Supervisor mandelman thank you, chair peskin, supervisor safai, and supervisor haney. I know weve had a long meeting, but i think this is important and i want to thank you for making time for this today. Earlier this year, massive rainfalls resulted in flooding along the embarcadero and other low lying areas of our city. Folks, Climate Change isnt coming, its already here. Last year, a group of climate advocates, some of whom are here today asked my office to work with them on declaring a Climate Emergency in San Francisco. Other communities had already taken the steps of declaring a Climate Emergency and those areas saw San Francisco as a local model should join them. The resolution called for the San Francisco department of the environment along with the Mayors Office and relevant city agencies to develop and submit a report on department the findings. I do think its worth noting that San Francisco has already done a good bit of proactive report to combat Climate Change. Between 1990
About many of the businesses and concerns that their employees have. We amended on page 9, 13, 14, and 19, with the impact and where the this particular office use is and what the employee cafeteria is, and we clarified the difference between in this instance the difference between a break room where theres a lot of food versus an actual cafeteria, so we talk about that in particular. We also say any of these existing that are approved as of the date of this ordinance will be approved and will be considered legal nonconforming accessory uses. They may exist but if they intend to expand or reinstall after abandonment, they would have to go through the conditional use authorization that all the different proposed private cafeterias will have going forward. So thats online 8 through 11 on page 5. And then, we had our conditional existing uses excuse me, the criteria that wed like the Planning Commission and others to consider as part of the c. U. Process. Ill just review a few of them. Wh
any public comment on this item? no, mr. chair. nobody has turned in a speaker card. seeing none, we ll close public comment. is there a motion to approve these items a motion. second. item five, communications, i have none for you today. item six. board members, new or unfinished business. wow, a remarkably silent group. i ll volunteer one thing. i put myself out there on that one. i first of all want to direct director tomlin and all of the staff on the excellent workshop last tuesday. it was really rich and substantive. and you came to a lot of new conclusions. and i wanted to share i ve had several colleagues reach out to me to share stories of their commute. i ve had them express faster traveling times, and remark about the aspect they did not anticipate, which is how quiet it is on market street, and they could even hear birds churping on their walks. i just wanted to share that. i m sure all of you are hearing positive feedback as well. but i think
dr. arigon will be providing that as soon as he s here. it s the most up to date information we had as of this weekend but the situation changes recalledly with regard to recommendation. i will emphasize a couple of things in advance of the doctor s comment. we have no newly diagnosed cases in san francisco of the coronavirus at this time. there are a total of 11 cases across the country that had been reported. six in california. two patients diagnosed in a nearby county who were transferred to ucsf. i want to emphasize again, we have no newly diagnosed cases in san francisco. i also think it s very important that we, as a health department, express that this is public health. this is classic public health. we have been through a number of these preparations with sars, with h1n1, with concerns around ebola and so we have expertise in this area to be as prepared as possible. obviously, it s not possible to fully people for every plausible scenario, but we re taking, basically,
clerk: we have quorum. chair peskin: thank you. can we have a motion to excuse supervisor fewer, who s attending the 150th anniversary of golden gate park? motion made by commissioner preston, seconded by commissioner mar, and we will take that without objection. [gavel]. chair peskin: i will move to the chair s report. colleagues, as we begin the new year here at the t.a., i want to share a few thoughts on our major thoughts and initiatives to collaborate with our community partners to improve transportation locally and regionally. as always, our top priority is safety, and i look forward to continued collaboration with chair yee, the president of our transportation committee to forward policies to reduce accidents, something that did not go well for the city for 2019. i want to point out that commissioner yee and i had with a meeting with representative chiu, and head of the california highway patrol, and others about moving forward with automated speed enforcement le