ms. rodgers? okay. commissioner moore. >> we received these last evening, a letter from the director of the small business commission forward i by mr. shulman fully supporting it. i think that the business commission, together with the director, is making every effort to get the word out and there are many people working in the same direction here. i support. this >> commissioner wu. >> just wanted to clarify that's a motion to approve with the modifications suggested by staff. >> second. >> commissioners, on that motion to adopt a recommendation to the board of supervisors approving the ordinance with modifications, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> and commission president fong? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 5 to 0. >> let's go one more. >> one more? okay. >> i'm not sure staff is ready. sounds like we've got 13 -- staff for 13? >> i don't see mary. >> the commission will tak

ms. rodgers. this was not part of your report, but i am -- understand that there is some legislation that has bearing on land use in asmuch as the accelerating the possibility of tic owners to condo convert for a fee if they're already in the pipeline. and i understand it was originally induced -- introduced by supervisor farrell, but it's been greatly modified and to the point where i believe the original sponsor may not be supporting it any more, i'm not sure. i know you probably don't have the details of that. i could always get that -- you do, okay, thank you. >> i do have the details of this. this is an item that our department has not been staffing. the commission chose not to weigh in on this item. so, what i have is a summary of the amendments to that ordinance. this is from -- the summary has been provided by supervisor farrell and staff has not confirmed any of the content in here, but i could either report this to you or give it to the commission secretary for you to review during the h

ms. rodgers. give me a moment to put all these papers in place. so, thank you to the members of the planning commission for sharing this item today. ~ hearing as you well know, the california environmental quality act may be the singlemost important law californians have in preserving the environment and here in san francisco, c-e-q-a may be the singlemost important law in san francisco having a -- requiring a community dialogue for development projects. changes to the law will significantly impact the course of development in our city and i'm proud to be part of a legislation that will determine how our city implements c-e-q-a and improves the process as we move forward. as you know, for roughly about the last ten years since the state has determined that all c-e-q-a decisions are appealable to an elected decision making body, we have not set up a process in which we hear appeals of exemptions and negative declarations and that is what our legislation largely addresses. several supervisors before us have tried to put a process in place and clearl