Good afternoon and welcome to the board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, december 5, 2017. Madame clerk please call the roll. The clerk thank you madame president , supervisor breed, present. Supervisor farrell present. Supervisor kim. Fot present. Supervisor peskin present. Supervisor safai, present. Supervisor sheehy, present. Supervisor tang, tang present. Supervisor yee, present. Madame clerk mad madame president you have a quorum. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. Thank you madame clerk. Are there any communication. The clerk none to report, madame president. Is there a motion to approve the Meeting Minutes of october 31, 2017. Moved by supervisor sheehy, seconded by supervisor ronen. Without objection theyll be approved after public comment. Madame clerk lets go to the consent agenda. The clerk items one through three are considered to be routine. A member may object by severing an item and having it considered separately. Seeing no names on the roster, madame clerk please call the roll. The clerk on item one through three, supervisor cohen, aye. Supervisor peskin, aye. Supervisor ronen, aye. Supervisor safai, aye. Supervisor sheehy, aye. Supervisor tang, aye. Supervisor breed, aye. Commissioner those items are adopted unanimously. Read four through eight together. The clerk comprised of reports the infrastructure of financing district and the infrastructure revitalization financing direct at the ho down yard the resolution of intention by the city to form three sub project area g2, 3 and sd4 into the ports financing district or the ifd. Item five is the intention to issue the bonds in the amount not to exceed approximately 274 million for the subproject areas. Item six is the resolution of intention to establish City Infrastructure and revitalization district or the irfd. Number two, to finance the construction of Affordable Housing within pier 70, parcel k south and annexation and a public hearing january 9, 2018 to provide Public Notice and item seven is the resolution to authorize and direct the director of the port to prepare a financing plan for the ifd number 2 and item eight is a resolution of intention to issue bonds for the irfd, number 2. Supervisor cohen. Supervisor cohen thank you for hearings items four through eight and we want the ifd and the infrastructure and revitalization known as an irfd for a pier 70 project. I have circulated amendments for each items. I wont go into details about each file but these amendments add technical and clarifying language about each the ifds and irfds including the findings and fixing the date of the election. We have the City Attorney and port and Mayors Office have representatives here available to answer questions about the required amendments. With that id like to make a motion to adopt the amendments. Its also any understanding the items will have to be rereferred to the finance committee. Supervisor cohen has a motion to amend. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin through the chair and through supervisor cohen insofar as they both have to go to committee. Near the long nor short titles tell any member of the public or members of the board exactly what we all know and its no secret this is related to pier 70. When it comes back if we can amend the short and long titles so any members of the public cath realize the letters and dashes refer to a particular plate. No problem. Thank you. And for clarity, item four through eight, all of them will need to go back to committee because of these amendments. Okay. So supervisor cohen has a motion to amend and without objection the motion passes unanimously and supervisor cohen you want it to go back to the committee. Without objection the item will go back to the budget committee. Madame clerk, please call items nine and ten together. The clerk item nine is an ordinance to amend the planning code to allow medical cannabis dispenries in additional districts and the converse of existing medical cannabis dispensaries to establishments and operating conditions repeal ordinance number 18617 to create a limited number and uses in the combination in the excelsior neighborhood and exceed planning Code Provisions and item tem is an ordinance to amend the business and tax Regulations Health and police codes to comprehensively regulate commercial activities relating to the cultivation and manufacture, distribution, sale and testing of medicinal and adult use cannabis and both make the appropriate findings. Okay. Seeing no names on the roster, colleagues, i wanted to thank each and every one of you for work youve done to make this legislation solid legislation. I also wanted to express theres been a number of concerns about the legislation and other and there are other files in committee now that could possibly be amended to address those concerns. But in the meantime, it is time to make sure that we have this policy on the books so that when january hits we can move forward and we can, if necessary, go back and make the appropriate changes at that time. Seeing no other names on the roster, madame clerk on this item please call the roll. The clerk items nine and ten. [calling roll] the clerk thes and one no with supervisor safai in the dissent. Commissioner madame clerk please call items 11 through 13 together. The clerk three ordinances that pertain to 1629 Market Street item 11 amends the general plan to revise maps one and three and policy 7. 2. 5 of the market and octavia plan to reflect the 1629 special use direct. Item 12 adds the 1629 market straight special use district. Also with the determination and item 13 is an ordinance to approve a Development Agreement between the city and strata brady llc for the Development Project site located at market 12th stevens and chase court and brady street and make the appropriate findings and item 14 madame president as well . Pardon me. Items 11 and 13. The clerk i have called that president. Supervisor kim. Thank you, i want to acknowledge strata and Community Housing partnership for spending the last couple years working with the neighborhood to move forward with the project that our community is truly excited about. It will replace a hotel i think is one of the worst conditions ive visit and rehabilitating the site and using it for stepup housing for many residents who live in singleoccupancy hotels in the city but eligible and able to move up to other Affordable Housing with less supportive services. This along with the market rate project plan and Neighborhood Park is the type of development we need in the Market Street and the hub and greatly enhance and activate this part of our city. So congratulations to all involved and the tremendous outreach and getting unanimous support from neighbors and finally, thank you for being a Navigation Center during this time as we went through the entitlement process to get them into permanent housing eventually. Colleagues, i ask for your support. Supervisor breed madame clerk, please call roll. The clerk on items 11 through 13. [reading roll. Cohe the clerk there are 11 ayes. Madame clerk, item 14. The clerk to receive and approve the report dated may 12, 2014 by planning code 103. The resolution is adopted unanimously. Next item. The clerk a resolution to urge the mayor to support bill 1506 repeal the hawkins act. Supervisor fewer. Supervisor farrell we have been struggling to maintain affordability in our housing stock. If anything were clearly heading in the other direction. Our city is clearly becoming one only for the wealthy. One of the biggest reasons is it the costahawkins act. Its a law enacted in 1995 which places limits on municipal rent control ordinances. Costahawkins municipal rent control laws in major ways. It prohibits municipalities to establish rent control over certain units such as singlefamily units and second it prohibits municipal vacancy control. In San Francisco costahawkins has tied our hand to address housing crisis. And Assembly Members introduced 18ab1506 a proposed bill to repeal the costahawkins act and get sacramento out of their way when it comes to making our communities more affordable. By repealing costahawkins we will not be immediately changing the rent control laws but rather it gives us the opportunity to have a discussion with the tenant and communities on what makes since for San Francisco going forward. I hope my colleagues will join me for ab1506. When passed, well be joining cities such as santa monica and berkeley in seeing now is it the time to repeal costahawkins. Many thanks to the housing rates community and council of Community Housing organizations for fighting the good fight in sacramento and San Francisco. Seeing no another names, madame clerk, can you add me as a cosponsor to this resolution. The clerk thank you, madame president. Colleagues can we take the same house and call. Without objection the resolution is adopted unanimously. The clerk item 16 is an ordinance to amend police codes for Autonomous Vehicles on the right of ways and make appropriate findings. Supervisor yee. Supervisor yee many of you have heard me over and over again with regards to this particular item. Its something i introduced six months ago at three Committee Meetings to talk about this and have amended in fact we had the largest amendments two Committee Meetings ago. People had basically last month to look at the amendments. When i first started on this, it was brought to my attention there were delivery robots roaming around the streets and there wasnt a process to provide a permit for them or anybody restricting it. It seemed to me like a deja vu where lets just let it happen. Maybe five years from now when we have 20,000 robots roaming around the streets and people have to walk on the streets with the cars then maybe well do something. That seems to be a pattern weve had in San Francisco. I dont think we should let things get out of hand again. So the original piece of legislation was about keeping our sidewalks for pedestrians and that we should keep it safe for them to use as a public right of way. The issue then became wait a minute, isnt this about innovation and i said well, wait a minute. Innovation goes two ways. Its not just about making creating something and saying thats innovation and nothing else matters. If you want to be innovative try using your innovations that are good to mankind, that doesnt take away jobs or privacy when youre recording everything on camera and people that are blind and handicap and seniors and toddlers are not going to be able to get out of the way. Weve seen collisions with people and the latest was in washington, d. C. I was ready to pass its and when we started making amendments to this, many of the advocates starting saying, why dont we just forget it and not do legislation. Lets put it on the ballot and have people vote on it. And i kept saying, wait, i think were almost there. Lets hold off a little bit. Though i do have language ready to go if i need to put it on the ballot if this doesnt pass muster. So in the meantime what happened from six months ago is we sat down because as much as we value our sidewalks or pedestrians, as you know, we dont allow bicycles to ride on the sidewalk and thank you for that piece of legislation many years ago and to keep basically our sidewalks safer for pedestrians. And i said, no, another value we do have which is that if its a home grown business in San Francisco wed like to support them as much as possible. I was able to sit down with them and ask for what are your parameters supervisor breed excuse me, supervisor yee i want to ask if any members of the publics phone goes off escort them off and to members of the public, Police Silence your cell phones. Were trying to conduct business and when the cell phones go off theyre a distraction thank you. Supervisor yee. Supervisor yee thank you, supervisor breed. So sitting down and talking to companies about what language makes sense and protecting our sidewalks for pedestrians, one thing we wanted to do was if anybody wanted to develop these innovative things for the future, i was willing to back off a little bit to allow for that. But at the same time when we talk about that, one thing we didnt want to do is just say its just do research and development to whatever you want. If you want to put out 100 robots at the same time thats fine. No, thats not fine. So we made limitations and at the same time we made concessions to people that want to do this so the process would be allowing some r d and nine robots at anytime on our streets in San Francisco and the r d would take place in not commercial corridors but pdr areas where theres less pedestrians and for these devices to bump into. The since then since weve had these amendments, im glad to say several of the entities and in chamber said thank you very much. The companies at the last committee meeting, none of them came up to say they were against it anymore. Were able to forge the language that will in many ways provide us for what we wanted which is to keep our sidewalks safer for pedestrians. And at the same time trying to support those companies that want to do business in San Francisco. Theres also oneworders the City Attorney said we should amend and we have a copy of that. I wont go through it to save time. I ask my colleagues support this. Its a common sense approach. I understand this particular legislation doesnt solve all the problems in the future and all im trying to do is again get ahead of the curve and understand theres new things coming up we need to address. Thats why a few weeks ago, probably a month ago, i introduced legislation to look at create task force to see how we could as a city have staffing that will look at the new issues that will come up again and again and look at the principles that will guide us in determining how to approach new technology as its coming up faster than we can actually blink an eye. And im hoping that that piece will come back to the board. I have spoken and the person or the Department Im asking to head up the task force would be the city administrator and ive sat down with her already and shes fully on board with that. So im looking forward to companying that piece of investigation earlier next year. But today its about keeping our sidewalks for people. I hope i have your support. Supervisor breed thank you, supervisor yee. Supervisor cohen. Supervisor cohen for bringing this to our attention. The spirit with which youre looking at the issue is noteworthy and we should be focussing our attention on Artificial Intelligence and robots and what that means for our pedestrians. And thank you for always giving voice to the issue. In the last several months for the engagement with the stakeholders and taking seriously the concerns i brought up earlier in the process. Its evident the new innovations they question and require observation and require regulation as we as city will benefit greatly from Data Collection from the description and i appreciate the hard work on the amendments. Your efforts bring forward a compromise and spirit of the legislation. I have a couple questions that id like to pose towards you or perhaps even bpw im not sure rishaw is supposed to be here. Are you here supervisor breed supervisor cohen, if you want to get your questions answered we can continue with our agenda until he gets here and come back to this particular issue. Supervisor cohen thank you, i think supervisor yee is actually able to answer my question so i think we can continue supervisor breed supervisor yee. Supervisor cohen so i understand the devices will be tested in the overlapping zoning of pdr and we know its in district ten. The testing area with the zoning of pdr with no High Injury Network corridors and affected sidewalk with over six feet, those are all, i think, reasonable limitations. Has the bpd been able to determine consecutive, and i use that from the legislation, for the miles it allows for in testing . Supervisor yee the bpw could carve out an area. The perimeter doesnt allow the whole area of pdr. Supervisor cohen so is the hearing in the appeal process not sufficient for permitting the area rather than dictating it in advance . Supervisor yee im sorry, ask that again. Supervisor cohen is the hearing and appeal process sufficient or insufficient for identifying the appropriate number of permittees . Supervisor yee the hearing purpose to allow for to make sure that a new or second. Can come in and apply for the permit and that they make sure theres the opportunity to allow that. Is that the question youre asking . Supervisor cohen kind of. Basically were currently only limit to three companies. I just wanted to know how did you get to that number supervisor yee sure. Supervisor cohen you also have a hearing in that process. Supervisor yee basically, theres only one company in San Francisco doing this type of work. So the original approach was when a company wanted to do r d and build their company to eventually manufacture the items in San Francisco, which is a good thing. It was easy to fall for one company as they were the only one. What i said was, well, lets not close the door on just the one company. Just in case we want to encourage and allow for a new company to start up in San Francisco. Thats the intent of that. Also, it provides them an Opportunity One company applying for a full permit can apply for a second permit if none of the other two are applied for. Supervisor cohen so i understand that. So it limits and the hearing im curious why were going to have both a hearing and permitting process particularly, do we as a board, need t