i guess i'll go two weeks. >> president chiu: okay. supervisor olague has made a motion to continue this item to to weeks. i think that would put it to -- >> clerk calvillo: october 16. >> president chiu: two weeks, october 2nd. is there a second to that motion? motion seconded by supervisor avalos. supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener: mr. president, thank you. i will not be supporting this continuance. and this is the first i'm hearing that any member of this body was interested in a continuance. this legislation has been thoroughly and fully vetted and i believe what supervisor olague is referring to is a portion of this legislation. right now, if you rent out a spot in your residence or your building to someone who doesn't live there, our planning code requires that the person live within 1250 feet of the parking spot. this is in the planning code. it's two and a half blocks. it's unenforceable. it depresses the price of parking inconsistent with city policy and also undermines the city policy of disaggregating housing and parki

thank you. >> president chiu: any further discussion? colleagues, first of all, on the amendments, if we could take the amendments without objection? that shall be the case. and on the underlying resolution to be adopted as amended, same house, same call? without objection the resolution is adopted. item 23. >> clerk calvillo: item 22, mr. president? >> president chiu: 22. >> clerk calvillo: an ordinance amending the planning code to permit existing gasoline and service stations located on 19th avenue to provide mechanical car washes on site. >> president chiu: passed on the first reading. >> clerk calvillo: item 23 an ordinance amending the planning code related to the transit impact development fee increase and update. >> president chiu: supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener: move to continue two weeks to october 2. >> president chiu: colleagues, supervisor wiener's made a motion to continue this item to the second of october, seconded by supervisor olague. any objection to the motion to continue? that shall be the case. item 24. >>

.] >> president chiu: thank you, ed. i want you to know i'd like to book you for half an afternoon every friday for the next year. >> [laughter.] >> president chiu: thank you very much. why don't we move to other business. we have several 4:00 special orders. madam clerk, could you call items 28 through 31. >> clerk calvillo: item 28 is a public hearing of persons interested in the decision of the department of public works dated august 9, 2012 approving a tentative map for two unit condominium conversation on dolores street. item 29 is motion approving the tentative parcel map. item 30 is a motion disapproving the tentative parcel map. item 31 is a motion directing the clerk to prepare findings. >> president chiu: so i'm going to open this public hearing and first acknowledge the supervisor from district 8, in whose district this project exists, supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener: thank you, mr. president. at the request of the appellant, in order to have a full opportunity for a briefing in this matter, once we op

.] >> president chiu: mr. harrington, if you have any words you want to say although i'll say after supervisor elsbernd's comments i think those of us from the chinese community, from the lgbt community, the the latino community, african-american community, everyone in san francisco we claim you as our own. i just want you to know that. >> and i appreciate that. i really do want to thank everybody for the kind words. it's been a wonderful place here. i have been blessed with having two of the best jobs in the world. i will be brief. two of the best jobs in the city, city controller and head of the public utilities commission. couldn't have asked for anything better than that. i counted over the weekend, i've worked with 48 members of the board of supervisors, as controller or at the puc. and i think i've gotten along with the vast majority of them. but i would like to commend this board particularly, your professional respectful way of dealing with each other and with staff and with the public is really someth

. >> president chiu: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, given that it is september 11, 2012, i'd like to ask that we take a moment of silence to remember the victims of 9/11. >> president chiu: thank you very much. if you could please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> 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. >> president chiu: colleagues, we have our july 31 board meeting minutes. motion by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor farrell. without objection those are approved. madam clerk, any communications? >> angela calvillo: i have no communications. >> president chiu: could you call our 3 pm special order. >> angela calvillo: first item of business is policy discussion between mayor and linley and board of supervisors. this week representing the even districts, specifically district 4. the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. the president will recognize the

let me conclude. >> president chiu: thank you very much. >> i make one statement. >> president chiu: thank you very much. >> thank you for being unfair. >> president chiu: are there any other members -- are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? sir? the mic to your right. >> i just got here, don't have time to fill out the form. if i may take a moment. it's too hard to pick it up. it's too heavy to pick it up but its full of customer surveys, taxi customer surveys, san francisco taxi driver, peter witt, san francisco driver for 24 years. i conduct these surveys just out of the about of good government and for the greater good of the city. being a native san franciscan i drive the taxi and walk the streets of sidewalk. i'm concerned primarily because mta is a bunch of bs, okay. i've been submitting these taxi surveys, 1,000, with a 93% return rate, by the way, which is phenomenal, if i do say so myself, an expert will guide you if you need guiding. but this is what it looks like when i process it. this is the very first one i did. i did 50

president chiu. >> president chiu: colleagues, having thought about it and thought about the issue of potential continuance over the last few days, i am not prepared to support the continuance for a couple of reasons. first of all, we know that this issue has been in the works not just for months, but for years. and this question we're talking about has been a fundamental issue within this discussion. it has been frankly a little surprising to me that the issue has come up at the last moment. i know we have colleagues and members of the administration that have had questions vis-a-vis the city attorney's office. i hoped we would be able to -- beforehand but i not heard any articulation about information that we are going to learn over the next week that ought to change our minds on this. and i think that there is a majority of this body that is prepared to move forward with this today. that being said, let me state that if there are any new pieces of information between the first reading and the second reading, i think we will always be open to hearing about things. and if there are t

. >> president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, president chiu, honorable members of the board of supervisors of the city and county of san francisco, my name is pedro fernÁndez a former san francisco policeman, spent eight honorable years with the police department before deciding to travel the world and live the good life. i'm here supporting ross mirk mirkarimi. i look at you 11 and don't see you having carpenter type experience because mary lee is asking you to build the gallows for ross mirkarimi. the bottom line is you're looking to terminate the duly elected sheriff of the city and county of san francisco. having been a former policeman i've dealt with a lot of domestic violence and a temporary emergency restraining order where a wife stuck her husband wit in the face. this stay order was seven months for grabbing somebody by the arm which he's admitted to. and then i ask you, as a board, how important are you 11 human beings, your staff, the people that work with you. we had, during the ethi

. >> president chiu: roll call vote. >> clerk calvillo: president chiu, aye. supervisor chu, aye. supervisor cohen, aye. supervisor elsbernd, aye. supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor olague, aye. supervisor wiener, aye. supervisor avalos, aye. supervisor campos, aye. >> clerk calvillo: there are 11 ayes. >> president chiu: resolution is adopted. item 19. >> clerk calvillo: item 19, resolution authorizing the public utilities commission to accept and expend the department of water resources administered grant in the amount of approximately $863,000 for a high efficient toilet installation program. >> president chiu: same house, same call. this resolution is adopted. >> the clerk: item 20, resolution establishing rent and term for a second extension and confirming a sublease extension with the unified school district for real property on mission street for general assistant services from the human services agency. >> president chiu: same house, same call this resolution is adopted. >> clerk calvillo: item 21, resolution to consider the issua

. >> president chiu: that is correct. motion to continue to the 25th, yes. >> clerk calvillo: president chiu, no. supervisor chu, aye. supervisor cohen, no. supervisor elsbernd, aye. supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, no. supervisor mar, no. supervisor olague, no. supervisor wiener, aye. supervisor avalos, no. supervisor campos, no. >> clerk calvillo: there are four ayes and seven nos. >> president chiu: motion to continue fails. and unless there's any discussion, why don't we -- supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener: i just wanted to state that in terms of what appears to be just the only dispute is in the first two, the third amendment, plus supervisor kim's amendment appear to be uncontroversial, in terms of the disputed amendments, i will not be supporting them because i do not believe that i have enough information to -- given how quickly this has all unfolded to know whether this is something that is possible to implement. it might be but i just don't know and i don't feel comfortable voting for an amendment

farrell: thank you, president chiu. a few comments, colleagues. we talked about a number of the amendments. it goes to the definition of choice and i believe creating an opt-out program for residents in our districts is not choice. to me there is absolutely no reason why any law should be an opt-in program such as this. it smells of coercion and that's not something i'm willing to vote for, for my residents in district 2 and for all representatives in san francis san francisco. supervisor campos, i too trust in ed harrington, his qualifications are impeccable but i want concrete numbers if i'm going to vote on nothing, or use that to vote on something and the fact is we have no numbers in front of us, they've never been presented to us, and to articulate that creating local power is a biproduct of this is a fallacy. i think when people articulate that and tell other folks that is part of what we're voting on today, that is untrue. i appreciate the fact that people have differences of opinion about how it may or may not

filbert. >> president chiu: it's parallel.rd and -- >> please put it on the agendas of any other properties. thank you. >> hi. members of the board of supervisors, ray hard -- san francisco open government. i would like to point out to this board of supervisors just as the prior speaker did, that often these things are agendized in a way that nobody who reads it can have any idea what it is. and it's hard to make public comment on an item when you can't do it without doing extensive research. and some of these are added at the very last minute. supporting documents are never subprovided on the website. and so basically you end up having to do research to try to figure out whether this is something that affects you, your community, someone you know, whatever. there is really no attempt by many of the boards and commissions in this city to be open to the citizens and their right to public comment. they will put things on an agenda in a way that you can't even understand what it is, let alone what it's supposed to do. i have seen

. >> president chiu: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> (reciting the pledge of allegiance. allegiance). >> president chiu: colleagues, we have board meeting minutes from july 10, july 17, and july 24 of this year. could i have a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor cohen. they're approved. do we have communications in. >> the clerk: yes. pursuant to charter 14.102 and california election, we are in receipt of a communication from john arts, director of the department of elections dated august 1, 2012. a petition of referendum against ordinance no. 10412, the eighth washington street project, the zoning map amendment has been certified by department of elections. due to the summer recess i have communicated this information and also agendized the ordinance for today's meeting. item 22 is the public hearing on the referendum and 23 is the board's reconsideration of the ordinance. >> president chiu: thank you, clerk.

. >> president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> viewers at home, tom gilberti, beach marina apartments. anyone in this room, anyone listening at home want to wake up tomorrow and hear a noise, a droning, a buzzing, coming not from their apartment or their home, their house, but from across the street, a never-before heard noise. they come home tomorrow, the next night, it's still there, it's still there, and it's still there. your property values, your quality of life suffer. and where is it coming from? it could be an electric transformer on a pole in a backyard, a street lamp, electrical transformer outside a warehouse that's been remodeled, a fan and motor ventilating parked cars in a garage, forced air coming out of a building to make them comfortable, and all the time they're dumping noise over the street onto your property. and what is this noise? this noise is basically garbage but it's wasted energy. we were talking before about how we want to make the city a little bit more energy-friendly. well, you know,

. >> president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon, president chiu, members of the board of supervisors. my name is carey vials. and i am here today to support you, as diligent and thoughtful stewards of our city. and to defend your previous decision to approve the zoning map amendment that would allow eight washington to move forward. the current attempts to reverse the approval of the project are a destructive precedent for the future of our city, and gravely disrespectful of the commitment, careful consideration and great number of hours that members of the city, the port, the planning department, you, the board of supervisors, special interest groups, hundreds of meetings with the neighborhood groups, design professionals, engineers, environmental consultants, as well as specific waterfront properties have dedicated to this project over seven years. and i ask why would anyone ever want to contribute their time, effort, and passion to improving the fabric of our city to create new homes, both market rate and affordable parks, cafes, bicycle and pedestrian paths ever again. if they kn

supervisor farrell. >> supervisor farrell: thank you, president chiu. colleagues, i respect everyone's decisions. with that however i'm not going to be supporting the underlying items, but what i would like to do, the one thing i want to make clear is again, as mentioned before, everyone supports our green economy in san francisco and any job creating measures to that effect are something i want to support so i'd like to divide the file for item 16, the $6 million going to fund go solar sf to energy efficiency initiates as well as the study of the local build-out i would like to separate those items out and have a roll call on those items separately. >> president chiu: okay. why don't we first take a vote on the $6 million program items that supervisor farrell would like to sever out. if we could take a roll call vote on those items. >> clerk calvillo: president chiu, aye. supervisor chu, aye. supervisor cohen, aye. supervisor elsbernd, aye. supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor olague, aye. supervisor wiener, aye

. >> president chiu: thank you. next speaker. good afternoon, commissioners, president chiu. my name is janine moss an architect in a firm located in downtown san francisco. for years, i worked on the embarcadero and i am pleased to be here again on behalf of the many individuals who have worked effortlessly for years to support the thoughtful development of the waterfront communities. to be sure, the tennis club and as lot surrounded by sensing and green netting don't belong on san francisco's beautiful embarcadero. san francisco residents and visitors alike deserve the opportunity to find new and repurposed uses for our urban fabric and the water's edge needs to continue to evolve with dignity and grace. the proposal for change is difficult, as we have seen most recently in this process, but there is no doubt eight washington represents sound planning principles, historic sensitivity, acknowledgement of open space requirements, and connectivity between neighborhoods and the bay. this city must continue to make bold steps in order to ensure our waterfront's viability and suc

: roll call vote. >> clerk calvillo: president chiu, aye. supervisor chu, aye. supervisor cohen, aye. supervisor elsbernd, aye. supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor olague, aye. supervisor wiener, aye. supervisor avalos, aye. supervisor campos, aye. >> clerk calvillo: there are 11 ayes. >> president chiu: resolution is adopted. item 19. >> clerk calvillo: item 19, resolution authorizing the public utilities commission to accept and expend the department of water resources administered grant in the amount of approximately $863,000 for a high efficient toilet