but i'd like to ask joseph barber from d.b.i. to come up and let's see if we can get at sometime of the things we cannot have the chance to discuss last week. thank you. i will not make any comments about where to put your jacket. >> on ton of the vilers leasing to tourists for nightly stays and operating a hotel they found an additional 13 hotels that were specifically being advertised toe tourists to tour. it is in the northeast corn of the city represented by this supervisor and the supervisor to my left and a hotel that was supposed to be 75% residential and 25% tourist. that listed 100% of all of the units as tourist rentals and another couple of buildings and listed a number of rooms for tourists so the question s. how does the city enforce listings and ensure that residential rooms are not going to tourists? i say that in light of the fact that our short term rental ordinance does not cover s.r.o.s. >> i mean, just broadly, we generally respond to complaints and different hotels suspected of unlawful conversion. there are

i'm joseph barber from the department of building inspection. i'm a housing inspector. >> you can drop your -- put your coat on mr. sanchez's lap. [laughter] >> that's better. >> can you hear me now? >> yes, sir. >> all right. so i'm the resident from the department of building inspection. >> is there anything you would like to add? >> we are gaining units under the hotel conversion ordinance. i think there's -- under chapter 41, there's -- they are converting all the units in 860 sutter to resident designations which means there's eight extra rooms under the conversion ordinance. so we are happy with that. we are getting extra rooms. >> thank you, mr. barber. from the mayor's office of housing, mr. adams, if you are here, you are welcome to weigh in. if you are not, it is okay. it has been a marathon meeting here at land use and transportation committee. anything you want to add? no. ms. jenson? mr. smith? all right. we will open this up to public comment. public comment is open. the floor is yours. you have nothing to say? [off mic] >> this is

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