Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use Committee 20240712 : vima

Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use Committee 20240712

Are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taking to the state wide stay at home order and all local, state and federal orders declaration and directives. Committee members will attend the meetings through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and they are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling the number 415 6550001. Again, that number is 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 146 1464741769. 1464641769. Press pound and pound again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions but you will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your tension or radio. Alternativesly, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email me, the land use and transportation clerk, at erica. Ma. And if you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and it will be included as part of the official file. Items acted upon today are expected to be heard at the board of supervisors agenda on july 21st, unless otherwise stated. Thank you, ms. Major. Could you please read the first item . Clerk yes, item number 1 is a resolution renaming Willow Street to early gage junior street to honor the legacy and impact of the San Francisco firefighting community. Thank you, ms. Major. And thank you supervisor preston. This is been before this committee before and thank you for bringing it to fruition. This was appropriate and several decades ago and its all the more appropriate. Really pleased we are in the final steps here and what, as you know, is a lengthy process and doing a renaming in San Francisco and we are almost there and i have spoken about mr. Gages incredible legacy in this committee and at the full board of the floor. So i will spare you the repeated History Lesson though it is a powerful one. I really am proud to be part of honoring the legacy of earl gates junior, the first black firefighters in San Francisco and really i just wanted to, again, thank the San Francisco black Firefighters Association in particular president and bringing this forward and working with us lowly an closel. For the last five months were engage in Community Outreach and everyone is excited to move this forward and i appreciate that. My fellow committee members, their support for the original resolution here and we are looking forward to renaming section of Willow Street between buchanan and laguna. In honor of earl gage junior and we look forward, hopefully, to a final vote on that tomorrow at our board of supervisors. Thank you. Thank you supervisor preston and i think fire fighter gage would never have believed that legal 798 and the Firefighters Union would be represented today by a black leader, sean buford, who actually called in at our last discussion on this item so it is remarkably timely. With that supervisor safai, do you have any comments . Yeah, i just wanted to Say Something really quickly in between the time that we had this initial conversation just to kind of underscore for both of you, and it will be part of the conversation in the next two weeks. Earl gage unio junior was very h part of the Consent Decree that happened with the Fire Department. He was also involved in recruitment and insuring that recruitment and diversity were on the forefront. I called for a hearing that will be at the government audit and Oversight Committee on the 30th of this month and the purpose of that is to look at diversity and hiring to look the at make up of these departments to see how well theyre doing in terms of meeting their diversity goals and were talking about african americans, were talking about latinos, asian firefighters, were talking about lgbtq, women, and about all the different aspects of diversity and how theyre all doing. Fire, police, sheriff are investigating and making it a priority. I just want to underscore that today. I want to call that out and say that that is something thats also part of his legacy. And were hopeful that the departments, all of the first responders, will make this a priority in honoring his legacy. Thank you supervisor safai and for those who do not know the history of the consent declear, there were two of them. One by federal courts and related to the Fire Department and the other that related to the police department. That came in a very different era but the discrimination that existed in those times in the 1970s was so legion that the federal courts actually put this city under a Consent Decree, much has changed but theres much more left to do so thank you supervisor preston for honoring a true pioneer that led to things that he never would have believed, including the leadership of local 797. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment . Operations is checking to see if there are any callers in queue. There are no callers in the queue. Supervisor peskin we heard when supervisor preston brought the legislation to initiate. I want to honor and thank all those people and Public Comment is closed and thank you supervisor preston. Your time ising perfect. This was introduced before the murder of george floyd before the active vism were seeing on our streets but San Francisco has a shameful legacy and this is part of making that right and so would you like to make a motion . I was going to announce that at full board tomorrow but did want to let folks who are watching know were planning with the black Firefighters Association on wednesday, hopefully with a positive vote tomorrow at the board to to have a gathering online in which well talk more about his legacy and a lot of issues that chair peskin and supervisor safai have raised around civil rights and in not just the Fire Department but in our city so i woulden invite folks to email us at sfgov. Org and well make further announcements at the board of meeting with that, i would move to forward this item to the board with recommendations. Thank you supervisor preston. To the president of the black Firefighters Association, sherman tillman, who is a with recommendation to the full board of supervisors on that item and a role call please. Clerk as stated by supervisor preston, supervisor preston. [roll call] clerk you have three ayes. Supervisor peskin could you read the next item. Clerk an ordinance with the Administration Code to update the citys management requirement to conform to current federal flood plain management and National Insurance program criteria. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the number 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1466741769. Press pound and pound again. If you have not already done so, press star 3 to lineup to speak. A system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. Supervisor peskin thank you ms. Major. We have from, it depends on what you call it, the city administrators office, mr. Brian strong to present this item that has been kicking around for a long time. Were going to learn about fema, were going to learn about firm, the floor yours, mr. Strong. Brian, you are on mute. Got it. Can you hear me . Thank you, very much. Supervisor peskin, and good afternoon supervisor safai and preston as well. This is been going on for 13 years and brian on the chief resilience officer for the city and here im also represented Jennifer Johnson who are is the deputy city administrator who is unable to attend. Shes the citys flood administrator and im going to share my screen here i just want to say this is not adverse to you but relative to the City Attorneys legislative digest, the city of San Francisco is spelled incorrectly on page 2 and at line 3 under amendments current law and there are definitions repeated and inform tees relatives to the Historic Preservation definitions that i would like to discuss but after your representation. Hopefully people can see the presentation and this is been going on and we participate in this program. Part of getting when we pass when we join the program fema does produce a Flood Insurance rate map and now its our responsibility to accept that rate map and move forward with it. We we dont, we dont get money or insurance from the feds. Thats right. The reduced rates are the money from the feds. So we must adopt it and ill give a little bit more of a timeline. The latest that it can be effective would be february of 2021 and thats based on femas timeline. Theyve gone out for Public Comment. Appeals process, theyve reached the end of the Appeals Program as well. So, some more background on it. Its a nation wide program. As the supervisor was saying it offers Flood Insurance and exchange for that sort of reasonably or lower price Flood Insurance we have to adopt the flood plain management ordinance and the community, we can adopt more restrictive measures but we cannot be less restrictive than stated for the national Flood Insurance program. It requires Community Participation and this is also we didnt get to the meat of it, the insurance companys row lie on the firm for their insurance policy ratings and we must use it for managing our flood plain. This shows the timeline so back in 2007, its when we did the Prime Minister firm but it wasnt finalized and we did come back with ar ordinance in 2010 and based on input from fema and some followup preliminary analysis and they put together a map which was subsequently appealed in 2019 and im sorry in 2016 it was appealed and a lot of it had to do with the waterfront pier. Why was it not finished in my second term . When was the second term . January 8th of 2009. It had to do with the maps being presented. What i would the person who would be best able to answer that, if i call on him now, would be Chris Barclay, who is the Western Region Market Leader for acom and he has been our primary consultant on this since the beginning. Are you there . Hold on. Hold on, chris. Whatever happened to brad benson . He is still with the city. He is here. We do have rebeca. Mr. Benson, on behalf of the port rebeca from the port is here and brad was not able to attend so im representing from real estate and development. The information i can provide is similar to what mr. Strong was stating, the maps were coming in quite slowly and the process was slow and pretty quickly i think the city and others started to raise some questions about the mapping, which cost fema and their staff to redo those. Others may be able to provide a i wont call it historic, 10yearold perspective. So can you characterize why the city was pushing back against female . Wafema . Did fema want to map morn we wanted to map . Can you explain that . This is all before a profound change in thinking about the Sea Level Rise. Can you explain what happened in 2007 and 2008 . This is Chris Barclay in 2007, fema had a can you identify yourself . Who you are. Im Chris Barclay, assisting the city with this process of in its relationship with fema and putting together for the flood plain management ordinance. Im also a resident of San Francisco. Youve been retained by the city which is the port o. Proceed. Ok. So, in 2007, fema had not completed the analysis. They had an approximate version of their analysis. They had not finished all of the details. They were doing a study of the entire bay. They wanted to provide the city with something the city could use for its initial entry into the nfip so they basically behavioral the city a partially completed analysis and said, you know, use this as you go forward to initiate your participation in the program. Subsequent to that, and the city did join the program in 2008, it took fema several more years to provide the fully completed analysis where they had completed the detailed modeling that was necessary to provide all the of the data that they normally put on a Flood Insurance rate map. In the middle of that process, they changed contractors a couple of times so all of those things conspired to lengthen the amount of time it took fema to eventually get a fully completed Flood Insurance rate map which they provided to the city in 2015. So in essence in 2007 it was an incomplete product and they chose not to finalize that at that time. It according to my halve, what happened in 2016 . So, the maps that fema issued in 2015, and the way the process works is they provide a period of comment and they under the law, they must provide a 90day appeal period for the community and any interested Property Owners so they initiated that process that appeal period, in early 2016 and the city, primarily the port, submitted an appeal that was based on the method of analysis that fema was using to analyze the impact of the flooding on the waterfront pier. The port felt that fema was not taken certain factors into that account in that analysis. Because of the unusual nature of the circumstances, it took fema a couple years to actually figure out how they wanted to resolve the appeal and it went to the Headquarters Level so there were a lot of discussions, you know, between the fema Regional Office producing the maps and the Headquarters Office about the most appropriate way to resolve the appeal and the resolution ended up being something unique. Something fema had not done previously, in order to reflect the flood hazards associated with the waterfront pier. Supervisor peskin can you characterize what the reasons for that appeal was and can you characterize what femas unique response was . Sure. So, there were several issues and the most important one was that fema analyzes the way the waves, the way flood hazards are mapped on a shoreline, takes into account such a way that they were not taken into account the way the waves breakdown when they hit the pier, right. So if you can imagine, the ways roll under the pier and the waves breakdown as they hit the pier and fema was still modeling the wave height. It was presenting a result that would have resulted in a more restrictive flood hazard designation for the piers than the port felt was appropriate. So, the way fema chose to resolve that was they i dont mean to get too technical but the fema designated the pier with a higher requirement for flood plain management and its more restrictive in essence and they came back with whats called zone d, which basically said that the i gues the extente flood has orde hazard on the ree priebus iunnounno one. Iunknown. To your point about Sea Level Rise, the maps dont include the impact but the port is free to manage the development the peer with sea level taken into account if they chose to do so. It gives the part more flexibility in the way it manages to peer. Relative to the slide its before us would you like to describe that . Sure. The blue, this is a map that is constructed on it in essence an aerial photo of the city. The brown area that you see is the 500 year flood plain and that is not that is for informational purposes and its not the basis for insid flood pn information or insurance. The light blue is the 100 year flood plain the area that is used for Insurance Rating and is also the area that must be manage with the flood plain management requirements and in this slide, or this is just a piece of the map, theres little area that is actually affected by the 100 year flood plan on land and if you look at the light brown areas which are out on the pier, you can see the Ferry Building and you can see piers, you know, thats one and three to the left there and. And 14 to the right. Yeah, exactly. You can see the light brown. That is zone d. That is these are the areas that are out over the water and zone d is an area that is possible but undetermined flood hazards. So, you know, the community, the normal nfip dont apply there. The community is free to apply. The require it sees fit of the the only difference is the insurance on those peers is a bit higher than it is in areas that are minimally flood prone. The insurance is higher because the risk is not known but the flood plain management requirements are less restrictive than in the blue 100 year flood plain areas. Supervisor peskin can you zoom out and show us the similar shadings, not only in the downtown waterfront area but beyond . Brian, youve got control of the presentation and maybe you could see that. That would be aquatic to the west going to pier 39 to the e

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