Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE BOS Land Use Committee 20151116 :

Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE BOS Land Use Committee 20151116

Okay. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, i want to welcome you to the wegz the meeting will come to order this the the Land Use Commission im supervisor cowen chair and skwloin e joining us will be vice chair oh, Supervisor Scott Wiener joining us to my left is supervisor kim ill also like to acknowledge ms. Lisa and thank you to jim smith and the staff for broadcasting this meeting madam clerk, any announcements . Today. Electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the december 1st board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Or the thank you call item one. Number one the ordinance for the administrative code for the prosecution on the advertising ever sugary drink beverage on City Property thank you, colleagues in june the board unanimously passed legislation to prohibit advertising of sugary drink beverage on City Property along with two other accompanying piece of legislation concerning sugary drink beverage requiring the warning rablz on sugary drink beverage advisement and city is eliminating city spend on sugary drink beverage a week after the psa of the law the Supreme Court ruled on in a court case reed with arizona regarding the First Amendment the City Attorney reevaluated the legal issues by the sugary drink beverage advertising band ordinance this is for this reason to repeal the band well continue to enact the warning label and the spending legislation the two pieces will continue to move forward awhile needless to say this is a disappointing situation i want to assure those folks that are obvious and recognizing with us on the band for sugary drink beverage we can lift this First Amendment hurdle to destine our fight against the big soda i want to assure were committed to a long fight begins in industry and continue to craft thoughtful policy aimed to protect the health of san franciscans supervisor wiener i think you have a few remarks. Thank you, madam chair and thank you for your continued leadership in trying to move us in a good direction of Public Health in reducing the accumulation of sugary drink beverage soda theyre helping to fuel the type 2 diabetes in our country including xhoong children in low income communities and community of color 40 percent of americans have type 2 diabetes and well have to take strong steps to reduce the accumulation of those drinks as around cigarettes a madam chair we have 56 percent of tax vote 10 million was stacked in the soda industry against us unfortunately, we had a change in the law that was the Supreme Court didnt look at the First Amendment but the it is what it is and i do want to stress we continue to move forward aggressively with our legislation the first of its kind and passed by the board this year to require Health Warnings on advisements for sugary drink beverage with the soda industry has suited San Francisco over that law we feel good well defend it in court and aggressively i look forward 0 those Health Warnings go on going on advisements and reminding people and educating people that those drinks make people sick. Thank you, supervisor wiener so folks why not see go ahead and open up for Public Comment any Public Comment . Just want to remind you have 2 minutes with a soft bells chime with 30 seconds waiting and open up for Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed for item one. Thank you, thank you very much. Colleagues, can i have a motion to send that to the full board with a positive recommendation recognized by supervisor kim that passes with a positive recommendation madam clerk two. The rezoning map for the Residential District and the Mission District i believe we have Diego Sanchez with us from the Planning Department staff hell be presenting on this item. Good afternoon desegregates with the Planning Department supervisors on june 18th the Planning Commission considered the ordinance for the rezoning for the ocean avenue in house from the rh2 m1 to the ocean avenue nc t after taking Public Comment which was in favor of this ordinance they deliberated and considered the departments recommendations for the department recommended favorable this to the Planning Commission the Planning Commission vote in favor of this ordinance that concludes my presentation. Ill be happy to answer any questions. I appreciate that brief presentation the Planning Department can also do that is there a representative from jims office. Jen come on up thank you, madam chair im here on behalf of the supervisor yee were talking about how we can support Small Businesses and here we have a very pro tem commercial confronted on mission avenue inform encourage the Small Businesses without raising height limits we count on youre showcasing support and it fits in the balboa park area plan to sfrelg the commercial district for the moscone in the area it fits with the plan we have general support from the public and from the supervisor thank you. Thank you very much appreciate youre showcasing remarks at this time seeing there is no colleagues that want to speak why not go ahead and open up for Public Comment Public Comment is anyone else follow this gentleman. Good afternoon. Supervisors my name is dan weaver speaking today as the executive director of the ocean Avenue Community benefits district otherwise as the ocean Avenue Association we developed this idea together with tom because we noticed that in the cv d the corridor the most pedestrians in the to and from city college to the bart station have no services along the streets so this seems like like a logical way to encourage that without calling for a major skroern e rezoning district and everyone in the neighborhood supports this cv d supports it unanimously this is something people can do but dont have to unless questions tassels. Thank you very much there anyone from the public that wishes to speak at this time seeing none, Public Comment is closed and colleagues is there a motion on this item. inaudible . A motion made to move forward with a positive recommendation well take that without objection. This motion passing and mr. Clerk. An ordinance for the measurement of the methodology for the Creative Process for the in fills in existing structures in a c3 that exceeds the height. This was continued by the committee a few weeks ago i believe we have aaron starr Planning Department no pressure but diego has a short period of time i dont know if you could do that but it would be appreciated if you could. Good afternoon, supervisors aaron starr Planning Department the proposed ordinance on july 23rd and the Commission Voted unanimous with approval with modifications to require the Zoning Administrator to review by permanence in the ordinance that that concludes my remarks ill be happy to answer any questions. Im proud of you, mr. Star supervisor kim anything to say and ill be making a motion to continue. Majored were going to continue this item until december 14th lets go ahead and open up for Public Comment anyone do so at the podium seeing none, Public Comment is closed at this time is there a motion on this item. Id like to make a motion to continue this item excuse me. To monday, december 14th that item passes well take that without objection. Okay mirena burns call item 4. A hearing on, on expansion of the staff to put in a totality program for the maintenance of the Public Toilet facilities. I cant wait to hear about this pit spot supervisor kim is the author. Ill excited for this Program Throughout the city and in youre showcasing district youve called to ask the city to expand the success tenderloin and some pit spot program to additional locations every neighborhood should have access to clean and Public Safety ive asked the Controllers Office to do and thank the team under mr. Rosenfeld to expand in the successful pits spot our office employed in the summer of 2014 the critical components of what makes this successful is the regular maintenance only possible with staffing when i first came into the office i heard over and over that we need more safe clean toilet option and it often are Small Businesses or the j. C. Barrooms are not a good solution and, in fact, the j. C. Program was dangerous for families and the residents dont feel safe there is a clear demands for the facilities on average everyday almost a one people use the 3 pits spots in july alone reduced were used over 4 thousand times the city savings over 4 thousand gallons of water because we have a reduction in the steam cleaning requests from the neighborhood i want to repeat a reduction by 50 percent from the tenderloin those facilities made our streets cleaner with garbage collected a secured read you needle drop off for the collection of needles i want to thank my colleagues for unanimously approving this to make the pit spot permanent with our support and the port of the city family the pit spot has expanded to the south of market and mid market and 16th street i want to recognize and thank you to public works who worked with us between 2012 and 2014 to come up with this Creative Program we knew that putting Public Toilets on the street wouldnt address the issue in the restraints i residents that dont have access or the neighbors need a place to go whether there is toilet paper and access to sinks and handwash to go into a place of dignity no one wanted to say go to the toilet own the streets it is made renewally by many people and this that will help keep our streetcars cleaner and it is unacceptable our residents have to go to the bathroom on the streets this is also in a need or problem unique to the population in San Francisco it impacts all of us the use of a public bathroom restroom is a human necessity and our pit spot at the plaza the children and farmers and shopper at the heart of the Farmers Market in our backyard are able to use them residents and others we need clean and safe Public Restrooms youve used them in the neighborhood we can fully leverage the exciting resources to help make this happen and looking forward to the hearing from all the possibility i also want to recognize again, the Controllers Office public works and also rec and park for the time theyve spent studying this issue and thank you to the many residence that leading lent thorough support to those coming out today to speak on this issue well be hearing from public works and the Controllers Office to present their naturals i see the idnuru. For making this success. Ill acknowledge supervisor wiener for putting three and four before director star are and commenting for your work on the Pit Stop Program i found to be successful as mr. Nuru will attest weve had a long, long problem with the j. C. Code toilets the one in front of the the Market Street and market and buchanan it was really just horrible and a lot of people myself included talked about how to move it elsewhere until it was completely fail people with or living in there and shooting up florida in under except for the call of nature. Thank you to mr. Nuru it is staffed and what it is not staffed it is closed for those specific hours and since it was taken into the Pit Stop Program ive not had a single complainant but the toilet ive noticed in the surrounding area and it shows what happened when you have the proactive approach to make sure that everyone in the city has access to the roormentz in a thoughtful way i want to thank you for bring up that particular toilet into the program. All right. Im glad to hear this presentation i want to hear with supervisor kim has done in ore district and rolling it out in the district so with that, said director nuru. Thank you, supervisor kim for calling the hearing as supervisor kim said the concept was born a little bit over a year ago we were having a budget meeting and landmarking for a solution to the concerns around people who defecating in the streets and also that year we talked about drought and how we could reduce water and as a result, the Pit Stop Program was conceived at the Public Works Department and the program is a very really straightforward program it provides bathrooms to the public and the bathrooms locations was selected bans a little bit of some data we collected in the toipd and the first 3 locations were seconded and youll hear if the presentation we have 9 locations in the works the bathrooms is pretty sure as youve heard what makes the difference is the supervision scott wagner having someone under at each location and every one of the locates recognitions location we have test applied and seen an increase well show the number of uses as high as 50 percent or more the bathrooms created to be a safe place for someone to be able to use the bathroom but as part of the program we also provide an area where people can discard the needles and also an area where people can pickup doggy bags they come together the actual bathroom a doerl deeper we call a pit stop the bathrooms have to be very clean so the pilot were using actively provides fresh air and make sure the toilets are clean, make sure there is soap to wash our hands everything youll except concept in a bathroom the next slide shows steam cleaning request in the city citywide as you can see the concentrations of where the Department Needs to respond to steam cleaning and as you can see the tenderloin is very, very dark the mission and selma, the castro parts of hate street and their skaurtd throughout the city the concentration are mainly in the mid market area and towards mission. A little bit about the program itself the program itself as you can see does a does a number of things most important when people need to go have a place to go it is a Job Training Program so the partnership is a lot of the people that manage these bathrooms and training he get them ready for a job the bathroom also provides the areas where people can get rid of things by having the bathroom staffed when people come along with you know pads or shopping cart or something the staff assists to keep an eye on those facilities those are some of the benefits of the program. Where we are were in the locations o locations in addition to data there is some locations we are just piloting and seeing what a difference it will make as you can see a contemplation in the south of market a around 16 and mission and the 2020 location. Excuse me. Director nuru how did you select the locations for the current pit stop and how to select the future locations. So when we started the program we looked at our data on areas we received a large number of calls steam cleaning and those areas were primarily in the tenderloin we went out and did some field surveys for a couple of months collecting the data for the most appropriate locations one of the key areas we found out in the our studies that many of those areas are the soup kitchens are located there was a contemplation not enough facilities is the pilot showed an indication those were some prime areas and in addition to other areas that we had based on the area the first 3 were rolled out in the tenderloin and two of them close to programs that provide meals and one of them is the program that a lot of people like to hang out. The pit as to the in the tenderloins are they staffed or nonstaffed. All pit stopped are staffed thats the concept of the bathrooms and our program is two types of toilets one well hear from the j. C. City Group Toilets been around for many years those are permanent and the mobile ones those can move so mostly in the tenderloin were working on mobile toilets yeah. Thank you the next graph actually show us from data before we started the pit stop, stop youll see the blue requests for steaming and as we implemented the pit stop over others last year and few months as you can see the huge reduction in the request for steam cleaning so in those areas where altercation using our data we had to respond to calls those areas we targeted and seen a reduction in the request for services but also in some of the cleaning up of those areas citywide were still struggling citywide as you can see citywide, you know, it the data is fluctuating but you know we dont have this program all over the city we said to share that data so you can see yeah. Okay i think one of the areas we did want to share some detail with you is the

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