became a manager or contact person for other tenants. so, we recommend that the city requires a trained desk clerk in all sro hotels. it could be added to the current requirements. on top of requiring a desk clerk, we want them to be trained. we recommend that they be trained to effectively assist tenants, there but they should have a general understanding of health and housing codes and answers to questions about rent and repair. in the community we know that there are some current curriculum that the city, should they be interested, can look at. another point i would like to mention is physical and accessibility. most of these buildings are multiple stories high, which could constitute a huge problem for those of us in the population of seniors with disabilities. many seniors and people with disabilities in describing sro as an accessible. the same as in the report, we would like to see a rebate program where they could voluntarily relocate tenants that need it from an upper floor to a ground-floor units. we also want the city to add l

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

tenants cannot afford to find places to live. i had four dozen calls in, like, a week when i put up an ad for the last apartment. there is an enormous demand for exactly this kind of housing. i understand the position that you are in where you are concerned about safety and have the ability. i personally think with my building, there has been a vendetta against me by a few individuals that have absolutely nothing to do with these issues. i think that my building is probably one of the safest buildings in san francisco. i think those concerns are way overblown, which is why i'm saying there needs to be a legislative remedy to this. it is the only way that i can see. it is not just me. it is a huge problem, and just by singling me out because people complain about me, even if it is over the top complaints, you are not really addressing this systemically, which is why i have gone to the board. i am prepared to go further. i will go to the mayor and do whatever i needed to get the ball rolling on this. clearly it is something the cit

he is the former tenant of 1285 40 fifth ave. he said, i make this declaration on my personal knowledge, and called as a witness i could competently testify in another hearing. he said that since february, 2003, i was a residential tenet at the 45th avenue apartment located in san francisco, the ground level unit. the landlord and manager was a purely the -- peter lead. i received an eviction notice in march saying that they intended to demolish the unit. after receiving the eviction notice, vacated the grounds in around may, 2010. they have been renting out its illegal unit for many years and have not removed it. but we also talked about this pattern and behavior of disobeying, or not paying attention to the building department orders. at the 47th avenue property, we talked about the restriction on their deed. specifically, it says, the lower floor area shall not be used as a separate drilling unit or rooming unit, and there should be no borders residing there -- boarders residing there. we're talking about another property owne

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

that it was not a continuous tenant. they just re-rented it, even with these violations. >> are we setting the property owner for illegal construction or illegal zoning use? >> we are setting the property owner for illegal creation of two units -- we are setting -- we are sending -- we are citing the property report illegal creation of two units. >> the department of building inspection cannot find violations of the plan to cut. we're dealing with the fact that it has now been four years since the notice has been issued. we are getting a lot of complaints from occupancy in the building. the property owner has not even filed a permit within four years to explore whether anything can be legalized. what we have, though, is an apartment house without any kind of electrical building, plumbing,, and we have a significant amount of complaints coming in from occupants of the building. we had individuals who occupied a legal and illegal unit in this building, and they were very unhappy with the fact that this property owner was a

this is where it is coming from -- a vindictive tenant. he basically looked up everyone who ever had a complaint and then came up with this whole narrative. "she takes the money away." this is the nicest place i have lived in san francisco. the illegal units on the ground floor -- they have been there a while. there is nothing wrong with them. there is no danger there as far as i can tell, and i have been there. i am not an expert. i am not a contractor. i am not an inspector, but every time she has found that something is wrong, she works to fix it. >> are you in the upper two units or the basement? this alleged attended making the complaint, -- the alleged intended making the complaint, i the still there? >> no, they are gone. one had a job, and the other stayed home and made phone calls on end. >> i had a question if that is okay. what is the cost of pulling the permit to get moving in a diffe? >> was the first part of your question? >> costs. >> it depends upon what the property owner wishes to do and perhaps deputy director sweeney mi

i am a voter in the south beach arena and am now the new president of the tenants' association. we are up to 260 members of the seven people in the harbor. we just heard about this, literally, 30 days to 45 days ago. of course, we have a lot of problems and i guess one of the biggest things that we do not have right now is the time to go through, record them, and have larry bring it up to me now. basically, the california department of boating, they have a certain number of millions done by san francisco redevelopment. those funds have never been finished or finalized. the documents do state that if redevelopment does stand, there has to be a notification. we do not even know if that has been done. we have major questions about unlawful transfer of the harbor to anyone. we also have problems with the timing, as you have heard. most specifically, rates. we just looked at the harbor ourselves and we saw a tremendous amount of low hanging fruit that is not being used by the harbor. people coming in with cruise ships who are not paying anything. people coming in the cruise ships who

the tenants will be gone. the building will be empty. the other people on the block will not know anything about it and u- -- unless oyou have nob hill buildings. if there sro's that happened to be vacant, it is because the owner does not want to run it or it is too much for them. those of the ones that are -- the master lease program has worked on or that mt. profits could buy and operate as actual low-income housing which is what, we do not have any other races -- resources for it. it is unspeakable. >> thank you for allowing me to speak. i am kathy luper. we own and run the cadillac hotel in the tenderloin. we bought the hotel as private owners. we did not exchange -- we did an exchange of buildings and turned the cadillac over to become a nonprofit. people thought we were crazy. who wants to live in the tenderloin? who will live here? you'll only have 20 residents. it is a 160-unit building and is full. we have a waiting list. we have waiting lists of people who are looking for affordable housing in the city. they're not all people w

who have been good tenants. it is something that we need to consider, prior to 2013 and 2014 . >> even though fort mason does not have a ferry operator there, there are people there operating out of pier 3 and other buildings. there is not another unoccupied space here, so we have to figure it out. look forward to working with you on that. >> thank you. >> item 9a. request approval of memorandum of understanding no. m-15137 between the port and the san francisco police department, to station the san francisco police department marine unit at the hyde street harbor for a term of 60 months. >> good afternoon, commissioners. senior property manager for the real estate division. i am here today to request your approval for the memorandum 15137 between the port of san francisco and the san francisco police department. and the attached resolution. as way of background, the san francisco police department marine unit has been located at hyde street harbor since 2003. as you can see from your materials, they are out the

-- 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

i happen to be on the tenant's council and we have gotten a few things done. we have gotten the place painted. we want to be safe. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> hello. my name is john stone. i am sro -- in a residence sro of the -- i in am a resident of the sro in the tenderloin. something i want to bring your attention to, it is a relevant problem to sro's in general. it has to do with the task force. now, the reason it came to my attention is i came up with the problem of mice and cockroaches. it repeatedly went to my building manager numerous times. sometimes he would tell me flat out that he would not spread. sometimes his schedule would not do it. sometimes he would make excuses. sometimes i cannot keep them out of my dad when i sleep at night. has gotten to the point where i cannot take. i thought to myself, let me do the smart thing. let me find out who i am dealing with here. i went online to find out who was managing my building. what do you know, it turns out, first of all, that this guy is currently sitting on your sro task force. not only that,

they also would not displace any tenants in the future. i might note -- they have indicated they do need additional student [inaudible] and it would try to accomplish that through the adaptive use of non-residential building such as hotels or buildings of that nature. president fong: thank you. >> i am appalled at the draft changes. i thought this was about trying to help have a new housing built and trying to protect the rental stuff that we have -- stock we have. this just wipes it out. you might as well not have passed anything at all if you think there would be protections with this, i have a hill to sell you. where thousands of units have been lost. we're all st. mary's -- where all st. mary's has been fighting. later, it was the academy of our university and other schools. i walk by and i see the other schools there. not even to mention what happens if all the language schools are doing this, too. of course, there will be no evictions because no one goes to court to evict. they give people notices and people move. that is what happen

them to evict any rental tenant. the effect was that all units except for four appear to have been vacated. two units are occupy by the permit applicants adult children. the permit applicant appears to be removing up to 12 affordable rental housing units from the market. the planning commission should not reward those who removed affordable housing stock from the market by threatening the eviction of renters. with code exceptions which benefit these people financially to the detriment of the neighborhood. thank you. >> ok, any other speakers in favor of the dr? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am here to represent the many units of 1490 affected by the crgarage deck. there are five units next to or above the proposed private unit. all of these units face security issues from the garage deck. there is no fire protection. the proposed building roof deck impacts these five units disproportionately as it is placed on their side of the building. this exposes them to additional noise and security issues of people climbi

>> i am a tenant organizer. at the all-star hotel. senior action network as well as the central city -- i would relalally like to say -- the seniors and disabled members of the community are often the most vulnerable. they should receive the best care. i have one more card, along the side of the room. but i want to agree to other supervisors that are here. no so with the senior action network. i am advocating with some friends of mine. i live with some housing -- the s.r.o.'s have a myriad of nightmare stories, including a man who was 84 years old who lived there for 13 years and this has been leaking on his bed. they say that they have fixed the room, and the only time that leaks is when it rains. every time it rains, it rains on his bed. he puts a tarp over his bed. the dripping kept him awake. he was living in community partnership housing, and it had zero heat in there, and all of the complaints, this was refused after she made the complaint. she is blind and asked for accommodations. the community housing partnership refused and

there are a handful of tenants each at piers 19 and 23. there are some tenants in pier 27 who are still trying to be accommodated on port property. in general, the progress in moving tenants has been excellent. tenants have been very cooperative with support staff efforts. we are looking at turning over a couple of sites as soon as we can, some of the licenses, even before the lease disposition agreement is executed. the of that authority is seeking some office space at pier 23, moving out of some other offices that they have been renting in the private market. also, access to appear 80, in anticipation of some shipping activity at the site, the need to be able to load in and out of the water. the least disposition agreement is expected to be executed in the early june. the final piece of the puzzle, i think we've mentioned to the commission, the america's cup organizing committee meets to procure and owners delayed policy, a form of insurance policy guaranteeing the port will complete all the work that you have heard about today and will

we much prefer when tenants and landlords can work it out themselves without involving us. we also have tommy, who has done outreach to the senior survival school for many years now. the chief inspector has worked diligently to help those who drafted this report. she could not be here today, so i would like to introduce the s -- sro collaborative. >> i wanted to thank rosemary for her great work. thank you. plaskett -- good afternoon. i am here to talk a bit how we got to these recommendations basically, the last hearing we had here, we spent a lot of time talking about the findings of the survey. we look at those results and set ups a series of meetings with different tenants and tried to give at the roots of what could be in the solution. and it would be a while to get the details figured out. some of them we will try to implement some other day. it fairer -- is it clearer in caesar? we will come back to it later. certainly, the things i want to draw an --

the on the way you can protect an unknowing tenant in the future is to put a restriction on the deeds of that it has been called to the attention of the san francisco rich ordinance. does that make sense? rex know, but that is all right. -- >> no, but that is all right. >> good evening, members of the commission. stephen macdonald for the permit holder responding. respectfully, i suggest that the notation on the agenda is actually inaccurate. two months ago, when we were here i think i convinced this panel that the authority cited by the court of appeal makes it impossible for this commission to order the legalization of this illegal unit. that was not met with any rebuttal. then the statement was made that the tenant is a student and would like to finish her semester. the commission members then looked at each other and decided what to do. it was decided by this commission that the hearing would be postponed for two months so that the student tenant could finish her semester. in my mind, that implied that this meant that there was no way this appeal could be granted. permit was perfe

they're willing to do that for a tenant complaint. we refer cases to the city attorney on a regular basis. one landlord, he has had litigation with -- the owner, with a record amount of penalties. when people live in conditions like this, and have been for 20 years this is very emotional. these are things that we see every day. the majority of property owners are very responsible. we have landlords to call us up and are berating us. they do not want to follow the law. the process is very serious. we notify all of the lenders. there are seven of overt -- seven other hotels. we have a craft that i showed earlier. >> a number of speakers -- these conditions have gone on. some of those coming from the grassroots organizations -- they are strengthening the law so that there can be follow- through. that came forward, very clearly. i wonder why we have such a hard time enforcing the existing law. >> of the obstacles that we face. this is like a mole popping up in different places. this is one citation against one landlord. another building,

directly by talking with tenants and evaluating the living conditions. roaches and mice are only a few of the issues that they are facing. social services

i did also report it to director tenant. >> rose: so director tenant knew? >> yes. he knew.neral franks knew. >> rose: this is the man who launched 9/11. under his direct orders this was carried out and it goes to the c.i.a. director you've told him yourself. >> yes, every... >> the man in charge of the military is general frank. >> yes. >> rose: he knew because you told him. >> yes. >> rose: and you're saying to me that this... didn't go to the secretary of defense? >> to my knowledge i just don't know. >> rose: what would you think would normally happen on a matter of this significance? >> well, out of... i certainly hoped at the time they would have responded to our request in a favorable way but that did not happen. and in terms of how the reporting went to the secretary or not i don't know... >> rose: well, you know george tenant well. did he pass it on tg q/ç the secretary of defense? >> i don't know if he did or not. but i know that our intelligence reports were disseminated to the department of defense, to the white house, to central command. >> rose: have you ever a

our building department where we try to ensure that all folks doing work and providing housing for tenants in san francisco are applying the building code. when it happens that people are not, either in the case of blighted properties, complaints from neighbors about apparent code violations on the exterior of the building, or tenants within the building, we actually issue notice of violation and we, as a department, go out and say that you have to resolve the issue. there is an extensive process within the department that allows our staff to work with these folks with these violations to fix them and resolve them, which is our goal. it goes through a process that would be the directors hearing where the director determines to support staff decision or make alteration and ultimately, it gives the opportunity for the project sponsor to resolve the issues. if they are not happy with that, they can appeal to our abatement appeals body, which is our commission, to ask us to resolve some of those issues. the litigation committee deals directly with those problems that do not get resolved throug

a lot of folks who are longtime tenants have faced eviction because of this. i will be a part of those discussions as well. >> that concludes roll call for introductions. president chiu: let us go to general public comment. >> the public may, and for up to two minutes on items within the jurisdiction of the board. please note that public comment is not allowed on items which have already been subject to public comment by a board committee. speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the time. please remove a document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. >> stop the corporate rate of our public library. -- rape of the public library. accountability and democracy go together. then there is private influence peddling. we have reached the point where open government and ethical standards can no longer touch private money. they violated the right to make public comment, and the violation was willful. the ethics commission made a finding of official misconduct and recommended that she be removed from the library commission.