Update on proposition h. Discussion item. The presenter is bridget hicks, senior planner, Planning Department, and bridget, i am going to be passing the controls over to you. Thank you very much. Welcome, bridget. We are absolutely thrilled to having you here. We are looking very much forward to how this will be implemented, so the floor is yours, and after that, well hear from the commissioners if there are any questions, and Public Comment, and then finally, a last round of commissioner comment afterwards. Excellent. All right. Thank you so much. [inaudible] and is expected to pass. The initiative will become effective ten days after the br b board of supervisors certifies the election, which is expected to happen in late december. A conditional use authorization which requires a Planning Commission to an over the counter administrative approval. It eliminates neighborhood notification which have been permitted for land use changes in commercial districted. This seeks to give businesses greater flexibility to adopt their operations during the pandemic. This will not only assist with the recovery, but the recovery and the link of the covid19 pandemic, but also to simplify the process to start a new business in San Francisco. As a part of this permit streamlining, the city shall permit and inspect storefront uses in neighborhood commercial districts within 30 days. We are currently working with the office of building inspection, office of Small Business, department of Public Health, Entertainment Commission and others to implement these multiagency provision. If the city makes a significant error laid in the application process, we shall wave the review and reduce the fees associated with the additional review. Public parklets may now be used to provide service to patrons of restaurants and limit restaurants. Previously, no service was permitted in parklets, but parklets are still to remain open to people who are not patrons of these restaurants. Once the threeyear period has ended, any changes may be made. The Initiative Ordinance removes neighborhood notification requirements to principally permitted changes. Previously, they required a [inaudible] all of the neighborhood commercial Zoning District tables, except for the Mission Street m. C. T. , the mission 24 street m. C. T. , and the soma m. C. T. , have been updated to relaxed use control. Parks activities and nonprofit uses are now principally permitted on all floors in these districts. Nonretail sales and service uses are now principally permitted on the second floor. General entertainment facilities, restaurants, limited restaurants, animal hospitals, and [inaudible] as you can see, many of the uses that were not permitted, indicated been an np, is now allowed, indicated by a c. This is an example of an nc1 district, and all of the tables have been amended, so the proposition is quite lengthy. I wont share all of them with you. You can see restaurants, by previous previously are now principally permitted and can be permitted over the counter, and here is an example of the clements street district, and all of these are available via text and will soon be available via the Planning Commissions website and documentation directly. So the permission ordinance creates a new use called retail work space. This allows work space to be permitted rented on an hourly or daily basis so long as that space has the capability of eating and drinking and faces the street. Restaurants can rent out their space as a coworking space during the day while still operating as a full restaurant at night. One of the larger changes is that bar and Entertainment Venues are now able to switch their use to another use and not lose their permit as an entertainment venue. Previously, if a bar or restaurant was not used as an entertainment venue within three years, they would have to get another permit. The temporary use allowance is good for four years, provided that that period of four years happened within six years of the Effective Date of this ordinance. Another change is that popup retail uses are now allowed in vacant special storefronts. Previously, pop up retail was only allowed in a space occupied by a legally established commercial use. So previously limited special uses and limited corner commercial uses, these are the Grocery Stores on the corners of the residential districts that have been there for tens of thousands almost 100 years sometimes. Previously, they were subject to the stoning provisions of the nc1 Zoning District or the nearest named neighborhood commercial district, if that district was located within a quarter mile. It was quite confusing. Under this proposition, theyre only allowed use in the current nc1 neighborhood Zoning District. Autos change is Outdoor Activity area. Previously, most Outdoor Activity areas required a conditional use authorization to operate. State and local guidelines, as we know, encouraged the out of Outdoor Dining as opposed to Indoor Dining as a means to operate during the covid19 pandemic. Weve seen many businesses take advantage of Outdoor Dining through the citys shared Spaces Program. This change does not apply to bars and is only permitted for restaurants and limited restaurants to operate between the hours of 9 00 a. M. And 10 00 p. M. The outdoor space must be located also on the ground floor and is to be used for seating, no standing, and alcohol and is you presence from outside the premise to the patron seat outdoors. They now conduct their administrative activities onsite as a principal use in the neighborhood commercial district. Previously, nonprofits could only have their functions in the neighborhood district to the services that they provided to the community at that site. We also have something called a bona fide eating place, which comes into play with restaurants and limited restaurants. Weve now expanded the definition, so in addition to the existing definition, which means that a minimum of 51 of the establishments gross receipts comes from food or nonchafrgz sold on the premise, so they can either be defined as a alcoholic beverages sold on the premise, so they can either be defined as a [inaudible] having them account for at least 4200 per occupant based on the maximum occupancy load as determined by the department of building inspection and the fire department. So the idea is this just provides more flexibility for the business to continue to operate as a restaurant or limited restaurant without just meeting that 51 threshold. Upon certification of the election, the Planning Department will begin to process applications in accordance with the permission ordinance. We expect more businesses to qualify with the expansion of these limited reviews and less conditional use authorization, which will greatly use the timeline for these businesses. In addition, we expect to see some storefronts change their operations or uses in response to the covid19 pandemic. We are currently working with the relevant city agencies to implement this 30day review and approval process, and that concludes my informatiopresent. I know it was a lot of a failure or some parts were a success and other parts not so much . Yeah. I think its been expressed from the mayors office, from the Planning Commission and this commission, as well. Everyone is asking, is this going to be a proposition thats going to help people . Were working with our data team to try and pose these questions. I know on the shared Spaces Program, the application, there was a section of optional questions, where people can perabo answer about their businesses; you know, hey, is this something more permanent for you or is this something you want to do that could lead to Something Else . So yeah, were very much looking into it. Okay. Great, and then, lets talk about implementation for a second. So, you know, some aspects of prop h allow for the use of a third say, for example, a third party inspector. I guess my understanding is many of the causes of permit delay is inspectors just simply arent available, the city inspectors, so the ability to use an independent inspector to help move that along, and to be able to do inspections in parallel, that was the other innovation, right, or why they had to be in series is beyond me. But thinking about that, if there are independent third party inspectors, there has to be a process for each department for allowing that to happen. So i think we are going to be asking departments how they intend to go through that process. Maybe this question is coming to you soon, but do we have a sense or have people tarted to talk about how theyre going to implement that side of it because from my perspective, that looked like the heaviest lift from a department change. With yeah, thank you for that question. I think its a significant lift for the city to undertake, but it was explicit and intentional in this legislation that it would happen in this 30 days, so were really working to he can inform us on that. Weve started as you know, planning is not usually the inspection agency, so it will be more the department of building inspection or fire or Public Health, but we are meeting with all of these agencies essentially weekly now to start this process to figure out a, how were going to get this permit approved in the 30day process, and then b, getting the subsequent approval and inspection. I cant speak to the details of the inspection. Thats planning expertise, but we are definitely working with all the agencies that conduct those inspections to make sure that it will happen within 30 days. Well, lets talk about the review part of it, then, because that is the Planning Department. I think one of the things we learned from shared spaces is that it is possible to get things done very quickly, that it turns out its not impossible to do that, and that all we need to do is find the will to make it so. For your typical i know were going to this consolidat consolidated physical location, but its probably going to be a while to be able to use it as full speed. At full speed. Is planning considering going to Cloud Storage im not trying to pin you down. Im just trying to get a sense from you roughly how does planning envision theyre going to meet that requirement . Sure. So we at planning are full on board with dejulio tall review. I think weve kind of been one of the leaders in the city agencies in our electronic plan digital review. I think weve kind of been one of the leaders in in the cithe agencies in our electronic plan, but getting everybody up to speed and staffing has been the challenge. We are working with city agencies to figure out how we can expand the electronic plan review . Right now, its pretty much limited to Affordable Housing projects, but i think the idea with what were thinking are that a lot of Small Businesses, maybe theyre thinking they dont need to do much in emergency roterms of a plan to make that happen, but they dont you know, in a lot of cases, its a swap of a location. So sometimes, the hard copy plans are the cheaper and easier alternative. But as you said, yes, were at the new permit center, but in the pandemic, were rotating in the office. Even now, weve got a handful of planners there every day, processing applications, and, you know, the building inspection, fire, everybody else is there, doing the same thing. So the benefit is at a point where weve been doing this overthecounter review for quite a while, so weve got the process down and working between city agencies, but were looking into ways even if its as simple as an extra box, prop h, thats what you start with first thing in the morning. Even in the pandemic, were never going to get to the way we used to did it, where the owner would be walking the plans over to all the different departments because we dont want to interact with the public that much. You know, were looking to start handling it from the appointment side of it. Right now, they make appointments through the department of Building Inspections website, so were looking at how we can streamline that. We have a screening process i think were at a good stage of having done this during covid enough to have done the basic handle of it and tried some new things to improve that. Well, thats fantastic, and ive very excited, and i know the Small Business community is very excited. And let me just say for the benefit of commissioner ortizcartagena, if any of the groups in these affected communities need support or would like to come and talk to the commission about the issues theyre facing, wed love to hear from them and make sure that theyre getting the caref careful attention like sensitive communities like theirs observe. So i just wanted to know that as we hear more from the community, the commission stands behind you on that. Yeah, and well also be publishing a punch of handouts and documents that well put out and share with your agency and all the other ones so that people can have an easier type interpreting the legislative checks. Okay. Great. So why dont we see if theres any commissioner or see, any Public Comment. We currently dont have any Public Comment, but i would suggest we give the phone number, the access code, and the directions on sfgov can i just say, this is a good time to opine. Whenever i call in, im struggling to commit the meeting i. D. To memory. I dont understand why its a crawl. The whole thing should just be displayed on the screen continuously. Its, like, a video game trying to remember that thing. Thats not able to be the case at the moment, would you like me to read the number up . Yes, stepping off my soap box. Members of the public who will be calling in, the number is 4156550001. Again, that number is 4156550001. The access code is 1463760438. Again, 1463760438. Press pound and pound again to be added to the queue. So i just had this bright idea to make the phone number the background for my webex so, like, it appears behind my head. All right. So what do we want to do . Do we want to wait a couple of minutes and see if anybody calls in . I dont see anybody has any questions for bridget . Press, can i just make another comment . Yeah. I want to take an opportunity to thank all the City Departments that mitigated a lot of our community concern. I dont want to point the finger, but ajoaquin torres an office of workforce development, supervisor ronens office. Its great to see us all come together and maybe they can [inaudible] know, commissioner ortizcartagena, this is a good minute to take the opportunity to comment. Many people both from the community and from city leadership have thanked me for help, and i have tremendous respect for the work you do. Okay. Okay. Now is a time to check and see if theres any Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment . We have no Public Comment right now. Okay. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Is there any further commissioner discussion on the prop h presentation . Seeing none, bridget, thank you so much for coming. We really appreciate it. Were so graceful for this change and this opportunity to help the Small Business community. Its well timed. I think its a great piece of legislation. We will continue to provide support in terms of checking in with the Department Heads and seeing what their plans are. I think my only last comment would be, you know, i think many members of the Business Community dont even know whats available to them with respect to prop h, and so i think the burden is on all of us to help convey that, you know, just even, for example, you think about these bars and Entertainment Venues, some of them have been jerked around from left to right faster than their heads can spin, and in the case of the Entertainment Venues, theyve had to layoff most of their staff. Without having to jump through all of the hoops that they normally have to jump through, thats really helpful, so we as a commission and City Department need to tell them that its easier to do their job so they they arent rolling the city legislative site for new and exciting changes to their sector. So we really do got a communications challenge as much as a procedural challenge, so i know we tried to do a big but there was certainly a Big Communications push around the runup to the campaign, but now that its passed, theres an equal so i guess the one thing id encourage people to do is when people are planning for permits, even if its unrelated to prop h, if its related to the sector that theyre in, perhaps theres a way that we can say oh, by the way, did you know that theres a way you can have a work space in the back of your restaurant or you can use that patio or you can now have this new space . Is i think all of that would be helpful. Thank you so much for your time and hearing our feedback and suggestions. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Yeah, ill be around for questions, and our offices will be in touch. Thanks. Great. Thank you. Next item, please. Clerk item 3, presentation, street cleanliness. Update and report on San Francisco public works activities rel