Supervisor peskin good afternoon. Welcome to the land use meeting for september 30th. I am aaron peskin. Ms. Major, any announcements . Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon will appear on the october 8 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Item number 1 is ordinance amending the planning code to designate 2031 bush street, aka Kinmon Gakuen building, as a landmark under article 10 and affirming appropriate findings. Supervisor peskin thank you, ms. Major. Before we introduce Shannon Ferguson from the Planning Department, i would like to be listed as cosponsor of this landmark designation. The case report was really a pleasure to read and very well done. And very edifying and of course, speaks to terrible parts of our American History and San Francisco history relative, not only to executive order 9066, but acts of local governments, including our school board in the day. Its almost the opposite of todays dynamics where we have a racist, xenophobic president and a very Progressive School board. In those days, actually, Teddy Roosevelt i learned from the case report, was the one accusing, and correctly so, our school board of being in those days, xenophobic. And racist. The history of the building is amazing from 1926 and even on the site prior to 1926. And i was also learned things about the japaneseamerican community in San Francisco that i didnt know. Always thinking that the japaneseamerican community was in japantown and the western addition, but did not realize that the district that i represent, chinatown, actually has a proud japaneseAmerican History as does the district that supervisor haney represents in the south of market. So that was anyway, it was a great case report. I commend it to anyone. I want to thank former landmarks board member, former board of appeal member, and Planning Commission sue guya, who took the time to note a handful of very small typographical things that need to be fixed in the case report. He should know, because he worked then and now in the company. Thank you, for your very, very careful reading. I read the case report, but did not find those. So thank you, bill, if youre watching. And with that, i would like to ask ms. Ferguson from the Planning Department to come up and present on item number 1. And we are joined by vice chair safai. Good afternoon. Im here today to present the Historic PreservationCommission Recommendation to designate 2031 bush street as article 10 landmark. The building is located on bush street in the japantown and is known as the Kinmon Gakuen build. It was part of the civil rights project which was funded by an underrepresented Community Grant by the National Park service. They unanimously recommended designation on april 3, 2019. Constructed in 1926, the Kinmon Gakuen building represents only one of four purposebuilt Community Facilities in japantown, whose construction was funded by and for the local americanjapanese community. It was with the u. S. Citizens of world war ii. At the home of the booker t. Washington Community Services center, from 1942 to 1952 which provided the africanamerican youth with educational and recreational facilities. The period of significance for the building is 1926 to 1952. And the designation includes both exterior and interior characterdefining features. For over a century, the building has served as an Important Community anchor and gathering place. If designated, the building would be the first landmark in the city associated with San Franciscos japaneseamerican community and the history of japantown in the western addition, which is one of three remaining japantowns in the country. The department has determined that it meets the requirements. The hpc and the Planning Department recommend landmark designation. This concludes my presentation. Im happy to answer questions. Supervisor peskin seeing no questions from my colleagues, i do also want to thank him forgetting this on the work for getting this on the work program and this building be added to our list of landmark buildings in the city and county of San Francisco. With that, i open up to Public Comment. Commissioner . Thank you very much, president peskin, supervisor safai, supervisor haney. Thank you very much for talking about the history and the very short period of time about japantowns existence. Yes, its south park in supervisor haneys district. Yes, grand avenue between bush all the way up to california street in chinatown. And, yes, in the western addition, we used to call it the fillmore, ja japantown. From our perspective, Kinmon Gakuen was a place to hang out. You went to school all day and at 2 30 when you got out, mama said you have to go to the japanese school. So all of us had to go down there. It was okay because it ended 6 30 and then you went to the basement and judo. On the weekends, it was a Movie Theater. We used to call it sword fighting movies, friday, saturday, sunday. It was a social network of our community. Also for myself when we talked about the days of infamy in the exhibit, in washington at the smithsonian. When we first went there, the first sight was a replica of the Kinmon Gakuen, where the japaneseamericans assembled. We ask for your approval and we appreciate it, but there are folks in the community now that try to deny that the concentration camps existed. There are challenges we even lived there. Some of this is going to come to light, because we have a sign that is coming up and there are individuals fighting us with the semantic and the word concentration camps. Keep going, you dont have to wrap up, if you want to keep talking. Basically, what i was trying to say, folks think that japantown is a fourblock area. But as you know it was extended to the fillmore area as well. Its important to us because again the painful relationship of what happened. Its interesting that only now in this time in the year of our lord, 2019, that were talking about the first Historical Building preserved for the japaneseamerican community of San Francisco. The gateway for japan in terms of this nation. Thank you very much, supervisor. Supervisor peskin thank you, commissioner. It is amazing to me to hear that there are deniers of executive order 9066. There are many people alive who were gathered up by United States military troops and sent to the racetrack in san matteo county before they were put on rail cars and sent to a spot in the desert north of delta, utah, which is now a historic site. I attended the ribboncutting of the museum in delta the summer before last. It is all there. Its documented by a photographer, dorthea lang. It is in the archives of the United States of america and it happened and its shameful. Can i ask through the chair, the commissioner a question . Just for clarity, commissioner, just so we know, so were ready for it. Is it about the word concentration or people that are denying it even happened, or is it people concerned about this particular site being folded into the history or recognizing part of the history of japantown. Just a little clarity on that. To be clear on it, its one particular individual. Im not going to say a group of individuals. That one individual might have folks that feel that way, but in terms of your remarks, its all of the above. Denial of the concentration camp experience. For us, the darkest day in history. We have to look at the truth in the terms of our own wellbeing and historical basis, how then can we improve ourselves. For my mother and father, brother and sister, it was a concentration camp. That garden is what we called cottage row, but for years and years, because i live next to that, that park really didnt have any significance. Today its being dedicated. Thursday at the park and Recreation Commission, that signage is going to be challenged. We hope that the park and Recreation Commission has approved that very word in terms of what is the truth for us in the community. So i hope i answered your question, supervisor, but, yes, its really, really a terrible, angry thing to have that kind of emergence of discrimination, racism in the city and county of San Francisco at this time. Im not surprised by the atmosphere that is among us to promote those kinds of ideas. But we in the japaneseamerican community, and the biggest appointment, we did not point, we did not do anything wrong. There was no due process, 120,000 japaneseamericans on the west coast. Supervisor safai thank you, commissioner. Supervisor peskin subject of very famous Supreme Court decisions. Supervisor safai i was going to say, both supervisor haney and i were an event where the daughter of the landmark case was there. The daughter was there and she spoke extensively on that and what that meant. And reminding people that these were american citizens that were, in many cases, treated that way. And we always need to remember that. History is extremely important. I want to thank you for coming out and sharing that today. Thank supervisor brown for her support on this particular historical significant building. Good afternoon, chair, supervisors. Im one of the Board Members of Kinmon Gakuen. For the reason that children of japanese descent were discriminated in Public Schools, Kinmon Gakuen was founded in 1910. They rented a small house at 2301 bush street and operated there until 1921 when the new building was constructed at 2031 bush street. That is its current location. The schools operation, as mentioned, was interrupted by the war and due to the hysteria brought on by the war, the u. S. Government seized the building and used it as a Processing Center for the hundreds of japaneseamerican families that lived in japantown or San Francisco before they were sent to the concentration camps. As supervisor peskin mentioned, it was used by the booker t. Community center after the war. The building was returned to Kinmon Gakuen, and resumes operations, but found it challenging because most of the families did not return after being incarcerated. But they persevered. In the late 60s and 70s. Japantown was hit with urban renewal, that forced removal of many residents. This made it very difficult for the school to operate, but the organization again veered and in order to offset the operating costs, the auditorium was used as a Movie Theater for a short period, until enrollment increased. The school is graced by visits from japans royal families on three separate occasions. As a historic and Cultural Resources to foster the u. S. And japan relations. This is the reason were asking you to approve the landmark designation. Thank you very much. Supervisor peskin thank you. Just because i had a second to look it up on the internet, its kind of interesting, if you think about our chief executive in the United States today, but it was actually George Herbert walker bush who apologized 45 years later to the japanese and it was president Ronald Reagan who signed the reparations bill into law. With that, any other members of the public for item 1 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I assume that you will update the case report with the things that the commissioner has given us. And i would like to make a motion to send item 1 to the full board with positive recommendation. Thank you, again. We will take that without objection. The next item. Item 2 is ordinance amending the environment code to require commercial parking lots with more than 100 Parking Spaces to install electric vehicle charging equipment, amending the police code. Supervisor peskin i am a proud cosponsor of mayor breeds legislation before us which would require commercial parking lots and garages with more than 100 Parking Spaces with electric vehicle charging infrastructure. I will not regale you with why this is so important, but with that, turn it over to Charles Sheahan from the department of environment. Thank you. San Francisco Department of the environment. Im going to walk you through a short presentation and then happy to take any questions after. Can we have the slides, please . Okay. Electric vehicle charging and commercial parking facilities. This would amend the environment and police codes. The city has a goal of net zero emissions citywide by 2050. Were on track, making progress, even though the population has grown 22 since 1990. Our economy has expanded by 166 since 1990. Emissions are down by 36 . So while that is good news, emissions are down, there are still emissions that are left. You see our emission pie chart. Of course on the right, the biggest slice of the pie, almost 50 is transportation. Transportation generates 46 of the citys emissions today. The largest generate other of emissions generator of emissions. Lets dive deeper into the transportation part of the pie. You can see, weve analyzed offroad equipment, ships and boats, but the largest generator is the private cars and trucks that you see on the road today. What were really talking about is tailpipe emissions. Eliminating those tailpipes is going to improve the air we breathe locally and reducing emissions in the transportation sector, more than just a check box in the Emission Reduction schedule. We like to check the boxes, but its about cleaning the air and making San Francisco a more livable city all. You can see the need for that on the slide. Highest concentration of particulate matter is the corridors and those run through vulnerable communities. These communities are impacted by gasoline and dieselpowered cars and switching to Clean Electricity is going to improve the air around those corridors. We know what we need to do. Its the how that is a little more challenging. We need to mode shift and fuel switch. We need to reduce the number of vehicles operating on the roads. That meanings getting people on bikes, sidewalks, or in public transit. That is the core of the transitfirst policy. Its designed to reduce congestion and emissions. Today, we surface passed the surpassed the goal of 50 . Were shooting for 80. And while were mode shifting and getting cars off the road, the cars still on the road, they need to be electrified. We need to get them off gas and diesel and on to renewable electricity. I like to say that the program we enjoy today is more than just for your home, but for your vehicle and anything else that it can power. To that end, the mayor passed an authored an easy road map this year and it calls for goal of 100 electrification by 2040 and identifies specific actions, public awareness, incentives, charging infrastructure. The electric grid, medium and heavy duty vehicles and emerging mobility. I mentioned charging before, because one of the key barriers in the city, one of the key barriers to full electrification of our Transportation System is access to charging. We live in a dense city. Twothirds of the residents live in multiunits dwellings. Its hard to install charging infrastructure in those multiunit dwellings, as opposed to a singlefamily home. Or you can just come home and trickle charge off the wall. That is very hard to do in multiunit family dwellings, especially the older ones. If were go to facilitate, we need more charging and more confidence in the Public Charging Network here in the city. We have been working on it. This is not our first ordinance related to the issue. We have the e. V. Ready ordinance. It requires 100 of Parking Spaces and new construction to be e. V. Ready. Thats been on the books for a couple of years now. Were taking care of New Buildings being built. What were focusing on is existing buildings. So heres the current charging network. 750 public charging ports throughout the city. Those e. V. Registration numbers, 10,000, thats based on october 2018 figures. So when the figures come out october this year, we think the number will be closer to 20,000. Maybe even 25,000, 30,000 registered e. V. S in the city. So people are adopting e. V. S, but based on the 18 numbers, we only have 27 public charging ports per registered e. V. Even though this ordinance were talking about today targets the private sector, were already under way with an initiative in the public sector. Public sector and private sector. So the city has opened up 38 public municipalowned garages and invited e. V. Developers to come in and develop charging stations. Weve gotten proposals for every one of the 38, so were working hard on the municipal and the public side. What will this ordinance