[please stand by] [please stand by] good afternoon, welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, october 19th, 2020. I am the chair of the Committee Supervisor peskin joined by Committee Member dean preston and soontobe joined by vicechair supervisor safai. Our court is miss erika major. Do you have any announcements, ms. Major . Due to the covid19 Health Emergency, and to protect Board Members the legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to state and federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through the conference and participate in the meeting to the same ex at the present time as if theres physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgot. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak during Public Comment period and call the number on the screen thats 415 6550001, again that number is 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 146 784 273. Press pound and pound again after you enter the meeting i. D. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions and you will be unmuted, and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up press star three to be added to to the speaker line. Speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television and you may submit Public Comment. Email myself, the land use and transportation clerk at eric erica. Major. And if you submit Public Comment a email it will be forded to the supervisors and made part of the official file. You may also submit written comments via u. S. Postal service to city hall and room 244 San Francisco, california, 94102. Finally, items acted upon today are expect to appear on the board of supervisors agenda october 27th, unless otherwise stated. Do you have any additional comments . No. Could you please call the first item. Item number one is an ordinance accepting certain Public Infrastructure improvements for purposes of city maintenance and liability including water pump stations and the emission base south redevelopment plan. If you would like to make Public Comment on this call 415 6550001 and the meeting i. D. Is 146 784 2743. When you express star three, the system will prompt you that you raised your hands and when you get to Public Comment you will hear that you have been unmuted and you may make your comments. Thank you, i had a number of questions and i want to thank nad were from the success or agency now called ocii for looking into the questions that i had which she can respond to publicly but the answers to those questions and the liability to the city at mission bay have been satisfactory answered for me and with that, e take the floor. Good afternoon, supervisors. We can barely hear you. Im sorry, i do have my now you are sounding ok. Ok, im sounding ok. Sorry about that thank you for hearing this item again. I appreciate the questions that you have. I have my team here with me who will present from public works. Mike who can respond to questions specific to the project and we also have a representative from puc as you asked. I want to start with these infrastructures have been completed and have been in use for two to 10 years. When infrastructure is complete, the city is required to accept them but in the process, what is taken us a little longer and weve been working with your office and other city departments to get that working. The engineering and design of the infrastructure was done in conformance with city specific cases and it was approved and permitted by the city. The infrastructure was monitored by public works and the puc has shown us the infrastructure was built to standards. As such, weve been because of the soil sediment at mission bay, weve worked diligently with our City Partners to set aside some funds to and they can speak us us as well it was available and estimated at cost and the idea is it would be at cost at whatever time the work would be to get done. The reason were asking for an acceptance to allow for the streets to remain open so that we can continue to partner with the developer to finish the infrastructure. Ill turn it over to john thomas. Speak to us the subsidence issues if you will and any impacts that might have both on the surface and subsurface infrastructure. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, chair peskin and members of the Committee John thomas with public works. Im here to speak to you about the commission bay acceptance. If its possible, theres a powerpoint that could be shared. Sure. Go ahead, please. Should i do that from here or is that something that. We can share your screen. E give me one second. Now that they changed and updated teams, i find it harder to find things. Your share should be on the upper returned. Righthand. I do have that but im not seeing my item here for some reason. Its not coming up for me. Madam clerk, do you have the slide . Yes. If you can cue that up for us, please. There we go. All right. Thank you. So, second slide, please. So you see our infrastructure request for acceptance and that includes streets and sidewalks. Street slights, the sewer system, stormwater pump stations, the water system, communication and traffic signals. Throughout mission bay and on the blocks described here. Next slide, please. As chair peskin alluded there are geotechnical experience and the history of studies on mission bay and our Geotechnical Team was tread well and roll owe and they studied the underlying slow conditions and determined there was extensive presence of bay mud and settlement was as a result. The team evaluated surcharging of the Mission Bay Area. Given the extent, both depth and breadth, the decision to surcharge would have impacted many existing streets for a year or more in the expected impacts to the area would have been too bright to bear at the time. There are also various concerns that were raised, the mom connection tee in that would be under those exiting city streets by the surcharging and and the site civil was to provide a hand other interface at the sidewalk and building to maintain access for the most part, the intent was to have the main entrances to those buildings setback to allow for setment that would come. We have seen the settlement as predicted and we have not experienced any breaks in. Fourth and king was one of the first of the buildings that was constructed in the area and while there are problems there, they can be addressed and will be by the fronting Property Owner. Subsequent developers have made the appropriate adjustments. All of that has been uniform in blocks and theres been no differential settlement . Thats correct. It has been performing as expected and and settling as one so things are looking pretty good. They have been reviewing all of the installations and its a rigorous process over the years. In consultation with other city agencies, public works issued determination of completion and the infrastructure was ready for its intended use and as the director mentioned, the street have been operating under licenses with the Development Partner to this point. Once accepted, then the departments will operate and maintain these facilities and theyre consist apartment with the citys general plan and the eight priority policy of the planning point section 101. 1. Next slide, please. This is construction in the Mission Bay Area and. The proposed legislation will accept offered of dedication with streets and roadways for their designated and inpended purpose accepting liability through q a 17 maps the board is establishing sidewalk width and street grades and dedicating the importance for public use. Some of the activities that have had begun to occur in the area as the development have been completing and as you can see this is bringing much needed using including dock parks and there is renaming of streets the proposal includes that the change of el doradao and i believe members of the border are well aware of karin woods. She was very active in this area and passed away recently and in that section to karin woods way. Also, exiting channel street is proposed to rename miss creek in channel street here. That concludes my presentation this afternoon. We also have kahal hennessey from project works from ociaa and available for any questions. Colleagues, i have had extented officers with ocii and other parties including the puc so if you have questions ask them now. Ceiling none. Thank you mr. Thomas is there any Public Comment on this item number one . Thank you, mr. Chair. James, can you let us know if there are any callers are ready. No callers are in queue at this time. Ok. Seeing no Public Commenters, Public Comment is closed. And colleagues, if theres no objection, i would like to make a motion to send this idea with recommendation as a Committee Report and on that motion, a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion as stated [roll call[ roll call vote ] the administrative code to up plain con ton firm play management and the National Flood insurance criteria and to remove provisions and the findings. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment, this call the number on the screen. That is 415 6550001 and the meeting i. D. Is 146. From the City Administrators Office we have mr. Bill barnes. The floor is yours. Chair peskin, thank you for we Secretary Committee adopt today and last time you heard this there were concerns around definitions of regulatory floodway as well as Historic Resources being more accurately defined so its consistent with state and local preservation laws. Fema sent us the maam on september 23rd so our priorities are required to adopt at the local level working with the new federal requirements and of places for state programs and or historic listed on a local inventory and historic placed including the certified by a program or the secretary of interior and we would that you earlier point the out a number of staff and different availables if are theyll able and i know the agenda is long so with that ill Secretary Committee to adopt the amendments and recommend the items. Are there any questions or comments from members . I want to thank you for listening to our comments or my comments earlier and i have reviewed those amendments which colleagues are set fourth on pages seven, eight, and nine of the subject legislation and have been adequately described by mr. I dont believe they were substantive in nature but we defer to attorney pearson for her advice. Anne pearson, you are correct, chair peskin, theyre not substantive. Why dont we go to Public Comment and then ill make a motion to accept the amendment and lets hear from the public. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak to item number 2. Thank you mr. Chair. We have james checking o to see if there are any callers in cue and press star 3. Would you let us know if you have any callers on the line. Public comment is closed and i would like to make a motion to adopt on the bottom of page 24 and 25 page 8 lines 5 through seven and the deletion at line 20 and the deleg as describe lie nine. On that motion, madam clerk, a roll call please. [ roll call vote ] you have three ayes. I would like to send the item with recommendations to the full board and on that motion roll call please. [ roll call vote ] next item, please. Administrative to require sellers of the multi Family Residential buildings to provide a new right of first order and first refusal for organizations if a multi Family Residential building is not under contract or remains unfold after one year and after each year thereafter, members of the public who wish to provide public item call the number streaming on the screen. And punch in the meeting i. D. And press pound and pound again after you your code. Mr. Chair. Thank you, supervisor fewer, the floor is yours. Yes, thank you chair peskin and good afternoon supervisors safai and supervisor preston. Today im happy to move forward on our legislation to enhance the opportunities to purchase act which went into effect over a year now. They have helped qualifying non profits purchase apartment buildings at risk of losing their affordability and preserve them as Affordable Housing. This is helped prevent the displacement of some of our most vulnerable tenants in San Francisco by removing their homes from the Real Estate Market and i thrilled to see the state legislate or is not working with some of our Community Partners on a state wide version thanks to the success in San Francisco. I would like to thank our Community Partners who make it possible and all my colleagues for co response organize this Ground Breaking legislation last year and they are based on the experience and input of our Affordable Housing providers on the ground over the past year and these amendment also do the follow things. Make it easier for qualified non profits to decide whether to make an offer on a building by requiring this sellers to provide them with more complete disclosures. Provide more transparency and engagement by requiring sellers to provide them with an information see about these will further enhance cope a and make sure everything is cope asset tick. At the request of the office of economic and Workforce Development i i have one amendment i will make. They will include a land dedication to the city for new Affordable Housing construction and this amendment would clarify that these land dedications are not subject to copea, you should have received a copy of the legislation with mendment highlighted on page 3. Ive been informed by a City Attorney this amendment will trigger a continuance so i hope to have your support on this amendment today and on the full ordinance next week. In addition to thanking all our Community Partners, i would also like to thank supervisors walton, yee, mandelblite mandel. Are there comments from Committee Members . Lets go to Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Mandelblit. Good afternoon, supervisors, this is peter cohen with the council of Community Housing organizations. Just wanted to thank supervisor fewer for moving this legislation forward. You know, the Community Opportunity to purchase act kopa was just passed and implemented about a year ago when it went into effect and these refinements and updates are going to be so we are continuing if you will the tinker with the tool and these are good a investments and i also want to emphasize how impactful and important and valuable it has been and its been fantastic over the past several years and copa adds more impact and more opportunities and i think were all going to be very proud to see how effective this is been and how San Francisco is a leader. Thank you to all the board and for supervisor fewer for getting this legislation introduced. You n. Speaker, please. Linda chapman. This seems like a good direction to go into actually preserve the Affordable Housing that we have. And farber to try to have people if you are going to try to create common interests development and its farber to have people who have relatively similar incomes in a particular project rather than trying to sandwich people with relatively relow resources into these expenses and market rate condos and hope when theyre each away doze except their amount of their mortgage and they help with our property tax and so on to manage and i want to say i dont know if you have havent had this kind of experience and that you have no protection. Theres state law but you have to hire lawyers to enforce it and even in buildings which the city have at the same time, my board was driving us out and you know, also, if the trust thats not land trust does not understand that when they buy these buildings, theres tremendous amount of work thats going to have to be done, not necessarily advisable but it wasnt in mind which was beautifully maintained building as far as you could see and millions of dollars worth and it is on people to pay with their own special assessments and so there are things that need to be considered because people will lose their investment and their homes and i was able to pay the 77,000. But i still lost my home because of the horrible abuses of the way that the place was. Next speaker, please. Caller good afternoon, this is anastasia. Thank you supervisor fewer and to supervisor walton, yee, mandelman and cosponsors of the amendment. This will level the Playing Field between speculators and communities nonprofit organizations and i fully support these amendments. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any members of the public that would like to testify on thi