Gov tv staff. Electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. Speakers are limited to 3 minutes. Please complete a speaker card. Please give me your speaker card prior to speaking. Additionally there are sign up list at the table for those who would like to be added to the mailing list. Commissioner steven adams, dooley, monetta white, paul tour sarkissian, commissioner irene riley. General Public Comment allows members of the public to comment generally on the matter of commissions purview and not on todays agenda and agenda items for future consideration. Do we have any members of the general public today that would like to comment on any matters that are not on the agenda . Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We should give a shout out to all of our tv viewers. Weve been getting fan mail all month and we want to let them know that we love them. We have no competition with land use. We are in an open time slot today. So for people out there watching us. Lets move on. Item no. 3 is approval of the august 10, 2015, regular meeting minutes. Do we have a motion . I motion to approve. Second. I second. Commissioner adams made a motion, commissioner riley seconded. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Item no. 4. Discussion and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on bos file no. 150270 public works code contractor parking plan. This ordinance amends the public works code to require a contractor parking plan as a Condition Precedent for approval of excavation permits for major work that is 30 conservative calendar days or longer and specified temporary street space occupancy permits for construction work. I have a presentation. Good afternoon, commissioners, my name is jess montejano. As i have sure we know the construction is booming here in San Francisco and the shear amount of construction in our corridor is causing quality of life impacts for residents in our neighborhood and our Small Businesses and our commercial corridor. The genesis of this legislation came from constituents in our district. District 2 had the highest number of Residential Construction and parking permits in the city. Especially owners along chess nut and union as well. We know the scarce amount of parking especially for parking that is vacant for hours and days at a time. We wanted to come up with a proposal to remedy some of the problems. We definitely feel the city can be more proactive to let the residents know about the impacts to residents and we can do better with that. We teamed up with her initially when we first introduced this legislation back in march and have added supervisors wiener and breed and kim to the legislation as well. We have support to make it through the board. As brian was stating this amended the construction for the parking plan for on street space for parking permits issued by the department of public works and also includes new fees to really help with the enforcement of this plan to ensure that our contractors in our neighborhood are following the permits that were stated in the plans that are going to be submitted to the city. The components of this structure parking plan the contractor will now permit includes the following the number of parking permits and the average number of employees at the site. The timeline and phasing of the project and the requirement of the contractor to notify the department of any unexpected changes. It also requires the contractor to use carpooling or park side such as parking garages instead of taking up valuable Street Parking. There is also a component in the plan that mandates the contractor come up with a proposal for how they will make on Street Parking available to the general public and to Business Owners by 4 00 p. M. Each day if that space is going to be used after that time. When we are working with supervisor christian and cohen we want to focus outside of our traditional from our office which is in a residential neighborhood and they want to expand it to encompass more of Business Commercial as well and we had an amendment issued by the Land Use Committee that includes pdr districts and citywide. That was one of the concerns of the commission. We are open to hearing additional construction that should be included as well. Additionally the last component of the plan gives dpw some flexibility to request any Additional Information that they find important to have as part of the construction parking plan that the contractors will be submitting. Additionally all of this information is made publically available to dpw so any resident or any owner of any part of the city can see the parking plan and see how this is impacting their neighborhood. We believe this is a straight forward proposal. We work close with sf mta and contractors on this proposal and we have the majority in support and some of the contractors arent too happy about the fee increases but before the legislation we did a budget Analyst Report that shows all the permit fees per capita with other cities are relatively low so they can stand to be increased a little bit. We understand whats going on right now but most of the times those contractors pass through the additional permit increases to the customer or the client they are working with on behalf and we believe them to be minimal. The legislation today is supported by all the departments and i understand on friday there were some concerns and i had a chance to review this today since we were on recess. I will be happy to walk through any of those questions and answer any concerns that you may have. All right. Thank you very much. Commissioner, adams . First off i want to thank supervisor farrell and cohen for this piece of legislation. This is awesome. This is something in my opinion long over due especially with all the construction going on and i appreciate that you are looking at commercial districts as well as residential because thats where a big part of the problem is right now. I was in the valley a couple weeks ago and they had a few signs up there but no construction going on. My question is what department is going to approve this plan . The department of public works. Right now most contractors how i understand the process they will go to sf mta. They will come up with a proposal and sf mta and manages and overseas that process. We are primarily working with those two departments to come up with the proposal and how it can be implemented correctly. I think the biggest thing for dpw was to have permanent funding for enforcement and limitation. I think we all believe that the success of the legislation would come with the enforcement and the additional fees will help with that. Do you know if there is a minimum amount of Parking Spaces they can take . Right now our requisite, one parking space for 30 days. If there is more than one, they will have to do that as well. We didnt want to necessarily slow you know some projects and especially good projects that need to happen in our neighborhood, but at the same time we needed to institute some sort of balance for the residents. Here is an idea too and i was thinking about this a couple weeks ago. Do you have these School Playgrounds that they use for parking in the summer time when a lot of this stuff is going on. We can get something in there and maybe it would be a win win for the schools. Use those as a parking spot instead of taking up Street Parking. Yeah, i think thats a fine idea. When we were crafting this legislation, we had to be really mindful in what was in our jurisdiction. Obviously School Parking is a great idea. It would be in the jurisdiction. School district and what they choose to do there. What will be added that we plan to introduce at the board is another requirement that states that a contractor has to use the onsite garage parking before they take on an on Street Parking space. Especially in our district we saw folks with park is available on their garage parking and using parking in front. That didnt make sense. Commissioner dooley . I wanted to ask about it mentions having them say how many employees they have. Its certainly been my experience in north beach, pretty much everybody wants to have their own truck there all the time so they can run out and get their tools. Is there someway of limiting maximum amount of street spaces. I believe they can take more than 60 on Street Parking permits. Thats the threshold we have now. At the same time we hear clearly from residents and Business Owners that the city needs to be more proactive in planning and letting citizens know pro actively whats happening in their neighborhood and no process and no notification exist. We think this is a really helpful first step into providing that plan outside of our traditional noticing requirements that we have on the books now. Is there some kind of incentive that encourage carpooling or truck pooling amongst these folks so not every Single Person working on the site has to bring their own vehicle. Yes, one of the components we have on the plan is the contractor has to submit to dpw whether they have carpooling options. So thats a requirement of the current parking plan we are working on now. I would add some gray area here. There were some difficulties working with the City Attorney in what we could restrict versus what we couldnt restrict. What this is is our best attempt to provide the parameters and pro activity for the contractors about what is happening in their neighborhood. I also have a question about if they arent using a space from 4 00 on, i find that a lot of the spaces arent being used at all during the day. Those are 104 00 p. M. Our prime Business Hours where those spaces could be really used. I know a lot of residential space the sign says if no construction is started by noon, i would urge you to roll that back to an earlier hour. I think thats something that the cosponsors would be happy to look at. We were trying to find that balance and from the residents especially their coming home after work, the traditional 4 00 hour. They can understand in the morning construction but for the proposal that makes sense. The last question. I have a pile of notes. Its what we are here for. The storage issue. I know when they went to a site, they stored large pipes for weeks at a time taking on an entire block of parking. So it didnt seem clearly that it was not going to happen. That could still happen is kind of how i saw it, but that is a real problem if they do that. Im looking back here. It looks like on section 4. 20, section 8 there. One of the components of the parking plan is how the contractor, excuse me, its no. 7. Sorry. I was wrong. Its no. 8. It requires that they at least submit as part of their plan as to the material of the storage and pipes and Construction Materials are going to be used as permitted Parking Spaces. That is identified in the plan. What i will do before this makes it to the board on tuesday, dpa drafted up one page about the project and parking plan. I will be sure you see it to be sure there isnt anything on there. I understand when they put materials in the parking space and they are going to be using them soon. My experience has been that they are not using them soon. They are just sitting there for a month or two and eventually they are going to be used. So i would like to see some kind of time limit for how long they can use it for storage. Thats what we are looking at and providing this plan making it available to residents and Business Owners on the website, having a point of contact, i think with additional fees that are going to help with enforcement and this kind of pro activity and contract the Business Owners will have because the residents and Business Owners know their own neighborhood. Thank you for bringing this forward. It is really necessary and really happy to see something move. Yeah, of course i appreciate that. Commissioner Ortiz Cartagena . Thank you. This is way over due. The only question, did you reach out to the parking Sector Companies and explore any ideas . I know they have with the parking companies. Are you talking about a specific kind . Just to get their expertise . Yes. One of the things, or one of the components of the parking plan which is the contractor evaluating whether they can use kind of off Street Garage parking. All of those sites and majority are own by sf mta and we can host Construction Materials or permit out those spaces instead of the on Street Parking spaces as well. Okay. Director . Through the president , so a quick question as i couldnt really, i wasnt clear in reading this. Is this being applied to private contractors or is this parking plan also being applied to city like when we do excavation for water pipes . Definitely all of the above. Anyone that received an occupancy permit, they are all going to have to submit this construction parking plan as a prerequisite for receiving that permit. One more question. 5 days notice is pretty short. We need to have more like 2 weeks so if its going to have a major impact on a commercial district, people can figure out what to do. Its got to be at least 2 weeks. That does that seem like the overwhelming thought from the commission . I would prefer 30 days. The most as possible. I think we take this to heart. We understand one of the most important things in business is certainty and knowing whats going to happen on your storefront and corridor. Well definitely run that to ground. I have to better understand from dpw and the timeline they have in giving out these projects. I can imagine maybe the construction project in district 2, someone just wanted to get it and have a contract maybe tomorrow. With other projects, im sure it takes long to mapping out what the project is going to look at but we can have more flexibility on that. I think it would be nonsubstantive. So it wont cause any delay. I would be surprise anything that impacts parking gets a permit with lead time with more than a couple of days. The contractor might say i mailed them out 5 days in advance and if it happens on a monday, we dont see that for a couple days later and you only find out because the parking spots are gone. We got noticed by cal trans 2 days after the construction occurred saturday and sunday night. All the residents were pissed off. They said we noticed everybody per the legal statute. So there was a case where it got hung up in the mail and the government transaction didnt happen and none of us got notice. I dont think 5 days is enough to allow for what happens from the time of leaves the person thats putting the stamps on it to get it to the person who should get it. I think you are exactly right and thats a reasonable request. John maloney the our City Attorney on that request and those that are supporting this legislation as well. I would just add to that i will be break back in front of you in about a month or so. So it isnt their standard mailing anymore. So well be able to get it out to the Business Owners through email. It tends to be going out to the landlord. Most of us never see what the landlord gets because we are all tennants, commercial tennants but all residential tennants. But the noticing needs to go directly to the tennants as well as the landlord. And the language in this particular item keeps saying neighborhood. Neighborhood tends to ring residential. We have so many mixed use corridors here that it should specifically include neighborhood and i think we have some recommended language here about how to call it commercial tennants. Neighborhoods, commercial corridors and or Business Districts right now. We can recommend some wording to you. Yeah. I got at the mail from regina. We are happy to include that. That makes sense and that is definitely our intent. What we heard from small Business Owners is we need to be notified. Commissioner sarkissian . I would like to join my colleagues this congratulating you. Thank you. Just coming back to the tenant issue, i believe that the ground and second floor should be included. Okay. Thats not a problem. Thank you. Commissioners, any other comments . Commissioner riley . Hi, when you determine to noticed the neighborhood, where do you get the information. Commissioner dwight just said that usually the notice sent to the landlord . Yes. Is it possible to get the information of all the tennants . Yes, i believe so. That was our intent. We are happy to work with the director and our City Attorney to match that intent and all the tennants that are affected. I believe its 300 feet in our legislation. We were sensitive to some of the cost included because of the permit fees included as well. Thats the intent. We want our neighbors and Business Owners to know whats going on. Thats the plan where we are going to have a Contact Person and they are always available and they will have a point of reference to go online to check on whats happening in their neighborhood. They get planning. Planning has to notify owners and tennants of projects now. So when you get your notification in the mail, it says to current occupant. It doesnt even say the landlords name. Its whoever is living in that unit. Thats how they notify you. Thats good. Commissioners, anymore comments or questions before Public Comment . Okay. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment