Commissioner constant didn ande are excused. We have a quorum. Welcome to the dbi. Youll see a strong tone of earthquake awareness and readiness in my comments today. Tomorrow, as most of you know marks the 30th anniversary of the leoma skwaeurb earthquake ae city is hosting numerous events at the marina, as well as holding a tabletop exercise at the department of emergency management, include within of ie Structural Engineers seok and brop is the terminology for that and the annual duck and cover exercise held at citywide. Thats actually an earthquake event. While much has been accomplished over the past three decades to strengthen buildings seismically. Seismically, we must prepare for earthquakes around the world. With our Retrofitting Program in its final phase, we are at 98 compliance in terms of filed permits and thats quite an achievements. So welldone and 65 completion and that could be stronger but well get there. Private Property Owners have invested approximately 250 million in retrofits so far and we reach 385 million by the end of this program. More than 72,000 San Francisco people are now living in retrofitted buildings in sanfrancisco and about 111,000 will be at the programs completion in 2020. So quite an achievement for the city and for all of our other cities around america to take note. We are making progress but we cannot rest on our preparations today. We have to stay vigilant and have to have family plans ready, as well as gobags so enable us to manage our own for at least 72 hours from the big one. Related to our seismic safety efforts, the International Code council, icc, will hold a followup seismic roundtable during the annual conference in Las Vegas Next week, october 23rd, and discuss the development of nationally approaches to seismic functional recovery for new construction. Also on october 23rd, dbi are let me repeat that, dbi and planning staff will meet with a delegation from japan visiting San Francisco to learn about Building Code and planning requirementrequirements. Such a mutual sharing of best practises helps all to contribute to more effective engineering and overall building safety procedures. Finally, tkr director huey will create a staff meeting at the end of this month or early november. Looking forward to that. October, correction, october, stay tuned for the directors aannouncements on this to review the key accomplishments as well as dbi requirements and recognise standing performances by the staff and family. Madam secretary, that concludes our announcements. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, item 3, general Public Comment . The buic will take comment that are not part of this agenda. Theres no general Public Comment and our next item is item 4, commissioners questions and matters, inquiries to staff. At this time, commissioners make inquiries to staff regarding documents, policies, practises and procedures which are of interest to the commission. No items at this time and you can contact me if you have any items for the next meeting. Future meetings and agendas, the commission may discuss and set action to criminal item determir other future items for the inspection. The next is on november 20th. On that, madam secretary, i know commissioner warsaw reached out about feedback from the Planning Department on our joint meeting and i believe you can share there. Yes. I have whats in contact with jonas, the Planning Commission secretary, and we will be moving forward with taking steps to try to plan that. The first step is to have an officers meeting of the president and Vice President and we can go from there. Ok, thank you. To let you know, we are working on that. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on items 4a and b . Seeing none, the next item is item 5, discussion and possible action regarding a proposed ordinance, file 190842, renewing and extending a prior waiver and investigation fees imposed by Building Code 107a. 5 for persons registered with the office. Cannabis through december 31st r decision to other requirements. Im tom temprono. Thank you for the opportunity to address you on his behalf. This ordinance will allow businesses pratting in th partie Amnesty Program to access fee waivers and will extend fraser s dispensary permits through 2020. Following the passage of prop 64 legalizing Recreational Cannabis in the state of california, the city commenced a registration process with illegal conretail cannabis business operators to make their activities known to the city. This process disclosed almost 250 previously unregulated activities in cul cultivation ad allowed the thank you to move many of the operations into the legal marketplace. This registration process initiated an amnesty process for these operators to bring them out of the shadows and into a regulated and compliant space. Those operators were then able to apply for a temporary cannabis business permit and as a part of that process submit to the buzzs tremendous tremendou. This has an investigation fee for any work performed without a Building Code permit and in an effort to ensure operators focus their Financial Resources on coming into compliance president the board of supervisors passed an ordinance in 2017 waiving and refunding this fee. It is important to note that this fee was a penalty imposed on operators who had built a structure within their premises without proper dbi permits, thus minimizing the fee as it is not a regular fee that dbi would otherwise charge. The ordinance waiving the investigation fee expired on december 31st of 2018 and due to unforeseen delays is the many permitting processes that these applicants are subject to, some operators were not able to complete inspections prior to that date. This ordinance will extend the deadline for these fee waivers through december 31st, 2020 so the remaining few businesses can pass inspections and come fully into compliance without being assessed fees. It should be noted this ordinance will extend the Effective Date of the temporary cannabis permits that these businesses are operating under through december 31st, 2020 as the office of cannabis works through the backlog and processes of pelte permanent li. Thank you for your consideration. The previous legislation had the support of this commission and we hope to have your support for the extension to allow the Successful Program to serve the final 17 or so operators who need to complete their inspections. I would like to thank and acknowledge m all who are with s today to answer technical questions and thank them for the offices work in bringing this legislation to you. Thank you for your presentation and i do believe you have a question here commissioner wassle . No. I, basically, wanted to thank the supervisor and yourself for this work. Obviously helping these businesses come out of the shadows and legalize is critically important and we know theyve been doing so with good faith and things can move slowly. So i would move that we extend it to the end of 2020 as requested. Commissioner walker . I second that. I really appreciate the work our department has done to help move this industry forward. I think its really important and interesting that theres work going on to provide consumption permits so it comes off the street and i feel like i would love an update on the entire program of how many businesses and whats required for those types of permits. Its really important. Its an important industry and its really important that were doing it right. So kudos to the department of cannabis and thank you for supervisor mandelman bringing this forward through you, tom. So i second it. This is a quick question, more operationally. You said 250 that have come forward out of the shadows. Do you have an idea of how many more . 250 regulations. Regulations, not buzzes. Buzzes. Im m marissa rodriquez. Whether there are more unregulated is a different story but our job is to bring those part of the and necessity amnest of the shadows. Do you have the obstacles they run into . I hear power is a big one. These big buildings dont have enough power. Is this a recurrence of one particular type of issue that tt they have trouble meet something. For cultivators, weve vaccinseenthe experience in whiy need additional auxillary support and based where the generator was placed, so offsuedoffside, people with experiences in the place in which the generator was located posing a challenge, so those are the issues people are running into. Pg e, i know on regular daytoday operations, just to get a 400amp service is not a big jump. I know you guys are up somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200amp services. Im just wondering, is it become abecoming a situation you cannot get it and legalize it . I dont know. Im curious. Its a relatively small number of people who have run into the issue, but weve seen people who arent able to get the power that they need for sure. So they would have to relocate. Or figure out another solution. Traditionally how long does a permit take to get compliant . Do you have a stat on that . I many, it think it depends on the severity of the issues. So some people making modifications in six months. Weve seen other operators in which its taken longer for the issue youre mentioning where there needs to be a Different Development with regard to pg e, if theyre relocating a generator, for example, its taking a lot of tame to get thee permits. There was an instance in which the existing generator was located in the front of the building and it would require them to move to come into compliance. So that was a project taking many, many months to kind of move around and sign off to make sure it was in compliance. Ok. Thank you and thank you for all of the work. I would just like to thank the department of building inspection for your support, to dr. Huey and michael sweenny is in the back and helping us to get over the finish line. We would be happy to share any of the things were working on at any point. Just invite us. Do you have much communication with nicole in sacramento . She just called me five minutes ago. Give her our best. Theres a motion and seconder to approve this item and any Public Comment . Seeing none, ill do the role call vote. role call . The motion carries unanimously. And our next item is item 6, discussion and possible action regarding a proposed ordinance, board of supervisors 190974, amending the green Building Code to establish requirements for new Building Construction, requiring buildings exutilizeane electricity. Amending the environment code to require a new construction of municipal buildings to exclude natural gas. Members of the commission have a handout and ill not show it on the screen. Good morning. My name is barry cooper and ill be discussing this item with you this morning. This is to improve Public Health and safety. San francisco is aiming for an 80 Emission Reduction by 205 20 and thus far reduced emission, more than 36 and thats in the context of considerable growth and population as well as doubling the size of our economy. There was a resolution of a detective clarratiodeclaration e change on San Francisco and a Just Transition to a fossil fuel free economy in line with this citys longstanding and requested a report within 100 days about what exactly would be necessary. Is it technically feasible and how to make progress towards meeting that goal of a fossilfuel free economy. The resulting report titled focus 2030 found that it is technically feasible to meet the Greenhouse Gas emission goals and its possible, if we were to simply implement policies that are in place today and programs and incentives in place, we would increase an emissions by 2050 and so there is room to meet the goals but requires continued action. In september of 2018, mayor breed was proud to be the host for the Global Climate action submit and made a commitment to ensure new construction citywide would be zero emissions no later than 2030 and that has been followed up by some of the legislation well be discussing today. She also made a commitment that San Francisco would pursue achieving zero emissions in our entire building stock, including existing buildings by 2050 not affected by the ordinance proposed today. While those goals are ambitious, they really boil down to three key elements. We need to ensure the building stock is efficient with considerable tools to do so and it has the implementation of californias Energy Standards, San Franciscos green Building Code and offered by utilities contributing to a 10 reduction in Gross Energy Consumption over the last eight years in the commercial sector and expect one on efficiency. We cant get to zero emissions by using this efficiently but supply ourselves with renewable electricity,. A big milestone has been the clean power sf program. Where the citys program have enjoyed this for close to 100 years, now around 80 is supplied by either the combination of clean power sf or hecheche power. So when we look at this, we see someone different effects. The only power available is 100 clean and renewable, sourced from hydroelectric and solar and all of the operational greenhouse emissions in facilities come from the direct combustion in natural gas or uses district steam which produces natural gas. Broadening out citywood, you c, theres a sta similar phenomenon supplying renewable electricity and now more than 80 of the emissions from broughting the citys building stock come from combustion of gas. San francisco is definitely not alone in looking at these issues and as recently as last summer, uc berkley researchers, on behalf of the California Commission and utilitys commission looked at the effects of meeting californias Clean Energy Goal goals, both elittleg enickeremissions and if we lookt the progress we would make by 2050, as soon as 2030, woe see reduction in mor morbidity and mortality and because healthcare is constant and buildings are located everywhere and across the state, those benefits accrued disproportionately to disadvantaged communities in those of greatest need. If we zoom to 2050, the states projection is zero emissions economywide in our building stock, in our transportation would yield about a 9 boost in the state gdp and three million jobs. An important correlary is not just the economy but resilience. There was a measure to reduce fire risk to the rest of the territory and its an important question, if were talking about encouraging electricity use, are there implications for the electricity grid and electricity supply. And the answer is, yes, of course, there are and well be glad to talk about them. At the same time, in new construction, nearly all of natural gasconsuming appliances require electricity to brought. So the Public Safety power shutoff would have affected a building whether using gas for space conditions, water heating or other common uses of gas. At the same time, pg e has thankfulfullthankfully been a pn the Lifelines Council and this is a summary extract from the 2014 report looking at in the event of a 7. 9 skwa ubg 7. 9 7. 9o similar to 1906, and the commission is very well aware, the usgs estimates one by 2043. In the event of one of those large situatio earthconfrontatih gas and electricity will be affected and it will be 25 of the city no one week due to temporary measures. On the other hand, with the gas system, its varied and brittle, containing a flammable material and it will take longer, approximately six months to restore gas citywood. Citywide. So in that context, and theyre summarized in the slide and in the core of the local policies, in addition to, say, the state energy code, include requiring new construction of ten floors or less to install, based on preference, either affordable thermal system for hot water heating or green roof and ensure there i service for electrical wiring in the future and in addition, Residential Projects are continued to meet the green achieve great point rateins and thirated, energy en title 24 and they were tied to the state Building Code. In summary. , today, if you pull a permit for a residential scale, if you build it with mixed fuel, it would need to be 10 more efficient than the 2016 code. If you pull the same permit under the policy this commission kaerlcarried through, it would e under a 2019 code and if you build all electric, in order to provide an encourage the provide all electric, no additional margin beyond code required. There are two additional ordinances pending before the board of supervisors. The one well talk about today is highlighted in bold elements of this handout. And ill just briefly mention that separately, supervisor brown, with the support of supervisor mandleman commit to go all electric only in new construction and alterations. The one for your consideration today is a little lighter than that, supporting the idea to choose light alliances but codifies and makes explicit the same requirements in place today for residential and then extends in the nonresidential and those boil down to a simple matter if you build with gas, you need to demonstrate to reduce emissions and energy use by 10 and if you build all electric, then no additional requirements to be imposed. A key reason for that specific proposal and for this proposal, not imposing requirements in place for residential are, of course, the citys priority issue of the housing crisis we face and so for reference, 97 of new housin