Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Land Use Transportation Committee 10515 20151021

Clerk madam clerk, any announcements . Questions 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 october 27th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. All right. Thank you so much call item one. On ordinance for 10 61 to change the sidewalk at the westerly at silver and portions of Rearview Mirror here and we have oh, possible if dpw and then i building a representative from the School District to comment mr. Harry from the department of public works this is a standard sidewalks legislation louis a drop off in front of the willie l. Brown middle school went through the standard calibrations and city planning as approved the task and Fire Department so all the major groups have agreed on the legislation and moving forward to the board any other questions i object to answer them. This is clean and straightforward representative from the School District to make a short presentation thank you, mr. Rooir. Hello. Hello. Are you speaking on this item or in 3789. Cooperative you dont have is a Public Comment. A School District representative. No general contractor give me a minute youll be able to speak. Colleagues i dont know if you have any concerns lets go ahead and open up for Public Comment open up for Public Comment is open people have two minutes to speak and soft chime 30 seconds remaining sir if you want to come up now is your opportunity and again, any member of the public can speak. Thank you, welcome. Im not sure i dont have is a comment noted sure. Are you in favor. Thats a comment wed like to take it thank you. Any other member that want to speech in favor or against this project. Im francisco i filled out my card i think anyone chairs a meeting like this they have to respect the audience or the people who come here following some protocol this is an important issue not to be taken lightly it is a School Millions of dollars have been spent it was an openly and is opening took place 9 of the manners of the americans with disabilities act was in patrolling place we have dpw and some other person didnt know why hes here but essential here and in favor of that so how can we spend millions of Million Dollars of dollars state of the art school the higher principal that apparently jumped ship thats not the point out today, the point is this city has to abide by the americans with disabilities act i was a project manager when i worked at the presidio of San Francisco i took all the classes with at depth of the embroider i know something about it so supervisors thats not take things ashley make comments like straightforward english this is not about english this is about technicalities this is about standards, which leads tomorrows ethics thank you very much. Members of the commission Public Comment is closed. Is clotted colleagues get to motion to i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation thank you very much looks like we have unanimous support so that motion carries unanimously thank you. All right. Marking call u call item 2. An ordinance amending the planning code by the sustainability fee and the transit impact fee and declaring the homeless shelters declarations. Colleagues weve heard this after making several amendments we were required to renotice the changes to the legislation weve been notified by the Planning Department of technical amendments they would like for the committee to clarify a change we made last week we have mr. Corey here joining us from the Planning Department here to speak on that issue corey id like to call you up. Thank you supervisor cowen and supervisors corey with the go planning the president those are not substantive but clarification the formulate in the document handed to you all is the same formulate as the last Land Use Commission hearing ill go through them page and line and i object to answer any questions on page 9 lines 9 to 11 clarified grairt the way the language was drafted whether or not you were begin for gashth action a application was filed before a date or after a certain date as you may know they have multiple application you could have a application breaking and entering to make the language clear the intent that certain projects with application after certain date will not be subject to any grandfathering that is all the language that it does and on page 11 line 6 through 25 and then page 12 lines 6 through 17 we added a new subsection with a fee methodology as you recall you created a tiered fee for Residential Projects essentially a higher fee for any component of a residential project representing the one dwelling unit and above unfortunately, we didnt have a method for the one hundred units and above so the methodology we created a proportional methodology in the dwelling units at one hundred and above 25 percent of the dwelling units the higher rate will be applied to the entire rate for the project that includes thienz lobbies and hallways and other dwelling units essentials we just want the table to support that calculation and made that distinct and not additives so the higher squeegees and rents will pay both rates thats the clarification language and lastly on page 20 lines 6 and 7 we proposed amending the faebd looking at the feasibility by neighborhood and changed that to ear the definition of neighborhood is difficult and different for different people and adams the language to the extent possible im available to answer any questions. Thank you very much thats it on the staff presentation when id like to do is go to direct to Public Comment i see a few people in the audience Public Comment is open a reminder 2 minutes. Public comment . Oh, thank you. Im sorry, i just got the speakers so first up calling names . Thank you. Youre welcome. Good afternoon, members david with the Hospital Council im here again with the members of our council that stated shoulder or shoulder to shoulder unified in our position that the citys elimination and removal of the none for profit hospitals is Public Policy with Kaiser Permanente and Chinese Hospital are dignity and st. Francis and youve heard from c pmc several put if this ordinance is adapted will decrease the resources for hospitals to do their Charitable Giving and spread out and increase the costs of health care for hospitals and their members the commercially insured and retirees and all those categories so we ask that the exception be restored and the ordinance thank you thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors i guess my handwriting is not great abby with the sfrarns hospital im here 0 urge you for a run statement for the hospital transportation together the hospitals in San Francisco serve the majority by far San Francisco residents regardless of their ability to pay we worked together on a lot of the Community Benefits work clgdz the Chinatown Health Fair st. Francis focuses on the health felt residents some of the poorest and most Difficult Health outcomes of the residents in the tenderloin each the hospitals have a very focused Community Benefit work and together we very the San Francisco height partner that has a retreat last week and look at it looked how to improve the health of the vulnerable across the city and reinstate the hospital exemption into the ordinance thank you. Thank you next elizabeth. Hello supervisors elizabeth from kaifrp thank you for having us here i wanted to ask on behalf of the Kaiser Permanente that we reinstate the hospital exemption modern Hospital Construction requires and were happy happy to fulfill that our members have single private rooms within the hospitals your hospital have a larger footprint but not having more patients within the hospitals that means theyre not janitor more trips with more people that is related to the seismic standards and the quality of patient within the hospital as well as the technology load within a patients room is quite substantial all the hospital rooms have large monitor so the physicians and patient can enter fats without the physician making a round of applause there is quite a few of the equipment and a larger room than a previous hospital were in support of Transportation Demand Management Program we support many, many programs within the thank you walking and biking and commuter ride sharers r ryder and other Health Systems chiu our mission bay wire working a Transportation Plan with uflsz and other institutions so we dont create mover traffic in the area i will say on behalf of the cookies would our hospital and our own hospital we keep the exception in thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors im stuart fong at chievens hospital they support the run statements of the unfortunate hospitals in the equipment thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors dee dee workman from the chamber of commerce the chamber of commerce and our partners are really very confront with the legislation as amended in the last Land Use Commission with the exception of removing the hospitals from the charitable exception we feel strongly the hospitals should fall under the charitable exception k exception theyre the grandmother of all Charitable Services provider and as youve heard multiple times give the seismic retrofitting process they have too often stand the sites not expanding the patient load their employee numbers or the impacts on transportation so we feel strongly the hospitals should remain under the charitable exception the charm has been working with a broad range of groups looking for and trying to find new fivengd u fund to renovate, upgrade your Transportation System were a partner but weve supported you know the transportation bonds of l f and other federal, state, and local and taking the which i shouldnt programs is a departure and a bit of a breach of faith we urge you to put the hospitals back in under the charitable exception thank you. So supervisors normally when you get an agenda there is also legislative report and i spoke on one of the items and i got a report of all the legislative reports open every single item if you look at this agenda item it does not go too 0 deep with imperial data i dont know about the nonprofit hospitals but the sutter hospitals owe laugh money to the city billion dollars and that was discussed in this commission so thats not arley take all the hospitals under one umbrella but take to task an organization like the sutter hospital that has failed san franciscans having said that, there are a number of progressions out this that talk about Affordable Housing and when you go in that to look at the blueprints we find for example, linked to producing 5 kind scrapers and you supervisors does nothing of the high density buildings around the embarcadero and thats wrong so i dont we have the the city has we is a have some attorneys i think you all should represent the people because i know our board of supervisors has failed to represent the people of San Francisco. Thank you. We have many matter with the political distributors and distribution of president fullness should be removed from the mediation so clear up with selfnature sincerely of one wisdom with the working resolve the holy meeting of one destiny and selfnature that having a passion of feelings for relationship for the influence one is wisdom of selfnature of the combablts and cultural are part of the nature that could solve a nature of improvement and steps. Is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you for speaking out on this item. First colleagues may i have a motion on the technical amendments by the Planning Department thank you motion and second by my colleagues an unanimous motion that is approved thank you. Is there a motion well, ill back up colleagues, any discussion on the underlying. Supervisor wiener. Thank you, madam chair and i do believe we should put this out of committee but ill raise one clarification before we do at the last Committee Hearing and this for the latter part of it we were voting commissioner avalos voting and supervisor kim and the only issue we voted on where potentially the positions of commenting a different outcome is on the hospital exception a 2 to one i voted to keep it in and so before we put this out i think that would be good to know that accurately reflected the views of the committee fine and if not can i have a motion 0 supervisor kim if commissioner avalos vote to remove the exemption is consistent with her point of view. I think ive expressed at Committee Meeting my concern for hospitals that i think do a lot of medical and charity care and their ability to pay tsif pear for communities that dont have access to care at this time im not prepared to support this amendment i talked with the City Attorney i apologize we called and left a voicemail not able to reach it was this more than he complete thinks to vet the different concepts will work i had a misunderstanding at Land Use Commission an moped that was why a delay i, of course, want to be able to work with the Committee Workers and supervisor cohen and the members. So first place through the chair conceptually to make a motion to reinstate the hospital motion as previously drafted would i vote or noted vote. Ill not feel comfortable at this time. So based on that ill not make the motion but i will make a motion to forward this item to the full board with a positive recommendation for the november 3rd board meeting. All right. Great. Thank you very much motion has been made and second required lets take a roll call vote on this motion. On the motion to remedy the ordinance as amended supervisor kim. Supervisor wiener. Supervisor cohen. Madam chair you have 3ize. This is passed to the representation to the full board of supervisors. Item 3 a resolution commissioners, on that motion interim controls in the transit plan area to restrict the size and height of signs within 200 feet and visual from the existing planning park and to restrict the signs in other areas. Thank you very much supervisor kim is the author of this item and i will give her the mike at this time. Thank you our office is still conducting emotions between stakeholders on this very issue were requesting continuance two week continuance at Land Use Commission and well, thank you very much that sounds great before we vote on the motion lets opening it up for Public Comment any members of the public that want to speak on item number 3 please come up. Okay. So no members of the public. Item speak on item 3 Public Comment is closed. At this time. And colleagues, we can take this motion to continue that item before us to. November 2nd. November 2nd thank you without objection. Art without objection that item passes thank you, madam clerk call items 34 and 5. Ordinances for the Planning Department and zoning map to create the jewish home located on silver avenue and allowing an increase in height with proportion. Thank you commissioner avalos is the author of this item i believe we have legislative aide ms. Shaw. Ms. Shaw from commissioner avalos before you we have to jeopardy plan amendment and the ordinance for the jewish special use district to allow for the expansion of that Residential Care facility in the excelsior located in the intersection of Mission Street and expanding the entire city block it has been serving the frail residents of the excelsior for over hundred years to expand their facilities with living space and other supportive uses weve been pleased with the Community Engagement on this process and worked collaborative with our office and neighbors in order to address the concerns of this type of development and make changes in order to better integrate the facility with the fabric of the neighborhood on Mission Street and along the corridor we hope to have your support so the jewish home can continue to serve the communities most needy and vulnerable both items were heard in august and received a unanimous vote and mr. Chang will answer any questions you might have as well as representatives from the jewish home. I think the next speaker will be tina changing and followed up by daniel from the jewish home is daniel here and ms. Chang. Thank you good afternoon chronicling and supervisors those are the amendments to the general plan and zoning map amendment to establish the jewish home of San Francisco the special use district the subject property coffers 9 acres with 5 buildings the may West Building as shown in the red arrows to be demolished in the instead a construction of two New Buildings the buildings 19 are 200 and 60 thousand square feet in size and providing approximately 200 and 10 Residential Care facility up to two hundred and 45 residents the home will create a square a new development it is buildings on the jewish campus to have a vied variability of uses by membership excuse me. O include medical officers and outpatient and focusing and salons and other centers. The home will provide up to 48 hundred square feet along the Mission Street frontage intended to activate the street to achieve the goals as described it creates a special use that requires a zoning map and planning code text amendment the amendment will simply remove the shading at the subject property for the height one of the zoning map amendments to add a boundary to the ftes as shown by the red doted line. The Second Amendment to 9 maps will include a plan map to the height and bulk where it currently shows a health and bulk of 50 x. And finally the planning code text amendment will add a section to establish the jewish home the sud will allow the nonresidential uses within the district and allow a smaller floor within the special use district the above images are the proposed construction that is the admitting frontage that provides a presence along Mission Street activating and providing existing square feet part of building is set back to better respect the neighbors height and bulk. This last image is the the exist landscaping and is also lower in height to the surrounding residential uses that concludes my presentation. Ill be happy to answer any questions ill be happy to answer any questions. Thank you very much. We dont have any questions id like to invite our colleague up to offer information on this item. Good afternoon. My name is daniel ruth the wanting ceo of the jewish home in San Francisco and held that post for the past 13 years next slide, please my expression of thanks our mission to enrich the jewish and nonjewish other jewish home provides services for over hundred and 45 years and serve the residents and patients on any given day the jewish home is the largest private nonprofit of nursing home care in the state and of the people that we serve on overwhelmingly amount of individuals on the medical program we are rated as a 5 star facility for quality of care the highest possible next slide, please. More many years the jewish home ran into a deficit in 2012 the state cut our medical reimbursements by thirty percent bans our hard work with the state we were successful in 2014 in reinstating our reimbursement rate for medical and residents on a grord basis, however, we were left with an 18 million retroactive liability from the deep cuts that that experience alone underscores the yooush home to respond to the demographic facts and circumstances those include won the tidal wave of aging baby boomers and two the recognition those baby boomers have different need and expectations and demands from the prior generations and prefer to live at home or a residential type environmentalist and 3 the urge need to change the jewish final model to reduce the shining federal and state reimbursements as well unsustainable be levels of philanthropy and had the need to address the seismically challenged and updated centers that doesnt reflect the current standards so what are the results simply stated the proposed project is advances you are mission but allows us to remain in the excelsior district to serve an additional 200 and 48 residents on our campus in addition, we know that many older adults want to remain at home but it means at the suffer from depression and lonelyness and challenging for caregivers to take them to the myriad of appointments throughout the most next slide, please. So we are proposing a revolutionary new model one we call the square to support older adults their family members and caregivers that want to continue to live at home and come to one local to have their social and medical and other needs met, in fact, did muth commissions found our mission will create the accessibility of primary care among the citys growing population next slide, please in short that enhanced assisted living and memory care in the square allows us to better serve a bigger psychopath of members and involves a robin hill model the new uses help to subsidize our medicals residents and better insult the homes from future budget cuts thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Rose presenter our work and service to the community lets supervisor wiener your name is on the roster. Thank you. All right. Lets go ahead and take Public Comment at this time Public Comment is open. Anybody who lives in district 9 and 11 passes by the jewish home and if youre more or less my age it is well known that this institution has done an excellent job whats important for this city to understand is that over 51 percent of our population are seniors and their noting not treated well and the city should look forward to an institution like the jewish home and there are a few others that the private foundations are kate so our seniors special those who are in ssi spend 90 percent of their income on rent and not taken care of. What the Jewish Community has 38 they have rich people i call them rich people who can if they follow the torah can setback monies charity care my family is tied to the Jewish Community they preserve the torah in a particular country for three hundred years so im like some people that think whatever my affection i appreciate what theyre doing for others in extending the health to others thank you very much. 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Im Marlene Norman wearing to hats today, im representing the Vice President of the Outer Mission merchants better known as obama are im Vice President and also worked at the jewish home i he was a social worker on the psychiatrist unit i reassigned but within 6 months i returned to the jewish home to return as a volunteer since ive been doing i have a profound appreciation for the home on the cuttingedge of elderly care with its ma many programs with the alzheimers and units it serves the vunld members of the population im advocating for the proposed expansion of home ive tenant 3 Community Meetings to address the Community Concerns the first meeting was held at the home and substantially representatives came to a general meeting and district 11 would you be able meeting i believe as the home will increases not only the residents population that will always be reaching out to other members for the community including elderly caregivers and in conclusion i urge you to vote in favor the legislative expansion while showing some people are in denial about climatic change of climatic change but no one ca can a say that have not grow in the meeting of those needs thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is Fran Ginsburg and retired nurse sole practitioner and worked for Kaiser Permanente and managed care for Kaiser Permanente members of the jewish home and probably about every other nursing home in the city and daily city i can say personally and professionally that the jewish home is a very special place ive been interested in older folks since i was a younger folk and now im won the way past baby boomer age i can personally is a this is a place that needs to be and needs to grow and although i would prefer to die at home and live my last years in my own house as bruno heights my he next choice is the jewish home thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon im arlene as a Long Time Service volunteer form board chair of the zuckerberg jewish home and now chair the Jewish Foundation im a true believer in the mission and work of the home to enrich the quality of life of older adults our mission is worthy serving the underserved senior population and needed service in San Francisco the campus is up to date we understand the needs for the judiciously home to renovate, upgrade their campus please support this amendment to help insure the jewish home can serve the senior population thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is a dawn im the parrot of anybody church in the excelsior district of San Francisco i as pastor the governor bodies support the jewish home expansion and urge the city to approve approve this important project besides servicing the seniors they also partner with our church and distribute free groceries to those who are insecure in the neighborhood feeding three hundred families every saturday and their incredible partners we urge you from the bottom of my heart to support this jewish home for the entire excelsior neighborhood thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is a steve i didnt the executive director of Excelsior Action Group im here to express the supports for the approval of the general plan in the planning code that allows for the current expansion of the jewish home e a g is a great supporter and we believe that those amendments will allow the expansion of a much needed and supported resource in our community and add more density and aesthetically improve the character of the corridor we have exceeded the standards and expectation we like to regard ourselves as Community Members and support the implementation of the current plan and therefore support the proposed amendments that brings up this to fruition thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, im dixie im and my husband dr. Len walker move forward to San Francisco 20 years ago a retired clinic fist and and a i was a most of the mother of 7 we had rich spiral perhaps at 87 my husband lift the bar but 6 months ago the state present challenges we county foresee and plan for or yield and len has claksdz and end up at the jewish home for a short time and long term care, he saw jewish home as a miracle for our dark lives the administrators are skilled but our advertiser was keep up me husband lived for the physicals therapy in the gym i got to sing high head off around the piano treat him with kindness and good sense of humor do ask me how they do that incidentally im getting used to the sound of tagalog i wonder how many projects youre presented that have as their core motivate plan old fathers service i encourage you to make their plans operational as a baby boomer age thank you. Any other members of the public colleagues Public Comment is closed. At this time and colleagues the item is up for discussion. Supervisor wiener i see your name on the roster. Thank you, madam chair i just want to thank everybody that made this possible and strongly supportive ill anytime it is personal this an institution that served many, many years and all are welcome at the jewish home for the an executive branch jewish clientele a large Jewish Population of seniors cared for huge i humanely and with respect at the intersection institution we know we have a growing senior population with so many needs in terms of making sure that people are getting the care they require to be healthy and have terrific lives and know that families need assistance in caring for the seniors in their lives who when theyre struggling to tell you provide the care at home so the jewish home has been a Wonderful Community institution for so many years and allow to continue and increase the services is it provides i will also is that the aspect of this plan that will allow for seniors who are no did living at the senior home to come to a day i was exist to learn about that practicum we have a lot of seniors at home but sometimes become isolated at home and the more incidents to be in the community to be with other people to be engaged in various activities the healthier theyll be and good for the residents of the jewish home having people coming to spend the day it creates more of a beehive of activity and helps to keep everybody healthier this is a wonderful, wonderful project i sponsoring support it i move we forward items four and five to the full board of supervisors with a with a positive recommendation. Supervisor kim and do you have a few remarks. Just want to concur with what supervisor wiener said im happy to support that this is great to have a health write project to come before us and everybodys support. Thank you very much i too am looking forward to this project and colleagues theres a motion made that i want to specific that items four and five will be forwarded for a Committee Report and seeing no objection that item passes unanimously thank you. Madam clerk call item 6. Item 6 an urgency ordinance approving the interim for the storefront mergers greater than 4 hundred and 99 in the special use district for an additional 10 months and 15 days. Thank you very much supervisor campos is the author of this item and his legislative aide hillary to make a short presentation. Thank you very much today, the mayor and supervisor campos are asking you to extend the interim controls the board passed that will prohibit of mergers that will result in a ground floor greater than 4 hundred and 989 square feet in the quatro special use district were seeking an extension of 10 months and 15 days on saturday our windfall tax the Economic Workforce Development and the Planning Department host a Community Meeting on 24th street to begin to discuss the accept we expect to collect Community Feedback over 3 offices wall street with the Mayors Office and the City Attorney are in the process of drafting the sud we hope to have the proposal to introduce by the end of the year. And moiments the original needs for the interim controls and mergers remain many long term neighborhoods serving businesses in the cult district have been closed because of skoeth republicans and smaller place you are more assessable to Small Businesses we hope youll put in place rules the state law requires the interim controls be for 10 months and 15 days, however, the sud is adapted earlier then those recusal will supersede the interim controls if you have any questions im here as well as Diego Sanchez and i think were i object to answer any questions. Fair market value that is a great legislation and my colleagues dont have any questions ill go ahead and open up for Public Comment any is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak Public Comment is open at this time. Okay seeing none, Public Comment is closed colleagues i dont know if you have any last minute remarks okay there is a motion made by my supervisor wiener to move with a with a positive recommendation. I didnt make that motion. Excuse me. Im sorry. Is there a motion . Anyone . Is there a motion . All right. Thank you very much lets take this with a roll call vote. On the motion to recommend item 6. Supervisor kim supervisor wiener no supervisor cohen thank you. This motion that item passes. Thats 2 is with one no with supervisor wiener is december sent. Thank you very much this item passes okay ladies and gentlemen, why dont we take up items 7 and 8. Item 7 to present finding from the annual balance report and item 89 to receive and approve the first bio annual report. Supervisor kim is the authors supervisor kim anything you want to say new. Thank you. I do want to thank chronicling and the committee for hearing this item today, i first of all, want to acknowledge the hard work the Planning Department i see our director john ram and many Staff Members that worked to collect that data since we passed the legislation in april of this year asking for data to have a better understanding of where the city is at in terms of hitting our goals of increasing the production of Affordable Housing but also where we were at in terms of loss of rental units housing in november of 2014 the voters approved a measure of prop k that said the city should set a goal of hitting 33 percent of Affordable Housing and 50 percent including madam clerk, any announcements . Housing this is not a mandate but a goal we would like to achieve in making sure that many of the san franciscans get to continue to live here and that we can have a difference workforce that can live in San Francisco as well i want to recognize thank you. Next speaker, please. Eagle on from the Controllers Office presenting on citywide income projects i am happy to report in the data to help to understand the impacts to our citys Housing Stock with the affordable and marketrate that helps policymakers to make more informed policy decisions but shows where the impacts are you think what is most striking about the report we read it in july was that we coming into close to our Affordable Housing production at 28 percent over the last event 10 years but were hurt in the loss of rental units housing and to make sure were acquiring existing Housing Stock is just as important as building and providing new Affordable Housing it is expected that certain districts will harbor more the development in San Francisco than otherwise by virtue of the availability of lands or the approximate of transit but regardless of how Much Development in each district percentage wise all district should offer a positive housing balance the production of affordable units surpasses Affordable Housing lost to evictions or to unit being taken off the market unfortunately, the majority of our district here in the city have a negative balance ranging from negative one to negative hundred and 89 percent so we have a citywide 10 year cumulative balance of 15 percent including large projects 20 percent and the balance includes permitted units on top of those that were built i am, of course, very excited to see were building a lot of housing 62 percent being built in this district and complooib with with supervisor cohen districts it is far in the majority im glad to see where we are building the housing a lot of Affordable Housing and, in fact, district 6 is 44 percent of the new Affordable Housing i think that it demonstrates it we have development that the city has work hard to insure that Affordable Housing is a part of any development that is being built and specialist the presence the ellis act that allowed for no fault evictions the report does reveal dramatically where those evictions occur in district 3 were less than 10 percent that has less than 10 percent of the construction that more than double no fault vibrations and district 8 more than triple when we look at where this is occurring the data is quite helpful in helping us understand where we want to target preservation collision so open up to Community Members if none open up to director ram. Director ram. Thank you, john ram with the Planning Department were happy to be here to report on the first essentially the first housing balance im joined write teresa the author of the report shell go into the details and other colleagues and emry rogers from the Planning Department. So then i think you, we thank ted egan for juan you quickly to go over what the housing balance report is and assistant in april as you may know the board passed ordinance 531 an ordinance to the planning code that directs the department to reports on the balances of new marketrate and other heirs over a 10 year period the affordable units to the net unites over that period it requires this report bio annually and the report to be done right away the one done two months ago i believe now were on a regular schedule to the report koimdz comes out in the spring weve discussed the fact that the board will take action after the spring report is out so what is the housing balance target the goal to insure that the data is meeting the take the and informs the approval processes for new Housing Development 3 targets we looked in this report won the Housing Element it, of course, is mandated by the state to be upgraded period a goal of 28 thousand new funds i units within 2015 and the 2022 the rehousing allocation that goals percipients it 57 should be available to low and moderate hours the department sentiments a report to the department of housing. Community development and prepare a report to the Planning Commission based on that goal and the second target is prop k, of course, which was passed by voters last year that set a goal that 33 percent of new units be affordable that is the goal it the housing balance aims for and the third the mayors gallows of thirty thousand set by 2020 with the housing visible to low income and middleincome ill say as supervisor kim pointed out where the parts of city that are seeing the most development are where we are achieving the affordability goals because the Housing Development helped to pay for that and the department is eagle seeing and need to work with mohcd and other agencies on stabilizing the housing and this is an important point in the report kind of guiding us in the work with the Mission Street and hopefully other neighborhoods as we moving forward the stabilization, if you will, the neighborhoods roksz the Senior Development and the need to stabilize the rentcontrolled unit how are you stockbroker with that, im going to turn it over to teresa to go over the details of the report thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is teresa with senior planner with the citywide policy Planning Section ill be presenting on the housing balance details as director wham ram mentioned the housing balance the portion of housing unit to the totals of new hournts over a 10 year housing Balance Period what is the 10 year historical production trend. If we are to look at just new Housing Production and affordable units made up of 29. 7 or thirty percent of the net new Housing Units built in the last 10 period were talking about the Third Quarter of 2005 is to the 2015 this presentation is actually on the second report youve received the housing balance clacks looks at beyond the calculation and the housing balance calculations looked at the choigsz and rehabilitations made and rad and replacement completed rad stands for rental demonstration he essentially the replacement of older Public Housing projects and entitled and permitted affordable units must units reformed from protected status sierra club the rental units are removed under ellis act or the demolition catalytic i have condominium conversion and other no fault evictions the Housing Stock is seen as as proposition for that netted new units built plus net new entitled and permitted units the figures are all for the 10 year reporting period. This presentation covers the second housing balance reports simply for the period we looked at net new oornz stock totaled 4 nine hundred the net affordability shocker is 15 percent the cumulative city balance over the 10 year period the ordinance also requires that the housing balance be calculate for the browns district and by Planning Department direction the slide shows the balances for the board of supervisors district and this range from negative hundred and 89 percent if district 4 to 40 percent in district 5 the negative balances are due to larger number of units removed from protected status relative to the net new affordable units in the howe new Housing Units builds overall district 5, 6 and 10 positive baltz 40, 25 and 20 percent respect the rest of the negative balances. Im sorry can you repeat that one more time you said district 5, 6 and 10. Are positive housing balances. Especially meaning were building and the Affordable Housing units built relative to the Affordable Housing units that are taken from the market theyre more net units built relative to those. If i can say it more simply were building more Affordable Housing than losing so districts 5, of and 10 are building more Affordable Housing than were losing. Thank you. This next slide shows the director of transportation by the Pricilla Chan district those districts by way of are consistent with the boundaries in the housing inadvertent reports again those arrange of balance from negative hundred 25 percent to the rightofway approximately the geography of the board of supervisors district 4 and about 39 in the western edition and in downtown. The ordinance also requires a projected housing balance sierra club net new affordable units as a proposition of the total new units in projects that have received entitlements and yet to receive the building permit. This slide shows the balance is 13 percent the this prolonged housing balance is provided the board of supervisors district and Planning Department levels. So what is not included the housing balance ordinance also specifics that 3 Major Projects have already been entitled but do not yet have Building Permits not included in the projected housing balance altogether those projects will provide about 23 thousand seven hundred net units of which 21 percent will be affordable not included in the projected housing balance are projects currently under review and rad projects that are slated to starts rehabilitation in a couple of months about 12 thousand nine hundred units goodwill review 40 percent are affordable units 70 marketrate projects are a total of 10 thousand 5 hundred units subject to the inclusionary housing requirement at this time we do know how much theyll generate it depends on the option those projects take there are about 15 rad projects in phase one one thousand 4 hundred and 25 we have rrgs rehabilitation to start in december. What are the next steps the department sticks to the bilingual annual reporting schedule and stipulate the housing balance reports couples in the first of mark and september it was will conducted before the board of supervisors and before the first of april of Mayors Office of housing and Community Development the Mayors Office of housing the rent board and the department of building inspection and the city visit will present strategies for maintaining a Health Balance with the citys affordable meeting in april should a cumulative balance fall blow with a determined amount of funding for the city to be in the 33 percent the Planning Departments will create and maintain a website specifically for the housing balance report as required by the ordinance im available to answer any questions. Thank you very much for our thoughtful preservation id like to bring up mr. Had a wood can you do us a favor and gives the highlight why this report is important and what are the key points its trying go to communicate. Happy to Sophie Hayward from the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development thank you for having us here today, the housing balance report is one way to track the citys voter approved dowel to achieve a housing balance as memoriam listed through the prop k we at mohcd are responsible for the code requirement after the issuance of the second report if april im here to do today so out a in Broad Strokes of the work of mohcd for chief of police the goals of prop k were tracking 3 inputs to the formula formula that creates the housing balance and for us as the new Affordable Housing production managing our priming specifically, and, secondly, findings new funds and resources and securing the resources to secure Affordable Housing and third managing or watching and doing our part for the loss of rentcontrolled units so to that end in terms of new production mohcd current Affordable Housing Pipeline Projects the 3 thousand 5 hundred rehabbed affordable units by 2018 those will if i calculate takes the balance have to 26 percent ill work with them online for the eligible accountability and in addition 3 thousand plus 2, 3, 4 predevelopment and thats part of our regular pipeline youve heard that from time to time by way of new funds id like to just take a few moments to highlight two new sources we know of and two potential source of other than first around the sb 107 for 3 thousand units that previously have fallen into the category with no identified funding in addition, we have the new the states cap trade regulations recently eliminated the 15 million jurisdictional cap in the first rounds the allocations it means in the future multi projects within San Francisco, california apply each for up to 15 million in individual award from the cap trade funding we hope that is expedites are production of Affordable Housing and by a way of the two potential source of revenue the ab two, that was passed at the state level were hoping that is favorable for San Francisco were not sure yet but provide you more information as we pull it together a number of criteria that are required in order to secure that funding but were analyzing right now the city at various levels to see how that applies and, of course, the Affordable Housing bonds that railroad on the ballot this november and if this passes 4 hundred more rehabbed or new affordable units. Loss of units is the third category i want to address this is challenging as a city and at mohcd in particular we dont have control over the loss of rental units p we have as a a city and continue to pursue efforts to slow evicts and the loss of those protected units at mohcd well continue to fund the defense programs fully and then well hopefully as you are the tenants rights legislation will slough the loss of protected units were making process in establishing the framework for on Accelerator Fund to focus on the collision of larger rentcontrolled units buildings to remove the tenants and that if i understand will serve as a compliment to the Small Sites Program that seeks to acquire smaller rentcontrolled units. So as i said well provide our formal response in the spring i hope this gives us an approach how we looking at the balances and im available to answer any questions. Thank you. We appreciate the may i have. Got a couple of questions for you. Please. Chair cowen. I talked about ab 2 at the board and incredibly interested what the stating means in Treasure Island we included in the da a were recent to use an increment to go up to other thirty percent that was the original goal of Affordable Housing on the island but i also understand that ab two allows us based on a set of criteria to use tax cements on sensitive blocks maybe less of a question more of an ask or a request that mohcd look at the all the eligible tracks in the works so we can have a map of where we might be able to use this tool in San Francisco and, of course, ive requested that the Treasure Island department are authority to look at how to mohcd tracks our affordability on Treasure Island and great to work with the Mayors Office of housing as well. Absolutely from when i understand this is our preliminary stages how we could potentially use our assess through ab 2 we need to start with the mapping the tracks that includes the tracks that are income eligible and work with on the Vice President s to layer in the data related to the other data. Thank you. Im glad that moh city as working on it is it a high bar given the fact they use the average medium income not San Francisco i know your im is much higher than statewide hopefully, there will be sustained areas we can use is for, and, secondly, im glad to hear about the housing accelerator a huge supporter of the fund and excited to purchase 534 and 6 and in the Mayors Office of housing it is sometimes hard with you realize our only by 5 or 7 units at that time, and have large rentcontrolled units buildings thought San Francisco is it would be amazing to acquire and add those to the portfolio and make a dent in adding to the acquisition im looking forward to hearing about that and the strategies how we start our identify potential sites. Thank you. Supervisor wiener do you have any questions. I have not a question but a comment that is very helpful and you know showing there are way too many vibrations in San Francisco i want to note in terms of the housing balance when you look at the balance by district the supervisorial districts clearly the evictions radio a major factor in the significance of that balance we need intoxicate look at how many affordable units are being built for example in district 8 percent the district i represent that are too much evictions going on and also way too few affordable units being built and what we can see from this report is i think we all have known this that there are certain parts of city it are getting a lot of affordable units built and neighborhood where very little affordable units is being built ive had a lot of discusses with the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development about the fact im via very, very happy a lot of affordable units is going in district 6 thats he terrific and happy were seeing a lot of Affordable Housing in district 10 but also need in district 8 and 9 example and 5 and 4 and all over the city right now we dont center geography graphic equality there are plenty of rebates why were in this place the good thing that political shift everywhere weve surrendering seen around housing many parts of city want Affordable Housing so we need to reduce the number of evictions absolutely but as popular we have to significantly improve the process faster and proceed is it to more parts of city of we reduce the number of vibrations to zero well be in a housing crisis because of the lack of Affordable Housing. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Okay. At this time, well take Public Comment on items 7 and 8. My name is francisco decost i think we really need to look at this issue very, very seriously with the imperial data so we really do not know when it comes to the figures thirty thousand units in this city. Whether we have about three hundred and 84 thousand housing unit in total about our population if it is color to 8 hundred and 20 thousand and when the mayor talks about the thirty thousand units and some people take for granted theyll be units are going to be built in the southeast sector and you include the Public Housing they should be demolished if noted rehabbed anyone that is sensible tells me the infrastructure doesnt work the other thing we throw out the numbers be very, very careful not building in any area that is contaminated and going to liquefaction and flooding and not addressing quality of life ordinances you may think in district of a lot of Affordable Housing but do you all ask the people if their if their suffering from asthma religious percent diseases i would like to remind that this is a lonely lands this is never mentioned and mellone has the inadvertently some people think this is fine to build luxurious units on Treasure Island but theyll suffer from the elements inaudible . Next speaker thank you. Next speaker, please. Please come to the mike. Good afternoon. Im a president of the Richmond Community association and in regards to Affordable Housing it is a major, major issue as you may know in the city and there are many part inside the city that has not contribute and theres a good reason for that the worse part of city is built up and out we dont have the density as most other parrots of city now the new Affordable Housing density plan for example, has an effort to increase Affordable Housing and many areas of the city and in the richmond for example, you as you can see this house picture there are second story what is allowed in the Affordable Housing bonus plan as you may know to increase it stories above what it is designed for. Affordable housing is really important to many of us in the Richmond District we live in the Richmond District we like the reconcile of the district and going online you know about the next door well, i posted this issue about the Affordable Housing Affordable Housing bonus plan and it is interesting to see what kind of comments came up the people who are homeownerships are really concerned oh, my god what is going to happen well loss our backyard or open space and privacy and selfishly Property Values on the other hand, there are other young people who are not established dont have families they could careless they want housing now and some of them with making comments dont to have a manhattan well unfortunately feel we dont have a manhattan transportation and it didnt meet the standards of department that is necessary so well, at the end the affordable bonus plan should be considered other than a case by case situation because otherwise theres will be a tremendous negative impact for some of the districts especially the Richmond District and the Richmond District 75 percent of blocks will have or could have an impact with this plan so i is onesizefitsall thank you. Thank you. Next speaker once the Transit System in chinatown in chinatown most of the well fixture for about most of the departments of housing low, low low income people Affordable Housing and those conditions so terminal just terrible conditions that requires maybe our were not a working scheme but remodeling and more construction involved in the housing structures over chinatown. Thank you are any is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak Public Comment is closed. Is closed for item 7 and 8 thank you. This matter is in the hands of the committee id like to make a motion that item 7 be filed and that item 8 move forward to the full board. A i so moved on both of those. Thank you. Can this motion pass with or without well take that without objection. Okay well take that without objection. Madam clerk any other items before i. No, that concludes our presentation today. Madam clerk, any other business before this committee . This meeting is now adjourned thank you. pyou. As a voter you have a choice on how you can vote you might cast your vote by mail or vote earlier in city hall if you choose to vote earlier youll go to our powell plays might be a church or in regards garage theyll make the voting as uncomplicated as possible yes what does 3 take to be a poll working and what exactly does a poll work working do letting meet some. Aim jack. Im coauthor la. Im tiffany and charles and my name is elizabeth im jeff im bruce hi, im karin a fulltime student addressed city college ive been a pole working for 10 years. For 13 years your 10 or the 9 or 10 years. Those poll workers and thousands are an essential part of election day 31 they provide the safeguarding of democratic processed theres a feeling in the poll place youre a feeling of something that has a special place in the world the democratic process in the United States is model to the rest of the world. Its a relay sequence e sense youre part of that history and being able to keep that going and it is really does feel good. I feel overhead this is a great civil dude and get a different idea. In my residential area i dale feel im Transbay Joint Powers Authority to the community as a wloel in the communi community. So San Francisco poll workers have a Service Based mission the first to protect the voter rights we make sure they understand the rights on the ballot and the right to an essential polling place and many languages around english. Its like someone that didnt know how to read im more happy to help you like ill help you. The second part to serve the voters like workers and language they respect the voter and finally the last myths is offsets the which i see to come to the polling place. This takes a lot of pole working for each election they higher 26 hundred pole workers to staff over 5 hundred polling places this chose 6 senate victories and thousand clerks and high school students. Look at the address of our polling place on line or visit it a day beforehand. Every pole worker has been trained the Election Department holds for one hundred hundred clads a month before the election they vary into one and a half to 3 hours and classes focus on the right to voters including language and other access right for voter and step up polling place and equipment and procedures for voting and vote and mail. The Election Office is constantly streamlining the process so there the good of the training in order to tap into the continuing Better Process in their creating. Pole workers learner about clothing procures like completing the posted ballets and transferring the memory packs and others materials for the traffic officers or deputy sheriff. I like how the training every year improves. So as the inspector the first is all introduce user to the collect and assign them their job cards. A polling place nodes someone to supervisor and that pole working is called an inspector and responsible for that four or five clerks they get hands on experience. Youre also going to be doing other things at 12 oclock and 3 oclock to the inspector needs to hang into this. The inspector makes sure that the polling is smooth and greets people in a way with respect to make sure theyre going to the procedures so not only in the step of that but in the actual process during the day and the process of breaking the equipment down and tab latino making sure all the numbers gets to the sheriffs deputy and to the city and county. Theyre a key holder on election day they wear a i can rove that hat audience this is the voting machine. After the training inspections pickup bottles and other supplies their polling places need on election day. This is for the briefing. Inspectors are responsible for the chain of custody of ballot they sign for the battles and have you ever had your deposition taken transfer it to a deputy sheriffs at the end of the day. Thats one of the things i thought attracted to this to learner about the voting process and knowing that at the end of all this we take great pains to make sure that the routes are secure and save and delivered back to the ballet department. Their seals rewe having to put occupy the equipment and make sure that carry the key it secures the ballot machine so we have to be keen you know id say and areas open on dale what was going on election die when the voter voted if they messed up weve got to void that we have to keep track and get for every step as well as the procedural exponent to transfer the battles at the end of the nicest to the sheriffs detective and the memory card and data make sure those dont get tampa everyday with. Each inspectors manual excludes the cards that lifts different pole workers dudes. Theres one person that sets up the booth and others that set up equipment and again, we follow it step by step. We willfully with such culture diversities San Francisco has many languages spoken everyday to meet of diverse challenge the department of election assigned chinese pole workers spanish speakers to 2 hundred and 17 predicts and filipino to one hundred and thirty predictability and vietnamese and japanese to 7 priblts and theres a lot of chinese speaking people so theres been at least 2 people on staff that speak chinese and really comes in handy. They choose that pen. Id like to say that 70 percent of powell workers come back election after election thats inspiring theyre returning. Many people are glad to see us we know were in the predict we are there in the election before. I know people expect to see me now it is a regular occurrence so oh, youre working this one yeah. Theres a sense of trust they believe in us and theyll be protected. Working as a precinct worker learners about the process. Once you see the process you gain a new respect so ill encourage 80 anyone to get the experience. The department of elections needs new workers theyre looking for new powell its go to sf election. Org the meeting will come to order happy first ever october everyone that is thursday, october 1, 2015, of the San Francisco full board of supervisors please keep the comments down until we start with the Public Comment that is the Public Safety of the board of supervisors our clerk mr. Derrick evans to my right it supervisor campos trust fund is supervisor christensen any announcements mr. Evans devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Thank you, mr. Evans this is a new hyphenated name i want to thank sfgovtv herb and joshua for televising this today mr. Evans only one item on the agendas push item number one is a hearing with the release of the 2015 language ordinance assess ordinance compliance to receive a upgrades on the compliance with the ordinance and requesting the Legal Affairs and other agencies to report. Thank you colleagues flven you is the annual advancing language report thank you it it from the immigrant affairs and staff and all the departments it participated the biggest thanks to the grassroots language assess network for the offer 20 years has been recognizing for increases in bilingual and bio currently staff and better translation serves to the growing population of many people from the parts of world that come to San Francisco but speak english and other languages it is about language equality and equal assess thank you to supervisor campos for his years and years of with work important advancing not only immigrant rights but language equality and services and education as well so let me start by saying that San Francisco language assess ordinance adopted in 2009 was based on on the 2001 equal access to language origins that was pushed by a coalition in oakland and our strong San Francisco assess language requires all public serving city departments to inform limited english people that seek the services of theyre right to request that interpretation or translation and it to translate signs and materials to provide Important Information about the citys most commonly uncommon english, chinese, filipino and spanish to provide the access to the staff that speaks those languages that recent confuse when i read the rights of people to have staff that speak their language to have translation to have notifications of our rights have right in the city this is because of our Grassroots Coalition and is ongoing training within the department and a point person within the department is critical earlier this year we passed a new ordinance read by supervisor tang i p i cosponsored that amendment our administrative code to expand the strength of our go language assess ordinance to apply to all the staffs not just tier ones autopsy departments must provide that service to the public and rice the plan requirements that is nice and neatly summarized by ms. Mondays or popped and her staff prevailing we defined the tier one of the high volume of the interaction with the public and element English Proficiency all others commissions for a term quiet tier 2 departments the new ordinance that report didnt reflect that in the occupying report due tomorrow from each department will reflect the departments complying with the language assess ordinance i want to do is the data in the reports were analyzing do you still have again, the two tiers so it is really the tier one departments that are focused on but in future language assess reports they have agricultural the departments a lot of work for ms. Ponds and the departments but most of us toward stronger language assess to the city spent the consortiums many residents are unaware of our language assess ordinance and terror rights as limited English Speaking populations it there are is a need for more awareness public education, for not only our occ office but the immigrant Services Office but within the language assess network and city departments to educating the clients they serve their rights as limited English Population i wanted to say i think the language assess ordinance reflected moving and keep that in mind the notion of equality not just treating people by only english anthropologies only but equality to look at the specific needs of language no matter population from equally to equality and make sure that all individuals what about reached and realize the resources not only in the occ office but in all city departments to many newcomers communities Language Access is a human right and one of the paths to mooefblg participation in a democratic furjs city to relieve the lack of language assess our priority to take priority since the implementation of our ordinance occ has provided annual reports from my understanding from the 2001 ordinance their supported to give this information to the Mayors Office it has been established and federal, state, and local to insure outline citizens have access in 2001 we were fighting the english only from prop 87 to 227 our visionary assess ordinance was about bilingual staffing in the citys downstairs were focusing on certified staffing and other Police Department that may not be certified by still speak various language your immigrant population understand it is also come to the attendance i want to thank victor and others for their work through the attendance with the discussions with the Community Members that i think we need more engagement from the office of Civic Engagement and as far as theyre concerned, important the explanation of multi lingual communities in the hiring of bilingual and certified bilingual staff today we begin our hearing from the office of immigrant affairs the language assess network has a rep that followups and then a number of communities testimonies during Public Comment but we also have a number of city departments handpicked. Bob because theyre good examples of the work in their department with that, id like to ask if any of any colleagues have any opening comments i see none ms. Pond is the director of the immigrant affairs and fold by the chinese for affirmative action and is Language Network as well ms. Pond. Thank you supervisor eric mar and supervisors joining me sarah our Society Director of policy assess we wanted to start by saying thank you for your leadership and commitment and our immigrant population in San Francisco i know youve had a busy morning with some issues that are important to everybody and i just want to say thank you to you for your continuous working on this this chart shows our first slide oh, we have to wait until it comes on language diversity in San Francisco this is a at some point for you have what it looks like for our language population in San Francisco nearly half of our residents speak a language other than english at home and one in every 4 residents