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Votes at a glance: Board adopts multiple ordinances and orders on first reading; select items sent back or tabled
Summary
At its Sept. 3 meeting the Board of Supervisors advanced multiple ordinances and resolutions — many by unanimous consent or on first reading — while a small number of items were referred back to committee for further work.
The board adopted or advanced a series of items on Sept. 3, 2019. Many measures were taken on first reading or by unanimous consent; a small number of items were referred back to committee or temporarily tabled. Below are the formal actions taken on the meeting record.
Summary of adopted items and outcomes (as recorded in the meeting):
- Item 1: Ordinance amending the Building Code to waive specified fees for 100% affordable housing projects and certain accessory dwelling units for an approximately one-year pilot program; the board approved the ordinance unanimously on the record (roll call showed 11 ayes). (CEQA affirmed.)
- Item 2: Ordinance to amend the Health, Planning and Police codes to streamline small-business permitting; referred from Land Use and Transportation Committee and passed unanimously on first reading.
- Item 3: Ordinance to amend the Planning Code regarding setbacks and standards for nonconforming buildings to accommodate residential uses; passed unanimously on first reading.
- Item 4: Ordinance to require conditional use authorization for employee cafeterias in office space; after Supervisor Safaí reported labor negotiations and card-check neutrality offers, the item was sent back to committee (motion passed without objection) to allow final agreements to be completed.
- Item 5: Planning-code amendments for the Chinatown Mixed Use District; a non-substantive amendment was offered and adopted; the ordinance passed as amended on first reading.
- Item 6: Ordinance permitting rooftop floor area on certain significant buildings under planning code Article 11 (subject to criteria); passed on first reading.
- Item 7: Resolution supporting issuance of a Type 42 on-sale beer and wine public premises liquor license for Aura (Nonovi LLC) at 1519 Polk Street; the board adopted the resolution unanimously.
- Item 8: Amendments to the Administrative Code (special tax financing law) to authorize special tax financing of certain Port facilities and services; passed on first reading unanimously.
- Items 9-12: Public hearing on a project at 655 Fourth Street was cancelled after an appellant withdrew an appeal; item 10 reaffirmed CEQA determination and items 11 and 12 were tabled.
- Item 14 (Seawall Lot 337/Mission Rock street vacation): The Board, sitting as a committee of the whole, approved the street vacation ordinance on first reading (motion by Supervisor Peskin; seconded by Supervisor Safa Yi). Public comment raised contamination and public-trust concerns.
- Item 16 (Potrero Hope SF Phase 2 street vacation): Approved on first reading (motion by Supervisor Safa Yi; seconded by Supervisor Haney). Supporters said the vacation would facilitate replacement public-housing units, childcare, open space and infrastructure replacement.
- Items 21 and 23: Adopted without reference to committee by roll call (11 ayes recorded for those items). Item 22 (a homeless-family policy resolution) was severed, discussed and later adopted as amended; the board incorporated additional "whereas" language and approved the amended resolution.
- Item 20: Supervisor Catherine Stefaniintroduced a resolution calling the NRA a domestic terrorist organization; the board adopted the resolution unanimously.
Notes: Where the record shows a unanimous adoption the clerk announced the vote or the roll call recorded 11 ayes. Several items were procedural or were passed on first reading and will return for later readings or final adoption as required by the charter. Items referred back to committee or tabled will return for additional hearings and revised ordinances.
