it will allow one in-law unit for existing building you up to 10 unit and greater than 102 unit wille allowed. they must be constructed within the building envelope not to expands did building to create the unit and the space utilized will be garages or large ground floor storage places or basements that is partially above ground the legislation says they cannot carve up those but if space not being used for residential purposes our goal is not to cancel implies the existing stock. the legislation is purely involuntarily we're not forcing people to add those units. the planning commission made several recommendations which i know planning staff will describe we've accepted some and the planning department can describe those representations today. in addition colleagues i've disabled several pieces the planning commission has been incorporated into the legislation as substitute alleviation. we're also for us today, i'm introducing amendments to protect 9 existing rear yards and technical language for explore requirements. so colleagues, i ask for your support today and we'll call the

there are illegal units that exist. what happens to those units? do we turn a blind eye and forget about them? >> part of what you are asking is whether this legislation will ask everybody that has illegal units to convert and it maybe would read this that pathway. i'm just saying that in particular in district 7 where we have a lot of these types of units and their desire, the concerns that people have around whether there is going to be motivation to ones that

there are illegal units that exist. what happens to those units? do we turn a blind eye and forget about them? >> part of what you are asking is whether this legislation will ask everybody that has illegal units to convert and it maybe would read this that pathway. i'm just saying that in particular in district 7 where we have a lot of these types of units and their desire, the concerns that people have around whether there is going to be motivation to ones that maybe to build in law units in the near future or not is a big question for us. >> so i think from my perspective or my concern is that you are in essence robbing a property owner of a right to choose to govern the future of their property. am i misunderstanding your amendment? >> i'm not too sure to say that i'm robbing anybody of anything. if i'm what i have done is been able to talk a lot of people with these properties and probable 99 people out of 100 would support this. >> did you talk to a hundred people? >> yes i did. >> so basically -- i understand this. i want to make sure i under

the merger from the housing stock but merging it into a single unit creates a ding unit for a family of 4 with that so it adds to the housing stock in this particular building. so the planning department's report there's been three approvals in the tower and those mergers involve the unaccessible unit so when the tlerltdz is meeting met it makes the thoughtful and erotic threshold and the realties of the unit. regarding the executive derivative i want to say that this is also, you know, you guys have seen this for several years he's lived there and it's never been available for rental or displacing any tenants it's reducing the number of bedrooms and that's the last point we did originally submit in the fall of 2013 and elected two resubmits and in that time the thresholds has changed and it's truly by a matter of weeks we had the appraisal february 13th and the new threshold was adapted in march >> thank you sir, your time is up. >> okay is there any public comment on this item seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner borden >> i know this is obviously not on affordable u

the project includes 129 new rental housing units and 20 percent of the units on site or 26 units will be affordable to households making 90 percent

the project includes 129 new rental housing units and 20 percent of the units on site or 26 units will be affordable to households making 90 percent of the meeting. for a family of tower, you're combined household is $87,700. the development of this last site has had challenges of which you'll hear in the presentation on oci in which they can describe in more details. it's an oddly shaped parcel and wrapped by the freeway and there's height limitations on this site in conformities to the buildings that surround it. it's consistent with our city wide program and it produces horse housing. it's a discussion we have here constantly at the board of supervisor. i want to recognize the project sponsor for working really closely with our office, the staff of ocii and the commission on figuring out how to meet many of our different dwoels and priorities and to deliver a project which will be set to break bound this year in august of 2014. and we also appreciate that this development fits within the policy framework that our city is building upon for below market rentals and below homeowner shi

one in-law unit will be allowed for existing buildings having up to ten units and for larger buildings, they can add two. it must be contracted within the building envelope, in a garage or a large storage space, a basement, the legislation specifically prohibits creation of these units by carving up existing residential units. these must be created from space from the beginning not being used for residential purposes. the unit will be subject to rent control. legislation is purely voluntary. so colleagues, i think that as supervisor campos mentioned earlier, there is no silver bullet in terms of our housing crisis, it will take a thur of different approaches and this is one solid step in providing new housing that tends to be more affordable. so colleagues, i ask for your support. >> colleagues, any additional discussion. i'd like to be asked if a co-sponsor to this ordinance. take a vote. >> cohen. >> aye. >> supervisor farrell. >> aye. >> supervisor kim. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> supervisor wiener. >> aye. >> supervisor yee. >> aye. >> avalos. >> aye. >>

the inmates are on the move. >> we move inmates out of these units often so we can do unit repairs.y will be relocated to another unit while that is being done. >> put your stuff behind your back and your hand on the wall. >> the inmates carry their possessions inside sheets. before they're allowed off to enter the new unit. officers conduct a shakedown for contraband. >> the more contraband i find. the more i'm going to throw out. >> finally the inmates are taken to a unit, all most i've dent cal to the one they -- identical to the one they left. but one of them has decided his time in the unit is up. >> hey, you, just stand there for me. kyle beauchamp says he is straight but requested to be housed with homosexuals when he was first booked into the jail. older inmates told him with his green hair it would be safer than general population. >> a lot of times some of the convicts will mess with the young ones. you will see how naive they are. tell them stuff like when you talk to the officer make sure you tell them you want this, this, this. messing with them. and they do it. then th

, we're producing 26 units. i have some challenges around that and i understand the position that you're in and i'm not -- i wanted to provide that perspective to the agency. >> supervisor cohen. sdwl >> thank you supervisor wiener. i know for a fact that working with ocii, they're aware and i argued the same position that you do and we have a couple of thousand more units that are due fall within this 90 percent to 110 ami range in the pipeline, but we need to get it built. it's slowly but surely coming. i have a question about the mission bay over bay. on two of your presentation, there's a public school to be built, is that on schedule. >> we have to work with the school district to figure out a finance plan and we've been speaking to supervisor kim's staff to work with the school district to start building discussions. i think they're not ready to take on the site at this time without -- they're doing some analysis on the school capacity. there's feeling that there's under capacity in those other schools so

instead of the in-law units the in-law units act candle stick park act accessory units and to remove the seven hundred and 50 square feet issue and supervisor kim expressed her approval with that the committee forwarded this ordinance to the board with a recommendation and second was supervisor tang's ordinance the small business month is in may and amended the san francisco planning code to wave the permit fees for the month of may for the awnings and signs and accordances and signs on accordance and the installation of pedestrian lighting. the commission heard the ordinance and recommended approval with modifications. the modifications including making the fee waiver permanent every may and supervisor tang split the file so that this year's may small business month fee waiver could moved and the replica will be heard pending a 10 day hold and it was recommended for approval and will be heard next week. if he full board the legal status to legal units was a heard it will allow the legislationtion of the units it was voted 6 to one so have approval to the supervisors and supervisor c

that are secondary units. they found that a great number of the people living in these households are immigrants and transit dependent. that they are typical san franciscans that you find in the city of san francisco unified school district which is mostly low income, people that have the right to san francisco and we should be creating mechanisms for them to stay here. i appreciate the legislation and look forward to it passing today. i hope it does because it's something that san franciscans really need. let me say this, i heard from many people in my district who would love to see in laws go away. i have thought about that. making them go away is to say to the thousands of people who live in them that you no longer belong in san francisco. that doesn't make any sense. we into ed to make sure that people who are living in san francisco who are contributing to our economy and part of our school district can stay here and make it their city of their own. thank you. >> supervisors tang? >>supervisor katy tang:

the project sponsor will merger two units resulting in one unit be reduced. the unit proposed for merging are a one bedroom and bath condo. the smaller unit was appraised at the 3 point millions plus and the larger unit at 8, $4 million. the appraise above the 4. million are demonstratively over financially not demonstratively unaffordable and subtract to subject review it is defined as a unit greater than 80 percent of the land values a of single families in san francisco as determined by the an appraisal made within 6 months to merge it states that the planning commission may increase the 10 percent of the unit if in the adjust is needed to conserve affordable housing. due to recent changes in the planning code effecting mergers i'm going to give you background this was filed on october 16, 2013, and reviewed against the planning code it explicit quality under the planning code because it didn't meet the majority of criteria and it was not demonstratively unaffordable. at the time the smaller unit was appraised and it qualified. the project sponsor choose t

unit in the entie united states army. that's what i think. [applause] that was one of the worst things that was done to them as they were not able to march in the parade. that is one of the good things being a soldier is before you go off to the war because you may not come back all of you get to feel special and barge down the main street. they come and people wave their flags and make you feel good. while in new york city all of the guard units were put together in what was called the rainbow division and they were sent to fight and they got to march off to the war together except for these guys and i'm not kidding because they were told black is not a color of the rainbow. while they got their parade when they came home. they marched up fifth avenue and over a million new yorkers of every skin color turned out to welcome them home. the first american of any skin color was henry johnson. the entire unit. they spent more time in combat than any other unit. they never lost a foot of ground to capture. at the end of the wa

the united states? >> charlie: but if you look at the governments who have been more successful, they have had those values at the core -- the freedom of expression, the freedom of expression of the individuals, the freedom of expression of human rights -- or they've made a strong effort to go, and this president will be the first to tell you. and they also believe in free markets. we have friends who don't necessarily believe in free markets. you subsidize your free markets. >> charlie: yes, we do. but tell me how you believe about free markets? >> let me comment about something. everybody agrees with these kind of values. but remember, for instance, during french revolution, in the name of liberty, heads were cut. because everybody talks about free speech, free press, liberty, so we have different institutions according to different principles, different values. that doesn't mean that here in the united states you you are not respecting human rights or in our country we are not respecting human rights

and the canadian ambassador to the united states.nafta 20th anniversary. stay with us. >> welcome back to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. it's been 20 years since the enactment of nafta. it created a fast free trade zone between the united states, mexico and canada, and on this edition of our program we're marking it anniversary with a closer look at the impact to our neighbors to the north and south. did nafta become less important because something that we couldn't have really known about in 1990 when it was being negotiated, and that is the rise of china. did china end up being a player in a way that we couldn't have imagined. in 2001, mexico had 271% wage differential with china. today the less than 10%. in terms of opportunity costs we are very competitive. so we with are getting back many new investments that are now seeing north america, mexico, of course, but as i said, ins a shared production team. does that change the conversation with americans in because for a long dime, that ross per row talk, about the giant sucking sou

because the united states, after the civil war the north and south united, the united states developeda great economy and, therefore, developed trading interests around the world that they didn't have before. and so it needed a great military in order to defend those trading interests. you could say more or less china has been following a similar path. the yale professor, paul bracken, likes to say that the capitalists prosperity, if it goes on and on, leads to military acquisitions. you have a capitalist economy that's been a success for 30 years on and on. it's going to start building a big military. that's what history shows us. so there's nothing rogue about what china has been doing in the larger historical sense. it's not threatening to destroy a nation or white in the nation off the face of the earth, or anything. it's emerging as a natural, new, great power. the problem that history shows is one of the reasons people love the status quo, even if the status quo is unfair, is that it's stable. and so is the status quo goes on, you're less likely to have military conflict. but chi

obtain legal housing unit. that concludes my presentation i'm happy to a answer questions >> thank you. project sponsor >> hello, i'm paul. along with my business pattern we're working with the architects that owns the two units and i want to thank the planning commission for hearing our proposal and in particular mr. burns. and as you've heard from ms. burns the department is recommending the proposed merger be disapproved failing below the financially or demonstratively unaffordable houses and it's not in keeping with the executive derivative so i think i want to speak to the criteria and to the recently adapted threshold of $1 million plus. first, the $1.5 million is appraised of single-family home, however, it's board and it's not clear to us as well as to our clients how the single-family residents is not defined it's compared to not an apples to apples comparison as well as to the condo i'm wondering in consideration is giving to the hoa fees and the hoa fees are over $1,700 a month and on top of mortgage

one united ukraine.ates supports a strong united ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships, with both the east and west. with both russia and europe. that's a goal that i know you share mr. prime minister. no nation, no nation has the right to simply grab land from another nation. no nation has that right. we will never recognize russia's illegal occupation of crimea and neither will the world as was demonstrated by the overwhelming vote that took place in the security council in the general assembly. no nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border. we call on russia to pull back these forces. no nation should stoke in stability in its neighbor's country. we call on russia to stop supporting men, hiding behind masks in unmarked uniforms sewing unrest in eastern ukraine. we have been clear that more provocative behavior by russia will lead to more costs and to greater isolation. the united states has demonstrated as ukraine has that it supports diplomatic efforts to dee

well, the last time he was here that particular unit was an active gang unit.s going to go back to an active unit. >> go ahead and have a seat here on the blue couch. >> but since he's been gone some things have changed. >> housing unit b.a. no longer houses active orejones. but newly arrived arrestees pending assignments to house units. >> he panicked a little because he was afraid. and he admitted to nap. >> because i was so scared i didn't know what's going to happen to me the only thing that came to my mind was kill yourself. i don't have the heart to kill myself, sir. i don't. >> all right. come on. >> before sanchez can be taken off suicide watch he must also convince staff psychiatrist dr. garcia that he's not suicidal. >> have a seat. >> so i got scared. and the only thing that came to my mind is if i tell them that i'm suicidal. >> so basically, you said you were suicidal for safety concerns. >> that's pretty much it. >> okay. you're really not suicidal? >> never came to my mind. never crossed my mind. i don't have the heart to. i have a 2-year-old son

i guess seeing that firsthand and now you're the united states ambassador to the united states to theu.n., what have we learned and specifically what are we doing differently in the security and how would we treat something like this differently in the future? thank you. >> ok. thank you so much, congressman. let me -- as you anticipated it will not shock you that i'm not going to engage in hype theycals -- hypotheticals, so i think it's more appropriate to describe the president's position which is that even today he has taken no option off the table as it relates to iran. consistently he has made clear on any issue that if america's vital national interests are at stake he's going to act to protect the american people and our vital national security interests. and what that means is that, you know, in the event that the security council does not accommodate our -- his need to lead and perform his duties as the commander in chief, he's still going to pursue what he deems the right policy on behalf of the american people. in terms of the retrospective question you asked, again, i don'

when we talk about one-to-one replacement and with units, and do we replace housing units. and how to have the highest standards for workers. now we have workers with standards for prevailing wage and living wage jobs and benefits. but if we go to a model that contracts out that work, are we losing those benefits and standards? i used to be an orgize -- organizer with local 577, and a lot of people did the maintenance work in public housing. and they spoke of enduring troubling work conditions, where they were faced with many, many units to work on and not enough resources to do that. i realize that they need to have the highest standards possible. if we are looking at there being fewer resources under the rad program. then we will be seeing a diminishment of people able to do the work under the code as supervisor breed is talking about. i am open to hearing how that is addressed by our housing authority. there are many, many key issues to address. and i am very interested in seeing how a strong partnership can be made to oversee this public/private partnership, one that ke

gibbs out of the seg unit," okay? >> narrator: gibbs will have to prove he is no longer a threat before he's moved out of solitary. >> you know, you start with baby steps, right? >> well, what are you looking at for, like, a time period? can you start giving me some stuff in my cell maybe, like, to do? >> narrator: but the senior prison staff are concerned. >> he's a long way from my perspective because i have to be in the pod. any one of us could be in general population with this guy, so i don't wanna see someone die, an officer die because we're trying to kind of get him settled as we wait for new hampshire... >> it's just going to be a process. >> narrator: it's been 24 hours since todd fickett cut open a vein. rather than punish him, the warden has moved him to the prison's mental health unit for the next three months. when that time is up, he'll have to return to solitary. but for now, he'll be treated by the prison psychologist. >> next is to figure out how you're doing, and plan our next steps. so fill me in.

prices for the unit for sale unit 5 is not for sale the owner perhaps bought this unit for $425,000 years ago but those units are stated as being offered at those prices so my it is not necessary sees this is $450,000 higher in price it's interesting to note he is a disabled senior and his unit is priced $450,000 more. it's this obligation to review the condominium conversion to assure consistency with the general plan and it affords a affirmative action but affirmative action is a disserve because the notice it dispersuades a potential purchaseer of thinking about buying a unit when he sees his unit is being price for $450,000 more it's inaccurate for the notice that the tenant should alert the commission that the general plan is being that's right here because there's no affirmative action in housing. it's descriptiony on its basis that a sdabltdz tenant receives a price of $450,000 more for a uncle we obtain to the item 4 that the refusal of intent to purchase was ininaccurately words. we encourage the commission so decline the conversion until such times agency the most to the a

so is there a lot of interest in the program, 170,000 units is indicative of the units. clearly there is a lot left. as the cap gets lifted and as people have the opportunity to see the authority, we will see more. >> now we see san francisco, are there other cities you can mention or name? >> sure. the top 10, and i will hit a couple of highlighted numbers. chicago is number one, they are proposing to convert 11,000 of their units. el paso, nashville and birmingham and greensboro. >> are we seeing that the cities and counties are doing the same model in san francisco, does that model vary greatly. here i see the list, includes nonprofits or are we seeing for profits and does that skew the models? >> what you see is people tailoring to resources in their community. san francisco has a housing trust fund, and not many cities have that, it's a source for potential financing. and tax credits, and there is a number of ways that cities develop their program. you will use what we call project-based vouchers. and others choose what makes sense for their needs for repair. hard t

states, stay in the united states. is that not your memo? >> the word says "stay". out of the -- >> yeah. >> out of the 15 or 20 product managers, they were proposing that all of them be in the united states. that means the word "stay." >> your concern was if they move to the united states. that's not what the concern was in this memo. >> we -- >> why did you use the word "stay" rather than "move"? >> we knew what the existing location of them was in the recommendation which was to have them all in the united states, so that's what we mean by "stay." >> you were worried about moves to the united states; is that right? >> moving and staying in the u.s., no longer having those positions in switzerland, staying in the u.s. instead. >> did you just say that the concern was that they would move in the united states, isn't that what you testified? >> i said to you "stay" -- i said to you "move" -- >> to the united states. >> yeah. >> it says stay. >> at that time, there were several important product managers in switzerland.

you're talking about the education system and skills in the united states. it applies to the working people. in the workplace, the training of the workplace, the training that they will receive over their life-long learning type of training, their vocational training. all of these things are critical in terms of being able to get right the demand and supply of these skills. then what you will get is better remuneration, and you'll get higher productivity, and better wages, and it becomes a circle. what we have is a negative vicious circle. >> clearly the united states has the capability, the universities are the finest in the world. we know our suburb and high school education is amongst the best in the world. we have real problems with our urban inner city public school education. we have the capability, what fixes it? is it a policy mix? a cultural visit? how do we take the ape capability that we have in the united states and narrow the income wealth gap. >> the program for international student attempt, the united states comes out, comes out in the averag

the united states of course, the united kingdom and the united arab emirates.question that more countries should follow our lead, otherwise international travelers, including americans who travel internationally, are at risk. according to interpol, in 2013 travelers bordered international flights more than a billion times without having to passport numbers checked against the database. tools are in place to determine if the passport has been reported missing, and we should use every avenue at our disposal to encourage countries to do the right thing, including offering technical assistance where appropriate. in addition to not consistently checking the lost or stolen passport database most countries are not consistently sharing lost and stolen passport information with the interpol database. the overwhelming majority of the 40 million records in the lost and stolen database comes from visa waiver program countries. in large part because it is condition for visa free travel to the united states. however those countries do not routinely check their flight manifes

trade with the united states and mexico is extremely popular.i think that for our purposes we, when we're here in washington we point out that canada is united states' largest customer. we buy more goods from the united states than the whole european union put together. so i think sometimes we talk about trade agreements in abstract terms, and we have to be more effective in talking as customers to each other. >> so is someone standing in an edmonton supermarket or driving a truck in quÉbec, if we stopped and asked them, did nafta work out for you? what would they say? >> i'm sure you would differing opinions i'. i'm sure you would have people who are skeptical of nafta and people who are positive about nafta. trade fo with the united statesd mexico is good for our economy and good for our neighborhood. >> is nafta popular in mexico? >> i think it is very popular. i think after 20 years what we have achime achieveed in trade e united states and canada and once more the deep level of value-added trade. we're the second largest customer of the u.s