i am sonny angulo for supervisor peskin, who can't be here today. he's at the california coastal commission. last month, you did adopt some amendments to include the industry of autonomous vehicles which are currently under a pilot phase under the department of motor vehicles. they're doing some research and design, permitting, but eventually, we anticipate that they will be granted permit, where in they will be charging fees for passenger services. so when that happens, this -- this tax category would also capture that. so supervisor peskin, for those of you, particularly supervisor mandelman, welcome, who were not here when we first introduced this back in april. this is the equity for impacts tax. it is a gross receipts tax that supervisor peskin initiated as a way to really try and fulfill his obligation as the chair of the transportation authority board to identify and secure funding for about $100 million annually, and our local funds for transportation infrastructure and operations. and we have been slowly chipping away at that overwhelming n

next, i want to bring up sonny angulo from supervisor peskin's office to say a few words, because they were super helpful as well. this is an exciting effort. >> i wanted to reiterate everything that has been said all right, but i think it's a really tremendous example of what happens when -- supervisor peskin has often said that ballot measures that initiate from the voters are often because we're -- city hall is not doing what it needs to do to legislate something or to work together to put something on the ballot that can move policy. in this instance, we've shown that community groups can work together with city hall. we can out line the priorities. in this case, the cultural districts were a huge part of that negotiation. and i want to recognize your office's leadership on this has been super fun, actually, to work on. so thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. i would like to welcome supervisor mandelman has joined us. any comments or questions? seeing none. let's open this up for public comment. is there any public comment? come to the podium. you have 2 minutes. >> good morn

my name is sonny angulo, here representing supervisor peskin, who is the co-sponsor of this legislation along with the mayor. as you know, supervisor peskin has long been a champion of the smart and balanced growth, particularly as we build out new neighborhoods in the southeast of the city. a centerpiece of this policy has been anchored in the rationale of 1986's proposition m, which placed reasonable limits on office growth to prioritize housing for workers and other vital neighborhood infrastructure, including transit-oriented development. particularly as we look at building out and rezoning entire areas of san francisco, it's important -- or i'm here today to stress that the supervisor feels very strongly that even neighborhoods like downtown and formerly light industrial neighborhoods, they're still neighborhoods, and we need a balanced, smart growth approach, when we look at upzoning and balancing the different kinds of uses. and so one of the things that i want to thank the mayor's office for is their partnership and helping to think of creative ways that we can restore this offi