supervisor maxwell: give us an example. the produce market -- >> we have one that receives produce and from toledo, stennis loss. he packages the product. then he sends it off . we have to respect it and then issue a certificate that allows that produce to be imported to switzerland, france, where ever the receiver is. supervisor maxwell: do you deal with safeway? >> no, we do not. produce managers will tell us that they have a shipment that they do not believe meets the minimum requirements. we will then go and conduct an inspection. if it does not meet the minimum requirements, we will reject the load and have it reconditioned to meet minimum standards. supervisor maxwell: so what do you do at the farmers' market? >> we are required to inspect those markets and ensure the certified producers have thereier certificates posted, tt the market manager is complying with direct marketing laws. supervisor maxwell: that is all of them? >> yes, all the certified farmers' markets that we get. supervisor maxwell: farmers' markets in

>> good morning, supervisor maxwell. supervisor maxwell: what is the general function of what you do? >> in regards to the alemany farmer's market, i am the authority -- supervisor maxwell: do you work for the city? >> i work for the city and county. supervisor maxwell: so we have an agricultural commissioner. did we have one before? >> we had one up until march 2008. he was here for seven months. previous to that you had a commissioner up until 2004. there was a vacancy from 2004 through 2007. supervisor maxwell: tell us about what you do. >> i enforce codes and regulations when it comes to food, pesticide use enforcement laws, direct marketing, fruit and vegetable quality control, nursery inspection, which and measures --weights a weights and measures. i certify products that are being exported from san francisco. in this case, they are being produced in other counties and they are being exported from san francisco to buyers and receivers all over. supervisor maxwell: give us an example. the produce market -- >> we hav

supervisor maxwell: welcome to land use. i'm sophie maxwell and i'm chair of the committee. eric mar will be joining us shortly and our board member and president of the board, david chiu, has joined us. madam clerk, i believe you have some announcements. i'd like to chang the folks at channel 26 and our clerk, alisa, channel 26 for bringing us live and you for being our clerk. and i think you have some announcements. >> please make sure to turn off all cellular phones and pagers, complete the speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items will appear on the board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated, on december 7. supervisor maxwell: thank you. we will have item six. item seven will be continued until december 6. and item number four will be continued till the call of the chair. supervisor chiu: you said item six is also continued? supervisor maxwell: item seven will be continued until december 6 and item number four will be continued till the call of the chair. however, if you'd like to speak on either of those i

supervisor maxwell: could you read the first item, please? supervisor maxwell: --clerk somera: this is a resolution approving continue designation of eight former temporary selling spaces on 17th street at castro and market streets forestry artists certified by the arts commission. -- " for st. artists -- for street artists. supervisor maxwell: it is that time of year again when we have more spaces. >> this is right where the f line dead ends, so that is what they did. they invited me to create st reet art, and i met someone, and we walked to the area and made this basis, and then the board of supervisors a few months later at the request of the art commission actually passed a resolution, formerly designating those spaces on a six-month basis, subject to your review to see whether or not there were any pedestrian problems or anything like that, so in all of this time, we have no knowledge of any problems that have developed, ok, and the art commission as of this year, september, voted to ask to continue that designation. this is in deference

supervisor maxwell: and where does this savings come from? >> very low bids, a very low bidding environment -- a very competitive bidding environment. for the last two or three years, everything has been lower, very aggressive bidding korea in hopes that we are pretty much the only show in california right now -- aggressive bidding. it helps that we are pretty much the only show in california right now. supervisor maxwell: thank you. we will open for public comment at this time. i only have one card at the moment, francisco. >> supervisors, you know i also attend the san francisco public utilities commission meetings, wrote and i was waiting to hear about a section of the area that were shown on the note where there is going to be tunneling, and this is something new. there is also how it impacts the economy of this area. you do not ask any questions about the, you know? as far as i know, $4.20 billion expended toward this project, she mentioned $4.60 billion. that is a lot of money. in the $2.40 billion is our money, san francisco. you do no

supervisor maxwell: the arch. >> yes. and any original historic fabric on the exterior of the building. supervisor maxwell: all right, thank you. >> thanks. >> good morning, i'm from bayview hunters points. just wondering if, from the gentleman who just came up, if on his border, whatever his agency is, if there are any people out of bayview hunters point that are a part of that and if -- for 50 years, if that entity would have controlling factor over changes made or not change. if they are also contractually obligated to make sure that residents who are in bayview hunters point are aware or to make sure that they are aware, as well as if there are any employment opportunities, economic opportunities that come out of this resolution, to be sure that there are persons out of the community who are involved or benefit, rather, from that. there are so many things coming to bayview hunters point, and as francisco has mentioned before, there's something like 60% to 80% pockets of unemployment, people who are considered unemploy

] \ supervisor maxwell: welcome to land use. i am supervisor sophie maxwell. i am joined by supervisor eric mar and supervisor david chiu. i also want to thank our clerk, alisa somera. do we have any committee reports? clerk somera: no, we do not. supervisor maxwell: could you read the first item, please? supervisor maxwell: --clerk somera: this is a resolution approving continue designation of eight former temporary selling spaces on 17th street at castro and market streets forestry artists certified by the arts commission. -- " for st. artists -- for street artists. supervisor maxwell: it is that time of year again when we have more spaces. >> this is right where the f line dead ends, so that is what they did. they invited me to create st reet art, and i met someone, and we walked to the area and made this basis, and then the board of supervisors a few months later at the request of the art commission actually passed a resolution, formerly designating those spaces on a six-month basis, subject to your review to see whether or not there were any pedestrian pr

chairperson maxwell: welcome to land use. i am joined by david chiu, and eric mar will be joining us. i want to thank the clerk and the folks at channel 26 for bringing us live. >> please turn off any cellular phones or pagers. any documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. the mets will appear on october 2. chairperson maxwell: will you read items one, too, and three together? >> item 1, ordinance accepting public infrastructure improvements along fourth street, channel street, and third street, including sidewalks. item two, public infrastructure improvements for mission bay south blocks 10 through 10 and a. item 3, at mission bay south storm water. pump # 6. >> all of these a been approved by the department of city planning, which has determined that the improvements put in place are in conformity with the city's general plan. the director of public works has issued a completion for each agency and has determined that the construction was done in accordance with mission bay south. all three items met those

supervisor maxwell: what about advertisement? you mentioned the department did some more advertisement. >> if they have done it, i am not aware of it. i will say this. i have noticed the new sign. i was driving one morning and i saw it. i do not know about the advertisement as a whole. supervisor maxwell: they will continue to do more of that, hopefully. do you think that would be helpful? >> yes, anything to remind people that there is a farmer's market on saturday. there are a lot of markets that have cropped up since the inception of alemany. sometimes, we need to be reminded of things. ford motors, they have been around since before we were born, but we still see advertisements. i do not think it is a good idea to allow it to lay and reminisce. we need to do some advertising and remind the people. thank you. >> my name is body. i provide greek food. i have a concession at the tuesday nighvarious locations. last year, i applied to get one of the spots at alemany. i was here last year complaining bitterly that my business plan

supervisor maxwell: ok, then, so moved. madam clerk, we would like to go back to item two. >> item two, ordinance amends the planning code, requiring preparation of a health care services master plan. supervisor maxwell: ok. i believe supervisor campos will be joining us any moment. maybe while we're waiting, let me just say that item six will be continued until december 6. however, if there is anyone here who would like to speak to items 6, you can. is there anyone here who came for item 6? yes, there is. madam clerk, why don't we read items six and take public comment, and then -- >> item 6, ordinance amending the administrative code regarding the appeals process under the california environmental quality act to clarify procedures and notice. supervisor maxwell: we will continue item 6 until december 6, and at that time, you are also welcome to have public comment, but if there is anyone here who wishes to speak on items six, please come up at this time. -- wishes to speak on item six, please come up at this time. >> i li

supervisor maxwell: any idea of how much water we will save? where. problems, and what this will do? >> well, we do not -- not all properties have irrigation meters that are separate. it is a small number. we do know, looking from project to project, making the kinds of irrigation projects, you can anticipate an 10% to 20% savings. it depends on how many projects in a given year. supervisor maxwell: thank you. >> as i mentioned, we did notified a number of stakeholders, including other city departments in the development of this ordinance, and we got input from developers, landscape contractors, and architects, different environmental groups, and other horticultural interest, and we heard a lot of input. it kind of boils down to three key areas that we really worked hard to modify in the ordinance. one, the concept of having a tiered approach so that the smaller landscapes, those between 1020500 square feet, would have a mechanism, but it would not be too onerous. also, looking at compliance plans for the large landscape owners, that they can have a s

supervisor maxwell: i will ask. thank you. yes? >> supervisors, if i may comment for clarification purposes. when you speak about distances between the agricultural certified market portion and non-certified, those boundaries are drawn up and submitted for the certificate, when they apply for renewal. supervisor maxwell: submitted when who applies? the market? >> yes. when alemany applied for their renewal, they submit a boundary. in the case of alemany, i have not looked at that map. i am sorry, i cannot tell you what the boundaries are. but there is a boundary that identifies agricultural certified and non-certified. supervisor maxwell: thank you. ms. brown? yes, another question. have you looked at the boundary lately, has it changed -- >> if i may. i think we have relatively simple solution. in our next some middle for application, that we provide a seasonal boundaries so that we have a winter season and summer season boundary. that would give us the flexibility to assign certain spaces for non-certified uses when we know we ar

supervisor maxwell: welcome to land use. our member and president of the board, a supervisor david chiu, will be joining us any moment. madam clerk, you have some announcements to make, and i want to thank the folks from channel 26 for bringing us to the public life. >> please submit copies of any documents to be submitted for the file. supervisor maxwell: we do have a committee report, item two will possibly go out as a committee report today. item one, please. >> item 1, ordinance amendment the building code. supervisor maxwell: staff, this is building code legislation. >> good afternoon, board members. office of economic workforce development. pleased to be here today. what we have before you are some technical cleanups to these very large development fee reform package that this committee reviewed and the board approved -- i believe now over six months ago. be specific technical amendments -- the specific technical amendments, if you look at the draft legislation on page four, at the request of the mayor's office of hous

>> good morning, supervisor maxwell. supervisor maxwell: what is the general function of what you do? >> in regards to the alemany farmer's market, i am the authority -- supervisor maxwell: do you work for the city? >> i work for the city and county. supervisor maxwell: so we have an agricultural commissioner. did we have one before? >>

supervisor maxwell: supervisor mar? supervisor mar: what is the difference between the digesters or stomachs in oceanside versus the bayview hunters point ones? >> it is an egg shaped digester, a sealed vessel. the one in the southeast has a floating roof. we get emissions. as tommy put it, there are issues. supervisor mar: some of the other ones are over control. it seems it would negatively impact the communities around it in residential areas. the odor control is related to not just the digesters but the rest of the renovations going on? >> we would be putting in new air treatments and handling. the objective is to not have any odors at the treatment plant and have any odorous processes set back from homes as far as possible. supervisor mar: thank you. >> another big distinction between oceanside and southeast is that the oceanside plant was designed for the maximum earthquake on the san andreas fault line. the plant on southeast is on bay mud. we could easily have a failure at southeast. it was not designed for that

supervisor maxwell: ok. supervisor maxwell: ok. i believe supervisor campos

commissioner maxwell: as well. ok. >> and the final issue is a fairly minor technical point -- commissioner maxwell: getting back to that, what are you saying, it doesn't matter? if it's detailed it's expensive, if it's broad it's extensive -- it's expense snve >> part of it is about the regulatory requirement. commissioner maxwell: wlts broad or specific. >> correct. and then finally the final issue is simply a detailed issue on the language and the plan relative to cross referencing sections of the code. we hope we can work on those details with you in the next few days. >> thank you. i forgot to highlight one very, very important amendment that we're also included in here. it was something that we believe has been imbedded in the legislation all along. but we recognize that there is a historical role that certain institutions have played in terms of providing or addressing the health care needs of different communities. and if you look at line six, i'm sorry, page six, line 17, to 20, we actually have language t

supervisor maxwell: recant do that. anyone can ask you a question, and if somebody has a question for you, you get into the question. -- can answer the question. >> my parents are native san franciscans. my aunt published a book that is in the library of about the architect. we are requesting that sacred heart be preserved. thomas john welsh was a prolific architect and my aunt says, please do what you can to save the church. its architecture is unique and is only one of two buildings left of its kind. it is one of the few remaining churches designed by my great- grandfather. in the late 1800's, he was one of the pioneer architects having lived in the city since he arrived at the age of eight. he worked his way up to become a prolific architect designing over 700 buildings in california. the majority of these buildings are in san francisco. he designed schools and many homes for the common person. he also designed 10 of the early churches. it is the only one still standing in san francisco. all of the other churches wer

supervisor maxwell: thank you. any more pictures, or is that it? >> that is it for marina. supervisor maxwell: thank you. supervisor chiu: unless there are any other city presentations, i would like to make a couple of prefacing remarks before i ask the city departments to make presentations with regard to the north beach library. i know there are many people in this room who have been working long and hard on the issue of the north beach library, and i want to thank the staff and city of planning, of hpc, of the library, and of rec and park for all the work you have done. i also want to thank the community in the north beach area for helping us move forward to address -- to find a solution to address the library needs for our neighborhood. i believe every single one of you cares deeply about the past, present, and future of the north beach library, and regardless of your opinion, i want to thank you for being here today. with that, i'd like to invite back again the planning staff, who will present the hpc's case,

supervisor maxwell: i have another question for you be. regarding fees, you have access to what is going on in the market. some of the markets that are mentioned in the report have flat fees, from my understanding, and they managed to do ok. my concern is, do all the coffee vendors pay the same amount? is there a staggered fee in the folks that sell pastries and coffee? >> i am sure there is not. we allow the markets to determine that. we took their bids. what they thought they could pay, to be the fees that they paid. we did not do any standardization. supervisor maxwell: and you based that on what you all thought was best. is that what is happening in other markets, is that just what san francisco does? >> we work closely with the rec and park department in many of their offerings. this is a constant challenge, rate setting. i think we share the velocity of allowing the market to speak. the intent was to create a market floor that we thought was reasonable, and then individual vendors could decide, i could bit more than that because this

supervisor maxwell: thank you. questions or comments on this? >> thank you, supervisors. i just wanted to summarize for you again with the planning commission did on october 28. the commission did force the legislation by a vote of 3-1, and the changes mentioned were partially in response to the recommendations of the planning commission. first was, as the supervisor said, the issue of the to -- the issue of who determines consistency with the master plan. the legislation would have the planning department do that. the addition -- the planning commission of the health department was better equipped to do that. i understand fully that it is difficult to separate health care and land use decisions when one is talking about building something, so we will certainly be involved in that, but the commission felt that depending on the content of the plan, the health department might be in a better position to make that decision. that brings me to the second point, which is related to the contents of the plan. the commissio

supervisor maxwell: and my name. haute supervisor dufty -- supervisor dufty: one of our supervisors as just had a baby, and he will be at home, looking for child care. i promise i try to take her to more museums. my daughter does go to a lot. i have to admit that she gets a lot of miles, but i want to thank my colleagues and those who spoke here. piss separate from this legislation, there is a need for more resources -- i want to mention that separate from this legislation, there is a need for more resources. to see a great child care facility that has received investment and support and to see the we have of the facilities. and the band is a part of our unfinished agenda supervisor -- and then there is another part of our unfinished agenda. supervisor mar: and i want to say that i appreciate walter's song. maybe he could've done one from justin. supervisor maxwell: the plants are so remarkable. if they are that great, and then what is the difference about having a new facility? folks, let's get with it. >> if we hav

supervisor maxwell has a commendation. i do understand the party would like to commend is here, and i would like to ask that we could suspend the board rules so we can hear that special order right now. colleagues, can we do that? if we could do that without objection, that should be the case, so with that, supervisor maxwell, the floor is yours. >> thank you for being here earlier. we really appreciate it. as mentioned, i want to recognize this group. the food guardian project is a group of hunters point community members to raise awareness, advocate on food issues. the project emerged in december 2009. give less than a year they worked with groups to develop food standards for sustainability a two rate food retailers. based on similar standards, these may be used by public agencies as well as criteria for qualifying for financial incentives and is an important step in pushing for healthy food availability in city stores. they harvested produce from local school guardian -- local school gardens and collected donations fro

supervisor maxwell: thank you. anybody else? planning or the other departments that have been involved? no? all right. then why don't we open this up for public comment. >> my name is francisco dekosta. as one of you know, i'm very familiar with this area. in this economic times, we have to be very careful to look at this area in a holistic way. most of this area is where the small businesses are, and i do not know if the businesses and some of the homes that are in this area were brought together as a focus group to address the concerns. in all the development that's going to happen over here, if you have eyes to see, you see a freeway. and whenever you have a free way -- freeway, you have the issue of particulates. now, i didn't hear anybody speak about this, but the area around silva is a hot spot for saturated particulates. and so the area from silva on old bayshore going down, we need to get some testing. we need to get some air testing. and some of you are sitting on this board know about the requirements because you repre