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