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supervisor mar: thank you very much, mr. kennedy. >> personally, i find this a very exciting proposal. supervisor mar: thank you very much. >> thank you. supervisor mar: next speaker. >> i've lived at parkmerced in district 7 for 14 years. i see this proposal as a very positive revision. provides solid, new family- oriented housing, a neighborhood where you can do many more things in a neighborhood without driving out of the neighborhood to other parts of the city or to other towns. it being propose at a time when many reports say san francisco will see a great amount of growth over the next 20 years. it's right on time. it provides jobs both during and after the construction. rent control has be taken care of. i'm impressed by the work you are doing. i think this will lead to a presicident. make sure you can keep that in place. if this project is not approved, one of my big worries is not that it will go back to the era of benign neglect, but back to the era that i call aggressive exploitation but it was a relentless battle

, supervisor cohen, supervisor elsbernd, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, supervisor mar, supervisor wiener. mr. president, we have 10 ayes. president chiu: it is now 3:00, time for this special order. please read item 43 and 44. >> a public hearing to consider objections to reports of assessment costs submitted by the director of public works for inspection and/or abatement of

mr. clerk, call the roll on items one through certified? >> campos aye, president chiu, eye, chu aye, cohen, aye, elsbernd, aye, farrell aye, kim absent. supervisor mar aye, mirkarimi aye, wiener aye. avalos aye. mr. president, we have 10 ayes. >> supervisor chiu: order andses adopted. let's skip over items 8-17 related to treasure island until that special order in our agenda. let's go to 18-21, the items regarding park merced. >> items 18-21 are without recommendation from the land use committee. item 19 is an order nascar amending the planning code to include the park merced planning district. item 20 is an ordinance mend amending the planning code. item 21 is an ordinance amending the height map with respect to park merced. >> thank you. supervisor chiu: colleagues, i wanted to let you know that in the two weeks since the first vote on this project, i did sit down with several tenant leaders. as a result of the meetings, we negotiated, and the developer has agreed to a number of technical amendments as well as several additional tenant protections. first, that there not be any operation or maintenance pass-throughs for the relocating tenants for

supervisor mar: mr. sullivan, could you please start to summarize more succinctly so we can get to public comment? >> ok. the remedies introduced today include termination rights for against reneging owners and developers. if it happens at all, there would be a termination of the development agreement. if it happens after substantial construction, so we're in the middle of construction, developers have an option of either continuing to abide by rent control or pay the liquidation amount. like i said, we also have the right of first resultrefusal. i'm happy to answer further questions on that. supervisor mar: we have the 14 page document and a summary. we also have mr. yarne's summary of the different amendments. thank you for that. my understanding is there's a puc recommendation, as well, which i think is on our desks, too. my aide has distributed copies. if anybody wants them, please raise your hand. there are two documents you should be able to receive. one is a summary document that summarizes all th

mar, aye. mirkarimi, aye. wiener, aye. avalos, aye. mr. president, we have 11 ayes. supervisor chiu: this resolution is adepositted. item 30. >> resolution determining that the public interest demand various improvements and the estimated costs of $248 million for such improvement is and too great to be paid out of the ordinary revenues, that the project is not under sequa and waiving the time limits set forth. supervisor chiu: supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: thank you, mr. president. i am proud to be a co-sponsor of this bond, union i am strongly supporting it. this is a key part of our capital plan, and it will play a key role in keeping the infrastructure of our city intact. i think it's important to note where we are, that we have hundreds of millions of dollars of defer maintenance on our roads. this is not a situation where we can just pay to bring our roads up to par out of our general fund. as much as we may want to do that, it is not possible given the 30 years we have neglected our road and allowed them to fall into this state of disrepair. in additio

mar, aye. mirkarimi, aye. wiener, aye. avalos, aye. mr. president we have 11 eyes. supervisor chiu: this resolution is adopted. item 32. >> ordinance amending the transportation code to establish a time limit for parking at inoperable or broken parking meter. supervisor chiu: can we take this item same call. this ordinance is passed on first edie. >> 33 is a resolution that the issuance of a liquor conference. churechure this resolution is adopted. next item. >> item 34 is a resolution a proving the community needs assessment. supervisor chiu: supervisor kim. supervisor kim: i wanted to thank dcyf for their assessment of what is going on with youth in the city. it was good to get an assessment of the issues young people are facing. although we continue to have a drop of young people in the city, i wanted to note some of the things that had come up in the presentation. what continues to be a concern for me, and we look at the budget, and we look at our policy-making, and it is that bullying and harassment based on race and sexual orientation continues to be a big iss

chairperson mar: thank you. mr. collins? >> tim colin, here to speak in support of what the amazing livable city is doing. we like for this is going. for the record, the housing action coalition for a long time has said we favor the elimination of parking minimums. do not require it. put in parking maximums. we love housing, but wind up fighting about parking. the idea of making housing conforming and bringing rationality to the process, we support. we urge you to move this proposal along. thank you. chairperson mar: if there is no other person who would like to speak from the public, let's close public comment. our city attorney. >> city attorney's office. after reviewing the proposed changes for today, it is suggested that we combine the best of these provisions regarding significant landmark trees. i would suggest a slight amendment that combines them to give context to the zoning administrator's decision. what i would recommend is that you retain subsection m that appears on page 36, line 20. add to it the following lang

supervisor mar: mr. flores. >> good morning. carter's local 22. supervisors, madame clerk, i will say it again. tenants rights. i want to thank mr. chiu. it's in the right direction. i urge you to move forward. let's plant the seed. you are all leaders. let's leave the way for the city and county of san francisco. we know how to do things right. let's do it. let's move things forward. thank you very much, supervisors. supervisor mar: thank you. maria, as well. >> good afternoon. i did not come down here to make friends. i came to talk about what i believe in. i also came down here to call some people out. he comes out here representing the union. you did not see him walking members of our organization -- crying while there were up. supervisor mar: what is your name? >> ben. i'm a resident of your district, supervisor mar, for eight years. supervisor mar: please speak to the measures before you and try not to attack people. >> i would like to pass this around, if you have not seen this. this is still being distributed by parkmerced. it's says "and

supervisor mar: let's open this up for public comment. mr. paulson. >> ♪ it is a miscellaneous merkel make a miscellaneous miracle and dreams are made of amendments ♪ supervisor mar: thank you. anyone else from the public that would like to speak? public comment is closed. can remove this item for without objection? -- we move this item forward without objection? thank you. i do not think this one needed to be a committee report. we have moved forward with a positive recommendation. please call the last item. >> item # 6, the hearing on the interagency plan. >> i am from the planning department. i will quickly go over the two reports in front of you. they are both required by the ad men and planning code. they are annual reports. i think there from article 36 of the abdomen code called the interagency plan implementation committee. it is a mouthful. it is a committee set up to make sure all the good work we do in area plans for neighborhoods and upcoming plans, all the infrastructure, community improvements are being coordinated with all of th

mar. we will take that. now, we will look at what we are doing. mr.rk, if you could please read agenda items 45 through 54. >> and no. 45 for the proposed library and playground. item 46 is a motion affirming the certification of the feir. item 47 is a reversing of the certification for the north beach boy library and the playground. item 48 is a preparation of findings. item 49 is a preparation of findings. item 52 is it about the zoning. item 51 is a hearing of persons of interest about the vacation of a one-block portion of a street for purposes of the north beach public library and the playground. item 52 is an ordinance for ordering the vacation of one block of mason street for the purposes of the north beach public library and the playground master plan. item 53 is a public hearing about the property located on lombard street. this is consistent with the playground-library master plan project, and i did 54 is a resolution authorizing the use of real property located at 701 lombard street. -- item 54. president chiu: ok, colleagues, ladies and ge

supervisor mar: thank you. bart broom. mr. lazarus? >> i want to thank supervisor chiu and the parkmerced owners. we urge you to adopt the amendments and adopt a package of legislation necessary to have this project go forward. i think i mentioned this before. many of you serve on regional bodies and your predecessors have. we have pledged to take our share of population growth in this city, a regional population growth in san francisco and we have done that. our population has hit a historic high of 805,000 people. much of that growth is on the east side of town. we have rare opportunities elsewhere in the city to have in-fill growth of the type that is proposed, not overnight, but over a 15 to 20-year period. the chamber, our alliance with labor, urges you to approve this project. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. tommy, ben, brooke turner. i think i already called bart broom. my apologies for not recognizing bart from the sf public utilities commission. >> i've lived in the garden apartments since 1959, when they were only 18 ye

mar present. mirkarimi present. wiener present. mr. president, all members are present. supervisor chiu: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? madam clerk, are there any communications? >> i have no communications. supervisor chiu: if you could read the consent agenda, items one through 30. >> these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote unless a member requests discussion of and matter. it shall be removed and considered separately. supervisor chiu: would anyone like to sever any items? roll-call vote please. >> on items one through 30, mar aye. aye. avalos aye. campos aye. chiu aye. chu aye. cohen aye. elsbernd aye. farrell aye. kim aye. there are 11 ayes. supervisor chiu: those ordinances are passed. items 31 through 33. >> item 31 is a motion affirming the determination by the planning department at the at&t network like speed upgrade project is exempt from environmental review. item 32 is an upgrade on the project. item 33 is a motion directing the clerk to prepare finings reversing the exemption determin

supervisor mar: i have follow-up questions for mr. cooper. it is very subjective whether this project eir -- appellants are climbing in reality it is a program eir. i need more specifics about how you would distinguish that what is being considered has adequate analysis, as supervisor mercury mentioned. the appellant highlights there was not sufficient analysis to constitute a project-level review. that is on page 11. they go on to mention it did not have the details necessary to assess, let alone mitigate, project-level impacts. that is on page 12. they conclude the plan was only conceptual, or could be changed in the future, and that the project level details for the development do not presently exists. they go on to explain that. could you give us more examples of why you are absolutely sure that this is a project eir and not a program eir? >> i would like to begin by saying we provide a full, comprehensive response to those issues in our response. >> >> -- supervisor mar: if you could summarize those, that would be helpful for me. >> in g

chairperson mar: without objection. mr. meko? >> good afternoon, jim meko, chair of the task force. thank you for your time. this policy replaces an earlier policy of citizens' review, which originally put a housing cap in place which would have limited housing production to 100 units. that never was able to achieve a majority group -- majority vote in a diverse group of people. we took a second crack at this and sat down with spur and many other people. this is the alternative to the original housing proposal. i see my friend and tim -- my friend tim cole waiting in the wings. we said in this policy you can build all the housing you want. the blood probably rush so much to his head he did not hear the second half of that sentence, which is, "as long as you do not mess up the historical balance of affordable versus market rate housing and do not drive jobs out and turn this into a bedroom community." what you are looking at today is four lines that would appear in the proposal for adoption that is going to the planning commission and then will be before you. that policy reads "estab

this was a very famous sort of bed and breakfast of the 1890's called vista del mar, run by mrs. patriarch. she had these old north beach and mission horse cars that she essentially left revealed on the upper floor. she put pillows and hammocks up there so guests could stay up and look at the ocean from the car up above. this house sort of became like the winchester mystery house. it kept growing and growing, and having more additions and more cars annexed on to it. so at one point it has up to 10 cars. you can see they're using old dash signs or destination signs for fencing, actually, here in the front. so everything gets recycled in carville. later mrs. patriarch's bed and breakfast becomes an episcopal church called st. andrew's by the sea. so here it is in that incarnation. in the back there's a shed there. that's the sunday school, it says. you can see the fence. it was necessary to sort of fight the sand and keep it at bay. it's another pretty famous house on the great highway. it looks sort of like a mechanist myian temple or something. it kept being boxy and then growing

supervisor mar: let's open this up for public comment. mr. paulson. >> ♪ it is a miscellaneous merkel make a miscellaneous miracle and dreams are made of amendments ♪ supervisor mar: thank you. anyone else from the public that would like to speak? public comment is closed. can remove this item for without objection? -- we move this item forward without objection? thank you. i do not think this one needed to be a committee report. we have moved forward with a positive recommendation. please call the last item. >> item # 6, the hearing on the interagency plan.

mar. can you share with us your announcements? >> yes, mr. chairman. all persons attending this meeting are requested to turn off cell phones and pagers. if you wish to submit speaker cards, please put them by the container at the rail in front of you to your left. if you wish to submit copies of materials for members of the committee, please submit an extra copy for the file. supervisor avalos: thank you. if you could please call out item one. >> item 1, resolution authorizing the recreation and park department to retroactively accept and expend a grant administered by the california state parks and recreation department in the amount of $2,700,000 for the 17th and folsom street park project. supervisor avalos: thank you. we are joined by supervisor kim. this is an item in your district. do you have any comments? supervisor kim: thank you, colleagues. i do not have a lot to say. yes, this is an accept and expend for a retroactive grand for a new park we will be building on 17th and folsom street -- a retroactive grant. this is part of the neighborhood

supervisor mar: is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? mr. paulson? >> ♪ you make it here and there you work real hard and then you will see that the impact fees are coming back to your me now ♪ supervisor mar: and sweet. can we move this forward with a positive recommendation without objection? >> that was short and sweet. thank you so much, everyone. >> would you like to file this or continued? supervisor mar: is an annual report. let's continue to call the chair without objection. any other business before us? >> there are no further measures. supervisor mar: thank you, everyone. the meeting is adjourned. ♪ supervisor chu: welcome to the expanded budget and finance committee meeting. do we have any announcements today? >> yes, please turn off all cell phones. if you wish to speak during public comment, please fill out a speaker card and an them in to myself. if you submit documents to the committee, please provide a copy to the clerk for inclusion into the file. items acted upon today will appear on the border supervisors' agenda on june 2, 2011, un

supervisor mar: is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? mr. paulson? >> ♪ you make it here and there you work real hard and then you will see that the impact fees are coming back to your me now ♪ supervisor mar: and sweet. can we move this forward with a positive recommendation without objection? >> that was short and sweet. thank you so much, everyone. >> would you like to file this or continued? supervisor mar: is an annual report. let's continue to call the chair without objection. any other business before us? >> there are no further measures. supervisor mar: thank you, everyone. the meeting is adjourned. ♪ >> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it, host it, share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005, she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call