And thats 1718 there. Are there any questions . Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. Are there any members of the public that wish to testify on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Chairman, i would move that we send this to the full board with a positive recommendation. Great. Done. Thank you. [gavel] mr. Clerk, please call item number 5. Resolution receive around approving the annual report for the ocean Avenue Community benefit district for the fiscal year 20172018. Welcome back up, ms. Mar. Thank you. So ocean avenue is an initial assessment budget of 239,578. First established in 2010 and set to expire on june 30th, 2025. Their staff is executive director daniel weaver, the Service Areas are safety and community ambassadors, cleaning program, administration and corporate operations. We reviewed the same benchmarks for ocean avenue c. B. D. , variouses in benchmark 2, theyre required to raise 1 of the nonassessment revenue from i mean, the total budget from nonassessment sources. For all of the four benchmarks, they were able to meet them. Management plan versus annual budget, they met this requirement. They met their assessment revenue versus other income requirements. Their budget versus actuals and they indicated their carryover in their annual reports and designated a spenddown plan. In inclusion, they have conformed well in implementing the service plan in the district. They implemented all recommendations recommendations from fiscal year 20172018. They partnered with o. 34678i. Culture project, a high school to begin ocean avenue arts bazaar and a monthly event series in unity plaza. They worked with Small BusinessFacade Program to make over two storefronts. They maintain several subcommittees and a board of directors. And id like to invite up mr. Dan weaver. Good morning, supervisors. This is an area map of the c. B. D. Basically were along ocean avenue we also provide services to the City College Campus there at the eastern end of the district. We have two very active committees, street life committee, focusing on activation of the Retail District and the business committee, concerned with Small Business growth or attraction, growth and retention. This is a list of our Partner Organizations and nonprofit sector. And our government Partner Organizations. In fiscal year 1718, o. A. A. Secured nonassessment grant funding, which brought our this augments our assessment revenue to bring our total revenue to 429,511, enables us to conduct projects connected to our goals of marketing, beautification, maintenance, and cleaning. Focusing on our largest budget item, maintenance, cleaning and safety, weve employed clean scapes, which provides street Maintenance Service six days a week. Sidewalk and gutter, trash pickup, Pressure Washing and cleaning and graffiti removal, when needed. An arborist now which maintains our urban forest. O. A. A. Maintains sidewalk gardens, an increasing amount i must say. Its a very popular thing in the neighborhood. Sidewalk gardens on ocean avenue and on perpendicular side streets. O. A. A. s project utilize neighborhood volunteers for planting and garden maintenance. And o. A. A. Maintains the ocean, geneva green space and a number of other spaces, which o. A. A. Established through grants in 2017. Thats the wrong direction. Yes. This is our best example of activating a public space. This is the new unity plaza. And this is youth art exchange, Lake Meridian high school and other neighborhood nonprofits celebrating an event, annual spring event in the plaza for the first time. Challenges we have in our district include everincreasing high rents, designchallenged business spaces lead to longterm vacancies. Property owners and Business Owners underinvest in their storefronts, giving some facades a beatup, shopworn experience. And Perspective Development projects threaten to take away sidewalklevel storefronts. And replace them. Opportunities. Theres a high interest in the neighborhood for public art events and entertainment, as well as Tree Planting and landscaping, as i said. O. A. A. Is working to program free Public Events and install new public artworks on the corridor. New businesses establishing an ocean avenue, to bring the potential for Business Owners to participate and advocating for the ocean Avenue Community. Development projects on ocean have the potential to provide new retail spaces in a variety of sizes. Looking back from 1718, when this report was prepared, or focused on, our project and visions include continuing to develop activities around unity plaza, pursuing Maintenance Agreement for balboa park, bart station area, which is a big challenge for us. And other transit yards to make them attractive places and places that are well maintained and safe. Successfully raise funds for a new sculpttural gateway, this will connect the ocean avenue sidewalk and be a pedestrian and planned to be a pedestrian and bicycle route from the new balboa reservoir to the ocean avenue sidewalk and transit. Develop and promote projects in the o. A. A. s 15year plan for the c. B. D. Corridor, that focuses on transit station area, including the balboa park, bart station and the sfmta streetcar maintenance facilities. Thank you. I just want to point out in this final picture the cross on the elray theatre tower. Its ideally going to become a focus on the western side of our Retail District. Although for many years its been not available for people. And it has become very run down. We are trying to work with the owners and developers and move this project forward as fast as we can. This was happening back in 1718. And its still happening. Thats it. Do you have any questions . Thank you, mr. Weaver in any questions . Any members of the public that wish to testify on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] colleagues can we send this to the full board with positive recommendation, without objection . Great. [gavel] mr. Clerk, please call item number six. A resolution receiving and approving an annual report for the top of broadway Community Benefit district for 20172018. Ms. Mar . Lastly, with we have the annual report report for top of broadway. Top of broadway c. B. D. Is the smallest cracked we have in our portfolio. An initial assessment budget of 106,567. Established in 2013, and is set to expire on june 30th, 2021. The staff is the executive director marco epantry and dominick lepantry. District identity, street operations, beautification and order. And administration, organization, and corporate operations. We reviewed the same benchmarks for top of broadway c. B. D. The only variance was they were required to raise 1 of the total budget from nonassessment forces. This the top of broadway c. B. D. Met all following four benchmarks. Their Management Plan versus annual budgets, assessment revenue and other income, they were able to raise 37. 5 in nonassessment revenue. The budget versus actuals and they had indicated their 1718 kariover in the annual reports and designated a spenddowntime line. Our recommendations and findings. The top of broadway c. B. D. Met all four benchmarks. There was a significant decrease in the amount of contributions given to the c. B. D. The number would have been lower, not for a grant that the c. B. D. Had received and utilized in fiscal year 1718. Continued decrease would be hazardous to the c. B. D. s longterm health and to the implementation of its Management Plan. The c. B. D. Was able to maintain an active board of directors and Committee Members as well. Are there any questions for staff . So id like to invite up mr. Dominick lemandry to present on his statements. Good morning. I believe im the last presentation on c. B. D. S today. So thank you. Ill make this brief. As helen mentioned, my name is dominick lemandry. Im the district manager for c. B. D. Our mission top of broadway c. B. D. Is quite simple. Were here to essentially increase the quality of life and entrepreneurial vitality. So just in general, Background Information on the district. It was formed in 2013. It started services in 2014. 39 parcels, over 100 businesses and operating budget of around 177,000 a year. And we provide sevendayaweek sidewalk betweening between 8 0. A budget breakdown. As you can see, the majority of our income comes from our assessments, but weve been very successful in bringing in nonassessment revenue, sponsorships, donations and weve been able to leverage that to continue services, even though we have quite small assessment amount. And you can see our breakdown of our budget right there. The district identity, operations and admin. So our Strategic Vision and plan for broadway is essentially can be bulleted down to a few point. Create a safe environment for the neighborhood, increase the walkability of the neighborhood and different street scape enhancements, further integrate the community in the surrounding north beach community, jon square, get them rolling in the same direction, all, you know, have the same vision of what broadway can be. And we facilitate this mission and this vision through three separate committees, that we, you know, meet regularly to decide and collaborate. So the First Committee is federal cooperations. You know, just like every other c. B. D. Thats presented today, we sweep sidewalks, we pressure wash, we remove graffiti, remove needles. And we move illegal dumped materials. Heres some highlights of our staff. Were able to provide neartotal coverage last year of sidewalks on broadway, with is great, although were small, we produce a lot of trash on our streets. Having the district look presentable day in and day out, definitely a shining achievement of ours. We are able to remove 9,000 bags of trash, over 1200 instances of graffiti. Illegal dumping incidents did decrease, because i attribute that to increased effectiveness of d. P. W. Of removing that off the street before our porters are able to report it and remove. We pressure washed the district 14 times. District identity. Its Smaller Committee versus federal cooperations. But we had big achievements last year. We put in ten Historical Markers in and around broadway. We put up lighting installation, l. E. D. Lighting installation that wind ised over the steps to help illuminate the corridor. We can change it based on the season. So its very exciting. Were able to collaborate to install cams in and around broadway, that are then serviced by north beach citizens. Its a very collaborative effort and were very proud of that. Some community probables. The installation, weve got good press from hood line. Im talking about the probably that were doing and the north Beach Association did at the bottom of grant avenue. The Historical Marker project, putting ten blocks in and around broadway, the surf rider districtwide installations. We put ten cams around broad bray and the can placement, at the corner of kearny and broadway, based off our advocacy. District challenges. A lot of the similar challenges you see all around the city, homelessness continues to be a paramount concern. I can say that definitely has improved over the last two to three years. Illegal dumping of commercial waste, as well as, you know, just residential belongings continue to pop up on our sidewalks. We do our best to get them off the sidewalks as soon as possible. And we have a couple of longterm vacancies on broadway unfortunately. Those are continued sites of, you know, encampments and what not. The bottom photos are the trees fallen over on broadway. Thats all one tree. This is one of the biggest problems we had on broadway this past fiscal year. Where weve had 40 to 50 of the trees on broadway put in after the broadway street scape improvement project. Theyve paved over or replanted. This tree in particular was reported for three weeks on about the dangerous leaning, until it finally fell over and laid on the sidewalk for 72 hours before it was removed. This is broadway. So this is not a side street. This is a very active thoroughfare. Ness something that we continue to work with b. U. F. And d. P. W. On to make sure it doesnt happen again. Part of our organizations, i mentioned a few of them throughout my mention. We couldnt do without help from helen and chris. They run this program very efficiently and very effectively so kudos to them. D. P. W. , and we work very closely with Central Station and the captain there. We have strong ties with the Broadway Community and the broadway cultural society. We work with the north beach citizens, north beach neighbor, north beach business association, t. H. C. And Jackson Square and, of course, supervisor peskin. Thank you. Do you have any questions . Yeah. Thank you so much. Are there any members of the public that wish to testify on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] and i would send this make a motion to send this to the full board with a positive recommendation. All right. [gavel] mr. Clerk, please call item numberhearing to receive the office of the chief medical examiners annual report on staffing and accreditation updates, as required by admin code section 2a 30. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, chair mar. Colleagues, i called for this hearing back in may, after it came to my attention. Actually a perennial issue now for a long time. This dates back to the beginning of this century, with a civil grand jury report in 19992000, that spoke to deficiencies in the medical Examiners Office. I received complaints from individuals who have waited, what i think is far too long and beyond the industry practices, to get death certificates and final autopsy reports. There has been an ongoing chronic staff shortage, a lot of staff turnovers. As a matter of fact, right now we dont we have an acting medical examiner. Our last medical examiner upped and left the medical Examiners Office. It has lost its accreditation. There have been chronic problems with having their annual reports posted online. There is evidence that annual reports have been changed after the fact. And so i want to delve into every aspect of this, with an eye not to be critical, but see if we can all collaborate together with the city administrator to fix it and make it a shining example of what a medical Examiners Office can and should be. To that end, i would actually like to continue this to our first meeting on october, on october 3rd, to give my office a chance to sit down with staff at the medical Examiners Office. So we can start a constructive dialogue in advance of this hearing. So subject to Public Comment, i would like to make a motion to continue this item to the 3rd day of october. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Lets do Public Comment first. And are from any are there any members of the public that want to testify to this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Do we have a motion to continue this to 3rd october, 2019. October 3rd. G. A. O. Committee meeting. Seconded motion made by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor brown. Can we take that without objection . Great. [gavel] and any further business . There is no further business. We are adjourned. Thank you. [gavel] adjourned. 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I am the chair, aaron peskin, joined by Committee Member to my left supervisor matt haney, our clerk is ms. Erika major and msy announcements . Yes, please make sure to silence all cellphones and Electronic Devices and copies of any documents to be included as part of a file should be submitted to a clerk. Items will appear on the september 17th, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor peskin could you please read the first item. Clerk an ordinance amending the environment code to require all non residential buildings of 50,000 square feet or more to provide all on site electricity demands from 100 Greenhouse Gas free or Renewable Resources or sources to authorization the director of the department of the environment to adopt the rules and regulations and affirming appropriate findings. Supervisor peskin on behalf of the department of the environment, mr. Sheehan, the floor is yours. Thank you, supervisors. Charles she an, policy and Public Affairs manager for the San Francisco department of the environment. Momentarily im going to invite my colleague, Barrie Hooper to give you a short presentation about this ordinance. I do want to take some time and thank the sfpuc for their assistance as well as the Mayors Office, its been a collaborative effort to get to this point. It will be a partnership as well for implementation. And i do expect that mike and john will be joining us shortly from the sfpuc. So, without further adieu, im going to invite Barrie Hooper up here for the presentation. Supervisor peskin i would like to welcome Committee Member and vicechair supervisor safai and better late than never, john. Thank you, supervisor peskin. My name is Barrie Hooper. Im with the department of environment and ill be talking today about the proposed renewable electricity requirements. For context, San Francisco has full goals set by our board of supervisors for reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions through ultimately getting to zero emissions by 2050. Of course, weve been making great progress cutting emissions 36 thus far compared to 1990 in the context of more than doubling the size of our economy and about a 20 growth in population. Our remaining emissions today really boil down to the operation of our buildings, the production of waste, and transportation within the building sector, natural gas is the biggest source of emissions. If we lock at municipal buildings in particular, the entirety of emissions from municipal buildings come from the combustion of natural gas directly or for the provision district c. And were approaching that point in the private sector as well as we supply cleaner and cleaner electricity as a community to our commercial buildings, natural gas is not getting cleaner and so were talking about today is really getting to the end point of eliminating those emissions ultimately from the electricity use in commercial buildings. This is not yet addressed the commissions from a gas side. And the context for this is our goal of getting to zero emissions city wide by 2050. Also, ensuring that our newly constructed buildings have zero emissions no later than 2030. And while theres a lot of deck cal detaitechnical. We need to supply them with renewable electricity and the appliances need to use that renewable electricity. They need to use electricity rather than gas. Today well focus on the renewable Electricity Supply but id like to take a moment to talk about how we are addressing efficiency and the good news. In 2011, this body adopted an ordinance requiring commercial building owners to track and publicly disclose an annual basis, how much energy they use, and the ideas of the first step to improving efficiency would be measuring what we expect folks to manage. Recently this year, this body also extended that requirement for benchmarking or tracking and disclosing energy use to large multifamily buildings of 52,000 square feet and larger. Just taking a moment to look at the trends, weve seen since those ordinances were adopted, im sorry that for ledge ability but the story is positive here. Over the seven year period depicted in all four of these graphs, Gross Energy Consumption in the commercial sector is scoudown11 and our economy hasn growing considerably. Bottomleft yellow line depicts growth in total employment. More jobs in the city. Our office value is depicted on the upper right graft so were not trading the economy for healthy im sorry, the environment for healthy economy, were getting both. And the bottomright line, the purple represents the Gross Energy Consumption of commercial buildings down about 11 . So todays ordinance is really proposing to build upon that platform so were emphasizing efficiency through those existing requirements and im going to take you through this table for a moment. So each of the columns represents a subset of different requirements just a limited very straight forward requirement for multi family of only tracking energy use. For commercial buildings theres a differentiation between large and smaller building and were asked to have more sophisticated requirements for the largest buildings with you we require an energy audit so you would know how much energy you are using overtime and where is the opportunity for savings. And the idea is to connect the building overrer with rebates and financing. Todays ordinance proposed ordinance, addresses renewable electricity just for the largest commercial buildings where we think its very straight forward matter for them. And the proposal is very simple. Its to require that they purchase 100 renewable electricity on the basis that such renewable electricity is now available at a very competitive rate. Its available without requiring any technical changes to the building. This is really a change on the bill. You could obtain renewable electricity as well by installing on site Generation Facility but theres a straight forward way to get there without taking extra action. The proposal would effect 9 of our total commercial buildings and this is looking just at buildings that are exclusively for commercial use and those 9 of our buildings in San Francisco are consuming 73 of the electricity thats consumed by the commercial sector that totals around 150,000 tons of co2 emissions per year to provide them with electricity. What were encouraging is a threepart phase in starting with the largest buildings which the greatest energy use and also the best resourced and they were a small number and phasing in with buildings of 500,000 fair and larger starting in 2022 stepping down to 2024 to buildings of 250,000 and larger and ultimately in 2030, stepping down to buildings of 50,000 squarely feet and larger and the 2030 is concurrent with our existing goal of ensuring that anyone has access to 200 renewable access by 2030 so the difference is thats a goal and this is a proposed codification of mandatory transition to renewable electricity and the phasein is developed directly from the recommendations of a partners at the sfpuc and clean power sf that this is the scale at which they would have time to develop and cause construction of the resources me to provide the renewable electricity. I assume they were also in touch with beaumont building owners and building managers who are assume are representing most of those 63 buildings in the first . Yes, we have presented to the Beaumont Energy committee. For our education, whats the breakdown between commercial and residential . I realize this is only for non residential but, relative to tons of co2 produced per year, what is the difference between the commercial sector and the residential sector . Commercial is awe heavy emphasis on this use and natural gas so this measure would have a greater effect on the economic sector and the opposite on residential and our stock is larger in total floor area so the relative i am i would be happy to get back to you but its equivalent and a key question and bold move to mandatory 100 and whats the cost impact for those effected. So the good news is, since the clean power sf introduced the super green product a couple years ago, the incremental cost compared from pg e has declined about 75 so in other words, theres a price difference around two cents per kilowatt an hour and so the numbers you see here reflect will disclosure that they prepare in partnership with pg e comparing the three ghg Free Products available in San Francisco today. And, its the cheapest option and in both clean power sf super green and pg e solar choice offer highly competitive well under 5 incremental cost for electricity. So we look where the buildings are located that are effected by this policy. The buildings of 500,000 square feet are concentrated in the Central Business district. As we move down to buildings of 250,000 square feet and larger theres still a concentration downtown but theyre more spread out. As we zoom out to 50,000 square feet in larger its a common size that is found downtown but its widely distributed around the city. Rules in implementing this ordinance, a Department Environment will be responsible for notifying building owners of their obligation and we do that by communicating about this requirement in the context of our existing communications about the efficiency ordinance that i mentioned earlier that require benchmarking and i will collaborate with the Public Utilities commission on outreach. The puc, their role is to provide the power and to collaborate with us on a note indication and report back to you with the compliance with the ordinance. Just to pause for a moment, a key question i think would be what is Greenhouse Gas or noble electricity and that is a subject of an amendment that well hear a little bit of detail about in a moment but at a high level, it boils down to resources that qualify understate law as contribute to go renewable portfolio standard and that does include hetchy power. On behalf of the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission the floor is yours, thank you, mr. Hooper. I think charles sheehan, if you dont mind. Thank you, barrie, thank you supervisors, charles sheehan. Earlier the clerk has left you a slightly revised version of this ordinance with the couple of amendments and i just wanted to walk you through them and i dont think theyre substantive. Theyre mainly about tightening language and bringing us more in alignment with the states definition of Renewable Energy. Youve got copies and i highlighted the amended section in yellow. The First Amendment just make sure we pay our Greenhouse Gas free with Renewable Energy resources together because that is what we are referring to later and thats what these large buildings will be able to buy. And then what we refer to later, is a series of state codes to make sure that one, were in alignment with our the state of california defines Renewable Energy and two, were also in alignment with how the state of california deals with hetch hetchy power and our ability to satisfy our obligations with hetch hetchy power so were just making it clear to these large commercial buildings that you can buy hetch hetchy power, thats permissable, and of course you can buy all the other renewables listed in state code. Thats pretty much it for the amendment. Supervisor peskin thank you, charles. Anything you want to add on behalf of the Public Utilities commission as opposed to the california Public Utilities commission . Good afternoon. Michael hymns, director of clean power sf. I dont have anything substantive to add other than we worked closely with the department of the environment and support the amendment. Supervisor peskin excellent. Are there members of the public who would like to testify on item number 1, please come forward. Sounds like a pretty good idea. But i think the best thing for you to do in order to get a true and correct measurement on how much electricity and money that you are saving is to put these sole ar panels directly on top of the roof of these skyscrapers that you targeting that are not residential districts. You need to put these solar panels on the buildings in question and subtract the difference on the amount of electricity being paid in order to keep the building running. Any difference, other than what theyre saying by using your basic means that are ineffective right now, then go to hetchy is use this energy that you are referring to. Its not actually reusable if you generate enough electricity from the solar panels on top of the roof and have a power pack located somewhere in the building itself to distribute the electricity in order to kept lights and airconditioning and heat on in the building thats in question you can cut all those unnecessary transactions that you talking about. More over, as far as residential, im sorry that you said it wasnt residential but i saw a residential family unit up there listed in your demonstrations, also, when the smaller units that same technique should be applied as well. Im hearing about you want to buy the electric power lines from pg e. If you buy property from pg e, which is obsolete, i believe that you are setting yourself up for failure. Pg e has got obsolete equipment, theyre familiar with it and if you have a power failure and you are not up to speed how to control that equipment you have to go back to pg e again and ask them what they do when they had this type of problem on their hands. Supervisor peskin thank you. Any other members that would like to testify on item number 1 . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Is there a motion to adopt the non substantive amendments that are before us as described by mr. Sheehan . Motion made by supervisor haney and well take that without objection. And for this item, to the full board with positive recommendation. I note that supervisor safai is a cosponsor and i would like to be add as a cosponsor as would supervisor haney and well forward it with recommendation without objection. Madam clerk, read the next item. Clerk item number 2 is the ordinance amending the planning code to allow temporary longterm parking of an overnight camping and vehicles and auxillary leases. 2340 san joe hey avenue block number 6973 lot number 39 and affirming appropriate findings. Supervisor peskin supervisor satisfy safai. Superivsor safai im going to make opening remarks and were going to ask dillon from department of Homeless Housing to give a brief presentation. I dont know if you need to go through the entire thing but we can roughly set the tone. Many of you have known, seen and anyone that spends time in the bay area has seen a large increase of people, particularly the most visibly living in rvs from palo alto to the east bay. Youve seen a major increase in individuals living in rvs and vans and cars. This is not new to San Francisco but its taken on a different shape over the last two years in particular. I was out on christmas day, almost two years ago with my daughter, ready to teach her ride a bike and out of the blue we saw a significant number of rvs next to the park. I called the department, called the local police chief and started to see major increase of the calls we received from neighbors because not only were we seeing an increase in the number of trash on the ground because people dont really have a place to put their trash but also there was conflict with neighbors over parking. We took the approach from the general perspective of quality of life at first and we hit a brick wall. They made the decision that they were no longer going to approve putting up a no overnight camping signs. They challenged this body to come up with a policy that would have impact city wide. Myself, supervisor brown buckled down and talked to the mayor about this and talked to the department about this and i think there was some initial resistance because theres an over all plan and most visible, lets say the most visible failings of our housing policy and our housing crisis are most notably individuals living on the streets, often in tents and often under bridges and freeways and places that are very visible. We talked about essentially putting together a policy and looking at policies not just in the bay area but all over california and in the United States where people were dealing with very similar issues. We came up with the idea of calling our policy a vehicle triage lot where we can provide some temporary, safe environment for individuals when theyve been assessed to be appropriate for this environment and can put them in an environment where there can be access to bathrooms, access to cleaning, access to social services and on a very temporary basis not more than an extended period of time. This is not a permanent fix. This is more about transitioning them from their existing vehicles into more permanent housing and accessing a more prominent housing option. This spring, our point in time count affirmed what we had seen and we started to see. The city had about a 13 to 15 increase in homelessness city wide. And almost 70 of that increase was individuals living in vehicles. So, we knew we were on the right track and so this is to the credit of working with individuals from the coalition on homelessness and advocates from those working with the Homeless Community department of homelessness Supportive Housing and then the second piece was, actually we passed legislation, we had about a Million Dollars allocated for this program and we then, the second step was finding a place to implement this policy. We talked to the executive director from Mission Housing development corporation. I think he will speak today, sam moss. We talked to a host of neighborhood leaders. We talked to the Mayors Office of housing. And we looked at this particular spot right near the balboa bart station and we thought it met all the parameters that we had set. Easy access to public transportation, provided enough space where we can have enough vehicles that would benefit from a pile at program and this will particular site in about a years time will be built into 100 Affordable Housing so it allowed us the opportunity to use this as a Pilot Program to see what works and improve upon that. Mission housing, along with the Mayors Office of housing and the department of homelessness Supportive Housing and many of our neighborhood leaders and stakeholders came forward and embraced this plan. Weve had two Large Community meetings and a host of other small, focused meetings and i have to say im very proud of the response that it received. There was some skepticism without people understanding the full parameters of the program. There was a significant amount of people feeling proud and wanting to step up and realizing that these individuals that are living in their vehicles are currently neighborhood residents. Theyre our neighbors and away wanted to try and put forward a positive step. Whats in front of us today, colleagues, is the ability to amend the planning code to allow for this particular lot, the up are yard to be zoned and used for overnight sleeping and storage and well have a whole host of facilities on that site. Im sure theres some other individuals that need to thank and recognize and i will do that after i speak. Staffer monica along with my entire team, along with all the other individuals in the neighborhood, the new Mission TerraceImprovement Association and their leadership and membership, along with organizations, the police captain, the urban all of the individuals that will be involved in ensuring that this is a Successful Pilot and were very happy along with public works and others that move quickly so hopefully well pass this today and it will go to the full board tomorrow as a Committee Report for first reading, second reading well do the following week and then well ask the mayor to sign it and this should be open for business hopefully by november 1st. Ill ask dillon to come up and give a presentation on what were going to propose at the site. And then if theres any questions from Committee Members, well open it up for Public Comment. Sure. Good afternoon. Very happy to be here. First of all, i just want to say im dillon schneider, manager of policy and Development Affairs for the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. Were grateful for the leadership of supervisor satisfy eye and his staff for getting this he project off the ground as well as the leadership of supervisor brown and supervisor safai. You got the challenges were facing and im going to jump into details about the proposed site. So the proposed site will be managed by a trusted provider who will provide 24 7 security and site management. Those utilizing the site will be restricted to clients that are already engage with hshs Vehicle Encampment Resolution Team which is an arm of the Homeless Outreach team and this will create a safe place to store vehicles and as an incentive to engage with our homelessness response system. This site will allow a small number of individuals adults to remain on site if they continue to engage with services. Families of children will be highly encouraged to utilize temporary shelter. We will provide clients support in getting their vehicles legalized, operable and unencumbered by fines and of course the site like all of our temporary shelters will abide by a good neighborhood policy and we will also provide the public a 24 7 phone number that they may call with concerns. Going into design of this site. Supervisor safai spoke to the timeline. It will be fairly quick. Well begin construction in october. The site is planned to open in november and we will run for right about a year. Again, do you to the limited duration of the site well keep costs low, utilizing quick em employment. No permanent utility infrastructure. Well work within the existing great of the site. We wont touch rail tracks or stoppers which is that lovely picture to the right there and well be using all temporary facilities. So the location is 2340 san jose avenue. Well have a 33 parking spots. Three are designated for staff use and the rest will be a mix of standard a. D. A. And van or r. V. Parking. Well be keeping the existing gate that exists around the site. Well be adding new secured vehicle and pedestrian gates as well as well be adding the tennis screening to the existing chainlink fence to provide privacy. We will be bringing in an office trailer for our 24 7 staff to use. And we will be providing access to toilets, sanitation stations and a shade canopy. Again, well only be using temporary fences or barricades and those will be used on the internal site to block off those train stoppers and the rocky sloped area. And we will also be extending the pedestrian path to make it level all the way from internal of the site out to the pedestrian exist. Finally, were very excited to bring in solar powered lighting and a solar power generator. As of right now, the solar power generator, as you can see, will be next to the office trailer and rest rooms and right now we have identified two sites that will be for lighting and powered by solar power. Happy to take any questions. Supervisor peskin any questions for staff . Seeing none. I think this is going to receive our enthusiastic support and i want to thank supervisor safai and the support of homelessness and housing for their work and most particularly the community for being supportive. Are there any members of the that would like to testify on this. Come forward. Lets start with planning. Diego, why dont you come on up. Ill make this quick. Deagdeago owe sanchez. I heard this ordinance on augus. Its very well received. And the Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of the ordinance with modification. The one modification was to make the ordinance useable for other sites given that the proposed Planning Department approval in this ordinance only for one site which is at the 2340 san jose avenue site. That concludes my comments here for questions. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Two points that might be hard for you to understand. Her demonstration alone is a technique you should use on each and every commercial building that is in question as far as generating their own electricity. That demonstration pertains to solar power and the power pack generator that is storing electricity in order to power that location that is in question with item number 2 is the same technique that you should be using on item number 1. Is that clear . You see how that works. Instead of going through that moneymaking timeconsuming and wasting the time and money procedure that you have been imposing and causing all the confusion with pg e. The technique she used is the technique you should be using on item number 1. You talking about Affordable Housing ive come here several times and demonstrated two twin towers of Apartment Building complex thats is charging 56 million per 144 Apartment Units and another unit of 86