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this is about the same as the proportion citywide. se units were affordable through public assistance. specifically this would be the rebuilding of thei] valencia gud skns new construction in the mission. the remainder are inclusionary units. this slide shows where the affordable units were built. you will see that the mission shows most of the affordable housing. this is again because of the 260 units in the valencia gardens, as well as the 151 units -- there are also 1 0 believe market rate units that were built as offsite compliance for infinity and they were built in the showplace square area and so you'll see the inclusionary units are far higher in the showplace square area. there are over 3,300 net new units in the pipeline for the eastern neighborhoods. however, this residential development pipeline for the bx>uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu the residential pipeline. uuuuu this is because the bulk of the housing pipeline are in three projects, which account for over 20,000 units. most of the new units will be in the show dppings p
this is about the same as the proportion citywide. se units were affordable through public assistance. specifically this would be the rebuilding of thei] valencia gud skns new construction in the mission. the remainder are inclusionary units. this slide shows where the affordable units were built. you will see that the mission shows most of the affordable housing. this is again because of the 260 units in the valencia gardens, as well as the 151 units -- there are also 1 0 believe market rate...
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some of the big citywide issues that impact the district include transportation. we had more muni service and some other districts. it is not always reliable. some of the major bus lines in the district are not reliable. we have major projects like the renovation of delores park. it is an opportunity to define what the park is and what changes we want to make to it. that is going to be and port project, the same thing with glen canyon that is going to undergo a lot of work. one of the most challenging parts of the new district supervisor is that we elect the supervisors by district. it is very important to pay attention to the district, be engaged in the projects in the district. we also represent the whole city. any district supervisor that focuses on the district without addressing the citywide issues is not doing his or her job. every day, i make sure i am working on the major citywide issues and the district issues. i try to be disciplined about that. >> how will you approach the tough choices? >> i think we have to start by looking at the most critical city s
some of the big citywide issues that impact the district include transportation. we had more muni service and some other districts. it is not always reliable. some of the major bus lines in the district are not reliable. we have major projects like the renovation of delores park. it is an opportunity to define what the park is and what changes we want to make to it. that is going to be and port project, the same thing with glen canyon that is going to undergo a lot of work. one of the most...
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in the citywide elected officials, bill cain is here. on the state level, tom [unintelligible] [applause] the board of equalization member, betty yi. [applause] and, of course, mr. mayor, i refer to -- is that yours? [laughter] >> i believe so. >> two children. already proposes and ready to seek headlines. emily more arrests. [applause] state comptroller, john chomp. [applause] and your own controller, ben rosenfield. [applause] school board member, rachel morton. [applause] school board member, sandra lee [applause] you referred earlier to selecting the chief. which is great, sir. gavin named the first female fire chief. [applause] and you kept his chief of staff, steve caller. where are you, steve? [applause] then, mr. mayor, all of this did not just happen. all of the business of this beautiful blue drapery, decking out city hall with a blue carpet and horns of plenty, heralding your arrival. that all happened because you had an inaugural committee headed by none other than charlotte, matthew, and martha. they put all that together. st
in the citywide elected officials, bill cain is here. on the state level, tom [unintelligible] [applause] the board of equalization member, betty yi. [applause] and, of course, mr. mayor, i refer to -- is that yours? [laughter] >> i believe so. >> two children. already proposes and ready to seek headlines. emily more arrests. [applause] state comptroller, john chomp. [applause] and your own controller, ben rosenfield. [applause] school board member, rachel morton. [applause] school...
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senior planner and manager of the information and analysis group with the citywide policy of analysisoods plans report is informational]i and action is required. >> the each neighborhoods plans were -- eastern neighborhoods plans were adopted by the planning commission in 2008 and approved january 19, 2009. the monitoring requirements are listed to ensure effectiveness of the plans. this requires that first five-year reportsç be releasedy july, 2005 but we're just now able to present this to the commission. the reports will be the first in the time series and will cover 2006 through 2010, roughly a couple of years before and a couple of years after the adoption and approval. a subsequent report will come out in july 216 and will cover july 11, 2015 and 2016. the resources include the annual housing inventory. the curely pipeline report, the different databases andç the m.t.a. and the mayor's office. section 10-e. 6. e also lists the different required categories of information and the reports will follow the order stated in the mandate and will cover commercial development trends,
senior planner and manager of the information and analysis group with the citywide policy of analysisoods plans report is informational]i and action is required. >> the each neighborhoods plans were -- eastern neighborhoods plans were adopted by the planning commission in 2008 and approved january 19, 2009. the monitoring requirements are listed to ensure effectiveness of the plans. this requires that first five-year reportsç be releasedy july, 2005 but we're just now able to present...
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the relaunch would not be able to satisfy the citywide needs. we do have an outreach and marketing plan. we will be getting the word out. our neighborhood partners in economic development organizations, like urban solutions and the renaissance center, we will also be working with the new jobs plug. this is the initiative to be an extension of the small-business center to reach out to neighborhood and commercial businesses. part of the wells fargo plan would be for our managers, part of the office of economic work force development programs. the one to one or door-to-door campaign, there would be a media outreach at the small business center job squad, but also door- to-door with managers and staff for multi-lingual, spanish, and chinese. >> -- supervisor kim: is there already a corridor meter? >> we have 11 in the neighborhood market initiative. this would be in the valley. supervisor kim: i am sorry, which one? >> of leland avenue. -- on leland avenue, lower pok lk street, third street in bay view, mission excelsior -- supervisor kim: mission st
the relaunch would not be able to satisfy the citywide needs. we do have an outreach and marketing plan. we will be getting the word out. our neighborhood partners in economic development organizations, like urban solutions and the renaissance center, we will also be working with the new jobs plug. this is the initiative to be an extension of the small-business center to reach out to neighborhood and commercial businesses. part of the wells fargo plan would be for our managers, part of the...
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this number is widely used in the account for 25% of the calls that come in a citywide. even though we only have 10% of the cab service. if you had ever sat through one of our interview process is, you would understand why. we need to have our own phone number for our own identity purposes. yet that number will still be dispatched number. we are asking for a change in the language for the phone number to call the dispatch service. we have discussed this, mr. jarvis is in agreement. [tone] >> [leads names] -- reads names] >> good afternoon, again. i appreciate staffed bringing this forward. i think that the lack of company managers appearing before you may be saying volumes about this, unless you receive the documentation war correspondents from the managers. i, myself, when they first introduced this to the taxi commission years ago, i was not totally in favor, as it made it difficult for them to recognize the taxicab. i think that it is important for the company, that the person calling, that they can recognize it is the cab that they actually called, so that there is no
this number is widely used in the account for 25% of the calls that come in a citywide. even though we only have 10% of the cab service. if you had ever sat through one of our interview process is, you would understand why. we need to have our own phone number for our own identity purposes. yet that number will still be dispatched number. we are asking for a change in the language for the phone number to call the dispatch service. we have discussed this, mr. jarvis is in agreement. [tone]...
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i am hoping they will adopt the citywide implementation of the limits of live performance plan. i am looking forward to further discussions on this. i believe that we will be able to come up with the best solutions there. i would like to see the western plan continue, and i hope that the neighbors come back to the table. we will come up with the best solutions and hopefully everybody will be happy moving forward. it is extremely restrictive and we are trying to undo the damage at that point. there are things far beyond entertainment that are restricting housing that is necessary forjobs producing businesses. there is a lot more going on for this issue. >> are there any further speakers on this issue? i will wait a few minutes to see if anyone is sitting in room 421 that will want to speak to this issue. seeing no further public comment, public comment is closed. i would like to ask supervisor tan. supervisor tan, listen to me. commissioner tan, i know you have done some research. >> what concerns me is that everyone walks away feeling satisfied with outcomes and in this scenario
i am hoping they will adopt the citywide implementation of the limits of live performance plan. i am looking forward to further discussions on this. i believe that we will be able to come up with the best solutions there. i would like to see the western plan continue, and i hope that the neighbors come back to the table. we will come up with the best solutions and hopefully everybody will be happy moving forward. it is extremely restrictive and we are trying to undo the damage at that point....
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on page 3 of the memo, under evictions it says about 1% are 95 units of citywide owner movins were inunits in tau!eastern neighborhoods were also subject to the alice act, which is about 10% of the city total. so if i make some calculations, in the city that were subject to owner move-in and to ellis act over a five-yearç period. is that right? or approximately 200 a year? >> i don't have the numbers here, but it was based on theç five-year reporting period. >> commissioner sugaya: ok. that seems a little alarming to me. i don't know. 200 a year -- more than that. anyway, 2,000 over five years seems like a lot ofi] housing loss. and i don't know if this statistic is -- you know, if%q we'd been made aware of this previously or not. it seems like a lot of units being lost to this kind of activity. the other thing is in all the reports there is a table of unitst( lost in san francisco between 2006 and 2010 and 129 units over that period were attributed to unit mergers.ç having been on the commission during that time, i don't remember that we've approved 129 merged units, except that
on page 3 of the memo, under evictions it says about 1% are 95 units of citywide owner movins were inunits in tau!eastern neighborhoods were also subject to the alice act, which is about 10% of the city total. so if i make some calculations, in the city that were subject to owner move-in and to ellis act over a five-yearç period. is that right? or approximately 200 a year? >> i don't have the numbers here, but it was based on theç five-year reporting period. >> commissioner...
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in the citywide elected officials, bill cain is here. on the state level, tom [unintelligible] [applause] the board of equalization member, betty yi. [applause] and, of course, mr. mayor, i refer to -- is that yours?
in the citywide elected officials, bill cain is here. on the state level, tom [unintelligible] [applause] the board of equalization member, betty yi. [applause] and, of course, mr. mayor, i refer to -- is that yours?
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. >> relative to the citywide, yes. commissioner antonini: thank you. t miguel: commissioner boarden? commissioner borden: i want to echo the commissioners commending staff on this hard work. we only passed the eastern neighborhoods in 2008 so we're looking at data that precedes thatç and we can see some uptas -- upticks ofç what happened i 2009 and 2010 but we won't really know some of the results until we see the next report, which is kind of the challenge i think in judging the success or theñrç failure of easternçi] neighborhoods. i think some important points have been made about looking for new industry and the way we define space very rigidly but we also got into that situation because ofç that it's an interesting quandary to be in if we were able to predict the next best great industry, we all might not be sitting here. but an interesting note in the business times today, the san francisco metropolitan area has the largestç self-employment re in the country. so that's abouti] 10% of the population and i think that's a whole other dynamic wh
. >> relative to the citywide, yes. commissioner antonini: thank you. t miguel: commissioner boarden? commissioner borden: i want to echo the commissioners commending staff on this hard work. we only passed the eastern neighborhoods in 2008 so we're looking at data that precedes thatç and we can see some uptas -- upticks ofç what happened i 2009 and 2010 but we won't really know some of the results until we see the next report, which is kind of the challenge i think in judging the...
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this is the citywide comstat weekly report that went out on november 16. as you can see, it is fairly comprehensive. what we have is city-wide incidents by month of occurrence. you have city-wide incidents by day of occurrence, which shows the ebbs and flows of when most incidents are occurring. interestingly enough, the midweek is when we have the largest peak. it also shows it by our a recurrence, which indicates mid- afternoon is a peak time for incidents that occur on muni. it then takes it by incident code, which goes through, as you will see, the various crimes and things that occur on muni, and then it moves to buy immune -- by muni line. each district captain receives a graft exactly like this that is specifically for their own district, which shows where they are having issues, what the issues are, and i am in direct communication with the district station captains in terms of the things that are happening on our transit lines. what they then do is provide me with a monthly muni enforcement plan, both in operational or format and muni enforcement
this is the citywide comstat weekly report that went out on november 16. as you can see, it is fairly comprehensive. what we have is city-wide incidents by month of occurrence. you have city-wide incidents by day of occurrence, which shows the ebbs and flows of when most incidents are occurring. interestingly enough, the midweek is when we have the largest peak. it also shows it by our a recurrence, which indicates mid- afternoon is a peak time for incidents that occur on muni. it then takes it...
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the three of us. i feel like it should be citywide. what miss rogers is saying about the existing projects and reducing the square footage, it helps a certain part of the city, but we want to see more public art throughout the city. i would join supervisor cohen in that sentiment. supervisor wiener: we could divide the file and that might make it cents and continue both items, be amended version and the are original and you could talk to the mayor's office or anyone else in the interim. >> i am fine with that approach. i hope there is one version that includes this amendment. supervisor cohen: i'm not interested in duplicating the file, rather just hold off for one more week, including the amendments are proposed today. i just wanted to have the opportunity to talk to more people. i would like to make a motion we continue this item. >> we could add the amendment and then the continue it. supervisor mar: we have a motion and without objection? is there any other business before us? >> you need to continue the matter as amended to march 5
the three of us. i feel like it should be citywide. what miss rogers is saying about the existing projects and reducing the square footage, it helps a certain part of the city, but we want to see more public art throughout the city. i would join supervisor cohen in that sentiment. supervisor wiener: we could divide the file and that might make it cents and continue both items, be amended version and the are original and you could talk to the mayor's office or anyone else in the interim....
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the second component and the establishment of a citywide transportation sustainability fee -- that would replace the transportation impact development at the and apply to residential uses. the third component is the completion of an environmental impact report steady in 20 years of projected development in the impact of that development on the transportation network as a whole over the course of time. just to give you a little bit of background on the history of this, the conversation was initiated at the board of supervisors sitting as the transportation authority board in 2003. the board at that point requested that transportation authority staff to an analysis to reconsider the use of automobile level services and metrics under ceqa, recognizing that using that methodology often resulted in inconsistencies with achieving the city's transit first policies as well as our other multimodal priorities. in 2007, the transportation authority staff developed a report initiative report recommending the elimination of it and replacing it with an alternative measure that would be coupled with a
the second component and the establishment of a citywide transportation sustainability fee -- that would replace the transportation impact development at the and apply to residential uses. the third component is the completion of an environmental impact report steady in 20 years of projected development in the impact of that development on the transportation network as a whole over the course of time. just to give you a little bit of background on the history of this, the conversation was...
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the goals of this program are to, in general, better align city practices with citywide policy goals and more specifically, we have an opportunity for the first time ever to harmonize ceqa with our city's 40-year-old transit first policy. by transit first, that policy includes not only transit, but pedestrians, and bicycles, all modes, other than the single-occupant vehicles. this also presents an opportunity to integrate impact fees with the ceqa process. believe it or not in san francisco and most places in the state, when developers or a project sponsor pays an impact fee, there are no ceqa benefits associated with that impact fee. it's almost like the two things live in different universes. i'll explain more of that later. it's part of an ongoing evident from our office and the planning department to attempt to streamline ceqa review. it can take sometimes, add years to a project approval which makes many new development projects in feasible or extremely difficult to finance. >> and then finally, this presents an extraordinary opportunity to fund a high efficiency transportation i
the goals of this program are to, in general, better align city practices with citywide policy goals and more specifically, we have an opportunity for the first time ever to harmonize ceqa with our city's 40-year-old transit first policy. by transit first, that policy includes not only transit, but pedestrians, and bicycles, all modes, other than the single-occupant vehicles. this also presents an opportunity to integrate impact fees with the ceqa process. believe it or not in san francisco and...
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so, making sure those who do planning and other things, that we think strategically about the need citywidend also neighborhood by neighborhood. and we were able to do that and pass that legislation as a district-elected supervisors, even though this is legislation that impacts the entire city in the future of health care in san francisco for many years to come. i think it is possible to do both. it is definitely possible. >> let's talk about budgets. the city is faced with tough budget decisions. including where to make cuts and whether or not to increase taxes. how will he make these tough choices -- will you make these tough choices? supervisor campos: the budget is the most important policy document that the city can pass. it reflects the priorities of city government. i believe we have to be creative in how we look at the issue of the budget. it is important for me that certain things happen. i think that public safety has to be a priority in the budget, the public safety cannot be compromised to save a few dollars. but i think the public safety goes beyond funding the police departmen
so, making sure those who do planning and other things, that we think strategically about the need citywidend also neighborhood by neighborhood. and we were able to do that and pass that legislation as a district-elected supervisors, even though this is legislation that impacts the entire city in the future of health care in san francisco for many years to come. i think it is possible to do both. it is definitely possible. >> let's talk about budgets. the city is faced with tough budget...
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we had the pension reform that was beneficial but we're hoping to continue to see a citywide effort to control those costs and always to tighten up on and on personal expenditures. we are about to go through the numbers and talk through more of the details but i do want to remind everyone that this next two years is a very busy time. we are quite full and subscribed on the near-term needs to deliver for the city wide efforts for the america's cup and some capital projects at pier 27. this is a time where we need a plan for the unplanned. should we have unanticipated cost increases? despite all the need, we are meeting our reserves and despite the need to plan for the unplanned, we have done quite a good job in holding caused it to these principles. with that, i will turn it over to making to go over the numbers. good afternoon, commissioners. >> i want to touch on a couple of things we have focused on where but in this budget together and really first of all we looked at the actuals and we tried to project based on those numbers what we really needed in our operating budget tend to be
we had the pension reform that was beneficial but we're hoping to continue to see a citywide effort to control those costs and always to tighten up on and on personal expenditures. we are about to go through the numbers and talk through more of the details but i do want to remind everyone that this next two years is a very busy time. we are quite full and subscribed on the near-term needs to deliver for the city wide efforts for the america's cup and some capital projects at pier 27. this is a...
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. >> reporter: again, this is the citywide problem. as for the guardian angels they plan to be out of the anacostia subway station this evening. doing the same thing. passing out common sense tips for commuters and people everywhere, be aware of surround sxg ings. most of these victims found themselves unfortunately during this spate of violent crime. in northwest, derrick ward, news4. >> thank you. >>> a fire critically injured a woman in the district. the fire broke out you a round 8:00 last night inside an apartment in the 2300 block of good hope road in southeast washington. a child was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. several others were treated for smoke inhalation. no word on the cause of that blaze. >>> 11:09. coming up, u.s. military accused of burning the koran in afghanistan. why one commander says it happened. >>> plus, it is party time i [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable and enjoying it less and less? stop paying for second best. upgrade to verizon fios and get tv, internet and phone for an
. >> reporter: again, this is the citywide problem. as for the guardian angels they plan to be out of the anacostia subway station this evening. doing the same thing. passing out common sense tips for commuters and people everywhere, be aware of surround sxg ings. most of these victims found themselves unfortunately during this spate of violent crime. in northwest, derrick ward, news4. >> thank you. >>> a fire critically injured a woman in the district. the fire broke out...
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a result of our revenues not growing as fast as our expenditures which is very similar to the overall citywidetrend. in our forecast and throughout our organizations, we have a lot of constraints in our financials. we have diversity of revenue and business lines and that carried us through the recession and has really provided a relatively constant source of revenues for us. you also adopted under the leadership of the director, some very good financial policies and the rating agencies comment on these policies and we have seen results from that and that
a result of our revenues not growing as fast as our expenditures which is very similar to the overall citywidetrend. in our forecast and throughout our organizations, we have a lot of constraints in our financials. we have diversity of revenue and business lines and that carried us through the recession and has really provided a relatively constant source of revenues for us. you also adopted under the leadership of the director, some very good financial policies and the rating agencies comment...
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a result of our revenues not growing as fast as our expenditures which is very similar to the overall citywiderend. in our forecast and throughout our organizations, we have a lot of constraints in our financials. we have diversity of revenue and business lines and that carried us through the recession and has really provided a relatively constant source of revenues for us. you also adopted under the leadership of the director, some very good financial policies and the rating agencies comment on these policies and we have seen results from that and that includes the 15% operating reserve and the debt service coverage, never below two times revenues. we also have some weaknesses. we have some limited sources for capital and we also have growing costs on the personnel side which we cannot control and also growing costs and services above the department. you look closely at the budget for services and recognizing the city's financial crisis, we have moved to hiring at it a promise to perform the work that we would of other-otherwise performed through consulting contracts. we cut a million dollars
a result of our revenues not growing as fast as our expenditures which is very similar to the overall citywiderend. in our forecast and throughout our organizations, we have a lot of constraints in our financials. we have diversity of revenue and business lines and that carried us through the recession and has really provided a relatively constant source of revenues for us. you also adopted under the leadership of the director, some very good financial policies and the rating agencies comment...
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as this piece of legislation moves through the process, the planning commission an arts commission wanted to expand this citywide. the legislation expands requirements to all projects city-wide. since the last time the legislation was in front of you, the mayor's staff and i have convened several stake holders to talk about how this should be expanded. a good approach to move this forward, and it is embodied on this paper. i will give you a second to get to it. we heard a lot of feedback that adding additional costs to residential projects might be challenging right now given many of our focus is on affordable housing and increasing opportunities for housing. part of the amendment i am offering would limit the expansion to only commercial projects. we're taking our residential projects out and dropping the threshold in line to the rest of it. instead of expanding the requirement city-wide, we would propose it be limited to the zoning district in the south of market and southern downtown areas because we anticipate this level of development is going to be located in those neighborhoods. there are a number of zoni
as this piece of legislation moves through the process, the planning commission an arts commission wanted to expand this citywide. the legislation expands requirements to all projects city-wide. since the last time the legislation was in front of you, the mayor's staff and i have convened several stake holders to talk about how this should be expanded. a good approach to move this forward, and it is embodied on this paper. i will give you a second to get to it. we heard a lot of feedback that...