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Board approves several bond and ordinance items; parks and hospital bond measures advance
Summary
On Feb. 9 the Board of Supervisors passed or advanced multiple measures including a $65 million parks bond, San Francisco General Hospital bond items, and moved several ordinances and scheduling motions for further committee review.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Feb. 9 took multiple formal actions across the consent and regular calendars, including adopting a parks bond resolution, advancing hospital bond authorizations, approving a planning-code amendment on garage construction in select neighborhoods, and scheduling future committee hearings.
Major roll-call outcomes recorded on the floor included:
- Item 15: A resolution authorizing a clean-and-safe neighborhood parks general-obligation bond not to exceed $65,000,000 was adopted by an 8-1 vote; the board recorded eight ayes and one no.
- Items 16 and 17: A resolution authorizing the sale of San Francisco General Hospital improvement bonds not to exceed $350,000,000 and an ordinance appropriating bond proceeds (amounts stated in the meeting record) for the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center were approved on roll call (9 ayes).
- Item 18: An ordinance amending the Planning Code to require conditional-use authorization to install a garage in existing residential structures in parts of North Beach, Telegraph Hill and the Chinatown mixed-use districts passed first reading by a vote of 7-2. The ordinance establishes a conditional-use process intended to limit garages that eliminate housing, create sidewalk-accessibility problems, or cause excessive loss of on-street parking in the specified neighborhoods.
- Item 23: The board scheduled a Committee of the Whole for Feb. 23 to consider a disposition and development agreement for a vacant parcel at 1345 Turk Street; the scheduling motion carried.
Other calendar items: The board received the mayor’s veto notice on file 091015 (an ordinance about reimbursing dignitary security) and scheduled a potential override vote for two weeks. Several charter-amendment items (including item 19 on mandated reductions of expenditures and item 20 on retirement benefits) were amended on the floor and continued for further committee consideration or duplication as described on the record. Item 6 (rent-stabilization code amendment) was continued for two weeks at the request of a supervisor's staff.
Votes recorded on the floor matched the roll-call tallies read during the meeting; where individual roll-call votes were announced, they are reflected in the board's official minutes. Several items passed on unanimous consent at the opening roll call (consent items 1–4), and the board took no final ballot placement action on the earthquake bond at this meeting (items 12–13 were amended and advanced separately).
