To hit the ground running i should tell you those of you who know she officially assumed the position yesterday but i can assure you during the month of december she met on a number of occasions with mr. Anyone art to discuss the issues including the drafting of the button and the implementation regulations that are going to be the subject matter of this monk meeting so that although it is unrealistic to expect her to address both of those issues in great detail this morning working hard to brightening herself up to speed and i want to thank brainstorm acting executive director jessie who reassigned effective december 16th before you worked to get the materials ready for us and to work with the colleague to the greatest stent possible should receive the thanks of this commission having said that, i will call the second item on the the agenda although not listed and that is a any Public Comment on items on or not on the agenda that they wish to discuss i would urge if you comments are d
Of money to plant trees so in the interest of planting trees go to corporations and sexy to plant trees but the problem to maintain it not only now but forever for the life cycle of a tree so the problem weve had and hopefully la wont have the same problem well go ahead and and plant a lot of trees but not have the money to take care of them so some of the funding in terms of the long unsustainable sustainable funding well also be able to put together another sources to the original Planning Department and friends of the urban forest dont a phenomenal job maintaining the trees for the first 3 years of their life then the question what happens after that a thats where the city has to step in or not have the longevity. I love the history and the contention of what San Francisco looked like before the heave developments but as the history of the founding of the friends of urban forestry to what we have today and what a great document and the phases youve laid out to plan for a greater mor
Happens but the money for the care and maintenance of trees has horrifying in the city come hard to come by its hard to compete in the budget process so three years ago when we were informed by the department of public works that the Relinquishment Program was going to be started we identified the fact this is exactly the worst thing we could be doing as a city the city should be taking back all the responsibility for the street trees thats the best practice not only in california but throughout the United States for all the reasons that have been stated its much more efficient and done much better and not fair to release trees back to homeowners that dont have the money this was 3 minutes wow, that was fast the friends of the urban forestry have been working extremely hard with the partners and supervisors to maintain the level of the questions on and perhaps in 2016 have a solution for the voters of San Francisco. Thank you mr. Flanagan. Chair and supervisors kers ton San Francisco b
Maintain it not only now but forever for the life cycle of a tree so the problem weve had and hopefully la wont have the same problem well go ahead and and plant a lot of trees but not have the money to take care of them so some of the funding in terms of the long unsustainable sustainable funding well also be able to put together another sources to the original Planning Department and friends of the urban forest dont a phenomenal job maintaining the trees for the first 3 years of their life then the question what happens after that a thats where the city has to step in or not have the longevity. I love the history and the contention of what San Francisco looked like before the heave developments but as the history of the founding of the friends of urban forestry to what we have today and what a great document and the phases youve laid out to plan for a greater more trees lined San Francisco that are really appreciated so thank you, supervisor. Great, thank you mr. Shall i colleagues i
Legislation has 9 major components ill walk us through and although, my colleagues to make comments before the planning staff gives their explanation the 9 components of the legislation the legislation expansive definition of formula retail to apply for businesses with 11 or more outlets worldwide sooepz only in the u. S. The chain stores are more global it will include the japantown based business to count the stores out outside of the u. S. And number 2 our legislation includes the railway uses closing loopholes that exist like fitness changes and Cash Checking outlets and some neighborhood might find concerns with number 3 the ordinance requires that when considering a conditional use application for a formula retail recuse use the Planning Commission look at the proposed as on other businesses in the area it requires the applicant it have a consistent prepare an Environmental Review report and to have an Environmental Review Environmental Review and it expands the nos about increas