Everyone. Ladies and gentlemen, the meeting will come to order id like to welcome you to the regular meeting of Land Use Commission im supervisor cowen and to my right is supervisor wiener the vice chair and coming shortly is supervisor jane kim you are clerk is alicia thank you id like to thank the mrs. Jim smith and leo from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meanwhile madam clerk read the anonymous completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the september 17th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you very much can you please call to me the and she is the author. On oversee phenomenon is planning code for all demolition and mergers and with the kitchen stove or bathroom is being removed. Supervisor wiener. Madam chair p in legislation is a simple but important step forward in trying to insure the during this housing crisis people are able to remain stable in their housing specifically this legislation will close a loophole that allows the owners of illegal units to seek and obtain a demolition permit without having notified the attendants that lived in those units which could lead to a situation the tenant has no ability to challenge the demolition permit we have tens of thousands of illegal units and rental unit and San Francisco residents living in those units they live in those units for decades what someone is living in a home the los angeles the home to receive a demolition permit without the attendants knowing the permit has been implied for we learn about that issue earlier this year and is board of appeals made a request to the board of supervisors to address this issue so we move forward with this legislation so that roingdz in illegal units will have the same Due Process Rights as residents of legal units so specifically the ordinance amends the Building Code to require that any person that intends to remove a unit whether legal or noted legal notice the location upon the noticing requirements except the notice needs to includes an structural all i how to point out demolition permit and provided attendants with a list of counseling and Legal Services the Contact Information must be provides in spanish, chinese and russian as well all unit removals will be noticing the same legal or nonlegal on subject property the removal of a stove or kitchen or became the Property Owner must submit an application indicating theyre not removing a illegal legal unit or illegal unit and it must be posted prominently circumstances for applicants trying to skirt the renewable applicants in circumstances where the applicants will try to skirt the Building Code and planning code by getting serial permitting in terms of the remove kitchen or stove or became any tenant is made aware and the Property Owner that may remove his or her unit from status as a denials dwelling units i want to thank deborah and matt that working closely in preparing this legislation it was supported unanimously by the Planning Commission and the dictionary so if there are no openly comments or questions madam chair id like to invite up Diego Sanchez from the Planning Department to give a presentation. Good afternoon, supervisors Diego Sanchez with San FranciscoPlanning Department supervisors on september 10th Police Station heard the proposed ordinance on the tenants and deliberating on the matter the Planning Commission moved unanimously to adopt the resolution with certain modifications their included phone call on adding to the Planning Department that helps the mechanisms the noticing requirement with the existing procedures in particular the modifications included increasing the size of the poster and the content of the poster and allowing the notification dates and having the Planning Department cause the notice to occur that concludes my presentation. And im available to answer any questions thank you. Thank you, mr. Sanchez madam chair before Public Comment id like to invite up deborah from the department of building inspection commission. Ms. Walker. This one. Either one. Thank you, supervisor and supervisors for putting forward this important amendment to the Building Code and planning code we were made aware of the issue of building owners notifying attendance of permits applied for and received from the Vice President as receiving an eviction notice the housing rights is made us what aware we notified the board of appeals who said question should have a existence of a tenant that basically provides dialogue disclose to the tenants if there is due action as programs legalizing secondary units we have a lot of proactive programs that our departments could be notifies earlier in the process the building owners said we keep the units instead of demolishing the point to treat a tenant as a tenant i appreciate the swift action of the board our building our Code Advisory Committee supported this and our commission and ask for your support of this it is really poor importantly as we got rid of implored were trying to make sure that those units are being inspected not only by the department but fire and planning to make sure we avoid the kind of fires and firm up our code requirements to make sure their notification any questions ill be happy to answer. Thank you, ms. Walker madam chair to Public Comment. Ladies and gentlemen, Public Comment is two minutes youll hear a soft chime indicates 30 seconds and a louder your time is up is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak on item number one please come up to the please approach the podium. Im francisco da costa and on this item i recent the legislative report full of loopholes ive heard the gentleman from the Planning DepartmentSay Something most of statements he made are general in nature i heard a commission from the building inspection come here and stated a few things my question to you supervisors is y what has the department of building inspection been doing all this while they does not have with the meetings they dont have the necessary staff to do the enforcement so things like this come great the board of supervisors or the committees but on such important issues we need to have a hearing with data and to find out who in this city was slip or who was slipping on guess carpet today, we have three or four families slipping or living in a one bedroom unit you supervisors with tint because of not paying attention to a situation like what were discussing created a situation in San Francisco that quality of life issues have been brought down tremendously so what im saying is this we have the Opportunity Academy of art universities and the building inspection and other agencies are doing something but get a report what has happened to the 20 thousand units that were rental units removed by the contemplation overview academy of Art University can we get a report hes busy on the sideline can anybody from the Mayors Office of housing i give us a report inaudible . Anyone else that wants to speak on item number one seeing none, Public Comment is closed at this time. Go ahead supervisor wiener. Thank you, madam chair and thank you for scheduling this to other for analyzing that and the advocates again in the simple measure one that matters a lot to the tens of thousands of San Francisco residents that live in illegal units we need to keep people stable in their housing they have a right to learn ahead of time if the units will be demolished and can challenge that to keep their housing to madam chair, i moved we forward number one to the full board with a positive recommendation. Motion by supervisor wiener to the full board with a with a positive recommendation this motion passes without objection madam clerk. Thank you. Thank you. Could you please. The resolution imposing the interim controls for the plan area to restrict the size and height of signs that are visible from and on exist public planning or parker open space and restrict the elimination of new sizes up. Thank you, supervisor kim is the project sponsor for this legislation for item number 2. Hi sorry. I was talking to a staff member before us is a set of interim controls for the Transit District area with the boundary lines ever fulsome and harrison and second reading it is a unique area plan it has a fairly tennis commercial and residential use including what will be the larger parks and open space in the city and south of market at the top of transbay terminal the intent behind the interim controls we have controls around the city but not in place in the Transit Center it is a that have the conflict as public parks and residents and office space in the same areas this legislation is to set a series of controls for the downtown area the controls set in the interim controls is elimination district wide in the signs above 35 feet that must be turned off between 9 00 p. M. And 6 00 a. M. This is for residents that also live in the area that have discussions and k34r5i789d about Light Pollution the signage is a higher height and so often coming in and facing residents bedrooms and living rooms late at night it allows our businesses to have the signs awe limited through the daytime and have them turn them off for the enjoyment and peace of residents the controls also that new signs within 200 feet and viable from a park should be omitted to 50 percent and 35 feet this is in alignment with 9 city land use policies that eliminations advertising near open space that is owned by the rec and Park Department and signs facing dribble into the city park will be limited with a max size of 50 square feet at this point we have been engaging with multiple stakeholders in particular the Salesforce Tower and residents the of the millennium of residents to discuss what the predicament time is we have a range of times that are working i will be proposing a compromise set of amendments but want to give the Planning Department an opportunity to speak on this item and open up for Public Comment. Thank you. Good afternoon Board Members of the committee emry rogers Planning Department staff as an interim control our commission doesnt weigh in but if interim controls will be component well coming come back with the recommendations no recommendation. And ms. Rogers explain how the Planning Department came up with the times as proposed from 9 00 p. M. To 6 00 a. M. And kind of how this was developed specifically for the Transit Center. This area the supervisors are aware was not tint for residential with the Zoning District that happened in the mid 80s with the office it was mainly seen as part of spill over from the Office District not rethroughout the signage controls that will be needed as residents proposed so in communication with our staff we looked at controls for other district and in c districts the combination of commercial and residential those are the signs typically turned off with the businesses close and in addition there are nc district are less intense in the areas in selma but in the nc districts typically the businesses maybe required to close between 10 00 p. M. To 2 00 a. M. Or may seek longer hours through conditional use authorization and in any event the businesses closed that is when the signage is required to be turned off. Thank you. Thank you. I have a quick question for supervisor kim. Many prepgs for the agenda item i did a little bit of rancher i was in under the impression an agreement from the hoa as well as the company on agreed upon hour can you explain exactly. The temporary agreement previous to us writing a set of controls around the signage it didnt impact the entire Transit Center this will not be the only stakeholders that will be interested in putting signage on their buildings so this is one particular agreement between two stakeholders and the Transit District plan youll have many more residents and those controls are consistent with standards by which all awe limitations will be set for the entire business and transit plan. So the decision were making here today is setting a precedence. Setting the interim controls for the inspire district plan where there is none. Your proposing 10 oclock. 9 00 p. M. I wanted to open up for Public Comment for the public to speak the agreements so forth was at tenement but wanted to give the members of the public. Youre saying the Planning Department set the standards at 9 clock so and youre saying they cant opine maybe the Planning Department can accompany. This is an sdrrmz and didnt come to the Planning Commission. Emry rogers we participated in the meeting with the Community Members that ultimately was the legislation and it was developed in response to the information i provided to the committee. Remembered me. In looking others districts where there are signage controls set up to regulate facts in the area there is controls in place and generally shut down with the business is closed and the areas in nc district no way an immense a district as the south of market but in those integrity they have businesses must close generally between 10 00 p. M. And 2 00 a. M. However, they can be kept open later and depending on the Business Hours this is how late they can vw on their signage. Is this particular district zoned and nc. In the more intense it is multiple Zoning Districts this is the new area the supervisor described. Any other buildings that have signage awe. Im going to say yes. Yes. Thank you. We can go to Public Comment. Thank you very much supervisor jane kim want to go to Public Comment at this time. Oh, excuse me. Supervisor wiener. Yeah. I want t a complication there was an agreement perhaps supervisor kim can answer this clarify an agreements reached with the last year or the year before about the particular buildings allowing them to go until 11 00 p. M. There was a specific agreements set up two one tenants salesforce and specifically around one signage in the transcenter a temporary agreement the signage b will go off at 11 00 p. M. It wf impacti the enjoyment of the tenants on one sign for this specific hoa because of that we saw no consoles for the signage in the transbay so we reached out to multiple shareholders like sf beautiful and others and the Planning Department set an interim controls that set the signage control as well as the illumination control for the whole plan what is proposed 9 00 p. M. Again shifting this to 10 00 p. M. But i think that would be a great compromise. So the signs that are up now that are going one sign or whatever those will be shifted back to 10 everything back to 10. Yes. In the case of that 10 00 p. M. And okay. So do we have rules maybe for the Planning Department like for example, downtowns what are the rules understand in the neighborhood district but in areas of city that are much anymore intense i have what are the rules. There a plethora but the furthers signage manager will talk about that. Ill focus on lighting and the law. Yes. John Planning Department staff the only area there are specific controls for timing of signs in terms of of the illumination in the neighborhood commercial and residential districts in the downtown. The c2 and c3 no limits in awe illumination. So in the c2, c3 the signs are lit all night. Yes. Do we know what the rest of the cities do in terms of the more downtown type of areas in terms of i dont know. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Lets take Public Comment. Is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak and speak on item 2 here again we have a supervisor who listened to here constituents and tried to do something so planning does not have any rules in this case and so had an idea for changes what is difficult to understand about this. And why do we have to be so intent to know what other cities do were not doing a lot of things in our own city and this happens when residents cant live in areas before they could live so theyre going into areas where before they are they will be Office Spaces so this impacts the quality of life issues heres a case the land use and the others got educated before the public so my thing is very simple, of course, there is nothing new it is simple you the land use didnt understand it and got it like for me it is something something good that one representative from district 6 does care about they are communities u constituents to have a number of meetings t