Chair peskin good afternoon and welcome to the land use and transportation meeting of august 10, 2020. I am chair aaron peskin, joined by supervisor dean preston. I dont believe that weve been joined by our vice chair, supervisor safai, but he will be joining us, but we have been joined by supervisor safai. Our clerk is miss erica major. Miss major, do you have any announcements. Clerk thank you, chair. Precautions are taken to a statewide stayathome order and all other state and local orders, resolutions, and directives. Members and the public will stay at home and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present. Sfgovtv. Org and channel 26 are streaming the number across the screen. 4156550001. The number is is 1462472457. Then press pound, and pound again. When there are items of discussion, youll be muted. If you wish to enter Public Comment, press starthree to be entered into the queue. If you submit Public Comment via email, you may could do by submitting it to me, erica. Major sf. Org. Chair peskin thank you, miss major. [inaudible] clerk the system prompts will indicate that you have raised your hand. Please wait for the system to say youre unmuted to make your comments when we get to Public Comment. Chair peskin thank you, miss major. Colleagues, as you know, the voters of San Francisco passed proposition e for housing for educators. This is a slight tweak that would run concurrently, and if approved by this body, would be sent to the board of supervisors as a Committee Report. This legislation introduced by president yee relative to the mix of threebedroom units thats been reviewed by the Planning Commission that has unanimously recommended this to this body, and with that, i will turn it over to president yees chief of staff, general. Thank you, chair peskin, and supervisors safai and preston, for allowing me to make this presentation. This would allow us to create a mix three bedrooms in future proposition e educator housing buildings. As you know, affordable is an obstacle for many families to access housing stock, but we dont have opportunities for larger or Multigenerational Families to live in these housing stocks, and we want to make sure that we are establishing a principle to get a mix of two and threebedroom housing units. We want to be able to attract workers to San Francisco and retain them, so with that, we hope we can count on your support on this legislation. Chair peskin supervisor yee is creating a legacy around educators, Early Childhood development. Miss meloni, would you like to say anything . I would just like to say there were several Public Commenters which was heard at the Planning Commission earlier this week, including the united educators of San Francisco, who voiced their support for the ordinance, and im here to answer any questions. Chair peskin thank you, miss merlone. Are there any questions or comments, supervisor safai or preston . With that, is there any Public Comments . Clerk thank you. Michael michael from public works is going to let us know if there are any speakers in Public Comment. For those of you not in the queue, press starthree to enter the queue, and for those of you already in the queue, wait until you receive a system prompt telling you that you have been unmuted. Chair peskin do we have any speakers . There are zero callers in queue. Chair peskin okay. Seeing no members of the public for Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. And colleagues, if there is knox, i would like to make a motion to send this item to the full board of supervisors with recommendation as a Committee Report to be heard tomorrow, august 11. On that motion, madam clerk, a roll call, please. Clerk on that motion, as stated by chair peskin [roll call] clerk you have three ayes. Chair peskin all right. Next item, please. Clerk item 2 is an ordinance amending the planning code to reenact a provision permitting nonretail professional services above the fifrts sto first story in the Chinatown Community Business District zoning control table, which was inadvertently deleted in recent enacted legislation. To enter t to chair peskin thank you, miss major. As miss major just stated, this is indeed a technical correction to an item that was inadvertently deleted, and this will reinstate the nonretail professional services above the ground floor are permitted. Mr. Starr from the planning department, is there anything you would like to add to that nifty synopsis that i just gave, or ms. Merloni, or anybody from planning. Were fixing a mistake. I believe that we are satisfied with your description, chair peskin. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, miss merloni. Are there any questions or comments from members . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment on item number 2 . Clerk thank you, mr. Ch r chair. Michael is letting us know if there are any public callers. If you have not done so already, please press starthree to be entered into the queue. If you have not done so. Please wait until you are unmuted to begin your comments. There appears to be no comments. Chair peskin thank you, michael. Public comment is closed, and i would like to send this forward with a positive recommendation in due process to the full board. Roll call on that item, please. Clerk on the motion as stated by chair peskin [roll call] clerk you have three eyes. Chair peskin could you please read the next item. Clerk yes. Item number three is a reenactment of emergency ordinance, ordinance number 8420 to establish protections for occupants of residential hoteling during the covid19 pandemic. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment during this period should call 4156550001. Enter the meeting i. D. And president pound, and pound again. To enter the queue, press starthree or raise your hand. Please wait until the system has indicated you have been unmuted to provide your comments during Public Comment period. Chair peskin colleagues, before you make a motion to continue this item and take Public Comment, i would like to first thank my colleague, supervisor katy tang, who is now the liaison between the department of Public Health and the board of supervisors for working to attempt to craft amendments to this emergency ordinance that we previously enacted which, candidly, the department of Public Health, due to any number of constraints on the Human Resource side and the relative side, testing equipment, swabs, whathaveyou, have not been able to fully implement. Dr. Stephanie cohen has agreed to reach out to the three s. R. O. Collaboratives in the intervening week to figure out what they actually can do. I dont want to impose legislation that is unrealistic, but i do want to continue to take every step and utilize all of our resources to make sure that covid19 does not spread in some of the most transmissive environments in congregate setting, that being the s. R. O. Hotels. With that, seeing no further comment, ill open this up for Public Comment and then, ill continue this for one week pending dr. Cohens outreach to the s. R. O. Communities. Madam clerk, there any Public Comment . Clerk mr. Chair, michael from public works is checking to see if there are any callers in queue. I believe theres one caller in queue. Michael, please let us know when the callers are ready, and go ahead and unmute them. Hi. This is theresa flanders, seniors and disability action, and i just want to declare my absolute support for this ordinance. It is so important, and i also want to thank the members of the board for supporting this. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, miss flandrick. Thank you, please. Sorry. Zero callers remaining in the queue. Chair peskin okay. Public comment is closed, and i would here by make a motion to continue this item one week, to the meeting of august 17. On that motion, madam clerk, will you take a role call vote, please. Clerk on the motion as stated by chair peskin [roll call] clerk you have three ayes. Chair peskin thank you, madam clerk, could you please read the next item. Clerk yes. Item number 4 is an emergency ordinance to temporarily prohibit Construction Projects in buildings with any Residential Rental units that require the suspension of water or Electricity Service to residential tenants without providing alternative sources of water and power due to the covid19 pandemic. Call 4156550001. Enter the immediating i. D. , and press pound, and pound again. If you have not done so already, please press starthree to lineup to speak. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted during Public Comment, and you may begin your comment. Chair peskin thank you, madam clerk. First, id like to start by thanking the cosponsors of this emergency ordinance supervisors walton, ronen, and preston, and i particularly want to thank my aide, lee hepner, as weve gotten call after call after call. As you will remember, on march 16, when shelter in place went into effect, there was a temporary prohibition on construction, and that has temporarily been eased and waived, but there are many people sheltering in place, but they are not sheltering in peace. Some of this construction is essential, some of it is nonessential. There have been a handful of band actors who may be harassing and intimidating tenants out by doing nonessential construction, whereby water and Electricity Service is disrupted for days at a time, and this is a common sense ordinance that will allow construction to continue on the one hand but treat tenants with dignity and respect on the other. I would like to offer a number of amendments, and i want to thank folks from the building industry and from the landlord industry for making some common sense suggestions. And let me go through these amendments. One of them the furtheirst s on page 2. Id like to insert an item online 14, relative to the exemption of Affordable Housing. Colleagues, this is in your hands, and as set forth in subsection e, which reads, Affordable Housing are less likely to be the subject of ongoing construction work. Tenants in Affordable Housing units, including lock term tenants in that housing are less likely to be recipients of harassment, therefore, high market rate rental units have been excluded from this exemption. Online 7, insert, after water shutoff, exceeding two hours in a single day, the Property Owner provides an alternative water source, including, but not limited to, bottled or gallons of water. Insert, after shutoff, the Property Owner provides an alternative wat alternative source of power. Line 13, strike caused by one weeks advance notice, and strike the last sentence in that subsection, so it would read the [inaudible] chair peskin the name and Contact Information of a liaison who can provide information and respond to tenant concerns. Subb1, in the event of an anticipated water or electricity shut off lasting more than two consecutive hours or four nonconsecutive hours in a single day, all impacted residents must be provided with 72 hours advance written notice. And sub2, in the event of an anticipated water or electricity shut off of more than two consecutive hours or four consecutive hours on two or more consecutive days or on more than three days in a single week, all impacted residents must be provided with written notice at least one week in advance sorry. Im not dieing of covid19 of the first weekly shut off and prolonged Construction Projects. Subsection c. If over the course of construction, the need emerges to shut off water or power for more than two hours, construction must pause and may only resume pursuant to the notice and alternative accommodations provisions of subsections a and b of this emergency ordinance, provided, however, the department of Emergency Management may allow the project to continue if it will cause a great emergency hazard. In other words, if theres an emergency, construction will continue. Subsection d, if theres use of loud tools or instruments for any prolonged period of time [inaudible] chair peskin if, one, a Property Owner and all impacted residential tenants agree to terms other than those set forth in subsections a through c, and the Property Owner submits an email to an address established by d. B. I. Reflecting the terms and duration of that agreement. Or, sub 2, all impacted residents reside in the building where all of the units have a 100 affordable Purchase Price or rent set at 120 of the adjusted median Family Income ad determined by the Mayors Office of Community Housing or the Fair Market Rent area that contains San Francisco, b, that does n fo life of the project for a minimum of 55 years, whichever is longer, by recorded regulatory agreement and consistent with any applicable federal, state, or local regulatory requirements. That is the exemption for Affordable Housing. And finally, on page 5, subsection 4, insert at line five, upon finding a first violation, d. B. I. Shall issue a warning of Property Owner, along with a copy of this ordinance. After receiving the order, Property Owner shall be required to send a notice to d. B. I. Along with a copy to any residents impacted by this ordinance. Failure to do so will constitute another violation of this ordinance, and subsequent violations, d. B. I. Shall issue a notice of violation and or other citation pursuant to its authority under the building code. So those are the changes that i would like to propose and would like to, again, thank folks in the construction and tenantlandlord industry or those suggestions. Are there any questions or comments from members . Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you. Can we make a motion to accept these now or should we wait . Chair peskin ill do that after Public Comment. Supervisor safai okay. So thank you, supervisor, for these i got these from your staff as soon as you have them. Really appreciate them. I just wanted to talk to a couple of things just for my own experience as a tenant right now and some of my experiences in the past, one of the things that gives me a little bit of reservation. And again, i think this is a really important piece of legislation. I understand that a lot of people are sheltering at home, and it makes sense that we should be doing this to ensure that, you know, that people arent having to experience undue stress during these times, for sure. My question is i just think about routine maintenance. We just had a we had a leak in our bathroom about a week and a half ago, and they had to come shut the water off for a little more than a couple hours. So what i wouldnt want is this to be an impediment for routine maintenance, and i just wonder if there couldnt be some kind of reference language. I see the language if d. B. I. Believes this could be a health and safety issue, but it seems that some of these could be avoided with having d. B. I. In the conversation if its just the property manager and the tenant using, you know, the kind of allowable time frame. So i just wanted to put that out there, see what you thought. I would hate to think that this would then become an impediment for routine maintenance. As i said, we had to shut our water off for a couple hours. And then, what happened again, you said construction inbuilding. So if theres not sewer work or Electrical Work related to pg e or p. U. C. Because again, last week, just by chance, pg e came, and they had to shut the power off for eight hours on our streets. This is Construction Projects in buildings with any residential units. So i just wanted to put those two things out there to see what your response was and see how you think it would play out in practice. So relative chair peskine to the former question, let me make a couple of statements. Routine maintenance is something that is foreseen supervisor safai im sorry. Let me clarify. If theres something that arises, an emergency, a leak or something, you have to come in and shut off the water. Not the routine, scheduled maintenance. Thats easy, but if youre responding to an immediate hazard, how do we deal with that in this legislation . Chair peskin so let me just say as a small landlord in San Francisco, that has happened to me. I have had emergencies where pipes have burst. I dont think ive had any electrical emergencies, but i definitely have had water emergencies, and theyve all been dealt with in relatively short periods of time. The reality is, this is going to be complaint driven. This is really directed at a number of bad actors, some of them with thousands of units, some of them with a handful of united. When we did the press conference, we did it in front of a building in my district by a woman whos clearly being harassed by a small landlord who is trying to drive her out of her mind and out of her unit despite the protections that are afforded to her under the law, but the reality is, this is going to be complaint driven, and then d. B. I. Will be able to come in there and demeray whether or not it is legitimate or not. The reality is and lets be real about this reality. If a pipe burst, and it took more than two hours to fix, by the time d. B. I. Gets there the next day, its going to have been fixed. As you said, and certainly in my experience, most of these things are handled in less than two hours, but the fundamental underpinning of this legislation is pretty simple, which is if youre going to shut the electricity off or shut the water off, youve got to supply alternative means of water, which could be fivegallon bottles of water or onegallon bottles or a generator thats enough to power a computer. As to your kpaexample, supervi safai, pg e is not legislated by this legislation, but that could be the subject of a piece of future legislation whereby pg e is held accountable. Supervisor safai no. The thing i appreciate in that situation by pg e, they let us know a week in advance. There was noticing. We were able to prepare, make preparations. That was the thing i liked about this, that there was advance notice and follow through. I guess, my question is where did the number two hours come from . How did you guys come up with that . Chair peskin and i guess i just responded to that. If you do two hours, and the project takes three hours and again, this is going to be all complaint driven. By the time that d. B. I. Gets out there late that day or the next day, the project will be done. If you do four hours, its going to be six hours. So this is going to be all complaint driven. Not to use an old cliche, but to use pornography, d. B. I. Will know it when they see that. Supervisor safai so your response to the two hours versus responding to an emergency if theres a leak or theres a backup or theres a clog or if theres a blown circuit, your thing is hey, theyre going to get the crews out there. If they have to shut the power down longer than that, its going to be complaint driven, and theyll be aware of that. And in the case of longer incidents, youve seen the parties a parties and think that this is workable. Chair peskin and as youve said in your earlier comments and as ive experienced as a small landlord, generally, these things are ameliorated in a few hours. Supervisor preston . Supervisor preston its not something strict liability, if its 2 05, the landlord is somehow on the hook for something, its how long the repair is anticipated for. So i hope im reading that right. The issue is a repair or procedure thats anticipated to be over two hours. I dont think anybody is going to be sitting there, with a stop water, saying 2 01, theres going to be consequences. Am i reading that right . Chair peskin you are reading that right. And furthermore, on page 5, section 4 this legislation is really aimed at the bad actors. Upon a finding of a first violation, d. B. I. Sends a warning and does a little education, so youve really got to be a bad actor before you get a notice of violation. This is actually a Pretty Amazing piece of legislation, but if the bad actors intend to keep acting body, i intend to beef it up. Supervisor safai thank you. Chair peskin supervisor preston, do you have any other comments or questions . Supervisor preston i just want to say, chair peskin, thank you for bringing this up. I hear about this from a lot of constituents. Theres a lot of discussion about evictions, moratoriums, back rent, how were handling these issues. But some of these issues, they dont make the headlines as much, but in terms of impacting peoples daytoday lives, things like water interruption, Real Estate Agents showing peoples homes, things like that become really magnified when youre sheltering in place. So i just want to thank you and your staff for digging in on the details of what is really a huge impact on a lot of peoples lives. And to your point, chair peskin, there are so many that are going to be unaffected by this. The ones coming out and dealing with a burst pipe immediately are really going to be unaffected by this. The unfortunate reality is that there are some landlords that know that folks are stuck at home, that know that interrupting water, service, power, among other things, has a huge impact on folks, and unfortunately, as you say, are aimed at getting out longterm tenants, so this is great legislation and hopefully will deter some of those actions. Chair peskin thank you for those comments, supervisor preston. If there are no further comments or questions, why dont we open this up for Public Comment. Madam clerk . Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. Michael is checking to see if there are any callers in queue. Have you have not done so already, please press star three to be added to the queue. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted, and you may begin your comment. I have six callers in the queue. Chair peskin first speaker, please. Hi. My name is dave cunningham, and i live in district 8, supervisor mandelmans district, at 610 clipper street, and veritasclipper is proposing nine a. D. U. S where the parking is starting in 2021, and i would like to ask that they hold off on this unnecessary construction completely until the covid pandemic is over and were able to go to work because i work from home, and i have to be on aulig d call all day, and its very hard for me to make calls when theyre excavating and drilling and making all kinds of noise. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. This is theresa flandrick from s. D. A. Im glad this was created because i know many stories from the bad actors exactly you have talked about or even work that was to be done outside, however, the workers said they had to come inside to do something and were not wearing masks, and that was the home of two seniors over 80 years old. So its its kind of sad that you even have to create this very common sense legislation is dealing with the bad actors. I like that you are dealing with that, so thank you so, so much, supervisor peskin. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello . Chair peskin hello . Yes. My name is armin blasy, and i live in telegraph hill. If you can hear this. This is what i have to live through from 8 00 in the morning until about 4 30 in the afternoon. Theyre drilling literally 6 inches from my feet. Its going on and on, and the landlord has given us no option on this. I have to shelter in place because of an injury, and i cant even think straight. Im im not getting enough sleep. This is just intolerable, this whole condition, this drilling. And im concerned that the people who are doing the drilling arent engineers, and they might hit rupture a gas main downstairs, like, below me. I dont know how this thing can be resolved. I know this has to be looked into. My address is 2 genoa place in San Francisco, and i dont know why theyre doing this at this point in San Francisco. It doesnt make any sense to me. I cant go outside and get away from this noise, and im not able to sleep at night. Im under a doctors care for lock of sleep, and a back injury. Theres nothing i can do. I have to be on the site. I have to stay here, and its kind of like torture. Its kind of like being in kay foreign country and being tortured and in a cell where i cant move, and i get radio blasts. Any way, i hope you see this message, and i hope someone looks into this because this is ridiculous. Ive called the rent board, ive called lawyers, and no ones returning my call, so i just want to thank you for this time, and i hope that my guy in district 3 looks into this and gets this settled because this thing is going to go on for eight weeks. Chair peskin thank you, sir. I noticed you live at 2 genoa. I live about two blocks away. I will come and take a look at this on the way home. Please feel free to email me at aaron. Peskin sf. Gov or call 4155547450 to discuss this further with me. Next speaker, please. Hello. This is ray tilliman. Chair peskin go ahead, sir. Hello . Hi. This is ray tilliman in district 6. Im in mat haneys district, and im in geary street, located at geary and hillman. Ive had the pleasure of going to city hall numerous times to discuss this landlord. Were in a situation where theres a major covid virus happening. To get away from all of the issues of paying rent, which is very difficult in a subsidized building, with big segments of our economy that have been shutdown. Weve been trying to pay rent, and weve had our water and Services Shut off. We have Homeless People vomiting and defecating. Ive been infected by it, and i come in to wash, and theres no water. Ive had to go to my nextdoor neighbors to wash up after cleaning vomit off our steps. Construction people track that in to our lobby. I also suffer from asthma. This is a comorbid issue. This could lead to my death if i go to kaiser with a lung compromised by asthma due to the plaster dust. Im fed up, and its a woeful disregard for human life, quite frankly. We need to be human and get it together a little. Thats my comment. Chair peskin thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Hello, this is anastas anastasia yovannopoulos, a tena tenant advocate. We were called to a [inaudible] and they were converting apartments as soon as people moved out, subdividing apartments, and they had a terrible time with the noise, and they shut off them all. So im appreciative that supervisor peskin has put in the requirements to give notice, give notice of for the two days and the other longer notice, because thats important to tenants, especially during covid. You dont have water, you want to know how long thats going to be shut off, and when, so you can make your plans. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My names susan marsh, and im a tenant activist, who among other things, have worked with the veritas tenants. As you know, the tenants have been subject to harassment during this pandemic, which of course could be deadly. Make no mistake about it, they are bad actors. They have a reputation of doing this before the pandemic, and thats no accident. Their Business Model, and the Business Model of their emulators depends on this. Once again, this could be deadly. This needs to be stopped. I thank supervisor peskin for introducing this legislation, and i strongly urge you to pass it. Chair peskin thank you, ms. Marsh. Next speaker, please. Hi. Im calling to support the emergency ordinance that supervisor peskin has written. You know, people are experiencing, with the pandemic, theyre worried about contracting a virus, theyre experiencing significant anxiety, and they shouldnt have to deal with anymore stress on top of everything that theyre already dealing with while sheltering in place, and also worrying about rent. Putting forth this emergency ordinance is the least we can do for people in this situation. Thanks. Chair peskin thank you for your comment. Clerk next speaker, please. This is jonathan randolph. Thank you for the legislation, supervisor peskin, and thank you for the amendments. I am a little bit concerned along the same line as supervisor ahsha safais concerns. A couple of months ago, one of our tenants had a leak, and together, we unscrewed it, and we found that the item wcartris defective, so we went to home depot to replace it. What if home depot were not open . It would have been overnight. I think we should have a you know, i think there should be language that would make it so that its not illegal to do things in good faith because i dont want to you know, i dont think its a good idea to make things illegal even though theyre necessary. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you. And to the last speaker, and i dont want to be argumentative, in a case like that where it went on for an extended number of hours, i would assume that you or i as decent landlords would figure out how to provide alterna alternatives of water or power. , like, wat like, Water Bottles . Chair peskin exactly. Thats what the legislation says. Hi. Im a veritas tenants. Im in support of the legislation and what the legislation says because veritas has been increasingly how do i say this in proactive during to construct, to build to have people that dont live in my building enter my building during the pandemic. Theres been a tremendous influx, it seems like more than before the pandemic, which is disturbing. Ive experienced a number of incidents. For instance, this afternoon, i was walking my dog i was trying to get into this meeting, and before i got into the meeting, i was walking my dog. One of the workers wasnt wearing a mask, and i asked him to wear a mask, and he called me a faggot. It just shows that veritas has acted in terribly bad faith, and during a pandemic, its just not safe to bring people in here. Theres no contact tracing, and theyre not taking precautions before they enter the building. I thank supervisor peskin for passing this, and thank you so, so much for what youre doing. Chair peskin thank you, and i am sorry for what youre going through. Next caller, please. There are no further callers in the queue. Chair peskin are there any other members of the public that wish to comment on this item . Going once, going twice we have one public caller. Chair peskin oh, go ahead. Hi, supervisors. Thank you for the opportunity. I think i didnt raise my hand. This is charlie goss with the San Francisco apartment association. I certainly understand wanting to protect tenants from disruption for voluntary work. We would ask that you all consider creating an exemption for codemandated work. Providing alternate water doesnt seem to be problematic, but we are concerned about alternate power. If youre providing a replacement battery for a laptop, thats one thing, but if you need to provide alternate power for a 50unit building, thats another thing. Bringing in a number of generators would also increase the noise. Supervisor mandelman has extended one tier of the fourtier seismic retrofit mandate. So were concerned that the effect of this ordinance is that it will postpone code mandated work, so we would ask that you create an exemption, and then also extending the deadlines for the tier one, two, and three retrofits as well as the Panel Upgrades for next summer. Certainly under the intent of the ordinance. The city has some deadlines coming up for code mandated work and residential deadlines. Wed just ask that you consider that. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, mr. Goss. And just so that were clear, the electricity replacement standard is that which would allow internet use; that thats a standard in this legislation. But insofar as the City Attorney has determined that the amendments that ive made are substantive, i do intend to continue this item for one week, so that gives us a week to discuss the items that you raised. So are there any other members of the public who would like to comment on this item number 4 . There is one remaining caller . Chair peskin okay. Next speaker, please. Hello . Chair peskin hello . Hello . Chair peskin hello. Hello. My name is sean tiegren, Residential Builders association. Im calling to say, i do appreciate the amendments, but as an overview, construction is exploratory and reactionary in nature. We dont know what were going to find when we open up these walls, so once we open up, these legislation or these amendments will give us a platform to make the necessary adjustments and facilitate some form of a quick fix, and then, if more work is necessary, with the proper notification, we can go further. It allows good actors to do what they need to do while combatting abuse. Its temporary, it should be here for three or four months, and its something we can all live with. Its a difficult period that were all living through, nobody can deny that, and were all willing to roll up our sleeves and do what we need to do to make this tolerable for everybody. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, mr. Tiegren and let us never make the enemy of the good. Are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on this item number 4 . Madam clerk . Clerk mr. Chair, d. T. Is checking to see if there are any callers still in queue. There is a caller on the line. Chair peskin next speaker, please. Hi. Im a veritas tenant, and veritas is proposing completely unnecessary unit additions to my building, and im wondering if we couldnt completely ban unnecessary construction during covid19. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, sir. Seeing no other members of the public on this item, Public Comment is here by closed. [gavel]. Chair peskin colleagues, i would like to make a motion to move the previouslyreadintotherecord amendments. On that motion, a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion as stated by supervisor peskin [roll call] clerk you have three ayes. Chair peskin and then, id like to make a motion to continue this item one week to the meeting of august t17, 202, wherein i intend, if there are no substantive amendments, to send this to a meeting with a Committee Report on august 18. Roll call, please. Clerk on the motion as stat stated by supervisor peskin [roll call] clerk you have three ayes. Chair peskin we are adjourned. Supervisor safai thank you. Hi. My name is carmen chiu, San Franciscos elected assessor. When i meet with seniors in the community, theyre thinking about the future. Some want to down size or move to a new neighborhood thats closer to family, but they also worry that making such a change will increase their property taxes. Thats why i want to share with you a property tax saving program called proposition 60. So how does this work . Prop 60 was passed in 1986 to allow seniors who are 55 years and older to keep their prop 13 value, even when they move into a new home. Under prop 13 law, property growth is limited to 2 growth a year. But when ownership changes the law requires that we reassess the value to new market value. Compared to your existing home, which was benefited from the which has benefited from the prop 13 growth limit on taxable value, the new limit on the replacement home would likely be higher. Thats where prop 60 comes in. Prop 60 recognizes that seniors on fixed income may not be able to afford higher taxes so it allows them to carryover their existing prop 13 value to their new home which means seniors can continue to pay their prop 13 tax values as if they had never moved. Remember, the prop 60 is a one time tax benefit, and the Property Value must be equal to or below around your replacement home. If you plan to purchase your new home before selling your existing home, please make sure that your new home is at the same price or cheaper than your existing home. This means that if your existing home is worth 1 million in market value, your new home must be 1 million or below. If youre looking to purchase and sell within a year, were you nur home must not be at a value that is worth more than 105 of your exist egging home. Which means if you sell your old home for 1 million, and you buy a home within one year, your new home should not be worth more than 1. 15 million. If you sell your existing home at 1 million and buy a replacement between year one and two, it should be no more than 1. 1 million. Know that your ability to participate in this Program Expires after two years. You will not be able to receive prop 60 tax benefits if you cannot make the purchase within two years. So benefit from this tax savings program, you have to apply. Just download the prop 60 form from our website and submit it to our office. For more, visit our website, im the chair of the budget and finance committee and joined by supervisor walton,
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