It will likely increase the cost of doing business though, which is problematic because uber and lyft have never been profitable. Ubers legal officer says they negotiated in good faith, and their offer gave driver access to sick leave and injury protection among other things. Establishing for the first time ever, a guaranteed minimum running standard that would provide stability for drivers while allowing them the flexibility to earn more and to work whenever, wherever and for whomever they choose. West said the vast majority of the drivers dont want to be employees, and they are disappointed that lawmakers couldnt reach a compromise. If Governor Newsom signs the bill, which he is expected to do, it will go into effect in january 1 of 2020. The bill creates exemptions for dozens of businesses. Now lyft highlighted that in this statement saying the fact that they were more than 50 industries carved out of ab 5 is very telling, we are fully prepared to take this issue to the voters of ca
Transportation committee for monday, september 16, 2019. Im the chair of this committee, aaron peskin, joined by vice chair supervisor safai and to my left, supervisor haney. And were joined by supervisors fewer and mandelman. Our clerk is erica major. Any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speakers cards to be included as part of the file be given to the clerk. Supervisor peskin could you please read the first item . Item number 1 is ordinance amending the plumbing code to delete the local amendment to the california code referring to the San Francisco Public Utilities rules and regulations and Cross Connection control, affirming appropriate findings. Supervisor peskin thank you. Are there any representatives from the department of building inspection or the San Francisco Public Utilities commission who want to speak to the fact that we are going to continue this, because apparently, those two organizations have not yet c
Today. Im available if you have questions. Supervisor fewer any questions or comments . Supervisor peskin could you remind us of your name . Katy sherping. Supervisor fewer you mentioned many of the permits being streamlined. Which ones are you streamlining . The legislation that was signed last week did a number of things. I may not have them all off the top of my head. It reduced some of the duplicate inspections that would happen. If you did a buildout and apply for an entertainment, you would have to do that again. So that goes away. There are other areas where we updated our health code for example to be more in line with state health code around when restrooms are required to be accessible for patrons. This expands opportunities for businesses to, for example, have like a small coffee cart or Something Like that without having to provide a restroom for their customers. There were a number of other pieces of this legislation. The piece that was talked about most in the commission
Definitions for drinking and eating uses in the planning code and it was reduced to three. It was based on alcohol consumption. A bar owning alcohol. And a limited restaurant, no alcohol. We were able do this because the city had adopted controls which made the different layers of restaurant definitions unnecessary. So we had definitions that said, if you serve in disposable cups, youre this kind of restaurant. If you order at the counter, youre this kind of restaurant. We simplified that to three basic things. For those in controls, we left the fullservice restaurant the same, but permitted limited restaurants without alcohol, through most of the city and obtained existing prohibition on neighboring retail and commercial districts through that. So recently we developed our cb3 process, which is community, processing program. For qualifying businesses, it requires conditional use authorize, hearing date in 90 days, placement on the consent calendar. No guarantee they stay on consent, b
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