Good afternoon, welcome to the jampacked calendar of the land use and Transportation Committee for today, monday, september 23, 2019. The im chair, aaron peskin, joined by safai and haney. Ms. Major, any announcements . Yes, please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Actions acted upon today will go on the november 1, agenda. Supervisor peskin could you read the first item . Ordinance accepting acacia street for city maintainness and liability, establishing official sidewalk width, accepting two public works orders and authorizing official acts and adopting appropriate findings. Supervisor peskin mr. Rivera, on behalf of the department of public works relative to the dedication of this rightofway along the san matteo border, 60 feet in width and short in length, for the benefit of daily city. The floor is yours. Good afternoon, supervisors. Yes, this is acacia street was undeveloped portion of dedicated street, so its a paper street. And what happened is that a developer created some housing south of the county line. And this in order to make a through street they developed the portion in San Francisco as well. Thats a total of 2400 square feet. And this legislation is indeed to accept the maintenance and liability of this area. The street improvements were inspected during construction and determined to be in compliance with city codes and regulations. The director of public works recommends that we accept these streets. Supervisor peskin thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Mr. Spitz, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues . Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai yes. How often does this happen . I saw the plot map. This line cuts through a lot of different homes. Its a very unusual rather than making the boundary even, i mean, obviously, at some point it was drawn at an angle. So sometimes the boundary between daily city and San Francisco cuts through some of the homes, so half the home is in daily city, half the home in San Francisco. How often have you dealt in this area with the infrastructure requests in terms of sewer, in terms of the street, in terms of the maintenance of the rightofway. And how is that impacting development over there . For dedications, its not very frequent. It is very common for the county line to go through private property. And were actually in the process of surveying it to bring it in tighter, to know where it is. But as far as cases like this, its not happening too frequently as far as dedicated. In this situation, the i do have an overhead i could show you. Supervisor safai the majority of the homes reside in daley city . All of them, all of the new homes are in daley city. Even the red line that cuts the addresses in daley city . Yes, correct. The part that belongs to us is just north of this area. That belongs to the city and county of San Francisco. These houses were existing houses and received their services through have a lasco street. So there isnt any new infrastructure. Supervisor safai the infrastructure was done, when they built the homes, it was connected to the sewer mains . Correct. All of these houses down here are new. And theyre outside of our jurisdiction and outside of our city and county of San Francisco. Supervisor peskin seeing no other questions, without objection. Madame clerk, could you read the final item . Item 2, imposing interim zoning controls for 18 months to require a conditional use authorization and specified findings for a Residential Care facility and affirm the findings. Supervisor peskin supervisor mandelman, welcome and thank you for bringing this resolution forward. Supervisor mandelman thank you, mr. Chair, and members of the committee for indulging me this afternoon on this item. We wanted to get it to the full board as quickly as possible. Thank you for being here for this. The resolution is currently cosponsored by president yee and supervisor safai and would welcome additional sponsors. It establishes interim zoning control to respond to the loss of San Franciscos Residential Care facilities. It will require a conditional use authorization prior to change of use from the Residential Care facility to different use. The intent is to discourage closure of Residential Care facilities. This is an urgently needed stop measure to improve the Housing Stock for the vulnerable, aging and disabled residents. According to a report by the longterm care coordinating council, assistedliving working group, San Francisco has 21 fewer Residential Care facilities than in 2012. A 26 decline resulted in a loss of 112 critically needed beds. And were at risk of losing even more facilities. Department of Public Health has learned of the closure of three additional facilities and it seems more are on the way. The resolution which i think is before you with amendments, requires the Planning Commission to take into account the following factors in evaluating proposed change of use. One, any findings by the department of Public Health, aging and Adult Services and the longterm coordinating care council regarding the capacity of the exiting residential existing residential use. The impact of the change of use on the neighborhood and community. Whether the Residential Care facility used to be converted will be relocated or replaced with another Residential Care facility use. Based on information provided to my office, since introducing the resolution, i have two amendments for you today. The first, which is shown on page 1, line 15, clarifies the controls apply to Residential Care facilities that were established with or without the benefit of any permits required under the law. That ensures that any Residential Care facility in operation, regardless whether or not they received the proper permits under the planning code in the first place, would be subject to these controls. The second is on page 4. Line 10. Correcting a drafting error. In the second whereas clause of the resolution is defined correctly by planning codes section 102 and 89. 50e. Both code sections should have been referenced in the first resolved clause and this amendment does that. I understand that these amendments are considered nonsubstantive and can be introduced and voted on today and i would ask you to do that, to accept the amendments and forward to the full board. In closing, i want to thank the Mayors Office and department of Public Health for their help in crafting this resolution. I also want to thank kyle for working on this. And i think ms. Lindsay is here to give Public Comment. Supervisor peskin well open it up to Public Comment and then over to supervisor safai. Im a Senior Health planner with the department of Public Health office of planning. Im here representing the department and our support of the resolution imposing zoning controls for Residential Care facilities. So through our departments work on the master plan and we echo the findings of the longterm coordinating council assistedliving work group report. Residential care facilities are a critical resource in our community for our vulnerable populations and as the population continues to grow and age, the need for longterm care, especially affordable longterm care will continue to increase. And in recent years, San Francisco has experienced a loss of these important facilities. So dph is supportive of the legislation to preserve the current stock and control the conversion of Residential Care facilities. Were also supportive of efforts to develop legislation and more strategies that encourage the growth of these facilities in San Francisco in order to meet the Health Care Needs of our most vulnerable populations now and in the future. Thanks. Supervisor safai thank you. I just wanted to say a couple of comments. I want to thank supervisor mandelman and president yee for bringing the legislation forward. I know the context of the conversations weve been having over the course of the last couple of months, with residential longterm care beds, the conversation not to be lost. There actually are privately managed and privately operated and in the community of these facilities. Have quite a few of these in my district. Saw them firsthand as i go around doortodoor talking to individuals. And with the pressure of the current market, people to convert properties from longterm Residential Care back to singlefamily homes, this is an important piece of legislation to allow for a pause and allow for the operators then to come in. I saw there was a commitment for reimbursements for the actual those receiving care from the city. I think the city needs to step up. The department of Public Health, and ensure that reimbursement is high enough so that it makes sense. I think we got that commitment to ensure there are additional dollars assigned for these operators to continue to make them financially feasible. Often times, these are momandpop run businesses. These are people that have sometimes multiple care facilities. One of the operators im thinking about has one in my area, one in the excelsior and bayview Hunters Point. Theyre often singlefamily homes that have been converted into usable Residential Care facilities. So really appreciate this legislation. I think during the 18 months that it would be behoove us and im sure supervisor mandelman and yee will engage with the department of Public Health to be sure the reimbursements are correct, where theyre actually allocated and located, it would be good to know the total number of these in San Francisco. I know you have percentages in terms of how many have been lost over the course of time. Says there 101 assistedliving facilities and since 2002, 43 facilities weve lost 43. So i guess that would put the number close to the mid 60s, 70s remaining. So what can we do during that time to preserve those . And also what can we do during that time to increase those back up to where we were just not long ago, in 2012 . I know there is a push and i know the announcement was made to use some of the small site acquisition money. I support that. I think thats a good use of the dollars. Using the small site acquisition money to preserve this Housing Stock. Had a constituent email me today. He was someone who was a hoarder living in a singlefamily home. They wanted to know what could we do to preserve the property so it could be used more effectively for the community . Those are examples of, maybe the city could come in using the small site acquisition money, and or, we have to identify who the operators are, right . Theyre mom and pops, do they know who is going to go through the process of purchasing the building . I know there are a lot of things need to be worked out. Im hoping we can do that. Thank you, supervisor mandelman and yee, for leading the charge on this. And please involve me in the conversation. Were happy to help as we present probably one of the largest opportunities to either preserve and or expand these Residential Care facilities. I would imagine, district 11 and district 10, bayview Hunters Point lead the way. Supervisor peskin supervisor haney . Supervisor haney thank you. I second a lot of what supervisor safai said. This is going to take a broad, multipronged approach to be able to both save and protect and expand a lot of the facilities. Similar to supervisor safai, ive heard about some planned for closure or under threat of closure in my district, so i think how ever we can come together when there are these situations, whether were going to acquire them as a city. Whether there are certain things to support them so they can stay open. I think it seems like there is sort of a pattern of a lot of these folks who are getting to the point where they want to go out of business here. Obviously, the pressure that affects all of the other types of important uses in the city, whether thats restaurants or entertainment or things that, when there is money to be made in other things, its hard to keep people doing what we need them to do. This is an essential use we require as a city. So i appreciate the leadership and this is a very important part of that larger strategy. So id love to be added as a coauthor. You said youre looking for coauthors, i would love to be added and i appreciate your leadership on this. Supervisor peskin thank you, supervisor haney. I, too, accept that invitation and add my name as a cosponsor. I think i failed to close Public Comment. Seeing no other members of the public, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman thanks all of you. I want to thank supervisor safai also for noting this is part of a larger effort that the department of Public Health and the mayor are working on. Yes, this year there is going to be a fairly significant increase in the patch that is paid to that the city pays to the nonprofits, which is to the operators of these private boarding care facilities. In addition to that, yes, i think we need to look for sources of funding to acquire buildings and probably get them into nonprofit ownership. Increasingly, theyre not making it or struggling as private operations and it probably makes sense to for the city to be going in a larger way around creating more longterm options for disabled and elderly folks. So, thanks, everyone. Supervisor peskin thank you. Without objection, we will adopt the aforementioned amendments and move via supervisor safai. Well take those without objection. And then well forward to the item to the full board as amended with additional cosponsors without objection. And that brings us to the conclusion of this jampacked agenda. We are adjourned. Shop and dine on the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local Services Within neighborhood. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant. Where will you shop and dine in the 49 . San francisco owes the charm to the unique character of the neighborhood comer hall district. 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