Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use Committee 20240713

Good afternoon. Welcome to the land use and transport community. This is april 20, 2020. Madam clerk,co, could you ple call the role. To role call . You have a co quorum. Any announcment . Due to the covid19 and to protect bored members, the legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating remotely as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item and both channel 26 an26 and each person will be allowed two minutes to speak. You can all 888 2045984. Access code 3501008. Press pound and pound again. When youre connected dial 1 and then 0 to speak. Youll be lined up in the order you dial 1 and 0. While youre waiting the system will be silent. The system will notify you when youre in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until their line is open and best practises to call are from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television and radio. You may submit Public Comment. Oif you submit comment via elizabeth mayelizabethemailit w. Thank you, and lets be clear, that is erica with a c k and not witand not with a k. I would like to thank john cee, arthur coo to bringing this Virtual Meeting to the public and with that, could you please read the first item. An emergency ordinance to temporarily prohibit what would be permitted under the code due to the covid19 pandemic. Thank you, madam clerk is i would like to thank my cosponsors supervisors preston, ronan, fewer and hainy. Robert collins is on hand if colleagues, you have any questions. As the clerk stated this is a pretty straightforward emergency ordinance and it lasts about 60 days and prohibit any lords imposing a rent resident rent iy tenant and that would apply to as of increases that are set forth under chapter 37 the administrative code, as well as utility and Capital Improvement passthroughs and i want to thank the San Francisco Apartment Association that has been cooperative and supportive of this legislation. Indeed, if you look on their website, this is the advice they have been giving to landlords, including small landlords like myself and i want to thank the tenant Advocacy Community and many, many people will be terribly are already terribly impacted by this crisis and i want to say to all of them that whether it is supervisor preston or the mayor, we are not only dealing with the Current Situation but were very focused on our recovery. With that, colleagues, do you have any questions for myself or mr. Collins . Maybe i should look at my little chat button. Theres nothing on the chat button. Supervisor preston. I have no questions on this. I wanted to thank you, chair peskin for bringing this forward. I think this is a straightforward but absolutely essential item right now and, you know, i get asked by some why we need a law like this and just to be clear, its not to deal with the many responsible and landlords out there who wouldnt think of imposing rent on their tenants at a time like this, but to deal wi with the landlords who are charging rent increases that folks cannot afford at this time. I look forward to moving it through the board as quick as possible. If it is forwarded, it would be a full board of supervisors tomorrow and retroactive to the date of introduction on the seventh day of april. Supervisor searc safayi, any co. No, questions. I wanted to say that i appreciate this. Its unfortunate that we actually have to go through this right now. I think most people are asking for some sort of rent relief, vacation not paying at this time and were all going through difficult times and so we really appreciate you sending this forward and putting it out there. And im happy that this is moving forward in an aggressive manner to help people that might otherwise somehow or another have a rent increase. And i would like to be added as a sponsor, as well. Thank you, and im sure miss major will add you as a cosponsor. And i want to concur with the comments of supervisor preston, which is that the vast majority of Property Owners who have residential tenants have been behaving exactly the way everybody else in society has been behaving. I brought this forward because i know that there are a handful of players, including, unfortunately, some that own thousands of units that are not similarly disposed. Soy thought we should get ahead of this. I want to thank supervisor fewer and her staff because they have entered the forefront of addressing issues about inappropriate passthroughs. They were the office that terminated the passthrough on mortgage interest and so i wanted to thank supervisor fewer for her cosponsorship. I would like to open it up for Public Comment with that. Miss major, say your magic words, please. Mr. Chair, staff is checking if there are any callers. Mr. Chair, please allow me a second to check the cue. There are no callers wishing to speak. Wow thanobody can figure out how toe our appropriate technology. Seeing no members of the public for Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. I knock my knuckles on my table and with that, colleagues, i would like to make a motion to send this item, item number 1, to the full board of supervisors as a Committee Report with positive recommendations. On that motion, madam clerk, a role call, please point. On a motion to recommend as the Committee Reports, supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. You have three ayes. Madam clar clerk, the next i. Approving the list of projects t fiscal year 21. The road accountability act of 2017. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call the number on the screen and press 1 and then 0 to line up. Thank you, miss major. Colleagues this is something that we have done on a number of occasions since the passage of senate bill one. Its 24. 5 million tor paving and curb ramps. We have a presentation from the department of public works. Mr. Kinania, the floor is yours. Im with public works and the resolution for you to today is to adopt a project that would receive fiscal 20 and 21 for the roads fund. It requires adoption. Attached is a project list including blocks that have been identified and all of the projects are currently this design and would be advertised for construction in the second half of this year or the first half of 2021. Also attached is a map of the owed blocks to be repaved using armory funds. This concludes my remarks and im joined by ramon for our paving program. Hello, this is aaron peskin here and so as long ive been on the board of supervisors, all of our street resurfacing projects as opposed to curb ramps have been have been a function of the Pavement Condition projects . And can you please explain that system to the committee . Yes, all of these blocks, 269 blocks have been gone through the Condition Survey and just brief description of what the pci in a Pavement Condition index. One of the criteria is the pci score. And there are motor routes, 20 bicycle routes and also, we are looking for the project readiness and the companies. Thats very crucial and we try fine a synergy on combined projects and look into combining all of that and minimize to the public during construction. Thank you, mr. Collins, for that high level overview. Many, many years ago, as our street paving scorer, if you were, was living, we tried to find this is in an era when state and federal funding for street repaving was dropping. We tried to set Ambitious Goals and in those day, supervisor el elsburn and i have found sources of money and theres been one issue and i think the last time we had this conversation a couple of years ago, you guys were shooting for a pci of 74. How is that going citywide . Thank you. Yes, were on track thanks to the funding weve been receiving for the last, i would say, seven to eight years. There were cops and the go was passed and with the supplements of the general fun money, weve been able to consistently maintain the level of funding for the last seven or eight years and were on track. When we started with the go bond, the pci score, i believe, was 69 and right now we are 74. The last six years we increased the score to 74 and if we continue to receive the same amount of funding, well get to 75 in the next two years. Well, god willing, the gas would drop and well continue to have funds for this effort. Thats broadly a question for oscar. Did you have any indication of the funding for gas tax . Mr. Kinania, do you want to look into your crystal ball . Weve been advised to wait for the California Department of finance to issue a revise revisl sometime in may. An important factor that was included in bill 1 was that the gas tax is based on the volume and not on the price of gas. So this will happen stabilize revenues for local jurisdictions and also makes it less elastic to impact. While we dont know at this point, we anticipate an impact and hopefully its not as significant because of the changes that were adopted in bill 1. But diesel gas is plum plumm, is that correct, by volume and by price . Theres likely been an impact this month for sure. Were going to have to wait and see how fast it picks up and what levels it maintains in the next few months. Well, thank you for that presentation and just to reiterate what i think i heard mr. Kahn say, is that you use the pci, but you also use other indicators including whether there are bicycle lanes and what i was taught fundamentally 15 years ago is that if the Pavement Condition index drops below a certain point, the cost of dealing wi dealing with the b structure of the streets rises exponentially. Can you tell us how you score those other things separate and apart from the pci . Yes, basically, the pci score cost an entire block and as surveyors, the consultants that we have, they go out to the field every year and they look at the entire block from curb to curb and they look the the condition of the street and they are looking to the rattling, the ratability of the street. So youre right, depending on the pci score, we have different treatments. A newly paved, i want to say five or six years and we try to maintain a little bit longer and try to extend the life of it. So in those cases, we apply microsurfacing and basically its a layer of oil. You mean like slurry . Thats right its a term similar to the microsurfacing. The beauty of the microsurfacing is that it dries out in three to five hours and the slurry takes 12 hours to 18 hours to dry out and that causes some disruptions for residents getting to their entrances. So in the city, we use microsurfacing. Understood, thank you for ed edifying me. Small potholes, we resurface both streets. The average cost is roughly 50 to 100,000 of block. I need to go between 150,000 to 400 to 500,000 depending on the condition of the street. Were treating right now residential streets. And we also are trying to treat a lot of the collector collectoh older agencies. Why are the number of curb ramps to be determined as compared to 5152 . It has been evaluated in a high level and, basically, once we get to the design phase, once it goes to the fill, and does an appropriate evaluation, whether or not it needs to be replaced. It may not need to be replaced. They comply with the ada requirements and its hard to determine whether or not they need to be replaced. The own way i only way is to goe field, decide whether they have the right grade and decide whether to replace it. The 24. 5 million is still sufficient for the number of occur ramps . Yes, it will be sufficient because this is kind of like an older estimate. At s will have to sharpen their pencils and do a cost of the project. But this is actually a good estimate, you know, with 24. 5 million. Thank you both. Supervisors, any questions or comments . Yes, chair. I wanted to say the resurfacing has been done in my district over the last three years. It has been tremendous and the citizens have been waiting, in many cases, in the streets for decks for thidecades for this we done. Shortterm convenience and longterm appreciation for all of the hard work. So keep up the hard work and keep repaving my district and well continue to have smooth surfaces for our pedestrians, our cars and bicyclists. Thank you. And i do note that there are a few blue lines on the 2021 rmra funding map in i. Any questions or comments . No comments, thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item number two . Mr. Chair, checking to see if there are any callers in cue. Thank you, miss major. No callers wishing to speak. Can we have a motion to send this to full board with recommendation in the normal course of business. So moved. Moved by supervisor preston and so far, theres own thre one of us. Madam clerk, please call the role. On the motion to recommend, supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor safayi. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. You have three ayes. Thank you, madam clerk and could you please read the third and final item. A resolution to declare the intention effort board of supervisors to change the street name of wil Willow Street to eal gauge junior street to honor his impact on the San Francisco firefighting community. Thank you, miss major. This was sponsored by supervisor preston and cosponsored by myself and supervisors ronen, walton and ye ane. Supervisor walton, the floor is yours. Thank you, chair peskin. My office has been work wig the San Francisco black Firefighters Association to commemorate the late earl gauge, jr. By renaming a city street in his honor and i want to thank the black Firefighters Association president , Sherman Tillman for his leadership on this, for bringing this to our attention and im proud to be able to stand with black Firefighters Association and president tillman in this longstanding effort to get a street named in honor of earl gauge, jr. Briefly, mr. Earl, jr. Moved to sanfrancisco in 1985. He was a lifelong lover of the 69ers. In 1955, when hired by the San Francisco Fire Department, he became the first black firefighter in San Francisco. For over a decade, he remained the only black firefighter and served for 30 years. Through his historic career, earl gauge, jr. Worked diligently for the San Francisco fire recruitment. Prior to his retirement from the department in 1983, he served as the departments director the Community Services and enacted a series of progressive hiring policies that increased racial diversity within the department and in turn, in our city government. He passed away on july 30th of 2017, at the age of 90. His legacy of staunch dedication of the defense of civil rights and the people of San Francisco continues to shape San Francisco Fire Department policy and empower advocatcy across our city. The resolution before us seeks to memorialize this icon by changing the name of Willow Street between bucannon and la goo thalaguna to earl gauge, jr. Street. My office performed an initial outreach along this one block street section in question and found a great deal of enthusiasm for this proposal. Our outreach was prior to the legally prior outreach, just something we wanted to do early on to make sure all voices were heard in the community before we commenced in process. We had a strong support from nearby places, as well as rosa parks and the plaza east. So im honored to be able to advancing this, moving this forward and i hope youll join me in honoring the member of this civil rights hero by supporting the resolution to rename wil Willow Street. I want to remind members of the public to press 1 and 0 to line up to speak. Thank you, miss job. Major. Let me associate myself with the words of supervisor preston, first by commending captain sherman philman who i have known for many years in station 13, the Downtown High pressure station, where im going to get him in trouble. He lead the effort to prevent a cell phone tower from being put on top of that station. He is now the captain of the alley cats, station number two and that serves chinatown and north beach and i want to commend captain tillman for bringing supervisor preston and the board and i also want to remark that it is really amazing that this one individual, mr. Gauge, was the ownly africanamerican firefighter for 12 years and that is long before the Consent Decree that judge conte imposed upon San Francisco to integrate another only our Fire Department but police department. He was a pioneer and i am delighted to be a cosponsor of this and supervisor safayi, anything to add. I would like to associate myself to supervisors prestons comments and congratulate mr. Tillman for all of his hard work and on behalf of the black firefighters, i know for many years they struggled and many years they fought and tried to have their voices heard and now, it is with great pride that the head of local 798, shawn buford leads them with pride. I wanted to be added as a cosponsor and thank you to supervisor preston for his hard work on this. Any members of the public who would like to testify . Staff is checking to see if there are any callers in coo. Cue. Madam chair, i just got a note from mr. Shawn buford and said its not working but wanted to convey his strong support. He was trying to call in and this is an important measure and wanted to thank supervisor preston for his hard work on this. Do you want to reiterate how people can call in again . Ill read the 800 number. The number is 888 2045984. The access code is 3501008. Press pound and then pound again. Youll hear a prompt to be added to the cue. Press 1 and 0 and you will be added and then it will prompt you when Public Comment is open. Again, thats 888 2045984. Access code 3501008 and the number is streaming on the screen. And madam clerk, i have just received a message from captain tillman who like the president of local 798, the Firefighters Union is also having trouble getting in and i am happy to wait until they are able to access this system. And it does raise concerns for me that there may be members of the public who are having trouble participating in democracy and despite all of our incredible best efforts, so lets wait until they get spot system. Hes saying he can hear but cant get on the line. Captain tillman said, cant get in. So miss major reiterated the instructions, so lets just stand by and see if they can get in. And i will check my emails. He might be in now. It should be open now. I have it confirming that the number is working and available. Checking with operations for callers in cue. Mr. Chair, there are currently six callers in line in the cue waiting to speak. I will cue the first cardiovascular. Caller. Hello, caller. Operator you have six questions remaining. Question hi, im here. Can you hear me . Yes, you have two minutes to speak. Question my name is firefighter chief siracca. Firefighter gauge was an extraordinary citizen and patriot who withstood a tremendous amount of racism and harassment to make a path for current firefighters such as myself and it is for this reason is many others i urge members of this community to support the resolution. That is all. Thank you, caller, for your comments. Operator you have five questions remaining. Question thank you, im Lawrence Thomas and im the first africanamerican hired as an h110, Marine Engineer in the San Francisco Fire Department. Mr. Gauge is a huge situation to me. I was an army veteran and his exploits in the Fire Department of being the first africanamerican firefighters of over 12 years. So i whole heartedly agree to im with the measure on board to change the name to the street of earl gauge, jr. And i really support that and thats it. Thank you, sir. Operations, another caller . Operator you have four questions remaining. Question this is gloria barry. Can you hear me in. Yes, we can. You have two minutes to speak. Question thank you very much. Im calling in support of the resolution to change the name of Willow Street to earl gauge, jr. Street. Im a native. I have lived in the phimore for 8 years. Ill be a future colleague of keith b ararraca and this is important to be able to rise in the ranks of the firefighters is quite an achievement and thats all for my comments. Operator you have three questions remaining. Question can you hear me . Yes, we can. Great. This is captain fillman, president of the San Francisco black firefighters, thank you for having me. He was San Franciscos firefighter jackie robinson. Unlike jackie robinson, he was the own black firefighter for 12 years. Firefighting is a team effort and to feel all alone in this profession for days or weeks would be a tremendous toll to any one person with Mental Health but for 12 years, this man was all alone. Turning back, being alone all around to make this into a positive and being instrumental in helping not only black americans get into the Fire Department, but all colors and races to get this is nothing short amazing. San francisco black firefighters whole heartedly engages this. All of San Francisco should be proud of this legacy, of this moment, for this mans courage and the history that myself, all of the black firefighters in San Francisco represent. I want to thank you for having me. I want to thank supervisor preston, supervisor peskin, and all of the other supervisors who will help to bring this street to fruition. Thank you. Thank you. Stay safe and well see you in the neighborhood some time soon. Next speaker. Operator you have two questions remaining. Hello, caller. Question good afternoon, supervisors. This is shawn buford. Can you hear me . Yes. Please proceed. Question good afternoon. This is the president of the San Francisco Firefighters Local 798. I want to thank sherman for bringing this to the supervisors. I thank you for moving it forward, for all of the cosponsor, supervisor peskin, i would like to thank you guys for bringing this forward. Im calling to show my support. I did get a chance to meet earl gauge, jr. Before his passing. He was an inspiration to know that he was a person to help set the stage that allow myself to become a member of the Fire Department. With that said, i wanted to call in and make sure that was on record, to support this resolution and to thank you all personally for moving this forward. So again, thank you. Thank you, mr. Buford. Next speaker, please. Operator you have one question remaining. Im dustin wynn. Im a proud member of local 798 and the black firefighter association, as well, and a proud member of the San Francisco Fire Department is i whole heartedly wanted to push this forward because like so many other of us who have been able to see trailblazers is what this mr. Gauge, jr. Was, in the San Francisco Fire Department, who paved the way to allow people like myself to come up the ranks, it would be a privilege and an honor to see his name on one of out city streets. I live a few blocks away from Willow Street now. Im a native of San Francisco and it would an honor to see his name put up on a street, and important to acknowledge with the number of africanamericans in the San Francisco community which seems to drop a quarter of a percent or so each year to recognize those who have come before us, not only to acknowledge what he had to go through, but to acknowledge it was those types of individuals that allowed us to be where were at today. And so i would like to thank all of the supervisors and thank the president of the black Firefighters Association, as well as our president shawn buford for cosigning on this, as well, and supporting it. It wont be a true honor and privilege to see this everyday as i drive by my open neighborhood. Thank you to all of you for doing what you do. Thank you, sir. Are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on this item . Mr. Chair, that concludes all of the speaks. Public comment is closed and supervisor preston, thank you so much for bringing this. It may be the highlight of our week. With that, sou supervisor prest, would you like to make a motion or any additional comments . I wanted to thank everyone who called in and in particular, mr. Buford and mr. Tillman, mr. Barr arc ca, foaca. Thank you to all. I wanted to thank the public to use this opportunity of the renaming expect process of moving toward it as an opportunity to educate the public, educate folks at nearby Rosa Parks Elementary School and others in the community and across the city about the incredible legacy of earl gauge, jr. If youre interested, please contact us, preston staff sfgov. Org. Its not a part of this resolution, but we are also working to see what other street improvements, potentially art along the street and other things that could be added in addition to the renaming and, again, would love to have folks who have an interest in earl gauge, jr. s legacy to join in those efforts. With that, i would like to move this with recommendation. Pardon the interruption, it looks liklooks like theyre tryt another set of comments in. Do we an additional caller . No, we do not. Ok, Public Comment is closed again. Thank you, miss major. We always want to error on the side of public participation. To supervisor preston, to local 798, to the black firefighters, i look forward to an appropriate socially distanced sign in the weeks to come and i know that jeremy spitz will ensure that that sign is fabricated and ready for installation and i look forward to a healthy celebration ahead. With that, a motion has been made by supervisor preston and madam clerk, please call the role. On the motion to recommend by supervisor preston, supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor safayi. As aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. You have three ayes. The item is approved and that concludes our meeting. We are adjourned. Thank you. Thank you. Week. The San Francisco. 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