that respect. thank you very much for having the patience and bearing through this case. thank you very much. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> under administrative quode 67 a 1, cell phones pages and sound produces devices is prohibited. all pagers, cell

. >> i was having a hard time like the van ness corridor brt is that specific that opens the door to talk about the changes we've done on that. >> well the van ness projects that have been approved like the van ness project that have their viral clearance are approves people can talk about them but the decisions with made the designs are final and bringing two construction contracts many of our projects that are approved at that board have funding that 0 flows that the transportation authority so wounded change anything they can ask questions about the project their funding but generally working with the board office as projects are brought here i don't see any fundamental change there instead of the money coming directly to us they'll be a grant process we'll assess those funds. >> the mission project we talked about this morning. >> again i don't think that will fundamentally change we sometimes have prop k funding with some of the projects but, yeah it is more a process if the monies are coming directly to you whether or not we're using prop k or ftes funds but go through the part

before i van ness i might be surprised van ness will goodwill go the first transit corridor to have brts more frequently known the goal to get conveniently van ness and geary boulevard one of the most reliable transit systems in the country van ness avenue is a major connecter between potrero hill and mission on the south side of san francisco correcting connecting us to the marina and state highway in the financial with the western edition neighborhood it is mostly residential a lot of the geography of van ness the rain that is wide it was uses is a firebreak in the 1906 san francisco earthquake a lot of building occasion that helped of hoped to stop the fire from jumping van ness had a light rail or sprash separating and along geary 0 when we came to the question of how to address the needs on haven because of its cost effectiveness we have found in the brt system with the new vehicles. >> the new mr. secretary is a change we will actually have transit in the middle ♪ the far legal unit and a broadly prom >> one of the reasons it is in the center a was it is an clouf right-of-way a se

i think that is an area where i can add some value to the brt program. and thirdly, i do have some experience with the public transportation and the city traffic engineering. when i was at grad school i worked for the city traffic engineer and provided a lot of help to the staff there and coordinating meetings and working with the community and it is something that i enjoyed and i would enjoy getting back into. and i believe those are all of the reasons. i understand that there are two positions. one for the richmond and one for at large. i would prefer the richmond if i do get appointed because that is where i live. but the at large position would be fine as well. that is all that i have to add here, i hope that you will consider me for this position, thank you. >> thank you very much >> good morning, my name is stanford kingly and i am a native san franciscan and a life long resident of the city and 32 years in the richmond district and life long on the muni many years on the 38 including yesterday, this is an important project, 50,000 people a day rid

i think that is an area where i can add some value to the brt program. and thirdly, i do have some experience with the public transportation and the city traffic engineering. when i was at grad school i worked for the city traffic engineer and provided a lot of help to the staff there and coordinating meetings and working with the community and it is something that i enjoyed and i would enjoy getting back into. and i believe those are all of the reasons. i understand that there are two positions. one for the richmond and one for at large. i would prefer the richmond if i do get appointed because that is where i live. but the at large position would be fine as well. that is all that i have to add here, i hope that you will consider me for this position, thank you. >> thank you very much >> good morning, my name is stanford kingly and i am a native san franciscan and a life long resident of the city and 32 years in the richmond district and life long on the muni many years on the 38 including yesterday, this is an important project, 50,000 people a day rid

>>i want to make a motion to uphold the appeal in light of the brt.>if the board is passing that motion we have to adopt environmental findings and we have to put this on the overhead so commissioner lazarus if i can ask you to deny the appeal and uphold this in light of the br and the environmental findings and with that one that motion rt >>[roll call vote] >> >>and we have one absent so with a vote of 3:1 with one absent that motion does carry. and president honda there is no further business before the board at this time. i think we need to establish this is a new record for the board. at least everyone was a winner in that respect. thank you very much for having the patience and bearing through this case. thank you very much. >>[gavel] >> welcome ladies and gentlemen to the regular scheduled meeting of the san francisco ethics commission for june 27 2016. i will call the roll. commissioner tan, here. hayon, here. chiu, here. all are present and accounted for. churning to item 2, public comment. on matters appearing or not appearing under the agen

there's no better example of why it's important to move brt along.t took me so long to get down here. i want to remind everybody including the nominee, it's against the law for operators to -- it's against the law to operating. it's a good reason. endangering our senior citizens and children to preventing the current eviction and displacement prices ruling san francisco. there should be a study -- somebody should be commissioning a study from the mta to find out the nexus between the private shuttle and housing crisis. thank you. >> thank you very much. next singer, please. >> and speaker. >> and speaker. >> looks like the ayes have it for lee from iowa. free, only one muni free. and good luck with your appointing, mta board member lee. on the bus, and on the train, glad you came today. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is mike young and i live in park measure said. in the short time i have known lee, i found him to be a man of intelligence, integrity and generosity. he shares his knowledge freely and when i ask him a request about issue

there's no better example of why it's important to move brt along.t took me so long to get down here. i want to remind everybody including the nominee, it's against the law for operators to -- it's against the law to operating. it's a good reason. endangering our senior citizens and children to preventing the current eviction and displacement prices ruling san francisco. there should be a study -- somebody should be commissioning a study from the mta to find out the nexus between the private shuttle and housing crisis. thank you. >> thank you very much. next singer, please. >> and speaker. >> and speaker. >> looks like the ayes have it for lee from iowa. free, only one muni free. and good luck with your appointing, mta board member lee. on the bus, and on the train, glad you came today. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is mike young and i live in park measure said. in the short time i have known lee, i found him to be a man of intelligence, integrity and generosity. he shares his knowledge freely and when i ask him a request about issue

there's no better example of why it's important to move brt along.t took me so long to get down here. i want to remind everybody including the nominee, it's against the law for operators to -- it's against the law to operating. it's a good reason. endangering our senior citizens and children to preventing the current eviction and displacement prices ruling san francisco. there should be a study -- somebody should be commissioning a study from the mta to find out the nexus between the private shuttle and housing crisis. thank you. >> thank you very much. next singer, please. >> and speaker. >> and speaker. >> looks like the ayes have it for lee from iowa. free, only one muni free. and good luck with your appointing, mta board member lee. on the bus, and on the train, glad you came today. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is mike young and i live in park measure said. in the short time i have known lee, i found him to be a man of intelligence, integrity and generosity. he shares his knowledge freely and when i ask him a request about issue

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ryder's but some ways improve the neighborhood is i - appreciate that in your approach to make it a brthoice being a teacher is one of the hardest things being a parent and teacher is equally hard i have nothing but proposes to give to you for teaching middle schoolers and having children tremendous for people within our city thank you for wanting to serve on this body. >> thank you sxhavr i echo those one of the things cory want to clarify our city attorney is not here the requirements for seat 43 person must represent students and faculty and other schools isn't neighborhood served by the balboa park station i want to clarify whether the qualifications with met in this case given that the gentleman is a teacher in bernal heights i know you live in the area but again, i want to clarify whether this retirement is met i don't know if mr. clerk or call the city attorney's office. >> i'll refer to the balboa park station and this qualification is met. >> this kwfks is met well, that clarifi things at this time oh, supervisor cowen. >> i'm going to not be supporting you today largely becaus

there's no better example of why it's important to move brt along.t took me so long to get down here. i want to remind everybody including the nominee, it's against the law for operators to -- it's against the law to operating. it's a good reason. endangering our senior citizens and children to preventing the current eviction and displacement prices ruling san francisco. there should be a study -- somebody should be commissioning a study from the mta to find out the nexus between the private shuttle and housing crisis. thank you. >> thank you very much. next singer, please. >> and speaker. >> and speaker. >> looks like the ayes have it for lee from iowa. free, only one muni free. and good luck with your appointing, mta board member lee. on the bus, and on the train, glad you came today. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is mike young and i live in park measure said. in the short time i have known lee, i found him to be a man of intelligence, integrity and generosity. he shares his knowledge freely and when i ask him a request about issue

it's brt breath-taking. >> yeah, it is. it's a problem on both sides. sort of a triple roymwhammy. let me put up the bund here. it's been breathtaking. remember, the bund yields were 2% going back to the early part of 2014. so it's 2%. that's putting all sorts of pressure on european banks. you've got to throw in the brexit concerns here. some of the big names like deutsche bank and allianz and barclays. it's spilling on this side of the atlantic. low bumds overseas mean they come here to try to buy our bond. that keeps the interest rate down. key banks, huntington bank shares down. this just in the past five trading sessions. even the big guys, citigroup down 7%, 8%, 9%. let's talk about the double whammy. we talked about the triple whammy. there's a third one for ugs financial systems. synchrony financial said they're seeing higher charges. that may concern there's a slowdown in the consumer even though they say they're not seeing any significant deterioration in credit. this is spilling over as well into the banks a little bit. of course, they have credit card portfolios as well

it decades for the mohcd that will develop the land and should the charter amendment pass 3 onsite brtts overall it includes the demolition of the 6 building on the project site and a new mixed use building search warrant one and 99 dwelling units with 7 thousand empowering or trade shops which will be divided into 3 spaces and ground floor presidio and one car share and 84 sfoochz and one and 28 class 1 bike parking spaces and class 2 bike parking spaces it includes a mix with 82 two bedrooms and one bedrooms and norms one serotyping freight loading westbound the middle-income alley that has common open space with a roof terrace to date the department has received numerous correspondence in support and opposition as i can mentioned all the correspondence been received since the original packet has been provided to you the project is exempt from the mission 2016 interim controls tennis e since this provides land in an amount equivalent the 33 percent of the units as listed under planning code section the project sponsor will provide 3 affordable unit dwelling units for rents and answer

heritage district people want to live here in the fabric that is attracted to chain stores as the project brtore pedestrian traffic in the neighborhood with many of the small and local businesses struggling to compete with the non-restricted local long time uses their small businesses need our support and help when i served with supervisor kim's office we passed the sdpmz in a neighborhood not money for the small business charm but they compete we saw the success of those for the merging from entertaining and emptying into negotiations with large-scale corporate contenders they levels the playing field and we have a fighting chance for the commercial landlords enjoying a red hot market they were successful and went to noah valley and worked in chinatown i was recently at a monthly community clean up by a local grocery stores in downtown joe the owner has been operated since 1986 knows every resident and the police advisory board and hires neighborhood and sponsors events and he is an international part of the fabric of this neighborhood that is the kind of small business owner he was unable t

moment not comment on parking their pros and cons for or against parking we're next to be built van ness brt we have a polk street bus and cable cars and west and east and north and south that is highly connected but i'll set the distribution on pros and cons for parking aside what bothers me the messing floor at the height of the building didn't assign clearly explained use inform this particular project i directing your attention to a want 1. 1 and want 1.1 a no explanation those have been assigned or labeled being mechanical spaces, however, the project provides mechanical roof deck equipment unfortunately in the wrong part of roof we encourage the developers to move mechanical equipment with elevator housing, etc. here having mechanical equipment on the interior courts on the exterior corners of the building on the north, west and southeast corner not exactly where we wanted particularly when we wanted rooftop issues on the top floor that are questionable when this building tries to have height it can provide use for expensive units in the corridor that is primarily in a neighborhood of

ryder's but some ways improve the neighborhood is i - appreciate that in your approach to make it a brtchoice being a teacher is one of the hardest things being a parent and teacher is equally hard i have nothing but proposes to give to you for teaching middle schoolers and having children tremendous for people within our city thank you for wanting to serve on this body. >> thank you sxhavr i echo those one of the things cory want to clarify our city attorney is not here the requirements for seat 43 person must represent students and faculty and other schools isn't neighborhood served by the balboa park station i want to clarify whether the qualifications with met in this case given that the gentleman is a teacher in bernal heights i know you live in the area but again, i want to clarify whether this retirement is met i don't know if mr. clerk or call the city attorney's office. >> i'll refer to the balboa park station and this qualification is met. >> this kwfks is met well, that clarifies things at this time oh, supervisor cowen. >> i'm going to not be supporting you today largely bec

business situation he's facing with the polk street redesign and everything and that coming up with brt and said you know, i run a wine and beer bar it is tame most of patrons there tend to be older and we took a hard look at it and decided to support it we think that is a good good thing he's been a good citizen in the community trying to run a business with those tough times times with the infrastructure projects we think he is entitled to pay his bills and employees we're supportive of the hours of operation thank you. >> thank you. >> hi castro one of the williams employees at the poorhouse i want to examine it helps us pay your rent he live in the neighborhood it is very expensive a loud neighborhood but poorhouse is definitely one of the quieter places it would definitely help me and the other employees that work there that's all i want to say. >> good afternoon commissioners i'm christen the director the lower polk speaking in support of proposal the important house is a well run quiet state establishment compared to some of the other establishments on polk street corridor and we

association i want to mention we did a lot of work with the camtc hospital a bigger supporter of the van ness brt we on intersections that will do a great job in businesses and move traffic but because of complexity right now with the polk being revved for van ness and transit and golf and franklin are still the corridors for north-south traffic from the golden gate bridge and actually, i thought we were doing prospecting with the commuters on van ness what a lot of bus stops people waiting for them in the morning later unfortunate morning in the evening their empty from 6 to 8 and 4 from like maybe 6 to go 8 at night they're heavy yes used before moving on to these to golf and franklin which are gridlocks now can there be more study about how many of these buses are hitting those stops everyday how many people in them fully uses and shorten the time period love to get the marin county people out of their single contributor occupancy vehicles that will not happy overnight how many people and what's the impacts and particularly in ellis and golf the cathedral hill crossing the school is a very dan

business situation he's facing with the polk street redesign and everything and that coming up with brt and said you know, i run a wine and beer bar it is tame most of patrons there tend to be older and we took a hard look at it and decided to support it we think that is a good good thing he's been a good citizen in the community trying to run a business with those tough times times with the infrastructure projects we think he is entitled to pay his bills and employees we're supportive of the hours of operation thank you. >> thank you. >> hi castro one of the williams employees at the poorhouse i want to examine it helps us pay your rent he live in the neighborhood it is very expensive a loud neighborhood but poorhouse is definitely one of the quieter places it would definitely help me and the other employees that work there that's all i want to say. >> good afternoon commissioners i'm christen the director the lower polk speaking in support of proposal the important house is a well run quiet state establishment compared to some of the other establishments on polk street corridor and we

moment not comment on parking their pros and cons for or against parking we're next to be built van ness brt we have a polk street bus and cable cars and west and east and north and south that is highly connected but i'll set the distribution on pros and cons for parking aside what bothers me the messing floor at the height of the building didn't assign clearly explained use inform this particular project i directing your attention to a want 1. 1 and want 1.1 a no explanation those have been assigned or labeled being mechanical spaces, however, the project provides mechanical roof deck equipment unfortunately in the wrong part of roof we encourage the developers to move mechanical equipment with elevator housing, etc. here having mechanical equipment on the interior courts on the exterior corners of the building on the north, west and southeast corner not exactly where we wanted particularly when we wanted rooftop issues on the top floor that are questionable when this building tries to have height it can provide use for expensive units in the corridor that is primarily in a neighborhood of

ryder's but some ways improve the neighborhood is i - appreciate that in your approach to make it a brt choice being a teacher is one of the hardest things being a parent and teacher is equally hard i have nothing but proposes to give to you for teaching middle schoolers and having children tremendous for people within our city thank you for wanting to serve on this body. >> thank you sxhavr i echo those one of the things cory want to clarify our city attorney is not here the requirements for seat 43 person must represent students and faculty and other schools isn't neighborhood served by the balboa park station i want to clarify whether the qualifications with met in this case given that the gentleman is a teacher in bernal heights i know you live in the area but again, i want to clarify whether this retirement is met i don't know if mr. clerk or call the city attorney's office. >> i'll refer to the balboa park station and this qualification is met. >> this kwfks is met well, that clarifies things at this time oh, supervisor cowen. >> i'm going to not be supporting you today largely be

there's no better example of why it's important to move brt along.t took me so long to get down here. i want to remind everybody including the nominee, it's against the law for operators to -- it's against the law to operating. it's a good reason. endangering our senior citizens and children to preventing the current eviction and displacement prices ruling san francisco. there should be a study -- somebody should be commissioning a study from the mta to find out the nexus between the private shuttle and housing crisis. thank you. >> thank you very much. next singer, please. >> and speaker. >> and speaker. >> looks like the ayes have it for lee from iowa. free, only one muni free. and good luck with your appointing, mta board member lee. on the bus, and on the train, glad you came today. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is mike young and i live in park measure said. in the short time i have known lee, i found him to be a man of intelligence, integrity and generosity. he shares his knowledge freely and when i ask him a request about issue

. >> i was having a hard time like the van ness corridor brt is that specific that opens the door to talk about the changes we've done on that. >> well the van ness projects that have been approved like the van ness project that have their viral clearance are approves people can talk about them but the decisions with made the designs are final and bringing two construction contracts many of our projects that are approved at that board have funding that 0 flows that the transportation authority so wounded change anything they can ask questions about the project their funding but generally working with the board office as projects are brought here i don't see any fundamental change there instead of the money coming directly to us they'll be a grant process we'll assess those funds. >> the mission project we talked about this morning. >> again i don't think that will fundamentally change we sometimes have prop k funding with some of the projects but, yeah it is more a process if the monies are coming directly to you whether or not we're using prop k or ftes funds but go through the part

. >> 16th street is designed and can become for lack of a better term a brt light it was identified in the neighborhoods plan largely fund or mostly funds at this point. >> so - that will happen. >> i wanted to point out many of my clients on the projects they ask for exception to do more than the principle amount of parking in this case when we came in with a no exception principally to make a 4. 5 parking ratio not a one by one but we didn't ask for more parking we're at want 75 not one for one on the parking ratio. >> i prefer i looked at the san francisco's and one bedrooms i gits where our coming from but it also less than i did not have a consensus track we know that car ownership go months younger americans is much less than older americans the other question i want to ask if i want to move on to one of the units where will i pull up my u-haul units. >> you'll park on theflorida there's there's no on-street parking loading and especially for people that don't own car share that will be less than we think i like the thought of more pdr to get the need polish to envision the stree