Mayors office staff make a recommendation i dont know is it finally. Xavier for various reasons which well show you in a little van ness sidewalks a desire so are the van ness sidewalks under the city jurisdiction for the apply for local codes like beverly and thanks of that nature Public Utilities commission performed on investigation about 83 sidewalk blocks that will be added to city jurisdictions that includes 2 million a little bit over on van ness from palm on the south side to lombard on the northerly end it is important to note that only existing sidewalks are being replenished from the state to the city at this time any additional sidewalk expansion will require a further relinquishment at this time it is should the sidewalks challenge hands we would go from state controlled policy and regulations to local public works code for this i guess id like to introduce ann marie from the city planning to give us the details for the van ness. Welcome thank you supervising emery rogers Planning Department staff were a thrilled this committee that considering this stem today this is issue that is with the planners for decades youre familiar with the efforts to work on the van ness rightofway and make the changes for brt ill talk about Something Else that contribute to the feel of van ness avenue that is how private development interacts with the rightofway so since the 1980s the adaptation of having an r van ness plan the policies to constrain on van ness and activate the streetscape with more feasible we have policies that talk about the development of acting that makes the sidewalks interesting in a lively urban place providing the detail on both the buildings through the use of aging Adult Services for bay windows over the state right away and activating the rightofway where appropriate with Street Furniture and sidewalk cafeterias thats been the citys vision since the 1980s the caltrain policy they have some more recent policy initiative that speak to recognized urban citys desire to have complete streets and mobile streets and have recently recognized the response to the dances of the county, however, there are specific planners that work on encroachment be preliminaries that are confronted with encroachment manual that was southern not issued for buildings or structures to extend into the state that is inappropriate gateway to private parties so i can show you although we have what typically happens when a project will extend over the state right away roughly heres a building on 19th avenue at noriega and selfhad bay windows on both sides of the facade when the Planning Commission approved this and after the Commission Hearing caltrain denied the encroachment roughly for the bay windows the effectively it looks a cheese grader came down the side of the building and the andrews is getting in trouble caltrain this is van ness ellis street with bay windows along the facades and after planning review and entitlement the caltrans ruled in a stripping away of the details and features the leaving of blank street walls no able to have the things for those reasons and with the new Development Pending along van ness avenue we would like to treat boechlts over the public rightofway the same thing on our own streets and if you do agree with the measure before you that will allow dpw to review comboechlts on van ness avenue as they do throughout the city thank you. Thank you. Is there all right. Lets take Public Comment on this item at this time please come on up youll have two minutes hearing a soft chime a second reminder that you have thirty sektsdz remaining thank you, welcome. Thank you larry bader of urban planning im working with the conservatory of music on van ness avenue but i really want to focus my comments more on the experience ive had in the Planning Department working on is van ness avenue plan working on the downtown plan pr the sidewalk relinquishment will allow the city to create traditional San Francisco neighborhoods we have seen through emery rogers good work some the buildings over the years that have been slaughtered by caltrans nodded blaming them thats what happened were a city of bay windows and core news the ability to have gaps and variation on a facade makes San Francisco what it is it is what brings people to San Francisco for tourism there is a clear Public Benefit with no harm we urge you strongly to support this as ann marie said the downtown plan the market octavia upper van ness and the grand residential blasted as a vibrant commercial grand street you cant do that with legislation thank you very much. Thank you tim colen, San FranciscoHousing Action coalition. I wont communitybased beyond what larry said this is a terrific opportunity for the city you should grab it quickly the opportunity to have our rules on the design of van ness is simply too good to pass up so, please support this thank you. Thank you any Public Comment . To speak on this item seeing none, Public Comment is closed. The matter is the hands of body mr. Peskin one question for the financial liability for the city to dpw being accepting those what financial liabilities is the city accepting with them. Currently oh, xavier due to arrangements with caltrains little city is responsible for maintaining and keeping up the situation of the van ness so were actually not take on anything new there is no reimbursement from caltrans to that will remain the same we receive reimbursements on the roadway and that will continue be thinking challenged from this legislation. Drooment tom anything you want to add. Good afternoon christophers thomas with the City Attorneys Office i want to add in addition to what xavier said the responsibility and liability for the conditions related to sidewalks will be assumed under 9 current code by the private Property Owners for the implementation of our code and the improvement of our codes on the sidewalks. Thank you counsel ill be happy to move this this the full board. Without objection that that item passes. Madam clerk call item 2. Item 2 is a resolution creating sdefrmz for the conditional use authorization for indoor ashen uses and at agricultural uses in the pdr zoning and making appropriate findings. Leakage we have a request for a continuance from the Mayors Office i believe we have a representative from the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development who can to this. Hi from the office of Economic Workforce Development thank you, supervisor for hearing us today with the controls designed to allow us to begin a thoughtful process around the ashen in the land use here in the city with that said we were aware from concerns i want to have a continuance for the january 9th weve got a long way to go e meetings well come back with a thoughtful process. Thank you very much for the update lets take Public Comment anyone want to have Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you mr. Peskin can we agree to have this on january 9th. So moved. Without objection that be that motion carries all right. Call item 3 please. Item 3 an ordinance amending the planning code for the project sponsors to direct the Affordable Housing fee to the smaller projects and making appropriate findings. All right. The mayor and supervisor campos the dynamic do you supervisor campos i see youre here with thoughtful remarks. I have im not sure but i have remarks the mayor and i are collaborating on so many issues so as you, you know mayor ed lee on a serious note mayor ed lee and i did proudly introduced this legislation that we introduced together in its very important piece of legislation that allows fees from Residential Development of 25 units or less to remain in the neighborhoods where the new development is built the fees will be used to purchase buildings, for long term tenants are at risk of eviction once you, you purchase those unite turn them into permanently Affordable Housing the developer meets the Affordable Housing obligations by building the low income marketrate housing this is the preference for so many of us to build the units on another site or by paying a fee walk through it has not lead to more housing built in some of the places that need it the most 6 legislation the mayor and i offers a choice they can now under this legislation if you support it they can have their fees stay in the neighborhood where the project is happening where investing and those fees can you be used to be invested in the Small Program that will allow the purchase of small buildings that once again help tenants that are at risk at displacement and asking this within a certain area or goodic area of the neighborhood those small Site Acquisition Fund was started in 2014 and stabilized many Housing Units i want to thank the stakeholder that had those conversations that was part of a larger that had several items 9 items and to the spent there of the disagreement we wanted to make sure this important item was there was agreement that that move quickly forward i want to thank the Planning Department i see the director of planning i thank the staff to move forward the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development played a Critical Role and the rest of the Builders Association it approached us about this and its a great thing to see the rb a and new seeking Community Members to some of them here that also were supportive i think this is truly a winwin for everyone involved i want to thank sheila in my office to help to put this together the two amendments that i have ask and let me hand out the amendment so that the committee has the amendments ill pass them on to you commissioner peskin and one for the clerk the First Amendment to require any fee collected for the fund be used within the neighborhood that the principle project is located the way it is right now it actually provides a distance of one mile of one mile radius and weve actually heard from Community Members and stakeholders that of the Affordable Housing to come online near the primary development to make sure it hazard income levels and heard from the Small Developers to appoint the benefits for to neighborhood theyre advocating and you know the way the city works the very small geographic areas of San Francisco the one mile radius could put the fee outside of the neighborhood we want to be very clear that when we are talking about a project in the a feesz staying within the vicinity it is the neighborhood were talking about so thats one amendment that i will ask, the second an actual to clarify to create consistency between the legislation and prop c that supervisor peskin and commissioner kim put forward prop c puts the colleagues, can we take that without objection . Levels and the Second Amendment clarifies that the eligible principle projects are those comprised of 24 residential unit rather than 25 or less again, we that want to make sure consistency in prop c with the affordability levels with the Housing Units this is reflected in this legislation and again, we are proud to have worked with the Mayors Office the Mayors Office of housing here in the district 9 office so far weve actually won and allotted for the pipeline on with one thousand units of Affordable Housing this legislation allows us to create more Affordable Housing on a permanent basis the next adjudication of san franciscans to live here we need to make sure that the Development Truly stays in the neighborhood impacted by the developed and use the fund to build Affordable Housing in the neighborhood thank you to everyone involved mayor ed lee, the Mayors Office of housing, the Community Groups with the Community Housing organizations and again, the residential Builders Association the small sites e size project many are here and now id like to call ruby in the Mayors Office of housing and she will be followed by Diego Sanchez and again many harris thank you for your our work and i have distributed the amendments for my colleagues. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is ruby harris owe manage the program for the moichldz im here to offer my mohcd support as was explained by supervisor campos the Small Sites Program was established restraining order established in 2014 with the stabilization to the rehabilitation of tenants occupancy since the imi inception this funded the rehabilitation of 13 buildings throughout the city in doing so 78 units were preserved not only for current tenant but low income resident an additional 9 buildings are waiting for approval one in the upcoming months the program will stabilize many unit and Affordable Housing and commercial spaces there is one and 35 people stabilized offering tenant from 10 to 40 years in the resident and their experiencing eviction tenants in the small sites are those most vulnerable to displacement will i disabled and children under the age of fyi our tenants are an averaging 63 percent of ami and thirty percent of small sites are less than 50 percent of ami the small its i sites from a Pilot Program to an established program of 51 plus City InvestmentNonprofit Developers continue to work hard and identify the sites on a regular basis and have been assessing ios fund sites are identified by the district 3, 5, 6, 8 and 10 as far in closing the programs is the now a Successful Program in fulfilling the process of stabilizing the community those vulnerable to time displacement and mohcd supports this im having a available for any questions and ask Diego Sanchez from the Planning Department to come up next. Supervisors Diego Sanchez of the Planning Department on november 17th the Planning Commission heard the ordinance and in support of proposed ordinance after dlooib on the matter the commission unanimously recommended to recommend this ordinance with a few mosaics they are reflected in the amendments so in closing id like to say this ordinance was very much well received at the commission and looking forward to implementing this thank you. Thank you, mr. Diego supervisor campos go to Public Comment. Okay ladies and gentlemen, come up to the platform if you wish to speak with 2 minutes. Good morning, supervisors and colleagues my name is tyler im an original director for the land trust id like to say im humbled to get the prestige to highlight this anorexia nervosa legislation with many of the family members in the communicated are mourning the tragic loss of families members across the bay i want to take a moment to recognize those folks that are part of the community and hope to move this along today, this legislation is a floorm the rare item in the hall it is truly a win for all involved were grateful to supervisor campos and the mayor for their leadership around this and thanks largely to the effort of ms. Harris at the the Small Sites Program is a method in San Francisco and the hundred and 75 san franciscans living in the land trust this amendment is an effective way to continue to connect connect the impact of the development in the neighborhood and the definition of neighborhood that posed by supervisor campos is consistent with. How everyday san franciscans view the community i want to use my last few seconds to talk about the two emails he got today that proves did importance just 5 minutes ago got an email confirm to purchase the 13 property has been accepted and 5 unit opposed 12r50er9 the judiciously and filipino in the unit have lived offer one hundred collective years and that is a happy story and vulnerable tenant like them need the legislation to help to preserve thei