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Votes at a glance: Board passes multiple ordinances, approves Dominion contract extension; several planning items continued
Summary
On Jan. 10 the Board of Supervisors passed a slate of ordinances and an elections-contract amendment, approved a Park Merced easement vacation, and continued several planning appeals to March; one notable planning amendment (Vision Zero) failed.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors took a series of largely unanimous or routine actions on Jan. 10, adopting multiple ordinances, approving a contract amendment for voting equipment, confirming a Park Merced easement vacation, and continuing several planning items for additional review. Below are the principal actions recorded by roll call or unanimous consent.
- Dominion Voting Systems contract amendment (Item 2): The board authorized the Department of Elections to enter into the Fourth Amendment with Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., extending the agreement through Dec. 31, 2018 and increasing the not-to-exceed amount from $19,690,000 to approximately $21,900,000. The roll call was unanimous (11 ayes).
- Library fines and fees (Item 3): An ordinance to amend the administrative code to modify fines and fees for the public library passed unanimously on the same-house, same-call vote.
- Campaign and governmental conduct code (Item 4): An ordinance requiring members of city boards and commissions to file behested payment reports for solicited charitable contributions passed unanimously.
- Mission and Ninth Street Special Use District (Item 5): The board amended the planning code to create the Mission and Ninth Street Special Use District; the ordinance passed unanimously on same-house, same-call.
- Affordable housing fee alternative for small market-rate projects (Item 6): An ordinance creating an option for some smaller market-rate projects to direct affordable-housing fees to small-sites projects passed unanimously.
- Alex Nieto memorial in Bernal Heights Park (Item 7): An ordinance directing the Recreation and Park Department to install a memorial in honor of Alex Nieto, waive permit and inspection fees and affirm CEQA findings passed on roll call, 10 ayes and 1 no (Supervisor Farrell in dissent).
- Environment code restrictions on sale/distribution of bottled water on city property (Item 8): Amendment passed unanimously.
- Miscellaneous non-substantive code changes (Item 9): Amendments to various codes for non-substantive changes passed unanimously.
- Sidewalk width amendment (Item 10): An ordinance adjusting official sidewalk width along part of 30th Avenue passed unanimously on first reading.
- Terrace infill on a designated significant building (Item 11): An ordinance permitting terrace infill on a specified non-complying structure passed unanimously on first reading.
- Folsom Street project (Items 12–15 and 16–19): The board continued the public hearing items 12–15 related to demolition and construction at 2675 Folsom Street to the March 21, 2017 meeting by unanimous consent. For the associated conditional-use authorization items 16–19, appellants withdrew their conditional-use appeal; the board adopted item 17 and tabled items 18 and 19 by unanimous consent.
- Park Merced public service easement vacation order (Items 20–21): Sitting as a committee of the whole, the board held a public hearing and then on Item 21 approved the conditional vacation of certain SFPUC public service easements within Park Merced subphases 1A and 1B; the ordinance passed unanimously on first reading (11 ayes).
Several items generated debate or were continued for further work: the Vision Zero general-plan amendment (Item 22) was discussed at length and ultimately failed on roll call (1–10); multiple supervisors cited the need for more neighborhood outreach and clearer implementation language.
