mr. wiener's legislation. those people who are sitting there and did support it are now having to work through those changes with supervisor chiu suggested to that legislation, how can they not first acknowledge that in order to fully rectify their complete position. >> is this a rhetorical question? >> that is a rhetorical question, yes. >> before you today supervisor kim's legislation, not supervisor wiener. >> supervisor kim stands as elaboration of supervisor wiener's piece. mr. wiener's piece has also been modified. wouldn't we have to fully understand his changes are before they can taken an honest stand on supervisor kim's position. that's the way i think but it may not be everybody else's requirements. >> i would defer to the commission on that. >> commissioner wu? >> thanks. i do feel i want to forward to supervisor kim's legislation. the real compromise is on land use and we want to help them make some determinations on issue areas. what commissioner antonini has suggested is staff's recommendation.

mr. wiener. i raise the question of imposing limited equity on established value, and it needs to be examined from the legal point of view as a public taking of equity. with that, i leave that with you. i think further steps need to be taken. do you have any questions? ~ as to my intent? >> is there any additional public comment by any member of the public? yes, sir. two minutes. >>> my name is jose morales and what is happening here is unbelievable because we are not going forward, we're going backwards. we have to protect the poor, the senior, disabled, low-income . [speaker not understood] who you protect? it would be the poor. and the rich have their own, but limited. now, there's no -- this goes straight to the point, no [speaker not understood]. we want real homes. no more conversion of apartments, especially the two to four rental unit buildings into condos. repeal the ellis act now. how many years are we going to continue suffering? repeal the conversion of more than four unit buildings i

wiener. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you for the presentation. just first one thing to clarify and i have some questions. it indicates that there were no letters of support recorded with abc and one protest but of course in our package here we have -- i don't see letters again. i see letters in favor including from the neighborhood association, so there are quite a few letters of support in the packet. is that right? >> we did not receive the support. perhaps they didn't support it to abc. >> okay. >> that's what i guess. >> they're in our board packet today which is the packet i think comes from alu. anyway i just went through and there are quite a few positive letters of support including from the hayes valley neighborhood association and supervisor breed and no letters of opposition. so i want to just raise an issue and i actually raise this related to a couple of liquor license this past tuesday at our full board meeting and that has to do with condition 11. condition 11 as you just read requires the establishment to utilize electronic survei

mr. nuru? supervisor wiener. >> mr. nuru, on the topic of [speaker not understood], one of the -- i think the department of public works in general over a number of years has been really negatively impacted in terms of staffing reductions in some areas over time. and the department i think has been very effective under mr. reiskin's leadership, under your leadership in adapting to those resource challenges and still doing, i think under the circumstances, a pretty exceptional job of doing what it needs to do. but i really, i really think that you need more resources. and two areas where i and my colleagues were able to get some resources to the department in our process last year are cleaners -- cleaning crews, i'm not talking about street cleaning, but just general cleaning crews to keep our spaces clean. and also we have gardeners because we have all these miscellaneous rights-of-way that look like park but they're not rec and park property. they're random green patches all over the city that are under dpw's jurisdict

mr. evans? >> supervisor wiener. >> yeah i don't want to vote against the license. i support the license so maybe what we can do is i can make a motion to amend to remove number nine and vote on that and i'm going to vote for the license whether or not condition nine is there because i think this is a great application. >> that sounds fine and i know ms. bruses spoke in spoke of the alu conditions. it doesn't prohibit the owner from voluntarily using the electronic surveillance as suggested by the alu as well so your motion supervisor is -- >> well, i would make a motion to forward this with positive recommendation without condition number nine and i would say as a district supervisor i am very sensitive to the needs of the district supervisor to work with the community and have appropriate limitations on venues, but i view this as this is a city wide issue because this is happening all over the city. >> okay. i think i will be supportive of that as well, but so can we move this forward with a positive recommendation? supervisor yee. >> can we just vote on the amend

mr. welch, needs not be changed, not one word of it, supervisor wiener. let me deal with the ugly. i would respectfully suggest, mr. president, that in the new age of conciliatory behavior, that members of the public like mike casey and like the last gentleman who spoke, not be questioned in such an aggressive and offensive way. or alternatively, that individuals -- and let me name names like frank noto who is being paid for his behavior -- be addressed in the same way. thank you for the opportunity to address you. i suggest you continue this item. i hope that you can resolve this in a reasonable amount of time. if i were president of the board, i would say it could be done in two or three weeks. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good evening, supervisors. my name is [speaker not understood]. i'm a contractor/developer. supervisor wiener, i'd like to thank you for bringing this forward. i've been developing buildings here in the city for the last 20 years and this has just been going on and on. the one thing we want to, when we have finished the process, the approval proces

mr. president? >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you. just on that particular point about the impact study and sort of the working things out, and again, whether it can be worked out, of course, is not relevant to whether the categorical exemption is appropriate. but one of the issues in this case, there's a pretty sharp divide in terms of adding a story or not adding a story. as i know you know, there were other projects where there is much more room around the edge to negotiate. >>> that's a fairpoint, supervisor. >> i guess you're requesting an impact study which as i understand that would then lead to a determination of whether there would be a mitigated negative declaration or full environmental impact report. >>> well, may i just comment on that? >> yes. >>> not an impact study, an initial study it's called, that would be the staff's initial determination about what the impacts are based on all the information we now have before you including the survey, and they also have the benefit now of the planning commission report. and in t

mr. welch. >>> supervisor wiener, supervisor kim, supervisor chiu. simple fairness would require acknowledgment of the efficacy of your proposals to deal with categorical exemptions and negative declarations. there's no question that that aspect of environmental review needs clarity. i'm not totally convinced that the way in which you go about solving them is the way to solve, but it is without question the right thing to do to put them on the public table to be debate and had discussed. cat ex and negative declarations need to be clarified, the process needs to be made transparent. however, simple accuracy requires me to say that it is simply not as you assert at the beginning of this, that this has nothing to do, your legislation has nothing to do with e-i-rs and it has nothing to with projects like cpmc. if it had nothing to do with e-i-rs, why did you repeal section 31.16 of the administrative code which only addresses e-i-rs and replace it with new language that has caused two-thirds of the commentary today? clearly this legislation does deal wi

wiener. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good afternoon. so i supported the non-residency of both tangible garden because we have policymakers in city hall have not been good to the recreational department over the last 10 years and have hallowed out our support and i've managed a lot of public space in san francisco and we have not given you the resources you need. i commend you in how we generate more park revenue in a reasonable way and make sure we can maintain those critical resources. so how many gardeners does the department have right now vs. we had 15, 20 years ago? i believe we had about a one hundred and 20. so let's we can get the exact number it's about 1 hundred and 50. the garden staff is essentially about half the number it was. we rely on the very robust

mr. wiener for your kind introduction. i am indeed honored to be here his morning. it is always a present -- a tremendous honor to be in the presence of my wife, i would like to thank her for being here today as well. today i want to talk about an issue that is extremely personal for me and my family. that is the issue of gun iolence. in june of 2011 i lost my nephew, christopher. lost him to a senseless act of gun violence. christopher was just 20 years old. he was a student at old dominion university in norfolk, virginia. like the beautiful children who lost their lives at sandy hook, he was an amazing young man with his entire life ahead of him. it is a painful thing to see your nephew, your son, or your daughter, to see their blood splattered over walls and couches, or wherever they may have been killed. like countless others, i was living to the unimaginable suffering of losing a loved one due to gun violence. the pain that i feel in my heart today, even these years later. last week during a press conference urging the country not to forget the massacre in newt

wiener? president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, i had wanted to come for this item in part because as your representative on the capital planning committee for my now i guess in my fifth year on the committee as well as legislative response along with mayor lee for this plan, really wanted to come and just let you know as i think you already know, just how much work the capital planning committee put into this as they thought through all these needs and how this is, as i think you know, a relatively recent change in a mind-set of how our city deals with our capital infrastructure. it wasn't until just a few years ago that we really started investing and investigating what all of our capital needs are across the city and, in fact as i think you know over the past five years, voters have approved close to $2 billion worth of general obligation bonds for all sorts of capital needs, which is equivalent to what we have been able to raise in the previous 22 years of geo bonds. and we've been able to do this responsibly withou

mr. wiener for your kind introduction. i am indeed honored to be here this morning. a present -- a tremendous honor to be in the presence of my wife, i would like to thank her for being here today as well. today i want to talk about an issue that is extremely personal for me and my family. that is the issue of gun violence. in june of 2011 i lost my nephew, christopher. oft him to a senseless act gun violence. christopher was just 20 years old. he was a student at old dominion university in norfolk, virginia. like the beautiful children who lost their lives at sandy hook, he was an amazing young man with his entire life ahead of him. it is a painful thing to see your nephew, your son, or your daughter, to see their blood splattered over walls and couches, or wherever they may have been killed. others, i was living to the unimaginable suffering of losing a loved one due to gun violence. the pain that i feel in my heart today, even these years later. last week during a press conference urging the country not to forget the massacre in newtown, the president was joined b

wiener. >> thank you, mr. mayor. and wanting chu for being here today. i have the honor of representing this valley at the board of supervisors. i want to start with a shout out to t to the noah valley leadership who have done so much to improve this commercial door demeanor. and this park and two of the earlier park i always tell people if you're considering putting in a park go to see our cities parks it's exactly what we need. i know we're going to make this corridor better as we get money from prop b. so, i have the good future of having two of the very best cd vs in my district. and when you are a member of the board of supervisors and you're responsible for helping our neighborhoods safer it's a huge benefit to have the cv ds you have people in the neighborhood cleaning it helping to keep it safe and who notice things that might be going wrong before it gets to a breaking point you've got people always there. i'm lucky to have those individuals helping me. it's important in this day and age we know that public budget isn't was it used to be. the de

mr. cohen, absent. kim absent, mar, wiener present. yee, absent. we have a quorum. >> very good. call item no. 2. 2013 meeting. >> comments, questions on the minutes? public comments open. no. 2. no member come forward we'll close public comment. commissioner breed and without objection. >> next item, please? >> this is information item. >> good afternoon, colleagues. hopefully my voice will work this morning. i want to thank lombardy for these note. there were two issues to be addressed at the federal level to provide funding for the federal government through the end of the fiscal year and sequestration. congress passed a continued resolution to provide funding through the end of the budget year through september 2013. congress approved funding at the map 21 at the federal transportation bill funding levels, however this is a presequestration. the sequester official took effect on march 1st. however it taking time to find out how to federal budget cuts will affect individual programs and projects. handful of programs funding by the general fund, the central subway project. unli

wiener. >> thank you, mr. president. first, i want to thank all of the folks on both sides who came out today. i know sometimes our public process is not exactly the most user friendly in terms of people who all have busy and full lives. and i think the fact when we have people coming out particularly on both sides, it shows that everyone is very passionate about their neighborhood and passionate about our community. i remember approximately two years ago, a few months after i took office when we had the first c-e-q-a appeal from district 8, ms. tam also worked on that from ord street, which was -- makes this appeal look completely harmonious and noncontentious, there was a huge turnout on both sides for that one. and i remember saying at the time that as a district supervisor, when you have lots of your constituents siding with lots of your constituents, it's a lose/lose for you politically it doesn't matter what you do. there are going to be people upset with you. and in a way, it's liberating because when it comes to

wiener? >> thank you, mr. chairman. in terms of the timetable, i have a probably similar perspective to commissioner cohen. while we certainly want the fros move forwards expeditiously and efficiently and we don't want to have any unnecessary delays, the most important thing is to cast a wide net and bring any and all potentially interested qualified candidates forward and get it right. it is better to get it right than to get it done fast particularly on deadlines that are frankly not self-evidently better or worse than other deadlines and that are in some ways artificial. it would be great to have an executive director who starts on july 1st. that would be terrific. if it takes, if it means starting august 1st or september 1st in order to be able to cast that wider net, that is not going to in anyway damage agency. we have very competent staff who are currently doing a great job keeping the ship on track and will continue to do so. so there is nothing magical about july 1st even though that is the date that would be g

wiener. >> thank you mr. chairman. i am looking forward to working together. it's an incredibly important search for san francisco and our future and i look forward to that process, and i also apologize that i have to head to another hearing after i make this comments. i am hoping that we can resolve it so it's not a standing conflict in the future, so i am glad to hear that you start locally and expand nationally. i don't know who is applying but i think we have strong internal talent at the ta but it's good to cast a broad net and i want to make sure if there is that exceptional candidate in south carolina or somewhere else we're not missing the opportunity to at least speak with that person. i also want to stress that this -- i think that the heads of all transportation agencies -- it's always interconnected with many agencies working together but in san francisco and the bay area and particularly this agency i think it's more so and one of the challenges in san francisco around transportation i can't remember whether it's 28 -- we have too many transit age

wiener's legislation. thank you. >> thank you. mr. bueler. >>> good afternoon, members of the committee. mike bueler on behalf of san francisco architectural heritage. first i would like to thank supervisor wiener for incorporating changes in response to our initial comments on the legislation including restoring the existing definition of historical resources for purposes of triggering mandatory notice requirements, extending the appeal period from 20 to 30 days and providing a more clear definition of first approval action. however, heritage does remain concerned about the specific aspects of the proposed legislation, especially potential changes in proposed projects after the first approval action. and this was alluded to by supervisor chiu earlier. although law currently acknowledges projects may change significantly after initial approval by authorizing the ero to reevaluate exemption, it does not define a process or threshold for when the ero must issue a new exemption, determination, or other environmental document. nor does it provide an opportunity for the public to appeal subseq