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Im going im going to give you highlights i want you to hear those and please oh, your support first of all, i said upper submitted a draft guidance for incorporating the sea levels into Capital Planning that document was received by me after a report was published it is a step forward i want to remind the board that draft guidance refers to city assets only not to private investment and hopefully it will be extend to that in the future. I want to talk about mainly planning and Building Codes. Ones this assessment is complete i imagine everyone is working on this this is 2, 2 year studies serio...

Public comments i want to thank the members of the grand jury for your work the civil grand jury knows our office has offered 4 pieces of ethnics legislation of ethnics reforms i want to thank our colleagues who supported it which helped to tight rules around biologists and other clarifications there was a number of topics address raised under the civil grand jury report i believe that San Francisco needs to be a leader on transparency and neglected for the public to trust in what we do we need to have even though highest ethnical standards around transparency weve made a lot of progress in th...

About how theyre going to accommodate additional growth in their communities. Melosi if we can find alternatives, we can preserve a water supply. Conservation of water is a way of generating more water. Allbee we think that a household can actually reduce its water usage by about 30 . And thats hugely important in terms of the amount of infrastructure that communitys going to require. Narrator las vegas is one of the fastgrowing areas in the country. Its a relatively new city under constant construction. But because its in the arid mojave desert, the challenge of las vegas is supply. Woman all...

And give up this notion that they have to bring eastern vegetation with them and make the necessary adaptations in their own life, desert communities can continue to live. Man the biggest water user in the desert is turf. Turf uses a lot of irrigation and uses spray irrigation, so what weve done here is use artificial turf. Youre never going to be able to achieve the look of back east or the look of, say, california, with subtropical plants, but our landscapes are still lush and use about 30 of what the subtropical landscape with turf would use. Las vegas has adopted a drought tolerant ordinan...

Moriarty our goal with Surfrider Foundation is essentially to have the city understand that the water is, in fact, dirty, and then work with the infrastructure and the various issues to change that. Narrator but building more systems and more plants cant work alone as a sustainable solution. And, as in pittsburgh, as in new york, part of the answer lies in protecting the watershed. Nelsen we need to reduce the amount of impervious surfaces in our watershed, which are surfaces that dont let the water soak in and then create more pervious surface, whether its by having driveways that allow water...