Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Land Use Committee 112816 20161129

[ inaudible ] commissioner kopp, i think you were in the middle of your comments. A large percentage, not a plurality, a majority of these pending matters are tributable to deferring to a request by the District Attorney to abate our investigation, while the da investigates. And some of those requests, as the chairman noted, go back to 2013, as others are 2014. Others are 2015. There they are at least a year old and does that a disservice to the people of San Francisco. Itdoes a disservice to this commission which tries to execute its responsibilities. And i have marked, and i will initiate a motion, as required, to seek a return, or a reinstitution of our own investigation in about 20 of these cases. And alternatively as the agenda indicates, the commission can formulate a policy for the guidance of the public, and the District Attorney as well, of putting a time limit on the District Attorneys request for us to abate an investigation with a provision in the policy that at the end of that period we resume our investigation and take action. I dont want to see a repeat of what happened in the farrell case, for example, of a statute of limitations running. That is a bona fide concern. Justice delayed is justice denied. ; its trite but when you look at the report pending matters, its true. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Turning to item agenda item no. 13, discussion and possible action on items for future meetings. [ inaudible ] i think we had Public Comment on agenda item 12 and were now on agenda item 13, and agenda item 14 allows for further Public Comment and i would suggest, mr. Bush, that you can make your comments at that time. So on item 13. Mr. Chairman yes, commissioner kopp . I should like to request an investigation by our staff of the following apparent facts a committee known commonly as no on d, h, l and m was formed, d, h, l, and m, refer to propositions on the november 8th San Francisco ballot. To raise money to defeat each of those measures. The San Francisco chronicle reported on or about november 9th that with the mayors help, and i quote with lees help the no on d, h, l and m campaign raised and pend more than 2,200,000 about ten times as much was spent to them of support them. Them being the ballot measures, d, h, l and m. The second fact is that the person named tony winacker described as a described as a senior advisor, took a leave of absence from the Mayors Office and managed the campaign to defeat all of those four measures. And as quoted as criticizing the san franciscans who were responsible for those being on the ballot including various members of the board of supervisors. Im informed and believe that mr. Winacker isnt registered as a campaign consultant. There is im informed and believe there is no form 700, the state form on statement of economic interests on file for him, and it appears that there is evidence and it appears there is justification for an examination and investigation of all those circumstances as to whether the committee mentioned is a candidatecontrolled committee, or was a candidatecontrolled committee, if it no longer exists . Controlled by the mayor. And that the requisite campaign statements were not followed, or filed as a candidatecontrolled committee. I think that sums it up, and ill provide any other information that i have to shorten the time required. Any other suggestions for items for future meetings . Public comment . Hearing none, well go to item 14, which is now an opportunity for Public Comment on any matter either on or off the agenda. Mr. Bush . Larry bush [ inaudible ] as a reporter a few years ago i did an investigation with the sunshine ordinance request [ inaudible ] i received i asked for them without identifiers because of confidentiality issues. I didnt receive a list [ inaudible ] that the District Attorney then provided a formal written response, that they had no record of anything being referred to them by the ethics commission. So it was clear that there is a miscommunication that was taking place. Also it appears that nobody had a ticklersystem that paid attention to when these things are. So the fact that you are putting on your agenda an examination of this, i would just like it to be on the record that we did i did do that through the sunshine ordinance and i did establish a record it was not being done. As a former member of the civil grand jury, there are certain confidentiality standards that i cannot further disclose, but if you reads the ethics report from the 201314 civil grand jury report on ethics, youll be able to discern that Additional Information emerged about the gap in followup at that time. Thank you. Thank you. Hearing no further Public Comment, somebody moved for adjournment. So moved. Second. All in favor of adjourning . Aye. Opposed . We are now adjourned [ gavel ] were going to get all right. The meeting will come to order this is the regular meeting did Land Use Committee im supervisor cowen the chair and to my right is it scott wiener the arock and to my left is aaron peskin our clerk alicia and take moment to thank our forensics leo and Nona Melkonian for evaluating us in the broadcast thank you very much madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. All electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the. Okay great you both are ready to present on this item and Shelly Campbell take that away. Good afternoon. Im shelly the public works personnel were here for the jurisdiction challenge from the point of privilege the item before you is virtually for the public works Sewer System Improvement Program the Sewer System Improvement Program is a 20 Million Investment required to renovate, upgrade our aging infrastructure to insure reliable and seismically sewer system for generations to come france is 70 projects 2 plus billion dollars is alter southeast plant which started out 70 years ago property jurisdictional challenge was initiate to enable the sfpuc to identify the space for the facilities at the southeast plant that is a challenge of the San Francisco public works napoleon yard shown here located at the evans and napoleon in the plant on jerold avenue the challenge will benefit both departments with Additional Space adjacent to the facilities in the bayview the napoleon yard is adjacent to public works central yard at the Caesar Chavez the Asphalt Plant is adjacent to the that motion carries southeast plant both properties are just under one and a half aches the departments are accepting in the as is condition with that, im going to turn it over to sue black and claudia is here to answer any questions you may have. Good afternoon, supervisors im sue black sunday night inform 9 director of proclamations want to let you know weve worked with the public works in this cleaver and supportive of it we store about one and 20 evacuees Rolling Stock and current Asphalt Plant and with the acreage were getting adjacent to our operations well be able to move that equipment to the yard so wanted to let you know were very much in support of effort. With that, claudia what you like to. No a quick question so given the proximity to the wastewater facility is that dpw. No public works. Sure let me direct this to the puc i understand the puc buildings the property will compliment the Capital Improvement for the Wastewater Treatment plant how is that a compliment. Were in dire need of the projects going on at southeast plant this site is also under consideration for the future Digester Program if it is active proposed site will be a shop site north of the Asphalt Plant if you look at the diagram the asphalt is south of cesar chavez is located. Uhhuh. So this is just a compliment in terms of staging location. What happens once the reimpelled is complete what happens to the asset. It will be part of digester facility so in what way. It is constructed. Will there be a building or public arts. The Digester Program i might have karen address our questions. Sure. Consist of a number of buildings and plazas over the site about 7 acres total. Ill call karen up good to see you. I was hoepd hoping to stay seated im karen and actually of the Asphalt Plant was a improvements have been completed and southeast that holds the Energy Recovery facility with converting that to power to help the plants to reduce their a cogent plant. Ill take a motion on this item. Ill move that we i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. And acknowledge that my scheme together with Ed Harrington to make our Asphalt Plant profitable we should had had jurisdictional i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. Supervisor peskin im sure that was your plan b. We didnt figure that out out at the time but the digesters is entirely different a decade ago. Im excited to see that moving forward and it is incredible and both about time and eager to get this underway. Without objection that passed unanimously madam clerk. 2 to amend the zoning map for the height and bulk for 1493 toe 97 and mac appropriate finding. Okay. Thank you aaron starr. Aaron starr, manager, legislative affairs. Enough time a health reclarifies for 1493 to open space or o s to 55 x im sorry to 40 x the rezoning was submit on behalf of the Property Owner the original require was 55 x, however, the commission reclarifies the height and bulk to 40 x referred in the ordinance before you the up to the time is located at the northeast intersection of potrero and schaefz e Caesar Chavez next to roadways with the showcasing plan it is currently development with a first story conducted in 1963 they found the commission confirmed the ooeshgz zones the specific property from m1 to 40 x to mixed use open space the Commission Found the the subject property that was enadvertently rezoned as part of reigning as the o s designation for parks and open space and not intended for privately held property and consistent to have a mixed use and change the height and bulk to open space. The Commission Voted to recommend approval because the Commission Found the proposed ordinances allows the error in the zoning map to be corrected, however, the Commission Found a health is not wandered this was zoned 40 x and zoned 40 x or for open space in addition the adjacent to the park they recommend against a 50 x designation ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. It cant be zoned private p you said that. In theory could a, normally do that. And theres no pending development. Nothing on file. Okay. Thank you colleagues if in questions to Public Comment open for item number 2 please come on. James counsel to the Property Owner just want to clarify this is just a correction of a clerical area from 40 to open space and wanted to correct the map thank you. Thank you and also for the record the Planning Commission has approved this ordinance. The Planning Commission vote to recommend approval with modifications seeing none, no other will Public Comments Public Comment is closed. Colleagues colleagues a motion to approve. Okay. That was backwards madam clerk call 3 and 4 together. Yes. Item number 3 and 4 ordinances for the Planning Department zoning map and general plan to rise the height of the downtown plan and creates the 9 street special use district and the findings. Thank you supervisor kim is the author of this item and i was under the impression. You said three and four; right . I said three and four so supervisor kim the author of 3 when they arrives well invite her up and go ahead and skip to the planning presentation thank you. Give up emery Rogers Department staff actions are the general plan and planning code amendments for 1270 Mission Street in the soma between 8 and 9 street the planning amendment was sponsored by supervisor kim and supervisor peskin for the 19th street special use district will accomplish 3 things first increase the onsite forcible from 13 plus to 21 plus percent those affordable units will be available for 55 percent, 4 percent at 70 ami first of all, that suv will wave the floor areas and exempting the project spons sponsor, third open space required be provided offsite and the general plan will rise the downtown plan consistent with the proposed height changes to date staff has received a number of letters from Business Owners and organizations in the violated on october 26th of this year the planning Commission Voted to remedy the approval of both amendments and your consideration the Planning Commission asked you to consider increasing the amount even if onsite affordable units to 25 percent with the additional 3 percent available for others not exploding the ami that concludes my presentation. Im available to answer any questions. Anyone questions for items three and four excuse me im told that supervisor kim is coming down the hallway so well wait. Welcome supervisor kim. We just wrapped up a very brief introduction from the Planning Department and just wanted to give you an opportunity to give some remarks on item 3 as well as item 4 thank you. Thank you, colleagues first hearing this item and thank you for also hearing this on november 14th that was continued with the does that amendment im pleased to sponsor the special use district a collaborative process over the last two years between our neighborhood and Community Members and our project sponsor that helped to determine an outcome that put together the desires and comments of all the shareholders and one part very little involvement from our office thank you to the project sponsor coming up with a project that everyone can support the proposed rezoning is supported by the Planning Department as appropriate for the affordable units at ami levels creating a dial that this broad talked about as a policy to serve moderate and middleincome it is supported buyouts the local calpers and the municipal employees as talked about two weeks ago the project sponsor has two years of meeting with the neighborhood and city staff and determined the solution that increases the affordable crayons a range of incomes and increasing of the base zoning of 13. 5 percent of the belowmarket rate at the 5 percent of average area medium income which is equals a total of 26 united for one and 95 unit building a proposed zoning permitting 200 and 89 did unit 20 percent are belowmarket rate to 13 percent of 55 ami and 4 percent anothers 90 percent and 3 and a half at 50 percent of average ami totally 75 bmr unit triple the based zoning and support from the filipinoamerican foundation the united playaz, the San Francisco hawks collaboration and central markets and the building and trades council and better lines four district 6 and the poter hotel no opposition during the ceqa process and it Services Without protests colleagues thank you for your consideration i do make one amendment on page 21 line 25 which at the same hearing as a technical grammatical amendment so thank you and thank again to the project sponsor. I will move that technical amendment. All right. Move that take Public Comment and move the technical amendment and move forward all right. Ladies and gentlemen, items three and four have been called together would you like to testify and share Public Comment . Thank you, supervisors thank you for the time eric my yes a collaborative effort throughout the process i want to thank the community and thank you to city staff and the st. Josephs for coming up with a solution that works well, that the community and supports the return and investment principles of California Public employees system this city what Work Together and produce communitybased outcomes that is supportive of it all im here to answer any questions you may have. Thank you, mr. Childs anyone else. Okay Public Comment is closed. All right. Supervisor peskin do you have that the technical amendment. The technical amendment to supervisor kim or would you like to read that. It is on page one at line 25 we are im all im asking is to delete at the same hearing. At the same hearing. All right. Okay thats the only amendment so i did not make copies of that my apologizes. Not a problem ill move that. Without objection. Unanimously passes. All right. Adopted now what about the entire body mr. Peskin. Ill move to send the items with the amendment to the full board with a positive recommendation. All right. Without objection that that motion carries unanimously madam clerk please call item 5. Item number 5 age ordinance for the planning code for the citywide transportation that requires the Development Projects to creating a administrative fee. Get to the meat of why were here today item 5 supervisor avalos thank you for joining us this afternoon hes the author of this item and will be making a short presentation followed by Planning Department staff and the Planning Department staff will go through the tdm. The floor is yours. Thank you very much chair cohen we have before us the ordinance that will establish the transportation to demand management part of Sustainability Program part 3 of that and it is part a new way how to build our buildings in San Francisco that align with the new version how we measure the cars and San Francisco going from towards vehicle miles traveled from level of service were looking how to shift places where people live and work from how they view transportation towards transit walking and cyclist and Public Transportation this is a huge effort that has been going on for many years that planning is involved in and geared towards having Better Health outcomes for how we do construction to increase the quality of our air and healthy lifetimes by lowering the amount of miles that vehicles travel that lowers the emissions that has the greatest impact towards climatic change that measure i believe will take more than todays hearing to snuff out i expect im introducing a series of hearing it will happen i dont believe what ive heard from colleagues and from others departments that were not going to be able to pass this measure enemy after im out of office i believe this concept that is here before us today is a sound one but i dont believe im familiar with it towards the passage this year im saying this at the beginning of any talking points this is the temperature if colleagues today is our first chance to get into the legislative process with the discussion of transportation to demand management that will be heavy on presentation from sfmta and the transportation and planning to talk about where we at and how we get this measure and people from the public that might have additions or amendments to make as legislation i have amendments id like to make and have ready here today that i have ask the committee to accept after Public Comment but essentially recognizing there are differences between projects that are in the health and Human Services and for projects that should have a different kind of consideration in terms of so moved. So many projects dont have a highlevel of vehicle usage attached to them especially residential we need new ones in the approach especially, when it comes to nonprofits there are nonprofits that Human Services that feel heavy transportation is part of a model to provide services or priority Transportation Services i think that is worthy ever consideration in terms of how we craft legislation Going Forward so ill be introducing those amendments towards finding and addressing those issues to help the Human Services and nonprofits and in no others members of the committee that wants to talk well go to presentations from our different departments and first of all, sfmta broefrdz welcome. Im thrilled sheryl vice chair of the brokering and glad to be here were fortunate to live in a growing city San Francisco will audio one and 90 thousand jobs and one hundred homes to keep obvious moving the city is adding to address the future Transportation Needs we need to do one big thing development to their pay your fair share and this will help our new citizens not all trips need to be made by car the focus to support new residents and tenants and making sure nondriving modes and giving folks choices that ordinance is initiative that is imperative and timely doucht it copes our air clean and our neighborhoods liveable by having people provide Transportation Options that is data driven and informed by the best practices it will be flexible that will be responsive it has a commitment to monitoring the outcomes and transparent in the way weve not seen in allowing the citizens to see what is going on with development were hearing if other cities their looking to this ordinance as a model of the comprehensive effective approach from transportation to demand management this is our opportunity to once again be a model city for the rest felt nation and a laboratory for new ideas people wants options in increasing numbers of transit on for the and beautifies this will obstinately options for benefits not only the local neighborhood by the city as a whole and possible to grow smartly this is the time to make it and thank you. I look forward to this ordinance moving forward. Thank you. Thank you director brinkman. Good afternoon emery rogers Planning Department staff and take a moment to announce the collaboration between the resources led to a very Forward Thinking Program and like to express my sincere appreciation to the teams San Francisco Neighborhood Services Safety Committee the Transportation Authority and our own Planning Department for their years of dedication and hard work weve made progress as an aide with the transportation Sustainability Program the cf p is invest and align and shift two of the 3 are adopted the invest and align those two programs together exchange and reduce the ceqa process for a fee towards the actual transportation improvements and now today, youll hear about shift the third component tdm seeks or the transportation to demand Management Program seeks to minimize car share in the new investment and support choices by the residents San Francisco is a national and International Leader in policies and procedures in this is a key step in growing smart with that, id like to introduce any colleague. I have a couple of handful for the clerk. Can we do the slide show. Thank you. Im carli and from sfmta and joined by corey teague from planning we are honored to represent really terrific Multi Agency Team from the Planning Department and the Transportation Authority and present to you for your consideration a proposed transportation to demand management ordinance new development San Francisco is growing and file number cant add additional capacity for more automobiles to our roadway and even if we could that would be counter to our transit first policy and health and safety and other goals what that means we need to invest and extending the transportation to demand management choices and use your support to help people to choose sustainability modes the good news that the city is already had a right at work to expand the Transportation System to entrance Transportation Management demand and plan for the next generation of transportation and the city is undertaking were asking others to approve the Transportation System and shape new trips before you today is the third component of this transportation Sustainability Program as you may know the t s p keeps people males or females and a as the city grows as ann marie said were now here with the third component shift a change in how new development shapes this to reduce the need to drive the shift component links the first two components like supporting people in transit and walking and biking and reducing the vehicle millions traveled within the component measured. Shift proposes an amendment to create a transportation to demand management ordinance focused on new investmedevelopme so development tdm is physical measures and information and resources that supports sustainable trips those are you are measures that are controlled by the Property Owner and are focused on the trips of residents tenants and visitor to the sites tdm for development is not new to San Francisco we have a number of measures in the planning code like unbundling parking for residential use requiring bike parking and things like that but to have the power of transportation to demand management we need to do better our proposal has been informed by best practices for development focused tdm across the country like having a Holistic Program that really focused on a goal our goal is about reducing virginia General Assembly vehicle miles and linking to how much parking is provided onsite there is constitutional data that has stereotyping is the most powerful denominator of how people traffic and monitoring to insure the requirement and remaining nimble and update flexible the primary goal is Transportation Mobility but additional benefits from better environmental outcomes and approved Public Health department r Public Health and transportation to demand management measures get integrated into frontages from the beginning with transparency in a consistent manner instead of more ad hoc ways we have today but tdm ordinance that is part of the board outreach that has been done for the overall transportation Sustainability Program and for the weve done targeted outreach and the input weve received from the commission and shareholders and developers and others has been reflective and informed our proposal so im going to im going to turn it over to corey teague from planning to walk you through the details of the ordinance. Thank you very much. Mr. Teague. Corey teague with the Planning Department great to be here were also excited about this program working hard together on it im going to talk about how it will work how individual projects will be subject to and used in the tdm program the first is the structure of program it is unique in the sense the item before you is an ordinance that amended the planning code to create the tdm program and the requirements and create that structure within the code, however, there are 3 odd Important Documents that are very important to the program the first are the tdm standards which are adopted by the Planning Commission 2, 3, 4 august of this year the appendix is includes the tdm measures in details they may use in the tomato plan and a tdm clarification documents as carli mentioned a data driven program so we wanted to have a document that really put in writing all the data we use and these methodology that we use to develop the system she mentioned that tdm is a very dynamic field we using proven measures to the tdm standards are able to be updated more nimbly to reflect the Current Research from the projects within our own city or the nation at large so the ordinance would specifically state the tdm projects creates more dwelling units an inclusion for one hundred Affordable Housing and the new construction of nonresidential and Office Buildings or retail for example, changes of use within the existing buildings that will be a higher bar that will apply to projects that are more than 25 thousand square feet in size and changing between the categories weve established in the program so i think a theme we want this program to be something that Developers Think about early on they think about how to incorporate many projects and theyll be required to submit a tdm application that will be reviewed announce with the application the overall application as part of a code compliant like any other code compliant the Planning Commission then theyll be a tdm requirement needed. So how specifically will the program work for projects well in principle each project receives a number of points to achieve and have a memo of options to achieve that number of points but specifically the starting point is determining the to death and it is intensifying based how much parking the project proposed the more parking the higher the target then how to meet the target the standards the listing of all the measures in the memo some of the measures for example, bike parking level a the amount and scales up there additional points if you count scaling of certain measures in total 56 measures for a project to select all of those measures are based on research and data in the field and they are assigned point values bans in their value for example, things they chuch one point and showers and lockers and other additional bike things they may achieve 2, 3, 4 or points and more specific like transit subsidies and reduced parking overall those receive higher point values. And going to the parking issue the amount parking determines the to death but, achieve the points by parking at or below the neighborhood rate the map you see here is the city broken down into the transportation analysis zone somewhat like we use those zones for transportation analysis in the city we have a model that use certain amounts of real data well touch on later to talk about the neighborhood parking in each the zones for residential and nonresidential uses again, if you park at our neighborhood rate you achieve a rate and 10 percent reduction you get an additional point so Something Else that is existing about the program for a long time we were be talking about that at one point we had an x sell tool that was functional but not pretty people can use thats on our website but developed a user Friendly Online tool it is in data not for the public but using it with the stakeholder meetings to help people to understand how to use the program and how that works for the project i was going to show that stool to give you anguish idea unfortunately, because it is data and sometimes our technology dont align it didnt appear to look quite as nice and a as we see it ill not show you the tool today but another time were proud of it and it is incredibly user friendly and point and click with a measure and point and click all kinds of information and the measures you may be selecting. So once the project determines its the fact of the matter and selects a measure that wants to use to achieve the target score and the project is approved another part were excited about is a vigorous implementation strategy most of requirements in the planning code dont have a proactive monitoring and recording were a complaint based department when it comes to that, however, the city has approved budgeted staff in the department to work on the monitoring and the reporting requirements for the program so essentially before the certificate of occupancy for a project Planning Department staff will do a site visit to make sure the physical measures are in place whether the correct number of Parking Spaces, etc. Make sure that p is in line he and ones the certificate of occupancy is issued that department is to submit a report the Planning Department to document how their meeting the requirement for the tdm plan that reporting is annual for 5 years and if they have no cliensz issues for 5 years this moves from annual to every 5 years the key weve be much more proactive to make sure those measures stay in place for the life of the project additionally this will allow us to do some of our own do not collection and research so help to determine how effective measures are in San Francisco that different projects are selected. And so thats an important element to keep in mind is that not only do we plan to monitor the projects for 0 staying within compliance of the team plan we also want to make sure that the program itself is staying updated so we do plan to update the standards over time tom reflect new research and Information Available that is a primary research in San Francisco and also research that is done around the country that may indicate new measures that are proven to be effective or determine that some of the measures have the wrong point value up and down and clarify some of the language and for the measures to be clear we want to make sure that the program is effective so overall goal here additionally every 4 years we will be doing an analysis and report of the program that is timeline is in line with the county wide transportation timeline as carli mentioned we did a lot of outreach and one by one with individuals and individual groups one thing we can say almost every single group or person was supportive of the Program Overall and the policies, of course, some people have ordinances about some of the specifics and weve been working with them on that issue by and large we received a huge amount of support for that project and all of the commissioners recommended approval unanimously and we have a long list of groups here and others too that are supportive but as mentioned one of the wanted the program to go further. So what were some of the stakeholders input we received we heard they dont want to be disproportionateal and maybe ride shares should be permitted as tdm measures can there be exemptions for more than Affordable Housing we took all of those in and looked at it specifically the planning case report if august 4th we gave detailed responses to many of those issues through some weve worked on and to that point we passed out a memo that outlined some of the central changes that occur to the program the first one is Parking Spaces is not on the memo we addressed that at Planning Commission in august there was concern that poem would parking garages we feel want to acknowledge that issue we changed the standards to acquire some or all the Parking Spaces to be counted towards the issued and 09 issues were working hard since the Planning Commission and outlined in the memo that we gave you that memo specifically for the facing plan to go to the end the memo reflects a plan that is under consideration that we worked on with the Mayors Office and talked to different supervisors about supervisor avalos with his legislation has a date feasibility method but the phasing plan will allow the Development Application by september 4th of this year that is when the board of supervisors received the Planning Commission recommendation they only have to meet 50 percent of their to death and projects that file between september 4th of this year and the end of new year 2015 will meet only 20 percent and filed in january and on theyll be subject to the full one hundred to death we mentioned we want this program to be something that developers consider early on and factor into their performa and recognize the projects some difficulty there to be part of the racial behind this plan and heard that there would be adjustment made to make sure that wasnt disproportionately bad for Small Projects and found that we capped the the fact of the matter minimum of 13 points that distanced the smaller projects like 10 to 20 or thirty units to reduce the parking more we we have proposing to amend the project to allow for lower the fact of the matter for low amounts of parking and talked about the original raised and the maps that was adopted by the Planning Commission used a fiscal analysis as i mentioned since then weve been conducting a more data driven approach using the zoning data from dbi to determine how many Parking Spaces on the sites we have a sample size if this is not complete we feel comfortable to use that increased the parking rate and most in not all the transportation thats an overview how the Program Works that concludes my presentation. Ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. So you said you have additional amendments your recommending. The memo are changes many need to be made to the tdm standards which the Planning Commission will be required to update theyre not amendments to 9 ordinance today. Thank you questions or comments. We can go to Public Comment if not other presentations ta. Director tilly chang. Good afternoon tilly chang director the county Transportation Authority i want to echo and join with the Planning Department and the public to urge your consideration the legislation has accommodation of many years of collaboration between the agencies that benefits the Planning Department one of the things in recognizing director graham now sarah jones and others as you may know for folks watching from home that is the final 3 car Sustainability Program designed to better link Land Use Committee u land use and shaping San Francisco as low impact for traffic and carbon by pga this legislation the city will effectively reduce the impact of development on the Transportation System but more importantly sdooishgs of the project and does so by providing sponsors a choice of features that have been shown to encourage walking and biking and sharing the benefits cannot be overstated as the interagency know weve been tracking the policies and this transportation to demand management measure is clearly most effective and Cost Effective to have reduction this far and practical and fair and approvals the citys Monitoring Program and location of the program bringing research and performance to the work and keeping you and the public regularly informed by the effectiveness i urge youre supporting and like to thank supervisor avalos for your leadership and all of you for your support over the years thank you. Thank you before Public Comment i have a question for mr. Teague if you can explain when is a project didnt meet the tdm standard whats the option to get kick in at this point and if there is a real abstinence but to insure the compliance. As proposed the meeting our tdm planned requirement is simply a requirement to have it approved as drafted we dont have you know an option for exceptions or variances but the menu is diverse and it gives project sponsors especially incorporating that and thinking it early in their project a lot of opportunity to mix and match measures to meet the requirements so of the requirements are measures you know physical capita envelopes reducing parking or providing for biking parking or car share some have no impact other than the space to the project and are simply cost for measures that provide for example, subsidies for transit passes or car share memberships or bike share memberships we feel flexibility to work with the tools and the Program Early on to find a tdm plan that is achieveable. Now having a project sponsor that is signed off on a tdm plan and go out theyre not living up to the plan what happens. At this point it is a standard compliance and enforcement issue like any for the planning code if we go out and inspection for example, before the certificate of occupancy and theres some component physical component of the tdm plan not correct that needs to be corrected brother theyll get in their certificate of occupancy if you go longer in year two or three and theyre not providing some type of incentive or measure theyre required to do theyll have an opportunity to correct that and if they dont then well go through a standard violation enforcement process which will be a notice of violation opportunity for a an appeal as well as one thing to add is in our current most of our planning code is complaint based and we will be actively monitoring and have standardized recording forms and so not happen to find out theyre not in compliances it is more proactive totally proactive while were youre going relying on the standard enforcement to process found o found outing. If i may through the chair youll sustain this regiment with would ongoing source of revenue. Were we budgeted staff there are application fees associated with the Development Thought and approval for the tdm plan on the front when you submit your annual reports there are a fee with the application as well additionally, there are many projects from the past that have been required to reduce the tdm planning and there are conditions of approval that needs to be monitored so we have look at it and dedicated those applications fees and staff time and requirement will, in the code to conduct the monitoring. So the fees that accompany the annual submission of reports are sufficient enough to actively may for the number of ftes you need. Thats my understanding. How large with the fees. The annual fee as proposed now right now is one thousand dollars. And thats in the future presumably born by the homeowners association. Were the owners of the property and that will be part of covenants and restrictions that theyll be required to put in their cc rs. I cant speak to what theyre to put in their cc rs but a notice of special restrictions recorded on the site indicated thats the adopted tdm plan and theyre to provide the tdm measures for the life of the project. Ill building it when i see it. All right. Thank you supervisor peskin anyone else. Im sorry are you making a presentation. Public comment or. Okay yes, were open up for Public Comment thank you. Thank you, supervisors for the opportunity to speak im megan the director of the program on health and quality and Sustainability Programs over the department of health im happy to support the transportation to demand management standards we feel have the potential to for many years weve supported the strategy for air quality and transportation 3 priorities if the Population Health plan and reducing this is essential to achieving the goal we believe this is an important strategy for the the housing and jobs that is estimated at more than 6 hundred thousand cars can be at to t to the quality of life more pedestrians will be killed and the efficiency of Public Transportation is going to decline we need to support walking and biking the tdm is a smart approach to provide greater credit their strongly linked such parking reduction and theyll over other bike facilities with retail additionally the flexible of the program will allow a scientist guidance for the best practices in were pleased to see the accountability the planning code lack going on oversight we believe the policies consistent with the human health r and wellness are good for Public Safety and active transportation we support the tdm ordinance and a Program Standards and looking forward to the Planning Department collaboration and other city agencies to advance the health of people that live and work in San Francisco thank you. Next speaker i. Lien district 4 resident requesting a continuance from the item is not continued id like to ask how the tdm will actually work yet another idea put forth by the Planning Department and the mr. Teague referred to i goat certain amount of real data thats troubling the results are referring to to death outreach and also could be that code words for preaching to the choir an example of the photograph a photo avenue bicyclist and a skateboarder sharing the street does it mean that skateboarding is a valid use of transportation and most of features in the photograph are under thirty years ago finally the city listed for a federal grant for smart citys how is tdm consistent with that thank you. Good afternoon. My name is arrest aerial im a transportation policy person are spur we prompt research and education id like to express our support for the tdm program verbally it is important to be thoughtful how we manage transportation impacts with the city and make sure the new transit first policy is San Francisco will add many homes by 2040 we need to do the best we can to address future Transportation Needs unprecedented gridlock well see if we dont get smarter about the practices we need more transportation option with projects first creating better ways to get around without a car from the city is to meet their goals we need to shift away from cars we support new residents and measure make sure giving people choices City Partners have done Extensive Research locally and actually program that works the ordinance is data driven by research and provides a city to spur is a total supporter and the city adopted the first two components and now time to finish up to today developers are approved tdm in an ad hoc manner its not benefited the Community People feed and defer better ways to get where we need to go spur urges you to support this legislation. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is kathy im the project sponsor at walk sf for the laced year livable city has been working with the city and thank you to the staff for step forward in the congestion reduction we specialist the preach of the tdm but seeking 4 amendments we think are crucial to make the ordinance month effective and robust to that we have 4 amendments and with those amendments the ordinance will have the full support of walk sf and the livable city first all parking with nonaccessory should be subject to the systematically we know the parking generates other trips and second the tdm goals should be linked to neighborhood transportation goals it adds new projects to manage but this means that congested neighborhood will be unacceptablely accepted trip reductions must be based on the goals rather than a rate derived if past projects and third walk sf buildings the options should encourage the walking and have more points currently only would the memo item that encourages pedestrian amenity and worst one point an unacceptable amendment to encourage the developers to encourage walking and finally, the ordinance should eliminate the minimum parking requirements if parking adds trips why do we have it and have an ordinance that as developers we should let the developers not have the parking in the first place we hope youll consider on the job amendments. A followup question what will you see as options that encourage greater walking. So weve given items to staff so more the research now for walking okay. Let me start over the research that tdm team used to determine what logo into the menu not a lot of research that walking amenity to vehicle reduction and vehicle miles traveled it theres a lot of research that shows what stops people from walking so it is sort of a lot of research that shows what we could put in place that encourages walking we like to see the menu include those items we have that and can share that. Im interested in examples. I want to see what that will be certainly our staff fee funds amenity for supporting walking and generally across the city but now a project within the project itself. Ill tell you in general lighting and landscaping and other heavy hiters calling those out specifically and more points was an example of something weve suggested earlier. And some have a dual impact in the buildings that have dual impacts on reducing travel by trips by car and encouraging walking okay. I building the last comment. Sure. The minimum parking requirements i see as an important goal to eliminate this this legislation is not the best place to do that but support this legislation to follow suit not to be changed to address the or the elimination of minimum requirement. Wed be happy to see it moved moved in parallel it should be addressed. After Public Comment ill ask Planning Department staff to addressed comments to your first point around not accepting onstreet parking parking thats important we talked it in the presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors corey smith on the three hundred members of the Housing Action coalition ill be speaking in support with Many Organizations and thank you for the departments for their collaboration 3 points vehicle miles traveled transportation is one of the a criteria to look at the transportation projects one of the pilars of our evaluation and whenever possible pushing for less cars more bike parking and walkability thats one of the main measurements and regarding the flexibility ultimately means that developers will have options to verify the highest amounts of benefits as wide as that benefit to deliver the public goods were in support and as far as the enforcement we need it and ask for the transparent to make sure that everybody do their measurable fair share Going Forward thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors im matt with t m. D. Partners we support tdm, however, the program is independent on parking her unit and not consider the amount of veterans and focusing on the units alone may actually not he represent the units for driving in particular we like you to consider whether or not be looking at multi bedroom units should be considered in 2, 3, 4 ordinance slightly definitely we think that families use parking different and parking in the r district is different so we will ask that you continue this item to consider this issue and other amendments before you. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im sam duke kind of an activist for the thirty years ive lived in the city ive with the paratransit corporation with the we were not concerned but happy to see that Going Forward there was mentioned about Public Transportation the buildings that theyve put up on market have eliminated bus stops and eliminated sidewalks and have eliminated all kinds of things im hoping that the program were putting forward will see to that that the Developers Take into consideration the drop off spaces in for taxis vans that deliver food to seniors they should be take into consideration in doing sidewalks and streets in front of all the buildings the Third Mission project to say the museum and the eventual Millennium Tower Builders Building going up they were had legal suits brought against them they especially\eventually have any consideration for those kinds of things that are so vital we need vans and things to get to places they should be made more available to us thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors dementia with the San Francisco Human Services network outreaching im here to echo the introductory comments around the exemption for Human Services nonprofits and those are city fund disadvantaged populations this will be complimentary to the ordinance more Affordable Housing tdm will impose onerous new requirements that dont generate vehicle miles traveled that is minimal benefits to the community we are once again seem to be dragged into a program that where were not the problem Human Services nonprofits in San Francisco by and large are neighborhood based and serve clients that live in the neighborhood and we have data that shows that clients are 3r5u789 low income and the department of transportation has studies showing that households in poverty are lower in their vehicle usage and vehicle ownership and also have higher rates of alternative months of transportation walking and carpool, etc. So were not generating traveling at the same time the program will impose transit fees on charitable organizations and a that serves the poor this is inappropriate and this body rejected a year ago fees on nonprofits in the k s p that imposes annual monitoring fees an nonprofits often with grants to reduce the burden on the citys burden to disadvantaged cries and didnt make sense at all one way or another give grants to organizations to serve people that are low income and on the other hand, take the ongoing funds for fees that means that you need more money to the city to provide overseeing services and many nonprofits just dont fit this office space model within the to the call of the chair Framework Part of nonprofits are city funded to provide services that require them to have Parking Spaces for Service Related vehicles if you provide par trait and any shutters for people with disabilities or delivering food for people sick or low income those are the kinds of programs you may have a significant amount of vehicles you need to provide Parking Spaces those Parking Spaces should not be included in any of the things under tdm we believe that nonprofit Human Services nonprofits so be exempted from this program and particularly those that are at most some kind of there should be a clay on implementing it for those types of organizations take a look at the data and develop more flexible requirement more appropriate and require bike racks and things like that but not imposing vehicles with significant miles. I have a couple of questions you raised a distinct ideas what the number of organizations that were talking about or the number of Development Companies that are out there get into the specific inch i cant think of one to my mind can you help me out. I dont know exactly which programs i know there is a development down on van ness for health rates the goodwill has a development maybe programs it may be a small number which is great because that means that the city wont be giving up significant benefits by not impose it on the benefits but at the same time, we have a situation we have a huge problem with the nonprofits and the Mayors Office has alternatives and have prop x that requires replacement space so more nonprofit. It is not for all nonprofits but specific nonprofits in a specific inch market Human Services; right . Right. How many nonprofit in the city that kind of do the work you do. We dont know there hundreds but i believe somewhere around three hundred that are city fund. Will any have the capacity to take on the large projects. Theres been. Theres been im trying to understand a little bit better. Thats why the health right project on van ness is very large. Theyre a unique organization larger and robust not in jeopardy. Theyre not that big of a barrier ive seen in the last couple of years 75 hundred square feet plus but seeing that under the replacement we hope the replacements so that may happen more with the nonprofit displacement money coming out of the Mayors Office there are studies happening how we can do that more of building ownership rather than rentals that gives more stability to the program. Thank you very much next speaker, please. Good afternoon peter cohen, San Francisco council of Community Housing organizations. Actively want to say that we agree with walk sf about trying to bump up the emphasis over Pedestrian Safety i mean things ultimately the most preliminary and primal way to get around by walking and Pedestrian Safety should be stronger nuftsd whatever point and agree and support Human Services network in their argument exemption maybe for city housing their targeting populations that are quite clearly nonpartisan attended and the staff as well as that is a good question supervisor cowen about the call of that exemption that is probably the kind of information that gives us an idea on Affordable Housing but organizations that are actually building stability or doing a significant rehab and not get caught that is is a logic and two other amendments were suggesting one specifically around Affordable Housing onsite there is data we can work with staff that shows the keeper the affordability the lower the overflow room and miles traveled our suggestion to have a findings that talks about those sort of deepening benefit by affordability and recommended to that within the program have the points reflect that more nuance and onsite people the more points and the second thing the process he letting the developers selection entirely the neighborhoods to have the knowing not the most benefit we think that should be built into the ordinance as a step of the requirement. Supervisor avalos. No questions thank you. Next speaker and and good afternoon, supervisors shawn id like to thank the staff weve met two or three times and agree with the spirit what theyre trying to accomplish and subject a more tailored approach rather than something that is a onesizefitsall approach our concern that smaller sites require a larger percentage of the footprint for the healthy whether 37 or 200 feet wide it generally has to stairs and two one lobby a transform room and accelerator that amount of space is a percentage on the smaller sites than larger sites the smaller sites have the room to play with how many 10 to 24 unit in our neighborhood over Valet Parking and car share and gymnasium. Most of those are out of reach for the smaurld sites our hoa board is a punishment not something we need to do but instead this adds a burden a member that sold the building tried to add a locker to the garage they couldnt in short we would like to participate but need a menu of options for the i offered in the 10 to 24 unit buildings this list is out of reach for our members thank you. Thank you for your perspective is there anyone else that wants to speak in Public Comment if not id like to bring up corey teague to speak to a little bit after the comments that you heard in Public Comment particularly. Specifically the last comment. The last comment after that you can address whatever. I have questions after that walk sf proposed amendments great okay. Just to prior comment yeah, we looked at this for market value sites and recognized that you know really Small Projects are different than midrise and large projects ill say that i wouldnt describe this project as onesizefitsall i kind of see that as the opposite we can be as flexible and possible and include the measures that have evidence that work and some takes up space but a lot of items dont take space whether transit subsidies or whether it is you know bike share or car share membership and certain measures measures you can do like realtime transit display not a lot of Square Footage on the ground that is flexibility when you look at the flexibility of the measures and the fact that Small Projects have a low the fact of the matter to beginning www a lower amount of parking theyre providing and especially, when we the proposal we commute today to reduce the this gives for incentive for the projects san jose reduce 12 Parking Spaces to achieve a lower the fact of the matter and opens up space for additional bike space it is flexible enough to accommodate the smaller projects as well as large projects if you want to ask