Please stand by for San Francisco land use and Transportation Committee meeting. Sf gov. Tv if we can go to the view chamber, please. Hang on just a moment, something is happening. Yeah, were good. Good afternoon, this meet willing come o to order. Welcome to the march 4, 2024 of the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Im mirna melgar, joined by supervisor peskin and dean preston. The Committee Clerk today is john caroll and i would like to thank sf gov. Tv. I apologize for keeping my mask on, i have a cold. Clerk please ensure that you silence your cell phone and other Electronic Devices that you brought into the room today. If you have a speaker card, you can drop off your completed speaker card in the hopper that we have up front. Public comment will be taken on teach item on todays agenda. Line up to speak along your righthand side of the room. Ultimately, you may submit comment by writing, you may do so by emailing me, or you may send your written comments by u. S. Postal service to your office in city hall. Thats the Clerks Office from 244 and city hall address is goodwin, San Francisco california. If you submit Public Comment in writing, i will forward comment and also include your comment as a part of the official record for the file on which youre commenting. And items are expect today appear on the board of supervisors on march 12, 2024, unless otherwise stated. And ill call item 1. Item 1 is ordinance amending the planning code to require continual use authorization for establishing Parcel Delivery service uses. Planning code section 101. 1, i have information that this may be send to tomorrows board meeting. Thank you very much, mr. Clerk, we are joined by connie chan, the sponsor of this item. Supervisor chan . Thank you, i just want to remind my colleagues that we had extensive discussion last week and thanks to your support, we amended this legislation with the resident tro active date stated on page 15 on this ledge tation that will expire on march 8 and will be making permit retroactive then. With that said, i would like for to youed to consider to duplicate this file with additional amendments. That is also before you on page 7, the line 1 on the impact on institutional we discussed this last week as well. And then, on the same page, line 15, including but not limited to Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Vehicles driven. Also discussed last week, would like for your consideration, again duplicate the file today and make those amendments and then continue the item to the call of chair so we refer back to Planning Commission for further discussion. Thank you. Thank you very much, supervisor chan. President peskin. Sure, just friendly amendment to the original file prior to the duplication which is my understanding the inter prim controls expire on march 309ing, not the 8th, so i would make a friendly amendment which i believe to be non substance i have to change that date to march 30th. Okay, did you want to make a motion. Im happy to make the motion, ill make the motion to the original file that is before us and then we can vote on it after Public Comment and then we can duplicate the file and make the other two amendments after we send presumably the first file as amended to the First Committee report. Thank you, so we will take Public Comment on this item for the folks that are in the chamber, i do intend to call item number 5 early after this, just so you know, i know that folks are waiting for that. But lets have Public Comment on this item now. Thank you. Clerk thank you, if you have Public Comment on agenda item number 1 relate today car sell delivery service, ill start your timer now. Speaker good afternoon, chair melgar, vice chair peskin, president preston. The teachers were here last week expressing our support and this items have our support. These important to ensure that San Francisco has the right tools to face the fast delivery industry. This has been a Group Efforts and addresses concerns from labor, environmentalist and the local community. President peskins amendment is crucial to ensure that there is no gap between when there is no gap when the Parcel Delivery interim zoning controls end and when these new controls begin. Thank you again, and we ask you to approve this legislation. Thank you. Thank you so much for sharing your comments. Do we have anyone else who has Public Comment on item number 1. Please come forward to the lecturn. Thank you, with that, Public Comment is now closed. President peskin has made a motion. I have a motion from supervisor peskin to amend the agenda item number 1 to move the retroactivity date from march 8 to 24. Aye. Aye. Aye. Chair melgar. Aye. Clerk madam chair, there are three ayes. Motion passes. And then i would like to, i will duplicate that file and i will make a motion to send the first file as amended to the full board with a positive recommendation as a Committee Report. On the motion offered by member peskin that it be membered as Committee Report. Vice chair. Aye. Member peskin. Aye. Chair melgar. Aye. Clerk na ma dam chair, there are three aye sxz now a duplicate before the committee. Thank you very much. Congratulations supervisor chan. As to the duplicate file, i will make the amendments on page 7 to sub d, relative to the educational institutions and to sub e sub 1 relative to employment analysis that add the language included and Autonomous Vehicle driven in ratio of human operated as activities as requested by supervisor chan and ask that file be continued to the call of the chair while its rereferred to planning. On the motion offered by member peskin, that the duplicated file be amended and then continued to the call of the chair, vice chair. Aye. Member peskin. Aye. Chair melgar. Aye. Madam chair, those motions are both three ayes. Thank you so much. Thank you supervisor. Okay, mr. Clerk, lets call item number 5 out of order, please. Clerk number 5, thank you. Agenda item number 5 ordinance amending planning code density Residential Commercial and residential transit oriented neighborhood commercial and certain named neighborhood commercial districts except for specified lots located in the priority equity geographies. Thank you so much mr. Clerk, we have audrey here who is going to present on this. Weve gotten a lot of interest in this and i want to thank my colleague, president peskin for his attention and thoughtfulness on these issues as well as supervisor mandelman who has brought up issues repeatedly about the position of density decontrols and the upcoming up zoning that we are planning plan to go do in corridors all over the west side. I think it behooves us to be careful to reach what we all need to do which is to create more housing particularly on the west side and in high Resource Areas while at the same time, preserving. You know, what makes be San Francisco wonderful. So with that, i will, oh president peskin, i know has amendmented that he wants to propose and would like to make some comments. Thank you, madam chair. And first of all, let me just thank my two colleagues on this panel who have i think with thought and deliberation and public input improved a number of pieces of legislation, some of theme introduced by the mayor, some of them introduced by various members of board of supervisors. And as a threshold matter as we have grableed with everything from for plex legislation to supervisor housing opportunities special use district, our own local Density Program called home sf, the 100 affordable and Workforce Housing programs, i think we have gotten them right. And when we have made mistakes, weve gone back and fix them. As a threshold issue, in virtually each and every one of those pieces of legislation, building above base zoning, base density, we have been able to further a San Francisco policy that has existed since the 1970 and has been remark reably successful and has allowed people to have longer affordable tenures in their residential units called rent control or rent stabilization, and that is very consistent with pretty much everything that this committee and this board of supervisors has done and that our mayor has signed into law and that is precisely what i think this legislation can benefit from. Im rather taken a back that this would be considered to be a poison pill. Im rather taken a back that rather than having a robust and mature policy discussion that that is becoming part of the politics of thebut its election season its expected. Although i must comment if i had time to spend not at this committee today, it won be denouncing other figures, it would be campaigning for a measure of that would build thousands of units that will hopefully pass tomorrow w. That, im happy to have this discussion i think these amendments are in keeping with the work that this committee has done, that is really sound in improving housing policy. Thank you, president peskin. This is what i would like to do if you would allow me, is duplicate the file before we amend it and keep it in our back pocket. Because luke Everything Else weve done in the committee, part of it is going to be negotiation, the legislation that were dealing with in sacramento by the gentleman from san diego. Alvarez. Yes. Its still new, were still trying to figure out how this affects our landscape so i would rather keep a clean copy just in case, we need it, we may not before we amend it. And then, we will refer back whatever we amend to plan to go work on it some more. I do think, that there is so much that we have to do to comply with the Housing Element and doing a deliberately and with Community Input is the way to go. I do also want to thank you, supervisor melgar which is that we have to be careful about not piece mealing this and having issues about preservation is important and where its less important, are what economic and transportation impacts are having, that conversation collectively, i think is much better Public Policy than doing it piece meal so i really appreciate your comments. Thank you, im a cosponsor of this legislation because i believe in it. I think that having density decontrols where its appropriate where you can incentivize more units being built is a good thing. We just have to be thoughtful about the where and when and how it inter acts with Everything Else which is why im willing to give it a little bit more time. So with that, lets bring up ms. Marroln. Speaker thank you, Planning Department staff, we have presented at a previous hearing but im happy to say that the commission and the Planning Department believe this is a very important step forward in equalizing the Housing Department in this city. The ordinance will allow for greater density that are rich in transportation through a form base density approach while ensuring areas vulnerable to displacement are not part of a sweeping change. And just to reiterate when the commission did hear a previous, they voted 42 with the modifications that is before you today. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Behrloany. Okay, so if there is no other comments or questions from my creesing, lets go to Public Comment on this item please jao. Thank you, madam chair. If you have Public Comment on agenda item number 5, please line up to speak on your righthand, your lefthand and come to electriclecturn when youre ready. Speaker jake price with the housing coalition, im proud to be the in coalition with the Carpenters Union against the amendment thats have just been introduced. If you are a car pender in the room, please stand up. Its praofp to add housing stock. Its part of our Housing Element commitment and to add to housing capacity as part of our rezoning program. Amendments that need cap its affective particularly the use of density bonus are contrary to our commitment and risk certification and add further complications to the citys rezoning efforts. We are asking that the committee pass the original legislation to the full board without additional delay. Thank you. Clerk thank you for sharing your comments. Next speaker, please. Speaker good afternoon, supervisors james natoli, im the San Francisco organization for nembi action, speaking in opposition of the amendment and also that the legislation be passed as was originally proposed. We know that form base density is a tool that will allow us to build more homes throughout San Francisco especially in neighborhoods that i live in like the richmond where we can add more density without adding more height, and we know there are opportunities there. However, we do not need to saddle it and make it more difficult with too many requirements. We dont need to be afraid of the state density bonus. It is helpful, it is something that we should consider. It is something that we should not be afraid of when were looking at more homes in our neighborhoods and yet this is another example where were shrinking from it. Were hoping that we will get to a good place where as i noted, we are passing this as it was originally proposed. I think supervisor melgar for her work on the Mayors Office on the and thats what we would like to see today. Clerk thank you for sharing your comments, next speaker please. Speaker you know the laws much better than a lay person like myself. And i trust you guys to make these decisions. I just ask on behalf of me, if you guys decide that this specific place is not right for more housing, please allow it somewhere else, because we really need housing. I believe we need housing to keep my friends and family from leaving the city. I trust yall, thank you. Clerk thank you for sharing your comments, can we have the next speaker, please. Speaker good afternoon, chair, members and San Francisco community. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today about the things that is going on. My name is clay im a union carpenter. I know we need affordable housing, its hard to pay for housing even if you get a one bedroom, its really expensive you can get your own one bedroom apartment. Any policies that allow more housing to be built in San Francisco that include labor procedures, or we should have it in our city. We need it and, whatever we need to do for it, we should try to. Thank you for having me and yall have a good day. Thank you for sharing your comments to the committee. Can we have the next speaker, please. Speaker calvin chair of the neighborhood council. The board of the council to testimony in favor of supervisor peskins amendments. Let me start by saying that if density was the answer to affordable then the two densest cities in the United States would be the two most affordable cities in the nation. That would be new york, and San Francisco. They are in fact, the two most expensive housing markets in the city. So clearly, there is something wrong with the notion that the market will somehow discount how Density Development and make it cheaper overtime. That is not been the history of neither San Francisco nor new york. Nothing in the original form of this legislation, means to additional affordability. It is astound thating an assertion can be made that the mere provision of increased density results in less, in less expensive housing. In less local governments stipulate that in trade for hire density there is higher affordability, then, we are where we are. Thank you. Clerk thank you for sharing your comments. Next spearer, please. Speaker good afternoon, im a senior representative with carpenter local 22 here in San Francisco. The carpenters you see us a lot when whenever housing comes up. And thats because what we see is a real crisis for our members who have been forced out of the city for decades because of housing shortage because of the astronomical costs of housing and what is left just tremendous exploitation in the Residential Construction industry so. We moved hard and moved fast to work with state partner to work with mayor breed and others to build real lasting state legislation that will allow us to middle class folks for folks who are building the housing, should be able to live in the housing. We did that, because too long too many games were just being played around housing politics. And its time to stop with the games so. We urge with our partners inhousing coalition to move this legislation forward without the amendments to stand up for Union Construction workers, lets gld b ld some housing in San Francisco with union members. Thank you. Clerk thank you for sharing your comments. Can we have the next speaker, please. Speaker good afternoon, georgia, i was in the room 400, the day that the planing commission passed this 42 and there was no no awareness of any idea that this could have an unintended consequences. Thats why its important that the file is duplicated and the amendments are considered and discussion is furthered. The following does not have to be done in the 2026, i know this is not rezoning but thats part of it. Still waiting for the feasibility study. When hitches in the room, it was the same game that supervisor en guardio to do 6story building everywhere. And he said, he waunlted all units the same size and the legislation presented by safai said, we can have different units. So there seems to be a real confusion as to what actually is going to happen under this form base density and now with the idea which no one thought was there, if every one thought it was there, there may be have been more attendance. And, i just think it needs more discussion. As people know, and as was said by one of the commissioners and i think it was very smart. Every ncd is different. Every ncd is different and it deserves a de tailed look at what is going to happen there. And i hope that happens and i think we should think about streets like clement street and irving street will have vital vibrant businesses, and we have to see that that is protected and preserved and used properly, look what happened downtown. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you for sharing your comments. Can we have the next speaker, please. Speaker hi every one, im lori brooke im the president and cofounder of united sf which is a alliance of about 60 different neighborhood and business corridor groups on the western and northern parts of San Francisco. The form base density that was going to be discussed today, seems like a useful concept allowing increased density within envelope and smaller units that blend into landscapes. Likely garnering support from resident sxz businesses. If that was the intention behind introducing the zoning change, then its commendable. However, without the proposed amendments, the legislation will be combined distorting serving to turbo charge. This is not mere speculation, it is stark reality. The rapid of substantial development that weve seen in tele graph hill how they exploit double density dipping to exceed current zoning, the question becomes was this the real intent . Of the form base legislation all along . Furthermore, foreign base density, also pose a significant risk of displacement in our neighborhood serving Small Businesses and residents. The reduction of small commercial buildings and construction of luxury condo will likely exacerbate gentrification. Propoeting highrises along the water front forsakes any genuine effort to pursue a for thable housing, catering to the wealthiest individuals and offshore investors and corporate entities. This underlines the goal lead to go tainted city, tainted by greed and deception. Clerk your time has concluded. Thank you. Speaker thank you. Clerk do we have anything else with Public Comment on item number 5. Madam chair. With that, Public Comment on this item is now closed. President peskin, did you want to talk further about your comments . Sure, so these amendments do in deed allow for foreign base density in all the districts named in the ordinance but creates two pathways. This is very much what the Planning Department is considering in their city wide up zoning package. One, for projects that are not using state density bonus and one for project that are. And for the projects that are not using state density bonus my amendments would apply rent control on units created over the base density, the false narrative that this is a poison pill notwithstanding. Okay, thank you president , peskin. So did you want to make a motion . I would like to make a motion, these would have to be considered by the planning defpt so i would like to move the amendments which are before and supervisor preston and rerefer the item as amended to the Planning Commission for their consideration. And hopefully, they will as they have in the past, as this is become a common place in all of the pieces of legislation that i previously mentioned, recommend it back to the board of supervisors. I already asked for a duplicate file before the amendments. You would like the duplicate before the amendment. . Yes. Clerk so duplicate as it becomes on the agenda as amended. Okay. And then i will amend what the clerk calls the parent file and we can, the child file will look like the original mayor sponsor norent control file. So i would make a motion to amend the parent file. Clerk on that motion to amend, vice chair. Aye. Member peskin. Aye. Chair melgar. Aye. Clerk melgar no. No i said aye. Clerk excuse me, thank you. Its the mask. Madam chair, there are three ayes on the motion to amend. And i guess i would make a motion to continue both items to the call of the chair. Clerk and then on the motion offered by member peskin to continue both to the call of the chair, vice chair press upon. Aye. Clerk member peskin. Aye. Clerk chair melgar. Aye. Clerk three ayes. The member file has been referd back to planning and they will do what they think in terms of compliance. And after that, we will take it back up again and in the meantime, were still, negotiating the up zone anding a bunch of other stuff that were working on at this committee. I do believe that we will get there. Thank you. I see mr. Hill is here. Thank you. All right. Mr. Clerk, lets go back to item number 2. Clerk yes. Agenda item number 2 ordinance amending the the planning code do waive the conditional use authorization by required for removal of an unauthorized unit. Update the required conditional use for removal of unauthorized unit to account for the history of tendencies unit. The Single Family home should be subject to the rent ordinance. [reading item number 2 [ planning code section 101. 1 and adopting findings of public necessity convenience and welfare under planning code section 302. About a year ago i was approached by a young family who had an interesting dilemma where we quickly found out, through other supervisors was happening all over the city that people are having a similar issue and we needed a legislative fix. So the proposed would amend the planning code to waive the conditional code for removal of dwelling unit in a Single Family home where the owner satisfies certain eligibility criteria. Number 1 is the owner resides in the friem airy dwelling unit at the time of application. The unauthorized unit has not been rented for consideration in the past ten years except to qualifying family members as defined in the ordinance. Number 3, the owner intends to reside for a period of three years after removal of unauthorized dwelling unit. Is approved. And number 4, the owner enters into a regular tory agreement with the city subjecting the one family dwelling to the San Francisco rent control ordinance if it is ever rented, again after no longer being inhabited in homeOwner Occupied. This change will allow families who want to live in their forever home see an ability to do without having to go through the bureaucracy. We have some amendments that system from recommendations, im glad that they weighed in. The department believes that there should be efforts to retain and legalize viable use to use when possible. This amendment changes the florida height conditions under, use exemption to only apply if the unauthorized dwelling unit does not meet the florida height and minimum area for housing code. On pages on page 1 line 4 through 7, after the ward unit it should read, requires ineligible from waivers from open space and requirement or the unit does not meet minimum floor area in florida ceiling height requirement. On page 12 ryan 6 through 23 were clarifying the language. Since this ordinance was interested the mayors ordinance may change 317 and sud made additional changes. Im cleaning up the ordinance so it reflects the law currently in affect. I do have somebody who is going to come to Public Comment to explain how this came about. Let me just say that you know, all over the west side, there are Single Family homes that are now Owner Occupied that are had a udu in the past. And when folks bought them, they had not had a udu for 1017 years, but when folks go and apply for a permit to do any remodeling of the house, change windows or whatever, they are required to come into compliance. So its one thing when were incentivizing people to add units. We want units added to the xhix. But itsmix. But its another thing when were forcing people to do it. 20 years ago, a previous owner had made an unauthorized dwelling unit. So Everything Else in our code has our time limit. The way that our code was written or this provision of the code written, there was a retro activity with no limit which is what were trying to fix here. So with that, ill turn it over to mr. Star. Hi, thank you, supervisor melgar. Aaron gar, planning staff, they heard during which time they recommended approval with modification. The modification is to open and project are exempt if only pass through legalize through variance. And only apply if the a du and configurous area for housing code. We thank the supervisor for incorporating this into legislation. And im happy to answer any questions, should you have them. Thank you. Okay, colleagues do you have any questions or concerns . I not only not have concerns, and are doing here but i would like to affix my name as a cosponsor. Thank you supervisor peskin. With that, lets go to Public Comment. Oh, im sorry, supervisor preston. Thank you, chair melgar. I just want to thank you for the taking this on and the tayloring and care of doing this surgically. I just say when i see something a credits my desk that has the remotest possibility of losing a rent control unit, as you know the hackles are up and it worries me. And i will say that reading through this and looking at how, it is really limited to the situation that youre trying to address, i just very much appreciate that care. Thank you and with that, would i like to give a special thanks to jennifer in my office for the position. Thank you so much. Lets go to Public Comment, mr. Clerk. Thank you, madam chair, if you have Public Comment on agenda item number 2, conditional use, please come forward to the lecturn at this time and if youre wait to go speak, you can line up along the western part of the room. Please begin. Speaker thank you for having us, thank you chair melgar. Im brian and i live on the west side on district 7. I want today come here and register any support for this as a resident of San Francisco raising a family in district 7. This issue is one that we could not fronted that was limiting our ability to invest in and stay here in the city on the west side and common sense changes like this, that can help address those kinds of challenges for families like ours, are important and crucial for allowing us to stay and invest in our city and its future. So i thank you very much for the consideration. Thank you for sharing your comments. Next speaker, please. Speaker hi im georgia, i think this legislation is fine. I just have a couple of thoughts and ironically, if you looked in the open homes this past weekend, the first one was it in the pges in Merced Heights . It says they have a lower level of tenant occupied studio. I have the overhead, heres the picture of this tenant occupied studio and you can see it there. And i think that its great that its going to be preserved and i think that legislation helps that, that is within the tenure. My only suggestion and my thought, if you do allow these to become part of one family t seems like it may not be be a terrible thing to preserve the kitchen so. If it went back at one point, the kitchen is still there, thats a standard that i believe the department does when they merge units like big condos up on knob hill, they keep the second kitchen. Thats just a thought. My other thought is to and require, if you get the waiver that youve lived there for a year or two, prior to seeking the waiver because i have these other examples that i think are he luce trious and i talked to ms. Faber about this. This is a house and you can see it had two kitchens. Its more complicated than that udu going away. Because the staff will say nobody lived there but at the time nobody lived there and it also turned out that it was demolished because they didnt do the demo cats right. And heres another one, the picture that i saw, and you can see there was a kitchen there. But on the 311 they just showed it as storage. So maybe im being a little too nugy in trying to preserve to make everything perfect but i just think that the idea of the kitchen and the two years previous ownership may not be a bad thing. Clerk thank you, time is expired. Anybody else with Public Comment on item number 2. Madam chair. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Public comment is closed. You were going to gucci. Speaker i said nucci. I just want to clarify that this legislation applies to units that have been or, you know, Single Family homes that have been occupied as Single Family homes and not rented, the udu ten years. So its not, you know, any of the things that you just listed. So, anyway, thank you so much. So i would like to make a motion that we make a put this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. I have an amendment, im sorry, im not feeling well. Lets i would like to make a motion that we amend as i read into the record. Clerk here to help. On the motion offered by chair melgar is presented vice chair preston. Aye. Clerk member peskin. Aye. Clerk chair melgar. Aye. Clerk madam chair, there are three ayes. Thank you and i would like to send the legislation as amended to the full board. Clerk on the motion that the ordinance be sent to the board of supervisors as amended with the communication vice chair. Aye. Clerk member peskin. Aye. Clerk chair melgar. Aye. Clerk madam chair, there are three ayes once again. Thank you. Lets go to number 3. Clerk thank you very much. Im bringing my notes toup date. Item number 3, ordinance amending the planning code to designate the sick red heart parish complex located, consistent with the standards setforth in article 10. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, we amended last wiebesinger judging from the lack of outcry over the last wiebesinger i think we got this one right. But i do want to say one thing that is in directly relates which is i have a few inquiry from folks in the neighborhoods who are concerned about what is going to happen to the church of 8 wheels which is a neighborhood in San Francisco favorite for a lot of folks for residents and also for visitors, its been a real source of joy and recreation during a time when we need a lot of that. And so, and i just, i did just want to share on the record and thank the owners for their response anabel and john paul, really clarified some of the history and we are now going on ten years of the church of 8 wheels operating in this amazing space that we are about to landmark. And that has gone from informal arrangement and originally a day a week to expand to go a formalize lease for friday and saturday nights. And then they amended again during the pandemic in the heart, in 2021 to four nights per week and its my understanding that the owners intend to continue this success collaboration understanding as we all do that once construction begins there will be a period of time where that will not be possible. But i just wanted to state publicly our appreciation for that on going activation which is really beloved use in the neighborhood. But as to the landmark, unless others have something to say, i think we covered it all last week and prepared to move it forward. Okay, lets take Public Comment on this item. Clerk thank you, is anyone here for Public Comment on agenda item number 3 related to landmarking forsake red heart perish and the complex. Please come forward at this time. Please begin. Speaker heli im Robert Fisher and im here today to talk a little bit about the artist who painted the notable arts in sacred heart and to urge you to protect this great art work by including it in the resolution. The artist is a kille des who came from rome even at a young age, spent three years painting murals and pictures in the vatican. And in the french river i cant most notably for napoleons wife. He also even painted muruial. Most of his work in america no longer exist. Were lucky that his work has survived here so far. But as the ordinance stands, paintings of major culture importance are not safeguarded into the future. The only way we can protect this work is to pes fie that that it be preserved in the ordinance attached to sacred heart. Thank you. Clerk thank you so much for sharing your comments. Next speaker, please. Speaker good day, before you start, can you explain how you work this projector. Clerk you can say on the microphone that you have slides and sf gov. Tv will change the display. Clerk start your time. Speaker how do you start the pictures . Clerk youre pictures are displaying right now. Speaker okay. So good day, robert from the sacred heart choir. A keely art work is important and it is not, you have not goent it right last week, as far as were concerned t. Needs to have some protections when the 89 quake happened it was to be 140,000 to repair the ceiling, the art diocese did not allow us with the pair. It needs to be investigated. I can testify that some of the art work is on con vases so it should not be end up in a dumpster. A keeles work is very important. And that is its still in tact and has survived it needs to be looked at again with its viability that in some fashion, it needs to stay in its perpetuity in San Francisco, thank you. Clerk thank you so much for sharing your comments to the committee. Can we have the next speaker, please. Speaker good afternoon, my name is january robinson im member of the committee church. I want to express my support for maximum protection. And fully in agreement with the previous two speakers. This beautiful art work is veshs and can never be replayeds. Please provide strong protection on this historical ceiling or plan for their preservation should the error need to be removed from the ceiling. Thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you for sharing comments. Can we have the next speaker. Speaker yes, i understand the situation hope. The reason you need to preserve any piece of art is because otherwise in the future, we will have time to understand what happened to us all of us. Its a necessity, its as simple as that. So you dont touch any art. Clerk thank you for sharing your comments. Next speaker, please. Speaker good afternoon, supervisors joey augusta, the directory of convent of school of sacred heart. It became clear that the connecter bridge was going to be included as a character defining future. Which i thought that the Planning Department said was not. I brought, i was concerned about that because of structural elements and i brought an engineer out that does a lot of work in the city. We should be thinking about this soon to be landmark building, how they would react in a serious earthquake. The fact that they were connected when seismic structural techniques were less developed is concerning enough, but imagine the mass of 6, 7, story church brick church threewide walls, massive buildings pushing against this rigid bridge into the side of our wood form structure, is more than dis concerning. This is a massive building moving against our wood frame structure. Masonary versus wood. We did steel beams, everything we need today protect that building but we didnt take into account this bridge with suspended into our neighborhoods property and how it can react in an earthquake. I just ask that it not be included as a characteristic feature because of what this would do in a large earthquake and how it needs to be dealt with it. Thank you jao. Thank you, for sharing your comments. Do we have anyone with further comment on item 3 . Madam chair. Okay, Public Comment on this item is now closed. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, chair melgar. And i dont know if ms. Lavali wanted address either of the issues around connector bridge or art . Okay. So you know, i think i appreciate folks coming out and speaking to these issues. And to the extent, i mean obviously we amended to certain features. I think to the extent that there is additional discussion that needs to be had, that is fine. My request and my hope would be that we im happy to duplicate the file, continue one to the call of the chair and have one if there is Additional Information regarding the interior, we do not know the owners position on that or the other preservationist. So happy to connect with folks more about that and if there is any safety issue that needs to be a dreds around the connector bridge. I would like to leave space but not holdup the marking moving forward for a vote at the full board. So if the chair is okay with this, and we can through the chair duplicate the file and then move that the duplicated file to the call of the chair, followed by the motion on the original file to send it to the full board with recommendation. Clerk first lets take the motion. Ill record the duplication. So we have two versions as it appears on the agenda. I have now a motion from preston to recommend that ordinance to the board of supervisors. On that motion, vice chair. Aye. Clerk member peskin. Aye. Clerk chair melgar. Aye. Clerk madam chair, there are three ayes to recommend. And on the motion to continue the duplicated file to the call of the chair of land use. Aye. Aye. Chair melgar. Aye. Clerk chair, there are three ayes on that motion as well. Thank you very much. Lets go to item number 4. Clerk agenda item number 4. [clerk reading item ordinance] ordinance amending add iter i have code Building Code business and tax regulations code and planning code to clarify ministerial. This is also agendized. Welcome mr. Star. So this item was last heard on february 5 on this committee and amended to items review of a past ordinance and the letter from last october. That ordinance was the prior state that became affective of may 2023 and its currently reflected on the planning code. The proposed also include some minor amendments. The ordinance was rereferred to the Planning Commission and heard last week. Recommended approval with modifications, those were to one clarify the adu built within article 10 and 11 individual landmarks or historic or conservation and on section 311. So i did send those amendments to you via email. And i believe the clerk is passing out and right now, theyre on page 27. And starting online 3, we would put a period right offer section 311 of this code and then start off if the existing or authorized detached structure and then cross out some language there. Part of a Historic District or conservation district, the notification requirement of r10 and 11 will apply. So we request that you make the amendments to this file. I am instructed that those are substance i have so it cannot be a Committee Report if theyre added. However well still be on track to pass this on time should you continue it one week. So im happy to answer any questions you have. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor preston, are you on the roster or is that from before . From before. President peskin. Madam chair, the amendment suggested by mr. Star are acceptable to me and im happy to move them. Okay. Lets have Public Comment on this item first. Clerk thank you madam chair. Does anyone are have Public Comment related to state mandated controls. If so, come forward. Madam chair, it appears we have no speakers. Thank you so much. Public comment on this item is closed. President peskin has moved the amendment. Clerk on the motion offered that the ordinance be amended by the Planning Department. Vice chair. Aye. Clerk member peskin. Aye. Clerk chair melgar. Aye. Clerk madam chair, there are three ayes. Okay, do you want to move it to next week. I will make a motion as suggested by mr. Star to continue the item as amended one week. Its one week. On the motion offered ~ ill be happy to send to the full board as amended but im not sure i can do that. Clerk on the motion to that it be continued one week land use Transportation Committee. On that motion. Vice chair. Aye. Member peskin. Aye. Clerk chair melgar. Aye. Clerk madam chair, there are three ayes. Thank you, that motion passes. Mr. Clerk do we have any further items . Clerk there is no further business. Okay, we are adjourned. Thank you. music . multiple voices. landing at leidesdorff is as the new Public School in downtown San Francisco for people to come together for 0 lunch and weekends a new place to enjoy the architect and our culture. Landing at leidesdorff one of several initiatives to the road map for the initiatives all about using your public space and network for now environments to 0 invite people adopted not just to the office but any time of the day. It shows there is excitement and energy and people wore looking forward to enjoying the space that people may want to end up in downtown. Weve been operating in the financial district since 2016 with the treasury and coming up we had a small surge in business in the leidesdorff and in about the financial district and a good time to grow here. As a Small Business the leidesdorff is making us being part of it as being part of in project. For me makes we want to be part of San Francisco. So landing at leidesdorff for me represents hope for San Francisco and the sense that this is become such a safe welcoming area. We local artists coming in and exercise boxes and live music but the hub of culture. The downtown partnerships has a studio in San Francisco. They identified 6 locations throughout the downtown area we come together with new activity and spaces. Is between us a place to tell our own story and history. It was named after a captain one the black leaders of San Francisco before that was called San Francisco he was the first treasurer of the city and commercial street a cross street the hifblg original shoreline of San Francisco was just a few feet behind where were 12357b8z around opportunity to bring people to locations we have an opportunity to tell stories and for local businesses. [music] my name is husheem anderson a lieutenant with the San Francisco Fire Department born and raised in San Francisco, grew up in western addition. Both my parents worked for the city. My dad was a custodian with San Francisco School District and mom a muni driver. When i grew up in San Francisco i never thought of the fire service as a career. Not because i didnt want to be a firefighter, i just didnt know anything about it and it was literally the experience of trying to figure what i was going to do with the next part of my life where i decided to go to city college and take a couple classes. That is when i discovered there was actually a Fire Science Program program emt program and paramedic program. If it wasnt for that opportunity to get the Education Training and meet several mentors that are some of my grood friends today, i dont think i ever would are have pursued this career. I was interested in becoming a paramedic so i did Work Experience at the ems division when it was actually in the presidio, completed that program, did my paramedic internship at the same time i volunteered with San Francisco fire reserve and able to learn a lot of hands on skills associated with becoming a firefighter. San francisco went through a period of 7 years without hiring, so we hired about a 130 people off of the 2001 test which is the first fire test that and ever sat for, so i took that test, did pretty well on it test, interviewed, didnt do as well as i liked so they hired 130 people off that list and didnt hire again for another 7 years, so here i was training to do a job where i was really excited, but there were no jobs after 911 so things slowed down and once the Fire Department started hiring again i was in the second class hired full time in 2012. Because of the experience i had here at city college, it was always really important for me to be able to give back. So, when i got to the Fire Department, i didnt have a college degree, and in order to teach at a Community College you need a college degree, so quhile i while working as a firefighter i got my degree from Saint Mary College so i got a bachelor degree. I teach firefighter 1 and 2 curriculum for the program at the college. After i promoted to lieutenant, then i applied to be a instructor down at the Training Academy because i always loved to teach. My past experience is really helpful in terms of how im able to break down information and pass it alodge to brand new firefighters. So, for myself, i didnt know very many people of color who worked in the San Francisco Fire Department. As African American working in this department i always felt a obligation to be that example, to provide a roadmap for folks who look like me, who come from communities that i came from to make sure they have the same opportunities. Now as a San Francisco firefighter i can tell you if you work hard, you get along with people, you will be welcomed into this department but we can also do a better job of representation. To me as a Company Officer when im on the fire engine or truck it is so helpful to have a rig where members can relate to the public we respond to. To me that Cultural Diversity of the members on our fire engines, on the ladder trucks is important because if we can do a better job of representing the community that we are serving, i think we do a better job of relating to the community that we are serving, and to me that is something that is really important. Youre watching San Francisco rising with chris manners. Todays special guest is katy tang. [ ] hi. Im chris manners, and youre watching San Francisco rising, the show thats focused on rebuilding, reimagining, and revitalizing our city. With us today is katy tang, and shes talk to talking to us about assistance and Services Provided to local businesses. Can we talk about the role of the office of Small Business . Many Small Businesses are struggling to help. How can you help . Director tang we are here as the citys Central Point of information for all things Small Businesses, so we can help people start, stay, and grow in the city. If you want to start a Small Business, we can pair you up with Small Business advisors, who can talk you through your business plan, help you develop it, whether its regulatory requirements, business permits, and just help you understand the journey that was up ahead. And if youd like to stay in San Francisco and perhaps your business is facing challenges, we can also pair you with a business advisor who can assess your Business Needs and figure out whatside that would best help you. So for example, perhaps you need more marketing assistance or you need to be connected to a loan, a low interest loan or a grant program, if thats available. Those are services we can provide to you, whether youre starting out or trying to stay in San Francisco. And of course, if you want to expand and grow into a new space, we can help assist you with that and help prepare you for the journey ahead. We have a Team Dedicated to assist you you with all the Small Business needs, all the requirements needed to help you establish your Small Business in San Francisco. Do you have an e. S. L. Program for people who want to start Small Businesses . Director tang we have staff that can speak spanish and mandarin and cantonese, and we understand if english is not your first language, it can be difficult, so we want to be as helpful as possible. Excellent. I know that s. F. Shines was created to help with restoring and improvement. Can you tell us more about that . Yes. Its run out of a sister development and its much needed in the Small Business community. If you are trying to improve your storefront, whether its outside, perhaps you want to make some interior improvements, a lot of times, that involves a lot of cost and resources to be able to do so. For example, you may need to hire an architect to submit drawings so you can get your work done. Currently, s. F. Shines is offer a pairing of business sign services. You can be paired up with an architect to get your drawings done to help you start to do the actual work. We hope that people will stay tuned, and you can find out more information on our website. Thats sfgov. Org osb. Lets talk about the shared spaces program. Its been a huge success, and Outdoor Dining spaces are very popular. The shared spaces program, especially during the pandemic, really helped spaces survive. To have an outdoor space where people could safely gather was critical, and the office of Small Business has been working with these shared spaces during the pandemic. Some may or may not have been up to the citys code regulations, so department of public works and other departments have been trying to figure out what violations are and help businesses come into compliance. The Planning Department and the city have decided that theyll give businesses until 2023 to come into compliance. Also in the meantime, for businesses that want to start new shared spaces, new parklets, that is still an on going program, a new program, so people can always submit their applications for shared spaces regardless whether they started one during the pandemic or not. Do you anticipate there being other shared spaces programs in the future and how do Small Businesses go about finding out about them . Small businesses can find out about it by visiting our website, sfgov osb or you can call 4155546134, and we can connect you with the Planning Department and other agencies that would be connected with the shared spaces programs. Over the pandemic, businesses have been victimized by vandals and other crimes. How can you help them . The city offers a program called the vandalism relief fund, and this would allow businesses suffering from graffiti or broken windows to apply with the city through our Neighborhood Services division, and you could get up to 1,000 or 2,000 if you submit certain documentation, such as a photograph of the damage or a copy of the receipt or document showing the amount you paid for to correct the incident. We are so excited that the city now has a centralized permit center, where people can come and get their business done, hopefully, in the same day where there are several different agencies, ranging from department of building inspection, Planning Department, public health, Fire Department, all here to help people, whether youre building a new business or even new construction, to be able to, again, fit all of your appointments in one day and get things done quickly. So starting in may, our office of Small Business has actually started working out of 49 south van ness at the permit center, and we have a team of two staff who are dedicated to helping Small Businesses through their permitting journey. So we do encourage people, you can come to the permit center or you can email us at sfosb sfgov. Org, and you can communicate with our staff dedicated to helping you with your permitting needs. We hope that people will consider consulting with us before you even sign a lease so that we can help you on the path to success and understanding the journey of setting up a Small Business in San Francisco. Well, thank you so much. I really appreciate you coming on the show, miss tang. Thank you for the time youve given us today. Director tang thanks for having me. And thats it for this show. Well be back shortly. Youve been watching San Francisco rising. For sfgovtv, im chris manners. Thanks for watching. There is a lot of unique characteristics about visitation valley. It is a unique part of the city. We are off in a corner of the city against the San Francisco county line 101 on one side. Vis station valley is still one of the last blue color neighborhoods in San Francisco. A lot of working class families out here. It is unusual. Not a lot of apartment buildings. A lot of Single Family homes. Great business corridor. So much traffic coming through here and stopping off to grab coffee or sandwich or pick up food before going home. A lot of customers are from the neighborhood. They are painters or mechanics. They are like blue color workers, a lot of them. The community is lovely. Multiracial and hopefully we can look out for each other. There is a variety of businesses on the block. You think of buffalo kitchen, chinese food, pork buns, sandwich. Library, bank of america with a parking lot. The market where you can grab anything. Amazing food choices, nail salons. Basically everything you need is here. A lot of these businesses up and down leland are family owned. People running them are family. When you come here and you have an uncle and nephew and go across the street and have the guy and his dad. Lisa and her daughter in the dog parlor and pam. It is very cool. Is Small Businesses make the neighborhood unique. New businesses coming. In mission blue, gourmet chocolate manufacturing. The corridor has changed and is continuing to change. We hope to see more businesses coming in the near future. This is what is needed. First, stay home. Unless it is absoluteliness scary. Social distancing is the most important step right now to limit spread of virus. Cancel all nonessential gather everythings. When the pandemic litly land avenue suffered like other corridors. A few nail salons couldnt operate. They shut down. Restaurants that had to adapt to more of a take out model. They havent totally brought back indoor seating. It is heartbreaking to see the businesses that have closed down and shut because of the pandemic. When the pandemic first hit it got really slow. We had to change our hours. We never had to close, which is a blessing. Thank god. We stayed open the whole time. We were kind of nervous and anxious to see what was going to come next hoping we will not have to close down. During covid we would go outside and look on both sides of the street. It looked like old western town. Nobody on the street. No cars. It was a hard eight or nine months. When they opened up half the people couldnt afford a haircut. During that time we kept saying the coffee shop was the living room of the valley. People would come to make sure they were okay. We checked on each other and patronized each other. I would get a cup of coffee, shirt, they would get a haircut. This is a generous and kind community. People would be like i am getting the toffee for the guy behind me and some days it went on and on. It was amazing to watch. We saw a perfect picture of community. We are all in this together. Since we began to reopen one year later, we will emerge stronger. We will emerge better as a city because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. When we opened up august 1st. I will not say it was all good. We are still struggling due to covid. It affected a lot of people. We are still in the pandemic right now. Things are opening up a little bit. It is great to have space to come together. I did a three painting series of visitation valley and the businesses on leland. It felt good to drop off the paintings and hung them. My business is picking up. The city is opening up. We have mask requirements. I check temperatures. I ask for vaccination card and or recent test. The older folks they want to feel safe here. I feel like there is a sense of unity happening. What got us through the pandemic was our customers. Their dogs needed groomed, we have to cut their nails so they dont over grow. This is only going to push us forward. I sense a spirit of community and just belief in one another. We are trying to see if we can help all Small Businesses around here. There is a Cannabis Club lounge next to the dog parlor to bring foot traffic. My business is not going to work if the business across the street is not getting help. In hit us hard. I see a Bright Future to get the storefronts full. Once people come here i think they really like it. If you are from San Francisco visit visitation valley to see how this side of the city is the same but different. 5 oclock. music . Cofounder. We started in 2008 and with the intent of making the ice cream with grown up flavors and with like and with tons of accessible freshens and so we this is many people will like it and other people will like you my name is alice my husband were the owners of you wont see ice cream in San Francisco and really makes fishing that we are always going together and we we provide the job opportunity for High School Students and i hired them every year and. Fun community hubble in San Francisco is my district i hope we can keep that going for many years. And im alexander the owner of ice cream and in San Francisco and in the outer sunset in since 1955 we have a vast of flavors liar choke oclock but the flavors more than three hundred flavors available and i am the owner of the ice cream. And my aunt used to take us out to eat ice cream all the time and what can i do why not bring this ice cream shop and unintelligible joy a banana split or a great environment for people to come and enjoy. Were the ordinances of the hometown and our new locations in pink valley when i finished law school we should open up a store and, and, and made everybody from scrap the first ice cream shop any ice cream we do our own culture background and a lot of interaction and were fortunate we can get feedback and serve to the king of ending and also once i got the hang of it a little bit, you know, like the first time, i never left the court. I just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didnt have to ask twice. You can always find me on the court. [ ] we have been able to participate in 12 athletics wheelchairs. They provide what is an expensive tool to facilitate basketball specifically. Behind me are the amazing golden state road warriors, which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state led by its captain, chuck hill, who was a National Paralympic and, and is now an assistant coach on the national big team. It is great to have this opportunity here in San Francisco. We are the main hub of the bay area, which, you know, we should definitely have resources here. Now that that is happening, you know, i im looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that needs that these people are here for everyone. I think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as ablebodied, to be able to see and to try different sports, and to appreciate trying different things. People can come and check out this chairs and use them. But then also friday evening, from 6 00 p. M. Until 8 00 p. M. , it will be wheelchair basketball we will make sure it is available, and that way people can no that people will be coming to play at the same time. We offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusion programming, but this is the first time we have had our own equipment. [ ] my name is bal. Born and raised in San Francisco. Cable car equipment, technically im a transit operator of 135 and work at the cable car indiscernible and been here for 22 years now. I grew up around here when i was a little can i. My mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out of the door, go play and find something to do. I ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. [ music ] fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. I started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. Basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. This is your basic Public Transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. I work at the Cable Car Division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. This is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at night. Joking. This is called a barn because everything takes place here and the powerhouse is thats downstairs so thats the heart and soul of the system and this is where the cable cars sleep or sleep at night so you can put a title there saying the barn. Since 1873 and back in the day it was driven by a team and now its electric but it has a good function as being called the barn. Yeah. I am the superintendent of cable car vehicle maintenance. And we are on the first and a half floor of the cable car barn where you can see the cables are moving at nine and a half miles an hour and thats causing the little extra noise were hearing now. We have 28 power cars and 12 california cars for a total of 40 revenue cars. Then with have two in storage. Theres four gear boxes. Its gears of the motor. They weigh close to 20 tons and they had to do a special system to get them out of here because when they put them in here, the barn was opened up. We did the whole barn that year so its difficult for a first of time project, we changed it one at a time and now they are all brandnew. Engineers room have the four monitors that play the speed and she monitors them and in case of an emergency, she can shutdown all four cars if she needs to. That sound you heard there, thats a gentleman building, rebuilding a cable. The cable weighs four hundred pounds each and they lost three days before we have to rebuild them. The cable car grips, the bottom point is underground with the cable. Its a giant buy strip and closes around the kab and they pull it back. The cable car weighs 2,500 people without people so its heavy, emergency pulling it offer the hill. If it comes offer the hill, it could be one wire but if it unravels, it turns into a ball and they cannot let go of it because it opens that wide and its a billion pushing the grip which is pushing the whole cable car and theres no way to let go so they have to have the code 900 to shutdown in emergencies and the wood brakes last two days and wear out. A lot of maintenance. [ music ] rail was considered to be the old thing. Rubber tires, cars, buses, thats new. There were definitely faster and cheaper, theres no question about that. Here at San Francisco, we went through the same thing. The mayor decided we dont need cable cars indiscernible , blah, blah. We can replace them with buses. They are faster and cheaper and more economical and he was right if you look at the dollars and cents part. He was right. Back in 1947 when they voted that, im surprised base of the technology and the chronicle paper says cable cars out. That was the headline. That was the demise of the cable cars. indiscernible came along and said, stop. No. No, no, no. She was the first one to say were going to fight city hall. She got her friends together and they started from a group called the save the cable car community, 1947 and managed to get it on the ballot. Are we going to keep the cable cars or not . Head turned nationwide and worldwide and city hall was completely unprepared for the amount of backlash they got. This is just a bunch the city came out and said basically, 31, if im not mistaken, we want our cars and phil and her group managed to save what we have. And literately if it wasnt for them, there would be no cable cars. People saw Something Back then that we see today that you cant get rid of a beautiful and it wasnt a Historical Monument at the time and now it is, and it was part of San Francisco. Yeah, we had freight back then. We dont have that anymore. This is the number one tourist attraction in San Francisco. Its historic and the only National Moving monument in the world. The city of San Francisco did keep the cable car so its a fascinating feel of having something that is so historic going up and down these hills of San Francisco. And obviously, everyone knows San Francisco is famous for their hills. [laughter] and who would know and who would guess that they were trying to get rid of it, which i guess was a crazy idea at the time because they felt automobiles were taking the place of the cable cars and getting rid of the cable car was the best thing for the city and county of San Francisco, but thank god it didnt. How soon has the city changed . The diverse of cable cars when i first came to cable car, sandy barn was the first cable car. We have three or four being a grip person. Fwriping cable cars is the most toughest and challenging job in the entire city. I want to thank our women who operate our cable cars because they are a crucial space of the city to the world. We have wonderful women come on forward, yes. [cheers and applause] these ladies, these ladies, this is what its about. Continuing to empower women. My name is Willa Johnson is and ive been at cable car for 13 years. I came to San Francisco when i was five years old. And that is the first time i rode a cable car and i went to see a Christmas Tree and we rode the cable car with the christmas worker and that was the first time i rode the cable car and didnt ride again until i worked here. I was in the medical field for a while and i wanted a change. Some people dont do that but i started with the mta of september of 1999 and came over to cable car in 2008. It was a general sign up and thats when you can go to Different Divisions and i signed up as a conductor and came over here and been here since. There were a few ladies that were over at woods that wanted to come over here and we had decided we wanted to leave woods and come to a Different Division and cable car was it. I do know there has been only four women that work the cable car in the 150 years and i am the second person to represent the cable car and i also know that during the 19, i think 60s and women were not even allowed to ride on the side of a cable car so its exciting to know you can go from not riding on the side board of a cable car to actually grip and driving the cable car and it opened the door for a lot of people to have the opportunity to do what they inspire to do. I have some people say i wouldnt make it as a conductor at woods and i came and made it as i conductor and the best thing i did was to come to this division. Its a good division. And i like ripping cable cars. I do. I think she just tapped into the general feeling that San Francisco tend to have of, this is ours, its special, its unique. Economically and you know, a rationale sense, does it make sense . Not really. But from here, if you think from here, no, we dont need this but if you think from here, yeah. And it turns out she was right. So. And im grateful to her. Very grateful. [laughter] three, two, one. [multiple voices] [cheers and applause] did i i did that on purpose so i wouldnt. [ music ] music . I started the o was with a financing and had a Business Partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. We created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasnt used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. What the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. unintelligible . Where we would offer Food Delivery Services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. We had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an oldfashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a Million Dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. We got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i cant let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. And it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what were doing. This building used to be a and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we dont realize how much we affect the Community Around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. And inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we change the music . Hi, im emmy the owner of emmys spaghetti i offers working that with some kind of fine dining and apron and feeling stuffy and in the 90s in San Francisco it was pretty pretense in a restaurant in the restaurant scene i want to it have a place to have a place for my friends to guess i started the restaurant a no better place the Outer Mission spaces were available thats when i opt in two 10 he start with all people and work with them and the events they create one of the events we do every year and backpack give away and give piaget away and a christmas part with a santa and bring 5 hundred meatballs and pa get and were like in the mission not about them knowing where the food comes from but a part of the community. And my restaurant emmys spaghetti and fun banquet and San Francisco not the thing that Everybody Knows about we stay under the radar we show the showcase i take it food and we started to eat we wanted to have comfort food and that a claims friend from i take it and helped me create meatballs and dealing evolved over the years in the beginning one plate of spaghetti and a meatball we tried to make the portions as big as they could be. And now we have quite a few types pasta dishes with a la begin and meat sauce or have a partition to a lot of food we are at a point with all the favorites i dont change the menu often 0 i eat here so much but everything is fresh your cocktail menu is the best its ever been one thing on the menu our magazine ghetto we change the flavor one of the fun things it is served in the historically were known emmys spaghetti as a friendly place and when i opened i wanted my friend to be welcome and other parents to be welcomed and it is very for this is a place for families especially in San Francisco and this is where though hold their celebration important i mean youre coming to a Family Restaurant and youre coming for o to a fun place i love being the owner and pretty sure my life i enjoy running the psta spaghetti place i hope to be here a while well see how it goes we everyone is a friend were hoping youll be a [music] San Francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. At this time there were 3 settlements one was mission delores. One the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. There were 800 people in 1848 it was small. A lot of Historic Buildings were here including pony express headquarters. Wells fargo. Hudson Bay Trading Company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. Africanamerican decent and the first million airin california. Wilwoman was the founders of San Francisco. Here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. He spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. His father and brother in new orleans. We know him for San Franciscos history. Establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. Was not california yet and was not fully San Francisco yet. Because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. He was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. Mexico granted him citizenship. He loaned the government of San Francisco money. To funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state, of course. He established the first hotel here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or hold large gatherings established the first Public School here and helped start the Public School system. He piloted the first steam ship on the bay. A big event for San Francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. There is a small 4 block long length of street, owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. I walk today before am a cute side street. At this point t is the center what was all his property. He was the person entrusted to be the citys first treasurer. That is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an africanamerican the citys first banker. He was not only a forefather of the establishment of San Francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. He had a direct hahn in so many things that we look at in San Francisco. Part of our dna. You know you dont hear his anymore in the context of those. Representation matters. You need to uplift this so people know him but people like him like me. Like you. Like anyone who looks like him to be, i can do this, too. To have the citys first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. That alone is powerful. [music] i love teaching. It is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. This really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. This is very enriching as an artist. A lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. There are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. That is a really big draw. This is a signature piece. This is the bill largest darkroom in the u. S. There are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. I think it is the heart of this place. You feel it when you come in. The people who just started taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also everyone who works here is working in photography. We get to build the community here. This is different. First of all, this is a great location. It is in a lesspopulated area. Of lot of people come here just so that they can participate in this program. It is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. The people have a lot, they can really come together and share a love and a passion. We offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film. We offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. We offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, treasure island. There is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. Hello, my name is jennifer. My name is simone. We are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. Cmon, cmon, cmon. Actually, i have been here a lot. I have never looked closely enough to see everything. Now, i get to take pictures. We want to try to get them to be more creative with it. We let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. You can focus in here. That was cool. If you see that . Behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. The see any more hills . These kids are wonderful. They get to explore, they get to see different things. We let them explore a little bit. They get their best. If their parents ever ask, we can learn they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. Some of the things they come up with are fantastic. That is what were trying to encourage. These kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. A lot of people come into my classes and they dont feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. This is kind of the best kept secret. You should come on and take a class. We have orientations on most saturdays. This is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. Ready to develop your photography skills . The Harvey Milk Photo Center focuses on adult classes. And saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes. I love teaching. It is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. This really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. This is very enriching as an artist. A lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. There are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. That is a really big draw. This is a signature piece. This is the b largest darkroom in the u. S. There are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. I think it is the heart of this place. You feel it when you come in. The people who just started taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also everyone who works here is working in photography. We get to build the community here. This is different. First of all, this is a great location. It is in a lesspopulated area. Of lot of people come here just so that they can participate in this program. It is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. The people have a lot, they can really come together and share a love and a passion. We offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film. We offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. We offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, treasure island. There is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. Hello, my name is jennifer. My name is simone. We are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. Cmon, cmon, cmon. Actually, i have been here a lot. I have never looked closely enough to see everything. Now, i get to take pictures. We want to try to get them to be more creative with it. We let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. You can focus in here. That was cool. If you see that . Behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. The see any more hills . These kids are wonderful. They get to explore, they get to see different things. We let them explore a little bit. They get their best. If their parents ever ask, we can learn they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. Some of the things they come up with are fantastic. That is what were trying to encourage. These kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. A lot of people come into my classes and they dont feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. This is kind of the best kept secret. You should come on and take a class. We have orientations on most saturdays. This is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. Ready to develop your photography skills . The Harvey Milk Photo Center focuses on adult classes. And saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes. [music] welcome to this over vow of San Francisco Ethics Commission. We are excited introduce to you our work and serve as a resource for City Employees and officials. The ethicky commission created by San Francisco voters in 1993. To impartial low over see rowel and guidelines for i cleaner government. 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