I understand what youre saying but i respectfully disagree with our description what i think has happened ill continue to say what ive always said that the rules that have been put 2, 3, 4 place in San Francisco do not provide proper and metabolic oversight and oversight of shortterm rentals and because of that we are losing Housing Stock to shortterm rentals and to the office of shortterm rentals enforcement certainly looking forward to hearing what they have to say and report but based on you know my review of what theyve done and certainly based on the hearing we had last time ive seen them and hope it is no longer the case but as a paper tiger that has not the power the resources to have anything meaningful happen in terms of enforcing shortterm rentals i hope that is not the case well find out but i certainly look forward to hearing the presentation but one thing ill say that it was really sad for me to read i on a couple of days boo ago the article in the chronicle you had our good Zoning Administrator really strong leader being in a position which he was basically like the rest of the city begging people to do the right thing and i think this is sad that is where we are today in San Francisco that instead of promulgating rules that still requires corporations to do the right thing and actually on behalf of responsible we are begging this Year Corporation airbnb to do the right thing were afraid to require them to do the right thing but i think this is a sign of the times and i will simply and my statement by noting this issue will not go away i know that those of us who worked on this will continue to work on this and that means bringing back this issue to the full board of supervisors so we can reinvite the issue of enforcement and maybe in time well actually have enforcement that does what it is supported to enforce thank you. Thank you supervisor campos one thing i forgot to mention in any Opening Statements one thing i understand that airbnb being a local company and being the largest platform in this area this is a attracted a lot of the attention it is important when we talk about the issue about all the platforms i believe that average has approximately, one half of the shortterm rental listing this is the number i recall but we also have airbnb and craigslist and home away and perhaps others and frankly airbnb agree or disagree with their position engage with other platforms to my knowledge have not yielded clearing colleagues no additional comments ill invite up kevin the director of the office of shortterm rentals and the Zoning Administrators office i believe that mr. Guy has a presentation for us. Thank you and good afternoon, supervisors again, im kevin guy the director of the office of shortterm rentals up to give an update if i could have the presentation on the overhead please so were going to be going specific into the registration and enforcement numbers as well as the outreach to the hot platforms that was mentioned and changes to the website so first brief background on the issue the shortterm rental program some of that recounts supervisor wieners statements but the shortterm rental program was effective in february 2013 that requires residents to rent out subject to conditions receptive of a business license so the office of shortterm rentals was established in july to administer this will the enforcement i joined the office in september a total staff of 6 people so in terms of registration we received approximately 13 hundred application for shortterm rentals so estimates of the shortterm rentals citywide varies and change over time but generally means 25 percent of the shortterm rental hosts in San Francisco as far as have applied to the register of the program issued 8 hundred and 79 certificates thank you to the members of the public who have gone to the process and one hundred and 70 applications were rejected because of the proposals were not complete and have an application that came in september 2, 00 and 69 applications pending review and that trends is continuing with one and 50 appointments in january so as you can see there is an initial surge after the program and november and december we continued to see an uptick in the number of proclamation so, now applications so, now the discussions with the hovtd platforms and airbnb for reaching out in middecember to talk about the specific items ill discuss in detail we issued a lot of the Zoning Administrator and myself issued a letter not only to airbnb but other major hosting platforms to memorize and may consist amongst the hosting websites i do want to note those are items that a arrange of opposition with the hosting platforms do engage with one probation officer more of those items these are not necessary for us to administer the current law well be as business as unthinkable or usual and getting increase on the activities regardless of the activities but with that, i want to go into detail on the specific items first, we that those platforms identify the hosts that have must not listing for multiple properties in San Francisco in definition not a permanent resident of more than one unit the user are taking multiple properties out of the housing pole and second they have the Registration Number as part of the accounts and listing third, that the website deactivates the yearround shortterm rentals at the end of the year not a permanent residents in them therefore no Eligible Program and forwarded the specific addresses the hosting platform provides a listing on the website and into the websites the majority of lions share are not tied to an address although you see the pin drops their approximations of the quarter of a mile so again, this is an absolutely necessary to do our work in some amount of time and finally, the website push the information to the hosts regarding the requirement of the shortterm rental the need to register and submit quarterly reports and submit their business taxes and other forms so i want to give you give you a little bit of background of the process and a brief official the first step it bans a complaint we received from the public or another agency or a proactive case with the staff we conduct on investigation if we investigate and find no violation the case is closed but if we confirm the violation we issue a notice of violation this is an important step in the from those so where we have formally transitioned into a violation and penalties start to accrue so once the owner of the property get a Ethics Commission they contact the staff the first has the right to request an administrative hearing within 30 days not mandatory so if they choose not to well work with them or require them to remove their listing and provided proof of no further listing and provided penalties from the individual requires an administrative hearing within 45 days and thirty days after the hearing the hearing officer will issue a decision for the facts of the case and typically will assess penalties so once weve approved that property into the pro and again roving the listings, etc. And paying the penalties we close that case so here are the current improvements statistics so february 1st of last year a total of 2 add and 64 cases one and 55 are in various stages of investigation 14 were issued notice of violation were waiting for penalties of payment and proof of violation has been abated so 95 cases have been fully closed that means the vertical found in violation or summoned through the assessment of penalties and theyre in compliance weve assessed 475,000 in penalties those cases involve 64 units and one and 24 thousands of those penlites are collected to date i should note the largest chunk or proportion of paid penalties revolves around enforcement case where the individual that we found in violation were up for review one and 90,000 in penalties so other outstanding penalties in older cases are reviewed with the agency were meeting with them and were looking to update the procedures without goes through the administrative hearing if they request a hearing we can make sure the violation is abated without preceding to a hearing that represented 2 3rds of the cases through the enforcements process to date and dramatically increases the capacity to go after additional cases and go through the process. With additional supervisor kim. Thank you, mr. Guy i have a question on enforcement you mentioned that a chunk of the fines were involving one case can you go into the expensive of the one case and my followup question is the trinity apartment in the news allegations that the Property Owner and developer were representative out units weve negotiated on behalf of of the city to remain belowmarketrate i was wondering if you have an update. In 3 particular case i go back to the tree of our enforcement process at the time, we issued a formal Ethics Commission that is when the process is formalized the enforcement is we find that a violation and likely 0 or to have occurred we went through the administrative hearing at the our notice of violation was issued the entities that was sub at large if trinity had already been evicted by the trinity Property Organization for not paying their rent likely there was violations occurring prior to that but at the time of our enrollment process no enforcement waterways because the tenants war evicted weve referred it to the it dont make any difference and we found though the administrative process on 93 market tennis this is pending litigation we cant commit but that represents the throw our administrative hearing assessed one and 95,000 through penalties with that decision. Im not familiar with the 973 Market Building is 3 zoned residential. Zoned rh3 it is generally residential and office space. It is regular use under planning even though it is a use under planning that is assigned by planning so is it residential. Yes. It is a building that is issued and has an official residential use so the shortterm rentals is only available for areas residential spaces that are formally defined as residential unit. Supervisor campos. Thank you thank you, mr. Chair i want to mr. Guy thank you for your presentation following up on the enforcement numbers 200 and 64 cases open in 95 fully closed can you explain a little bit more sort of when you decided to close a case i think i mentioned abatement and what exactly do you mean by that. Thank you for the question closed in this case the budget bucket of 95 thomas a. Swifts electric rifle cases are cases we received a complained from the public and investigated and found that perhaps the complainant was in arrow no violation of shortterm rentals take place on that property and closes the case or if we go out and our staff investigates a little bit further and finds a violation in the past but the allergies is down where the aspects of the property simply no longer a shortterm rental so the violation is essentially abated from in stand point no more violation occurring and they can include it includes cases that are taken through the formal process and have been fully abated with the penalties in terms of what abatement means we consider a case of abatement when a personal invitation violation they deactivate their listing from the platform their listing on and prove theyve cancelled future bookings and after they deactivate their listing and not continue into the future g under the guys of darkness if those 3 conditions are satisfied we consider the condition abated. When someone deactivates a listing do you on a basis go back to make sure that continues that the activation continues or yeah. So with our staffing we have a lot more ability to do that then we did severalty months ago all of the cases are resolved recently so im not sure that a person of a mindset to do so can deactivate their listing and increase the monitoring for compliance is something were starting now and i should note that the repeat offenses the base fin is 484 a day and multiplied as concerned so those penalties should serve as a way to avoid. On the numbers im sorry on the penalties that were assessed the mention 4 hundred and 75 and 1 hundred and 24 thousand collected for the reminder of the money not collected can i explain a little bit sort of what is going on with those pieces of. To restate our largest penalty one and 90,000 that is really to the case this is gone through litigation aside from that case some were recently settled and assessed so not the time passed for 3 person to give us their check others cases that are outstanding in age by a cough of most a meeting with the delinquent revenue staff to refer those cases for their collection. Then a final question i know there is more information you said you had made requests of hosting platforms on your slide 6 identifying the host for listing and multiple properties and requirement or websites can you talk about the past platforms we had the letter of them mentioning the airbnb in december of those tops the actual letter to memorize that with the discussion of airbnb and that letter went out last week, we need more time for the exact responses from the mroormdz so the letter went out to airbnb as mentioned and flip key and craigslist and home away slash b b. So do you have an idea if they said no to any of those. If they say no to the proposals well condition conducting our business under the rules and ramp up enforcement and assist with the registration and again none of those asks are requirement for us to do our jobs those are things that any one of these for the aspect of our work make it go quicker but not necessary to conduct the register of Law Enforcement process. Thank you please continue. Thank you so ill pick up just to round out our discussion weve down increased Law Enforcement activity in december and as discussed for future components of the hopes that people came in compliance and not backtrack i wanted to touch on a couple of website changes and working with the Mayors Office of innovation the first thing under the umbrella 9 hosting this is required the administrative code host are required to post their activity at the beginning of last quarter or for the most part this represents the longest period theyll have to report on if they register in 2015 so one active of january 24th, 2016, those r were posted and d t helped us set up this is a chart of website quarterly rental reporting form relatively simple and easy to use i believe and hopefully, the hosts are finding that that way this gives us the public better usability and our staff a lot less to process in other words of data industry we have paper forms available for folks that are uncomfortable with the applications and other 09 reasons and pending the changes next well launch an online compliment form folks submit the complaints 55 email or with our voicemail line an individual that that feel uncomfortable submitting information we replacement their personal privacy but to girlfriend people comfort well have an online form that is sort of just a blanket form without identifying the information of the activity theyve seen and wish to file their containment a website weve post the enforcement and notice of violation and decided the paper to memorize the process of the enforcement cases and realtime registration and enforcement data wife been talking about today and also looking at the idea of creating a dynamic constantly updating heat map of what had a shortterm rental registration is located just to be clear not offensive addresses we will desegregate that material just something that individuals can see where the clusters of shortterm rentals hosts are registered are located kind of by neighborhoods so thats all i have nonetheless any further questions at this point. Thank you very much thank you. Just a few follows up in terms of enforcement i know you touched on this a little bit complaint driven verse proactive talk about more objective with the enforcement there is a lot of it complaint driven and whats going on in their neighborhood and know the office has been engaging proactive engagement. Obviously containment driven the user those are properties we want to be responsive to the public and oftentimes those units make themselves apparent maintained registered but an operational issue likely having impacts to the daily lives of people but attempting to make a noise trash left out inappropriately so active cases are important as well as that allows us to really look at you know individuals taking many, many units off the market tattoo make sure we have a geographic spread of the cases were not george easier that dont have k34r5i789 from the public but still we need to look at that if youre required of the city that is not nestle for shortterm rentals youre expected to comply with the line if youre eligible. Eaten in terms of registration process i appreciate the efforts with the website in general making it better early on and were getting a lot of feedback if hoists this is too difficult to register im sure their challenges but i know theres been improvements i appreciate that do you think we are where we need to be in terms of making it as easy as possible for people to register and come into compliance with the law. I think there is always room for improvements even small integrals and were in a much better place than the what some of the early problems were even before i came on board interest was long details with the schedules weve transitioned to an online scheduling tool to identify people identity and in terms of the proof of residentscy the certificate is worst the paper it is printed on but with the changing to the online schedule get the information from a number of places with our actually with our website changes for the reporting the teams did the testing not only on that form but good go dedicated feedback from our newly applicants so there is always incredible improvement and any Public Comment on on behalf of the folks that have questions but we want to hear Ferry Building how we can make the process smooth and realizing not everybodys favorite thing to talk with the government but people take the initiative and want to reward them with the process that is as easy as possible. Finally in terms of the the interesting graphic you had in terms of the monthly registration applications that started off strong and growing and then sort of collapsed that looks like around the time that prop f went and qualify for the ballot i know i received a fair amount of feedback from people im hesitant to register when i dont know the rules or some people said hey, ive registered and not ful