Examined and items 34 through 36 reverse the items. Both sides have agreed to continue until our december 9th meeting to board of supervisors. Supervisor farrell is proposing a motion to continue this to the go ethnic of december is there a second second by supervisor kim any Public Comment on this item . Anyone who wants to comment on the substantive meter seeing none, Public Comment is closed and on the motion to continue colleagues well take that without objection. Those items are continued until the ninth of december items 37 through 40 for interested parties for the Planning Department determination that the proposed project it categorically exempt if the california quality act and the motions to reverse the determination and the preparation of finding. So the appeal has been withdrawn out of the need to follow process let me open up the hearing for seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And could i have a motion to affirm the determination. Motion that i supervisor avalos and sec
Wide universe of Small Business owners who have not evicted anyone at all so thats where the southern i have in terms of the Hotel Conversion ordinance the sros see those sros as i understand are typically opposed their Large Properties typically those are significant Property Owners those are Business People this applies to any building of 3 units or more in other words, a lot of smopdz that live at that tha in their building to subject the homeowners to hire an attorney and potentially pay the oddss foes and subjecting the sros to that kind of liability and in terms of litigation and i you know, i before being elected to the board i spent 15 years as a litter our doing trillion work for almost a decade as the City Attorneys Office and prior practice so i spent a lot of time in court and dealing with the attorneys fees two things number one there are it is not uncommon at all for courts to award Attorney Fees bans small judgements and violations of the law that were not extraordinaril
By the way, this is not going to happen this amendment will not architectural gate that further but provide the opportunity for a narrow group of both targeted xochlt and also nonprofit organizations and i know that the amendment to make sure it the nonprofit in existence for six years helped to secure the universe of actors that will be able to take advantage of this amendment and i think we know who a lot of those actors are and we have seen very responsible litigation that goes against our worse actors and finally, i would say that you know, i really struggled a lot with this legislation not because i didnt want to legalize shortterm rentals but everyone agrees that legalizing shortterm rentals is the right direction for the city and if i dont i think as supervisor wiener said the jean i didnt say out of the bottle we have to regulate this my concern is also been about b be the cities enforcement of the legislation to make sure were supporting the positive activity out of shortterm
We have the Planning Department Ann Marie Rogers who is here to talk about how we currently apply the cu for folks who want to have a bedandbreakfast type of business in their home how often we actually approve and what are the rare instances we dont sea the types of conditions where the Planning Department didnt approve the cued. Thank you skoopz Planning Department currently before the Residential District other than the rh1 d you can seek the authorizations to become a hotel this is subject to the requirement the dwelling the process can take time but the quickest the is probably about 4 months with the anytime fee for a conditional use authorization is less than 2,000 despite the complaints weve received for shortterm rentals informing people the process most people dont choose to pursue that that i abate the violation we had one that was approved at the Planning Commission. It was. It was correct. Thank you so for the purpose of my amendment is really to show were incentive vision
The rules in place if you want this benefit we also want to confer to you it is fair you do what every business 40 in San Francisco does pay the taxes you owe the city. Colleagues are there any further discussion supervisor avalos. Just wanted to go into the the amendment i offered for a long time its been the process for people who have space in their houses they want to provide for people to stay in they would have restrooms or with the technology we have that around provides or b rb o i think thats their name that there is another possess process that brings in shortterm rentals and people staying for short periods of time but over the course of a year occupying precious space for a long term tenant im proposing a cap of 90 days so it person can have an option to have a shortterm rental that adds up to 90 days or a permanent tenant and rules in place for people that want to go into the Hotel Business or the bedandbreakfast business to apply for a cu to have people stay longer than t