Quality of life, and will increase over time. By the end of the century, a number of San Francisco households will be exposed to Sea Level Rise and flooding. This map was produced by the department of Public Health and actually shows the september 2017 heat wave, and the differential in ground temperatures. If you were in golden gate park, it was a balmy 75, but if you were in one of our inner neighborhoods, you were experiencing temperatures over 120. And of course, were currently facing many, many other crises in housing affordability, child care availability. The framework aims to help meet the mayors nearteam priorities in a way that ensures our longterm sustainability and resilience. In fall 2018, the United Nations synthesized 6,500 scientific works and decreed that we need to get to zero emissions by 2050 to meet the paris climate accord. This is over the 80 reduction that we had all been planning on. So San Franciscos goals are 0, 80, and 100. Whats important to note is those goals are actually by 2030. It is known that the next ten years are the utmost importance, we cannot wait until 2050. And in San Francisco, we are very rightly proud of all of our progressive Green Building requirements and weve exceeded our emission goals, but this was created to tee up the Climate Action strategy update and shows that our emissions will start to rise again in our current kind of regulatory framework, because of growth, because of the economy, and because weve already knocked off a lot of that lowerhanging fruit. So well provide a deeper dive on the Climate Action strategy later this year, but just to let you know, we have to reduce emissions another 89 in order to achieve these goals. So in this allhandsondeckcrisis, were in on supporting these goals. Were working with many other agencies and the Mayors Office and now the board. Yesterday, i represented us in the new building and Decarbonization Task force kicked off for the environment. So the next four slides are just quickly giving you the context of what were doing as a city and what planning is doing with the other agencies from the interagency level to the neighborhood level just so you can understand where this fits in all of this. So over the last 1. 5 years, planning has been partnering with several agencies to create a Climate Resilience program for the industry to strategically integrate all these different efforts that are going on originally spurred by individual departments. It also creates a think tanklike forum for core staff to innovate and align. We use this term Climate Resilience to encompass the citys work on mitigation as well as the climate adaptation. And were mainly focused in this green area of identifying the synergies between these two efforts. Like i said, weve kicked off the Climate Action strategy update, and that is due to be completed by the end of the year. Likewise, youve already heard about the Sea Level Rise work as well as the port resilience work, and weve been pushing sustainability, pushing for them to be resilient. Were focusing on four unique avenues that we have as an agency, so our early interface. A lot of the departments that are developing the regulations or doing the research, theyre not in touch with the developers or the projects. We do integrated partnerships and a lot of long range planning. That helps us tee up and do a lot of practice. We have the planning code, we have t. D. M. , the plant finder tool, better streets. The sustainability neighborhood framework aims to be another tool in our toolkit. And finally, Design Review gives us a lot of interface with projects. Andti and finally, in citywide itself, weve added sustainability in our core functions, and focusing on the sustainability work, the biodiversity, the climate work, the waterfront work, and how were working with transportation, environmental justice, etc. So hopefully, you are now sold on the need for this tool and its benefits, and appreciate your patience. So this is also not new. Youve heard about the Sustainable Systems framework from five years ago. Weve been working on sustainability district in soma and chinatown. We are looking to create something thats consistent. We want any Community Member or Commission Staff to use the same framework. But the word ecodistrict is already trademarked, so sustainable district is the term weve coined so far. I know its not johns favorite, but its one of our best ideas. One of the main, main points is how can we maximize benefits so all of these accesses to sustainability . Projects have to meet stormwater requirements. They can really do so in a way that encourages walking and sustainable trips, and they can use local plants that support our biodiversity. So weve created a vision framework, and theres three tools that support its use. A program summary, a work sheet and Program Guide thatll be much more dynamic than our current spreadsheets. And throughout this project, weve had five main driving principles of what we wanted to achieve. People centered and compelling, built on best practices, effective and efficient, not going to add process, compelling and easy to use, and flexible and scaleable. So weve been focused a lot on neighborhood and district scale, but its intended that even home renovation could pick it up and get some insights. So we are here, the framework itself. We are centered on five goals. Healthy air, Renewable Energy, clean ecosystems and renewable waste. These five goals as well as the 15 targets are all synonymous with existing city goals and commitments. So the Planning Department cannot creating this in a vacuum. Were using this in a way that allows us to connect these projects with larger city goals. Were under pinning this with climate equity, resilience, and climate. So as youre picking your priorities, how can you make sure that what youre doing to make your project resilient to extreme heat isnt actually creating additional emissions . And then, the lines are just illustrative to point out that all of these things are connected in a modern world so we end up with cost neutral solutions. This is just a fourpage summary that illustrates the when, the where, the why, the how. There is five pages, one for each goal. At the top, we have the buckets for equity, resilience, and climate that point out to you things to consider and things to adivide divide as you go thd contemplate your strategies. So you can look at the materials youre using, you can look at the Building Systems that youre using. Theres a lot of different approaches or pathways. Then, the third is a summary of really important existing requirements. This is not meant to replicate the Green Building code and the health code where all these complicated codes live, but to pull out the most salient ones where we can pull them out and make progress. The next one, were calling enhancements, and its building on existing city policies and initiatives. So this is where the main team gets together for Major Projects and we put together or wish list or please can you try to achieve this in your project, but this becomes the kind of dynamic part of the work sheet, and then, the strategy compendium is making this descriptive. We want engineers and designers to tell us the best solutions for achieving these targets . So after we hand this over, we, you know, based on the projects that we are currently in, we have an iterative process with the project team to kind of turn that column of cityfamily requests into the specific goals for that project. So that column four in the final product, this is actually a snapshot from potrero power station becomes the potrero power station goals, lives as a fivepage compendium in their document. And then, the list of strategies actually becomes a directory of where you find all these different strategies and standards and guidelines in their document itself. And then, because spreadsheets can kind of make your head pop off, we have a onepage version, and this is what you might have already seen for the marketoctavia plan where we summarize heres all the ways that were pushing the envelope and what were proposing in that plan. So lastly, were creating an online guide that we will be excited to bring back to you that will make all of this much more dynamic. And then just really quickly, the five next steps. So were excited to hear your feedback. Were going to be conducting some Stakeholder Engagement over the next few months, getting together with community groups, developers, and technical experts. Well be refining that, and then wed love to come back with a resolution hopefully early summer. President melgar thank you, miss fisher. Should i quickly read these support statements or did you want to ask questions first . President melgar can we hear Public Comment on this item. Do we have any speaker cards . Yeah no . Okay. Come on up. Thank you, commission. My names christopher peterson. I think much of this framework is terrific. I do have one recommendation, which is that the framework be much more explicit and prominent in its discussion of housing. From a climate perspective, because of San Franciscos extensive transit network, its walkability, it is appropriate climate, this is one of the most appropriate places in the state to be producing more housing. So i think that this framework should really call out the need and be recommending the provision of additional housing, especially in areas that are close to major transit corridors, commercial centers, and Employment Centers and commercial districts. Thank you. President melgar thank you, mr. Peterson. Next speaker, please. Greetings, Planning Commissioners. Peter brasto from department of environment. Couple other colleagues submitted a written statement, but was able to make it. Just got off of yerba buena island, speaking of diversity. Thats my role at the department of environment. Im thrilled with this framework that lisa has been leading and everyone at our interdepartment agency has been working on. When do you see a department with robust ecosystems right smack dab in the middle im remembering that slide there. We can live in San Francisco and berkeley and oakland and mill valley or whatever. We could have 100 Renewable Energy, and no waste, but do we want to live in a place with no plants or animals or do we want to continue to thrive . Its critical that we do that, and i want to give huge shout out to lisa whos been huge in implementing our work with the biodiversity agency, working with us from the department of environment. So just thrilled a, and thank u so much. President melgar next speaker, please. I have a speaker card from helen brekke. Im with the climate reality bay area, and i want a second dose of the speakers that have already talked regarding housing and biodiversity. I also want to reemphasize what was in the report that city departments need to Work Together and find more interconnections and networking so that we can achieve the Climate Emergency goals. Everybody working in a silo is not going to succeed, so i wanted to second that. And then, the only thing i wanted to say is i was happy to hear the speaker from the Planning Department talk about meeting with community as part of this project . I wanted to underscore the importance of that, as well, that its on the little blush i had, this it said that the stakeholder meetings were for designers, developers, and environmental groups. And i think meeting with community, whether or not they have previous interest in the environment, is going to be really key to meeting the Climate Emergency goals. Thank you. President melgar thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, good afternoon. My name is julia, and i work at Natural Resources defense council. I work in Renewable Energy . I dont work in sustainable projects, but i am a member of the lower haight homeowners association. The city working with the communities across the sevenbyseven area and really having more of a coordinated effort, protecting the housing, protecting the environment, working on transit, all of this is really important moving this forward. I also wanted to say that theres a lot of work thats gone into this . And i wanted to say thank you for letting me speak, and thank you for all the work youve done on this. Thank you so much. President melgar commissioner koppel . Vice president koppel thank you. Were working on installing solar on the as much of the p. U. C. Properties as we have been. Its refreshing to see us working with the downtown buildings and whatnot. Just one question i like the coverage of the report. Are we looking at potential underground transit tunnels . Thats just one thing i havent heard about, and i know theyre very vital to how we operate as a city, whether its muni or the b. A. R. T. Tunnels. Are we looking at them and protecting them from some potential disasters . Youre talking about the sort of on our resilience aspect . Vice president koppel yeah. So that citywide division, acting director, we came here, and i presented last year about our Sea Level Rise and vulnerability assessment. That does include the existing underground train tunnels, such as the b. A. R. T. And muni Market Street tunnel, of which the embarcadero station is a vital component. The next stage is to come up to develop adaptation strategies to come up with that. Weve been working with the port of San Francisco and others on how to make the waterfront more resilient so that our waterfront is protected. Were also looking at future potential tunnels such as the downtown rail extension or future b. A. R. T. Tunnels. Vice president koppel thank you. President melgar commissioner fung. Commissioner fung couple of questions for staff. The can we expect a sustainability overlay for the hub plan . Yes. Actually, this was the highlight of that so far, and what weve been doing is going using, actually, the five work sheets to go through the entire plan and look at where we have any gaps, where we might want to tweak words of the existing policies, and then, weve actually added a new subset of policies specifically around sustainability and resilient where they didnt actually fit within the existing policies. Commissioner fung okay. In terms of the, then, specific goals, is that being projected by staff or how are you determining those goals for the hub plan . Weve been working on that together with the staff and also as it relates to these existing city commitments and definitely leveraging all the work that we did in the central soma plan, which was also an interagency effort. Commissioner fung so those goals are also the citywide type of goals. Right. So the idea is the sustainable neighborhood framework can kind of cement the city ideas and commitments, and then throughout the hub, we can see policies that will support them. We dont envision that the hub itself would have a list of its own goals and targets. The idea is, you know, how can our major Planning Areas and things going in there Work Together to kind of realize these types of environments for the people that are living and working there. And the goal is for you guys so that, you know, when these big projects come, they all show you the same table. They can kind of quickly talk about what theyre specifically doing. Because of course depending on your context, depending on what youre up against with your site, youre going to be able to prioritize things in different buckets. Commissioner fung or be able to expand. Yes. Commissioner fung last question, with the potrero power station project, it was suggested they look at an example given the history of the uses on that site and the contamination that occurred, that they consider an example of a netzero building, which would have been the power plant itself. Is that being considered, too . Yes, and youll be hearing from them at the end of the month, and weve been working really closely with the Mayors Office and oewd and the department of the environment and how that project can be a great example of maybe not net zero but more of, like, net zero carbon . Like, were working with them to not even bring in natural gas, to bring in 100 renewable electricity. President melgar commissioner johnson . Commissioner johnson thank you. Thank you so much for the report. You may have covered this, but i just have a couple of questions. One is just how youre thinking about this strategy playing into other strategies around the city, specifically departments, like the Neighborhood Department network, nert, you know, being prepared for natural disasters, making sure that people have places to go if they cant shelter in place, and making sure the department is responding to the need specifically of communities of color and older Housing Stock where people cant necessarily shelter in place. Is there a response to that . Sure. In reality, all of those things have been habit and core to the Climate Resilience plans that weve been working on, with the office of cap raresilience and planning and other city departments. We had a survey go out, like, how are you feeling . How prepared are you . The climate work is focused on climate mitigation, and we are using that as an opportunity to