[tone] supervisor wiener: thank you very much. >> i support historic preservation, but preservation of communities, not just buildings. as a civil-rights attorney who spent three years litigating fair housing claims against real-estate speculators in pasadena, calif., using historical precedents to get african-americans out of their homes, using things like color of paint, i say we should set the highest possible threshold for the creation of these new historic districts. certainly the proposition j intended new rules for the districts and this means increased safeguards. the city of pusan recently adopted new requirements while adhering to a now means note demolition policy. let's look at an opt out provision. we must not drive out low- income, fixed income families or tradesman and tradeswoman with record unemployment. [tone] supervisor wiener: thank you. >> i would like to say i went before the city planning commission and i was opposed to the fact that in my area, list of the homes there are 50 years old or older. i want you t

supervisor wiener: thank you. next speaker. >> i get permits in san francisco very frequently. most of my clients are developers. i have plenty of single-family homeowners as well, but developers often try to make additions on to the buildings to offset the carrying costs while under construction. it takes about six to eight months to get a permit for a residential real model in san francisco. that means developers are getting to where they just don't want to do it anymore. if that happens, it means that developers are the only ones that will go into these buildings and get them to the degree that we can fully seismic retrofit them and make them energy-efficient and firebreak them, which benefits the entire city. i don't have any problem with preservation planning. i have restored these buildings and that my problem is it takes so long to get the permits. [tone] i wish there was a way to speed up the process of the permitting. supervisor wiener: thank you very much. >> i come today to ask a few questions specifica

supervisor wiener: thank you. >> i'm a homeowner in dog patch. i hear this resounding fear of what is going to happen if we become a historic district. the survey is very important to do. it lays out what is historic and what is not. it does not create a historic district. if you look at the boundaries of what our survey was for dog patch compared to what the actual area is, it is like checkerboards. there are so many things that are not historic. i really appreciate the fact that you do have the ability to preserve but also build. a historic brick and timber building, the real use of a warehouse that was turned into housing and achieved completely from the start to finish -- [tone] supervisor wiener: thank you very much. >> i am here today as my capacity of the east share citizens advisory committee. we are 19 members appointed by the mayor and board of supervisors and our charter is to be the keeper of the eastern neighborhood plan and provide guidance on things like this. we have been undertaking legislatively

supervisor wiener: thank you. kines beacon to the microphone? >> i am among the unlucky 8 mentioned earlier. just to give a snapshot of what a citizen experiences, this is to demolish a church, a dry rot, and sound church sitting on an and reinforced masonry foundation that is vacant. applications were filed in 2004 and two lawsuits against the city wanted to landmark the church. we prevailed in both lawsuits and in the court of appeals. it cost about $500,000 to take something like this through the process except with seven years under our belt, we are not through the process and is still going forward. one of the unfortunate things that occurs is that they act as magnets -- [tone] for all the worst elements of the city. supervisor wiener: thank you very much. >> i will confine myself to the question of the work being produced by historic preservation. some advocates will say it produces more work than new construction. while that may be true in certain instances, as a general assertion, it fails. in all has to b

[tone] supervisor wiener: thank you very much. next speaker. >> i retired about three years ago and was on the staff for heritage for 21 years. i have three answers to much of what has gone on today -- survey, survey, survey. the downtown plan has proven the worth of at has mitigated conflict and the downtown area, clearly identifying what can be done and what new construction can be built. i wanted to comment on the question -- transforming auto- related buildings, whole foods did a great job transforming an auto-related use. real food on fillmore did a good job doing the same thing. the other matter of a survey -- [tone] not to turn the city into a historic district but mitigate conflicts by giving people the impression they need. supervisor wiener: next speaker. >> i'm with the russian hill community association. thank you very much for opening up the idea of the century old parking and auto repair facilities that were built after the earthquake because the homes that were built did not have a good rush. -- did not have a grudg

[tone] supervisor wiener: thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm sure of the housing coalition and have 20 years in the field of architecture. what i wanted to say was when i think of something historic, i think of something that has distinction. it is a monument to a significant achievement. most of what i have seen in the 10 years i have participated in land use policy is the district's that have been coming out do not really rise to that level. i box at the third street boxing gym. to claim that eight rail yard of the slaughterhouses qualifies as a historic district because there are acute victorians their stretches the bounds of credulity for may. as an organization like fact -- [tone] we do not want to see a legitimate goals of historic preservation get in the way. supervisor wiener: next speaker. >> i am here to speak on behalf of the sierra club. the sierra club supports historic preservation not only as a means to keep history alive but to keep the things from being torn down and being built from scratch. i would encourage people intere

president chiu: supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: thank you. and i just want to acknowledge think a appreciate supervisor elsbernd's desire that we have collaborative relationship with the ggnra and i just want to be clear that i don't think both are mutually exclusive. when you have a partnership with another organization or another governmental entity, you can be very collaborative with that person and still -- or that entity a -- and still say when you think that that entity is doing something that is wrong. they're not inconsistent. and in fact the language of this resolution makes very clear that we can intend to continue to work with the ggnra and frankly before this resolution was introduced there was a very different dynamic in terms of ggnra's willingness to collaborate with the city. so i think this has been a very productive process and i have every confidence that we're all grown ups and everyone's going to continue to work well together after tonight. thank you. president chiu: thank you, mr. chair. first of all, i want to thank su

[applause] supervisor wiener: thank you, ed. two more written questions, and then we will open it up to live questions from the audience. where do low income use fit in priorities for the mayor? mayor lee: they fit very high. low income use is reflected in all of the programs, whether it is phil ginsberg to making sure our parks are open and affordable for our use, -- youth, or it is muni where there were free passes for low-income youth, and working with bill, making sure we have a fair justice system that reunites youth with family. i had a chance to meet with members of coleman advocates. they told me a serious story about low income youth in the city. there is about 900 kids, primarily african-american and hispanic, low-income, the dots -- that got f grades and were not going to graduate unless they went to summer school. he no state law is to have to pass those glasses to graduates -- classes to graduate. you're going to see a whole generation of low-income kids not graduate from high school. knowing there is in the generat

supervisor wiener, mayor. our office is probably one of the smaller offices, and our budget is $39 million a year, and actually when you adjust for inflation, we have less money today than we did in 1986, even though life is much more complicated now than it was in 1986. we recognize we have our responsibility to become better at what we did. we are undergoing a major reorganization. the goal is to look for ways to lower in carson nation, deal with those low level nuisances. so, we have created neighborhood boards. we have been talking to various communities, and this is basically a decriminalized way of handling the issue. we're working with other partners in the criminal justice system to work more effectively with more serious crime, with more backlog. we have a significant backlog. year-to-date, we have over 70 homicide cases that are over three years old. we have many -- many prosecutors aren't carrying a caseload of approximately 200 -- many prosecutors are carrying a caseload of approximately 200 cases.

supervisor wiener: thank you, bill. the next question -- if the city needs revenue so badly, why no target in san francisco? why chase trader joe's out of the castro? businesses like these will provide revenue and jobs. why discourage them? i want to address trader jon's -- trader joe's. i like a lot of people was disappointed by this. ultimately, a trader joe's walk away. there were a lot of concerns in the neighborhood about parking and traffic issues, given what has happened with the trader joe's on masonic street. but trader joe's, to my disappointment, walked away. i have been trying to provide support to the tower records site to make sure we get that space filled. another are a number of retail entities that have expressed interest in taking over pieces of its. really, there are three separate spaces. i'm cautiously optimistic we will get the space filled, and that is absolutely critical to the economic development of the neighborhood. it creates major blight when you have an area like that. as regards to target

supervisor wiener: thank you very much. next speaker. >> i made a documentary film producer for the san francisco non-profit citizen film. we have made films about housing policy, so when my wife, public- school teacher at my parents, retired public schoolteachers, i was excited to repair the victorian we bought. our advice looking to prepare structures is not to do it. our family as 40% in the way into our budget when the next- door neighbor began piling appeal after appeal of our building permits. after losing all of their claims before the board of appeals, they ask the board of supervisors to grant a costly historical review of our project. that appeal was denied, yet to date, because of delays in the appeal process and the costly nature of preparing for hearings, we have spent $65,000, a teachers' salaries for a year, a quarter of our construction budget. [tone] thank you for your consideration. supervisor wiener: thank you very much. >> i'm here on behalf of the san francisco housing coalition. we would say historic p

wiener for his co sponsorship of this. i think this helps streamline what the law should be. department public works has been looking for this enhanced tool, and that is exactly what this ordinance does. supervisor chiu: colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. why don't we skip across the 3:00 special orders that we have, and it 3:00 -- the 3:34 " special orders for the a corporate time, and to the committee reports. item 15. >> items 15 and 16 were considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on april 1. 15 is a motion appointing supervisor david campos, a term ending february 10, 2015, to the metropolitan transportation commission. supervisor chiu: ken will have a motion to excuse supervisor campos -- can we have a motion to excuse supervisor campos? colleagues, can we have a roll call vote on this motion. >> chu aye. cohen aye. elsbernd aye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye. mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. avalos aye. chiu aye. there are 10

supervisor wiener: thank you. i do not think we have seen now online and 7 on your side.. the meeting is at the hall of flowers. may 12. it is in my newsletter. if you want to get my e-mail newsletter, let me know. we will put you on. next question. >> hi. my name is jean. i graduated from this high school. i have to disagree with you. the amount of coyotoes -- last night, coming home, i had still wait in my car before i entered my house. they are roaming rapidly. i had to call safeway, and the people who owned the complex there said they were back there at night, looking for food. in know that they have left the golden gate park area. they have become brazen. they are walking during the day. at night. two weeks ago, they were trying to get on my balcony. they are all over. not just in diamond heights. glen park. they have frightened away the raccoons, and there is another area in san francisco. this is a serious situation. this needs to be addressed. when i can get out of my car, if i have to go to say -- i do no

supervisor wiener? commissioner wiener: thank you, mr. president. i first want to thank everyone who took the time to come out today and for those who were here earlier and couldn't stick around, and i say this at every hearing, but it's true, that you-all have things to do in your life and jobs and families and t.v. shows to watch on comcast and i do -- it shows a commitment to the city, with everyone's opinion, that you spent many hours here today. as i've learned and as i know my colleagues have learned recently, there are unbelievably strong opinions on both sides of this issue. and it's a really -- seems like a really big divide but i think the divide actually is not as big as it might seem. i think there's probably broad agreement that we want this technology in san francisco. but i think it's pretty darn important that we have it here as competition to comcast as a new product. and i think there's also broad consensus that we don't want blight on our sidewalks. so if this is going to happen and, you know, the reason i was asking the questions

supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: thank you. yesterday at land use committee, we conducted a quite lengthy hearing on historic preservation, a hearing that i had called a few months ago to examine the state of historic preservation in san francisco and how this important policy interact with other important public policy goals. for example, we were a little bit of a victim of our own success. so many people showed up representing various viewpoints that we had to limit public comment from two minutes to one minute, which was frustrating but unavoidable, and it still was a four-hour hearing. what that said to me and i believe my colleagues as well, was that this is an important issue, and it is an issue that people have very passionate views about. i look forward to continuing to discuss this issue and making sure that we as a city have a historic preservation policy that cherishes and embraces our history and our past, but that also recognizes that we are a living and devolving city that needs to ensure that we are meeting our -

supervisor chisupervisor wiener. having drawn down nearly half of our reserve with at this supplemental, that will be back up to $25 million? >> correct. supervisor wiener: in putting together the mayor's proposed budget, is there a particular policy? in other words, the $8 million in reserve, will that come out of what would have otherwise been a code for next year? i know that it is speculative, in a way. i wondered if there was some kind of practice or policy. >> a good question. in this case there are times when there are supplemental appropriations where we asked for funding of supplementals and replacement costs. in this case the supplemental appropriation before you is factored into the nine month report. regardless of other news occurring in the general fund, what we are doing in this case is not asking the department to take part in making additional reductions. essentially what we are doing is covering the cost of this lost revenue with other reserves that we had, in this case the money we had set aside for

supervisor cohen: aye. >> supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: iowa. >> supervisor mar? supervisor mar: no. the meeting at 2:00 p.m. today. thank you so much, everyone. any other items on the agenda? >> no, there are no further items. supervisor mar: so with no other items, the meeting is adjourned. thank you. >> i work with the department of environment and we are recycling oil. thank you. we can go into a refinery and we can use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >> so far, we have 35 people. we have collected 78 gallons, if not more. these are other locations that you can go. it is absolutely free. you just need to have the location open. you are set to go. >> good morning, everyone

supervisor wiener: thank you. i have a question about how the improvements are being serviced once this happens. i know we have had the many problems with the subway, having to do with it out dated central control system and we have seen some of shutdowns of the system, basically. and also getting the lrb's behind the portal at church street, church and market safeway. it is painfully slow. independents point that we have with lrb's getting to that station because of the merger of multiple lines is also painful at times. i would just like to have a better understanding of how this will tangibly improve the functioning of this system. >> the expectation, of course, is for the system to improve the service. the efficiencies will be involved in it. i would like to talk more about what that would mean. supervisor wiener: thank you. >> good morning, commissioners. we are bringing in the central control project when what you have before you is really a facility control project. it has to do a lot with consolidation of f

regardless, i do look up to scott wiener. the parts i go to, the libraries that i go to are largely in district 8. the department of public works has two main areas of responsibility. one is the design, construction, and repair of police and fire stations, hospitals. that work is largely -- the work we do is largely capital-funded, thanks to the generosity of the voters and past elections in supporting general obligation bonds. we actually have a lot of good work going on. we are opening several libraries this year. we have a week -- we got the second parts bond past eight years ago. we finished laguna honda hospital. we are now building a new police quarters in mission bay and renovating more than a dozen fire stations around the city. good news on the capital front. the other area of responsibility for the department of public works is the design, construction, repair, maintenance regulation of the public rights of way, namely the streets and sidewalks of the city. the picture is not as good. in terms of the capital side st

supervisor wiener: thank you. >> i am his wife. we have been told we have to take down our cartouche is. i love my home and i would like any and all of the to drive by. the house is spilling over with flowers. every time i walked out of the garage, and told how beautiful our home as. tourists stop and take a picture of our home all the time. i devote my life, five days a week, to trying to make this city a better place to live in. our home is a big part of that because our home is open to everyone for any charity event they want to give. i'm involved with st. anthony's, where events are starting at our house to fund-raisers and get the homeless off the streets and the hungry fed. i started fence -- [tone] oh, mt god. supervisor wiener: just to be clear, you placed these decorative medallions on your home in the planning department sent a letter saying they would have to do a historic evaluation? >> they said we had to remove them with a certain time or pay $250 a day until they are removed. >>supervisor wiener: that is because your

and supervisor wiener the -- wiener the here to speak on this item. supervisor wiener: thank you. today the rules academy committee is considering an overdue good government measure. a charter amendment that will create greater flexibility for our a democratically elected government and enhance our ability to govern while expecting our voters to participate in the process. it will do so by allowing, after a certain number of years, the board of supervisors to amend or repeal ordinances that have been adopted by the ordinances instead of requiring any and all chances to the -- changes to the ordinances no matter how minor, no matter how yours -- universally supported or no matter how many years have past have to go back to the voters. one of the scront -- constant complaints i hear from voters is why can't the board do its job and pass legislation without asking us? as we know there are charter amendments, taxes and bonds that state law requires us to submit to voters. awe -- but other ballot matters are required only because of our specific charters. this charter amendment would a

supervisor wiener: can you explain what you mean? >> that is a list of features. >> the controversy is a good example. the natural character has been called out in the master plan for protection. being identified as significant is what prompted the need for an environmental impact report to make sure that those are maintained with appropriate ballots going forward. supervisor wiener: the project you are referring to, in addition to the eir, which is currently occurring or will come before us at some point, under the district you are envisioning, the hpc would have to approve the change? >> in terms of crafting the designation ordinance, there are opportunities to define the level of review. but yes, i think there would be a role in reviewing the project. hopefully it will come early in the design process is that any potential impacts can be addressed. at the tail end of the process, which i think is a much more severe expensive approach than need be. >> any aspects outside of buildings in your view would be subject to hpc review or a