through the in law legalization we hope you'll support and say kudos to supervisor wiener for the housing legislation before this board we appreciate all you're doing to relieve the housing crisis. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm alyssa representing spur thank you for the opportunity to allow me to speak. >> i'm sorry maybe speak into the microphone. >> seismic retrofitting to make it easier to build the building unit creating more homes across the city it didn't change the impact on the neighborhood infrastructure ada use provides free pays for the housing units that are affordable by design because their size location and physical restraint this ordinance provides incentive for property owners to have earthquake safety for seismic earthquakes conditions this is a great opportunity to my own spur supports this and thanks supervisor wiener for his sponsorship. >> thank you. next speaker. >> tim cologne i'd like to commend supervisor wiener on this common places legislation it unit two vital issues for protecting the housing stock and building new housing that

thank you so much for hearing us today and thank you scott wiener. i also live on vulcan on just above ord and lived there for 15 years and moved there because of the character of the neighborhood. i grew up in presidio heights in a large house, 4,000 square feet and most of which was never used and i know what it takes to raise a family in the city. our neighbors at number 3 vulcan have lived there for 50 years and they raised four children in a home very much the same square footage as ours which is 750 square feet so the argument saying that this ordinance would limit the ability of families to live in the neighborhood doesn't ring true. it seems that the controls that are suggested still leave plenty of latitude for existing families and new families to add on as they need to while maintaining the cozy and intimate scale of the neighborhood so thank you for considering this ordinance. >> thank you. next speaker is steve clark hall. robert mold followed by nancy peoples, philip crawford and joyce washinger. >> i am a long-term resident in the area

by supervisor kim and supervisor wiener this motion is amended what would you like. >> ami i'd like to move this forward with a positive recommendation. >> that's wonderful a motion made seeing that there is no objection this motion passes unanimously with a with a positive recommendation for the committee report. >> madam clerk item 2. >> item 2 an ordinance amending the planning code for the dwelling unit for the limit not a specified code requirement and supervisor wiener is the author and will lead the discussion on item 2. >> thank you very much madam chair for agendizing this piece of legislation and thanks to my co-sponsor supervisor breed the housing legislation that will i think be a win-win for san francisco in essence when a building is flowing seismic retrofit while their at it the property owner can add one or more in-law units into the building this legislation will provide is therefore, an incentive to add a new assessable typical moderate housing and it will sentence active building to undergo retrofits in the castro neighborhood a pathway to the rent controls in san fr

supervisor wiener is the author of this item. supervisor wiener is the author of item number two. >> great. thank you very much madam chair for agendizing this item as well. colleagues today before us is a resolution regarding our commuter pilot program and requesting that the mta in issuing permits for this program consider the existence or lack thereof of labor harmony. colleagues our commuter shuttle program has proven to be a great way of keeping cars off of the streets and reduce the greenhouse gas footprint. as a result of the employee shuttles workers in san francisco and commute to outside or inside the city and who would otherwise own and drive private automobiles are now able to live car free getting us one step closer to the transit first city we want to be, but while most of the conversations about these shuttles focused on those riding the buses we wanted to discuss the people driving these vehicles. the shuttles are operated with private companies that contract with them. drivers work for the shuttle operators and n

. >> that finally i'll say this is not only for supervisor wiener's ordinance i believe that ada should be 3rb9 from short-term rentals i have concerns about the planning department's ability to endorse a 90 day cap so the accessory dwelling unit will be short-term rental not adding to the housing stacking stock but i'll agree with supervisor wiener this is not one ordinance but something that is in place for adas they should be prohibited from short-term rentals thank you. >> thank you very much so we've taken public comment on this item and last remarks. >> madam chair supervisors thank you for the questions i'll move to adopt the amendments i've described at the beginning of hearing. >> a motion to adopt the months ago we'll take that without objection. >> i'm sorry public comments. >> we've had public comment on item 2. >> and then i'll move that we forward item two as amended to the full board with a positive recommendation and seconded by supervisor jane kim that passes unanimously. >> thank you colleagues. >> madam clerk please call item 3. >> item 3 is resolution approving on ag

supervisor wiener? >> thank you madam president thank you to supervisor kim supervisor kim and supervisor campos for raising the issue of short-term rentals clearly we want these units to be residential dwelling units and under the legislation that we past late last year like every other dwelling unit they will have to have a permanent resident living in there under the terms of what we passed and whether the unit is a a 100-year old apartment building or new in-law unit or new construction somewhere we need to make sure people are complying with the law for residential housing units. >> thank you supervisor wiener okay can we take this item same house same call without objection this ordinance is passed on the first reading unanimously madam clerk can you please call the next item. >> item 16 to rent units with agitmg housing partners and authorize the director of planning to execute an agreement for the rental incentive option for the residential development proposed at 1201-25 tennessee streets for t

. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you very much motion by supervisor wiener and seconded by supervisor kim we'll take that without objection. this motion passes. >> madam clerk call item 5. >> a resolution authorizing the facilities between the city and the mexican museum for one dollar. >> ladies and gentlemen this was supported by mayor ed lee and supervisor wiener and supervisor kim supervisor kim has opening remarks. >> i'm proud to join the mayor and supervisor wiener and supervisor campos and supervisor wiener that authors the city between the city and the mexican museum this is a project that has a ton of history and gone through many challenges and obstacles i want to thank the parties this was a long awaited area plan for the mexican museum in the parts of city where we have more than art and the museum and the jewish contemporary museum it authorizes the mexican mime to lease 48 thousand square feet other than the mission for 6 of year term for one dollar the agreement excludes an option to extend for another 33 years the mexican museum is a one of a kind institution that wil

we ask you to join supervisor wiener in voting yes on this legislation today. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. [applause] all right. ladies and gentlemen just as a reminder we have a board rule of noaa. applause. i know it. >> >> kind of takes the fun out of a committee meeting but we have a nice alternative and do spirit fingers that you approve up and move the meeting along. we have a lot of people here and everyone has an opportunity to speak. are we in agreement? all right. there we go. next speaker ed scrubs and followed by henry and dirk. sonya. >> good afternoon. i'm a member of eureka 17th street neighbors, a long-term resident of the castro since 1968 and a homeowner in the castro since 19 79. i strongly urge you to support supervisor wiener's proposed legislation to curb [inaudible] further of proliferation of over sized housing which too often is poorly designed, ugly and unaffordable for a majority of the people in this room with me today. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker henry. >> good afternoon supervisors. i prepared a

[inaudible] i met scott wiener and remind me -- . [inaudible] format -- detached. -- [inaudible] spirit release -- [inaudible] bring closeness to all evil -- [inaudible] highest -- only -- [inaudible] can one be students of good standing. in order to be in good standing of students be in good security. in order to be in good security and good [inaudible] wisdom and true knowing of being in good reasoning of origin or wisdom can -- [inaudible] matters. [inaudible] progress. [inaudible] require good management -- [inaudible] good knowing and understanding and [inaudible] self wellness and [inaudible] -- >> okay. thank you. anyone else want to speak to item number one? okay. public comment is going to be closed. [gavel] i want to just say a couple of comments. i appreciate you guys -- residents coming out and engaging on this level and i want to echo some of the brief remarks that i heard from folks commenting is that the feeling this pressure, anxiety you're feeling i want to assure you it's also happening in other parts of the city. m

next speaker. >> tim cologne i'd like to commend supervisor wiener on this common places legislation it unit two vital issues for protecting the housing stock and building new housing that is not affordable the next great earthquake will tear the hell out of housing it is vitality important we upgrade those buildings that are subtle older and less up to code we like this legislation gives a clear financial envelope to help it is costing but more importantly it promotes the type of housing we love it is smaller cheaper and should be located throughout the city we have a strong policy interest in wanting to see the nabtdz around san francisco there's no single solution to the affordable crisis by this is a good one that should be tripod and put into use we don't want to see restrictions that takes away the incentive we want people and building owners to take advantage of this it should go ahead as is thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> it's important to understand the soft story program is a key to air force the series dwelling units help provide an incentive within 4 y

bill [inaudible] supervisor wiener and campus. my name is daniel redman and attorney [inaudible] here in the city. and with regard to the ordinance, the task force report aging at the golden gate lgbt seniors are a vulnerable population and given to premature institutional. i think this is ordinance is important in addressing the isue. supervisor wiener merngzed the letter coming in across the country from midwest and new york and washington dc and cal. across the lgbt team there is a sense this ordinance could be a pivotal moment in changing that conversation and bringing more attention to issue. in a study done for lgbt [inaudible] 90 percent said they wouldn't be safe in the facility and 50 percent of respondent said they are or someone they knew faced discrimination and this included verbal and physical harassment by staff or other residence [inaudible] restriction of visitors. refruzal to provide basic care. deninel of medical care and refusal to respect the persons identify. to give 2 examples from that report both from cali

without objection, supervisor wiener is excused. can you please call the roll. >> on 18 cohen. >> i. >> farrell. >> i. >> kim. >> i. >> mar. >> i. >> tang. >> i. >> yee. >> i. >> avalos. >> i. >> breed. >> i. >> campos. >> i. >> christensen. >> i. >> there are ten i's. okay. >> okay. this motion is approved unanimously. item 19. >> to reappoint supervisor norman yee term ending january 31st to the golden bridge highway and transportation to be excused. >> with that, supervisor -- >> yee. >> -- yee is without objection, supervisor yee is excused. can you please call the roll. this is like musical chairs, right? >> yeah. >> madam clerk, please call the roll for item 19. >> on item 19, cohen. >> i. >> farrell. >> i. >> kim. >> i. >> mar. >> i. >> tang. >> i. >> wiener. >> i. >> avalos. >> i. >> breed. >> i. >> campos. >> i. >> christensen. >> i. >> there are ten i's. >> okay. this motion is approved unanimously. madam clerk can you please call the next item? >> item 20 is a motion to reappoint -- >> actually, can you please call item n

supervisor wiener. present. supervisor norman. present. >> can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance? >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all . thank you madam clerk are there muneications? >> no communications. ei would like to acknowledge we are joined are by supervisor kim and cohen. can you please reads the agenda >> item 1-6 are considered rutune unless a member objects a item may be removed and considered separately >> any other items from the consent agenda? seeing none. call athe roll >> 1-6 supervisor tang. aye. supervisor wiener aye. supervisor yee. aye. supervise rb [inaudible] supervisor christensen aye. supervisor co00, aye. supervisor ferrule. eye. supervisor kim. aye. supervisor mar. aye. mar aye. there are 11 aye's >> thete items are passed and approved >> item 7 is ordinance to authorize the department ofnology to enter into agreement of the city and att of suvss of ext

wiener -- supervisor wiener your point about bicycle lanes. there's more of them, and if there is a request to move and they choose not to move they will be cited, and vehicles clearly that are blocking muni will be cited -- >> i'm sorry. can i just interrupt you briefly? you made a comment if they are asked to move and refuse to move they're cited. that goes to the comment i made before and we heard this a year and a half ago there is always a request to move first and if you don't move you're cited and i would just like to know that mta's view on that? that says to me in general the worse thing that's going to happen to you if you're unlucky that a police officer or enforcement officer sees you the worse thing will be you're asked to move and presumably most will move if you're asked and if you don't that's life but how is that a disincentive in that's the worse thing some. >> again the first couple conditions. if there is legal space they will be asked to move into that space. failure to do so will mean citation. >> i understand but you're

supervisor wiener. >> thank you very much madam president. colleagues these zoning controls we're considering today helping to bring some order to a troubling trend that we're seeing of transforming smaller or regular sized existing single family homes and replacing them with massive single family homes not really adding new housing but turning smaller single family homes into very large single family homes and breaking up a bulk of the lot in the process and the legislation has the support of the neighborhood associations in the area and the neighborhood valley association and the current situation in the neighborhood is becoming chaotic and there's a number of projects that have been subject to the discretionary review or that it appears they will be subject to discretionary review they are going to the planning commission anyway and this legislation will not ban any of these projects or place a a moratorium on any project so we know from the beginning what the process is in terms of moving towards a planning committee hearing doesn't apply

mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee i'm joined by commissioner chan and supervisor scott wiener i believe we'll be joined that i supervisor mar and supervisor norman yee i want to thank the clerk clerk linda wong and members of the sfgovtv mark and scott >> madam clerk, any announcements? completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 31st board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated okay. thank you madam clerk call item one. >> item one hearing to review the health insurance trend of reclassifying certain life saving drugs including aids drugs thereby increasing the cost of access for those drugs for patients. >> thank you madam clerk this item was sponsored by supervisor wiener. >> thank you very much mr. chairman and scheduling this colleagues today will be discussing did growing health care assess issue we must address locally and federally and state naming the implosion of life saving drugs including - medication and treatment for hepatitis c and cancer and others onions do you to

i want to thank supervisor wiener for addressing this problem. as mentioned this legislation is a reasonable approach allowing some new development but giving us time to take a closer look at the rapid growth in the neighborhood and allowing for input from the neighborhood. our neighborhood has many through lots with open space on one end and the housing on the other and it's something that gives a unique character to our neighborhood as having this much open space and visibility to the neighbors opposed to the midblock open spaces and this is something that many of the neighbors have said already and want to preserve. i just want to bring up one other -- not constituent but one other group that is interested in preserving the tree and it is open space. two other projects that have been part of this the impetus for

. >> scott wiener. vice chair and to my left is yain jane and our clerk is ms. andrea ausberry. i would like to recognize sfgtv who are the techs helping us broadcast this committee meeting on sf govern tv. madam clerk do we have any announcements? >> yes. please silent all electronic devices and submit all items to the clerk and maybe on the future board agenda of the board of supervisors unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much. can you call item 1. >> item number one is for large residential projects for a 18 month period. >> supervisor wiener is the arthor of this item and will make some brief remarks on item 1. supervisor wiener. >> thank you very much madam chair and thank you for agendizing this item today for the committee. colleagues these interim 18 month zoning controls before us today would help apply to the corine hietd and it is corona heights neighborhood help to bring order to a pretty chaotic trend in the neighborhood now in terms of smaller single family existing homes that are expanded or replaced by very large single family homes leading in a series of

. >> thank you very much supervisor wiener. >> supervisor christensen. >> i'm sorry supervisor wiener. >> thank you, ma'am chair i want to thank supervisor mar for the statement about the golden gate bill we were san francisco commissioners were these almost completely united including the bike pedestrian fee in terms of ab 61 it is important to keep in mind two things first of all this motion is not to move us from the recommended opposed position to a support position but go back to the staff recommendations to watch this bill and i think this is not completely appropriate and second the bill does not take away local control it clarifies that we have local control that we as a localist enter into an agreement for the shurltsd to be able to use muni bus stops under appropriate circumstances and in fact that's what we're doing with the program i understand people want the buses to go away there are a lot of neighbors that get to work using the buses inside and outside the city it is appropriate to go back to a watch position. >> thank you very much supervisor christensen. >> get the m

cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar not present pursue supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee not present madam president we have quorum. >> ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all okay. >> madam clerk any communication. >> yes. madam president two communications dated march twhith one from supervisor yee they'll not been able to attend and request to be excuses eye is there a motion to excuse supervisor mar and supervisor yee we'll take that without objection. those two are excused okay and colleagues before we move on supervisor christensen i see you think the roster supervisor christensen do you have comments. >> no. >> colleagues, any changes to the march 24th seeing no changes a motion by supervisor farrell and seconded by supervisor campos we'll take that without objection. those minutes will be approved after the minutes public comment. >> after public comment. >> madam clerk call the first item. >> item one an issuance to

. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, ma'am vice chair so i think it is important to be clear about the current state of the law there's the one about whether state law allows for example mta or other transit operators to enter into the agreements with a private employer the mta says it has that authority and as you recall when we handled the ceqa appeal when we heard the ceqa appeal on the pilot program the opts modest the argument that mta was ironics wrong and we don't have the authority to enter into that with shuttle drivers there were members of the board of supervisors that expressed agreement it was illegal to enter into that i've not spoken to the author of this legislation i can't speak for him in terms of his motivation, in fact, there's a law pevend that is illegal for the mta underline state law to enter into state law with the shuttle drivers this clarifies that and i think that the staffs again, i'm not making a motion to support this this is in the early stamps but we can tell it is moving in the direction to clarify state law those kinds of agreements are permissible th

. >> thank you madam clerk this item was sponsored by supervisor wiener. >> thank you very much mr. chairman and scheduling this colleagues today will be discussing did growing health care assess issue we must address locally and federally and state naming the implosion of life saving drugs including - medication and treatment for hepatitis c and cancer and others onions do you to insurance companies reclarifying a drawing as a quote/unquote specialist drugs instead of a a patient paying a typical co-pay of 1b or 25 or 50 conflict of interests a month the patient in addition must pay a significant percentage of the drug when means a co-pay insurance of $6,000 or more the explosion important drug costs our hiv and cancer and rheumatoid arthritis denies the folks the insurance benefits and remain on those medications that is clear here for many most people that havetions and need access to life saving drugs that requiring them to pay six or eight hundred or $6,000 a month is the same as saying they can't have the drug a denial of assess for hiv patient for example for many people that

use commission i'm supervisor cowen accident chair of the committee to my right is supervisor scott wiener and supervisor kim our lovely clerk is andrea ashbury i'd like to recognize jessie larson and jonathan who will be broadcasting this meeting on sfgovtv madam clerk, any announcements? electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 102015 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated great. thank you very much my apologies for starting a little bit late ladies and gentlemen, let's go ahead and call item one. >> a resolution encompass the zoning controls for commercial permits for a 12 month period. >> the amendments made required us to consider it again, today i think supervisor kim has some comments today for item number one. >> thank you supervisor cowen and thank you, colleagues for your enter controlled comments i appreciate your support want to offer some non-substantive amendments to the finding i'll submit to the clerk that has the preexisting office space were conve

buenos toward us and supervisor cohen and supervisor kim and supervisor wiener i'm delighted to be here as concert of the board of trustees for the mexican museum in the mission strict that's an honor to be here today over a long, long period of work and a lot of you know a lot of work from many levels and different groups we're here to show gratitude for the city the city believing in us and our community how wonderful to have a museum of all places in san francisco in a land that once was part of mexico that continues the impression expression of our contingent and the community has been looking forward to this the actions will move our dreams of a community forward and you know this museum was founded by wonderful all over the a wonderful member in 1975 that realization of his dreams will become a reality today, our vision is beyond a gallery to full scope of mexican latino heritage through the programs we family sunday's easy family exhibition and programming throughout the bay area so we look forward to permanently playing together our communities cultural experiences and enrichmen

second by supervisor campose supervisor wiener >> i will vote gaens this today. i will say this and i'll be happy as we have in the past have a kbait about the commuter shuttle and happy to talk about the fact that a significant majority that ride the shuttles if they went away or became so restricted that a mu jortd of the workers would stay in san francisco and drive their cars clogging up the city streets and our highways more than they already are. i am happy to talk about the fact that i represent a district that is right there at the top when it comes to shuttles in terms of residence that ride the shuttles and dependent on them to get to work as well as those that live on the streets and the concerns about the shuttles going down the streets. i will talk about the arterials and side streets and if you put the buses on a small number of streets the people on those streets won't be happy about that chblt when we restrict the number of stops the shuttles it would use it means they are funneled on a smaller number of streets t. is a debate i'm happy to have, b

absent supervisor mar absent supervisor tang supervisor wiener we have quorum okay. we will now move to item number 2 >> item 2 approval of the minutes of the january 2015 this is an action item. >> colleagues well, i should are there any changes to the minutes okay. seeing none is there any public comment on item - supervisor avalos. >> i'm sorry, i he am wondering if you're mike is on. >> is that better my apologies colleagues, any changes to the minutes seeing none we'll open up for public comment is there any public comment on item 2 seeing none, public comment is closed could i have a motion to or is that a roll call on the minutes. >> on item 2. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim absent arrest supervisor mar absent supervisor katie tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> okay item number 3. >> chairs report this is an information item. >> colleagues this is a few things i want to mention the first yesterday we held a hearing on the release of

supervisor wiener. >> thank you madam president and i'll be supporting him today. he does amazing work and i know will be an asset to the commission and this appointment is actually yet another reminder to me about why i have never served on the rules committee it's unbelievably hard when you have multiple amazing candidates. just really amazing people who all bring different strengths but are all very passionate and authentically so and i want to thank the rules committee for having to really sometimes make a painful decision to say no to qualified candidates but i know dory is going to do a terrific job and i'm pleased to see a lot of high caliber interests and we work closely with both the commissioners and staff on a weekly basis. it's so important to have strong commissioners and this is moving that commission in its ongoing positive direction so i'll be supporting this appointment today. >> thank you. not seeing any other members on the roster colleagues can we take this item without objection this motion is approved unanimously. madam clerk can you please ca