In 2007 when i retired for my 35 year career in Investment Real Estate i met my friend phil tang saying i want to get more involved in Government Services oh was initially appointed in the fall of 07. From that point on it was a complete roller coaster. As you know we entered the initial downturn and the number of appeals went from 1000 to less than 2000 year at the assessment appeal board one by dan to ran up to 5000 appeals in 21 201011 could swipe witnessed the actions of the board and don durrant and the Assessors Office under phil tang and no carmen chu and chief appraiser matt thomas as well as the board and the additional board three to accommodate the dominantly homeowners in the evening with their appeals and all of us about to make dramatic changes in how we became more efficient, more knowledgeable andcapable particularly at the Assessors Office coming before the board. Im an opportunity to do that as well as interpret the revenue and taxation codes board of equalization, as
Disruptions of any kind. Proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antonini commissioner moore and we commissioner richards is present and we expect commissioner johnson to be absent. Did i call you commissioner hillis. Thank you commissioners, the first item on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance at the time of issuance we have no items proposed for continuance, however, just minutes before the hearing he received a request from the dr and to continue item 15 for case a discretionary review they just asked it be continued to the next available hearing he discussed february 11th theyre in agreement to that dates the one item proposed for continuance. Okay any Public Comment on item the one item proposed for continuance . I dont see any Public Comment is closed. Commissioner antonini and move to continue item
Amended and approved by the full board by supervisor wiener and taken discussion on that 1st amendment by supervisor yee. Supervisor katy tang no comment on the amendment. Supervisor cohn . Supervisor malia cohen you mentioned there were not many units in an rh 1d zone. How do you know that and if you can identify your source . Just from a few conversations i have had and i do not have the data on that. Is there a particular staff that i can follow up with to find the answer . No. Okay. Thanks. Supervisor avalos was next . Supervisor john avalos i took my name off the roster. Do we want to vote on the amendment. Discussion on the amendment. We have two amendments offered by supervisor yee. Lets go with that amendment now. Supervisor kim . Supervisor jane kim thank you. I want to speak on the amendment before us. I sympathize with the amendment that supervisor yee moved forward. We did get a few emails from others from regarding rh 1d to remove this from legislation. I dont spupt at sup
What i dont want to do as i want to echo, we want to legalize units. If they think this is a pilot that is going to end in 2 weeks or a year, they may not want to get involved now. We want to make it available in the market ofn terms of whats permissible. Im open to that if you would like to see that happen. Supervisor yee . Supervisor norman yee i want to thank you for that offer. My main concern is for the project to have a real check in to see what is we are having. Thats why when i say 50, depending on the motivations of individuals who are in this situation. It could happen in 2 months or it may not happen for 10 years in terms of people wanting to take advantage of this legislation. If supervisor chiu can do check ins, im willing to withdraw my amendment. Supervisors campos . Supervisor david campos thank you. Its been a very interesting discussion. I want to thank supervisor chiu and yee for all the work gone into this. I do support this legislation. Let me say that i support it
Regarding rh 1d to remove this from legislation. I dont spupt at support that because i dont believe there is a reason for this legislation. If we were able to get an actual physical reason, policy reason about the type of Residential Housing that makes it difficult for them to legalize it would make sense. This is purely coming from a motion that the neighborhood would like to see and i think its completely reasonable for supervisor yee to make that request on behalf of the residents that he represents. I think thats where that comes from. On the second motion that supervisor yee has moved forward i do plan on supporting a Pilot Program. I actually appreciate the work that has gone into a path way to legalize in law units. Its something that has vexed the city for decades and its clearly a source of income for many Single Family home owners and d, a source of affordable units here in San Francisco. However, i have a lot of concerns about the legislation that is being introduced in hav