we'll take about a ten-minute recess and reconvene as the building inspection commission. thank you. >> good morning. today is march 19, 2019 regular meeting of the building inspection commission. i would like to remind everyone to turnoff all cell phones and electronic devices. [roll call] >> clerk: okay. we have a quorum. our next item is item 2, president's announcements. >> good morning, everybody, and obviously, forgiveness in advance if i mispronounce any last names here or anything in my announcement. we welcome to the march 19 b.i.c. we join in congratulating thomas tan lee in his retirement. thomas is hanging up his calculator at the end of march, having been completed just about 30 years of kpleent public service kpleent of excellent public work to the city. big thank you from the commission. a big thank you for structural engineers association of northern california, to whom senior engineer gary holmrecently made a request to assist d.b.i. in one of the applied technology council's recent recommendations from the tall building safety study to gather some of its g

today is march 19, 2019 regular meeting of the building inspection commission. like to remind everyone to turnoff all cell phones and electronic devices. [roll call] >> clerk: okay. we have a quorum. our next item is item 2, president's announcements. >> good morning, everybody, and obviously,

i would like to thank the building inspection commission and the small businesses commission to their positive recommendations and all ten of my colleagues for unanimously co-sponsoring this ordinance. and i want to thank the golden gate restaurant association for the letters they sent in support of this ordinance. no one understands the importance of addressing this issue more than than our local restaurants and businesses, and i'm proud to have their support. thank you very much. >> chairman: thank you, mrs. fewer. mr. william strong, do you have any comments on baf behalf of the building inspection or your commission. >> thank you. as the supervisor fewer mentioned, we have been working closely with her and her staff for the past few months on this. we're looking forward to seeing it move forward and hopefully tightening up what is a complicated situation. >> thank you, mr. strong. is there anybody here on behalf of the small business commission? okay. are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item. please come forward. >> okay. as i dislike closed store

this ordinance was also unanimously approved by the building inspection commission on february 20th,ng passage from the board of supervisors it will require signoff from the department of community and health department. we're not the first to do this, there were several communities sort of allowed -- sort of these authorizations in 8932, and a couple others that have taken advantage of it, so we have been sort of learning from those other cities as we developed this ordinance. and then i'm happy to take questions or defer to my colleagues in the department. >> supervisor peskin: all right, are there other departmental representatives to add anything, fire, d.b.i., planning? you're welcome to chip in, mr. decosio. >> good afternoon, supervisors. dan decosio, fire marshal. this is streamlining the process for the homeless shelters. in doing so it does not waive any requirements. for that reason on those grounds the fire department does support this. >> supervisor peskin: excellent. >> good afternoon, ron alameda, the deputy director for public works. and i have nothing more factual to

we'll take about a ten-minute recess and reconvene as the building inspection commission. thank you. . >> shop and dine the 49 promotes loophole businesses and changes residents to do thirds shopping and diane within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services we help san francisco remain unique and successful where will you shop and dine shop and dine the 49. >> my name is neil the general manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if san francisco this is a neighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both national chains and neighborhoods by the neighborhood stores where coming you don't want to - one of the great things of san francisco it is n

we'll take about a ten-minute recess and reconvene as the building inspection commission. thank you. >> in november of 2016, california voters passed proposition 64. the adult use of marijuana act. san franciscans overwhelmingly approved it by nearly 75%. and the law went into effect in january of 2018. [♪] >> under california's new law, adults age 21 and over can legally possess up to 1 ounce of cannabis and grow up to six plants at home. adults in california can legally give up to 1 ounce to other adults. >> in the state of california, we passed a law that said adult consumption is legal. if you are an adult and in possession of certain amounts, you will no longer be tried. you will not be arrested or prosecuted for that. that is changing the landscape dramatically. [♪] >> to legalization of cannabis could bring tremendous economic and social benefits to cities like san francisco. >> this industry is projected to reach $22 billion by the year 2020. and that is just a few years away. >> it can be a huge legal industry in california. i think very shortly, the actual growin

if it is department of public health, construction is department of building inspection and entertainment commission for entertainment-related uses and police as well. and i understand some of the issues raised by the appellant were kind of the voices and human voices, so unamplified human voices are not subject to the noise ordinance, but the kind of thick source noise from rooftop mechanical equipment would be. it's usually not an issue that we see in residential districts. usually it's larger and something like 42 decibels is not much. i have an air compressor that is more. >> if there were an issue that folks were having a party and lots of noise, is that something that would be referred to the police department to say you are having too much noise? during such and such hours. >> that would be -- if there is a nuisance issues, police department would be where you would typically call, yes. >> the appellant made reference to air bnb which i believe the city has ordinances to limit if there were an air bnb type of use to 90 days a year total if the property owners were not present at the property,

commission, myrna melgar is here. thank you for your leadership with the planning department to help make this possible. we have the department of building inspection here, as well, and i want to thank the director for being here -- oh, john rahaim, planning director is here, too. commissioners -- thank you, commissioner mccarthy and thank you, commissioner deborah walker from the department of building inspection for being here, as well. thank you to chief. >> commissioner hayes-white:: - chief joanne hayes-white from the fire department, and fran see covington from the fire commission and joe hardeman from the fire commission. it takes a village to get this housing built, but this is a first step because we know that there are so many things that we need to do in san francisco to get more housing built and to get it built faster. we are going to be making changes, and it is by any means necessary for the purpose of making sure that we begin the process now to get more housing built so when we think about the next generation of young people growing up in san francisco, and we think about what's going to happen when they become adults, where are th

commission, myrna melgar is here. thank you for your leadership with the planning department to help make this possible. we have the department of building inspectionell, and i want to thank the director for being here -- oh, john rahaim, planning director is here, too. commissioners -- thank you, commissioner mccarthy and thank you, commissioner deborah walker from the department of building inspection for being here, as well. thank you to