Health and wellness with things like traffic calming so some of the studies for the first serve those are overall urban forest estimates as a Capital Asset in the city the city trees if we replaced them will be 1. 7 billion each year the trees give back benefits to the city and theres an estimate theyre responsible for one hundred percent of the Property Values so this you know one of the things that San Francisco is a top list of the world stresses but many of the citys trees we have a lack of green trees as the supervisor mentioned we have one the lowest canopies of street trees in the United States in addition the trees are not disabled city council throughout the city there are neighborhoods with less neighborhoods the dictate end neighbors neighborhood theres an interesting greening equality in planting new trees so with all those things were working on the urban forest plan this is a partnership between the Planning Department public works and weve been in talks with the rec and
Urban Forest Council this is the product of many many months of work and is really overdue because the city is in desperate need of as supervisor wiener seven hundred we need a road map in dealing with the street trees one of the most important recommends is the sustainable Funding Source for street trees in San Francisco history of street trees in San Francisco is very long and very 2r0ub8d because it supervisors board of directors has given money prefixing and taken away money this is not the way to take care of urban trees they need to be taken care of i strongly recommend the supervisors endorse this plan. Thank you. John im on the board of friends of urban forest and want to thank you for having this hearing and urge you to approve this plan and recommended to the board of supervisors for passage as youve heard as you introduced and youve heard from the speakers trees add a tremendous value to our community add Million Dollars of value and improve the quality of life the promotion
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 homeless shelter controls to allow the emergency of homeless shelter as a right meaning without required public hearing in
Commissioner johnck pr commissioner matsuda and commissioner pearlman. Commissioners first on your calendar t is general Public Comment. At this point the public may address the public with respect to jound agenda items your opportunity when be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission up to 3 minutes. I have one speaker card Richard Rothman, please. Good afternoon, commissioners im Richard Rothman im back here again talking about the building at the zoo. They opened the childrens playground there so the building is now assessable and hopeful that that will be opened up and the next thing the recreation and Parks Department put in a grant for the Historic Preservation commission for the rec and park and the zoo society to do a study to see how much it would cost could renovate the building and i would hope this commission would ask the staff to send a letter of support to the Historic Preservation Commission Fund committee in
Francisco variable again. The key element missing is transit its not in the drawing. When you look at the sfmtas overhead one more time. Thank you transit in the next 25 years there are lovely diagrams but they ignore the sunset area if all the money is going downtown whats happening the transit in other areas and one last one they talked about the february 4th accounting meeting will estimated transit trips to motorbike our quality of life. In order to correct this youve got to get the trains and the car traffic flipped in the amount of uncle and thats only by solving it through mass transit. And it has to be taken in the next 5 years. So thank you thank you is there any further Public Comment. Are there any other items for us no item 10 adjournment. Thank you everyone else for this meeting today. Meeting welcome to the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission Regular meeting. For wednesday, february 5, 2014. Please be aware that the commission did not trotter any disruptions an