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Votes at a glance: Board passes multiple ordinances, adopts 474 Natoma ground lease
Summary
At its Nov. 15, 2011 meeting the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted several consent and calendar items, including ordnances on financial policy and code changes, and approved a ground lease for a 60-unit very-low-income housing project at 474 Natoma Street.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a number of consent calendar ordinances and resolutions on Nov. 15, 2011, then moved on to several public hearings and special orders. Highlights from the day's roll calls and formal actions follow.
Key items decided
- Consent agenda (items 2—6): The board approved items 2 through 6 in a single roll-call vote; the clerk recorded 11 ayes and the items were finally passed. These were routine consent matters on the published agenda.
- Item 7: An ordinance amending the administrative code to adopt a binding financial policy under charter section 9.12 (restricting the use of selected non-recurring revenues) was passed on first reading without objection.
- Item 8: The Budget and Finance Committee—s ordinance appropriating approximately $3,400,000 of state revenue loss reserves and federal revenues to support adult day health centers at the Human Services Agency for FY 2011—12 was finally passed by the board.
- Item 9: An ordinance amending the police code to modify the referral requirements for commercial parking permits to the Municipal Transportation Agency was passed on first reading.
- Items 10 and 11: A resolution approving a memorandum of understanding on regional homeland security grant disbursements and an administrative-code change to reference the Department of Public Works in lieu of several bureaus were adopted without objection.
- Item 15 (adopted as amended): The board adopted a resolution authorizing the Redevelopment Agency to execute a ground lease for a proposed affordable housing project at 474 Natoma Street in the South of Market redevelopment area. The Redevelopment Agency reported that the project, led by Bridge Housing, is planned to provide 60 units of rental housing for very-low-income households, with at least 25 two- and three-bedroom units and at least 35 units set below 50 percent of Area Median Income (AMI). Construction was scheduled to begin in January 2012 with completion estimated in the fall of 2013. The ground lease term was structured up to 99 years to preserve long-term affordability; the resolution clarified that the lease is an enforceable obligation entered before the statewide suspension of redevelopment activities.
Other actions
- Items 21—28 (adoption without committee reference): The board took a single roll-call vote to adopt a group of calendar items (21—28); the clerk recorded 11 ayes and the resolutions were adopted.
Context and next steps
The board moved a mix of routine and policy items through the consent and adoption calendars with substantial unanimity on noncontroversial matters. The 474 Natoma ground lease will move into implementation steps coordinated by the Redevelopment Agency and the developer; the resolution included direction to finalize the lease and affirmed the project's status as an enforceable obligation under state law.
Ending: The board adjourned after adopting the day's calendar and several commendations and in-memoriam adjournments. Several items were continued for scheduling reasons (for example, a wireless facility hearing was continued to Dec. 13). The clerk's roll-call votes included itemized tallies for each adopted resolution and ordinance; the official minute book is the authoritative record for ordinance numbers and formal publication requirements.
