# Board of Supervisors Minutes: May 8, 2018

- Meeting date: 2018-05-08
- Document type: minutes
- Pages in official PDF: 17
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## Structured legislative records

### File 171137: Administrative Code - Employee Regional Disaster Support Program

- Pages: 3-4

### File 180081: Administrative Code - Reentry Council - Eligibility Age Change

- Pages: 4

### File 180171: Administrative Code - Treasury Oversight Committee

- Pages: 4

### File 180215: Municipal Elections Code - Disclosure Regarding Ballot Measures Involving Port Public Trust Property

- Pages: 4-5
- Vote 1: final-passage, likely final
  - Action: 180215 [Municipal Elections Code - Disclosure Regarding Ballot Measures Involving Port Public Trust Property] Sponsor: Peskin Ordinance amending the Municipal Elections Code to require a notice in the voter information pamphlet for measures that would approve a development project or a substantial land use or zoning change on land held subject to the public trust by the City, acting by and through the Port Commission. Ordinance No. 120-18 FINALLY PASSED The foregoing items were acted upon by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Breed, Cohen, Fewer, Kim, Peskin, Ronen, Safai, Sheehy, Stefani, Tang, Yee

### File 171284: Building Code - Slope and Seismic Hazard Zone Protection Act

- Pages: 5-6
- Vote 1: amendment
  - Action: that triggers application of the Act which was omitted inadvertently in the adoption of the 2016 Code; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; and directing the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors to forward this Ordinance to the California Building Standards Commission upon final passage. Supervisors Safai, Cohen, and Sheehy requested to be added as co-sponsors. Supervisor Peskin, seconded by Supervisor Safai, moved that this Ordinance be AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE, by renaming the City’s ‘Slope Protection Act’ to ‘Slope and Seismic Hazard Zone Protection Act’, changing the application of the protection from properties that ‘exceeds an average slope of 25%’ to properties that ‘exceed an average slope of ‘4 horizontal to 1 vertical’, expanding the mandatory review requirements that may be imposed by the Department of Building Inspection, adding review by a Structural Advisory Committee and specifying their considerations, changing the regulations to implement the Slope and Seismic Hazard Zone Protection Act, and making other clarifying and conforming changes. The motion carried by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Breed, Cohen, Fewer, Kim, Peskin, Ronen, Safai, Sheehy, Stefani, Tang, Yee
- Vote 2: first-reading
  - Action: Ordinance amending the Building Code to revise the renamed City’s Slope and Seismic Hazard Zone Protection Act by clarifying the scope of its application to properties exceeding an average slope of 4:1 grade, updating the map references, mandating review by the Department of Building Inspection’s Structural Advisory Committee and/or a third party peer review under specified circumstances, and re-enacting and modifying a paragraph in the scope section regarding the type of proposed construction that triggers application of the Act that was omitted inadvertently in the adoption of the 2016 Code; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; and directing the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors to forward this Ordinance to the California Building Standards Commission upon final passage. PASSED ON FIRST READING AS AMENDED by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Breed, Cohen, Fewer, Kim, Peskin, Ronen, Safai, Sheehy, Stefani, Tang, Yee

## Extracted text

### [Page 4](https://sfbos.info/documents/510/2018-05-08-minutes#page-4)

Board of Supervisors                             Meeting Minutes                                                5/8/2018



180081 [Administrative Code - Reentry Council - Eligibility Age Change]
            Sponsors: Breed; Cohen
            Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to change the eligibility age for one of the seven
            former inmate members appointed to the Reentry Council by the Mayor from ages 18 to 24 to
            ages 18 to 35, and to require that that inmate member have been an inmate before the age of 24.
            Ordinance No. 116-18
            FINALLY PASSED


180171 [Administrative Code - Treasury Oversight Committee]
            Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to modify the composition of the Treasury Oversight
            Committee. (Treasurer-Tax Collector)
            Ordinance No. 119-18
            FINALLY PASSED


180215 [Municipal Elections Code - Disclosure Regarding Ballot Measures Involving Port
       Public Trust Property]
            Sponsor: Peskin
            Ordinance amending the Municipal Elections Code to require a notice in the voter information
            pamphlet for measures that would approve a development project or a substantial land use or
            zoning change on land held subject to the public trust by the City, acting by and through the Port
            Commission.
            Ordinance No. 120-18
            FINALLY PASSED

            The foregoing items were acted upon by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 11 - Breed, Cohen, Fewer, Kim, Peskin, Ronen, Safai, Sheehy, Stefani, Tang, Yee




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### [Page 5](https://sfbos.info/documents/510/2018-05-08-minutes#page-5)

Board of Supervisors                             Meeting Minutes                                               5/8/2018




REGULAR AGENDA


UNFINISHED BUSINESS


Recommendation of the Land Use and Transportation Committee

171284 [Building Code - Slope and Seismic Hazard Zone Protection Act]
            Sponsors: Peskin; Safai, Cohen and Sheehy
            Ordinance amending the Building Code to revise the City’s Slope Protection Act by clarifying the
            scope of its application to properties exceeding an average slope of 25% grade, updating the map
            references, mandating review by the Department of Building Inspection’s Structural Advisory
            Committee, and re-enacting and modifying a paragraph in the scope section regarding the type of
            proposed construction that triggers application of the Act which was omitted inadvertently in the
            adoption of the 2016 Code; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California
            Environmental Quality Act; and directing the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors to forward this
            Ordinance to the California Building Standards Commission upon final passage.
            Supervisors Safai, Cohen, and Sheehy requested to be added as co-sponsors.
            Supervisor Peskin, seconded by Supervisor Safai, moved that this Ordinance be AMENDED, AN
            AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE, by renaming the City’s ‘Slope Protection Act’ to
            ‘Slope and Seismic Hazard Zone Protection Act’, changing the application of the protection from
            properties that ‘exceeds an average slope of 25%’ to properties that ‘exceed an average slope of ‘4
            horizontal to 1 vertical’, expanding the mandatory review requirements that may be imposed by the
            Department of Building Inspection, adding review by a Structural Advisory Committee and specifying
            their considerations, changing the regulations to implement the Slope and Seismic Hazard Zone
            Protection Act, and making other clarifying and conforming changes. The motion carried by the
            following vote:
                Ayes: 11 - Breed, Cohen, Fewer, Kim, Peskin, Ronen, Safai, Sheehy, Stefani, Tang, Yee
            Ordinance amending the Building Code to revise the renamed City’s Slope and Seismic Hazard
            Zone Protection Act by clarifying the scope of its application to properties exceeding an average
            slope of 4:1 grade, updating the map references, mandating review by the Department of Building
            Inspection’s Structural Advisory Committee and/or a third party peer review under specified
            circumstances, and re-enacting and modifying a paragraph in the scope section regarding the type
            of proposed construction that triggers application of the Act that was omitted inadvertently in the
            adoption of the 2016 Code; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California
            Environmental Quality Act; and directing the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors to forward this
            Ordinance to the California Building Standards Commission upon final passage.
            PASSED ON FIRST READING AS AMENDED by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 11 - Breed, Cohen, Fewer, Kim, Peskin, Ronen, Safai, Sheehy, Stefani, Tang, Yee




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