hearing so i need a motion to continue this motion to amend this item as amended to the july 27 land use committee meeting >> motion made and passed by the body. thank you. any other business before the committee? >> no other business. >> thank you this meeting is adjourned. good morning today is july 23, 2015. welcome to rules committee of san francisco board of supervisors. my name is john avalos joined byicatey tang and to my left by mu lia cohen. the clerk is [inaudible] todays rules committee is graud cast by sfgtv staff. thank you for your service. madam clerk can you share your announcements >> please silence cell phone squz electroning devices. complete speaker cards [inaudible] will be on sept

hearing so i need a motion to continue this motion to amend this item as amended to the july 27 land use committee meeting >> motion made and passed by the body. thank you. any other business before the committee? >> no other business. >> thank you this meeting is adjourned. >> >> >> okay. let's get started. this meeting will come to oerd. this is the special meeting of government and audit and oversight of july 9, 2015, i'm supervisor yee and supervisor christensen and supervisor breed. we would look to acknowledge the staff at sf govtv. jonathan. we record each of our meetings and make the transcript available online. madam clerk, dow # -- do you have any announcements? >> yes, please make sure you silence all cell phones and electronic devices. items acted upon today will appear on the july 21st, boards board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> can you call item no. 1. city clerk: [administrative code - language assistance and services at board of supervisors meetings] sponsors: yee; avalos, campos, mar and breed ordinance amending the administrative code to require the office of

have a dialog of what we're requiring of the will homes this is a conversation we had at land use committee 2, 3, 4 september do we need to rethink the insurance or require fire access, extinguishers other building requirements of units that have significant business use like our bed-and-breakfast permanent residents may know their home if there's a fire of earthquake i support a higher number of nights than 75 can't support one and 20 but tip the use from commercial to residential what comes up over and over many of the hosts are san franciscans struggling to make ends meet that it is student stumentd their tuition and senior it is arguing their pension or the social security if you're income depends on short-term rentals it is no longer an inquickly

supervisor kim in opposition to consider the next land use commission hearing proposal at the land use committeester plan planning code and general plan amendments passed their second reading as did the commercial transit district big item at the board the short-term rentals ordinances two short-term rentals ordinances came back to the board after the last hearing supervisor campos offered amended this from being used as short-term rentals and the provision that the short-term rentals ordinances contained and he stated he intended to include the amendment was accepted by a unanimous vote and supervisor farrell p overlaid two amendments one that amends the ordinances that the administrative hearing is that option and within that removed the cross-examination two of the amendment were unanimously accepted supervisor yee proposed an amendment that requires the notification to neighbors within hundred feet of the property and neighborhood groups in rh1 and reef supervisor farrell spoke in opposition by asked to add those amendments to his amendments supervisor yee said he would not but anticipated s

for the classs but putting on reserve [inaudible] and that wasn't supported by the budget committee. we don't use the leverage we have to deal with the influence of the police department, the police staff and association. that isn't what we should do. we put mexers in place to make sure the policing is better qualitatively. i appreciate supervisor cohens legislation last week to collect data. that is a very useful tool and want to-i'll cosponsor your legislation. i appreciate the effort but there are many ways we need to do reform work and build legitimacy in the eyes of these people before we get a idea how to stach them at a greater level. and that legitimacy is really lacking and it isn't just the people in this room where it comes from. i have-i have to admit to be able to talk about how we do policing is not-it doesn't feel popular in the room and doesn't feel popular in the city but it is the hard work we have to do as public servants to make sure we do everything we can to make everyone in the city feel safe and not ones believe adding more officer will make everyone safe because that isn'

i want to thank the land use committee for bringing this ordinance back into its original intent and hope we can all support this colleagues, thank you. >> thank you for visor avalos. supervisor kim. >> thank you i want to thank supervisor avalos's office for their work on this as well as april [inaudible] from my office for her work. i want to add a couple words to the ordinance that is before us today and reitthrait points we made. again this is clarifying language back in 2002, the board of supervisors when they originally passed the affordable housing program they stated group housing developer would be part of this program provided onsite inclusionary housing or the in lieu off site fee. it only came to light recently as supervisor avalos mentioned, that the planning department interpreted this differently due to a variety of definitions arounds housing and dwelling units. we do expect group housing developers provide the same requirements that every other market rate developer in the city provides. we do know now that group housing has become lucrative in the hot real estate ma

supervisor kim >> i want to make comment because i sit on land use committee and we had a discussion of these 2 ordinances at committee and i actually understand the concerns supervisor avalos brought up. there were questions i had when i read the planning code amendments over the weekend. i will say a couple things, i do think the thereis a question that needs to be had on the board when we increase the number of units built on certain sites which this legislation does, but what is sth benefit and the cost and are we insurer there are befores to the community when we confur blfts on the developer. what made me feel comfortable at land use-i was worried about taking away the minimum square footage for units, a because i don't think micro units create more affordable housing. it duntz necessarily address the housing needs we need to see in the city. i know there is debate about this on the board. 2, that we confer a benefit by allowing more units to be built on the same unit. a couple things helped alleviate the concern, one the 40 percent requirement for 2 bedroom unit or more will b

move this forward with positive recommendation, but i want to thank my colleagues on the land use committee, supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener for joining as co-authors for the ordinance that will prioritize the building of affordable housing on lands and properties that are owned by the city, but doesn't fulfill a distinct city use and also want to recognize supervisor avalos, who is a co-sponsor as well. i would like to make the notion move this forwards a committee report with positive recommendation. >> thank you. seeing that there is no objection without objection this motion passesment [ gavel ] madame clerk, could you please call item no. 2. >> item no. 2 is an ordinance amending the public works code to require contractor parking plan [#*-689/] thank you very much. last year both supervisor farrell and i began working on similar legislation to address conflicts and concerns that neighbors were having with a significant amount of construction, parking being taken up in their neighborhoods. we have since merged two pieces of legislation to create a piece that you are going to be

, will be deanna ponce de leon >> thank you, madame chair and thank you to members of the land use committee for hearing this item. i would like to begin by handing out a revised version of the ordinance. supervisor kim -- that has some of the -- >> thank you. >> some of the amendments that we're making and just to note, that the amendments that i am handing out and i would ask that the committee make those amendments and incorporate those amendments into the ordinance basically amend language specifically dealing with the purpose of this legislation. we actually received feedback from a number of folks specifically about this language and we have incorporated that feedback. that is the nature of the amendments that are included in that document. in may of 2014 this board of supervisors unanimously passed a resolution that established the latino cultural district for an area of mission surrounding 24th street. the purpose of the establishment of this latino cultural district was to recognize this area as the center for latino culture and commerce, and to enhance the unique nature of 24th str

so this is a continuation of a item that we first heard in december of last year at the land use committee and it is discussion on cal tran and high speed rail compatible boarding plan form. this is a imperative issue to solve particulary in right of the flexibility of the transbay terminal which is the northern most terminal for high speed rail and cal train. i know there are a number of meetings since our last hearing in december both between cal train tgpa and high speed rail to discuss how we can address the needs of different systems both in terms of what they would like to see in their vehicle fleet as well as their needs around boarding plat form. before cal train went out with the rfp the number one priority is lect fiication which is important. as you hit already over capacity and continue to grow in ridership lect fiication is a key part to make sure we get the keys in and through the punens law fast squr board more individuals. cal train has done extensive research on the cost and benefit of plat form height serving both car manufacturers and staff on the height. the initial res

so i anticipate because we have legislative recess as well, it won't be heard by a land use committee until the fall, probably september, if we're lucky. it will go through the board process for maybe about a month or so. so sometime in the fall, i think, it will be adopted by the board, and then once the mayor signs it, it will take effect 30 days after that. in the meantime we have a lot of outreach to do. >> thank you so much for answering all of my questions. i have harriet wong. >> hi. just one question. so does this apply to new leases? >> well, once this legislation takes effect it will apply to -- again, we write it in the way it's supposed to address the property owners. and so if you happen to be a business that just started a new lease when this legislation is in place, really first of all, the requirement falls on the property owner. now again it's between the property owner and the new business as to who is going to be delineating the responsibilities or responsible for what? so depending on the circumstance, it just kind of depends. >> any other council member considers?

of this committee joining us will be supervisor jane kim our clark and recognize jessie larson and leo who will be televising that on sfgov madam clerk, any announcements? silence all electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be

committee. in front of us is the quarterly report. this is back from july of 2014 so it is a fairly far behind time. [inaudible] the reason is behind we didn't have a lot of committee members at the time, we couldn't voted to approve the quarterly report so that is why it is far behind. we are now catching up. in termoffs the numbers on page 4 and as it ilsfraits in the summary we were far behind at that time where we performed 58 percent of the site visits. however, at this time since we now have a pretty much a full committee accept for 2 seats and have 2 staff we caught up and we are pretty much over 100 percent for the current quarter so we are on track to be fulfilling our duties in respect to site visits for the shelters. the information like i said is [inaudible] if anyone has questions on the report. i will give one update the rules committee requested back when we were here last time. >> basically we should have gichben you a copy of this. it looks like a [inaudible] when we were here i believe supervisor campos asked us to do

of this committee joining us will be supervisor jan

of this committee joining us will be supervisor jane kim our clark and recognize jessie larson and leo who will be televising that on sfgov madam clerk, any announcements? silence all electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the july 28th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> all right. thank you very much call item one. >> item one an ordinance approving on agreement with the city's purchase between the 16 and 7th street. >> i've before notified by dpw they need to conduct an additional public comment on this item and after we take public hearing illicit be making a motion to continue it please call - tilt why not go ahead and take public comment is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak on item one there all right. seeing none public comment is closed. at this time. >> is there anything i want to say supervisor wiener. >> okay. i'll make a motion to continue item one to the september 14th meeting. >> all right. thank you very much this motion pass we'll

tonight that will actually impact to marlow how people access the beach next step is the land use committee is trying to talk to a property owner negotiate terms on some kind of middle ground where the public as happy as well as the land owner. if that doesn't happen next tuesday a law recently passed this land could commission use eminent domain after january 1st to make sure the public doesn't fact have public access to martin's speech. martin speech beach the law"day at preschool maybe shutdown. also a california firefighters say it to keep running into drones to. push for tougher penalties including jail time. and then a strange weather across the state prison questions about bombing of. and you >> catherine: shall weather in recent weeks mounting evidence that el nino forming in the pacific could be to blame for that. charles clifford live in san francisco toxic national weather service about the impact it's having. the >> reporter: urologists tracking this since last winter getting stronger almost every month general consensus is a continuous it could bring some badly needed moisture

wednesday to advise you how much money is in the technical adjustment in the reserve for the committee to use. >> colleagues, any questions i understand we don't have to make a 0 motion thank you marry howard at this point we have unless other months ago i'd like to make a motion to continue items 1, 2, 3 to - >> mr. chair. >> yeah. >> we haven't taken public comment on item non- >> anyone wish to comment on item one item one was a hearing on the budget from the mayor and the control from the budget analyst. >> on the budget updates there was nothing to comment on. >> nothing to comment. >> you're welcome to comment on the item itself >> i've been my name is francisco. >> we had public comment on last friday for a number of hours. >> under any circumstances tonsillitis it's not my intention you can't presuppose what i have in mind having said that i've been attend for people i've been attending those budget sessions for many, many, many years before you became the chair you have no idea what i was going to comment on you want to set the rules and regulations on what i have to comment on that

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for the classs but putting on reserve [inaudible] and that wasn't supported by the budget committee. we don't use the leverage we have to deal with the influence of the police department, the police staff and association. that isn't what we should do. we put mexers in place to make

for the classs but putting on reserve [inaudible] and that wasn't supported by the budget committee. we don't use the leverage we have to deal with the influence of the police department, the police staff and association. that isn't what we should do. we put mexers in place to make sure the policing is better qualitatively. i appreciate supervisor cohens legislation last week to collect data. that is a very useful tool and want to-i'll cosponsor your legislation. i

us. >> the committees had separate bills because they couldn't decide on whether to set a deadline for voting. senior officials of the coalition say they're sticking to their plan putting their proposed bills to a vote thursday next week. but they also agreed to hold additional meetings in the special committee to discuss the opposition's bill. >>> china's land reclamation work in the south china sea has sparked concern from neighbors and from the united states. the leaders of the u.s. and vietnam say no country should act unilaterally to settle disputes in the region. u.s. president barack obama met with n guy phu trong. he is the first vietnamese leader to visit the u.s. >> we discussed the importance of resolving maritime disputes in the south china sea and throughout the asia pacific in accordance with international law. >> the leaders shared concerns about recent activities in the region. u.s. officials have called on china to halt construction work on reefs in the spratly islands. this year marks the 40th anniversary of the end of the vietnam war. and 20 years since normalization

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