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Votes at a glance: Board adopts consent items, passes park ordinance, extends Western SoMa moratorium and approves other measures
Summary
At its Jan. 29 meeting the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted a large consent calendar and approved several individual measures, including final passage of a park code ordinance restricting overnight sleeping and landscape modifications, adoption of a resolution authorizing sale of tax-defaulted properties, and an urgency extension of a W
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors completed a series of roll-call votes on Jan. 29. Items on the consent calendar and several individual measures were adopted or passed on first reading as noted below.
Key outcomes
- Consent calendar: Items 1 through 15 were adopted by a single roll call. President Peskin announced "11 ayes" and the clerk declared the resolutions adopted and motions approved.
- Item 16 (park code ordinance): An ordinance amending park code to prohibit cooking, sleeping or modifying park landscape to create shelter from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. was finally passed on Jan. 29. The roll call produced 8 ayes and 3 noes; the clerk recorded "There are 8 ayes and 3 noes. The ordinance is finally passed." (Item 16)
- Item 19 (tax-defaulted property sale): A resolution authorizing the tax collector to sell at public auction certain tax-defaulted real property was adopted by roll call (11 ayes). (Item 19)
- Item 20 (health code, trans fat incentive): An ordinance creating an incentive program to encourage restaurants to discontinue artificial trans fats was passed on first reading; supervisors discussed voluntary approaches and staged implementation. (Item 20)
- Items 21-25: Multiple routine resolutions and motions (liquor license transfers, street renaming, interim zoning moratorium recommendation, and an approximately $27,000,000 UASI grant acceptance on behalf of the Department of Emergency Management) were adopted on the same-house, same-call vote as recorded in the minutes. (Items 2125)
- Item 27/35: The Board approved a motion to sit as a committee of the whole to review the city's response to the oil spill and then held a public hearing as the committee of the whole. (Items 27 and 35)
- Item 32 (Western SoMa interim zoning moratorium): The Board adopted an urgency ordinance extending a 45-day interim zoning moratorium to prohibit new institutional uses in the Western SoMa Planning Area Special Use District. Roll call: 11 ayes; the ordinance was finally passed. (Item 32)
Notes and context
- Several items were continued or tabled during the meeting: Item 17 (camera-recording access ordinance) was continued to Feb. 12; Item 18 (self-imposed suppression order after Ethics Commission referral) was tabled; Items 2831 (Jackson Street project environmental-exemption challenge) were continued by request.
- Item 25 referenced acceptance and expansion of an "urban area security initiative" grant of approximately $27,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; the ordinance authorizing acceptance was passed on first reading.
This summary lists formal outcomes recorded in the Jan. 29 Board of Supervisors meeting minutes and roll calls.
