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the mta and be unproductively involved to have the best contract every. >> thank you, supervisor wiener madam clerk can you please call the roll arrest commissioner avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos no supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim no supervisor mar supervisor katie tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee there are 9 ids two nos with supervisor campos and supervisor kim isn't descent okay. this resolution is adapted madam clerk can you please call item 45. >> item 45 through 47 were by the audit and oversight committee and forwarded item 45 an ordinance to authorize a lawsuit by marshall and swift against the city for $395,000 in august 1st for the district of california. >> roll call vote. >> on item 45 commissioner avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee there are 11 i's this ordinance is passed unanimously on the first reading item 6. >> was to amend the administrative code to allow the civic engagement
the mta and be unproductively involved to have the best contract every. >> thank you, supervisor wiener madam clerk can you please call the roll arrest commissioner avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos no supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim no supervisor mar supervisor katie tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee there are 9 ids two nos with supervisor campos and supervisor kim isn't descent okay. this resolution is adapted madam clerk can you...
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wiener. >> supervisor christensen. >> thank you madam president ii ran a small business for thirty years and the probability all kinds of reporting i don't know if supervisor campos has talked with the home sharers and those are not afraid of reporting or running a small business and as a matter of fact that many of them prefer it it gives them control of the information rather than doling out to platforms i want to make sure that nothing preincludes a platform from reporting from home sharers this is made between the platform and the home sharers they can do that frankly is a a great business model we've got something platforms can with distinguish their platforms but i think as people who that might have more legal experience than i do will know that the problem is we do have any platforms in the city and to the point that supervisor farrell made earlier there's a chance many more to come and don't priority operates on the same business model they don't collect fund and not directly involved in the registration or the number of days they can't report that information and we, in fact have l
wiener. >> supervisor christensen. >> thank you madam president ii ran a small business for thirty years and the probability all kinds of reporting i don't know if supervisor campos has talked with the home sharers and those are not afraid of reporting or running a small business and as a matter of fact that many of them prefer it it gives them control of the information rather than doling out to platforms i want to make sure that nothing preincludes a platform from reporting from...
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supervisor wiener madam president we have quorum thank you 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 thank you, everyone madam clerk any communication. >> none to report. >> colleagues, any changes to the board meeting minutes for by supervisor cowen and supervisor campos colleagues we'll take that without objection. those pass after. okay madam clerk call our 2:00 p.m. special order first order of business the populate between the mayor ed lee and eligible members of the board of supervisors they're being no questions from the eligible supervisors the mayor may address the board up to 5 minutes >> welcome to the board chambers mayor ed lee and good afternoon board of supervisors and to the audience that is here thank you thank you for your time and attention singles no questions from the board i'd like to use my time to address two critically important efforts our efforts to bu
supervisor wiener madam president we have quorum thank you 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 thank you, everyone madam clerk any communication. >> none to report. >> colleagues, any changes to the board meeting minutes for by supervisor cowen and supervisor campos colleagues we'll take that without objection. those pass after. okay madam clerk...
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supervisor wiener, do you have questions? next presenter >> madame chair, supervisors, i will be brief. john covered the basic important terms. i think the excitement of having that research center here building on that 144-year history and for some of you in the audience at home that may not know it, the research component staying on campus is critical to the designation of level 1 trauma center and i know dr. carlisle is here you and other of her staff, that could expand on that and the relationship between the existing main hospital, and the research center. >> thank you. thank you for the presentation. i would like to just open it up and see if there any members from ucsf, at this time i heard dr. carlisle is here. i don't want to put you on the spot, but if you would like an opportunity to speak, you have the opportunity. >> thank you, madame chair. i am very happy to speak in support of this project. as we have said for many years, we feel that having a viable research unit at sfgh allows us at the university to continue our 144-year history wi
supervisor wiener, do you have questions? next presenter >> madame chair, supervisors, i will be brief. john covered the basic important terms. i think the excitement of having that research center here building on that 144-year history and for some of you in the audience at home that may not know it, the research component staying on campus is critical to the designation of level 1 trauma center and i know dr. carlisle is here you and other of her staff, that could expand on that and the...
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discussion and item 67 has a hard cap of '75 days for host and not hosted. >> supervisor wiener. >> sorry madam president my understanding is item 7 has the cap in existence to legislation. >> yeah. >> yes. yes. >> okay. colleagues for item number 6 is everyone clear looks like we're all clear item 6 madam clerk call the roll commissioner avalos supervisor breed no supervisor campos supervisor christensen no supervisor cowen no supervisor farrell no supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang no supervisor wiener no supervisor yee there are 5 i's and 690s with supervisor breed supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor tang and supervisor wiener in the descent this ordinance fails colleagues seeing no other names on the roster members of the public can i please remove your sign can you please lower your signs thank you very much madam clerk on item no. 7 as amended can you please call the roll. >> supervisor avalos no supervisor breed supervisor campos no supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim no supervisor mar no supervisor tang supervisor wiener su
discussion and item 67 has a hard cap of '75 days for host and not hosted. >> supervisor wiener. >> sorry madam president my understanding is item 7 has the cap in existence to legislation. >> yeah. >> yes. yes. >> okay. colleagues for item number 6 is everyone clear looks like we're all clear item 6 madam clerk call the roll commissioner avalos supervisor breed no supervisor campos supervisor christensen no supervisor cowen no supervisor farrell no supervisor kim...
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madam clerk call the roll. >> commissioner avalos no supervisor breed supervisor campos no supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim no supervisor mar no supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee no there are 6 i's and 590s commissioner avalos supervisor campos supervisor kim supervisor yee and supervisor mar in the descendants the amendments pass madam clerk on item 6 please call the roll. >> oh supervisor kim. >> okay i believe that since we've finished the amendments i want to speak to both proposals. >> yes. >> so again i want to state my thoughts about the proposals i know i've stated them a month ago when the items were heard i want to provide a larger frame for the debate before the board right now this conversation today is not just about short-term rentals but about a larger conversation of that that 0 body vision and save city should provide through the planning code this city has been granted power by the state to regulate land use and development we determine the uses ethnicity and how much use to provide a healthy balance for instance we answer the questions on how much residential hours where we build it and how many j.p. morgan and what kinds of j
madam clerk call the roll. >> commissioner avalos no supervisor breed supervisor campos no supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim no supervisor mar no supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee no there are 6 i's and 590s commissioner avalos supervisor campos supervisor kim supervisor yee and supervisor mar in the descendants the amendments pass madam clerk on item 6 please call the roll. >> oh supervisor kim. >> okay i believe that...
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wiener. >> thank you, madame chair. i want to thank all of the members of the public who came out on both sides. this is actually -- we have had some rough sledding here in city hall with some of the hearings that we have had recently. and i say this -- what happened is exactly how public comment should be. people were passionate and vociferous and direct and extremely respectable to the other side and that is how the democratic process should work because that is democracy and we're all entitled to be critical of each other. i do want to say the interesting thing is -- and i think i said this during the debate on the mission moratorium, that i think most people on both sides had the same end goal of having affordable housing, but i think the same is true today. i think everyone wants 24th street to be safe, vibrant, and diverse street. i just think there are different views on how to get there. i do want to say that i think we have heard some comments today about long-term versus newer residents, or christopher columbu
wiener. >> thank you, madame chair. i want to thank all of the members of the public who came out on both sides. this is actually -- we have had some rough sledding here in city hall with some of the hearings that we have had recently. and i say this -- what happened is exactly how public comment should be. people were passionate and vociferous and direct and extremely respectable to the other side and that is how the democratic process should work because that is democracy and we're all...
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supervisor wiener. >> thank you madam clerk. colleagueed today i'm introducing along with the mayor the sustainability program which is a successor ordinance to our long standing transit impact development fee. this is the fee that we impose on new development to pay for transportation impacts that that development generates particularly around public transportation but also about street design and safety measures. the tidf has been around for over 30 years but there were some very very major exemptions particularly around residential development. for the last 30 plus years residential development in san francisco has not paid transit impact development fees so you can build a 50 story high rise and not pay one penny if the entire building is dovoted to residential use. the tsp will rectify that by modernizing the approach to transit impact development fees and extend the fee to any project of 20 or more unit so this will be a major step forward. it will increase what we see from transit impact development fees to fund muni as w
supervisor wiener. >> thank you madam clerk. colleagueed today i'm introducing along with the mayor the sustainability program which is a successor ordinance to our long standing transit impact development fee. this is the fee that we impose on new development to pay for transportation impacts that that development generates particularly around public transportation but also about street design and safety measures. the tidf has been around for over 30 years but there were some very very...
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supervisor wiener. >> thank you madam president. i want to just thank and acknowledge the entire coalition the community that is working on the cia venta quat row movement and all of the positive things happening in terms of the community organizing we see in the mission. i-in terms of this piece of legislation as i artic yltded in committee and why i voted against it is i am in complete agreement of having over the counter permits to merge commercial spaces on 24th street isn't a acceptable state of affair squz think a ban goes too far and would like to see conditional use requirement here. we have quite a few neighborhood commercial district restriction on mergers and space above a certain square footage but typically you have conditional use to allow merger when appropriate because we know there is always going to be exceptional situations where it makes sense for the xhrjs district to allow that merger to occur and this prohibition will not allow for any exceptions no matter what the circumstances. i'm class glad there is a long
supervisor wiener. >> thank you madam president. i want to just thank and acknowledge the entire coalition the community that is working on the cia venta quat row movement and all of the positive things happening in terms of the community organizing we see in the mission. i-in terms of this piece of legislation as i artic yltded in committee and why i voted against it is i am in complete agreement of having over the counter permits to merge commercial spaces on 24th street isn't a...
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supervisor wiener. >> thank you madam president. i want to just thank and acknowledge the entire coalition the community that is working on the cia venta quat row movement and all of the positive things happening in terms of the community organizing we see in the mission. i-in terms of this piece of legislation as i artic yltded in committee and why i voted against it is i am in complete agreement of having over the counter permits to merge commercial spaces on 24th street isn't a acceptable state of affair squz think a ban goes too far and would like to see conditional use requirement here. we have quite a few neighborhood commercial district restriction on mergers and space above a certain square footage but typically you have conditional use to allow merger when appropriate because we know there is always going to be exceptional situations where it makes sense for the xhrjs district to allow that merger to occur and this prohibition will not allow for any exceptions no matter what the circumstances. i'm class glad there is a long
supervisor wiener. >> thank you madam president. i want to just thank and acknowledge the entire coalition the community that is working on the cia venta quat row movement and all of the positive things happening in terms of the community organizing we see in the mission. i-in terms of this piece of legislation as i artic yltded in committee and why i voted against it is i am in complete agreement of having over the counter permits to merge commercial spaces on 24th street isn't a...
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wiener. the motion passes unanimously. madam clerk will you call item 2 >> resolution authraising [inaudible] city owned parcel for yerba buena district >> i'll ditto everything you said for item 1 accept this is for the yerba buena benefit district which is around already and this is the renewal. successful cbd that has done a amazing job of improving and beautifuliing the neighborhood and building a nirebd yoift that involved building a coalition of the businesses, hotels, residential tenets and home owners as well as small businesses. >> thank you, is there a presentation? no. >> good afternoon, my name is chris corbs and project manager with office of economic worse force development. authorizing the mayor to cast ballot in affirmative. 8 parcels with the board of supervisors has jurisdiction. known as the yerba buena community benefit district. the board of supervisors june 9 passed a [inaudible] thereby nishiating the balloting process. june 12, 2015 department [inaudible] with 8 ballots being sent to the city and county o
wiener. the motion passes unanimously. madam clerk will you call item 2 >> resolution authraising [inaudible] city owned parcel for yerba buena district >> i'll ditto everything you said for item 1 accept this is for the yerba buena benefit district which is around already and this is the renewal. successful cbd that has done a amazing job of improving and beautifuliing the neighborhood and building a nirebd yoift that involved building a coalition of the businesses, hotels,...
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wiener. >> thank you, madam clerk colleagues i'm introducing a hearing request for student housing as you recall i offered legislation this board passes to try to make it easier to provide incentives for universities to do student housing for their students we have over 80 thousand college students in san francisco it is a significant number of students and we are really don't have nearly enough student housing for those residents and as a result we have a lot of students that don't live in the city and have long consultants and a lot of students that are simply in the general housing pool and expediting with other residents of the city for housing so in everyone's interests to have irrelevance create their own housing so their housing is affordable and to students to the students to the fewer students have to commute into the city and less pressure on the joan housing stock so the general legislation makes it easier for universities to create their own student housing and restricts the universities from buying up housing unit and converting it into exclusive dorms it has been built as we unders
wiener. >> thank you, madam clerk colleagues i'm introducing a hearing request for student housing as you recall i offered legislation this board passes to try to make it easier to provide incentives for universities to do student housing for their students we have over 80 thousand college students in san francisco it is a significant number of students and we are really don't have nearly enough student housing for those residents and as a result we have a lot of students that don't live...
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wiener. >> thank you, madame chair. everybody crossing our city by cars and parking transit and even walking have been impacted by the construction. we sympathize with those who are building and repairing our city. we're not trying to impede their efforts or to unfairly burden them. but this legislation and the amendments that i have proposed recognizes that one, the scarcity of on-street parking in our city. and secondly, the impact that impeded access has for those with limited mobility, for garbage collection and other deliveries, and that this obstruction comes at a price. i've asked supervisors farrell and cohen, to whom i'm grateful for introducing this legislation, to include commercial districts in the legislation. because that construction is sometimes as or more impactful than that in residential plus the commercial construction often tends to spill over into our residential areas. and the amendment puts a fairer price on the valuable street parking. and also helps cover the cost of administrating the program,
wiener. >> thank you, madame chair. everybody crossing our city by cars and parking transit and even walking have been impacted by the construction. we sympathize with those who are building and repairing our city. we're not trying to impede their efforts or to unfairly burden them. but this legislation and the amendments that i have proposed recognizes that one, the scarcity of on-street parking in our city. and secondly, the impact that impeded access has for those with limited...
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staffing levels be adjusted to account for population and neighborhood growth >> supervisor wiener >> thank you madam president. colleagues today before us is a resolution and authored along with altogetherers supervisor cohen and supervisor farrell calling for a increase in the police staffing level to take population grouth and staffing into account. by any measure colleagues our police department is understaffed. over the past decade the city has grown by 100 thousand people. we have neighborhoods that didn't exist a decade ago. we have more people working here and more cars on the road, more transit and more traffic safety needs. despite that growth we have nearly 300 fewer police officers than we did 5 years ago. [chanting] [inaudible] colleagues we are going to take thousand people. we have neighborhoods that didn't exist a decade ago. we have more people working here and more cars on the road, more transit and more traffic safety needs. despite that growth we have nearly 300 fewer police officers than we did 5 years ago. [chanting] [inaudible] colleagues we are going to take a recess. [supervi
staffing levels be adjusted to account for population and neighborhood growth >> supervisor wiener >> thank you madam president. colleagues today before us is a resolution and authored along with altogetherers supervisor cohen and supervisor farrell calling for a increase in the police staffing level to take population grouth and staffing into account. by any measure colleagues our police department is understaffed. over the past decade the city has grown by 100 thousand people. we...
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wiener. >> thank you very much madam chair and all the members of the public who coming out came out i think the representation from the tenderloin neighbors it neighborhood it is great to see when an neighborhood organs it is great when you agree or draw but it is entirely when a neighborhood comes out and represents i'll be supporting as i mentioned when i'm finished with my remarks i'll make a motion to withdraw the amendment that we adapted last week and supporting this legislation today with the positive recommendation i side, however, want to address an issue that not everyone commenter made but some commenter made if you didn't know anything about the ordinance and showed up you might get the inaccurate prospective that the amendment that i offered last week it raise the max area medium income for the group income from 50 to 90 percent that was taking the units out of the affordable category and putting them into the non-affordable educator even taking them out the below market rate that is completely and entire inaccurate our inclusionary program goes from zero to one hundred 20 perc
wiener. >> thank you very much madam chair and all the members of the public who coming out came out i think the representation from the tenderloin neighbors it neighborhood it is great to see when an neighborhood organs it is great when you agree or draw but it is entirely when a neighborhood comes out and represents i'll be supporting as i mentioned when i'm finished with my remarks i'll make a motion to withdraw the amendment that we adapted last week and supporting this legislation...
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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 take that without objection. >> madam clerk item 2. >> amending the planning code for the configuration planning housing program project. >> all right. supervisor kim is the author of this item she's not here yet why not acknowledge supervisor wiener >> thank you very much madam chair madam chair last week this item was before us i asked to adjust the ami for the configuration housing applied to group housing to up to 90 percent of area medium income instead of 55 percent that covers the lower ends of moderate income we have a massive gap in terms of our production of moderate income housing and housing at the high ends of low income this is seemed like it make sense to politically apply to offer a somewhat higher ami percentage four group housing we before we introduce that amendment we've worked with the district attorney's office and we're advised we could do that the city attorney didn't have as much time to review those things so shortly after the hearing we were advise by the city attorney's office that under prop c
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 take that without objection. >> madam clerk item 2. >> amending the planning code for the configuration planning housing program project. >> all right. supervisor kim is the author of this item she's not here yet why not acknowledge supervisor wiener >> thank you very much madam chair madam chair last week this item...
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wiener. >> thank you. >> are you puc to the motions. >> yes. the court: thank you, very much. madam chair, i want to just address the 3 amendments that supervisor kim has promoted proposed first respect to short-term rentals and thank you, madam chair for asking that question these units they will be housing units like all the existing in-law units in the city thirty or 40 thousand of them or or a apartments or house the same restrictions if you're life-threatening in an existing new mexico's been existing for a eliminator your subject u subject to the restriction you you have to live in the unit three-quarters of a year and the insurance and refrigerator and pay a tax those are subject to the same restrictions i don't think that it would be good policy to say one category of heirs is treated differently with short-term rentals than the rest of the housing unit i understand the concern if someone might create a new in-law unit and use it as a short-term rentals full-time that's illegal should be illegal i know in the legislation we passed and some of the marries recently decisions w
wiener. >> thank you. >> are you puc to the motions. >> yes. the court: thank you, very much. madam chair, i want to just address the 3 amendments that supervisor kim has promoted proposed first respect to short-term rentals and thank you, madam chair for asking that question these units they will be housing units like all the existing in-law units in the city thirty or 40 thousand of them or or a apartments or house the same restrictions if you're life-threatening in an...
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supervise r wiener >> thank you madam president and thank you for your amendments which i do support. so, first oaf all i want to thank you colleagues on all sides of this for all your remark jz arguments. this is a important issue. i think it is really important to understand that no one is suggesting that population is the sole fablter in determining the need for increase police staffing. first of all, when we compare ourselves to cities it is clear we need more police staffing. we have new neighborhoodss, it isn't just about population grouth and we all know this and supervisor avalos admitted this. this is about our observation and the communities we represent where people do not believe we have enough police in our communities to improve neighborhood safety. this is something we all hear all the time from a broad cross section of the community. in fact at budget committee the other day i asked chief surif there was a member of the board of supervisors who didn't ask him to have more police staffing in their district? the answer is no. 11 out of 11 members of the board of supervis
supervise r wiener >> thank you madam president and thank you for your amendments which i do support. so, first oaf all i want to thank you colleagues on all sides of this for all your remark jz arguments. this is a important issue. i think it is really important to understand that no one is suggesting that population is the sole fablter in determining the need for increase police staffing. first of all, when we compare ourselves to cities it is clear we need more police staffing. we have...