We see decline. You can see the patches where there arent any leaves at all. That is a sign the tree is in decline. The other big challenge is the root system of the tree are aggressive and can impact nearby utilities, and we can fix the sidewalk around the tree in many cases. We dont want to cuts the roots too severely because we can destabilize the tree. In a city like San Francisco our walks are not that wide. We have had to clear the branches away from the properties. Most of th the can canopy is one street side and that is heavyweight on those branches out over the street. That can be a factor in tree limb failures. A lot of people wonder since these trees have a lot of issues. Why did we plant them in the first place . They provided the city with benefits for decades. They are big and provide storage for carbon which is important to fight Climate Change and they provide shade and really i think many people think they are a beautiful asset. When we identify trees like this for rem
Review this count and ensure that its not stale. So eventually through the process of usdoj recommendations implementation, we may have discovered actually we have to change a policy to do this one thing, even though the recommendation doesnt necessarily call out that theres specifically a policy change that needs to happen. But there may actually be a resulting change that needs to happen from the work of starting the implementation of a particular recommendation. So we are going to take this back and do a more thorough dig on those kinds of items and make sure that we have a very clear picture of which recommendations are impacted by policy. Thank you. Vice president taylor. Thank you. This last page is good and theres more questions than you anticipated. Yes. When you come back and do that deeper dive can you report on not only what the correct numbers are but of the correct numbers where are we in terms of our implementation of changes . Yes okay. Yes, chief . I would just like to
Thank you very much. The first order of business is general Public Comment. This is for any item that is not currently on the agenda for this evening. Do we have anybody speaking on that . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Regular agenda. All right. The next agenda item is number 2 the approval of our minutes from october 1, 2019. Do we have a motion to approve the minutes . I move to approve. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the approval of the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Vice president camino. [roll call]. The minutes have been approved. The next agenda item is a report from executive director weiland. Thank you president bleiman. Good evening commissioners. I have a brief report this evening. I wanted to provide an update for all of you that we have been conducting some Community Outreach efforts as staff and really in gratitude to Deputy Director azevedo for leading the charge. But in educating neighborhoods in merchant corridors around our limited L
Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining for the grand opening of our public lobby. It has been a long process. Were so honored to have you all here today. First, before we get into our short speaking program, i first want to acknowledge a few parties that have worked really hard to make this all possible. Id first like to thank our budget analyst and project Management Team that have worked really hard to make this run smoothly. Thank you very much for that. [ applause ]. Theyve also worked very closely hand in hand with the mayors budget office. Id like to thank Kelly Kirkpatrick for coming here today. Thank you. [ applause ]. Next i would like to thank our public facing team who provides excellent Public Service. Our Public Service team and our recorder division. Thank you very much. [ applause ]. They provided Excellent Customer Service even throughout a lot of yay. They provided a lot of Excellent Service even throughout a lot of construction. Thank you for keep
Triggered by a particular zoning or petition, these are voluntary by the applicant and would be requested by the staff or one of the commissions. Ill get into a little more detail about the Design Guidelines themselves. I think its important to note that the retained elements Design Guidelines are focused on the how, how you do something. Once you weigh the options and consider whether there is something existing that should be maintained, then the next question is how to do it so that itsful, both to the existing material and the new development. There are two sections. This plays off of the urban Design Guidelines which is our larger guidelines in the city. There is site architect and urban realm. You see reference of an s 1. 1, that references s 1. These take those as a basis and get into deeper detail around this particular topic, which is why its called a special topic design guideline. So theres site design, retain existing features. Under architecture, modulating new development