Francisco transgender Film Festival was founded in 1997 by my friends Christopher Lee and alex austin, and we are the first and longest running transgender and gender nonconforming Film Festival in the world. Founded at a time when other Film Festivals would not screen trans and gender nonconforming filmmakers. We are proud to still be part of ongoing movements, supporting expression and leadership of communities of color, immigrants, and all trans and queer people. Especially now as we are fighting the negative impact of gentrification against all of our communities. I am very honored and humbled today to accept this commendation. Thank you very much. [applause] president breed congratulations, shauna, and thank you so much for being here today. Our final commendation will be given by supervisor yee. Supervisor yee thank you once again. Im going to be switching gears a little bit now. I want to honor and recognize the San Francisco bay area families for safe streets. These come on up alvin and amanda. In 2016 through the budget process i secured seed funding so San Francisco could launch a local chapter of the National Organization of families for safe streets. Today i am proud to wear this scarf that symbolizes their chapter and their group that actually advocates so strongly to get us to our vision 0 goals. Families for safe street is a volunteer group whose members have been directly and heartbreakingly impacted by traffic violence. All members have had Family Members either killed or severely injured on our streets or are survivors of crashes themselves. As a survivor of a pedestrian crash myself, this group and its work is close to my heart. You may have seen mtas current billboard campaign, states my Family Member was killed at this intersection. These billboards were not created for the scare tactic. The people you see are not paid actors. They are members of families for safe streets. Alvin is one, is on one of the billboards. In 2016, 30 people were killed on our streets while walking, cycling, riding in a vehicle or while driving. As of october 30, 15 people have been killed this year on our streets. Four of them over the age of 75. These are not stats, these are people whose families are heart broken and forever changed by crashes that are preventable. We have a vision 0 city and must do better. The members of the families for safe street support others in the bay area who have similar experiences. But also tirelessly work to improve the safety of our streets. They have created resource pamphlets for families and in multiple languages. When alvin was contacted about the death of his son, it was hours and hours of multiple stops at offices before he was able to locate his body. This group learned that this was not an isolated incident. Race to intradepartmental communication process added to the dispair and suffering and anguish for the families. Family for safe streets worked with the department of Public Health and medical Examiners Office and District Attorneys Office to create a new streamline communication process with the departments and with families. Unimaginable experience formed a new process that is now adopted and implemented in the city. Starting last year and continuing this year, they are working to change the state law to allow automatic Speed Enforcement. This the data in the 140 other jurisdictions that have these what we call ases undenybly slow, show a reduction in collisions and fatalities. I want to be clear that when i say they are working to improve the safety of our streets, they are actually volunteering, taking time off work, they are travelling to sacramento, they are reliving the trauma by telling, and retelling the experience of having Family Members killed or severely injured themselves. We must do better as a city because one death or injury is too many. We need to raise awareness. Sorry. Im just going to ok. This sunday is the world day of remembrance. San Francisco Bay area families for safe street has organized a Memorial Walk and vigil to honor the victims and survivors of traffic violence. In recognition of the world day of remembrance, both city hall and the tower will be lit in yellow. Please join me sunday at 3 00 at 16th and mission for the vigil walk or 4 30 on the steps of city hall. My staff will forward you your offices information and powerful video about world day of remembrance. Please share with your communities and join us on sunday. I am humbled to honor the families for safe streets and grateful for your work, but the aspiration is that there is no need for them to exist one day. Alvin and amanda, i invite you for a few words. [applause] thank you, supervisor yee. My story is not simple but its necessary. My name is alvin lester. One of the founders of safe streets. I got involved because of the death of my 21yearold son, amman, was using the city streets as many of your residents do. When he was struck and killed by a neglected driver in the bayview neighborhood on november 1, 2014. The families for safe streets began after world day of remembrance 2015. With a group of members who share a similar experiences to mine. Im here to help change the culture of acceptance for the traffic violence on our roadways as a group. We support laws Like Assembly bill 342, for automated Speed Enforcement, and we build awareness through education on and i want to thank supervisor norman yee to make San Francisco a better and safer city to walk, bike and drive. Also i want to thank supervisor yee for his work with walk San Francisco and his support for vision 0. As an author of the legislation that requires tour bus drivers to accompany by a tour guide, finally, thank you supervisor yee for your recognition to world day of remembrance this sundays memorial and vigil. You have truly been a great help and i look forward to the day we can come together, we can Work Together when we make a difference for all who travel the city streets. Thank you. President breed thank you. [applause] president breed supervisor kim would like to make some remarks. Supervisor kim i tried to speak before you did, i want to add my words of thanks to you and the organization on top of supervisor yee. As a coauthor with supervisor yee of the vision 0 ordinance, it is the voices of the families who have either lost loved ones or who have experienced injuries because of these absolutely preventable collisions on our streets that are helping to move this issue forward. And in a city where more people are killed by cars than by guns, this is absolutely one of our top Public Health issues, and i just thank you for sharing your story because of how difficult it is and courageous. But also ensuring that other families dont experience what you have, and frankly, ive been incredibly disappointed by the gridlock in sacramento over the issue of automated Speed Enforcement cameras. We know, we know from data in other countries that they are absolutely the most important tool over anything else that we can do in preventing these deaths and injuries on our streets. So, thank for your continued advocacy on this issue as well. President breed thank supervisor kim. Hi, im amanda lamb, im a member of San Francisco bay area families for safe streets. I was hit by a car as a pedestrian over in the philmore district two years ago and after the catastrophic impact that crash has had on my life as well as the lives of the people that i love i joined this group to do whatever i could to end traffic violence in our city. Because of my experience i would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to you, supervisor yee, for all of the work that youve done to make our city a safer place for our pedestrians and bicyclists and drivers. Your continued support of vision 0 and your authorship of the tour bus legislation that alvin was mentioning after the death of pressy merido outside city hall is deeply appreciated by the members of our group, and the work you have done has not gone unnoticed and we are so thankful that you supervisor yee and the other supervisors are making safety a priority for San Francisco. Also wanted to thank you, supervisor yee, for helping us to recognize world day of remembrance coming up this sunday. From the 17 traffic deaths that we have had in our city so far just this year, its clear that there is still a lot of work to be done. So, thank you all. We look forward to your continued leadership, supervisor yee, and to our citys commitment to end traffic deaths and injuries by 2024. Thank you. President breed thank you. [applause] president breed alvin, we are deeply sorry for your loss and we thank you for your work and advocacy. Thank you both for your courage and being here to share your stories and the work you continue to do on this issue. Thank you very much. [applause] president breed and to supervisor yee, thank you again for all of the advocacy that you do on the board of supervisors, to bring an end to this. We know that sadly you experienced a really tragic accident yourself and we are so glad that you are here with us today. Thank you for your courage and your work and what you continue to do to push the city in the right direction around safety improvements and making sure vision 0 does exactly what its intended to do. We appreciate you very much. And with that, we will return to our agenda, congratulations to all the honorees and thank you all so much for your patience. Madam clerk, we we finished with committee reports, we have two 3 00 p. M. Special orders. Our First Special order. Item 29, through 32, comprise the hearing of persons interested in the determination of exemption from Environmental Review under the California Environmental quality act issued you as a categorical exemption by the Planning Department, approved, for the proposed project at 20 nobles alley, remove permitted second garage door and facade, and remove window to the right of the level e ground floor entry door. Item 30, motion to affirm the departments determination that this project is exempt from further review. Item 31 is, reverse the determination subject to adoption of written findings and item 32, the motion to direct the preparation of findings. President cleaveland colleagues, i rise to ask for recusal in so far as i am the owner of Real Property within 500 feet of the site that is the subject of the appeal and have been advised by counsel i need to ask to be rekufd. President breed moved by supervisor yee, seconded by supervisor kim, take that without objection . Without objection, supervisor peskin, you are excused. Colleagues, we have before us the appeal of the determination of exemption from the Environmental Review for 20 nobles alley in district 3. For this hearing we will be considering the adequacy, accuracy, sufficiency and completeness of the Planning DepartmentEnvironmental Review determination for the project at 20 nobles alley, without objection, we will proceed as follows. Up to ten minutes for presentation by the appellant representative, up to two minutes for speaker in support of the appeal. Up to ten minutes for presentation by the Planning Department, up to ten minutes for the project sponsor or their representative, up to two minutes per speaker for those who are in opposition of the appeal, and finally, up to three minutes for rebuttal by the appellant or the appellant representative. Colleagues, without objection we will proceed in this way, and open up this hearing and at this time we will ask for the appellant or the appellant representative to please come forward. Here or here . President breed either, whichever you prefer. You have ten minutes. We have one question for some of our speakers. Did they have to speak at a speaker card, the public members, members of the public on our side . They are speaking after the ten minutes, do they have to fill out a card . President breed no. Ok, thank you. President breed, members of the board, thank you for permitting us to speak in support of this appeal today. My name is mark bruno, i run a program for the homeless in north beach where i live. Before we discuss the appeal itself, and that will be presented mostly by an architect, brent mcdonald, and mataas, before we discuss this, i would like to request that the City Attorney permit our elected representative, aaron peskin, to debate today, to vote and otherwise engage in this appeal. Let me introduce you to some of the people whose absence of supervisor peskin is being harmed today. Those people here from district 3 and not represented. Could you please stand . If you are from our district, or simply here for the appeal, if you could let us see who you are. So youll see there is quite a bit, a few people here familiar with this project, and thank you very much. And thank you for coming. Some of them will speak after the ten minutes. So, again, we know there is a 500 foot prohibition and its from the state law, ethics code. We claim that we, this, does harm to us and unconstitutional. We believe its a violation of equal protection, that it is substantively different to have 500 prohibition in district 3, the smallest geographical district in the city, than in district 7, almost three times larger. A disparity that indicates the arbitraryness of the law. The city itself acknowledges in many findings that there exists substantive socioeconomic differences from district to district. I cite the boards analyst 2013 benefits from district report. The report confirms disparities in north beach that mention that we in north beach, that district 3 has a group of older people than some other districts. You yourselves are familiar with the disparities because you have run to be here as district supervisors. And the socioeconomic profiles of the districts based on the u. S. Senate. To prohibit mr. Peskin from debating and voting on this matter in his own district is to deny protection, equal protection to people, many members of constitutionally protected classes. The russian hill neighbors, north beach business association, Chinatown Community development and chinatown Tenants Association have all written to you in support of this appeal. They claim in the letters that the building of this garage and the appeal is sensitive to the dynamic of our district. How can we then move forward with a matter that is sensitive geographically to our neighborhood without our representative being here . The process reviews Historic Districts and neighborhood characteristics. 1998, the voters chose representation. The supervisors should be allowed to speak here unless it does great harm to the city. The letter does not cite harm done to the city or the people. Note with dismay no mention is made of his right under the ethics code to address this board as a private citizen. No reference is made in the letter to the public generally, exception, since you have heard of you, you are familiar with ethics code and to disclose his socalled conflict property and participates in the debate, allowed under the ethics code. Supervisor peskin is eligible for a public generally exception. Property at issue is no more likely to be materially affected by a review of 20 nobles alley than anyone else here today or in the public generally. So finally we ask, i know deputy City Attorney givener is here and we ask him to repent that prohibition and overturned so our supervisor can represent us. Thank you so much. Good evening, supervisors. My name is a brent mcdonald, licensed architect, retained by some of the neighbors that are appealing this categorical exemption. Licensed architect and studied Historic Preservation in school. Nobles alley is sort of a microarea of the Historic District at large and the review we ask for today is to conditional review the cat x. We believe the city should look at a mitigated declaration at a minimum. We rely on our expert testimony on the citys own report specifically the San Francisco department of Public Health indicator tool, otherwise known as the citys Health Indicator charts. If there are this is just one of the charts, talks about ownership of vehicles. North beach is included as one of the 39 neighborhoods and i think the reports were presented in your package. They do show that north beach has one of the lowest ratios of open space to household density, north beach has the third from the bottom ratio of households to privately owned vehicles. And north beach is a mixed bag when it comes to pedestrian quality on the street, seeming less pretendly because they are part of a transportation grid, east west is the highest grade for pedestrian quality. Appeal we ask for from the board would allow the city to match the d. P. H. Reports, healthy indicator charts to the proposed project. Presumed partial restoration and legalized garage at the site. Cumulati cumulative effects say it will detrimentally affect the quality of life in north beach. Conclusion, north beach has fewer cars per household, its not a norm for the households to have a car, that almost is different than the other parts of the city. The Northeast Quadrant is very dense, and the pedestrian index is mixed. By giving this one property on one of the districts narrowest allies an exemption, the Planning Department ignores