The BOS Rules Committee will meet Monday, July 22, 10:00 a.m., in City Hall, room 263. Agenda
The BOS Land Use and Transportation Committee will meet Monday, July 22, 1:30 p.m., in City Hall, room 250. Agenda
- Legislation requiring a Conditional Use application to create employee cafeterias again, streamlining codes to help small businesses, and more legislation to lessen the red tape for North Beach businesses. Mandelman is proposing interesting changes to density limits for certain buildings. See Mandelman Legislation/30-Day Leg below.
The Transportation Authority Board will meet Tuesday, July 23, 10 a.m., in City Hall, room 250. Agenda
The SFMTA Policy and Governance Committee will meet Tuesday, July 23, 10 a.m., at 1 S. Van Ness Ave., 7th floor. Agenda and supporting materials here.
The SFMTA Board of Directors Search Committee for a Director of Transportation will meet Tuesday, July 23, 3:30 p.m., in City Hall, room 400. See agenda and supporting documents here.
The Board of Supervisors will meet Tuesday, July 23, 2 p.m., in City Hall, room 250. Agenda
There will be a Zoning Variance Hearing Wednesday, July 24, 9:30 a.m., in City Hall, room 408. Agenda
The BOS Budget and Finance Subcommittee will meet Wednesday, July 24, 10 a.m., in City Hall, room 250. Agenda
The SFMTA Engineering, Maintenance, & Safety Committee will meet Wednesday, July 24, 1 p.m., at 1 S. Van Ness Ave, 7th floor. See agenda and supporting documents here.
- 7. Presentation, discussion, and possible action regarding bike lane enforcement.
The SFMTA Interdepartmental Staff Committee on Traffic and Transportation (ISCOTT) will meet Thursday, July 25, 9 a.m., at 1 S. Van Ness Ave., 7th floor. See agenda and supporting documents here.
The BOS Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee will meet Thursday, July 25, 10 a.m, in City Hall, room 263. Agenda
The Planning Commission will have a closed meeting Thursday, July 25, 11 a.m., in City Hall, room 400. Agenda
The Planning Commission will meet Thursday, July 25, 1 p.m., in City Hall, room 400. Agenda and supporting docs
- In both the closed and open sessions, it looks like they’ll be discussing the 43 properties owned by the Academy of Art University. SF was suing them, though I’m not sure where the case is now. Here’s a link to a 2016 story in The Chron.
The SFMTA Color Curb Hearing will happen Friday, July 27, 10 a.m., in City Hall, room 416. Agenda
MANDELMAN LEGISLATION
The BOS Rules Committee will meet Monday, July 22, 10:00 a.m., in City Hall, room 263. Agenda
- 190737 [Supporting Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 6 (McCarty et al.) – Free the Vote Act] Sponsors: Haney; Walton, Mar, Brown, Mandelman, Ronen and Fewer Resolution supporting Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 6, introduced by Assembly Members Kevin McCarty, Rob Bonta, Wendy Carillo, Mike Gipson, Lorena Gonzalez, Ash Kalra, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, Kevin Mullin, Mark Stone, and Shirley Weber, and co-authored by Senator Scott Wiener, to allow automatic restoration of voting rights to those on parole upon completion of a state or federal prison term. 6/25/19; RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to the Rules Committee. 7/5/19; REFERRED TO DEPARTMENT
- 190588 [Hearing – Climate Emergency] Sponsor: Mandelman
Hearing to present and discuss high-priority strategies to achieve deep greenhouse gas emission reductions by 2030; and requesting the Department of Environment to report. 5/21/19; RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to the Land Use and Transportation Committee. 5/28/19; REFERRED TO DEPARTMENT.
The following legislation is submitted under the “30-Day Rule,” meaning it must be proposed 30 days before any hearing. The 30-Day Rule legislation is reserved for proposals that would “create or revise major city policy.”
- 190757 [Planning Code – Exemption from Density Limits for Affordable and Unauthorized Units; Residential Care Facilities] Sponsor: Mandelman
Ordinance amending the Planning Code to provide an exception from density limit calculations for all affordable units in projects not seeking and receiving a density bonus, permit the legalization of all unauthorized dwelling units notwithstanding a history of no-fault evictions, and principally permit residential care facilities for seven or more persons in all RH (Residential, House) zoning districts; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; making findings of consistency with the General Plan, and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1; and adopting findings of public necessity, convenience, and general welfare under Planning Code, Section 302. 7/9/19; ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE to the Land Use and Transportation Committee. 7/15/19; REFERRED TO DEPARTMENT.
The Board of Supervisors will meet Tuesday, July 23, 2 p.m., in City Hall, room 250. Agenda
- 190684 [Administrative Code – Senior Operating Subsidies Program Fund] Sponsors: Yee; Peskin, Ronen, Mar, Fewer, Safai, Haney, Brown, Stefani, Walton and Mandelman
Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to establish the Senior Operating Subsidies (SOS) Program Fund to be used to lower rents in housing developments occupied by low-income senior citizens. 07/16/2019; PASSED ON FIRST READING. Question: Shall this Ordinance be FINALLY PASSED?
- 190709 [Health Service System Plans and Contribution Rates – Calendar Year 2020] Sponsor: Mandelman
Ordinance approving Health Service System plans and contribution rates for calendar year 2020. (Pursuant to Charter, Section A8.422, this matter shall require a vote of three-fourths (9 votes) of all members of the Board of Supervisors to approve passage of this Ordinance.) (Fiscal Impact) Question: Shall this Ordinance be PASSED ON FIRST READING?
- 190584 [Initiative Ordinance – Business and Tax Regulations, Administrative Codes – Tax on Net Rider Fares of Commercial Ride-Share Companies, Autonomous Vehicles, and Private Transit Services Vehicles] Sponsors: Mayor; Peskin, Yee, Ronen, Mandelman, Brown, Fewer, Haney, Walton, Stefani and Safai
Motion ordering submitted to the voters at an election to be held on November 5, 2019, an Ordinance amending the Business and Tax Regulations Code and Administrative Code to impose an excise tax on the net rider fares for rides facilitated by commercial ride-share companies and rides provided by autonomous vehicles and private transit services vehicles, to fund transportation operations and infrastructure for traffic congestion mitigation in the City; and to increase the City’s appropriations limit by the amount collected under the tax for four years from November 5, 2019. (Economic Impact; No Office of Economic Impact Analysis Report.) Question: Shall this Motion be APPROVED?
- 190658 [Administrative Code – Ban on City-Funded Travel to and City Contracts Involving States With Restrictive Abortion Laws] Sponsors: Brown; Fewer, Stefani, Mandelman, Haney, Yee, Ronen, Walton, Safai, Mar and Peskin
Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to prohibit City-funded travel to states that have enacted laws that prohibit abortion prior to the viability of the fetus, and to prohibit City contracting with companies headquartered in states that have enacted such laws, or where work on the contract would be performed in such states. Question: Shall this Ordinance be PASSED ON FIRST READING?
- 190048 [Planning Code – Building Standards] Sponsor: Mandelman
Ordinance amending the Planning Code to 1) require building setbacks for buildings fronting on narrow streets, 2) modify front yard requirements in Residential Districts, 3) increase required rear yards in single-family zoning districts by five percent, 4) amend the rear yard requirements for through lots and corner lots in certain districts to permit second buildings where specified conditions are met, 5) allow building height increases to existing stories in existing nonconforming buildings in order to accommodate residential uses, and 6) provide that specified alterations to nonconforming structures for the purpose of creating habitable space or an Accessory Dwelling Unit are not subject to Section 311 review requirements if the specified requirements are met; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; and making findings of consistency with the General Plan and the Priority Policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1, and adopting findings of public necessity, convenience, and general welfare under Planning Code, Section 302. Question: Shall this Ordinance be PASSED ON FIRST READING?
- 190248 [Planning Code – Uses in the Upper Market NCT and NCT-3 Zoning Districts] Sponsor: Mandelman
Ordinance amending the Planning Code to revise the NCT-3 (Moderate-Scale Neighborhood Commercial Transit) District controls to allow Arts Activities, Philanthropic Administrative Services, and Public Facilities as a principal use on all stories and provide that in this District Arts Activities are considered to be active uses; revise the Upper Market Neighborhood Commercial Transit (NCT) District controls to allow Arts Activities and Institutional Uses as a principal use on all the first and second stories, allow Institutional Uses as a principal use on the first and second stories and as a conditional use on the third story and above, and to allow General Entertainment as a principal use on the first and second stories, delete the note for an existing ground-floor bar, and require a health service use on the first story that is not a licensed community or free clinic to comply with formula retail controls; delete the Upper Market NCT District from the requirements for ground floor commercial uses; modify the requirements for liquor stores and bars in the NCT-3 and Upper Market Street NCT Districts, add additional conditional use criteria for liquor stores and require liquor stores to comply with standard location and operating conditions, and add additional uses to the definition of Open Air Sales; delete Philanthropic Administrative Services from the Code as a separately-defined Institutional Use; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; making findings of consistency with the General Plan, and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1; and adopting findings of public necessity, convenience, and general welfare under Planning Code, Section 302. Question: Shall this Ordinance be PASSED ON FIRST READING?
- 190689 [Interim Zoning Control – Conditional Use Authorization Required for a Change of Use from Nighttime Entertainment to Another Use Allowed in the Defined South of Market Area] Sponsors: Haney; Mandelman
Resolution imposing an interim zoning control for an 18-month period requiring conditional use authorization for a change in use from nighttime entertainment to any other use allowed in the area South of Market Street bounded by the southwest side of 12th Street to the southwest side of 5th Street and the south side of Market Street to the south side of Harrison Street; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; and making findings of consistency with the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1. Question: Shall this Resolution be ADOPTED?
- 190495 [General Obligation Bond Election – Affordable Housing – Not to Exceed $600,000,000] Sponsors: Mayor; Yee, Brown, Safai, Walton, Stefani, Ronen, Mandelman, Mar, Haney, Peskin and Fewer
Ordinance calling and providing for a special election to be held in the City and County of San Francisco on Tuesday, November 5, 2019, for the purpose of submitting to San Francisco voters a proposition to incur bonded indebtedness not to exceed $600,000,000 to finance the construction, development, acquisition, improvement, rehabilitation, preservation, and repair of affordable housing improvements, and related costs necessary or convenient for the foregoing purposes; authorizing landlords to pass-through 50% of the resulting property tax increase to residential tenants under Administrative Code, Chapter 37; providing for the levy and collection of taxes to pay both principal and interest on such Bonds; incorporating the provisions of the Administrative Code relating to the Citizens’ General Obligation Bond Oversight Committee’s review of Affordable Housing Bond expenditures; setting certain procedures and requirements for the election; adopting findings under the California Environmental Quality Act; and finding that the proposed Bonds are in conformity with the General Plan, and with the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1(b). (Pursuant to California Government Code, Sections 43607 and 43608, this matter shall require a vote of two-thirds (8 votes) of all members of the Board of Supervisors to approve passage of this Ordinance.) 07/09/2019; PASSED ON FIRST READING. 07/16/2019; AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING SAME TITLE. 07/16/2019; CONTINUED AS AMENDED ON FIRST READING. Question: Shall this Ordinance be PASSED ON FIRST READING?
- 190547 [Administrative Code – Office of Racial Equity] Sponsors: Fewer; Brown, Walton, Mandelman, Ronen, Mar, Safai and Haney
Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to create an Office of Racial Equity as a Division of the Human Rights Commission Department, with authority to create a citywide Racial Equity Framework, assist City departments with the development of Racial Equity Action Plans, analyze and report on the impact of ordinances on racial equity, and carry out various other policy and reporting functions regarding racial equity; require City departments to create Racial Equity Action Plans and to provide annual updates on such Plans; require City departments to designate employees as racial equity leaders; and require the Department of Human Resources to produce an annual report concerning racial equity in the City workforce. (Fiscal Impact) Question: Shall this Ordinance be PASSED ON FIRST READING?
The BOS Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee will meet Thursday, July 25, 10 a.m, in City Hall, room 263. Agenda
The following legislation is submitted under the “30-Day Rule,” meaning it must be proposed 30 days before any hearing. The 30-Day Rule legislation is reserved for proposals that would “create or revise major city policy.”
- 190756 [Police Code – Cannabis Retailers at Permitted Cannabis Events] Sponsor: Mandelman
Ordinance amending the Police Code to require that cannabis retailers at permitted events hold Cannabis Business Permits issued by the City, that applicants for Cannabis Event Permits identify the retailers that will be selling cannabis goods at such events and affirm that said retailers hold City-issued Cannabis Business Permits, and that recipients of Cannabis Event Permits take steps to reasonably ensure that only said retailers will sell cannabis goods at such events; to provide that a material false statement made in connection with an application for a Cannabis Event Permit may be subject to administrative penalty, cause for denial of a pending or future application for a Cannabis Business Permit, and cause for suspension or revocation of an existing Cannabis Business Permit; and affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act. 7/9/19; ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE to the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee. 7/17/19; REFERRED TO DEPARTMENT.