Good afternoon, i am jeremy spits with San Francisco public works government affairs. Thank you for calling this hears. A brief overview and then turn it over to our assistant superattendant with the bureau of human forest tree and the Deputy Director of operations if you have any questions. Public works is committed to fire safety and has a long history of partnering with the Fire Department. We are committed to greening San Francisco and positively impacting climate predictions. It includes rightofway and street trees and not many undeveloped parcels. We have proactive Maintenance Plans and work with the Fire Department to address areas of concern even on private property. We have quick reactive response when hazards are brought to our attention. As i mentioned. We have very little space near homes or residential areas. Our main areas of responsibility include medians and scattered parcels throughout the city such as along the boulevard and the areas around brotherhood bay and sunset boulevard. They are the full responsibility of Property Owners and some share with public works. We do regular outreach regarding maintenance, attending Community Meetings and partnerships with neighbors have led to great participation to community. Community members come together to volunteer. Some good examples include the fill bettethefi l. B. E. Rt and lt steps. We are committed to addressing fire risks. One example is the program we have been doing for many years but have revamped over the past year with the Fire Department along wher with the city attornr the south face of the burnell hill. There are parcels on that land. Public works sat down and came up with a plan to notify those Property Owners of the responsibilities to clear parcels if the Property Owners were not responsive public works hired a contractor to clear them. We assessed the value of that service on the Property Owners. I am turning it over to Nicholas Crawford to talk about maintenance on our own parcels. Thank you. Thank you, jeremy. Nicholas crawford, trees and landscapes. I would like to talk about regmaintenance work, things we are doing to maintain areas, mowing, digging, removing weeds. Our Landscape Team is trained with the bay friendly landscape qualification. It is our effort to use plants that are a good fit for this area and also any great natives where appropriate. In areas hotter and drier, those climates we are visiting more regularly to reduce the fuel there. One parcel we use goats for Vegetation Management on steep hillsides and in areas with poison oak like the pink triangle. We want to retain trees because of their value, but sometimes we deal with conflict in the city where we may have to address that. Ilwe want the next tree to gron the best spot for the future. We have street tree sf created three years ago. It is now two years old. We are cruising through the city streets pruning them and removing trees as necessary. We provide reaga regular regr maintenance. In terms every response. We get 311 calls that go directly to our staff inboxes. We follow by going out inspecting the site to see what is necessary and if it is necessary dispatching a crew sometimes within hours to deal with it. We rely on the community to provide that set of eyes and ears and be everywhere at all times so that we can get that information. We have also had to change some of our maintenance in response to weed growth when there is a lot of rain we get more growth to tend to more often. During droughts we have dryer grassy areas to mow and maintain in response to whatever the weather is. To step back. The big goal is to plant more trees. We hate removing trees. We want more trees to offset Climate Change and that is our larger goal. We also want to be aware of fire risk and be proactive and responsive in dealing with that. Thank you very much. If you have any questions, we are here. Thank you for your presentation. I dont think we have any questions. Next up. I do have a question for public works. I happen to live on one of the mentioned interesting spots under public works jurisdiction, and there are fires out there all of the time. It is interesting there are certain parts of the steps that are managed by the community and there is no under story, and there are certain it is weird. There is a street not built. The local followings have jurisdiction to the center line of the street. Any cleanup that happens in this unaccepted public rightofway. It is accepted for the purposes of building the stairs but not for maintenance is done by the neighbors. Parts of it are immaculate and there is no dead and down brush oralisms. There are parts that are or limbs. I am not trying to rat out my neighbors. Fire is there all of the time. They practice. There are two fire hose boxes. There is a hydrant there. I see the 28 engine there all of the time. I have never seen public works say this property is a total fire hazard. It sounds like there is more than just the fil the fi l. B. E. T steps. There is a whole bunch of them. Those steps look amazing. The care people invest in that is amazing. 273 you are right. Going up from there to montgomery, you are wrong. The big change in two years is public works is pruning the streets within ter with withe internal trees. The neighbors stepped in to prune the industries. We are waiting. Karla says she is coming. I am not actually talking about the trees. I am talking about the under story. The stuff most flammable are thickets of dead bamboo, tons of ivy. The stuff we saw in the presentations like the rec and park presentation showing dead under story that is where a fire can start particularly given people camp there. I wonder. The question is do you have a regimen to go through on the fireside. I am not talking the tree pruning side. I know you are coming. That wasnt the question. The question is about this is all on the public rightofway. Fire doesnt come and say this is a fire hazard. Fire comes and practice with hoses to see if they can get to the end of the lane and how fast. I have pictures of the 28 engine doing it. Carla. Carla short, San Francisco public works. We dont have a proactive Notification Program for those areas. We will go out and in. We will consult with the fire marshal. If they agree to notify Property Owners, we will do that. In response to this inquiry, we can do an inspection and consult with the fire marshal. I was in no way to suggest that. If you walk with hundreds of tourists every weekend, you will figure it out. Thank you. I will ask the fire marshal, dan, i will tell you why i am saving you for last. Now you have heard all of the departments tell you what they are doing, and if you have a response to whether or not we could do more. This is a good time to let us know. Here are some more copies if you would like them. I am fire marshal for the city and county of San Francisco. My role is i oversee the division of Fire Prevention and investigation. My hopes here today is to speak to code requirements. What are the minimum code requirements for Vegetation Management and wild land urban interface in San Francisco . That is a good starting point. If we want to suggest solutions or strengthen the program, we should start with what is required and are we meeting that minimum . That is my intent today. If you have any questions regarding wildfire operations or training our deputy chief is here to speak to that. We will get started. My presentation will be brief, to the point. I will identify specific code sections. These are found in the fire code and in title 19. Chapter 3 and 49. 3 is general and 49 is specifically wild land urban interface. They are two different things. We will look at two maps. These are developed and published by the cdf, California Department of forestry, adopted by cell fire. California fire. These identify the different fire hazard severity zones. Then i speak to the specific details regarding these codes. Here is the code section. Title 29, part nine, chapter 3. General requirements speak to any structure adjacent to wild grass, shrubs or not necessarily wild land urban interface. These are found in chapter 3 and title 19. What it says is you shall create a fire break of 30 feet up to the structure to limit the spread of fire to protect that structure. It is to remove any combustible vegetation. What is that . Not green. We are talking about chapter three. It is dead vegetation. That is the requirements. That is the general rule of thumb. Within chapter 3 it refers to chapter 49. That is where the wild land interface requirements come into play. If you want you can use that one microphone. They both work. Sorry for the distraction. Here is a map of california. Cdf put this out. It is for the whole state of california. The fire hazard severity zones. You will notice three different colors, four colors. White is federal land or local responsibility areas. You can focus in on San Francisco. It is hard to see. It is all white that is a local responsibility area, not a state responsibility area. There are three classifications. Moderate is yellow. High the orange and very high is red. There is a significant difference between local and state responsibility areas within chapter 49. There are different requirements depending if you are state or local. Here is San Francisco. We look at the. Thayellow. Those are moderate ar, according to cdf. That is yellow, moderate. Where isnt mi mcclaren parkn there . This come the division of for resty. This is a recommended map. The city and county of San Francisco can say we declare this whole county high hazard. Chapter 49 would apply and the rules would apply. This is a guidance given by the state, and that is what you will see as a draft as a recommended approach. This did not capture everything. We will get to specific requirements. Chapter 3 you can see the vegetation talks about weeds and grass, cut down remove any kind of combustible vegetation. Title 19 same. Highlighted in yellow here because under general requirements it refers to the 3g table. Bullet two which should be item two. The next highlighted yellow. You need local authority for extra hazard with the specific site. He or she can ask for greater Defensible Space. You can ask from 30 to 100 feet. That is up to 30 feet. This is chapter 49. It is the wild land urban interface requirements. The first highlighted area is cdf is the one that classifies the hazard areas. We look at applicability. Is this applicable . Under 4906. 2, the first part is. State responsibility area and you are moderate, high or very high chapter 49 applies. In number 2. If you are a local responsibility area, chapter 49 only applies for high hazard designated areas. That does not apply to San Francisco unless we selfimposuit on ourselves. That is the point there. Selfimpose that on ourselves. That is the point there. The reason i mention the minimum requirements is not to discount the concern about fire hazards. I think it is a starting point, a benchmark to look at. If we want to increase that, we can do it at the local level. The Fire Department is open to having further discussions with you if you choose to do so. There are are three ways to do this. We have a 30foot rule. We partner with other agencies. They have been very responsive. Anytime we had a complaint, they have been very responsive. It is not a proactive program, though. When we receive a fire complaint. We have a proactive program with dpw mentioned earlier where we send outletters every spring to clear is hillside. We can continue as we go on, we can task force this, team up with other departments to go visit the sites and come up a plan for each site or city and county of San Francisco can declare the whole county high hazard and we will apply 49 throughout. That is an option. If you were to do that, then chapter 7 of the Building Code kicks in. That restricts you on the Building Materials you can use adjacent to the child land areas. Wild land areas. The material on your roof, tile, you cant use wood shingles. Where to put the vents, the openings, windows, it is quite involved. Would only apply to new construction . Everything there would be grandfathered . Correct, correct. When you talk about Defensible Space, it is for the structure to prevent it. None of these areas have a large street, a man made break adjacent to the areas. You take that into account in the 30foot rule. I would like to mention the Fire Department does not have jurisdiction over federal land, state land, the p. U. C. Also, with that said we do partner with all of them when it comes to Fire Department access and proper water supply. We are the responding agency. I am happy to answer any questions. Thank you for stating the facts. I guess one reason why we are excited to have you here is to rely on your expertise in this area. Even though as chair peskin mentioned, the state may not have considered that of any threat, but if you were drawing the maps, would you include the park . Absolutely. This is where we are i would love to have you work closer to either my office or our offices to see how we can define this. My guess is that probably our areas whether it is mic chairren park that we could Pay Attention to. You made the offer to work closer with some of our other departments in terms of their land like rec and park. Recand park mentioned they would be more than willing to have you work with them. Can i have maybe a report back that in terms of when you say you are going to Work Together to look at these in a proactive way, is it something that we need to legislate or is it something that because we care about our residents that we would do this as just being good partner was the rest of the city. I would like to know what direction to take this. The more we are proactive. I started this hearing with the statement that, well, you know, what might have been good 10 yearyears ago is something we nd to look at how we approach our urban forest areas and other areas that would have a fire hazard because of the type of weather conditions we are seeing these days. I just dont want to excuse the expression have our pants down on this issue. We need to do the best we can. You know, we dont want to end up saying i wish we had done it. That is my sort of challenge to the Fire Department to work with other departments to like you said, site to site plans. I think that would work. I do not have a problem. I dont know if you need legislation for this. If we had a task force inspection. We would all meet together to come up with the criteria. What requirements are we going to implement ponziing certain conditions . How implement when we see certain conditions . Where do we draw the lawns. Unless we have an understanding how far to go casebycase basis. That is number one. When we get with other departments this is reasonable approach then we go out and do the site visits. I appreciate that. Anybody else . Are there scenarios that you can model . Obviously as we just saw, San Francisco doesnt have an urban interface as many other counties do. Historically, fire spray suppren in San Francisco is requiring sprinklers in apartment buildings. You and i have had that conversation about those grandfathered. I passed a law a few years ago because the law of 20 years ago didnt include basements and we were having fires in basements. We captured that going forward, not backwards. We are a highly urbanized area. All of our resource allocation has been around what is associated with a major event like an earthquake. We worry about extending awss and cobenefit pipeline to the west side and putting in cisterns. We dont have this conversation around the park merceds. If we want to impose upon ourselves something that is more strings get than the state imposes upon us with the resulting impacts to surroundings Property Owners or future development, is there away we can model the risk and derm whether or not this is not worth our time and money and we should do what we continue to do which is cisterns and expansion of awss and new intake man folds on port property or something we will look back at when there is a huge fire that burns down half of district 11. We will say we were not concentrating on the wrong things or not enough things. I know you cant predict fire. Can you model fire out of the relatively small handfuls of the recand park. They have wasted the afternoon because you are not a problem. I am having a problem. University of california are great partners. Is there a way to figure this out with some risk benefit assignment . Each site has a different level of risk. Tothe guidelines are there over the experience. They are there for a reason. They do call out for different grades and spacing of trees. That is from learning from past fires. It is already there. We can use those requirements where it is spelled out and say, hey, does this fall under, you know, that hazard. If i had a flat space and my trees are relatively spaced, is that a lesser hazard than in glenn canyon . Absolutely. The slope of the hill, proximity of the trees, canopies, the ground, the fuel on the ground. Yes, we can on a case to case with experience with what is already out there derm what is a greater hazard than other areas. I dont know if that answers your question. This is not one size fits alsoution. Whe fits alsoution. When there is a sidewalk and houses. It is more than 30 feet. It seems to me everything is about a defensible perimeter. The question is the standard is 30 but do we want to impose a larger perimeter, which would cut to dennys property, right . Do we want to do a comprehensive assessment of all of our urban interfaces and derm these are places where 30 feet is right. These are places where we need a larger perimeter before the fire jumps. I assume glenn canyon the fire burns uphill. At the top it is crowned and moving. You are still going uphill. Can it jump the street . Doesnt have to jump the street . Why . There are houses on the park side, too. To answer your question it is resources. Fire department is willing to go out there and visit each and every site. We can do that. The other think we take into account is our resources. The number of appar rat tuesday we get there in a timely matter and in the Water Supplies we take into account if i it is a Reasonable Risk or not . Good afternoon. One of my roles is to coordinate mutual response from the Fire Department to the state. For the last seven years i was responding to fires up and down the state. We have special equipment in all of that where they are assigned. They train all of the time. You will see us every mayor beginning of june training within the park for the city. We prepare for that. Wwe prepare for that in the cit. If this and your department and other departments were interested. The question is if we want to to allocate Financial Resources for jurisdiction and planning and see what that yields . I agree with that statement you just made, yes. It is november getting to february when everybody submits the budget to the mayor. It is a conversation to have as the rest of the state is burni burning. I agree with that. I guess i was alluding to that. There is really a way to plan this and figure out what resources we need to make this happen, let us know. I would like to be Crystal Clear. We do respond to these areas with other departments. If we need to clear areas, we will clear them. I am responding to your call about a comprehensive plan. I want to be sure we are Crystal Clear on that. To the earlier question that happens to be where i live and i say this to everybody, not only around issues of fire but every issue in this town except for when you get a parking ticket is complain driven. I get an email that says people are camped out on his property. That is how i learn about it. He gets the call. Gets the call. Is this an instance where we need to be more proactive . I think so. Thank you very much. I will be quick. It sounds like there are two potential projects here. One requires Greater Partnership between the fire marshal and departments. One is making sure we do the things we think we are doing now. We think we are maintaining this 30foot area. It would be really great for people in glenn canyon living on a house next to glenn canyon to have the reassurance the fire marshal has checked out that 30foot area and given it his blessing that we are good. At least in so far as we are upholding the state standards, based upon what the state is telling us, nobody here should be worried. There may be a secondary project that may require more money. Does San Francisco want its own standards. We are dense on top of each other with the memory of the 1906 earthquake. There is kind of two things in there. I do think and what i present to you is a immediate task of doing the checking to make sure in areas with special concern like glenn canyon that, yes, at least as far as our current standards, San Francisco has got this right and we checked. You can be absured about that. I dont remember 1906, but i remember 1989. If there are no other presenters, lets open this up to public comment. Would you like to speak to item 3 . Thank you for spending your afternoon with us . Coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods. At the october General Assembly meeting the coalition passed a resolution regarding emergency firefighting capabilities. Besides the transit it includes water and sewer replacement, the water supply system. Doing this would be consistent with the city policy. It is a shovel ready project. Installing dedicated would provide direct firefighting coverage fo for the for police. It would contribute to the citys ability to prevent and manage wildfires as to the owned property. Thank you. Mr. Sig. Jake sig. I have been leading volunteers working for the city for 29 years now. The last three weeks we have been working on Mount Davidson. It is very much on my mind. We got the natural Management Plan passed a couple years ago. Nothing is done. The ivy crawling up the trees, they are full of dead leaves. They can easily start a fire from the ground up to the crown. I can see with the kind of weather we have been having with the cold, dry winds out of the north, they fortunately did not last very long. Sometimes like in the past they do. In october 1991 in oakland, that was exactly the kind of weather they had, and the combination of that and a spark, Mount Davidson could go. It is a frightening prospect even though it is not likely to happen, but what if it does . It appears it is mostly a matter of money. The risk of the city burning down for lack of money does not make any sense. I want to mention the Fire Department and cal fire came to a meeting about seven or eight years ago and explained the risk of a fire happening. It is identical conditions on Mount Davidson, just different landowners. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. I am paul. I want to speak on this issue. Regarding the wild land interface, the maps the state put out are based on relative humidity and the fact we normally have a higher humidity than most of the other wild land areas. There are times when the conditions are right we can have a catastrophic wildfire with loss to lives and property, and what the city doesnt have is unconventional firefighting methods. While they are really good at doing code enforcement, Defensible Space, which is really important, they have conventional firefighting methods. What gets the upper hand on the firestorms which glen park canyon, mic chairren park and Billy Goat Hill and others, we would need unconventional methods for the head of the fire which you cant fight with conventional methods, you need water drops. The city has helicopters. Is it possible through the Fire Department no longer. Okay. There is going to be a time when there arent any aerial support because they are occupied somewhere else and timing is on the essence. What the city needs is nonconventional firefighting with therel copter with aerial drops in the parklands, national parklands, stateowned properties and city properties. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am betsy eddy president of Diamond HeightsCommunity Foundation which has been meeting for 11 years to prepare the neighborhood for emergencies. I am encouraged by the hearing today and the questions by the supervisors, but we really do perceive a much more dangerous fire hazard than some of the people here today. It was just three years ago that Diamond Heights started to realize there is an urban wildfire hazard here in glenn canyon park and in the five parks that surround Diamond Heights. On a very windy day, there is the potential for a fire started in a park to reach home. I want to give an example. Our winds are so fierce they sometimes knock me over and some of the trees go at a slant because of the wind. There are windy areas of San Francisco but the wind in Diamond Heights, green park would carry a fire up the canyon described together. 30foot Defensible Space is not going to stop the fires from spreading. I could take a picture of every fire hazard in glenn canyon, the pictures of the dead trees and dead logs and dried grass that could spread a fire really quickly. I hope the fire marshal and Fire Department will take a look at that themselves with their environmental crews. Thank you very much. Any other members of the public to testify . Public comment is closed. President yee. Thank you to all departments and u. C. S. F. And procedo land trust. There seems to be two areas to work with rec and park to look at the issues brought up by the public and also supervisor mandelman. I think glenn canyon we need to look at more carefully. I would follow up with the current park to see what needs addressed in terms of the conditions in that area. Again, i want to move beyond the immediate actions that you could take and look at a long term comprehensive plan for San Francisco and see you how we can improve our situation. Lets dont wait until something happens, lets prepare for it. Thank you very much. Thank you to each and every department for coming and the members of the public, supervisor mad delmen. Do you want to continue or file this . We could file this and if we have a policy to put together. I will take that without objection. We are adjourned. Happy monday. Good morning, everyone. What an exciting day in the city of San Francisco right here on jefferson street. I want to thank you all for coming out like they say. It takes a village to really come up with a great project and this project is a great project that involved many people from many city departments, many years ago. It started with the fishermans worth plan and there were many agencies that were involved. I see john brown from the Planning Department is here. Harlan kelly from p. U. C. , our friends from the port are here. The San FranciscoTransportation Authority is over there, and many agencies, of course, public works. They are part of this project. And when this project first started, it was a five block project and we could only find funding to do the first part in the first part was from hyde to jones. But we also had to do it in quick time, in under six months we were able to build the only the first part of jefferson street before the americas cup and i can tell you that project has been a fantastic project. So this phase two is also going to be done in record time, under a year, starting today after this groundbreaking. With that said, i would like to introduce someone that has been a champion for Pedestrian Safety , implementing vision zero , and really making our safety the beautiful city that it is, im making sure that well Work Together. Lets welcome our mayor london buried. [cheers and applause] london buried. Thank you to all the Community Members who are here today to celebrate phase two of four phases of really changing the future and the landscape of fishermans worth in this area, which is not only visited by people from all around the world , theres actually an Incredible Community of merchants, of people who live here and who walk these streets every single day. We want to make sure that it is safe, it is walkable, it is enjoyable and people have incredible experiences when they come to visit San Francisco. Today we ordered the sun to shine so that people can happen even better experience. This project is an example of how when city departments come together for a common goal, with Community Members and the fishermans worth, Community Business district in the San Francisco chamber, thank you, rodney, for being here today, that we can make incredible things happen. Im excited that public works and the port and the Planning Department and so many of our agencies have made this a priority. We know that money generated from tourism actually helps to support so many incredible things that we do in San Francisco so we want the experiences to be that much better. And looking at how we are taking a street that used to be a oneway, turning into a two away , widening the sidewalks, making it more clean and more green, and at the same time, thank you to harlan kelly, the director of p. U. C. For digging into the ground, and we are taking around the fiberoptic cables that all the things that we need to do to make sure that the pipes and infrastructure is working so that we dont have to go back into the ground is absolutely how we should be working on public projects like this. Im excited. It took a lot of money, yes from a lot of different resources, and i want to say a special thank you to david chiu for his work in providing resources, working along with supervisor aaron peskin and supervising estate resources to make this project a reality. It does take a village. It does take a lot of money and here we are at the end of what is phase two to make something incredible happening for this particular neighborhood. Thank you do all the folks involved and im excited that mohammed has promised to do this in record time and within budget we will be watching very closely because that is what i care about the most. I know that one of the most fiscally conservative persons on the board of supervisors cares about that as well. Ladies and gentlemen, your supervisor, aaron peskin. [applause] thank you. Good things come to people who are patient. As down from the port to knows, this goes back to 2003 when the community gathered with the port and started a community plan. Some years later, the Planning Department stepped in even before the days of john ram and graham and that led to phase i. Lets be real, there was a little concern. Rodney will remember, back in the days when he had the wax museum, widening of the sidewalks was going to inhibit vehicular transportation here even though we all knew it was going to actually make fisherman s worth wharf keep up. Years ago they brought the f. Line in here and that was a boom to Fishermans Wharf and it is beloved around San Francisco and around the world. After that, we expanded the sidewalks. Fishermans worth is the goose that lays the golden egg for San Francisco. Year in and year out. It is high time that San FranciscoCity Government reinvest so that Fishermans Wharf will continue to be the envy of the world. 600 million in retail sales, 250 million related to hotels, millions and millions, 16 Million People come here every year. Thirtynine is the number one tourist attraction in the city and county of San Francisco. Investing 16 million of city and state funds makes perfect sense for this fiscally prudent supervisor, including, and i am wearing now my hat as chair of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority, not only 1. 2 million of your half cent sales tax, but each of the members of that body get 200,000 to invest. I put my 200,000 into this project. It is just a little bit, but it helped make it go. Congratulations to all the departments and particularly the community that made this happen. Thank you so much. [applause] next, from the port of San Francisco, we are on port property until you get in the middle of that street, then youre on mohammeds property, but we are on the lands of the port of San Francisco. Its executive director, elaine forbes. [applause]. Thank you so much supervisor peskin. Thank you to mayor breed for prioritizing safety and Economic Development and helping this neighborhood thrive. You have heard from the other speakers about this area being the goose that lays the golden egg, which is completely true. 85 of visitors to San Francisco come here and they come back again because it is such a wonderful experience that we have to continue to invest in, but i want to talk for a second about the community that is here we have 500 businesses. Many Small Businesses can eat, many multigenerational businesses that make this place thrive. We have an amazing Fishermans Wharf community. We have the fisherman and women who are the reason for this place you have been fishing and making their life off the bay for generations and Fishermans Wharf is about the Fishing Community and about the small communities Small Businesses in the community. That is why it is a special place to come and visit. I want to acknowledge all the community did to get to this place today, to have our groundbreaking. It is a real celebration to all of you. Thank you for making Fishermans Wharf such an amazing experience for all the people local and visiting that come and again that come again and again. I want to acknowledge my commissioner who is here today. Now id like to turn it over to randall scott. He is the c. E. O. Of the Fishermans Wharf c. B. D. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you to all of you. I came here last december to Fishermans Wharf and fell in love with it all over again. I want to encourage each and everyone of you to come down and visit and see what is going on. The pedestrian developments of jefferson street, wider sidewalks, easier to walk through, all around the world, people have been doing this to their cities and the foot traffic and the visitation that comes down with that and the boost of businesses is absolutely fantastic. I cant wait for this to finish. Thank you very much for only promising for one year. As mentioned, we are the tourist heart of the city. People come down here, they have fun, they go back to their homes , they bring back more people. I just want to say, you know, to the city, thank you for reinvesting and Fishermans Wharf. We promised to take very good care of it and we look forward to those people walking down the street. To those of you in the bay area, i would highly encourage you to come down and visit. This place has something for everyone. We have a Treasure Hunt do you can go from bar to bar, attraction to attraction and enjoy an entire full day down here. Again, thank you to the city and county of San Francisco, thank you all for coming. [applause] all right. In fact, this very spot that we are standing will become a brandnew plaza. As everyone knows, it is a parking lot now but we will redo it and it will have nice paving patterns. Those architects at public works , they have had fun with it everybody is okay with it. Okay. Lets go and break ground. We have some shovels. Lets get busy here. All right, come on in. Ready . Squeeze in. Squeeze, we dont have to touch. All right. Are you guys ready . Five, four, three, two, one. There we go. [cheering]. All right. All right. Thank you. What are you going to use it for . [laughter] sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very Minimal Energy use. It Still Matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. So having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. We heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. It was super easy to sign up. Our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. Nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. Its an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around Climate Change and its so easy that its hard to not want to do it, and it doesnt really add anything to the bill