Small business commission. Held on june 27, 2016. This meeting is called to order at 203 p. M. Tonight meeting is televised live. The meetings can be viewed sfgovtv 2 or going to sfgovtv. Org. Please take the opportunity to silence phone squz other electronic devices. Public comment is limited to 3 minutes per speaker unless otherwise established by the presiding officer. Speakers are requested but not required to say their name. Speaker cards will help in [inaudible] Commission Secretary proir to approaching the leck tern. There is a sign in sheet at the front table for those that would like to be added to our mailing list. Can we have our slide, please . It is show time at the apollo. Hang on. Sf gov tv could you please show our slide . Why dont you go ahead. Can i say my piece . There we have it. That wonderful office of Small Business slide. As is our consistm webegin each business meeting with reminder the office of Small Business is the only place to start your new business in San Francisco and best place to get answers about doing business in San Francisco. The office of Small Business should be your first stop when you have a question about what to do next. We provide services in multiple languages and one of the best things is, it is all free, so if you need assistance with Small Business matters, start here at the office of Small Business. Thank you. Wonderful. Item 1, roll call. staeven adams, here. Kathleen dooley is on her way. Mark dwight, here. William ortizcartagena, here. Commissioner toursarkissian is absent. Commissioner zouzounis, here. You have quorum. Item 2, presentation and discussion on sf biz connect. The presenter is susan ma of economic and Workforce Development. One of my favorite projects. The mic isnt on. Working now . Yes. Susan ma and manage the sf biz connect from office of economic and Workforce Development and just passed the one Year Anniversary so thought it appropriate to give a overview of what we have done and how it is going. I will tell how we started and what we have done and where we are going and how we actually started was here. Conversationwise Small Business, talking to Small Business commission and it was really those conversations that we need a program like this to help business to business interactions in the city. The goals were to create opportunities for Small Business and encourage loickal spending habits within the community. We launched Small Business week in 2015 and the first month we had 9 pledges and 90 Small Business listings. A think a lot of that had to do with our outreach and partner would chamber of commerce and they are invalable and tweent over 50 merchants associations and sent 40 news letters and hash tag biz connect. Another piece the work is live evenlt. We hosted a couple so far, the first is called, events made easy and had over wn00 addendsys, 35 Small Business vendors. Salty sweet is a ucis sess story are now served in coffee shops which is a wig win for them. [inaudible] never taste a horrible cookie ever again so if you speak to her she will tell you that is the goal of the business. She makes great cookies. The next event we did is a small sf biz connect panel. We had Large Businesses talking about what they looked for in vendors, and then we had Small Business vendors talk how they got their foot in the door and that was a great educational experience. [inaudible] hard ware were introduced to air bnb. Small business week this year is speed meeting with snacks where you have 3 minutes and ring a bell and go to another table and wanted everyone to meet everyone. [inaudible] placed order with some of the vendors they met with that event so we are excited because that was a quick turn around. We have over40 pledge businesses and hope to increase that number but we are excited at the growth we had in the last year. We plan on having moreo vents, more pledges, more listings, more introductions because those have been very effective. Our promotions we have posters and pens and sf biz connect t shirts and fliers and you are familiar with the resolution supervisor tang brought forward during Small Business week of this year. She is in support of sf biz connect. That was my recap of what happened in the year. We are all ears if you have sessions we can dobetter or events you would like to see but are really excited of year two and what else is to come. Commissioner adams, and thank you very much for the pen and post pad. You are doing a good job. I talk to a lot of businesses in the castro that are working on this and they have made connections with other businesses and doing business between each other. I know it is working out there, so i want to say thank you susan and good job. Just keep doing it and keep pushing it. Thank you very much. Also locally made everyone. Yes, i will tell you from my own experience as someone on the other side of the equation selling products to companies in San Francisco. My business like many in San Francisco frangly could get all the business they need if San Francisco companies focused on buying from San Francisco companies. My Company Makes bags and many corporations have bags for employees and etendees at events and customers. Chocolate and granola, anything that is packaged product or tasty treat that can be given as a gift to someone coming out of town to treely experience San Francisco and enjoy something made here. There is just a huge amount of business and you guys are doing great work. Ime rrp a big fan and supporter of this program and we just need to do more. I can tell you we are barely scratching the surface. 40 companies is just a mere drop in the ocean the number of companies that could be participating and the number of transactions that could be happening is ordered of magnitude greater than it is today. You got my support as a commissioner as well as someone who benefits from the program and i think it is really awesome. This is a great great project. Alright. Commissioners, any other comments . Well open tupe Public Comment. Any members that would like to comment on the fabulous program, sf biz connect . Seeing none, the item is closed. Thank you susan very much for all your hard work. Great job. Next item, please. Item number 3, presentation and discussion on Transportation Demands manage discussion item. May i have your name . Our presenter is wade ricklif. The Planning Department, correct . Of the Planning Department. Hello, good afternoon. Wade [inaudible] Department Staff with me today is cory [inaudible] from planning Department Staff. I will present today on a multiyear multiagency effort called Transportation Sustainability program and if we can go to the slides, that would be helpful. This multiagency effort is a collaboration between the Planning Department, the San FranciscoMunicipal Transportation Agency and county transportation authority. Some of our colleagues that normally would be joining us are on vacation this week but happy to present for them. So, this program as i mentioned, is a multiyear effort with acknowledgment that existing residents and businesses have been doing their part to fund a Transportation System where people have multiple options for moving around the city and making sure we need a vision for the city that fits with providing those options. The Transportation Sustainability program acknowledges that and tries to say what can new development do to pay its fair share to contribute to the impacts it has on the Transportation System. There are 3 parts to this program and we came to you last year i think cory was here last year to talk about the first part and that was a Transportation Sustainability fee that expanded the updated the amounts of the fee that applied to Non Residential Development and expanded to fee to apply to Residential Development for it first time. This passed the board of spl visors in september. The second component we call align. This is about making sure what we analyze for Environmental Review which is what i do in the Planning Department reflects what we care about and that is safety and making sure there are multiple options to get around and that occurred in march. The last component is what im here to talk about today and thats a shift component. This component is about providing multiple options for people to get around from new development. It is reducing impacts for new development on the Transportation System and this would occur through a Transportation Demand management ordinance that would shift vehicle trips to sustainable modes of transportation. This proposal is through legislation that was initiated at the Planning Commission april 28 and we are here today to inform you of that proposal and then answer specific questions that you may have. The good thing is, here in San Francisco we are not starting from scratch. We had Transportation Demand management in the planning code for at least 30 years. However, there are certain things we can approve upon based on research we have done throughout the country that looks at actually having a comprehensive Transportation Demand management ordinance instead of the disparate measures throughout the code. It also talks about providing more flexibility and certainty into Development Review process than what happens sometimes on a ad hoc basis through the gement review process. It also through the best Practice Research we noticed a trend to have staff that insurance compliance on these measures. Using that research and the challenges that we face as a city in addressing the impacts from new development in San Francisco, we tried troocraft a proposal that was San Francisco specific and neighborhood specific and there are three Main Elements of the ordinance and ill talk about the first two and cory will talk about the last component. In the first is a target aimed at reducing vehicle miles traveled. The overall premise is reduce vehicle miles traveled from new development that would otherwise occur. Vehicle miles traveled is watt we use for Environmental Review. It talks about the amount and distance a project may cause people it drive. A higher amount of vehicle miles traveled indicates more environmental impacts. You have more energy impacts, more air pollution and more green house gas. Lower vehicle miles traveled has less of all those things. The vehicle miles traveled based on having a target that new development will have to meet. The target based on the number of Parking Spaces that would be provided on the site. More parking, higher target, less parking, less target. We did a lot of empireical research in San Francisco the last two summers as well as there is more and more resurp in the transportation field talking about the more park ing provided on a site, the more vehicle miles traveled that will occur there. If you provide parking you need to do more things to insure vehicle miles traveled is reduced. And this ordinance would aploy apply to new development of 10 or more units excluded 100 percent Affordable Housing and new non residential hauser of 10,000 square feet or more and the proposal is change of use for those same sizes. I want to make the point if that 10,000 square feet, so some planning code previsions kick in at 10,000 square feet and we were selective choosing that as the thresh old to start app lickability and we also acknowledge a lot of businesses smaller than that may not be able to do some of the things we are talking about in this ordinance which ill explain in a minute, so we exclodeed those types of developments so it may not effect some of the businesses you all work on. So, a project has a target that it has to achieve. It has a number of points. How they get there is selecting from measures and some of these measures may not be able to be accommodated in a smaller than 10,000 square foot business so that is why we selected that. There are 26 measures. Each measure is assigned a point value from the low end of things, 1 point and showers and lockers for example is 1 point. That is something that triggers start at 10,000 square feet for Non Residential Development and move on to things that have more effectiveness and reduce vehicle miles traveled more than shower squz lockers. Things like Public Transit subsidies or the amount of parking you provide on site. Less parking, more effective it is at reducing vehicle miles traveled. How this might play out, my colleague cory teague will give a example project. Good afternoon. I before you last year for the Transportation Sustainability fee for two meetings and appreciate your support of that program then. Happy to be in front of you again today. So, wade talked about the background, the framework of the program and at the project level. We actually have the first step is developer or public can use a online tool that will have all the measures and they will be able to plug in the information about their project and determine what the target is and look that measure jz figure what works for their projects so they can do this work before they submit a Development Application and we have a preliminary version of the tool on the website for people use and become familiar with it. We will take up a made up example project to give a idea. Usually we have a residential project that doesnt make a lot of sense here so we want to share a different example which is 2,000 square foot in south park. They are providing 25 off street Parking Spaces. That results in a target of 14 points. You have to get enough point val ue to get at least 14 point. The code will require a certain amount och bike parking and require showers and lockers and get a point for each. That takes two point. They have to make up 12 points to make up the target. So, the next thing they ask is how many points can we get for parking supply. Parking supply is really tied to your neighborhood context. The city is divided into individual transportation analysis zones, so each zone we have data regarding the parking rates both residential and non residential in those zones. If a project meets the same parking rate of the zone it is in, then you get a point and then the more you are below that rate, the more points you can get up to total of 11 points. In this scenario, south park taz, the parking rate is 1. 2 Parking Spaces per 1 thousand square feet of development. So, bike parking and showers and lockers they get 9 points for parking supply and so that gets up to 11 poits but still need 3 more points. So, at this point this is random, there are multiple measures they can pick to get the 3 points. In this scenario we chose transportation Marketing Service which gives the 3 points they need. In this scenario, those measures would constitute the tdm plan. Those are the measures required to put in place to reduz. If we change the project and provided 50 parking places that changes the target from 14 points to 16 points so they have to do more to meet the tdm requirements. In this scenario they do additional bike parking and meet the code requirement and go beyond that to get additional points there. Their neighborhood parking is. 3 so below the 1. 2 in the neighborhood but not as much as before so only get 8 points instead of 9 and still to the taylored transpor tation marketing so use the parking pricing measure to get the final two points. You can have two projects similar but because of how much parking they provide they may be required to do somewhat different tdm plans. Once that that plan is proposed for the project, it moves forward in the review process and most would have to go before the Planning Commission for review. Having a code complying tdm plan is a condition of approval for any Planning Commission review. And then the tdm plan has to be finalized before the Building Permit is issued. There is the docu