Hearings remotely. On may 29, 2020, the Mayors Office authorized all commissions to reconvene remotely. We request your patience in advance. The merged platforms are not perfect, and at times may even be clumsy. There are broadcast delays from the live event to sfgovtv, and the live event to those who are streamed, streaming the event live. I have been notified that sfgovtv is not currently broadcasting the event live on television. Again, members of the public may stream it live via their website and links. They will broadcast our hearing as soon as the Building Inspection Commission hearing concludes. To enable the public participation, sfgovtv will end up broadcasting, but it is streaming this hearing live and we will receive Public Comment for each item to todays agenda. The tollfree number to enter the hearing and to submit Public Comment is available by calling 1 888 2733658. Enter access code 3107452. And then press pound, and pound again. When you are connected and you would like to submit Public Comment for an item on the agenda press 1 and then 0 to be added into the queue. Each member of the public will be allowed up to three minutes. When you have 30 seconds remaining you will hear a chime indicating that your time is almost up. When your allotted time is reached, i will announce that your time is up and direct my staff to go to the next person to speak. Best practices are to call from a quiet location and speak clearly and slow she and mute your television ore computer. At this time id like to take roll. roll call . Clerk commissioner foley, are you on . I believe that commissioner foley and commissioner black are having technical difficulties in joining us. If our team could reach out to them and try to send them a new link to join the hearing i would appreciate that. Commissioners, first on your agenda is the general Public Comment. At this time the members of the public may address on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter of the agenda items. Your opportunity is afforded when the item is reached in the meeting and each member may address up to three minutes. Why dont we go ahead and open the Public Comment portion through the at t bridge. Your conference is now in questionandanswer mode. To summon each question press 1, and then 0. Clerk the members of the public this is, again your opportunity to call into the 800 number and to the access code and then press 1, and 0 to enter the queue. You have two questions remaining. Caller hi, good afternoon, commissioners. This is katherine howard. The San Francisco chronicle ran an investigative study on june 7th called how is San Francisco is indiscernible and it describes actions that they took under the california indiscernible act. And they have considered exemptions for at least a dozen projects on stateidentified toxic waste sites and the city exempted nine of these projects with the state Environmental Review process. Im very concerned with how this kind of misuse might be afforded by the new ceqa ordinance with the standard. The ordinance is implemented and the result would be that even more projects would be made exempt from public review under ceqa. It was to enact anxiouses to document and to consider the environmental implications their actions, and the Environmental Review process that is involved in the process by which a public gave input to public agencies on projects and policies. By limiting the Environmental Reviews with the proposed ordinance to have a negative impact on transparency and public participation. Of course we all hope that the past uses outlined in the article are not predictive of future problems. But i am concerned that the ordinance could cause more abuse of the public trust in the future. As you commissioners are aware, the ordinance will be reviewed on july 15th. I encourage you and the listening public to read the june 7th chronicle article and please reconsider and do not further weaken the ceqa process in San Francisco. Thank you very much. You have two questions remaining. Caller commissioners, good afternoon. I will be speaking later during another matter, but i just wanted to take this time to publicly to recognize jonas. I have hosted many Virtual Meetings during these trying times and i know that at times that it can feel like youre herding cats. Having watched jonas performance, your hearings as well as the general Planning Commission, i think that its done a spectacular job of maintaining order and getting as much of a semblance of a normal hearing during these trying times. You have one question remaining. Caller hello, my name is richard blockman and i am here talking about w. T. A. Murals. Im sure that the Commission Read about what they want to do with the murals at the hall. While i know they dont have any jurisdiction, i would hope that the commission would have a hearing on it. And i have murals. I have some of the murals at my website richardrossman. Com and its important to shed a light on these murals and see how beautiful they are. They need to be saved. In the indiscernible i spoke last august about this. I talked to the staff and they said they would prepare a hearing. The last i heard was in february. And thats when this happened. And i just want to urge the commission that they should have a hearing and should make this building a city landmark. Its already a national landma landmark. A. I. G. Did an extensive report on it, all of the material is ready to present to the commission. It just has to be put in the right format. And we need to shed light on the building and to make sure that its preserved and we need to make sure that its considered a landmark. Thank you for your time. You have zero questions remaining. Clerk very good, commissioners. That concludes our general Public Comment portion of the hearing. Placing us under department matters, for item 1, directors announcements. Jeff, any ahouse inments on behalf of director hills . No, jonas, i do not have a report from the director this week. Clerk item 2, review the staff report and announcements. I will only note that last week the Planning Commission adopted a resolution centering the departments efforts on racial and social equity. And i believe that there will be further commentary on that under commission matters. See if jeff has no additional announcements or Staff Reports we can move on to item 23, president s report and announcements. I have no reporter on announcements. Clerk very good. Item 4, krrgdz of the draft minutes for may 6, 2020. We should open this up for Public Comment. Your conference is in questionandanswer mode to summon each question press 1 and then 30. Clerk i remind the members of the public this is your opportunity to call the 800 number and press 1, 0, to enter the queue. While we wait for that, commissioner . I have a few things or should i wait jonas has people on the line. Should i do this now about the resolution . Or what do you recommend . Clerk were on a minute right now. So once we get into the next item you can vicepresident matsuda okay, sorry. Clerk you can speak to that. President hyland are there any Public Comments . There are no callers. President hyland commissioners, any comments on our minutes or a motion for approval. I move that we approve them. Second. Clerk seeing no further comments, we adopt on that motion. Commissioner black. Yes. Im sorry, commissioner foley is still experiencing technical issues. Commissioner johns. Yes. Commissioner pearlman. Yes. Commissioner so. Yes. Commissioner matsuda. Yes. And Commission President hyland. Yes, that passes unanimously 60. I would want to remind staff and the commissioners if youre not speaking to mute your microphones. We seem to get a lot of static in the background and dogs barking, for that matter. Commissioners, that will place us under 5 item 5, commission comments and questions. I believe that commissioner matsuda was requesting the floor. Vicepresident matsuda yes, sorry. Its me with the dog. And i will try to see if i can calm him down. I have a couple of questions and comments. But, first, things that i would like to have the commissioner to consider sorry last thursday on june 11th, the San FranciscoPlanning Commission requested the Planning Department staff to prepare a resolution for them to consider centering on the Planning Departments work Program Related to social and Racial Equity. And i am requesting that our commissioners, the commissioners of the h. B. C. To consider doing something very similar to this. It is quite a long document. In its entirety its 10 pages and its very good and the executive summary just talks about the things that they would like to encourage the Planning Department to do. As many of you know that we have as a Commission Approved or anticipating the racial and social equity plan and this week is it this week i cant remember last friday commissioner hyland and i joined a call with several Planning Commissioners to talk more about this. And just about how we could proceed in general. And how we could Work Together with not only the Planning Commission but with other commissioners to make sure that we create a program and that we create very clear i think Institutional Reforms to go with social and Racial Equity. So i would like to request that the Planning Department staff to create a similar resolution, focusing on things that the h. B. C. Should include in their resolutions, or parts of this resolution that clearly pertain to Planning Commission matters, but i think that there are very specific things that pertain to the h. B. C. Matters. And i would be happy to provide that information or provide suggestions for the Planning Department staff. So thats number one to ask for the commissions consideration. Number two, its my understanding that the city and county of San Francisco staff will not return back to their offices. And im not sure if that was for the fiscal year or for the calendar year and i just wanted to know if anybody had any comment on that. The third thing, should i stop jonas, i am asking to you answer that. Clerk i can quickly respond to that. The City Administrators Office has essentially directed staff that are able to continue working w remotely and to expect to do so to july 2021. Vicepresident matsuda 2021, wow. Clerk so essentially another year of remote work from home. And as much as i personally believe that we will be able to reoccupy offices sooner, i remain optimistic at least in that regard. I think that theyre simply preparing for the long haul with remote work. Vicepresident matsuda so what does that mean for us . Clerk im not sure. Because it doesnt speak to commissions, it doesnt speak to reoccupying city hall, it doesnt speak to Commission Hearings. Its really directed at staff reoccupying city offices. And i think that they are remaining extremely cautious given our pandemic. And the Health Issues associated with it. So quite understandably, but, again, i believe it to be a mental preparation for staff to just sort of get in that mindset. We will be all hopefully be sooner than that. Vicepresident matsuda okay, thank you. I was not hoping for that answer, but, thank you. And then just kind of continuing on, yesterday president hyland forwarded me some information about a free webinar that the California Preservation Foundation had on state historic tax credits. And it was very good. But i was hoping that maybe we could get somebody from the Planning Department staff to give us at the h. B. C. A more further overview or a more further information on how it would specifically pertain to us here in the city and county of San Francisco. I know thats a low priority, but i just want to put it out there that i think that this is a great opportunity. I mean, i didnt realize that it took so long from start to finish to get this done. And i just dont want us to forget about it here in San Francisco. And then the third thing is we president hyland and i had a webinar or a zoom call yesterday with two members from the office of Small Business as well as paul long from the supervisor ronens office about the legacy business program. And i guess that well discuss that later with that agenda item. Thats all. Thank you. President hyland thank you, commissioner matsuda. And i just echo that the weak wr was worthwhile and its available and its recorded on the Foundation Website if you would like to watch it. Its the save california historic tax credit. And one item of note for us in San Francisco is that its a 20 tax credit with an additional 5 for Affordable Housing projects. So we might end up seeing quite a bit of it in the near future. Commissioner so, did you want to did you have an item or to respond to something that commissioner matsuda said . Commissioner so i do have an item that id like to bring up and then i want to also respond to commissioner matsudas item. And first let me respond to the commission matsudas item. I am fully in support with the Racial Equity resolution drafting, and im really think that this is very important, especially where we are at right now for us to really take another step forward and be actively advocating to do what we can do in our jurisdictions, in our responsibilities. So, thank you for suggesting that. And thank you for your time, commissioner matsuda and commissioner hyland, to have these meetings in collaboration with our fellow Planning Commissioners. And the new item that id like to bring up is the. And understanding that it is a ucff jurisdiction but id like to bring up that those artists is very significant in our local community, in our history of fabrics and also depicting the history of medicine. Especially applying to the context of San Francisco and california. And i really hope to see perhaps id like to see the staff could reach out to get a better understanding of what we can do to facilitate in different matters of preserving it or even if theres a part that is unreservable and how we could continue to make sure that the next the virtual versions of preservation of these murals theres 10 of them, from my understanding it is really truly representing the essence of what our future generation could be. I would like to just get a better understanding where we are and what we could do about that matter. Thats all i wanted to bring up to all of you. Thank you. President hyland great, thank you. Commissioner black, did you want to speak to matsuda commissioner black yes, i just want to say that i support her recommendations that we adopt a resolution. I think thats a very Important Role for us to provide. I support it. President hyland then mr. Johns did you have anything to speak to . Commissioner johns yes. Staff would be happy to work with the Commission Towards the developing resolution. In fact, the recent events and actions that have affected us all have triggered a number of discussions among staff and preservation staff specifically about ways in which the Preservation Program might engage these issues. So well begin work on central resolutions, assuming that is the general will of the commission. President hyland great. Thank you. Commissioner johns . Commissioner johns yeah, i just wanted to to say to commissioner black that i think that commissioner matsudas recommendation is something that we definitely should do. President hyland great. Thank you. So maybe ill work with in regard to the murals and the project, i will work with staff and see if someone will reach out to the ucff. They do bring their projects before us as a courtesy. So maybe its an option here. But it would be a clerk president hyland, they do have an e. I. R. Associated with the project that is reviewed by the department so there may be an opportunity for the Historic Preservation commission to deliberate on the manner through that process. But that would be really the only avenue. Theyre outside of our jurisdiction. I would also like to remind members of the commission that the chat room is really intended for a request to speak and not to converse. So if you could delete your entries, that would be great. If there are no other items, commissioner matsuda, a motion to direct staff to add a resolution for your consideration regarding social equity on your next Meeting Agenda . Vicepresident matsuda yes, it is a motion. Clerk do i hear a second . Second. Clerk thank you, commissioners on. That motion then to direct staff to draft a resolution for your consideration regarding raci