Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use Committee 112315 20151127

Cell phones. Completed speaker cards submitted to the clerk and items will be on thed. Items acted on today will be on the december 1 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Jd you please call item 1. Item 1 is amending the planning code to establish a citywide Transportation Sustainability fee and apply to citywide Transportation Services and Homeless Services for [inaudible] okay colleagues this is a copy of this sent back to the full board to us so we could memorialize a few Fee Structure for the medical and hospital services. After weeks of conversation i am pleased to report to the full Board Meeting we reached an agreement, the nonprofit hospitals to contribute to the Public Transportation system. In the initial proposal all hospitals were 100 exempt from paying tsf on new Hospital Medical Service Facilities but as a result the negotiation and the ordinance was amended to include two points. The first one is an 18. 74 fee on net new hospital beds Effective Immediately and not after the seismic mandate. The second point is a new 11dollar fee on medical Services Buildings over the 12,000 square foot mark. Now both new hospital beds and new medical services have an impact on our Transportation System, and its essential and fair that everyone contribute something to the system which serves the patients as well as employees, so colleagues i have circulated a few more cleanups to the changes to the language that we introduced and as a result of ongoing discussions with the Hospital Council about the final proposal. They include a few key points which im going to read into the record. First its cleaning up of definitions to use the term outlined in section 102 of the planning code for Health Service and hospitals. Second its adding a reference that grandfathered non residential and pdr portions of projects are subject to this but pay the applicable rate. The third point is adding a reference to the calculation section on page 11 clarifying that the tsf is calculated only on the amount of net new gross square feet for the project and consistent with references in the planning code. The next point is a simplification of fee, calculation for new hospital beds and adding a formula which matches the language describing the calculation in the methodology. The fifth point r point is adding a provision for future changes from hospital to non hospital use and pay them based on Square Footage not received the benefit not receive the benefit of hospital examination. The sixth is the goal of this change was to clarify that the hospital exemption is intended to benefit hospital uses not future Property Owners who will be changing the use of something such as office and would have otherwise paid a high rate if they built the project, and finally the final additions some other grammatical and non substantive changes in the ordinance that are included at the request of the city attorney, so these changes are non substantive. Theyre clean up in nature to the conceptual agreement we reached a few weeks ago. I would like to thank the staff who assisted myself and staff to come into the agreement and includes mta, planning, d hp and the City Attorneys Office as well as the members of the Hospital Council for working with us on this compromise and recognize ed reiskin and others from mta and the Planning Department, colleen from dph, andrea [inaudible] my apologies from the City Attorneys Office and david from the Hospital Council who are here today. Also i want to acknowledge my staff who has been instrumental. Many of you have connected with her as we negotiated this so colleagues given the number of hearings and hours we have spent on this staff is here for questions but not making a formal presentation and if there are no comments perhaps we can move to Public Comment. Guest number one. Supervisor avalos. Thank you and im glad that we sent this item to committee with the duplicated file that has the amendments that we have made that grand father in the non Residential Commercial projects that were submitted before july 21, 2015 to pull pay the full fee. The amount of money that i am seeing from my legislative aid that this will enable us to access for transit is about 2. 1 million dollars. Im not sure if that is the amount of money that will be paid in full i think its the difference what was these we were going to pay for the old one to the tsf so its a significant amount of money and i appreciate my colleagues supporting this amendment and its part that we have done to actually grow the amount of money we have for transportation projects that the tsf will fund so thank you. Thank you very much. Are there any other members . All right seeing none lets take Public Comment. I have one Public Comment card here. Why dont you come up and as a point of reminder Public Comment is two minutes. You will hear a soft chime indicating that you have 30 seconds left. Thank you for being here. Well members of the committee and thank you for that summary. I do want take a moment and echo your comments supervisor and acknowledge your leadership on the issue bringing the parties together, staff and others on the board. We think this is equitable solution and one that as a community we can live with so thank you. Thank you very much. Its a pleasure to work with you and your team. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisor. Im from the San Francisco chamber of commerce. The chamber was hoping that hospitals and medical centers and nonprofits would fall under the chairible exemption but we understand the reasons for the amendment we want to commend the Hospital Council, supervisor cohen and her staff for working out what is really a reasonable and equitable decision on hospitals and the chamber is supportive of the tsf. Thank you. Thank you very much. Are there any other members to speak on this item . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] so colleagues as i mentioned in the opening remarks i think we struck the right balance, deal to ensure that hospitals and medical Service Facilities are contributing to our Transportation System while recognizing they provide an important public benefit. What i would like to do at this time is make a motion that we adopt the amendments that i have circulated and forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation. So i will make a motion for the amendments and move this forward with recommendation and just before we vote i do want to just thank chair cohen for all of your work on this. This is a very complicated ordinance with moving pieces and interested stakeholders and different perspectives coming to this compromise agreement on how to balance payment for impact on traffic which i think our hospitals certainly contribute to but finding a more fair way to actually assess that and by Square Footage is a nice balance and i want to appreciate the Hospital Council for working closely with your office to get to this place so thank you for everyones work. Thank you. A motion has been made and seconded and without objection this motion passes unanimously. [gavel] thank you. Thank you for the support colleagues. Thank you andrea and david. Madam clerk could you please call the next item. Would you like me to call two and three together. Yes, i would. Item two and three are amending the rincon hill area plan and zoning map for limits and tower separations at 525 harrison street. All right. Thank you so much. Supervisor kim is the lead on this, and im going to turn it over to supervisor kim. Thank you chair cohen and also happy to see these two items come before the land use committee. First of all i do want to thank the developer for cooperating and working with our office over the last three months since august when it came to the Planning Commission. Towards working with us on a project that provides increased Affordable Housing on site, but also takes into account some of the Design Elements and concerns raised by the Planning Commission. This site is a very unique site located just north of the 80 bay bridge, and is a very strangely shaped parcel and of course across the street from many residential towers in construction now as part of the rincon hill master plan and zoned at 400 feet and we are going to be making some amendments to the rincon hill plan to allow for a tower that is able to provide more Square Footage and builds Additional Units on the site. This project requires payment to the rincon Hill Community infrastructure impact fee and also the Soma Stabilization Fund to support neighborhood Infrastructure Improvements and Community Stabilization and funds over 5 million. What is introduced at the full board is legislation that reduces the requirement on the tower separation control to accommodate for the tower. Rather than a squatter base per the Planning Commissions recommendation it commits the project to a higher below market commitment of 12 which is required via law up to 15 and i want to appreciate the developers for providing this commitment with the additional 26 units that will be built on site. The project sponsor is committed to paying 50 of the fund fees which we passed identity of committee today, and it also commits the project to complete significant Pedestrian Safety improvements surrounding the towers base and including sidewalk widening and trees and signalized krowkz on harrison and exessex and important to the those in the area and advocates in district 6. As we build development in the high density areas and high entry corridors important to mitigate for residents coming to the area and i am pleased to see that harrison and essex will be more residential friendly through the passage of this project despite being right at the mouth of one of the freeway areas. These are the basic overall components of the project. I see that Planning Department is here to present on the specificities of the parcel so im going to hand things over to our department unless there are any questions or comments from committee members. Supervisor wiener has a few comments. Thank you very much. I maybe planning will address this in terms of the tsf that is paid and [inaudible] and also the rationale around the affordability percentage. I can comment afterwards. All right. Thank you very much. Good afternoon supervisors. Rich from the Planning Department staff. The legislation for you is a request to initiate legislation associated with the general plan amendment, planning code text amendment and zoning map amendment for the project at 525 harrison street. The proposed legislation includes a general plan amendment of the rincon hill area for the tower spacing and requirements of the San Francisco planning code. The planning code text amendment allows for the spacing requirements for the block. The proposed zoning map amendment from 65 400r height to 65 250r height and accommodate a project at harrison street which clsd a new includes a residential tower and 500 square feet of retail space and 103 parking spaces. The Planning Commission recommended approval of the general plan amendment, the text Code Amendment and the zoning amendment. At the public hearing the commission reviewed the proposal to include the inclusionary housing requirement from 12 to 15 and accomodate for the payment of the fee thats board passed today so this concludes my presentation and i am available for questions. Just to address some of supervisor wieners comments on the affordability. It was accommodated due to the proposed legislation before you so because theyre getting an increase in Development Potential from the legislation were able to accommodate for increase in affordability. Madam chair may i . Yes please. So in terms of the rationale for 50 of tsf instead of 100 of tsf . I might defer to the project sponsor on that. Good afternoon supervisors. Steve from [inaudible] on behalf of the project sponsor. The ordinance you passed tsf has a 50 payment for projects in the pipeline. We committed to doing that regardless of the legislation and were fully in tune with the legislation. So its the grandfathering. Correct. Thank you. I wanted to clarify that so we negotiated this in september before we knew what the final amendments would be but i asked the project sponsor to scmit to 50 which is ultimately what was selected for the grandfathering and the full board but this was committed before that and i want to appreciate that commitment. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Well, is there any Public Comment at this time . Please come on up. Supervisors good afternoon. I am Cameron Faulkner and we brought some slides of the presentation. We can quickly run through that if you would like. I would like to introduce myself. Let you know we have been working on this project in collaboration let me ask you sir how many slides . Thats five. Okay. [inaudible] sure. Lets begin. Are they cued up . Sure. Okay. So this is just a very brief summary of the slides that we presented Planning Commission. This is hard to read but gives a summary of the project. I think supervisor kim alluded to this. Its 205 unit project, 22 stories of occupied space. It was originally 25 on site affordable units and increased now to 31. The project is at the corners of harrison and essex. Weve got the bulk showing here on the massing that was ultimately a collaboration with the commissioners of the Planning Commission and planning staff and our team. Solomon cord benz is the architect and you can see that the sculpting was done to meet the vision of rincon hill and the strong base and the tower above, so thats the one side of the project. Heres an architectural rendering from the other side showing how we pulled the tower back from the freeway from the exist ramps creating that face and the lessening of the facades along those lines. This is a rendering of the project as its now conceived. Its been sort of lightened up to match the rincon hill i am out of time. Sorry about that. Just continue. I wanted to show the before and after of the streetscape. The upper left corner shows the building on site. It was a old Racquetball Club and currently a night club and auto detail shop and uses in line with the rincon hill rincon plan and this will bring active uses, a cafe, bike shop, pedestrian and safety improvements which were pleased with. I have a couple of emails from vision zero and the folks supporting us and helping us come up with the plan for the Pedestrian Safety improvements so i will leave those with you here. I wanted to give you that quick overlay and answer any questions that you have. Thank you very much. I appreciate your presentation. Lets see. Lets go ahead and open up for Public Comment at this time. If there any members of the public that are here sir, are you done . Sir, are you done . Yeah. Okay. Just hanging out there at the podium. If there is any members of the public that would like to comment on items two and three please come up at this time. Public comment is open. Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Supervisor kim. Thank you chair cohen. I have passed out a series of minor amendments to make to these two items today. The general plan amendments make no substantive changes. Just clerical changes and updated and corrected title and findings. The planning Code Amendment adds the requirement to add 15 Affordable Housing on site and use the tower and basing exceptions on page seven lines 16 and as a finding of the exceptions allow 20 or larger for potential so that the city may require marijuana. Affordable housing permitted on this site and as listed. Thank you supervisor kim. Pretty easy. Supervisor wiener is there any remarks . All right. Supervisor kim is there a motion . Yes, i would like to make a motion to amend. All right. The motion to amends made by supervisor kim. Seconded by supervisor cohen and without objection that motion passes. And i would like to make a motion to move both items to the full board with positive recommendation. Absolutely and without objection that motion passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Madam clerk any other items before this body . That concludes the business. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. This meeting is adjourned. [gavel]n ppx as a society weve basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people dont have any of those im mr. Cookie cant speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. Open the door and walk through that dont just stand looking out. As they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure im david one of the cofounder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didnt know how to cook. I heard about the Cooking School through the Larkin Academy a. Their noting no way to feed themselves so theyre eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. As i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. Particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is Charity Foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this Charity Foundations and she said, yes. Im a cofound and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday theyre really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city theyre our stand alone colas we had a series or series still city of Attorneys Office style of classes our final are night life diners. Santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and ive been here about a year. We want to be sure to serve as many as we can. The San Francisco Cooking School is an amazing amazing partner. It is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. Im sutro sue set im a chief 2, 3, 4 San Francisco. Thats what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like its there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. Hi, im antonio the chief in San Francisco. The majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. I like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like its a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. I go for vera toilet so someone cant do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they cant use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me youre not successful. We made a vegetable stirfry indicators hed ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen id cook more. Some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasnt taught how to cook. I have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. The more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify theyre not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. It is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. Well have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 were really excited. A lot of the of the conditions in San Francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the San Francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. Wed never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case thats something people are 2rrd in doing. You cant buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids dont have this you have to instill they can do it theyre good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for good morning, everyone. Thank you very much for being here. San francisco is thrilled to be hosting super bowl 50. When we found out we were hosting super bowl 50 we were planning right away. Weve been planning last spring with many exercises and pulling together our regional partners and local and federal partners to make sure that super bowl 50 is a safe, fun, experience for everyone who comes here. Its the golden anniversary of the super bowl. Thats something to really celebrate and we are thrilled that San Francisco was chosen for this honor to be the super bowl 50 host. Today, we have what we are calling a super bowl scrimmage. We have the second of three exercises that test our assumptions, refined our plans and actively engage our players in planning and response. Each one of these we learn new things. We alter our plans and define them an deconflict them and as we move forward we are speaking with one voice and we know what other agencies are doing and what assumptions are in place. Our goal is to work through all of these challenges together. So, again, super bowl 50 is a wonderful fun family event thats going to be 9 days long here in San Francisco. We want people all over the region, all over the world to come and celebrate with us. We think that unfortunately our own team will not be part of this. But, other than that, its like it is the perfect event for San Francisco and the bay area. We want to encourage efrj everyone in San Francisco and sf to be alerted. It will be an important way to get messaged about with such information as what streets to avoid or what areas to avoid. So please encourage your residents neighbors to sign up for alert sf. Im going to introduce my good friend. Police chief suhr who is going to come up. There you are, chief. Hes going to give us a few words of wisdom. Thank you, ann. I will preface my comments as a lifetime 9er faithful, im not ruling out that we are in the game. Dont give up. Anyway. We are so excited to be hosting the 50th anniversary of the super bowl. Again, the planning has started in ernest pretty much as soon as we won the bid for our chance to show case San Francisco and as police chief of what i believe is the finest Police Department in the country, we want it to be as safe as it can be. Weve been to the new york fan fest where the super bowl played in new jersey, weve been down to arizona, where the super bowl was played in glendale and went to the phoenix Police Department to see what they do and it got us that much more excited to be able to host this event over a 9day period event in San Francisco. One thing San Francisco is good at is planning. Its what we do. No matter what eventuality that happens, our Fire Department and with the leadership with the mayors office, we plan as if that event happens here. Pretty much for every eventuality all the way up to and including typhoons and or anyway, tidal waves. So, or tsunamis, which we hope never happens. That said, well be planning and it will be a great event where we plan and get to know each other. Everybody has each others cell phones and we work with our state and federal partners on what may come and i cant say enough how much preparation is going into this effort to make sure that it is safest. I know with events going on overseas is leaving people right now anxious. Again, its just one more variable that we are training to. We are in regular contact with the fbi. Again, there are no known threats to the united states, no known threats to San Francisco and certainly no known threats to the super bowl. That communication will remain open regular and we will absolutely make sure that every precaution is taken to make sure the whole world can come to the super bowl in late january and february and have hopefully what is going to be the best super bowl and best fan fest ever here or nfl experience. I would just say as police chief here in San Francisco, you are all invited. Thank you, chief. Now i would like to introduce our very own fire chief chief hayes white. Good morning, everyone. Like the two previous speakers, San Francisco is very enthusiastic about hosting super bowl 50. Although we wont be in shoulder pads and cleats. The people behind me gathered around the city are like a team. We are the team preparing, planning and communicating about whats going to happen end of january, beginning of february. We are very well prepared and thats what you see today with the men and women of San Francisco county and state and regional partners. What i want to advocate to those visiting San Francisco is we will do our utmost to keep everyone safe. We operate at a high level in San Francisco. We know there will be additional challenges but we are up to the challenges and as a team we are practicing and per perfecting and we are going to assure everyone that we are going to respond to emergencies outside of the super bowl as well as those coming to the super bowl. Chief suhr wanted me to pass along what he always talked about and not just from Law Enforcement but Fire Department perspective. If you see something, make sure you say something. Its important to utilize 911. If its not an emergency you can use 311. If you have some ideas related to preparedness and transit, make a good plan and utilize all the citys resources many we want you to understand that from the San Francisco Fire Department that we have 15 more paramedics that will be available. We have private providers as well. We anticipate we will have a high call volume during the period of time, but we are prepared and ready and look forward to hosting everyone here in San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you, chief. Im going to call chief suhr back up real quickly. So my partner at the Fire Department shouldnt have to say what chief suhr said with chief suhr standing here. Anyway, with all of our devices we are never going to be as safe as we can be with the millions of people in San Francisco looking out for one another. Whoever comes to the nfl experience during those 9 days. Especially right now with everybody anxious in San Francisco and around the country. Please, if you see something, anything remotely out of the ordinary. Please call. 911 is on alert to expedite calls. That will be the case in the nfl experience as with other major events with our three world series championships and runs with super bowls in the past and other major events in San Francisco. We need to remain vigilant as a city as a whole when it comes to taking care of one another and looking after one another. Thats when we are going to be safest and you will get the most Rapid Response you can possibly get to checkout any possible potential concern. Er on the side of the caution, if its nothing, no problem. You would be remiss what i always call a predictable surprise where you saw something and didnt say anything and something went on. Just call us. Thank you, chief. Now i would like to introduce our director of sf mta, ed reiskin. Thank you, good morning, everyone. I would like to thank ann and the team for her leadership and what the team referenced. To put on a big event like this does take a lot of coordination and planning and is really preparing us for anything that might happen and that planning is essential to making for a great event. It will be a great event as everybody else has said. I think this is a great opportunity for San Francisco whether you like football or not, whether you are planning to participate in these activities or not. The super bowl being hosted here is going to bring a lot of people, a lot of excitement and a lot of goodwill to our city which is a good thing. From a transportation point of view, our task is really straight forward. We want to make sure that people can safely and readily access the event and from and to the event and everybody else in San Francisco can go where they need to go whether its work or school or just trying to make their way across town. We have been planning with the rest of the city planning but also with the rest of the regional transportation agencies and particularly Law Enforcement and homeland security, particularly the Transportation Security Administration to make sure we can have a safe and secure event and from secure transit agencies. We want to encourage everybody to take transit because of the transportation we have developed is very much reliant on people taking transit. But for people taking transit, we want people to report anything that looks suspicious or worry some. Like the chief said, call 911 and let them do their job. To support Emergency Services in particular, part of our effort is mapping out the security routes, the Emergency Vehicle access routes to and from all of the various events in the area to make sure that without being impeded, they can do their work. And then in terms of the Transportation Service itself, weve been working with all the providers and particularly with muni which is going to do a lot of the heavily lifting for this event to make sure that where we can work around and with the street closures to make sure that everybody who wants to take transit from and to the events can and everybody else who uses transit on a regular bases can get to where they need to be going. Weve been able to figure out routes to the buses and figure out where the taxi stands will be and the Emergency Vehicle access will be. This is something we do for many large special events. We did it for americas cup and for other large parades and other large celebrations. We are very confident in our ability to ensure people get to where they want to go whether they are participating or not safely and efficiently. We will be encouraging folks to use transit and just to address an issue thats been out there. There has been a lot of talk about the impact that sites down at the foot of embarcadero on muni might have overhead wires. Weve been working hand in hand with the community over many months as they are refining their plans. The issue with the wires if you get close to the wires, thats not a safe situation and we need to move the wires. As weve been communicating with them, they have been able to redesign their structures for the village so it will not require the removal of overhead wires. The removal of overhead wires would have brought some cost but brought disruption because it would have made the removal period long. Without the need to remove wires, that wont be an issue. Well be able to keep that window closure as soon as possible and get folks to and from the event and around the event as well as possible and well continue to work with the other Transportation Providers to make sure its great for everybody whether they are participating or not. Thanks. Thank you, ed. Its now my pleasure to introduce keith bruce who is the ceo of the super bowl 50 Host Committee. Keith . Thank you, ann. Good morning, everybody. Regardless of who is playing in the super bowl, it is 80 days from today. And more importantly 70 days to the opening of the super bowl city and the official celebrations that will mark this great event coming to the bay area. Safety and secures has been our no. 1 priority from the very first day that the Host Committee was formed. We have been working with the nfl, with city officials and with public