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I was asked upon are expected to appear on the board of supervisor agenda on august 11th unless otherwise stated. Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk. Clerk item number one to allow arts activities and social service or philanthropic facilities and covid19 recovery activities as a temporary use in a vacant groundfloor commercial space and affirming appropriate findings. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Press pound and pound again. If you have not done so already please press star 3 to lineup to speak. You are only need to press this once to get in line. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you, ms. Major. Colleagues, we heard this last week. We had to continue it for one week given the amendments. I believe that ms. Amy bine art is here on behalf of the chief cosponsor of the legislation thats been co sponsored by myself, supervisor haney, supervisor fewer and ms. Binear, is there anything that you would like to say before i open this up to Public Comment . This is paul, supervisor and im staffing on this item. We contributed a lot to this agenda so i apologize for confusion. We appreciate supervisor peskin and preston and safai and encouraging legislation. We discussed in the week prior to make it more responsive to the covid19 were in so you will notice the amendments of helping facilitate the greater use of vacant spaces with covid19 recovery and response activities so we welcome any additional feedback from the public and will take any supervisor peskin colleagues , do you have any questions for the chief sponsor or members of the Planning Departments who are available for questions . No questions. Supervisor peskin im sorry, say that again . I just said no questions. Supervisor peskin got it. So, seeing none, madam clerk lets open this up for Public Comment. Clerk yes, mr. Chair. Operations can you check to see if there are callers in queue. If there are callers that are ready. If you have not done so press star 3 to be added to the queue and your hand is raised and you will be notified. Any callers . There are four callers in the queue. Supervisor peskin thank you. Caller hello, everyone. My name is mary. Im a resident of the district 1. Im also a parent and former student of city college, San Francisco. Im here today to comment on the balboa reservoir contract maam, maam. We are going to get to that item. That item is further down the calender. Im sorry, go ahead ms. Major. Clerk so, again. This is for item number 1. Its the planning code to allow arts activities and social service and philanthropic facilities in covid19 recovery activities. If you are in line for balboa, please press star 3 to get out of line. Next speaker, please, for item number one. Caller i was originally here for balboa but i also believe that having some form of arts and Services Open or accessible to the public is crucial in these times. Thank you for your comment. Feel free to comment on the balboa items later. Next speaker, please. Hello. Im here to address the issue of non essential construction that is taking place in tenant occupied multifamily apartment buildings in San Francisco. Am i in the right spot . Supervisor peskin no, sir. I am the author of that legislation. Its not on todays calender. There will be an opportunity to speak about that in the future. Today, it is not on our calender. Caller my apologies, we were given wrong information. Supervisor peskin there was a thought it would be on todays calender but it turned out not to be the case. Caller is that now posted elsewhere on the website . Supervisor peskin no, on the website you will not see it. We dont yet have a date. Were working on a date. Hopefully we will see it soon. It is not on todays calender. If you email me at aaron. Peskin sfg. Org i will have our office keep you informed. Caller ok. Excellent. Thank you, very much. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Caller mr. Chair, that completes the queue. Ok. Public comment is now closed. Colleagues, do we have a motion to send this item as heard on july 20th, as amended on july 20th as heard today to the full board with recommendations . So moved. Moved by supervisor safai, madam clerk, on that motion a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion as stated, supervisor preston . Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Clerk you have three ayes. Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk. Can you please read the next item. Clerk item number 2 is an or dennance amending b planning code for the conditional use and approval process and the application fee for a uses of commercial space and affirming appropriate findings if members of the public wish to provide Public Comment, call the number 415 6550001 and the meeting i. D. Is 14672942222. Press pound and pound again to speak. If you have not done so already press star 3 to lineup to speak. The system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. When we get to Public Comment you will notify that you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Supervisor peskin thank you, ms. Imagine o i would like to thank my co sponsors, ronen, fewer and haney and invite my colleagues on this panel to feel free to join as co sponsors. I do really want to thank my chiefofstaff who came up with a catchy phrase, c. U. , conditional use. Commissioner mandelman had a report in march the meaning through this legislation and i think weve all experienced this, arose out of mine and other offices work to help Small Businesses through the permitting offices and where weve all repeatedly encountered frustrations as applications would get lost on the desks of staff at Planning Department or more often repeatedly be transferred from one planner to another. We also reeyes th rerealize thee storefront conditional uses to be treated in much the same manner as conditional uses for extremely large developments which were aimed at regulating things like off Street Parking consistent and curb cuts consistent with longstanding policies of the city. The poster child in my district for this legislation is inaudible which took some 340 days after submitting an application, which should have been streamlined and as i said earlier super mandelmans report really showed all of the deficiencies. The fundamental premise of this legislation is that rather than the first way, which is everything is subject to inaudible longtimeconsuming conditional use or second wave which is everything is principally permitted as a matter of right. What this legislation does is finds the third way. It gets rid of the conditional use process but still allows healthy, Meaningful Community input and dialogue and is we really dug into the Planning Departments Community Business priority Processing Program which they had some cute name for, which i cant remember, which the Commission Adopted by resolution in 2030 and it was well intended but has been less than perfectly implemented as demonstrated by accounting and more recently, tractortrailer big apple. And under this legislation, those projects who have been automatically eligible for a hearing on the consent calender of the Planning Commission within 90 days, not 365 days. And there is still a staff report that would have to address whether the project meets the criteria of conditions and that is necessary and desirable but theres no reason that Small Business owners, particularly during this pandemic, should be hiring lawyers and permit expediters to make their case. Lastly, this legislation, would slash the fees in half which is, i think, commonsense during this pandemic and i commend this legislation to you and with the support of the Small Business commission and i also will, in a minute, invite supervisor ronens office through a binard to address the committee and i want to thank supervisor ronen for being my first cosponsor on this effort. But most importantly, i want to thank a whole series of communitybased organizations and individuals. Betty lilly, with the china Town Merchants Association and the north Beach Business Association that voted unanimously to support this legislation and the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and the San Francisco chamber of commerce with that i would like to call on this. Amy im just unmuting myself and thank you so much. Chair peskin and Committee Members. Ledge lay supervisor peskin we can barely hear you. Is that better . I will speak loudly. So i just want to take two minutes, first to express supervisor ronens strong support for the legislation, which shes signed to as cosponsor. This legislation, for most neighborhoods is a reasonable and effective way to remove unnecessary burdens and costly delays for Small Businesses that are able to take the lead to get started during this time of so much uncertainty. But second in the main reason i wanted to speak is to thank supervisor peskin and especially legislative aid lee hephner for working with our office and the calle24 district on amendments that chair peskin is going to introduce today or has always speculated to the members. The calle 24 was added to the planning code in recognition of the need to protect the historyy and culture of the latino cultural district in the heart of the mission. Calle is not a destination but home to newcomers and long time families, artists, mom and pop stores and its been hit by overwhelming displays and now the brunt of the covid19 crisis. The cu process has been used by calle to ensure Community Input and to proactively and effectively engage with merchants to the corridor. Were happy to continue working with planning and the cultural district to refine how the c. U. Process works on 24th street but for now we really appreciate its being exempted from the new rules. I just want to say thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. And, i do believe the originations of the 1986 neighborhood commercial district legislation long for even my time was the notion neighborhood selfdetermination. So, i completely welcome those amendments, which i have in deed circulated to my colleagues and will go through shortly but before i do that, on behalf of the Planning Department, i believe we have mr. Sanchez. Are you there . I am here, yes. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Good afternoon, supervisors, Diego Sanchez with Planning Department staff. Supervisors, on may 28th, the Planning Commission considered this ordinance after some deliberations the Planning Commission voted 4 3 to recommend the ordinance with modifications and the modifications include in lieu of essentially codifying the priority Processing Program or going by the cute name of cb3p we should permit at the first story use that contributes to retail vitality for a period of three years and other measurs limiting them. That concludes my remarks and im available for questions, thank you. Supervisor peskin so, colleagues, do you have any questions from mr. Sanchez . No, sir. Supervisor peskin seeing no questions, and this does not happen very often anymore because the legislative and the executive branches are actually working much closer in collaboration than has historically happened. Many, many years ago, my colleagues, supervisor jake introduced proposition d and amendment to the charter that split the appointment on the Planning Commission to the board of the exercises supervisors ano mayor. As mr. Sanchez just said, this was a 43 vote at the Planning Commission. Three from the appointees of the peoples house, the board of supervisors, who actually agreed with the legislation without amendment for to the executive branch that actually wanted to go with the two choices. One of the two choices. The choice of everything is principally permitted but, i think weve done a pretty good job of parsing this and weve done that by making sure that those kinds of uses, adult entertainment, tobacco use, a number of other uses that are traditionally very controversial and impactful to neighborhoods, are not set into the context of this legislation. Quite frankly, there were a number of things that went before the Planning Commission relative to peer relief that Planning Department staff did not comment on and with all due respect to mr. Sanchez, actually the department, and mr. Star, there are a number of things that were put forward relative to the types of uses that they could have recommended to the commission. Instead, we ended up with as, mr. Sanchez represented by a 54 vote but three came from the board appointees and the fourth from the executive branch. With that, why dont we open this up to Public Comments, unless there are any questions from my colleagues. I just had a quick question, chair peskin, maybe for you, im just curious of the exempted uses in the legislation that you mentioned from the ones that are likely to be more controversial and requires some input. Does that track the what is already exempted under the existing Planning Program or are these new classes of exemptions . Yes. So, the answer to supervisor preston is that does track what the i forget the fancy term they use, the cp3p or 3pp or whatever it is, whatever the fancy term was, jess, that tracks and fundamentally, what we are doing is co cot a and were bringing the time down to the neighbor groups so desire and if that does not happen, the fees are refunded in whole to the applicant. So with that, lets open this up to members of the public for Public Comment. Madam clerk clerk thank you. We have 18 listeners with two in queue to speak. Operations is double checking to see the callers. If you have not done so please press star 3 to be added for item number 2 to speak. That is the planning code conditional use review and approval process. Supervisor peskin first speaker, please. My name is lakula and im a resident of district 11 and African American woman, who has lived in this area for 70 years. Im a lifelong learner and a retired r. N. With the city and county of San Francisco. I have witnessed, over several years, 20 years, the continued efforts to privatize the lands of the puc has long granted to the supervisor peskin with all due respect, i do not, in any way, want to interrupt you and i very much would like you to comment on the balboa reservoir items which are 7 and 8. Let me finish, sir. Im very concerned and adamant leo posed to the puc and other parties attempt to privatize this public land. This is not acceptable to our community. I dissen franchise the African American community, the city college land and usage of the supervisor peskin with all respect, and your comments have been heard and noted by me and my colleagues, we are going to get to that item. Right now, were talking about streamlining conditional use authorization in our neighborhood commercial districts. You are welcome to come back and comment under item 7 and 8 and we have heard what you have to say but madam clerk, are there any other individuals who would like to speak to item 2 on todays calender . Clerk operations is checking. This is Public Comment for item number 2 on the agenda, the planning code on conditional use review and approval process. Folks that are waiting to speak on items number 7 and 8, the balboa reservoir project should not be in queue. If you are in queue express star 3 to remove yourself. If you would like to speak on item number 2, go ahead and press star 3 if you have not already and well call you and your line will be notified that you have been unmuted and you may begin. Supervisor peskin next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is chevy and director of Public Policy at the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and i am calling on item number 2 and were commenting here to show support for this ordinance which will save Small Businesses and especially the independent restaurants we represent both time and money. Weve continuously advocated for the city to look at how to make it easier to open and operate a Small Business in San Francisco and