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supervisors. add that time, this committee will pass out to the full board a resolution that incorporates this committees decision for approval or disapproval. supervisor campos: ok. colleagues, why dont we move to the actual resolution where you have the specific findings. again, what you have here are five findings and recommendations. we need to take a position on each one of them. if you look at the resolution, and it specifically references each one of those five findings. and we ...

disagreement with each one of those. before we do that, i do not know if there is anyone that wanted to add anything? before we go into discussion, why dont we hear from members of the public that would like to speak on this item. please come forward. >> thomas picarello again. i also want to thank the san francisco civil grand jury for their work the entire year. not only on this report, but for their reports on the ethics commission, and also the report on the controllers office rega...

san francisco board. in addition to the attendant benefits. there is also the additional tenant protections against passthroughs associated with project cost. you heard these when the d.a. came before you. the primary recommendation of the grand jury report is that the city about legislation that would mandate application of the citys rent ordinance to replace an units built on property within five years following in the demolition of rent-control units on the property. similar to legi...

supervisor, is there anything else? supervisor elsbernd: that would be it. this would be, as i said, readily available for the public to review. supervisor mar: if there is nothing else, was there anything else? >> i did have a very brief presentation, and i did want to clarify to the members of the committee that redline revisions were also submitted to the draft development agreement itself, not the ordinance, but the development agreement itself, which was posted by the clerk on fri...

mr. ruston. >> yes, my name is michael ruston. i am a resident of 16 years. i would like to recommend that you deny the motion to approve these rezonings, et cetera. i think its a violation of due process, that the recommendations of katherine moore have not been considered. there was no consideration of a non-demolition scheme for improving park merced. i would like to point out, i understand you aring looking for fair treatment on densification in the city, but to say we need to do m...

decision of either the planning director or planning commission would go to the board of appeals, if it were conditional use under these approvals, that would still come to the board of supervisors under the regular conditional use appeals process, although i think that would have been the case regardless, it is good to have the clarifying language in here. i believe that is the last change, but let me make sure. yes, that is the final proposed amendment. supervisor mar: could you expl...

major modifications or large projects with the 300 feet of the exterior boundaries of the properties and also that it be posted on site. previously, notice was also required to be made -- or currently in the draft that is before the board, notice is required to be made in a newspaper of general circulation 20 days prior to the hearing. that has been removed. the only place that occurs in the planning code right now is where there is a general plan amendment, and it seems strange to inc...

with the clerk, and there will be -- they will be on the planning department website. minor changes were made to two exhibits of the development agreement. the transit subsidy agreement, and the power generation agreement. these are two and celery agreements to the development agreement. -- two ancillary agreements to the development agreement. the transit subsidy agreement clarifies the commitments already made to providing a permanent transit subsidy for every new unit on the project...

be it. this would be, as i said, readily available for the public to review. supervisor mar: if there is nothing else, was there anything else? >> i did have a very brief presentation, and i did want to clarify to the members of the committee that redline revisions were also submitted to the draft development agreement itself, not the ordinance, but the development agreement itself, which was posted by the clerk on friday. i did want to briefly summarize those for the public, and i wan...

can do, and we are enforcing this to the development agreement, is that it be replaced in its entirety, and the space be dedicated to providing preschool. supervisor mar: i just wanted to follow-up on the power generation agreement. i know that ed harrington and some from the pc have concerns about how enforceable this would be. could you address that? >> i actually would like to request that we present to you on tuesday the discussions are ongoing, but in some, the basic structure is ...