For chair . I thought we were doing both at the same time. We are just doing the chair. Any members care to address the board . Seeing nonenominating cheryl to do it this she is dedicated and knowledgeable person. The agency and staff and colleagueerize very fortunate to have sheryl step in. She is knowledgeable about mta and transit agencies around the country and world. She is very artechulate advocate for the goals of the agency and spend Many Community meetings during the year so will be a outstanding member of the board. All in favor of Cheryl Brickman say aye . Opposed . Thank you. [applause]. Call for election of the vice chair. We have a nomination . I know this is surprising but like to nominate Malcolm Heinicke. Any other nominations . Members of the public have comments . Seeing none. I like to say we are very fortunate malcolm stepping into the position. So knowledgeable and dedicated and thoughtful and not afraid to take on hard issues. That is the bft benefit of the agenc
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Public comment. If there is a item of interest to you that is not on agenda you may speak under general Public Comment is that item is number 4 and then continue to item 10. We usually allow 15 minutes on item 4 and go to item 10. Last, please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment on items. In order to allow equal time the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during Public Comment. The commission may ask questions of staff after Public Comment is closed. With that, we are on item 2, the president s report. Thank you. Briefly, one, i want to welcome steve hanes who is the former director of the sterngrove. He is now the Vice President for strategic growth and marketing at the zoo and happy to have you. Welcome. Secondly. As some know, at a recent rec and Park Commission meeting there was a lot of testimony around the challenges that the Department Faces with the vast increase in growth in soccer in San Francisco and the limited number of fields desp
Want to make investments and they are going to make that worse. However, the what i that it kind of ended up in the evaluation is that they look just at risk and not at what actions at local jurisdictions are taking to combat affordable. And so essentially, San Francisco got dinged across the board for all of our projects and even for Treasure Island that is doing the one for one, replacement and guaranteed right of return for displaced. And so we have been talking and i think that it is counter intuitive and in the communities that are experiencing displacement, when all of them are low, where the region is looking to build. And so we will be working with the commissioners moving forward to identify some other way of measuring displacement pressure and moving toward the solutions to adjust it at the regional level. And it goes into the second part of what i wanted to share with you, is what mta and they have been talking about with respect to the housing action. And because those get
Are we ready good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon my name is supervisor cowen the chair and this is the regular meeting of Land Use Committee to my right is commissioner weiner the vice chair and our clerk clear and thank to charles kremack and others for broadcasting this meeting electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the june 7, 2016, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much call hematemesis one ac. Amending at planning code for the rooftop screening. The Planning Department is the sponsor of this item we have a staff person from the Planning Department to present. Were ready. Good afternoon chair cohen and honorable supervisors tilly Chang Department staff this is the planning code for the controls to two spate areas of planning code the map controls and rooftop park screening with the clean up of applicability of the controls expan