Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 13, 2024

Are high, so in terms of why that matters in terms of framework, it could be interesting to do that. Another thing is why it matters for people . I think that stormwater regulation does matter for people, especially when its raining and things are flooding. Thats a huge reason, so im wondering if this body could help with translating how some of this work shows up in peoples daytoday lives. And part of that could be with the universitys developing scorecards on why those things matter that can be easily disseminated and digested by the community. And the other thing is just metrics impact. Thinking through one of the things i was thinking is interesting theres already a lot of what you mentioned here, too, in terms of goals and items that Treasure Island is delivering on, but i still dont know what those things are and what they actually mean. We talk about carbon sequester, but what does that mean to people . I guess, like, what is the baseline in like, lead m. D. . Is everybody doing that . If not, we should be targeting why everybody is above the baseline. We should be mentioning is this baseline that youre touching on or are you not going to talk about that . Very much concerns. Lets see. Mr. Dunlap . Thank you very much, madam chair. I think this is a great, brilliant idea, and im really excited about the potential for being platinum. I think thats exciting, and it sort of raises a question, though, you know, we never hear about Treasure Island getting platinum, the lead platinum. We hear about outages, that kind of stuff. I think another way to get it to the press so we start getting the really positive press we deserve because everybodys staff, board has worked extremely hard, and you know were doing meaningful work, but it all ends up in peoples heads, at least, that oh, youre the people that are poisoning everyone, and were not. You know, theres so many great things, so a Committee Like this could maybe also tip the press balance. So i really like that idea and of course explaining why it matters. Thank you. I think we need to generate our own press, and that is what this is. And i just want to say certainly sustainability and position and the global everything, and even where theyre going to be overlapping, land use and transportation is land use, and all those things are related into that. This allows the flexibility into one where we are finishing one discussion, now we have two others that we can supplement that, you know, back and forth, back and forth. And i also would like to also have zero waste, which is really where San Francisco is leading and all of that to be a key item also in what were doing because our development plan, the reason we have this lead platinum, again, is what were doing with stonewater energy and all were using them, and the plan that we have with the p. U. C. And the waste and the solids and all of that. This allows the opportunity to how we have this new island, and how we are even going to go beyond what San Francisco main already have. So no matter how we cut this thing, we now have the flexibility to do what we ever wanted to do with our discussions. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment . Hearing none, next item. Clerk item number 11, discussion of future agenda items by director. Any future items . I just wanted to point out really quickly that, again, in the march meeting on the island, we will be looking at the very, very important issue about earthquake preparedness. Thank you very much for that. Hearing no other items, next item, please. Clerk meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good afternoon and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, december 9. My name is mr. Peskin. I have the distinction of being the chair of this cheat. Joined to my left by matt haney and supervisor safai to my right. Our clerk is ms. Major. Do you have any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards to be included should be submitted to the cleric. Items will appear on the 17th board of agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Could you please read the first item and welcome supervisor safai. Item number one is business and tax regulations code to extend through fiscal year 202021. The temporary suspension of the application as a Business Registration and fee requirements to Transportation Network Company Drivers and taxi drivers. Thank you for hearing this. This is a continuation of a Business Registration fee suspension that we enacted last year, both were taxi drivers and t. N. C. Operates while the city continues to challenge the validity after senate bill, 182 that was sponsor by uber and opposed by our local state senator scott wiener, which basically sought to preempt our ability to require local licenses for t. N. C. Drivers, running their own commercial carrier businesses. Ms. Freed from the treasurer Tax Collectors Office is here. And on behalf of colleagues, if you have any questions, please address ms. Freed. The floor is yours. I think you covered i think here. I just wanted to make a brief reminder that property taxes are due tomorrow. So please dont be late. That would be december 10. And after that you have interest, fines, penalties. Its a hefty mistake to make. Ive been there. Dont do it. Anything you would like to add to my comments . Thats all colleagues, any questions for the Tax Collectors Office . Seeing none, are there any members of the public who would like to testify on item number 1 . Dont all run up here at once. Public comment is closed. And colleagues, i would like to make a motion to send this to the full board with recommendation as a Committee Report to be heard by the full board of supervisors tomorrow, december 10, tax day. And seeing no objection, we will do that without objection and supervisor fewer has joined us. And i want to apologize to supervisor fewer because i would like to take item 7 and 8 out of order, unless supervisor fewer, item number 2, can be done quickly. All right. Then please read the next item. Item number 2 is anard nancy to require at least half of residential units in educator Housing Projects to have two or more bedrooms, to eliminate the requirement that educator Housing Projects have a minimum amount of three bedroom units, conditioned on the passage of proposition e in the november 5, 2019, consolidated election. Thank you. And i would like to take this opportunity foremost to thank the voters of San Francisco who saw fit to adopt this last month in november and thank supervisor fewer and her office for their leadership as well as cosponsors for this measure, my colleague supervisors haney, walton and mar and as well as the Affordable Housing advocacy community, our teachers and faculty and labor allies for their hard work to pass proposition e, the Affordable Homes and families and educators now act. Which was truly a collaborative effort, and we pledged to the mayor that we were going to continue to work collaboratively together and design a unit mix for one particular project, Francis Scott quietiver housing. I will turn it over to supervisor fewer. Thank you. The legislation before you today is a small tweak to proposition e, which was passed by over 76 percent of voters in this recent election. I would first like to thank my cosponsors of the initiative, supervisors peskin, haney and walton as well as the mayor and the board of supervisors for unanimously supporting prop e in helping us to ensure to voters overwhelming help us ensure voters overwhelmingly passed it. We all know in this Housing Affordability crisis we need to create more Affordable Housing in every part of the city. As we all know, San Francisco is exceeding our goals for market ray rate housing, but we are falling short of our goals for low and moderate Income Housing. As of last year, the city produced 96 percent of the market rate units needed to meet our goal for above moderate Income Housing by the year 2022. However, we have only produced 30 percent of affordable units needed to meet our goals for very low, low, and moderate Income Housing in order to close in gap, we have been working to provide more funding for Affordable Housing and make it easier and faster to build. My colleagues and i have been pursuing new Funding Sources for Affordable Housing, including legislation i authored with unanimous cosponsorship which allocates 50 percent of excess funds the city gets back from the state for Affordable Housing. This added 70 million in additional funds for Affordable Housing in this years budget alone and will continue to add tens of millions more each year. We also unanimously passed legislation from supervisor haney, to increase the job housing linkage fee and provide hundreds in millions for Affordable Housing. In this recent election we all worked together to put a 600 million housing bond on the market which was approved by 71 percent of voters. All of these proposals will help address the number one barrier to building Affordable Housing, funding. To address other barriers identified by Affordable Housing nonprofits, our office and colleagues worked with the stakeholders to develop and pass Affordable Homes for educators and families now initiative, which became prop e, in order to make it easier and faster to build Affordable Housing in every neighborhood across San Francisco. Our office began working on this legislation to make it easier to build Affordable Housing in outer neighborhoods that have seen little investment in Affordable Housing. It builds off the success of the legislation that former supervisor jane passed last year to make Affordable Housing a principally permitted use in service, arts and Light Industrial districts. We also worked with the educators of San Francisco to develop a Pilot Program for educator housing that would serve the need oferts and a wide range of income levels and household sizes on land owned by the School District or city college. No one understands the need of our educators better than the educators themselves and we are proud to have partnered with them on this initiative. In order to ensure these projects serve the diverse Housing Needs of educators, the ordinance currently requires at least 30 percent of the units in an educator Housing Project are two bedroom units and 20 percent are three bedroom units. It was important to the teachers that projects dont end at being primarily made up of studios and one bedroom units as this would exclude a sizable portion of our workforce, many of whom live with their families. The legislation changes the unit so that 50 percent of all units will be two bedrooms or larger, rather than requiring a set percentage of three bedroom units. This will allow for more Design Flexibility ensuring that projects arent just for single educators. It will allow the School Districts working with the educating community to make the decision about units on a sight site by site basis. Im excited to see new Funding Sources available including at the state level and local Affordable Housing bond. I cant wait to see more Affordable Homes being built in my neighborhood and every neighborhood across San Francisco. I hope i can count on your support today to send this to the full board tomorrow as a Committee Report. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor fewer. Supervisor safai. Thank you, chair peskin. Thank you, supervisor and others for your leadership on this and as she said, thank you to our friends in labor, particularly the united educators and others who really led this forward along with all the colleagues on the board. This was a really important conversation about advancing and making educator housing a priority. The and i know this was largely driven by educators in general, particularly around Francis Scott keys. I wanted to make a footnote about the reference to or the acknowledgement of familyfriendly units. So the upon us of familyfriendly units, i know this language was adjusted to say two bedrooms or more so i want to keep that on the radar. We had a lot of those conversations while we were crafting the home s. F. Program, the couple of those projects were coming through our districts right now where we are pushing the developers to consider three bedrooms for families. So just wanted to highlight that. I know that president yee also brought to to my attention so we are going to keep that conversation going. I appreciate all your hard work on this. And i wanted to give a little homage and underscore the importance of familystyle units. So this language does acknowledge that, and we want to continue that and ensure that that is a big part of the conversation. Are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item number 2 . These are come forward. Good afternoon. Planning Department Staff. The Planning Commission heard this item on november 21 and voted unanimously to approve it. Thank you. You are not a member of the public but we appreciate that. Are there members of the public who would like to and you are here on what item . [off mic] got it. Good afternoon. With the council of Community Housing organizations. Just to say im fully in support of these amendments. Its great to see that we are able to pass this as a ballot measure with 75 percent of the voters with a large absolute majority throughout the west side of the city. I think changing the dialogue and narrative about how we want to see housing built throughout the city. I think its important that we have a project that is moving forward and other projects that we want to make sure this affects and helps those projects to actually succeed quicker, sooner, faster. So again, thank you, supervisor fewer and supervisors for making the comments about family housing, which is extremely important and extremely important discussion to have in the city. Thank you. And thank you to the council of Community Housing organizations for your support. Next speaker. Good afternoon, cory smith on behalf of the housing coalition. Im excited about how the dialogue has shifted over the last few years where building housing and building Affordable Housing on the west side was a little bit of a poisonous political topic. And weve gotten to the conversation where we know we all need housing. We need as much Affordable Housing as possible. So through this and future pieces of legislation and potentially ballot measures, we look forward to continuing that progress and i want to thank everybody for their leadership on this issue. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you for your support. I will note that supervisor pioneered that. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to send this to the full board as a Committee Report with recommendation made by supervisor safai . We will take that without objection. Supervisor fewer, thank you for your leadership. Colleagues, if theres no objection i would like to call items 7 and 8 out of order. Item 7 is an ordinance amending the planning code and zoning map to establish the 2,000 marin street special use district and to create additional key site exceptions for the flower mart site and appropriate fundings. Item 8 is an ordinance approving a Development Agreement between the city and county of San Francisco and kr flower mart for the development of an approximately 6. 5acre site at fifth and brannan street, with various Public Benefits including a new onsite wholesale flower mart. Thank you. Supervisor haney who is the supervisor that presides over the storied flower market, an institution that has existed for over a century in the city and county of San Francisco, actually started in what technically now district 3 at lotus fountain before it migrated south of the slot into what is now district 6 and ultimately migrated to where it has been for over half a century at sixth and brannan streets. This is a institution that

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