. >> chair melgar: mr. law, is it your sense that it has affected this in any way or they have just been able to roll out what they needed to when processing the applications? >> sure. i would say largely this won't impact their ability to do business in san francisco because we do have a temporary authorization for them to sell cannabis at the same time, but that's actually a perfect segue to move to your second question. within 30 days, they're required to submit their report to support the city's equity goal. some of them would [indiscernible] kind of section to demonstrate to equity applicants how to run a business, how to apply for business permit [indiscernible] manufacture or cultivated by equity applicants across jurisdictions. >> chair melgar: great. thank you so much, mr. law. colleagues, do we have any questions for these folks? okay. so with that, madam clerk, let's take public comment on this item. >> clerk: thank you, madam chair. d.t. is checking to see if we have any callers on hold. if you

supervisor melgar. you have 3 ayes. >>chair melgar: please call item number two. >>erica major: item 2 is a resolution designating landmark designation under item to for the trocadero clubhouse and recreation grove located at 2750 19th avenue and extending the prescribed time which the historic preservation commission may render its decision by 90 days. members of the public who wish toprovide public comment on item number two to callthe number on their screen , 1-415-655-0001 . the meeting id is 187-695-5994. please dial á3 to line up to speak. the system prompts will indicate you have raised your hand. wait until the system indicate you have been unmute it when we get to public comment , madam chair. >>chair melgar: we are not joined by supervisor mark who is sponsoringthis initiation supervisor, would you like to share some remarks ? >> thank you for your time today considering this resolution to initiate a historic landmark designation for the trocadero clubhouse inside stern grove and also thank youfor your cosponsorship . if you can walk into the annual mus

>> chair melgar: yes, supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, chair melgar. i was going to actually say a few words of transition and then i was going to add a few words, relative to the matters of items 1 and 2 that are before us. and no offense to supervisor preston, but i would have -- that would have afforded me that opportunity. having said that, i would like to welcome chair melgar to her first committee meeting and her first chairpersonship. and i look very much forward to working with both of you over the next two years. and i'll reserve the balance of my comments for later on in this meeting. >> chair melgar: thank you very much, supervisor. so today we will be hearing a presentation by josh switzi from the planning department and jeff buckley from the mayor's department. sarah jones from the san francisco m.t.a. are also in attendance. and they are available for questions. so welcome and thank you for being here today. and you may proceed with your presentations. >> good afternoon, chair melgar and supervisors preston and peskin. really appreciate t

. >> chair melgar: mr. law, is it your sense that it has affected this in any way or they have just been able to roll out what they needed to when processing the applications? >> sure. i would say largely this won't impact their ability to do business in san francisco because we do have a temporary authorization for them to sell cannabis at the same time, but that's actually a perfect segue to move to your second question. within 30 days, they're required to submit their report to support the city's equity goal. some of them would [indiscernible] kind of section to demonstrate to equity applicants how to run a business, how to apply for business permit [indiscernible] manufacture or cultivated by equity applicants across jurisdictions. >> chair melgar: great. thank you so much, mr. law. colleagues, do we have any questions for these folks? okay. so with that, madam clerk, let's take public comment on this item. >> clerk: thank you, madam chair. d.t. is checking to see if we have any callers on hold. if you

. >> chair melgar: okay. so if we have no other comments or questions, madam clerk, let's go to public comment. >> clerk: thank you, madam president. d.t. is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. if you have not already done so, press star, three to enter the queue. if you have already done so, please wait until the system indicated you have been unmuted before you begin your comments. it looks like we have one caller in public comment, and michael, if you could unmute that caller, please. hello, caller. you may begin your comments for item number 1, and it looks like the person hung up, and that looks to be the -- it looks like that was the only caller in queue, madam chair. >> chair melgar: okay. thank you very much, madam clerk, so public comment on this item is now closed. does someone want to make a motion to move this item forward? go ahead, supervisor preston. >> supervisor preston: thank you, chair melgar. so i think i'd like to duplicate the file, which does not require a motion unle

chair melgar, i think i'll kind of leave it at that for my questions for now. >> chair melgar: okay. thank you so much, supervisor mar. supervisor preston or supervisor peskin, do you have any questions? >> supervisor preston: i do, chair melgar. supervisor mar, thank you so much for your presentation on this and your health care workers report. i will admit to a little bit of frustration at the lack of media interest in your work and that planning is working on this report. it is a very strange upside down media landscape when a quick google search reveals 19 separate articles on a housing project on stevenson street while zero addresses the issues that we are addressing today. but that said, i do have a couple of questions about the report that was presented, and through the chair, thank you for your work on this. i was curious why all the various income levels, 120 and up, are put in that one category -- well, let's just start on that. i'm curious why it's reported in that way. >> it was: admin code asked us to report by the four rhna categories, and that's what we did, and everyt

. >> chair melgar: mr. law, is it your sense that it has affected this in any way or they have just been able to roll out what they needed to when processing the applications? >> sure. i would say largely this won't impact their ability to do business in san francisco because we do have a temporary authorization for them to sell cannabis at the same time, but that's actually a perfect segue to move to your second question. within 30 days, they're required to submit their report to support the city's equity goal. some of them would [indiscernible] kind of section to demonstrate to equity applicants how to run a business, how to apply for business permit [indiscernible] manufacture or cultivated by equity applicants across jurisdictions. >> chair melgar: great. thank you so much, mr. law. colleagues, do we have any questions for these folks? okay. so with that, madam clerk, let's take public comment on this item. >> clerk: thank you, madam chair. d.t. is checking to see if we have any callers on hold. if you

>> chair melgar: thank you. we are now joined by the sponsor of this item, supervisor hillary ronen. supervisor ronen, the floor is yours. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much, supervisor melgar, for hearing this item. a bit of background on the type of incidents that lend me to prepare the legislation. in may 2020, structural engineer and formal building inspector rodrigo santos was arrested and charged with bank fraud. the city employee already had a court case against him, and nevertheless, he continues to be an active participation on recent projects across the city, particularly in district 9. in another case, our office has been working with the city departments to resolve a problem in the portola neighborhood where a team of developers got a permit to construct ten residential units but instead constructed 30, creating a tangle of violations. and then, there was the case of a demolition on [indiscernible] street. while planning considered it an unpermitted demolition which required it to go before the c

thank you, chair melgar. >> chair melgar: thank you, supervisor preston. well, we should go to public comment on this item if there's no more speakers. madam clerk, can we go to public comment? >> clerk: madam chair, d.t. is checking to see how many callers we have in the queue. for those already on hold, wait until you hear a system prompt that you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. we have ten listeners and six in queue. kalina, if you could unmute the first caller, please. >> hi. this is [indiscernible], and i'm the executive director of jobs for justice in san francisco. we have been looking forward to this report. i appreciate the supervisors and their offices for making this happen. i just wanted to, in thinking about this report, it's so essential. i think there's a lot of misinformation about oh, there's not enough housing when the question is there's not enough question for low wage workers and very low wage workers. a little while ago, we were looking for workers for the today show about commuters. we just asked a couple of our me

. >> supervisor melgar: good afternoon. welcome to the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisor melgar, chair of the supervisors. i'm supervisor melgar, chair of the committee joined by vice-chair supervisor preston and supervisor peskin. the committee clerk is erica major. i would also like to acknowledge sfgovtv. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect board members, city employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. this precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stay at home order - and all local, state and federal orders, declarations and directives. committee members will attend the meeting through videoconference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. either channel 26, 78, or 99 and sfg

>> supervisor melgar: yes. >> thank you chair melgar. as one of your loyal district 7 residents, i'm pleased that you're sponsoring this resolution and holding this hearing. thank you also supervisor peskin and preston and supervisor mar who coincidentally i met gordon mar at the time when we were both doing environmental justice work. we have a long history of concern for environment and environmental justice. i think sb37 is really important to furthering that. in response to the planning department's position, which is i think the key issue here, i want to point out. the planning department has been violating ceqa for a decade by granting ceqa exemptions to projects built on contaminated sites. ceqa section 210884 states that projects on contaminated sites cannot be exempted from ceqa period. it doesn't make it a distinction between categorical exemptions and common sense exemptions. sb37 was intended to close the loophole created that the planning department has exploited here. as a result, at least it dozen to 20 sites has been exem

thank you. >> supervisor melgar: thank you supervisor peskins. colleagues if there's no other questions or comments, madam clerk, let's take public comment please. >> clerk: we are checking to see if there are callers in the que. press star 3 for those who haven't already to be added to the que. we have zero callers, zero in the que madam chair. >> supervisor melgar: seeing no other callers, public comment on this item is closed. supervisor peskin did you make a motion? >> supervisor peskin: so moved to make that little amendment. >> supervisor melgar: great. madam clerk? >> clerk: (roll call) you have three ayes. >> supervisor melgar: thank you madam clerk. is there a motion to pass this as amended please? >> supervisor peskin: i will make a motion to send item to the full board with positive recommendation. >> supervisor melgar: thank you. >> clerk: (roll call) you have three ayes. >> supervisor melgar: thank you. this motion passes with positive recommendation. madam clerk, are there any other items before us today? >> clerk: that completes th

. >> supervisor melgar: thank you. mr. star, how is this different from the 311 notification? >> sure. 311 notification is only 150 feet and not 300 feet and goes to all owners and occupants and lets the people know within that radius that the business will be changing from medical to cannibis retail. they have 30 days to file a discretionary review and that can go to the planning commission for a hearing. i think -- our thinking with recommending approval with this, businesses have been operating for four years already and no material change in the operation of the business from the medical cannibis to dispensary. because we have an office of cannibis that regulates the licence more efficiently than we could, their process seems like a better way to deal with it in that respect. >> supervisor melgar: we're trusting if someone wasn't a good neighbor and the neighbors weigh in and tell you that, you would have the discretion not to issue a licence. for the retail? okay. thank you so much. colleagues, do we have more que

chair melgar, i think i'll kind of leave it at that for my questions for now. >> chair melgar: okay. thank you so much, supervisor mar. supervisor preston or supervisor peskin, do you have any questions? >> supervisor preston: i do, chair melgar. supervisor mar, thank you so much for your presentation on this and your health care workers report. i will admit to a little bit of frustration at the lack of media interest in your work and that planning is working on this report. it is a very strange upside down media landscape when a quick google search reveals 19 separate articles on a housing project on stevenson street while zero addresses the issues that we are addressing today. but that said, i do have a couple of questions about the report that was presented, and through the chair, thank you for your work on this. i was curious why all the various income levels, 120 and up, are put in that one category -- well, let's just start on that. i'm curious why it's reported in that way. >> it was: admin code asked us to report by the four rhna categories, and that's what we did, and everyt

>> supervisor melgar: good afternoon. welcome to the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisor melgar, chair of the supervisors. i'm supervisor melgar, chair of the committee joined by vice-chair supervisor preston and supervisor peskin. the committee clerk is erica major. i would also like to acknowledge sfgovtv. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect board members, city employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. this precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stay at home order - and all local, state and federal orders, declarations and directives. committee members will attend the meeting through videoconference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. either channel 26, 78, or 99 and sfg

. >> chair melgar: mr. law, is it your sense that it has affected this in any way or they have just been able to roll out what they needed to when processing the applications? >> sure. i would say largely this won't impact their ability to do business in san francisco because we do have a temporary authorization for them to sell cannabis at the same time, but that's actually a perfect segue to move to your second question. within 30 days, they're required to submit their report to support the city's equity goal. some of them would [indiscernible] kind of section to demonstrate to equity applicants how to run a business, how to apply for business permit [indiscernible] manufacture or cultivated by equity applicants across jurisdictions. >> chair melgar: great. thank you so much, mr. law. colleagues, do we have any questions for these folks? okay. so with that, madam clerk, let's take public comment on this item. >> clerk: thank you, madam chair. d.t. is checking to see if we have any callers on hold. if you

madam chair. >> supervisor melgar: thank you. for those joining us for public comment today, please note that we will be calling items 3 and 4 together later on in this meeting. please call item number 1. >> clerk: item number 1 is the hearing to discuss the state of sidewalk conditions and ongoing maintenance strategy to ensure variant accessibility for people with disability. members of the public wish to provide public comment call the number on the screen. that number is (415)655-0001. meeting i.d. today is 2492 843 1104 press pound issue pound again. the system will indicate that you have raised your hand and confirmation. >> supervisor melgar: thank you very much. today, we have this hearing on the state of the sidewalk. our city, you called this hearing at the request of a number of community members who were growing increasingly concerned with difficulty of navigating hazardous sidewalks, especially people who have limited mobility because of a disability or age. residents were feeling that the process of making official

>> supervisor mandelman: iq chair melgar. thank you chair melgar and happy invisibility day to all. this is an ordinance to designate a longtime hold of the slider: secure one duncan street san francisco historic landmark and i want to begin my thinking supervisor peskin for your cosponsorship. phyllis passed away over a year ago in april were giants of the early lgbtq rights movement. they were the first same-sex couple legally wed in san francisco. the home they live together and worthless the end of her life, 651 duncan is a 751 square-foot college times with stunning views of the city inside of community gatherings, private parties where lesbians could gather really to dance and be themselves and worthless and countless other activists and historical figuresover half a century organizers and community leaders .home is a site of historic value san francisco and the lgbtq movement across the world and it should be recognized and preserved. in february the historic preservation commission recommended moving forward to make 651 duncan first landmark associated with the history of th

supervisor melgar. you have 3 ayes. >>chair melgar: please call item number two. >>erica major: item 2 is a resolution designating landmark designation under item to for the trocadero clubhouse and recreation grove located at 2750 19th avenue and extending the prescribed time which the historic preservation commission may render its decision by 90 days. members of the public who wish toprovide public comment on item number two to callthe number on their screen , 1-415-655-0001 . the meeting id is 187-695-5994. please dial á3 to line up to speak. the system prompts will indicate you have raised your hand. wait until the system indicate you have been unmute it when we get to public comment , madam chair. >>chair melgar: we are not joined by supervisor mark who is sponsoringthis initiation supervisor, would you like to share some remarks ? >> thank you for your time today considering this resolution to initiate a historic landmark designation for the trocadero clubhouse inside stern grove and also thank youfor your cosponsorship . if you can walk into the annual mus

. >> thank you, chair melgar. i'm happy to say chair melgar. thank you for having me. colleagues, i'm going to request a continuance to the month of may, may 24th. as we got to the final leg of this legislation, i've been working on this for two years. we've uncovered some final issue that is we need a little more time to resolve. they actually have to do with the transfer and weigh stations where much of this construction and demolition waste will go. some of these facilities are in san francisco. some of them are out of san francisco, but we want to ensure, we want to standardize the playing field. some of the operators in the past have been allowed to not have scales and allowed a method of eye balling this. we really want to allow for there to be the proper weighing facility, the proper oversight for enforcement. so for all those reasons, we're going to continue to work with the department of environment, the department of public health and come back with some final amendments with a larger amendment package to present to this committee and so we felt like a couple

thank you, chair melgar. >> supervisor melgar: with that, madam clerk, please go to public comment. >> we are checking for callers. press star 3 to be added the queue to speak. for those on hold continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted. we have 12 listeners with seven in the queue. first caller, please. >> greetings. don mcgrain. i would like to express how i wanted to live in the san francisco bay area. i was sworn in the marine corps. after the pandemic i lost housing. i lost security deposit on our house. we have a couch surf sleep anything the car. i turned to va for help. i didn't have much options. i had to resort to non-profit to get housed in mission inn which wasn't a great place for my family. if you were a veteran and maybe that would be a good place but not for young kids. through jenna at 401 third street on the va she came through after staying three months at the mission inn which was not appropriate we got down to some housing in men io park. we had to get out of san francisco to get housing. too much police activity and drugs and crime. we are waiti

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thank you supervisor melgar. i wonder if i can have the screen share activated help. that's activated. thank you. so i'd like to begin by acknowledging the many public sector leaders who've made today's presentation possible. in particular, the department of public health, the all children all families coalition, dclyf, hsa and numerous others. and, i'll ask that the elected officials and others listening take a deep breath. i had a mentor who said to me we have the most complicated descriptions for the things we understand the least and there's probably no more winding road and difficult public sector administrative challenge than medi-cade. california devolves the vast majority for understanding and accessing these funds to the local level and it's really complex and difficult. and i will without doing too much on my background, i have directly worked in and built. i've been an emergency social worker, worked in schools, directed and designed mental health services for children. and for seven years, i was the h

. >> thank you, chair melgar. i'm happy to say chair melgar. thank you for having me. colleagues, i'm going to request a continuance to the month of may, may 24th. as we got to the final leg of this legislation, i've been working on this for two years. we've uncovered some final issue that is we need a little more time to resolve. they actually have to do with the transfer and weigh stations where much of this construction and demolition waste will go. some of these facilities are in san francisco. some of them are out of san francisco, but we want to ensure, we want to standardize the playing field. some of the operators in the past have been allowed to not have scales and allowed a method of eye balling this. we really want to allow for there to be the proper weighing facility, the proper oversight for enforcement. so for all those reasons, we're going to continue to work with the department of environment, the department of public health and come back with some final amendments with a larger amendment package to present to this committee and so we felt like a couple

thank you supervisor melgar. i wonder if i can have the screen share activated help. that's activated. thank you. so i'd like to begin by acknowledging the many public sector leaders who've made today's presentation possible. in particular, the department of public health, the all children all families coalition, dclyf, hsa and numerous others. and, i'll ask that the elected officials and others listening take a deep breath. i had a mentor who said to me we have the most complicated descriptions for the things we understand the least and there's probably no more winding road and difficult public sector administrative challenge than medi-cade. california devolves the vast majority for understanding and accessing these funds to the local level and it's really complex and difficult. and i will without doing too much on my background, i have directly worked in and built. i've been an emergency social worker, worked in schools, directed and designed mental health services for children. and for seven years, i was the h

. >> thank you, president melgar. [inaudible] -- by the city in these communities over many decades has resulted in aging obsolete infrastructure. to restore public benefits to hope s.f. communities, new streets and sidewalks were created along with other community infrastructure benefits. we are coming before you today to ensure the continued priority of these s.f. hope benefits. >> good afternoon, chair melgar and supervisors preston and peskin. cindy [inaudible], mohcd, project manager, working on hunters view on all of the phases. this is the first development to begin construction and completed first phase of construction. the picture to the left is of the original hunters view site. there were 51 public housing buildings on approximately 23 acres of land. the site was unconnected to city street grids and services and did not have dedicated resident services. when the entire hope s.f. revitalization is complete, there will be one for one replacement based on the impact existing unit type configuration since 2005.

. >> thank you, president melgar. [inaudible] -- by the city in these communities over many decades has resulted in aging obsolete infrastructure. to restore public benefits to hope s.f. communities, new streets and sidewalks were created along with other community infrastructure benefits. we are coming before you today to ensure the continued priority of these s.f. hope benefits. >> good afternoon, chair melgar and supervisors preston and peskin. cindy [inaudible], mohcd, project manager, working on hunters view on all of the phases. this is the first development to begin construction and completed first phase of construction. the picture to the left is of the original hunters view site. there were 51 public housing buildings on approximately 23 acres of land. the site was unconnected to city street grids and services and did not have dedicated resident services. when the entire hope s.f. revitalization is complete, there will be one for one replacement based on the impact existing unit type configuration since 2005.

. >> thank you, supervisor melgar. to answer the question, the parcel at budget has been significantly impacted over several years in delays in the construction environment and a lot of additions to the budget through this process that we've been working our way through. the contemplated letter of credit and ability to allow the fee to be deployed through ocii [inaudible] does have a financial benefit to the project because as opposed to paying for the project in cash of $45 million, it allows us to delay that payment until it's needed. otherwise, as supervisor peskin said, it's cash in the bank, but it's a negative drag on the project that is parcel f to be moving forward and viable, simply that said. so we have the letter of credit concept that we worked out with ocii, which is, you know, creditworthy bank grade letter of credit, so it is a financing mechanism that allows us to reduce the burden of that payment when it's needed, and that's why we did it. it has an impact on the project's financial potential, so chang

thank you supervisor melgar. i wonder if i can have the screen share activated help. that's activated. thank you. so i'd like to begin by acknowledging the many public sector leaders who've made today's presentation possible. in particular, the department of public health, the all children all families coalition, dclyf, hsa and numerous others. and, i'll ask that the elected officials and others listening take a deep breath. i had a mentor who said to me we have the most complicated descriptions for the things we understand the least and there's probably no more winding road and difficult public sector administrative challenge than medi-cade. california devolves the vast majority for understanding and accessing these funds to the local level and it's really complex and difficult. and i will without doing too much on my background, i have directly worked in and built. i've been an emergency social worker, worked in schools, directed and designed mental health services for children. and for seven years, i was the h