Laid where we need to go and stating the problems of which there will be many. I have to stress the quality of this foundation. The city should have a staff biologist. We have a large constituency as athletic field, playgrounds, and swimming pools, but it is not organized and consequently is inarticulate and suffers at budget times. The most insects and our greatest biodiversity lies in our grasslands, but they are declining due to inadequate staffing. By far the greatest wildlife support is provided by locally native plants because they evolve together, but few of them can be found in nurseries. We need a large nursery to propagate the individual plants. Brett park has a nursery and it should be fostered for the whole city. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Thank you very much, supervisors, for your actions to improve the biodiversity throughout the city. I am a board member of the sutro stewards and i can see how effective it has been to have a collaboration among the many interested parties who want to have wildlife in the city. Weve had a wonderful collaboration with ucsf and were working to improve the biodiversity of the local lands. They are im speaking in support of the implementation efforts to make this citys biodiversity a high priority. I thank you again for your efforts. Hello, i want to thank you, supervisors, for this opportunity. Ive been working with the Natural Resource group of rec and park as a volunteer as well as working on the beaches in San Francisco to help its biodiversity. I agree with all the speakers before we, so i wont get into any of that. But i would like to share with you two things of concern. If youre going to proceed with this biodiversity plan, with this vision, there should be a Natural Resource manager overseeing their efforts. The other concern that i would have is that when the term open space is being used, pope space just means public property. It doesnt have any protections unless it is protected or conserved open space. With that said, the possibility of this measure e within San Francisco for Affordable Housing coming up or any other governing body in the future could actually take open space, public property, unless its protected, and use it for housing or other uses. So thats a concern of mine. One other concern that i have within that distinction of open space, theres park lands. As it sits now, parkland couldnt be used for housing, when, in fact, it could be if it was transferred to another department within this city. Please keep that in mind while moving forward with this effort. Just with regard to to the last speakers comment, you cannot transfer parkland under the chart of the city and county of San Francisco, so that is truly protected lands. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, speakers. Im really happy to be present while this biodiversity resolution is being presented and supported. I am a native plant nursery manager for literacy for environmental justice. Were an organization in the bayview district. One of the messages i want to get across is a lot of this work is already happening, but we need your support. Its not an issue of not having the money, but an issue of priority. Were using terms like crisis. I like to move away from fear and more towards love. To me the above part is the solution of this biodiversity resolution. One thing that working with biodiversity and Habitat Restoration does is it connects us to ourselves and to our local environment. It gives us a sense of place. This is something that is direly needed in this age of Digital Technology and service myopic closedin way of relating. This opens up eyes, hearts, minds, and something that brings happiness and solves this crisis that were facing. My organization does workforce development. We hire local youth. We address the inequity and access to open space by providing jobs to youth to grow these native plants. The solutions are here and we need your help and this is a great start. Thank you very much. Thank you. If there are any other speakers, if you would line up. I am here on my own behalf, here in full support of biodiversity, especially the resolution sponsored by the noted environmentalist. That being said, there are actions by the mta and the Planning Department that seem inconsistent, even contradictory with these goals. The Planning Department seems to determined to pave over open space, especially rear yard open space. It appears there are areas where it is still needed to walk the talk. Thank you. Supervisor haney. First of all, thank you, supervisors, for bringing this forward. I really appreciate the i did hear a bit in here some focus on both the port and then central soma and around the freeways. My district has a lack of inadequate open space. It also has a lot of publicly owned land by us or the state or other entities. So i really do hope there is a priority in thinking about equity and the opportunity in those areas, particularly around the freeways and around the port throughout the tenderloin. Two things i wanted to also flag to see if Treasure Island was a part of this strategy or how youre thinking about the Treasure Island open space. Also in district space in particular and some other areas as well, there is a lot of privatepublic open spaces. Those are ones where i think there is some opportunity if we were to bring some ways to better utilize that space and think about the biodiversity in those spaces, there is some rooftop gardens and things like that that i think are underutilized. So i wanted to flag those things and that my district is in support of this strategy. I would like to thank everyone for their prejtss today and thank you for the Public Comment that came out. I really want to give a shout tout to sf environment for all the hard work theyre doing, getting us to work as a team to meet our biodiversity needs and goals. I just want to commend everyone and also our city departments for working together. I just have a few comments and questions. One of my comments is that i notice that on this group that was not included and when were talking about access and equity, i think that we cant forget about our older and disabled adults and their access to the environment and what were doing about that. I would love to see them on the list. Also we need to coordinate with ggnra and the trust, but want to make sure that were all working with them in my neighborhood in each of the surrounding areas for my district. Also i wanted to know, are we also including Community Gardens and the effort around Community Gardens . Are we looking for more Community Gardens as we get more and more dense and people have less and less space in their back yards. I think thats a way for people to relate to nature and have an experience themselves or volunteer groups at the golden gate park. I went on a tour with the friends of wood oaklands. I am impressed with what they are doij. They emailed me with two suggestions and one is to increase the budget of the San FranciscoRecreation Parks DepartmentNational Resources division which we heard in the Public Comment today and actually direct rec and park to foster policy to increase productive collaboration and material collaboration among our pd divisions and nrd as it pertains to San Francisco about the plan that the board passed in 2018. I love the idea of the friends of the urban forest centering on back yards because in my district i have so many backyards that have been concreted over. I think there is an opportunity to capture actually some of those homeowners that we have an influx of new homeowners as people who have aged out of their homes. This is an opportunity to bring up their responsibility as homeowners to add to our biodiversity. Also, i know there used to be plant displays along the beltway and in my neighborhood that you can actually look at plants that trees that you may want to plant. They have plaquards on them. I moved there in 1959. Full transparency, it was a long time ago, but i thought that idea was really good because you can actually see the trees and how you think is an example of which tree you can request and you have a recommendation of trees that are native to San Francisco. And then i just want to say about the pollinated gardens. Theres one in the belt way now. I think theres excellent and would love to see more and about our education and awareness. I think it is about education and youre absolutely right. I am having a lot of and a lot of Community Meetings about this contention between cars and bicycles and our vision zero. I think there is more education about what we can do individually in our responsibility to actually help reverse whats happening in our climate, that everyone has a responsibility but everyone actually can do something. In my neighborhood we are trying to put bike racks in. It has been a contentious conversation. Many people in my neighborhood own two or three cars. Thats not sustainable. I think the education part of it would help all of us who are trying to look at a larger, global goal of keeping our planet safe and trying to repair it. I love this report and feel like youve got a lot of work on it and i feel the departments are working together. I also wanted to say i think private companies such as ecology should be at the table, we should be discussing it with them. Do they have a biodiversity policy. I think were all so interconnected here and our borders of San Francisco are finite but actually not finite, that we are interacting all the time to other entities. Thank you again to my colleagues on the board for holding this hearing. Thank you, supervisor fewer. Would you like us to continue this to the call of the chair or file the item . I believe i would like to file in item. Okay. I will make a motion to file the item and well take that without objection. Madam clerk, could you please read item 4 out of order. Clerk item had is the rooulgts renaming one block that runs parallel to 6 and 7 street and perpendicular to jeff adossi way. Today i am introducing a resolution to rename one street. I want to thank ten of my colleagues who are cosponsors for their support in honoring jeffs legacy. I also want to thank the hundreds of people that submitted letters in support of the name change and for those who signed our petition in support of jeff adachi way. I want to thank the residents who participated actively with us, either attending the meetings or responding to us over email and engaging with my office. I want to thank my chief of staff for her hard work on this. I recognize there are a lot of people who are here to speak on this, so i wont say too much about this. What i do want to say is we miss jeff every day. We miss him and his joy and who he was as a person and his friendship. We also miss the advocacy and the hard work and the fearlessness that he brought to his work every day. He was for six years as public defender, he transformed that office into a National Model for public defender work and also became a National Voice for racial justice. The street that we are going to be renaming is one that he walked on on a near daily basis since he started at the Public Defenders Office in 1987. It is a fitting way that we will honor jeff and his legacy. It will be a place where attorneys and others for decades and decades to come will be able to loom up and be reminded of the example that he set for all of us. I want to also thank the many folks who are here from the Public Defenders Office for their incredible work and support of this effort. I also want to recognize jeffs wife and jeffs family. Again, to thank the many folks who came out to speak on this and contacted us to support this. I also want to recognize that there were many folks who believed that this is an important thing for us to do, not just because of who jeff was and what he represented to the criminal defense community, but also how important it is that we elevate heroes in our community, particularly that represent the full diversity of San Francisco. The japan kneesjapanaseamerica and asianamerican community has been part of this. Unfortunately, there are few places in which we recognize and honor and celebrate the leadership of asianamerican leaders in our communities. As much as this is about jeff, which it is, it is also about making sure that a Community Gets recognition. I want to thank those from various japanesearn organizations that have spoken out in support of us taking this step. So there are no amendments that i have. Just as we did hear this once before in land use and we did make the change that we had discussed at that meeting, which is that this will be the one block between brandon and bryant that would be named jeff adachi way. We would have both names before becoming solely jeff adachi way. This is something our city does. There are many different blocks around the city that have this arrangement. Just right out here in front of city hall we have one name for one block. This would be similar. This is a hugely important block for the legacy that jeff represented across from the hall of justice. With that, chair peskin may want to open it up to Public Comment. Should we start with the public defender . Several years ago i was coming back from court after a hotly contested trial, which fortunately had a good result. Jeff met me in the hallway. I was flying out of the country the next day to do some International Human rights work in india. Jeff had with him this book about the legal system in india and the empire, almost uncannily the right gesture at the right time. While he was really proud of the work we did in the courtroom and what we accomplished, to me that gesture said volumes and was a thick read, not just about him as a civil rights hero but as a civil rights hero. When we think about human rights, if i had to instill jeffs philosophy to just a few words, it was is the level of representation that youre providing to this client the level of representation that you would want if a loved one of yours were facing charges . If its not, you need to raise the level. I can think of so better ethic for our staff to be reminded of as we go across that alley on the way to court to 850 bryant to do battle for our clients and their families. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is alex limeau. I am an attorney speaking today to represent the opinions of the residents and the property of owners of gillbert who are unanimous in the strong opposition to renaming their street and instead suggest to rename the public defenders building. Out of the 28 fronting properties, 23 responded to the letter. All of the residents opposed the renaming of their street. Furthermore, public works received a petition to keep the name. 18 of the residents also submitted signed declarations suggesting instead renaming the Public Defenders Office building in dedication of jeff adachi. The primary reason the residents opposed the name change is it imposes a significant expense. Every Property Owner would be forced to engage in a very timeconsuming process to update legal documents and in some cases be forced to obtain lawyers to update wills and other documents with real expenses. I note that those appearing today in support of this name change, none are residents of gilbert street who will have to pay this price. We urge the board not to ride rough shot over the residents of this street. Renames the building does not carry any of these down sides. And it will ensure his legacy continues. Thank you. Go ahead, next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is gregory mendez. I am here as a citizen of San Francisco. I fully support the comments just made by the attorney who spoke to you a few moments ago. I park on gilbert street and have for the last 19 years. I am well acquainted with the woman who i rent my parking space from, and she has told me many times how she would have to suffer the burdens of this name change. I fully agree that naming the public defender building after mr. Adachi would be wholly appropriate and, frankly, would not be a burden on anyone. I would also point out that its my belief, and i know this from contact with San FranciscoPolice Department officers, that the circumstances that brought about the tragic and terrible demise of mr. Adachi was not all together clear to the public. Im well aware of what actually happened, and i believe that naming a street for mr. Adachi is actually in furtherance of that effort by this city to conceal what actually happened. He deserved to be recognized for his fine work. Theres no question about that, but certainly not by naming this street after him. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im christopher holland. I as well represent several of the businesses and Property Owners on gillbert street. The cost factor in changing their biographic information is too much. I new jeff adachi. He was seven or eight years behind me and became an attorney in 1985, a public defender for 18 or 20 years. As we know, he became the head public defender in 2002, all the way up until february when he died. The guy was a fearless advocate and he has a wonderful staff, i guess about 100 deputy public defenders underneath him and i see them regularly in court. Theyve done extremely well. They are fearless advocates themselves, all trained under jeff adachi. Jeff adachi did a lot of good work and he did the immigrants in this city postconviction release, the motions that he brought to protect the immigrants. And what i dont think mr. Haney, you have sat back and looked why would they name a back street socalled alleyway after jeff adachi . Wouldnt it be more appropriate to name 5557 s