Board here . Hold my time. Can i show this since you say i dont know what is going on in western edition. Right here you you act like you dont know who is in control. Thats the meeting tonight with the hoo, the association upstairs. Theyre meeting in the screen room in which i dont know if you know the lox was changed friday and i will talk about that in Public Comment and christina i was trying to get a hold of her for two weeks and i thought she was missing in action and they are saying the redevelopment update and i guess youre going to be there tonight because were going to be there tonight. We want to know who changed the locks on the door that we used the room for six months. Thats illegal. Youre an attorney. Youre an attorney. Youre liable. If i had stuff in there and its gone and its the first time you heard you say anything about the western edition, the garage, so im going to wait until Public Comment to see what you got to say and your director got to say because i am adaman
Now understanding if when the lobby law was amended and the category was deleted from the law it was done because of you individuals or entities qualified as lobbyist most lobbying is a payment of compensation to individuals to lobby officials directly thats exactly what the current law captures it is noted noted and it will create concussion you, however, if you proceed with the expenditure lobby i urge you to adopt the versions that is similar to the lobbying laws of sacramento and san diego and language for the state of california california. Good evening. Im an attorney with messenger sincere our firm represents a lot of lobby registers with the city and county with two primary concerns with the law amendments were concerned with the recommendation that those changes be implemented through the ballot process as opposed to the ballot process this will effectively tie the hands of the commission and protest you from impacting clarifying language and he did the law maybe for an distin
Call to order the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is february february 24th, 2015, role call please. President caen. Vietor. Here. Moran. Here. I have a quorum. A quorum. Commissioners before you, you have the minutes are there any additions or corrections. Any publicment comment . Ill call for the vote. The motion carries. At this time id like to call for Public Comment on any items that are not on todays agenda. Do we have any speakers . Seeing none, i would like to change the order of the agenda today. I would like to move to item number 6 which is the report of the general manager and i would like to take 6b, the clean power sf timeline. President caen and fellow commissioners and supervisor avalos thank you for the chance to speak before your commission and id actually like to speak to item number 7, the urban Agriculture Program thats being proposed under the Public Utilities Commission Jurisdiction but lets first talk about clean pow
Werent asking for special zoning configurations or anything. They simply wanted to be included as part of the great mix use community and to be treated accordingly, and on that note that really eased the tensions and we proceeded through the whole first years of our process in a very cooperative vain and basically drafted the outlines of what our entertainment policy is that is before you today. Upon adoption of the 1990 zoning when residential became a fully permitted use planning in the city basically put out the welcome mat to residential uses. You basically said youre fully permitted as a right. Come down to south of market. Buy a home. Buy a property. Please expand that property. This is not the scenario youve often heard where people move down to the area of an airport and then move in at the end of the runway and theyre surprised to find out there are Airlines Taking off. This is sort of the reverse of that. They moved down to a neighborhood where the city said the welcome mat i
Alternatives to alcohol related activities such as the proliferation again of gyms, health clubs and i think for every block in this city has a yoga studio on it. Clubs are sitting empty south of market as a result and a change from the current non conforming status to that is not going to make a difference. Changing from non conforming to has a right fully permitted is not going to allow the clubs to be any noisier, to be anymore outrageous in terms of their impact on the neighbors. Either way theyre zoned the same standards are going to apply, no difference. Down zoning the neighbors which most of these options would result in is not going to stop them from complaining whether they are fully permitted or non conforming, conditional use, the neighbors have every right to complain if a venue is out of compliance. Basically this has been written into law for a thousand years. The basic mans home is his castle now translates down to everyone is entitled to the peaceful and quiet use and