Director joined the planning staff. It seems only fair that they consider Work Programme efforts that would include all the things that the department wants to do that are up for funding consideration and right now everything the Commission Wants to do, plus everything the public wants to have included. And then take Public Comments before considering the options that will actually become funded. Im sure the commissioners and members of the public have worthwhile ideas of Work Programme efforts they would like to add and im hoping the process can be opened up to ensure fairness and a good outcome for all of us who live and work here. There must be an effort to protect tenant protections with asking sponsors about unit occupancy when filing for a permit. How about adding staff to knock on doors to verify whether or not a unit is actually vai vacant and tenant occupied instead of relying on unsubstantiated documentation. There must be an effort at taking a comprehensive look at how projects affect tenants and rental housing and then make whatever policy and legislative changes that are necessary. There must be an effort to ensure that our production of housing meets below market rate goals as well as meeting our market rate housing goals. And there must be an effort to give new hires permanent rather than temporary status and to train all staff to ensure a wellqualified workforce. Commissioners, without any changes to the Work Programme, the programme will continue to focus on efforts that will only produce highend housing and without regard to an often causing displacement. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is jerry accurateler. The Planning Department annual report for 201415 included an excellent onepage schedule which provided a fiveyear summary of the number of cases of permits. The schedule was not in thes 201516 annual report. Will it be in the 201617 annual report . It would be appreciated if that schedule were to reappear. A line item on the fiveyear summit is a member of enforcement cases. The number of enforcement cases in 2012 and 13 increased 64 to 791. Todays budget materials show the number of enforcement cases in 201617 doubled to about 1600. The Planning Departments legislative proposal to allow for enforcement fees to be used other than sign enforcement recognizes the need for additional and general enforcement funds. Budgets funding by programme shows that Zoning Administration and compliance receives about 5. 5 of total departmental funding. The Planning Department receives a vast majority of funding in fees for service. The notice of Enforcement Programme does not assess penalties or fees. With the doubling of the number of enforcement cases over the last four years, a morest more rigorous source of funding appears necessary and an Enforcement Programme that does not assess penalties or fees makes no sense. Also it is logical for violators to fund the cost of enforcement. Does the Planning Department have specific and measurable performance goals for the current fiscal budgets and the process of measuring actual performance against those Department Goals in the budget . And will a formal analysis be prepared and presented in a future Planning Commission meeting showing actual versus budgeted performance. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon. Jennifer fever with the San Francisco tenants union. So, in the there is a line item in the budget request that says, as always, the department implements tenant protection regulations within the planning code. The Department Guidelines to protect tenants have not been the case. Im thinking about 1049 Market Street which had been illegally converted to 39 residential units. When the owner wanted to convert it back to commercial, the Planning Department issued permits although there was proof at the rent board that there were now residential tenants living there. This would have been the largest lsac in the city if activists hadnt organized. I want to reiterate that we still need a process to disclose whether existing tenants will be affected as part of a permit planning the permit application process. Planners could require existing estopple forms from new building owners or affidavits which disclose tenancies and refuse to accept application unless this information is provided. We also need inspectors to do site visits and check for tenants when things seem suspicious. The office of Short Term Rentals already does this. I dont understand why the rest of the department cant also follow this. I would like to request that the department has a Work Programme that studies the various types of permits issued and how theyre affecting tenants. The staff can go to the rent board. They can figure out how long theyre being temporarily relocated and whether they get to return. We need more training on the rent ordinance. I admit its really complicated. But our operating budget is 220,000 and we all know it. So, that i can certainly learn this information and use nit their decisions. I know that there are many good planners who care about displacement antenanls themselves. But new planning hires also are atwill and so they cant really express our question Department Policies without losing their jobs so i believe that new hires deserve some job security and should be fully trained on the rent ordinance. We cannot continue thinking of our Housing Stock as empty squares on foreplans. We need think about them as people zones. Thanks. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. The neighbourhood hill association. We learned that the Planning Department was working to revise the Historic Preservation guidelines. Liberty hill recently discovered that little progress has been made on the local interpretation revisions to the secretary of the interior standards because no budget had been provided for this work. The current budget provides 100,000 for ceqa review, Historic Preservation review and 125,000 for a Citywide Historic survey. A total of only 225,000. That is not much for a city with so many Old Buildings in need of so Much Research to clarify their importance and designations are historic timeline. Meanwhile, projects are in the pipeline that need clarification. Especially the potentially contributing class b buildings. Without good research, most are at risk of being lost to demolition or alterations that affect evidently erase their original design. Heres an example. Overhead, please. Here is an example of the 1877 black hawk stables turned Auto Repair Shop in 1922 with class b status. Without the necessary research, the proposed project, which is this, the proposed project would completely destroy this historic structure and its contribution to a historic neighbourhood and there is another proposal that goes up two floors. Any revisions to the Historic Preservation guidelines need strengthen preservation and that cant happen without a much larger allocation, especially for the historic surveys. As new guidelines are threatening to intrude on the 13 historic districts, Adequate Funding for historic guidelines is imperative. And that needs to start being reflected in the budget. Next. First of all, i would like to thank ms. Clark for giving us a moment of levity and also a comment. I dont believe that paris is affordable with all those homes. Id like to specifically request for two line items to be added to the bucket that is called project. And under the tenants issued, the department has put down a series of statements regarding the values. And heres overhead, please. Te nanls focused issues. So i would like to bring it to your attention that in the past four or five months and the cases before you, you did side with the tenants and what was impacting their departments. And those were addition of a floor. It required the owner, the landlord to empty the building. We do need some sort of a work project. To study various permits. How far could somebody claim that retrofiting requires emptying the building . What kind of permit would require the residents to leave the building . The impact of the a. D. U. S. So i really would like the request that you specifically add that to the 2018 budget. You will have the case of 505 grandview before you in a couple of weeks. March 1. If there were such khex and balances in the form of a documented processes and procedures of the department. This case did not have to come to you. Secondly, i would like to bring up another thing that we desperately need. This is a followup on what she was bringing to your attention and that is the Historic Preservation guidelines. In the past year, weve been working with the staff on various issues with the u. D. G. S, the urban Design Guidelines. In the process, we realised that there are no historic Design Guidelines, or at least they told us when we said why dont you except historic distribution, there are only 13 districts, 1. 5 of the whole city. They told us that there is no such thing as historic Design Guidelines and we need to have the u. D. G. , although the u. D. G. Has no bent on historic districts. So, instead of having residential Design Guidelines as an item for your revision, why dont you create a set of guidelines for a much needed preservation of our historic districts. We dont need residential Design Guidelines to be revised. They work fine, just fine. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is Kathy Lipscomb and im a member of the nole Valley Council and a active tenant many years. Please find room in your budget for the following important matters state them specifically in this 201819 budget to make sure that they get funded. Developers are constantly finding new ways to evict te thans in San Francisco. It would be a principled decision for the Planning Department to ask for Work Programme to do the impact analyses on the various types of permits that could threaten tenants living spaces. Immediately urgent are the retrofit permits and how they are being misused to evict tenants depending on the scope of the engineering. It is well known that 90 of retrofits should not require tenants to leaves their homes. Another red flag are the a. D. U. Permits that could be used as a twoedge sword when there is an unscrupulous sfwoention evict old tenants while creating new units for richer tenants. These permits are sometimes designed to disturb the living space of existing tenants as you heard and also to infringe on their existing rights such as laundry and parking space. Lastly, we learned that many Planning Department new employees have a threeyear appointment in our Civil Service exam. Meaning they can be fired within that period as a probationary employee. Too often at the experiod of experiod of expire ration of three years, they are given another three year. This leads to low morale, fear of speaking out and application they may find problematic in terms of negative impact on a neighbourhood or tenants. It would be a very healthy move on your part to push for more permanent Civil Service planners. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please, ms. Hester. Sue hester. I would like to record these speeches about Civil Service for the employees. Going from paper records to nonpaper records is a big thing. Ive gone through a lot of the paper records in my time and people dont go through them anymore because theyre passe. But the old records have really Important Information for current projects as well. The whole thing about scanning documents into the p. I. M. Is crucial. Because the p. I. M. Is only as good as the information is put in and sometimes the p. I. M. Doesnt work at all. Doesnt have adequate information. And the staff doesnt know it. I found out a lot of people go, just go on to the p. I. M. And they feel threatened business asking for access to paper records. Some people dont understand at the planning domestic, theyre putting things on discs and giving them to people that are unreadable. There needs to be some inhouse training about giving documents to the public and making them readable. But the most important thing in my mind is having an adequate housing person in the Planning Department who doesnt do any cases because they will set up a conflict themselves. There needs to be training about how to read plans to understand when a 311 notice is basically removal of 10 units of tenants. And other people have found them and filed d. R. S on them. Its really a waste of everyones energy and time. Most cases will be sprawled out for months coming to the Planning Commission for d. R. Hearing you get upset. We got this upset. And the planner didnt even figure out that there would be tenants dispersed. I know you are going to be shocked that some people who apply for permits are not honest. And the Planning Department treats them as, oh, theyre honest. They should be using their eyes to say how how is this not affecting existing tenants . Until they do that, until theyre trained to do that, you will have an abundance of d. R. S that deal with displaced tenants. That is a waste of time. Lastly, 75 howard was in the Business Times two days ago. The units there are on the waterfront. 4,000 a square foot. The most expensive housing in the city. And the Business Times is calling this a good thing. I dont think it is a good thing. Thank you, ms. Hester. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Tree sa flander, senior and disabilities action. Im actually here to talk about preserving housing rather than building. In terms of i wish there could be better communication between d. B. I. And planning so that someone is going out and actually inspecting sites to know what is there and what might be lost. At a minimum also to have a basic understanding of what rent control is, how that functions and what impact that has actually on our housing. In terms of the housing loss and housing balance report, when we are building two units and losing one for each two, that is also very concerning when you see that the merging of twobedroom flats, two twobedroom flats are allowed as long as an a. D. U. Is built and that could be an inlaw. [please stand by] [please stand by] that has meant the merging of two units where in the threeunit building they are now essentially just two units. With a stairway that you go through someones living room. It is also very discouraging to see units that had been allowed to merge are now doing shortterm rentals in the inlaw and the entire house. I just wish that all of our departments could work more closely together to ensure that were not losing almost the same amount that were building. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please . Tony robles, senior disappoint action. I want to echo what preceding folks have said. For too long, landlords have been finding loopholes and circumventing things and using the system to extricate tenants from their homes. Again, like people have said, if departments worked better in more cohesively and had a better understanding of some of the issues with rent control, might alleviate some of the problems. Again, overall loss of housing is a serious issue and its a highly critical issue as it pertains to the people that we serve at the senior and disability action, our organization, s. T. A. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Robles. Any additional Public Comments . Seeing none, well close Public Comment. Vice president richards please dont fire me. Theres a lot of requests and its overwhelming the amount of things that we need to do, so bear with us. We get a lot of the stuff that you are saying. I think the first question i have for mr. Cider. We have the process improvement person put into the mix a few months ago and working on the mayors former mayor lees directive. What do you anticipate in terms of gains that we can make through that type of a position i know its only a few months, but maybe we can talk in concepts. In testimonies of being able to Fund Additional things through additional efficiency and shorten backlogs, things like that. Commissioner richards, thanks for the question. As you suggested, we have jacob bentlis opening board this year. Hes a process improvement specialist. His work is focusing on the mayors directive to streamline and deliver housing projects faster. I think that has implicit benefits and savings. Vice president richards i think we asked for a Quarterly Report or something on, hey, this is what it used to be and now this is what it is. I think it will be more efficient. I dont know if its next year or five years or whatever. But i think its one thing that we could look at in the future for we always called it fun