Everyone. Ladies and gentlemen, the meeting will come to order id like to welcome you to the regular meeting of Land Use Commission im supervisor cowen and to my right is supervisor wiener the vice chair and coming shortly is supervisor jane kim you are clerk is alicia thank you id like to thank the mrs. Jim smith and leo from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meanwhile madam clerk read the anonymous completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the september 17th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you very much can you please call to me the and she is the author. On oversee phenomenon is planning code for all demolition and mergers and with the kitchen stove or bathroom is being removed. Supervisor wiener. Madam chair p in legislation is a simple but important step forward in trying to insure the during this housing crisis people are able to remain stable in their housing specifically thi
Anonymous completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the september 17th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you very much can you please call to me the and she is the author. On oversee phenomenon is planning code for all demolition and mergers and with the kitchen stove or bathroom is being removed. Supervisor wiener. Madam chair p in legislation is a simple but important step forward in trying to insure the during this housing crisis people are able to remain stable in their housing specifically this legislation will close a loophole that allows the owners of illegal units to seek and obtain a demolition permit without having notified the attendants that lived in those units which could lead to a situation the tenant has no ability to challenge the demolition permit we have tens of thousands of illegal units and rental unit and San Francisco residents living in those units they liv
Stay longer than than the shortterm rentals that have past 90 days the option is still vail with a 90 day cap we have the Planning Department Ann Marie Rogers who is here to talk about how we currently apply the cu for folks who want to have a bedandbreakfast type of business in their home how often we actually approve and what are the rare instances we dont sea the types of conditions where the Planning Department didnt approve the cued. Thank you skoopz Planning Department currently before the Residential District other than the rh1 d you can seek the authorizations to become a hotel this is subject to the requirement the dwelling the process can take time but the quickest the is probably about 4 months with the anytime fee for a conditional use authorization is less than 2,000 despite the complaints weve received for shortterm rentals informing people the process most people dont choose to pursue that that i abate the violation we had one that was approved at the Planning Commission
Wide universe of Small Business owners who have not evicted anyone at all so thats where the southern i have in terms of the Hotel Conversion ordinance the sros see those sros as i understand are typically opposed their Large Properties typically those are significant Property Owners those are Business People this applies to any building of 3 units or more in other words, a lot of smopdz that live at that tha in their building to subject the homeowners to hire an attorney and potentially pay the oddss foes and subjecting the sros to that kind of liability and in terms of litigation and i you know, i before being elected to the board i spent 15 years as a litter our doing trillion work for almost a decade as the City Attorneys Office and prior practice so i spent a lot of time in court and dealing with the attorneys fees two things number one there are it is not uncommon at all for courts to award Attorney Fees bans small judgements and violations of the law that were not extraordinaril
By the way, this is not going to happen this amendment will not architectural gate that further but provide the opportunity for a narrow group of both targeted xochlt and also nonprofit organizations and i know that the amendment to make sure it the nonprofit in existence for six years helped to secure the universe of actors that will be able to take advantage of this amendment and i think we know who a lot of those actors are and we have seen very responsible litigation that goes against our worse actors and finally, i would say that you know, i really struggled a lot with this legislation not because i didnt want to legalize shortterm rentals but everyone agrees that legalizing shortterm rentals is the right direction for the city and if i dont i think as supervisor wiener said the jean i didnt say out of the bottle we have to regulate this my concern is also been about b be the cities enforcement of the legislation to make sure were supporting the positive activity out of shortterm