Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20180110

SFGTV Government Access Programming January 10, 2018

Anybody else wish to comment on item number 3. Supervisor peskin. I dont know if this say question for staff or the city senior but i want to make sure the legislative digest the amendments i dont think is correct and explain what the legislation does. Instead of saying that it would restrict lot mergers by requires lots along Mission Streets to be at least 150 feet wide is to be no more than 100 feet wide, right . Deputy city attorney. Our office committed a corrected legislative digest to the court this morning. Its in the clerks file now and will be in the file going forward. Commissioner i wanted the chairman to know im reading all the fine print. Commissioner the chairman appreciates it. Supervisor tang. I have the same confusion this morning and i wanted to check in win supervisor ronens issue. Im hearing folks in Public Comment and im confused. Said she supports the amendment but you meant the legislation right. She is not proposing any amendment to this package at this time. The concern about the grandfathering provision has an effect on the specific proposed project underway has not been reviewed and vetted and nothing no decisions been made about any grandfathering provision. I dont know if theres been a reason given because i talk generically. Im curious if there was rationale. Has not come up to this point. Commissioner colleagues, seeing no other comments commissioner the only comment i would make is based on the Public Comment of the attorney representing the project at 2918 Mission Street. That attorney represented he believed they were grandfathered. If thats true i suggest theres an offline conversation. Its not scheduled as a Committee Report. You have until the 23 or 24 to have the conversation. I say we not take that amendment and have that conversation and as council said he believe its offered anyway. If thats true theres no reason to include it but why not have an offline conversation. Commissioner okay. Thank you. I think that would be great to have happen and understand whats going upon with that said, motion by a colleague. Id move it to the full board with recommendation. Commissioner motion by supervisor peskin. Supervisor tang. Madame clerk, item 4. The clerk in term zoning controls for cu authorization for commercial and storefront mergers by mission, cesar chaf he is and protrero. So this is a resolution for interim controls. There have existing interim controls in place passed by the Planning Commission. The series of controls meant while some are expiring after their limit of a twoyear term. There is one control, one interim control in place that is not yet reached its twoyear term and that is the requirement that spaces being converted to restaurant use would have to go through a condition use authorization process. Because theres time left on that interim control and because the need remains while the process of reviewing overall retail use and protections continues, we would like to the supervisors would lake to propose to continue would like to propose to continue the control and additional use requirement for storefront mergers to create a space over 2,000 square feet. These would provide protection for diversity we see disappearing on Mission Street and id be happy to answer more questions. Commissioner thank you very much. Colleagues, any questions or comments . Well me of on to Public Comment . Anybody wishing to comment . Public comments now closed seeing none. Any followup . Commissioner we instituted controls and theyve been successful. Id be more than happy to send this as a Committee Report tomorrow with board of supervisor. Commissioner we have a second by supervisor tang we can take without objection. Adam clerk item 5. The clerk and the western shoreline area plan and wern shoreline area plan to restore the ocean beach shoreline and make appropriate findings. Thank you, adam clerk. We have our planning department. First, i would defer to supervisor tang but id be happy to cosponsor this legislation. Its in supervisor tangs direct. I would like to thank staff in particular work the Coastal Commission in such a fashion unlike many of the coastal plan amendments that get rejected. This one if we approve it i should not put words in my colleagues mouths but it should be approved at the february or march meeting. Thank you. Through the chair, i want to thank all the staff involved in this particular effort. I know it was a lot of Community Meetings and so forth. I will say that just to point out some of the obviouses we need the amendment to be able to include issues such as addressing coastal hazard and sea level rises. In terms of factually we know theres issues were contending with. We have not amended our plan since 1986. This is the first time were changing the policies and coastal hazards are the driver. Theyre erosion and climate level rise and those with problems well have more problems in the future. Erosion can happen. It led to emergency measures by the Public Utility Commission and public works permitted through 2021. Some parking lots have been removed as they become unsafe. Were figuring out the right balances for the coastal zone. This amendment does not change anything in golden gate park. It adds a coastal hazard section and were trying to restore the shoreline while protecting resources and infrastructure and existing development from coastal hazards. Theres six policies some of which are focussed on the near term treat plan and some are longterm standards because erosion are problems well continue to deal with forever. This has been a multiyear process and so from the project launch through some data and model work in policy development we had a Community Advisory group for the professional and interagency Advisory Group because again theres extensive public lands with city and federal in the area. We had fire interagency meetings. We all understand what the proposed amendments are. Its had an informational and initiation and adoption hearing. They recommended adoption in october last year and pending local approve well submit to the Coastal Commission for certification. As supervisor peskin noted if they reject it, it will have to start back at the Planning Commission. I think we have done our best to work through the problems so you dont have to do this twice. That concludes my presentation. Im available for any questions. Thank you. Commissioner well move on to Public Comment . I have two speaker cards. Mike grizle and bill mclaughlin. First person, come on up. One relates to this restrictions on new development in the erosion area. Recently the sf zoo has build their own Science Center atop at the apex at the erosion site. This is areal concern. Theres been new blocking for the public and the zoo wants to build their own parking garage. We need help anything you folks can do. Thank you. Commissioner thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im with the surf rider chapter and work in a leadership type role. And well look at whether it can be relocated as an important theres a curiosity about the recycled water plant. We have information about that occurring in the same location as the retreat is going on. Next speaker, please. Im here on my own behalf. At the Community Meeting may second of 2017, two issues were brought to staffs attention, one issue is the u. S. Geologic survey how San Francisco bay is contributing to erosion on the southern portion of the ocean beach and accretion of build up on the other portion. The other is the sanctuary. Its reviewing its management plan. Its reviewing the possibility of incorporating the waters off San Francisco into the sanctuary. These waters are an exclusionary area and known as the donut hole. They were brought to the attention of the Planning Commission on october 5 of 2017. This commission recused herself. Commissioner thank you, any other members push to comment . Supervisor tang . Thank you to those who came out to speak. I do know that in speaking with the various agencies and including spur we havent settled on anything yet regarding parking. Its not something we have arrived at a solution yet but its not to say we have for sure taken away all the parking yet. Its an evolving situation. I want to thank you the Coastal Commission for their work and look forward to passing it onto the full board as a Committee Report and getting to vote on it again at the Coastal Commission. Commissioner we cannent entertain a mission. And well move it forward with a positive report. We can take that without objection. Clerk, will you call item number 6. The clerk item number 6 the resolution imposing interim zoning controls to require cu authorization for personal services uses. Commissioner weve been joined by supervisor who proposed the legislation. They put together a neighborhood plan. We have been continuing until may or june of this year. It will have been a full year plus. The department of planning and office of economic and Workforce Development have led the effort with 26 members of the working group all neighborhood residents from all walks of life. Were happy with the process. The zoning control is meant to put a pause on these and hopefully by the time were well along to put together the planning, these zoning controls if this board and body supports that will then will have the tuns opportunity to come back and adjust later. Essentially it would require institutional uses, private community facilities, social services and personal service uses like hair salons and nail salons and also other uses that arent necessarily promoting of light retail in the corridor. [please stand by]. And so when we come back to the Planning Commission and hopefully, eventually to the board of supervisors, well be looking at public mobility, land use and housing, which obviously these interim controls would impact, and how do we support the existing Small Businesses and continue to make it a neighborhood where folks can open up shop, continue to be entrepreneurial, and continue to support their families. Im happy to take any questions, but its important to think about these, thinking as a city, how can we advance toward those goals, and i think as the supervisor said, putting a pause on some of the things that happen in the neighborhood can help us get some breathing room and space so we can bring forward some legislation that advanced us as a neighborhood strategy. Thank you, miss tanner. I also wanted to bring up one other point. We have over the years, we have a group thats been there, working, the excelsior action group, and they have been working on a lot of these issues over the last 15 years, working with stakeholders, merchants along with the Excelsior Outer Mission merchants group, so theres been a lot of work thats gone into this, and the work that ive done in the community has been listening to this, kind of reflecting that desire. Also, theres been behavior that has been not permitted that were trying to help control for a lot of uses pop up that are not even permitted uses, and so this is to put an additional eye on that, what types of uses need additional scrutiny. So thats it, colleagues, hopefully, if you have any questions, let me know, and we can move the conversation forward. Colleagues, any questions at this point in time . Okay. Seeing none, we will open this up to Public Comment. Item number 6. Seeing no Public Comment, item is closed. I dont need this to be a Committee Report. This is fine, were going to have some more conversations with planning and Economic Development and then well go from there. Okay. So colleagues, could i have a motion to move this item forward to the full board . Supervisor tang so moved. And moved by supervisor tang and seconded by supervisor peskin. Okay. Madam clerk, do we have any other business before us today . Clerk no, we are done. Okay. That concludes our calendar. We are adjourned. Item one call to order. Director tsen, director richardson. Director samaha. Director moss. Director giusti. Present. We have a quorum. Good. Before we start the next item, which is the general Public Meeting, i would like to actually open this meeting with is the first Public Meeting in 2018 of tida to have a moment of reflection about mayor ed lee and all of us were shocked by his passing. I was actually travelling in the south of china in the region where his parents had come from. Its also the area where my husband was born. So we were travelling in that area when we heard about his passing. We were so shocked and so grieved because he was a friend of mine for many years. Over three decades. He actually officiated at my daughters wedding and so he is greatly missed. I think that in this era of time when there is so much political grand standing, its really rare to encounter a man who was as humble as we was and dedicated the notion of public service. That was his whole being in his career was to serve the city that he loved, San Francisco. And he never forgot his simple roots from an immigrant family with a single mother who raised her family in subsidized housing and he never forgot where he came from. And i think that he did so much for the site. Some of it will come. The fruit of which will come later on. He was criticized for not doing enough for affordable house. I know as a developer in the private and nonprivate sectors, he did more than almost any other mayor in terms of Housing Finance in terms of his dedication to people who didnt have house, who didnt have a voice in this society. He did more than any other mayor to increase the role of minorities and women on boards like this one and on commissions. We need to be grateful to him for leading us in that direction. So its in his memory that we start the first meeting of 2018 and may he rest in peace. Id like to open it up to commissioners and members of the public who may want to speak as well. Yes. Thank you. I thank you that. That was very heartfelt. Mayor lee appointed us onto the commission and grateful to giving me and all of us a voice and his encouragement of young minorities to take on civic roles has been very empowering. Him with his background in civil service. He started off as staff and was always a reluctant politician and set a good example for the city to work collaboratively across all sectors. I hope we continue to honor his legacy through our Decision Making and to reflect his passion for creating Quality House and vibrant communities for the work we are embarking on in Treasure Island and he was implemental on moving the Development Forward and it would be great if we opportunities to dedicate a special feature on the island in his memory and id like for us to evaluate that. Thank you. Thank you, commissioners. Mayor lee was a great friend of mine. I can say ive known him for decades. Even when he was the city administrator and before that was a regular guy on the human rights commission. I was there when he died with the city hall director and the director of his Mayors Office and you can imagine hours later when i got the call i thought i had a nightmare and i took it hard and served on Many Organizations and this is on record about nine months ago i was doing a groundbreaking of one of Senior Housing and mayor brown was there and congressman pelosi and dignitaries and the statement in which in which i had spoken with others on several occasions, it is true, more than any other mayor we do respect and most ive had the privilege of serving under them, mayor lee has eclipsed all the mayors in terms of housing. I spoke of that during the groundbreaking. I said, mayor lee, you know, i invite you and were doing the groundbreaking and i see you where ever. How are we going to quantify the house you have speiarheaded andi wanted it make it known to the public because he made a concerted effort to make sure that the seniors have housing. And in all areas of San Francisco and if you go to the bay view and the sun set direct, mayor lee made an effort. I was there and he said lets get it done. I pushed it once. Whats it going to stake for your staff and to compile all the glorious accomplishment you made. I remember saying mayor, i will volunteer. We cannot for get the legacy. The takeaway is the clock is ticking. When we have the privilege and opportunity to do well to do good, we should seize on that and we should do that with integrity and we shoved do that with poise and we should continue to do that. So we had bearing for Treasure Island. All the milestones have been because of mayor lee. I can talk about all the projects downtown that i personally i know mayor lee spearheaded. His legacy will continue but its left to all of us to compile all the records and when we speak, when we deliberate to evoke his memory so people out there and some in the city are critics because they dont know so when youre ignorant and you dont know you say he hasnt done anything but no, its due respect to the mayors in the city, mayor lee stands alone as someone who has taken the ball to ensure the citys passionate and compassionate about people and all i wanted to say to his family may his sole rest in place and mayor lees legacy will never never die. Thank you nor opportunity. Thank you, linda. I want

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