Reports were presented to you, in 2010, the public Advisory Community there was unanimous support for the program. This program, the south story ordinance actually was brought to you first four years ago today. You wonder why it has taken many of us wonder that as well. It was actually four years ago today that the report hear today hear tomorrow was brought forth to you. There is caps has evolved into esop the Earthquake Implementation Program which is a 40, excuse me, 30year program. The soft story ordinance is the first step in that. It is the low hanging fruit. This is where we get the biggest bang for the buck. This is going to be the easyist and cheapest of the problems to solve and we will look forward to your support in the other efforts on the esup program as well. But i strongly encourage your support on this. Thank you commissioners thank you, thank you for all of your service, so far. Next speak ner good morning, it is char on short with the housing rights committee. This o
I strongly support and urge action on this to support the mandatory retrofit. The category of great risk at hand is the earthquake, but more importantly is the risk of not taking action. Timely action, because what we have here is a land mine. What we will have when that land mine goes off is going to be great damage. The damage to both social, cultural and economic, the categories of our neighborhoods are the most vulnerable within this spector of disaster and it is not just what basically will effect the neighborhoods, but also the economic recovery. Because, the ability for people to go back to work is basically the ability to live where they live and if not, in their neighborhoods, and if not, the neighborhood support services, the cafes the restaurants. Those that they basically within the walking distance of their neighborhoods would continue to support. I urge action on this, the action is never too late if it occurs yesterday, but the em pending earthquake is coming at this mom
Urgency there is, i fully support this program. And this mechanism which we have wrestled with for a long, long period of time. So i wonder if you could talk about any kind of movement that we have in helping the building owners with these up grades in a way that does not negatively effect the affordable and the pass through to tenants. Absolutely. One of the things that the commissioner requested of me that we do out reach in a few areas. Out reach to the tenant community to figure out what their issues are. And the Property Owner and more importantly to out reach to the finance mechanisms to find out that there is an affordable component to pay for this. We are not taking a one size fits all approach to all sides fit all. It has complications which you know about. The idea is to create a comprehensive menu of financing options. So what we have done is engaged several private lenders and most of them Credit Unions and banks and they have all come forward with the intent to establish t
Now the banks have agreed to come forward to create the mechanism to refinance their property to be able to pull out the additional funds for construction because of the loan to value ratio that is a problem and there is also the availability of doing a secondary loan to access these funds and a gamut of other options some of these buildings are considered historic and so we are working to access the funds to be able to stream line that process as well as our Public Financing component which will be a discontinuing inaudible district and it is similar to the Green Financing in the city it allows the loans to not only be associated with the individual but with the property. If the property changes hands, the length of the loan stays with the property. Whereas it stays with the individual. The idea is that there are other options the idea being is that we want to give as many option to people as possible and have a year to vet these programs before people need to actually access these th
Again, a lot of thanks is due to the people in our code advising committee and a lot of people who have worked on this for many, many years and for some of us on the commission as long as we have been on the commission we have been talking about it. It is overdue and i am support of it as well. I am just concerned with a couple of things maybe that some of the legislators have not discussed and if they have, maybe they could let us know about it. One was we know that a lot of the buildings the main part of the construction is going to take place on the ground floor where it is mostly parking garage and things like that. But we also have some Small Businesses that occupy some of these spaces. And so this located a Small Business where there is a bar or a restaurant even for six months or a year, that is the depth of their business. They cant just go away and come back. And expect everything to be all right. So i was on wondering if there was any relocation and funding and something that