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good afternoon, welcome to the land use and transportation committee. the last one for the calendar year of 2017. for today [applause] monday, december 11, i am the acting chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined by committee member supervisor katie tang, our clerk is mr. victor young. mr. young, do you have any announcements? yes. please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. complete your speaker cards and any documents to be included as par of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the january 9, 2018 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. mr. chair, would you like to take any action regarding the absence we will indeed, make a motion to excuse chair farrell. moved. moved by supervisor tang and take that without objection. i would like to thank the folks at sfgov tv for all of their work in 2017, live streaming the land use and other committees of the board w. that, mr. young, could yo ....
board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. mr. chair, would you like to take any action regarding the absence we will indeed, make a motion to excuse chair farrell. moved. moved by supervisor tang and take that without objection. i would like to thank the folks at sfgov tv for all of their work in 2017, live streaming the land use and other committees of the board w. that, mr. young, could you please read the first item? item number one is the resolution renaming the 600 block of stevenson street to oddfellows way to recognize the historic significance of the architectural and cultural contributions of the oddfellows have made to the city and county of san francisco. ms. lopez, on behalf of the sponsor, supervisor jane kim, the floor is yours. great. thank you, supervisors. i m here today before you on behalf of supervisor kim, supervising a resolution to rename the 600 block of stevenson street to oddfellows way in recognition of the oddfellows ....
it will slow down transsit and make the streets less safe where we have high density. the same principle applies here. we really, really do want to add as much housing as we can in this part of town, especially for folks who have challenges affording market rate. that is just about everybody. so, yes, let s please have more below market rate. yes, let s have it on site. but please let s don t compromise safety of the seats. let s don t compromise the performance and the attractiveness of transit as we make the neighborhood more dense. again, i ll remind you that last year the board of supervisors adopted home sf, wonderful. we re going to incentivize developers to provide more below market rate housing in their projects. we incentivize them by offering bonuses of interest. the parking incentive is for the developer to provide less parking. if this city has a finding for the relationship between b.m.r. and parking, it is that we provide less, and not more. i urge you to ....
seeing no other speakers, we ll close public comment. i think everything that needs to have been said has been said. and is there a motion? supervisor tang. oh. i didn t realize i m sorry. supervisor kim, i did not see that you were there. i was so focused on public comment. supervisor kim, welcome and thank you for bringinging this before the committee. thank you, chair peskin, but unfortunately i bring sickness into the chamber but luckily she is also sick. my lucky day. i wanted to recognize the members of the community who worked for year advocating for the renaming of the odd fellows alleyway in particular to richard for ri. who came and approached me at an event and has worked patiently with barbara lopez in my offices to move this forward. garnering support from all of the neighboring members and stakeholders ensuring 100% for this renaming, which is rare. congratulations to you all and also for your work to really build community in this area and rea ....
mr. chair, would you like to take any action regarding the absence we will indeed, make a motion to excuse chair farrell. moved. moved by supervisor tang and take that without objection. i would like to thank the folks at sfgov tv for all of their work in 2017, live streaming the land use and other committees of the board w. that, mr. young, could you please read the first item? item number one is the resolution renaming the 600 block of stevenson street to oddfellows way to recognize the historic significance of the architectural and cultural contributions of the oddfellows have made to the city and county of san francisco. ms. lopez, on behalf of the sponsor, supervisor jane kim, the floor is yours. great. thank you, supervisors. i m here today before you on behalf of supervisor kim, supervising a resolution to rename the 600 block of stevenson street to oddfellows way in recognition of the oddfellows order which are on that street and doing a lot of giv ....