. >> chair peskin: good afternoon. welcome to the land use and transportation committee of the of the board of supervisors for today, monday, october 28, 2019. i am the chair, aaron peskin, joined to my right by vice chair supervisor ahsha safai and to my left supervisor mat haney. miss clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. please be sure to silence any phones or electronic devices. items acted on today will appear on the november 5 board of supervisors calendar against otherwise stated. >> chair peskin: miss clerk, could you read items 1 through 5 together. >> clerk: yes. [agenda items read] >> chair peskin: thank you, ms. major. this is our tri-annual update to the aforementioned codes which requires their appeal and enactment of new 2019 editions. here on behalf of the department of building inspection, we have bill stron and michelle yu if you would like to present on items 1 through 6, none of which seem to be very substantive in nature, but the floor is yours. miss yu? >> good afternoon, chair peski

thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. urema. >> thank you, mr. chair. i would like to echo the thanks of all the stakeholder agencies that took a lot of time to meet with us and share their views. really, the panel took on this assignment with the one goal of strengthening this project and realizing it's critical to this region, and we appreciate the opportunity and we submit it and happy to answer any questions that you have. >> chair peskin: i forgot to say that today we are not going to take a vote to accept the report, so today is an information only hearing, and we will have the first read of acceptance next meeting later this month. with that, turn it over to our executive director, miss chang. >> thank you, mr. chair. i want to thank you for seeking this advice and to request the study. thank you very much to our expert panels for your hard work. this was not an easy task. this was about as challenging as it gets in our field. there were institutional and governance issue. i'm thankful for the long and deep experience of this panel. they dug in a

thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. strauss. seeing no other couple pom on this -- seeing no other public comment on this, i'll close public comment. >> chair peskin: i think that it's pennywise, pound foolish. with that, mr. fisher, maybe you can respond to a little bit of what you've heard and address the difference between the status quo and the recommendations around reform. >> thanks, mr. chairman. and really, i just wanted to address a couple comments that we heard on drn-that this po s pom's -- - >> i think the region has changed a bit since this project was initiated. as you start to look at a second crossing, i think the comment about how do we prioritize this in the region and then, on the delivery side, it's a bit of the panel felt very strongly that we needed to have a look at this again. i think the idea that john picari laid out, we are in a national competition for federal dollars, and i would argue part of this relook is coming up with a credible funding plan that is going to make it easier to get political suppo

thank you. >> good morning, chair peskin and supervisors. i am laura tolkoff and i am the regional policy director for spur. m.t.c.'s plan estimated that there are over $300 billion of transportation projects in the pipeline which means there is the potential for tens of billions of cost overruns. we think the bay area needs to look at how we can deliver these projects on time, cost-effectively and without defect. we support the integration of the teams and to move forward without delay. first we recommend that this integrated project team become a center of excellence that is available to manage other projects throughout the region or with m.t.c. with so in projects on the horizon, it is important that we develop expertise and transfer lessons learned from one project to another. second, we want to elevate this to a project of national significance. this designation does come with some perks at the federal level, it also comes with a suite of tools from the state, such as up-front financing, a greater ability to act as a developer. with no

>> chair peskin: let me see. are there any members of the public who would like to testify on item number 10? seeing number, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> supervisor haney: okay. i have a number of questions, and i appreciate your willingness to make sure we support these residents. so the first is about how we define this population. i see that residency established after 2011 but prior to january 2020, i have some concern about that because we are still potentially -- you know, somebody moves in -- i guess, are folks still moving in after january 2020, and would we get to a point where if somebody was still living there for seven or eight years and has no benefits? >> we -- we don't have any plans for the villages to continue entering into new leases. however, there's no restriction on someone adding a roommate, and so through the process of roommates moving in and out of units, we anticipate that there will be some future population that, through the process of being added to a -- an existing lease, co

. >> thank you, chair peskin. if you are making offers i -- based on feedback from the community, i think the fact that it went through the planning commission without a reduction in parking was actually somewhat surprising. but the need for parking in the area was explained at the planning commission. i am comfortable with the reduction from .5 and from 1 to .5. going any lower than that right now i don't feel comfortable with that, based on the fact that a lot of the community outreach and a lot of the feedback i have received has been around parking concerns. and i know, yes, the world is changing, and yes we need to get out of our cars and everything. but maybe we can ask mercy housing, doug shoe maker is here. i think if we land at .5, i think that would be a good compromise. and i would be comfortable with that. >> mr. schumacher, as to the walnut street phase 3 186-unit land dedicated escrowed senior housing project the floor is yours. >> i'm very comfortable with the .5. i think ordinarily in other parts.

[roll call] >> clerk: we have quorum. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. quintanilla. can can you

. >> thank you so much, chair peskin. i really appreciate this opportunity for a housing on the report that i requested from the budget and legislative analyst office and the opportunity to hold this hearing in conjunction with consideration of supervisor haney's legislation to update the job housing linkage fee. it's a much needed framework that analyzes housing production by affordability relative to job growth by wages. job housing fit is a new analytical tool that will help us do a better job of managing growth in our city, addressing the housing affordability crisis and reducing traffic gridlock. commissioners have been asking for this data for years. most recently when they were considering the essential plan. and staff had not been able to provide this sort of job housing fit data and housing by affordability. as you will hear from analyst fred in his presentation, the report provides important new insights into our housing crisis including causes, impacts and needed solutions. the report highlights how our city ad

. >> chair peskin, supervisors, my name is susan.i'm here representing eight owners in an apartment building on the corner of presidio and pine. what i wanted to say, not that i am opposed in any way to additional housing, which everyone has said we all want to have. we would take pause and be able to go back and do more collaboration with the developers looking at the two alternate proposals to get a good solution. pausing to do that, and even take some time would save a lot of time if it's going to take seven, 12, 15 years to finish the development that is being proposed by the developer. use time wisely, right now, that could save a great deal of time and getting those affordable units and also the other residential units built. the alternate proposals would possibly allow for your building, instead of a extended time that is in the proposal. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is john nolte here representing san francisco tree campaign. the project at 3333 california street, referred to as

. >> thank you chair peskin. as i said today our office issued an economic impact report on this item. i'm not going to walk you through the full report but i will discuss some of the highlights and i'm happy to answer your questions. of course our report is charged with assessing the economic impact of legislation. in this case the fee increase which is approximately $40 per square foot on office we determined might have a significant impact on office development in the city in the future as well as raising new funds for affordable housing. as you know, there's a couple of studies that have already been done on the impact of this item, the nexus study and feasibility study. the feasibility study found a $10 square foot fee might be viable in the future. but office development at present is not feasible even without any fee increase. for us, that's not really sufficiently specific to be able to get to the economic impact. so we worked with an outside consulting group that we've worked with before, the blue sky co

. >> chair peskin: good afternoon. ome to the land use and transportation committee of the of the board of supervisors for today, monday, october 28, 2019. i am the chair, aaron peskin, joined to my right by vice chair supervisor ahsha safai and to my left supervisor mat haney. miss clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. please be

. >> chair peskin: all right. is there any introduction of new items? seeing none, is there any general public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed, and we are adjourned. valencia has been a constantly evolving roadway. the first bike lanes were striped in 1999, and today is the major north and south bike route from the mission neighborhood extending from market to mission street. >> it is difficult to navigate lindsay on a daily basis, and more specifically, during the morning and evening commute hours. >> from 2012 to 2016, there were 260 collisions on valencia and 46 of those were between vehicles and bikes. the mayor shows great leadership and she knew of the long history of collisions and the real necessity for safety improvements on the streets, so she actually directed m.t.a. to put a pilot of protected bike lanes from market to 15th on valencia street within four months time. [♪] >> valencia is one of the most used north south bike routes in san francisco. it has over 2100 cyclists on an average weekday. we promote bicycles for everyda

. >> chair peskin: good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority fory, tuesday, october 8, 2019. our clerk is mr. quintanilla. could you please call the roll. [roll call] >> clerk: we have

i appreciate all of that. -- chair peskin. i appreciate all of that. i appreciate your sponsorship on this. i want to thank everybody who came out and stuck around and who has given comments and helped us draft this. and i do think the amendments we put forward are reasonable and also help us accomplish our goals. i will say that i'm glad that we discussed the supervisor mar's report or the report that supervisor mar commissioned before we had this conversation. because i think what we saw in that report is what the likely outcome will be if we continue on the path that we are on. and if we don't take a bold proactive action. we have taken a certain approach to this question of our jobs housing balance over the last ten years. and i think it's had deeply problematic concerning, i would even call it an existential threat to our city and its quality of life and its wellbeing. at the same time as we've seen some of the lowest unemployment rates that we've ever had in san francisco, some of the highest rates of growth. we have deep inequality. we have more

>> it's not really a question but i wanted to sort of echo the point that chair peskin and supervisor haney made around some of your key findings and in your analysis. in the way you present them in the report. i would agree that it's very misleading in the way that you talk about a negative impact and up to 1500 jobs lost as a result of this, the legislation. and a negative impact of up to $330 million on gdp when in fact, again as we discussed it's really a slight reduction in job growth and gdp growth in the future, especially in consideration of the report that we just heard from the dla office where it showed we are expecting tens of thousands of jobs to be added over the next seven years in our city. and also just almost rampant job growth has been a key part of the problem and driver of the housing affordability crisis for low and moderate income workers. and the fact that we've only created one housing unit for every .5 -- for every 8.5 jobs created. so in the future if you would consider more objective language in your findings and economic analysis. >> i think the only thing

i know chair peskin and supervisor haney got that letter today. that's good. thank you to the department of environment stakeholders and others that were part of that conversation along with the mayor and supervisor peskin and mandelman. the other question i had, the question i had is, in terms of the pricing. that's one of the things that wasn't discussed today, that encourages or discourages people from using the stations outside of their homes, right? because some people have solar-powered at their house, or access to different rates based on what has been negotiated as part of a larger package. but has there been thought or conversation put into the pricing to encourage people to utilize these charging stations and parking garages? >> sure. so i believe both -- >> the prices can vary. i reason i know this, i have an electric car. >> right. so for electricity rates, i'll start there. there a couple of costs that go into charging your electric car. for rates, i believe pg&e and clean power sf have demand response rates to take advantage. >> you're couraged to

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other part -- the original file to next week. >> clerk: committee report. >> supervisor ronen:. >> chair peskinwe can't send as a committee report today, because mr. givner deemed these amendments -- >> supervisor ronen: sorry. i didn't hear you. it's not a committee report, we're just continuing the original file one week to the next rules committee meeting. >> clerk: thank you. >> supervisor ronen: did i get that right? without objection, that motion passes. [gavel] thank you. miss clerk, can you please read item number 2. ordinance amending the administrative and planning codes to establish the south and market community planning advisory committee to advise city officials and agencies on implementation of the central soma plan. advisory committee and the eastern neighborhoods citizens' advisory committee. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. we're joined by abigail from supervisor haney's office. hello, good morning. >> good afternoon, chair ronen and supervisors. i do have the amendments with an applicable chart, with all of our suggested amendments, if i may hand it to madam clerk. thank you s

. >> yes, thank you, chair peskin. i just want to, first of all, associate my comments with supervisor fewer in terms of wanting to see the amount of enforcement doubled. i think that would be incredible. i want to drill down on the amount of time it takes to enforce and write these tickets. i understand in 2016 this board passed an ordinance requiring officers to fill out two additional forms regarding who they stop and why. i also understand that the san francisco police department asked for additional funding to upgrade citations in terms of of better internet connection and things like that and you did not receive that funding. so i need to understand from you what you need from us to better be able to accomplish what we're asking you to do. >> yes, supervisor. to that point about the process, we have the majority of police officers in the department that are issues citations are doing so on the e site with the smartphone as i mentioned earlier. after making all the entries in the required fields for the data, they

>> supervisor walton: thank you, chair peskin. moving pretty fast today, huh. >> well, it's been two hours. >> supervisor walton: just briefly. we've been hearing a lot from our constituents lately. and i've definitely personally experienced as recently as this past weekend, inadequate and inconsistent transit service, we're experiencing on the t-third light rail. the mission bay platform construction, with the bus substitutions and the shuttles, more frequent and reliable, in addition to the "t" line. i'd like to ask the transportation authority to conduct a study, bringing back bus service on 3rd street. bring back the 15 and potentially routing it to connect with exsettlor and the bart rain to -- station to the south. >> chair: all right. noted. with that is there any general public comment? >> a call for the calvary to come. [laughter] to your rescue. sounded like that. so i'm asking the supervisors. when we have our projects that do the asphalting, somehow we should keep in mind our children, school children, our youth and ou

[applause] >> chair peskin: -- >> thank you. and another great partner in this effort he will say a few words is what andrews with p.r.c. [applause] >> it is wonderful to be here. i am just looking down the line here. thank you for allowing me to be part of the analysis and the processes. you are my mayor and i support you fiercely. we have known each other for years. thank you for leadership. you and i has -- have to find a new place for dinner. when the man was speaking, i all i could think is don't say that don't say that because that is in my speech. he will just hear that one more time. [laughter] i want to thank the mayor and the supervisors for understanding the importance of convening the methamphetamine task force. as we seek to address the critical issues of the day, homelessness, mental health, and substance use issues, we could not have achieved that successfully if we didn't fully address the growing crisis of meth and its effects that it is having on our community. over the past eight months, the task force came to