Mandelman . If there are no comments from my colleagues, pursuant to section 01004. 1 and which is the missionation and i woulassociatt the full board of supervisors on that motion madam clerk, a roll call, please. On the motion as stated, supervisor preston. I am pleased to add me as a cosponsor. Supervisor, safai. Please add me as a cospons cosponsor. Aye. An ordinance with the Building Code to require new construction to utilize only electric and many of the environment code to provide public hearings on implementation of all of and findings and member of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call the number on the screen. Press pound and pound again. If you have not done so press star and 3 to lineup to speak. The system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand, wait until we get to Public Comment and the system will indicate that you have have been unmuted and you may begin to your comments. Mr. Chair. I want to thank supervisor mandelman and his staff and the outreach theyve done since they heard it on october 5th and i want to thank the various Community Skate holders and i think everywhere that supervisor mandelman and i have been with regard to this legislation, everybody says the same thing, which is, this is a piece of legislation whose time has come and there are a few details that need working out and i want to say i think that they are all worked out or all just about worked out a few of them need to be socialized a little bit but its just about ready for prime time and i want to thank supervisor mandelman and turn it over to the chief sponsor. Thank you, chair peskin. Thank you Committee Members for your feedback and on going willingness to engage around this legislation. As you will recall, this is to require all electric new construction for buildings that file for permits starting january 1st of 2021 with limited exceptions. And i look forward to continuing this conversation today and i do have a few amendments that should be in your inbox from earlier today. And i want to address some of the issues that have come up in the next that ive spoken to some of you about. With respect to feasibility, as weve discussed, all electric buildings are feasible and including the and its a ninestorey project with 127 units and now, ive also heard concerns abouts. If there isnt electric capacity available for a particular site. Including Third Party Review and any exception granted or denied by staff will be appeal able to the board of examers, established in the Building Code and they will provide annual reporting for the department of the environment on the exceptions process as well. Colleagues on friday you received Additional Information in response to these and a few other issues related to feasibility. We heard and discussed some at the last hearing on this and so today i plan to offer two amendments that would incorporate some of the language from the dbi bulletin into the ordinance to clarify how some of these it would not be sufficient grounds to determine an allelectric system is infeasible for the purpose of granting exceptions. And to reference a set of electric ready decide guidelines to be maintained by dbi, which you are currently included adds an attachment to the administrative, these are helpful clarifications and if we have a little more specificity around the exceptions process. I also want to address the concerns around restaurants that i believe chair peskin referenced. It bears repeating that this ordinance does not effect any existing buildings including renovations in remodel and it pro voids a year of transition time for new building thats will include a restaurant space. They will file for permits for a building that uses gas for commercial cooking purposes and only after january of restaurant projects. They would file permits for a building that uses gas for commercial cooking purposes only and until january 2022. Since our last hearing, my office is worked with the department of the environment to arrange a workshop and inlined interpretation and last week to afford local restaurants and an opportunity to be here from experts in cooking electric indication. Ination d. They have feedback from the Restaurant Community and some of you would and i like to offer an ongoing waiver process after 2022 for restaurants that will require gas facilities for their unique style. They would be appealable for the decision on a waiver earlier before the permit has been issued. Colleagues, this would allow for the continued use of gas in my buildingnewbuildings in the futs necessary in a limited way. The waiver will be limited to the commercial cooking building of the area for cook uses only and the space would have to be constructed as electric running. I would like to have an amendment which well talk a little bit about regarding applications for the ordinance and with existing Development Agreement contracts and it includes standard language regarding contracts and strictly to clarify to the and again, let me reiterate that the ordinance will not effect existing buildings or projects that file before the end of the year and since that represents about onethird of the Current Development pipeline or about 28,000 Housing Union its and 10 million square feet of commercial development, its many years of project theyre moving forward and will be under construction for years to come as all electric technology continues to become more widely accepted. I believe mr. Mazola raises important questions, weve had an opportunity to meet with him and discuss those concerns and im committed to working together to supporting good junior jobs in San Francisco and its a project ive committed to undertaking and will be continuing those conversations in the next few weeks. With that, staff are here from the department of the environment and d bye for any questions and given the Broad Community interest in the topic there may be interest to continue it item for land use and i think makes sense and i hope hope we can get to a Comfort Level with it can be sent to the full board with positive recommendations in a week. With that, im done. Like i said at the outset we really appreciate the work that youve done to navigate this very difficult and Ground Breaking piece of legislation in one of the densist areas of the western seaboard of the United States. I for one, think that you are there or as we discussed theres been questions with regard to the waiver process and i think many of which would likely be promulgated by internal Department Regulation but we could give some of the contours particularly around due process and appeal procedures so we should probably have those conversations in the intervening week and with that if there are no questions or comments, from members, lets open this up to Public Comment. Looks like we have six callers in queue. James, if you can please queue in the first caller for Public Comment. Caller i urge you to send the strongest possible version of the gas band ordinance to the full board of supervisors. A yeah and a half ago, the board of supervisors declared a Climate Emergency existence in San Francisco and directed the city to take positive action to address it. The ordinance buff, which mandates that New Buildings in the electric is a good first step but you recommend you consider the changes laid out by the San FranciscoClimate Emergency coalition ex and other locals groups. I recommend that the board and the city move quickly to develop and task the remaining climate related ordinance and the recordbreaking fires this season are a stark reminder of how serious Climate Change is. In two recent executive orders, governor new some accelerated the states response to Climate Change and San Francisco needs to adopt that same sense of urgency. Thank you. For committing a lrt last week recognizing the job impacts on plumbers and echo our call tone sure a Just Transition path for those construction workers that is identified and adopts that will address to job losses. The electric work is gets a small fraction of the work hours lost by eliminating plumbing and building and that work is performed by a craft and not create substitute employment at communities for the skilled plumbers whos jobs will be lost by this ordinance. The last thing San Francisco needs to to eliminate more blue collar jobs. Theres a last on the paper accounted in order to provide a. It should be tied to additional requirements to extend intallation of gray one and recycled Water Systems in new construction. It would provide the workers by this ordinance and the work held benefit of san francisc san fra. We encourage staff to expand recycled water, gray water and rain water requirements in new construction to mandate that staff ordinance and within the next six months and to delay the date of electrification requirements until 30 days of the ordinances. Its important for us that this be connected because it does no good to people who jobs and we dont replace them until two or three years down the line and we need to be connected with electric indication and to create better buildings to San Francisco and help save. Thank you, next speaker. Hello, thank you to the supervisors to bring this legislation forward and i think its a and bringing forward further legislation towards retro fitting existing buildings. I also support a just and transition for Union Workers and gray water legislation at the speakers was just talking about. Thank you, next speaker, please. Im a San Francisco resident. I want to urge the as soon as possible on this crucial measure is this is a big crisis and we need to get moving swiftly so we can do it with as much planning as we can get in there to handle the many concerns of people of race. Thank you. Does that conclude your comment, maam . Next speaker, please. Caller good afternoon. Bruce willis speaking for myself. Thank you supervisor mandelman and supervisors for working on this. This is fantastic. I urge and echo all the previous speakers and add that this is well have a positive effect on all our work for well over a decade now on clean power sf and help move us to be free of fossil fuel oils and others. Thank you. Im speaking as part of the coalition and a resident of district 8 and this is now the third time were hearing this item. At the Land Use Commission and i count the ninth meeting over all and this ordinance has been well over a year in the making and it included conversations and negotiations that not only supervisor mandelman with constituents and various departments and also the department of environment. All i have to say is this ordinance is ready. Were unhappy it sounds like theres going to be a permanent restaurant waiver and its not required to be in the public of interest and these implementations to be left in the hands of dbi with its history of corruption and all that being said, this ordinance is a worldchanging step towards fighting Climate Change. Sf would be the largest city to build new carbonization and this step is taken now, like today, will effect the proceedings of the state level for the 22 Building Code in turn, that will effect other states nation wide and perhaps the world. Any further delays on this ordinance. And the Climate Emergency resolution to take immediate action to address the Climate Crisis. Add up months and we have a year this is the easy part and were running out of time. This is ready and its high time for San Francisco to leave. Please pass this today with a Committee Report so we can be heard by the full board as soon as possible. Thank you. As a matter of timing it makes no difference. Next speaker, please. Hi, im also a member of the San FranciscoClimate Emergency coalition and a member of district 9. I would like you with the smoke coming in from the fires, were lucky right now and we wont be lucky later. This is just going to get worse. We must start to take action on what was resolved in the San FranciscoClimate Emergency declaration in the city called for immediate and accelerated action to address the Climate Crisis and resolve to ensure adJust Transition for all people. We cannot afford these goals as daniel said. Weeks plus weeks but weeks and go on not acting. It is not that we can chose which Climate Solutions we want. We need all of the Climate Solutions and building electric indication ielectrification is t will allow phase out some fuels. If we dont do this we wont get here. As a human being on this planet, im terrified and im terrified from my oneyearold mcneese and and i urge you to what we need seriously and move forward with what is needed to give the pipe gooders and the other people in San Francisco who work on fossil fuel a Just Transition and we need action now. Thank you very much. Please, do the right thing. Thank you, next speaker, please. Including just within this committee. I think from a climate perspective or a publichealth and safety perspective, either way our community is in crisis and we need to act. Thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is paul wormer and id like to start by endorsing previous comments and in particular daniel comments about the urgency and the comments in general this is really a serious issue and i have a actually a grand nephew and i do not have im worried about his future. I do want to say that im happy to hear theres a discussion on the appeals process because as it stands now, i have the right to appeal the event and i have no idea it happened and i have a right to do it within 10 or 15 days where im appealing it but i have no way of knowing its happening so that is a right of appeal on paper that is not in reality and i do hope you will address that. I want to raise a question specifically on the legislation and page four lines 19 and 20 it talks about the site permit or first permit for the building and project and it backs about the permit for a project. Project is not as near as i can tell defined and its used widely and its for example something as large and a project and in which case you may be granted much greater ex exemptions than you understand and it should be clarified. And id like ask or comment with respect to the Just Transition and the issues with recycled water. The city did have a purple and its very restricted by where they can have recycled water. As we deal with the climate issue, water will be more difficult to manage and we use that purple pipe expansion that is part of the justification and. Thank you, mr. Wormer. Caller good afternoon, supervisors, this is alex lance burg im a research and advocacy for the San Francisco construction industry. I wanted to commend you on moving this forward and the echo the comments weve heard from others regarding Just Transition for workers. Theres a couple things i wanted to underscore and bring up and really repeat of the inaudible today. One is really the importance of looking at the inaudible . We have expanded in the threshold and and through the queue to point that and and inaudible . Our work has to be done by inaudible contracted but its something that were going to get down the line ultimately is the question of how wore dealing with this. I know its not part part of this legislation and the department of environment and mr. Mandelmans office and inaudible . And finally we have some extraordinary modified and is making sure that building on th thank you, next speaker, please. Caller this is joannie, resident of the district 10 and totally agreeing with the daniel and helena and the comment and as an urban farmer who has backyard organic vegetable patch and pet chickens were mental and physical health as a grandma who feels the responsibility to leave i implor implore you to ms forward. Ive been pushing for and following the progress of Climate Friendly policies since before the board passed its declaration of Climate Emergency of february of last year and under supervisor mandelmans leadership, thank you for that but what does emergency mean to you . To mean it means action. As stated in the declaration. 2020 has presented us with nonstop overlapping emergencies, all of them requiring immediate accelerated action and all of them requiring that ensuring equity for all is always part of both division and subsequent reality. I know the city can be slow in enacting any change. This is especially been the case with this ordinance, please, speed this process along today and recommend the full board mandate all electric New Buildings and please do include amendments to eliminate the infeasibility excuse for developers and thank you so much. Im not going to repe