i also want to recognize my cosponsor of today's ordinance, supervisor norman yee. i want to offer comments to my cosponsor, and then i will -- to any members of the committee. >> thank you. thank you for really pulling this together as the public will know, what we call the prop c. was passed by the voters, and at some point, we will have access to, we meaning the city, will have access to providing more services to our families when it comes to early education. we will be able to serve another 5,000, if not more children and somewhere along the line, when that starts happening, we all know that one of the things that we will have to wrap up is the number of facilities and slots that we could provide in san francisco. and so this is really important that we provide as much incentive and motivations for developers and in this case, developers to add to our product care and hopefully this is the incentive that they need so that we can keep pace with the need of the city. i'm really anxious to get this past and notify the developers -- by the way, i think it is your t

supervisor safai: just before you begin, supervisor, i am handing over the chair to supervisor norman yee. i have to excuse myself, so if we can make a motion to excuse me, i would appreciate it. >> supervisor yee: make a motion to excuse chair safai. >> supervisor safai: great. without objection. thank you. >> supervisor yee: without objection. >> supervisor safai: thank you, everyone. >> supervisor ronen: chair -- >> clerk: i have a presidential memo appointing supervisor ronen in place of supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: supervisor ronen is a voting member -- >> supervisor yee: you're already excused, sir. >> supervisor safai: all right. >> supervisor ronen: chair yee. >> supervisor yee: chair yee now. so we need to make a motion to have supervisor -- >> clerk: no need to make a motion. we do have a presidential memo. >> supervisor yee: okay, thank you. continue. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much, colleagues, for considering this item. in july i introduced legislation to end the egregious tactic that landlords are using to force out long-term tenants of single-family homes.

we're joined by supervisor cohen and norman yee, so we'll go back to item 1 now. >> clerk: item 1 amendinghe planning code henry adams street, article 10 and appropriate findings. >> president cohen: thank you very much. thank you, chair tang, and supervisors kim and safai. this matter first came before this body back in october, october, 2013, when owners of the san francisco design center submitted an application to designate the building as a landmark. at that time, a landmark designation would have allowed conversion of the entire building from p.d.r. uses to office uses. there was a lot of consternation and a lot of concern given, which i shared. i did not want to see our coveted p.d.r. space cannibalized for office space. so given the amazing p.d.r. tenants that we have that are centered in the san francisco design center, this situation concerned me. and i think it's important to note that it's an important consideration for district 10 and for the entire fabric of san francisco. i don't know if any of you have been to the design center, but it's a gem. and we deserve -- we have a r

i want to thank supervisor norman yee for shedding like on this issue and to the plank department for their guidance throughout this process. the technical details of the minnesota will leave to -- ordinance i will leave to planning staff. in our first few months, supervisor mandelman has been focused on addressing homelessness which is the top priority for district eight and city at large. we started by taking a wide ranging tour of our city's homeless services including nonprofit and district service providers. what we've seen is a serious long term care crisis. we have a shocking number of seniors and people with disabilities living in our shelters without a guaranteed path to housing. more than one third of the 4000 homeless clients are seniors. citywide the most recent point in time count showed that 32% of our homeless population are age 51 years or older. the numbers tell a story when you meet the 89-year-ol 89-yeart becomes all too clear we need to be doing more. over the past five years we have lost 19 board care facilities. that hearing has laid the foundation that the ordin

yee, i grew up watching as an organizer in chinatown. he headed the youth children services and was an icon. i worked for -- i wouldn't call him his rival, but the other norman. both of you grew up in the neighborhood together. you grew up serving the community your entire careers and had so much respect. and you know, running in 2004, the race that i lost, but supervisor yee won. in fact, he was the only non-incumbent that won despite four incumbents running that year. really showed what it meant to work hard. i mean he was at the meeting stations every day. that's how i learned to work harder in 2006 when i ran again. i want to thank you both of so much for taking care of me over the past 12 years in politics. you mentored me, fed me, donated to every one of my campaigns. and you really have shown me what it means to be a progressive civil rights leader as asian american and i can't tell you how important that is. because we often think we're not a part of this movement and struggle. we're stereotyped at not being leaders, as not fighters, public servants, and you were that role model for all of us. i know this is a huge sacrifice for both of you. you coul