i will invite planner diego sanchez up to give a few more technical details about how this would work. >> supervisor tang: great. thank you. and also in your presentation, you could maybe sure results of the legislation and the -- upon its expiration, i'm sure it's helped many projects in the community.ou c ld share if it had expired what we would be prevented from doing. >> diego sanchez, planning department staff. superviso supervisors, the planning department heard this may 3. several members of the public testified to show their support and how successful it's been at 100 hooper site. several commissioners remarked, e e expressing their gratitude to supervisor cohen for establishing this and they voted unanimously to approve the ordinance. that's the report from planning commission. if you have further details, we can fill those in as well. thank you. >> supervisor tang: do we have any questions, comments? okay. seems like it's a good thing. so we'll good to public comment on item 1. any members of the public that wish to speak, please come on up. >> supervisors, kate service, sf

diego sanchez, amend the planning code to probability hotel uses in the north beach neighborhood commercialdistrict and telegraph hill, before i begin my presentation, provide lee hepner with time to present to you. >> mr. hepner. >> hello, commissioners. again, lee hepner from supervisor peskin's office, happy to be here on a roll, i hope. the legislation before you, of course, would limit hotel uses in the telegraph hill-north beach residential special use district and the commercial district, those are almost contiguous zoning district, telegraph hill-north beach being a little larger and north beach just crossing columbus a little bit. just a word about district three at large. we are sort of by unanimous accord the primary destination for tourists in the city and county of san francisco. it bears out in the numbers, according to the city's annual inventory of large hotels in san francisco, the last one in 2011, i don't know if it did not continue. but 86 of the city's 92 large hotels were within district 3, and if you break it down by number of hotel rooms, 26,903 hotel rooms already i

. >> i'm diego sanchez. i'm joined by shelley from planning staff. we will be presenting an ordinance that amended the administrative code to create a process to establish cultural districts from the city. the department supports the intentions and efforts of the ordinance. however, as indicated in the case reports, we have recommended amendments to the ordinance. we'll be discussing these later in the presentation. at this time, i would like to provide an opportunity for catalina morales of supervisor ronen's office time to present to you. it was their office that sponsored this legislation. so without further delay -- >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm here representing supervisor ros ronen. we've worked to incorporate information from city departments, community leaders and supervisors on the board. this legislation creates an official recognition of cultural districts of san francisco in a clear, formalized process. it provides a framework for departments to invest resources into protecting culturally relevant businesses, arts, festivals, and