>> supervisor peskin: okay. can you hear me now? >> supervisor peskin: yes. perfect. >> i represent not just the a.a.p.i. community but website and instagram page for seat 13. the public can reach directly out to their representative and voice their needs. equity applicants can leave public reviews on city funded consulting firms on this platform in order to make sure allocated funds for this service are truly pressed. our city's equity operators must be protected from incubators and investors and must be educated on their rights and supporting farmers. i also plan on advocating for lowering cannabis taxes making it comparable to other industries. it's an honor to run against some of my peers and even my own mentor from sfeg. we are truly the faces of the equity program. my position for this seat is evidence when nonprofits and city funded programs come together we can uplift people who otherwise don't have a chance. i believe these voices need to be heard and everybody has the capability for success given their opportunities. thank you. >> supervisor peskin:

>> supervisor peskin: okay. can you hear me now? >> supervisor peskin: yes. perfect. >> i represent not just the a.a.p.i. community but website and instagram page for seat 13. the public can reach directly out to their representative and voice their needs. equity applicants can leave public reviews on city funded consulting firms on this platform in order to make sure allocated funds for this service are truly pressed. our city's equity operators must be protected from incubators and investors and must be educated on their rights and supporting farmers. i also plan on advocating for lowering cannabis taxes making it comparable to other industries. it's an honor to run against some of my peers and even my own mentor from sfeg. we are truly the faces of the equity program. my position for this seat is evidence when nonprofits and city funded programs come together we can uplift people who otherwise don't have a chance. i believe these voices need to be heard and everybody has the capability for success given their opportunities. thank you. >> supervisor peskin:

and supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: mr. shaw, i'm interested specifically in as to how landlords apply and it's my understanding that tenants have to apply in tandem and it's further my understanding and you can confirm whether my understanding or supervisor chan can confirm my understanding that the large corporate landlords who have a lot of resource and legal help have already applied whereas mom and pop landlords like myself albeit thankfully all of my tenants have been able to pay during the pandemic so i'm not in a position personally of having to apply, have not applied. can you address that kind of structural issue. who has applied? who needs to apply? how do they apply? do tenants and landlords have to apply together? that -- i mean, anybody who's watching and these supervisors and the folks we can communicate with, that's what i'd like to understand. >> yeah. thank you for that, supervisor. the only rental assistance program that we currently enact or thats rwas enacted was through gift usf and that was a tenant-b

supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: mr. president, i'm for item 29. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor peskin. supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: i just wanted to be added as a cosponsor. thank you. thank you, president walton. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor melgar. madam clerk, please call the roll on item 28. >> clerk: on item 28 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk, and without objection, this resolution passes unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 29. >> clerk: item 29 is a resolution to designate april 24, 2021, as armenian genocide commemoration day in the city and county of san francisco and urging president joseph biden to formally recognize the armenian genocide and the san francisco board of education to reaffirm its commitment to teaching the historical facts of the armenian genocide in our public schools. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: this is a resolution that i've intr

supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: mr. president, i'm for item 29. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor peskin. supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: i just wanted to be added as a cosponsor. thank you. thank you, president walton. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor melgar. madam clerk, please call the roll on item 28. >> clerk: on item 28 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk, and without objection, this resolution passes unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 29. >> clerk: item 29 is a resolution to designate april 24, 2021, as armenian genocide commemoration day in the city and county of san francisco and urging president joseph biden to formally recognize the armenian genocide and the san francisco board of education to reaffirm its commitment to teaching the historical facts of the armenian genocide in our public schools. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: this is a resolution that i've intr

supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you. this is a relatively unique case. i note that this is in a very architecturally historically rich area of north beach. i want you know that last week prior to actually reading the moving papers, relative to the ceqa appeal which i have done every single one and supplemental documents that we received today last thursday, i met with the project sponsor and the appellant and tried to see if there was any common ground. there was not. friday of last week, i actually went to the project sponsor at their encouragement. i attempted to resolve the matter. but the matter is before us today. we'll adjudicate it on the merit pursuant to the law. i have led every single one of moving papers. >> president walton: thank you. colleagues, we have before us a hearing on the appeal determination of the exemption from environmental review at the proposed 476 lombard street project. after the hearing, the board will vote to affirm or exemption determination at 476 lombard street. without objection, we'll proceed as follows. up to 10 min

supervisor peskin. madam clerk, can we have a roll call vote? >> clerk: on the motion to continue item 6 to april 27 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this motion passes unanimously. madam clerk, i see we don't have any imperative items. >> clerk: that's correct. >> president walton: do we have any in memoriams to report? >> clerk: mr. president, i have no in memoriams to report. >> president walton: thank you. i will end with this little quote. telling oppressed people that they don't face racism is [inaudible] this meeting is adjourned. >> clerk: thank you. >> good afternoon. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the april 19, 2021 regular meeting of the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i am supervisor melgar joined by dean preston and aaron peskin. john carroll is our clerk. i would like to acknowledge sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. mr. clerk, any announcements? >> thank you. to protect the pub

supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you. this is a relatively unique case. i note that this is in a very architecturally historically rich area of north beach. i want you know that last week prior to actually reading the moving papers, relative to the ceqa appeal which i have done every single one and supplemental documents that we received today last thursday, i met with the project sponsor and the appellant and tried to see if there was any common ground. there was not. friday of last week, i actually went to the project sponsor at their encouragement. i attempted to resolve the matter. but the matter is before us today. we'll adjudicate it on the merit pursuant to the law. i have led every single one of moving papers. >> president walton: thank you. colleagues, we have before us a hearing on the appeal determination of the exemption from environmental review at the proposed 476 lombard street project. after the hearing, the board will vote to affirm or exemption determination at 476 lombard street. without objection, we'll proceed as follows. up to 10 min

and supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: mr. shaw, i'm interested specifically in as to how landlords apply and it's my understanding that tenants have to apply in tandem and it's further my understanding and you can confirm whether my understanding or supervisor chan can confirm my understanding that the large corporate landlords who have a lot of resource and legal help have already applied whereas mom and pop landlords like myself albeit thankfully all of my tenants have been able to pay during the pandemic so i'm not in a position personally of having to apply, have not applied. can you address that kind of structural issue. who has applied? who needs to apply? how do they apply? do tenants and landlords have to apply together? that -- i mean, anybody who's watching and these supervisors and the folks we can communicate with, that's what i'd like to understand. >> yeah. thank you for that, supervisor. the only rental assistance program that we currently enact or thats rwas enacted was through gift usf and that was a tenant-b

supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, supervisor peskin. i do agree it is a complicated issue. in my limited capacity working at the district attorney's office between the year of 2007 or 2008 until 2010, early 2011, the medical examiner's office faced a lot of challenges and i think will continue on as you mentioned. i do think that it is good to have someone in a role that functions more as an administrative role helping the office to integrate both integrate with the rest of the city government, but also have some type of accountability and, you know, transparency between the role as medical examiner which a lot of information is confidential but also kind of parts out some of the administrative tasks to allow transparency but efficiency to the process. i look forward to seeing how this is going to play out. i think that it would be interesting to see specifically how with this structure what kind of plan that we will have to improve the efficiency for the office. but i'm happy to support it today so that we can see how this is going to

supervisor peskin? >> present. >> peskin, present. >> supervisor preston? >> a present. >> preston, present. >> supervisor ronen? >> ronen, present. >> supervisor safai? >> present. >> safai, present. supervisor stefani? >> present. >> stefani, present. supervisor walton? >> present. >> and melgar? melgar, not present. mr. president, you have a quorum. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unseated ancestral homeland of the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their tradition, they have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the care takeers of this place as well as all peoples who preside in this traditional territory. we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramatoush aloni community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. colleagues, please place your hand on your h

supervisor peskin? >> present. >> peskin, present. >> supervisor preston? >> a present. >> preston, present. >> supervisor ronen? >> ronen, present. >> supervisor safai? >> present. >> safai, present. supervisor stefani? >> present. >> stefani, present. supervisor walton? >> present. >> and melgar? melgar, not present. mr. president, you have a quorum. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unseated ancestral homeland of the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their tradition, they have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the care takeers of this place as well as all peoples who preside in this traditional territory. we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramatoush aloni community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. colleagues, please place your hand on your h

supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: i was going to agree with supervisor safai to continue this until later in this meeting. >> president walton: thank you, and we will accommodate that. madam clerk, will you please call item 7? >> clerk: item 7 is an ordinance retroactively authorizing the public defender's office to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $250,000 from the crankstart foundation and a grant in the amount of $35,000 from kelson foundation, to expand by 25-30% the capacity of the clean state unit to meet the increased demand for clean slate services for the period of january 1, 2021 through december 31, 2021, and to amend the annual salary ordinance number 166-20 and to provide for the addition of two grant funded positions, one f.t.e. in class 8177 attorney and one f.t.e. in class 8173 legal assistant. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor melgar? >> supervisor melgar: thank you for the work on this. i want to thank the public defender for the work that they've been doing u

go ahead, perspectivy. >> good morning chair peskin and the rules committee. i would just like to say a couple of words about this item as we look to revitalize our public housing in district two. this small admin change will allow us to stay on schedule and also it will allow for all greenhouse and 100% energy and gas. and also, like we said we have staff here from the p.u.c. that will also answer questions. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, mr. burch. mr. ramirez. good morning. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is manuel ramirez. i'll give you a little bit of a background introduction into this ordinance. consistent with chapter 99.2 in these administrative code. the development agreement generally requires developers to obtain from the p.u.c.. we treat the payments and the cost sharing similar to what pg&e would do. with that in mind, the p.u.c. adopted regulations last amended in 2017 that would require the cost of new electric facilities with developers. the they that the infrastructure is built out, the developers are required to pay 100% of the sub s

supervisor peskin? >> chair peskin: thank you madam clerk, colleagues. as i mentioned earlier, when we adopted item 28, thank you all for the unanimous vote. that was the process improvement rule changes. today i'm introducing a hearing request regarding local implementation a state law that requires local governments to produce annual reports on commissions oversight committees and boards and other policy bodies who's members are appointed by legislative body, such as this board of supervisors. last year's matty act report was one-page shy of 200 pages. it's a road map not only for the rules committee but for everyone who's interested in applying for a policy body or commission. that reports set forth the qualifications, the mission of the body, inspiration dates. dozens upon dozens of such commissions and advisory committees and task forces. it is incomplete in a number of ways. by the way, for anybody who's watching, can be found on the board of supervisors website. you can get a link to it. new chair of the rules committee, i believe we can and shoul

thank you chair peskin. my apologies. i agree with the motion and, again, i really appreciate your work along with the mayor's office with the mayor last week. it is so great to see all the candidates really passionate about this issue. i want to strongly encourage those that didn't get a chance to be appointing and move forward with this appointment process to still continue your work and participate in some of these conversations. it's critical to know how do we spend these public dollars investing in our early child education. so i agree with today's decision, but that should not prevent any of those applicants that were interested in this issue to continue to work on this is really, i just want to make sure that the applicants know that and will continue to advocate for this important issue and continue to be involved with this advisory committee even in a participant capacity is really what i wanted to encourage them to do. thank you. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor chan, and i wholeheartedly agree with everything

i am supervisor melgar joined by dean preston and aaron peskin. john carroll is our clerk. i would like to acknowledge sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. mr. clerk, any announcements? >> thank you. to protect the public and board members and city employees, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and community rooms are closed. members are participating to the same extent as if present in the chamber. public comment is available for each item. sfgovtv.org is displacing the comment call in number across the screen. you have an opportunity to speak during the comment via phone by dialing 415-655-0001. following that enter id1874819510. then press pound twice to be connected. you will hear the discussions and you will be in listening mode only. when your item calls up dial star 3. the system prompt will indicate you raised your hand. you may begin comments. best practices call from quiet location. speak clearly and slowly. turndown your television or radio or streaming device. account for time delays you may encounter between life coverage and streaming. if you have writt

, supervisor peskin .[roll call vote] you have 30 aye's. >> chair melgar: thank you. >> supervisor peskin: i like to make a motion to continue this itemone as amended >> chair melgar: do we have to vote on that motion ? i didn't hear you madam clerk. >> erica major: youare good madam chair . on the motion as stated by supervisor peskinto continue the item as amended, supervisor peskin .[roll call vote] you have 3 aye's. >> chair melgar: the motion passes. madam clerk, would youplease call item number two . >> erica major: item 2 is a move to amend the housing code and affirm appropriatefinding. members of the public whowish to provide public comment on item number two should call th item on the screen . extra 18 . the meeting id is 187 724 4053 . then press pound, pound. if you have not done so, please dial star 3 to lineup to speak for item number two. lookclosely for the seven system prop .when we get to public comment list and listen for the system to indicate tha you have been on muted and you maybe ge

thank you, chair peskin, supervisor chan, supervisor mandelman. i consider this a great opportunity. i grew up as experiencing homelessness living outside in my dodge neon. so i know first-hand the failings of public policy and the need for economic restorative justice. fortunately, i overcame being housed particularly black folk. i started out my process of working on the first iter rations of reading franchise formally encarson rated folks and so i have a feeling i have a good sense of what i was also fortunate to to investigate over 4,000 lynchings. working at the equal justice initiative. i helped design the national institution memorial. my segregation in america report which was published as well as a video who i helped through alabama and other southern states. so i know despite for a very long time. today i'm actually an attorney empowering and protecting. advocating for technological equity in redirecting educational capital as well as ensuring their intellectual property. and, so right now i'm working with professor dorothy brown on real

, supervisor peskin .[roll call vote] you have 30 aye's. >> chair melgar: thank you. >> supervisor peskin: i like to make a motion to continue this itemone as amended >> chair melgar: do we have to vote on that motion ? i didn't hear you madam clerk. >> erica major: youare good madam chair . on the motion as stated by supervisor peskinto continue the item as amended, supervisor peskin .[roll call vote] you have 3 aye's. >> chair melgar: the motion passes. madam clerk, would youplease call item number two . >> erica major: item 2 is a move to amend the housing code and affirm appropriatefinding. members of the public whowish to provide public comment on item number two should call th item on the screen . extra 18 . the meeting id is 187 724 4053 . then press pound, pound. if you have not done so, please dial star 3 to lineup to speak for item number two. lookclosely for the seven system prop .when we get to public comment list and listen for the system to indicate tha you have been on muted and you maybe ge

thank you, chair peskin, supervisor chan, supervisor mandelman. i consider this a great opportunity. i grew up as experiencing homelessness living outside in my dodge neon. so i know first-hand the failings of public policy and the need for economic restorative justice. fortunately, i overcame being housed particularly black folk. i started out my process of working on the first iter rations of reading franchise formally encarson rated folks and so i have a feeling i have a good sense of what i was also fortunate to to investigate over 4,000 lynchings. working at the equal justice initiative. i helped design the national institution memorial. my segregation in america report which was published as well as a video who i helped through alabama and other southern states. so i know despite for a very long time. today i'm actually an attorney empowering and protecting. advocating for technological equity in redirecting educational capital as well as ensuring their intellectual property. and, so right now i'm working with professor dorothy brown on real

supervisor peskin. >> thank you, president and colleagues. i want to thank the clerk who, as usual, has sent out e-mails requesting information relative to retroactive approvals and this may have been discussed in the budget and finance committee, but this is i believe the only retroactive approval of the last e-mail that i saw. i admit, i'm a little bit behind on my e-mails. yesterday the clerk sent us an e-mail saying there was no justification provided for the retroactivity. >> chair: thank you, supervisor peskin. madam clerk, do we have someone here? >> clerk: yes, we have two individuals. >> chair: do we know if they have made it? >> clerk: we're checking. >> we did provide an e-mail to the board earlier today. with respect to this item, the retroactivity is intended only by the date which we have on the grant agreement which was april 1. we do not expect to enter into these grant agreements until after the board made this approval and we will enter into the agreement and there will be no spending that occurs here. >> chair: supervisor p

seconded by supervisor peskin. madamclerk would you please call the role . [roll call vote] >> there are 11 aye. >> we will not disclose our deliberations. we have no imperative agenda items . would you least read the n memorial. >> on behalf of supervisor mar, ronen and melgar for thomas o'connor and on behalf of supervisors mandelman, peskin and stephanie, on behalf of supervisor melgar for the late patrick o'donoghue.on behalf of supervisor peskin for the late richard o kim and for the late ... on behalf of supervisor peskin for robert guillaume and on behalf of supervisor ronen or the late king lie. >> thank you madam clerk and this brings us to the end of our agenda. madam clerk, isthere any other business before us today ? >> that concludes the business for today. >> in our continuing focus on being united as a board of supervisors and as a city and as acounty and as a world i bring you these two brief quotes . unity is strength when thereis teamwork and collaboration . wonderful things can be achieved by mattie stepanek. we must be united in heart and

thank you chair peskin. my apologies. i agree with the motion and, again, i really appreciate your work along with the mayor's office with the mayor last week. it is so great to see all the candidates really passionate about this issue. i want to strongly encourage those that didn't get a chance to be appointing and move forward with this appointment process to still continue your work and participate in some of these conversations. it's critical to know how do we spend these public dollars investing in our early child education. so i agree with today's decision, but that should not prevent any of those applicants that were interested in this issue to continue to work on this is really, i just want to make sure that the applicants know that and will continue to advocate for this important issue and continue to be involved with this advisory committee even in a participant capacity is really what i wanted to encourage them to do. thank you. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor chan, and i wholeheartedly agree with everything

supervisor peskin. >> thank you, president and colleagues. i want to thank the clerk who, as usual, has sent out e-mails requesting information relative to retroactive approvals and this may have been discussed in the budget and finance committee, but this is i believe the only retroactive approval of the last e-mail that i saw. i admit, i'm a little bit behind on my e-mails. yesterday the clerk sent us an e-mail saying there was no justification provided for the retroactivity. >> chair: thank you, supervisor peskin. madam clerk, do we have someone here? >> clerk: yes, we have two individuals. >> chair: do we know if they have made it? >> clerk: we're checking. >> we did provide an e-mail to the board earlier today. with respect to this item, the retroactivity is intended only by the date which we have on the grant agreement which was april 1. we do not expect to enter into these grant agreements until after the board made this approval and we will enter into the agreement and there will be no spending that occurs here. >> chair: supervisor p

thank you very much. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, mr. young., in the three months that we've been together or so -- three or so months that we've been together on this committee, i don't think we've seen such overwhelming interest in this case, 32 individuals for 9 seats. let me just start with a little bit of house cleaning the encumbent would like to apply for that seat again. and somehow there was some communication error as to how he did not reapply. but there will be a forthcoming application for that seat which nobody applied for. every encumbent in the existing seat has reapplied of the 32 individual applicants, you will note that some seven of them would require residency waivers if this committee were to forward them. with that, i thought that what might be helpful and, colleagues, if you will indulge me would be for us to actually start by hearing from the office of cannabis,a, as to where they are in their process in any number of ways ranging from how many permits have been issued, how many equity assets have been approved, thousand

thank you, supervisor peskin for cosponsor add. this was developed in partnership with the chinatown community after concerning from community members retail workspaces could impact the long standing efforts for a delineation between their district and maintain their role as attraction. it would prohibit retail workspaces in line with the request we heard from the community. we request your support today. the planning commission is here to speak on it as well. >> welcome, ms. flores. >> thank you, chair melgar. good afternoon, veronica flores, planning commission staff. this was before the planning commission on february 18th. they unanimously recommended approval of said ordinance. this concludes the commission report. i am available for any questions. >> thank you very much. i appreciate that. supervisor peskin, did you have any further comments about in. >> i do not. i think everything that needs to be said has been said. >> thank you. with that, public comment on this item, please. >> we are checking for caller in the queue. pr

supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you. colleagues, i've been to a number of these hearings and appeals, and let me make some kinds of contentions that are opposite to the assertions by the council for the applicant, at&t. first of all, insofar as this does require a conditional use, this board of supervisors has the right and has exercised that right in the past to grant the appeal or not. the federal preemptions are limited to issues around radio frequency, radiation, not to the other conditions pursuant to section 303 of the planning code. and i think that there are plenty there, and let me take them in no particular or the. the use has to be necessary, beneficial, and desirable. it is for this board to decide on appeal de novo. we are hearing this new. we do not have to rely on the planning commission, albeit they obviously struggled with this over a number of hearings. but i don't believe that at&t has proven necessarily. i concur with the appellant of this notion that first responders and van -- band 14 has not been p

supervisor peskin. >> madam chair, if i may venture to speculate. i suspect that if you were on the planning commission you would have voted in the disisn't. we just had a case at 424 francisco street, very old. the board voted unanimously granted it wasn't about residential care but it was about a history. the idea that the successor interest is lost of all sins -- washed of all sins of the previous owner does not meet the policy goals supervisor mandelman and we are trying to advance. no disrespect to staff or the planning department in this recommendation or the 4-3 vote by the commission, but ultimately this is a policy of the lawmakers and c.u.s are appealable to this board of supervisors. sorry for speculating, madam chair, as to how you might have voted. >> thank you, supervisor. okay. if there are no other questions or comments. madam clerk. let's take public comment on this item. >> we are checking for callers. if you have not done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue to speak for items 1 and 2. if you are on hold continue to wait unti

thank you, supervisor peskin for cosponsor add. this was developed in partnership with the chinatown community after concerning from community members retail workspaces could impact the long standing efforts for a delineation between their district and maintain their role as attraction. it would prohibit retail workspaces in line with the request we heard from the community. we request your support today. the planning commission is here to speak on it as well. >> welcome, ms. flores. >> thank you, chair melgar. good afternoon, veronica flores, planning commission staff. this was before the planning commission on february 18th. they unanimously recommended approval of said ordinance. this concludes the commission report. i am available for any questions. >> thank you very much. i appreciate that. supervisor peskin, did you have any further comments about in. >> i do not. i think everything that needs to be said has been said. >> thank you. with that, public comment on this item, please. >> we are checking for caller in the queue. pr

commissioners, i'm going to be -- the legislative sponsor is supervisor peskin and his staff was not able to be here tonight but i did think that this was legislation that was important to bring to you. it is just -- it is another item of legislation where we are streamline is meeting the streamlining goals and assisting our small businesses. so a couple important unique factors to know is that liquor stores in the polk street neighborhood commercial districts require a conditional use if they are to open in that commercial district. and that also the city does have in its planning code that should be used. if the use is abandoned meaning let's say with this development project, this liquor store had to close down and it took more than 18 months for that development project to get completed and finished and the liquor store wanted to move back in then by the planning code that use would deem abandoned and the liquor store would require to obtain a conditional use to re-open back in its location. so what supervisor peskin is attempting to do is to, one, state that the temporary closur