He maintains the responsibility for the trees we still have maintenance responsibility well be able to increase the number of street trees one the challenges if the Property Owners are responsible for the long term maintenance of trees theyre in many cases reluctant to plant the trees outside their property that is hard for the friends of the urban forest to help grow the trees back over to john. So the plan that you received has 4 colloquy e key recommendations a number of strangles but the 4 key recommends summarized the plan and the first recommendation is to maximize the benefit thought you uttering we want to celebrate trees as performing those valuable services so can we select the trees for their stormwater a can we plant trees near freeways to help with the air quality in the neighborhood and maximize the trees in the city thats a drawing that was done by a is Landscape Architect student that proposed planting 50 thousand trees to sequesterer the trees next to grow the trees by
Discussions and items were there were conversions often from housing to that use or maybe sometimes, it was not a housing use it might not another use but there were situations weve been reticent to grant this situation were allowing under is a difference between new construction and conversion the results are the same youre having medical officers o offices on the upper floors it makes sense to be able to have enough space it have our entire operations on different floors that was a one reason i brought that up for the benefit of the public there was and then earlier approved project at the same location that included 4 locates on the third and fourth floor the sailing sale is dead its not before us anymore by i just wanted to bring that up because i think we need to look at 0 Global Policy on what we want to do with the upper floors i think we center to be a little bit more welcoming of the medical or office uses on upper floor where their conversions on the upper floor im perfectly
Commissioners might have about the design. Thank you. Well take Public Comment first if we have questions well bring you back up any Public Comment on that item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed commissioner antonini. Yeah. Thank you. I was the one that brought it off consent i think it is a wonderful project im a health care person im very, very supportive but im trying to establish our policy is in regards to medical for office uses on upper floors of commercial districts weve been through a lot of discussions and items were there were conversions often from housing to that use or maybe sometimes, it was not a housing use it might not another use but there were situations weve been reticent to grant this situation were allowing under is a difference between new construction and conversion the results are the same youre having medical officers o offices on the upper floors it makes sense to be able to have enough space it have our entire operations on different floors that was a
Okay. Once the door closes which i think it is okay. Item 4. Okay madam clerk call item 4. Admiting the recession and open space element. Okay. Im the sponsor of item number 4 this legislation all the times the general plan and sets the citys Long Term Strategy to make sure the stunt of our streets keep part of our urban forest this plan, which is exciting were moving forward with it is long overdue and longterm in the the making i want to commend the department of public works and for the thoughtful and deliberate process that processes this document the plan was supported by the Planning Commission and the urban Forestry Council it is a key component of our uttering and key to our healthy environments and our quality of life and have an estimated 5 hundred and plus street trees they remove pollutant from our air and water and confer millions of dollars to and city sadly many of the trees are not in good shape and San Francisco ranges low for the canopy coverage this is unacceptable f
The committee to my left is supervisor cohen our vice chair jane kim will not be joining us today shes been called into jury duty your clerk is andrea ashbury and i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting todays hearing jonathan and the others. Madam clerk, any announcements . All electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 2nd, 2015 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Call item one. On ordinance to define homeless shelters. The mayor is the sponsor we have the Planning Department to present following by mr. Duffy. Good afternoon. Supervisors im kim the planner with the San Francisco Planning Department today is an ordinance amending the controlling for homeless shelters it was unanimously recommended approval by the Planning Commission on december 18th this ordinance will bring San Francisco planning code into experience with the state law regarding the hom