They appeared together for the first time as democratic running mates. Let me introduce to you for the first time your next Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris. And joe, im so proud to stand with you. I do so mindful of all the heroic and ambitious women before me. Biden and harris both outlined their vision for the future. Drawing sharp contrasts between their ticket and President Trump and attacking his response to covid19. When other countries are following the science, trump pushed miracle cures he saw on fox news. Biden also acknowledged the historic nature of their campaign. This morning, all across the nation, little girls woke up, especially little black and brown girls, who so often feel overlooked and undervalued in their communities. But today, today just maybe theyre seeing themselves for the first time in a new way. Harriss Vice President ial candidacy also putting a spotlight on california. Governor newsom reflected on what the harris pick means to him as a
Equity review this project has been delayed to undergo reviews for five years now and im concerned that the equity impact of those delays is not even being considered at all because every day that this project gets delayed and more housing is not filled and these 1 billion in Community Benefits is not paid to the city, its a day that people will not live with shelter and the city will face a budget crunch. Furthermore, i want to ask the board of supervisors as we look through racist planning, why i havent seen proposal to up said the west side westportal Saint Francis wood, these are white and exclusionary neighborhoods with Single Family zoning right next to money munitations that e you in the train in 15 minutes. As we look a lot i support the removing the central free and it should be a part of this broader shift towards equity and planning and zoning. Thank you. You will be notified you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Caller hell oh i would like to express my sup
We do as a city, as you all know, have an obligation for affirmatively fair housing. This developers have bottom lines to deliver for investors. They can be pressured to provide affordable minutes to make concessions regarding labor practices. At the end of the day it is this balance and this discussion that is at the heart of whether we are furthering fair housing or not. When we are having the neighborhood around 80 of the units unaffordable to working class units disproportionatesly available to white folks. We are taking steps backwards. I appreciate your work on this. We are in a point of urgency on so many fronts. Thank you for your time put into this. I appreciate it. This is one of the most robust discussions i have had and i want to thank Planning Department staff for signaling a new direction. Thank you, miriam and your colleagues. I want to say a couple things. One of them is a policy desire. I think it is low hanging fruit. I mentioned it earlier. Historically when we wante
Working on planning trees as volunteers, you are part of different boards or different organizations ar advocating for trees and we are the end of the line at board of appeals. We dont make policy. We consider whether or not they issue permits that the city has put in place have been properly followed. Thats really where we are and so working with your supervisors organizing quite frankly, to make this remain a priority, obviously theyre taxed to with the covid19 response so being respectful and tactical and strategic about what you are advocate forgeron that being said, the Climate Crisis continues and other things continue as covid19 might be in the forefront so keep organizing and keep working with the board of supervisors and put your treasure there for legislative change and fixes that can help. Folks like mr. Buck and others to have the tools and resources they need to implement the policy thats will hopefully protect our can may and grow our can pee in the long run. I hope we wo
U process, i believe that we also could have some discretion in how quickly we would process that perm mit permit removed. Im going to refer to the Zoning Administrator on this. the tenant issue is always chachallenging because obviously its allowing it out side the purview of the code. If its not legalized if it is required to be removed and theres an existing tenant that does become an enforcement situation if we have an unauthorized unpermitted unit that may have life safety deficiencies. We generally want that unit to be vacated. Aobviously theres challenges with an existing tenant. We want to be open to options there. We dont have an open ended option to allow residency in an unauthorized unit and it may be something that the City Attorney wants to speak to further in terms of this issue and conflicts between our codes and other City Ordinances relating to renting units and occupancy. commissioner johnson. one second. I thought i heard them asking what happens if we do approve thi