Within departments and we have to or in many instances individuals need to hire permit expediters to get projects through faster compared to other projects which arent moving quite as fast. But on the other hand we all know that there have been numerous allegations and investigations of whether there have been individuals who have inappropriately influenced the process and no one understands who is actually influencing the process. And from my perspective, the purpose of this legislation really actually is to legitimatize transparent permit expediting. Let me be clear on several points. First of all, there is nothing in this legislation that says that this is not activity that should not happen. All were saying is that we need some transparency about who is involved. And then we made major amendments in the last couple of months to address the concerns about overly onerous reporting requirements. So, rather than having a monthly requirement we now have a quarterly requirement and it us
Permit. Thats why people come to dpi. They get lost in there trying to get from one place to another. So, it really what conceptual consultants is to be able to navigate, to get a permit quicker because they know who to go to see, what to say with their with the drawings, sometimes the drawings arent correct. You have to go back and [speaker not understood], so forth. Bottom line, though, bottom line, permit consult atctiontion ~ consultants are not lobbyists. They do not deal with elected officials nor appointed officials. So, i urge you to really reconsider the way the legislation is written right now. I also [speaker not understood] did not have too many meetings with stakeholders. One meeting with stakeholders, that was it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors. My name is peter [speaker not understood] and im a small Property Owners of San Francisco. We have several hundred members that have limited english and are also quite intimidated going down
Should not happen. All were saying is that we need some transparency about who is involved. And then we made major amendments in the last couple of months to address the concerns about overly onerous reporting requirements. So, rather than having a monthly requirement we now have a quarterly requirement and it used to be in the original version of the legislation that we required every contact with the city staffer involving the permit expediter to be disclosed and now all were saying is you dont have to indicate every time you interact with the city staff, we just want to know what city staff you interacted with. So, from our perspective i think we really tried to reduce the reporting requirements here and i am open to other suggestions, but i do think that the idea that there being no oversight and no transparency in this area is just not one that i can support. So, again, im open to feedback and im hoping for feedback, but, you know, colleagues at this time i do hope that we can mov
I have been looking for feedback on specific suggestions on what we could do it around this ~ and the challenge we have is on the one hand we know there is a lot of frustration with the process within departments and we have to or in many instances individuals need to hire permit expediters to get projects through faster compared to other projects which arent moving quite as fast. But on the other hand we all know that there have been numerous allegations and investigations of whether there have been individuals who have inappropriately influenced the process and no one understands who is actually influencing the process. And from my perspective, the purpose of this legislation really actually is to legitimatize transparent permit expediting. Let me be clear on several points. First of all, there is nothing in this legislation that says that this is not activity that should not happen. All were saying is that we need some transparency about who is involved. And then we made major amend
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