. >> thank you madam chair i'll call 3 speakersspeakers at a time (calling names). >> commissioners all i'll say like when you travel broad you can too brendon black men or van in a or florence you go to any of the places were there recent culture you need something like the moscone center that has a variety of things and what is happening in our city is as much as we are buildings high rises we fail to build open spaces even though a transbay we are talking about a garden yes or no or whatever they have building with a garden on top of that is meant for the public but nobody know about it so as i told us i have used the yerba buena gardens a lot for my artistic creativity and what we need to do as a city is innovative more creative architects to create more yerba buenas all over the city open space and in doing so we have to be careful that wherever ever wherever we have open spaces less traffic not people going to the open spaces and bringing in all the police cars but bye we i'm the director of the vial justice i write about this stuff but the city we'll talk about the conscious foot

. >> thank you, madam chair the order of business is item one role commissioners commissioner mondejar commissioner singh commissioner bustos madam chair rosales all members of the commission are present. >> the the next order of business is item 2 announcements a the next regularly scheduled meeting of may 19th will be one p.m. american people city hall room 416 and the announcements of prohibition please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. c announcement of time allocate for time minutes public has 3 minutes it is strongly recommended the must be who wish to address the commission submit a card to the commission secretary the the next order of business item 3 report on actions at a previous closed session no responsiblyable actions the the next order of bus

. >> hello commission and madam chair rosales director bohe are commissioners my name is it aaron thexecutive director not that toilet the president of the broshgs ever yerba buena artist and events just want to come by a drop a note of thanks to the eject and the xoemd director bohe for all you're doing to not only uphold the art but to be able to support the formation of an organization that's become a national indeed an international site that brings people into the city and county of san francisco to celebrate the arts in a very contraband way fully free to the public this is a very important endeavor that is an endeavor that is close to many of our hearts you can tell by the board of directors we have not only those who represent the development aspects of our city but those who represent those who were forming in our position represents the art and the community that have come together to roll think very hard about how we can create a very open and engaging space that would be very not only important to the city speak to what the city is all about and what someone earlier mentio

041 expending the date of completion for august 2014 and honda action resolution number 292014 madam chair. >> yes. do we have any speaker cards on the consent agenda. >> i have many ace washington. >> mr. washington. >> no? okay. so i'm just making sure that what we have in front of us is the april 21st minutes - may 19th so i think i have a point of clarification here >> that's itself 21st. >> the answer is yes we have april 21st i see okay. thank you. >> okay. my minutes were a little out of order sorry mr. washington. >> you have a card for the consent calendar? you're okay - thank you >> no other speaker cards okay so we have the consent calendar do we can take those items 5 ab separately any comments or questions on the minutes. >> i don't. >> i move there's another motion and seconded by commissioner mondejar all the roll on 5 a. >> commissioners please announces your vote commissioner mondejar commissioner singh is absent commissioner bustos madam chair rosales. >> i have 3 i's and one a little bit. >> okay. he should have asked 5 b the same - questions or comments on 5 b is it the

i really want to continue -- >> yes. >> thank you, madame chair. i really want to continue -- every time you testify, i bring this a little bit further. but i really want to keep exploring that especially with the chair. >> thank you for the testimony. nice to have a couple of arizonians here. bruce, good to see you. we've talked on a number of occasions. i appreciate the testimony from those who know so much on this. i appreciate the work of chief tidwell. i think it's important to acknowledge some of the positive developments that we've seen recently related to forest management. last month i think all of us were encouraged to learn phase one the record of decision was signed that will allow as chief talked about large scale management rather than just a couple of thousand acres here or there. the paltry 3,000 acres that have so far been treated is emblematic that it is too slow. we have to do it on a much larger scale. you've noted 58 million acres at high or very high risk. we have to move on a larger scale. so we all recognize achieving reducti

>> madam chair, if i may give a little historical perspective, i was co-chair of the president's council of advisers science and technology task force that recommended doing the qer a few years ago. and as we were contemplating this we met with many members of congress. and it was interesting we thought that many of the members emphasized their interest in this qer because they felt that a process that brought together many agencies that have so much energy equities to the congress which frankly while we have -- just like we have department of energy we have a committee on energy but many other committees having equities in this that this might provide a good basis for the kind of discussion that we need for more comprehensive look. we now have the product, i believe it could really help us in our administration congress. both chamber both sides of the aisle discussion, so i certainly and i know many of my colleagues now that we have what we hope can be a road map for much of our discussion want to engage in that discussion certainly in both chambers. >> i would encourage you to do that.

. >> thank you, madam chair colleagues this zoning legislation employees to the upper market are castro street and 24th electricity mcds neighborhood commercial districts that is designed to insure our ground floor retail space is utilized and televises as opposed to to office spaces we've seen situations where we're really extraly loeshth ground floor spaces instead of being occupied by retail or food and r or other active uses or optimist night e.r. on the weekend occupied by office spaces they're incredibly important and are a key part of neighborhoods but they're not necessarily the best use especially in significant numbers for ground floor retail space and so the legislation for all 3 of these neighborhood commercial districts upper market castro, upper market and noah valley will require a conditional use in order to put on office type of uses on the ground floor market street if octavia on the west side all the way down castro street it makes pardon me zoning controls it was passed a year ago to require conditional use for placing office space in one the ground floor spaces uppe

thank you, madam chair. chair: i thank the gentleman. are there any other members that wish to be recognized for an opening statement? chair recognizes mr. harper. mr. harper: thank you, chairman miller. thank you, chief dine, for being here today and offering testimony to the commit. there have been media reports on the rarity of a capitol police chief appearing before the committee. that is in fact charged with oversight of the force. i don't think that it should be unusual and hope that this may be the start of a new tradition of frequent appearanced bys by -- by you and your successors. i appreciate your service as well as that of each and everyone of the officers under your command. i don't consider it my job to criticize you or others in your command structure just when things go wrong. i think this committee can and should be as much a part of your support network as the capitol police or supporting agency of the u.s. congress. however, that requires open and honest communication between us. while i recognize the often sensitive n

. >> thank you very much madam chair and mr. egg on for our work i haven't reviewed the final draft i went over the prior draft you shared with us just a couple of questions your analysis is based on certain assumptions it some of the simulations are not correct what does that do to the analysis does that led to a different conclusion. >> well, the analysis relies on assumptions in if the assumptions change the data is not correct a. >> there is perfect enforcement in terms of that law. >> ; is that correct. >> i don't know if we use the wordperfect we said it will be enforceable so. >> if one the conclusions navigate that is an incorrect assumption the law is not enforceable that changes the result of our analysis. >> we're analyzing both the proposed ordinances that have their own 0 impoverishment we don't feel we have the confidence as an agency that didn't do enforcement saying this is more effective we simply have to leave that. >> that's what i financially the problem i have the enforceability and for us we believe in impo

yes. >> yes. >> commissioner singh commissioner bustos no madam chair rosales i have 3 i's and one nay. >> okay motion resolution passes we look forward to the workshop on housing so we'll all we'll properly innovative that anyone interested in that compunction has a chance to rejoin us the nobody is item e 30 years to second amendment for the personal service with mgm management to california corporation to extend the contract 3 years for $42,000 with a total agree gate not to exceed to one million dollars plus for property management services at yerba buena gardens former yerba buena center redevelopment project decision and action resolution madam director. >> commissioners i'm sure you're aware of the commission of the yerba buena gardens within the yerba buena center was one of the former agencies significant development after much discussion and community input and litigations the plan was adopted included the housing and significantly the cultural heart and cultural assets for the city a number of institutions as well as parks and open space all really constructed on top of the

disappointed that are to the version but not the duplicate version. >> here's what i want to recommend madam chaire send the vote and we'll resend it and i'll make a motion reduplication of the foil and move to continue the duplicate file to the call of the chair and then proceed with the original version. >> okay. so all right. may i have a motion to resend the vote all right. motion by supervisor wiener and sect by commissioner chan motion passes amazing is there a motion i can entertain on the floor supervisor wiener. >> so requesting the duplicate the foils for 1235e and duplicate the files to the call of the chair. >> okay. that it didn't need a vote. >> to the call of the chair requires a vote. >> so motion to move it passed unanimously by this body thank you very much okay now. >> supervisor tang's amendment we can make to the. >> supervisor tang could you. >> resate our motion. >> i previously stated the technical amendment and make a motion 80 motion to amend that to the full board. >> can we accept this unanimously. >> thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, that will democracy in acti

madame clerk, roll call vote, please. >> supervisor kim? >> no. >> kim, no. >> supervisor wiener? >> yes. >> wiener, yes. >> and chair cohen? >> yes. >> yes, you have two yeses and one know. >> thank you, this motion passed with positive recommendation to the full board. [ applause ] >> all right, madame clerk, could you please call item 3. >> item no. 3 is the ordinance amending the planning code to change the designation of 149-155-9th street also known as the western manufacturing company building. >> okay >> supervisor kim is the maker of this item and we'll hear from her first. >> thank you. i just wanted to make a motion to continue this item to two weeks to may 11th. there was something that was discovered by the project sponsor thursday of last week. we need to insert that amendment into this ordinance and we did reach out to both the project sponsor and the planning department. and they have already agreed to a recontinuance. >> thank you. jonathan lammers is here to make the presentation. >> the department supports the continuance. >> thank you very much. let's take public comment on this item. seeing no public com

. >> i think that supervisor cohen runs a tight ship i'll try to on behalf of here thank you, madam chair i'll start by saying i imagine it is probably something that all of us can agree on the existing law is not working the system is a broken legislation i have introduced along with supervisor mar and commissioner avalos as co-sponsors creates a short-term rental lay that works by adding strong enforcement mechanisms specifically requiring hosting platforms to list r0r7b8gd unit and rigging them to provide data to the city and creating a 60 day limit on the short-term rentals as i've said optometry occasion i'm repeat it i support home sharer i or that home share has a place in san francisco i want to thank the home shares thank you for hearing from you my door remains open for dialog i support casual hosts that are using this as a way to make ends meet it is the only way to stay in san francisco for some we recognize that but left you think regulated this industry about continue to stop the housing by incentivizing taking off the home rental markets a number of things have taken place

you through the proposed contract terms and extension thank you director bohe. >> hello, again madam chair rosales and commissioners dennis us the senior development specialist from messiah my previous presentation on the other hand owners and operators the garden and it includes any outdoor venues for example, on central block two anes in addition the upper terrace is the restaurant and is is a performance venue and the east garden fronting third street on central block 3 the plaza and app an a.m. theatre and jessie square is a venue for block one soon after the gardens were opened the former development agency and the garden community realized that the free event programming was essential to the success of the gardens because of this performer redevelopment agency along with the yerba buena alliance worked together to form the nonprofit yerba buena arts and event to provide the artistic programming at the garden they million listed the intent to provide the garners in two long term all the times with the marriott hotel those long term agreements governed the prompt all cultural and regio

. >> thank you very much madam chair and thank you for everyone come out on all sides of this issue so last fall that board after a very, very extensive process by the authors of the legislation then supervisor david chiu passed legislation for the very, very first time regulating short-term rentals there's been not regulation before it was the windshield west and passed that legislation the legislation tried to do what i think many people want to see what happened then and that is to be able to go after the bad actors people that are using housing stock nothing but short-term rentals with no residents and people that are engaging in evictions and creating spaces for short-term rentals i think we all agree are bad and should be contracted down on and eliminated as opposed to many people about are living in the unit and either renting out a room or when they go on vacation or in some way living in a unit and also deretrofitting income from that unit to try to make ends meet in this very, very expensive city and, of course, no other legislation is perfect but we struck a balance and if w

director's report. >> please call the next item. >> the nobody is item 8 commissioners questioning madam chair. >> commissioner singh. >> yeah. thank you planning department i really want the mr. normal should be helped much as we can i know one ladies her husband diode recently and feel bad they were good friends and so thirdly, i'm not going to be at the next meeting but out of town. >> okay. thank you. >> any matters? >> i just want to piggyback on and on on what commissioner singh said we've been for years trying to look to see how to make that work for our community and if it is not happening i know leaving up to the project starting you you can we kept saying hire local businesses and told yes yes, yes and i think now that things have been sort of okayed and things are motivational it may not be happening or may not happen to the degree we want it to happen we need to talk to our partners you know whether we have a conversation with them where a few of us not a quorum issue by sit down and talk about what it means to be a go partner folks shouldn't have to struggle to build their own cit

thank you very much, i appreciate that. >> thank you madam chair. >> thank you senator risch. senator hoeven? >> thank you madam chairman. chief, good to see you again. thanks for your recent visits to north dakota. i'd like to follow up on that. first question goes to the environmental assessment and the allot men plan for the grazers. in both cases they wanted changes made, you know proactively. can you give me a status report on how you are coming with that. >> senator, follow up with that meeting, our folks, our -- we're going to continue to work with the grazing association members to be able to address their concerns. and i think -- i want to thank you for hosting that meeting because i think it helped to clarify a few issues to help us be able to move forward and address their concerns. >> so you feel you will be able to working with your state director, be able to make adjustments that should work for the grazing associations and the ranchers? >> i was optimistic after listening, you know from the work there done by the university that i think would provide a slightly d

. >> thank you, madam chair last year, we passed a regulatory framework for short-term rentals we know that topic is having a thousand points of view from my prospective that was a starting point incidence that times interested parties out of city hall have continued to look at the legislation and it's backs and towards an effort to get the law right i fully believe we should support home sharers in san francisco but we must protect it to protect the housing stock that will be enforceable and streamline the city's registration so that host and others individuals that want to comply with the law are able to do that we want them to be good actors in the law we must insure to keep our city from turn go short-term rentals and strike a billion necessary to achieve that so our residents can thrive and share their home to make ends meet in now the most expensive city in america how we approach this this is extremely important to strengthen and streamline our current framework and processes i do believe that mayor lee's and my legislation strikes that balance we have a point of view that inclu