Will come to order.

Welcome to the July 8th, 2024 regular meeting of the Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

I am Supervisor Mirna Melgar, Chair of the Committee, joined by Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin and Vice Chair Dean Preston.

The committee clerk today is Mr.

John Carroll.

And I would also like to thank Jeanette Engelauf with SFGov TV for staffing this meeting.

Mr.

Clerk, do you have any announcements?

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.

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Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors' agenda of July 16th, 2024, unless otherwise stated.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Carroll.

Let's uh go to item number one, please.

Agenda item number one is an ordinance amending the planning code to conditionally permit vehicle storage lots in the residential enclave mixed and western Soma mixed use general districts and to update citations and cross-references in the text and tables of specified mixed-use districts.

Amending the zoning map to rezone 135 Kisling from residential enclave to residential enclave mixed, affirming the planning department's determination under CEQA, making findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies of planning code section 1.1 and findings of public convenience necessity or welfare pursuant to planning code section 302.

This item is agendized as a committee report, maybe sent to the board meeting tomorrow.

Thank you so much.

Uh Mr.

Clerk, we continued this item from last week.

And today we have uh Madison Tam here from Supervisor Dorsey's office to present and we also have Audrey Merlone here from the planning department in case anybody has any questions.

Uh thank you, Chair Melgar.

Uh, I gave a presentation last week on the substance of the policy, but one thing to follow up on was uh I had had conversations with President Peskin over the last week, and what we've decided to do to address some of his concerns is to duplicate today's file and then continue that to the call of the chair while his amendments are uh being finalized, and then we'll still send this original file today forward as a committee report.

Okay, sounds good.

Um let's then, if there's no other comments or questions, colleagues, let's go to public comment on this item.

Um, and then I will let uh President Peskin uh make that request.

Thank you.

Land use and transportation will now hear public comment on agenda item number one.

If you have public comment for the first agenda item, please come forward to lectern at this time.

And just a moment.

You may begin.

Great.

Thank you, Supervisor John Kevlin here on behalf of Royal Motors.

Uh the rezoning legislation before you today is uh necessary to complete their renovation of their existing auto repair operation at 12th and Howard Streets almost the entirety of the block.

Just a quick overview.

Um, the lot currently uh stores vehicles that are going to be serviced at the site, as well as overflow vehicles from the dealerships a couple blocks down on South Fam Ness.

Um this project with the stackers has been previously approved, as well as rezoning legislation associated with that approved by the Board of Supervisors.

Uh because of rezonings in the meantime, it's now become a not uh vehicle storage and not permitted use.

So this is basically uh we're trying to pursue a project that was approved several years ago to allow this uh PDR operation that's been in existence for four years uh to continue operating.

It's particularly important right now due to all of the development of the area, the nearby parking garage, their lease with that uh that building is going to expire in August, and they don't have the option to extend from that owner.

So this is particularly important at this moment.

Um, and as you know, it also includes now the warehouse building across uh Kisling Street, which is uh currently an unused warehouse, and we would be using that for auto repair uh and vehicle storage.

So thank you.

Um appreciate your consideration, and we're um very comfortable with the approach that um the supervisors have been discussing.

So I'm here if you have any questions.

Thank you.

Thank you for sharing your comments.

Do we have anyone else who has public comment related to agenda item number one?

Madam Chair.