Good afternoon, and welcome to the january 14th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call roll call. Thank you, mr. President. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of the San Francisco government tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . I have known to report, mr. President. Great. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from the november 21st, 2019 special Board Meeting and a november 21 st, 2019 regular Meeting Minutes to the budget and finance Committee Meeting which constitutes a quorum of the board of supervisors. Are there any changes for these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Motion made by supervisor mandelman and seconded
So moved. Second by supervisor walton and if theres a no objection. Then supervisor ronen is not in the chamber. Im suggesting a roll call. Supervisor yee can i have a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion not to disclose, supervisor preston. [roll call] there are 10 ayes. Supervisor yee ok. Motion passes. Could i have a motion to file this closed this agenda item. Made by supervisor peskin seconded by supervisor safai. If theres no objection, can we take the same house same call. No objection, then motion passes. Madam clerk, please read the memoriams. Clerk todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf of supervisor mandelman. For the late mr. Hampton smith on behalf of supervisor haney, for the late mr. Marco jostalano and on behalf of supervisor peskin and stefani, stephanie laziochincota. Supervisor yee that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . Clerk that concludes our business
President yee good afternoon. Welcome to the january 21, 2020 special meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, will you please call the roll. Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. Yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee so, on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, jessie and james. Who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report today, mr. President. President yee okay. So i want to thank all the Board Members for being here today. This is a special m
Their conflicts of interest. The Party Sponsor is disingenuous. In their brief they say, please note that none of our scope of work would have been properly allowed if the proper procedures had been followed. None of these violations would have married had the violations not been caught and proper permits obtained. That argument can be used for any violations forced to get a new permit documenting all corrections to existing violations. Should any accommodations be given to project sponsor . Project sponsor claims financial and construction challenges to this unit. They also request a variance to the front and rear yards. Are there any exceptional circumstances that warrant giving of some accommodation to project sponsor . Project sponsor caused his own hardships. No one else is to be blamed. What is to be approved . The proposed plans dated from october 24 are compliant with the Fire Department as presented by planning staff. Thats what the staff report says. Add four wet sprinkler he
Particularly in terms of the health of the commercial corridor toward, the fact that retail is changing and that 340 square foot, that is tiny, but we want that. We want to be able to use that. This would be a legally approved project and along with the sign approval so we would use whatever permits would be associated with it and we would be signing it off. We have opportunities for the Building Permit and this decision by our commission. Either way. Did you have further . No. I sure commissioner melgars concerns and i things we should be doing whatever we can to support retail. I would second the motion but would also make a comment it feels like some additional legislation is necessary to get staff a little bit more discussion in this area under circumstances like this so it is not a oneoff going forward, but the size of of the cost the retailer seems out of whack with what the benefit from what the city would get from a smaller sight. I second the motion. The motion is to approve t