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Welcome back to the San Francisco board of supervisors land use and Economic Development committee committee. I am scott wiener the chairman of the committee. To my left is supervisor david chiu, a member of the committee and vicechair supervisor jane kim will be joining us momentarily. We did convene at 10 00 a. M. This morning and heard item no. 1, which we continued and then went into recess until now. So madame clerk, would you please call item no. 2. An ordinance amending the planning code by adding section 249. 70. Thank you. And item no. 2, the author is supervisor david chiu. Superviso...

So, thats the item before you. As the board president referenced, there have been various concerns by various members of the community, surrounding various aspects about this. I think theres one category of folks who have consistently not supported the general project and theyve raised a number of concerns that we have been able to address in writing and i sent you a copy of that last wednesday night. There are i think some very legitimate concerns of the immediately abutting Property Owners. Now that were not on the public rightofway, the impact, construction impact to the great majority of n...

Theyre essentially his property, his tool or his equipment. And he anticipates retrieving within the contract, he anticipated retrieving the machines, using the machines for his future projects or reselling them on the open market. So, there is a salvage value owe yes. These machines the machines that will be used to build the central subway are essentially new machines. Oh, these machines have a fairly, very they can be reused and refurbished and theyre used throughout the world in other projects that would use that same diameter. Great. The one final question while i have you here, the north...

Discretionary authority that all bodies have in the city and county of San Francisco and that is in the admin code. That is where this commission derives its discretionary review authority powers. So, when you hear a dr and a Building Permit application youre relying on that section. Its the same section that the board of appeals relies upon when they are hearing a Building Permit as well. So, thats saying that you do not have the ability to exercise discretion, that you are authorized otherwise authorized. Obviously that comes around because of concerns with First Amendment issues and thats w...

The issues, we may have we have drawings in front of us and maybe theyre not color rendering. But substantially everything about this project, the size and the scope, the only difference that we talked about is the size of the use for the restaurant there being whether or not it was commercial use, other commercial use incorporated. But i havent actually heard anyone, members of the public bringing up issues about the substantive factors of the project itself should that space not be a larger restaurant, you know, none of the none of the substantive issues about the Development Project or what...