# Board of Supervisors Minutes: March 15, 2022 - Meeting date: 2022-03-15 - Document type: minutes - Pages in official PDF: 24 - [Canonical HTML transcript](https://sfbos.info/documents/832/2022-03-15-minutes) - [Authoritative City PDF](https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=951584&GUID=75EE5A95-2986-488B-AAC6-D7E45032ABBB) > This text was extracted for search and accessibility. The linked City PDF is the authoritative public record. ## Structured legislative records ### File 220158: Accept In-Kind Gift - Retroactive - Tipping Point Community - Strategic and Operational Consulting Services - Value Not to Exceed $67,500 - Pages: 8-9 - Vote 1: adoption, likely final - Action: 220158 [Accept In-Kind Gift - Retroactive - Tipping Point Community - Strategic and Operational Consulting Services - Value Not to Exceed $67,500] Sponsor: Mayor Resolution retroactively authorizing the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (“HSH”) to accept an in-kind gift for continued strategic and operational consulting services related to the HSH’s Shelter-in-Place Winddown and Rehousing Process (“SIP Rehousing Process”) in a value not to exceed $67,500 from Tipping Point Community for a term from January 1, 2022, through September 30, 2022. (Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing) Resolution No. 093-22 ADOPTED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton ### File 211299: Planning Code - Group Housing Definition - Pages: 9 - Vote 1: first-reading - Action: 211299 [Planning Code - Group Housing Definition] Sponsors: Peskin; Walton, Mandelman, Ronen, Melgar and Preston Ordinance amending the Planning Code to revise the definition of Group Housing; 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. Supervisors Ronen, Melgar, and Preston requested to be added as co-sponsors. Privilege of the floor was granted unanimously to Aaron Starr (Planning Department) who responded to questions raised throughout the discussion. PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton ### File 211301: Administrative, Public Works Codes - Permit Review, and Limits on Fines for Shared Spaces Violations - Pages: 9-10 - Vote 1: amendment - Action: tion of the Local Emergency; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act. Supervisors Chan, Mar, and Safai 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 SAME TITLE, on Page 6, Lines 15-16, by striking ‘Prior to the conversion of a pandemic Shared Space permit to a Curbside Shared Space Permit’, Line 17, by adding ‘prior to April 1, 2023’, Line 18, by striking ‘physical’, Line 19, by changing ‘physical’ to ‘: enforcing’ and striking ‘necessary’, Line 20, by adding ‘emergency responder personnel, and’, Lines 20-24, by adding ‘including but not limited to unobstructed access to the sidewalk, maintenance of an accessible route with diverters, accessible tables, the provision of an appropriate platform threshold and, when provided, ramps that meet accessibility requirements; ensuring visibility (daylighting) at intersections identified in the Vision Zero High-Injury Network’, and Lines 24-25, by changing ‘emergency responder personnel’ to ‘requiring removal of abandoned structures’. The motion carried by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton - Vote 2: first-reading - Action: PASSED ON FIRST READING AS AMENDED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton ## Extracted text ### [Page 9](https://sfbos.info/documents/832/2022-03-15-minutes#page-9) Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 3/15/2022 Recommendations of the Land Use and Transportation Committee 211299 [Planning Code - Group Housing Definition] Sponsors: Peskin; Walton, Mandelman, Ronen, Melgar and Preston Ordinance amending the Planning Code to revise the definition of Group Housing; 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. Supervisors Ronen, Melgar, and Preston requested to be added as co-sponsors. Privilege of the floor was granted unanimously to Aaron Starr (Planning Department) who responded to questions raised throughout the discussion. PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton 211301 [Administrative, Public Works Codes - Permit Review, and Limits on Fines for Shared Spaces Violations] Sponsors: Peskin; Melgar, Chan, Mar and Safai Ordinance amending the Administrative and Public Works Codes to urge departments to review permits within 30 days, limit until April 1, 2023, the issuance of fines for violations of shared spaces requirements except to enforce access requirements for persons with disabilities or first responder personnel, pedestrian and vehicular safety, and removal of abandoned structures, and directing departments to wind down the temporary program no later than March 31, 2023, subject to earlier termination of the Local Emergency; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act. Supervisors Chan, Mar, and Safai 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 SAME TITLE, on Page 6, Lines 15-16, by striking ‘Prior to the conversion of a pandemic Shared Space permit to a Curbside Shared Space Permit’, Line 17, by adding ‘prior to April 1, 2023’, Line 18, by striking ‘physical’, Line 19, by changing ‘physical’ to ‘: enforcing’ and striking ‘necessary’, Line 20, by adding ‘emergency responder personnel, and’, Lines 20-24, by adding ‘including but not limited to unobstructed access to the sidewalk, maintenance of an accessible route with diverters, accessible tables, the provision of an appropriate platform threshold and, when provided, ramps that meet accessibility requirements; ensuring visibility (daylighting) at intersections identified in the Vision Zero High-Injury Network’, and Lines 24-25, by changing ‘emergency responder personnel’ to ‘requiring removal of abandoned structures’. The motion carried by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton PASSED ON FIRST READING AS AMENDED by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton City and County of San Francisco Page 212 Printed at 6:12 pm on 4/18/22