Rip that thing down. And by the time thenstate senator quentin kopp transferred the property to the city for one american dollar, willie brown was mayor. And there was a little neighborhood fight about what we were going to do with those parcels. One was going to be a police station, one was going to be a butterfly museum, one was going to be Affordable Housing. I am pleased to say that today, they are all Affordable Housing for the city and county of San Francisco. That is remarkable. [applause] supervisor peskin now, it is true that i wanted this site, even though my friends at the Barbary Coast neighbors disagreed, i wanted this to be a temporary navigation site. But the mayor and i and supervisor haney have teamed up to find one not so far away. And i also want to agree with the mayor that Affordable Housing is actually not that affordable, and we all know the numbers that we just saw, the homeless count. And its just not San Francisco, its portland, seattle, and los angeles, conti
State owned land. The legislation were considering today is a sensible expansion of the planning code that will allow for Farmers Markets to seek authorization to open on other public facilities, such as city and state owned lands. We currently allow intermittent activities like Farmers Market at hospitals and postsecondary institutions and its surprising we dont allow them on other Government Owned Properties like the d. M. V. Parking lot on baker street. The Farmer Market has contracted with the d. M. V. , but it could not make the move under current zoning. Making this change today will allow the market to expand and serve the interests of the residents of district 5. The Pacific Coast Farmers Market association is a good neighbor. And theyve created markets that are accessible to all. Every vendor at this market accepts snap benefits and the market managers are considered members of the community. This move and expansion theyre proposing has the full support of the northern of the
Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the july 22, 2019, meeting of the rules committee. I am supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Seated to my right is vicechair shamann walton, and seated to my left is rules Committee Member gordon mar. Our clerk today is victor young. And i would like to thank the staff for staffing this meeting. Clerk please make sure to silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Completed copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted items acted upon today will appear on the july 30 supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Chair ronen thank you so much. Can you read item number 1. Clerk item number 1 the to the clerk. Motion approving rejecting the mayoral nomination for the appointment of Eduardo Santacana to the board of appeals, for a chair ronen thank you so much. Mr. Santacana, come on up. Thank you for the opportunity to be here today. I am honoured to be nochl nateded to serve
And id also like to thank samuel williamses and high Maya Hernandez from sfgov tv. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 30 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Great. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Summerall. Can you please call item number one . Item number one is a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending november 30, 2018, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. There are two seats and two applicants. Great. We have two applicants, unless there is any initial comments from Committee Members. Lets hear from mr. Scott patterson first. If he is ok. Great. Please come forward. Hello. Thank you for having me here today. Im Scott Patterson, candidate for the Ballot Simplification Committee. My family traces its roots in San Francisco back to when they immigrated from italy in 1881 so weve been around for a long time. Ive been a member of the faculty at San Francisco State University as a professor of broadcast and electronic Communication Arts for o
Applicants. Were concern that they may not be able to get bank loans and would be great if the city budget could include lowinterest loans for these businesses. Thank you very much. Any other members of the public who wish to speak on item four, please come on up . Hi, my name is wolfon im with the chineseamerican democratic club. I respectfully ask to reject all recommendations coming from the task force. It has been over a year of activism thats come of the neighbourhood and none of these recommendations come to support or address the needs of the neighbourhoods. I find that somewhat i nienlds offensive. I find that very offensive. Since the last time ive spoken in front of the board ands in front of planning, two and a half months has passed since theres been a lot of people thats reached out to me. Two of the top concerns that i have heard is cannabis grow within homes, rentsed homeswr and i respectfully ask that everything from the task force be rejected until there are resolution