Also wanted to read for the public, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect commissioners, the employees and the public, the building inspection hearing room is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting it remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the stayathome order, and all proceeding and proceeding local and state and federal orders, declarations and directives. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference or by telephone, if the video fails. 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 78 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number at the top of the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 408 4189388, 146 632 7982. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment either the following ways, a couple of days prior to the meeting. Email sonya. Harris sfgovtv. Org. It will be included as part of the official file. Finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Building Inspection Commission agenda of july 15th, 2020, unless otherwise stated. Our next item is going to be item 2, president s announcement. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for your patience. As we are learning our way to getting these meetings started. Thank you, sonya, for getting us all aboard here. As my president s announcements for july 15th, are as follows, good morning and welcome to our july 2020 Building Inspection Commission meeting. Our second webex, meeting. Im joined today by our commissioner members, along with interim director Patrick Oriordan and senior d. B. I. Staff. As we continue to cope with the circumstances caused by the covid19 pandemic, we are well into our first full quarter of providing billion inspection and permit services during a Public Health crisis. While we are certainly still working through many issues, including mayor breeds and the Public Health directives recent decisions to slow down the citys reopening plans, as a result of an upsurge in key indicators that the department is upsurge of key indicators, the department is continuing to do an outstanding job of keeping both customers and staff safe, by adhering to rigorously to the Public Health protocols that have been fine tuned over the past month. And even though this Public Health protocols mean that 1600 mission is not open to the public, the department is continuing to issue permits, conduct onsite and scheduled job inspections. We respond to complaints and take Code Enforcement steps, as warranted. In addition beginning june 24th, the department began Offering Curbside Services to speed up the issuance of the overthecounter permits. I understand from interim director oriordan that the department was given great feedback from our customer on the new system and we have a staff update on this this morning. So looking forward to that. In short, d. B. I. Is still fulfilling its motion on behalf of the his. I want to thank you to our hardworking and dedicated professionals for their absolute terrific jobs they are doing and have been doing. Under the enormous stresses caused by this virus. This continues to require multiple adjustments in very reduced timeframes and under challenging conditions. And we are all deeply impressed with our staffs achievements to date. On top of Everything Else, the entire department is moving its offices to 49 south van ness. The move will start on july 23rd and take place over two weekends. It will mean that the Curbside Services are unavailable for a few days and again staff will provide more details on this later in the morning. The city, as you know, is keeping a very close eye on the resurgence of the deadly virus. Well keep you updated as changes occur and we have steps that are designed to keep the Construction Industry working, while ensuring the safety, staff and customers. Thank you for attending our Virtual Commission meeting today. Please continue to participate in our public process. Madam secretary, that concludes my announcements. Clerk thank you. Is there any Public Comment on the president s announcement . Our next item is item 3, general Public Comment. The b. I. C. Will take Public Comment on matters within the commissions jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. Moderator, i will pass the duties to you to check if theres any Public Comment. Not seeing any Public Comment. Clerk okay then. Okay. Thank you. Actually, sonya, someone raised their hand. Clerk okay. Okay. There is someone. Sonya, i dont have hosting duties. Clerk okay. Just one moment. Okay. Callers goo caller thank you, president mccarthy and fellow commissioners. This is georgia shudish. I live in noaa valley and ive been talking about things like the demolitions that are approved as extreme alterations for the past six years in noe valley and i was at your joint hearings with planning. Recently she was an extreme alterations with an expansion and addition. The small unit had recently expired 311 notice. There was no d. R. Filed. However, the cost of this work was listed on the site permit as a mere 50,000. And i think anybody that knows anything about anything, would know thats ridiculous. Another recent project in noe valley 4 a site permit valued at 400,000. While that seems a bit more realistic, its still a bithlo, given Construction Costs. And this project also has its entitlement sale pending, even though the site permit has not been issued. And they were asking 600,000 over what the cost when they bought the building. Anyway. These undervalued site permits means the city is not getting the fees it should be getting, at a time when money is really needed for the citys coffers. And these site permit applications were filed long before we had the covid, and the shelterinplace. So asfy recognize that as i recognize these are really trying times and things are really difficult, i just want to bring this to the commissions attention. And hope these two projects are anomalies and the city is able to collect the appropriate and solely needed fees from developers, even during these extraordinary times. Now i dont like to say who this was. Because i dont like to publicly shame people who should know better. But i did send screen shots of these two from the tracking to president mccarthy, so he knows and miss harris has those as well. So i just think, you know, its an anomaly. I know youre moving. It seems to me that money the city should get now, particularly if the projects are never built. Its money that the city should have, because you did process these permits for them. So thats it. Thank you, everyone. Take good care. Be well. Be safe. Be happy and good luck with your move. Thank you. Goodbye. Clerk thank you. There are no more callers in the queue. Clerk thank you. Our next item is item 1, commissioners questions and matters. Inquiries to staff. At this time, commissioners may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policies, practices and procedures, which are of interest to the commission. Commissioners have any items . So commissioner mccarthy here. I was just staff there, in regarded to valuations there on the projects. I do have the evacuations. Risk is i do have the addresses. Well be evaluating those. Thank you, president mccarthy. Happy to look into those when we get the information. Well follow up. Please. And give us the detail. Ill be interested to get back to see those valuations are pulling correctly. Absolutely. Thank you. Commissioner alysabeth alexandertut has her hand raised. Clerk okay. Let me shes unmuted. Okay. Thank you so much. I was wondering if we could get an update on the conversation we had at the last meeting about and if this is in the curbside pickup, let me know. It feels a little bit different about the online permit system. And if some of the glitches that we had talked about, or we had heard about last time. If the time lapse is feeding up . Just wondering if we can hear about a followup on some of the conversation we had last meeting about the online systems. Commissioner, and i believe later i think well have a conversation. Were going to get an update from the interim director later on that. So i think your questions will be answered in that. I believe so. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you. Our next item is future meetings and agendas. At this time, the commission may discuss and take action to set a date of a special meeting and determine those items that could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting and other future meetings of the Building Inspection Commission. At our next regular meeting will be scheduled on i believe its august 19th. Okay. Thats item 4a and 4b. Is there any Public Comment on items 4 a and 4b . Seeing none our next item is item number 5. Discussion regarding a proposed ordinance, board of supervisors file number 200701, amending the Building Code to require new construction to utilize only electric power, adopting findings of local conditions under the California Health and safety code, in addition to other requirements. [ please stand by ] line ruptures posing a major hazard both to our First Responders and put lives and property at unnecessary risk. Damaged gas lines are also something that take a lot longer to restore than electric, means that all electric buildings make our city more resilient in the face of emergencies as well. This is all in addition to the Everyday Health impacts to residents and workers, especially workers in commercial kitchens, for example, that are associated with the use of natural gas in our buildings, which includes higher incidents of asthma and respiratory diseases, as well as the obvious risks of Carbon Monoxide exposure and of course fire. All of this is why the building supervisors have made building electrification a priority. The Climate Emergency resolution was approved which committed San Francisco to doing our part to limit Global Warming to below 1. 5 celsius. Last fall we passed the electric preference ordinance that requires natural gas buildings to achieve high degree of efficiency standards, and earlier this year, this board also unanimously approved legislation requiring all electric construction for new municipal projects. Todays ordinance to eliminate natural gas from all buildings next year builds on these efforts and puts our city on the path to a safer zero emissions future. Staff from the department of environment will get into the details to provide a very brief overview New Buildings to summit building applications where all construction is not technically feasible. This would apply to roughly 60 of the Current Development pipeline, leaving time for applicants who have not yet filed a permit to plan accordingly while not disrupting projects that have already proceeded under the current building standards. While this is certainly a big change, we are confident based on months of Stakeholder Engagement and conversations with city partners, Affordable Housing builders, labor representatives, housing and architects, engineers, Community Advocates and technical experts that all electric construction is not only technically achievable and cost effective, it is also essential to meeting our climate goals and protecting our city from future hazards. Of course this conversation is taking place amid the uncertainty as we just discussed related to the covid19 crisis, and while i know it is certainly difficult for us to focus on much else at this time, one hard lesson i think weve been learning from this pandemic is that when a crisis hits, the steps we took and failed to take in advance that determines how we will respond. The Climate Crisis is not going away, and it will be the bold step that we take today or do not take that will determine our resilience in the face of Climate Change and future emergencies. I would like to thank the department of the environment staff and everyone who participated in the task force process over the last several months. The advocates and Community Organizations who led the call to action and worked with us throughout this process, to all our city agency partners, especially dvi, particularly james zaun and as well the Planning Department, the Mayors Office and others for their support and expertise along the way. In conclusion, todays hearing is an informational item so that we have an opportunity to discuss, to hear your questions, address concerns that come up before returning for an action item to your next august 19 meeting. With that, commissioners, thank you so much for your time, and i will turn it over to the department of the Environmental Office for the proposal and i will be available for any questions. Thank you all so much. Thank you. Thank you for that introduction, and i also would like to thank supervisor mandelman for his leadership on this ordinance. So im going to share my screen so we can get the presentation started. So again, my name is cindy cumberford, and i am the Climate Program manager at the department of environment. I am joined today with my staff, barry hooper, who is the senior Green Building specialist, and he was kind enough to join us from his vacation this morning, so thank you, barry. And we are also joined with med fenny, the vice chair of the coadvisory committee, and also a member of our new construction working group, so he will provide some remarks at the end of my presentation about the stakeholder outreach process. So this slideshows what ill be covering today. Im going to talk a little bit about the health, safety and resilience climate context. We went over this pretty thoroughly already, but ill just provide some quick bits of information. Were going to talk a little bit about the stakeholder process and outreach. Well review the core tenants of the ordinance, and then well talk about the cost impacts and implementation. As jacob said, just a reminder, this presentation is an informational presentation only, so at the end of this presentation, were really hoping just to have a robust discussion about the ordinance, and were hoping to either be able to answer your questions today or answer them over the next four weeks and then come back in august and ask for your support. So first im going to talk about the context for this legislation. This legislation is an update to the San FranciscoBuilding Code which makes maesmts under the purview of the California Health and safety codes. And the objective of this proposed legislation is really to recognize the health, safety and climate and ensure that our new construction does not worsen these impacts. And jacob already touched upon these impacts, so im just going to briefly go over this slide, but its important to note that as jacob said, you know, national gas is bad for our natural gas is bad for our health. Theres air pollutants within natural gas, such as Carbon Monoxide and nitrous oxide, which are linked to both various chronic and acute Health Impacts. This includes respiratory illness, cardiovascular disease, and theres also just a growing body of literature that shows that natural gas triggers asthma attacks, and it might actually cause asthma in otherwise healthy children. Natural gas impacts safety and resilience. In the United States, on average a gas or oil pipeline catches fire every four days, results in an injury every five days. Theres an explosion every 11 days and leads to a fatality every 26 days. We saw those examples last year in San Francisco. The hall of justice needed to be evacuated and also the fire that erupted around parker avenue and gary boulevard that destroyed buildings. You know, natural gas provides the city with resilience eliminating fires and earthquakes, and for electricity about a week. And lastly, for lowincome communities and communities of color that are more likely to suffer from asthma and other Health Impacts of poor air quality, zero emission homes really offer an important opportunity to deliver social equity benefits. So this next slide kind of illustrates what jacob had talked about. Half of the citys pollution comes from natural gas, and the commercial and residential buildings, thats about 44 , and within that 44 its about 82 of the building emissions stem from the use of natural gas, so that includes space heating, cooling, hot water, cooking and other uses. Many years ago people thought natural gas was a cleaner source of electricity compared to coal. Well, we have now moved away from coal, and its really time for us to move away from natu