Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use And Transportation Committee 20240712

Can we have the next caller. Caller good evening, supervisors. Todd snyder for district 5. I thank you for amending this measure next week and supporting it thus far. I ask that you continue to support it today. And i want to point out that an arbitrary number of Sworn Police Officers provides no flexibility to adapt to the changing needs of our city. And this came from a Consent Decree entered into in 1979. And lifted in 1998. It has no relevance to the city today. So i urge you to continue to support this measure and to put it before the voters on the ballot in november. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller i already spoke once and i have been unmuted. Clerk i believe this person has already spoken before per their comment. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller yes, im a native san franciscan, and im in my 60s. I want to express that changing the charter to minimal staffing is a deadly Public Policy decision on your part. No doubt that criminals are intercepting this message as an opportunity to commit rape, murder, assault, theft, and an endless list of criminal activity. I hope that youve also given thought to potential international terrorism. Were really in a vulnerable position. You also place on Police Officers that extremely higher risk and you will be responsible for their deaths and for their injuries. This city has really turned into a complete cesspool of crime, bad governmental regulations and unsafe decisions. The current number of Police Officers does not even meet the growing population of residents. We have truly a major shortage here. And im really disgusted by this antipolice sentiment. Im an older resident and this place is really changing and it is really upsetting. Id like to know who strongarm you to creating in unsafe proposal. The line message here is that you never, never, never compromise Public Safety. Someone will die. Additionally, you will be responsible for the deaths of more Police Officers. Its happening as we speak. Stop do, this and do the right thing. And its not whos right, its what is right. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller good morning, supervisors, my name is gracie and i live and work in district 4. I just would like to address that Police Officers actually commit rape often and theyre never charged for crimes such as rape and murder. Thank you for listening to the Community Last thursday and putting the remight hava removae police into this language. This demonstrates San Franciscos lived experience. Public safety comes from investing in our community, not criminalizing them. I thank the socialist of color caucus. And calling in support to eliminate the sfpd minimum staffing. indiscernible we look forward to working with you all to defund sfpd and to reinvest in our communities. Thank you. I yield my time. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller good morning, supervisors. My name is sarah and i live and work in San Francisco in district 1. Thank you for listening to the Community Last week and putting their language regarding maximizing Police Presence in this amendment. This properly demonstrates San Franciscos values and reflects the data and our lived experiences. Public safety comes from investing in our communities, not criminalizing them. And to the caller who spoke before me, he said that amending charter will increase crime and that people will die. People are dying at the hands of Police Officers and as a survivor of Sexual Assault and rape i can tell you that police have done nothing for me to support me or to bring justice to me in any way. So the current state that were living in is not actually beneficial for the people of this city. Im calling once again in support of the Charter Amendment to eliminate the minimum staffing requirement. And im asking you to please recommend this Charter Amendment to the whole board of supervisors. Im looking forward to working with you to defund sfpd and to reinvest in our communities. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller hello, supervisors, my name is sage and i live in district 11, and i work in district 7 on occupied land known as the alono. I feel odd thanking you for doing what is the will of the people but im pleased to see that it was removed from the amendment. I want to further recommend that this be taken to the entire board so that it actually makes it on to the ballot. A couple of things. Im still absolutely perturbed about the fact that you dont have your cameras on and that we cant watch you watching us. Im a teacher. And one of the things about Building Community is about being able to watch people listen to you. We need to see your nonverbals and we need to know what is confusing to you, we need to know what you are supportive of. We need to see you nodding or shaking your heads. We need to see you. Right now this is the only way that we get to interact with you as the board of supervisors. And so this is incredibly important and i will be on the call later with the clerk to discuss this as well. I also just want to say to the earlier caller, it is the public who strongarmed the board into defunding and dismantling the police. This is what we want. And a few people calling in to say who clearly have never interacted with police because if they did they would know that the police are an incredibly violent institution, and saying that more police is safer for them when they never interact with the police . It is imperative that you put those comments into context and remember who is saying them, right . Those are the very rich people who are living in houses who never get the drivebyes that we get in the excellsior and never get racially profiled, all of that. So its very important to remember that all of these comments or any comments that wants more police or who says that clerk thank you, the speaker time has elapsed. Just note if you have not already done so, please press star, 3, to be added to the queue. And for those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted. At this time we have six callers on the line waiting to speak. Can we have the next speaker, please. Caller hi. I work in San Francisco as a Police Officer. Im also a queer person of color who lives in the mission. I think that a lot of these issues are valid on both points. To the elderly woman who said that shes scared of not having police, thats valid. To the person who just informed that there are problems in the excelsior, thats valid. For the majority of people that thank me every day for patrolling and putting my life at risk, for trying to keep a community safe, how do we reconcile that with the people that feel that the police need to be abolished completely . I think that what needs to happen is that defunding seems like a great idea, but how do we do that prior to having other systems in place . How do we find thousands of Mental Health workers to go to these calls before we have those policies and those laws and though employees put in place . To jump to this moment of saying get rid of the police completely doesnt account for the fact that there are driveby shootings in the excelsior and it doesnt account for the fact that crimes like homicides and rapes and everything that the caller before me stated, those need to be investigated, those need to be dealt with. So abolishing the police right now in its current form is not going to keep our community safer. And while i completely am aware of our history, of our oppression, and the violence that Police Departments around the country have put on the communities they are supposed to serve, that needs to change, but we need to set up a system prior to pointing a finger and accusing every Police Officer in this country of doing harm because thats just not the case. The silent majority of people that i interact with thank me every single day. And that gets left out of the conversation. And like i said, i think that both sides are valid, but we really need to stop for a second and not have a knee jerk reaction and try to dismantle the system before the next system is in place. Weve seen that happen and i clerk thank you, the speaker time has elapsed. Thank you. Hearing from the next speaker, please. Caller im happy to speak immediately after the Police Officer. Its an interesting listening at the end. What i would say here and i say wanting to defund and abolish the police entirely is that i dont think that they make us safer. I dont think that theyre there for the right reasons. I dont think what they do makes our society better. I think that theyre there to oppress us. I think that they have nine out of 62 rapes solved in the last year, but theyve shown up to every protest with brutal military arm, oppressing people at their convenience. Now you gather in this city, you will see the police oppressing. Youre right, they dont have the resources to apparently to be able to address violent crime. Theyre not good at that. They dont have the resources to be able to address homelessness. Theyre not good at that. They dont have the resources or even a division to address vehicle theft anymore. Theyre not good at that. What theyre good at is political oppression and brutalization of civilians. So they do. They politically brutalize us. They disburse us. They prevent us from gathering. There is no reason to have even a single one of those pieces of shit violating, brutalizing our city. We should disburse of them. We should abolish them. The police are pieces of shit. Abolish the police. Theyre violent. This system that we have built is criminally unjust, racially biased, and disgusting. The free world clerk thank you, speaker time has elapsed. Can we have the next speaker, please. Caller my name is mike chan an and im in district 2 and im in support of this Charter Amendment. Weve had this on the books for 20 years and we have not matched it. We should be based on a public conversation and something not based in the charter. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you, can we have the next caller, please. Caller good morning, supervisors. My name is anita and i live and work in San Francisco in district 5. I want to first of all to just echo the sentiments of the previous two callers who so eloquently described why polic policing can be fixed. And i want to thank you for listening to the Community Last thursday and putting the remight haval of the removal of the language of maximizing Police Presence in amendment. This demonstrates San Franciscos values and reflects the data and our lived experiences, which is really important to highlight those two words. Public safety comes from investing in our communities, not criminalizing them. We are calling once again in support of the Charter Amendment to eliminate the sfpd minimum staffing requirement. Recommend this Charter Amendment to the full board of supervisors. We look forward to working with you all to defund sfpd and reinvest in our communities. Thank you. I yield my time. Clerk thank you, can we have the next speaker. Caller oh, hi. So i am also calling in support of this amendment. I do not necessarily support defunding police, but i believe that the police need to provide essential services as the police woman who called earlier about driveby shootings, we do need them for a lot of things. However, there is certainly no reason for having an arbitrary minimum of police. And so certainly an amendment that would allow the city to have the politicsibilit flexibie amount of police and to explore different avenues of dealing with problems in a city and trying to use social Services Social services is great. And so, yeah, i support this amendment. But i do think that the police are essential. I think thats everything that i had to say. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller. Caller hello, im shawn taylor and a resident of district 9. I wanted to voice my support once again of putting this amendment on the ballot. Thank you to supervisor yee for removing the language that we requested. Thank you also to all of the members of the board that have cosponsored this Charter Amendment. In response to a previous caller i would like to say that i dont think that international cells will target San Francisco because we changed our city charter to allow for Dynamic Police staffing in the city. Honestly i think that theres an argument against this amendment is that the proponents are resorting to big threats of terrorist attacks. And indiscernible thank you again and im looking forward to seeing this on the ballot. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller. Caller hi, i am a district 5 resident and a parent. And i want to thank supervisor yee for proposing this Charter Amendment. I am supportive of it, but its a good start. For example, theres still it still allows for converting from sworn divisions to only become civilian if it becomes vacant. For example, as the School District said that we no longer want s. R. O. S in our schools. The police chief said that those decisions simply be moved to other places. And thats not what we want. Because that doesnt allow any funding to be reallocated to youth programs, to violence prevention, to Something Like programs for youth. So those positions need to be removed. We need fewer officers. Thats the whole point of this. So as we said, its a good start. I appreciate you proposing this. I appreciate all of the supervisors supporting it. And i look forward to voting on it. But it needs more work. So thank you very much. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller. Caller hi, my name is emily and i live in district 9 and im calling in support of the Charter Amendment and im glad to see this moving to the next step. Thank you for listening to us on this, and thank you for president yee for moving this forward. Im also calling for the amendment to the full board of supervisors to have a minimum staffing requirement. And i see abolition as the road to fully doing whats best for the city of San Francisco. And for everyone in it. When we defund and abolish police, we can have social services, education, and do things that the community really needs. And i dont think that this is a knee jerk reaction. Public safety comes from investing in communities, not policing people, not criminalizing them. So, yeah, defund and abolish the police. And i dont think that defund sfpd now, and i want to thank you the color caucus, for all of the work they have done to make indiscernible in giving people like me to call in for the first time. Id like to echo the sentiments or not the sentiments, like everyone has been asking to you turn your cameras on and you need to do it so that we can see you and see your reactions. And that you can actually show that youre listening to us. Thanks. Clerk thank you, can we have the next caller, please. Caller im a resident in district 11 and there are constant cops patrolling our neighborhood. Thats what we mean when we say they drive by. This neighborhood takes care of each other but the cops are constantly present on in our neighborhood. They have their eyes on neighborhoods that they deem need extra patrolling or monitoring which is basically racial profiling. A cop is a cop and they where they are working. Youre engaging in a racist, violent system. When we defund the sfpd we can use those resources to pay and open up more jobs in Mental Health professions, equitable housing,ette set. By defunding sfpd we are building the system to take care of our community. This is not a knee jerk reaction, unquote. This is a long battle for police and this white supremacist country on this stolen land. This argument for why you should defund and abolish police is built by marginalized communities. It is not new. Most people thank cops because theyre completely terrified of them. We dont need police. We need that money reallocated to real help, help that doesnt kill people or tear gas them during a viral pandemic. Invest in communities, not cops. And, yeah, turn your cameras on so that we can see that youre listening to us and not playing angry birds or stepping away for 15 minutes or tweeting back to people being really defensive, whatever that might look like. And make sure that every single district member is a part of these calls because this is not just supposed to be a Small Committee meeting. This should be an entire countywide meeting for the city of San Francisco. I now yield my time clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller hi. I have an interesting perspective to offer on this. My husband is in Law Enforcement here in San Francisco. And im not willing to identify him publicly. We live in district 8 and supervisor mandelmans district. And we have taken time to reflect on whats happening around the country and here. And my husband will be leaving his job, and while we understand that people are concerned about Public Safety, we dont think that it has to look like armed Law Enforcement or anything that resembles Law Enforcement. So its a difficult decision and reckoning, we do stand behind the movement to defund the sfpd. Many of our colleagues, we know that it means that many will lose jobs and we think that its the right thing. Thank you all for your time. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller. Caller hi. My name is kate and i live in the tenderloin. I just wanted to say to the last caller, your husband is one of the good ones. Thank you. Thank you for actually listening to the people of the city, the people of this world, of this nation, everywhere. Thank you for your service and for realizing what you need to do. To supervisor yee i want to say thank you for coming up with this motion that were talking about today. I think that its amazing how you have this coming before the floyd uprising, so to the people saying this is a knee jerk reaction, again, this has been in place since weeks before the george floyd uprising. This is not a knee jerk reaction, this is an ongoing problem that needed to be addressed in multiple ways throughout the world. So, you know, its not a knee jerk reaction. To the caller saying not every cop every single one deal with it. To the blue to the rest of the citizens, what youre seeing on the wall here is a blue wall of silence again. Its like what they want to hide behind. They dont want us to know that theyre just typing on their phones and not paying attention. Theyre hiding behind a little blue wall again protecting police in every way that they can. They want us to not be able to see them. To the people behind the blue wall protecting them and protecting police, we see you. We see what is happening. And if you want to be another portland, if you want to be another seattle, were ready to be on the streets, trust me. I dont yield my time. Go fuck off. Clerk can we have the next speaker, please. Caller hi, this is martin callincalling from district 5. I wanted to call in to support this Charter Amendment. I think that minimum staffing for police is arbitrary and we should be able to defund the police, you know, as we need it in the city of San Francisco. I wasnt going to originally call because i feel that, you know, this is really common sense and that the board will take this up. However, i did hear comment from a Law Enforcement officer who said that they are aware of police brutality. And id like to ask that officer if theyre aware that brutality before or after the department ran vans into people and protesters during first couple days of black lives matter protests in San Francisco. I was part of that crowd, you know, and im proud to support black lives matter and i do not appreciate having a van almost run me over on Market Street of all streets. Again, i support this Charter Amendment. And, yeah, defund the police. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller hi, my name is lawrence and i live in district 9. Im calling in in support of the Charter Amendment. Im also glad to see that this is moving to the next step. Thank you for listening to us, and thank you president yee for bringing this forward. As i said i see this as a positive initial step on the way to creating a better and more equitable society. Equitable society where were all safe and we all have access to the same access to the resources. Were currently not living in that reality, very apart from it. But, again, its a very good first stip but w step but we sta long way to go. Thank you and i yield my time. Clerk thank you, can we have the next caller. Caller yes, hello, district 11. Im just calling to support the Charter Amendment and called to say that as an individual and as an organizer with the indiscernible organization, we support the abolition of the police. And we this Charter Amendment is one step. And we also support Community Control. We will not be satisfied to deal with the replacement of police and sheriffs with privatized security and privatized Law Enforcement. We want Community Control and an end to this relic of slavery that infected and oppressed our society for way too long. Clerk we are going to move on. Any additional comments . Can we have the next speaker, please. Caller good afternoon. This is alex calling from district 10. Im also a member of d. S. A. Im calling in support of the Charter Amendment. Thank you, president yee, and supervisors, for considering this. You know, the thing was put on the ballot in 1994, the arbitrary minimum of Police Officers association, and frankly for way too long that interest has really seized control of the public spending here. And so i think this is a great first step for actually looking at Public Safety from an analytical perspective as opposed to, you know, just funneling our public money towards, frankly, a lot of people who live in nevada at this point. So i appreciate what youre doing here. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next speaker, please. Caller good afternoon. indiscernible my name is roland w and indiscernible in 1964 to San Francisco. Please do not undo the minimum staffing for the citizens of San Francisco. In the city charter, section 4. 127, this is for the safety and protection of everyone in San Francisco. It seems that ive seen less and less Police Officers walking the beat in San Francisco, and ive seen an upping of more crimes and vandalism and crimes against seniors and streets littered with garbage and graffiti and people on drugs and drunk and urination and drug dealing and more in public. I am saying please maintain the minimum Staffing Levels for the Police Department. For the safety of the residents of San Francisco, and indiscernible for the theft levels as they currently are before making any decisions. The Police Presence in my opinion is a crime of deterrent. Look around San Francisco and walk around north beach, chinatown, union square, the tenderloin and look at how dirty it is. And the criminals that might be walking around. Look at union square. Look at all of the rioting and the looting and damage to property of everything. Look oh, look at the public defenders. You want to release all of the criminals. Look at the last public defender . What did he do . He died indiscernible and look at the current District Attorney. He was the public defender and refuses to prosecute criminals. Look at all of the crimes of the asian seniors. You know, the lady at the tunnel getting dragged into out of the car and her purse ripped off her. And the old man indiscernible and got robbed and beat by the people up at hunters point. I think that we need clerk thank you, speaker time has elapsed. Can we have the next speaker, please. Chair, that completes the queue. President yee, do you have any closing comments before i ask my other colleagues . Supervisor yee no, i want to again thank the public for expressing their viewpoint, and actually i want to say thank you for everybodys respect. And as much as they are varied, theres legitimacy in everybodys point of view. And i want to really respect that. Thank you so much. Supervisors mar and stefani, any comments . Thank you, chair ronen. I wanted to thank all of the callers during Public Comment today and also at the last hearing on this item. Thanks again to president yee for your leadership on bringing this important Charter Amendment forward. And im proud to cosponsor this. This is a common sense change replacing the outdated and arbitrary minimum staffing level for uniformed Police Officers with a much more thoughtful datainformed and transparent process. And this is also an important part of our broader reimagining of Law Enforcement and Community Safety in this historic moment. So thanks again, president yee, for bringing this forward. I look forward to voters weighing in on this in november. Chair ronen thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani thank you for all of the callers who have called in today. We are listening to you. I just want to repeat again, even when we have our cameras on during Public Comment you cannot see us for some reason but we are listening, we hear you. This is a very important time in our history, a very important time in our city. And i know that there are a lot of conflicting opinions and views on this. And a lot of hurt, a a lot we all know this is big. But, you know what, i do have to say and hope that we can all come through this together and be stronger and safer. And for everybody. So i just want to let everyone know that, again, thank you for your comments. Thank you for your passion. Thank you for, you know, for going through this. I think that everyone i just want to again to reiterate that we will get through this and we will hopely do it with respect for one another and respect for all opinions and listening to everybody. So, again, president yee, thank you for bringing this forward and i look forward to continuing to listen and learning more from everybody on this topic, thank you. Yes, i wanted to add my appreciation, president yee, for bringing this crucial, crucial item forward as a start to reimagining what Public Safety could look like in San Francisco. We have to remove any mandatory requirements in the charter. And this is a nobrainer. So i wanted to just express my gratitude to you for this work. And then, of course, to every member of the public who is engaging so consistently and regularly and in masses that i have never seen before on all of these items, thank you for telling us what you need and what you want. It is important for us to listen and to know. And with that, i would be happy to make a motion to send this to the full board with positive recommendation as a committee report. Can we take a roll call vote on that motion. Clerk on the motion to recommend this matter as a committee report, to the july 14th meeting of the board of supervisors. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Stefani, aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Mar, aye. Chair ronen . Aye. Ronen, aye. The motion passes. Thank you very much. Chair ronen have a great day, president youre. Mr. Clerk, read item 5. Clerk item 5 is the Charter Amendment to amend the charter of the city and county of San Francisco to create the Sheriff Department Oversight Board to have recommendations to the sheriff and the board of supervisors regarding Sheriffs Department operations, to create the Sheriffs Department office of Inspector General, under the direction of the Inspector General appointed by the Oversight Board, to investigate complaints of noncriminal misconduct by employees and contractors of the Sheriffs Department and incustody deaths, develop policy recommendations for the Sheriffs Department, and report quarterly its findings, results and recommendations to the sheriff and the Oversight Board at an election to be held on november 3, 2020. Chair ronen thank you so much. Good afternoon supervisor walton, how are you . Supervisor walton doing great, thank you so much, chair ronen and to my colleagues on the committee. First i just want to thank all of my cosponsors, supervisors ronen, haney, preston, yee and mar for supporting this muchneeded Charter Amendment to hold the Law Enforcement accountable. We have seen deaths in our jails, assaults in our jails and we have paid out in lawsuits because of sheriff misconduct. And this cannot continue to happen. We need this independent oversight over our Sheriffs Department when it comes to the investigations of these infractions. Like the ones that i have just named. And we have other counties that have similar models in place like los angeles county. I want to thank all of the advocates who work with us on this Charter Amendment as well as the public defender, and the District Attorney bodean, and the president kim romda, and sheriff. And the Law Enforcement cannot continue to go unchecked and this oversight is just one step in keeping everyone safe and holding the Sheriffs Department accountable. Just some brief reminder that this Charter Amendment will establish a sheriffs Department Oversight board of Seven Members who should complete a training and orientation on custodial Law Enforcement, constitutional policing, and Sheriff Department policies and procedures. This body will appoint the Inspector General to evaluate the work of the Sheriffs Department, to recommend Law Enforcement custodial and best practices and conduct Community Outreach to give public input regarding the Sheriff Department operations in the jails and the conditions. This body will receive, review and investigate complaints against Sheriff Department employees and contractors. And this body will investigate deaths and certain assaults of any individuals in the custody of the Sheriffs Department. The body will also develop and recommend to the sheriff a useofforce policy and a comprehensive internal review process for all use of force and critical incidents. Quarterly reports are submitted to the sheriff and the sheriffs Department Oversight for a report to include the number and the types of will complaints filed, trained analysis, and the outcome of each complaint. Im looking forward to a positive vote for this to move forward today. I just want to thank you, chair ronen, for the time. Chair ronen thank you. Do any of my colleagues have any comments before opening this up for Public Comment . No . Mr. Clerk, please open this up for Public Comment and every speaker has two minutes to speak. Clerk yes. Yes, members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 1 415 6550001. And the meeting i. D. Is 146 661 5309. And then press pound and pound again. If you havent already done so, please dial star, 3, to line up to speak. A system prompt indicates that you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. Do we have any Public Commenters . Yes, we do, i will release the first caller. Caller hi, i want to indiscernible the Police Department and it was impossible to get indiscernible even though youre saying that you had indiscernible in the right area indiscernible and had my hand up so you may want to check that system. People are not trying to indiscernible they are telling you what they want to do. They want to abolish the Police Department and the courts and the prisons so that we can have 90 of black people in this country that are killed by other black people, but really it should be pretty clear that the Law Enforcement people indiscernible its not because theyre antiblack, its because theyre anticrime. So lets just get on board with trying to stop to trying to make the people of San Francisco unsafe. So lets work on that. This is ridiculous if you think that indiscernible but well be there tomorrow. Thank you. Clerk thank you, can we have the next caller, please. Caller hi, i was calling in about the sheriffs commission and its a good step but, again, a step towards reform. One thing that supervisor walton, we wanted to address that we wanted to work with you to reallocate budgets of multiple departments. Thank you for your work on the sheriffs commission. Unfortunately, youre not free until july 27th, it would be difficult to work collaboratively with you and the mayor, but we request a meeting sooner. Wed like to really work with you. So thank you so much. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller. Caller hello, indiscernible again im from district 8 and i live in San Francisco and i just wanted to respond to the caller, just like the police, the sheriff, they do not have our Public Safety in mind. When i was protesting at city hall, protesting the curfew that is was a terrible curfew ims toed by the mayor imposed by the mayor there was police and sheriffs and the National Guard all lined up by city hall. Even though those protesters were entirely peaceful. So i just dont believe the sheriffs are here to provide Public Safety more than the police are. I support this amendment only because it gives more oversight of the sheriffs, but as another caller mentioned this is one step towards abolishing police, including abolishing the sheriffs. I wanted to respond that remark about violence on black on black crimes. Thats not true. Police brutalize black and brown people every day and they always criminalize black and brown people. Police and sheriffs are just not here to to advocate for Public Safety. So please advance this amendment, but, again, we want to defund and disarm and abolish the police and the sheriffs. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller. Madam chair, that completes the queue. Chair ronen okay, thank you so much. Any comments from my colleagues . No, supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani i want to thank supervisor walton again for his work on this and i look forward to it. Chair ronen thank you so much, supervisor walton, and with that im happy to make a motion to move this item forward with positive recommendation to the full board as a committee report. Can we take a roll call on that motion. Clerk yes, on the motion to recommend this matter as a report to the board of supervisors, meeting of july 14th. Supervisor stefani. Aye. Stefani, aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Mar, aye. Chair ronen . Aye. Ronen, aye. The motion passes without objection. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, any other items on the agenda . Clerk that completes the agenda for today. Chair ronen thank you so much. The meeting is adjourned. Have a good day, everyone. Good afternoon, welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee for the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, july 13th, 2020. My name is aaron peskin, im the chair of the committee joined by vicechair and safai and member dean preston. Our clerk is ms. Erika major, ms. Major, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislation and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taking to the state wide stay at home order and all local, state and federal orders declaration and directives. Committee members will attend the meetings through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and they are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling the number 415 6550001. Again, that number is 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 146 1464741769. 1464641769. Press pound and pound again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions but you will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your tension or radio. Alternativesly, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email me, the land use and transportation clerk, at erica. Ma. And if you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and it will be included as part of the official file. Items acted upon today are expected to be heard at the board of supervisors agenda on july 21st, unless otherwise stated. Thank you, ms. Major. Could you please read the first item . Clerk yes, item number 1 is a resolution renaming Willow Street to early gage junior street to honor the legacy and impact of the San Francisco firefighting community. Thank you, ms. Major. And thank you supervisor preston. This is been before this committee before and thank you for bringing it to fruition. This was appropriate and several decades ago and its all the more appropriate. Really pleased we are in the final steps here and what, as you know, is a lengthy process and doing a renaming in San Francisco and we are almost there and i have spoken about mr. Gages incredible legacy in this committee and at the full board of the floor. So i will spare you the repeated History Lesson though it is a powerful one. I really am proud to be part of honoring the legacy of earl gates junior, the first black firefighters in San Francisco and really i just wanted to, again, thank the San Francisco black Firefighters Association in particular president and bringing this forward and working with us lowly an closel. For the last five months were engage in Community Outreach and everyone is excited to move this forward and i appreciate that. My fellow committee members, their support for the original resolution here and we are looking forward to renaming section of Willow Street between buchanan and laguna. In honor of earl gage junior and we look forward, hopefully, to a final vote on that tomorrow at our board of supervisors. Thank you. Thank you supervisor preston and i think fire fighter gage would never have believed that legal 798 and the Firefighters Union would be represented today by a black leader, sean buford, who actually called in at our last discussion on this item so it is remarkably timely. With that supervisor safai, do you have any comments . Yeah, i just wanted to Say Something really quickly in between the time that we had this initial conversation just to kind of underscore for both of you, and it will be part of the conversation in the next two weeks. Earl gage unio junior was very h part of the Consent Decree that happened with the Fire Department. He was also involved in recruitment and insuring that recruitment and diversity were on the forefront. I called for a hearing that will be at the government audit and Oversight Committee on the 30th of this month and the purpose of that is to look at diversity and hiring to look the at make up of these departments to see how well theyre doing in terms of meeting their diversity goals and were talking about african americans, were talking about latinos, asian firefighters, were talking about lgbtq, women, and about all the different aspects of diversity and how theyre all doing. Fire, police, sheriff are investigating and making it a priority. I just want to underscore that today. I want to call that out and say that that is something thats also part of his legacy. And were hopeful that the departments, all of the first responders, will make this a priority in honoring his legacy. Thank you supervisor safai and for those who do not know the history of the consent declear, there were two of them. One by federal courts and related to the Fire Department and the other that related to the Police Department. That came in a very different era but the discrimination that existed in those times in the 1970s was so legion that the federal courts actually put this city under a Consent Decree, much has changed but theres much more left to do so thank you supervisor preston for honoring a true pioneer that led to things that he never would have believed, including the leadership of local 797. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment . Operations is checking to see if there are any callers in queue. There are no callers in the queue. Supervisor peskin we heard when supervisor preston brought the legislation to initiate. I want to honor and thank all those people and Public Comment is closed and thank you supervisor preston. Your time ising perfect. This was introduced before the murder of george floyd before the active vism were seeing on our streets but San Francisco has a shameful legacy and this is part of making that right and so would you like to make a motion . I was going to announce that at full board tomorrow but did want to let folks who are watching know were planning with the black Firefighters Association on wednesday, hopefully with a positive vote tomorrow at the board to to have a gathering online in which well talk more about his legacy and a lot of issues that chair peskin and supervisor safai have raised around civil rights and in not just the Fire Department but in our city so i woulden invite folks to email us at sfgov. Org and well make further announcements at the board of meeting with that, i would move to forward this item to the board with recommendations. Thank you supervisor preston. To the president of the black Firefighters Association, sherman tillman, who is a with recommendation to the full board of supervisors on that item and a role call please. Clerk as stated by supervisor preston, supervisor preston. [roll call] clerk you have three ayes. Supervisor peskin could you read the next item. Clerk an ordinance with the Administration Code to update the citys management requirement to conform to current federal flood plain management and National Insurance program criteria. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the number 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1466741769. Press pound and pound again. If you have not already done so, press star 3 to lineup to speak. A system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. Supervisor peskin thank you ms. Major. We have from, it depends on what you call it, the city administrators office, mr. Brian strong to present this item that has been kicking around for a long time. Were going to learn about fema, were going to learn about firm, the floor yours, mr. Strong. Brian, you are on mute. Got it. Can you hear me . Thank you, very much. Supervisor peskin, and good afternoon supervisor safai and preston as well. This is been going on for 13 years and brian on the chief resilience officer for the city and here im also represented Jennifer Johnson who are is the deputy city administrator who is unable to attend. Shes the citys flood administrator and im going to share my screen here i just want to say this is not adverse to you but relative to the City Attorneys legislative digest, the city of San Francisco is spelled incorrectly on page 2 and at line 3 under amendments current law and there are definitions repeated and inform tees relatives to the Historic Preservation definitions that i would like to discuss but after your representation. Hopefully people can see the presentation and this is been going on and we participate in this program. Part of getting when we pass when we join the program fema does produce a Flood Insurance rate map and now its our responsibility to accept that rate map and move forward with it. We we dont, we dont get money or insurance from the feds. Thats right. The reduced rates are the money from the feds. So we must adopt it and ill give a little bit more of a timeline. The latest that it can be effective would be february of 2021 and thats based on femas timeline. Theyve gone out for Public Comment. Appeals process, theyve reached the end of the Appeals Program as well. So, some more background on it. Its a nation wide program. As the supervisor was saying it offers Flood Insurance and exchange for that sort of reasonably or lower price Flood Insurance we have to adopt the flood plain management ordinance and the community, we can adopt more restrictive measures but we cannot be less restrictive than stated for the national Flood Insurance program. It requires Community Participation and this is also we didnt get to the meat of it, the insurance companys row lie on the firm for their insurance policy ratings and we must use it for managing our flood plain. This shows the timeline so back in 2007, its when we did the Prime Minister firm but it wasnt finalized and we did come back with ar ordinance in 2010 and based on input from fema and some followup preliminary analysis and they put together a map which was subsequently appealed in 2019 and im sorry in 2016 it was appealed and a lot of it had to do with the waterfront pier. Why was it not finished in my second term . When was the second term . January 8th of 2009. It had to do with the maps being presented. What i would the person who would be best able to answer that, if i call on him now, would be Chris Barclay, who is the Western Region Market Leader for acom and he has been our primary consultant on this since the beginning. Are you there . Hold on. Hold on, chris. Whatever happened to brad benson . He is still with the city. He is here. We do have rebeca. Mr. Benson, on behalf of the port rebeca from the port is here and brad was not able to attend so im representing from real estate and development. The information i can provide is similar to what mr. Strong was stating, the maps were coming in quite slowly and the process was slow and pretty quickly i think the city and others started to raise some questions about the mapping, which cost fema and their staff to redo those. Others may be able to provide a i wont call it historic, 10yearold perspective. So can you characterize why the city was pushing back against female . Wafema . Did fema want to map morn we wanted to map . Can you explain that . This is all before a profound change in thinking about the Sea Level Rise. Can you explain what happened in 2007 and 2008 . This is Chris Barclay in 2007, fema had a can you identify yourself . Who you are. Im Chris Barclay, assisting the city with this process of in its relationship with fema and putting together for the flood plain management ordinance. Im also a resident of San Francisco. Youve been retained by the city which is the port o. Proceed. Ok. So, in 2007, fema had not completed the analysis. They had an approximate version of their analysis. They had not finished all of the details. They were doing a study of the entire bay. They wanted to provide the city with something the city could use for its initial entry into the nfip so they basically behavioral the city a partially completed analysis and said, you know, use this as you go forward to initiate your participation in the program. Subsequent to that, and the city did join the program in 2008, it took fema several more years to provide the fully completed analysis where they had completed the detailed modeling that was necessary to provide all the of the data that they normally put on a Flood Insurance rate map. In the middle of that process, they changed contractors a couple of times so all of those things conspired to lengthen the amount of time it took fema to eventually get a fully completed Flood Insurance rate map which they provided to the city in 2015. So in essence in 2007 it was an incomplete product and they chose not to finalize that at that time. It according to my halve, what happened in 2016 . So, the maps that fema issued in 2015, and the way the process works is they provide a period of comment and they under the law, they must provide a 90day appeal period for the community and any interested Property Owners so they initiated that process that appeal period, in early 2016 and the city, primarily the port, submitted an appeal that was based on the method of analysis that fema was using to analyze the impact of the flooding on the waterfront pier. The port felt that fema was not taken certain factors into that account in that analysis. Because of the unusual nature of the circumstances, it took fema a couple years to actually figure out how they wanted to resolve the appeal and it went to the Headquarters Level so there were a lot of discussions, you know, between the fema Regional Office producing the maps and the Headquarters Office about the most appropriate way to resolve the appeal and the resolution ended up being something unique. Something fema had not done previously, in order to reflect the flood hazards associated with the waterfront pier. Supervisor peskin can you characterize what the reasons for that appeal was and can you characterize what femas unique response was . Sure. So, there were several issues and the most important one was that fema analyzes the way the waves, the way flood hazards are mapped on a shoreline, takes into account such a way that they were not taken into account the way the waves breakdown when they hit the pier, right. So if you can imagine, the ways roll under the pier and the waves breakdown as they hit the pier and fema was still modeling the wave height. It was presenting a result that would have resulted in a more restrictive flood hazard designation for the piers than the port felt was appropriate. So, the way fema chose to resolve that was they i dont mean to get too technical but the fema designated the pier with a higher requirement for flood plain management and its more restrictive in essence and they came back with whats called zone d, which basically said that the i gues the extente flood has orde hazard on the ree priebus iunnounno one. Iunknown. To your point about Sea Level Rise, the maps dont include the impact but the port is free to manage the development the peer with sea level taken into account if they chose to do so. It gives the part more flexibility in the way it manages to peer. Relative to the slide its before us would you like to describe that . Sure. The blue, this is a map that is constructed on it in essence an aerial photo of the city. The brown area that you see is the 500 year flood plain and that is not that is for informational purposes and its not the basis for insid flood pn information or insurance. The light blue is the 100 year flood plain the area that is used for Insurance Rating and is also the area that must be manage with the flood plain management requirements and in this slide, or this is just a piece of the map, theres little area that is actually affected by the 100 year flood plan on land and if you look at the light brown areas which are out on the pier, you can see the Ferry Building and you can see piers, you know, thats one and three to the left there and. And 14 to the right. Yeah, exactly. You can see the light brown. That is zone d. That is these are the areas that are out over the water and zone d is an area that is possible but undetermined flood hazards. So, you know, the community, the normal nfip dont apply there. The community is free to apply. The require it sees fit of the the only difference is the insurance on those peers is a bit higher than it is in areas that are minimally flood prone. The insurance is higher because the risk is not known but the flood plain management requirements are less restrictive than in the blue 100 year flood plain areas. Supervisor peskin can you zoom out and show us the similar shadings, not only in the downtown waterfront area but beyond . Brian, youve got control of the presentation and maybe you could see that. That would be aquatic to the west going to pier 39 to the east and you are putting pier 45, abc and d in zone d. And all the boats is in the light blue. Proceed. Go ahead and kroll down, brian, to maybe down to skip over that up and go to the next one. No, no, no. Theres mission bay. Yeah, so this is mission bay area. And you know, again, the area that that brown area, which is most of Mission Bay Development is in the 500 flood plains so not subject to the ffip flood plain. As part of the appeal i mentioned earlier, the preliminary firm that was issued in 2015 actually had some areas of this shown as being in the 100 year flood plain but the developers there noted they had actually filled those areas so that they were above the level of the 100 year flood and so fema, you know, as part of the appeal resolution, actually revised this area to show the extent of the fill that was placed so that area is no longer shown as being flooded during the 100 year flood and so in the lower right corner there, that there are some areas that are sub and 337 and the project that encompasses that was predicated on measures to adapt to rising tides and flooding. Yes. The reason that the port made this appeal was at the flexibility to do that if i may, brian. The impotence was definitely around the piers and the sort of strategic input we provided around the pier structure. We were not concerned with the Mission Rock Development because fema provides a process for w when you are physically altering the property, you can provide them new information that indicates new elevations and so at that will time, back in 2016, we knew that mission rock would be elevating their site and so it wasnt one of the primary drivers, the primary drivers were looking at the pier structure and having discomfort with the way fema had not acknowledged the way there are structures slowing down the waves. We are gratified that mission rock and also mission bay are now sort of correctly characterized as being in the lesser risk zone than the piers are. Lets keep moving south. Pier 90. You can see its more of the area. This is a little unusual and pardon the way this is presented. These are just pieces of the map and its two separate maps. Theres actually an area on the parameter of that pier that is zone d and because its pile and and subject to some inundation so that is shown as the 100year flood plain. If its over top [please stand by] its an area that they dont have a very good way of analyzing that sort of structure. Their tools for analyzing coastal flood hazards are somewhat inadequate for the pile supported piers. This is the first place in the country where they have decided to use this approach. Its a bit experimental. Theyve got a set of tools for constructing these maps and these tools are accessed to an nationwide basis. Its hard to adapt those tools to specifics of the water piers in San Francisco. Hunters point, mostly 500year floodplain. Theres a low lying area that you see in the lower or southern part of the former naval base. There are some zone d piers. Whats more important to the city is the extent of that 100year flood plain there that will be filled in when that area is developed. I feel with parcels a through f, those low lying areas the southern part that are in blue, those arent parcels e and f, those are the contaminated sites, is that correct . Im not sure that i can answer that question. I have not seen the map with the radiological sites in detail. I believe youre right. What youre telling me on this map its subject to massive inundation . Yeah, thats one of the reasons that the development in that area is so important to be able to protect these areas. I did not understand what you just said. But okay. The hunters point, the Development Going on hunters point, its with the intent, once we get it cleaned up, which is another issue, getting it cleaned and being able to protect this area from flooding. If i go to Treasure Island, similarly, we see lot of areas in Treasure Island that are in the flood zone but would also be protected with the new development thats happening at Treasure Island. Majority of the radiologically contaminated sites im looking at on this map which map are you on . Treasure island . Yes. Most of it is actually not in the blue area but in the brown and gray areas is where most of the radium is. Hunters point map is much more troublely thatroublely troube t. I. Map. The airport also has a Major Program to address flooding. But they are also identified on this map. That is all around the seawall . Yes. I think at the airport, their efforts or their plan is to expand that flood Protection System to eliminate that blue from the map. Right now those features, the flood Protection System that is there, is not sufficient to address the 100year flood. Theres not enough free board and theres openings that need to be closed in order to eliminate the floodplain from the airport property. Right. I do not mean to interrupt your slide mr. Strong. If you like to run through it real quick. Go for it. I think that was actually helpful to get to lot of the questions. We mentioned the deadline, february 2021 is when the map will become effective. Chris mentioned that we cant this is coastal hazards only. It does not consider Sea Level Rise. We are using other tools and methods to look at sea level raise. We have a guidance document that we put in place in 2015. It was updated last year. We completed with the Planning Department a Sea Level Rise vulnerability and consequence analysis that looks at the entire city and identifies the risk related to Sea Level Rise. That work has been happening. Were also working with the p. O. C. With extreme flooding mapping. The flood hazards other side of this, p. U. C. Is looking at hazards and storm water runoff. Ill show you a better picture of that. We mentioned different areas that are impacted by it. This shows Bigger Picture what the city look likes with the map on the left being the new firm. Red circle show where theres some overlap with the map on the right and the map on the right is sf p. U. C. Flood storm map. That map was put in place two years ago. This is where you see much more of inland flooding. We wanted to make sure that were think being these things together and not separately. An ordinance measures related to the p. U. C. Program are expected to be coming in the next year. Sarah or brian, so far as we have rare opportunities at the committees to talk about what that looks like, which could be a detroit style buyout program. Would you like to tell us what their plans for the much more expansive blue areas on the map on the right . Sarah, are you there . Yes. Can everybody hear me . We cant see you. Okay, ill turn on my camera. Weve been working on partnership on both of the flood hazard area to make sure we are moving forward. To your question about the inland areas, weve had a trajectory where our first step was to make sure that the public was aware of the risk. We created adopted the map at the commission level. Supervisors with your help, we created the disclosure ordinance to make sure that Property Owners and landlords would disclose buyers and tenants if they are in the flood zone that you see there. That was the information piece. Moving forward, there are lot more rigorous things that we can pursue. One of those is to amend our Building Code to make sure that new developments and substantial renovations would be above the flood elevation. We are pursuing that work for the inland areas, well do that in the way thats parallel whats required in fema so we can have a cohesive citywide understanding for the coastal flood dangers as well as the inland. Then beyond that, there are other innovative programs that we could establish. They are on the list to analyze such as land acquisition, prioritization, studies that we can do as well. Our next sort of midterm target is to Work Together on Building Code amendment. Whats the time frame for that amendment . We are hoping that within a year from now, we were thinking that we would finish it within 2020. As covid has delayed us, were still pushing forward but a bit delayed. Were thinking within the year we will be able to bring that to you all. To the two of, where is the third map that overlays various projections of Sea Level Rise on both of these maps . We have that map, thats part of the Sea Level Rise consequence analysis work and the guidance work. Essentially, that map is going to be the old shoreline. We dont have it in this presentation. Im happy to share it with you. It is the old shoreline where it cuts in around the embarcadero and goes back out and cuts in again. Up to clay street . Yes. Thats an excellent point. As we move forward with establishing what the Building Code amendments would cover. Were also working together with colleagues at the Planning Department as part of our resilience meetings. As we move forward, see if there are other relevant overlays that need to be included in that. Just to add to what sarah was saying, this is why we brought on climate hazard coordinator to make sure the Different Departments are doing lot of work with Sea Level Rise. We also know there are issues on the west side that are related to Sea Level Rise and to erosion around ocean beach and the zoo and the great highway. Were trying to make sure that were coordinated on those different fronts. The p. U. C. s plan yes. Is there anybody on this call from the p. U. C. . P. U. C. Is one of the agencies got its own independent authority under the legislation thats before this committee. Im part of the p. U. C. Oh, thats you. Yes. I dont see ocean side plan on here in either side. Are you referring that from the Sea Level Rise perspective . S. L. R. Is what will kill that thing as you guys putting huge amount of capital in it. To brians point, we probably should have put a third map on for todays presentation. When we come back for Building Code, we definitely will compile all of them. Today, these two maps are representing flood risk as we understand it right now. Some Sea Level Rise is included this 1year stor 1year 100m map. We understand that when sea levels are rising, it will diminish the ability of the water to exit our system. That impact to our infrastructure is included on the map that you see on the right. As you can see, the actual Sea Level Rise on the line that brian was referring to, which will largely mimic the shoreline is not included. We do have another map that looks at that and it also comes close to the southeast Treatment Plant as well. Were very acutely aware. Those factors will definitely not be excluded in our thinking. Theyre not shown on these two maps because of the criteria that are relevant for the fema piece. Thank you. To my colleagues, do you have any questions, comments, suggestions . Supervisor safai, supervisor preston . No. Okay. Supervisor peskin mr. Strong would you like to go through your presentation . This is just the last slide here. Just to show that, what homeowners and Business Owners can do if they are in the zone and this is really for New Buildings or for substantial improvements where the repair exceeds 50 of the market value of the structure. In those situations, theres some different options where the lowest floor can be one foot above the base foot elevation, making sure that utilities are elevated above the elevation. You can also use flood resistent material and you can allow the flood to pass through different areas. Those are some examples of what people that are building in these areas will need to do. They will need to show that they have other protections so they wont be impacted. I think thats really it. This is a list of the people im sorry, i meant to start with this it shows the different folks that have been working on this closely and that are here for additional questions. I think you covered most of them already. Can i make one additional point . The ordinance that the board of supervisors has in front of it does not change any of the flood Main Management floodpn management requirements. The they are predicated on the San Francisco Building Code which references the state Building Code and the state Building Code includes those requirements that brian just had on the screen. In terms of the regulatory aspect of this, the city is not doing anything new here. Its really the adoption of amended ordinances because the map is going to be finalized. Theres other things that the city is cleaning up about the 2010 ordinance. Sound like you have few additional elements. Its not changing from the regulatory perspective. Thank you mr. Barkley. That is clear. I appreciate that. Supervisor peskin now let me turn to the subject ordinance before we open this up for Public Comment. Only page 7, there are set of definitions that were in the earlier ordinance that heard in this ordinance starting online 15 of page 7. What is missing from that you have plenty of time to suggest language that includes contributory structures in locally designated historic districts. If you like to come up with language on that, i would appreciate it. I also do not understand, maybe this is just me, why you define flood way twice. That happens at page 7 line 6 and again somewhere on page 9 line 3. Statement definition you defined it twice. That contributory buildings in locally designated historic districts are defined under historic structure. I like to see you suggest amendments for that. With that, why dont we go open up to Public Comment. Im checking to see if theres any in the queue. We have ten listeners and one person in the queue. First speaker please. My name is francisco da costa, i was paying attention to this presentation. For the layperson, the areas that are contaminated. Hunters point is very contaminated. The city and county of San Francisco is planning about 20,000 homes right in that area is going to be flooded. We must remember that since earthquake prone, prone knots only to flooding but liquid faction. Large areas were claimed. The city hasnt been paying attention to thousands of homes. Forget about 100year flood. If you get some highrise in between, thousands of homes will be at greatly impacted. Again, we need the input from the core of engineers. We need input from hydrologist. Thank you very much. Supervisor peskin are there any other members of the public on this item number two . That completes the queue. Supervisor peskin Public Comment is now closed. To mr. Strong, given the time frames here, how would you feel about my continuing until you come up with the suggestions, although i can make them. We got one or two ways to go. One is that relative to the definition of historic structures. We instruct the City Attorney to develop language that specifically says that contributory buildings in San Francisco designated historic districts will be subject to the same, that will be the South End Historic District northeast waterfront historic district. Maybe some others that are on the map to the right, which could be the historic district. The way its defined, contributory buildings seem to have been left out. Which i believe will be nonsubstantive. Or we can continue this to our next meeting or call of the chair until you propose language. Your choice. I dont see a problem going in either direction. I think were fine if you want to make an amendment and bring it back. Supervisor peskin then lets err on the side of caution, which is so far we dont have any pending time line, let us continue this to the call of the chair. I will schedule at the next meeting once that language has been developed. That will make the City Attorney happy. That will make my colleagues happy. That will be more transparent process. With that, colleagues i like to make a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. Mr. Strong will work with ms. Jensen on the language. Roll call please. [roll call] supervisor peskin , please read item number three. Items 36 together. [agenda item read] supervisor peskin thank you ms. Major. This item only been kicking around for half of the time that the previous item has been kick around. I was around during the recession. This is a massive rezoning proposal at the really central part of the east side of the city at van ness and Market Streets. There are some projects that have been through the rubric. Therthere are some that are parf an ambitious plan going down the road. This is where many parts of districts and different neighborhoods come together. District 6, district 5, district 9, the mission, south of market, civic centre, all come together. This is a remarkably complicated proposal based really on creating a new highrise residential district. That is predicated on Public Transit. All of this becomes much more interesting and much more uncertain during the period of covid19 and what none of us, which is how this will roll out in the years and decades from now as well as shelterinplace. I want to really thank my colleagues on the board, supervisor preston, haney and ronen who have engaged with community over what their desires are. I really want to thank the community for being a very active part of a very complicated conversation. I want to thank the department of city planning that has evolved overtime to really understand that the rubber hits the road with community and Community Benefits and we dont do development from the development sake, duo it so that the rising tide will actually raise all votes. Thank you very much chair peskin. Im director of citywide policy for the San Francisco Planning Department. What is before you is the market octavia plan amendment known as the hub i wanted to offer you four thoughts. The first, this plan does what the board what they requested. The board questioned the amount of office in the central area. The hub plan adds housing. It delivers in an area, great transit support. Its intended for high density living. This plan provides an additional 1600 Housing Units and 400 plus affordable units. That is needed in the midst of housing crises. Number two, this plan maintains the commissions discretion and control to maximize Community Benefits. This plan ensures that developers wanting extra height come before the commission and pay additional fees. As lily will describe, there are more than 1 billion worth of fees that can be generated to support transit, housing and more. The city could use that money. Remember without the plan, the developers can get nearly the same height through the same density bonus block without paying all the plan fees and without commission nor board approval. Third, equity. We agree with the communitys concerns about the equity. Director hillis has committed to continue to work with the Community Members through and pass this plan adoption. The new either woul area will focus o on adjacent neighborhoo. This equity centric work with include Small Business working group, public projects, equity assessment guidelines and Community Facility planning. The Planning Commission just passed an extremely robust resolution considering the departments work on equity. They are squarely focused on ensuring they see outcomes. The Commission Also passed this hub plan understanding that the plan delivered equity benefits now and will continue to grow the benefits. Lastly number four, this plan works with the recent bill from Assembly Member two. The plan creates second housing sustainability district in San Francisco. This district would streamline projects to provide Affordable Housing and built with wage waive and skilled trained supervisor peskin ms. Rogers , with all due respect, only thing i learned from this presentation is that i think you just told me that i should have voted against the central general plan. Do supervisors preston or safai, would you like to say anything before we go to her . Ill wait until after the presentation. Supervisor peskin supervisor preston . Supervisor preston , same here. I will share my screen. Today ill provide a very brief overview of the key points around the market octavia area plan amendment. Today ill focus on the key points i believe many members of the board and the public are generally familiar with this project. The hub area was included within the boundaries of the market octavia plan and area plan that was adopted in 2008. Was area was high density mixed use neighborhood. Numerous policies in the plan support this vision including the creation of a especially used district which allows for High Density Residential development. These controls exist today. The plan also established new fees to fund Affordable Housing and infrastructure. While the plan set the framework for development, the department did receive Many Development applications until about 2012. This is largely due to the recession in 2009. Over the course of the last four years, weve engaged in the Community Planning process to look at the area holistically. We are now in the approval phase. Three goals were the initial drivers of this effort. First to increase housing and Affordable Housing near transit. To look at all of the streets in the area and identify ways to make them safer and to define prioritize how impact fee money can be spent. Since we started this project, income inequality has worsened and the response the department has been working around equity. There are number of citywide efforts and neighborhoods specific efforts under way to work with the community and city Agency Partners to advance racial and social equity. Weve also worked with the community on actual ideas that can be incorporated into this legislation to advance racial and social equity in the hub and we welcome your additional thoughts and ideas on these. There are four pieces of legislation before you. General planned amendment, planning code amendment, zoning amendment and planning code and business and tax Regulations Amendment to establish the hub housing sustainability district. This was an opportunity to update the general plan for key topic areas to reflect the latest policies of the city. Examples include new policy to advance racial and social equity, new policies around Climate Change and resilience and along around supporting families with children. There are a number of amendments to the planning code that are needed to reflect these proposed policy changes. Ill highlight a few. Expanding the area in which money can be spent. New fee to Fund Community facilities, allowing a land dedication option to provide more Affordable Housing and in the adjacent neighborhood. Third piece of legislation is the zoning map amendment. This amendment will two things. It will give the public, the department and the commission an avenue for engagement to have say how the build willing look. Unlike the state density bonus where additional height is automatic, the new height are not automatic. Rather new heights can only be granted at a public hearing by discretionary approval by the Planning Commission. It also gives the public and the commission some certainty around height by preventing projects from combining the state density bonus with a new height control. Second legislation would create consistent land use control across the area. It responds to the things that the Community Asked for. More two and three bedroom units to support families. Restrictions on retail side and formula retail to support more neighborhoods. Less parking. It would create fees to provide more funding for Affordable Housing, Community Facilities and infrastructure. To ensure that any project that receive additional height granted by the state density bonus or by the Planning Commission also pays all area impact fees. The structure of the special use district are not compatible with the current mct3 zoning district. This rezoning is necessary to capture all fees on new development. Put legislation together in 2017 to accelerate Housing Production by howing ministerial approval of some housing projects. While requiring union labor and on site Affordable Housing. The hub will be the second in the city. There will be some restrictions on it. It would only be used if the height is 120 feet or lower and for projects that do not seek discretionary approval by the commission. If a project is seeking new height in bulk either by Commission Approval or by the state density bonus, they cannot be approved. The plannings commission was please to come up with plan to provide 1 billion in Public Benefits. Your slides are not going with what youre speaking about. Im going to actually ask our administrator to pull it up. What we see is only the first page. Which page . 17. Im not seeing a page number. The Commission Must come up with plan that provides almost a billion dollars in Public Benefits when its hard to fund Affordable Housing. These dollars will go a long way to improving street and funding housing. Base the on these revenue projections, the city will be able to fund new on site units and Affordable Housing, new and improved parks, funding for child care and school and improvements to Transit Service and new Community Facilities. Specifically this includes 682 million for new on site units and Affordable Housing resources. This is more than 600 million Affordable Housing bond that was passed last year and without any public subsidy. 116 million to improve Transit Service and capacity including modernization of van ness station. 71 million for street and alley improvements. This includes improving the major streets to make them safe and comfortable for people walking and biking and funding to create more living alleys. 57 million for child care and school. 32 million for new parks and enhancements to existing open spaces. 7 million for new Community Facilities in the plan area and the adjacent neighborhood. On a very simple level this project is about allowing for more height on 18 sites and updating the zoning. This could create significant new housing, new Affordable Housing and revenue for the city. Over the last year, the department deepen our conversations with the community and Planning Commission to understand how physical changes affect residents. Particularly residents of colour. We try to gain a better understanding who benefits and might be burdened by this project and through this effort, weve identified specific legislative changes to advance racial and social equity. The department is committed to continuing this work in the hub and the adjacent neighborhood and across the city. The legislation before you allows for more housing and Public Benefits, provides an opportunity for all stakeholders to have a voice in shaping future projects and ensures that the city maximizes Public Benefits. If the legislation is modified to restrict the height on 18 sites or to retain the existing zoning, projects can still get more height under state law. But the public and Decision Maker would have limited input on the project and the project would not pay full fees to the city. Supervisor peskin that cony presentation. Im happy to answer any questions. Supervisor peskin policymake rs will make policy. But thank you for your slightly political input. Supervisor preston. Supervisor preston thank you chair peskin. As described in this package of legislation is seeking to rezone about 84 acres in the hub this includes areas of my district, district 5, supervisor haneys district, district 6 and has ripple effects across the city. Were looking at four pieces of legislation that comprise the hub area plan including amendments thats been described to the general plan to business and tax code, planning code and other related zoning regulations. How tall, how dense, how much residential, how much commercial and very importantly for whom. I think the stakes and chair peskin you described this at the beginning, the stakes here are very high. This aerial plan will really dramatically increase height density potentially traffic and congestion in this central part of the city. As planning staff pointed out, the area also offers significant opportunities to create affordable Housing Units, secure public realm, improvements and promote Public Transit and green mobility. When i look at this project, its like done right this area really can promote equity in city and done wrong it can exacerbate inequities. I heard from so Many Community member who have been weighing in on the aerial plan and on the specific development proposals. There are obviously a lot of moving parts here. I think its essential that we get this right. Im not sure about you, colleagues where you stand. I can speak for myself, i can use an opportunity to digest these items further continue speaking with stakeholders and come back to this item for action next week. I intend to move to continue items 36 for one week to our next Committee Hearing on july 20th and well make that motion when appropriate. Thank you supervisor preston. Supervisor safai, anything you like to add or subtract . Hearing nothing, we can open up to Public Comment. Thank you operations checking. We have 14 listeners and two in queue. Supervisor peskin first speaker please. Lily, i meant you no ill will. Im not offended. Supervisor peskin please proceed. This is jason henderson. Im very familiar with this proposal. I sent some images, some maps over to the supervisors. I hope you can see them. I know this is very tricky. The first map is showing air pollutant exposure zone. You can see that the entire hub is in there. More people are likely to die with covid19 with the air pollution factors. We just saw for two almost three months, crisp, clean, clear air in the hub. It all comes from cars and it comes from cars and trucks coming through the hub. The hub plan has its public realm. Its mainly a housing plan. It feels like the sfmta and transportation is kind of a bystander here. This is worrisome with the state of transit with capacity issues with the virus. The plan acknowledging loading deficit problem with regards to ecommerce. These will be swarmed by delivery vehicles. Its acknowledged that they dont know how to deal with that. If you look at the next map, this area is when we start planning for the hub, the growth in t. N. C. Expanded rapidly. Supervisor peskin this will not come out of your time. I have questions about the map on the screen. I assume that the areas in the darkest colours are the ones that are least served by t. M. C. , is that correct . The ligh lighter area is leat serve, darker area has more intense drop off and pick up. This is from the sfmta. We dont know the e. I. R. For the hub doesnt elaborate. We put together some proposals to add to the urban realm. I ask that you go to figure 5. One of the big issues postcovid19 we need to provide safe ways for people to walk and bike from the mission. It is the right place for housing. It will be great that there will be more Affordable Housing so essential workers and teachers can live in the city. This is the place for that. What i think that we really need to the chair, the speaker time has expired. Supervisor peskin thank you mr. Henderson. Are there any other members of the public who like to speak to items 36 . I have 20 listeners and 16 in queue. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment, could call im calling to speak in support of the project. [indiscernible] i like to offer my support for the project. Thank you. Next speaker please. What i want to bring to your attention is in this hub, there are some very serious issues with homelessness. Not a word about it. How do i propose to address over 10,000 people being homeless . We already had whats happening in the future with over 510. Thats one location. Number two, this is our time for reflection with this pandemic. This area and other areas too, should be slow in fostering or encouraging high density housing. Number three, this is the land of the learning. There are ways to accommodate the people who are suffering. We should address that first. Theres no way we can be dreaming up making billions of dollars in this area. No way. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. We have 22 listeners and 16 in queue. Im mike chad im calling in support of the plan. As supervisor peskin noted this plan incubating for about five years. Lot of thought put into this by staff. I would hope that move to approve the plan. As staff has noted, there are lot of Community Benefits that will help provide Affordable Housing. Thank you very much. Good afternoon supervisors. Im melinda, im head of school First American International School at International High school. Our School Community has been following the development of the hub im speaking to express our support for the plan. For the past five years, International School has worked with the city of San Francisco to realize vibrant mixed use neighborhood. It will deliver much needed Affordable Housing, and provide a World Class High School campus. Despite the uncertainty of the current moment, our school is excited to have the hub legislation and our project move forward. We raised funds to complete the project. We are San Franciscos oldest and largest bilingual school. We bring people together from many backgrounds accounts. We are committed to diversity, equity and crosscultural communication. For almost 60 years, weve been educating engaged citizens in San Francisco. Weve been in San Francisco since 1962. We have more than 800 families and 200 faculty and staff, patronizing local restaurants and merchants. Over hundred families live in the hub itself. We support our faculty and staff with good wages and benefit and we provide six million in Financial Aid to our students and families every year. Thats why we think the hub makes so much since. This project is exactly the kind of mixed use, mixed income Transit Oriented Development that will serve San Francisco well in the future. Providing housing, strengthening the pedestrian experience and bringing welcome improvements. I strongly encourage you to support the zoning as soon as possible. Thank you. Im a resident of district 5. Ive been living here for years. Im here to express my supporter in the proposed hub rezoning legislation. Our daughter, she goes to the french american school. She has been there for the past two years. Were happy to be part of the french american community. If you have walked the streets in the neighborhood, you know how essential this development is to have rezoning will bring much needed housing and development to this part of town. Im in support of this development. Thank you for your time good afternoon supervisors, cory smith. Im here to support the plan that you have in front of you today. This is a process that has divide provided us the opportunity to add 600 new homes not previously zoned for 25 of the homes will be permanently Affordable Housing. Overall, mentioned earlier, the plan is going to generate additional 235 million. Impact fees, fees for open space, transit improvements, child care with a nice chunk of change, 54 million. Desperately needed for permanent affordable subsidized housing we ask that you move the project and the plan today. Thank you very much. Im calling to support the hub plan and urge the board of supervisors to approve it in t. We desperately need more housing, affordable and market rate. This project is a way to accomplish that given how many new homes it will create. I want to reiterate my strong support and urge the board today to move this over and tray to get housing built as soon as possible. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im a renter in the Mission District and im a voter calling today in strong support of the general plan to move forward. According urban density does not lead to higher Coronavirus Infection rate and link to lower covid19 death rate. This project reflect Community Process delivering multiple benefits for all current and future san franciscan and establish market housing rate reduction, the market star everred for market and Affordable Housing. Please move forward with the item and stand by your commitment to finding alternatives for housing supply at all income level. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment call the number 415655 41 56. 415655001 41 5655001. Next speaker please. Im a renter in district fi five. Im representing our 9000 members. Im asking you to please support the plan as is and approve it immediately. We need this housing now. We need the jobs now and the tax revenue now. We dont need another five years of study. If you think of the 400 families waiting for below market rate units to move in these homes, ask them, do you want to wait another five years. All the renters and the housing insecure people of the city are in a rush. Theyre in rush to find somewhere we can live and raise families. Thats why i want you to support the plan. Once you support the plan, there arent enough below market rate units, great. Lets go find some more Affordable Housing. You cant use the excuse of Affordable Housing to block Affordable Housing. Please get this plan approved. Lets get these 400 units below market rate built and find some more sites. We should be an open city where anybody can live here. This is jim chapel. Spur supports the proposed amendment as recommended by the commission. I dont have to reiterate, 16 new units including 400 affordable and an additional 235 million in new impact fees for community benefit. Please pass this today. It does not need to be delayed any further. Thank you. We have 20 listeners with 16 in queue. Next speaker please. Good afternoon commissioners. Im tracy with the civic centre. Civic centre looks forward to the this plan to support our mission to foster more vibrant neighborhood. New sidewalks and public art will improve the public realm more active ground floor will live our streetscape. I like to thank the project team. They have been working with our nonprofit for some time helping to support our crews who has been out in the field caring for civic centre since o the onset f the pandemic. We very much look forward to working with all of the project sponsors and seeing things move forward. Thank you. Im speaking of member of Central City Coalition and member of San Francisco tenants union. I support a halt of the hub area plan until a thorough racial and social Equity Analysis is completed. The three projects Planning Commission has reviewed are significant supply of Affordable Housing for San Francisco residents and should be allowed to move forward. However, having a clear understanding of the potential Socioeconomic Impact that future development will have on the vulnerable population within the area is paramount. This placement of current residents it is inevitable that needs to be addressed. The right step forward is to uphold the commitment in the Planning Department resolution on racial and social equity and apply them to future development of Community Planning process that promotes an equity first framework is essential to building housing for all. Neighboring sensitive communities believe that the equity studies can be completed in a timely manner and in month way hinder the current project. I do not support the creation of housing sustainability district. Good afternoon supervisors. Im a field representative. Representing more than 3800 in San Francisco. Timing of this project is critical. We share goal to produce more Affordable Housing. We support this amendment moving forward to generate jobs, transform the corner of market and van ness and provide significant improvement that will benefit the people of San Francisco and support local businesses. Weve had a long and positive relationship with lenders. The project will generate numerous jobs for our members. This is a privately owned and funded project. Projects clear benefit to the community and any other further delay would jeopardize our jobs and new housing for the city. We urge you to move forward with this amendment. Thank you and have a good day. Supervisors, im alex, im Research Advocacy director with the San Francisco Electrical Construction industry i want to support the plan. American important more importantly to speak to the housing sustainability. Its real value of equity tool. First of all, guaranteed union labor is not. What it does, is establish minimum labor standards to make sure everybody working on the project taking advantage of the streamlining provisions of the sustainability district are paid adequate wages to raise support and family here. Value of union labor comes in. Our contractors, our organizations themselves are at the centre of helping people get into sustainable construction careers through construction. Which has been identified by the city for a number of years as really Important Pillar in the Community Workforce development and equity strategy. Another really important aspect of the housing sustainability, on sight Affordable Housing, all these projects and it ties into San Francisco Affordable Housing requirement. What that means well be getting housing built at the same time as these other projects rather than having to wait through process and finding tax credits and piecing all those dollars together. At a time when public budgets are constantly strained. We are constantly being told we have to choose between needling our children or having open space or having work Transit System to push this off on to the private sector is incredibly valuable. Finally, i want to speak specifically to the 30 van ness project. They have engaged with labor all around, made a commitment thank you for your comments. Next supervisor peskin thank you for correcting the member from the city Planning Department. I support the continuation of this item to next week. Theres a lot here to digest. This project has been a long time and coming as its been pointed out. There are few other things that can be added. Thank you. Good afternoon chair peskin, supervisor safai, preston. We too share citys goal produce more housing and more Affordable Housing particularly. Were happy to support the 30 van ness project. They value good paying middle class construction jobs for local residents. Putting local contractors to work. We have long relationship with them. The city move forward with these amendment as present to you today in the hub plan. Thank you very much for your time. Good afternoon supervisors. This is jim. I live at 100 van ness right in the hub. Im one of the two people who see what goes on everyday. Im also on the board of the civic Centre Community benefit district. Some you know ive been involved improving the civic centre for the last 35 years. The first thing about this plan which is important to me is that it deals with that intersection of market and van ness. It should be most important intersection in San Francisco. It isnt. In its current condition, whole of people who work in the area, who live in the area and attend events in the area feel uncomfortable. Some of the more elderly ones dont come because the way it is. The plan will encourage the building great buildings that wonderful ground floor amenities that will take care of that. Second issue is the affordable issue. Supervisor peskin, making sure that the sale of 30 van ness from the city to a private developer, got the city in the appropriate amount of money its value as well as builtin requirement for Affordable Housing. That building should not be subject to any further comment. Im please to report to you weve gotten the plumbers project under way. We have other Affordable Housing in the area. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. We have 17 listeners with four in the queue. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is robert, i live in district 5. I support the hub plan as amended. I believe it will bring significant benefits to the city, especially considering the hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits and in Affordable Housing. One statistic i want to bring to your attention is from between 19 Housing Inventory out of 1456 affordable units and out of 4850 total units built last year, we built 405 inclusionary units. That is less than 10 of all the units that we built in the last year. The fact that this plan will bring 25 below market rate inclusionary units and it will provide dozens of millions of dollars in fees for 100 of Affordable Housing is an improvement over our existing standard. That is something that should not take lightly. Thank you. Thank you. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on should call 41 5655001. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. This is john jacobo calling from the San Francisco Mission District where i happen to be from. Im latino, i identify as latino. I dont think i need to tell the world whats happen to the Mission District. Since the year 2000, weve lost over eight latinos from this very neighborhood. Black population in the city where many people have black lives matter signs up in their windows went from 15 to 3 arguably. I keep being told if we continue develop market rate housing it will trickle down to communities that everybody trying to get behind. Because a member of the Central City Coalition, i put the amendments that we put forward. What we want is to take a pause to ensure that we can do a proper race and social equity sex oh assessment to ensure that this area plan is equitable and it helps match those black lives matter signs that everybody likes to put up on their windows. This we are putting race and social equity at the forefront of something that isnt going to be constructed in the next six months with the covid backdrop. Something we can take a moment to assess and ensure we are doing right. If we want to be the progressive amazing city that San Francisco claims to be, we need to live through that by our actions. Next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors. Im with the Central City Coalition. Just like john said, im calling in to support the recommendation of halting the hub area plan except for the three proposed sites until a thorough social Equity Analysis completed. Having Planning Department examine the Socioeconomic Impact of low income and working class black residents, living in the central city is the right step forward to uphold the commitments need in resolution number 2738. This recommendation is not antidevelopment. Rather it is complete planning process needed to strengthen the equity first framework to build not housing but homes for all. Hes right. Lot of people have this energy of how being black lives matter and now that were trying to go implement that through action, were still continuing all these current policies that has affected vulnerable communities. I highly ask that you continue on this item and let more of the public speak out on this issue. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. Im calling in support of the recommendation to pause the hub area plan with the exception three proposed on sites until we can get a thorough racial and social Equity Analysis. Just a few weeks ago, the Planning Commission unanimously passed a resolution centring planning on social and equity. Its appalling to hear lot of the speakers on this line pushing to have this hub plan approved and pushing it through. Knowing that race and equity havent been analyzed. The neighboring sensitive communities believe that equity studies have been completed in a timely manner. This is no way going to hinder the three projects that have been proposed. Theyll able to move forward. Its the right thing to do. If people havent gotten the message yet, we need equity in our cities and we need to protect our sensitive communities. Thank you. Next speaker please. We are calling in support of the recommendation of halting the hub area plan except for the three proposed sites until a thorough racial and social Equity Analysis is complete. Its important to look at the equity impacts before the hub plan is approve as equitable, it has not been addressed in the current plan. We cant be saying thats what we need and totally ignoring that when big project like the hub plan is put forward in front of you. This recommendation is not antidevelopment, it is the Community Process needed to strengthen the equity first framework to build housing for all. In means all income, especially low income and house individuals and families who prioritizing their needs. 400 Affordable Housing is not enough out of the 1600, we would rather see half of that as Affordable Housing if you really want to talk about Affordable Housing for all. It is dangerous to count on trickle down economy to address social issues. Supervisor preston, you made a motion to continue this to the meeting of january 20th, i believe . July 20th . Im sorry. [ laughter ] july 20th. On the motion, roll call, please. roll call . You have three ayes. Ok, that motion is pass asked we are adjourned. It is so key here. We have a window to do better. Next slide. And again, another very concerning situation. This related to the reproductive rate of 1. 25, so this means that we will have more people die, and if you follow that blue line, this means we would average, excuse me, 890 deaths from covid19 in 2020. Were at 50 right now, and by the end of the year, we could be at 890 with a reproductive rate of 1. 25, and again, unfortunately, those white shaded blue lines show we could get much higher scenarios, approaching 2,000, and even 3,000. So this is this is serious. This is a we are in a very concerning time right now with this reproductive rate of 1. 25, and we need to drive down below 1 as soon as possible. Next slide. But there is hope, and this is looking as of july 4, because we were looking at the july 4 weekend and asking everyone to do their part. If we could reduce that rate by half, we could dramatically reduce our hospitalizations and our death. We could go from the hundreds that we talked about to as few as 50 and 70. And even the scenarios that i showed you with those light blue shaded areas, we could see more deaths through 2020. So if we do our part, we could save lives and keep people out of the hospital. Again, even in the next two weeks, if we could all do our part, we could really make a difference. You see in the next two weeks, we wait for the reproductive number to reduce by 50 , we still have peak hospitalization at 340 and an estimated 220 deaths in 2020, so time really makes a difference. Next slide. So key introduction to reducing r. P. E. This the reproductive rate. This has real socioeconomic and other consequences, as well. Discouraging gatherings, especially inside, and i just want to emphasize right now that, really, please do not gather with people outside of your immediate household, and especially do not gather indoors, it is very dangerous to do that. Please, it is literally saving lives. And then, continuing to offer testing, expanding our testing, and contact tracing. Such key tools to our efforts going forward. Next slide. So i alluded to this, but really, riskiness of the activity, we know that outdoors is safer than indoors. Its at this point that, based on the latest data, its 10 to 20 times safer than being indoors. Its risking out to be involved in gatherings with people outside of your immediate household. Half of the people who transmit covid19 are asymptomatic. And you can get covid19 right after you test. So dont think that just because you test negative, you can get it from people that you hangout with or you can transmit it back to older people in your household. We continue to emphasize wearing face coverings, 6 feet of social distancing, and washing your hands. The frequency, the more people go out, the more they are putting themselves and their loved ones at risk. The duration, the longer people spend time together, the more risk it is for transmission, and then, the distance. This is why we are focused on the social distancing and the importance of that going forward. Next slide. And then, i did want to talk a little bit about hope going forward, and talk about vaccines are being looked at and developed, and unfortunately, theres not likely to be any vaccines soon. Key experts estimate it could be 12 to 18 months before a vaccine is widely available. Thats very different from saying a vaccine is going to be available in six months to a year. But im hopeful, according to mayor breed, that we will be testing extensively across the city and also at zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital, and we will be focusing on engaging communities most at risk for covid19 to support them in participating in vaccine trials as soon as august. Thank you, mayor, and thats my completed presentation. The hon. London breed well, thank you, dr. Colfax. I know were at the end of our time here, but i do want to take this opportunity to just speak to the people in San Francisco who are struggling. There are some people who are struggling, who have no paychecks coming in, and its really hard. And what happens, in addition to the loss of your financial ability to take care of yourself and even your family, Mental Health becomes a whole other issue. And it seems as without our churches, our religious services, our ability to congregate and come together with one another, our spirituality as well as our coming together in the world, and our ability to socialize as we do on a regular basis, its almost as if were trading one Public Health crisis for another. We know, for example, Domestic Violence has gone up, suicides have gone up, people are more stressed in trying to figure out what to do with their lives. We see some of the Violent Crimes going up in the city. How do we justify that . The fact is you and i know were going to be living with covid for the 12 to 18 months or even longer, and so this is hitting in various ways as we try and keep people safe and try to prevent the surge in the hospitals and even deaths. But theres only so much we can emotionally handle as human beings, so ktell us how were supposed to deal with all of that . Thank you, mayor. I appreciate this, and again, this is such a challenging time, i would say the risks the downsides to the shelter in place and the slow reopening are very real and very concerning from a health standpoint and an economic standpoint. I think the Counter Point is no one has said, were going to go ahead and open quickly. As you see across the country, the Mental Health consequences of opening and having a surge, many people are struggling in San Francisco, but if we have a surge like we saw in new york or unfortunately like we saw in houston and parts of florida, we would have all of those concerns that youre talking about on top of the overwhelming the Hospital Systems due to covid19 plus the covid19 pandemic and everything that were dealing with and managing today. Unfortunately, theres downsides to where we are today, but theyre even worse. And we just want people to understand that these times are hard, but we have a pandemic in our city, and it could be much worse. Mayor, i have some numbers, and id like to give them. May i give them . The hon. London breed yes. So our warm number is 8558457415. And then, we also have mobile crisis, so for acute situations. Our number is 4159704000, and the last thing is if you see businesses that are violating the Health Orders around social distancing and good hygiene, please let us know. Please call 311. We will send inspectors out, and if people are violating those orders, we will take steps to aggressively make sure that they do. The hon. London breed and also, i want to push back a little bit. Outdoor activities are permissible in certain circumstances with guidelines, and i do think with regards to religious services, if people have the ability to have Outdoor Services or if there are ways that we can get creative with allowing other things to happen because i know your religion plays a role in things like this. I think its going to be important as we see changes in the number, we want to provide people with opportunities to deal with the challenges of what were facing over the next 12 to 18 months at least. Just think about whats going to happen with our kids and the schools and a number of other things. The fact that we have all of these playgrounds, and kids cant even play in playgrounds. It is heartbreaking for me that we cant even provide these opportunities, so i do want to think of these creative ways that we can support people. If youre one of these people that need help, mental help, testing, please call 311. We have a lot of city resources. Weve developed a lot of publicprivate partnerships to provide support you want. We know its not going to be everything that you want, but we do our best to support folks that are struggling in San Francisco. And the sad reality is its not just San Francisco, but its all over the country where we see this impacting our country, we see it impacting our economy, and the goal is to keep everybody safe, so this is our new normal. So thank you, dr. Colfax, and hopefully, well be able to have more conversations in the future. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at 311. Thank you, everyone. Thank you, mayor. [ ] [ ] so i grew up in cambridge, massachusetts and i was very fortunate to meet my future wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m. I. T. , studying urban planning. So this is her hometown. So, we fell in love and moved to her city. [ ] [ ] i was introduced to this part of town while working on a campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor. I was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. So it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. This is where we laid down our roots like many people in this neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. I mean we are the part of San Francisco. Its the two neighborhoods with the most children under the age of 18. Everybody likes to talk about how San Francisco is not familyfriendly, there are not a lot of children and families. We have predominately Single Family homes. As i said, people move here to buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same home and they laid down their roots. [ ] its different because again, we have little small storefronts. We dont have Light Industrial space or space where you can build highrises or large office buildings. So the tech boom will never hit our neighborhood in that way when it comes to jobs. Turkey, cheddar, avocado, lettuce and mayo, and little bit of mustard. Thats my usual. Mike is the owner, born and bred in the neighborhood. He worked in the drugstore forever. He saved his money and opened up his own spot. Were always going to support home grown businesses and he spent generations living in this part of town, focusing on the family, and the vibe is great and people feel at home. Its like a Little Community gathering spot. This is the part of the city with a small town feel. A lot of mom and pop businesses, a lot of family run businesses. There is a conversation on whether starbucks would come in. I think there are some people that would embrace that. I think there are others that would prefer that not to be. I think we moved beyond that conversation. I think where we are now, we really want to enhance and embrace and encourage the businesses and Small Businesses that we have here. In fact, its more of a mom and pop style business. I think at the end of the day, what were really trying to do is encourage and embrace the diversity and enhance that diversity of businesses we already have. Were the only supervisor in the city that has a permanent district office. A lot of folks use cafes or use offices or different places, but i want out and was able to raise money and open up a spot that we could pay for. Im very fortunate to have that. Hi, good to see you. Just wanted to say hi, hi to the owner, see how hes doing. Everything okay . Yeah. Good. We spend the entire day in the district so we can talk to constituents and talk to Small Businesses. We put money in the budget so you guys could be out here. This is like a commercial corridor, so they focus on cleaning the streets and it made a Significant Impact as you can see. What an improvement it has made to have you guys out here. For sure. We have a significantly diverse neighborhood and population. So i think thats the richness of the mission and it always has been. Its what made me fall in love with this neighborhood and why i love it so much. My name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of San Francisco. I perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. Also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. I have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. I was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldnt see people every day. I would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasnt been the case. This building is very nice. We have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. We have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in San Francisco. We work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. That brings us closer together also. I am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in San Francisco. As an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. I go to the field interview Police Officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. Additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. I maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. I am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. I work with the family to help them through the grieving process. I am ricky moore, a clerk at the San Francisco medical examiners office. I assist the pathology and toxicology and Investigative Team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. I started at the old facility. The building was old, vintage. We had issues with plumbing and things like that. I had a tiny desk. I feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. I am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. We test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. I oversee all of the lab operations. The forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the Human Performance and the case in the city of San Francisco. We collect evidence at the scene. A woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. That was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. It is nice to get the feedback. We do a lot of work and you dont hear the result. Once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. You can bring justice to what happened. We are able to take what we due to the next level. Many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries dont have the resources and dont have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. Sometimes we go to court. Whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. We do whatever we can to get our job done. When we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. Unexpected findings are fun. I have a prior background in Law Enforcement. I was a Police Officer for 8 years. I handled homicides and suicides. I had been around Death Investigation type scenes. As a Police Officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. I am intrigued with those types of calls. I wondered why someone died. I have an extremely supportive family. Older children say, mom, how was your day. I can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. Without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. Being i am a native of San Francisco and grew up in the community. I come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. There are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. If from is a child involved or things like that. I try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. When i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. Whawhat do you do . The autopsy . I deal with the a with the enou with the administrative and the families. Most of the time work here is very enjoyable. After i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. I thought there was somebody dead . My bed. I rolled over and poked the body. Sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. This job does have lingering effects. In terms of why did you want to go into this . I loved science growing up but i didnt want to be a doctor and didnt want to be a pharmacist. The more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between Applied Science and criminal justice. If you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. Being a woman we just need to go for it and dont let anyone fail you, you cant be. With regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. Lets face it, we arent hollywood, we are real world. Yes we collect evidence. We want to preserve that. We are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a Hollywood Television show. Families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. Somebody has to do my job. If i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of San Francisco. This is a huge catalyst for change. It will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. Now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to Work Together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of operation. One of the main drivers is a one stopper mitt center for permit center. Special events. We are a one stop shop for those three things. This has many different uses throughout if years. In 1940s it was cocacola and the flagship as part of the construction project we are retaining the clock tower. The permit center is little working closely with the Digital Services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. The Digital Services team was created in 2017. It is 2. 5 years. Our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. One of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the scale. We have 58 Different Department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. We are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. It is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed. Our goal is you dont have to know the department. You are dealing with the city. Now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. Here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to Work Together to make it easy to comply with the rules. There are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. There is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. The first project is allowing people to apply online for the a. D. U. It is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. It is a very complicated permit. You have to speak to Different Departments to get it approved. We are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. Some of the next ones are windows and roofing. Those are high volume permits. They are simple to issue. Another one is restaurant permitting. While the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. People struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. The city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. When people arrive they canshay what they are here to. It helps them workout which cue they neat to be in. If they rant to run anker rapid she can do that. We say you are next in line make sure you are back ready for your appointment. We want it allinone location across the many departments involved. It is clear where customers go to play. On june 5, 2019 the ceremony was held to celebrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. Six months later construction is complete. We will be moving next summer. The flu building the new building will be building. It was designed with light in mind. Employees will appreciate these amenities. Solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle chargers in the basement levels, benefiting from gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300 bicycles. When you are on the higher floors of thing yo of the buildt catch the tip of the Golden Gate Bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. It is so exciting for the team. It is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. It is allowing the Different Departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. We hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. We are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a highquality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling iin forms. They will have good conversations with our staff. Clerk to make this meeting accessible to the public so you would know where to find it. This is the july 8 meeting of the San Francisco police commission. Sergeant youngblood, will you please call roll. Clerk yes, maam. [roll call] Vice President taylor i think youre muted. [roll call] clerk Vice President taylor, you have a quorum. Vice president taylor thank you. For the members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on any of the items on the agenda, the phone number is 4084189388. The access