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Francisco came in in terms of actually ading the officer. More broadly how do you think San Francisco compares and what are some of the other cities that are doing really well in terms of open data . I should be clear. When San Francisco is third, we have a pact. Ill add to that actually. Whats great in San Francisco is there is not just going to be a chief data officer. There is also the office of civic innovation. Jays team, shannons team. By having both of those units in place i think there i...

Pig lake. I think thats what the spanish called it. There was a deep ravine. They filled it in with the tunnel muck and they filled in the ravine and built houses. The other area is really interesting, down 18th street. There was a creek coming from eureka. There is a street called pond. Its not a coincidence. Part of what were going too try to do is update this map and give it historical data. There are more significant data. How do you know if your individual lot . One is these lines are very ...

Okay welcome to the public of building inspection broke browng session and building San Francisco and today were going to talk about odd or excentric erinteresting building in San Francisco and i have with us a Structural Engineer San Francisco pat and who has probably looked inside many of the buildings here and one of the great resources in San Francisco and thanks for being with us today. You say unusual buildings and one of the first things that comes to peoples mind and thats the one and he...

A flat roof like this with reflective coating needs to be recut it regularly. If you fail, the protection is gone and the roof deteriorate rapidly. It is not just silver paint, it is roof coating. So typically you need to hire the report to come back and apply a new coaching. You can say you want a uv resistant coating, but it has to be compatible with what you have up there. Roofs need maintenance. Call and ask. If you do not do that, the life is short and pepper sibley. Go over it and fix it u...

Because your building survived a 1906 earthquake, it wasnt a big earthquake. The building was built in 1989. There are a lot of large buildings that did and there are a lot of didnt. I can talk to our Insurance Agent and says this is a serious one that comes up. We would not have enough to pay with everybody in the area. That has to do with cea. The amount of money they have in reserves is based on a 20year return cycle. They havent had 20 years our buildings are 80 or 90 areas old. Our agents s...

Bertacelli. Supervisor farrell. Phil has been here every step of the way. This started with this started with two organizations that have now merged into a really wonderful one organization. Those two former organizations were brought us two great people to work with. They were Isabelle Wade and karen kid well. I dont know if either one of them is here today. ~ now we have matt owe grade i speaking to you from the merge park trust. Im sorry, San Francisco Parks Alliance. ~ we cant forget that, t...

Story basement. We have unusual soil conditions and then, on top of that, we have built environment. We have buildings built of all different kinds of construction types and dates. When you put those together. Maybe you are sitting on rock areas that are built solidly that will have little impact and you have other buildings, soft story buildings and people have essentially the same expectation. And the Building Department would come knock on my door and tell me it wasnt safe there are very few ...

The ravine and built houses. The other area is really interesting, down 18th street. There was a creek coming from eureka. There is a street called pond. Its not a coincidence. Part of what were going too try to do is update this map and give it historical data. There are more significant data. How do you know if your individual lot . One is these lines are very clearly defined as boundaries. They dont actually mean, this is the exact edge. You could be on one side or the other. Its not okay her...

The big scissors. Why dont you guys come on in here. All right, hold on, were not there yet. Lets not do it yet. Be careful. All children with scissors, please be careful. All right. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Yeah ladies and gentlemen, Lafayette Park is officially open yea hello and welcome to the department and building inspection lunch program. We are talking today about earthquakes and we are going to talk about the issues that make us particularly vulnerable in San Francisco and talk ab...

Some companies today can look at your green button and figure out if your refrigerator is broken function need a new air conditioner. Thats real money if you think about it at a commercial or industrial scale. That is one data set. To your other question about what is the federal government doing, were seeking not just an energy, but across the government to engage entrepreneurs and innovators across all the different sectors. For those of you familiar with the history of the Health Data Initiat...