Transcripts For SFGTV BOS 20240704

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. Making to may grandkids a program all about pop ups, artists, non profits Small Business in into vacant downtown throughout the area for a three to 6 months engagement. I think San Francisco is really bright and i wanted to be a part of it revitalization. Im hillary, the owner of [indiscernible] pizza. Vacant and vibrant got into safe downtown we never could have gotten into prepandemic. We thought about opening downtown but couldnt afford it and a landlord [indiscernible] this was a awesome opportunity for us to get our foot in here. The agency is the marriage between a conventional art gallery and fine art agency. Im Victor Gonzalez the founder of gcs agency. Thes program is especially important for Small Business because it extended huge life line of resources, but also expertise from the people that have gathered around the vacant to vibrant program. It is allowed Small Businesses to pop up in spaces that have previously been fully unaccessible or just out of budget. Vacant to vibrant was funded by a grant from the office of Economic Workforce Development that was part of the mayors economic recovery budget last year so we funded our non Profit Partners new deal who managed the process getting folks into these spaces. [indiscernible] have been tireless for all of us down here and it has been incredible. Certainly never seen the kind of assistance from the city that vacant to vibrant has given us, for sure. Vacant to ibvooerant is a Important Program because it just has the opportunity to build excitement what downtown could be. It is change the narrative talking about ground floor vacancy and Office Vacancy to talking about the Amazing Network of small scale entrepreneur, [indiscernible] this is a huge opportunity that is really happy about because it has given me space to showcase all the work i have been doing over the past few years, to have a space i can call my own for a extended period of time has been, i mean, it is incredible. Big reason why i do this is specific to empower artist. There are a lot of people in San Francisco that have really great ideas that have the work ethics, they just dont have those opportunities presented, so this has been huge lifeline i think for entrepreneurs and Small Businesses. This was a Great Program for us. It has [indiscernible] opening the site. We benefited from it and i think because there is diverse and different [indiscernible] able to be down here that everybody kind of benefits from it. For us, we wish we had our queue and we created spaces that are active. Food and drinks. There is a lot for a lot of folks and community. For us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. I think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. To have a popup in the tenderloin gives it so much meaning. We are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. Coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. I have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. So we carry that into everything we do. Currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in San Francisco specifically in the tenderloin. We want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. So we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. It has been well supported and well talked about in our community. Thats why we are pushing it so much because thats how we started. Very active community members. They give back to the community. Support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. We also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it Forward Program that allows 20 to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. To be among our community, you are always welcome here. You dont have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you. music . The Ferry Building one of San Francisco most famous that as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. One of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding San Francisco is how young the city we are. And nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. There was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in San Francisco. And then the gold rush happened. By 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. By 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. With sand the way that San Francisco was and when you look at a map of San Francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. But by 1875 they know they needed more so the Ferry Building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the Ferry Building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. But by the late 1880s we needed Something Better than the Ferry Building. A bond issue was passed for 600,000. To build a new Ferry Building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in San Francisco they thought that was a grand Ferry Building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and San Francisco had grand plans for this transit station. So he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. Than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. But it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but Market Street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and Mission Street up to nob hill and the fishermans area. And then the earthquake hit in 190 six the Ferry Building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. And 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a Dennis Herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and were going to get on top this. Take 10 years for the city to rebuild. Side ferry use was increasing for a International Exhibition in 1950 and people didnt realize how much of a Community Center the Ferry Building was. It was the center for celebration. The upper level of Ferry Building was a Gathering Place. Also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or World War Two had a parade on Market Street and the Ferry Building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a Gathering Place in that Ferry Building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our International Exposition 18 million living in San Francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 San Francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and San Francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what were supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. The way the Ferry Building was originally built the lower level with the Natural Light was used for take it off lunge storage. The second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and were talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the Ferry Building and the embarcadero on Market Street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have San Francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. As the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach San Francisco. And automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots varnished. The dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. Take the care ferry and to San Francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. When the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our Sales Force Transit Center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose. What happened in the 40 and 50s because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a World Trade Center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of Ferry Building and completely impractical. After the cars the Tower Administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the United States. So they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout San Francisco. And so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. The plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the San Francisco saw had Human Services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. Which cut us off from the Ferry Building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. And that was the renaissance of Ferry Building. That land was developed for a new Ferry Building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didnt want that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. The San Francisco Ferry Building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the Ferry Building will be there to surface. You are watching San Francisco rising with chris manor. Todays special guest is Sarah Phillips. Hi, im chris manors and you are watching San Francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and eare imagineing the city. The guest today is Sarah Phillips the executive director of Economic Workforce Development. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Lets talk about the city economic plan and specifically the citys road map to San Francisco future. Can you give a brief overview and update on progress . Absolute e. In february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using Small Businesses, some of them remember longterm structural impacts. The way we work. How often we are in an office and how much office Space Companies who had headquartered in San Francisco need. Some of those were structural impacts how we stop. There has been a longterm change as Online Shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how people shop. We have seen a lot of progress rchlt we are 9 months in and significant things we have seen is efforts creating permitinant services and homes for people experiencing homelessness is dramatic. We increased the number of shelter beds dramatically and takeup of the beds dramatically, and there is more work to do. On the safety side there are exciting things that happened. We increased our police pay among the highest in the bay area which is a important thing for recruitment. Police recruitment across the country is down so recruiting the best we can means we need to give a high pay set. August the highsh return in graduates. We see 75 decrease in retail theft and 50 percent reduction in car break ins which is quality of life crime San Francisco experienced so there is real progresses we are seeing on clean and safe sides. One thing important in the mayor roadmap we are not trying to get back to 2020 vision. I think covid showed having a downtown with people sitting at offices isnt the best downtown it can be. I think it is a opportunity to bring 24 hour life use downtown. Music and concerts is a great way to bring people to a specific location. Golden gate park we had lots of events in plazas throughout the city. Can you talk about those and if there is Upcoming Events too . I think you touched on something key to the mayor road map. For San Francisco and particularly San Francisco downtown to move forward and be successful as a Great American city, it is about bringing people together because they want to be together not because they center to be together and music is a strong part that. The planet concert sear ries coming up and happening throughout the city not just Golden Gate Park but downtown locations are a great example. There are smaller examples as well. The landing atis a new plaza we constructed in the mayor roadmap where two streets come together akwraisant to a couple restaurants closed to cars in daytime, chairs and seating and throughout the week they have lunch time and evening music to bring people together after work. They participate in that. Something we are working on setting up for next year which is really exciting is our sf live program and that will bring a full 2024 Concert Series where we match local venues bringing their work and partnership to useian square, Music Center Plaza and embark cadero. We will be able to announce Concert Series through the sf you mentioned vacant to vibrant, that program has a lot of attention lately. Can you talk generally what exactly that program is . Yeah. So, we opened a program where we put out a call for landlords willing to offer groundfloor space for free for 3 to 6 month jz Small Business or storefront operators who had a proposal what they would do for 3 to 6 months. It is pilot. We had a incredible amount of interest. We hadim forgetting the number of landlords, but more then we expected because we are in a place where commercial real estate understands they need to come to the table to help make our groundfloor lively and resulting in a transition where the groundfloor is seen less as a money making operation, but more as a leader to lease upper floors. If you have a active ground floor yields better on the other 80 percent of the building you are trying to lease. That was great, a lot of cooperation scr over 700 Small Business or operators responded to that call. It is pop up. There is no intention this would result in forever Small Businesses, but there is certainly a hope and i think what we are hearing, i dont have the final data, but there are 17 activators in 9 different spaces, some are colocated, which is why the difference, and out of those 9 spaces that are being leased for free, now 7 of them are in discussions for longterm leases so the spaces continue. It is the program. We are hopeful to have a second and third traunch and hoping to pilot in other neighborhoods with other partners. It is not an inexpensive program because there is a lot of capital that goes into popping up for short amount of time but what we are seen is they visit the businesses, the businesses are successful and San Francisco want to support this activation so hopeful to expand it. Thats great. Can you talk a bit about why piloting programs and testing things is so important . Absolutely. You know, i would say not only the important generally but important in San Francisco specifically. The benefit of pilot programs in the reasons they are really important here is, it allows us to try something and say, there may be consequence but lets understand those in real time rather then waiting to start a strategy while we think about them on paper and if they are too great we can modify the program as we go. Mta has absorbed the strategy whether a bike lane or other to figure how best to use the street . Is this working . Is it working for bikes and cars and buses . Maybe not, lets switch it around and pilots have been important to oewd to our office particularly because we tend to have the ability and the mayors support through the budget process to pilot things through request for proposals or rfp process where we can put out a small amount of funding, try activation and small public plaza, see if it works and i think the benefit there is, if it doesnt work we tried it and had the benefit of seeing real time and when it does work, we are able to uplift that and move into a permanent strategy and that is where our agency turns over something we piloted to another agency because it is part of the city operating procedure. Pilots also give people hope. When we have the shortterm whether it is physical public plaza or activation that shows change is possible and allows them to vote for what they like. Lastly, in lith light of the current ai boom, do you think there is a way to leverage those new changes to take a bunch of San Franciscos status as a tech hub . I do, i think they work together. San francisco right now has a strong vacancy problem in our office space. And there is a backstory to that. Our zoning downtown has not prevented other uses, in terms of permitting uses of the multistory building has been open including allowing residential but we put other barriers, cost and code barriers et cetera and what happened also during the height of our preevious boom is that, the amount that Tech Companies were willing to pay for office space bid everything out so wewithout intentionally zoning a single use downtown, we de facto became a single use downtown and thereat is the opportunity you are pointing out. Now because downtown was so convertible from work from home, particularly as tech based downtown was and how much Companies Put at the market in the Office Spaces we are seeing high vacancy now, all most 30 percent so there is lot of square feet but that presents a lot of opportunity. We have the ability to absorb expansion of the Tech Industry we are so strong at. We have seen over 800 thousand square feet of ai space leased just in 2023 alone and there is still more demand out in the market, more ai Companies Looking for space so that is a growth spot absorbing some of the vac ancy. The opportunity too is prices for downtown lease s have also dropped and that opens up a breath of opportunity to a breath of companies that were priced out in 2018, 2019, 2020. San francisco has always been great at starting companies and allowing them to grow here. When our prices are too high it prevents that growth so now we are a super Fertile Ground for more start ups and invasion on the smaller end of the sector because they can come and enter our market and we have the space to offer. To talk about San Franciscos assets and the leveraging that, we sit at the epicenter of really Great University and educational institutions. We are between uc berkeley and stanford. The graduates produced just from those institutions alone stay in the bay area and want to rise up and work here, provide a real opportunity for the start ups to build their companies and companies to grow here so we confident we will absorb a certain amount of office space with ai tech. With that, we are interested in increasing our Human Capital growing graduates. Downtown university is something the mayor is open to pursuing and we are in conversations with uc berkeley we love to have as a partner in our downtown and then residential conversions are a great partner to that. As we build back the office space, people will want to live downtown again and we have a number buildings that can be converted to residential. The costs are high. Mayor breed and her partners on the board made significant changes to reduce the costs. We waived fees for change of uses in the downtown area. There are code changes that will make the conversions easier. There is a ballot measure on the march ballot that will attempt to reduce costs for those as well. It is ongoing process and none of those changes we talked about absent ai growth downtown, but institutional growth downtown, arts growth downtown and residential conversions downtown are longterm changes so one thing i want to say recollect i do think there is a opportunity per your question, but we also need to be patient because what we are talking about is is a real shift to the makeup of the downtown since from the growth it has been starting at since the turn of the century so that isnt a 2 year change, that is a 10 year change and we center to watch as it goes. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you spending the time here today and your Creative Vision and positivity, so thank you so much. Thanks so much for having me and hope you all downtown and shop. That is it for this episode. For sfgovtv im chris manors, thanks i am supervisor melgar. I am the supervisor for district 7. [music] i am a immigrant to San Francisco. My family came when i was 12 from el salvador during the civil war. This place gave us security, safety and an opportunity to thrive, so i love the city deeply, and as a mother of three kids who have grown up as city kids, im grateful for everything the city has to offer for people like me and families. I have been politically involved my whole life, either in government or a non profit worker and i care about the community. I care about people around me, and i want to make sure that as the world changes around us, other people have the opportunity that my family did. We are back in San Francisco post pandemic. So important to be out supporting our businesses, supporting our neighbors. Im the first woman to represent the district, believe it or not. Im the first latina elected to the board of supervisors without an appointment first ever, so i do think that indiscernible i want immigrants to be represented, women, moms, people that have different experiences because that brings richment to our Decision Making and i think it makes for betting decisions so that inspired me to run. District 7 is one of the most diverse districts in San Francisco both in economics and ethnicity. It spans north from Golden Gate Park. It includes all the institutions in the park, the wheel. The music concourse, mew seem to the south to the daly city boarder and west to the organization. Includes the zoo indiscernible all those fun things and to 280 oen the east. Includes city college, San Francisco state. I had ucsf parnassus so very large geographically. It is mostly Single Family homes, so it is the place where for generations family indiscernible nice parks, lake merced, mount davidson. This is like a village within the city, so we are very close nit community. We tend to band together and try to support one another and it is a friendly place and families and people to have a cup of coffee and check out the park. Ocean avenue, which is the southern end of our district is vibrant commercial corridor that mostly cater tuesday the local neighborhoods and the students. As you go further west you have the mall which has some of the best pan asian food offerings in the city. If you havent been there, it is really fun. As you go up a little bit further, there is west portal avenue, which is a very old School Commercial district where you can still find antique shops and cobbler shops and as well as like more modern restaurants. It is definitely hopping and full of families on any weekday. Im matt roger, the coowner or indiscernible carl, other coowner in west portal. We are a Neighborhood Hardware store. Been a Community Institution since it was founded in 1936. We had a little bit of everything. indiscernible to gardening or gift buying. My entire experience in San Francisco is this community. It is a very small town feel for a big city. The community is caring and connected. What makes me excited doing business in district 7 is i know it sell well. I grew up here. I knew a lot of customers, parents of friends. It is very comfortable place and feels like home. If you go up north, you have the innerpz sunset commercial corridor which has a awesome Farmers Market on weekdays and plethora of restaurants. There is everything you need. Friendly and safe and indiscernible i love they bring their kids with them. They teach them how to use their money, and it is something you dont see in too many markets in other communities. I love to see the kids come and talking to you. It is Something Different then i see from indiscernible the ev access to transit in inner sunset and ability to do a lot of shopping on foot, and now the improved biking with jfk closed to cars, because we have a 4 and a half year old who rides her bike. We now have a safe place to go and ride bike jz dont have to to worry about traffic. Graffiti continues to be one of these things that during the pandemic just got out of control everywhere in the city and i do think that it is hampering our recovery of commercial corridors, so some of the volunteers on west portal avenue, some of the merchants got together with interns at our office to do some hands on abatement and we have been doing it regularly. We are doing it once a week and we have a wonderful neighbor, carrie organizing and storing the paint and supplies in her office on west portal, but this needs more then just a volunteer efforts. Im grateful for the collaboration. We passed legislation at the board and put 4 million in the budget over the next 24 months to help the department of public works hire laborers and labor apprentices to abate the graffiti on private property on commercial corridors. I think that for a couple years this recovery strategy so we can get back up as normal after this awful pandemic. Participatory budgeting is a pot of money that is available every year for district 7 neighbors to propose projects that improve the neighborhood and the district. Anyone, any organization in the district can propose a project and then its a vote. It is popular vote. We have 14 projects just approved and they span from you know, a vegetable garden at Aptos Middle School to Pedestrian Safety projects on indiscernible it runs the gamut, but it is wonderful because it allows people to be engaged in a real way, and then to see the outcome of their energy and work, because the things get improved in front of them. I like it is really close to the parecollect parks and bunch of businesses as well as a calm feel. It is a very peaceful feel even though it is close to a lot of things. indiscernible also not boring. There is stuff to do too. So, there is lots to see and experience in district 7. [music] [music] art withelders exhibiting senior art work across the bay for 30 years as part of our traveling exhibits program. For this exhibits we partnered with the San Francisco Arts Commission galleries and excited show case the array of artist in historic San Francisco city hall. [inaudible]. Call me temperature is unique when we get to do we, meaning myself and the 20 other professional instructors we are working with elders we create longterm reps i cant think of another situation academically where we learn about each other. And the art part i believe is a launching pad for the Relationship Building see myself well. And if i dont try when my mom again. She may beat the hell out of mow if i dont try seniors, the population encounters the problem of loneliness and isolation even in a Residential Community there hen a loss of a spouse. Leaving their original home. May be not driving anymore and so for us to be ail to bring the classes and art to those people where hay are and we work with people in all walks of life and circumstances but want to finds the people that are isolated and you know bring the warmth there as much as art skill its personal connection. Men their family cant be well for them. I can be their fell and feel it. I dont have nobody. People say, hi, hi. Hello but i dont know who they are. But i come here like on a wednesday, thursday and friday. And i enjoy. We do annual surveys asking students what our program does for them. 90 plus say they feel less alone, they feel more engaged. They feel more socially connected the things you hope for in general as we age. Right . And see when i do this. I am very quiet. I dont have anybody here talking to me or telling me something because im concentrating on had im doing and im not talking to them. Not just one, many students were saying the program had absolutely transformational for them. In said it had saved their lives. I think it is person to support the program. Because i think ida elder communities dont get a lot of space in disability. We want to support this program that is doing incredible work and giving disability and making this program what supports the art and health in different way bunkham art as a way of expression. A way of like socializing and giving artists the opportunity also to make art for the first time, sometimes and we are excited that we can support this stories and honor their stories through art. We hope the people will feel inspired by the variety and the quality of the creative expressions here and that viewers come, way with a greater appreciation of the richness what elders have to share with us. [music] in august 2019 construction began on the new facility at 1995 evans avenue in bayview. It will house Motorcycle Police and department of Forensic Services division. Both sfpd groups are in two buildings that need to be vacated. They will join the new 183 million facility in late 2021. Elements of the cfi and the Traffic Company are housed at the hall of justice, which has been determined to be seismically unfit. It is slated for demolition. In addition to that the Forensic Services crime lab is also slated for demolition. It was time and made sense to put these elements currently spread in different parts of the city together into a new facility. The project is located in the bayview area, in the area near estes creek. When San Francisco was first formed and the streetcars were built back it was part of the bay. We had to move the building as close to the edge as possible on bedrock and solid elements piles down to make sure it was secure. It will be approximately 100,000 square feet, that includes 8,000 square feet for Traffic Company parking garage. The reason we needed too new building, this is inadequate for the current staffing needs and also our motor department. The officers need more room, secured parking. So the csi unit location is at the hall of justice, and the Crime Laboratory is located at building 60 sixty old Hunters Point shipyard. Not colocated doesnt allow for easy exchange of information to occur. Traffic division was started in 1909. They were motor officers. They used sidecars. Officers who road by themselves without the sidecar were called solo. That is a common term for the motorcycle officers. We have 45 officers assigned to the motorcycles. All parking at the new facility will be in one location. The current locker room with shared with other officers. It is not assigned to just traffic companies. There are two showers downstairs and up. Both are gym and shop weres are old. It needs constant maintenance. Forensic services provides five major types of testing. We develop fingerprints on substances and comparisons. There are firearms identification to deal with projectiles, bullets or cartridge casings from shootings. Dna is looking at a whole an rare of evidence from array of evidence from dna to Sexual Assault to homicide. We are also in the business of doing breath allyzer analysis for dui cases. We are resurrecting the gunshot Residue Testing to look for the presence of gunshot residue. Lifespan is 50 years. It has been raised up high enough that if the bay starts to rise that building will operate. The facility is versus sustainable. If the lead gold highest. The lighting is led. Gives them good lights and reduces energy use way down. Water throughout the project we have low water use facilities. Gardens outside, same thing, low water use for that. Other things we have are green roofs on the project. We have studies to make sure we have maximum daylight to bring it into the building. The new facility will not be open to the public. There will be a lobby. There will be a deconstruction motorcycle and have parts around. The dna labs will have a vestibule before you go to the space you are making sure the air is clean, people are coming in and you are not contaminating anything in the labs. Test firing in the building you are generating lead and chemicals. We want to quickly remove that from the individuals who are working in that environment and ensure what we put in the air is not toxic. There are scrubbers in the air to ensure any air coming out is also at the cleanest standards. You will see that kind of at the site. It has three buildings on the site. One is for the motorcycle parking, Main Building and back behind is a smaller building for evidence vehicles. There is a crime, crime scene. They are put into the secure facility that locks the cars down while they are examined. They could be vehicles involved in the shooting. There might be projectiles lodged in the vehicle, cartridge casings inside the vehicle, it could be a vehicle where a aggravated sexual occurred and there might be biological evidence, fingerprints, recovered merchandise from a potential robbery or other things. The greatest challenge on the project is meeting the scope requirements of the project given the superheated Construction Market we have been facing. I am proud to say we are delivering a project where we are on budget. The front plaza on the corner will be inviting to the public. Something that gives back to the public. The building sits off the edge. It helps it be protected. What we are looking for is an updated building, with facilities to meet our units needs. Working with the San Francisco Police Department is an honor and privilege. I am looking forward to seeing their faces as the Police Officers move to the new facility. It is a welcome change, a new surrounding that is free from all of the challenges that we face with being remote, and then the ability to offer new expanded services to the city and Police Department investigations unit. I cant wait until fall of 2021 when the building is finally ready to go and be occupied and the people can get into the facility to serve them and serve the community. Franciscans. bell tolling . Wow. clapping welcome, everyone. Here we are high on a hill. Little morning fog, no rain are we lurking or not were san franciscans. Were here to celebrate a beautiful man in our beautiful cable car cars what better day to do it in valentines day can you bring our hearts all right. My name is rick im the president of the Market Street railway an independent advocate for the history cable car and streetcars we support