next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm jim, and i serve on the d.b.i. commission. we had our budget meeting yesterday, so we got our budgets to you on time, or you will be getting them on time. we had a very significant discussion about the a.d.u. issue, and the 100% affordable. clearly we don't have enough data at this point to incorporate into the current budget request, we have a lot of issues to fully understand the implications of it, but overall, the entire commission was incredibly supportive, especially of the need for supporting the city's efforts to increase a.d.u.s. we have done a lot to eliminate the backlog, that has been successful, and i don't think that there is any resistance to having some revenue reduction, especially surrounding permit fees, or deferral of fees. as you know, fees are usually assessed when you applied that at completion of project. that's one way to really help projects get through as well. so we are looking very much towards working with the city on both of these issues, but especially the a.d.u. one that was discussed in very gr

>> well, i -- the only thing about d.b.i. on a renewal, we can't -- it would be a revision permit, it wouldn't be a renewal permit. it would be a revision. >> president fung: okay. you're right. >> getting the drawings done in a week, it's probably going to be difficult. >> president fung: no, we can handle that as a special condition. to make sure the parties understand, this board can accept a permit change and therefore provide approval to it. >> yes. so language would be a revision permit, not a renewal permit. >> president fung: procedural only, sir. [inaudible] >> president fung: procedural only. >> -- remedy and drawings, but one week is a little too short in time. can we have at least two weeks? >> clerk: yeah, i mean, two weeks, our next hearing date available would be the 20th. we don't have a meeting in two weeks. february 20th? >> president fung: does that work for both parties? >> that does not work for us. >> president fung: okay. then march 6. >> clerk: okay. so we have a motion from president fung to continue t

the not d6. somehow or another d.b.i. only registered 25 vacant storefronts is what the article said in 2015 or 2016. i'm trying to remember the number but it's in that ballpark. one of my questions is in this legislation or as we move forward, is there a piece of this that's going to require a city wide survey this and see if the list matching? clearly there's a bigger problem than what the city shows say problem. i want to make sure we're getting good checks and balances on that and do strongly support moving forward on the vacancy tax as we go forward to really ensure we get better compliance and thank you for your time. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. steven cornell. this is a complicated issue. it's not that easy. i am in favor of trying to do something and i think the amount for the inspection doesn't need to be done and every commercial building needs to have their windows 60% clear up to four feet throughout the building. why this can't be enforced i don't understand. one of the largest landl

. >> commissioners, joe duffy, d.b.i. the permit under appeal was reviewed by building d.b.i. and d.p.w. and planning, as you heard, so i don't see any issues with that property. the property line window, every week, we talk about it, mr. is n n n not -- mr. sanchez just said. that window wouldn't have any standing because of the work that's getting done, like, next door. i've said that here before. i don't think the construction is going anywhere near. window. it's quite a way away. we got a complaint at the end of last year for this window. it might be since they started construction, it might have been put in, but i don't think it was put in recently. but i -- you know, it's probably better just to leave it alone, and they keep their window, but it shouldn't hold up the project for these people. i'm available for my questions. >> commissioner honda: same questions, inspector duffy. does it affect the light and air and liveability of that room? skbl i don't think so. someone said there's two windows in that room. >> commiss

to conclude, neither the planning commission nor d.b.i. abused its discretion in approving the land use requirements and shadow determination or by issuing a conforming site permit and demolition permit. we request that you deny the appeal and uphold the demolition and site permits. let me just also briefly turn to the ceqa issues that the appellant raised at the hearing today. once a proper ceqa determination is issued which happened in 2016, the time to appeal that determination is after the first approval. the first approval was in 2016. the ceqa document was not appealed to the board of supervisors, it was not litigated. such an appeal of the ceqa document is not before this board in 2018. i would also note if there is a project on florida street next to this site that does propose a nine story building, it will go through its own ceqa process and section 295 shadow determination and could not be approved if it does cast a significant shadow on franklin square park. but going backwards, not only is the ceqa issue not before this board,

on numbers just to give us an idea of what magnitude we're dealing with. >> yeah, because i think the d.b.i. has a reporting that they do, so we can ask them to forward that information to the board. >> president fung: that would be great. thank you very much. >> clerk: is there any public comment on this special item? seeing none, thank you very much for coming down today. we will now move onto item number five. this is peal number 18-157, joshua klipp versus san francisco public works bureau of urban forestry. subject property is 2465 vanness avenue, appealing the issuance on january 26, 2028 to bruce bauman, for planting, maintenance or sidewalk trees. this is permit number 781669, and we'll hear from the appellant first. mr. klipp, you have seven minutes. >> thank you. and before we start, i'm just wondering if the commissioners have received the brief that i submitted. >> president fung: yes. >> okay. and i don't know if anything else was submitted. i didn't receive anything else. was there anything else submitted to the board? >> commissioner honda: you're the only one that supplied a

planning department don't have much of a say on the approve. d.b.i, whereas you can put in what sort of windows are historic. at the back of the building, we allow vinyl windows that are not on the property line and just at rear elevation. i think that's all. if you have any questions, i'm happy to address this. >> commissioner honda: i have one. we just had this particular case recently where there's a property line in dispute and there's one survey done. how do you issue a permit if it's encroaching? >> the survey, we didn't get a survey on this. there's no survey there, but that's a civil matter. we refer those to the courts, to honest with you. >> president fung: i think his question is can the department issue a permit for one property when it straddles another property. isn't that your question? >> commissioner honda: i believe so. and i believe you answered it -- >> yeah. if we got a survey, we could present it to the permit holder and say we're in receipt of a licensed survey, and go speak to them, get this figured out. there are ways to do t

the recovery fee is what d.b.i. spends on actually doing the inspections of these vacant storefronts. and i also wanted to comment that an increase in market-rate housing can lead to identification, which can actually be detrimental to existing merchants as there is currently no rent control on retail space. and so what we're seeing is that when areas identify so quickly and massively around neighborhoods that many of these merchants that have been around for 20 and 30 years are now priced out because there is no retail rent control. so i just wanted to comment on those two public comment issues, and i want to thank my colleagues for their support. >> chairman: thank you. any other comments. supervisor stefie? >> i want to add one more thing that i think is really wonderful about this but basic, is getting the idea of the exact number, right? i mean, you went out and counted in your district over 156 properties that were empty storefronts, and that's much of the genesis of this legislation. and d.b.i. at the time had

the country of iran, so i'm going to say happy new year in farsi. [speaking native language] >> supervisor safai: thank you. [applause] >> thank you. ve we want to acknowledge d.b.i., the head, tom, and mohamed nuru from the department of public works. we have captain link from central station, and commander lozar. so the highlight of today's program is unveiling of the lunar new year stamp. as board of supervisors president yee mepgsed, inntion u.u u.s. post office issued the first series of stamps in 1993. this is the last year of the series of stamps. we are not sure if we're going to get the new ones. so there is a pgs for all of you to sign after the program because we want to make sure the united states postal service unders we in san francisco, just like many people around the country, we love our stamp that celebrate our cultural heritage. i would like to invite post master abraham cooper. >> good afternoon. or i should say good evening. you know, it's an honor to unveil the 12th and very last stamps and celebrating the lunar new year. as the post master of san francisco, i'm proud to present such a beautiful and meaningful stamp. it represents a lot of s

now an applicant may seek over-the-counter review. d.b.i. can convert that permit to over-the-counter eligible which will hopefully empower businesses to navigate through the process and be able to take control over the permitting desks an getting the signoffs and reducing departmental intake queues. .d getting the signoffs and reducing departmental intake queues. . finally one last note on the storefront our office will make approximately $1 million in investments an services to support retail storefronts city wide including efforts such as assessing storefronts, buildings, corridor to see what the challenge is and what's causing vacancies and case management including the idea of generate pipeline of prospective tenants to fill storefront vacancies and new program work focussed on the experienced component in terms of how do we help get people to corridors and to businesses in order to support neighborhood retail. that was a lot of technical stuff but i'm happy to answer questions or expand more ob that. >> commissioner: commissioner dooley

>> what's before you is the planning department's request that d.b.i. revoke these permits. i think you have to find whether or not -- it's up to you find whether or not the planning departmenter erred or abused its discretion. if you were to overturn the zoning administrator's decision, then, it would go back to d.b.i. and planning to -- for the project sponsor to come up with a solution. [please stand by] . >> -- very easy terms and conditions of support for that. there was abuse of the permit and the permit holder went well beyond the scope. that's easy. but if -- if we do -- if we do that, the community has to under that we -- there are no teeth. there are no teeth in this whatsoever. all we're doing is continuing the blight, is continuing the rats, is continuing the danger, and that's a very sad thing. if we don't, then, we give in my opinion undue license to the property owner to continue down a path towards a situation where the building's going to disappear, so that's a loss. but i -- so understand the community, i would like to make a motion that we uphold the direct

to approve. >> commissioner: so like the work's done and you're waiting for d.b.i. to come in and approve. >> there's a backlog? >> commissioner: can i add? >> commissioner: yeah. >> commissioner: also in the same area i'd like to find out about the time schedules for the soft story because we're finding a lot of people who have been doing their software repairs for several years. >> commissioner: that's what i'm talking about. displacing people and they even have for rent signs and many have gone beyond the story of soft store retrofit and gut 100% their storefront. i'd like to look into why they're not completed. isn't there a time schedule. something is off. >> commissioner: commissioner zouzounis. >> i'm curious to hear from oawd more about the million dollars for retail stabilization investments and services and incentives. if we are able to have a presentation and be part of that conversation as we have seen a lot of anti-retail legislation here and have waited on it. i feel like we would be important in that conversation. also i think the legislation we heard

the legislation would also require d.b.i. to include a statement that the property is located on the flood risk map. so we realized there may be some concerns from property owners that maybe considering selling their property in the future. and so sfpuc has done extensive outreach. some efforts were to hold a public hearing to adopt the 100-year flood risk map and s.f. p.u.c. sent mailings to the owners and asked them to review their parcel be listed on this map. en addition to the hearings supervisor yee has held with s.f. p.u.c. and d.b.i. have head several meetings and have been supportive of this legislation. thank you for your time. >> commissioner: thank you. from the san francisco public utilities commission as opposed the state public utilities commission, mrs. minnick. >> thank you for the introduction and it's great coverage of the content and i'll give additional details for your consideration. the legislation is concerning the 100-year storm flood risk disclosure process and ordinance. i want to make clear what the

we're working very closely with the fire marshal and d.b.i. they've done an analysis on average scope of projects, number of projects anticipated, so we should know by the end of this week, actuall i

code sets fourth that we have to apply the impact fees, assess the impact fees using the methodology. and notify d.b.i. of it at that time. there are only limited circumstances where we have the ability to go back and either apply a new fee, method' of the food. there are other very limited exceptions. that being the case, there's only one project in the pipeline to which this ordinance would apply in terms of actually increasing its fee. so, based on all of that review, the department's recommendation is to disapprove the ordinance. this is primarily because it would retroactively remove a grandfathering provision put in place at the time of the requirement. and that this kind of retroactive legislation causes unnecessary uncertainty and confusion on all sides both in the department and without. it also requires staff time to implement and it runs the risk of slowing housing production over all and increasing the cost of housing in san francisco. in addition, with regards to this specific ordinance, as i mentioned, it would have the effect of one development project so it wouldn't be generally applic

parking provision at issue, and the building permit to construct the proposed project has not been proposed by planning or issued by d.b.i. therefore, the new parking controls are applicable to the project's current permits. second, the appellant raises the point and the determination issued in 2014 that also addressed the parking controls for this project. however, that determination was based on the planning code as it existed in 2014. any letter of determination is essentially a snapshot in time and the issues that apply to the determination at that time. as we have discussed, the code was amended in 2017, specifically on the issue of parking. the inconsistency between the 2014 and the 2018 determinations only reflect the simple fact that the relevant planning code provisions were amended between those two determinations. finally, regarding the issue of a housing accountability act, i will defer to the city attorney to provide any legal advice on the issue, however, i will point out that the issue before you tonight is not an approval or denial of the project itself, although it is possible you could see such an appea

we're working very closely with the fire marshal and d.b.i. they've done an analysis on average scope of projects, number of projects anticipated, so we should know by the end of this week, actually an impact to the department if we're impacted by it. >> commissioner veronese: and if there is an impact, i imagine we'll be asking for it from the city. >> yes. that would be part of our discussion with the mayor's office. >> commissioner veronese: because that would be a reduction in the amount of fees that we're receiving, and there's another reduction right there. >> absolutely. >> commissioner veronese: okay. thank you, mr. corso. i appreciate your information and input on the report. i'm hoping that the more we talk about it and the more we say it, it becomes more prevalent in the discussions amongst the members of the board of supervisors, the mayor's office, and the impact the issue of homelessness is having on not just our department but on all departments. >> thank you. >> president nakajo: thank you very much, commissioner alioto veronese

the appellant. each party has three minutes each. >> good evening, commissioners. joe duffy d.b.i. i just got a chance to go to the property today. i did a site visit. i met with the new building owner, there sketty his name was. i was interested in the number of units in the building. it was unclear with inconsistency over the years whether it was five, six, seven, four, 12? so, the property itself is one building. it's got two street front ages on union street and it also fronts on to noble valley at the back of three units and three units. the buildings are connected to they're not actually separate buildings. it's sort of got three units stacked on one, three units on the other building and on the ground floor on the union street site, there's an area and i think that's the area that on the building permit that they got was referencing a studio unit on the first floor. that's not actually a legal studio unit. i did point that out to the owner. he was aware of that. you know, at this point, the work was started it was demolitioned on and they're in the middle of the remodel. with

stakeholders including for the chase centre arena, including the warriors, but also all the departments, such as planning, d.b.i., ourselves, m.t.a., to make sure, collectively, everyone is on track for the delivery of that project which is anticipated around august 1st. it will be occupied by the warriors' management and ownership and one of the first events. the nba -- nba season does not start until october, but there will be some nonbasketball related events starting as early as september. mayor brayden wanted to make sure all the department his are working together collaboratively with the wires -- warriors to make it a reality in the coming months. on five-year 19th, chief gonzalez anti- attended a labour-management meeting. so that was the first meeting that i was able to attend with the new president. i attended the -- every two weeks they have the meetings. they help the operations committee meetings. there's a general meeting first from 11:00 am until 1145 and then a policy group meeting with department heads. they are ongoing every two weeks to check in on how we are working together and keeping our

moving forward as there's 30 days to register and that you have to pay the application fee when you register. what was adopted was d.b.i.'s recommendation is that's the entity that hires the inspector to do the inspection. they'll probably have a checklist similar to what we have for a.b.e. the inspector needs to follow and submit. and to your question, supervisor dooley, if any licensed individual does falsify the document, that is grounds for losing their license. then, i mentioned in the past there's a bill about electronic proof of purchase. proof of purchase receipts. so dominica will cross-reference this with supervisor brown to make sure there's any conflict there, we as a city, understand it and also this can help affect the city if the chooses too adopt supervisor brown's legislation and how will need to be communicated to the state. we have hired a public service trainee to help with client services and his name is walter mahey started about three weeks ago. that will help us with doing more client services. i will be reaching out to you all to schedule a retreat. we haven't done one in a while, in april. i n

the grand southern hotel, they haven't had hot water for three weeks. i would challenge you to go home and shower without hot water and see how that feels. it's being sent to directors here through d.b.i., but in the meantime, there are families living in a that hoe -- in that hotel who don't have hot water. i think s.r.o. acquisition and many that could go into prevention homeless would be great in not only preventing the people who are -- or helping people who are visibly homeless but also those who are on the cusp of being homeless. happy new year, lunar new year, and all i want for new year is red envelopes with the money for these issues, so thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm reginald meadows. want a share of the pie. i'm from the tenderloin representing district six, and the eviction community and glide for many men, women, boys and i recagirls. the displacement has led to this problem along with the high cost of living here today. homes for homeless people are needed, but -- but very decent shelters in place also so they can develop a better way of life for themselves. next, we need very decent income for our teachers who are teaching the children. i sigh decent, as many of you