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· ATF is a program of the City- therefore the City Attorney will advise us- Anjali asked about the relationship related to the Sunshine Laws- meetings of ATF are public. For this circumstance, the client is Sup. Maxwell- the atty will receive direction from Sup. Maxwell
· Eventually the legislation will come out of Maxwell’s office- City Attorney will receive direction generally from Sup. Office, rather than the ATF
· Legislation cannot tell SFHA and redevelopment agency what to do- cannot be mandated.
· Legislation cannot enforce federal ADA laws- tenant/landlord laws are covered by state, fed law
· To amend the building code- findings need to exist to deviate from state law (what is unique about SF)
· Housing code- SF alone in state can adopt deviations from housing code
· Policy questions exist about owner occupied vs. landlord/tenant
· More pull when speaking of city money (MOH)
Some of the ATF ideas cannot be legislated, but rather could be solved through BOS resolution, etc.
Neil is interested in legislation that leads people to want to learn/know about healthy housing, but understands we cannot legislate what people do- what is the effective/behavior change way.
Most of what ATF is housing related rather than building code
Louise suggests one possible change is increasing the requirement on ventilation to prevent moisture (is a building/ mechanical code issue). However, Louise said the new Director said that DBI cannot support many of
the recommendations in the ATF-Environmental draft "Policy
Recommendations for ASHH". The Director wants the economics of new legislation to be realistic, to consider the fiscal consequences.
Another- requirement for less toxic building supplies (i.e. arsenic, formaldehyde).
Connie- doesn’t see one piece of legislation coming out of this process- Supervisor is interested in multiple legislation to address existing and new construction- Some changes may be in health code, not building or housing code
Inclusionary units- private developer with 5 residential units of more 15% of units have to be affordable (subsidized by the developer not by the city OR pay a fee that goes to MOH)
Legislation intended for ALL housing, not only affordable housing-
Sup. Maxwell’s ultimate goal in terms of legislation (per Connie): healthy housing legislation (those are the details that were given to ATF, no more specific details)
Maxwell’s office and City Attorney have discussed that there is more leverage and support for working on affordable housing legislation that is subsidized by MOH
Attorney advised ATF to take off “one bite at a time”- look at “what is the big picture?”
Louise told group about projects in other regions- to borrow/refer to existing legislation
Housing grid (created by Karen) is the draft form of what ATF is looking at-
Supervisor Maxwell’s office will need the support of ATF with advocacy related to the legislation- collaborative effort
Dust control piece strong possibility for legislation, especially given shipyard issue
Ventilation improvement also feasible
Some pieces of healthy housing grid are more educational programs, rather than legislation
Look at green building- look at city funded buildings first
One piece of legislation could involve more than one code- but categorizing would be a way to look at legislation.
- City-funded projects (MOH)
- Federally funded projects (SFHA)
- Private development
City funded could include SRO’s
Some consensus about starting with City funded construction/housing
Any legislation would include a budget analyst impact report- Connie conferred that Maxwell will advocate for the $
Legislation would look at City funded and then urge private/Federally funded to adopt same/similar standards
ATF and Connie will come up with standards that the Atty could link back to city code
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· Judy will look through Housing grid to see what codes can be amended- ATF will keep in touch with Connie to discuss priorities
· A discussion draft is needed to have a framework
· Connie will go over housing grid with Sup. Maxwell to get priorities( looking at breakdown between fed. Funding, city funding, private)
· ATF will have another meeting regarding prioritizing- remember dust control!!!! Related to shipyards and construction
· ATF will schedule another meeting to discuss working up a draft to submit to Sup. Maxwell
· Intention is to introduce legislation after legislative recess in September
· Committee will meet June 20th at 2pm in Karen’s office to further discuss
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