what i'm not comfortable with is the owner occupying -- owner eviction piece. and i just haven't -- nobody has been able to explain to me what is -- what piece of this is speculation to me. i'm not getting it. and how it hurts tenants. maybe i should have asked this before coming here today, but i wasn't -- it felt like the explanation is that there is an owner move in. the owner may want to, i guess create one unit out of two. and i'm thinking to myself, okay, is this really speculation or not? because if i were an owner, for instance, and went into to sell the place, it seems like the owner would probably be better off not creating a larger unit, but actually selling the building with several units if they want to do the type of tic [speaker not understood]. i'm not too sure who i'm supposed to ask on this, if there is any explanation on this. >> well, if i may respond. >> supervisor avalos. >> we [speaker not understood] cover evictions as well. if there is a merger of a building, even for an omi eviction, we are taking rental property off the market, [speak

>> 2013 was a tumultuous year for many small business owners.hey had to deal with government uncertainty -- confusion over the new health care law. as we look forward, there does seem to be hope. the national federation of independent business optimism index was up in november 9/10 of a point. they provided a seasonal adjusted increase in november. could this be a trend for 2014? we have the founder and ceo of the advocacy group, the small business majority. daniel pink was an aide to rice and a proclaimed business thinker and best selling author. his latest is "to sell is human. the surprising truth about moving others" and the change agent of marketing is on the set with me. jeffrey haze let, the head of the hayes let group and speaks to and advises small business owners. great to see all of you. >> good to be here, j.j. >> jeffrey, i'm going to ask you because you talk to so many small business people every day. do you feel like there is a sense of optimism that people are excited about next year or is there trepidation? >> i won't use the wo

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it is the only financial incentive available to owners of landmark properties. as supervisor wiener said, it's a property tax incentive in exchange for a specific 10 year maintenance plan. and the board does have discretion in every single contract that is in front of you. it has been demonstrated over a number of years to be an effective preservation tool to help owners offset the cost of maintaining these older structures. and it has been used in many other cities in california. we, in fact, are behind other california municipalities, some of which have hundreds of contracts in place. in recent amendments proposed and sponsored by supervisor wiener, streamline the process making it cheaper to get into this process and less cumbersome to actually go through. so, as a result, recent designation of the due poems contract, there are 10 contracts before the board which is the most the city has ever proposed at one time. with that i will turn it over to susan parks of the planning department preservation staff and she'll go over with you some of the details in the c

and, so, i think that not all -- when we think about property owners, it's not all property owners are equal. there are definitely some who really struggle who have no choice but to maybe rent out another unit for the extra additional income, but may not have [speaker not understood] they want to put the unit on for the duration that they're living there. so, i would like to he see if supervisor avalos would be amenable to either removing the prohibition of the owner move-in occupancy or reducing the moratorium down to maybe half of what has been proposed today. >> supervisor avalos, do you want to respond to that or do you want to continue it down roll call? >> i would entertain the idea of reducing the moratorium from 10 to 5 years for omi evictions. i think that could help us and show that we're treating omi evictions differently in this legislation, which i think would help it to be stronger and provide that backdrop for owners who want to occupy a unit that they own. another concern i've had, there have been buildings where there was an omi eviction and the omi eviction happened i

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mills historical property contract, under administrative code, chapter 71, between john moran, the owner of 1772 vallejo street (burr mansion), and the city and county of san francisco; and authorizing the planning director and assessor to execute the mills act historical property contract. city and county of san francisco ~. item number 3, resolution approving a mills historical property contract, under administrative code, chapter 71, between pacific heights, llc, the owners of 2550 webster street, and the city and county of san francisco; and authorizing the planning director and assessor to execute the mills act historical property contract. ~ city and county of san francisco. item number 4, resolution approving a mills act historical property contract, under administrative code, chapter 71, between 1019 market street properties, llc, the owners of 1019 market street, and the city and county of san francisco; and authorizing the planning director and assessor to execute the mills act historical property contract. ~ item number 5, resolution approving a mills act historical property c

to a situation or two or three owners in a situation that there may be owner occupiers in a six-unit building that i understand won't be allowed in future. but is there any differentiation between fewer owners and the number of renters in any units? >> differentiation in the application? >> yeah. i guess the moratorium applies to everybody. >> the moratorium applies to everyone. >> even renters and occupier in all the units. >> yes. >> commissioner borden. >> maybe you can step back, right now we have seen in the last several months a number of tic condo conversions. and none of those were result of the legislation, those were pre-existing lottery projects? >> as far as i know everything you are seeing now, we call it e ecp, expedite conversion. >> so it's a result, when was this effect? >> july 29. >> there was previous conversion what was paid before this legislation went in effect? >> previously it was subject to the lottery. >> so no fees? >> there are conversion fees. >> so this fee is on top of the existing conversion fee and that goes to affordable housing. >> correct. >> and

i'm peter rice i'm with small property owners. one of the aspects of this legislation that concerns me is that it's going to make it harder for middle income people to purchase housing. with our small rentals i receive acquires almost weekly from different people trying to move out of the remedy area and into buying a home. the only way to do that in san francisco is to start it a smaller piece of property in an older building. this legislation will prohibit people from buying homes and enter the market through the t u ced. i'll leave this to the lawyers you can tinker with the ellis anchor that you're doing. i think that maybe our doing on to something that's not acquit going to be permitted but i'll leave that to the lawyer as is this any additional comment snoomz >> supervisor avalos all right. thank you for the members of people's no. 1 public who with weighed in on this legislation. it's been many months in the making. we tried to incorporate a lot of input from the community. to you punishment our weighing in open the legisl

and no. 4 in the owner movement process that the mergers for those owner move in evictions would onlyfor 5 years rather than 10 years that the ellis act would be subjected to. for that these were approved unanimously at the board. also monday at the land use committee hearing, this will amend the code to allow the use to residential units and allow the four areas for accessible uses. the commission voted to approve this item on november 21st, and supervisor chiu mentioned that he's interested in sponsoring an ordinance. at the hearing the department expressed support for such an idea that would allow the department to evaluate whether the impact of the waiver are significant or not on our budget. so far this year the department has received 21 food operation referrals for a total amount of $2700. should this number of applications be similar, we believe the impact to our budget will be minimal. that's an ordinance that you will see in the future that will wave that fee for a year. after a full discussion, a recommendation of approval and did pass the full board on tuesday's reading. t

represents you know ordinary responsible gun owners the n.r.a. is actually doing a disservice and fails to represent the interests of ordinary. owners because it's become dominated by big industry and its policies essentially reflect a marketing strategy to keep selling guns so the australia experience in one thousand nine hundred five when they passed the limits on automatic weapons and background chaps and they actually did a buyback of dangerous automatic and semi automatic weapons they have not had the same little mass shooting ever since and they used to have them regularly and their rates of ordinary gun violence have dropped by half they have saved five hundred billion dollars per year so there is a way to do this and it works and we have a terrific experience to look at it has not been a slippery slope in australia and australia is every bit as much of gun culture as . america and it has not been a slippery slope and people nominate guns responsibly we can do that here i'm going to jump in right here and let's bring this back to the secon

but i think the imbalances is such right now in terms of the power that a landlord and property owner has visa via the tenant, filing something with the rent board is not easy either. there is an additional step that has to be taken. it's not as onerous as filing a lawsuit. it's not something that can also be taken lightly. president david chiu: any other comments? our deputy city attorney. speaker: because supervisor yee directed to me the question as well. this is what the board, what complaints the tenants might file is hard for us to fore see as a legal question. it's more of a policy question for the board. president david chiu: thank you supervisor campos for answering the question. president david chiu: colleagues, any additional discussion. roll call on the item. speaker: the clerk: item 41, supervisor chiu, aye, cohen, aye, ferrel, aye, kim aye, supervisor mar, aye, tang, aye, supervisor wiener aye, yee, aye, supervisor avalos, aye, supervisor breed, aye, supervisor campos, aye, there are 11 ayes. president david chiu: the ordinance is passed. call items 42-44. speaker: they

how many people are buying guns that are already gun owners versus first-time gun owners? half and half. we've seen a lot. i've seen grandpas and grandfathers and soccer moms. they're scared that they're not going to be able to defend themselves. >> in case they need it. >> yes. because of the fear of the u.s. government currently. and the fear of that liberal mindset to disarm the american people. i mean, that's what it comes down to. >> but is there not a way that having more guns contributes to a problem? >> no. i don't see it that way. you can't disarm the criminals. they believe in that protect and serve, law enforcement is here to protect and serve. well, let me break it down for you. i'm former law enforcement. law enforcement can't become involved in an issue until a crime has been committed. >> until there's an issue. >> so in order for a crime to have been committed, there has to be a victim. so unless you're willing to be that victim, law enforcement can't solve your problem. when seconds count, police are generally minutes away. >> the fear of people right now

and with some tlc, tender loving care by the owners. she also mentioned that the drive is a high traffic area. these trees do not pose a hazardous risk to the cars or pedestrians or even the buildings themselves. and once again, she is not provided any evidence from these trees, she has not provided any incident reports. and that these trees have caused some kind of injury or damage, along the gonzales drive. and the same thing happened back in august in the initial hearing. she did not present