You made a motion to move jr a blur for seat one, irma lewis for a seat two, jolene you for c3 and Keith Goldstein for seat four. Without objection, that passes. Please read item number three. Three is a hearing to appoint one member term ending january 6 , 2024, to the Small Business commission. I see commissioner i see the commissioner here. Would you like to come up and address the board . Good morning, supervisors. Thank you for the opportunity and your consideration. I was born and raised in San Francisco in the mission district. I have a passion. Im a Small Business owner myself and just knowing the intricacies of real Small Businesses, especially businesses of color, minorities, we have a moral we have a challenge especially if english is not your language of birth. We do not get the same opportunities. Having an advocate the looks like the people we serve is very important, especially as it comes to the permitting process in San Francisco. During my 10 year, i was part of digitizing the San FranciscoBusiness Registration process, which should be something in San Francisco we should be leading the way, but it wasnt. Through my 10 year, i have done that. I have spee5 spares personally started an initiative which will get set in 2020 where we go paperless. No more stacks of paper when we or get all the pamphlets. Im implementing tablets. Those are the little things, but my countless work, you know, i know every single business in the bayview, in the mission, i dont know maybe as much as you, supervisor mar, but they know me when people have problems, they call my cell phone at whatever time. It takes years for commissioner to build up the relationship and understand the intricacies of how to open a business in San Francisco. It has taken a very long time to get to this point where we are able to help the community navigate crazy business processes. Little things like that matter in a city that they always say Small Business is our backbone, but people worked here because moved to because of the flavour of our city and our Small Businesses. I represent that. I am honoured for your consideration for another term as the office of Small Business commissioner. Thank you. Thank you so much. I wanted to thank you for all your work as the one who recruited you to move into this rollback in my legislative age days. It has been such a pleasure to watch you shine on this commission. You truly are a commissioner of the people and are so available, not only to supervisors when we have questions, but to Business Owners and helping them navigate what has become a byzantine process. We have a lot of work to do to write i think what i think we have done wrong in terms of making it virtually impossible to open a Small Business. As you said, many Business Owners go broke before they ever open. That is upsurge. We are happy to change that. It is certainly something that i am looking into and that i know many of you on the Small Business commission, together with been blame and who is an entertainment commissioner, but also a Small Business owner, are looking to all the Small Business owners to help Small Businesses and that is a phenomenal idea. I think it is way overdue and i wanted to express my gratitude to you for all of your hard work thank you. It means a lot. Of course. Any other comments . Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, supervisors. Is there any member of the public to speak who wishes to speak, now is your time. Public comment is closed. I would be happy to do the honours of making a motion to reappoint william to seat three of the Small Business commission seeing no objection, that motion passes you nonthem as they that motion passes unanimously. Item four is a resolution reparenting appointing harlan kelly junior for a four year term ending june 30th, 2023, as the director of San Francisco bay area Regional Water system financing authority. Would anyone like to speak . Public comment is closed. Supervisor mar . I would move that we recommend reappointment of harlan kelly as a director of the San Francisco bay area Regional Water system financing authority. Without objection, that motion passes. Is there any other items . That concludes the agenda for today. Fastest rules Committee Meeting of the year. The meeting is 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. Each corridor has its own personality. Our neighborhoods are the engine of the city. You are putting money and support back to the community you live in and you are helping Small Businesses grow. It is more environmentally friendly. Shopping local is very important. I have had relationships with my local growers for 30 years. By shopping here and supporting us locally, you are also supporting the growers of the flowers, they are fresh and they have a price point that is not imported. It is really good for everybody. Shopping locally is crucial. Without that support, Small Business cant survive, and if we lose Small Business, that diversity goes away, and, you know, it would be a shame to see that become a thing of the past. It is important to dine and shop locally. It allows us to maintain traditions. It makes the neighborhood. I think San Francisco should shop local as much as they can. The retail marketplace is changes. We are trying to have people on the floor who can talk to you and help you with products you are interested in buying, and help you with exploration to try things you have never had before. The fish business, you think it is a piece of fish and fisherman. There are a lot of people working in the fish business, between wholesalers and fishermen and bait and tackle. At the retail end, we about a lot of people and it is good for everybody. Shopping and dining locally is so important to the community because it brings a tighter fabric to the community and allows the Business Owners to thrive in the community. We see more Small Businesses going away. We need to shop locally to keep the Small Business alive in San Francisco. Shop and dine in the 49 is a cool initiative. You can see the banners in the streets around town. It is great. Anything that can showcase and legitimize Small Businesses is a good afternoon and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee for today, monday, december 16th, 2019. Our last land use Committee Meeting of the 2019 calender year. I am aaron peskin, the chair of this committee joined to my left by Committee Member supervisor matt haney and our clerk is ms. Erika major. We welcome, in her own right for her first trial by fire experience is Land Use Committee deputy City Attorney anne pearson. Do you have any announcements . Clerk silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents that include as part of a file should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the januarf supervisors agenda less otherwise stated. We are joined momentarily to my right by vicechair of the Committee Supervisor ahsha safai who rightfully comments that it is quite warm in these chambers so, ms. Major, when you have a second after you read item number 1, if you could ask them to cool this place down you can ask them through the chair. Send some heat to my office since i dont have any right now. That would be great. Sure thing transfer the heat from the board chambers to room 256. Clerk item number 1 entitled regulating the width of sidewalks to reduce the sidewalk width of certain locations along the westerly side of pierce street in front of the maxime Health Center at 1301 pierce street sidewalks are important which is precisely why these instruments come to the board of exercises. This is a proposal to actually reduce sidewalk widths but, apparently, in the Public Interest, in supervisor haneys district on behalf of the department of public works, which i guess we now call public works, which one of you is here to testify. Please come forward. Good afternoon. Im kevin jensen, Disability Access coordinator with public works. Yes, the for examplio for fri remember you coming back with another one. This is the Health Center across the street from Kimball Playground city clinic. Were proposing a fully compliant Building Code and a. D. A. Compliant passenger loading zone at the front of that facility which includes a street level passenger loading aisle. That street level passenger loading aisle is alongside the passenger side of the vehicle pullup space which is the best way to do accessible passenger loading zones. Which we feel is important this being a clinic and all. As planning also agreed with our position on this, it doesnt effectively reduce the pedestrian through way zone in the sidewalks so its consistent with the better streets plan in as much as the pedestrian capacity of the sidewalk is uneffected. I have slides if that would be helpful. Please proceed. The location of that clinic. Kimball playground is the large patch to the right of the subject site. This is the facade with the building as it stands today. You can see the existing sidewalk has cross which were correcting with this work. Headon shot there. Looking back the other way. Its about a 4 grade down the street. Official legislated sidewalk with its 15 feet. Rendering of the project. Weve done some remodeling including putting in an elevator which is a longstanding need in this clinic. The site plan. You can see the indented passenger loading zone with the curb ramp to the rear of the vehicle space. Its directly opposite the entrance ramp and stair at the primary entrance at the main entrance. This is a drawing of the working drawing of the plan which shows dimensions. You can zoom on that in a little bit here. Im sorry this has slopes. The next exhibit has dimensions. One has slopes. Here is the dimensions here. Here are the exhibits if theres any questions. Thank you mr. Jenson. If there are no comments from Committee Members, are there any members of the public who would like to testify on item number 1 . If theres no objection and it will be one heard on the seventh day of january 2020. Without objection that will be the order. Colleagues, id like to skip over item number 2 pending some amendments that deputy City Attorney is working on and madam clerk, call item number 3 out of soareorder clerk to receive public input on the appropriate periods to implement the Hotel Conversion updates. Thank you, i want to thank my colleagues and city staff and the Owner Community and members of the Advocacy Community for sitting through last weeks Long Committee hearing. Given the length of that meeting we continued this meeting after receiving brief presentations from city departments. This is to receive input from stakeholders to implement our 2017h. C. O. Update Hotel Conversion ordinance update in order to ensure that any Property Owners wh owners who ny recoup investments they may have made relying on a tourist versus residential use. The amortization ordinance continues to after that it raises it to 30 days to provide staple residential uses instead of short term tourist uses. The purpose of the citys law has been that residential s. R. O. Units are intended for residents and not for tourists. The definitions have not been as clear as they could have been. Todays discussion is focused on trying to provide an appropriate buffer for those s. R. O. Owners who have been running on a Tourist Hotel model and rendering for short term use. The purpose is to restore s. R. O. S who what they have been and immigrant families and those living on fixed low incomes. A request to contain this meeting can be convened. I still a intend to amend the legislation and get back to the original policy intent that existed since 1981 that all residential rooms are ended for residential uses not seven day tourists and i will ask it in the beginning of the year persuade opursued on a parallel. Well ask questions as well as take Public Comment and then i intend to make a motion if you colleagues will continue to t to the call of the chair. We heard a brief presentation on the background of the h. C. O. But id like to ask Joseph Barber from d. B. I. To come up and lets see if we can get at sometime of the things we cannot have the chance to discuss last week. Thank you. I will not make any comments about where to put your jacket. On ton of the vilers leasing to tourists for nightly stays and operating a hotel they found an additional 13 hotels that were specifically being advertised toe tourists to tour. It is in the northeast corn of the city represented by this supervisor and the supervisor to my left and a hotel that was supposed to be 75 residential and 25 tourist. That listed 100 of all of the units as tourist rentals and another couple of buildings and listed a number of rooms for tourists so the question s. How does the city enforce listings and ensure that residential rooms are not going to tourists . I say that in light of the fact that our short term rental ordinance does not cover s. R. O. S. I mean, just broadly, we generally respond to complaints and Different Hotels suspected of unlawful conversion. There are usual suspects that come up every now and then. We respond to complaints. We go down in the hotels and check records and as of now were enforcing the seven will have dadayminimum and its lime can discover who say tourist or not we stipulate today that you know, if we find theyre not keeping their records correctly, we can find them and we do so a problem we do encounter is it sees theretheres not daily loo us. While were on that subject. I was actually going to raise that, which is mr. Lutins did refer to quote cooking the books in two sets of books. And can you state from your experience what impediments there are to d. B. I. S ability to enforce the h. C. O. Is Record Keeping a problem and have you ever caught an operator or operators not keeping correct books or keeping two sets of books as you said theres a problem with cooking the books to reflect the number of tourist rooms and vacancies. Can you address that . Yeah, i mean, we have caught a few but its sort of anxiety that theres a lot more out there we dont know because its hard to go after additional records. The legislation that you passed including supervis subpoena powd its not showing us the true occupancy of the hotel by giving us the daily logs that they fill out and having a Computer System or something that tells who is in the hotel and who pays for rooms the administrative supervisor power i continue to hear from folks in the community that the practice of keeping units vacant or as its commonly referred to as warehousing, its prevalent, particularly in certain neighborhoods like lower knob hill, the tenderloin. Do you have a sense of how many vacancies are out there and why Property Owners are holding them off the market. Given that the practice of warehousing of precious residential units in the midst of a housing crisis seems to be at odds with the contention that some Property Owners are making that they are trying to make back their frontend investments and hence our am terrization comments i know it does happen. Many units are kept vacant for extended periods and im not sure why that would be if you are trying to make money off of those units. I see it where wore just processing our annual unit usage report inform. We havent completely assembled the data base but its also selfreported and theres some data there as to how many vacancies there are. Its a snapshot when what we have asks for data from one day throughout the year. And weve looked at that before and we can certainly look at it again whats that snapshot tell you overtime if you can produce that out of . In terms of having sa vacancy units are occupied in october 15th of the year. They turned it in on november 1st so they have information from that one day. I can t