Document and whether both agencies promptly comply with state and federal investigators on request, particularly given the laxity of rules regarding membership adopted by trade unions over the past decade. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. No other speakers. Public comment is now closed. Chair . Supervisor walton any more comments from colleagues . Supervisor fewer i think we learned a lot today. I want to thank colleagues for holding this hearing. I think public speakers bring up good points about the overhanging of wires and i look forward to calling for an additional hearing about the study, but actually i think there are still some open issues about what is on those poles. And now i am being alerted that the pole heights have been extended, which is something i didnt know about. So, chair, im respectfully asking to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. The motion has been heard. Let me check in. I want to briefly say i appreciate all the folks that came out today. I know that theres a lot of people that have been pushing this conversation. Its interesting when you leave San Francisco and you look at other areas all around its not as i want to use the word polluted the wires everywhere in our city. The argument about not being able to do it, transmission lines, these are factual in some ways, but in other ways you can argue theyre not. If you go around the bay area you dont see the same level of congestion and wires and other localities. The other frustration i have for our part of town is we essentially have no undergrounding. So same in the richmond. So theres just not much as all or any in our part of town. Then when you do, people will get messages or get a letter from a utility saying if youd like to do this, you can pay 30,000 or 15,000 to have this done on your street. Each individual household our part of town are working families, they dont have that money. I know in the past 170 million was spent to do this. It was through a grant process. The communities organized were able to get it done, but it was not in the southern parts of the city or the southwestern part of the city. So we want to do this. I think its important. I think that scientific studies have shown that Energy Efficiency is increased when you put it underground. Safety is increased when you put it underground. Overall, quality of life is enjoyed when its put underground. So i think theres some good points made today. I think we should further in conversation and bring folks back, but i want to voice that today supervisor fewer i think its exploring our jurisdiction of the lines, not so much the poles, but the lines also. Supervisor walton i think its interesting that cpuc hasnt conducted a study of whether or not underground is safer. But yet we have new developments that are required to use underground utilities. Its interesting and we will have further conversations of course to understand how that could be the case in this point. To your point, supervisor, i want to thank you and supervisor stefani for calling this hearing today. This is happening in other cities. Its definitely happening on new developments right here in San Francisco. So were going to continue to work hard to make this a reality, and you have a commitment from us to do that, which is why were here having this hearing today. With that said, theres been a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. I dont think we have any objecti objection. Without seeing any objection, well move this item to continue to the call of the chair and we seal take this with no objection. With that said, clerk, is there anything else that we have . Clerk theres no further business. Supervisor walton seeing as theres no further business, this hearing and this meeting is adjourned. [adjournment] chair peskin good afternoon and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee meeting july 22, 2019. I am the chair, aaron peskin, joined to my right by supervisor ahsha safai, and to my left by supervisor raphael mandelman. Our clerk is miss erica major. Miss clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Chair peskin thank you, miss major. Could you read the first item. [agenda item read]. Chair peskin thank you. Mr. Winslow on behalf of the department of city planning. Thank you. David winslow from the office of the staff Planning Department, and im happy to be here today. Chair peskin good to see you after all these years. It hasnt been that many years, but we are here for the polk pacific special area guidelines. The guidelines arent themselves entirely new. They were derived from the existing urban Design Guidelines in the commerce and industry element of the general plan, but they have been reorganized by topic and edited for brevity, clarity, and usability, and a few additional elements were added and a special condition. Thank you, supervisor peskin, for your support, and supporting legislation of the planning code amendment. This concludes my introductory remarks and im happy to answer any questions. Chair peskin thank you to you and to you for creating the neighborhood commercial benefit district. It is an example between wh what of what collaborating between the neighborhood and City Department should be. I want to give a shout out to robin tucker and the pacific Area Neighborhood Association who have trained themselves in the nuances of design and zoning, and versus its a real unique corridor. When we created the c. B. D. , i came to understand that the Main Commercial corridor over the hill was the pacific avenue corridor, which is why you have this very interesting residential and commercial corridor that includes lumber yards and buildings of various sizes and typologies. So i think ordinances were exactly the right thing to do with this area. With that, are there any members of the public who would like to speak to item number one, please come forward. Just who i invoked, miss robin tucker. Thank you for coming, and thank you for your work. Its my pleasure. I want to thank the members of the team, the Planning Department, dave winslow in particular and his team members. And my own team, lower polk neighbors, midpolk neighbors, and russian Hill Community association. We all collaborated on this, but it is to be celebrated what team work, and so much was accomplished because of it. It was over 2. 5 years in the making, and i couldnt be more proud, i couldnt be more proud to have supervisor peskin leading this on our behalf, so thank you all, and thank you, members of all of our community associations, and i hope that we get your vote today. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, miss tucker, are there any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item . Please come forward on discover polk. [inaudible] for this unique community. We look forward to, you know, seeing them implemented, and we believe that this will be a beneficial thing for the polk street, and pacific avenue commercial corridors. Chair peskin thank you so much, and thank you for your work for middle polk. Next speaker, please. Commissioner kathrin moore, for your support. Thank you. I am here as a personal citizen. I think this particular set of guidelines is a great set of urban Design Guidelines, and i think we took a step forward which many other neighborhoods will do and emulate, as well. It will make the neighborhoods stronger and give leverage to those neighborhoods which will be strong and good. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, commissioner moore. Are there any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. Chair peskin and colleagues, i do want to say that it is the 38page document that mr. Winslow provided over that i direct you to, and it is really a lovely document. Not only the beautiful photographs, but just the way it speaks to the context of that neighborhood and what is appropriate development, site design, you name it. So for anybody who is watching, if you have Nothing Better to do, go to sfgov. Org and read that 38page document. Colleagues, if there are no questions, and i see no names on the roster, i will make a motion to forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation and hopefully it will be passed on the First Reading and 30 days later or there abouts will come law. Thank you, one and all. Madam clerk, that will be the order. Madam clerk, next item, please. [agenda item read]. Clerk chesk, as a matter of communication, wed like to note on march 19, 2019, the Planning Department indicated a transmittal indicating the Planning Department failed to pass the resolution, however, the Commission Secretary failed to report the seweactual vote h would have indicated the type of disapproval and the lower vote for tomorrow. Chair peskin just to be clear, pursuant to the city and county of San Francisco, this is respectfully but a recommendation. The matter is totally within the hands of the government, and we can vote how we prefer. With that, i will defer to my colleague and primary sponsor, supervisor safai. Supervisor safai okay. I dont know if mr. Givner wanted to mr. Givner deputy City Attorney jon givner. The boards agenda for tomorrow indicates that theres an eightvote threshold. Thats incorrect. The Planning Commission did not find the ordinance is inconsistent with the general plan, so you said supervisor peskin, when this goes to the board of supervisors it will only require six votes to pass. Chair peskin thank you for that clarification. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you for that clarification. There was a lot of misinformation out that. I would just ask that we take this later. We are finalizing the amendments and we will return to this shortly. Chair peskin okay. We will continue this item, and we will move on to item number three. I dont know if supervisor ronen or her staff is here, but we will call item three. [agenda item read]. Chair peskin all right. Is there anyone here from supervisor ronens office that would like to make opening comments . Seeing none, do we have somebody from planning, audrey merlon . Thats all right. Its a new last name. Chair peskin i was just going to say, it was like a week ago. It was. Chair peskin thank you. Miss donovan is here from the office of Small Business to speak on their behalf. Chair peskin miss donovan, would you like to speak on the behalf of the Small Business. Yes. Dominica donovan with the office of Small Business. The Small Business commission heard this item on june 10 and is supportive with the lemgs lation. It will undoubtedly prevent the clover you are or displacement of approximately 200 owned small enterprises. Many of these businesses are child and Mental Health providers, educational services, chiropractic services, and nonprofits of various missions. Many of the Business Owners also identified themselves to be disabled and noticed that this has unabled them to successfully operate their businesses. While the Small Business commission recognized that they would like these pieces of legislation to be revisited, they realize this is a smart piece of legislation for the challenges the businesses are currently facing. The recommendation also diverged from the Planning Commissions recommendations that businesses who are considered to be office uses should also be able to participate in the legitimatization process. Were appreciative of your consideration and were here for questions. Chair peskin thank you, miss donovan. Thank you, supervisor ronen, and thank you for dealing with this rather bizarre sticky wicket, and the floor is yours. Supervisor ronen thank you, supervisor peskin. Today, this legislation will provide am nesnesty to 150 sma businesses that were facing he vacation. I want to thank carolina morales in my office who spent hundreds and hundreds and thousands of hours trying to fix this. In january, dozens of Small Business active space which is at 3150 18 street learned that they were facing fines based on 15 zoning regulations. These are very small Owner Occupied enterprises and most of them are personal services. I want extremely concerned for the Small Business owners, so i held two Community Meetings with the tenants, quickly introduced the amnesty legislation and my office connected with a large portion of the tenants to follow up. Closing 100 businesses or more on the same block would be an economic crisis for the mission, a neighborhood that has already suffered tremendously from the displacement of hundreds of businesses and thousands of residents due to gentrification. The ordinance before us today will provide them amnesty under the code. It will consider them to be legal nonconforming businesses and allow them to remain in the building as long as they file the appropriate legislation. Im also actively to protect Light Manufacturing spaces. Light manufacturing provide working class san franciscans with working class jobs. The mission is one of the few places where p. D. R. Zones existed, and we must protect these spaces. Prior to active space building, there was a long history of this property of arts and manufacturing uses, so the Planning Commission imposed restrictions when it approved active space in 2004. The owner of the active space signed a notice of special restriction in october 2004, where he committed to make p. D. R. Use of the building, including a prediction of both office and residential purposes at the building. It the City Attorney is pursuing a separate enforcement process with the owner, but i wanted to provide you today with the full context of the situation we are solving for. Once again, it is both my priority to protect the Small Businesses and p. D. R. Zoning and spaces in the mission. Therefore, im offering legislation that will provide a balanced approach. The lemgs lation will provide an amnesty for Current Office use to stay in the building for the next ten years. It will require all of the tenants to prior pursuing all of their necessary permits and require the office of Small Business in obtaining their permits with the necessary office. I want to thank you for being here today and speaking before this committee and for fighting to stay in San Francisco. Small businesses like yours are the cornerstone of our local economy, and we need to continue supporting you to stay in the city while thriving, not just surviving. I also want to thank the City Departments and staff that have been working closely with my office for the past six months, including director regina dickendrizzi, the department of building strong as well as the department of Public Health with particular thanks to Stephanie Cushing and jen cu cullworth. Thank you. Chair peskin okay. And supervisor ronen, thank you for that and for your work and your staffs work, and the City Attorney and Planning Department and Small Business and department of Public Health. And as to the amendments that have been handed out to us, those all seem to pertain to what you just spoke to, which is the office of Small Business assists under the program as well as the acceptance of the three years suggested by the Planning Commission. All right. Why dont we open this up to Public Comment . I imagine theres going to be a lot of folks here. Weve got a huge crowded agenda here before the summer recess, so two minutes and if youll lineup to my left, your right, first speaker, please. Hi. My name is nicolle. I am one of the three owners of a business called pottery in common. Small commercial businesses are a vulnerable population that do feel the effects of gentrification and unfortunately businesses at our scale are unable to occupy commercial storefront simply because we cant afford it, nor do we need the large storefront that is available. There is a need to protect small but stable nonp. D. R. Businesses, and without your advocacy, Small Businesses will be displaced, and the Cultural Landscape of our city will be forever changed. Yes, protecting p. D. R. Districts is necessary, but i want to ask you at what expense. I calculated percentages off the charts 19. 0165 from the office of Small Businesses. I have a dear friend who is a family massage therapist. She was shown 15 vacant spaces at active space two weeks ago. She was also told that there was a growing wait list for nonp. D. R. Services that were wanting to conduct business at active space, so currently we have a wait list for nonp. D. R. Businesses, but a 5 vacancy in the building itself. So i urge the supervisors to start to research the percentage of occupancy for p. D. R. Businesses in p. D. R. Zoned districts. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. My name is lee peckley. Ive been in active space since 2012. When i came, i was not made aware of th