Transcripts For SFGTV Mayors 20240702

Secret service 75 National Security event. This designation is given to insure the full weight leverage talent and resources of the federal government and our state and local partners to this event and other events like this. When an event is designated the u. S. Secret service assumes its mandated role as the lead agency for it design and implementation of the Operational Security plan. However, the success of these events cannot be obtained by any one agency alone and i can say it has been a collaborative effort between the u. S. Secret service, the San Francisco Police Department, the california Highway Patrol, the federal bureau of investigation, the federal Emergency Management agency, u. S. Coast guard, San Francisco Fire Department and many federal state and local partner tuesday design the security plan. During the last several months and in fact today, this Collaborative Team has conducted numerous training exercises, one of which we finished this morning a table top exercise to prepare for this event cht this insures that each agency is properly prepared for this event of this magnitude. The number one priority for the secret service and everyone standing here today is the safety of the world leaders, the attendees coming to the apec summit, but as well as the general public here in San Francisco while the apec summit is here in San Francisco. Because of the nature of this designation and impact to the normal daily lives of San Francisco residents and visitors is unavoidable. However, the team here has taken extraordinary measures to minimize that impact where possible while maintaining our obligation to the safety of the attendees oof the apec semt as elwith as the general public. The public will experience increased traffic on both roads and walkways in and around the apec venues. Vehicular Public Transportation and pedestrian impacts should be expected in the downtown area around the muconey center. Around the San Francisco waterfront, as well as the nob hill neighborhood. Residents and businesses generally will have access to their normal residents and their normal businesses, however, they may under go a security screening and mild inconvenience to traverse these areas. Specific road closures and pedestrian and vehicle access information have been provided on a map like the one displayed behind me here that can be accessed online. Also made available to Mapping Software people are familiar with here in San Francisco that they have on their personal smart phones and other devices. Secret service establish remote delivery and vehicle screening at pier 27 that allow all delivery vehicles going into their zones to be screened and then they will be given specific instructions once they are screened. Their vehicle will be sealed and can access the perimeter under certain conditions. Deliveries should occur between 10 p. M. 7 a. M. There will be temporary flight restrictions. This will impact commercial and private air traffic as well as drown operators. The federal Aviation Administration this and notice to all airman for all effected air traffic. Again to include drones. There will be restrictions for commercial and private maritime traffic around the waterfront area. Those restrictions will be communicated directly by the u. S. Coastguard and notice to mariners. The summit security plan is part of the secret service zero no fail protective mission and also a part of each and every state federal local agency participated in this security plan. We have absolute confidence in this plan and we have taken extraordinary measures to minimize the impact to the public and to the residents and visitors of San Francisco. We thank the residents and visitors of San Francisco for their patience. We will do our best to collectively keep the public informed of changes or impacts or incident that occur during the apec summit. I like to personally thank chief scott with the San Francisco Police Department as well as the San Francisco department of Emergency Management and many other federal state and local partners who mentioned for all the work thus far. It is truly a collaborative effort and i thank you all for your continued partnership. My pleasure to introduce chief bill scott. Thank you special agent brown. First of all, i want to thank our partners and like to start with special agents jeremy brown for leadership and professionalism planning the apec alongside the sfpd. I want to thank and acknowledge the partners at the cal Highway Patrol. We have [indiscernible] here and also thank commissioner [indiscernible] for their assistance and commitment of resources to this event. We cannot do this without their help and this is a unprecedented event for the city of San Francisco. We are very excited to take part in this event and putting the global spotlight on the city and county of San Francisco. We are expecting up to 20 thousand people from across 21 member apec economys, ceos around the world and expecting close to 1 thousand media representatives. Our city is ready to meet this moment. The San Francisco Police Department has a full time team working with all Department Bureaus to insure adequate Service Provided to the apec event and to the city as a whole. Our department of Emergency Management headed by director carol and mayor office are working full time to coordinate all city agencies to be prepared for this epic event. The San Francisco Police Department is also partnering with federal, state and local agencies to support the u. S. Secret service, their security mission. Sfpd is working to insure First Amendment activity is properly facilitated and remains peaceful and let me be very very clear, any act of violence against any member of the public or Law Enforcement will not be tolerated. This department has a lot of experience in handling large scale security events. Yearly we have the pride event. The 2018 Global Climate action summit superbowl and victory parade for Golden State Warriors and San Francisco giants. We have experience with this but so do all our partners. That experience will make us successful with this years apec event. Ypt to talk about our staffing. The San Francisco Police Department is staffed up and prepared to make sure this event is safe for everyone. Work wg our department of Emergency Management and will have a joint Information Center to respond to inquirys and get information out in real time. We do not anticipate apec impact City Services by ems or 911. Emergency responders will be available everywhere in the city. Several hundred sfpd officers are dedicated to normal operations, including calls for service and Emergency Response acrauz the city. And we plan to maintain adequate service for the greater city in our 10 district stations outside of the apec conference boundaries in order to handle our routine normal calls for service and provide the Public Safety needs of this city. All of our sworn members will be working. We are mobilized for that week and we will have hundreds of sfpd officers ambassadors, volunteers dedicated to this apec conference to insure the safety of visitors and dignitaries in both the city limits and at the San Francisco international airport. The california Highway Patrol and over a dozen local agencies are providing personnel to supplement the needs for the uniform Law Enforcement as designated apec venues and events. Our San Mateo County agency is supporting the San Francisco airport so we are well prepared for this events. Here is our call to axz. We are asking the public, stay vigilant. If you see something, say something. We should do that always no matter what you see, we will check it out. Dont be afraid to call. Be patient. As special agent brown mentioned, many areas of the city will be impacted by street closures, detours, buses rerouted, Public Transportation rerouted and dignitaries escorts. It will take all patience to get through this week. We will keep you informed and make sure you know what routes you can take for Public Transportation, what routes are closed so you can plan accordingly. We encourage you to take Public Transportation or walk, but most importantly, please enjoy the city as you would normally. This Police Department and our Public Safety partners will be out 24 7 as always insuring our community is safe. Last, lets please be respectful and tolerant of one another. Many people from many cultures and many Different Countries with many different ways of life will be converging on the city of San Francisco during apec. We are that city. We are a welcoming city that respects every culture, so lets make sure that we model that this week and beyond. Lets show the world that we are truly a world class city. The map has been provided. Working closely with City Partners and agencies to assist with road closures. Working with mta on Public Transportation but Pay Attention to the alerts because that will help us get through this with hopefully minimized disruption to normal routine. With that, i like to close by saying, thank you, thank you again to our partners. This will be a exciting time for the city of San Francisco as we will be on the global stage. We are prepared. We have done this before. We have the experience. We have the collaboration. We have partnership and we are committed to making this a safe event for everyone and with that, i like to introduce special agent in charge from the fbi, bob trip. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you chief scott. My name is bob trip. In november, apec will bring together the leaders of nations that account for 40 percent of the global population and 50 percent of global trade. The fbi is committed insuring these leaders, other visitors and the city and residents of the bay area can enjoy these events in a safe and security environment. We are bringing all fbi resources to bear to fulfill our own mission and to plan for contingencies. Our role will focus on crisis management, investigation, and intelligence support as part of our preventing terrorism mission. We will Work Together with partners to collect Threat Intelligence and mitigate any threats in support of this event. A driving force behind the summit is the power collaboration that same principle is guiding the planning and engagement of the federal state and local partners that you see gathered here today. The fbi is proud to stand among our partners and to provide them all with our full support. Ill turn things back over to secret service for questions. We can take some questions related to the apec event. First up. Hi. There. What measure s might the secret service might conduct sweeps to make sure any unhoused individuals in zone may be removed, is that something the secret service will be working on . First off, thank you for that question. I know there is a lot of concern in San Francisco regarding the homeless population. We have a plan that we work closely with San Francisco Police Department on. I will turn it over to chief scott. I think he has more detailed information to answer this specific question. Thank you for that question. First of all, let me say, we are not conducting sweeps. We have a infrastructure in the city to address some of the challenges with our unhoused population and we will plug into that infrastructure to make sure people need help need help. The main thing, the main focus that we are all here for is Public Safety and the safety of this event. There will be places where we wont allow access and we are prepared to deal with that if we have unhoused people that are displaced. They will have opportunities for shelter. They will have opportunities for help, but the main thing is to make sure it is a safe environment, so we will plug into our regular infrastructure. The department of Emergency Management. The Fire Department has a street Crisis Response team. We have shelter beds available. We have the resources to make this work and thats what we intend to do. I want to say this, it isnt a crime to be unhoused. It isnt a crime to be homeless. We are out there to make sure we help people. We are out there to make sure this event is a safe event but we also want to represent our city in the finest light, so all these components and infrastructure pieces we put together over a number of years will come together and help guide us to a successful event. Should people start expecting to see like, [indiscernible] things in the ramp up to this since they are necessary to [indiscernible] heads of state. Thanks for the question. In the days leading up to the period of the nsse, you will see what we would call administrative movement of motorcade vehicles throughout the city to prepare. You will see instillation of various physical barriers to assist with the restrictions displayed on the map here in the days leading up to the 1518 period. It is slow ramp up a few day ahead and culminating the evening of the 14 to Early Morning hours of the 15 of november. On the map, what are all the colors mean . Can someone point out what everything up there means [indiscernible] if i could get a map here i can refer to real quick. I got one with me and will try to talk through it. So, the colors and everything on the map are selfexplanatory. There is a legend at the bottom corner and so im happy to visit privately after this to answer those questions, but for me to explain entirety of the map, there is a lot on the map. There is vehicle restricted zones. There is pedestrian restricted zones. There is closures of Public Transportation routes. There are reroutes available to the public of San Francisco to take in lieu of the closed Public Transportation routes. Those are all displayed on the map. Those are what the Different Things mean, but detailed explanation of the map for the purpose of time here today, not going through from az on that. [indiscernible] for people listening at home. Where can people read and find out the closures that effect them . Excellent question. I know this map is going to be most important to the public so ill differ that question to a San Francisco pd or City Partners. [indiscernible] you are saying there is a [indiscernible] can you elaborate on that . People are wondering [indiscernible] we had the president here. We had a lot of people from out of town. What type of extra security are we expecting, especially 21 leaders . Great question. Again, as i said earlier, this event has warranted full resources of the federal, state and local government, so im not going to speak to specific numbers. What i can tell you is there will be a extraordinary amount of Law Enforcement, military and Public Safety personnel in San Francisco for this event, so well above what anybody has ever seen here before. Can you give us the ideawe have seen the president in San Francisco before. Can you give comparison how much more locked down the city will be . I cant give you a detailed comparison other then to say, it will be much more then a normal president ial visit to San Francisco. We are anticipating not just the president of the united states, also the Vice President , also potentially heads of state from 21 other countries that are coming to this event, so you know, minimum, 21 times what you would normally see might be a good opening ball park, but again, very hard to specifically describe and compare because you are comparing apples to oranges. [indiscernible] thats a great question. So, the major closures around muconey will be from Second Street to 5 ethstreet. Those streets will be open beyond the points the streets will be closed. Then from Market Street to harrison street. Again, both streets being open, but anything beyond that boundary is closed to vehicular traffic. [indiscernible] im going to differ to the city of San Francisco on the Public Transportation questions because they are the experts on that. Good afternoon. I name is Jeffrey Tumlin the executive director of the San Francisco municipal transportation agency. We are very grateful how closely the secret serve iss worked with us to minimize negative impact to the Transit System and particularly to center naerbds like chinatown, union square, south of market and the whole Southeast Quadrant of San Francisco. That said, for security reasons, the yurba buena station and 4th and brandon station of the central subway will need to be closed for it duration of the event. We are grateful we are able to reroute trains, so the t3 trains instead of going into the central subway will simply follow the old route to Market Street subway and very importantly will be able to run High Frequency shuttle trains between union square, Market Street station, and chinatown. This is very important for us to make sure we maintain strong conductivity to chinatown. Bart, caltrain will be fully operational uneffected. Sams trans and golden gate experience very miner reroutes so if you are coming to San Francisco that week, please do take Public Transit. Very importantly, we will be publishing very detailed traffic walking biking and especially transit updates under our website later this afternoon and will continue to update that as we get more information. Please go to sfmta. Com apec. Where you can not only find information, but also sign up for regular alerts and updates. What about the cable cars and [indiscernible] yes. The cable cars will be disrupted by the nob hill area zone but grateful to the secret service and our team who found a way to continue operate the hyde street line from the cable car barn at mason street to the hyde street terminal so that will keep running. The rest of the line needs to be replaced by bus connectivity. It sounds like there are three areas. There is muscone, nob hill and waterfront portion. Can you talk about the waterfront portion . I will differ to secret service for the details of the dates and boundaries, but for each of those, they worked very closely with us in order to develop plans to make sure Public Transit can be rerouted around those closures as needed. I wondered about the if i can answer that question first and come to you. So, your questions about the waterfront. [indiscernible] three security [indiscernible] thats correct. So, the question i think is about the waterfront, and that will primarily be on the day of and especially the afternoon and evening of the 15 of november. We expect the embarcadero to be closed that day on the 15 of november from battery to broadway that will be a closure there. You will also see diversion of traffic before you get to battery or before to broadway to prevent congestion. Also on the map you see a area in the water that is maritime restriction zone. That will be in effect the afternoon and evening of 15 of november that include ferrys and such diverted around that zone. We made large enough to account for safety needs and security needs we intend to have for that particular venue, but also allowing as much traffic as possible around that zone to take place. [indiscernible] i wondered about the people in the area they might have to undergo security check. Is that bag check or beyond that . Great question. For people that live around or operate businesses around some of these venues, particularly mos coney if you are trying to access for example the met rion or something of that nature, you will have to go what is effectively a bag check. Any packages or bags you have with you would have to be inspected, but nothing beyond the bag or package check will be the procedure there. How are you planning to respond to protesters and can you confirm if and where there will be zones that protesting cannot take place. Appreciate the question. The question is regarding protest and demonstration. So, ill answer part of it and turn the rest to chief scott. So, from secret service perspective, to answer your second part first, secret service does not designate protest zones, no protest zones. We designate general public areas and areas restricted from the general public. As far as your question regarding any concern over protests, as chief scott stated in his remarks and ill second this, during this planning, we accounted for the fact there will be perhaps many different groups and many different type of people that want to come to San Francisco and exercise their First Amendment rights and we are prepared to see that. We dont want to discourage that, however we want to make sure that if anybody is doing anything in conjunction with those activities that result in violence or criminal activity, that will not be tolerated by the u. S. Secret service or the San Francisco Police Department. Ill turn it over to chief scott for any second comments on that question. Thank you special agent brown. I just reiterate what was just said. It is about facilitation of peaceful First Amendment activity and also about the general Public Safety for this event and the public as well. Including the protesters themselves. We will facilitate like we always do First Amendment activity. We do that very well and we will employ similar tactics and strategy we always have and it is about facilitation. If and when protesters show up we will be deployed to handle that. We have extra officers that we will be able to handle that type of event if it occurs. The message is this and want to reiterate, criminal activity will not be tolerated and anybody think they are going to come in name of protest and hurt somebody or do crime or start fires that will not be tolerated so want to reemphasize that. We will do it consitutionally and respect rights and professional in our actions but will not tolerate the nonsense so i want to make that clear. We are all professionals up here. We respect the country consitution and will facilitate that, but we also want to make sure this is a peaceful event. Question for chief scott. Well aware sfpd had under staffing issues working with mutual partners in other counties and cities, is it safe to say during this time that sfpd might be fully staffed . Everybody is working, so we will be fully staffed and we have assistance. I said earlier in my remarks, cant thank the california Highway Patrol enough, the u. S. Secret service, all our partners, we are all in this together but the municipal policing is the San Francisco Police Department with help from other local agencies. We have motorcycle officers from other agencies, squads to deal with the security assignments and we have squads to deal with the fixed posts and we are prepared to adequately police the rest of the city during this event, so we are ready, and we are short, but thank goodness we do have the assistance of calling everybody in that make this work. Thank you, great question and fair question. Thank you. Businesses operating in some of the security zones, is there going to be any impact to their hours and also, is there cases where there is inconveniences because of dignitaries . Is there compensation for some of the [indiscernible] so, appreciate the question regarding the impact to businesses. With very few if any very rare exceptions there will be no businesses asked to effectively close. There will be impacts. Already discussed that people that are patrons of the businesses may need to undergo screening if they wish to do business with these places or perhaps the business workers or owners. There will also be impacts during motorcade movement. There is restriction of traffic and restriction of pedestrian traffic during key times so there will be impacts, but we are anticipating any full closures of any private businesses here in San Francisco as a result of this. Because of that, we are not anticipating any need to compensate Business Owners due to these impacts. It is something that as part of this National Special security event and the fact it is here in the city of San Francisco and hosted by the city that is anticipated these types of impacts will occur and ill turn it over to the city for further comment on that, but thats effectively comes with the territory of with these type of events. From a city perspective, our Mayors Office worked very hard to coordinate with Small Businesses, with all businesses. Office of economic development, our office of Small Business development have been working at this for monthss to keep everybody informed as to what the impacts will be. Online there will be a lot of people in the city that attend the conference. We hope it helps our businesses economically, but that only happens if we are well coordinated, people well informed and people understand what the closures are, how to get to and from daily routine of life and we will do that well. The department of Emergency Management does a great job informing the public when we have these types of events and Public Notices particularly if there is a emergency that are tied into this or as a result, or emergencies around the city. We will keep everybody informed and i think that will be the key to making this a smooth as possible, but we definitely arewe understand the businesses will bepeople will be disrupted and why we are here today and continue to message to the public to make sure we minimize the disruption and businesses can go about their routine. Thank you. [indiscernible] hi, friends. Im pria here and in a fabulous restaurant in San Francisco with vicky. Vicky is a long time broadcast journalist in San Francisco working for kron tv. Tell us. Im a veteran in the business but been with cron 4 with 23 years now. A new be. Cron has been around more then 7 years. It is one of the premier broadcast stations thin country, not just San Francisco. Used to be part of the young family, the chronicle, which major. We do news morning noon and night, so we are on air and online and we served the community. We also do international news, national news, whatever is happening, we are on it like a cheap suit. You also love to feature local restaurants so you brought us today. Tell us where we are. Could i resest . There are a myriad of great places to wine and dine. We are at the cross roads of the best rest aurants in the city. China town, north beach, embarcadero, the barbary coach. There might be ships underneath us. Where we are now is a place i call my local cheers bar. It is lot more then that. It is cocary, [indiscernible] it is a greek rest aurant. And you are greek. I love this place because it has the greek term for welcoming of strangers, so it really cuts into what we are talking about. All the International Journalists coming from the far corners of the earth. What better place then to come to some place the ethos is about welcoming. Absolutely. And we welcome all you to come to San Francisco. Check out our many restaurants including this one. Of course, we have to say welcome everyone. Month. Pacific palisades heritage month is about celebrating the cultural and heritage of our community. Affirming the Asian American Pacific Islanders. It about register and honoring the path for future generations about celebrating culture. May is Asian American Pacific Islander heritage month empowering the leaders up in the Administrators Office and about my daughter if helps the future of the apa heritage and friends and family. About family. Were honoring the irldz that came before us and findings your roots and about culture insuring about the asianamerican journey and all were achieved and celebrate asianamerican it means embarrassing the differences. It is about imaging. It is about representing as Public Servant in San Francisco. About recommending the philippine generations and about how memory came for us less celebrate may is Asian American Pacific Islander heritage month and writing our own history for the future. May is Asian American Pacific Islander heritage we are right now in Outer Richmond in the last business area of this city. This area of merchants is in the most western part of San Francisco, continue blocks down the street theyre going to fall into the pacific ocean. Two blocks over youre going to have golden gate park. There is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you dont have to cook. You can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. I love it. But the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere. Its just a wonderful environment. I love the richmond district. And my wife and i own a cafe we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sandwiches and soup and salad. Made fresh to order. We have something for everybody my shop is in a very cool part of the city but thats one of the reasons why we provide such warm and generous treats, both physically and emotionally its an oldfashioned general store. They have coffee. Other than that what we sell is fishing equipment. Go out and have a good time. One of my customers that has been coming here for years has always said this is my favorite store. When i get married im coming in your store. And then he in his wedding outfit and she in a beautiful dress came in here in between getting married at lands end and to the reception, unbelievable. the new Public Health order that were announcing will require san franciscans to remain at home with exceptions only for essential outings. When the pandemic first hit we kind of saw the writing on the walls that potentially the city is going to shut all businesses down. It was scary because it was such an unknown of how things were going to pan out. I honestly thought that this might be the end of our business. Were just a Small Business and we still need daily customers. I think that everybody was on edge. Nobody was untouched. It was very silent. As a business owner, you know, things dont just stop, right . Youve still got your rent, and all of the overhead, its still there. Theres this underlying constant sense of dread and anxiety. It doesnt prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesnt stop you from doing your normal routine. What it does is just make you feel extra exhausted. So we began to reopen one year later, and we will emerge stronger, we will emerge better as a city, because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. This place has definitely been an anchor for us, its home for us, and, again, we are part of this community and the community is part of us. One of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says youre welcome. No matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, youre welcome here. And its sort of the classic San Francisco thing is that you work with folks. It is your duty to help everybody in San Francisco. [music] San Francisco developing programs specific low to increase the amount of Affordable Housing throughout the city. The Affordable Housing Bonus Program provides developers to include more housing for i have low, low, moderate and middle income households. This program does not rely on public subsidies but private developers who include it part of their project. Under california density bonus law. Housing prejudices that include affordable on site may be request a density bonus. It is an increase in the number of Housing Units allowed under zoning laws and based on affordable units being provided. However, the state law does not address all of San Francisco needs does not incentivize middle income housing. Associating the city is proposing an Affordable Housing Bonus Program for higher levels of Development Including middle income u firsts providing a stream lined application review and approval process. How does the program work in it applies to mixed use corridors in San Francisco. And offers incentives to developers who provide 30 of affordable in projects. To reach 30 , 12 of the units must be affordable to low income household and 18 per minute nap to middle income households. In exchange developers will will build more and up to additional 2 stories beyond current zoning regulations. 1 huh human affordable will be offered up to 3 additional stories beyond current regulations. Each building will be required conform to guidelines ensuring meets with the character of the area and commercial corridors. This program is an opportunity to double the amount of Affordable Housing and directly address the goals established by twenty 14 hosing element and prospect k paddled by voters last year. Pacificly, prop circumstance established a goal that 33 of all new housing permanent to low and moderate incomes this program will be the first to prosecute void permanent affordable projects that include middle income households. To learn more about the Program Visit okay, good afternoon and welcome to the San Francisco Planning Commission regular hearing for thursday, october 26th. To enable Public Participation sf govtv is broadcasting and streaming this hearing live and we will receive Public Comment for discussion and action items on todays agenda. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes when you have 30s remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. When your allotted time is reached, i will announce that your time is up and take the next person queued to speak. We will take Public Comment from persons in city hall first and then open up the Remote Access lines for those persons calling in to submit their testimony. 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