# Board of Supervisors Minutes: April 14, 2020

- Meeting date: 2020-04-14
- Document type: minutes
- Source format: PDF
- Extracted pages: 26
- [Canonical HTML transcript](https://sfbos.info/documents/667/2020-04-14-minutes)
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## Structured legislative records

### File 200212: Accept and Expend Grant and Amend the Annual Salary Ordinance - Retroactive - Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program - United States Homeland Security - $1,406,550

- Pages: 6-7
- Sponsors: Mayor
- Vote 1: first-reading
  - Action: 200212 [Accept and Expend Grant and Amend the Annual Salary Ordinance - Retroactive - Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program - United States Homeland Security - $1,406,550] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance retroactively authorizing the Department of Emergency Management, as a fiscal agent for the Bay Area Urban Areas Security Initiative, to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $1,406,550 from the United States Department of Homeland Security for the Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program for the period of October 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020; and amending Ordinance No. 170-19 (Annual Salary Ordinance, File No. 190620 for FYs 2019-2020 and 2020-2021) to provide for the addition of two grant-funded part-time positions in Class 0931 Manager III (.30 FTE) and Class 1823 Senior Administrative Analyst (.75 FTE). PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Fewer, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee

### File 191285: Planning Code - Lot Mergers, Neighborhood Notice, and Zoning Controls

- Pages: 7
- Sponsors: Yee
- Vote 1: amendment
  - Action: ue, creating an exception from neighborhood notices for certain uses in the Ocean Avenue Neighborhood Commercial Transit District, and adding Arts Activity as a use to the Ocean Avenue Neighborhood Commercial Transit District; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; and making findings of consistency with the General Plan, and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1, and findings of public necessity, convenience, and welfare under Planning Code, Section 302. Supervisor Ronen, seconded by Supervisor Mandelman, moved that this Ordinance be AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING SAME TITLE, on Page 2, Line 14, by adding ‘145.4’, and Line 24, by striking ‘commercial’ and adding ‘Non-Residential’; on Page 3, Line 1, by adding ‘gross’; on Page 4, Lies 5-6, by adding ‘projects that propose lot’, and Line 6, by striking ‘of lots’ and adding ‘resulting in street frontages’; and on Page 7, Lines 4-5, by adding ‘(5) In the Ocean Avenue NCT, shall include Arts Activities, Nighttime Entertainment, and Institutional Community Uses, as those uses are defined in Section 102.’ The motion carried by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Fewer, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee
- Vote 2: first-reading
  - Action: PASSED ON FIRST READING AS AMENDED by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Fewer, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee

### File 200147: Urging the Municipal Transportation Agency to Refrain from Any Muni Fare Increases

- Pages: 7
- Sponsors: Preston; Haney, Walton, Mar, Safai and Ronen
- Vote 1: adoption, likely final
  - Action: 200147 [Urging the Municipal Transportation Agency to Refrain from Any Muni Fare Increases] Sponsors: Preston; Haney, Walton, Mar, Safai and Ronen Resolution urging the Municipal Transportation Agency to refrain from any Muni fare increases for the FY2021-2022 budget. Supervisor Ronen requested to be added as a co-sponsor. Resolution No. 163-20 ADOPTED by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Fewer, Haney, Mar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee
  - Noes: Mandelman

## Extracted text

### [Page 7](https://sfbos.info/documents/667/2020-04-14-minutes#page-7)

Board of Supervisors                              Meeting Minutes                                                 4/14/2020




Recommendations of the Land Use and Transportation Committee

191285 [Planning Code - Lot Mergers, Neighborhood Notice, and Zoning Controls]
            Sponsor: Yee
            Ordinance amending the Planning Code to require consideration of smaller commercial spaces
            when creating large lots, limiting lot frontages to 50 feet on Ocean Avenue, creating an exception
            from neighborhood notices for certain uses in the Ocean Avenue Neighborhood Commercial
            Transit District, and adding Arts Activity as a use to the Ocean Avenue Neighborhood Commercial
            Transit District; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California
            Environmental Quality Act; and making findings of consistency with the General Plan, and the
            eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1, and findings of public necessity,
            convenience, and welfare under Planning Code, Section 302.
            Supervisor Ronen, seconded by Supervisor Mandelman, moved that this Ordinance be AMENDED, AN
            AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING SAME TITLE, on Page 2, Line 14, by adding ‘145.4’, and Line
            24, by striking ‘commercial’ and adding ‘Non-Residential’; on Page 3, Line 1, by adding ‘gross’; on
            Page 4, Lies 5-6, by adding ‘projects that propose lot’, and Line 6, by striking ‘of lots’ and adding
            ‘resulting in street frontages’; and on Page 7, Lines 4-5, by adding ‘(5) In the Ocean Avenue NCT, shall
            include Arts Activities, Nighttime Entertainment, and Institutional Community Uses, as those uses are
            defined in Section 102.’ The motion carried by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 11 - Fewer, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee
            PASSED ON FIRST READING AS AMENDED by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 11 - Fewer, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee


200147 [Urging the Municipal Transportation Agency to Refrain from Any Muni Fare
       Increases]
            Sponsors: Preston; Haney, Walton, Mar, Safai and Ronen
            Resolution urging the Municipal Transportation Agency to refrain from any Muni fare increases for
            the FY2021-2022 budget.
            Supervisor Ronen requested to be added as a co-sponsor.
            Resolution No. 163-20
            ADOPTED by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 10 - Fewer, Haney, Mar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee
                 Noes: 1 - Mandelman



SPECIAL ORDER 2:30 P.M. - Recognition of Commendations
            President Yee suspended all commendations during the declaration of local health emergency.




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