"dear sir: i'm a tenant who always pays my rent on time.e tried--" henry, come on ! how am i supposed to read this letter with that thing in my face ? just one more take. and don't look at me. it's supposed to be completely natural and unrehearsed. "dear sir: i'm a tenant who always pays my rent on time. "i've tried to bring several problems to your attention. these include: "no water pressure unsafe elevators and dirty alleys. "i'm not asking for luxury only basic services. i know you're a busy man, but--" wait a minute. what ? did i spell something wrong ? it sounds like you're apologizing for writing this letter. you need to be more aggressive. what do you mean more aggressive ? like this. they aren't just "unsafe" elevators, they're "death traps." and the grounds aren't just "dirty." they're "infested with rats." katherine, can you do that part again ? henry, i know this video project is important to you, but we're-- it's more than just important, rosa. my grade in journalism depends on how good this documentary turns out. well, having

as well by their tenants before moving forward.it is difficult to do one without the other and not have a serious schedule impact. we would be on hold taking the design to the next level to price this and get it into construction. supervisor kim: one other recommendation i would make is that we would be happy to come back to the board -- >> one other recommendation i would make is that we would be happy to come back to the board to clarify improvements. we know that we have the $61. we can hit the ground running on a fund-raising campaign. i would be happy to come back and report to this committee or to the full board about how things are going, or at a time certain to provide more information. but as the director said, they are entering the plea linked. -- a intrinsically linked. supervisor kim: i do not feel comfortable with approving tenant improvements at the $75 per square foot. i think we either should have two architectural plans going forward, or you should commit to the plan once the fund -- the money is fund raised. but i

i have represented tenants. at some point, i represented both because they have a common interest even in that. obviously, they both have to make the space accessible either now or later, so it is best that they work together if they can. and work together to save us -- to hire a single lawyer. they can make repairs or what ever is in their agreement. sometimes, when the tenant is the small business and does not have much cash flow, one way to do is to renegotiate the lease, where the cost is amortized over a longer period time. it is another way to spread the payments back to the less financially available person. would you do if you get one of these notices? if you have not had your property inspected already, or if you do not do it following this program -- which i recommend you do -- you should have an inspection by an architect who is familiar with ada issues. we call all of these laws ada, but really ada is one aspect of the federal laws. there are five or six statutes, depending on the specifics of the ca

-- tenant desert. is the land blurred permitted to collect rent? -- the landlord permitted to collect rent? >> [inaudible] >> that is an excellent point. we will talk about the value. let me say, if it has existed for a long time, that does not make it ok. it means they got away with it for a long time. that does not mean it is ok because it has been there 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 years. that does not make it ok. >> they can come in and kick up a tenant in clear out all of the room? >> we do not inspect those on a routine basis. we only look at them if we receive a complaint. we do not kick the people out. retell the property owner, you have this problem. you have to figure out how to solve the problem. legalize the unit. they can make some other change. >> anybody can come in and make trouble? >> they can. >> when we go to sell a property like that, if your friend wanted to sell the single-family house and had a tenant in the legal unit, if we write up the statement we hand out to all the people that co

we put tenants in at the request of the historic preservation commission. i acceded to that request. with that said, tenants at times will be more challenging to engage in this than property owners. maybe that will not always be the case. it may be at times. that is information the board will take into account, and that is why it is not binding. i also want to disagree with something mr. peskin stated, that this is limiting the right of a citizen to petition his or her government to create a historic district. anyone can show upper -- show up at many of numerous forms -- forums and request that the district be organized. anybody can do that at any time. what will not happen, which had been proposed by the hpc, that any individual could walk in and forced a hearing on any district. i want to create a historic district of everything north of market and east of van ness. i am triggering a nomination. that is what would happen. anyone can request an hpc. these are very common sense and modest changes. i think we have before us is a very good accommodation that

to the extent we have anchor tenants, we will move quickly. to the extent we don't, we will move as demand is created. it's one of the reasons we want flexibility with respect to the housing news so if we're finding resistance in one market, we can look at the other to push the development forward. the plan is to build out the project as the demand exists for the space. we are actively talking to tenants now and there's a lot of interest in this site given its location and drama. this is really a great site. phil williamson and i were just in boston where mit's real- estate graduate school program hosted an international competition on a particularly interesting development site. which side did they choose? they chose this site. people came from europe, canada, hong kong and across the united states to talk about how exciting this site is. we think we have the requisite interest and recovering economy where we feel like we can move quickly on this project, but we are speaking to people who could be anchor tenants and occupy more than a few bui

i am with the golden gateway tenant association. our members live in a residential rental complex of 1254 units located across the street from the proposed construction sites. our association opposes be project. a parking garage will increase traffic congestion at the bottleneck or washington street feeds into the embarcadero. it is contrary to the city's transit first policy. there will be traffic congestion, especially during the seven months of excavation. the noise will be earsplitting for most residents, especially in the 440-unit building 60 feet away. this project proposes the first height increase on the northern waterfront in 45 years and will set a precedent for other developers. you did it for them, why won't you do it for me? the result could be a concrete curtain along the waterfront. please vote no on the 8 washington street plan. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> good evening. i am with the san francisco tenants union. on items 8 and 12, the eir is flawed. i will try to give 25 years of my personal experienc

into piers 26 and 28, as well as giving those existing tenants some term. that is what is really driving the numbers. it is an ongoing process. for every least you get done, another one comes in determination -- into termination. the relocation of tenants for the america's cup project and cruise ship terminal project has a lot of ways to bring this to market. it has gone very well so far. supervisor chu: for all of the new leases that you enter into, one of the common areas where you put into the contract is, once you hit your lease end date, it automatically adjusts to a higher level to incentivize us to get us to a place where we are negotiating a new lease. >> yes, well said. upon termination, there is a specific term called holdover status, which has always been in the lease, but now it adjusts to the market rate without any necessary action of rewriting the least. >supervisor chu: in terms of public interaction with the port, there are not that many instances where people would come into the port facility, but when they do, it is about ferry schedules,

tenants to not have the same rights as landlords do to relocate their satellites. that is a planning issue that came out of left field. i am passing back on as something the department should think about. i do not want to have the little guys picked on. the planned unit development that you at approved for 8 washington had an unusual provision in it. a pud has landscaping. the whole idea is because of its size, it is not occupy totally by a building. pd conditions are heavily oriented toward the open space. i've been through enough puds. on 8 washington, all of those areas were excised from any of the effects of your decision. they are port property. i do not think anyone paid any attention because i did not pay any attention. your conditions did not affect the port property because you have a specific language that was put in at the very last minute by the attorney for the developer. that is a very strange concept in a pd. -- pud. the only thing you made that were binding on the site where the buildings. the sidewalks around our port property. you do not have any

the good question about bifurcating the base lease from the tenant package. the tenant package.the challenge that we have is

in this case, it is a tenant who just does not know. you know, i think i am right, but their customers think they are right. and i've had my car stolen and all these other things are happening, so i dare not speak out at all. this is one of the things happening on polk street. why is it? it is because we have this huge concentration that should not be there in the first place. the abc liaison from s.s.p. to add a meeting with community members said, why do they approve the conditional uses? he was sort of perplexed. he said, if they do not approve it, it is over. but once they approve it, they must understand it is almost automatically going to be approved. no matter the in-the impact on residents or writretail or the restaurants. abc does not turn down things usually, assuming it is not criminal. if it has been approved by the city, they accept what the city said. the committee and the board of supervisors in their office says, we have no grounds to turn it down. if it was recommended by the police, it was recommended by the planning c

actually watts on the consumer watch on the trend that has some tenants fighting back. >> like many tenants, audrey knows that she has some wiggle room when she writes her monthly rent check. >> i consented for get my paycheck and i know there will not catch it. >> her days of paying that we could be numbered. a growing number of landlords now want tenants to pay online. >> that has really picked up in the past year. >> he is the founder of a startup that sets up direct online rental payments between tenants and landlords. he estimates 20 percent of landlords now request or require paperless payments. >> it is more cut and dry because if you agree to pay your rent on the first and the money comes out of your account on the first. >> this seventh disco landlord uses the system in his building. >> it makes my relationship with tenants much more smooth. >> the issue recently sparked protest in los angeles were one of the city's biggest landlord now requires on-line payments. the property with a number of senior citizens, many of whom don't own computers, and say it is just a ploy to evict them

. >> a landlord won't allow a tenant to plug in his electric car. what does that mean for all renters? i'm michael finney. 7 on your side is coming up. >> carolyn: engineers at u. c. berkeley invented floating row pots. it may help california in a number of scenarios. the researchers spent time last week depositing some of them in the delta. we have the story from walnut grove. >> go bears! >> researchers from u. c. berkeley spent the day tossing dozens ever high-tech cylinders into the delta waters at walnut grove. the sensors are equipped with gps receivers and cell phone technology that provide data showing their exact movements in the waterway in realtime. they can also deliver information on pollution, saw lynnty and other variables. >> the goal here is to be able to show the currents at a scale that was previously unknown so we can understand better how the delta works. >> inside we have some ballests and a smartphone. >> it contains a consumer cell phone or its components and a signal to a computer. >> it's a tracker, and because it's floatin

in this case, it is a tenant who just does not know. you know, i think i am right, but their customers think they are right. and i've had my car stolen and all these other things are happening, so i dare not speak out at all. this is one of the things happening on polk street. why is it? it is because we have this huge concentration that should not be there in the first place. the abc liaison from s.s.p. to add a meeting with community members

disputes. >> as ted said of the san francisco tenant's union, he believes richard has every right toplug in his car. >> tenants have use of them in the past and they have use of them in the future. >> however an expert in landlord-tenant law disagrees. >> i don't see any reason in the law why the landlord would be obliged to make that socket available. >> a former superior court judge, david garcia, now mediates civil disputes. he said if the landlord lets one tenant plug in he may have to give the same deal to everybody else in the building, and since richard's lease doesn't give him specific rights to that socket, the landlord can say no. >> he didn't rent that socket. it's not part of the unit. it's part of a common area. >> he said just the opposite. he said if the lease doesn't prohibit use of the socket it's fair game. >> that means i have the right to use those outlets without restrictions. >> one thing everyone agrees on, this conflict is bound to spread, especially in a city where half the residents of tenants and more are buying electric cars. >> if every landlord would tak

my question was actually on the tenant improvement.if your asset up to about budgets, i'm wondering what the budget with the like if you only had $61 per square foot, and what it would look like you at $75 per square foot. >> we have not gotten to the point of setting up those budgets yet. it is a bit of a chicken and egg situation where without a signed lease we have not been able to engage a contractor to give us a cost estimate. but i will tell you the $61 we know is going to go to the basic infrastructure that we will need regardless. the chp systems, the lighting, the wiring for computer and phone systems, the preliminary architectural design that the building's architect has done for us, which does include a core for private offices for senior staff as well as the conference room. if we cannot for some reason fund up to the $75, we may have to adjust the architectural design so that we have less private space. that would make us look more like some of the many tech companies that have much more open collaborative environment, whi

tenants before i was elected and with my votes on this board. my parents immigrated to the united states in the 1960's, and i was the first kid born in the u.s. my parents sacrificed everything so that their kids could have the opportunities that they wanted when they came here. i grew up in the boston area, live in different parts of boston, went to a catholic high school in dorchester, which is a section of boston. because of my parents work and the opportunities they gave me, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university. it was intense. i stayed there for college, for law school, and i also have a master's in public policy there. those are subjects i decided to study in part because i was very interested in public service and public policy issues and government. i ran for office in part because i wanted to serve the city and really protect all that is so special about what san francisco is. >> we've been talking for years about how important it is to build new neighborhoods, to develop affordable housing, make sure we have t

. >> a landlord won't allow a tenant to plug in an electric car. what does that mean for all renters? >>> we spend a lot of time and money on assessings risk of natural disaster autos in california it seems to change though the risk is constant. dan noyes is here with a preview of the investigation. >> this state of california has spent millions for emergency supplies over the years. but now, officials are cutting the budget to store and maintain those assets. >> these volunteers are running a mock earthquake drill in oakland. but it could be any disaster bioterrorism will the state of california be ready when the next major disaster happens? >> box after box of supplies that could save your live sit in warehouses. experts say what is inside is crucial in case of an emergency but the state decided they aren't worth maintaining with state dollars. >> these are important assets for california. we don't want to see them destroyed. we don't want to see them leaving california. >> with serious shortages, this state had to look at painful decision autos

if -- a vote for property tenants. axiomatic in the proposition is safeguards, safeguards for low- income communities, communities of color, committees with limitations. i have actually had to litigate cases in which historic preservation if you do not have the right safeguards, there is no protection from the legislation. . olague had raised the question a number of years ago. and it was a joy to work with you and get this approved. but you have to of knowledge that there is a propensity with that committees safeguards -- that community posey said guard. low-income homeowners cannot keep up with the preservation joneses. it is important to have historic preservation the part of what we're doing as san francisco, but we talk about new districts, new landmarks, it makes the tenants and economic hardship waiver very important. i do not think any more changes need to happen. it has been changed a lot, but just making sure that the affordable housing peace is dialed in, sounds good to me. let's go forward. >> thank you. an

a landlord gets billed for the feet and then they can collect half of the fee from the tenant. the fee has been, for the past four years -- and we anticipate will remain -- $29 for apartment units, $14.50 for residential hotel units from the tenant. the fee is calculated every year by the comptroller's office, based on the final budget that you approve for us. that is - any carried forward funds. so that reduces the amount of budget and these to be reduced by the feet. we have some carryover funds that we anticipate from the current fiscal year. that is usually generated because there are mandatory rounding up to the next full dollar if the comptroller figures out that we need $28.29 to fund our budget, it gets rounded up to $29. that gives us a bit of surplus that we carry forward, along with any collection that exceed the delicacy rates factored in. and we have some expense savings. in this current year, we did not expect all of our city attorney budget. we never know in advance how many people are going to sue us. it is pretty difficult to calculate, but there will be carrie