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Votes at a glance: major Board actions on Dec. 1, 2015
Summary
The Board of Supervisors moved a large consent calendar and took final votes on multiple zoning, housing, finance and administrative items on Dec. 1. This roundup lists key items, short descriptions and the board's outcomes as recorded on the roll calls.
What the board approved (highlights from Dec. 1, 2015):
- Items 1'9 (Consent calendar): Approved as routine; roll call recorded 11 ayes. These items were described as routine and passed together without separate debate.
- Items 10, 11, 12 (Fifth & Mission Special Use District / development agreement): The board approved three related ordinances to amend the general plan and planning code, create the Fifth & Mission Special Use District, and approve a development agreement containing public benefits including a minimum percentage of affordable housing (items 10'12). Roll call recorded eight ayes and three noes; supervisors Campos, Mar and Avalos voted no. The ordinances were finally passed.
- Item 13 (Administrative Code, housing unit preferences): The Board passed an ordinance clarifying preferences in allocating city affordable housing units (preferences for certificate-of-preference holders, tenants displaced under the Ellis Act, and a neighborhood preference). Roll call recorded nine ayes and two noes (Supervisor Mar and Supervisor Tang voting no); the ordinance was finally passed.
- Items 14, 15, 16 (SFO hotel management agreement and financing): Approved (see separate article). Supervisor Farrell recused; the remaining supervisors voted to adopt the resolutions and pass the appropriation ordinance on first reading (10 ayes; no nos recorded among voting members).
- Item 17 (Navigation Partnership Fund): Ordinance to establish the Navigation Partnership Fund passed on first reading with a 10-1 vote; Supervisor Yi recorded a "no."
- Item 18 (MTA bond proceeds and appropriations re: parking, transit and pedestrian projects): Ordinance to appropriate approximately $9.4 million and move various bond proceeds passed unanimously on first reading (11 ayes).
- Item 19 (SF Access paratransit prevailing wages): Ordinance authorizing prevailing wage, transitional employment and retention provisions for brokered SF Access paratransit contracts (item included labor provisions); passed unanimously on first reading.
- Item 20 (CleanPowerSF launch contracts): Ordinance authorizing SFPUC to enter into $10,000,000+ power procurement agreements to launch CleanPowerSF passed unanimously on first reading.
- Items 21'22 (Rec & Park grants; Muni pole wireless licenses): Adopted unanimously (resolutions authorizing grant acceptance for Joseph Alioto Plaza and master license agreements for wireless equipment on Muni poles).
- Items 23'41 (Declarations of intent to reimburse bond-financed residential projects): Resolutions adopting not-to-exceed bond aggregation amounts for multiple multifamily projects were adopted unanimously.
- Items 42'45 (Rezoning and planning code changes): A series of planning-code and map amendments (Ocean Avenue, Rincon Hill, bulk limits at 525 Harrison, and removal of a prohibition on advertising sugar-sweetened beverages) were taken and passed on first reading; the sugar-sweetened beverages repeal was discussed by Supervisors Cohen and Wiener before passing unanimously on first reading.
- Item 46 (Transportation Sustainability Fee): Ordinance creating a citywide transportation sustainability fee and related amendments passed unanimously as amended on first reading after board amendments and a brief staff explanation.
- Items 47'49 (Ocean Beach bonfires resolution, Edgewood designation, Small Business Commission appointment): Adopted unanimously; Supervisor Marr led the Ocean Beach bonfire resolution; Miriam Zosunas was appointed to the Small Business Commission (term ending 01/06/2020).
- Items 50'53 (Bernal Heights 40 Bernal tentative map): After a public hearing and testimony from neighbors and planning staff, the board affirmed the tentative map (item 51) and tabled related items 52 and 53. The roll call on the map recorded ten ayes.
- Items 54'57 (639 Peralta tentative map): Continued to Jan. 26, 2016 pending court mediation and schedules.
- Items 58'61 (22 Ord Court conditional use authorization): Following mediation and an agreement between appellant and project sponsor, the board approved an amended action (item 60 as amended) and tabled items 59 and 61.
- Item 66 (2016 regular meeting schedule): The board approved the regular meeting schedule with clerks' cleanup amendments.
Other procedural notes: the board held several ceremonial recognitions (World AIDS Day mention, animal care events) and multiple introductions of new items and hearing requests (including audits, navigation-center and anti-hunger efforts). Several items were adopted on first reading pending subsequent steps required for final enactment.
Why this matters: The meeting combined significant land-use and finance votes (notably the Fifth & Mission rezoning and SFO hotel financing) with routine bond and appropriation housekeeping. Taken together, the day's votes reshape zoning and financing for major projects and set policy steps for housing, transportation fees and clean-power procurement.
