Good afternoon, everybody and welcome to the meeting of San Francisco full board of supervisors for tuesday, july 14, 2015 madam clerk call the roll. Thank you madam president supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar not present be supervisor tang supervisor wiener 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 well 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 theyre 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 id like to use my time to address two critically important efforts our efforts to build more housing in the San Francisco and the murder of kate and as her family continues to impervious lets remember kate as they do as a Position National young woman that cherished her family and friends and committed to her community and proving the world katz family has a page to raise money for the causes that were close to case by case heart our grief is made more profound by the fact let me be clear she was tragically and needlessly murdering others pier 14 by a man that shouldnt have been releases from county jail and not in our city not even in our country with this tragic murder is a National Focus on the sanitary city policies of San Francisco and over two hundred other u. S. Cities with some rhetoric around this murder has been unfortunately and irresponsible misrepresenting her values and dem monothe efforts what made this country what it is today as we remember kate lets be clear about what your are sanctuary city policy does do and not do let there be no doubt our laws which have been around since the 1980s encourage your undocumented residents to assess puc and Public Education and report crimes and if theyre a witness or victim reporting them without fear but our sanctuary policy was never intended to creating create a safe heaven to tear our communities apart it does not protect krinltdz our existing policies allow for cooperation with the federal authorities with criminals like mr. Sanchez i mean i believe strongly we should cooperate with federal immigration officials when they ask for pending releases for repeat felons including those deported on multiple occasions how some of the Law Enforcement leadership has chosen to exercise or ignore their existing Authority Remains a question of concern for example theres a policy in place today that prohibits this kind of communication within it the sheriffs deputies and officials in the case of repeat felons this policy is a threat to Public Safety this policy should be rescinded immediately supervisors to you i say thank you for standing strong in support of our values to protect the immigrant communities like those who politicalize her murder and slander the city awhile much of the nation and certainly this city has been focused on this heartbreaking tragedy and event we are keeping focus on other critical needs especially housing today this board is posed to vote on the biggest Affordable Housing bond in this city in this investment it is historic 210 million housing bonds that will not raise property tax i want to thank uhhuh for your support and partnership this will help build Public Housing and speed up housing that is it possible to seniors and others will create a marx remedy and honoring making sure that San Francisco remains a city where everybody belongs with this bond part of the 5. 5. 5 billion investment that makes meaningful affordability in San Francisco so again, thank you every single one of you i know we have our work cut out to insure its successful package on that ballot supervisors ill close and allow you to return to your agendas meeting. Thank you mar for being here mr. Clerk call 1 through 3 are the consent calendar vote of the commission. Discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests roll call vote. On items 1, 2, 3 commissioner avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen Councilmember Cole supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee there are 11 items. Those items are finally passed unanimously madam clerk 4 and 5 together and item 4 the ordinance to amend the planning code for the fillmore Transit District between bush and Mcallister Park street and places the fillmore district and item 5 the ordinance to amend the planning code to establish divisadero commercial street Transit District along hate and farrell street and places the divisadero street their technical changes to various sections of the planning code to make the changes with the Code Amendment and firmly ceqa and other appropriate finding. Commissioner avalos. Thank you. I voted against those items last week and will be in favor last week he was concerned not enough great affordability with greater density ive talked with supervisor president london breed from this area and shes insisting shell look at the process hospital tomato misses the affordability and it is not i wanted to marry could happen i feel comfortable to support those items which i didnt support last week. Thank you commissioner avalos not seeing any other names on the roster colleagues, can we take those items same house, same call . Well take that without objection. Passes unanimously madam clerk call 6 and 7 together and item 67 and 7 were referred without recommendation from the Land Use Commission and 6 and 7 both of the ordinances amend the administrative code for the conversion ordinance and 6 specifically Internal RevenueService Requires the shorelines is on the listing and removing a listing once its rent within 60 days on a calendar year and item 78 limits the shortterm rentals of the residential unit no more than one hundred 20 days under circumstances with the shortterm rental rental administration staffed by the planning code and the tax collectors office. Supervisor campos. Thank you very much madam president colleagues the San Francisco chronicle repeated this weekend in a special feature about the shortterm rentals that recorded what weve been saying for quite sometime that we have hundreds of units that are being taken off the Housing Market yearround because of other than and highrise of incremental hosts that are simply disregard the current lay that is simply broken here are some of the highlights by the chronicle further data dive into 3 websites 3 hundred and 52 entire homes fulltime hotels on airbnb there are another 3 hundred and 49 that are hotels for most of the year and over the 5 thousand airbnb listed in San Francisco 60 percent of those legislators more entire homes chronicle also found 2 hundred and 6 hosts that are offering 3 or more listing those illegally operated super hosts control 9 hundred and 93 properties nearly one in 5 of airbnbs listing here in San Francisco in the mission 7 hundred and 89 units are listed and according the chronicle indicate up from 6 hundred and 81 listing last year making that by far the most important airbnb city a naibt neighborhood that is sgrrz for evictions the number of airbnbs listing has increased by 13 about his plus percentage and 5 thousand 4 hundred and 59 listing in airbnb in the city and while some have left airbnb in the last year many new hosts have taken that place the chronicle says one chronicle hosts on airbnb and home away has landlord prefer to rent to short time visitors the dirty little secret owners do this to avoid rent control this shows that the current law as not an, an effective tool for regulation and, in fact, a tool that facilitated the conversion ever long term housing to Tourist Hotels during one of the worse housing crisis this is simply outrageous as you may recall our excessive environmentalist ted said on shortterm rentals even in a shortterm rental unit is lost to airbnb rentals the impact is negative and now here we are logan at the at least 3 Leonardo Da Vinci and 50 confirmed units lost to airbnb rentals alone the legislation before you and that i introduced with the support of supervisor mar and commissioner avalos as cosponsors create the shortterm rental law that actually works for the purpose that actually tries to protect housing by alexander real Enforcement Mechanisms that will sure this illegal activity reported by itself chronicle will no longer continue and specifically this thing legislation requires hooting platforms to list only regulated list and provided quarterly data to the list and were limiting 9 shortterm rentals to 60 days the budget analyst there are 4, 60 day cap leads to a reduction of airbnb units entirely focused on commercial units that is a unit that takes Residential Housing permanently off the the Housing Market a one 20 day cap proposed by mayor ed lee and supervisor farrell will lead to only a 7 percent reduction in airbnb unit leaving many commercial airbnb units urban touched which is what the being proposed today as i said on many occasions i support home sharers it has a place in San Francisco but there has to be limits my law supports casual hosts to make ends meet many san franciscans enjoy and rely on this practice however, left unregulated this industry will continue toes bat the hockeys were facing by incentive tigers taking housing off the market colleagues, i ask for your support for that common sense piece of legislation by voting you can help to make long term Housing Available to the san franciscans that need it and i hope we act in a meaningful way today and if we fail to act it will be up to the voters of San Francisco to finally do what i hope we can do today i do have one small amendment to my orients if i may ask the clerk to hand out the copies to my colleagues but this amendment is actually, one that i originally authorized in october of 2014 over the course of the debate of the original law this amendment is included in the marries owners to make sure that moving forward shortterm rentals are not take place another a unit there theres an ellis act eviction in the last year we we will incorporate that and the residential unit has to meet the following conditions i quote in the document pr that the unit quote has not been the subject of an eviction pursuant to the ellis act and an administrative code section 37. 9813 within a 5 year period prior to applying for the registry on november 1st, 2014, end quote with that i make a motion to amend my motion along the lines ive subscribed and okay. Colleagues supervisor campos has made a motion to amend his legislation nebraska item number 6 sect by commissioner avalos can we take that well take that without objection. Well take that without objection. It passes supervisor campos imagine. Supervisor farrell. Thank you supervisor president london breed i want to thank supervisor campos for introducing that amendment weve included from the beginning of the legislation so colleagues last year, we passed a Regulatory Framework that was historic for regulating our shortterm rentals in San Francisco as we all know this is extremely complicated topic every 11 of us has a different point of view on this topic since then our city and departments other officials have and people inside and outside of city hall has continued to look at the legislation its logic ice cream to get the law right i believe that home sharers is here to stay and we should support responsibly home sharers here in San Francisco in fact home sharers and vacation hosts have existed in our city but the practice has garden more attention of the platforms and services on the internet making the practice easier i believe we must support home sharers in a way to protect the Housing Stock and protects the quality of life across all the citys neighborhoods. Given our cities housing shortage and affordability issues we must protect our city from shortterm rentals but have a Regulatory Framework that allows the residents to earn their extra dpk income by sharing their homes everybody is aware of the differences between our legislation and those of supervisor campos to quickly state the main point of our legislation a one 20 day cap and in addition to the cities private right of action for Property Owners within one hundred feet of the shortterm rentals to seek remedies it creates i believe this is the most important the average office of shortterm rental administration and enforcement that provides a single location a onestop shop for members of the public to apply for the regulatory and the city staff to enforce the law again sneesh a onestop shop for registration and enforcement the new offices will have staff to streamline the administration for hosts that enables the Planning Department for the layers focus in weed out books it is also be up and running shortly we add in a recommendation around the ellis act thank you supervisor campos for putting that in his version and proposing to add in two represents that will remove the provision that allows for crossexamination of the administrative review we want to keep this civil and productivity and remove a provision that automatically inquires an administering hearing and allows Planning Department to forego hearings any responsible parties will have the ability to request a hearing in both amendments cut itself bureaucracy and have resources to focus ongoing through the books every one of the amendments and other performs for shortterm rentals law have been recommended by the Planning Commission reforms to take a holistic impact towards our city and addresses the city as a whole rather than scapegoating one company that account for less than one of the shortterm rentals in our city if we are serious about a Regulatory Framework to exist in San Francisco we have to put forward that hosts and incentive intents the following not to mitigate to other platforms to create their shortterm rental websites our amendments insure we streamline the registration process and make the law fully enforceable by key investments i also want to comment that i know theres a plan ballet issue around this topic i have a number of dear friends that are respected and admired gridlock but in terms of putting something on the ballot regarding this piece of legislation on this topic our sharing economy is came forward in eternity a couple of years ago is impacting the way we live our lives whether it is home sharing or car sharing or the next type of economy a great deal combovd were in the top of the first inner as it relates and the problems are going to the ballot and asking voters to weigh if you want to change the law you have to go back to the voters im witnessing were revisiting a law we passed last year already i believe whether it is shortterm rentals and housing or other types of sharing economy as we sunday evening to regulate it as Companies Grow like and wed were going to have to revisit those time after time going to the ballot is the wrong approach now theres been accounts that dive into the impact of the shortterm rentals and i welcome that analysis i want to point out one statistic that is overlooked and is extremely important in the Impact Report the report looked at u. S. Census daylight over 20 percent of units are a steady impact from 2012 to 2013 when the platforms started come to the market rapid increase in rent since 2010 and the this means the impact of the shortterm rentals is unclear and needs to be reexamined further and taking a heaven approach is the wrong approach to this complicated topic no denying the technology has changed the traditions and certain serves as we come to know and understand them i believe that government has and should play a role for the atmosphere whether housing or transportation or labor we as a board address them when they arrive but avoid the requirements that encourage people to work outside of our framework im encouraged with the dictated funding well fined shortterm rentals t the registration process and layers focus on the egregious violators there is no way im encouraged this city shows a wave of the violators theyve sent violation to people with shortterm rentals listing home sharers is here to stay in the city and across the globe that is our r0b89d to reb89 this that protects our Housing Stock and incentive visas the hosts by streamlining the process and clarify the elements of the law to be enforceability the proposal builds on our current law and adds the necessary enforcement tools to pro 86 go after the egregious violators of the law colleagues, i hope to have our support thank you supervisor farrell supervisor yee. Thank you supervisor president london breed you know we cant only predict the changes in the