Good afternoon, this meeting will come to order. The regular meeting of land use committee. Im supervisor cohen. Our clerk is mr. Victor young and also want to acknowledge and thank sfgov tv who are broadcasting the meeting. I want to recognize mark bunch and Jessie Larsson for their talent. Do we have announcements . Please silence cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards should be submit today the clerk. Items will appear july 19 boferd supervisors meeting unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Item one. Administrative code to create aforth preference for people who live our work in San Francisco in addition to existing preferences in allocaturing Affordable Housing units to affirm the Planning Departments determination under the california environment 8 quality act. Supervisor weanser the author and believe he has a presentation. Thank you very much. Ill limit it to 45 minutes. Just joking mpt today is a amendment i will offer for existing legislation to provide a preference and help for victims of fires. People who are burned out of their apoormts due to fire to give priority accessing Affordable Housing. We have seen way too many fires in San Francisco year after year particularly in the last few years terrible epidemic of fires in the Mission District resulting in displacement where people are burned out of their homes with no notice what so ever. Just a terrible tragedy and traumatic event for anyone to have a fire who burns you out of your home and lose your position squz dont have a place to live. Even someone with resources the horrible trauma. To put on top of that, the insane Housing Market inf San Francisco and inability of a good number oaf the fire victims to afford housing in San Francisco. As one level of trauma on top of another level of trauma and need the help. A few weeks goy r ago ewe considered legislation to provide preference in Affordable Housing loterary for people who live our work in San Francisco. This is a legislation im author to say people who live our work in San Francisco get statutory preference in Affordable Housing lottery. Long over due. I asked to snd back to committee to add in victims of fire and burned out of the units and as a result we are here today and distributed language with the amendment. There is a lot of work going on to try to address the fire epidemic that we have. A few years back the board passed my legislation to create the Good Samaritan program that provides a mechanism to landlords to take unvictims of fire or earthquake or other dejaster related deplacement and provide low rent with one or two years with a temporary 10 squaens that is a Successful Program. Another solution the fire victims assist nss fund sponsor by president breed and supervisor campos. We need a longer solution for people burned out of the units for at least 6 month jz giving preference in the Affordable Housing lottery makes sense. This will place the victims in the Affordable Housing preference category as people evicted under the ellis act or owner movement. We place a sun set date december 31, 2020 and that will allow our seckcessors as it may be to take a look where we are with fires and is it a still a problem and how has the program worked and the board can renew at that time. We also have a clean up amendment with category two residents displaced by owner move in. When the ellis act Affordable Housing pref rchbs was required it had a requirement that the person had to have resided 10 years continuously in the unit and that was amended out of the legislation so you dont have to have lived there for 10 years but left in owner move in evictions so we are making that a [inaudible] after Public Comment i will ask that we put the amendment language in to support and help fire victims access Affordable Housing and ask it forward to the full board. The Mayors Office of housing and Community Development is here today to answer any questions that may arise. Thank you very much. Thank you very much supervisor wiener. Would you like to go to Public Comment . I think at this point we can go to Public Comment. Public comment is open. You have two minutes to speak and hear a soft chime indicating you have 30 seconds remaining. If you are interesting speaking on item 1, come up to the front. I dont have cards but if there is anyone who would like to speak come up. Seeing none ill close Public Comment. Public comment is closed. Thank you. Supervisor wiener. Thank you very much. Supervisor peskin is there something you cht to say some . I scr a question to had maker of the ordinance. I support the additional category of eligibility, but with regard to the fourth preference, how do you define and monitor people who work in San Francisco . Um, so, relating to the original version already put out . Yes i like it ask mohcd to come up who has applied this preference but not also and not required to do so so perhaps someone from mohcd can talk about how that happens. We accept proof of employment from city and county of San Francisco. What is that look like . Typically it is a pay check or copy of a pay check or a benefits statement or letter from the employer. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor wiener. Thank you, so colleagues i move that we adopt the amendment that i distributed and have a copy for the clerk as well. Alright. Any objection to that . Without objection so moved. Thank you. Madam chair and move we forward item 1 as aminded with positive recommendthis has to sit another week, my apology. Now because i move we continue itedm 1 one week. Mr. Clerk can you tell me what day of the week that is . Monday the 18th. Alright. Without objection the motion passes. Thank you. Continue to the july 18 meeting of land use and transportation meeting. Yes, that is correct. Mr. Clerk. Could you call items 2 and 3 together . Item 2, resolution San FranciscoMunicipal Transportation Agency for Grant Agreement and related documents under Affordable HousingSustainable Community program with tenderloin development corpication for 480 eddy street. Item number 3, resolution authorizing San Francisco municipal transporeitation agency to execute Grant Agreement under state of california [inaudible] joint application with mercy housing for project at 455 fell street. Thank you. Pardon my interruption. I understand the Mayors Offices of housing they have a number of amendments they need to make and they recognize thoseitisms be heard at a committee so what i like to do is after Public Comment continue to the call the chair that gives the office of housing time to substitute the legislation and work with the president s office to reassign these items. That is the plan. Is there a representative from the moh that wd like to speak on this quickly . Sofy hayward for Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and you are correct. Because of language that we are required to add to the resolution changing into a slightly different form. We like to substitute the legislation next week and move to budget if possible from there. Thank you very much. Lets open up items 2 and 3 to Public Comment. If you would like to speak come up student the podium. You have two minutes to do so. My name is Helen Johnson and i have [inaudible] and even though they have already said things are reported, level of housing [inaudible] we create other properties to you think you have a idea of what that building [inaudible] i put with our considerations of building houses. [inaudible] for Affordable Housing. Number two, processes that do, you know, [inaudible] thank you mrs. Johnson. Any other members that like to speak at this time . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you. Colleagues can i have a motion to continue the items. . [inaudible] i believe this is we should refer these to budget and finance committee. Correct but i think we have to work with the board of president s office to make that referral. Lets send items 2 and 3 to the budget committee. Item 2 and 3 is refer today the budget and finance committee. So moved. Without objection this passes; can you call item 4 . Item number 4, ordinance amending the code to establish Human Servicess fire victims assistance fund. Thank you. President breed is the author of the item. I want to start by thanking supervisor wiener for adding fire victims as a preference to our preference for Affordable Housing category, mostly because we all know that sadly there are challenges with fires throughout our city where we displaced residents specifically and it has been challenging because we have not been able to provide them with any real opportunity or access to Affordable Housing and part of why i introduced this particular fund is because what is great about San Francisco and is the residents who live here who when someone goes through a tragedy of this nature folks step up to the plate and want to help and support and this Fire Assistance Fund is a way to do that. Thank you colleagues, this legislation will create a dedicated city wide fund to help san franciscans who have fallen victim to a fire in their home. A residential fire strikes without notice. There is no planning for a fire. No one expects it to happen to them and men atimes it isnt in a fire in your unit. The fire starts sometimes epiother unit or other buildings but suddenly you have no place to live. Low and middle income earners are especially impacted, not only do they lose their belongings they lose home jz given the sky rocketing rents they are vulnerable to being priced out of San Francisco. This happens to dozens of people every year. December last year there was a large fire in district 5. Middle income earners were able to find another unit but went from a 2 bedroom apartment where they lived for years and son was born to a one bedroom unit where they created a bedroom for their sun and nuke under the staircase. The rent from 1800 to 4 thousand a month and struggling to pay expenses for a child with disability. Hardship cause families to leave the city by choice or force of finances. In february we had another sizable fire in district 5 on folten street which displaced 16 people. I worked with the north of pan handle Neighborhoods Association and alamo scare association to organize a fundraiser for the fire but couldnt help wundser where the sid y was for all this and why cant the government help people when they are losing anything. The department of Human Service has funds in the budget used for limited term housing subsidies for fire victims who earn below 35 percent of thearia medium income but they are not benefits for victims earning over the 35 percent of ami and neither the department or city has a dedicated Permanent Fund for assisting fire victims. If you make more than 25,000 a year the city cant help you if you are a victim of the fire. My legislation will change that. It will create a permanent category 6 figure fund to help victims who earn up to 100 percent of ami. 100 percent of ami may sounds like a lot u but a librarian making 75,000 a year or hotel worker or made are not rich. They are struggling to stay in the city like everyone else and when fire strikes we should help. The Fire Assistance Funds will be able to receive private donations and propeation from the board and mayor. Funds will Carry Forward year to year and the specific allocations will be made by the implementing department, the Human Services agency. There have been several fires in the mission reechbtly and numerous people displaced. I know how hard supervisor campos is working on the issue and want to thank him for co sponsoring this legislation with me. I was proud to work with spl visor campos in the years budget process to help secure 300 thousand for San Francisco fire victims. It is very important step forward in those times of need and thank you also to our deputy City Attorney tom oens and chief of staff Connor Johnson and ben [inaudible] at hsa. I do have minor amendments to offer today, which isorry i didnt pass out to my colleagues but will shortly. We revised the short title to make the name of the fund consistent. We cleaned up a code reference and clarifyed the fund is for rental assistance, not blanket Financial Assistance and changed the maximum benefits fire victims can receive from a set dollar amount of 10 thousand to a max time period of 2 years. This better reflects the wide variety of circumstances and victims hsa helps from a single individual to a family of 7, so colleagues, i ask for your support of those amendments and everyone who is a victim of a fire in San Francisco, whos friend, family or former neighbors are struggling to recover from the fires i say finally with this legislation we can help and do more to support you in your time of need with my legislation we definitely will. Thank you. Thank you president breed. Do you have staff presentations . No. Lets open to Public Comment. Any mb that would like to speak on item 4 . Please come up. Seeing there is no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Thank you. President breed do you have Closing Remarks . No closeic remarks . Thank you for hearing the item and hopefully you will pass out the amendments and pass to the full board with positive recommendation. We got amendments that are on the floor. I move those amendments. Supervisor peskin moved the amendment and without objection those moments are approved. I move to snd the item as amended to full board with recommendation. Thank you. I want to note the item is agendized as a committee report. The item is recommended as amended to full board as committee report. That is correct and without objection that passes. Thank you president breed. Item 5, authorizing the department of environment to submit applications for all grants offered by the California Department of resources and recycling and recovery mpt do we have staff to present . Seeing there is no one from department of environment well get started. Lets move to Public Comment. Item 5. Really, okay. Public comment is closed. Madam chair i move this common sense item to full board with recommendation. Thank you. Without objection it passes. Alright, mr. Clerk you ready for item 6 . Hearing how San Francisco medical cannabis regulations are impacted by the state medical marijuana regulations and safety act and any policy changes San Francisco needs to make to insure the continued existence of well regulated industry. Thank you. Supervisor wiener is the author of this item. Im excited and looking forward to hearing this hearing for some time now. Supervisor wiener i assume you have a couple of enlightening and thoughtful remarks. Yes. Thank you very much madam chair. Colleagues, today we are holding a hearing on oversight hearing on the medical marijuana regulation and safety act or mmrsa that was passed late last year by the state legislature and what San Franciscos current activities are and what the future holds in terms of our local regulations because San Francisco will be required within the next couple years to adopt a local regulation around various aspects of medical cannabis. San francisco has long been a leader having a strong and well rgulated Cannabis Community, but this new state law changes how the state regulates and ovsees medical cannabis dispensaries. This will impact our own local rel regulations and as noted we are going to have to revamp how we regulate and oversee medical cannabis in the next several years. It is important for us to understand how thiss impacts and changes we will have to make and making sure we are actually doing this in the context of 2016 medical cannabis. I think there is a perception at times medical cannabis exists of mcds but the community is much larger than that and there are many types of medical can business and businesses and organizations. I have had the pleasure o