Supervisor tang, thank you for waiting. Thank you. Ill be very quick. Today im introducing a piece of legislation that really seeks to address the issue of commercial vacancies here in San Francisco and it really builds upon the work of the vacant abandoned building ordinance that is currently in existence that was passed by this board in 2009 by introduced by supervisor david chiu. We found that there have been issues when were trying to address the issue of vacancies when there are buildings where there are commercial spaces below and residential spaces above. So, weve been working very hard with dbi and stakeholders to make sure that we address this in our current existing ordinance and so, i do want to thank the stakeholders and look forward to working with our city departments to ensure that we cannot only better track these vacancies, but also provide them these businesses or Property Owners with better city resources to help them either for vacancies or attract new businesses to
This mitigation measure requires reliance on resource agencies with no evidence that they have the Staff Resources or commitments to comply with that mitigation measure. As you know a lot of Government Agencies are underfunded these days. The fish and Wildlife Service is no exception. They have an extraordinary amount of federal obligations under the endangered species act and not enough sources to implement them and dr. Beah lerted the park and Rec Department about this potential concern in october of last year. In response, the rec and Park Department has been claiming that the fish and Wildlife Service is in fact a Partner Agency in the approval of this process and suggested through both commissions, the rec and Park Commission and the Planning Commission, and now before this board with some of the materials that have been submitted by their department, that the fish and Wildlife Service has already looked at and approved mitigation measure 2b. On march 19th, a series of several env
Supervisor who normally sits at rules committee could not be here today, but i know that we are still joined by our cosponsor for this hearing, supervisor avalos. We would like to acknowledge sfgtv who will recording meeting and make the transcript available online. Id like to recognize bill dilan and greg burk. Madam chair, are there any announcements . Yes. Please complete speaker cards as part of the file that should be submitted to the clerk. Thank you. Can you please call item number 1 . Item number 1, hearing on the recent navy closure of additional areas of potential radiological contamination on Treasure Island. Thank you. I know that we do have many members of the public who are here today. Just so we can run through the format, we do have amy from the Search Department of health and treasurer from the Treasure Island island authorities and michael to present for the city and county of San Francisco. We will have presentations first. We may have questions from colleagues, incl
The hearing today, i just want to let you know that thats something that our office is working on. Were convening the Public Utilities commission and the City Administrators Office and tida to see what we can do to support the aging infrastructure through which our electricity runs through. As many of you know, this is the infrastructure that well, actually we havent inherited yet, but its currently owned by the u. S. Navy. Its aging. They havent put in the investment to improve it mainly because when the new Development Goes in, were going to set up an entirely new grid for electricity. That being said, we have residents on the island today that depend on that infrastructure and we need to figure out a solution to that issue. And im hoping that well be able to announce something over the next couple of weeks that we would be able to serve the residents. I apologize. I know it is impacting your daily life but i wanted to address that before we start the hearing. So, without further ado
With fewer federal dollars available. Under map 21 texas has submitted six letters of interest and we continue to have open and forthright discussions with u. S. D. O. T. About her projects. They have been good partners to work with and we certainly appreciate their willingness to meet with us and work through the new tifia process. U. S. D. O. T. Was a lot of discretion to evaluate and choose eligible projects under specific criteria. U. S. D. O. T. Is have the authority to weigh and compare the relative merits of projects under the selection criteria and to choose those that scored highest under that weighted scoring system. Over time u. S. D. O. T. Continued at criteria such as livability to the list of their selection criteria and too much discretion seem to be permeating the process and made the the program more about me being subjective as opposed to funding the best projects and older order to meet mobility. Map21 eliminate discretionary criteria as it established a limited set