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July 16, 2024
Attest to, we had a really interesting policy Committee Meeting on these issues. And we wanted to ask cyndy our Climate Program manager to give you a brief outline of what was discussed not nearly in the same level of detail. But as lowell said, when you look at our where weve got emissions coming out, its pretty clear theres not a lot of mystery here. Our buildings are a big part of the story. And where those emissions are coming from, cyndy will talk a little bit about that. But more and more,...
July 16, 2024
Months or whatever to get a variance. In this case that option would be foregone if its in one permit . Yeah, because given where we are, we would need to have everything in one permit. So we are past that point. Why wasnt this done under one permit . Was a briefer question. Yes im learning something after four and a half years or five years. Okay. Thats my only question. Shall we move on . I have a quick question. Mr. Buscovich said this is all minor stuff. One thing that jumped out at me was t...
July 16, 2024
Lastly, on the unauthorized units, weve been a big champion of these. Theres an estimate of 20 to 50,000. If you knew how many you would have to remove them. They exist in the city but they are an important housing resource. Most are rent controlled. A lot of our most vulnerable renters live in these units. We have two objectives around this. One is retain as many units as we can, protect them from merger, from demolition and conversion. The other is protect tenants rights as best we can. We thi...
July 16, 2024
The new we are seeing is just black buildings completely flat on the street level. And they have a rooftop where you can have a deck or this is their new recreation area. New folks that come into the neighborhood no longer get to experience the community as a whole. So these guidelines our beautiful, Historic Buildings from turning into a moratorium of black. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am a life resident of the mission. Lived all my life off the corridor of 24th street....
July 16, 2024
Climate program manager. Resolution file no. 201908coe regarding ordinance in board supervisors file no. 190972 concerning municipal he electrifycation. File number 190708 concerning electric preferred buildings. Explanatory document resolution file no. 201909coe. Item for discussion and action. Commissioner sullivan is going to do the actual motion. Thank you. Save your voice. Great. So as commissioner sullivan can attest to, we had a really interesting policy Committee Meeting on these issues....
July 16, 2024
I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this. Please silence your cell fens. Phones. Cell phones. Items today will be on the november 19th agenda. Thank you. Can you please call item 1. Resolution approving the First Amendment between the city and sunset scavenger company, golden gate disposal and recycling company doing business as recology San Francisco, increasing the total amount from 40 million to 48 million with no change to the term that expired on november 30, 2020. You might reme...
July 16, 2024
Phones. Cell phones. Items today will be on the november 19th agenda. Thank you. Can you please call item 1. Resolution approving the First Amendment between the city and sunset scavenger company, golden gate disposal and recycling company doing business as recology San Francisco, increasing the total amount from 40 million to 48 million with no change to the term that expired on november 30, 2020. You might remember we continued this item from last weeks agenda. Can you please remind me. Did we...
July 16, 2024
Explanatory document resolution file no. 201909coe. Item for discussion and action. Commissioner sullivan is going to do the actual motion. Thank you. Save your voice. Great. So as commissioner sullivan can attest to, we had a really interesting policy Committee Meeting on these issues. And we wanted to ask cyndy our Climate Program manager to give you a brief outline of what was discussed not nearly in the same level of detail. But as lowell said, when you look at our where weve got emissions c...
July 16, 2024
Ill try to. Joe duffy, dbi. The permit under appeal is a commencement of work not started under a previously permit, soft story retrofit under 34b engineering criteria including plywood walls, simpson walls. This is a renewal permit. So back in 2016 went through a process took them about a week to get the permit. And it was maybe 1,000 valued for the soft story retrofit. They got the permit and didnt start the work. The permit got approved until the contractor was chosen until the building got s...
July 16, 2024
Form 1 through 8 item and submits items the 70,000 permits, d. B. I. Is the owner and takes that responsibility. There is an owner in that case. Whether or not public works owns 20k. They will be together in the space in the new world. I feel like that makes sense to me they will be together, which is an improvement. Right now they are in different be locations. How much more coordination is needed . That feels like a lot. Once it is all an electronic plan review, departments will make comments ...