And we have chris buck, with San Francisco public works and turn off all cellphones. Appellants, permit holders and Department Respondents are given seven minutes and three minutes for rebuttal. People affiliated must include their comments within the periods. Members of the public who are not affiliated with the parties, have up to three minutes each to address the board with no rebuttal and time may be limited to two minutes if there are a large number of speakers. Our legal clerk will give you a verbal warning before your time suppose. Four votes are needed. If you have questions about requesting a rehearing the board rules are hearing schedule email board staff. Regarding Public Access and participation. They are paramount importance to the board and they will replicate the inperson hearing process. We are broadcasting and streaming this hearing live and we will have the ability to receive Public Comments for each item on todays agenda. To watch on tv go to cable channel 78. 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The chatbox is not to be used for Public Comment or for conversing with other people and its primarily we want to ensure that people have access to the meeting. So we will now move on to item number 1. This is general Public Comment. Its an opportunity for anyone who would like to speak on a matter within the boards jurisdiction but its not on tonights calender s there anyone else who would like to speak to the general Public Comment. I see two she should be on there. Hello. Hi, there. I wont be on video so ill just have this picture up here of me. Should i start . Yes, please go ahead. Ok. So hi, everyone, my name is tanya and i identify as a chicana living in the bay area. Thank you for this opportunity to submit my comments and concerns to the board of appeals and i am here to express my deep concern and satness for the project, adding attempt to destroy over 50 trees maam were not on those items yet. This is for items that are not on the agenda. If you have Public Comment on items that are not on the agenda but within our jurisdiction, but youll have an opportunity later. Sorry about that. Thats ok, no problem. We have one more person calling in. Are you here for general Public Comment. This is for comment on items not under our agenda . Yes, im sorry, i misunderstood. I would like to do general comments when you are done. Were on general Public Comment right now. Do you want to talk about the 24th street tree removal or Something Else . 24thth street tree removal. You will have a chance later on. We have someone that would like to provide general Public Comment. Welcome. Hi, yes, id like to screen share. I requested that. This is for a general Public Comment and i hope that i will not be sensorred because what im going to share is not going to be liked by some people here. This is my website by the way, for people that want to get involved in protecting our urban forest. And this is the link to my website as well spas urban as un forestry places. Id like to bring this to your attention which i will just play really quick. We cant hear anything. Um, would you like me to pause time . That would be appreciated. Let me try that one more time. Time is cause paused at 2 20. Were not throwing darts at you. And i dealt with mr. Buck prior to being on the board and i think he is a great guy. He loves his trees. I know chris and i see pictures on his facebook about the trees. Chris and i are personal friends. [laughter] im very concerned that we have a Vice President on this board of appeals whose personal friends with one of the defendants and im really concerned at how that will affect the bias of these proceedings. And ive reached out to the Ethics Commission and district 9 office and i know paul is here and i have not heard a reply as to what might be done about this egregious conflict of interest. You can see this on my website. Thank you. Thank you. If could stop sharing your screen that would be great. I believe we have another speaker. I dont see another one. Roz she wanted to speak in the proceedings for the tree matters. Ok. So, thats it i think that keyshia bowler wants to speak on general Public Comment. I dont know if you can promote her. Let me see. Are you there . Ms. Bowler, are you there . Yes, can you hear me . Would you like to speak in Public Comment . Yes, i would. You have three minutes, maam. All i want to say is what ive said before, which is that i think that remote public hearings arent public. Remote hearings lack the attendance of people who woke like to attend that cant do it technologically. There are various reasons for all kinds of lack of technology, either dont have access to a computer and especially now with the public buildings closed where people do go to use the computers and then if they do have the computers, they might the computer might not be equipped to access the site and also by not being present at the meeting, people who want to comment arent able to be in each others presence if they chose to speak with one another. And know im speaking against the tide but what im saying i believe to be true and significant. I dont think the decisions should be made out of the adequate presence of the public. Thank you for your attention. Thank you, mrs. Bowler. Is there any other general Public Comments . If you called in, please press star 9 to raise your hand. If you are here for general Public Comment. Ok. Well move on to item number 2. Commissioner comments and questions. Questions . If there are any changes or additions or deluxes. Deletion. We have a motion from commissioner swig to adopt those minutes and on that motion im sorry. [ roll call vote ] clerk that motion carries 50 and the minutes adopted. Were moving on to items 4a to 4d. Can we comment on the minutes . Oh, im sorry. Is there any Public Comment . Yes, id like to make one. Please, go ahead. Thank you. I want to just thank the office for making them accurate. That was more accurate however theres one glaring missing thing from the minutes, which is the mention i made about director Mohammad Nuru and thats a important part of my Public Comment. I devoted a lot of time to my Public Comment on that issue and i would really like it if that was reflected in the minutes. Thank you. Thank you. Ok. Is there any other Public Comment . We will move on to appeal numbers 19097, 99, 100, and 101. Latino cultural district and kendra versus San Francisco public works, urban forestry and subject property location is 24th street between Mission Street and appealing the issuance on august 26th, 2019 to San Francisco public works and between Mission Street and with replacement unless otherwise noted by public works. Replacement trees size will be 12inch and 36inch box size trees depending on required space from utilities. Replacement species shalling both red maple and the replacement trees and sidewalk repairs will be completed in three months after the removal of the trees and additionally theres room to plant 17 new trees at new planting sites. Addresses range from 2,700 to the 32 blocks of 24th street and this is order number 201771. And we are going to be hearing from mr. Zack carnazius first. Thank you, you have seven minutes. Id like to say this meeting is largely a sham. And im here to support the public and their outcry for how upset we are about this order to gentrify the 24th Street Mission neighbourhood and the people ask me why are these trees coming down. Its a great question. It has to do with money, liability, and mostly it has to do with removing a barrier to create more Construction Projects to wipe off the face of this neighbourhood people of colour and people that have lived in this neighbourhood for decades. That is what is being routinely done around this city through illegal tree removing and i believe this meeting is a sham. The Vice President is personal friends with the defendant who is representing public works and theyre going to sit here and theyre going to tell you all theyre listening to your concerns and darts are being thrown and ar oars being thrown and theyre vulnerable. Its not true. Were expressing our concern and our anger at the disrespect and the lack of care for the public trust. Which is our public trees. Most of the other appellants will talk about measures theyve been making with the department and my heart goes out to them and i know theyre working hard and doing hard work and i found them to be negotiation meetings fruitless and this departmentalize to the public and abuse their role as Public Officials and im going to show you some examples of that. First of all, in the minute notes from july 1st, we had four or five people spoke up about illegal tree removing by public works in the hayes street and hayes valley area, that was mentioned at the last meeting at board of appeals. They also illegally removed trees at quinte street, which was part of my appeal and this board of appeals granted those appeals anyway. Not the one for hayes valley but they have for illegal removals. When the trees are cut down during this process, this board still passes it and says yeah, you get a pass. They can illegally keep cutting trees and even have to bather with the appeals process its just a rubber camp so let me explain why i dont think that conciliatory measures are the way to go. As i mentioned previously, the person that gave the order for these tree removals, was arrested by the f. B. I. On charges of fraud and corruption and the complaint alleges corruption pouring into San Francisco from around the world and alleges corruption and kickbacks and side deals but one of San Franciscos highest ranking public employees. Why is nuru doing corruption . If we go to the website p. He makes 323,000 a year, i dont see why he needs more kickbacks and in department cries broke because they cant take cake of our trees. Well, lets see how much chris buck makes. Chris buck makes 168,000 a year and kevin jensen, who has been ignoring my email requests going back to march, even after this board asked on july 1st if he responded to me, he makes 218,000 a year and well, when you put that all together and you look at what the watering cost s. I mean you are talking about a persons salary to cover the proper maintenance of these trees. Department of public works will argue ann arborist recommended removal of these trees, thats true. But you will find that management of the disease it has, which is very common for these trees, is largely focused on prevention, theres underlying stress factors and they are stressed because theyre not being taken care of. I did a request pared to get through for the watering of trees along this street and theres only 10 trees that are being watered. This is the a list of them there. None of them are the ficus. D. P. W. Does not water any public trees after three years. They wont give it a drop of water. When these trees came out of the care of public works they looked like this. Green, healthy, Property Owners had been taken care of them. When they came under the control of public works in 2017 through the proposition e, they started to decline clearly from not being watered and not being pruned and not being properly cared for and as this appeal is worn on over the months, the public of public works says the trees are in bad health and we have to take them down. In reports by Christopher Campbell, he says many of these trees are suffering from lack of maintenance and he goes into how the pruning has been done incorrectly. How can we approve permits and destruction of trees when this department isnt even trying if you go back to january, of 2019, and this is what he said that telling. Its a drag. The reason for my voice being horse. To hear from zack four years later, like appleton and mission we have four trees planted. Four years is a long time to wait for trees to be replanted. Even if well replace with a one to one ratio they lie, they dont do it. Years and years they go by and a new tree, a new maple tree is not a replacement for a 50yearold ficus tree. A huge part of my complaint is the inaccessibility for people with disabilities and seniors to read these notices that were put on these trees. I didnt find out about the original public hearing because the notice period had already lapsed in the time that i was able to get outside in my wheelchair. Here is a video i would like to share showing that. 24th street here, having a lovely sunday, summer day here. It gets ruined by Something Like this 20 seconds, this is a city items in very small print which i cant even get closer to reach with my wheelchair and that is saying that theyre going to cut down this tree. And they did havent access to the appeal that took place. Since i filed this appeal, department of public work thats time. All right. Thank you. We will hear from joshua clip. Klipp. You have seven minutes. Im going to share my screen and play a video that is far less than seven minutes. Thank you. Ill wait until you are set up for it. Thank you, alek. You dont see that . Yes. Ok. Here we go. My name is josh klipp, im an attorney, a tree advocate and someone who cares about the future of our city and our world. Last year in covid terms the city declared that we are in a climate emergency. In response to that the San Francisco department of the environment revised the Climate Action plan which noted that unless we sequester goals Climate Change will be inevitable and importantly, trees sequester carbon more efficient lemoore than anything else in the world. Trees clean pollution from our air, provide shade, support ecology and improve Community Health and local economy. Studies show that for every 1 invested in trees a city sees a 3 5 return on that investment. Despite all of this and a city plan to plant more than 50,000 new trees by 2034, in 2019, San Francisco lost more than 2,500 trees and after that massive loss, the city proposed to remove 78 more trees from 24th street. And here is the thing, this isnt just another big number of trees proposed to come down. In 2015 when it was established as a cultural corridor, the commission on the environment supported that effort and specifically, the commission noted that the mission is disproportionately impacted by air pollution and the resulting Health Effects such as asthma. For those following the national news, we know that air pollution exacerbates the impacts of the global pandemic. For those of us following the local news they have suffered far, far more grievously than any other community by a lot. Myself and hundreds of neighbours oppose this proposed removal. Since the time this appeal was filed weve had no less than a dozen meetings, fundraised for the first time this San Franciscos history convinced the city to conduct an assessment of what the loss of these trees would mean from an environmental perspective. One wednesday afternoon, a few of us joined up with a couple city tree inspectors and we measured those trees. The city came up with numbers on how much carbon these trees and how much air pollution they reduced. I asked the city for replanting plan and based on that information, and engineer and former director of Energy Utilities services for the university of california, created a comparative analysis of the environmental benefits of the citys proposed replacement trees. Before i show you this data i want to state again that our predicted numbers are based o