as mr. yee the owner at the time, who sold the property in 97, it still looked like that 40 years later when they owned it. it looked like a dinky little historical thing, but people came in and cheated the system, didn't notify the neighborhood and i profoundly disagree with the planning department these garages would have been approved had it only not been for some mistake. we in the neighborhood, you can see some of the people who testified, lived there then. i lived there then. the letters you receive are from people who lived there then. does it sound like it's a neighborhood that says, put the garages in. had the process worked in 1997, these garages wouldn't be here. we wouldn't be here today. and finally, they talk about balking to work, but -- walking to work, but where is that work, owned by richard from the ethics complaint we've filed. you can't appear in front of the board of appeals when one of the people voting on your appeal has a business relationship with you. his law firm has

thank you, mr. yee[ inaudible ] >> it's submitted, yeah, sorry. >> submitted. >> i guess our hope did not come through. >> nope, did not. >> you know, the -- i don't think it's really a resolution, necessarily, in terms of how we act on the variance, but i'm supportive of the variance for medical reasons, ada reasons, and therefore, i would support the granting of the overturning of the za decision on this variance. >> icon occ concur. i think that even after this body makes a decision, that there is going to be more process, and many people are going to be busy. someone care to make a motion? >> move to grant the appeal, overturn the zoning administrator denial of the variance on the basis of medical need, ada need. >> can i ask the -- >> oh -- >> can i ask the vice president to consider the draft finding that are attached? we do need to make the five findings, and the appellant has submitted those for us, and also revised plans that reflect the za project. >> i thought the zoning administrator support

. >> interpreter: i am mrs. yee.am here to request all the pos sitting up there stay away froms 1500 feet. any facilities serve 18 years ad younger include day care and pr. thank you. >> interpreter: holhello, good . i am yang su. i live in chinatown area. i am here with my family and nes and people from chinatown. i am here to strongly oppose, no cannabis store within 600 buffeç especially away from kids and c. i am here strongly requested ale politician ap people up here 150 feet -- and people here, 1500 fy from kids. we have a history in chinese hiy that we know, we learn about cas and it's damaging and bad for or children. thank you. >> interpreter: i am mr. lau. i'm her here to request to ask e laws that is appropriate to covs 1500 feet away from children. i want to you think about it. when you get permission an givet to operate cannabis stores, thit the youth nearby. do not allow any permit to opere cannabis store within 600 buffe. please increase to 1,000 minimue best is 1500 feet away from kid. any children z

>> mr. yee has owned the property for 50 years with his family. i knew them because they were there when i was living there. he sold the property in 1997. and that -- >> supervisor tang: i'm sorry, one speaker at a time. >> just so -- so that everybody knows, people feel strongly -- >> supervisor tang: just answer the question, how many people have owned -- >> i believe there have been four or five owners. >> we believe this garage was established in 1997, this current owner, we saw e-mail saying she came into ownership of august 2016. i'm wondering why at this moment, why all of a sudden, after you've lived there since 1985, you brought forth the original notice of violation? >> the reason is, nobody was able to use the garages. as roger was talking about the back door and photographs here prove, it was impossible to use the garages. they were built in 1997. there is no proof they were built at separate moments in time. >> do you have something on the projector? >> i apologize. can you show tv what is on the projector. and can you step back, plea

>> mr. yee has owned the property for 50 years with his family. i knew them because they were there when i was living there. he sold the property in 1997. and that -- >> supervisor tang: i'm sorry, one speaker at a time. >> just so -- so that everybody knows, people feel strongly -- >> supervisor tang: just answer the question, how many people have owned -- >> i believe there have been four or five owners. >> we believe this garage was established in 1997, this current owner, we saw e-mail saying she came into ownership of august 2016. i'm wondering why at this moment, why all of a sudden, after you've

yee and kim, for the late miss janet hee. on behalf of supervisor peskin for the late mr. nathan roth, mr. gino perrini, and on behalf of supervisor fewer and yee on behalf of the late dr. roland yo, on behalf of the entire board of supervisors at the suggestion of supervisor fewer, peskin, kim, and yee, for the late mr. herbert patrick lee. >>president breed: colleagues, this brings us to the end of our agenda. madam clerk, is there any further business before us today. >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >>president breed: we are adjourned, >> the office of controllers whistle blower program is how city employees and recipient sound the alarm an fraud address wait in city government charitable complaints results in investigation that improves the efficiency of city government that. >> you can below the what if anything, by assess though the club program website arrest call 4147 or 311 and stating you wishing to file and complaint point controller's office the charitable program also accepts complaints by e-mail or 0 folk you can file a complaint or provide contact information

. >> supervisor yee: thank you, mr. gee. anybody else? madam chair, close comments. >> supervisor kim: close public comment on item number 3. >> supervisor yee: mike young, are you here? mike. mike young from the superior court. i want to ask, since you folks are looking at software, what's your timeline in terms of, you know, your ability to adapt a new software system? >> supervisor, we have implemented a new software. selected a vendor almost five years ago now, and the court is a very large organization with several case types. first case type implemented was the traffic and infractions division. that division has had a new case management system since november of 2015. with an updated refresh just implemented about three weeks ago. in the next year work has already started but within the next year we anticipate being completed with what this hearing is all about, which is the criminal division's usage of a new case management system. we hope for that to be in place around october or november of 2018. >> supervisor yee: ok. appreciate

i'm ahsha safai to my right is sandra lee fewer and to my right, norman yee. mr. clerk, do you have initial announcements before we begin? >> clerk: please silence cell phones and electronic devices. all documents should be submitted to the clerk.

yee and kim, for the late miss janet hee. on behalf of supervisor peskin for the late mr. nathan roth, mr. gino perrini, and on behalf of supervisor fewer and yee on behalf of the late dr. roland yo, on behalf of the entire board of supervisors at the suggestion of supervisor fewer, peskin, kim, and yee, for the late mr. herbert patrick lee. >>president breed: colleagues, this brings us to the end of our agenda. madam clerk, is there any further business before us today. >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >>president breed: we are adjourned, >> good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to city haul. my name is london breed. i'm president of the san francisco board of supervisors, and i represent district 5, the amazing district that houses the incredible 3rd baptist church, which we plan to make official landmarking status today. aren't we excited? i just want to say one, praise god, right? praise god, thank you for being here, thank you for supporting this ceremony. we are honored here to have the mayor here to perform the ceremony who will speak in just a little bit, but i want

i'm ahsha safai to my right is sandra lee fewer and to my right, norman yee. mr. clerk, do you have initial announcements before we begin? >> clerk: please silence cell phones and electronic devices. all documents should be submitted to the clerk. items will be appear on the november 28th supervisors board agenda unless otherwise stated. >> before we begin, i want to give focus to the conversation -- >> clerk: may i read the first item. item one, administrative business tax regulation, health and police code to regulate commercial activities related to cultivated testing sale and delivery of medical and adult use cannibis. i. >> for those here last week, we continued this item. this is not the beginning as -- this is not the end of the conversation moving this legislation forward but there's still going to be both in the land use and on the rules side, there's going to be continuing conversation over the next year. i think the goal that we're trying to achieve is to move the process forward to be prepared by january 1st to begin to have adult use along with medica

yee and kim, for the late miss janet hee. on behalf of supervisor peskin for the late mr. nathan roth, mr. gino perrini, and on behalf of supervisor fewer and yee on behalf of the late dr. roland yo, on behalf of the entire board of supervisors at the suggestion of supervisor fewer, peskin, kim, and yee, for the late mr. herbert patrick lee. >>president breed: colleagues, this brings us to the end of our agenda. madam clerk, is there any further business before us today. >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >>president breed: we are adjourned, >> hello, san francisco and welcome to another episode of public works tv. i'm a publroject manager here public works, here on public works tv, but first let's take a look at what's been happening in the last week. we poured concrete at fire department 16. i wanted to hit the streets of chinatown talking to people about keeping the streets clean. see our website for more details. happy world plumbing day? did you know that many people in today's world still live without working plumbing in their home? we're dedicating this episode to world

yee. our clerk is mr. victor young. at this time, i'd like to thank our people at sfgovtv for televising this program. mr. clerk, do we have any requests? >> clerk: please. please silence all cell phones and tablets. >>supervisor cohen: all right. thank you, i appreciate that. well, colleagues, as i say, let's go ahead and dig in. we'll start at the top of our agenda. mr. clerk, call item 1. >> clerk: item 1, resolution authorizing the exercise of an option to extend the term of a lease for a portion of the second floor and entire fourth floor at 1145 market street for five years, subject to city's right to terminate, for the period of july 1, 2018 to june 30, 2023. >>supervisor cohen: thank you so much. do we have a representative here today? anyone from real estate? i'm also wondering if we have anyone from the law library here? now unfortunate. i believe we continued this item under the impression that the executive director would be here. well, mr. updike, it's good to see you. another controversial item to talk abo

yee. our clerk is mr. victor young.

yee's home. this is the easement in between that has the tower. contrary to what mr. tterson just told you, the -- excuse me -- dbi has issued a notice to the gauthier's to repair the tower, not to demolish it. it's a big difference. what the yees are proposing is to build an elevator here that would go to about here in the middle of their stairway. the commission advised them at the last hearing that they could not do that because this needs to be 36 inches wide and the elevator would cause the stairway to not comply with the building code. that wasn't addressed in any of the comments i heard today. this is another photo. i don't know if you can see it, but they actually put up a string here that goes down the middle of their stairs to show where the elevator would go. this is the encroachment into the front setback where these lines are. this is a photograph of the walkway that leads into the elevator at the second storey. this is as it looked at the last hearing. them is a photograph of the way it looks this morning. -- looked this morning after a number of wooden c

yee. aye. it is approved. >> item number 9 update on the san francisco transportation climb action strategy information item. mr. daugherty. >> i was under the impression the climate action strategy was a function of our whatever it is called, department of the environment, san francisco environment. it is now housed at the sfmta. the floor is yours. >> i am ti daugherty and i am he to present on the climate action strategy in close partnership with staff from the planning department and the department of environment. despite all of the recent distressing news about the changing climate system, san francisco has two climate goals in 2017. the firs first reduced emission% since 1990. that is significant. second over half trips in san francisco were made using environmentally sustainable travel modes. as we look to the mid century climate goals it is clear a transformation of the transportation sector is required to meet those ambitious goals. this strategy provided the framework and identifies priority actions the city family should advance to meet those climate goals. there are two main drives of the developmen

and i will just note that supervisor yee has officially replaced supervisor sheehy for the remainder of the hearing. or of the committee meeting. sorry. mr. clerk, we already did call item two, right? we can just begin the item? >> clerk: yes. just for the record i will read it again. supervisor yee has been appointed in place of supervisor sheehy to sit in as a member of today's meeting. item two, ordinance amending the public works code to require a permit for the testing of autonomous devices on sidewalks amending the police code to provide for administrative or criminal devices and affirming the planning department's determination under the california environment quality act. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. supervisor yee. >> thank you. colleagues, thank you for your patience for these items today. thank you for hearing this item again. and we have a number of robots -- robust discussions. [laughter] >> yeah, i know. especially on balancing the need to prioritize or sidewalks for people. san francisco is a city that supports technology innovation. however, there are unintended consequences when the industry goes unchecked. it

yee: yes. >>supervisor cohen: all right. we'll take that without objection. mr. clerk, item 9, please. >> clerk: item number 9 ordinary naens amending the business and tax regulations and heath codes to require the director of the office of khanna disso collect permit applications fees of $2,000 and annual license fees of $5,000 for the cannabis business permits, authorize the department of public health to impose fees relating to the inspection of cannabis businesses, and establish annual license fees for cannabis construction permits. >>supervisor cohen: ladies and gentlemen, i'm introducing a simple amendment that waives application and first year fees for equity operator applicants. as you may recall, we had a very long discussion tuesday evening with several amendments that were ultimately accepted. of the amendments that were made, includes an equity program that we've created and now has been voted on, and the ordinance before us today supports the typical and necessary infrastructure for evaluating the legal permitting requirements for the cannabis relate

yee to schedule as soon as possible. >> thank you very much. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. this item is continued to call of the chair. are there any other items, mr. clerk? >> clerk: that complete the agenda for the day. >> supervisor ronen: this meeting is adjourned. thank you. >> okay. thank you very much, everyone, for being here. i'm assembly member phil ping and 57 was for all of us who spend time driving underneath 101 or 280. you see many spots that we wonder what could we be doing with these parcels, other than seeing them. i think the city was able to envision this many, many years ago with the skate park and dog park, which the city leased for 20 years at $4.8 million. and our bill allows the city to work with caltrains at a 30% of market rate. and these are not used or not really -- >> whew! >> exactly. there is excitement everywhere. we could have the wedding move over here next. so we are very excited to work with our cities so we can make these underutilized parcels of land into parcels of land and open space. especially these neighborhoods, the land is very underutilized. a lot of this area is highly industrialized. you don't see p