You need identifiers. A conversation led by digital and data sf to stay with the project the entire way through. A lot happening. That is my presentation. I am happy to take questions. I appreciate your time. Thank you very much, ms. White house. Commissioner walker, please. Thank you so much for this. As i have watched i will make a joke i can see the new building out my window. You know, we are all anticipating realizing it is coming on so quick, we have hiccups in our own Data Management project we have been doing, and it was really helpful because it makes me feel more comfortable all of these processes that we have been engaged in towards that end are being used in a way that makes sense. Part of our moving from together will facilitate a better coordinated effort which is what we have all wanted to do with our permit tracking project. This is heartening. It is going to be beautiful. It is already beautiful. I love the way that there is a courtyard and we are taking care to make space for the folks who work in our departments, open space. It is amazing. This is quite commendable. You delivered a 45 minute presentation in 15 minutes. I talk fast. You are amazing. Anyway. I dont know that i have any questions at this point. I think that it is really wonderful to watch how quickly this has gone up. It is amazing. The housing especially because it is so tall, but i think that all of us are excited to do it. I love the idea of doing a pilot in our existing location. I think that is going to be really helpful. Thank you for doing this. I will study this. If i have other questions, i will call you. Hats off to whoever made the decision, tom, or your department to go with blue beam. It is a fantastic tool. Part of the reason why 4749 is doing so well because it is using blue beam. It is effective. Hats off to you for using it. The commissioner does not it is on the board of blue beaming. Beam. I share all of the positive feelings about this, and i would like to go back on page 7 where you do say no one department owns the entire Customer Experience. You know, is there any way to rectify that, when nobody opens it, it is a source of problems. Very often what Different Companies or agencies do is say maybe nobody really is in charge of it all, but whoever have the dominant takes is lead so it is seamless and does own it and the Customer Experience is such they go to the primary. One of my two questions is there any possible way to solve that short coming of nobody owns it . Yes, that is a great question. I want to make the point that on form 1 through 8 item and submits items the 70,000 permits, d. B. I. Is the owner and takes that responsibility. There is an owner in that case. Whether or not public works owns 20k. They will be together in the space in the new world. I feel like that makes sense to me they will be together, which is an improvement. Right now they are in different be locations. How much more coordination is needed . That feels like a lot. Once it is all an electronic plan review, departments will make comments in blue beam and comments with the customer in blue beam to reduce the issues of projects moving between the horizontal and vote vertical world if that helps. It does. I like the idea of there being a seamless Customer Experience. Sometimes for the sake of clarity one dominant agency which sounds like it would be d. B. I. Takes the primary role and delegates appropriately. It may facilitate that desirable improvement in Customer Experience, and certainty as to how do i do this . Who did i go to first . I do think that would be something that would be worth trying to evaluate so that our goal of good Customer Experience really happens. The second question, you know, i hope blue beam works as well as possible. We are experiencing some concerns about some of our Technology Efforts right now, but my only other question is what happens when things go down . Where we don are the potential e fields . On the cueing system, it is cloud based. It is constantly reaching when it goes down and when it comes back up it only happened once since early august. You dont lose the data. It stops you from getting in the line while it is down. Blue beam i dont know the answer to that question for blue beam but i can look into it and get back to you. Were you talking about any other types of systems. Okay. Again, i dont want to be a tech technifobbe. I am interested in being sure redundancies are built in so we have smooth transitions and as we establish confidence that they are notness not necessary scary, i would like to be certain that we have all contingencies protected. Thank you. I am having trouble hearing you. I will speak more directly into the microphone. I want to hear the question. I got bits and pieces. Again, it is just i am something for technology, as such, i want to be sure that especially as we introduce new things we are very careful to add redundancies into the system, which potentially could, for the sake of efficiency be removed when they proof to be unnecessary, but, you know, again, we have had challenges with some of our ventures into improving technology, and i want to be sure that as we add something as significant as these new vendors, new systems, that at least at introductory periods and for a test time we are very cautious about having backups and redundancies. Yes, thank you for repeating. The answer on that, and i am not an Information Technology professional. I have hired someone on the team with 20 Years Experience implementing electronic experiences with the city. Cary bishop is knowledgeable. The way to do that is not to have a big bang. It is the pilots. That is the approach we are taking as we impliment electronic plan review. How can we try small pieces, not having a big bang. Those comments are very welltaken. Commissioner lee, please. Going 100 electronic plan review is very exciting. I have been on the commission over 10 years. When i first started i had discussions with constituents and colleagues in moving towards 100 paperless applications and permit applications, but my question i have two questions. First question pertains to overthecounter permit applications. As you mentioned we have 65,000 overthecounter walk ins every day. How do you envision that happening with electronic plan review . Do you expect people to come with a thumb drive or what do you expect people to do . I will say in a month or two i will have more details for you. I am happy to provide those to director hughie to report back. We are thinking that through with your department and Digital Services right now. I can tell you and this gets to your question as well. I think the way it works we are starting with the middle permits. They are lower voluming. I would like to leave overthecounter permits alone until we see it is working with submittal permits first. This turn and is working well. It is important not to disrupt that. We have been talking about it behindthescenes start with big then medium. Then get to otc when they work well and staff is comfortable. I can tell you when we get to that eventually, and i am not sure on the timeframe. When we get to that i like the idea of starting with it being all in person so you are home, you know you want to apply because of the great communication to tell you, and you go and you go to the citys website, fill out the basic information and submit your plans. It is a question if that city website tool will be integrated with pts or if they will need to move them from where they go into a blue beam. Then you need to come in. When the plans are quality controlled while you get there, you will walk around from station to station and give a project id. That is every project created. I think that is the way to go. Moving the slow pilot in testing. I have heard there is a future state of the world where you dont need to come in for many things and it can be done electronic. I think weed should go step by step. This doesnt mean that blew beam does not automate the jobs. There is a need for the routing. None of that is in blue beam. There is a lot of work to do here in the new world. My comment on that is be aware. Sometimes the documents that the architect engineers sends across are huge. Uploading and downloading will take time. That is something to be cautious of. My second question on that is how busiest time at the department and correct me if im wrong. Usually morning and end of the day when most of the contractors pick upper mitts. Where do people wait if they have to get with a group . If there are like 30 in line where do they wait . If you are going from counter to counter, you are not going there all the time. You will have down time to wait until a counter is open. Where do they wait . If you but up the floor plan. The building was designed with many areas to wait. I will point at it so you can see. [ inaudible ] i will tell you there is Text Messages capability. You can be entered in multiple cues. We know longer need people to sign on every sheet of paper. The system will say here is a routing pass and they could put the person in the cue and send them off. They wont be called when they are sitting with public works and when they mark they have arrived they can be called. It will help organize the floor and it is a critical part. You can get a text message it is a 30 minute wait and you can go get coffee. Thank you for your presentation this morning. Your enthusiasm is contagious. We are excited and really appreciate the fact this is how big of a job this is the you think about moving that many people and relocating them and the different needs and wants and asks of particularly the people whose life you are going to impact. A quick question. On the space you mentioned 40,000 feet is the new space. What is our existing space right now . That is a good question. I looked at this awhile ago. That is okay. It is hard to compare. Thank you. Good morning. Project manager. We have done various studies comparing the current and future space, to your question. It is comparable to the current space. It is difficult to compare because currently you are spread throughout five or six floors with pay mix of public and private space. Here it is a different setup. Areas are mostly for staff and then the public is mostly on second floor except on fourth floor there will be an interface for inspections. You know, one thing that struck me that was difficult to see in the old space was the size of the cubicles and the tightness. Have you spent attention on the Work Environment for the different staff . The architect before they began the work, they walked up and down and met with d. B. I. Staff and planning staff. One thing is new building there will be consistency on all floors on office and cubicle and workstation sizes. There is no code at the new building. The workstation sizes for every person will be smaller than existing space and to comment there, there will be more meeting rooms than current spaces to help with private conversations or meetings with staff. More of an open floor plan . That is correct. They take a lot of pride in designing. It is what they do, they design the offices. They are customer like any other architect. Part of their work flow is to design and engineer so they understand the work flow. They are designing that. There is nothing extraordinary about how they are designing the space. Actually, throughout the project we have heard concerns about the height of the cubicle panels, and understanding that, we have actually raised the height of those panels to help address some of the unhappiness that staff has commented on. That is my question. You have got feedback they were too low. Initially, the design was too low. It is not to make little of it. I finished an Office Building myself. We did this radical design along the lines, and the new Office People who moved in there from the old space, you know, there were people in the space for 10 years. It was a huge change for the seasoned veterans. To that point have we an outlet for the there is people who are unhappy with the space. I am getting in the weeds. Too dark and their older space was more conducive to them. Is there an outlet they can make a formal complaint and have the opportunity to move around and things like that . I think you are looking at the outlets. I think. Being respectful to the senior staff they want to make sure they are happy in their new location, you know. A little kind of consideration in those scenarios. I am not trying to open it up. The administrator has been very involved and engaged. We have had multiple executive Team Meetings to meet with directors. We have champion meetings where every department is represented. Now we will really work with the representatives from every department to talk about the physical move and logistics and if they have concerns or complaints that might be seen as minor. If you are taking your old Work Environment and moving that you are happy about it. I would make a plug. There is an intracity share point site to access for information about the project. When we get questions that we know answers to we will update on that page as well. When is the actual final date of 1660, when are the doors closing there . Probably t to two months we n give you that. We are really open. Anywhere we can address that feedback we have tried hard to do that. Obviously, the building is going up so it is harder to address things that are big, but, yes, we welcome feedback. Appreciate that. It is interesting to watch the transition and people Walking Around completely lost and not feeling connected to the Work Environment. We have to be conscious and help people through that transition. I appreciate it. Okay. Thank you very much for your presentation. Any Public Comment on item 6 . Seeing none. Item 7, discussion and possible action regarding a proposed ordinance is 90174 amending Green Building cold to establish requirements to install Energy Saving features, amending environment code to require new construction and major renovations to include natural gas in addition to other requirements. Welcome back. Good morning, members of the commission. Good morning. I will keep this brief. I thank you for the opportunity to come back before the commission with this item and for the feedback that we received in the october meeting. Really the feedback was two categories, clarifications of the ordinance and second ensuring greater outreach, particularly to new construction residential. That was much appreciated the conversations we had consequently, and i really appreciate the chance to be back with you today to cover those two items. Briefly, i would just talk why we are here today with this particular ordinance. San francisco and mayor breed is committed to goals of ensuring new construction has no operational emissions by 2030 and that our environment city wide gets to zero emissions 2050. It is Climate Change and the impact on san francisco. The sources of emissions in buildings really in municipal buildings are entirely from the combustion of natural gas and in private sector buildings they are more than 80 from natural gas. The reason that natural gas is the pretomnant source of the Carbon Emissions with generating electricity which is the primary way to provide energy to the buildings. Second, there are substantial Public Health implications from the combustion of natural gas in the buildings. It is one data point. The estimate is more than 6 billion of value will be in california through this transition to zero emission buildings in construction as well as elimination of emission the transportation sector. Third point, the resilience of buildings is improved, the occupancy is improved through use of electricity. That boils down to more than 70 chance of a major seismic event in 30 years. They could restore gas Service Within approximately six months after the seismic event in the order of the 1906 earthquake and fire. Electricity could be restored in approximately one week. It is in that context that we have today if you apply for a permit today existing requirements if you build a residential building there are numerous screen building requirements no additional efficiency requirements if you build an all Electric Building with gas that needs to be 10 more efficient. This body has previously voted to Carry Forward those requirements in the form every choiring Green Building rating systems. That is already the case also in the upcoming code for new residential construction. There are two ordinances current leap pending before the board of supervisors. One is not before you today but companion to this legislation to convince the city to not install gas systems in new buildings. This ordinance before you is the modification of the efficiency requirements for buildings including gas for residential and also expending the requirement to apply also to commercial new construction as well. The practical effect is extending the requirement to commercial reconstruction. There are a diverse array of all Electric Buildings across the community including small residential infill, affordable housing, schools, Office Buildings and dormitories at sfsu. Separate from this ordinance is the question that president mccarthy, you are predicting in our discuss to us meeting which is one of the broader questions around new construction in general and existing buildings and those are not directly addressed by this ordinance but definitely a priority for outreach and engagement in the community and it is our understanding mayor breed is in the process of issuing invitations for participation in a building de carbonization tax force including invitation to president mccarthy or delegate, if you would prefer, in order to begin the robust discussion. The broadker questions of complete approach and implications and how we can get there in a practical manner as well as addressing how can we make practical progress while ensuring racial and Society Equity in the existing buildin