Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use Committee 92815 20150930

This meeting will now come to order this is the regular meeting the Land Use Commission im chair and to my right is supervisor wiener the vice chair and to my left supervisor kim and victor young it our clerk and thank you leo and herb from sfgovtv for broadcasting this mr. Clerk, any announcements . Yes. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the october 6, 2015, bobs agenda oracles. A call item one. Is the regulation for the freeway operation with the state of california permitting maintenance responsibility for hoig 101 and the director ever public works to accept the agreement. Ladies and gentlemen, so this item number one is supported before i the sfmta i believe we have both mta and dpw staff with us today deanna from dpw and mr. Paul from mta lets see im not sure who will be speaking first mta please come on up thank you for joining us today. Good afternoon, supervisors im deanna im with the San Francisco public works ca. Can you please hold the mike color. Peter is the project manager with the mta corridor the proposed resolution for the authorization to enter into a freeway maintenance operation with caltrans and the maintenance for the brt to be krukd o constructed along route 101 theyll be responsible for the bugs lanes and platforms and landscaping and shown on exhibit a the remaining lanes will continue to be maintained by caltrans sidewalks are are the citys responsibility under the 2009 delegated agreement thats the summary of agreements. All right. Thank you sir, i want to add anything. I think deanna has summarized the agreement fairly well that is part of our process of getting caltrain buy off on the project to show weve defined how to maintain the road and their giving up two lanes dedicated for transit rightofway. My colleagues and i does have comments Public Comment on number one. I left hand since 1977 many years 6 or seven years i go to San Francisco through the golden gate and all and all a beautiful freeway the 101 from areas petaluma and, etc. On the south side some say i also take the 101 basically to the buddhist temple and the freeway have a connection in San Francisco as you may know it is a detour and continued to San Francisco from north i mean most people go to slausen a lot of people freeway i mean so much construction maintaining to put there in the beautiful freeway a beautiful freeway besides that. All right. Thank you mr. Yip is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak seeing none, Public Comment is closed colleagues an information motion for this item thank you motion by supervisor kim to with a positive recommendation and this that is an unanimous decision this motion moves forward mr. Clerk, call item number 2. Item number 2 an issuance amending the planning code by the Transportation Sustainability fee for the application of the existing transportation fee for the homeless shelters from the transportation fee making the members to the area plan fee in the building code. Thank you very much lets see supervisor wiener anything you, you want to say on item 2. Thank you very much madam chair this item is an important revamp item transformation of our approach in San Francisco to transit impact fees weve had transit fees for 35 years but it is limited in its scope it is never applied to residential and been broad exemption so we it is a very important step forward for the funding and Transportation System and seeking a board look at the extent to develop should be assessed fees in support our Transportation System the city is growing significantly and we need to make sure were all pitch in to fund transit as we hope and expect will grow along with the rest of the growth in our city this is been a long process colleagues as you may know in 2012 when we just want the Transit Development fee we adapted some changes but the board overwhelmingly rejected it and it is 0 coming to the forwardlooking form i look forward to discussions a number of issues that will be addressed and policy decisions im looking forward to that discussion i know that this may continue today, if it is continued i hope that floekz stick around to provide testimony because i think that given the importance of this legislation and given the controversies around a few aspects of that it is important for us to receive alp Public Feedback i look forward to the staff presentation i know there is discussion about the whether and to what extent raising the Square Footage fees i think this is important to hear what the methodology with the proposal today including the issues burn feasibility and want to make sure were square in the Transit System and want to make sure that the development is economically feasible taking a look at transit fees but inclusionary housing and childcare and all the other important impact fees that are assessed now and in the future madam chair, i look forward to the discussion. I want to give supervisor kim a few words. I want to acknowledge the Planning Department and the mta work on bringing this forward that is something thats been in discussion for many, many years i look forward to it passing and updated the Transportation Sustainability fee we know the current fees are far below what the city should be gathering from the private projects in order to help to partially mitigate the transmissions impact that growth is having on the city were a city that is growing very quickly especially during this time and we want to make sure that all of our partners that are helping with that growth are also helping to allow us to provide the services and capital and infrastructure to make the improvements that is a city that continues to move with Public Transit improvements and pedestrian and Bicycle Safety improvements i know that there has been a lot of discussion around the promoted rates im interested in examining over this Land Use Commission and next week when it we need to raise the fees and im interested in the Planning Commissions recognize of either up to 33 percent as a nexus or looking at a gradated fee based on either project height or construction type or by the size of the project i know we have a balance that we need to make a policy as policy pa makers luke the nexus study for the impact of supplemented development and making sure we are looking at the viability of projects when we charge those fees that balance we can talk about today and im interested in talking about grandfathering the projects that are currently in the pipeline and an example we have a project that is currently moving forward through the process through asking for a surveillance weve worked with harrison giving 22 percent of the fees passed by the board and so fees were asking our developers regardless of how of this legislation with that said it pent we ask over developers and in the pipeline to help to contribute this is when the growth is happening and wed like them to support it and b you know, i building Many Developers are on notice this is been a discussion weve been having for many years i look forward to having the conversation on both hospitals and private universities i know have some feeling and thoughts a position on that i will wait until the end of the discussion and finally want to recognize alicia what moved her date well, not retirement but moving on departure thank you supervisor cohen so she could be here at the Land Use Commission that is true dedication to the committee im sorry well be continuing it maybe you can come back next monday on behalf of spur thank you. All right. With that said, thats a perfect segue for the next actually, i was going to bring you up alicia but if you sorry director ram but okay. Why dont you come up first. laughter . Ill be happy to defer to my colleagues the one advantage it does entice alicia to stick around but we want to moving forward im john ram the director of the Planning Department that is a very, very important effort thats been around for a long time i want to remind us this by the 4 actions the mta and the sfmta and the 345irz weve been working to craft the legislation and put together a fee that regrets the needs that the development creates as stated the city is growing at an unprecedented rate right now rethink that is one important tool in the toolbox to help fined transportation and what an important tool it addresses a critical need that new development will pay for adequate and safe transportation the demand that is created by the new development and cuts across transportation steps and importantly as supervisor wiener said this is the first time out of the planned areas weeping where we will be asking Residential Development to pay for the Transportation Demand and finally before i im going to turn it over to ed ed reiskin from mta that is important you recognize that is one part find a 3 part program in the Transportation Sustainability program this is the first phase the second phase with the travel math plan well be working with owners and Property Owners to reduce their traffic for auto use theyve been a system that has been used in other cities and the third leg is the ceqa reform that is at the state legislation legislation has been passed but the regulations implementing that legislation are city forth coming and 3 important parts the program that helps us get a better handle on the transportation funding in the city im going to turn it over to ed reiskin and then alicia will come up thank you. Thank you director ram. Good afternoon compare cowen you framed that will that includes johns remarks weve been working hard with the mayors leadership and this board of supervisors to get our arms around the transportation need for today and the future in terms of the Current System and making investment to strengthen and enhance the Current System the Mayors Office electrifying identified funding gap of 6 billion with the recommendation of a new local revenues to close the gap the first was a prop a that was passed by the voters last november with the strategies it continue to close the rest the gap for the state and federal funds it is what we need from this fee what we need is development to pay for more of its hair the impact on the Transportation System so we can continue to support the development of the city but particularly so we can support continued diversity of our economy which really relies on Public Transit and more variable ways this increased fee revenues will enable us to continue to grow and expands the muni make more of our secretaries walkable and bikeable for people to get around and safe and available ways the legislation before you is a significant increase in the fee about a 60 percent over what we have today in increasing the levels of fee and the use to which we apply i know has been referenced different ideas about aspects is it too much or little does is gratifying or grandfather too much or little and we are whats before you a result of years of staff work and legitimate policy questions we look forward to working with the board and the Mayors Office to get to a resolution this is a significant step were therefore understanding the desire of the board to take the time and do its Due Diligence to make sure we get the right package and we urge a speedy resolution to get the fee adapts i douptsdz to all the developments coming back o coming well start to capture so our staff as john said not just planning and mta but the Transportation Authority and the Mayors Office well be available to get in adopted thank you very much for thank you for your time and before we bring up alicia on her last day i want to the director of the Transportation Authority to come up and say a few words. Good afternoon, supervisors im anna here on behalf of tang from the Transportation Authority i want to speak on behalf of the agency and express our strong support for that item and the t s p as the Management Agency the Transportation Authority is keenly interest would in a holistic approach to managing the citys congestion and having a policy that is chord no sound you think land use with supportive policies and programs our aim to better and then the citys revenue movies of policies with overall in support of our transit first, it is sounding simple is not easy to do so we know that San Francisco has added and will continue to add tens of thousands of jobs and housing over the next decade and we needed to be able to fund the transportation infrastructure to meet the demand by this growth our city impact fees was and is innovative funding mechanism to pay for transit with nonresidential developers contributing to the muni system for years we think that make sense to have market rate Housing Developers pay their fair share this Transportation Sustainability fee brings also in regional operates and caltrain where ridership is sorry region operators like bart and caltrans our county wide Transportation Plan as well as the Mayors Task Force identified the need for billions of of investment in Maintenance Management and expansion of our Transportation System the t s f is one piece of a larger piece but critical building on prop a and prop a and helping seek the voter approvals next year and with the declining state and federal funding we need to invest in our Transportation Needs it again and like to reiterate our support for this item thank you. Thank you without further ado, this is the woman of the hour. Good afternoon, supervisors alicia with the San Francisco muni we have a brief presentation about the fee and provide context for this proposal that i think our directors have provided quite a bit of the background and context ill go through this quickly obviously with your well aware were experiencing tremendous growth and accepting hundred thousand new households and hundred the house new jobs by 2014 our 3 agencies the paradox a and Municipal Transportation Agency have worked to put together a comprehensive we think of our strategies towards managing new Development Impacts on the Transportation System and derive the Sustainability Program from that work it has 3 convenes as john referenced it there a piece that changes how to impacts the system from new development under the California Environmental quality act a piece that will encourage new development and minimize effects on the Transportation System and then a third component the focus of discussion an approval that is in front of you which is levenlg Additional Resources to more fully invest in the system to accommodate growth as ed referenced weve been working collectively over the past years to generate more revenue for the Transportation System one of the important piece that come out of the work of the marries task force was an entire to prioritize the revenue amongst the existing population through the voters on things such maintaining a system of care of vehicles additional skiing efficiency out of the existing system the Fund Proposed through ballot measures are typically oriented targeted in their uses we have fewer Funding Sources in the avenue of adding capacity to our Transportation System so youre feeling was that taking another look at the impact fees for transit and transportation mating made make sense it allows our Development Partners to contribute a fair share to the upkeep and expansion of the Transportation System so the fee itself that is in front of you a citywide knee that replies the Transit Development fee that encourage applies to nonresidential use with the expansion of nonresidential to as well as to institutions no change in the sfpuc for the nonprofit and the determining how how to set the rates for your consideration staff engaged consults one a nexus study that looks at what it quantified the impact of new development on the Transportation System in a cost the city will bear in order to mitigate those effects and look at the feasibility analyze it showed how much fees could be charged without pushing development it a a points essential not having sufficient revenue in order to move forward we tried to strike a careful balance between the amount of investment we could gain from the source with also putting forward a project that the Development County could accommodate without compacting the development with those two factors in mind the proposal is a new residential fee of 774 per square feet and a non1804 and the production repair 7 61 note in are parts of city we have area plans that have been adopted through this board the projects are paying an impact fee of a component they fund transit or transportation locally as proposed today, the ordinance will exempt projects from the transportation consultant of the area plan fees theyll pay the entire transportation fee but ref a receiving a credit for the fee of the impact fees in the planner in terms of applicability this politics to nonresidential and applies on. Can i ask a question. Thank you for all your work over the years i just in terms of a couple of things to touch on first with the Fee Structure and the Feasibility Analysis can you just describe in more detail how the department determined whats feasible and not feasible because i feel like the debate is in a vacuum how own e people say no, it should be higher or kill the development if it goes higher i want to understand it is important for the public to understand what the feasibility assessment is in terms of this fee and the other fees the development pays and the second question is with the area plans exception so it is if youre in say the market octavia area e. R. Ooermentz youre paying a transportation fee you will now pay the t s p and have our area fee reduced how about that will play against what for example, those area plan impact fees will often be finding on improvements in that area so weve used market octavia fees to pay for safety in upper market and the t s p is a improvement fee those are my two easy questions. Sure so ill take the area plan knee question first, i have a slide if i can get that again which shows the calculation of market octavia so youll see the project in the market octavia plan pays the 774 for the Transportation Sustainability fee that current the knee on xhoovk market octavia is 10 theres bus but the portion is reduced from the market octavia fee so the project no total pace 1666 thats the actual calculation as it is proposed for the ordinance today, the consideration around the in of way the fee will pull down had a lot to do with our understanding the Transportation System two parts our understanding the Transportation System as a really a global system it is extremely difficult in not impossible to make certain types of transportation and limit that to a Geographic Area the classic example a new muni bus from one end of the city to its route with that consideration we emphasized the citywide investment to a greater degree the other components oftentimes the transit component of the investment that have been called for in the planned areas with or are significantly cost and the funds generated from the impact fees in the plan areas are insufficient on air own to cover those costs the reality is were having to pull from different places to make those investments and also were prioritizing where the need is greatest so we felt that the needs for investment where it is happening is skfthd i want to clarify in the planned areas a transit fee as well as a street or street component of the fee that street component of the 230e will stay in the planned areas a lot of the investments in people in the neighborhoods really appreciate that they feel it outraging tackling as we walk around their neighborhood will remain in the awe pies of that neighborhood. I dont have a Strong Enough either way but im a supporter of trying to take the transmitted fees and invest in in the overall systems be obviously on a muni line it works from one end of the city or is it doesnt but i know that especially in areas of the city is 19 are absorbing more developments im well aware of this issue noting not only the residents that are seeing that but we are doing the physical changes so more people will be walking and more congestion so you appreciate that explanation. Sure and then the faebd i have a slide we selected 10 prototypes and tried to use real projects a real site to test when the feasibility shrewd labor day the performances we have to take a mix of small versus larger verse midsize for a grasp on how the fee might impact the projects what it studied the burden of impact fees and the existing costs into performa tested the proposed Transportation Sustainability fee at different amounts the rates were set in envelope and then we tested at hundred 25 and 2 hundred and 50 percent of that rate so the Feasibility Study didnt include an analysis of feasibility assume any impact fees that have not been do you want by the board of supervisors and there are other fees the board is considering not embedded in the Feasibility Study study. For example, we know that supervisor yee is interesting angle ordinance to extend the childcare impact fee to residential i know it is a lower fee than this but what is the importance to understand how that plays into this as well. Ill suggest to look at the total feasibility that was determined through the city and the boards call to allocate the room and the feasibility to transportation versus childcare and any of the others priorities that the board has with respect to this what we have is the cap that came out of this analysis i believe that supervisor yees proposal was 1. 50 if you add that in the cap gets lower. Okay and. What you went with was hundred and 28 percent the reason the rate at which we were essentially maximizing the revenue for the critical needs to invest in the Transportation System without push a project over the line into the affectionate there is a wide range of affectionate just based on the different characteristics of any project so this was trying to give a marker to where we felt the fee can be what did you do endirector garcia the types. Im open to increase in the Square Footage amount but i want month make sure we get it right and you know someone at work knows im trying to get more money but i want to make sure were not doing it in a way that will make prongs infeasible you end up less in the Affordable Housing and Everything Else i know that as you said at h 25 and a congestion of perhaps taking the increasing the fees by about a third my understanding that will bring up to instead of hundred and 25 percent more like the 180s im sorry the one 60s so when you say infeasible what do you mean a certain amount for this area the city is becomes infeasible what do you mean in real life. With the Feasibility Analysis was assessing for was ultimately a reduction in the resingle land value 10 percent or greater the making point the city as in setting the fees with the 10 percent reduction inland value and once above the hundred 25 the projects take into that 10 percent reduction or greater they are they vary somewhat significantly because the other factors that play include the cost of construction to build a particular type of projects for example, project from the Transit Center has a fee burden already planned upon them has less sustainability outside of the plan area. Lets say that happens it goes but u down by 10 or 80 percent by x fees being places on the project how so that translate what happens . If something is classified as infeasible does that mean the project under mta doesnt happen or has to be a different timeline it is just from residents or Something Else what exactly do you mean by infeasible. There are more people kwchltd to speak my understanding once you get past the 10 percent the assumption it depends on the project how far the project is moving along in the approve or design and the particular financing my understanding is typically once you get past the 10 percent points youre basically putting a pause on the development over time the land values will even out to a cost burden but there will be a period of time while the market makes that sdwrauchlt i dont know how long my understanding it is not a significant amount of time for that to be integrated into the market condition. Okay thanks i guess as we go through the process im definitely wanting more information not necessary from the department but from the Development Community weve heard concerns impressed backing up exactly what happens i know none of us wants to you know set up a situation were jeopardizing projects that has significant Affordable Housing and were generating significant transportation fees and recognizing that right now residential fees is zero and so were whatever fees we imposed will take it into zero is a positive step forward whatever happens in the future. Thank you, supervisor ill return to the presentation presentation. I sorry i wanted to follow up to that and i do hope you come back next monday and stay another week but being the Planning Commission did recommend going to 33 percent of the New Brunswick noouks what was the response o ironics of the Feasibility Study is it looks like for some projects it will crush them to the point it is infeasible was is based on project size some of the feedback perhaps we should look at tier based on the number of units or Square Footage or the project height and construction type would that help us do get to the sweet spot we want to make sure that youre asking private developers to pay their fair share in helping us to build stronger city that involves public Transit Systems and networks we want to make sure we allow the development to moving forward when we start to look at the tiering does that help us get to a point we can raise the fees. Just to clarify the Planning Commission recommendation was to consider raising the fees up to 33ers of the nexus study were feasible so they particularly included a recommendation to include feasibility in that analysis from our prospective having looked at a variety of projects i as we sort of through that set of recommendations where we will recommend that the board consider using the 5 of the project the number of units in a side or the Square Footage on the residential side as opposed to well find sarah through planning was reviewing a project that was 3 hundred units only had a health limit of 40 so using height were looking at the tip metrological theres it is what it is a little bit of incategorize. That make sense which you have a large floor plate i, be it further resolved build up to 33 that make sense i wonder what the fees increases look like and meet the Economic Feasibility criteria i know well have suggestions from advocates and members of the public how high we can raves a fee one or 5 so what might be feasible. So it does gun depending on the specification the projects and it also depends on one of the recommendations from the board consideration to consider eliminating the area plan credits so from the board were to take that action the effective rate the projects will be charged will increase between 1 and 3 so is it sort of depends on how you layer it and the feasibility if you were to look at project size las vegas you didnt go a higher fee that on bigger projects is more mesoare feasible based on the feasibility. Im open to that discussion of removing the credit for plan area but id like to understand that better in terms of which one is the better there to look at is it letting go of the credit or looking a tier fee the one question the Transit Center the fees are relatively high if we didnt allow a credit we would tap the feasibility of those Major Projects my understanding on the Transit Center the staff corresponding those projects are at the top of the feasibility based on the rates proposed today so eliminating the area plan or adding additional costs apologizes ive been corrected no fee on the t crackers d so liam the credit will not have an impact but the residential is at the edge of the feasibility on the fence today. So im sorry the judge t s f theres a credited for the area plans except for the residential plan. Good afternoon, supervisors so i just wanted to clarify the area plan credit so as mentioned the credit is applied to the transit portion of the fee and so rincon hill and others dont have the transit component they dont receive a credit and the t s f is an additional fee the plan fee is designated to address the impacts that are swoshd a high degree of development the fact we have the Transit Center and other large projects. The credit is in place for ever other area plan so that will be for example, eastern neighborhood and the market octavia and the svments by rincon hill there are no impact fees and in the Transit District plan no fees. Correct. Thank you for that clarification. Thats it right now. You may continue. Okay. Thank you. I was talking applicability so the applicability of the fee is proposed to be on nonresidential uses as well as market rate housing of 21 units and higher in addition it is applied to nonprofit universities that are significantly sized such they require an institutional master plan per the planning code requirement that means the institution it is either 50 thousand square feet e. R. Greater of downtown. Sorry to keep interrupting in terms of Student Housing and an issue that i care a lot about i authored the Student Housing and followup that supervisor did before i took office we are a this is a dramatic, dramatic shortage of Student Housing no and the legislation we progressively authored over time has really relieved the Student Housing on obligations they dont have to they dont have an inclusionary housing requirement and other obligations as well making it easy and inexpensive as possible for universities to build housing instead of asking students fib in the pool and overstretched Housing Stock i upstairs that the Student Housing has impacts like any development does in terms of the rational for a Nonprofit University has to pay when we dont pay inclusionary housing if you could comment on that. Similar to houses that the fee rates were constructed when looking at the application of the fee we were considering what is driving the impact of the Transportation System and to significant degree large institutions have a pretty good footprint on the Transportation System we looked at that and again similarly to the analysis on setting the fee rates we considered the institution to pay the fees so nonprofits again will not be subject to the ss f but with an institution that is sizeable and really have to be quiet large to meet the mastered plan the feeling was there was both a Significant Impact to make that contribution it is clearly the boards decision oink how you want to insure that the fee is in enforcement with the performance globally a number of exemptions that are included in the fee which includes the Affordable Housing, middleincome housing and small residential and Small Business, nonprofits, etc. That are under the threshold of that master plan so it is something for the board to consider the thinking simply to make the impacts. One of the oddities with the Student Housing at least we know of one project subject to it in part because a number of our universities have sovereign amenity and it is a little bit of on odd situation i appreciate the explanation. Okay. So i was just reviewing the exceptions and again, the exemptions were built in an effort for conformity and this be consistent with other policy priorities that the city has i think i went over most of them the other exemption is an exception for the nonprofit hospitals so they also typically will trigger a requirement for an instill master plan but the thinking in constructing this we know that the hospitals are subject to state requirements for seismic overhead hauls between now and 2030 so this language suggests the board consider politically the fees to hospitals as the time their completing the requirements for 2030. The ordinance also includes the grandfathering proposal as constructed today, the grairt will be any project that is feasibility entitlements effective the date of the ordinance will not pay the fee assuming is the nonresidential on the residential the projects will be inclusive for the impact fees and will be required to pay those fees and promotions in the pipeline but have not received their entitlements by the time the ordinance is effective will either pay on the nonrestricted residential or the impact fee or the residential side 50 percent of the proposed it is fair to say t s if it if it goes forward quietly expect to generate 14 million in addition revenue from oversee fees add to the fun that is received from the transit impact fees 28 thousands a year because again what were focused on expanding the transit capacity 55 those few minutes will be targeting not only for muni but bart and the capacity things like expanding the muni fleet we dont get formulas funding and bart theyre proposing and also a component in the fee which is specifically that it is designated to Pedestrian Safety and Bicycle Safety so we have over the past number of months outreach with the stakeholders with the various ta c and Small Business communities and Development Community and transportation and housing and, of course, the boards and Commission Just to review weve presented this item to the Small Business commission and the Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors those unanimously recommended approval the proposed ordinance the Planning Commission unanimously recommend approval with a number of modifications they ask the board to consider weve covered. Few if you one of the recommendations consider the grandfathering proposal that the projects applied for an entitlement application after july one 2014 will may 40 percent of the t s f rather the 50 percent and the universities exemption and apply the fee to the hospitals at this time they recommended again considering a fee increase that was the up to 33 percent of nexus but take into consideration the feasibility constraints and or roving the credit and finally, the provision in the ordinances that requires that staff or the city produce an updated feasibility analyze o analysis every 5 years for an updated nexus study at the commission recommend they move it up to 3 years and be on a list of bodies that that be done sooner that from the board of supervisors say in the ordinance. That close any preservation if you have any questions, well be happy to answer them. Supervisor kim has a few questions. On the hospital exemption theres a couple of things i have to say about the nonprofit status of the various hospitals which and seem to be angle accurate kind of bucket there is a large difference from Chinese Hospital my understanding close is to Percent Charity care and another fees but im kind of interested in that kind of differentiation but i completely understand the incredible costs the hospitals have to bare with the update with the seismic updated as well i so understand that rational for exempting the nonprofit hospitals while the update is required that being said any examination on the hospitals much the reasoning and the letters around the major costs to upgrading our hospitals not sure if medical Office Buildings have the same kind of costs can you differentiate before those two facilities. In looking at this particular exemption we didnt differentiate between hospitals versus medical buildings the exemption to the entity as a nonprofit anything they will be exempt from the fees at one point we tried a a differentiate between medical or hospitals which provided a majority of their care to underserved population versus those that had a different mix of Service Provisions and so we take into account that and did work with the Public Health department and ultimately moved away from it lateral or larger because that was not the right time for hospitals. On private universities do you know what the tsif is enabling if we didnt accept the private universities. Approximately 400,000 per year. Thank you, supervisor wiener. So in terms of the hospital exemption image we have battle scares from three years ago around this particular site one of the interesting aspects of this issue of whether hospitals should nonprofit hospitals to be exempts or nonexempt from the transit impact fees for any large hospital projects there is almost certainly a Development Agreement so whether or not t s p politics the transit fees can be part of that agreement for example, when t pmc went through the approval process that needs a agreement for the hill erection even though it was exempt t c paid 4 or 5 million in impact fees to the bus Rapid Transit so do you have a sense in terms of the the i know that it is speculative but the hospital projects in the either in the pipeline or projects that have been at least contemplated what portion of them will require the development on the plan so theyll need some kind of rezoning it is an issue i think. I appreciate the point i dont have on estimate of the breakdown of seismic work or hospital work like medical Office Building. Im talking about the breakdown it requires a Development Agreement or not when the Development Agreement it required there is ouch going to be transit impact fees whether or not the ordinance requires it. Thank you for clarifying my understanding it that there were maybe one or two more projects that would specifically be meeting the seismic requirements and therefore, be on scale with the Development Agreement not that im aware of of additional ones being met. Thank you commissioner avalos has joined us has a few questions. Oh, director ram. Dr. Murase director ram. Part of the analysis of whether they require a Development Agreement is based on the extent of the work its not clear the work we know a couple of our large hospitals hsa have to do seismic but not clear how much to expand open site if their replacing Square Footage on site their upgrading the Square Footage the fees dont apply 0 only if their relocating or expanding for Square Footage i could see a situation we dont do a da depending on the size. Thank you madam chair rosales. Thank you that which is good to know for clarification im sure i was not here for the whole presentation i was tracking the t s f it is an incredible time to be re92 the impact fee with the t s f but setting a persistent how were looking at development and and then the development with the Transportation Needs in San Francisco looking at the entire city my concerns were seeing development happening in certain parts of the city were not serving our transit facilities elsewhere where the transit is not happening so that was overflow room any interest in weighing in at this process but i think more than anything it make sense we have a discussion that get talking about other resources of transportation funding how we actually support and moved on what kind of fees the developer pays when developing in the city i know they have been a few deductions about the types of structures i want to putdown out what makes sense when it comes to the hospital exemption ive been telling people i would like to eliminate the hospital exemption i think there are things in place like john ram said wed be replacing or renovating and not seeing a fee but to me the distinction been the gray areas of nonprofit hospital is one i think that is we should be able to address in legislation moving forward a level of charity care those hospitals produce 50 Percent Charity care should be exempted when building Additional Space but lower chit grant in with their obituary fees in their development should actually trouble to the t s f ive interested now we looping in residential into the t s f and the tsif were looking at size of development we currently have 21 and over our fee is 7. 74 per square feet thats 20 percent of the nexus were not seeing the same types of development the 24 to 50 units could be in District League of women but probably not seeing the 41 to 99 in district 11 you could so a lot of values and land visuals with the district 11 maybe something that will be less of value than elsewhere in San Francisco it make sense we tier according to size and number of units for residential i have a sheet ill hand out with the colleagues im not on the committee but certainly when it comes to the full board it there those are discussions it is important amendments are thoroughly discussed and in the Land Use Commission to me the offer hundred units should be the highest fees up to 33 percent of nexus the Residential Development that has a large number of units can be economically feasible despite a higher fee we know with the feasibility studies has been deny the nonrestricted remain could be tiered ive proposed in my notes not egregious and under 32 nexus when we have the tier developments for that nonresidential i like what was mentioned about you know grairt in for residential the projects that came and initiated the permit process before july 1st, 2014, from the tiered approach the projects will actually start initially their development and planning and were having this discussion about the tsif and the t s f includes the residential before us and not anticipated by a lot of developers so that to me is important we actually dont necessarily make those pay the entire fee but for those projects and the similarly with nonresidential to see that happening as well and lastly were looking at studying for the future i think that we still have in the quit figured the geographic approach but looking at the types of development in terms of number of units but i know were also there are different land values for different parts of San Francisco that should are considered and fees on the land uses theyre not as high and create a disincentive to develop when we apply any fees i want to look at the future to look at things how we can structure geographic basis. Thank you, thank you very much. Colleagues, any other questions . Remarks. Thank you. Okay. Thank you so i have a couple of remarks im refer them i know we have people anxious to speak when i call our name you have 2 minutes and when the bell is soft you have thirty seconds left calling names so, please. Thank you growth funds growth in Pedestrian Safety and Bicycle Safety kills the effect of the auxiliary and remodels an nexus fee shows the disparity of 75 percent between the nexus costs and the tsif fees the neighborhoods organizations were excluded shareholders but were funding the infrastructure mitigation by the growth by you future bones and parking increases racing the tsif brown above the monuments inhibit the projects on the west side and fire chief hospitals expansion should not be given an exception and the point of impact should be considered the fees not used crosstown and the p d m should be regulated and public and private fees and mountain views and the presidio shuchlt until the Green House Gas emissions and delivery destroys should be eliminated on the Mitigation Solutions mta searches for a Training Facility and maybe priced out of the city this operator in alameda and the Fire Department will vacant the Treasure Island Training Facilities growth must fund growth with no exemption in noah valley we have one 1909 victorian that was remodeled and now it is 5 bedrooms, 5 car garages worst 5 million under this legislation that item becomes a free pass we have over 17 developments in the last 8 years in the immediate region thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is litigating miles im the master plan manager its ucsf e state of im here to speak on behalf of the university i want to focus on one that the that was made at the Planning Commission and today one of the statement one of the primary reaps for removing the charitable exception other colleges and irrelevant are Revenue Growth that burdens the transportation that assumption didnt apply for i was i usf it is retraining the campus enrollments and the university is committed to enrollment ceiling in the i m t to less than one percent a year half the historical rates and is proposed Student Housing from the mountain 6 hundred beds and intended to house the current student population right now how we have 35 to 38 percent of the ungraduate that increases it up to 44 percent is in the housing for new enrollment that is intended to bring a current students is the on the campus by expansion r extension out of the general market thates because the housing situation in the city students that live on campus dont commute and the usf have not allowed cars so less commuters by carr or transit so the notation that usf projects particularly housing is a growths factor is a gross miss understanding thank you for your time. Thank you continuing. Good afternoon. My name is barbara im a practicing architect in the establishment regarding the sustainability fee i want to ask the statement of fact be included in the exempting implication is provides Affordable Housing to students and in so doing that builds community and adds diversity i am a graduate of usf and my husband he required from practicing law here in San Francisco after 4 years we won academic slippers slorpz my father died when i was 12 and our windowed mother would not allows to go to school in the city without the you should see side banners usf imgsz e since 1855 has been encouraging students to leads themselves into is fabric the city this is a traditionally motto for the city and universities 5 three years ago when i was a freshmen added usf i volunteered to teach basketball and learned more than i taught but down there with the kids and volunteered to usual at Martin Luther king and today university of california, San Francisco has homeless shelters and art and Community Garden they need a place to live while theyre here exempting usf will help to keep the city as wonderful as it is thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Thank you for having me and providing me the opportunities to speak you to all today, im monique aim im a second Year Graduate in the second Affairs Program at ucsf from the endurances of chicago and moved to San Francisco for graduate school i choose usf because it i recess in addition with the value of usf it was a wonderful Higher Education program and an importantly my graduate assistanceship offered off campus and i wont have gone without that im here to ask for the exception to be retained the ucsf is proposing to build a New Residence on campus im concerned that fee will have a negative impact on Student Housing from my experience you housing was incredibly important to me as a goodwill gave out and now graduate student like i said, i did my undergraduate work in chicago and i was able to mediated with piers within 5 minutes of being notified those i was able to attend Group Project meetings and had a Significant Impact obtain any education currently on campus im able to attend Program Meeting during off hours and better able to connect with professionals and Staff Members at programs and talks i believe id not had this experience if i had to leave after work i believe this helps me to have a rich experience and im concerned that thank you. Next group of speakers will be calling names . Madam chair thank you if it pleas the committee we video another Hospital Committee who could speak well leave it to our discretion. Im david from northern and Central California we have a trade group in San Francisco i want to speak about the impact on the hospitals ill be brief every nonprofit hospitals is organized under the set of legal principle conflicting as a not for profit whether chinese or others your subject to the stwrik irs and take codes that means every nonprofit hospital 80 has to demonstrate their nonprofit we have folks that should examples one thing to recall not modern Hospital Construction is unique it is expensive there are seismic upgrades in result in a larger footprint with the same number of hospital by these and employees why is this state regulatory overall seismic upgrades it is one hundred and 10 billion we know that construction is up considerably in the last years this is resulting in a larger footprint with the same number of hospital by these and employees we want to talk about briefly the nexus study and how to treats nonprofit hospitals and in account for the specifics one it lumps us together in the nonresidential category we think we know our trips are different, and then two as a relates to medical Services Employee density through one hundred and 50 square feet is closer to 6 hundred to one thousand square feet it is different and lastly to the sorry thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please good afternoon choelg and supervisor wiener and supervisor kim i work at st. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco and here to talk about Community Benefits which is the demonstration of the hospitals nonprofit status and in that all nonprofits hospitals are required to do that and there are 3 components of the Community Benefit which i want to be southern we appreciate one we talked about quite frequently the level of charity care is important in the mission of nonprofit hospitals and the medicare shortfalls with the folks into medicare weve seen a shift into the shortfall and the Community Benefit programming of which we have a lot of programs in the communities that really are sdriektd towards serving addressing upstream facts and circumstances that effect peoples heartache i know that sxm is aware the project for helping with the parks and safety that effects the impacts of health and it is important to recognize that the additional fees on nonprofit hospitals in the form of supporting infrastructure like transportation a slipping e slippery slope we end up pagan for if for the raising costs of health care i think that is important we buildings that those fees come back at us and so if we are norwalk those fees in a future development for the Dignity Health hospitals or for chinese and camtc were specific to the community they serve that make sense than rolling it in as a mechanism to support the infrastructure in the city thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors im sutter street i work at Chinese Hospital and provide Health Outreach into the community as you may know Chinese Hospitals is a no Point Hospital were nonprofit as the other hospitals what i like to talk about the programs we develop and what we work with with all the hospitals we partner with all of them and the projects include the sf free program with the nexus and the Diabetes Initiative without the partners of the hospital a lot of those programs wouldnt survivor of sustain themselves Chinese Hospital is is about planning we want to expands into the community and with the additional taxes that envelopes our ability to expand the clinics and extremely e extremely challenging to meet the fees a lot of the work in the hospitals and clinics and communities is politically better care without having the effect of Health Care Costs thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, everyone. Madam chair and supervisors my name is sister mary im the sister ever mercy and ive worked at as far as i am concerned Medical Center as is liaison for communities hamburger he was born in San Francisco of immigrant parents and raise on that is engel side i entered the mercy in 1963 and represented my degree in 1971 and negotiation 1 in nursing in Communities Health with the focus on the management of systems i love my city San Francisco it is rich in diversity and acceptance of people regardless of gender orientation or economic or social standing as a nurse ive felt the Community Health was the way to bring about the key to illnesses preservation and for people that live here i along the religious people say it is up to the hospitals to implement the proportions the no Point Hospitals in San Francisco shows o hospitals take seriously their obligation to care for the niece find poor in San Francisco we dont have investors that demand the profits careful management over our resources is focused on maintaining the province of qualify of care we cant say turn our imply by these into airbnb services the mission of as far as i am concerned is unchanged for hundred and 58 years from day one of the mission is the same but the prelims and the verbiage used certainly has changed inform meet the niece of the time thank you. Thank you next speaker calling names . Thank you good afternoon, everyone. Im peter straus for the San Francisco transit riders and a letter from us in the organizations in our file i guess i want to return to the basically, were certain not audited development you think it is important that the city receive the city deserves to receive more than 25 percent recovery the costs that the development the nonprofit are front of the encompasses on the city and is Economic Feasibility suggests Study Suggests that a well structured proposal b. A. Can recover 33 or more than that percent of those costs the analysis as originally presented and the proposal is convert in another way the nexus study has a sxheven projection what takes place in the city supervisor wiener has recently called for the master plan this is something we support but the type of proposals that will go into that are no where in the capital projections of nexus study and no north beach subway in geary subway in bart second two and no b d x project as we go forward what do we do about that . Were not to recognize the specification that is a revenue measure the Feasibility Study suggests is it not unreasonable to recover 33 percent semi excuse me. 25 to 33 percent not in addition to tsif adjacent and the proposed 14 middle we urge to add to the recovery the at least 20 million of the floor we have support muni thank you very much thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors and madam chair im john with the consortium the 9 nonprofit housing in the city 94 thousand patients 90 percent of San Francisco population and here to support the nonprofit hospitals strong history of the nonprofit hospitals this charity care even though we have health care in San Francisco it is built into the charity Care Software and the programs like have been critical to safeway lives every single year year this is part of the program that Kaiser Permanente offered and several years ago they provided a structure for the access to the health care in short we need this kind of money to help us the Nonprofit Health centers to continue to expand access to Health Care Mission bay anything else will be detrimental to the new programs thats why we are a great deal of for the Affordable Health care and hepsz with the pressure today currently it is impossible to get providers we looked at the aspirins just to commend the staff this is true of Health Department we thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors im nicole an executive director of walk sf thank you for your time today on this topic t s if is an Exciting Program to include the bicycle and pot of funds ear supportive of the concept and the fee in general we know our Transportation System is critical for investing in the growth of our city and the future of our city in terms of reducing injuries for pedestrians bicyclists and motors along with the vision zero plan it this will be an important fee to help to realize those projects there are 3 components of the fee that i want to provide comment on today weve worked closely with the coalition and other transportation advocates and really excited to see the fee we have 3 things to highlight in terms of the moving forward with the fee the first is the actual percentage the nexus right now only developers will only pay around 25 percent of the nexus of the fee impacts it the fee has on the Transportation System we would like to see that the Planning Department suggests 33 percent on the potential tiering were definitely supportive of that we would like to see the grandfathering reduced so that the folks that have submitted paper within the last year maybe a 25 percent break and the thirds piece is parking right now parking is not exclude in the Square Footage we know that contributes to the congestion and other challenges on the safety impacts we would like to see that computed so people will reduce theyre parking and support the investments in the Transportation System. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon tom executive director added liveable city here to speak in support of this moving forward but asking you to helpful may bey few minutes first of all, i want to speak to the strength relative to the tsif is raise for money and walking and kooifl and Regional Transit is included as we grow there are impacts on the industrial environments and regional and to have m them includes minimally is progress we hope there will be more process including market rate housing and the area plans the eastern neighborhoods better neighborhoods and in the citywide make sense as well looking at greater discipline in using those fees their one time money for capital in the past tsif into muni budget one they we cant balance our own budget to the expenses youre not running a Transit Agency but i a pyramid scheme and the funding didnt go to mitigate that so the impacts of growths are still unfund this discipline is important we ask you to consider the refinements but the biggest one in parking back in a decade ago the board of supervisors that the impact fees should apply to parking it creates impacts on the Transportation System for congestion mostly but increased danger to the pedestrians and cyclists that section 4231 okay. When this fee comes as a board needs to include parking not only does if not include that but looech the section theyre not complying with the section but destroying the evidence we ask you to include parking. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, members of the board of supervisors im tyler representing the Bicycle Coalition i want to start as other said by reiterating our support forever the tsif is an important measure that clearly links the impacts of San Francisco on our Transportation System it is as we look for ways to enable people to stay in San Francisco to continue living in San Francisco particularly when affordability is a concern making sure that they can get around the city in an affordable a safeway were appreciative im reiterate toms comments were supportive of many things that the Planning Commission directed the board to go look at a few weeks ago excited to see consideration of a fee that better reflects the Impact Development on transportation and encourage you to think about how it plays out in different neighborhoods supervisor wiener said the darned is if neighborhood to neighborhood this should reflect that we appreciate the adjustments around the waiver for the combrairth by the Planning Commission a few weeks ago and the Biggest Issue we think is critical if a consistency is addressing the parking issue the amount of space that is going to parking should be included in the amount of Square Footage it is linked to the tsif we hope youll consider that and a transportation link essential for the transportation space it didnt make sense it have to excluded from tsif thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors did he did he workman in the chamber of commerce we are quite comfortable with the tsif legislation before it got to the Planning Commission we like it better than the 2012 the 5 thousand exemption from the Small Businesses this is important we like it we thought there should be is 8 hundred square feet trigger for pdrs could go higher but we like the Small Businesses generally are exempt from the tsif we feel strongly that usf should fall under the charitable exemption from the post secondary institutions with the master plan we came up with usf u ucsf it feels like theyre being singled out the speaker said why it should be exempted we dont feel that hospitals should have the tsif applied we are impressed suppressed that the Planning Commission took them out youve heard from other speakers where why it is important to not have the t s f with the state mandated seismic upgrades and the costs per bed is between 2 and 4 millions or Something Like that it is a crazy expensive for the amount of money we think youll be able to collect from hospitals from the ss f is not rthd or worth it, it is neglectable in terms of the fees for residential and commercial were comfortable with the mta promoted in the original legislation we think obviously that is thoughtful fully decided and appreciate the questions supervisor wiener about the feasibility that is very, very important and up 80 you want want to make sure we raise money for transportation without incentives for thank you. Next speaker. Tim costing on behalf of the Housing Coalition weve had presentations over the years and a big discussion on friday in broad terms we deservedly support the t s f and the membership will pay the part of it we recognize that not having a fully functioning transportation is our vision we want it to work but it is a little bit dismaking to see what happened after the proposed proposal from mta and planning what i heard just now, was raufshth remarkable it is not often had said but it was mentioned the fee was set after extensive economic Feasibility Analysis at a point that maximize the fee revenues to the city weve heard kind of ousted landish how much to be raised and this though will get for funding for transit we agree about the funds but not if it makes projects infeasible the 774 was i understand to balance a lot of prototypes and set it at a level that will maximize level for transportation as a worthy goal eliminating the transit impact fee credit is based on all ether and heard that breaches a good faith the idea was that what youll be expected to pay youll get credit but looks like piling on ill describe it and others said to figure out a way to capture the revenue for physical improvements in the neighborhood thats the strong desire afraid the benefit will not be for the neighborhoods thank you. A few more names mr. Yip ill call you youll close us out calling names . Thank you guys and im these eric son ive handed you 3 partnerships the first page is an accurate analysis of what it costs to produce a units of housing today thats an average 40 percent 2 bedrooms and 20 percent studios it costs about 800,000 the value of that unit as an Apartment Building with a 4 one half cap is around 900,000 in order to break even and provide a 6 percent yield on the equity rents of 6,000 were rights on the edge you think that right now we are paying a hundred and 14,000 per unit of impact fees we accept the tsif as proposed ill strongly, strongly urge you not to increase that were right on the edge youre talking about an additional 10,000 just the water just the purple piles is costs 4,000 a per unit if you follow the advice your talking about 4,000 center the profited is 90,000 dont do this really a one percent Interest Rate will shop all apartment approximate dont do it and then youre not getting maneuvering or its a really, really bad idea my thanks. Mr. Eric son i want to make sure if we move a little bit closer. Sorry. Question require the Development Fees to increase ill saying the production will stop. No right now if you put an extra 6,000 a unit thats okay for a you can do that for the longterm i believe but right now on a project that is in the pipeline is really, really difficult we went through a long talks about about the appropriate thing none of the developers are budget this this is totally out of the blue when you are going into a Development Deal our looking at all our costs as best you can this came really to have this imposed not exactly out of the blue but an unanticipated amount you can absorb a 6 thousands plus in our portfolio you have to do you believe that the way that people are proposing you cant do it im trern and by the way, no projects effected by this all and dont none of my projects are effected im really, really concerned you get up to hundred and 25 thousands of impact fees of city fees thats just unheard of no where else in the United States okay. Thank you. Thank you. calling names . Thank you, supervisors david director of planning for california eastbound college of the arts a small school under 2 the house student nonprofit and post secondary i was worried that was the trigger of thinking about those impact fees i know all of you are aware of the challenges of making hire education affordable in an expensive place like San Francisco i applaud you for the work you did on the Student Housing ordinance bus 3 weeks ago 2 hundred of our students and the conservative of music moved into the 9th street and missions instead of jumd on craigslist so i know you understand the challenges of creating affordable Student Housing ill hope that as you look through the various triggers on this fee you keep in mind thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors im howard a member of sf transit riders in the long term advocate i want to give you an historic look at this problem so 40 years ago when i had to find a place to live i choose a place near transit most people know the value of transit maybe not as much as i side but they do and then two years ago i found out the for bears over a hundred years ago decided to tax themselves to have the tunnel brake light in twin peaks and that means that landowner know the value of transit and so here you are trying to keep transit from providing the service and iverson said a level the fees are two of i say perhaps that level is much higher than that i believe all the fees essentiallyly come from the land the value of the land the price of the lands you recognize that because you have this grairt that system from the project was underway you didnt know about the fees were so high so well not charge that thats a recognition of that the land value the price value who knows what the value is the price is so high relative to the price of the building in San Francisco it is unreasonable so i think you should really think about this problem and see when you can get oh, one more thing ill say that you need to not only do you have to build capital but provide Services Continue the muni operation all that counts and when you taking land value deal with the parts of city the price of the Square Footage is not as high as my house e. R. Pacific heights. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors with t pmc i want to speak about the development with the city it is a strong Development Agreement that allocated in addition to the Generous Health care provisions sizeable transportation provisions as well we have in the Development Agreement 16 million 450,000 in Transportation Impact related knees and in addition to that 16 million plus we have transit impact fee in and out of our passing for the next 10 years when built our medical Office Building i wanted to speak to those points thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors peter Cohen Council of housing organizations weve been working with the cities transportation advocates all of whom youve heard from today walk sf youre the Bike Coalition and the riders and the liveable city this is an important issue we also support the Planning Commission recommendation that came out a couple of weeks ago including having a higher than revenue goal in the program rather than the 14 million projected now at least 20 million from peter straus and more than that up to 33 mills our recommendation from the commission we also support their recommendation on tiering the grandfathering with some quick numbers by matt that loan is worth 27 million if you the did tier grandfathering the 27 Million Value and heard a lot from the hospitals and the usf they make a strong case that compares to the amount of revenues from the commercial and Residential Development one others issue building that passport straus talked about the recommendation to retain the tsif feblt on the revenue to constrain that for capital use and for capital and operations and put it in simple language you can buy a bus but make sure the workforce to run the bus and mta should have the flexibility yours fees to make sure they make sure the some is working well, we need to grow the city grars or grazed fully with a growing city and find that weight spot but pushed as high as possible. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon steve builders of housing agree that the new building should support that the proposed fee is high but it is supportive in the future providing the are builders have that plan if not fair to impose the projects in the pipeline that have made land deals and it will be not fair to the advocates and the project sponsors were told it was part of the package of reforms for the site Traffic Studies and a reduction in the robust t d m programs it this fees is without the corresponding benefits and the elimination that is detailed by the state in the next week so the studies are required of piecemeal projects and so get relieve and theres no provision in the t s f for the t d m programs and talking increase the fees for parking for those reasons the pipeline and 50 percent of fee is fair to be retained our number one problem is the housing crisis over the last 20 years ago weve not produced enough hows and the rates of employment is skothd skyrocketing it will depress the Housing Production every fee makes it harder to cancel the projects it will modesty out price the marginal housing and on this luxury housing will be produced it is also counters productive and unfair to have different fee levels on different projects it is more expensive to build highrise thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody i think so that today is main focus it the substantial availability fee as a foot not im sorry to make an awareness that of all the modern technology we have today ill hope in the future of the building they are down to 4 stories lots of wonderful buildings in the city including city hall and hope they take into consideration the beautification there is a condo apartment or apartments building on mission about 2 and 75 percent of another building will be totally not having much of a view but im trying to bring about an awareness also wanted to say i can checkout 224 townsend and mission and 350 brendon none are 24899 ocean and 989 harrison and a tiny office is van ness and one of the commenters mentioned earlier the health care i wanted to say how well medical has been doing for me thank you. Mr. Yip why dont i bring it home. 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Wow. Is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak please come on up. Youre going to speak think this you should have gotten in line. Good afternoon thank you my name is john a resident living on mission in the bruno heights neighborhood i dont want to take too much of our time since weve heard a lot id like to show any supports for the transportation sustainable fee im a recent graduate and landed a full time job, however, ill not be able to commute to work without the service of muni and a regular bicyclist and cant tell you how happy with the growing infrastructure to support that in supports ill urge you to consider the 33 percent rate in supportive of the Transportation System. Is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak at this time in not believes that Public Comment is closed. And thank you very much so i just want to offer a few remarks before we get out of here overcy is a growing more rapidly then in the recent years past wear also finding ourselves in a housing crisis in the southeast feeling the ugly bulk worlds all disadvantaged with i think adequate Transportation System that i will say needs improving thank you to the mtas we have an opportunity to get it right and my interests are to responsibility develop the Affordable Housing mix and to make sure that everyone is paying their fair share whether theyre a nonprofit or in the Development Community and it is incredibly important that we continue to pay into this Transportation System because it helps move people and get people out of their cars thats the priority in San Francisco so by all setting the impacts of the system well have an adequate Transportation System and other things were doing to insure we are putting in the resources to increase the efficiency of our Transportation System so i believe we can have we can thoughtfully increases the impact fees without discouraging the transportation were in need of ill turn to my colleagues if there are further discussion sxm is there is that a yes thank you. I was ready to support in moving this out today but i think that actually as weave had more discussion it make sense to get the balance right in terms of the i think some of the considerations that the Land Use Commission is making i will say a couple of things just initially just based on the presentation today and the data and, of course, hearing from the members of the public examine that you know, i will support eliminating the area plan credit instead of looking at a geographic based structure im open to look at a structure Fee Structure im not sure we can have a system in place to do that and understanding what neighborhood is a neighborhood. What the boundary reliance are it seems like it requires a whole another year we need to get this through in the meantime it allows for the daevengs we need to make sure we have important transit investment and supporting our transit investment around the hospital exemption im struggling that this i dont think we should eliminate the hospital exemption but given the incredible costs of seismic ulgdz but because of amount of revenue had about bring in in balance ill be open to examining looking at American People exception based on the charity care the nonprofit status in an appropriate way of creating buckets for hospitals theres a hydrogen difference between a hospital that provides 10 percent christopher and another 83 percent and maybe 50 percent is the dwooifd line id like to explore that further and third i side support i want to i do support having an exception for nonprofit Higher Education institutions i think theyve certainly usf has made the case of being exempted from s s if that students housing provides less of a burden to our system we want to encourage that but secondly, it cant provide a significant amount of revenue for t s f there is an exemption i will support moving forward fourth i am really interested and want to hear about the structure as by commissioner avalos and looking at the residential and nonresidential it means to look at the Square Footage per units versus the heights or construction type given the feedback from sfmta and planning i think that a variety of different projects can really afford to contribute a differing rate the large projects absorbs a higher fee than our smaller projects can i know that actually a flat fee doesnt make sense wear offline burdening our smaller projects at the expense of our large projects that have a large few weeks on the transmitted system i hope over the week well explore the 3 tiers and making sure that we are looking at both the nexus study and the Feasibility Study around the graisht i really think we should tier our Residential Projects that make sense that projects submitted for july 1st and not entitled will pay 53 portion of t s f and after that 75 and honestly we introduced i believe at the end of july i think all projects should pay hundred percent at this point they have notification the sister city a looking at t s f versus july 1st, the point of introduction a betters marker than july 1st looking at well and looking at the tiered grairthd of nonresidential i think that differentiate is left because theyre paying t d i f those are some of my name is comments i think those fees as proposed or some of the ones by the public are feasible for the large projects i think that i want to insure we are mayor pro tem the revenue we can bring in to a Transit System but really think has demonstrated with the traditional funding whether the population growth set aside is not delivering and shows a i think t s f can be an Interest Rate. Thank you inspiring words. Supervisor wiener. Excuse me. Thank you very much madam chair so apologizes for my voice first i want to see something positive coming out of today, im hoping were expanding the tent of those in over city that are advocating for transit funding because some of the people who have been pushing for an increase in this transit impact fee are some of the same people that opposed eliminating the hospital exemption in 2012 when we tried to do that who opposed prop b on the ballot last year this is high transportation funds for the population growth we took the position that the vehicle license fee should be used for nontransportation purposes my hope the discussion around the transit sustainability fee is actually a fee change so some folks not in my view 19 are supportive of the transit funding will be vocal advocates in the future and since this t s p a small portion of the massive Transit Needs for the future i really hope that some of the folks that are push for an increase here for transit will be with us when were 5th for the billions of and billions of for the transit in the future anyone suggested that s work t s p will solve our funding thats not the case with that said, i wanted to just go through a few things and i know that over the next if we continue this today then we will be able to hopefully resolve those in the next weeks or how many weeks to continue the item first of all, Student Housing i agree with supervisor kim i dont think that we should be subjecting no point universities and Student Housing to impact fees we dont subject them to explore but not subject them to impact fees were in a terrible place we need to make it cheaper for universities to build Student Housing not more expensive he support the exemption from pdrs for the 8 hundred 0 other Square Footage it has a tiny Financial Impact in terms of the revenues but an impact on some of the smaller pdr uses i i did not think i do believe we should be spending those developments transit fees on capital i dont respectfully i dont believe we should be expanding it to operating i go with mr. Boskovich those fees are unpredictable up and down and sometimes one time in nature and focus on Capital Needs i am open to increasing the Square Footage fee beyond the 774 but im also very, very conscious of the feasibility issues and so i want to make sure that as we consider the actual per Square Footage fee were not doing it in a vacuum are picking a number into 25 to 33 berries that were looking at the actual feasibility and i want to make sure we get it right it is extremely important we have this fee and we continue to address our housing crisis by building more housing of all variety market rate housing that is a huge source of funding for Affordable Housing semi never mind the grandfathering im open to this discussion but also sensitive to the fact that projects are penciled out with land purchased that are assumptions including the Fee Structure at the time he know this is on the horizon and been on the horizon but quite en3reb89 given in 2012 when our efforts to modernize and reform the t d i if it completely feel apart with the 9 supervisors didnt supports those changes that also is findersable a little bit of uncertainty im open to the discussion but allergy want to make sure we are treating those projects fairly as well and in terms of the hospitals and he is this as a person that helped lead the charge to eliminate the hospital comments in 2012 one member of the board of supervisors other than myself former member carmen chu and others voted against when we went into this process around the currency legislation before us today, we i think i personally came out of it having experience that not just a loss but a landslide loss at the board of supervisors we worked with various stakeholders including the hospitals and came up with that alternative exemption through the seismic statement and the seismic at 2030 so whatever my views have been on this subject i gave any word on that exception and i see that some of my colleagues have changed their position on the hospital exception theyre entitled to do that by i accident give my word so ill keep my word overwhelming to support the hospital exemption on move forward so and so so those are a few of my thoughts i appreciate everyones time and energy. Commissioner avalos. Commissioner avalos. Thank you i already expressed where i want to go in terms of amendments i wanted to say thank you to planning and the mta for all their work on developing the tsif well have this the Second Public forum the first one with the Planning Commission so what work was put tote the Fee Structure was well, before we got to the public process whether everyone has a chance not just the board of supervisors but the public has a chance to weigh in on what the fees should look like there are certainly feelings that were not quite settled on what the fee is a flat fee or not maybe not a flat fee and the hospital xmentsdz so youll see work thats been done thank you for that and it gives us the ability to actually new refine the measure for the different needs in the city i will not go into every aspect of the amendments that was discussed by supervisor jane kim i agree with and my office worked closely with her moving forward but i want to be clear about the hospital exemption i believe that we can have a nuance approach around the hospital exemption i last week the idea of which i shouldnt care being a standard of care for the nonprofit hospitals that will be where we land and try to find you know where we apply the fee or not so just looking at next week 50 percent threshold for charitably care i hear the china hospital is 85 percent clearly a theyll not be impacted by the new tsif fee to the nonprofit hospitals other hospitals ceos have a salary that is upwards of 7 million that is not the same standard of a ceo of Chinese Hospital so to me a nonprofit not the way to go but the ability to pay the charity care and hoping ill be sitting in. All to move to continue this item to the october 5th Land Use Commission meeting that is a motion. And motion has been seconded by supervisor kim and well take that without objection. That item passes unanimously thank you. That completes the agendas for today excuse me. That completes the agendas it completes the agenda for today folks this meeting is adjournedat 1 oclock. My name is to him horn the Vice President of the board of education of the war memorial and have the great honor to chair the trustees oversight competent for this great project id like to welcome everyone here to the rededication of war Memorial Veterans building. clapping. please stand as we bring on the color guard audience please remain standing for the singing of National Anthem in for the singing of the National Anthem its a great privilege to welcome a local favorite renowned soprano stephanie singing the production of sweeney i didnt todd clapping oh, say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave . clapping. thank you, mr. Slide todays dedication president ial be seated todays rededication marks the custodial migration to bring the war Memorial Veterans Building Back to its full bos art beauty it is architecturally significant as a quintet of civic center designed and uttering brown junior of significant importance as on this very stage United Nations chart was dinescy president fromme if 1944 in 1941 the japanese peace twitter was drawn up in the 26 most of seismic upgrade project weve restored and improved this before building for the future of many generations are for san franciscans in Veterans Building a place of great matt haney to San Francisco veterans after whom the building was named lets take a moment to recognize the veterans in attendance today would everyone that served in the air force of the United States please stand and be recognized clapping. thank you im pleased to have so many members of San Francisco city family presented today this is an Municipal Building it is unusual for professionalism arts center to have professionalism art center complex that is own about the the city and San Francisco is unique that f that regard im to name a number of family members that are a speaking role but recognize mayor ed lee the president of the board of supervisors the e steemdz supervisor president london breed and former mayor willie brown and mark leon 0 i saw carmen chu assessorrecorder i hope not to miss anyone else for the buena vista for the administration of those buildings we have among naomi kelly the city administrator and other appointed officials i want to single out for special recognition the war memorial managing drooshgs ethically murray clapping clapping. she has been the heart of the project and its vision for nearly 20 years i want to recognize San Francisco public works city architecture edgar lopez and San Francisco Arts Commission decoration tom deacon i didnt i want to significantly out public works Veterans Building pg e tara relay la monday night clapping if beth were the heart of the project tara was its soul id like to acknowledge andy are you mellone and solace a project of this scope doesnt get accomplished without additional partners and id like to recognize a number of them on behalf of the San Francisco post to the American Legion a nelson the commander the integrity and paul chair of the american legacy War Memorial Commission clapping. also the project engineer ron hearing of simpson and hearing and bret and projector superintendent our general contractor and cal builders clapping. again for particular footprint and thanks im grateful appears most of board is here the herbicides Foundation Board of directors the herbs foundation no 1977 that made the initial conservation from the nontheatre awesome what was to become the herbs foundation for the herbs theater the herbs foundation that go warn that step forward with a major grant to fund back stage facilities for the theatre im hoping the tours begin youll take advantage to see all the art and groups that utility this building another important part i or partner i want to recognize opera david and finally id like to acknowledge and thanks the herb awe civics Advisory Committee by peter which provided the creative thinking and funding for a new stage and i cubic shell that will be up here for music performs and make the acoustics in this hall improved after over what this have been the next speaker that the accomplishment of this rooms when the voters approved funding to repair the building of the equating the prerogatives were made for this project city hall was to be first and while it was closed down city hall offices compassing the mayor and board of supervisors were rejected both the Veterans Building as a city hall progresses that became apparently that the voter had not had quit a grand a vision for city hall as willie brown and they ran out of money so the funds allocated for the Veterans Building were rerooted to finish city hall now promises were made that make up for the funding loss and nothing happens for many years but the city administrator at the time was the charger the citys Capital Improvement Program Committee and not a household name outside of city family but a dedicated Civil Servant named ed lee that appreciated the historic and architecture significance of all those Service Center buildings and it was ed lee that kept the project on track during the lean years of the recession and he has been is champion as mayor may great honor to from a the great mayor of the city and county of San Francisco edwin lee clapping. thank you pursue thank you tom for that wonderful introduction well, let me be very truthfully first of all, isnt that a beautiful building Everyone Welcome clapping. it is just gorgeous to be in here and the truth be told why i have a passion for this building because years ago when my daughters were in High School Public high school at the started their own acting and writing organization it was called youth for asian theatre like that and and they searched around the entire city patrol vehicle for space the plays they wrote could be acted out and blodz it came to herbs theatre and they did it standing still room only for their plays see all the parents prosecute Lowell High School standing in the crowds and 33 their heads turned they realized how beauty of a planning place how could a place be made available for High School Students to wrote and wanted to have are theatre plays in those moments we got to tell them what this place is all about and hundreds of thousands of parents and kids learned of the signing of the United Nations charter and the japan peace treaty of the history of events that occurred here and, of course, i got to tell them this is brown where i rjd for willie brown what it was a temporary city hall and the thousands of people that use the greenroom and all the meetings with the veterans held here the practice session with this and that group and everybody came to realize that was a special place so that when we did announce that we were going to make sure that this building that hosts thousands and thousands of kids every year for a variety of reasons would be the home of the Arts Commission and our grants for the arts, of course, our professionalism arts and still be made available to the people that want to have a worldclass beautiful place that has got willie gold trimming and you should see the greenroom it is green and gold youd be so proud of that when but walk in that i the opportunity to take the thinking nonfiction of dollars that the board has made so confidentially open to the private sector to participate and im going took to join in toms accolades to our Department Heads it and tyra proud of public works i spent many years there when we get to do a worldclass building my do they put their best foot forward im prude of entire team they worked with sensitive Construction Company in fact, every one of those construction workers were not construction workers they are artists in this building artists clapping. and i say that in the highest celebration of our Arts Building but your appreciation for arts but say it in combination will have our city and our countrys defraction to the develops and going on theme of education and performing arts the city continues to be im proud of what theyve done in so many ways the restoration of a very important building but more importantly i say this to you im proud of city and county of San Francisco because it is the people that causes the events to be had and to make history in those buildings performances at the highest level and to look at each other and say we will help you do better it is an occasion in which i will continue to be unbashful in announcing we will end chronic homeless for the conveniences by the ends of this year i promise you that that is what. Deserve our veterans have a place clapping. this beautiful recorded Seismic Building is complimented by a most welldesigned and beautiful memorial next door thanks to the Councilmember Justus Charlotte and george you honor us here again, we all want to make sure that the history and the purpose of this this remains that it is history is secure for generations to learn, but that we also have a present use that is invariable to the city of all the agencies that will be here and question think to have a beautifully designed wonderful practices for people to use for generations to come im more than happy about our Capital Improvement program and the People Associated but we all you Work Together and all selflessly do our part and do better than the standard burritos this governments sometimes have and allowed to get well i dont understand those bureaucracies into working with the artists that have been here by way of every possible goal on this project was towed. Including the use of local businesses that had an 18 percent they were at 23 percent by the ends of local talent local people who love this building have been the great peace of rebuilding it to the standard were proud i say thank you to everyone who was part of this lets celebrate by utilizing those building and sharing the creativity that is yes, he did. To come and im so excited to cut this ribbon congratulations, everyone clapping. inaudible . Thank you for your comments our next speaker the president of the board of supervisors london breed who is the supervisor for district 5 the war memorial presize a supporter of this project since its inception they recognizes the importance of that building the peoples building to providing an affordable venue for small and neighborhood artists groups to perform and meet please welcome board president london breed clapping. and. Good morning, everybody. San francisco is the most beautiful city in the world i will argue that point about everyone people come here from far and wide was because of our city landscape and the Golden Gate Bridge and the crooked road are the painted ladies in alamo scare now with the completion of that amazing facility in the Service Center area they will come here to visit our city hall. Puc building one the greatest Brown Building the opera and the grand and the library and the Artists Museum we have one of the most amazing Service Center and now with the completion of that this it is going to make that area even more beautiful i want to thank everyone whos been involved in the project before public and private Interest Rates to making that project work i know that takes hundreds of people millions of dollars ever financing to bring together a project of this nature i was if interim when willie brown was mayor working out of this building it was dark and glom i didnt and now when you walk into the door it is light a brooifrthd place not just because of Energy Efficient lighting but more importantly because of the how late built on the backs of those who fought for in country to make sure that every san franciscan, every United States of america acceptance has the right to live free and in peace we want to thank the developers today and those 0 who have severed our country and on behalf of the board of supervisors on behalf of the city of San Francisco i want to rededicate this building to you for the work for the commitment youve made that you made with looechg our families and going to do what if intoxicate to make your country safe safe question enjoy our freedom in this country because you but that the skies and is work this building yes belongs to everyone in the city it belongs to the artists it belongs to the kids and our Public Holidays and our high schools over San Francisco but more important it is dedicated to you i cant wait to come and visit and see one the amazing plays and wait until the grants for the arts and other individuals move here and really feel this building with the spirit of love and happens with the spirit of what San Francisco has to offer so thank you and im looking forward to seeing whatever o what else theyve done and equilibrium to our new war memorial today thank you. clapping. inaudible . Thank you the public board charged that the administering the entire cultural complex of the war memorial brufts weve had two president s to lead this project over the last 4 years both have done exemplar work the next speaker is the current president of the board wiggles not only lead the board through the completion but structural raising the funds from private sources and implementing the design and creation of Veterans Memorial monument adjacent to this building an original plan for this complex but never accomplished until recently because the lack of funds please want the president of the abbreviating of the memorial wilkinson wiggling. Well, this is really an exciting day i am not i dont know if everyone realize the importance of this particular day but the war memorial bruno heights has been working on this project for 10 years for the record to prescription 2r to today and there were certainly times when we didnt know if it was going to reach this completion but here we are and i think it is very important for there were 8 members of the war memorial bruno heights here in the first round three of us id like the members in the first row to stand up clapping. yeah. And as has been said wherewith the prior speakers this Service Center is an amazing place to invest and travel all over the world and then you come back and see our civic center and i think really after the quake the beginning of the resurgence of Service Center and bringing it back to its full luster certainly has to go to former mayor willie brown that somehow be found the funds he disappeared to build and put that that starts the process of what we are celebrating today and we are celebrating okay upon the reopening the Veterans Building will be a truly productive and multi fundamental building that will be a multi fundamental building that San Francisco, california be proud of it will house this will take place in this building and what will be housed here house 3 city departments the war memorial, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the grants for the arts four Public Assembly spaces for used by a wide variety of organizations in this city 4 public spaces and 23 thousand square feet of office and meeting room for used by veterans organizations 23 thousand were very grateful to private partners when have funded additional important improvements 2309s Veterans Building to make this day possible id like to thank the herbs corporation the board of supervisors for their 2 million grant to provide now and upgraded back stage facilities much neatest look at the theatre itself it is a jewel i would like to recognize the San Francisco opera who has invest 12 millions in private funds for the fourth floor improvements including two new performance spaces that will be used by the opera and available to other performances and activities and our thanks to the professionalism Artists Center organization to rebuild the certifying greenroom wait till you see that it is an absolute knock out today, youll tour those renovated building but there is more to come in january 2016 San Francisco Art Commission gallery the San Francisco gallery which is the municipal arts gallery opens its 3 thousand space for local arts and in february 2016 the San Francisco opera whether open a new diane b center for opera on the figured out floor and thats going to be a terrific space on behalf of the war memorial buena vista id like to thank the mayor, the board of supervisors, the citys Capital Improvement Program Planning committee and the department of public works, and San Francisco Arts Commission their support commitment and efforts and making all this probable thank you. clapping. as a public works project the Veterans Building seismic upgrade project as managed and excused by San Franciscos department of public works and the war memorial is very grateful to them for the magic oversight of this complex site ami id like to introduce San Francisco administrator naomi kelly clapping. good morning, everyone it is such an honor to be here today to be with mayor ed lee and the supervisor president london breed and general mike all the veterans i couldnt agree more with supervisor president breed it iss this is a beautiful this thank you for protecting our borders and keeping us safe clean sf. This is building holes a special placed in my heart you heard earlier from the buena vista tom honoring this was at temporary city hall i was hired into the city and county of San Francisco working for former mayor willie brown this was the place i met ed lee and first met intern london breed and then architect he edgar lopez and the first place i met my future husband harlan kelly clapping. this also is this building holds a special place i chair the Capital Improvement program the veterans is a critical achievement to the Capital Improvement program as one the Capital Improvement program top appraise ill happening happen to see see long term and small Financial Planning is louse us to support this Veterans Building the War Memorial Building hfa happens to be designed by the same architect arborist brown as city hall as mentions heeler this is especially we slshlt to Citizen Technology of this milestone across the street i sit new office across the street on the van ness on the for the last go years the honor of literally overseeing the project with that, ill to take the opportunity to thank you. The Mohammed Nuru and architecture and carolyn i was watching i from across the street and the subcontractors when worked on this building mayor ed lee talked about how local residents worked on this building 33 percent that worked were local San Francisco residents i also want to point out that 50 percent heinecke hours went to local residents im very proud of that fact thank you congratulation to edgar and team yeah clapping. which one the day i called of edgar and get one a years ago during the construction it was so wonderful to see the attendance do detail theyll union street into perceiving it beautiful building as london and i, we looked the murals this is first time i saw the murals from the meeting and edgar was saying in detail they made sure theyll survivor an earthquake and the beauty of the artwork again, i want to congratulate everyone and looking forward to spending many, many hours grants of the arts is moving with with the artists commission well spent time attending the meeting and continually honoring all our veterans so thank you. clapping. without the support of the next speaker is it so exceptional design and Management Team the Veterans Building project would not have achieved a highlevel of success id like to introduce city architect edgar lopez and clapping. good morning, everyone it is an hour 80 honor to be here to acknowledge the design and Construction Team who made this project possible special, special things this ron hearing with others who lead the design team of consultants to achieve what you see today from public works i want to thank especially tara la the project manager who provided the leadership and guiding the project and special thanks thirty to anna the special architect that led the architecture work they spent end lesless hours on the details that is complexity of the project making sure that happens they disfavor to be recognized as well clapping. so while the design teamwork hard to make sure that things went well, the big effort was lead pay the contractor they along with the 29 trade intrausht from roosevelt, steel, plastic and painting and so on put a tremendous amount of effort to make sure it is explicit to heist quality and you can attest to the fact they were very question of in speaking with the Structural Engineer in the week i was asking what he was most proud of he said to me what he was most proud of the details and the effort that seismically uktd the building the amount of technology that had to be built both and make it a Historic Building all beyond the walls a Safe Building and it will be here for many generations to last and most importantly were proud of fact that many parts the building were once covered are back to life you get to see the wonderful architecture that was designed, if any, the original architect arthur brown thank you to all were proud of work and thank you for your hard efforts clapping. now id like to introduce the commander the American Legion eight district and former president of the war memorial nelson clapping. honorable mayor ed lee members of the board of supervisors, state and Community Officials buena vista president barb for the record and members of the buena vista and fellow veterans and citizens of this wonderful city of San Francisco good morning. Im nelson lum the thought of the American Legion on behalf of the posts of American Legion one of the beneficiaries of the trust under which the war memorial wleks was created and many veterans organizations we want to express our appreciation for the undertaking and completing the difficult sxhefks retrofit we are well aware the necessary task surrounding the restoration of our Historic Building to its form glory were guess was extremely challenging it is an arduous journal optometry levels but it is a shining example of what your city can accomplish as a military veteran that served our country for many cases fought wars were honored to be able to occupy the building and share it with the Arts Community with the operas mask now spaces on the fourth floor and the flexible new art dwrerl the San Francisco Arts Commission an is first floor the citys capability to support the arts a leads there is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for our beautiful new space and we look forward to energy best wishes and congratulations and strengthening the veterans communities our membership treasures the concept of service to our country and service to the veterans and the Broader Community thank you. clapping . Our final speaker today is an extraordinary leader and an accomplished veteran who or retired major generally michael j clapping. generally mite served as the president of the war memorial board of trustees during the renovation project his skills of diplomacy and take smoothed what was not often an easy road along with the current president bash for the record converts the veterans more like in the court for the dream to a reality hes brought much stability to this process and without his strong leadership im not sure we would be here today please welcome the former bruno heights major jay michael mite. Im the last speaker i promise you i will not speak have long i guess it is good afternoon now ladies and gentlemen, today, we rededicate the war Memorial Veterans building as it says in the War Memorial Trust agreement the Veterans Building is intended to honor the memory of the soldiers sailors, marines and war workers men and women who brought impeccable glory to california my pie splendid contributions to the winning of the world war the 1926 groundbreaking it was held for the war memorial complex in included a parade in the Ferry Building all the way up to the war memorial complex then mayor roth issued a application and a operation in youre going outline citizens to participate and attend the summers and then on 11 november the day of that year and more than 50 thousand people gathered for the openly summers the importance the war Memorial Veterans building cant be overstated this building is expression of guldz to all San Francisco veterans for the freedoms theyve fought for and protected through themselvesless services as a veteran im grateful to the city and county of San Francisco for even constructing this great memorial to our world war 1 veterans and im again a great deal of to the city and county of San Francisco for restoring and roanoke county, virginia the great building avenue 85 years and to honor all the San Francisco veterans with such details and such care in perceiving this Veterans Building for many generations to come overwhelm also grateful to the war memorial the buena vista for theyre theyve provided additional funding of 3 million to roommate upgrade and modernize the office of the meeting space for the San Francisco posts of the American Legion and the veterans groups the Veterans Building was dedicated to honor those who figure out and served in world war 1 on a hth anniversary of world war 1 we are rededicating this building to the San Francisco and to thank and honor all the San Francisco veterans thank you very much clapping. a were going to proceed now to the summer of rededication we need your stage countercrew to make a few adjustments give us 30 seconds and 8, 7, 4, 4, 4, 3, 2, 1. Yeah. , 4, 4, 3, 2, 1. Yeah. 5, 4, 4, 3, 2, 1. Yeah. , 3, 2, 1. Yeah. 3, 2, 1. Yeah. 3, 2, 1. Yeah. 65, 4, 3, 2, 1. Yeah hi. I am cory with San Francisco and were doing stay safe and were going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. Were here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco and joined by carla, the Deputy Director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why its important to San Francisco. As you know the bay area as 63 chance of having a major earthquake and its serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in San Francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us . Part of what it means is that potentially 25 of San Franciscos building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people cant stay in their homes after an earthquake. They may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we dont want that to happen. We want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. Thats right so that means the Housing Needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former Building Official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it wont kill you but doesnt necessarily say that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you built this house were in now and this shows what its like to be in a place safe enough to stay. Its not going to be perfect. There maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. Whats it going to take to get the Housing Stock up to this standard . We spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are very vulnerable buildings. Very and there are a lot of Apartment Buildings in san that that are like that. And time to. Retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. What do they need . Do they need information . Do they need incentives . Mandates . Thats a good question. I think it starts with information. People think that New Buildings are earthquake proof and dont understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake . Is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured . So developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger Apartment Buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in San Francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. We want the system and not just mandate everybody. Thats right. I hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. As youre fixing your knowledge youre adding to the city wide resiliency. What does that mean . Thats a great question. What spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasnt recovered the building stock. Its not a good situation. I think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. How do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95 of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. We dont lose our work force. We dont lose the people that make San Francisco so special. We keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because its so interdependent. So that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and thank you very much for joining . Oo hi, im holly lee. I love cooking and you are watching quick bites. San francisco is a foodie town. We San Franciscoans love our food and desserts are no exceptions. There are places that specialize in any and every dessert your heart desires, from hand made ice cream to organic cakes, artisan chocolate and cupcakes galore, the options are endless. Anyone out there with a sweet tooth . Then i have a great stop for you. Ive been searching high and low for some great cookies and the buzz around town that anthonys are those cookies. With rave reviews like this i have to experience these cookies for myself and see what the fuss was all about. So lets see. While attending San Francisco State University as an accountinging major, anthonys friend jokingly suggested he make cookies to make ends make. With no formal culinary training he opened his own bakery and is now the no. 1 producer of gourmet cookies in the biarea and thank you for joining us on quick bites. How do you feel . I feel great. So i want to get to the bottom of some very burning questions. Why cookies . It was a recommendation from a friend. Hard to believe thats how it all started. Why not pies and cakes . What do you have against pies and cakes, anthony. I have nothing against pies and cakes. However, that was the recommendation. You were on the road to be an account apblt. Actually, an engineer. Even better. And it led to making cookies. In delicious ways. Delicious ways. This is where the magic goes down and were going to be getting to the truth behind cookies and cream. This is what is behind cookies and cream. Where were you when the idea came to your mind. I was in my apartment eating ice cream, cookies and cream ice cream. How much fun, cookies and cream cookies. Their cookies and cream is not even it took a lot of time, a lot of fun. A lot of butter. A lot, a lot, a lot. But it was one of those things. All right, now behold. You know what that is . What is that . Cookies and cream. Oh, they are beautiful. Yes, so we got to get. All right, all right. We treat the cookies like wine tasting. I dont ever want anybody to bite into a cookie and not get what they want to get. Were Training Staff because they can look at the cookie and tell if its wrong. Oh, here we go. You smell it and then you taste it, clean the plat palate with the milk. I could be a professional painter because i know how to do this. I can tell that its a really nice shell, that nice crunch. But inside. Oh, my god. So you are going to cheat a little bit. I had to give you a heads up on that. Whats happening tomorrow . These cookies, theres a lot of love in these cookies. I dont know how else to say it. It really just makes me so happy. Man, you bake a mean cookie, anthony. I know. People really know if they are getting something made with love. Aww you know, you cant fool people. They know if you are taking shortcuts here and there. They can eat something and tell the care that went into it. They get what they expect. Uhhuh. System development and things like that. Sounds so technical. Im an engineer. Thats right, thats right. Cookies are so good, drove all other thoughts out of my head. Thank you for taking time out it talk to us about what you do and the love with which you do it. We appreciate your time here on quick bites. I hope youve enjoyed our delicious tale of defendant 93 and dessert. As for me, my search is over. Those reviews did not lie. In fact, im thinking of one of my very own. Some things you just have it experience for yourself. To learn more about anthonys cookies, visit him on the web at anthoniescookies. Com. If you want to watch some of our other episodes at sfquickbites tumbler. Com. See thank you joan and now were as always delighted to introduce our wonderful optimistic mayor ed lee with us this morning to guide us through his vision for San Francisco and some of his priorities and to outline some changes hes right hand proud of the job growth and the cranes in the air and the San Francisco hub and concerned about Housing Affordability and available so lets see his plans and thoughts to generate enough housing and the right kind of housing to keep our economy please welcome San Francisco mayor ed lee clapping. thank you, mary and joan and structures for putting on such a great vent an opportunity for me to address you this morning ill begin appropriate and like to look at the room and the first people i see are the men and women that served us this morning lets give it up a hand for the great working folks in this hotel clapping. mary tension . What tension . The only attention he know 6 is between the dodgers and is giants thats the tension i want to deal with im excited to be here and in the room that as i briefing look around there are a green Great Developers with who are working not city and designing wonderful green Office Buildings and residential buildings, art buildings, people Construction Companies who i know by name given my years not only at dpw and the City Administration bayshore but more and more youre not contractors your developers your becoming parent with the city as we open up great institutions like the Veterans War Memorial the other day beautiful places where the history of the city and the future of the city is right at what what we do with our challenges i look across the crowd and see fantastic nonprofits in San Francisco and the east bay coming together this morning everyone i believe knows that what we have done in the city creating collaborations and making sure that what people say and what people write about i look over to the publishes table can always sometimes be stories about tension and about this group versus that group but as the mayor of this wonderful city someone who spent a lifetime struggling some of the very tensions we talk about i am in my life the most excited during this time for the city of San Francisco for its past, present, and future and i know that more and more what were finding is less about a boom i know writers talk about economic booms which means at some point in time the boom deinflates or something happens more and more i think were i dont think were in the middle of a boom but at the beginning of some very Creative Things that world is yet to see and San Francisco wants to be in charge and in the forefront i look at worldclass sdienlz that are allowing to talk about catalytic with the designs we have is contributed to transportation and Community Building and more and more developers whether i say partnerships their finding the links between an Office Development and our need for a wonderful beautiful flower mart that we want to have for more decades in the future i see more and more links between Downtown Development and Affordable Housing i see more and more direct links between a market rate developer and their support for the preservation of Affordable Housing that also exist in our neighborhoods ladies and gentlemen, this is an exciting time for San Francisco we show when we say we want our prosperity to be shared by more people well do vendz those links to share that prosperity thats why im excited thanks for having me again there interest umsz it is a good time for San Francisco people are working and unemployment has dropped inform 3. 6 percent thank you, everyone in the room for contributing this to that clapping. cranes are i think i see them i feel them theyre there whenever there are strong widens im worried about those cremations i want to make sure hundreds of thousands of square feet of new housing are certainly underway and because of our good economy we making records investments in education to transportation to Public Safety and to our historically strong safety net it is hard to believe that just a few years ago City Government was more than 300 million in the red we had a rammedly commissioner pating payroll tax system in the mid block every storefront was empty and a citywide e ethnic housing pace but more alarmingly our residents with respect staring and double digit unemployment well, all of us and certainly we in government we all rolled up our sleeves with our partners our nonprofit and City Government agencies and private partners such you in the room we know we be tabled those challenges and together we got the house in order your city is now doing 2 year bunts they go along with the 5 year Budget Planning and Capital Improvement i was proud to work on deliberately and delivered a budget that made our city safe and solvent and successful weve remofrmd our Pension System we rained in the Health Care Costs working with lash and we were one of the first cities in the entire in addition to do so without the ac anyone that divided other cities and reform our payroll tax i continue i will mark that as previous historic because we literally changed our entire tax system to accommodate job creation and we carved out during that process even more support for the local Small Businesses we brought to this city a Housing Trust fund to voter to keep Affordable Housing production going we spearheaded the Central Market since 2011 has created it transformation we all know and feel and see along the Central Market street we now have scores of new biz storefront businesses arts organization, and we even have companies that located to Central Market and told me and my staff i dont need more do i want our payroll tax im going there because Market Street is the exciting avenue to everything in the future our economy has rebound drastically and because of our focus on Economic Development and the tension from job creation im proud of that now we the city of San Francisco are the center of a fastest rebonding economy in the country and in every sectorer of the economy jobs in construction and health care, hospitality and you tourism and administrative reviews and others we set out to restore Investor Confidence in the city is it so strong we have the highest Credit Rating in the history of our city well perhaps im most approved in my first term overseeing an economic expansion that saw unemployment drop from 3. 6 percent this means over a hundred and 7 thousand new jacobs were created in San Francisco those are real jobs real people and i know people want to focus on tech but there are jobs in health care, there are jobs in our hospitality, there are jobs in tourism all of those are on fire so were not and this is for the economic itself in the room not depending on any one sector but always make sure we have the diverse economy thats the smartness of learning many lessons of past economic fwumz i booms and bursts weve done this because of the resiliency of our recipe and Business Community and now a unique position to make sure that every residents shares in the prosperity of our city i know, i know there are talk about our city changing some people perhaps are fearful that change being too fast for them i believe in change and im supportive of that it is exciting to see so much going on and so much is positive more businesses trooifrl both big and small in the neighborhood corridors and children plaza in the parks than ever before you know what parks are crowded during the weekend and more residents able to share in that very prosperity well with change and prosperity we have challenges far too many people are living on our streets too many too many evictions that result from speculation our city has become very expensive and some of our beloved neighborhoods are also in need ever some stabilizations so our challenge now is to make sure our residents are part of that growth and part of that change and in a positive way that the challenges they see in San Francisco with not leave them behind more give them the feeling theyre being pushed out this is what we need to do and do together part of answers we build balance equitable communities ones that welcome newcomers even those who lived in the neighborhood for a long time i say that because i need all of your help you know people room are some of the most creative people that we have in the entire region i know that because ive had a chances to work with all of you and the spirit i have innovation will make that the difference between things that are strong can deinflate or something grows with anymore people being involved in the shared prosperity well, before we get to what you can do lets talk about what thecy is doing already, were on track to produce in the hundred percent Affordable Housing range over 10 thousand new units of housing, in fact, 10 thousand 7 hundred and 80 for the specific staff calculation in new and rehabbed housing before i 2020 all hundred percent affordable to low income and more to middleincome on top of we have already provided hundred thousand 4 hundred affordable units since 2015 with great promotions like 1184 frothing adversity 2 year the street in the tenderloin or 11 ocean avenue or edward the second in the marina the simpson in north beach all serving hundred percent low income seniors, families youth and transition and formally homeless and our funded are funded road map will get us now affordable units in almost every neighborhood from chinatown to the mission to south of market to selma and to the transbay community we have many more coming by the end of the year with the potrero and boosht and 1500 page street in hayes valley over a dozen projects underway and were not just building our way what to Affordable Housing were preserving them we rehabilitating over 14 hundred Public Housing units through our rent Assistance Demonstration Program and those are the new i did in my effort and i know hopefully yours that we will never see isolated poverty housing again city all of the these these projects home by home will help us reach our goals i want to give credit where credit is due all of you the private sector the Nonprofit Sector are helping us with the housing roles well over three hundred unit were produced through the Inclusionary Program and 7 hundred blasting unit under construction were done 0 through the private partnerships wire on track for Housing Production and thats just part of the answer were advancing several pieces of key legislation to build more Affordable Housing faster preserve Affordable Homes weve already strengthen and neighborhood and protect our long term tenants were changing our Inclusionary Housing Program to make that easier to produce housing through Market Rate Development we know you are all better and faster at delivering units so were hoping that youll partner with our nonprofits and the city and get those Affordable Housing unit quicker in addition our neighborhood preference and displaced tenant legislation will give existing residents or those are are victims of ellis act evictions a priority for Affordable Homes in their own community our Housing Preservation ordinance which is part ever key new legislation will strengthen the citys i am talking about e ability to preserve Affordable Housing that is losing their rent restrictions im committed to combining that with funding to insure the residents are displaced i know weve already read about some of the sites over 25 years ago the follower Redevelopment Agency made good deals to keep affordability in those units surprisingly those 5 years are up and just take place i want to make sure those residents know were going to be there for them not suffering huge gaps and shock that will cause them to be displaced and we have as part of legislation and an Affordable Housing Bonus Program many of you room thank you these and spur and all the others cement in negotiations with us to make sure that we were doing it smart doing that with a true incentives for developers and board of appeals in 2, 3, 4 city were coming up with more incentives for developers to build more Affordable Housing faster and to keep the economics of the Development Strong as well well to create truly balanced neighborhoods where everyone benefits regardless of income i know our residents need more than just housing thats why were improving transit with Historic Development in muni and your entire Strategy Infrastructure in part the because the voters last year voted in a 500 million general obligation transportation bond we are making sure that the vision zero projects of that bond are immediately implemented with over 28 projects throughout the city we purchased through muni new fleets of new light rail and many of them are under production will be showing up very soon we have new buses that already shown up and a in in addition 10 Percent Service increase i didnt say rate increase service increase underway already more to come that we are buildings a Public Infrastructure so it is safer know strong and better we have hundreds of public works like rebuilding our hospital 5 a can you imagine a city at the same time thats why a little bit of congestion is out there 5 hospitals together with many of you in the room and have Small Projects that as i said earlier over vision zero projects that are making the streets safer at the same time well those are not just celebrations of projects that is the future of San Francisco going on roadway thats why i say we are looking forward to because all of this infrastructure and all the building will attribute to a more modern delivery of Good Services again also age embarrassment for people that are here and have strong San Francisco infrastructure to meet that challenge well checkout the transportation that has happened on castro street wailing walk that youll see widened streets and enthusiastic businesses that are thriving you dont have to get naked to get excited in the castro laughter checkout the work on carville street those are great improvements were doing and keeping an eye on everything and expanding tour park systems Park Alliance youre in the room, too i see you were improving 15 neighborhood playground current fund from the 2012 bond and we have more to come 3 new waterfront parks are in progress a new public plaza pier 43 another new park at the Northeast Plaza and crane park at pier 70 we are also making recorded investment in our Public Schools and kg ask the private sector to join in i cant thank more the leadership benioff has led theyve also are going to be great tenant in the buildings your designing but they also lead with their heart and philanthropic donors to make sure that the youth we will have in your city are going to be their present and future talent for all the companies in San Francisco thats why im excited about the city we are doing it in ways in which were connecting up directly that the people and their futures thats why everybody should build movement thats why i resist about the bubble of things we can control and can influence are the very people here and getting them excited and linked to the strength of the city we are investing in social services i know there are far too many people that are suffering is from homelessness in our city welcome thats why i launched the Navigation Center a new model were seeing secret service in that model and ive asked we met with the hotel couldnt a hospital and sf travel and Business Leaders in the chamber a day ago at the Navigation Center they know we need to scale i up to model if were going to exhibit the deep contraction for the People Knowledge over the streets in order to get them off the streets in the right way i share with you and ill continue to say this is dangerous for people to live on our streets dangerous for Health Reasons and Public Safety reasons we need to help them get off the streets well do so together and make the strong commitment last week models of the Navigation Center thats why were also creating by the end of this year 5 hundred additional unit to be freed up and focused on for Supportive Housing for Homeless Individuals thats why ive created a Navigation Partnership Fund to entice and receive private and philanthropic dollars and donations and kind of like the mayors fund for homeless we build, only spend that when we match dollars from the city that means when we are asking the private sector to join us i am making sure we build in affordability for those private dollars as well and this is been the success of the 10 year Capital Improvement and the gentle obligations bonds a obligation like private investments and the work we do on behalf of the public are also held accountable to the highest standards i hope youve heard im working on the investment lets cause i call that the accelerated fund that attracts private and philanthropic dollars for housing for teachers and hospital workers firefighters and Police Officers and with our Financial Support well be sure to launch that this coming spring were creating working solutions to poverty like raising the minimum wage training our local youth our low income workforce for better jobs through our incredibly successful youth Jobs Plus Initiative we celebrated again for a multiple year accumulation do you know that every year everywhere averaged over 7 thousand pacing programs for all our youth that is incredible with your support clapping. im proud of what were doing tests a long list of things were doing i felt this was borrow before i ask you to join you you know what were doing already and doing in this in a direction to make our city for inclusive you know as well as i do government cannot solve our housing crisis but with the collaboration of our private, nonprofit and philanthropic sectors we can certainly make that even more successful all of you are helping by tlifr more affordability in our projects with more onsite and offsite affordable units being built for example, forest city is committed to thirty percent of affordable in the pier 35 and the 5 m project the giants 40 percent on their project that includes low income and middleincome more and more conversations are about how those developments work with the city to incentivize those high numbers but those are great examples for you will have us to share we need you all of you to help us continue the rich San Francisco tradition of diverse inclusive neighborhoods i have 5 asks today if i may support prop a, clapping. the 310 million general Obligation Bonds that does not raise property tax please also support prop b and prop d to support our families and help to build more housing number 2 ask help me fight speculation you know the attribute of going too fast he invite people that continually and dont care about inclusion and stability and neighborhoods traditions of San Francisco help me fight that help us open up thousands of units that are current being kept off the market and help me find the incentives to bring those unite back to increase capacity number 3 help us find sites for Affordable Housing in middleincome housing a help us acquire and long term lease them help us build them and number 4, i think this is a natural for you will you in the room continue pushing us and each other to innovate get out the the traditional things the dialogue with the media sometimes is bust and build and tension filed weve got to have more innovation in the city that is the capital of innovation i want innovation that will help me accelerate the housing i want homes to housetohouse our workforce and want it now why cant we be talking about a higher loop for housing yes, if we can take in transportation terms i can talk about hyper looping unit in the city or modular units perhaps made easier for all of us to go from factory to family in record time and foisting do something more yourself yourself every project has an opportunity to increase pits i its partnering not only with the city but the incredible invention of our nonprofits doing such they can and every project we can work kraefl with us to try something new to create Affordable Housing faster and better and more permanently well, they are a fewa a in which to Work Together to support an incredible city that hesitate has a history of what it was for me when i was invited to come to be port part of the diverse neighborhood i love it here and continue to love it here make sure we join in its commitment to be the most inclusive city this planet can experience was we build and find success ive always asked every youth we help get a job and every person that went through the job training i dont ask for contribution but one thing that you keep the door of opportunity that was opened for you open for someone else i know that is in the heart of good modern design you have opened up the developments to be that much more inclusive to help me build the new first story and cause neighborhood and have more Affordable Housing all of that is think outside the box incredible invitation to do more and be part of the dna north america we love to call San Francisco thank you for your time appreciate it i love teaching. It is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. This really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. This is very enriching as an artist. A lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. There are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. That is a really big draw. This is a signature piece. This is the bill largest darkroom in the u. S. There are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. I think it is the heart of this place. You feel it when you come in. The people who just started taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also everyone who works here is working in photography. We get to build the community here. This is different. First of all, this is a great location. It is in a lesspopulated area. Of lot of people come here just so that they can participate in this program. It is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. The people have a lot, they can really come together and share a love and a passion. We offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film. We offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. We offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, Treasure Island. There is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. Hello, my name is jennifer. My name is simone. We are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. Cmon, cmon, cmon. Actually, i have been here a lot. I have never looked closely enough to see everything. Now, i get to take pictures. We want to try to get them to be more creative with it. We let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. You can focus in here. That was cool. If you see that . Behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. The see any more hills . These kids are wonderful. They get to explore, they get to see different things. We let them explore a little bit. They get their best. If their parents ever ask, we can learn they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. Some of the things they come up with are fantastic. That is what were trying to encourage. These kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. A lot of people come into my classes and they dont feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. This is kind of the best kept secret. You should come on and take a class. We have orientations on most saturdays. This is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. Ready to develop your photography skills . The Harvey Milk Photo Center focuses on adult classes. And saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes