Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Fantastic signature buildings. The community was concerned about traffic and congestion and impacts on quality of life. By marrying their values and a smart g. D. M. Strategy to whatever Development Proposal we get and putting it up very up front and transparent, we would eliminate a lot of the uncomfortable guesswork and get to serious players coming up and talking to us. Also, would it be something that say, it wouldnt intimidate the giants. It wouldnt intimidate the warriors or Fishermans Warf, something the public could go, i can get behind Something Like this. Or im just throwing it out a scenario, right, if she was something that say similar to Fishermans Warf would they feel theres a competition there or where its funny, sometimes were competitors too. Warriors example is great. What works so well with the project at mission bay was they lifted then tier community. Were now talking about the mission bay ferry landing. Its something that will help mission bay residents and even dog patch residents are excited about that. If you look at the r. F. P. Processing and the goals that were articulating, a great project would lift the whole community up and the giants and warriors who are part of this community would say yes, these are the kinds of things that would help us with our fan base, with making our location more exciting. I think theres a winwin out there so you have to view them as members of the community thank you, appreciate it. Peter, thank you so much for this presentation and thank you so much for simplifying the staff report with our changes and recommendations. I think that theres going to be a lot of interest in this r. F. P. And i am looking forward to see who responds. I do hope that we can keep 3032 and the seawall together because i think that we may just lose 3032 if we dont take advantage of the opportunity now. So i really do hope that whoever responds, responds to the vote. Im excited and looking forward to seeing what the responses are and i thank you and everyone else for all the wonderful work youve done and youve been here five times this year on this [laughter] we dont have a lot of questions left. [laughter] thank you so much. Its been a pleasure. All in favor. Aye any opposed. Resolution 1948 has been approved. Clerk item 14a is authorization to file with the California Building Standards Commission the ports amendments to the 2019 California Building standards code and the local findings of support such modifications. Repeal the current 2016 port of San Francisco building standards code which includes the 2016 port of San Francisco Building Code or building existing building mechanical electrical plumbing and grown building standards codes effective midnight december 31st, 2019 and three, adopt the 2019 port of San Francisco building standards code which includes the 2019 port of San Francisco building existing building mechanical electrical plumbing and grown building standards codes with an Effective Date of january 1st, 2020. This is resolution number 1949. Good evening president brandon, Vice President adams. Commissioners and executive director forbes. My name is Neil Freedman im the chief building inspector for the port. Im here to ask you for your approval of the 2019 port Building Code i presented as an informational item at the november 12th, 2019 Board Commission meeting. Since that time, we have completed our revision and posted the draft port code on the ports website and i hope youve had an opportunity to look at it. We also created a public notification in the San Francisco examiner for comment on the code for a twoweek period ending december 6th. We did not receive comments on the revisions. Were assuming were good to go. With your approval of the 2019 port code port staff will send what are determined local findings to the state building Standards Commission. Local findings are justifications of variances to the California Building code. Following acceptance of these findings by the state, port code will be implemented beginning on january 1st, 2020. At my last appearance, i noted that among others, there were pending changes in the areas of green energy, structural provisions in the existing Building Code and permit fees. Following is a brief presentation on those changes. First, the ports Green Building standards now encouragen sen ta vice the correction of new all electric residential and non residential buildings. This is part of an effort to eliminate the use of natural gases of fuel source while encouraging the use of an ever growing supply of electricallen gee from sources such as solar and wind. A provision is also been added to the add stray tive portion of the Green Building standards that a louse the chief harbor engineer to grant waivers from these stan standards. Second, the port will follow the guidelines of the 2019 california existing Building Code and no longer requires a fullseismic upgrades of buildings based on an increase in occupant load. And you can imagine what the impact of this will be for development of the port. The previous port code followed the more restrictive standard that was part of the San Francisco Building Code created by the department of Building Inspections. Under that standard, an occupant load increase of 10 for the entire structure that also resulted in an increase of more than 100 occupants for that structure would have triggered a seismic upgrade. To follow state standards, this occupant load increase would no longer require seismic upgrades. A second part to this that remains in the state code, requires a seismic upgrade if an occupancy is introduced in the structure that would trigger an increase to a higher risk categories. And the risk categories are on the screen right now. There are four of them starting with very low hazard to human life and ending in essential facilities such as fire and police stations and water facilities and power stations. Most if not all of the sheds and bulk heads fall into risk category 2, which is considered not very hazardous to human life. Its because the occupant load is relatively low and theres no essential facility that impacts other facilities such as fire. Changing piers and bulkheads to offices with increases occupant loads, would no longer move the structures into a higher risk category and would normally be a trying are for seismic upgrade. Theres one exception to that and thats if we allowed an Assembly Occupancy with more than 300 persons on a pier that would trigger an increase in the risk category from a two to a three. We dont anticipate that happening. Currently, there are special events that have more occupants than that but theyre very short term and theyre monitored usually by the Fire Department for exiting purposes, finally, the 2019 port code will increase Building Permit fees. This slide is a little bit difficult to read. I couldnt fit it all in. Without packing it. For the last, approximately 12 years, the port has not had an increase in building fees. And this is an effort to partially match what the San Francisco Department Building inspection uses. They had a fee study done in 2015 i believe and rationalized their fees and i think it would be safe to assume we can follow them at this point. As not example, i put up here, a 50,000 permit evaluation would actually result in a slight decrease in fees but would then be made up for by a plan review fee that would increase. And so, we would end up for 50,000 project an increase of 500. Our hourly plan review fee will also increase from 80 to 173. And our hourly inspection fee will go from 80 to 158. In summary, with your approval, we will adopt a 2019 port Building Code and repeal the 2016 port code and the Effective Date will be january 1st, 2020. Thank you and let me know if you are any questions thank you. So moved. Second. All in favor i have a question. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Walk me through net result of some of the Energy Efficiency agreements were making here. Does it preclude gas from cooking . It will not preclude it, no. What were doing is incentivizing use of Electrical Energy and i think the pre conclusion of gas is down the road somewhere but not right now. This wont effect all of our restaurants and all or new restaurants because one of them state codes is pulling out of gas i would like us to get back to you on that question because while neil is correct what he is proposing here would not preclude natural gas from cook tops there is an ordinance in front of the board of supervisors relative to natural gas and to electrification and it raz reached a Municipal Building so lets do some Due Diligence and see if theres other reasons why natural gas may be precluded in the future. Im going to support item. If the net result effects using gas for restaurants and stuff in our operations and i will ask or director to bring the item to address that separately this item doesnt impact natural its not impacting natural gas and prohibiting it. That would also trigger a change in the code and at that point we would have to come back to you to create a new finding that we would send to the state energy code board. Great. Thank you. Thank you so much many of i have no questions. I have no questions. All in favor. Aye awe for the report all in favor. Aye. Resolutions 1949 has been approved. Item 15 new business. I have several items under new business. First, i am going to invite the new m. T. A. Director to come to the port and share his vision for transportation on the waterfront. I think thats an excellent idea. We are going to report back to you on outreach to Diverse Communities regarding pier 39, 39th anniversary. We will be reviewing delegated authority as it related to the fee waiver that probably will look at delegated authority and come back to you with recommendations for modernization to current delegations to me and then we also have an item for pasaa to return to talk about some of the strategies in producing more value add work and auto process and looking more specifically at the labor agreement, and outreach overtime and we will be providing you information about city legislation as it relates to natural gas. Is there anymore new business . I was hoping we can update on the photography studio. Its been about 60 dies since the last conversation yes its not new business and i apologize president brandon if its out of order but i was hoping we can close todays meeting on thursdays anniversary we lost mayor lee and i hoped we can close this meeting in his honor. He put us forward to be commissions and not able to see that process through. I thought it would be a lovely way to honor him and his family. Is there any other new business . Is there any Public Comment on new business . Seeing none. Would you like to motion to adjourn . I make a motion to adjourn in the honor of mayor edwin lee second. All in favor. Aye. Meeting is adjourned. San francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for San Francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] fire station 35 was built in 1915. So it is over 100 years old. And helped it, were going to build fire boat station 35. So the finished Capital Planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on Sea Level Rise. The station 35, Construction Cost is approximately 30 million. And the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. It is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. Were looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. The historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. This totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of Sea Level Rise over the next 100 years. Thats what the citys guidance is requiring. It is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. So if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. It does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. So that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. The fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. The access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. In that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. Both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utilitys only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. So electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. High boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. Currently were staffed with Seven Members per day, but the Fire Department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. Looking into the future, we have not only at t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. There are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. Were looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but theyre the only good reference point. We look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. It is very unique. I dont know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. The fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. We have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. This is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. Were proud to serve our community. And were willing to help people in any way we can. Hi, i doing a special series about staying safe. Lets look at issues of water and sewer. We are here at the San Francisco urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco and im joined today by marrielen from puc and talk about water and sewer issues. What are things we should be concerned about water. You want to be prepared for that scenario and the recommendation is to have stored 1 gallon per person per day that you are out of water. We recommend that you have at least 35 days for each person and also keep in consideration storage needs for your pets and think about the size of your pets and how much water they consume. The storage which is using tap water which you are going to encourage. Right. Of course at the puc we recommend that you store our wonderful delicious tap water. Its free. It comes out of the tap and you can store it in any plastic container, a clean plastic container for up to 6 months. So find a container, fill it with water and label it and rotate it out. I use it to water my garden. Of course everyone has plastic bottles which we are not really promoting but it is a common way to store it. Yes. Its an easy way to pick up bottles to store it. Just make sure you check the label. This one says june 2013. So convenient you have an end date on it. And there are other places where people have water stored in their houses. Sure. If you have a water heater or access to the water heater to your house, you can drink that water and you can also drink the water that the in the tank of your toilet. ; not the bowl but in your tank. In any case if you are not totally sure about the age of your water or if you are not sure about it being totally clean, you can treat your water at home. There is two ways that you can treat your water at home and one is to use basic household bleach. The recommendation is 8 drops of bleach for ever gallon of water. You add 8 drops of bleach into the water and it needs to sit for 30 minutes. The other option is to boil water. You need to boil water for 510 minutes. After an earthquake that may not be an option as gas maybe turned off and we may not have power. The other thing is that puc will provide information as quickly as possible about recommendations about whether the water is okay to drink or need to treat it. We have a number of twice get information from the puc through twitter and facebook and our website sf water. Org. People should not drink water from pools or spas. But they could use it to flush their toilets if their source are not broken. Lets look at those issues. Sanitation is another issue and somethi