, section 101.11bb; and waiving certain provisions of administrative code, chapter 56, and planning code, section 249.28. city clerk: sf 51234 >> same house same call. this item is finally passed. item 6. city clerk: avalos6.140932[accept and expend grant - california department of parks and recreation's habitat conservation fund - youth stewardship program - $200,000]sponsor: chiuresolution authorizing the recreation and park department to accept and expend a grant of $200,000 from the california department of parks and recreation's habitat conservation fund to support the youth stewardship program. city clerk: avalos6.140932[accept and expend grant - california department of parks and recreation's habitat conservation fund - youth stewardship program - $200,000]sponsor: chiuresolution authorizing the recreation and park department to accept and expend a grant of $200,000 from the california department of parks and recreation's habitat conservation fund to support the youth stewardship program. city clerk: avalos6.140932[accept and expend grant - california department of parks and recre

related to the consolidations reorganize article two and make changes to simplify code changes that is a planning code amendment. >> good afternoon aaron starr acting manager this is an ordnance that easements the planning code to reorganize article two for rezoning tables to update and clarify and simplify it's code language i presented this effort to the commission on june 30th, 2013, at a public hearing in an effort to introduce the concept to the planning commission as well as the public to get feedback on the process on july 24th of this year the commission voted inform uphold it they have two outreach meetings and internally by two planner and since staff initiation staff has made modifications from the feedback it is in our packet an exhibit g we are asking you recommend approval with the modifications to the board of supervisors idea to reorganize article 2 has been around since 1980s when seven and eight were add article seven and eight were organized differently and have their own use dings very the zoning tables that list the zoning standards in one table for a single sou

i was asked by members of the coalition sitting ton this commission to look at the rewrite of the code it's at admiralable effort but it's clear in the development is to make to easier to understand and several organizations saying their confused and there's things they don't understand it seems like easy for the commission to say look let's take a few weeks of extra time and have the department sit down i noticed for t yourselves uses terms like words that don't have definitions i think i understand it is not totally clear as to how the depictions are going to play into the uses that are allowed or not allowed within the code i'm encouraging you as a gesture of goodwill there's no rush to get to substantive initiatives i am interested in the short-term rental it's not covered in this code and i imagine the board of supervisors will take care of that but it seems like only common sense and goodwill for you to ask the vice president to hammer out the concerns so everyone understand and narrow it detain to the issues that are substantive that we'll need to deal with thank you for your co

did it look like it was done 10 years ago he said it wasn't fresh concrete we have a section in the code if you don't do the work and your getting pencillize listed we'll reduce that so i don't know why that didn't take place but she didn't say when she bought the property the penalty is severe i know i have the power here to reduce it but excuse me. >> ms. linda you'll have time to speak in ruth. >> i won't be opposed to reducing it a little bit who did the work and when did she do the work the concrete was 10 years of a difference this person that filled the complaint in june decided to do so i don't know why maybe she can explain that. >> i have one question inspector is that the penalty for the structure in the back as well? the notice of violation that was issued by inspector green didn't actually reference the structure in the back i think what happened when they came to get the permit for the concrete that had been in the planted area the further permit maybe they realized it was an old complaint and they tacked it onto the notice of violation i don't have a copy with me nor did i

>> i mean, have it be up to code? egress? all of those things? >> you know, it is not clear to me the way that the legislation is actually currently proposed, regarding that, i will tell you though, that if planning sees a space that is being used for residential use, where this type of complaint has come in, they would make a referral, to us as they do right now. and that will be a little different, than a dwelling unit that someone has made the complaint that they are renting it in violation of chapter 41, a as it is getting amended those types of complaints of an illegal occupancy, or a illegal conversion in use, and it will still come to us. and that is again, part of the trending of the discussion that we have already talked about. and so, i do anticipate that when we see those types of things that we will get those regardless and be able to take those through our already established code enforcement process. >> and we have as commissioner melgar requested, we are engaging our code enforcement out reach program, agencies, that we contract wi

of the energy code. right. and then, high-rises are defined anything above 4 stories. >> well, in the building code, we define a high-rise as anything above 75 feet of the last occupiable floor level and so what we are evaluating right now, are low rise buildings that are 75 feet or less. in height. and so, the important distinction because the high-rise buildings present a higher challenge for the fire department to address occupant safety and response, and firefightering tactics and things like that. and it we can't reach higher than 75 with what is called a master stream. so essentially we have to fight the fire from inside and not outside. so, right now, what is being looked at is the what, the building code, and it will define it as a low or maybe even a mid rise, and we just say that it is not a high-rise. and so, the egress getting back to your question, is of a very important concern because there is very little time usually in a fire for the occupants to respond. and escape. and if that fire is progres

and that we end up having to code enforce in kind of various ways. and so, i concur that that... and i mean that we need to do that now because those cases are going to come before us, even, before the legislation is enacted in february. so, i concur with that. >> yeah, absolutely i agree with everything that was said there, with regard to commissioner melgar, i do understand the concerns that we should have had a discussion, the advice that we got on that one was, because it was still a moving target and we are trying to figure out what, how it was going to form itself. it moves fast and i wish that it was... (inaudible) and to get the kind of help that it got. but, i agree and so i will bring it back and we will have the discussion and i think that it does need to be talked about and we can't, and there are a lot of open questions still. and to deal with that. and as far as policy, i see it in that same issues that we have over all, is and commissioner walker, and commissioner melgar and all of my fellow commissioners talk about how do we get this done? and it is becoming more

but when it comes to gangs, the convict code is the code of silence.an get members killed. >> they got rules, and we got rules within the rules, you know. among different people or among different races. but we have to deal with it. you know, i can't elaborate too much on it. >> the subject was clearly off the table when we sat down at pelican bay state prison with raul leon, alleged to be one of the leaders of the most powerful prison gang of all, the mexican mafia. >> how powerful is the mexican mafia here at pelican bay? >> i don't even touch on that right there. i don't speak on it myself, you know? >> raul leon had such influence throughout the state by assigning individuals to represent him. he would have people assaulted. he would have riots take place on his orders. >> serving a life sentence for murder, leon lives in what is widely regarded as the most restrictive environment in the state of california -- pelican bay security housing unit or shu. inmates are confined to their cells for all but 90 minutes per day, which they're allowed to spend

and that's a very good question it's the - and the planning code it talked about building structures you need to do a lot of work to bring this up to code in those older building we come across this if people want to upgrade their building and have a bathroom that has an unusual condition we'll needed to rip this out to get that and if the owner wants to do it they could get away with basically changing out the plumbing function terrors without lower the floor if the building was like that if every one of those units has those types of continues with the bed under the wall i don't know what year the building was constructed by 70 or 80 years old you'll not ask him to bring every bathroom up to code but it's not a bad idea to do that. >> and the prior discussion about a bathroom you mentioned the kitchen and that's the permit what it was the work in the kitchen. >> probably changing out the cabinets. >> no religions to the other issue. >> this is about the bathroom from what i read. >> thank you. >> okay. >> so those original conditions were sivenl approved so their grandfathered in n

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>> there is not one defined in the building code. >> i understand that, and the reason that i asked if we are allowing the smoke to get into the corridors we are actually changing the people's perception of what is happening in those corridors, the layman people, may not recognize it, and this is not, this is safe. and there is smoke in here, but this is safe. >> right. >> that is one of my concerns, about allowing the smoke into the corridors and only into the stairwell, and i can tell you from experience, and in my college days i lived in an apartment and there was a fire in the corridor and where there was a fire somewhere, once i saw the smoke i didn't go in the corridor i went out the back and through a window, that is throughout, and i don't think that layman's original public, general residents living in those buildings, will recognize, oh, this is safe enough for me to go through. >> that is a good point. >> you know, in modern and fire protection and engineering we look at this to look at a lot of smoke conditions and it assumes if you can go through the smoke you will. but it

article two and make non-substantive changes to simplify code changes on october 23rd after hearing the public comment they continued the meeting commissioner johnson and commissioner fong voted against and commissioner moore we were absent that day you have to say you've listened to the hearing. >> yes. i did thank you very much. >> good afternoon, commissioners aaron starr this is an ordinance that all the times the planning code we organize article two to organize the control tangible and make on the now and then substantive changes in order to simplify the code language i introduce it 18 months ago i brought the proposals back or to remind you us where we've come from and where we're going i have the zoning code and zoning map for the entire city from 1946 tapes 4 pages and the rest is the map i'm going to pass it around for you. >> next is the planning code from the 1970s slightly larger probably about 2 hundred or 3 hundred pages and this is the code today it is 3 vitamins i'm not going to pass this one around so the point is the code has grown not only in size but in complexi

notice before we've starred r start the work and the steps in the bathroom have to meet the current code so we feel this is more of a matter for the rent board not necessarily for the board of appeals this is will involve the neighboring unit needs to excuse me. needs to you know go basically settle on a rent compensation for the loss of this storage slash between spaces that exists under the bathroom in unit 10 and extends into her unit 9 that's something we're going to have to negotiate and probably are a mediation with the rent board we've tried in the past to offer sliegsz to the tenant in unit 9 every time we've tried to do that the tenant in unit 9 asked for further rent rescues and asking for more square footage you can't walk on the space where the bed is it's essentially storage from the bed overnight and from the trendline so wombs we're not pursuing on eviction or merger the units the unit will be under rent control and we're not taking away electricity or hot water or assess everything is remaining in place the lease remains in place we're trying to do the safe the safe code

had the entire school through the hour of code. they have 30, 40 computerses for the school. my wife teaches 10-year-old kids. i think it really does start at the elementary school level. do you think this might aid and abet? it will. >> we have had 47 million students do this. i'm sure it will have an effect. these are kids in kindergarten or third grade. my general feel is learning how a computer works, technology, should be learning how the digestive system works. >> when i was a kid we had apple 2s in schoolment all the computer could do is what you typed in you learned basic. if, then, go to line 40. there was nothing else for the computer to do you used the computerment i think we lost some of the programming as well. >> i like how you changed it to a series of instructions. the look on their face. the kids don't realize you made something happen you wanteded to happen. they know it's not that they don't think there is learning involved. they have to solve puzzles and have videos of bill gates telling them why it's important

supportive of the motion i thank everyone 40 who came to participate going back to the 1946 planning code that will be my first choice i'm supportive of the motion. >> commissioners, i think the people log anything you encounter mr. star that didn't occur right just you didn't want us on that would be a great idea for a formal report. >> commissioners a we have a motion and a second to adapt this resolution with - recommendation for approval it is amended and moved commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner fong commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 78 to zero and places you on item 13 for case the urban forest master plan on november 6, 2014, after hearing and close the public comment it is continued and commissioner hillis and commissioner fong against. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm john sawyer with the department staff at our hearing on the uttering plan street trees the commission directed the staff to return the first was a glossary of key terms in the urban fo

so that is the main part of code for america. and then there are the local, sort of chapters, they are called the brigades, which is volunteers from within the xhunlt community itself, who come in and we meet, every wednesday there. and then, we have the different projects and everybody gets to choose a project that they would like to become an ongoing part of. >> i see, at least the chapter aspiration is not necessarily to get to a funded level, or a contract, or a series of contracts that you would be providing this particular service, but just, this is your... >> this is a very different (inaudible). >> we appreciate it. >> it is a very different ethos, and i think that it is not... it is part of what you would probably have heard of as hacker culture. which is very much deeply have a deeply open data, and open government, and open force, and so this particular project is open force, which means that anybody else could take what we have built and reuse it somewhere else. and so, it is part of that ethos. it is not necessarily

those suggestions were made from the uttering definition and others defines from the public works code and the better street plan the funding sections we included the property and non-property mechanisms we've identified on the property based the parcel tax and on the non property general funds and urban forest joint powers authority and based on the plan to make sure that the plan focused on street trees was clear so ya for the record in response to conversations at the last hearing i want to highlight a couple of key points the street trees focuses on trees within the public right-of-way with an emphasis open chronic funds regarding the street tree maintenance tests not directed to open spaces and should not be considered the document to do so a fire chief plan phase will be done exclusively for parks also while the focus is on street trees it recognizes that our urban forest has an canopy layer the trees on 19th avenue and gesture restraining order street their carried out i think we sufficiently addressed the concerns and ready today for moving the plan forward for street trees. >>

commission that a proposed policy that the project sponsor removes the features from the planning code and we implemented those interim controls when a particular project on castro street gained the system to take itself out of formula retail defines so that will be one and the second would be i'll read this financial services limited financial services personal services above the ground floor of a building anatomy considered formula retail and again in the also i think the beginning of the discussion i've raised this about the second floor issue those are the two amendments i'll propose for the duplicateed version. >> i'll second it. >> we'll take that without objection. we'll make those amendments if i could have a motion to send the duplicateded versus to the planning commission is that the appropriate. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney i think the appropriated motion is to continue to the to the call of the chair and we'll afford it to the full board. >> so the duplicateded version of item 3 to the call of the chair. >> 70. >> we'll take that without objection. align to the orig

and so that building may have been up to code when it was built. but 100 years later. so the number of things probably did happen. so i guess that my discomfort with all of this is that it is all new and a lot of the rules that were valid ten years ago really are not really, you know, that these units are being marketed all over the world and something that may look good in a picture and that does not necessarily mean that the electrical and the, you know, all of the systems, you know are safe, and so, you know, i am, i guess that i am struggling with understanding between the idea, to the actual how to is this going to work? that we have it all under control. and i... >> well, if i can clarify, commissioner. i am not saying that this proposed legislation is not going to encourage people from renting out spaces in illegal units or areas that were not previously approved for residential use. that is why the discussion with cristina and if someone wished to propose the legislation that required the inspection for rentals i would be doing my best to facilitate that. but w