Ever present complexities of San Francisco city planning. In my own work, mainly in other jurisdictions and other locals i often find myself sitting on the other side of the table and explaining to officials like yourself planning directors and commissions why good urban planning and designing are essential for the city and quality of life. Today i find myself expanded and shaped by my past 8 years on the Planning Commission and by my professional skills remain my strength, i find that i have become a more consistent and stronger more compassionate voice for neighborhood concerns including ethnicity, race, sex youre Sexual Orientation and other types of other demographic qualities as a city at large. Im with a balanced position with social environment equity are more important than merely economic considerations on their own. With an urgent awareness of the ever increasing imbalances of affordable housing, rising income gaps together with other issues, i believe that the balance has to
Am supervisor norman yee and will be chairing this meeting. I am joined by supervisor katy tang and supervisor campos will be in shortly. Clerk today is lisa miller. The committee would also like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, nona menkonian and charles kriminet who record each of our meetings and make transcripts available to the public online. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and items to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Can we please call item no. 1 . Mr. Chair, wed also like to announce that this is the special rules meeting. If you are here for land use, its in rule 416. Item no. 1 is a notion approving or rejeblgting the mayors nomination of rodney fong to the Planning Commission for a term ending june 30, 2018. Mr. Fong, please come up to the microphone, maybe youd like to make a brief statement. Good morning, i hope you had a nice weekend and got a chance to see a little bit of soccer. I hope you supp
Commission, Commission Vice president tom harrison is here. [ applause ] commissioner page erata is here, glora buna is here and commissioner levatin is here and commissioner allan lowe is here and martin is here and give a shout out to mark who could not be here. And i saw supervisor mark ferrell and his entire family in the house and give him a shout out for him. I want to give. Lets give a big special thanks to scott weiner for all. He was out campaigning for the bond every night. Thank you scott. [ applause ] i saw tom ewy the director of the department of building inspection who is here and i want to thank him and i want to thank the San Francisco Parks Alliance who is here and the trust for public lands and most of all, i want to thank all of you, all of you for helping make this happen. [ applause ] oh, yeah. It is his last official Tree Lighting as a supervisor. Where is he . Come on up. Yeah, we have already forgotten up here, you have got to come up. A big. Our loudest, loude
Numerator july 24, 2014, city of San Francisco rules Committee Special Meeting stand by please stand by. Sf gov. Tv. San francisco Television City of San Francisco rules committee meeting. Please stand by. All right. Thank you. Everyone welcome to our regularly scheduled rules committee meeting. Im katie tang and we have david campos and scott wiener and david chiu. And i want to thank our sf gov. Tv. San francisco television staff. City clerk please silence all cell phones devices. Items acted upon today will appear on september 2nd agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor katy tang we have a special meeting today. First we need to excuse supervisors norman yee. Without objection. Madam clerk, please call item 1. City clerk item 1 motion approving rejecting the president of the board of supervisors, supervisor david chiu, nomination of Kathrin Moore to the Planning Commission, term ending july 1, 2018. Clerk of the boardddcharter, section 4. 105, provides that this nomination is sub
Otherwise stated. Supervisor katy tang we have a special meeting today. First we need to excuse supervisors norman yee. Without objection. Madam clerk, please call item 1. City clerk item 1 motion approving rejecting the president of the board of supervisors, supervisor david chiu, nomination of Kathrin Moore to the Planning Commission, term ending july 1, 2018. Clerk of the boardddcharter, section 4. 105, provides that this nomination is subject to approval by the board of supervisors and shall be the subject of a public hearing and vote within 60 days from the date the nomination is transmitted to the clerk of the board. If the board fails to act on the nomination within 60 days of the date the nomination is transmitted to the clerk then the nominee shall be deemed approved. Transmittal date july city clerk sf 11234 supervisor katy tang madam clerk if you can call items 13 together. Item 2 [appointment, Planning Commission Dennis Richards] motion approving rejecting the president of