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Chair where are you . I see myself but not on the screen. Thats a background in san pablo bay. Chair i thought your office was getting better. I didnt realize that was my background. Im not speaking from there, but my home office. Im very grateful. The issues raised are important and fair. We cannot supervisor peskin, you brought this up in the very first hearing that is critical for our society. I feel like the department of building inspection and all the other city Agency Agencies willn this....

Good afternoon. Welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, november 2nd, the day before the most important election in our lives. Our clerk is miss erica major, miss major, let me announce actually, call the roll, miss major. Call the roll, supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor safai. Safai absent. Supervisor preston. Present. Thank you, sorry, safai is present. The only reason i asked for you to call the roll, the screen th...

Okay. Source with that, if there are no other caller on the line, are there any other so to go to that one more time. A great presentation. The graphics were great. And is easy reading and thanks to the presentation and i am pearing what i see when i drive and when i work. And what i see is double parking is an alltime high. Part of the problem is that some of the restaurants need to have the delivery space to pick up to park and increase the restaurants. You also need to work with some of the r...

Activity happening there currently until proper Filtration Systems are installed and thank you for your time. Caller my name is anthony and i am a multi generation San Francisco native as well as a resident of the dog match area on minnesota street. Ivory spendly need this company mow greens as well as Barbary Coast and they run a very tight ship, a professional shop and they work a lot with the community and i cant wait to see what theyre going to do in the dog patch. Caller good evening. I hav...

Good morning, everyone. This is the october 6th, 2020 special budget and finance committee meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. Today im joined by Committee Members supervisor Rafael Mandelman and supervisor mat haney, substituting today for supervisor walton. Our clerk is miss linda long. Id like to thank sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. Id like to put a motion to excuse supervisor shamann walton. Do i please have a roll call vote. Clerk on the supervi...

And have recognized the densities and that the adjoining counties to north and south with a lot of work to do. I think it would be also good to focus this conversation regionally through the terms and lower communities of color and we should have that in an apples to apples way. I was part of the movement to when supervisor kim threatened to annex a nearby city that was unwilling to increase the housing density on vacant land, so lets expand that conversation. So supervisor mar, and i really app...

Set to expire august the first. A new report from working partnerships usa and the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley predicts a looming crisis when that happens. We predict and eviction time bomb of 43,000 evictions which is 16 times the normal rate we see in a typical year. Reporter this, in Silicon Valley where rents are among the highest in the nation and when the moratoriums and tenants will be asked to pay back rent too. Most of these low income tenants that have been unable, they have been ...

In the city and county department will also embrace this. So thankfully the balboa reservoir project heard us loud and clear from the Community Members and will be a reflection of the desire to retain, attract and nurture the next generation of san franciscans. The project will have two and three bedroom units and other amenities including open space play areas a child care facility and indoor and outdoor common areas for events. Overall i believe the project is thoughtful and includes many of t...

Our overall Housing Production targets. We have struggled in the past coming in with less than half of this number of affordable units as well as lower level of production of housing overall. I wanted to add that we did not exam whether these targets were the perfect targets or acknowledging we have struggled to meet these targets in the past. We wanted to look at policy and investment to allow us to meet these at minimum and leave that discussion open to the public and policymakers about whethe...

We do as a city, as you all know, have an obligation for affirmatively fair housing. This developers have bottom lines to deliver for investors. They can be pressured to provide affordable minutes to make concessions regarding labor practices. At the end of the day it is this balance and this discussion that is at the heart of whether we are furthering fair housing or not. When we are having the neighborhood around 80 of the units unaffordable to working class units disproportionatesly available...