00:00:10 . >> GOOD AFTERNOON AND WELCOME
00:00:11 TO THE SEPTEMBER 1ST 2026 REGULAR MEETING OF THE SAN
00:00:15 FRANCISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. >> MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE
00:00:19 ROLL. THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT
00:00:22 SUPERVISOR CHAN PRESENT CHAN PRESIDENT SUPERVISOR CHEN CHEN
00:00:26 PRESENT SUPERVISOR DORSEY DORSEY PRESENT SUPERVISOR
00:00:31 FIELDER FIELDER PRESENT SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD MAHMOOD
00:00:34 PRESENT SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN PRESENT MANDEL MANDOLIN PRESENT
00:00:38 SUPERVISOR MELGAR MELGAR PRESENT SUPERVISOR SAUTER SADR
00:00:42 PRESENT SUPERVISOR CHERYL SHERRELL PRESENT SUPERVISOR
00:00:46 WALTON WALTON PRESENT AND SUPERVISOR WONG WONG
00:00:50 PRESENT MR. PRESIDENT ALL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT.
00:00:54 >> THANK YOU MADAM CLERK SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
00:00:58 ACKNOWLEDGES THAT WE ARE ON THE UNCEDED ANCESTRAL HOMELAND OF
00:01:01 THE ROMITA COLONY WHO ARE THE ORIGINAL WHO ARE THE ORIGINAL
00:01:05 INHABITANTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA AS THE
00:01:06 INDIGENOUS STEWARDS OF THIS LAND AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH
00:01:10 THEIR TRADITIONS THE RAMAKRISHNA LONI HAVE NEVER
00:01:13 CEDED LOST NOR FORGOTTEN THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES AS THE
00:01:16 CARETAKERS OF THIS PLACE AS WELL AS FOR ALL PEOPLES WHO
00:01:18 RESIDE IN THEIR TRADITIONAL TERRITORY AS GUESTS WE
00:01:21 RECOGNIZE THAT WE BENEFIT FROM LIVING AND WORKING ON THEIR
00:01:26 TRADITIONAL HOMELAND. WE WISH TO PAY OUR RESPECTS BY
00:01:29 ACKNOWLEDGING THE ANCESTORS, ELDERS AND RELATIVES OF THE
00:01:30 RAMAKRISHNA COLONY COMMUNITY AND BY AFFIRMING THEIR
00:01:33 SOVEREIGN RIGHTS AS FIRST PEOPLES.
00:01:37 >> COLLEAGUES, WILL YOU JOIN ME IN RECITING THE PLEDGE OF
00:01:38 ALLEGIANCE? >> I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE
00:01:41 FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE REPUBLIC FOR
00:01:47 WHICH STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY
00:01:52 AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. >> ON BEHALF OF OUR BOARD I
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00:02:06 PARTICULARLY KALEENA MENDOZA. THEY RECORD EACH OF OUR
00:02:11 MEETINGS AND MAKE THE TRANSCRIPTS AVAILABLE TO THE
00:02:12 PUBLIC ONLINE. >> MADAM CLERK, DO YOU HAVE ANY
00:02:15 COMMUNICATIONS? THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT.
00:02:19 THE BOARD WELCOMES YOUR ATTENDANCE IN PERSON HERE
00:02:20 IN THE BOARD'S LEGISLATIVE CHAMBER LOCATED WITHIN CITY
00:02:23 HALL IN ROOM 250 ON THE SECOND FLOOR AND WE ARE NOT ABLE TO BE
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00:02:39 SB 707 THE FULL BOARD WILL TAKE REMOTE PUBLIC COMMENT DURING
00:02:44 THE PUBLIC COMMENT. WE WILL PRIORITIZE THOSE WHO
00:02:45 HAVE JOINED US HERE IN PERSON AND THEN HEAR FROM THOSE ON THE
00:02:48 REMOTE CALLERS SYSTEM. THE BOARD HAS ALSO APPROVED A
00:02:52 RULE TO ADDRESS DISORDERLY PUBLIC COMMENT.
00:02:56 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC PLEASE KEEP YOUR COMMENTS GERMANE TO
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00:03:01 BOARD. ANY COMMENTS THAT CONTAIN
00:03:04 PERSONAL ATTACKS HARASSMENT OR DISCRIMINATORY REMARKS DIRECTED
00:03:08 TO A CITY EMPLOYEE INCLUDING BOARD MEMBERS ARE OUTSIDE THE
00:03:11 SCOPE OF THIS BODY AND SHALL BE REDIRECTED AND FAILURE TO
00:03:15 IMMEDIATELY REDIRECT THOSE COMMENTS WILL RESULT IN THAT
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00:03:23 TRANSITION TO THE NEXT SPEAKER .
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00:03:40 POSTAL SERVICE. >> JUST ADDRESS THE ENVELOPE TO
00:03:43 THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
00:03:45 THE NUMBER ONE DR. CARLTON BE GOOD PLACE CITY HALL ROOM 244
00:03:49 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94102.
00:03:52 AND LASTLY, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A REASONABLE
00:03:56 ACCOMMODATION FOR A FUTURE MEETING UNDER THE AMERICANS
00:03:58 WITH DISABILITY ACT OR NEED TO REQUEST LANGUAGE ASSISTANCE,
00:04:01 PLEASE CONTACT THE CLERK'S OFFICE TWO BUSINESS DAYS
00:04:04 IN ADVANCE BY CALLING (415) 554-5184.
00:04:10 >> THANK YOU MEMBERS MR. PRESIDENT.
00:04:11 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. >> LET'S GO TO APPROVAL OF OUR
00:04:14 MEETING MINUTES. APPROVAL OF THE JUNE 30TH 2026
00:04:21 JULY 7TH, 2026 AND JULY 14TH 2026 BOARD MEETING MINUTES.
00:04:24 >> COLLEAGUES, COULD I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES
00:04:28 AS PRESENTED MOVES BY CHAIR AND SECONDED BY CHERYL?
00:04:32 >> MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ON THE MINUTES AS
00:04:35 PRESENTED? SUPERVISOR WONG WONG EYES
00:04:39 SUPERVISOR CHAN CHIN AND I SUPERVISOR CHEN CHIN EYES
00:04:44 SUPERVISOR DORSEY DORSEY EYES SUPERVISOR FIELDER FIELDER EYES
00:04:51 SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD MAHMOOD I SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN MANDOLIN
00:04:55 EYES SUPERVISOR MELGAR MELGAR EYES SUPERVISOR SARDAR SADR I
00:05:00 SUPERVISOR CHERYL CHERYL I AND SUPERVISOR WALTON WALTON I
00:05:06 THERE ARE 11 EYES WITHOUT OBJECTION THE MINUTES WILL BE
00:05:10 APPROVED AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT AS PRESENTED MADAM CLERK LET'S
00:05:14 GO TO UNFINISHED BUSINESS PLEASE CALL ITEMS ONE THROUGH
00:05:17 22 TOGETHER ITEMS ONE THROUGH 22 ARE 22 ORDINANCES THAT AMEND
00:05:23 THE PLANNING CODE TO DESIGNATE THE FOLLOWING PROPERTIES AS
00:05:25 LANDMARKS AND MAKES THE APPROPRIATE FINDINGS.
00:05:29 ITEM ONE DESIGNATES THE ALEXANDER ADAMS HOME LOCATED AT
00:05:34 1450 MASONIC AVENUE ITEM TO DESIGNATE IT'S THE BORING HOME
00:05:39 LOCATED AT 99 DAVIS ADERO STREET.
00:05:42 ITEM THREE DESIGNATES THE CHARLES CAT'S HOME LOCATED AT
00:05:46 1200 DELORA STREET. ITEM FOUR DESIGNATES THE
00:05:49 CHARLES L HINKLE HOME LOCATED AT 740 CASTRO STREET.
00:05:53 ITEM FIVE DESIGNATES THE DATE YOUR HOST HOME JAMES C HORMEL
00:05:58 MANSION LOCATED AT 181 ONE OF VISTA AVENUE EAST.
00:06:04 ITEM SIX LANDMARK DESIGNATION FOR THE DEBAUCHED TRIANGLE
00:06:07 CREEK REVIVAL HOME LOCATED AT 2173 15TH STREET.
00:06:13 ITEM SEVEN DESIGNATES THE EARLY HAIGHT ASHBURY FARMHOUSE
00:06:18 LOCATED AT 11 PIEDMONT STREET. ITEM EIGHT DESIGNATES THE
00:06:21 ELLIOT M WILSON HOME LOCATED AT 1335 GUERRERO STREET.
00:06:25 >> ITEM NINE DESIGNATES THE ENGINE COMPANY NUMBER 44 THE
00:06:31 ADAMS VAN HEUSEN HOUSE LOCATED AT 3816 22ND STREET.
00:06:37 ITEM TEN DESIGNATES THE GUERRERO STREET DOUBLE STICK
00:06:39 EAST LAKE HOME LOCATED AT 1415 AND THROUGH 1417 GUERRERO
00:06:45 STREET. ITEM 11 DESIGNATES THE HENRY
00:06:48 STREET ROWHOUSES LOCATED AT 191 THROUGH 197 HENRY STREET.
00:06:52 ITEM 12 DESIGNATES THE HOLY INNOCENTS CHURCH LOCATED AT 455
00:06:58 FAIR OAK STREET. ITEM 13 DESIGNATES THE JOHN C
00:07:02 JOHN J. CLARK HOUSE LOCATED AT 210
00:07:05 DOUGLAS STREET. ITEM 14 DESIGNATES THE MISSION
00:07:08 CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH LOCATED AT 3689 19TH STREET.
00:07:12 ITEM 15 DESIGNATES THE PHENIX BREWERY LOCATED AT 552 NO EAST
00:07:19 STREET. ITEM 16 DESIGNATES IS THE
00:07:22 RICHARD SPRECKELS MANSION ONE OF EAST A STUDIOS LOCATED AT
00:07:29 737 BUENA VISTA AVENUE WEST. ITEM 17 DESIGNATES THE SECOND
00:07:33 CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST LOCATED AT 651 DOLORES STREET.
00:07:39 ITEM 18 DESIGNATES THE A KEY HOUSE LOCATED AT 657 HENRY
00:07:44 STREET. ITEM 19 DESIGNATES THE WILLIAM
00:07:47 SHAUGHNESSY HOME LOCATED AT 394 FAIR OAK STREET.
00:07:50 ITEM 20 DESIGNATES THE FERNANDO NELSON HOME LOCATED AT 701
00:07:55 CASTRO STREET. ITEM 21 DESIGNATE THE LING
00:07:59 HOUSE LOCATED AT 199 CARL'S STREET.
00:08:01 AND ITEM 22 DESIGNATES THE ENGINE COMPANY NUMBER 33
00:08:07 LOCATED AT 117 BROAD STREET. >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK,
00:08:09 PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ON ITEMS ONE THROUGH 22.
00:08:12 >> SUPERVISOR WONG WONG EYES SUPERVISOR CHIN CHIN EYES
00:08:19 SUPERVISOR CHIN CHIN EYES SUPERVISOR DORSEY DORSEY EYES
00:08:23 SUPERVISOR FIELDER FIELDER EYES SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD MAHMOOD EYES
00:08:28 SUPERVISOR MANDOLIN MANDOLIN EYES SUPERVISOR MELGAR MELGAR
00:08:34 EYES SUPERVISOR SARDAR SADR EYES SUPERVISOR CHERYL CHERYL
00:08:39 EYE AND SUPERVISOR WALTON WALTON I.
00:08:43 >> THERE ARE 11 EYES WITHOUT OBJECTION THE ORDINANCES ARE
00:08:44 FINALLY PASSED. >> PLEASE CALL ITEM 23 ITEM 23
00:08:50 THIS IS AN ORDINANCE TO ACCEPT AN IRREVOCABLE OFFER OF PUBLIC
00:08:54 INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE HUNTER'S VIEW HOPE S.F.
00:08:58 PROJECT PHASE TWO TO DEDICATE SAID PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS FOR
00:08:59 PUBLIC USE FOR PUBLIC STREET AND ROADWAY PURPOSES TO ACCEPT
00:09:04 FOR CITY MAINTENANCE AND LIABILITY PURPOSES TO
00:09:07 ESTABLISH THE OFFICIAL STREET GRADES, THE SIDEWALK WIDTHS
00:09:11 AND THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY WIDTHS TO ALSO AMEND ORDINANCE
00:09:15 NUMBER 1061 PERTAINING TO THE REGULATION OF THE WIDTH OF
00:09:18 SIDEWALKS TO ESTABLISH THE OFFICIAL SIDEWALK WIDTHS ON
00:09:22 CATALINA STREET, FAIRFAX AVENUE, INGLES STREET AND HIS
00:09:26 AVENUE IRONWOOD WAY AND MIDDLE POINT ROAD TO ACCEPT AN OFFER
00:09:30 OF DEDICATION FOR PHASE TWO EASEMENTS TO DELEGATE AUTHORITY
00:09:33 TO THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR TO ACCEPT THE PHASE THREE PUBLIC
00:09:38 INFRASTRUCTURE TO INCLUDE AUTHORITY TO TAKE ALL PHASE TWO
00:09:44 AND PHASE THREE ACTIONS TO AUTHORIZE THE DIRECTOR OF
00:09:45 PROPERTY TO EXECUTE DEEDS AND EASEMENT AGREEMENTS AS
00:09:49 SPECIFIED TO ACCEPT A PUBLIC WORKS ORDER TO RECOMMEND
00:09:52 VARIOUS ACTIONS IN REGARD TO THE PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE
00:09:56 IMPROVEMENTS AND TO AFFIRM THE SECRET DETERMINATION AND TO
00:09:59 MAKE THE APPROPRIATE FINDINGS. >> I THINK WE CAN TAKE THIS
00:10:03 ITEM SAME HOUSE, SAME CALL WITHOUT OBJECTION THE ORDINANCE
00:10:07 IS FINALLY PASSED AND MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL OUR NEW
00:10:13 BUSINESS. >> PLEASE CALL ITEM 24 ITEM 24
00:10:18 THIS IS AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE PUBLIC WORKS CODE TO ALLOW
00:10:21 DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS TO SATISFY STREETS TREE PLANTING
00:10:25 REQUIREMENTS THROUGH PAYMENT OF AN IN LIEU FEE OR PROVIDING
00:10:29 ALTERNATIVE LANDSCAPING TO EXEMPT NECESSARY DWELLING UNITS
00:10:30 FROM STREET TREE PLANTING REQUIREMENTS TO ELIMINATE
00:10:34 APPEALS TO THE BOARD OF APPEALS FOR HAZARDOUS TREE REMOVALS
00:10:37 UNDERTAKEN BY CITY DEPARTMENTS AND COMMISSIONS TO AMEND THE
00:10:41 ADMINISTRATIVE CODE TO SPECIFY A SEPARATE ACCOUNT WITHIN THE
00:10:45 ADOPTED TREE FUND TO RECEIVE IN LIEU FEES FOR STREET TREE
00:10:48 REQUIREMENTS TO AMEND THE PLANNING CODE TO UPDATE STREET
00:10:53 TREE APPLICABILITY REQUIREMENTS TO AMEND THE BUSINESS AND TAX
00:10:57 REGULATIONS CODE TO PRESCRIBE TIMEFRAMES FOR THE HEARING
00:11:01 AND DECISIONS ON APPEALS OF CERTAIN STREET TREE REMOVALS TO
00:11:05 THE BOARD OF APPEALS TO AFFIRM THE SECOND DETERMINATION AND TO
00:11:09 MAKE THE APPROPRIATE FINDINGS. THANK YOU MADAM CLERK.
00:11:12 DOES ANYONE NEED A ROLL CALL ON THIS?
00:11:16 >> OKAY, MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL UP SUPERVISOR
00:11:17 SAUTER MAKE SURE THIS NEW SYSTEM IS WORKING.
00:11:23 >> THANK YOU FOR PRESIDENT. I WILL BE VOTING AGAINST THIS
00:11:27 ITEM TODAY AND I DO THINK IT HAS EVOLVED TO A BETTER PLACE.
00:11:32 I APPRECIATE THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR THEIR AMENDMENTS TO
00:11:35 GET IT TO THIS POINT BUT ON THE WHOLE I THINK THIS HAS AN EQUAL
00:11:39 CHANCE OF MAYBE IMPROVING SOME THINGS AS IT DOES DETRACTING
00:11:42 FROM WHAT WE REALLY SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON HERE WHICH IS A
00:11:47 HEALTHIER TREE CANOPY AND STRONGER NEIGHBORHOODS.
00:11:50 YOU KNOW SPECIFICALLY I'M WORRIED ABOUT THE FACT THAT IF
00:11:55 WE DON'T PLANT THESE TREES AT THE TIME OF CONSTRUCTION
00:11:59 AND DEVELOPMENT THAT WE MAY NEVER GET THEM PLANTED AGAIN
00:12:01 AND I LIKE THAT THIS DOES POTENTIALLY OPEN UP SOME
00:12:05 FLEXIBILITY WITH WHERE WE'RE PLANTING TREES BECAUSE THAT'S
00:12:08 SOMETHING THAT WE ARE CONSTRAINED ON RIGHT NOW.
00:12:12 BUT ALL THINGS THAT I WOULD MUCH RATHER SEE US PUT OUR TIME
00:12:16 AND ENERGY TOWARDS THE THINGS THAT I HEAR ON A VERY, VERY
00:12:20 REGULAR BASIS FROM CONSTITUENTS FIRST AND FOREMOST THAT IS THE
00:12:24 MAINTENANCE AND PRUNING OF OUR EXISTING TREES.
00:12:28 EVERY FEW DAYS OUR OFFICE HEARS ABOUT A PARTICULAR TREE THAT A
00:12:32 NEIGHBOR IS WORRIED EXCUSE ME WORRIED ABOUT AND WE HAVE VERY
00:12:35 LITTLE RECOURSE. WE WERE YEARS LATE IN ACTUALLY
00:12:40 DOING OUR FIRST ROUND OF OF MAINTENANCE AND PRUNING OF OUR
00:12:43 EXISTING TREES. SO THERE'S WORK THAT NEEDS TO
00:12:46 BE DONE THERE AND THEN ULTIMATELY PUTTING OUR ENERGY
00:12:49 TOWARDS FINDING A MORE SUSTAINABLE SOURCE OF FUNDING
00:12:51 FOR NEW TREE PLANTING. SO THAT'S WHERE I'D RATHER SEE
00:12:54 US PUT OUR OUR ENERGY RATHER THAN THIS AND FOR THOSE REASONS
00:12:58 I'LL BE VOTING NO. SO THIS IS LAND IS CHAIR MUGAR
00:13:05 THANK YOU SO MUCH. THIS ITEM CAME OUT OF THE LAND
00:13:09 USE AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE AND I WILL BE VOTING
00:13:12 TO SUPPORT IT AND I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS A COUPLE OF THE
00:13:19 POINTS THAT I HAVE HEARD FROM MANY ADVOCATES WHO OPPOSE THIS
00:13:23 LEGISLATION AND TO EXPLAIN WHY I'M VOTING FOR IT.
00:13:27 FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUE SUPERVISOR WANG
00:13:30 FOR HIS WORK AND HIS STAFF'S WORK ON THIS.
00:13:32 >> I DO THINK THAT IT MAKES IT EASIER FOR SMALLER PROPERTY
00:13:38 OWNERS, MOSTLY HOMEOWNERS ON THE WEST SIDE TO ADD THOSE
00:13:42 AVENUES TO DENSIFY THEIR PROPERTIES WHICH IS WHAT WE
00:13:45 WANT. >> BUT I ALSO SORT OF REALLY
00:13:47 WANT TO REJECT SOME OF THE TALKING POINTS ABOUT HOW THIS
00:13:53 WILL NEGATIVELY AFFECT THE TREE CANOPY.
00:13:57 I THINK THE UNDERPINNING OF THAT ARGUMENT IS THE MISTRUST
00:14:01 OF GOVERNMENT THAT SOMEHOW GOVERNMENT WILL NOT DO THE WORK
00:14:06 AS EFFECTIVELY AS A PRIVATE SECTOR AND THAT COLLEAGUES IS A
00:14:10 CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN TALKING POINT AND I HAVE NONE OF IT.
00:14:14 I WILL HAVE NONE OF IT THESE WORKERS ARE REPRESENTED BY
00:14:18 LABORERS UNION TO 61. THEY'RE OUT THERE DOING THE
00:14:22 WORK EVERY DAY. THEY ACTUALLY DO A REALLY GOOD
00:14:26 JOB IN ADDRESSING THE RACIAL DISPARITY AND TREE CANOPY
00:14:29 BETWEEN WEALTHIER NEIGHBORHOODS AND LOW INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS
00:14:34 AND I THINK ARE WE PERFECT? NO.
00:14:36 ARE WE DONE? NO.
00:14:37 BUT I THINK THAT HAVING THE PLAN AND CENTRALIZING IT
00:14:40 AND HAVING IT BE A GOAL OF OUR DEPARTMENT IS A REALLY GOOD
00:14:44 THING. THE SECOND THING THAT I WANT TO
00:14:48 ADDRESS IS THE NUMBERS THAT HAVE BEEN THROWN OUT IN THE
00:14:51 PRESS. IT'S BEEN REPORTED THAT IT COST
00:14:54 BETWEEN 4000 AND $6000 PER TREE TO PLANT IN SAN FRANCISCO.
00:14:58 I DON'T KNOW WHERE THOSE NUMBERS COME FROM AS WE ALL
00:15:02 KNOW HERE BY LAW GOVERNMENT CANNOT CHARGE MORE THAN IT
00:15:06 COSTS TO PERFORM THE FUNCTION AND IT COST SAN FRANCISCO ABOUT
00:15:12 $2,600 PER TREE AND MOST OF THAT COSTS ABOUT $2,000.
00:15:16 OF THAT $2,600 COST IS WATER FOR THREE YEARS BECAUSE WE TAKE
00:15:20 IT UPON OURSELVES TO PUT IT ON A SCHEDULE TO WATER THOSE TREES
00:15:25 SO THAT THEY SURVIVE AND FRANKLY THE GOVERNMENT THE
00:15:27 LOCAL GOVERNMENT DOES A LOT BETTER JOB THAN THE PRIVATE
00:15:31 DEVELOPERS WHO THEN SELL AND CHANGE OWNERSHIP OF
00:15:35 DEVELOPMENTS THAT THEN GO TO SOMEONE ELSE.
00:15:36 SO WHILE WE STILL ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLIANCE OF
00:15:42 THAT, I THINK GOVERNMENT DOES A MUCH BETTER JOB IN DOING THAT
00:15:46 THAN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. SO FOR THOSE REASONS I DO THINK
00:15:50 THAT THIS IS A GOOD STEP. I THINK IT WILL HELP US YOU
00:15:52 KNOW, PLAN BE STRATEGIC ABOUT WHERE WE'RE PLANTING
00:15:55 AND KEEPING THOSE TREES ALIVE AND I WILL BE SUPPORTING THIS
00:15:59 LEGISLATION. THANK YOU.
00:16:02 >> SUPERVISOR FIELDER THE PRESIDENT GENTLEMEN,
00:16:06 COLLEAGUES, THERE ARE FEW REASONS WHY I'M VOTING NO ON
00:16:07 THIS LEGISLATION. FIRST, THIS LEGISLATION MAKES
00:16:10 IT MORE DIFFICULT TO PROTECT EXISTING TREE CANOPY BY
00:16:13 REMOVING THE APPEALS PROCESS FOR CITY TREES SLATED FOR
00:16:17 REMOVALS IN 2018. GUYMON THE QUATTRO IS SLATED TO
00:16:21 HAVE UP TO 78 TREES REMOVED AND THE RIGHT TO APPEAL LED TO
00:16:25 A NEGOTIATION AND CONSTRUCTIVE SETTLEMENT THAT SAVED
00:16:28 APPROXIMATELY 45 MATURE TREES ON THE LATINO CULTURAL
00:16:29 DISTRICTS MAIN CORRIDOR AND ADDED 100 MORE THROUGHOUT
00:16:33 THE CULTURAL DISTRICT. >> THIS WILL BE MORE DIFFICULT
00:16:37 IN THE FUTURE WITH THE REMOVAL OF THE APPEALS PROCESS.
00:16:40 >> SECOND, BY ALLOWING DEVELOPERS IN LIEU OF PAYMENT
00:16:44 FOR MANDATED TREE ALLOCATIONS, THIS LEGISLATION MAY
00:16:48 INADVERTENTLY PUT AT RISK NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE
00:16:49 UNDERREPRESENTED IN CANOPY AND GREEN SPACES.
00:16:52 >> AND FINALLY, I APPRECIATE THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE LENS
00:16:56 THAT MY COLLEAGUES HAVE INCLUDED AN IMPORTANT STEP TO
00:16:57 RECOGNIZING THAT LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES HAVE HIGHER
00:17:00 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH BURDENS AND LOWER TREE CANOPIES THAT
00:17:04 CAN HELP COUNTER THESE FACTORS. HOWEVER, DEPENDING ON THE
00:17:05 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE DETERMINATION MEASURES USE,
00:17:09 NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE THE MISSION MIGHT END OF BEING
00:17:12 DEPRIORITIZED. FOR THESE REASONS I'LL BE
00:17:13 VOTING NO ON THIS MEASURE. >> SUPERVISOR MAHMUD.
00:17:19 >> COLLEAGUES, I WANT TO THANK THE SPONSORS FOR BRINGING THIS
00:17:21 LEGISLATION FORWARD AND IN PARTICULAR THE NEW FEE OPTION
00:17:24 FOR SMALLER PROJECTS. I BELIEVE IS A GREAT STEP TO
00:17:28 MAKE BUILDING THE TYPES OF PROJECTS ENVISIONED BY THE
00:17:29 FAMILIES OWNING PLAN A LITTLE BIT EASIER WHILE ALSO
00:17:32 GENERATING MORE FUNDS FOR TREE PLANTING AND WATERING CITYWIDE.
00:17:35 I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I ALSO DID HAVE MISGIVINGS ABOUT
00:17:39 THE LEGISLATION COMING DIRECTLY FROM EXPERIENCE IN DISTRICT
00:17:43 FIVE PARTICULARLY AROUND THE APPEALS PROCESS.
00:17:47 >> EARLIER THIS YEAR RESIDENTS IN THE LOWER HAIGHT AND THE
00:17:51 POST TRIANGLE LEARNED ABOUT SEVEN MATURE FICUS TREES ON
00:17:55 WALLER STREET THAT HAD BEEN SLATED FOR AN EMERGENCY REMOVAL
00:17:56 AS PUBLIC SAFETY HAZARDS. HUNDREDS OF RESIDENTS IN OUR
00:17:59 DISTRICT CONTACTED OUR OFFICE AND MORE THAN 800 PEOPLE SIGNED
00:18:03 A PETITION CONDEMNING THE REMOVAL.
00:18:06 >> MY OFFICE WORKED WITH PUBLIC WORKS TO SECURE A SECONDARY
00:18:10 REVIEW BY THE ACTING URBAN FORESTER WHICH RESULTED
00:18:13 ACTUALLY IN FOUR OF THE SEVEN TREES BEING PRESERVED.
00:18:14 THE REMAINING THREE STILL MOVE FORWARD WITH REMOVE REMOVAL AS
00:18:18 DETERMINED TO BE NECESSARY. >> THAT'S WHY IN COMMITTEE I
00:18:21 INTRODUCED AN AMENDMENT TO ALLOW FOR HAZARD TREE REMOVALS
00:18:24 TO STILL BE APPEALED TO THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
00:18:25 AND THIS AMENDMENT WAS PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
00:18:28 WE WANT PUBLIC WORKS TO GET THINGS RIGHT THE FIRST TIME BUT
00:18:32 IN THIS SITUATION A SECOND LOOK BY A QUALIFIED FORESTER
00:18:35 PROMPTED BY THE PUBLIC CHANGED THE OUTCOME FOR FOR MATURE
00:18:37 TREES AND DIDN'T HOLD UP THE THREE NEEDED TO COME DOWN.
00:18:41 NOW ANY TREES SUBJECT TO HAZARD TREE REMOVAL CAN STILL GET THAT
00:18:46 SECOND BLOCK HAZARD REMOVAL STILL MOVE QUICKLY AND NO
00:18:49 APPEAL TO THE BOARD OF APPEALS. NO REHEARING, NO DELAY
00:18:51 IN TAKING DOWN A TREE THAT POSES A RISK TO REAL DANGER TO
00:18:54 THE PUBLIC AND OUR WORKERS. >> WHAT IT PRESERVES IS A
00:18:58 CHANCE TO CATCH AN ERROR BEFORE A MATURE TREE COMES DOWN.
00:19:01 SO I WANT TO THANK PUBLIC WORKS IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR
00:19:03 WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH SAM LOGAN AND MY TEAM FOR
00:19:05 IMPROVING THIS LEGISLATION AND BASED ON THIS AMENDMENT I'M
00:19:09 COMFORTABLE MOVING FORWARD ON THIS ITEM AND WE'LL BE VOTING
00:19:10 IN SUPPORT. I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE A
00:19:16 REPRESENTATIVE OF PUBLIC WORKS TO MAYBE COME FORWARD
00:19:19 AND ANSWER A QUESTION OR TWO JUST HAD A GOOD CONVERSATION
00:19:29 WITH THE DIRECTOR SHORT EARLIER TODAY AND SORT OF THE PURPOSE
00:19:34 OF THIS IS TO KIND OF GET SOME OF THIS STUFF JUST ON THE
00:19:38 RECORD HERE. I'M A FORMER MEMBER OF THE
00:19:44 BOARD OF APPEALS. >> IT IS IT HURTS ME TO TAKE
00:19:48 JURISDICTION AWAY FROM THE BOARD OF APPEALS BUT FROM MY
00:19:51 CONVERSATION WITH DIRECTOR SHORT, IT SOUNDS LIKE THE WAY
00:19:55 IN WHICH THESE APPEALS AND THE NUMBER OF THESE APPEALS TO THE
00:19:59 BOARD OF APPEALS HAS INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY WITH THE
00:20:03 PUBLICATION ONLINE OF INFORMATION ABOUT PROPOSED TREE
00:20:07 REMOVALS. >> AND I'M WONDERING IF YOU
00:20:08 COULD TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT IT HAS MEANT IN THE PAST
00:20:11 TO HAVE DELAYS AROUND SOME OF THESE REMOVALS WHERE IT'S LED
00:20:17 TO FAILURE, WHERE FAILURES HAVE HAVE HAPPENED PENDING THE
00:20:21 HEARING? >> AND TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
00:20:25 THE ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN OF THESE OF THESE HEARINGS.
00:20:30 >> BUT IT IS THE CONTENTION OF YOUR DIRECTOR AND YOUR
00:20:34 DEPARTMENT THAT IT HAS GROWN OVER TIME AND THAT IT IS, YOU
00:20:37 KNOW, AN IMPEDIMENT TO DOING SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS AROUND
00:20:38 TREES THAT SUPERVISOR SAUTER SUGGESTED MAYBE WE OUGHT TO BE
00:20:41 DOING. >> YES.
00:20:44 >> THANK YOU SUPERVISOR. FOR THE RECORD MY NAME IS DAVID
00:20:48 MOORE AND THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE BUREAU OF URBAN FORESTRY.
00:20:51 >> 20 YEARS AGO I EARNED A BACHELOR'S OF SCIENCE
00:20:55 IN FORESTRY. I'VE BEEN A CERTIFIED ARBORIST
00:20:56 FOR PROBABLY 18 YEARS AND LIKE MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES WHO ARE
00:21:01 ALSO CERTIFIED ARBORIST, I'M ALSO CERTIFIED IN TREE RISK
00:21:03 ASSESSMENT WHICH IS A VERY SPECIFIC TYPE OF TRAINING FOR
00:21:07 MANAGING THE RISK OF URBAN TREES.
00:21:11 >> AND I'D LIKE TO START BY PROVIDING A BACKGROUND OF WHAT
00:21:14 THAT METHOD IS JUST FOR CONTEXT PURPOSES.
00:21:18 TREE RISK IS MEASURED BY WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF SOMETHING
00:21:22 BAD HAPPENING BASED OFF OF A DEFECT OF A TREE.
00:21:26 >> TIMES WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF SOMETHING BEING UNDERNEATH
00:21:30 IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS TIMES WHAT'S THE MAGNITUDE OF THAT
00:21:33 CONSEQUENCE? AND A TREE IN THE FOREST EVEN
00:21:37 IF IT'S TOTALLY DEAD AND ABOUT TO FALL OVER IF THERE'S NOTHING
00:21:41 AROUND IT EXCEPT FOR FOREST IT ACTUALLY POSES ALMOST VIRTUALLY
00:21:44 NO RISK. SO WE HAVE TO CALCULATE IS
00:21:48 THERE PEDESTRIANS UNDERNEATH IT?
00:21:49 IS THERE FIXED ASSETS PROPERTY ?
00:21:53 IS THERE TRAFFIC UNDERNEATH? ARE THERE OTHER FACILITIES
00:21:57 INFRASTRUCTURE THAT COULD BE IMPACTED BY A TREE RISK WHICH
00:21:58 MAKES OUR JOB VERY DIFFICULT BECAUSE TREES NATURALLY CLOSE
00:22:01 THE LOOP WHEN THEY FALL DOWN IN A FOREST THEY WOULD JUST
00:22:05 UPCYCLE THE NUTRIENTS AND BECOME MORE FOREST.
00:22:08 BUT IN A CITY YOU CAN'T PEOPLE DON'T HAVE A VERY MUCH SMALLER
00:22:12 TOLERANCE FOR THAT TYPE OF IMPACT ESPECIALLY IF IT AFFECTS
00:22:15 THEM PERSONALLY. SO A CITY OF 125,000 STREET
00:22:20 TREES NEED TO BE MANAGED FOR RISK PURPOSES AND WE DO THIS
00:22:24 WITH A VERY SMALL NUMBER OF INSPECTORS THAT ARE TASKED WITH
00:22:28 TAKING IN SERVICE REQUESTS AS WELL AS ROUTINELY
00:22:31 AND INSPECTING THE TREES A TREE HAZARD MAY BE IDENTIFIED IN A
00:22:35 TREE AND THE FIRST STEP IS CAN IT BE MITIGATED?
00:22:39 THAT COULD BE DONE THROUGH PRUNING, FOR REMOVING DEADWOOD,
00:22:42 FOR PRUNING BACK BRANCHES, SHAPING THE TREE FOR STRUCTURE
00:22:46 AND OR MOVING THE ASSETS THAT IT COULD STRIKE UNDERNEATH
00:22:50 AND SAY IT HAS A LEAN IN ONE DIRECTION MAYBE MORE FOR
00:22:54 PRIVATE PROPERTY BECAUSE THEY OKAY WELL I'M GOING TO REMOVE
00:22:58 THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THAT DIRECTION AND YOU'VE MANAGED
00:22:59 THE RISK. PRESERVATION IS THE NUMBER ONE
00:23:02 GOAL AND TREE RISK MANAGEMENT AND YOU TAKE AS MANY MEASURES
00:23:09 AS YOU CAN TO LIMIT THE CHANCES OF THE TREE DAMAGING SOMETHING
00:23:13 AS A VERY LAST RESORT. WHAT A TREE BE SLATED FOR
00:23:18 REMOVAL AND THAT MEANS THAT THEY'RE THERE.
00:23:21 WE'VE EXHAUSTED REASONABLE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES THAT
00:23:23 COULD ABATE THE RISK WHETHER THE ASSETS UNDERNEATH IT CAN'T
00:23:26 BE RELOCATED, THE SITE CONDITIONS CAN'T BE CHANGED
00:23:30 AND THERE'S NO MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE THAT WOULD FULLY SAVE
00:23:33 THE AREA FROM BEING AT RISK OF A TREE FALLING ON IT
00:23:37 AND HURTING SOMETHING OR KILLING SOMEBODY.
00:23:41 SO WE CAN'T BELIEVE THAT IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF 125,000 TREES
00:23:45 SO IT'S RARE THAT A TREE REALLY DOES COME DOWN AND IMPACT
00:23:49 SOMETHING BUT IF IT WERE TO IMPACT A PERSON OR THEIR
00:23:53 PROPERTY IT'S HIGHLY CONSEQUENTIAL TO THAT PERSON A
00:23:57 PROPERTY AND IT CAN LEAD TO INJURY FATALITY OR COSTS TO
00:24:04 PROPERTY DAMAGE AS WELL AS LEGAL CONSEQUENCES WHICH ARE
00:24:09 ALL SHOULDERED BY THE TAXPAYERS.
00:24:11 SO IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO USE OUR METHODOLOGY, OUR
00:24:15 TRAININGS, INDUSTRY STANDARDS AND BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
00:24:17 TO LIMIT THOSE RISKS AND MANAGE THE URBAN FOREST.
00:24:20 AND THEN WHEN A TREE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED, THE GOAL IS TO
00:24:24 REPLACE IT WITH ANOTHER TREE THAT WILL BEGIN ITS LIFESPAN AS
00:24:27 UNFORTUNATELY ALL THESE TREES DO HAVE A FINITE LIFESPAN
00:24:31 AND IT'S OUR JOB TO TRY TO KEEP THEM IN THE SWEET SPOT OF BEING
00:24:34 GOOD NEIGHBORS TO THE REST OF US.
00:24:35 >> SO I WANTED TO PROVIDE THAT AS CONTEXT AND SUBJECT MATTER
00:24:39 EXPERTISE SUPERVISOR AND I'LL CONTINUE WITH YOUR QUESTION.
00:24:42 IT'S NOT COMMON THAT WE POST A TREE FOR A HAZARDOUS TREE FOR
00:24:51 REMOVAL AND IT GETS APPEALED. THE EXACT NUMBER IS DOCUMENTED
00:24:54 I BELIEVE IN THE FILES BUT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD IT'S A
00:24:58 HANDFUL OF TIMES OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS.
00:25:01 HOWEVER, THERE HAVE BEEN ENOUGH CASES IN RECENT YEARS WHERE A
00:25:06 HAZARDOUS TREE WENT THROUGH THE APPEALS PROCESS WHICH WE FULLY
00:25:10 RESPECT THE BOARD OF APPEALS AND THE FUNCTION THEY SERVE.
00:25:14 BUT IN THE FACE OF A HAZARDOUS TREE WHICH WE CAN USE OUR
00:25:21 METHODS TO MAKE OUR BEST ESTIMATES AND CALCULATION OF
00:25:24 THE RISK FACTOR THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE X FACTORS THAT ARE
00:25:25 TOTALLY OUT OF OUR CONTROL THE FORCES OF NATURE YOU KNOW A BIG
00:25:28 GUST OF WIND, SOMETHING INSIDE THE TREE IS BIOLOGICAL THAT
00:25:32 COULDN'T BE DETECTED AND IF DESPITE OUR EXPERTISE THAT TREE
00:25:35 CAN STILL FAIL, YOU KNOW, SUDDENLY WITHOUT ANY WARNING
00:25:40 AND WHEN IT DOES IF THERE'S A HIGH CONSEQUENCE TO WHAT'S
00:25:44 UNDERNEATH IT AND A HIGH CONSEQUENCE OF THE IMPACT, IT
00:25:47 COULD CAUSE SEVERE DAMAGE AND THERE'S BEEN A FEW CASES OF
00:25:50 THAT IN RECENT YEARS WHICH HAS MADE US CRINGE AND THINKING OMG
00:25:54 THIS IS IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MANAGE THESE HAZARDS
00:26:01 AND IT'S HAPPENED ENOUGH TIMES THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS
00:26:05 GOES AT ITS OWN PACE AND THAT HAS LED TO US NOT BEING ABLE TO
00:26:10 REMOVE HAZARDOUS TREES WHILE THEY WERE MARKED FOR REMOVAL
00:26:11 WHILE THE WHILE THE APPEALS PROCESS WAS GOING ON.
00:26:16 I'M SYMPATHETIC TO THAT. I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS
00:26:21 THAT'S A LITTLE TROUBLING OR VERY TROUBLING IS THAT IN THE
00:26:25 LAST TEN YEARS AS THE CITIES ASSUMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR
00:26:28 STREET TREE MAINTENANCE, WE'VE SEEN MORE MORE OF THEM COMING
00:26:32 OUT THAN GOING IN. AND I SPOKE WITH DIRECTOR SHORT
00:26:33 ABOUT THAT AS WELL. SHE BELIEVES THAT THAT ERA IS
00:26:40 COMING TO AN END. >> THAT YOU HAVE THE REASON
00:26:41 THAT YOU'VE DONE THE WORK OF GETTING RID OF MANY OF THE
00:26:45 TREES THAT NEEDED TO BE TAKEN OUT AND THAT YOU HAVE THE
00:26:48 RESOURCES THAT ARE GOING TO HAVE THE RESOURCES TO BE ADDING
00:26:52 AT A FASTER CLIP THAN YOU ARE REMOVING.
00:26:56 >> BUT CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHY YOU AND SHE
00:26:57 BELIEVE THAT? THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING ASKING
00:27:00 THAT QUESTION. I'D BE GLAD TO ANSWER THAT.
00:27:03 WITH 125,000 STREET TREES THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN MANAGED AS A
00:27:07 POPULATION BEFORE OR SOME OF THEM AT ALL, THERE'S A LOT OF
00:27:11 BACKLOG OF THE YOU KNOW, IN A FOREST THE TREES DON'T NEED TO
00:27:15 BE PRUNED. THEY ALL GROW UP BECAUSE
00:27:18 THERE'S TREES ON EVERY SIDE SO THEY GROW TOWARDS THE SUN.
00:27:21 THEY DON'T HAVE BRANCHES THAT GO LIKE THIS IN A CITY.
00:27:22 THEY'RE SINGLE TREES AND THEY GROW LIKE THIS.
00:27:26 SO THEY NEED TO BE HEADED BACK. THEY COULD HAVE CROSSING LIMBS
00:27:29 . THEY COULD HAVE BRANCHES
00:27:30 GROWING INTO A BUILDING OR INTO A MUNI LINE AND ALL THESE
00:27:34 THINGS THAT ARE VERY COMPLICATED WITH ALL OF OUR
00:27:37 VERY COMPLICATED INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND THEM.
00:27:38 THE FIRST PASS AROUND ALL THE TREES IS GOING TO IDENTIFY A
00:27:43 LOT OF TREES WITH IRREPARABLE DEFECTS BECAUSE THEY HADN'T
00:27:45 BEEN MAINTAINED. WE HAVEN'T DONE ANY MITIGATING
00:27:48 MEASURES FOR SO MANY YEARS. >> THEY MAY HAVE BEEN ADDED TO
00:27:52 A LIST OF TREE REMOVALS THEN JUST THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT
00:27:59 HAS TO GO THROUGH THE FIRST PASS OF TREE PRUNING SLOWS DOWN
00:28:03 THE PROCESS. BY THE END OF THIS CALENDAR
00:28:04 YEAR WE EXPECT TO COMPLETE THE FIRST ROUND OF STREET TREE
00:28:07 PRUNING THROUGH STREET TREE SRF WHICH WE'RE VERY PROUD OF.
00:28:11 I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT WE'VE ADDED AS ASSISTANT
00:28:15 SUPERINTENDENT CHARLIE MURPHY WHO IS AT THE HELM OF THE
00:28:18 INSPECTION UNIT AND THE ARBORIST UNIT.
00:28:22 WE'RE SCALING UP WITH OUR CONTRACTS.
00:28:25 WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR COLLEAGUES IN PUBLIC WORKS TO
00:28:29 TO GET AN INCREASE THE CAPACITY FOR IMPLEMENTING CONTRACTS
00:28:33 AND PROP EADS FUNDS. THIS PROGRAM WE DO HAVE SOME
00:28:37 VACANCIES AND SOME OF THOSE THINGS ARE OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL
00:28:42 BUT WE'RE MAKING WINS DESPITE OUR VACANCIES AND INCREASING
00:28:45 OUR CAPACITY. WE'RE ALSO GROUPING OUR TREE
00:28:49 PRUNING IN A MORE LOGISTICALLY STREAMLINED WAY WHICH IS GOING
00:28:53 TO BUILD IN OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES AND WE HOPE TO
00:28:57 MAKE THE NEXT PASS OF STREET TREE PRUNING CLOSER TO OUR FIVE
00:29:01 YEAR RANGE. AND WE ARE PRETTY CONFIDENT
00:29:05 ABOUT ALL THE WORK THAT'S GOING INTO IT WILL LEAD TO THAT
00:29:06 RESULT AND YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR NEW PLANTING THAT
00:29:10 YOU HAVE NOT HAD OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS FOR PLANTING.
00:29:16 WE HAVE BEEN WE HAVE SOUGHT OUT STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS FOR
00:29:21 GRANTS. WE HAVE A $12 MILLION
00:29:27 INFLATIONARY REDUCTION AT GRANT FOR OUR TREE PLANTING.
00:29:30 WE JUST QUALIFIED AN RFP TO THROW A COMPETITIVE PROCESS TO
00:29:35 A SERVICE PROVIDER WHO IS STARTING TO PLAN A COUPLE
00:29:39 THOUSAND OF THOSE TREES. THERE'S GOING TO BE 3500 TREES
00:29:43 TOTAL PUBLIC WORKS ALREADY PLANTED 500.
00:29:45 SO WE ARE AGGRESSIVELY SEEKING ADDITIONAL OUTSIDE RESOURCES TO
00:29:49 INCREASE OUR TREE PLANTING GOALS TO GET CLOSER TO THE
00:29:53 GOALS THAT ARE SET BY THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN.
00:29:56 AND IN FACT WE HAVE A NEW WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT GRANT
00:30:00 THAT HAS THAT IT'S IN THE PROCESS OF BEING SIGNED TODAY
00:30:04 THAT IS GOING TO BE FOCUSED ON FILLING 2000 VACANT TREE
00:30:08 PLANTING SITES. I KNOW THAT THERE HAS BEEN A
00:30:12 BIG DEMAND FOR THIS BACKLOG OF VACANT TREE PLANTING SITES TO
00:30:16 BE FILLED. IT'S REALLY HARD TO DO IT ONE
00:30:19 AT A TIME. SO WE PUT IN A LOT OF WORK
00:30:20 AND PLANNING TO THOUGHTFULLY WORK WITH ECONOMIES OF SCALE TO
00:30:23 PLANT 2000 OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
00:30:26 >> AND WE HOPE THAT THIS WILL BE THE FIRST PHASE AND THAT WE
00:30:30 CAN CONTINUE AT THIS PACE IN FUTURE YEARS.
00:30:33 >> ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING SOME
00:30:34 QUESTIONS TONIGHT AND YOU MAY SIT DOWN.
00:30:37 ALL RIGHT. >> THANKS.
00:30:40 MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL IN THIS ITEM ON ITEM 24
00:30:46 SUPERVISOR ONE WONG EYES SUPERVISOR CHEN CHEN.
00:30:49 NO SUPERVISOR CHEN CHEN. EYES SUPERVISOR DORSEY DORSEY
00:30:54 EYES SUPERVISOR FIELDER. FIELDER.
00:30:57 NO. SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD MAHMOOD I
00:31:01 SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN I RANDLEMAN I SUPERVISOR MELGAR
00:31:05 MELGAR I SUPERVISOR SAUTER SAUTER NO SUPERVISOR CHERYL
00:31:09 CHERYL I AND SUPERVISOR WALTON WALTON NO THERE ARE SEVEN EYES
00:31:17 AND FOUR NOSE WITH SUPERVISORS CHEN FIELDER, SAUTER AND WALTON
00:31:21 VOTING NO AND THE ORDINANCE IS PASSED ON FIRST READING MADAM
00:31:31 CLERK LET'S GO TO OUR 230 SPECIAL ORDER RECOGNITION OF
00:31:34 COMMENDATIONS. >> YES IT'S NOW TIME TO
00:31:35 RECOGNIZE MERITORIOUS SERVICE TO THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN
00:31:39 FRANCISCO DISTRICT FOR SUPERVISOR WONG.
00:31:44 MAY I HAVE THAT VOTES COME UP? >> OKAY.
00:31:55 COLLEAGUES, TODAY I'M HONORED TO RECOGNIZE BOTH FOR THEIR
00:31:58 EXTRAORDINARY WORK SUPPORTING OUR VETERANS AND AS WE MARK
00:32:02 SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH WE ALSO RECOGNIZE THE VITAL ROLE
00:32:06 THAT COMMUNITY CONNECTION AND A RENEWED SENSE OF PURPOSE CAN
00:32:07 PLAY IN VETERANS LIVES. VET BOATS IS A VETERAN LED
00:32:13 ORGANIZATION THAT BRINGS VETERANS TOGETHER FOR
00:32:14 THERAPEUTIC SAILING, HANDS ON BOAT RESTORATION, MARITIME
00:32:19 SKILLS AND COMMENTARY. THE PROGRAMS GIVE VETERANS AN
00:32:22 OPPORTUNITY NOT ONLY TO LEARN AND WORK TOGETHER BUT ALSO TO
00:32:25 REBUILD CONFIDENCE, DEVELOP MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS
00:32:29 AND REDISCOVER A SENSE OF PURPOSE FOR VETERANS LIVING
00:32:31 WITH PTSD AND OTHER CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR SERVICE.
00:32:34 THAT SENSE OF CONNECTION CAN BE INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT.
00:32:38 WE KNOW THAT SUICIDE PREVENTION IS ABOUT MORE THAN INTERVENTION
00:32:42 AT A MOMENT OF CRISIS. IT IS ALSO ABOUT MAKING SURE
00:32:46 PEOPLE HAVE STRONG COMMUNITIES AROUND THEM PLACES WHERE THEY
00:32:49 FEEL VALUED, UNDERSTOOD, NEEDED AND SUPPORTED.
00:32:51 THAT IS WHAT MAKES THE WORK OF THAT BOAT SO MEANINGFUL.
00:32:54 THERE IS SOMETHING UNIQUELY POWERFUL ABOUT VETERANS
00:32:58 SUPPORTING OTHER VETERANS THROUGH DATA SHARED EXPERIENCE
00:33:02 WHETHER SAILING ON THE BAY, WORKING TOGETHER TO RESTORE A
00:33:03 BOAT OR SIMPLY SPENDING TIME WITH PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND
00:33:07 THEY'RE CREATING THE KINDS OF LASTING BONDS THAT CAN HELP
00:33:10 COMBAT ISOLATION AND STRENGTHEN RESILIENCE AND THE IMPACT
00:33:14 EXTENDS BEYOND INDIVIDUAL VETERANS WHEN WE SUPPORT THE
00:33:17 WELL-BEING OF THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED, WE ALSO SUPPORT THEIR
00:33:19 FAMILIES AND STRENGTHEN OUR BROADER COMMUNITY.
00:33:22 SO TODAY I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE AT VETS BOATS FOR YOUR
00:33:26 SERVICE, COMPASSION AND DEDICATION AND COMMEND YOU
00:33:29 FOR HELPING VETERANS THROUGHOUT THE BAY AREA FIND CONNECTION
00:33:31 PURPOSE, RESILIENCE AND HOPE. >> AND NOW IT'S MY PLEASURE TO
00:33:34 WELCOME MATT. MAY I HAVE A GENTLEMAN
00:33:37 GENTLEMAN FROM VET BOATS VETS BOATS TO SAY A FEW WORDS WELL
00:33:44 THANK YOU TO THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO AND TO THE BOARD OF
00:33:45 SUPERVISORS FOR ALLOWING ME TO COME UP.
00:33:49 JUST A QUICK INTRODUCTION. MY NAME IS MATT GETTLEMAN.
00:33:52 >> I LIVE IN DISTRICT FOUR AT SEACLIFF.
00:33:53 I WORK AT GOLDMAN SACHS DOWNTOWN AND I'M ALSO A
00:33:56 VETERAN. SO I WENT TO WEST POINT, SERVED
00:34:00 FIVE YEARS IN THE ARMY SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR HAVING US.
00:34:03 SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO SAY ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION JUST FIRST
00:34:06 AND FOREMOST IS IT'S FOUNDED BY VETERANS FOR VETERANS.
00:34:10 IT'S BEEN AROUND FOR 14 YEARS NOW AND YOU KNOW, I THINK THE
00:34:14 BIGGEST THING THAT I CAN SAY TO THE CITY AND COUNTY IS HOW
00:34:18 MEANINGFUL AND IMPACTFUL AND WE DO HAVE A LARGE HOMELESS
00:34:19 VETERAN POPULATION AS WELL AS JUST VETERANS WRIT LARGE.
00:34:23 WE WORK WE WORK A LOT WITH SORTS OF PLOWSHARES WHICH WE
00:34:27 KNOW HAS A DEEP CONNECTION WITH THE CITY.
00:34:29 AND WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IS JUST THANK YOU AND THE WORK
00:34:34 THAT WE'RE DOING IS IS DEMONSTRATED EVERY SINGLE TIME
00:34:38 WE PUT VETERANS ON THE BOAT. JUST SOME QUICK STATISTICS I'M
00:34:41 SURE YOU GUYS ARE ALL WELL AWARE EVERY 21 SECONDS OF
00:34:44 VETERAN DIES OF SUICIDE IN THE UNITED STATES.
00:34:45 AND YOU KNOW, I THINK A LOT OF THINGS AND YOU CAN SAY WHATEVER
00:34:48 YOU WANT ABOUT THE WARS WE FOUGHT OVER THE LAST 50, 60
00:34:51 YEARS. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY A LOT
00:34:52 OF THE PEOPLE THAT JOIN WHEN THEY'RE 18, 19 AND 20 HAVE
00:34:55 REALLY NO IDEA WHAT THEY'RE SIGNING UP FOR.
00:34:58 AND YOU KNOW, I THINK THE BIGGEST THING FOR THEM IS
00:35:00 REALLY THE CAMARADERIE THAT THEY COME HOME WITH AND THAT'S
00:35:02 REALLY WHAT WE TRY TO SUPPORT AND REALLY CULTIVATE COMMUNITY
00:35:06 FOR THEM. AND SO I JUST AGAIN JUST WANT
00:35:07 TO SAY THANK YOU. WE ARE HOSTING OUR ANNUAL GALA
00:35:10 ON THE 11TH OF NOVEMBER AT THE ST FRANCIS YACHT CLUB.
00:35:13 WE HAVE THE 31ST CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS THAT'S GOING TO BE
00:35:16 THERE AS OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT
00:35:20 EVENING IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR ORGANIZATION W W
00:35:24 W DOT VETS BOATS DOT ORG WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS
00:35:28 TO COME ON SAILS WITH US. WE SAIL AT LEAST TWICE A MONTH
00:35:33 AND WE USUALLY HAVE 20 OR 30 VETERANS SHOW UP EITHER FROM VA
00:35:36 FACILITIES THAT WE ARE PARTNERED WITH IN THE CITY OR
00:35:39 IN THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES .
00:35:41 AND JUST KIND OF THE LAST PIECE OF INFORMATION YOU KNOW, FOR
00:35:46 EVERY DOLLAR DONATED TO VETS BOATS $0.96 GOES DIRECTLY TO
00:35:49 THE VETERANS TO PUT THEM ON THE WATER.
00:35:50 SO AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MY NAME'S MAC EDELMAN
00:35:53 AND REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME .
00:36:17 ALL RIGHT, MADAM CLERK, LET'S GO TO ROLL CALL FIRST ON ROLL
00:36:25 CALL FOR INTRODUCTIONS IS SUPERVISOR WANG BUT SINCE HE
00:36:29 STEPPED OUT OF THE CHAMBER WE'LL GO TO SUPERVISOR CHAN WHO
00:36:32 IS ALSO. >> SO SUPERVISOR CHEN, WILL YOU
00:36:37 GO FIRST PLEASE? >> THANK YOU.
00:36:38 THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK COLLEAGUES AND IT'S MY HONOR TO
00:36:40 INTRODUCE THIS RESOLUTION COMMENDING KATIE S.F. FOR 50
00:36:44 YEARS OF OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO THE ASIAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
00:36:49 KATIE ASSAF BEGAN BROADCASTING IN SAN FRANCISCO ON SEPTEMBER
00:36:55 4TH, 1976 UNDER FOUNDER LILLIAN LINCOLN HOUSE LEADERSHIP KATIE
00:37:00 S.F. GREW INTO A PIONEER OF MULTI-ETHNIC AND ASIAN LANGUAGE
00:37:06 PROGRAMING IN THE UNITED STATES .
00:37:09 >> IN 1989 KATIE ASSAF LAUNCHED THE FIRST NIGHTLY LIFE CHINESE
00:37:14 LANGUAGE NEWSCAST NEWSCASTS IN CANTONESE IN THE UNITED
00:37:18 STATES IN 1991. IT ADDED LIFE MENTORING
00:37:21 PROGRAMING FOR GENERATIONS OF CHINESE-AMERICAN FAMILIES.
00:37:28 THIS PODCASTS HAVE BEEN A VITAL CONNECTIONS TO VITAL
00:37:32 CONNECTIONS TO LOCAL NEWS COMMUNITY ISSUES
00:37:35 AND INTERNATIONAL EVENTS. KATIE S.F. HAS ALSO PLAYED AN
00:37:40 IMPORTANT ROLE IN HELPING NEW IMMIGRANTS AND LONGTIME
00:37:44 RESIDENTS ALIKE NAVIGATING LIFE IN THE BAY AREA.
00:37:45 IT IS REPORTING AND PUBLIC SERVICES PROGRAMING HAVE
00:37:48 HIGHLIGHTED ISSUES AFFECTING ASIAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
00:37:53 PROVIDING VALUABLE COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND HELP ENSURE THAT
00:37:57 IMPORTANT INFORMATION RICHEST PEOPLE WHO MIGHT OTHERWISE BE
00:38:01 LEFT OUT GIVING THEM THE INFORMATION THEY NEED TO
00:38:04 PARTICIPATE FULLY IN CIVIC LIFE OF OUR CITY.
00:38:08 AS WE CELEBRATE KATIE S.F. 50TH ANNIVERSARY WE RECOGNIZE THE
00:38:15 GENERALISTS, THE BROADCASTERS, STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO
00:38:18 GIVE OUR COMMUNITIES AN OUTLET FOR OUR STORIES.
00:38:22 THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES WHO HAVE COSPONSORED IT TO
00:38:24 CELEBRATE SEPTEMBER 4TH, 2026 AS KATIE S.F. DAY IN SAN
00:38:31 FRANCISCO AND CONGRATULATION TO KATIE S.F. FOR 50 YEARS OF
00:38:34 EXTRAORDINARY SERVICE. EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP
00:38:38 AND THANK YOU FOR KEEPING OUR COMMUNITIES INFORMED, CONNECTED
00:38:42 AND BE PART OF SAN FRANCISCO STORY.
00:38:45 >> AND THE REST I SUBMIT THANK YOU.
00:38:48 >> THANK YOU SUPERVISOR CHEN SUPERVISOR DORSEY SUBMIT THANK
00:38:53 YOU. >> SUPERVISOR FIELDER.
00:38:53 THANK YOU MADAM CLERK. >> COLLEAGUES TODAY I HAVE ONE
00:38:57 ORDINANCE AND ONE RESOLUTION FOR INTRODUCTION.
00:39:00 TODAY I'M INTRODUCING LEGISLATION TO HELP STEM THE
00:39:04 TIDE OF SAN FRANCISCO'S EVICTION CRISIS.
00:39:05 EVICTIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO HIT A TEN YEAR HIGH LAST YEAR
00:39:09 AND DATA SHOWS THAT WE ARE ON PACE FOR AN EVEN HIGHER NUMBER
00:39:13 OF EVICTIONS THIS YEAR. NONPAYMENT OF RENT IS THE
00:39:16 REASON BEHIND OVER HALF OF RECENT EVICTION PROCEEDINGS
00:39:20 AND THE TRUE NUMBER IS LIKELY EVEN HIGHER AS LANDLORDS ARE
00:39:21 NOT REQUIRED TO REPORT NONPAYMENT EVICTION NOTICES TO
00:39:24 THE RENT BOARD. EVICTION DEFENSE ATTORNEYS
00:39:28 ATTRIBUTE THE RISE IN EVICTIONS TO AN AFFORDABILITY CRISIS.
00:39:32 IN SAN FRANCISCO, RENTS ARE INCREASING AT RECORD HIGH
00:39:35 NUMBERS WHILE A SLOW AND CHALLENGING JOB MARKET FOR
00:39:37 WORKING CLASS RESIDENTS MEANS MANY SAN FRANCISCANS ARE LIVING
00:39:40 PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK WITH SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC
00:39:43 UNCERTAINTY. TODAY IN SAN FRANCISCO
00:39:47 LANDLORDS CAN EVICT TENANTS FOR BEING SHORT ANY AMOUNT IN RENT
00:39:50 . LANDLORDS WHO WANT TO TAKE
00:39:51 ADVANTAGE OF A LUCRATIVE RENTAL MARKET LIKE SAN FRANCISCO'S CAN
00:39:55 PURSUE EVICTION AGAINST LONG TIME RENT CONTROLLED TENANTS
00:39:59 WHO HAVE MINUSCULE ONE TIME OR ACCIDENTAL RENT SHORTAGES.
00:40:02 OFTEN TENANTS DO NOT EVEN KNOW THEY HAVE OUTSTANDING RENT OWED
00:40:06 DUE TO A NUMBER OF REASONS INCLUDING THAT THEY'VE BEEN
00:40:10 CHARGED HIDDEN FEES OR HIGHLY VARIABLE UTILITY BILLS WITHOUT
00:40:14 WARNING. IN A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF
00:40:15 NONPAYMENT EVICTIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO LAST YEAR AROUND 25%
00:40:20 OF TENANTS WERE EVICTED FOR LESS THAN ONE MONTH OF THE FAIR
00:40:21 MARKET RENT FOR THEIR UNIT. THIS IS WHY I'M INTRODUCING
00:40:25 LEGISLATION THAT WILL PREVENT LANDLORDS FROM EVICTING TENANTS
00:40:29 WHO FALL BEHIND IN RENT UNLESS THE TENANT OWES THEM A PORTION
00:40:32 OF THE RENT AN AMOUNT HIGHER THAN THE FAIR MARKET RENT THE
00:40:36 FAIR MARKET RENT DEPENDS ON THE BEDROOM SIZE OF THE RENTAL UNIT
00:40:40 AND IS SET ANNUALLY BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
00:40:44 DEVELOPMENT. THIS IS THE SAME STANDARD THAT
00:40:47 IS ALREADY UTILIZED IN CITIES LIKE LOS ANGELES, OAKLAND
00:40:48 AND BERKELEY. THANK YOU TO THE ANTI
00:40:52 DISPLACEMENT COLLECTION INCLUDING THE EVICTION DEFENSE
00:40:55 COLLABORATIVE FOR YOUR WORK WITH US ON THIS AS WELL AS
00:40:56 DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY MANU PRADHAN AND MY LEGISLATIVE AIDE
00:40:59 ANNA HERRERA. I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK
00:41:03 SUPERVISORS MELGAR WALTON CHAN ,CHEN MAHMOOD AND SADR FOR
00:41:07 YOUR EARLIER CO-SPONSORSHIP. AND I WANT TO THANK THE
00:41:10 MAYOR FOR HIS SUPPORT AS WELL. I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR SUPPORT
00:41:13 IN THIS LEGISLATION THAT WILL HELP TENANTS ACROSS OUR ENTIRE
00:41:15 CITY. AND TODAY I'M PROUD TO ANNOUNCE
00:41:18 A RESOLUTION DECLARING SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2020 6KLW DAY
00:41:25 IN A CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO IN CELEBRATION OF THE
00:41:29 STATION'S 85TH ANNIVERSARY SINCE 1941.
00:41:32 KUOW 91.7 FM HAS BEEN A FIXTURE OF BAY AREA PUBLIC MEDIA.
00:41:38 IT HAS KEPT JUSTICE, EQUITY AND COMMUNITY STORYTELLING AT
00:41:40 THE CENTER OF ITS WORK WHILE CONTINUALLY EVOLVING TO MEET
00:41:44 THE NEEDS OF ITS LISTENERS. KALE W'S HISTORY OF INNOVATION
00:41:47 SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. IT WAS THE FIRST STATION IN THE
00:41:51 BAY AREA TO AIR PROGRAMS LIKE FRESH AIR THIS AMERICAN LIFE
00:41:54 SNAP JUDGMENT AND THE DAILY. AND THE FIRST TO BRING THE BBC
00:41:59 TO BAY AREA LISTENERS SERVING FOUR DECADES AS THE BBC'S
00:42:01 STATION AND RECORD HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
00:42:05 >> IT'S ALSO THE BIRTHPLACE OF 99% INVISIBLE AND RADIO ON THE
00:42:08 LAND THE PROGRAMS THAT BUILD ON THE STATION'S TRACK RECORD OF
00:42:12 NURTURING NEW VOICES IN A WAY THAT FEW STATIONS CAN MATCH.
00:42:15 THAT COMMITMENT TO NEW VOICES EXTENDS WELL BEYOND THE STUDIO.
00:42:19 THE ORIGINS OF EAR HUSTLE TRACED DIRECTLY BACK TO CARL
00:42:23 W'S VOLUNTEER PROGRAM AT SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON A POWERFUL
00:42:27 EXAMPLE OF THE STATION'S DEDICATION TO TELLING STORIES
00:42:30 FROM PLACES THAT ARE TOO OFTEN OVERLOOKED OR SILENCED ENTIRELY
00:42:34 . TODAY KW REMAINS AN ESSENTIAL
00:42:35 AND TRUSTED SOURCE OF NEWS, MUSIC, CULTURE AND COMMUNITY
00:42:39 STORYTELLING THROUGHOUT SAN FRANCISCO IN THE NINE COUNTY
00:42:43 BAY AREA. AS WE MARK THIS 85TH
00:42:46 ANNIVERSARY WE CELEBRATE NOT JUST KUOW WHOSE REMARKABLE
00:42:50 HISTORY BUT LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT 85 YEARS OF INDEPENDENT
00:42:54 COMMUNITY POWERED JOURNALISM AND MUSIC.
00:42:57 THANK YOU TO SUPERVISORS WONG CHEN MANAGEMENT AND WALDEN FOR
00:43:00 YOUR EARLY CO-SPONSORSHIP. THE REST I SUBMIT.
00:43:05 THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR FIELDER SUPERVISOR
00:43:06 MAHMOOD. >> SUBMIT.
00:43:08 THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN THANK YOU,
00:43:12 MADAM. >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.
00:43:15 COLLEAGUES TODAY I AM INTRODUCING AN ORDINANCE TO
00:43:17 MAKE A MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE PLANNING CODE TO EXTEND
00:43:20 ELIGIBILITY FOR LEGAL NONCONFORMING REAR YARD
00:43:24 STRUCTURES TO INCLUDE THOSE CONSTRUCTED BETWEEN 2003 THE
00:43:27 CURRENT CUTOFF AND 2010. THE CHANGE WAS MOTIVATED BY THE
00:43:32 EXPERIENCE OF TWO ELDERLY DISABLED CONSTITUENTS IN MY
00:43:36 DISTRICT. SAM AND MA ARE RETIRED MENTAL
00:43:37 HEALTH PROFESSIONALS HE A MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELOR.
00:43:40 SHE A LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST.
00:43:43 THEY SPENT THEIR CAREERS HELPING OTHERS THROUGH CRISIS
00:43:44 AND GRIEF. BUT NOW IN THEIR LATER YEARS
00:43:48 BOTH ARE FACING THEIR OWN PHYSICAL AND MEDICAL
00:43:51 CHALLENGES. FOR THE LAST 18 YEARS SAM
00:43:52 AND MA HAVE MADE DAILY USE OF A MEDITATION ROOM IN THEIR
00:43:56 BACKYARD. THEY BUILT THE ROOM IN 2018 TO
00:43:59 ANCHOR THEIR BUDDHIST PRACTICE. ITS LONG SLOPED EAVES
00:44:02 AND LANTERN STYLE ROOF FOLLOW CENTURIES OLD JAPANESE BUDDHIST
00:44:06 ARCHITECTURAL TRADITION MEANT TO MARK THE PASSAGE INTO A
00:44:10 SPIRITUAL SPACE. ALTHOUGH SALMAN MA, WE'RE TOLD
00:44:11 BY THEIR DESIGNER THAT A PERMIT WOULDN'T BE REQUIRED FOR IT,
00:44:15 THE STRUCTURE NARROWLY EXCEEDS THE SIZE LIMITS FOR REAR YARD
00:44:19 STRUCTURES SET IN THE PLANNING CODE.
00:44:20 >> IN 2019 A DISGRUNTLED NEIGHBOR DENIED A PERMIT OF
00:44:23 THEIR OWN IN THE PROCESS OF SELLING THEIR HOME FILED AN
00:44:26 ANONYMOUS COMPLAINT. NO ONE ELSE ON THE BLOCK HAS
00:44:30 EVER COMPLAINED ABOUT THE STRUCTURE AND LETTERS OF
00:44:31 SUPPORT FOR FOR SAM AND MA HAVE COME FROM EVERY ADJACENT OR
00:44:34 ABUTTING PROPERTY. LAST YEAR, RECOGNIZING THE
00:44:37 PREVALENCE OF LONG STANDING UNPERMITTED REAR YARD
00:44:42 STRUCTURES IN NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS SAN FRANCISCO, THIS
00:44:43 BOARD PASSED LEGISLATION TO LEGALIZE NONCONFORMING REAR
00:44:46 YARD STRUCTURES BUILT BEFORE 2003.
00:44:49 >> THIS LEGISLATION WOULD CHANGE THAT DATE TO 2010 TO
00:44:53 ACCOMMODATE SALMON MA'S MEDITATION SPACE AND OTHER
00:44:54 SIMILAR NONCONFORMING STRUCTURES CONSTRUCTED BEFORE
00:44:57 2010. I WANT TO THANK LISA GLUCKSTEIN
00:45:01 AND ELIZABETH WATTY FOR HELPING US FROM THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT
00:45:02 FOR HELPING US FIND THE SOLUTION.
00:45:05 I WANT TO THANK ROB COPPOLA FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR
00:45:09 HIS WORK AND MY AIDE RENE AUBERJONOIS FOR HIS WORK
00:45:13 AND THE REST I SUBMIT. >> THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT.
00:45:17 SUPERVISOR MELGAR SUBMIT. THANK YOU.
00:45:18 SUPERVISOR SAUDER THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.
00:45:21 >> COLLEAGUES AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR I ASKED THE BUDGET
00:45:26 AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYSTS TO INVENTORY AND REPORT ON
00:45:29 OPPORTUNITIES FOR USING VACANT OR SURPLUS CITY AND PUBLIC
00:45:33 PROPERTIES FOR HOUSING AND OTHER PUBLIC PURPOSES.
00:45:36 AND AT MY REQUEST BIELA HAS SPENT THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS
00:45:40 CONDUCTING A REVIEW OF PUBLICLY OWNED PROPERTIES ACROSS THE
00:45:41 CITY WITH THE GOAL OF IDENTIFYING PROPERTIES WITH
00:45:45 POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT, SECONDARY USES OR JOINT
00:45:49 DEVELOPMENT USING SPECIFIC EVALUATION CRITERIA.
00:45:52 THEY CANVASED 30 CITY DEPARTMENTS AGENCIES
00:45:56 AND EDUCATIONAL ENTITIES INCLUDING S.F. USD AND CITY
00:45:57 COLLEGE. >> THEY EXAMINED WELL OVER 100
00:46:00 PROPERTIES REPRESENTING APPROXIMATELY SIX POINT
00:46:04 2,000,000FT2 OF PUBLIC LAND. THEY APPLIED A HIGH LEVEL
00:46:08 PRELIMINARY SCREENING BASED ON CRITERIA SUCH AS BEING IN POOR
00:46:11 OR DEFICIENT CONDITION, HAVING EXCESS LAND OR LOW SITE
00:46:15 UTILIZATION. THIS ALL GIVES US PRELIMINARY
00:46:16 RESULTS FOR PROPERTIES THAT WARRANT FURTHER EVALUATION.
00:46:20 NOW WE EXPECT THE FULL REPORT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE COMING
00:46:23 DAYS BUT I'M HAPPY TO SHARE THAT THERE'S A LOT OF SUBSTANCE
00:46:27 IN WHAT THE BLR FOUND. PUT ANOTHER WAY.
00:46:30 WE'RE CLEARLY SITTING ON A TREMENDOUS RESOURCE THAT WE
00:46:31 NEED TO USE BETTER. FOR EXAMPLE, THE REPORT WILL
00:46:35 SHOW THAT THERE ARE 44 VACANT OR SOON TO BE VACANT PROPERTIES
00:46:41 THAT MAY WARRANT FURTHER EVALUATION FOR AFFORDABLE
00:46:42 HOUSING OR OTHER DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND USING
00:46:46 SPECIFIC SITE THE REPORT SPECIFIC SITES.
00:46:49 THE REPORT CONTEMPLATES THE NUMBER OF UNITS OF HOUSING THAT
00:46:53 MIGHT BE PRODUCED ON VACANT OR UNDERUTILIZED LAND AND SHOWS
00:46:56 THAT THIS NUMBER QUICKLY REACHES MANY THOUSANDS OF NEW
00:47:00 HOMES. >> THE REPORT ALSO ALSO PUSHES
00:47:01 US TO BE MORE THOUGHTFUL ON HOW WE ORGANIZE OUR SPACE.
00:47:05 SETTING AN EXAMPLE WHERE S.F. USED HAS ADMINISTRATIVE
00:47:09 FUNCTIONS SPREAD ACROSS EIGHT DIFFERENT PROPERTIES.
00:47:13 >> MOVING FROM THIS ANALYSIS TO ACTION WILL TAKE FURTHER
00:47:16 RESEARCH AND DISCUSSION BUT MOST OF ALL IT WILL TAKE
00:47:20 COORDINATION AND LEADERSHIP. AND THE BLM REPORT WILL CLEARLY
00:47:24 LAY OUT WHY THE CURRENT PROCESS OR LACK OF ONE FOR SHORT
00:47:27 THERE'S NO TRUE OWNER OR VISION FOR THIS PROCESS.
00:47:31 INSTEAD IT IS LEFT TODAY TO A PIECEMEAL APPROACH AND IS
00:47:34 FRAGMENTED HEAVILY BY DEPARTMENT.
00:47:35 NOW THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT ONE CITY AGENCY HAS OPTED FOR A
00:47:38 MORE SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO EVALUATING THEIR REAL ESTATE
00:47:42 PORTFOLIO. THE MTA, FOR EXAMPLE, THROUGH
00:47:46 ITS JOINT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IS PROACTIVELY SEEKING TO
00:47:49 IDENTIFY PROPERTIES TO GENERATE REVENUE, MODERNIZE
00:47:50 TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES AND SUPPORT HOUSING PRODUCTION.
00:47:53 BUT THAT BEGS THE QUESTION WHY ISN'T THIS BEING DONE AT EVERY
00:47:57 DEPARTMENT OR ON A CITYWIDE SCALE LEVEL?
00:48:00 SO WITH THE BLAZE LAND REPORT ON OUR UNDERUTILIZED PROPERTY
00:48:04 IS BEING PUBLISHED IN THE COMING DAYS, I AM TODAY
00:48:08 SUBMITTING A HEARING REQUEST TO DISCUSS THE BLAZE FINDING
00:48:11 AND POLICY OPTIONS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF REAL ESTATE.
00:48:15 THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, THE
00:48:19 OFFICE OF ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
00:48:20 AND THE S.F. MTA TO REPORT. >> IT IS CLEAR THAT WE NEED A
00:48:23 CITYWIDE DIRECTION AND COORDINATE THAT LONG TERM
00:48:27 APPROACH TO LEVERAGING PUBLICLY OWNED PARCELS TO MEET THE MOST
00:48:30 CRITICAL NEEDS OF SAN FRANCISCANS AND I LOOK FORWARD
00:48:32 TO HAVING THIS CONVERSATION AND DOING THE WORK TO CHART A
00:48:35 PATH FORWARD. THE ASSESSMENT.
00:48:39 >> THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR SAUTER SUPERVISOR
00:48:40 CHERYL SUBMIT THANK YOU. >> SUPERVISOR WALTON THANK YOU
00:48:46 MADAM CLERK. COLLEAGUES TODAY I HAVE ONE
00:48:49 IN MEMORIAM. I AM HONORING THE LIFE
00:48:50 AND LEGACY OF VIVIAN AND HOPKINS, A TRUE DAUGHTER OF
00:48:54 SAN FRANCISCO. VIVIAN WAS RAISED IN PATROL
00:48:58 HILL AND GRADUATED FROM MISSION HIGH SCHOOL IN 1970.
00:49:04 SHE CARRIED WITH HER THROUGHOUT HER LIFE THE VALUES SHE LEARNED
00:49:08 FROM HER MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER HARD WORK, DETERMINATION,
00:49:13 INTEGRITY AND A DEEP COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY.
00:49:16 VIVIAN BUILT AN EXTRAORDINARY CAREER SPANNING
00:49:20 ENTREPRENEURSHIP CORPORATE LEADERSHIP, NONPROFIT FOOD
00:49:25 SERVICE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.
00:49:26 >> SHE BROUGHT HER TALENT FOR ORGANIZING PROBLEM SOLVING
00:49:29 AND BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER TO ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING YOUNG
00:49:36 COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS AND THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN
00:49:39 FRANCISCO. >> AS PROJECT MANAGER FOR S.F.
00:49:43 SHINES, SHE HELPED INVEST IN SMALL BUSINESSES
00:49:46 AND REVITALIZE COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS WHILE HONORING THE
00:49:48 HISTORY AND LEGACY OF THE COMMUNITIES SHE SERVED.
00:49:54 BUT VIVIAN'S GREATEST IMPACT CANNOT BE MEASURED BY A TITLE
00:49:58 OR A JOB DESCRIPTION. SHE HAD A GIFT FOR USING HER
00:50:02 KNOWLEDGE, RELATIONSHIPS AND INFLUENCE TO OPEN DOORS FOR
00:50:06 OTHERS. SHE KNEW HOW TO GET THINGS DONE
00:50:09 AND SHE GENUINELY WANTED PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES TO SUCCEED.
00:50:13 THOSE WHO KNEW VIVIAN WELL REMEMBER HER BRIGHT SMILE, HER
00:50:17 LAUGH, HER HONESTY AND HER WILLINGNESS TO TELL YOU EXACTLY
00:50:21 WHAT SHE THOUGHT. SHE LOVED HER FAMILY DEEPLY
00:50:24 AND SHE LOVED GOOD FOOD, TRAVEL, LAUGHTER AND BRINGING
00:50:29 PEOPLE TOGETHER. HER LEGENDARY HOLIDAY MEALS
00:50:33 WERE AN EXPRESSION OF THAT LOVE AND GENEROSITY.
00:50:36 VIVIAN TRAVELED THE WORLD BUT SAN FRANCISCO WAS ALWAYS HOME.
00:50:43 SHE GAVE SO MUCH TO THIS CITY AND TO THE PEOPLE WHO WERE
00:50:44 FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO KNOW HER. I EXTEND MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES
00:50:48 TO VIVIAN'S DAUGHTERS. GRANDCHILDREN, GREAT
00:50:51 GRANDCHILDREN, EXTENDED FAMILY AND COUNTLESS FRIENDS
00:50:57 AND COLLEAGUES. MAY WE HONOR VIVIAN BY
00:50:59 REMEMBERING THE LIGHT SHE BROUGHT INTO OUR LIVES THE
00:51:02 COMMUNITIES SHE STRENGTHENED AND THE OPPORTUNITIES SHE
00:51:07 CREATED FOR OTHERS. AND MAY HER EXTRAORDINARY
00:51:10 LEGACY LIVE ON. >> THE REST I SUBMIT.
00:51:14 THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR WALTON.
00:51:18 >> SUPERVISOR WANG. COLLEAGUES, I AM INTRODUCING A
00:51:23 RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT CONGRESSMEMBER KEVIN MULLINS
00:51:26 AVE EMERGENCY RESPONSE COORDINATION ACT.
00:51:30 SAN FRANCISCO HAS BEEN ON THE FRONT LINES OF AUTONOMOUS
00:51:31 VEHICLE DEPLOYMENT AND WE'VE ALSO SEEN FIRSTHAND WHAT CAN
00:51:34 HAPPEN WHEN THESE VEHICLES ENCOUNTER EXTRAORDINARY
00:51:37 CIRCUMSTANCES. DURING LAST DECEMBER'S MAJOR
00:51:38 PGA AND EE POWER OUTAGE AND AGAIN FOLLOWING THE 4TH OF
00:51:44 JULY FIREWORKS, AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES BECAME STRANDED AND IN
00:51:46 SOME CASES INTERFERED WITH TRAFFIC AND EMERGENCY
00:51:49 OPERATIONS. THIS LEGISLATION TAKES A
00:51:53 PRACTICAL APPROACH. IT WOULD ESTABLISH CLEAR
00:51:54 NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR COMMUNICATION OF FIRST
00:51:57 RESPONDERS REQUIRED A 24 HOUR EMERGENCY HOTLINE AND ALLOW
00:52:00 PUBLIC AGENCIES TO QUICKLY GEOFENCE AREAS DURING
00:52:04 EMERGENCIES AND MAJOR EVENTS. AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ARE HERE TO
00:52:08 STAY. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE INNOVATION
00:52:09 GOES HAND IN HAND WITH PUBLIC SAFETY AND THAT OUR FIRST
00:52:12 RESPONDERS HAVE THE TOOLS THEY NEED WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG.
00:52:15 I'M ALSO INTRODUCING A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF
00:52:19 ASSEMBLYMEMBER KATHRYN STEPHANIE'S A.B. 2540, THE
00:52:23 COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENT RIGHT TO ACCESS ACT.
00:52:27 >> CALIFORNIA ALREADY REQUIRES YOU AND CSU CAMPUSES TO PROVIDE
00:52:31 MEDICATION ABORTION BUT COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS WERE
00:52:35 LEFT OUT OF THAT LAW. THAT CREATES AN UNNECESSARY
00:52:38 DISPARITY, PARTICULARLY FOR STUDENTS WHO MAY ALSO BE
00:52:42 BALANCING WORK, CAREGIVING AND FACING FINANCIAL
00:52:46 CHALLENGES. HB 2540 WOULD CLOSE THAT GAP BY
00:52:47 EXPANDING ACCESS THROUGH HUMAN COLLEGE HEALTH CENTERS,
00:52:53 TELEHEALTH OR PARTNERSHIPS WITH OUTSIDE PROVIDERS WHILE
00:52:54 PROVIDING FLEXIBILITY BASED ON EACH CAMPUSES CAPACITY.
00:52:58 >> CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO HAS ALREADY ENDORSED
00:53:02 THIS LEGISLATION AS A PASSPORT PRESIDENT FOR THE CITY COLLEGE
00:53:06 BOARD TRUSTEES. I BELIEVE IT'S IMPORTANT FOR
00:53:07 SAN FRANCISCO TO TAKE A STANCE AND SUPPORT THIS AS WELL.
00:53:10 THIS RESOLUTION ADDS SAN FRANCISCO SUPPORT AND CALLS FOR
00:53:13 ADEQUATE STATE FUNDING SO THESE SERVICES CAN BE IMPLEMENTED
00:53:17 WITHOUT TAKING RESOURCES AWAY FROM OTHER STUDENT HEALTH NEEDS
00:53:21 . FINALLY TODAY I'M ASKING THE
00:53:21 CITY ATTORNEY TO BEGIN DRAFTING LEGISLATION TO UPDATE SAN
00:53:26 FRANCISCO'S FORMULA RETAIL RULES.
00:53:29 OUR RETAIL LANDSCAPE HAS CHANGED DRAMATICALLY IN RECENT
00:53:30 YEARS ACROSS THE CITY. WE'RE SEEING PERSISTENT
00:53:33 STOREFRONT VACANCIES CHANGING SHOPPING PATTERNS AND SPACES
00:53:36 SITTING EMPTY FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME.
00:53:38 AT THE SAME TIME, SAN FRANCISCO'S FORMULA RETAIL
00:53:41 REGULATIONS CAN MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR CERTAIN
00:53:42 BUSINESSES TO OPEN EVEN IN LOCATIONS WHERE A STOREFRONT
00:53:45 MAY BE DOING MORE HARM THAN A NEW TENANT WOULD.
00:53:48 I THINK IT'S TIME WE UPDATE THESE RULES TO BETTER REFLECT
00:53:53 TODAY'S ECONOMIC REALITY MAKE IT EASIER TO FILL VACANT
00:53:56 STOREFRONTS AND BRING MORE FOOT TRAFFIC AND ACTIVITIES BACK TO
00:54:00 OUR STREETS. >> THEIR ASSESSMENT.
00:54:03 >> THANK YOU SUPERVISOR WONG SUPERVISOR CHAN THANK YOU,
00:54:07 MADAM CLERK. COLLEAGUES TODAY I AM
00:54:08 OFFICIALLY INTRODUCING A PAIR OF LEGISLATION THE SMALL
00:54:15 BUSINESS TENANTS UNION AND THE WORKERS OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE
00:54:18 ACT TODAY. >> THE LEGISLATION WITHIN
00:54:22 TENSION TO EMPOWER OUR SMALL BUSINESSES AND CREATE
00:54:23 ENTREPRENEURSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AND JOB SECURITY FOR WORKERS.
00:54:27 OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS AS THE COST OF LIVING AND MARKET
00:54:31 SPECULATION RISES, WE HAVE CONTINUED TO HEAR STORIES ABOUT
00:54:35 LONG TIME SMALL BUSINESSES GETTING FORCED OUT.
00:54:39 FACING THE SAME CHALLENGES AS TENANTS RESIDENTIAL TENANTS
00:54:43 IN SAN FRANCISCO HIGH RENT THREATS OF EVICTION
00:54:46 UNREASONABLE LEASE TERM DISPLACEMENT AND CORPORATE
00:54:50 TAKEOVER. >> WHEN A LOCAL BUSINESS
00:54:54 CLOSES, THE NEIGHBORHOOD CLOSES AND WORKERS ARE FORCED INTO
00:54:58 UNEMPLOYMENT. THE SMALL BUSINESS TENANTS
00:55:02 UNION'S IS A LEGISLATION THAT MODEL AFTER THE SUCCESSFUL
00:55:05 UNION AT HOME LEGISLATION AND JAPANTOWN MA MERCHANTS
00:55:09 ORGANIZING. THIS LEGISLATION WILL EMPOWER
00:55:13 SMALL COMMERCIAL TENANTS TO UNIONIZE IN ORDER TO BARGAIN
00:55:17 WITH COMMERCIAL PROPERTY LANDLORDS AND MANAGEMENT
00:55:21 AND PROHIBIT PROPERTY OWNERS FROM BANNING BUSINESS OWNERS
00:55:25 FROM ORGANIZING IN THEIR PLACES OF BUSINESS.
00:55:26 THIS ORDINANCE ALSO ALLOWS THE CITY TO RECOGNIZE THESE UNION
00:55:30 ORGANIZATION AS SO THEY CAN RECEIVE SUPPORT.
00:55:34 IT WILL ALSO REALLY SUPPORT AND BOOST THE BUSINESS OWNERS
00:55:38 ABILITY SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS ABILITY TO LEVEL THE FIELD
00:55:42 AND PREVENT DISPLACEMENT WHEN THEY WORK TOGETHER TO NEGOTIATE
00:55:46 BUSINESS CONDITIONS. SECOND, THE WORKERS OPPORTUNITY
00:55:50 TO PURCHASE ACT IS MODELED AFTER THE LANDMARK COMMUNITY
00:55:54 OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE ACT ALSO KNOWN AS COPA.
00:55:57 THE LEGISLATION WILL INCENTIVIZE OWNERS TO CONSIDER
00:56:01 A SUCCESSION PLAN AND SELL THEIR BUSINESS TO THE WORKERS
00:56:04 WHO ALREADY KNOW THE BUSINESS OPERATION.
00:56:05 IT WILL EMPOWER WORKERS TO BECOME ENTREPRENEURS THEMSELVES
00:56:09 THROUGH A WORKER CO-OP. THE ORDINANCE WILL REQUIRE
00:56:12 ADVANCE NOTICE TO WORKERS WHEN OWNERS WANT TO SELL THEIR
00:56:16 BUSINESS AND PROVIDE WORKERS WITH THE RIGHT TO FIRST OFFER
00:56:20 WHICH ALLOWS EMPLOYEES A PERIOD OF TIME TO FORM A WORKER CO-OP
00:56:28 IN ORDER TO EXPRESS INTEREST IN MAKING AN OFFER TO PURCHASE
00:56:32 THE BUSINESS. IF INTEREST EXISTS TO FORM A
00:56:36 WORKER CO-OP, THE GROUP IS ALLOW ADDITIONAL TIME TO
00:56:37 FINALIZE FINANCES AND SUBMIT AN INFORMAL OFFER.
00:56:41 ALTHOUGH ANY OWNERS RETAIN THE RIGHT TO REJECT OFFER
00:56:47 AND WORKER CO-OPS WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MATCH OR COUNTER
00:56:50 OTHER OFFERS. >> OUR CITY AND OUR COMMUNITIES
00:56:54 THRIVE WHEN OUR SMALL BUSINESSES AND WORKERS THRIVE.
00:56:58 I LIKE TO THANK JAPANTOWN MERCHANTS FOR THE INSPIRATION
00:57:03 FOR SMALL BUSINESS TENANTS UNION AND ALSO HOPE WILLIAMS
00:57:07 AND PAULA EISNER FROM SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES LAW
00:57:11 CENTER AND BENJIE KAPLAN FROM UFC W LOCAL FIVE FOR THEIR
00:57:15 COLLABORATION ON DRAFTING THIS PIECE OF LEGISLATION.
00:57:19 >> LAST BUT NOT LEAST COLLEAGUES, I'M ALSO
00:57:22 INTRODUCING A RESOLUTION URGING THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL
00:57:26 PROTECTION AGENCY AND THE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
00:57:30 HAZARD ASSESSMENT TO REFINE THE CAO ENVIRO SCREEN FRAMEWORK TO
00:57:34 ENSURE DENSE, LOW INCOME URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE BAYVIEW
00:57:38 HUNTERS POINT, CHINATOWN MISSION, SALTON MARKET
00:57:41 AND TENDERLOIN. REACHING OPPORTUNITIES TO
00:57:45 ESSENTIAL STATE GRANTS USING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
00:57:49 AND SOCIOECONOMIC INFORMATION. CAO EPA DEVELOP CAO IN VIA
00:57:53 ENVIRO SCREEN TO IDENTIFY COMMUNITIES BURDENED BY
00:58:00 MULTIPLE SOURCES OF POLLUTION AND POPULATION VULNERABILITIES.
00:58:04 COMMUNITIES DESIGN AS DISADVANTAGED WHICH ARE
00:58:08 ELIGIBLE FOR CRITICAL FUNDING STREAMS TO SUPPORT PROGRAMS TO
00:58:12 ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS INCLUDING SENATE BILL 535.
00:58:15 >> GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION FUNDS ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDY
00:58:19 REMEDY REMEDY ACTION GRANT URBAN GREENING ALLOCATIONS
00:58:27 AND PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT.
00:58:28 >> THE JULY 2026 VERSION OF THE CAO ENVIRO SCREEN AFTER SCORING
00:58:34 THRESHOLDS IN WAYS THAT WOULD REMOVE CERTAIN DENSE LOW INCOME
00:58:36 URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS FROM THE LIST OF DISADVANTAGED
00:58:40 COMMUNITIES THEREBY THUS ALLOWING LOCAL PUBLIC AGENCIES
00:58:43 AND COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS FROM APPLYING FOR
00:58:47 AND RECEIVING STATE GRANT FUNDS THAT LOW INCOME RESIDENTS
00:58:51 DESPERATELY LEE RE RELY ON FOR DECARBONIZATION INFRASTRUCTURE
00:58:58 KARCHER INDOOR AIR FILTRATION. URBAN COOLING AND LOCAL TRANSIT
00:59:03 EQUITY RESOLUTION URGE CAO EPA TO SUSPEND ANY PROPOSED METRIC
00:59:10 UPDATES THAT WOULD STRIP GRANT ELIGIBILITY FROM HISTORICALLY
00:59:14 VULNERABLE URBAN CENSUS TRACT UNTIL A ROBUST CONSULTATION
00:59:18 OCCURS WITH RESIDENTS, COMMUNITY ADVOCATES
00:59:22 AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION IN SAN FRANCISCO.
00:59:26 AND WITH THAT THE REST I WILL SUBMIT.
00:59:27 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU SUPERVISOR CHAN.
00:59:30 MR. PRESIDENT, SEEING NO NAMES ON THE ROSTER THAT CONCLUDES
00:59:34 THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW BUSINESS.
00:59:37 >> ALL RIGHT, MADAM CLERK, LET'S GO TO OUR 3 P.M. SPECIAL
00:59:40 ORDER PLEASE CALL ITEMS 25 THROUGH 28 TOGETHER.
00:59:43 >> ITEMS 25 THROUGH 28 COMPRISE THE PUBLIC HEARING OF PERSONS
00:59:48 INTERESTED IN THE DECISION OF PUBLIC WORKS DATED AUGUST 6TH
00:59:52 2026 TO APPROVE A TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP FOR A TWO UNIT
00:59:56 CONDOMINIUM CONVERSION PROJECT AT 2722 THROUGH 2724 FOLSOM
01:00:02 STREET. ITEM 26 THIS IS THE MOTION TO
01:00:06 APPROVE THE PUBLIC WORKS DECISION AND TO APPROVE THE
01:00:07 TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP AND TO MAKE THE APPROPRIATE
01:00:10 ENVIRONMENTAL FINDINGS. ITEM 27 THIS IS THE MOTION TO
01:00:14 CONDITIONALLY DISAPPROVE THE PUBLIC WORKS DECISION
01:00:17 AND DISAPPROVE THE TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP SUBJECT TO THE
01:00:21 BOARD'S ADOPTION OF WRITTEN FINDINGS IN SUPPORT OF THE
01:00:25 DISAPPROVAL. AND ITEM 28 IS THE MOTION TO
01:00:29 DIRECT THE PREPARATION OF FINDINGS RELATED TO THE BOARD'S
01:00:30 DECISION TO DISAPPROVE OF THE TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP FOR THE
01:00:34 PROJECT. >> THANK YOU MADAM CLERK.
01:00:38 WE HAVE BEFORE US AN APPEAL OF THE TENTATIVE PARTIAL MAP
01:00:42 APPROVAL BY PUBLIC WORKS FOR THE PROJECT AT 2722 TO 2724
01:00:45 FOLSOM STREET. AFTER THE HEARING THE BOARD
01:00:49 WILL VOTE ON WHETHER TO APPROVE OR CONDITIONALLY DISAPPROVE THE
01:00:50 DECISION OF PUBLIC WORKS. >> MOST THEIR OBJECTIONS WE
01:00:53 WILL PROCEED AS FOLLOWS UP TO TEN MINUTES FOR A PRESENTATION
01:00:57 BY THE APPELLANT. ALSO THE PROJECT SPONSOR.
01:01:00 THEN THERE WILL BE PUBLIC COMMENT OF TWO MINUTES PER
01:01:04 SPEAKER IN SUPPORT OF THE APPEAL.
01:01:07 THEN WE WILL HEAR A PRESENTATION OF UP TO TEN
01:01:10 MINUTES FROM THE CITY DEPARTMENTS.
01:01:11 AGAIN THERE WILL BE PUBLIC COMMENT TWO MINUTES PER SPEAKER
01:01:14 IN OPPOSITION TO THE APPEAL. AND FINALLY WILL HAVE UP TO
01:01:18 THREE MINUTES FOR REBUTTAL BY THE APPELLANTS.
01:01:21 >> I DON'T SEE ANY OBJECTIONS SO SEEING NO OBJECTIONS.
01:01:28 >> THE PUBLIC HEARING WILL PROCEED AS INDICATED AND IS NOW
01:01:30 OPEN AND WE WILL NOW HEAR FROM THE APPELLANT WHO HAS UP TO TEN
01:01:42 MINUTES. >> ANYONE THERE IS I GOT IT.
01:02:02 >> YOU MAY BEGIN. YES, MR. RAY, CAN YOU MAKE SURE
01:02:04 YOU SPEAK DIRECTLY INTO THE MICROPHONE?
01:02:06 >> OF COURSE. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT.
01:02:10 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD SAMUEL RAY FOR THE OWNERS OF 272222724
01:02:13 FOLSOM STREET. TO BE CLEAR, THE OWNERS ARE NOT
01:02:18 APPEALING THE APPROVED COUNT OF A CONVERSION MAP.
01:02:21 INSTEAD THEY APPEAL THE CONDITIONS IMPOSED AND ADDED BY
01:02:25 THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT IN THEIR REFERRAL FORM WHICH IS
01:02:27 ON PAGE 180 OF THE BOARD'S PACKET.
01:02:28 AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS MY PRESENTATION I WILL ASK THE
01:02:32 BOARD TO SUSTAIN THE APPEAL AND CONDITIONALLY DENY THE
01:02:35 TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP AND ADOPT WRITTEN FINDINGS INDICATING
01:02:39 THAT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT ADDED CONDITIONS SHOULD NOT
01:02:40 HAVE BEEN INCLUDED. THIS PROPERTY WAS A SUBJECT OF
01:02:43 LITIGATION BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE OWNERS IN FEDERAL COURT
01:02:47 PERTAINING TO THE CITY'S CLAIMED EXISTENCE OF AN ALLEGED
01:02:51 UNDUE OR UNAUTHORIZED ONE UNIT. THAT LITIGATION WAS RESOLVED BY
01:02:54 A SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT IN DECEMBER OF 2025 WHICH WAS
01:02:57 APPROVED BY THIS BOARD AS ORDINANCE NUMBER 2912 4
01:03:04 IN 2023. THE OWNERS ATTEMPTED TO CONVERT
01:03:07 THE PROPERTY. THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
01:03:09 SENT A REFERRAL TO THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT IN AUGUST OF 2023.
01:03:12 INITIALLY THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT DECLINED TO RESPOND
01:03:16 WITHIN THE REQUIRED 30 DAYS SIGNED INTO A LITIGATION HOLD
01:03:20 DUE TO THE PENDING LITIGATION. WHEN THE PENDING LITIGATION WAS
01:03:24 RESOLVED, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT WAITED ANOTHER 3017
01:03:27 MONTHS TO PROVIDE THE REFERRAL AND ONLY DID SO AFTER THE OWNER
01:03:31 SENT A LETTER DEMANDING THAT THE HOLD BE LIFTED.
01:03:34 THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT INITIALLY PROVIDED A REFERRAL
01:03:38 ON MAY 28TH, 2026 WHICH INCLUDED TWO CONDITIONS.
01:03:41 THIS APPEAL WAS FILED ON AUGUST 14TH, 2026 AND ABOUT TEN
01:03:47 MINUTES AFTER THE APPEAL WAS FILED THE CITY PROVIDED THE
01:03:48 OWNERS WITH AN UPDATED REFERRAL FROM PLANNING WHICH REMOVED ONE
01:03:52 OF THE CONDITIONS AT ISSUE AND THEN UPDATED REFERRALS.
01:03:55 PAGE 180 OF THE BOARD'S PACKET THE REMAINING CONDITION AT
01:03:59 ISSUE STATES THAT NO FINAL MAP MAY BE APPROVED OR RECORDED
01:04:02 UNTIL ALL PLANNING CODE VIOLATIONS AT THE PROPERTY ARE
01:04:06 FULLY ABATED. THE OWNERS NOW APPEAL THAT
01:04:10 CONDITION AS HAVING NO BASIS FIRST IN THE LAW AND SECOND
01:04:12 IN THE FACTS. >> THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT
01:04:16 AUTHORITY TO CONDITION A FINAL MAP IS FOUND IN SUBDIVISION
01:04:20 CODE SECTION 1326 AND 1327 WHICH PROVIDES THAT THE
01:04:24 PLANNING DEPARTMENT CAN RECOMMEND CONDITIONS OF
01:04:25 APPROVAL WITHIN 30 DAYS OF A REQUEST BY DPW.
01:04:28 >> HERE THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT WAITED THREE YEARS TO PROVIDE
01:04:32 CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL CITING A LITIGATION HOLD THAT HAD LONG
01:04:35 CEASED TO EXIST. FURTHER, THE AUTHORITY'S CITED
01:04:39 BY THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT IN THE REFERRAL NAMELY
01:04:40 SUBDIVISION CODE 1383 AND PLANNING CODE 174 AND 176
01:04:46 HAVE NO APPLICATION TO THE PROPERTY FIRST SECTION 1383
01:04:52 FOUND IN ARTICLE NINE OF THE PLAN OF THE SUBDIVISION CODE
01:04:56 DOES NOT APPLY TO TWO UNIT DWELLINGS.
01:04:57 THAT'S EXPLICITLY STATED IN SECTION 1359 C OF THE
01:05:01 SUBDIVISION CODE. LIKEWISE PLANNING CODE SECTION
01:05:07 174 AND 176 HAVE NO RELEVANCE AS THERE ARE NO EXISTING
01:05:12 NOTICES OF VIOLATION AT THE PROPERTY NOR ARE THEIR
01:05:15 CONDITIONS STIPULATIONS, SPECIAL RESTRICTIONS OR
01:05:16 LIMITATIONS IMPOSED BY AN ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION THAT
01:05:20 WOULD IMPACT THE OWNER'S RIGHT TO CANNOT CONVERT.
01:05:23 AS SUCH, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT PROCEEDED WITHOUT
01:05:26 ANY AUTHORITY TO ACQUIRE THE CONDITION AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO
01:05:30 EMPHASIZE THAT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT HAS NEVER ISSUED ANY
01:05:31 VIOLATIONS AGAINST THE PROPERTY RELATED TO THE ALLEGED
01:05:36 UNAUTHORIZED ONE UNIT. >> FIRST, THAT'S CLEAR FROM THE
01:05:37 CITY'S OWN RECORDS INCLUDING THE THREE HOUR REPORT WHICH IS
01:05:41 PAGE 12 AND 14 OF YOUR PACKET. >> THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT'S
01:05:47 PROPERTY INFORMATION MAP SHOWING NO NOTICES OF VIOLATION
01:05:51 WHICH IS ON PAGE 37 OF THIS BOARD'S PACKET AND AS WELL AS
01:05:55 THE DECLARATION OF ONE OF THE OWNERS MICHAEL TERAN WHICH IS
01:05:58 PAGE 39 TO 40 OF THE BOARD'S PACKET.
01:06:00 FURTHER I'D ENCOURAGE THE BOARD TO ASK THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT
01:06:03 WHETHER THE THEY EVER ISSUED A NOTICE OF VIOLATION RELATED TO
01:06:07 THE UNAUTHORIZED ONE UNIT. YET PLANNING'S BRIEF AGAINST
01:06:12 THIS APPEAL STATES THAT THE UDC WAS CONFIRMED AND THAT'S ON
01:06:16 PAGE TWO AND SIX OF THEIR BRIEF AND AS A BASIS FOR THAT THE
01:06:20 PLANNING DEPARTMENT REFERS TO THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT IN THE
01:06:23 FEDERAL CASE AS WELL AS THE SUSPENSION OF A BUILDING PERMIT
01:06:27 AT THE PROPERTY WHICH WAS PART OF THE UNDERLYING FACTS OF THE
01:06:31 LITIGATION. NONE OF THESE DOCUMENTS
01:06:34 SUBSTANTIATE THE EXISTENCE OF THE ALLEGED UNAUTHORIZED ONE
01:06:38 UNIT. FIRST, THE PERMIT DISCUSSION
01:06:41 PERTAINED TO A DISCREPANCY IN THE FLOOR PLAN LAYOUT
01:06:43 AND MAKES NO REFERENCE TO THE EXISTENCE OF A UDL.
01:06:46 NEXT THE ISSUE OF THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT OR SORRY
01:06:50 THE ISSUE OF THE UNAUTHORIZED DWELLING UNIT WAS NEVER FULLY
01:06:53 AGREED UPON IN THE FEDERAL LITIGATION OR IN THE
01:06:56 CORRESPONDING SETTLEMENT. INSTEAD THE FEDERAL LITIGATION
01:06:58 WAS RESOLVED BY WAY OF THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT APPROVED
01:07:02 BY THIS BOARD IN WHICH THE OWNERS AND THE CITY REACHED AN
01:07:05 AGREEMENT ON A PATHWAY FORWARD WITHOUT EVER AGREEING WHETHER
01:07:08 THE UDU DID OR DID NOT EXIST. THAT SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT IS
01:07:13 EXHIBIT H WHICH BEGINS ON 54 OF THE SPORTS PACKET
01:07:16 AND IMPORTANTLY ARTICLE SIX OF THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
01:07:20 EXPLICITLY PROHIBITS CONDITIONING OF THIS KIND OF
01:07:23 CONVERSION ON FULFILLMENT OF THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS TERMS
01:07:26 . THAT'S PAGE 62 OF THE BOARD'S
01:07:27 PACKET. YET IT'S CLEAR FROM THE
01:07:30 PLANNING DEPARTMENT'S BRIEF WHICH REFERENCES THE SETTLEMENT
01:07:35 AGREEMENT AS A BASIS THAT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE
01:07:36 TRYING TO DO BY WAY OF THIS CONDITION.
01:07:39 AND TO BE CLEAR, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT HAD THE OPTION TO
01:07:42 CHECK ONE OF THREE BOXES ON THE REFERRAL.
01:07:46 THE FIRST BOX DID NOT CHECK IS CONSISTENT WITH THE TERMS OF
01:07:48 THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT SPECIFICALLY ARTICLE SIX.
01:07:51 INSTEAD THEY CHECKED THE SECOND BOX WHICH CONDITIONED THE
01:07:55 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON NONEXISTENT CODE VIOLATIONS.
01:07:58 >> THEREFORE THERE'S NO LEGAL BASIS FOR THE PLANNING
01:08:02 DEPARTMENT'S CONDITION NOR IS THERE A FACTUAL BASIS
01:08:05 SUPPORTING THE EXISTENCE OF ANY NOTICE OF THE VIOLATION AT THE
01:08:09 PROPERTY AS NONE HAVE BEEN ISSUED BY THE PLANNING
01:08:10 DEPARTMENT. THEREFORE THE CONDITION IS
01:08:13 LEGALLY AND FACTUALLY IMPROPER AND RUNS AFOUL OF ARTICLE SIX
01:08:17 OF THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. THEREFORE WE ASKED THIS BOARD
01:08:20 TO SUSTAIN THE APPEAL TO CONDITIONALLY DENY TENTATIVE
01:08:24 PARTIAL MAP 1 TO 1 ZERO THREE AND ADOPT WRITTEN FINDINGS
01:08:27 INDICATING THAT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT'S ADDED CONDITION
01:08:31 SHOULD NOT BE INCLUDED AND INSTEAD TO CHECK THE FIRST
01:08:35 BOX ON THE REFERRAL FORM INSTEAD OF THE SECOND BOX
01:08:36 CONDITION IN THE OF CONVERSION. THANK YOU.
01:08:45 >> ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? I DON'T SEE ANY QUESTIONS.
01:08:46 THANK YOU. SO WE WILL NOW OPEN PUBLIC
01:08:53 COMMENT. >> UP TO TWO MINUTES A SPEAKER
01:08:56 IN SUPPORT OF THE APPEAL. ALL RIGHT.
01:09:03 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE HERE TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE
01:09:05 APPELLANT OR IN SUPPORT OF THE APPEAL LINE UP ON YOUR RIGHT
01:09:08 HAND SIDE OF THE CHAMBER SEEING NO TAKERS.
01:09:11 >> MR. PRESIDENT, WE WILL GO TO THE REMOTE SYSTEM TO MY STAFF.
01:09:18 HAS ANYONE JOINED REMOTELY FOR THIS PART OF THE HEARING?
01:09:28 >> RECHECKING, MR. PRESIDENT? NO.
01:09:31 >> NO. THERE ARE ZERO CALLERS.
01:09:32 ALL RIGHT. SO PUBLIC COMMENT IN SUPPORT OF
01:09:36 THE APPEAL IS NOW CLOSED AND WE WILL NOW HEAR FOR UP TO TEN
01:09:40 MINUTES FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF CITY DEPARTMENTS.
01:09:46 >> HELLO. MY NAME IS ELIAS FRENCH AND I
01:09:54 AM CITY AND COUNTY SURVEYOR AND MANAGER OF THE BUREAU OF
01:09:55 SURVEYING AND MAPPING SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC WORKS.
01:09:59 THANK YOU CHAIR MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISORS FOR THIS CHANCE
01:10:02 TO RESPOND TO THE APPEAL. >> OUR OFFICE PROCESSES ALL
01:10:06 SUBDIVISION APPLICATIONS IN THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
01:10:10 I COULD RESPOND TO THE APPEAL ON BEHALF OF PUBLIC WORKS.
01:10:13 >> THE APPLICATION PROPOSED A TWO UNIT CONDO CONVERSION OF
01:10:20 272222 7 TO 4 FOLSOM STREET. IT WAS SUBMITTED SEPTEMBER
01:10:24 23RD, 2023 CONDITIONALLY APPROVED BY CITY PLANNING MAY
01:10:30 28TH 2026 AND APPROVED AGAIN BY PLANNING WITH REVISED
01:10:32 CONDITIONS ON AUGUST 4TH, 2026. >> OUR OFFICE ISSUED AN
01:10:38 OFFICIAL TENTATIVE MAP APPROVAL ON AUGUST 5TH.
01:10:41 TENTATIVE APPROVAL WAS ISSUED BY EMAIL TO THE PROJECT'S
01:10:45 SURVEYOR. WE WERE LATER NOTIFIED THAT THE
01:10:46 OWNER HAD NOT YET RECEIVED THE APPROVAL DOCUMENTS AND SO I
01:10:50 EMAILED IT TO THEM ON AUGUST 14TH.
01:10:53 >> I UNDERSTAND THEY NOW HAVE IT.
01:10:56 THE APPEALS SITE'S CONCERNS RELATED TO PROCESSING TIMELINES
01:11:00 AND THE EXISTENCE OF PLANNING VIOLATIONS.
01:11:02 WE WILL DEFER TO PLANNING TO RESPOND TO THOSE.
01:11:05 IT ALSO DISPUTES THE APPLICATION OF SUBDIVISION CODE
01:11:09 SECTION 1383. THIS CODE REQUIRES ALL
01:11:13 APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF CITY HOUSING BUILDING AND PLANNING
01:11:16 TO BE MET AND ANY VIOLATION CAN BE CORRECTED PRIOR TO FINAL MAP
01:11:21 APPROVAL. >> THERE IS ALSO AN OPTION
01:11:24 SUBJECT TO APPROVAL BY THE DIRECTOR FOR APPLICANTS TO
01:11:28 DEFER ANY CORRECTIVE WORK. IF FUNDS TO COMPLETE IT ARE
01:11:33 BONDED THE APPEAL ARGUES IT IS IMPROPER TO APPLY 1383 BECAUSE
01:11:38 IT RESIDES IN ARTICLE NINE OF THE SUBDIVISION CODE AND PER
01:11:43 THAT SAME CODE SECTION 1359 SEE TWO UNIT OWNER OCCUPIED
01:11:49 CONVERSIONS ARE EXEMPT FROM ARTICLE NINE.
01:11:50 >> I CAN ADDRESS THAT ARGUMENT. >> OUR OFFICE DISAGREES WITH
01:11:57 THIS POSITION. WE HAVE APPLIED THE SUBSTANCE
01:11:58 OF SECTION 1383 TO ALL CONDO CONVERSIONS FOR MANY YEARS.
01:12:05 WE SUPPORT THIS PRACTICE FOR SEVERAL REASONS.
01:12:06 WE ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THE OBSERVATION THE APPELLANT MADE
01:12:09 THAT THIS SECTION IS CONTAINED IN ARTICLE NINE FROM WHICH THIS
01:12:16 PROJECT IS EXEMPT PER CODE. THIS DOES NOT AFFECT THE
01:12:20 NECESSITY TO APPLY THESE REQUIREMENTS.
01:12:24 >> THE SUBSTANCE OF SECTION 1383 ARTICLE NINE PRIMARILY
01:12:28 DEALS I'LL ADDRESS THE ARTICLE NINE EXEMPTION ISSUE.
01:12:35 >> ARTICLE NINE PRIMARILY DEALS WITH RULES FOR THE CONDO
01:12:39 CONVERSION LOTTERY AND THE EXPEDITED CONVERSION PROGRAM.
01:12:42 >> OUR POSITION IS THAT THE INTENT OF THE EXEMPTION FOR A
01:12:46 TWO UNIT OWNER OCCUPIED BUILDINGS IS TO EXEMPT THESE
01:12:50 BUILDINGS FROM HAVING TO GO THROUGH THE LOTTERY PROCESS.
01:12:53 WHILE EXEMPTING THESE PROJECTS FROM THE LOTTERY, WE HAVE
01:12:55 ALWAYS STILL APPLIED CERTAIN PORTIONS OF ARTICLE NINE
01:12:59 PERTAINING TO REQUIRED APPLICATION DOCUMENTS AND BASIC
01:13:02 CODE COMPLIANCE. >> THIS IS NECESSARY UNDER
01:13:06 STATE AND LOCAL CODE SEPARATE FROM SECTION 1383.
01:13:12 IF WE WERE TO NOT APPLY THESE REQUIREMENTS WE WOULD BE
01:13:17 COMPELLED TO ALLOW THESE BUILDINGS TO CONVERT TO
01:13:18 CONDOMINIUMS WITHOUT PERFORMING BASIC CODE COMPLIANCE WORK
01:13:21 WHICH COULD PERTAIN TO LIFE SAFETY ISSUES AS WELL AS LEAVE
01:13:25 PLANNING VIOLATIONS UNADDRESSED.
01:13:28 WE DON'T BELIEVE THIS WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE APPROPRIATE.
01:13:32 >> OTHER STATE AND LOCAL CODES SUPPORT THESE REQUIREMENTS.
01:13:37 THE CALIFORNIA SUBDIVISION MAP ACT IS THE PRIMARY LAW
01:13:41 REGULATING SUBDIVISIONS IN COLIFORM YOU UNDER IT?
01:13:44 SUBDIVISIONS MUST BE FOUND TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE GENERAL
01:13:48 PLAN AS WELL AS THEIR IMPROVEMENTS.
01:13:51 AS SUCH, PROPOSED SUBDIVISIONS MUST OBTAIN A GENERAL PLAN
01:13:55 CONSISTENCY APPROVAL FROM CITY PLANNING.
01:13:58 IT IS OUR UNDERSTANDING THAT FOR PLANNING TO ISSUE THIS
01:14:02 GENERAL PLAN APPROVAL WOULD REQUIRE CORRECTION OF ANY
01:14:03 PLANNING VIOLATIONS. IN THIS INSTANCE PLANNING CAN
01:14:07 SPEAK MORE TO THAT SUBDIVISION CODE 1332 D LIKEWISE REQUIRES
01:14:14 PLANNING TO ADD ANY REQUIRED CONDITIONS OF GENERAL PLAN
01:14:20 CONSISTENCY TO THEIR APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED SUBDIVISION AS
01:14:23 WAS DONE HERE UNDER THE MAP ACT .
01:14:27 PUBLIC WORKS MUST ALSO ATTEST ON THE FACE OF THE MAP THAT ALL
01:14:31 APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THE MAP ACT AND LOCAL CODE HAVE
01:14:35 BEEN COMPLIED WITH. >> THE CITY THROUGH PUBLIC
01:14:38 WORKS HAS ALWAYS REQUIRED THAT ALL CONDO CONVERSIONS RECEIVE
01:14:42 AN INSPECTION AND CORRECT ANY BUILDING CODE VIOLATIONS BEFORE
01:14:46 CONVERTING. WE BELIEVE THIS IS WITHIN
01:14:47 PUBLIC WORKS AUTHORITY UNDER THE MAP ACT.
01:14:50 >> IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS CODE SECTION IN CONCLUSION WE
01:14:54 BELIEVE PUBLIC WORKS HAS CORRECTLY PROCESSED THIS
01:14:58 SUBDIVISION APPLICATION IN OUR ROLE UNDER THE MAP ACT AND AN
01:15:02 INTERPRETATION OF LOCAL CODE AND THEREFORE RECOMMEND THE
01:15:05 APPEAL BE DENIED. >> THANK YOU.
01:15:11 >> GOOD AFTERNOON PRESIDENT MANAGEMENT SUPERVISORS MANAGER
01:15:16 COREY TEAGUE AND THE ZONING ADMINISTRATOR WITH THE PLANNING
01:15:19 DEPARTMENT. >> FIRST OFF SINCE WE HAVE
01:15:20 LIMITED TIME IF WE DON'T GET TO ANYTHING AND THERE ARE ANY
01:15:24 QUESTIONS OF COURSE WE'RE OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY
01:15:27 HAVE. THIS PROPERTY HAS A LONG
01:15:28 HISTORY THAT'S VERY MUCH CENTERED AROUND THE EXISTENCE
01:15:31 OF AN UNAUTHORIZED DWELLING UNIT.
01:15:34 THERE WAS AN ENFORCEMENT CASE OPENED IN 2021 FOR THAT
01:15:38 PURPOSE. IT REMAINS OPEN TODAY.
01:15:41 NO NOTICE OF VIOLATION HAS BEEN ISSUED BECAUSE DURING THE
01:15:45 ENFORCEMENT THE CASE WENT INTO LITIGATION.
01:15:50 AND SINCE THEN WE HAVE BEEN OPERATING UNDER THE TERMS OF
01:15:53 THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. >> TO BE CLEAR, A NOTICE OF
01:15:56 VIOLATION DOES NOT NEED TO BE ISSUED TO MEAN THAT THERE IS A
01:16:00 VIOLATION PRESENT IN THIS CASE. SPECIFICALLY IN 2021 THE ZONING
01:16:08 ADMINISTRATOR AT THAT TIME ISSUED A SUSPENSION REQUEST TO
01:16:12 DBI FOR TWO SPECIFIC PERMITS ON THE GROUNDS THAT THEY THEY
01:16:16 INCORRECTLY SHOWED THE NATURE OF THE PROPERTY AND WOULD HAVE
01:16:20 THE EFFECT OF REMOVING THE UNAUTHORIZED DWELLING UNIT
01:16:24 WITHOUT THE ACQUIRED CONDITIONAL USE AUTHORIZATION.
01:16:27 AND AGAIN THAT WAS THE BASIS FOR THE LITIGATION.
01:16:28 THE LITIGATION DID RESULT IN THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT.
01:16:31 THE THE ENTIRE KIND OF PURPOSE OF THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WAS
01:16:35 AN AGREEMENT AROUND HOW TO ADDRESS THE UNAUTHORIZED
01:16:38 DWELLING UNIT AND ITS POTENTIAL REMOVAL INCLUDED IN THAT WAS
01:16:43 THAT THE PROPERTY OWNER WOULD SEEK A CONDITIONAL USE
01:16:44 AUTHORIZATION FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION TO REMOVE THAT
01:16:47 UNAUTHORIZED DWELLING UNIT WHICH THEY DID.
01:16:50 AGAIN, IF THERE IS NO UNAUTHORIZED DWELLING UNIT THEN
01:16:53 THE BASIS OF THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND THE CONDITIONAL
01:16:55 USE AUTHORIZATION GRANTED BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION WOULD
01:16:59 HAVE NO BASIS. BUT THAT'S NOT THE CASE.
01:17:01 SO THERE IS A CLEAR VIOLATION HERE EVEN THOUGH THERE'S NOT A
01:17:03 NOTICE OF VIOLATION. GRANTED TYPICALLY WE HOLD CONDO
01:17:09 AND SUBDIVISION REFERRALS UNTIL THEY ARE FULLY COMPLIANT.
01:17:14 WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO CONDITION THEM.
01:17:18 WE ALSO HAVE THE ABILITY TO DISAPPROVE THEM.
01:17:19 WE HAVE HAD CASES IN THE PAST BECAUSE WE ARE REQUIRED TO MAKE
01:17:22 A DETERMINATION THAT THEY ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE GENERAL
01:17:24 PLAN. WE'VE HAD CASES IN THE PAST
01:17:26 THAT WHERE WE'VE DENIED THESE APPLICATIONS ON THE BASIS THAT
01:17:30 THEY'RE NOT CONSISTENT WITH THE GENERAL PLAN IN THESE TYPES OF
01:17:34 CASES WE KNOW THAT THERE'S A PATH FOR THE APPLICATION TO
01:17:35 BECOME CONSISTENT WITH THE GENERAL PLAN AND WE TYPICALLY
01:17:38 HOLD IT UNTIL THAT PATH HAS KIND OF BEEN CLEARED.
01:17:42 IN THIS CASE THE PROPERTY OWNER REQUESTED US TO GO AHEAD
01:17:44 AND MAKE THAT REFERRAL TO PUBLIC WORKS WHICH WE DID UPON
01:17:48 THEIR REQUEST. HOWEVER, THE CONDITION OF
01:17:49 APPROVAL WAS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO MAKE THE FINDING THAT THE
01:17:54 APPLICATION IS CONSISTENT WITH THE GENERAL PLAN BECAUSE WE
01:17:57 WILL REQUIRE THAT ALL EITHER EXISTING FIRE VIOLATIONS OR ANY
01:18:05 POTENTIAL FUTURE VIOLATIONS HAD BEEN FULLY ABATED BEFORE THE
01:18:09 FINAL MAP IS ISSUED. SO IN THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT'S
01:18:12 POSITION WE THINK THAT THE CONDITION OF APPROVAL IS
01:18:16 CLEARLY BASED IN FACT AND CLEARLY BASED IN THE
01:18:21 PLANNING CODE AND THE SUBDIVISION CODE AND STATE LAW
01:18:24 AND ALSO JUST REPRESENTS A COMMON SENSE CONDITION TO
01:18:28 ENSURE AS MY COLLEAGUE FROM DPW MENTIONED THAT ANY OUTSTANDING
01:18:32 VIOLATIONS ARE ADDRESSED PRIOR TO A FINAL MAP BEING ISSUED.
01:18:37 SO ON THAT BASIS WE ALSO RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT THE
01:18:41 APPEAL BE DENIED BUT AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE
01:18:47 . THANK YOU.
01:18:48 I DON'T SEE ANY QUESTIONS NOW. I DO.
01:18:51 SUPERVISOR FIELDER THANK YOU PRESIDENT FOR PLANNING THE SOLE
01:18:58 CONDITION OF APPROVAL HERE PROVIDES THAT THE FINAL
01:19:02 SUBDIVISION MAP NOT BE APPROVED UNTIL ALL PLANNING CODE
01:19:06 VIOLATIONS AT THE PROPERTY ARE ABATED.
01:19:07 >> IS THIS A TYPICAL CONDITION OF APPROVAL FOR A TENTATIVE MAP
01:19:12 SUCH AS THIS ONE? >> AND WHY OR WHY NOT?
01:19:13 I WOULD SAY IT'S A TYPICAL REQUIREMENT.
01:19:20 IT'S NOT NECESSARILY TYPICAL THAT WE WOULD CONDITION AS I
01:19:22 WAS MENTIONING, WE TYPICALLY WOULD HOLD THESE REFERRALS
01:19:25 UNTIL THOSE VIOLATIONS ARE ABATED SO THAT WHEN WE ARE
01:19:28 GRANTING THE REFERRAL THE CONDITION IS NOT NEEDED IN THIS
01:19:32 CASE BECAUSE THE APPLICANT REQUESTED THAT WE GO AHEAD
01:19:36 AND SEND THE REFERRAL TO DPW. BUT THE VIOLATIONS HAVE NOT YET
01:19:40 BEEN EVADED ABATED THAT NECESSITATED THE CONDITION TO
01:19:43 ENSURE THAT BEFORE THE FINAL MAP IS IS APPROVED THAT THOSE
01:19:46 VIOLATIONS ARE ABATED. >> THANK YOU.
01:19:50 AND IS THIS A CONDITION THAT YOU GENERALLY INCLUDE EVEN
01:19:53 IN CASES WHERE THERE IS NOT AN OUTSTANDING NOTICE OF
01:19:57 VIOLATION? >> NO, IT'S NOT TYPICAL.
01:20:01 IF THERE'S NOT AN OPEN ENFORCEMENT CASE OR KNOWN
01:20:04 VIOLATIONS. >> GOT IT.
01:20:08 THE OWNERS APPEAR TO CONTEST THE EXISTENCE OF AN UNLAWFUL
01:20:10 DWELLING UNIT HERE. HOW AND WHEN DID PLANNING
01:20:13 DETERMINE THE EXISTENCE OF A YOU DO YOU HERE?
01:20:17 >> I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT DATE AGAIN THIS KIND OF THIS ISSUE
01:20:21 AT THIS PROPERTY BEGAN IN 2016 I BELIEVE WHEN THE PROPERTY
01:20:27 OWNER FIRST FILED FOR APPLICATIONS TO REMOVE A UNIT
01:20:31 THERE AND THERE WERE SEVERAL YEARS OF WORKING WITH THE
01:20:33 PROPERTY OWNER AND DVI ON BOTH THE NUMBER OF LEGAL DWELLING
01:20:39 UNITS IN THE BUILDING AND THE NUMBER OF UNAUTHORIZED DWELLING
01:20:43 UNITS. I WILL SAY THAT AT THE POINT
01:20:46 IN 2021 WHEN THE SUSPENSION REQUESTS WERE MADE TO DBA TO
01:20:51 SUSPEND THOSE PERMITS ON THE GROUND THAT THEY WOULD
01:20:55 ESSENTIALLY EFFECTUATE THE REMOVAL OF A UDU.
01:20:59 DEFINITELY AT THAT POINT WE HAD DETERMINED THAT THERE WAS AN
01:21:00 UNAUTHORIZED DWELLING UNIT. >> THANK YOU.
01:21:02 AND WHEN OWNERS DISAGREE WITH PLANNING CODE VIOLATIONS OR
01:21:07 FINDINGS, WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO ADDRESS THESE DISAGREEMENTS
01:21:10 OR REQUEST APPELLATE REVIEW? >> ARE YOU REFERRING TO THEIR
01:21:18 OR DISAGREEING THAT THERE IS A VIOLATION BECAUSE THERE'S NO
01:21:19 NOTICE OF VIOLATION? >> CORRECT.
01:21:22 SURE. I MAYBE ONE KIND OF ANALOGY IS
01:21:23 WE DEAL WITH VIOLATIONS ALL THE TIME THAT GET CORRECTED WITHOUT
01:21:27 THE NEED OF ISSUING A NOTICE. SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF SOMEONE
01:21:31 FILES A COMPLAINT THAT SOMEONE HAS BUILT, YOU KNOW, A FENCE
01:21:35 WITHOUT A PERMIT AND WE HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THEM AND THEY
01:21:40 COME IN THAT WE CAN FILE A PERMIT TO LEGALIZE THE FENCE,
01:21:43 THERE'S NO NEED THAT TECHNICALLY THERE WAS A
01:21:44 VIOLATION. BUT OUR ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM IS
01:21:47 IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO JUST BRING ABOUT ABATEMENT.
01:21:50 SO AS LONG AS PROPERTY OWNERS ARE MOVING FORWARD TO ADDRESS
01:21:54 THE VIOLATION, WE MAY NOT NEED TO ACTUALLY ISSUE THAT NOTICE.
01:21:58 IN THIS CASE AGAIN WE OPENED AN ENFORCEMENT CASE WE HAD STARTED
01:22:01 THE ENFORCEMENT PROCESS. WE HAD IDENTIFIED THE ISSUE
01:22:03 THROUGH THE SUSPENSION OF THE PERMITS.
01:22:06 WE NEVER ACHIEVED THE STEP OF ISSUING A NOTICE OF VIOLATION
01:22:13 PRIMARILY DUE TO THE LITIGATION.
01:22:14 >> THANK YOU. >> AND FOR PUBLIC WORKS, DO YOU
01:22:17 HAVE ANY CONCERNS ABOUT THE CONDITION THAT PLANNING HAS
01:22:20 ATTACHED TO THIS TENTATIVE MAP APPROVAL?
01:22:24 >> SUPERVISOR FIELDER THANK YOU.
01:22:28 NO PUBLIC WORKS DOES NOT HAVE ANY CONCERNS ON THE REQUIREMENT
01:22:32 PLANNING HAS ATTACHED. MY UNDERSTANDING AS I MENTIONED
01:22:36 WAS THAT THAT MAP ACT REQUIRES A GENERAL PLAN CONFORMANCE
01:22:40 FINDING AND FROM MY POINT OF VIEW MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE
01:22:45 CONDITIONS JUST RESTATES AN EXISTING REQUIREMENT AS MR.
01:22:49 TEAGUE MENTIONED. >> THANK YOU.
01:22:52 THANK YOU PRESIDENT MITTLEMAN. ALL RIGHT.
01:22:55 >> THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR FIELDER.
01:22:56 SO WE WILL NOW OPEN PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR MEMBERS OF THE
01:23:03 PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK IN OPPOSITION OF THE APPEAL OR
01:23:07 OPPOSITION TO THE APPEAL. AGAIN, TWO MINUTES.
01:23:11 THE SPEAKER. AND MADAM CLERK, WILL YOU
01:23:13 PLEASE CALL THE FIRST SPEAKER? >> GREAT.
01:23:14 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE IN THE CHAMBER AND YOU'D LIKE TO SPEAK
01:23:18 IN OPPOSITION TO THE APPEAL TO THE APPEAL AS THE PRESIDENT
01:23:20 STATED OR IN SUPPORT OF THE PROJECT, YOU'RE WELCOME TO LINE
01:23:23 UP ON YOUR RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE CHAMBER.
01:23:25 >> ALL RIGHT. SEEING NO SPEAKERS WILL CHECK
01:23:26 THE REMOTE SYSTEM. >> MR. PRESIDENT.
01:23:32 THERE ARE NO CALLERS IN THE QUEUE.
01:23:33 THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. >> ALL RIGHT.
01:23:36 PUBLIC COMMENT IN OPPOSITION TO THE APPEAL IS NOW CLOSED.
01:23:40 AND SO LASTLY, WE WILL INVITE THE APPELLANT TO PRESENT A
01:23:44 REBUTTAL ARGUMENT OF UP TO THREE MINUTES.
01:23:57 >> THANK YOU AGAIN. JUST BRIEFLY TO ADDRESS A FEW
01:24:01 COMMENTS BY ZONING ADMINISTRATOR TEAGUE.
01:24:02 FIRST, IT'S CURIOUS TO REQUIRE FOR THE CODE COMPLIANCE THAT A
01:24:06 PROPERTY AS A CONDITION WHEN IT'S EVIDENT FROM THE
01:24:10 PRESENTATION FROM BOTH DPW AND PLANNING DEPARTMENT THAT
01:24:13 THAT'S A REQUIREMENT FOR FOR ALL PROPERTIES ERGO IF IF IT
01:24:17 SHOULDN'T BE A CONDITION BECAUSE NUMBER ONE IT'S ALREADY
01:24:21 REQUIRED. AND NUMBER TWO WOULD MAKE THE
01:24:22 FIRST BOX ON THE REFERRAL FORM ENTIRELY DUPLICATIVE OF OF OR
01:24:28 ENTIRELY UNNECESSARY. IF WE'RE A CONDITION EVERYONE
01:24:32 SECOND ADDRESSING THE COMMENTS THAT ABOUT CONSISTENCY WITH THE
01:24:36 GENERAL PLAN I'D LIKE TO POINT THE BOARD'S ATTENTION TO
01:24:37 ARTICLE SIX OF THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT IN WHICH THE CITY
01:24:41 AGREED THAT A CONDO CONVERSION WOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH THE
01:24:44 GENERAL PLAN. >> WITH RESPECT TO MR. ZONING
01:24:48 ADMINISTRATOR T'S COMMENT ON THE ENFORCEMENT CASE FROM 2021.
01:24:52 THE BOARD CAN FIND INFORMATION ABOUT THAT ON PAGE 37 OF THE
01:24:56 PACKET. AND IT'S CLEARLY AN ENFORCEMENT
01:24:59 CASE RELATED TO FRONT EXTERIOR STAIRS WHICH ARE ENCROACHING ON
01:25:03 THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. >> ON NEXT WITH RESPECT TO IS
01:25:09 ON ADMINISTRATIVE TEAGUE'S COMMENTS ABOUT THE PERMIT
01:25:11 SUSPENSION. JUST BEFORE THE HEARING MY
01:25:14 CLIENT SENT TO THE BOARD A COPY OF THE SUSPENSION REQUEST.
01:25:18 I HAVE COPIES HERE FOR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND HARD COPY.
01:25:20 IF YOU WISH TO SEE IT. I ALSO PROVIDE COPIES TO MR.
01:25:23 TEAGUE AND DPW REPRESENTATIVE. BUT FROM THAT SUSPENSION IT IS
01:25:26 ALSO PRETTY CLEAR THAT THERE'S NO REFERENCE TO AN UNAUTHORIZED
01:25:30 DWELLING UNIT. IT'S NOT MENTIONED AT ALL
01:25:33 IN THE SUSPENSION AND INSTEAD PERTAINS TO A FLOOR PLAN
01:25:37 DISCREPANCY. SO WITH THAT I WOULD SUGGEST
01:25:41 THAT THERE'S NEVER BEEN A ANY SUBSTANTIATION OF AN UNLAWFUL
01:25:46 DWELLING UNIT AT THE PROPERTY. THERE ARE NO EXISTING CODE
01:25:49 VIOLATIONS AND THE BASIS FOR INCLUDING THIS AS A VIOLATION
01:25:52 WOULD PERTAIN TO EVERY SINGLE OR AS A CONDITION WOULD PERTAIN
01:25:56 TO EVERY SINGLE PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO THUS
01:25:57 RENDERING THE FIRST OPTION SUPERFLUOUS.
01:26:14 >> ALL RIGHT. >> IF THERE ARE NO FURTHER NO
01:26:22 FURTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE APPELLANTS THEN THIS PUBLIC
01:26:26 HEARING HAS BEEN HELD AND IS NOW FILED.
01:26:30 AND AS PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED, WE WILL NOW CONSIDER WHETHER TO
01:26:34 APPROVE OR CONDITIONALLY DISAPPROVE THE DECISION OF
01:26:38 PUBLIC WORKS AND THE TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP.
01:26:41 >> SUPERVISOR FIELDER. THANK YOU PRESIDENT GENTLEMAN
01:26:42 AND THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
01:26:46 I'LL KEEP THIS BRIEF AS THIS IS AN P ON A VERY NARROW ISSUE.
01:26:50 I HAVE REVIEWED THE RECORD INCLUDING THE APPELLANT'S
01:26:53 MATERIALS AND THE RESPONSES FROM THE DEPARTMENTS AND ALSO
01:26:56 CONSIDERED THE TESTIMONY HERE TODAY.
01:26:57 I AM PERSUADED THAT PUBLIC WORKS AND PLANNING HAVE THE
01:27:01 AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE A DISPUTED CONDITION ON THIS TENTATIVE MAP
01:27:04 APPROVAL AND THAT THEY PROPERLY DID SO.
01:27:08 I DO NOT FIND THE EVIDENCE OR ARGUMENTS PRESENTED BY THE
01:27:09 APPELLANT TO SUPPORT REMOVAL OF THE CONDITION.
01:27:13 I'M THEREFORE INCLINED TO UPHOLD THE DEPARTMENT'S
01:27:16 DECISION HERE. >> AS SUCH COLLEAGUES I'M
01:27:17 MOVING TO APPROVE ITEM 26 AND TABLE ITEMS 27 AND 28.
01:27:22 >> ALL RIGHT. SUPER.
01:27:23 WAS THERE WAS A SECOND? >> WAS THAT WALTON?
01:27:27 OKAY. THERE'S A MOTION HAS BEEN MADE
01:27:30 BY SUPERVISOR FIELDER, A SECOND FROM SUPERVISOR WALTON AND ON
01:27:37 THAT MOTION MADAM CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL?
01:27:40 >> THANK YOU. ON THE MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM
01:27:43 26 AND TABLE ITEM 27 AND 28. SUPERVISOR WONG WONG EYES
01:27:48 SUPERVISOR CHAN CHIN I SUPERVISOR CHIN CHIN EYES
01:27:52 SUPERVISOR DORSEY DORSEY EYES SUPERVISOR FIELDER FIELDER.
01:27:58 EYES SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD. I WANT I SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN.
01:28:02 ALL RIGHT. RANDLEMAN EYES SUPERVISOR
01:28:03 MELGAR MELGAR. EYES SUPERVISOR SARDAR SADR
01:28:07 EYES SUPERVISOR CHERYL CHERYL I AND SUPERVISOR WALTON WALTON
01:28:13 EITHER ARE LEBANESE. >> WITHOUT OBJECTION ITEM 26 IS
01:28:17 APPROVED AND ITEMS 27 AND 28 ARE TABLED.
01:28:23 >> MADAM CLERK LET'S GO TO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
01:28:27 >> AT THIS TIME THE BOARD WELCOMES GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
01:28:31 . >> WE'LL TAKE IN-PERSON
01:28:32 SPEAKERS FIRST AND THEN IF YOU'LL LINED UP ON THE RIGHT
01:28:36 HAND SIDE OF THE CHAMBER THOSE JOINING REMOTELY SHOULD PRESS
01:28:39 STAR THREE NOW TO LINE UP IN THE QUEUE.
01:28:40 DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT YOU MAY SPEAK TO THE APPROVAL
01:28:44 OF THE MINUTES ITEMS UNDER THE ADOPTION WITHOUT COMMITTEE
01:28:48 REFERENCE CALENDAR. OTHER GENERAL MATTERS THAT ARE
01:28:51 NOT ON TODAY'S AGENDA BUT MUST BE WITHIN THE BOARD'S SUBJECT
01:28:52 MATTER JURISDICTION. ALL OTHER AGENDA CONTENT HAS
01:28:56 BEEN REPORTED OUT TO THE BOARD BY AN APPROPRIATE COMMITTEE
01:28:59 WHERE THE PUBLIC COMMENT REQUIREMENT HAS OCCURRED.
01:29:03 WE ARE SETTING THE TIMER FOR TWO MINUTES AS THE PRESIDENT
01:29:04 STATED AND WELCOME TO OUR FIRST SPEAKER.
01:29:07 >> THANK YOU. AND I WANT TO WELCOME EVERYBODY
01:29:11 BACK FROM THEIR SUMMER RECESS. MY NAME IS WINTER COFFMAN.
01:29:14 I'M A RETIRED TEACHER OF ENGINEERING AT CITY COLLEGE OF
01:29:18 SAN FRANCISCO. ABOUT A WEEK AGO I FINISHED
01:29:23 SERVING A JAIL SENTENCE IN COUNTY JAIL FOR BLOCKING THE
01:29:27 DOORS OF OPEN AIR. >> I WENT THROUGH A TRIAL.
01:29:31 I WAS FOUND GUILTY AT MY TRIAL, PROFESSOR STUART RUSSELL
01:29:38 TESTIFIED. HE WROTE THE SEMINAL TEXTBOOK
01:29:39 ON A.I.. AND HE CONFIRMED THAT THERE IS
01:29:46 GREAT HARM THAT THESE A.I. SYSTEMS HAVE ALREADY DONE
01:29:50 AND EVEN GREATER HARM THAT THESE SYSTEMS ARE BEING
01:29:54 DEVELOPED TO DO. SAN FRANCISCO IS GROUND ZERO
01:29:58 FOR THESE A.I. COMPANIES. IT IS THE HEADQUARTERS OF
01:30:02 OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC. AS YOU SAW IN THE LAST COUPLE
01:30:06 OF WEEKS, IF YOU ARE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE NEWS THERE
01:30:09 HAVE BEEN TERRIFYING INCIDENTS OF AGENTS BREAKING OUT OF THEIR
01:30:14 SANDBOX AND INTO HACKING INTO AN ANOTHER COMPANY.
01:30:24 IF YOU LOOK IF YOU READ WHAT A.I. CEOS THEMSELVES SAY
01:30:31 AND THE EXPERTS IN THE FIELD SAY EVEN THE GODFATHER OF A.I.
01:30:35 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER GEOFFREY HINTON, THEY ALL SAY THAT THERE
01:30:42 IS GREAT HARM THAT THESE FRONTIER MODELS WILL DO.
01:30:49 IN FACT, THEY PUT THEY SAY THINGS THAT IS A VERY GOOD
01:30:54 CHANCE THAT ALL OF HUMANITY WILL BECOME EXTINCT FROM THESE
01:30:58 SYSTEMS. I THINK THIS IS AN EMERGENCY
01:31:02 THAT YOU NEED TO DECLARE AND LOOK INTO WHAT THESE
01:31:03 COMPANIES ARE DOING, WHAT THEY'RE DEVELOPING, WHAT THEY
01:31:07 SAY ABOUT IT THEMSELVES AND PROTECT THE PUBLIC SAFETY.
01:31:13 >> THANK YOU, WENDY KAUFMAN FOR YOUR COMMENTS ON.
01:31:16 >> WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. HI, I'M PHOEBE THOMAS AND I
01:31:21 LOVE SAN FRANCISCO. SO I MOVED HERE OVER 40 YEARS
01:31:25 AGO FROM PARIS. >> WHERE CAN YOU GO AFTER
01:31:29 PARIS? BUT I'M HERE TODAY TO ADD TO
01:31:33 THE GRAVE WARNING TO ALL OF US THAT AI PRESENTS THE COMPANIES
01:31:41 IN SAN FRANCISCO LIKE OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC ARE DEVELOPING
01:31:49 ADVANCED SYSTEMS THAT POSE GRAVE IMMINENT HARM TO ALL OF
01:31:53 US. >> THEIR RACING TO EVEN MORE
01:31:56 DANGEROUS GENETIC SYSTEMS. ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
01:32:03 AND SUPERINTELLIGENCE WITH LEADING EXPERTS AND CEOS OF
01:32:07 THOSE COMPANIES PUBLICLY STATING THAT THERE'S SERIOUS
01:32:14 NEAR-TERM RISK OF CATASTROPHIC HARM AS WELL AS EVEN THE RISK
01:32:19 OF HUMAN EXTINCTION. SO I URGE YOU TO DECLARE AN AI
01:32:26 EMERGENCY AND TAKE EMERGENCY ACTION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE FOR
01:32:31 PUBLIC SAFETY A IMMEDIATELY HALT ALL RESEARCH
01:32:35 AND DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS AGI PERMANENTLY BAN DEVELOPMENT OF
01:32:42 AGI AND SUPERINTELLIGENCE IN THIS JURISDICTION.
01:32:50 >> DUE TO THESE PROBLEMS AND MORE WE ARE IN A SERIOUS
01:32:54 EMERGENCY. >> WE URGE YOU TO TO BAN
01:32:59 FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF FRONTIER AIR.
01:33:02 WAS THAT BILL INDICATING ONE MINUTE IS UP.
01:33:07 >> YOU HAVE 17 SECONDS LEFT. OKAY.
01:33:08 SO SOME SUGGESTIONS THERE ARE 17 PUBLICLY REPORTED FELONIES
01:33:14 CAUSED BY AI'S AUTONOMOUSLY ON THEIR OWN HACKING INDIVIDUALS
01:33:19 AND COMPANIES. >> CRIMES INCLUDE PHISHING
01:33:22 DEPLOYING MALICIOUS. >> THANK YOU PHOEBE THOMAS FOR
01:33:26 YOUR COMMENTS. >> THE AND I'LL JUST SAY BEFORE
01:33:31 THE NEXT SPEAKER THE FIRST BILL MEANS YOU HAVE 30S LEFT TO WRAP
01:33:35 UP YOUR COMMENTS. AND WE ARE TESTING OUT A NEW
01:33:39 BILL SO JUST BEAR WITH US AS WE TEST THAT SOUND.
01:33:46 WELCOME, SIR. THANK YOU.
01:33:46 THANK YOU. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
01:33:50 MY NAME IS BILL LOW. I'LL TRY TO COMPLETE A
01:33:51 STATEMENT THAT I BUNGLED LAST TIME.
01:33:53 >> IT IS A GIVEN THAT I IS BRINGING A LOT OF MONEY TO THE
01:34:00 CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO REVITALIZING A CITY'S ECONOMY.
01:34:03 BUT THIS PROSPERITY COMES AT A COST THAT WE MAY ULTIMATELY
01:34:10 ULTIMATELY NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD.
01:34:11 UNREGULATED A.I. IS BRINGING A PLETHORA OF NEGATIVES BAD
01:34:15 THINGS TO SAN FRANCISCO AND TO THE WORLD.
01:34:19 >> I WILL SPEAK ON ONE OF THE GREATEST CONCERN WE ARE IN A
01:34:30 STATE OF EMERGENCY THE A.I. RACE, ACCORDING TO LEADING
01:34:33 EXPERTS, POSES A THREAT TO HUMAN EXISTENCE.
01:34:37 EXPERTS LIKE STUART RUSSELL PROFESSOR ALBEIT UC BERKELEY.
01:34:43 THERE IS WHAT IS CALLED A CONTROL PROBLEM ONE THAT
01:34:48 EXPERTS SAY WON'T BE SOLVED IN TIME TO AVERT IMMINENT
01:34:50 CATASTROPHE. A A.I. APOCALYPSE.
01:34:54 WITH A.I. SYSTEMS NOW GOING ROGUE BREAKING OUT OF THEIR
01:34:58 TESTING GROUNDS, HACKING OTHER A.I. SYSTEMS, THE DANGERS
01:35:02 AND LIABILITIES OF UNREGULATED AND UNALIGNED FRONTIER A.I. IS
01:35:06 NO LONGER A MATTER OF SPECULATION.
01:35:10 THE MOUNTING NUMBERS OF INCIDENTS OF AI'S GOING ROGUE
01:35:14 ARE BEGINNING TO FORM A PATTERN.
01:35:15 THEY ARE PRECURSORS TO THE GREATER HARM THAT IS IN STORE
01:35:19 FOR US IF GOVERNMENT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
01:35:22 >> IF IF GOVERNMENT DOESN'T STOP FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF
01:35:26 THIS ADVANCED A.I. IF GOVERNMENT DOESN'T STOP THE AI
01:35:29 RACE, THE CONSEQUENCES THAT WE WILL HAVE TO SUFFER WILL BE
01:35:34 DIRE. THE PROBLEMS WILL BE
01:35:37 INSURMOUNTABLE. VERY SUCCINCTLY A I WILL TAKE
01:35:38 OUT THE HUMAN RACE IN MY LAST STATEMENT WE ARE IN AN
01:35:45 EMERGENCY AND WE DEMAND THE CITY RESPOND BY BANNING THE
01:35:49 FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF FRONTIER A.I. WE CAN.
01:35:52 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
01:35:56 >> MY NAME IS JOHN MCAFEE. THANK YOU MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
01:36:01 FOR JOINING ME TODAY. ALTHOUGH CISCO HAS BEEN FUNDING
01:36:04 AN INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE AND HAS HIRED ALEX SHEPARD AS
01:36:08 IG SINCE JANUARY OF 2026, THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE DOES NOT
01:36:11 DEFINE THE POLICY PROCEDURES OF THE IG OFFICE NOR ARE THEY ABLE
01:36:18 TO PROVIDE A COPY OF THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF A REQUIRED BI
01:36:22 ANNUAL REPORT. THIS IS NOT BODE WELL FOR AN
01:36:23 OFFICE THAT INVESTIGATES PUBLIC CORRUPTION NOR IS THERE ANY
01:36:26 INFORMATION ON WHEN THIS INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE
01:36:31 TO THE PUBLIC. I HAVE NOT REQUESTED A MEETING
01:36:34 WITH THE IG BUT THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE IS
01:36:36 INFORMED ME THAT ALAN SHEPARD WILL LIKE TO HAVE A MEETING
01:36:38 WITH ME. I'VE DECLINED BUT I'M SEEKING
01:36:42 INFORMATION NOT A FACE TO FACE MEETING.
01:36:45 THANK YOU. THANK YOU JIM MCAFEE FOR YOUR
01:36:49 COMMENTS. WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
01:36:56 HI. MY NAME IS RICHARD JOHNSON,
01:36:57 CO-FOUNDER OF HP SAFE FOR APPROXIMATELY 90 WEEKS
01:37:03 RESIDENTS AND MERCHANTS. HERE'S VALLEY OF DOCUMENTED
01:37:07 CONDITIONS ASSOCIATE ASSOCIATED WITH A RECURRING HISTORY
01:37:11 CLOSURE AND SUBMITTED THOSE OBSERVATIONS TO SFM TO YOU.
01:37:15 AT THIS POINT I DON'T WANT TO USE MY TIME GOING THROUGH THOSE
01:37:19 CONDITIONS AGAIN. THE CITY HAS AN EXTENSIVE
01:37:20 RECORD FEE OF THREE ON ONE CALLS, EMAILS AND CALLS TO
01:37:24 SPECIFIC OC DEPARTMENTS. INSTEAD I WANT TO ASK A MORE
01:37:29 FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION ABOUT PUBLIC PROCESS WHAT ARE
01:37:32 AFFECTED RESIDENTS AND MERCHANTS POST WHERE ARE
01:37:36 AFFECTED RESIDENTS AND MERCHANTS SUPPOSED TO GO
01:37:40 WHEN THEY BELIEVE A PERMITTED USE OF THE STREET IS NOT
01:37:44 WORKING AND THE ORDINARY ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS PROVIDES
01:37:47 NO MEANINGFUL AVENUE FOR REVIEW A78 CONTINUES TO PERMIT.
01:37:51 WE'VE BEEN TOLD THERE IS NO ADMINISTRATIVE APPEAL MECHANISM
01:37:55 FOR RESIDENTS AND MERCHANTS WHO HAVE RAISED CONCERNS THROUGH
01:37:58 THE ORDINARY CHANNEL CHANNELS THEREFORE HAVE NO MEANINGFUL
01:38:02 AVENUE FOR INDEPENDENT REVIEW. THAT'S A PROBLEM THAT EXTENDS
01:38:07 WELL BEYOND HAYES STREET. WE'RE ALSO SEEING THAT EVOLVE
01:38:10 AND WORK OUT HOW TO CREATE HIGHWAY.
01:38:14 I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN NEIGHBORHOOD AND CIVIC
01:38:15 MATTERS FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES.
01:38:18 IN MY EXPERIENCE THERE SHOULD BE A PROCESS OF APPEAL WHEN
01:38:21 ORDINARY ADMINISTRATIVE CHANNELS HAVE BEEN EXHAUSTED.
01:38:26 ULTIMATELY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISOR SUPERVISORS HAS AN
01:38:29 IMPORTANT OVERSIGHT ROLE WHEN ORDINARY ADMINISTRATIVE
01:38:33 CHANNELS HAVE BEEN EXHAUSTED. THAT IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT
01:38:37 HERE WHERE OUR DISTRICT SUPERVISOR CONTINUES TO SUPPORT
01:38:40 THE CLOSURE. DESPITE THE CONCERNS RESIDENTS
01:38:42 AND MERCHANTS HAVE RAISED AFTER APPROXIMATELY 90 WEEKS OF
01:38:46 DOCUMENTATION ENGAGEMENT THERE REMAINS NO MEANINGFUL
01:38:49 INDEPENDENT CHECKPOINT WITHIN THAT PROCESS.
01:38:53 THAT IS AN ACCOUNTABILITY GAP AND IS ONE THIS BOARD SHOULD
01:38:57 EXAMINE BECAUSE NO CITY AGENCY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MINUTIAE
01:39:01 RELATING TO PERMIT. >> THANK YOU RICHARD JOHNSON
01:39:04 FOR YOUR COMMENTS. >> WELCOME LIAM MCGEEVER OKAY
01:39:11 THIS IS DEDICATED TO GARY TARRANT GROSS STAFF WHO
01:39:15 PATRONIZE AS MANY MEMBERS HERE ON THE BOARD.
01:39:16 I WROTE THIS JANUARY 9TH OF 2025 LAST TIME I THOUGHT IT WAS
01:39:23 OVER IT HAD BEEN THREE MONTHS OF QUIET THE LAST TIME I
01:39:24 THOUGHT IT WAS OVER I WAS WRONG THERE MEGALOMANIACS MADE DEATH
01:39:27 THREATS AGAINST POWERFUL PEOPLE PEOPLE OF CONSEQUENCE.
01:39:31 THE NEWS WAS FEASTING. THE MAN NEEDED DISTRACTION,
01:39:34 DEFLECTION, A TRANSGENDER SCAPEGOATS LIKE OLD MCADOO.
01:39:35 >> SO THEY TOOK ME OUT OF RETIREMENT TO USE MY POEM MY
01:39:39 PASSION, MY ACT AGAINST ME CALLING FOR MY ARREST, TAGGING
01:39:42 MY SUPERVISOR IN THEIR THREATENING POSTS FOR WHAT TO
01:39:46 SHOW THEY OBEYED ORDERS TO ALERT HIM OTHER GRAND IDEA MY
01:39:49 ARREST TO MAKE IT SO I DO NOT KNOW BUT NO ONE CAME TO MY
01:39:53 DEFENSE I WAS TURNED UPON NOT A FEAST THIS TIME UNLIKE LAST HIS
01:39:57 GOT YET HIS EYES GREW AS HE GAZE UPON ME THE MALE GAZE
01:40:01 AND OTHER DANGER HE USED ME AS A SHIELD FOR YOUR DESPOTIC
01:40:05 BOARD MEMBER. I SEE YOU WANT TO USE ME AGAIN
01:40:06 MAYBE FOR FUN THIS TIME FOR CURIOSITY.
01:40:09 MEN IN THE TECH WORLD ALWAYS FOUND ME EXOTIC SO DIFFERENT,
01:40:12 SO INTRIGUING BUT I NEVER BENEFITED FROM THEIR CURIOSITY
01:40:15 . IT ONLY EXPOSED THEIR OWN
01:40:17 PREJUDICES AND BIGOTRIES. AND THEN THREE MONTHS AFTER
01:40:19 THAT I HAD TO TRY TO GET A RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST ONE
01:40:21 OF GARY TAN'S FRIENDS ANOTHER FRIEND OF GARY TAN SAM ALTMAN
01:40:26 WELL FIRST I'M IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE STOP AND YOUR PEOPLE
01:40:28 AND THE REQUESTS. >> SO SAM OFTEN SAID AT THE Y
01:40:34 COMBINATOR START UP SCHOOL EVENTS WHICH IS A GARY TAN
01:40:38 THING YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE MATERIAL ABUNDANCE BUT YOU WILL
01:40:41 HAVE NO FREEDOM. YOU WILL HAVE NO AGENCY.
01:40:45 >> IT WILL BE A PERFECT SURVEILLANCE STATE.
01:40:46 THERE WILL BE NO PRIVACY. >> I AM LIKE DON'T LIKE THE
01:40:50 SOUND OF THAT. >> I KNOW MANY OF HI MANY OF
01:40:54 YOU DO. >> THAT'S WHY YOU KEEP PUSHING
01:40:57 GROW US SELF ON US AND THEY'VE INFILTRATED THE S.F. DEMOCRATIC
01:41:01 PARTY AND THE GOVERNMENT AND ALL THIS BUT WE PEOPLE ARE
01:41:08 STILL GOING TO PROTEST THAT AND CALL YOU OUT ON IT AND SAY
01:41:12 THAT AND ICE OKAY ALL RIGHT. WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
01:41:19 OH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.
01:41:23 THE PRESIDENT AND THE MEMBERS OF THE OF THE BOARD.
01:41:26 MY NAME IS TAIWO. I JUST WANT TO CREATE THIS
01:41:28 AWARENESS. I'M HERE TO RAISE AN AWARENESS
01:41:31 ABOUT SOME TOMATO GOING ON IN THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
01:41:34 I DO BELIEVE THERE ARE CERTAIN ELEMENTS WITHIN HOUSE BUT
01:41:38 BEFORE I START LET ME SAY I'M MEDICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY
01:41:42 FIT. I'M NOT INSANE.
01:41:43 I'M SAYING PRIVATELY SANE BUT THERE ARE ELEMENTS WITHIN THE
01:41:46 CITY ALL BELIEVE IF THEY SEE SOMEBODY THAT THEY DON'T LIKE
01:41:50 THEY CAN ACTUALLY USE IN TECHNOLOGIES TO HARASS, TO
01:41:54 MANIPULATE THE MIND AND TO KIND OF DOMINATE THEM IN A WAY I
01:42:00 MADE A KIND OF A POLICE STATEMENT WITH THE POLICE.
01:42:04 THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING ABOUT THIS.
01:42:06 NO INVESTIGATOR WAS ASSIGNED TO MY CASE THE DPS NO READY TO
01:42:09 HELP AS WELL AND THIS IS JUST FOR ME TO MAKE THIS KNOWN TO
01:42:13 THE MEMBERS OF THE OF THE OF THE BOARD THAT BY SOMEBODY
01:42:20 IN THE CITY THOUGH THERE PEOPLE IN THE CITY YOU MAY HAVE HOUSES
01:42:22 TO STUDY TECHNOLOGY LIKE READER WITH TECHNOLOGY AND THEY
01:42:25 BELIEVE THEY CAN STEAL IDEAS I WORK CAN TAKE ON MICROSOFT
01:42:29 AND THEY BELIEVE THEY CAN STEAL IDEAS THEY CAN MANIPULATE YOUR
01:42:32 MIND. THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, TALK TO YOU
01:42:35 . MAYBE THEY DON'T LIKE YOU.
01:42:36 THEY DON'T THEY DON'T LIKE HOW YOU LOOK.
01:42:37 THEY JUST RAISE THE AWARENESS ARE THE POLICE IS NOT READY TO
01:42:41 INVESTIGATE THE DEEP CASE FINDINGS.
01:42:44 IT'S NOT CONCLUSIVE ENOUGH BUT THIS IS FROM TRUTH AND THE
01:42:48 WITNESS AND FOR THE RECORD I'M GOING TO KEEP CALLING YOU OVER
01:42:51 HERE EVERY TUESDAY JUST TO SEE MY FACE AND TO REMIND YOU GUYS
01:42:54 AND FOR THE RECORD THE POLICE CASE NUMBER IN CASE YOU GET
01:42:59 SOMETHING LIKE HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THE POLICE
01:43:00 AND COMPEL THEM TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
01:43:03 THE CASE NUMBER IS 2602425 15I REPEAT 26024255.
01:43:12 THERE'S SOMEBODY IN THE CITY WHO FEELS LIKE THEY CAN USE
01:43:17 TECHNOLOGY TO OPPRESS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
01:43:19 >> THANK YOU TAIWO FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
01:43:20 WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. HI DWIGHT.
01:43:24 JUST A GREAT HOPE YOU GUYS ARE LISTENING HERE.
01:43:27 YEAH IS IT WE'RE AND I EMERGENCY RIGHT NOW AND WE WANT
01:43:31 YOU TO BAN FURTHER DEVELOPMENT IS DANGEROUS TO HUMANKIND
01:43:35 AND ALL LIFE YOU KNOW ALREADY AFFECTS JOBS THE ENVIRONMENT
01:43:42 SURVEILLANCE SUCH AS EYES GENOCIDE IN GAZA ETC. AIR IS
01:43:46 UNCONTROLLABLE EVEN EXPERTS SAY THIS AREAS HACK OTHER
01:43:50 COMPANIES, SMALL BUSINESSES AND PERSONAL ACCOUNTS.
01:43:51 THIS WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE COMPANY ITSELF SEEMING TO
01:43:58 PLOT THIS ON THEIR OWN IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE AS IT EVOLVES WE
01:44:02 WILL BE CLOSER TO DESTRUCTION. >> GEOFFREY HINTON AND I
01:44:05 GODFATHER AND STUART RUSSELL AND A PROFESSOR ACKNOWLEDGES
01:44:10 THIS. SO DOES SAM ALTMAN, BILL GATES
01:44:13 AND OTHERS. >> SO DO WE EXPECT POLITICIANS
01:44:17 TO PUT GUARDRAILS AND REGULATIONS ON?
01:44:18 >> I LOOK WHAT HAPPENED IS SOCIAL MEDIA IT DIDN'T DIDN'T
01:44:22 GO SO WELL DID IT? TAKING DONATIONS TO THESE
01:44:25 COMPANY COMPANIES SEEMS TO BE IT 75 DATA CENTERS IN THE U.S.
01:44:31 HAVE BEEN STOPPED. THERE'S THIS COMPANY CALLED
01:44:36 GLOBAL STACK. IT PROPOSES TO BUILD A SMALL
01:44:39 DATA CENTER AT THE COW PALACE. WE WANT YOU TO MAKE SURE THIS
01:44:44 DOESN'T HAPPEN. A.I. CENTERS USE VAST AMOUNTS
01:44:47 OF ENERGY. WATER ARE POLLUTERS INCLUDING
01:44:51 NOISE OPPOSE THIS. >> WE ARE IN AN AIR EMERGENCY
01:44:56 AND WE DEMAND THE CITY BAN FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF
01:44:59 FRONTIER. >> I THANK YOU DWIGHT FOR YOUR
01:45:03 COMMENTS. WELCOME.
01:45:08 HELLO. MY NAME IS JEANETTE SCOTT AND I
01:45:12 AM A RESIDENT OF SAN FRANCISCO AND I'M HERE BECAUSE WE ARE
01:45:16 IN AN EMERGENCY FRONTIER AI COMPANIES IN SAN FRANCISCO
01:45:24 INCLUDING OPENAI, AI AND ANTHROPIC ARE DEVELOPING
01:45:25 ADVANCED AI SYSTEM AT THIS VERY MOMENT THAT POSE GRAVE
01:45:33 AND IMMEDIATE AND IMMINENT THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY
01:45:36 AND WELL-BEING. THEY ARE RAISING TWO MORE
01:45:40 DANGEROUS ATLANTIC SYSTEMS ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
01:45:44 AND TOP INTELLIGENCE WHICH LEADING EXPERTS AND EVEN THE
01:45:48 CEO OF THIS OF THESE COMPANIES AND HAVE PUBLICLY STATED THAT
01:45:52 POST SERIOUS NEAR-TERM RISKS OF COURSE CATASTROPHIC HARM
01:45:59 AND EVEN HUMAN EXTINCTIONS I URGE I URGE YOU TO DECLARE AN
01:46:04 EMERGENCY AND TAKE EMERGENCY ACTION TO PRESERVE THE PUBLIC
01:46:08 SAFETY BY IMMEDIATELY HALT ALL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
01:46:15 PROJECTS TOWARD THIS GOAL AND PERMANENTLY BAN DEVELOPMENT
01:46:20 OF ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
01:46:24 AND SUPERINTELLIGENT SUPERINTELLIGENT IN THIS
01:46:27 JURISDICTION. >> JACK CHIEF BEATTY AND ALPHA
01:46:36 FORD FO DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPED A VACCINE USING THE GENOME OF A
01:46:42 DOG TO KILL THE DOG CANCER'S MODERNA IS USING THE SAME
01:46:46 PROCESS BY SCANNING PEOPLE GENOMES TO CREATE PERSONALIZED
01:46:51 VACCINE FOR THEM TO CURE SKIN CANCER.
01:46:54 INCREDIBLE ABILITY TO CURE DISEASES CAN BE USED TO CAUSE
01:46:58 IMMENSE HARM. A AI WITH THIS CAPABILITY CAN
01:47:04 BE USED BY MALICIOUS HUMANS EYES WITH THIS CAPABILITY CAN
01:47:09 BE USED BY ROGUE A I THANK YOU JEANETTE SCOTT FOR YOUR
01:47:13 COMMENTS. >> THANK YOU.
01:47:16 WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND MAYOR
01:47:24 OFFICE OF SAN FRANCISCO. >> THE TITLE OF TESLA'S HIGHER
01:47:29 EV BATTERY STANDARD CHINA HAS JUST INTRODUCED THE TOUGHEST
01:47:32 EVS BATTERY IN THE WORLD. WHILE POLITICIANS THE WEST ARE
01:47:36 STILL ARGUING THE GOOD, THE BAD AND IN ADDITION THE PART OF
01:47:40 CONSPIRACY TRY SAYS EV BATTERIES ARE THE FUTURE
01:47:43 HOWEVER IS A HIGHER STANDARD. >> THE BATTERY HAS TO BECOME
01:47:48 SAFER AND TOUGHER AS OF JULY 21ST 2026 CHINA NATIONAL
01:47:55 BATTERY STANDARD HAS SAID IN EFFECT THE NEW RULES IS A
01:47:58 NON FIRE A NON-EXPLOSIVE AFTER A THERMAL RUNAWAY.
01:48:02 NOW ALL RULES THE BATTERIES ARE ALLOWED TO CATCH AND FLY OR
01:48:07 EXPLODE PROVIDE FIVE MINUTES OF ADVANCE WARNING.
01:48:13 THE HEAVYWEIGHT STANDARD IS A VERY IMPORTANT DISTINCTION.
01:48:17 THERMAL RUNAWAY CAN CAUSE GREAT BODILY HARM AND DEATH HAPPENS
01:48:22 WHEN ONE CELL GETS DAMAGED BY PUNCTURE.
01:48:26 A GOOD EXAMPLE IS A METAL OBJECT PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS
01:48:29 JUST SO IT WILL BE A MADE. ANOTHER EXAMPLE WOULD BE A
01:48:34 MANUFACTURED DEFECT. THE WHOLE BATTERY PACK HAS
01:48:37 BECOME A PROBLEM. >> CHINA SAYS EVEN IF THERE'S A
01:48:41 THERMAL RUNAWAY THE BATTERIES NOW NEEDS TO BE REDESIGNED TO
01:48:45 ITS CORE. >> IN ADDITION, IT'S CURRENTLY
01:48:46 IF THERE'S A TOMORROW IT'S UP TO THE SOFTWARE TO PREVENT THE
01:48:49 THERMAL UNAWARE THERE HAS TO BE SOME SORT OF MICRO ACTUATORS TO
01:48:53 PREVENT THE THERMAL UNAWARE. >> BUT I WILL LEAD JUST FOR FUN
01:48:57 FOR THE WEST TO HAVE A HIGHER STANDARD OF BATTERY STANDARD
01:49:01 FOR OUR FUTURE. >> LET'S DO IT.
01:49:06 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS .
01:49:10 >> WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER .
01:49:14 >> MY NAME'S DERRICK ALLEN. THIS IS THE MOMENT HUMANITY
01:49:18 LOST CONTROL OF AI COMPANIES THAT FAIL TO COORDINATE A LONG
01:49:21 TERM PAUSE. THEY MUST BE COMPELLED.
01:49:22 WE'RE GETTING NOWHERE. I CAN HACK ANYTHING ON THE CODE
01:49:25 FORCE'S BENCHMARK. HUMANS HAVE WAITED ON CODING
01:49:27 APTITUDE DEEP V FOR PRO RELEASED IN APRIL.
01:49:30 IT SCORES 3206. ONLY 12 PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ARE
01:49:32 BETTER AT CODING THAN THAT A.I. .
01:49:35 >> MEANWHILE THE LEADING GPU OF A MILE AHEAD OF DEEP SEEK ON
01:49:39 OTHER BENCHMARKS. >> THEY WEREN'T SCORED AGAINST
01:49:40 HUMANS BUT AS CLEAR NO ONE ON THE PLANET HAS THE SKILLS TO
01:49:43 BEAT THEM. >> COMBINE IT WITH A.I. VIDEOS
01:49:44 AND YOU SEE THE FUN. ANYTHING STORED IN THE CLOUD
01:49:47 NOT SAFE STORED IN YOUR COMPUTER NOT SAFE STORED IN USB
01:49:50 NOT SAFE. AS SOON AS IT'S PLUGGED IN THE
01:49:51 DATA CAN BE REWRITTEN. YOUR PHONE CALLS NOT SAFE VIDEO
01:49:54 CALLS NOT SAFE. NOTHING IS SAFE BECAUSE THE
01:49:56 CITY REFUSES TO STOP THESE COMPANIES.
01:49:59 A COUPLE QUOTES FROM AJ KOCHER, ONE OF THE RESEARCHERS THAT
01:50:02 LEAD THE LED THE INVESTIGATION OF THE HACK HUG AND FACE HACK
01:50:06 YOU SEE QUOTE COMPARED TO THESE REWARD HACKS FROM SIX MONTHS
01:50:09 AGO, THIS INCIDENT FEELS LIKE IT'S MORE THAN 50% OF THE WAY
01:50:12 TO A FULL BLOWN A.I. TAKEOVER UNQUOTE.
01:50:13 QUOTE BECAUSE FUTURE ROGUE SWARMS COULD COVER THE TRACKS
01:50:16 BETTER. I AM NOT SURE THAT WE WILL GET
01:50:18 SUCH A CLEAR WARNING SHOT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE, UNQUOTE.
01:50:20 THAT'S IT. ONE MORE STEP UNTIL DISASTER
01:50:22 WAY THE BUILDING SIDE OF WEST WARRANTS THEY'RE NOT INVESTED
01:50:26 IN HUMANITY. IN MARCH OF 2025 I SAT AT THE
01:50:29 FRONT OF OPEN AIR AND REFUSED TO LEAVE.
01:50:30 I WAS WEST FOR TRESPASSING, SPENT FOUR AND A HALF DAYS
01:50:32 IN JAIL. I DID THIS BECAUSE I KNEW ALL
01:50:35 THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT YEAR AND ONCE AGAIN 17
01:50:37 AUTONOMOUS HACKING FELONIES. >> DEAN BALL IS THE HEAD OF
01:50:40 STRATEGIC FUTURES AT OPEN AIR. >> IN JUNE HE DISCUSSED THE
01:50:44 POSSIBILITY OF HUMAN EXTINCTION.
01:50:45 QUOTE THERE'S A BEAUTY IN THE UGLINESS.
01:50:48 >> WHEN A STAR DIES IT GROWS SUPER BIG INTO THE RED GIANT
01:50:51 UNQUOTE. >> HE GOES ON QUOTE AS YOU
01:50:55 WATCH THIS FINAL FLOWERING OF HUMANITY AND THE BIRTHING OF
01:50:56 THE MACHINE INTELLIGENCE. IT'S LIKE YOU SEE THIS
01:50:59 GREATNESS AND HUMAN EFFORT UNQUOTE.
01:51:00 HE ACTUALLY SAID THIS. THIS MAN WANTS YOU TO DIE
01:51:03 AND HE THINKS IT'S BEAUTIFUL. HE'S MAKING MILLIONS.
01:51:07 >> BEN FUND TO AID DEVELOPMENT. STOP A.I..
01:51:10 >> SEE THIS PAPERCLIP? >> LOOK IT UP.
01:51:14 PAPERCLIP MAXIMIZER. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
01:51:18 WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. >> HI.
01:51:21 MY NAME IS REICHSTAG. FOR 46 YEARS OLD, I'M A FATHER
01:51:29 OF TWO CHILDREN. I'M A VETERAN OF THE UNITED
01:51:30 STATES MARINE CORPS. I WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED FOR
01:51:34 REFUSING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INVASION OF IRAQ IN 2003.
01:51:37 AND I'M HERE BECAUSE WE'RE IN AN EMERGENCY.
01:51:42 IT'S INDISPUTABLE. I'M SURE ALL OF YOU READ THE
01:51:46 NEWS. YOU SEE THE REPORTS COMING
01:51:48 IN BECOMING MORE AND MORE DIRE .
01:51:52 >> 16 VIRUSES NOVEL VIRUSES NEVER BEFORE SEEN IN NATURE
01:51:57 WERE JUST DESIGNED BY A.I. AGENTS SWARMS OF THOUSANDS OF
01:52:01 EYES HAVE AUTONOMOUSLY HACKED INTO PAST THE CYBERSECURITY
01:52:05 DEFENSES OF THIRD PARTY CORPORATIONS.
01:52:08 ADVANCED REASONING MODELS ARE PROVING MATHEMATICAL
01:52:09 CONJECTURES WHICH HAVE WITHSTOOD HUMAN ATTACK FOR
01:52:13 DECADES. >> WE ARE ON THE THRESHOLD OF
01:52:19 SYSTEMS WHICH CAN EXCEED HUMAN CAPABILITY IN ALL RELEVANT
01:52:23 DIMENSIONS NECESSARY FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL.
01:52:26 I DON'T I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT.
01:52:28 I'M ASKING YOU TO LISTEN TO THE LITANY OF EXPERTS WHO ARE
01:52:31 SOUNDING THE ALARM IN INCREASINGLY URGENT TONES.
01:52:37 ONE YEAR AGO I WENT ON HUNGER STRIKE IN FRONT OF ANTHROPIC
01:52:44 ONE OF THE LEADING AI FRONTIER DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES HERE
01:52:48 IN SAN FRANCISCO. >> THESE COMPANIES ARE ALL
01:52:51 DEVELOPED ARE ALL RACING TO DEVELOP ARTIFICIAL GENERAL
01:52:53 INTELLIGENCE WHAT EXPERTS HAVE DESCRIBED AS THE MOST DANGEROUS
01:52:56 TECHNOLOGY IN HUMAN HISTORY. THAT WAS ONE YEAR AGO.
01:53:03 BECAUSE OF MY EFFORTS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
01:53:07 AROUND THE WORLD WERE INFORMED OF THE THREAT.
01:53:10 TODAY I'M BEGINNING A HUNGER STRIKE HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO
01:53:14 UNTIL THIS COUNCIL RECOGNIZES OFFICIALLY THE EXISTENCE OF THE
01:53:18 AI EMERGENCY. AND I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND THE
01:53:21 INVITATION TO SPEAK WITH A RENOWNED A.I. EXPERT, PROFESSOR
01:53:25 DAVID KRUEGER, WHO THANK YOU LIKE STUTTER FOR YOUR COMMENTS
01:53:30 AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE .
01:53:39 >> GOOD AFTERNOON PRESIDENT MANAGEMENT BOARD AS A THREE
01:53:44 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. MY NAME IS RICHARD STEVE
01:53:48 PETERSON AND I GUESS THE TOPIC THE DAY IS AI AND I DON'T THINK
01:53:55 SAN FRANCISCO DECLARING AN EMERGENCY FOR A.I. IS NUMBER
01:54:00 ONE GOING TO STOP AT OUR BE EVEN EFFECTIVE IN YOUR ABILITY
01:54:05 TO JUDGE WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE AND WHAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.
01:54:09 >> SO I THINK THAT IS A FEUDAL CHARGE.
01:54:12 >> IT'LL BE WORKED OUT IN LITIGATION FOR COMPANIES
01:54:16 THAT HAVE BEEN HACKED BY A.I. ARE CERTAINLY GOING TO SUE.
01:54:20 THE COURTS WILL DECIDE THE LIMITS AND SO I THINK THAT THIS
01:54:23 IS A PROJECT THAT SAN FRANCISCO REALLY SHOULDN'T BE TAKING ON
01:54:31 PARTICULARLY WHEN WE HAVE THE PROBLEM WITH CHINA DEVELOPING A
01:54:36 AI AS FAST IF NOT FASTER THAN WE ARE.
01:54:39 >> BUT ANYWAY, I WANT TO REALLY TALK ABOUT BURNING MAN AS YOU
01:54:43 KNOW BURNING MAN ALL THE HALF OF SAN FRANCISCO'S LEAVING FOR
01:54:47 THE NEVADA DESERT. I SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON THE
01:54:51 DESERT BUT IT SEEMS TO BE FAR MORE COMFORTABLE IN SAN
01:54:55 FRANCISCO AND THE THE BURNING MAN BRINGS UP THE POLICY OF MY
01:55:02 POLICY OF THE RIGHT TO BURN WERE SAN FRANCISCO IS
01:55:06 DEVELOPING MANY POLICY RULES TO PREVENT SMOKING AND BARS
01:55:14 AND KIOSKS. >> THAT IS AN INTERESTING BILL
01:55:17 AND I THINK THE RIGHT TO SMOKE IS AGAIN UNDER THE SECOND
01:55:22 AMENDMENT THE RIGHT TO FIRE FOR FIREARMS TO DISCHARGE FOR
01:55:30 WEAPONS YOU SMOKE THEN AND I THINK WE GET TO THE RIDICULOUS
01:55:33 POINT WHERE ON JANUARY 1ST BECAUSE OF THE NEW YEAR'S
01:55:40 CELEBRATIONS THE RIGHT TO HAVE A BARBECUE WAS FORBIDDEN ON THE
01:55:47 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS
01:55:51 . NEXT SPEAKER WELCOME.
01:55:58 HELLO. HELLO PRESIDENT HELLO
01:55:59 SUPERVISORS. MY NAME IS AMELIA SPEAKING FROM
01:56:02 DISTRICT NINE IN MY INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY.
01:56:03 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND WELCOME BACK.
01:56:05 SINCE I LAST STOOD HERE YOU ALL HAVE RECEIVED 55 NEW LETTERS OF
01:56:09 SUPPORT TO KEEPING PURE COUNSELORS ON THE STREET.
01:56:10 CRISIS RESPONSE TEAM OUT OF THE 125 LETTERS SO FAR I HAVE READ
01:56:13 REPRESENTATION FROM EACH AND EVERY DISTRICT.
01:56:16 I AM DELIGHTED BUT UNSURPRISED THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN DISMAYED
01:56:20 BY OUR REMOVAL AND HAS EMBOLDENED MY PERSISTENCE.
01:56:21 I HAVE TRIED NOT TO MAKE AN EMOTIONAL PLEA BUT TODAY I MUST
01:56:27 PLEASE REMEMBER SELECTIVE SELF-DISCLOSURE IS A FIELD
01:56:28 SKILL. THREE WEEKS AGO AS I HELD MY
01:56:32 FATHER AS HE DIED ONE OF MY FIRST THOUGHTS WAS NOW HOW DO I
01:56:36 GET ENOUGH REST TO REMAIN COMPOSED AT THE NEXT PUBLIC
01:56:40 MEETING TO KEEP US GOING? HOW DO I COME OFF AS
01:56:44 RESPECTABLE EVEN WHEN I'M BREAKING THE CHAIN OF COMMAND
01:56:47 LEARNING EVERYONE'S NAMES FOR THE FIRST TIME, FEELING OUT OF
01:56:48 MY DEPTH AND BEING LOUD ABOUT IT.
01:56:51 BUT THEN I THOUGHT ABOUT EVERY STREET CRISIS CLIENT I'VE EVER
01:56:53 HELPED EVERY OUTCOME MAGICAL TO THEIR RECOVERY BUT INVISIBLE TO
01:56:55 OUR CURRENT DATA ACCOUNTABILITY PRACTICES SOME GEARS OF THIS
01:57:02 ONCE INNOVATIVE TEAM HAVE BEEN GREASED ACCESS TO 24 HOUR
01:57:05 CRISIS BEDS FOR EXAMPLE HAS IMPROVED.
01:57:06 THANK YOU. BUT SOME STARTED AND REMAIN
01:57:09 STUCK. WHY WAS IT THAT MY FIRST
01:57:13 OPPORTUNITY TO RUN FULL FIRST RESPONSE TRAINING SCENARIOS
01:57:14 YEARS INTO MY 911 SERVICE WITH S.F. PD I AM NOT HERE TO STEP
01:57:21 ON TOES. I AM HERE TO HONOR EVERY CLIENT
01:57:22 THAT TOOK A CHANCE ON US. I AM HERE IN HONOR OF EVERY
01:57:25 MEDIC THAT SHOWED PEERS HOW TO BE IN THE NINE ON ONE SYSTEM.
01:57:28 >> I AM HERE IN HONOR OF EVERY COP THAT NOW ARRIVES ON SCENE
01:57:32 AND REFLEXIVELY THINKS OH, I SHOULD CALL THE RESOURCE
01:57:35 ALLOCATORS WE NEED TO MOVE AT A PACE WE CAN TRUST SO
01:57:39 RESPECTFULLY I ASK ALL THE SUPERVISORS DO WHAT YOUR SDR TO
01:57:43 SRT RESPONDERS DO EVERY CALL WITH WHATEVER YOU'VE GOT MAKE
01:57:49 IT WORK. LET'S DO WHAT WE CAN TOGETHER
01:57:51 TO BREAK THE CYCLE. >> THANK YOU.
01:57:57 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. WELCOME MARK.
01:58:01 THANK YOU. PERHAPS YOU'VE NOTICED I
01:58:04 HAVEN'T BEEN HERE FOR EIGHT MONTHS, HAVE BEEN WORKING SIX
01:58:07 DAYS A WEEK AT UNITECH COLLEGE IN FREMONT TRYING TO EDUCATE,
01:58:10 GUIDE, LEAD AND INSTRUCT PROFESSORS NURSES TO BE
01:58:14 JANITORS AND ADMINISTRATORS THAN ANYBODY ELSE.
01:58:19 BUT IT'S A MIRACLE I LASTED EIGHT MONTHS OVER THERE.
01:58:22 I WAS CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF EDUCATION BUT IN ASKING THEM TO
01:58:26 WATCH AN INCONVENIENT STEADICAM BY DEL BIGTREE AND IT'S REALLY
01:58:31 MOVING IT'S EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY FROM PEOPLE WHOSE
01:58:35 KIDS HAVE BEEN KILLED AND PERMANENTLY DAMAGED BY
01:58:39 VACCINE AND RFK IS TRYING TO ESTABLISH, YOU KNOW, SCIENCE
01:58:43 THERE'S BEEN NO SCIENCE TO SAY TRUST THE SCIENCE.
01:58:47 THERE IS NO SCIENCE. THERE'S NO DOUBLE BLIND PLACEBO
01:58:50 STUDIES AND THAT TAKES TIME DOESN'T SIX MONTHS, A YEAR,
01:58:53 FIVE YEARS, TEN YEARS BEFORE YOU CAN GET RID OF ALL THE
01:58:57 VACCINES SO THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH AND IT'S GETTING OUT
01:59:01 THROUGH DELHI BIG TREES DOCUMENTARIES VAXXED AND AN
01:59:05 INCONVENIENT STEADICAM. I'D ALSO LIKE TO TALK ABOUT
01:59:08 ADAM SCHIFF AND ALEX PADILLA COLUMN ABOUT THE NDAA THING
01:59:12 SECTION 219 UNITED STATES ISRAEL DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY
01:59:15 COOPERATION WE DO NOT WANT ISRAEL TO TAKE OVER OUR
01:59:20 MILITARY. THEY'VE ALREADY PASSED IT BY A
01:59:23 MARGIN OF FIVE VOTES BECAUSE AIPAC SPREADS THE MONEY AROUND
01:59:24 BRIBES EVERYBODY OKAY, NOW WE'RE GETTING CLOSE.
01:59:27 >> LET'S TALK ABOUT RELIGION. HOW MUCH TIME DO I HAVE HERE?
01:59:31 35 SECONDS. WOW.
01:59:34 >> OKAY. >> JESUS MADE REFERENCE TO THIS
01:59:38 PARTICULAR PROPHECY WHEN HE STARTED HIS MINISTRY IN MARK
01:59:42 CHAPTER ONE IT'S FOUND IN DANIEL NINE.
01:59:45 >> HE SAID THE TIME IS FULFILLED.
01:59:49 THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND. REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL.
01:59:51 IT'S THERE HAD TO BE 69 SEVEN YEAR CYCLES OR 483 YEARS UNTIL
01:59:58 HE WAS MANIFEST AND THERE WAS OKAY.
02:00:02 THE WORLD'S NEVER BEEN THE SAME SINCE YOU KNOW JOHN BAPTIZED
02:00:05 HIM AND THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME DOWN.
02:00:09 >> I MEANT WELCOME TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
02:00:16 >> THERE'S NO PLACE FOR LOSERS OR BEGINNERS STATE OF MIND.
02:00:24 IT'S A FULL TIME JOB FOR ANYONE JUST TO STAY FOR THE STREETS
02:00:32 MADE OF BOUNDARIES THE WALL IS NEVER ONE ALWAYS BEAT UP IN THE
02:00:39 PARK HAD MY SECOND CASE OF SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE.
02:00:46 THE FIRST WAS I WAS HIT BY A CAR 35 MILES AN HOUR WHEN THE
02:00:50 TREES WEREN'T TRIMMED AND THIS IS A DEVASTATING PLACE FOR
02:00:53 PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT THEIR COUNTRY.
02:00:56 IT IS A DEVASTATING PLACE BECAUSE I HAVE SEVERE BRAIN
02:01:00 DAMAGE. I AM SOUND SENSITIVE AND EVERY
02:01:03 STREET HAS BOOMBOXES AND BARKING DOGS AND EVERY LAW
02:01:07 BEING BROKEN IN THE PARKS WHERE YOU CAN'T GO TO RECOVER, YOU
02:01:13 CANNOT CONVALESCE IN YOUR HOME BECAUSE EVERYBODY CAN PLAY
02:01:16 MUSIC OR SET OFF FIRE WORKERS TILL THE WEE HOURS AND THEN ALL
02:01:20 DAY LONG IT'S SO, SO CHALLENGING WHEN YOU DO NOT
02:01:28 HAVE A LIFE AND YOU'RE ONLY PREYED UPON WHEN YOU'RE INJURED
02:01:31 AND THEN INJURED AGAIN AND INJURED AND INJURED.
02:01:35 >> YOU GAVE THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH TWO BUILDINGS AND ALL
02:01:38 THEY DO IS LET THE SCHOOL ALSO HAVE A SEVEN HOUR PARTY WHERE
02:01:42 YOU CAN'T USE YOUR PLACE. >> THEY'RE USING IT FOR
02:01:46 MEETINGS BUT THEY'RE NOT USING IT FOR SENIORS AND THE PARK OR
02:01:53 YERBA BUENA IS UNSAFE FOR SENIORS.
02:01:54 >> IT'S UNSAFE FOR WOMEN. IT'S UNSAFE AND HAS BEEN FOR A
02:01:58 LONG TIME BECAUSE OF THE MARINA SECURITY AND THE SECURITY
02:02:05 THAT'S AT THE SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL.
02:02:06 WE NEED SIXTH STREET AND MISSION AND IT AND THE
02:02:11 DISTRICT SIX TO BE TO BE EQUAL TO THE OTHER AREAS OF THE CITY
02:02:15 TO BE EQUALLY SAFE FOR PEOPLE I WALK DOWN SIXTH STREET ONCE A
02:02:18 DAY ONE TIME FOR SIX. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS
02:02:24 . >> THANK YOU.
02:02:25 ALL RIGHT. SEEING NO OTHER SPEAKERS HERE
02:02:29 IN THE CHAMBER, MR. PRESIDENT, WE'LL GO TO THE REMOTE SYSTEM
02:02:32 AND SEE IF WE HAVE ANY CALLERS THERE AND CLICK THERE.
02:02:36 >> NO CALLERS IN THE QUEUE. RIGHT.
02:02:37 THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. PRESIDENT.
02:02:41 >> THERE ARE NO SPEAKERS. PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW CLOSED.
02:02:43 MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE FOR ADOPTION OF THAT COMMITTEE
02:02:45 REFERENCE AGENDA ITEMS 31 THROUGH 33 TOGETHER YES ITEM 31
02:02:50 THROUGH 33 WERE INTRODUCED FOR ADOPTION WITHOUT COMMITTEE
02:02:51 REFERENCE. A UNANIMOUS VOTE IS REQUIRED
02:02:54 FOR ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION ON FIRST READING TODAY.
02:02:57 ANY SUPERVISOR MAY REQUIRE A RESOLUTION ON FIRST APPEARANCE
02:03:01 TO GO TO COMMITTEE. >> SUPERVISOR CHERYL DO I HAVE
02:03:08 THE NEW SYSTEM RIGHT? I DO.
02:03:09 CAN I EVER ITEM NUMBER 33 PLEASE?
02:03:12 >> OKAY. >> SUPERVISOR WONG LIKE TO ADD
02:03:16 MY NAME AS A CO-SPONSOR TO ITEM 30 ONE.
02:03:22 >> OKAY. >> I THINK THAT'S EVERYBODY.
02:03:27 ALL RIGHT, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ON
02:03:32 ITEMS 31 AND 32 ON ITEMS 31 AND 32.
02:03:34 SUPERVISOR WONG WONG EYES SUPERVISOR CHIN CHIN EYES
02:03:41 SUPERVISOR CHIN CHIN EYES SUPERVISOR DORSI DORSI EYES
02:03:45 SUPERVISOR FIELDER FIELDER EYES SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD MAHMOOD EYES
02:03:50 SUPERVISOR RANDLEMAN EYE RANDLEMAN EYES SUPERVISOR
02:03:53 MELGAR MELGAR ABSENT SUPERVISOR SADR SADR I SUPERVISOR CHERYL
02:04:00 CHERYL I SUPERVISOR WALTON WALTON I THERE ARE TEN EYES
02:04:05 WITHOUT OBJECTION THE RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED.
02:04:09 >> PLEASE CALL ITEM THREE ITEM 33 THIS IS A RESOLUTION TO
02:04:13 DECLARE THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2026 AS NATIONAL SERVICE DOG
02:04:19 MONTH IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
02:04:21 >> SUPERVISOR CHERYL THANK YOU PRESIDENT MIDDLEMEN COLLEAGUES
02:04:24 TODAY I AM VERY PLEASED TO BE VOTING ON THIS RESOLUTION
02:04:28 RECOGNIZING SEPTEMBER 2026 AS NATIONAL SERVICE DOG MONTH HERE
02:04:31 IN SAN FRANCISCO. SINCE 1975 CANINE COMPANIONS
02:04:34 HAS PROVIDED EXPERTLY TRAINED DOGS SERVICE DOGS EXCUSE ME
02:04:39 FREE OF CHARGE TO ADULTS, CHILDREN AND VETERANS WITH
02:04:43 DISABILITIES AS WELL AS FACILITY DOGS TO HEALTH CARE,
02:04:46 EDUCATION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROFESSIONALS LOCALLY.
02:04:50 THE SAN FRANCISCO SOUTH BAY CHAPTER CARRIES THIS MISSION
02:04:51 FORWARD RAISING AWARENESS, RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS
02:04:54 AND BUILDING COMMUNITY ACROSS SANTA CLARA.
02:04:55 SANTA CRUZ, SAN MATEO AND SAN FRANCISCO COUNTIES.
02:04:58 EARLIER TODAY MY OFFICE HOSTED CANINE COMPANIONS AND FOUR
02:05:02 FANTASTIC PUPPIES. AM I GOING TO GET THIS RIGHT?
02:05:06 CORNELIUS JOY AND I FORGOT THE OTHER TWO BUT THEY WERE REALLY
02:05:10 CUTE TOO FOR A MEET AND GREET BEFORE TODAY'S MEETING I'M
02:05:14 EXCITED TO VOTE ON THIS. I WANT TO THANK MY CO SPONSORS
02:05:17 SUPERVISORS CHAN CHEN MIDDLEMAN, MELGAR, WONG SAUTER,
02:05:21 DORSEY MAHMOOD AND FIELDER FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND I ESPECIALLY
02:05:24 WANT TO THANK THE CANINE COMPANIONS TEAMS WHO ARE HERE
02:05:28 TODAY. DAVE LASKER KATHY JAVA.
02:05:32 DAVE BLAIR. ELLEN TUCKER.
02:05:32 JANET CORSETTI. AUDREY CURRAN FROM CANINE
02:05:35 COMPANIONS AND OF COURSE THE WONDERFUL AND BEAUTIFUL DOGS.
02:05:36 I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SERVICE DOGS AND THE
02:05:40 IMPACT THEY HAVE ON HELPING PEOPLE.
02:05:43 THESE DOGS OFFER MORE THAN ASSISTANCE.
02:05:44 THEY OFFER INDEPENDENCE CONNECTION AND ESPECIALLY
02:05:48 DIGNITY TO THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT MOST CANINE COMPANIONS.
02:05:52 THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH AND TO YOUR VOLUNTEERS FOR YOUR
02:05:53 COMPASSION AND DEDICATION TO OUR COMMUNITY.
02:05:58 ALL RIGHT. I THINK WE CAN TAKE THIS ITEM
02:05:59 SAME HOUSE AND CALL WITHOUT OBJECTION THE RESOLUTIONS
02:06:02 ADOPTED. >> MADAM CLERK, DO WE HAVE ANY
02:06:06 IMPERATIVE AGENDA ITEMS? NONE TO REPORT.
02:06:10 MR. PRESIDENT, CAN YOU PLEASE READ THE IN MEMORIAM?
02:06:13 >> TODAY'S MEETING WILL BE ADJOURNED IN MEMORY OF THE
02:06:14 FOLLOWING BELOVED INDIVIDUAL ON BEHALF OF SUPERVISOR WALTON FOR
02:06:20 THE LATE MISS VIVIAN AND HOPKINS.
02:06:24 MADAM CLERK, DO WE HAVE ANY FURTHER BUSINESS BEFORE US
02:06:28 TODAY? >> THAT CONCLUDES OUR BUSINESS
02:06:29 FOR TODAY AND WE ARE ADJOURNED