community in weaving those beautiful textiles for hundreds of years we're proud to feature more than one antique ones and other fashioned from the community. and we're trying to have an i think. okay. good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco planning commission hearing for thursday, march 21st, 2024. when we reach the item you're interested in speaking to, we ask that you line up on the screen side of the room or to your right. each speaker will be

allowed up to three minutes, and when you have 30s remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. when your allotted time is reached, i will announce that your time is up and take the next person queued to speak. please speak clearly and slowly and if you care to state your name for the record, i will remind members of the public that the commission does not tolerate any disruption or outbursts of any kind. and finally, i'll ask that we silence any mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. at this time, i'd like to take roll commission. president diamond here. commission vice president moore here. commissioner braun here. commissioner. imperial here. commissioner koppell here. and commissioner williams here. thank you. commissioners. first on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance. item one, case number 2023, hyphen 007496 drp at 638 rhode island street. a discretionary review is proposed for continuance to april 4th, 2024, and item two, case number 2023. hyphen 011307 drp at 1234

francisco street a discretionary review is proposed for continuance to april 11th, 2024. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission and either of these proposed continuance only on the matter of continuance. you need to come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed and your continuance calendar is now before you. commissioners commissioner imperial move to continue. items one and two second. thank you. commissioners. on that motion to continue items as proposed. commissioner williams, i commissioner brown i commissioner imperial i. commissioner. koppell i. commissioner. moore, i and commissioner. president. diamond i so move commissioners that motion passes unanimously 7 to 0 placing us under your consent calendar. all matters listed here under constitute a consent calendar are considered to be routine by the planning commission, and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission of the commission. there will be no

separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public or staff, so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item. at this or a future hearing. items three, a, b, and c for case numbers 2019 hyphen 017481d and hyphen 02ca. hyphen zero two and var hyphen zero two. for the property at 530 sansome street are requesting modified approvals of the downtown project authorization, conditional use authorization, and variance item for case number 2024. hyphen 000844. see you at 1155 pine street. unit number six conditional use authorization item five. case number 2023 hyphen 008363. see you at 1567. slope boulevard. conditional use authorization. members of the public. this is your opportunity to request that any of these items on consent be pulled off and considered today, or a later date. again, you need to come forward seeing none. public comment is closed and your consent calendar is now before

you. commissioners commissioner koppell move to approve items three a, three, b, four and five. second. thank you commissioners on that motion to approve your consent. calendar items. commissioner williams i commissioner braun, i commissioner imperial i. commissioner koppell i commissioner moore i and commissioner. president diamond i so move commissioners that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0. zoning administrator would say you i will close the public hearing for the variance under item three c and intend to grant with the performance period matching the planning commission approvals. thank you. commission matters. item six land acknowledgment. commissioner the commissioner acknowledges that we are on the unseated ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place,

as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. thank you. item seven consideration of adoption draft minutes for march 7th, 2020 for members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on their minutes and again, you need to come forward seeing none. public comment is closed and your minutes are now before you commissioners commissioner braun moved to approve the minutes. second, thank you, commissioners, on that motion to adopt your minutes, commissioner williams, i braun i commissioner imperial i commissioner koppell i commissioner moore i commissioner president diamond i so moved commissioners that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0. item eight commission comments and questions. if there

are none, we can move on to department matters. no, no. oh. i'm sorry. we have a item. nine. the board of supervisors resolution on state funding. this is for your consideration. commissioners to, endorse their resolution. vice president moore, move to approve with support the resolution by the board of supervisors regarding, state funding for affordable housing. is that an endorsement? is that the action we're taking? yes. yeah. just to clarify, it's an endorsement. yes right. before we take and take make a motion, i would suggest we open up public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on this item related to the resolution on state funding, good afternoon, george. ashutosh, thank you for doing

this. commissioners can i just have the overhead really quickly, please? yes. i don't know if you can see all this. i've shown this before. this is from 2017, and i can only imagine it's gotten worse. this is a chart by mr. lenhardt from the new york times, and it just shows the discrepancy between the very affluent and the poor and the middle class. and i think that's really useful chart to look at. and maybe, you know, if somebody wants it, i'll send a copy and you can send it off to whomever in sacramento. thank you very much. last call for public comment. seeing none. public comment is closed. i will. commissioner moore, go ahead, please. i will second the motion to endorse the board of supervisors resolution. and for the public who has not read the resolution, please go to the department's website under item nine today, and you'll be getting the verbiage in its

entirety. indeed, it's also hyperlinked to our agenda. if there's no further deliberation, commissioners, there is a motion that has been seconded to endorse the board of supervisors resolution on state funding. on that motion, commissioner williams i commissioner braun i commissioner material i commissioner koppell i commissioner moore i and commissioner. president diamond i so move commissioners that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0 placing us under department matters for item ten directors announcements. nothing for me. thank you. item 11 review of past events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals and the historic preservation commission. good afternoon, commissioners. erin starr, manager of legislative affairs, welcome to spring and the four year anniversary of lockdown, so first on the land use agenda this week was supervisor preston's ordinance that would modify the tobacco paraphernalia controls in the north of market

sud. also known as noma, specifically, this ordinance would amend the planning code to require an establishment that sold any amount of tobacco paraphernalia, to be a tobacco paraphernalia establishment in the north of market special use district. and required to obtain conditional use authorization. it would also establish an 18 month amendment period for tobacco paraphernalia. establishments on the planning commission heard this item on february 8th of this year and voted to approve the ordinance with modifications. the commission's proposed modifications were to one. make tobacco paraphernalia establishments not permitted in the north of market special use district. expand the controls proposed for the noma sud to also apply to the lower polk street ncd. apply a quarter mile buffer for tobacco paraphernalia establishment restrictions in the lower polk ncd, and investigate shortening the proposed 18 month abandonment period for nonconforming tobacco paraphernalia establishments and limiting the hours of operation

in the noma sud. at the hearing, the supervisor proposed amending the ordinance to make all of the commission's recommended modifications except for limiting hours of operation, also in line with the commission's recommendation. the legislation was amended to reduce the abandonment period from 18 months to 180 days at the hearing, many committee members of the tenderloin and polk street neighborhoods spoke in favor of the legislation, and the additional amendments. supervisor peskin asked to be added as a co-sponsor, and the item was continued for one week as the amendments were considered substantive. next, the committee considered supervisor peskin's proposed sud at 900 kearney street. the planning commission heard this item on november 30th of last year and recommended approval with modifications. that modification was to revise the chinatown community business district use size controls to make it consistent with the limitations in section 120 1.4. so just a clarification clerical modification on that end, during the hearing, supervisor peskin

duplicated the file to incorporate the technical corrections from the planning commission. additionally, the duplicated file was amended to allow the construction of a rooftop structure to be used as an art studio. this duplicated file is going to be referred to the planning commission, as you has not considered the rooftop studio yet. during the land use hearing, there were no public comments. one person commented, one i'm sorry. one's public comment was closed. the original board file was sent as a committee report to the full board with a positive recommendation. and lastly, the land use committee considered the mayor's ordinance that would expand allowable commercial, restaurant and retail uses. this ordinance was a duplicated file from board file 23 0701 that became effective in mid january. this duplicated ordinance incorporates additional changes primarily related to lcas, lcas, and outdoor activity areas, and specified specific district changes in response to community feedback. the planning commission heard this duplicated file on february 29th and

recommended approval during the committee hearing. supervisor peskin shared he had been working closely with the office of small business, but there were two outstanding items which they did not agree on. the two proposed amendments as follows one. amend the lcu controls to base the use controls on the nearest neighbor commercial district or sud, within a half mile, or if the use is more than a quarter mile from the nearest, i'm sorry, half mile from the nearest ncd, then the use the base zoning and nc one controls, and then amend the lcu controls to permit the maximum use size based on the nearest ncd or sud up to a maximum of 1200ft!s. supervisor melgar expressed concerned over the proposed amendments because they run counter to prop h, prop h remove the quarter mile rule and allowed lcus and lcu controls to be dictated by the nc one zoning controls. this change made it easier for businesses to understand the rules, and easier for planners to implement the rules. further, nc one districts can be more permissive than some

named ncees, where more restrictive controls have been adopted. the proposed half mile buffer is also more restrictive than the quarter mile buffer that prop h removed, as such, supervisor melgar shared she was not in support of these additional restrictions, emphasizing the time and effort put into prop h. there was one public comment from a community member representing the lower polk cbd expressing support for the ordinance and the specific changes related to polk. ncd supervisor peskin made a motion to incorporate the amendments to use to use and use size limits for lcas. the only change was amending the half mile radius to a quarter mile. based on the discussions after the amendments were made, the item was continued for one week. since the amendments were substantive. then at the full board this week, the state mandated accessory dwelling unit controls, sponsored by the mayor passed its second read, the landmark designation for the sacred heart parish complex, and passed its second read the amending the conditional use

requirements for the removal of a udu, passed its second read, and then the exceptions and extensions for existing use sponsored by the planning commission, passed its first read, and the 900 kearney study, sponsored by super fast supervisor peskin passed its first read. and that concludes my report. happy to answer any questions. seeing no questions for mr. starr, the zoning administrator just informed me that the board of appeals did not meet yesterday. however, the historic preservation commission did, and had a very lengthy hearing actually, they adopted recommendations for approval for several legacy business registry applicants, the first being ristorante ideal on grant avenue . g f d s engineers on green street, barry bird and exotics hospital on taraval street, and a and w contractors on noriega

street. they also adopted the citywide historic context statement for the inner sunset and then took on the gregangelo museum landmark designation, which was sponsored by supervisor melgar, there was a lot of support, a little bit of neighborhood opposition. the commission ultimately adopted a resolution recommending landmark status for the gregangelo museum , it's sort of an interesting landmarking designation that's moving forward to the board of supervisors. and then, they heard the waterfront resilience program that you had heard and also made, submitted their comments as necessary to keep that project moving forward, it went so long that we had to continue the last couple of items because we have a hard stop at 430 at the historic preservation commission, because

the police commission meets in these chambers after the historic preservation commission. so if there are no questions, commissioners, we can move on to general public comment at this time. members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter. jurisdiction of the commission accepted agenda items with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes, and when the number of speakers exceed the 15 minute limit, general public comment may be moved to the end of the agenda. hi. good afternoon, georgia. i want to widen the lens a little further on the email that i sent to you all on monday. beyond the project, on 29th street, and to look at what it represents and to look at it in the context of the housing issues in the priority equity, geography, neighborhoods where the policies under both the housing element and the constraints reduction ordinance call for the preservation of existing housing under the current thresholds of section

317, tantamount to demolition calcs, existing housing was not preserved. on 29th street, never mind noe valley, the epicenter of de facto demolition. per the staff, the current calcs facilitate speculation and demolitions because they are not stringent enough. there is something really wrong with these values still being accepted by the city for the past decade plus, speculators flipped properties using the calcs for a neighborhood wide cumulative increase in housing prices of over $150 million, with an average increase of over 4 million just in noe valley. most of these homes would have been considered starter homes, which were going to be protected under the policies of the 2014 housing element, but were not the ordinances creating the two suds finds the median sales price quote more than tripling from 2011 to 2021. this includes a 9% increase from 2019 to 2020 alone. noe valley projects that have sold or resold before, during and after the pandemic

mirror this. some of these are flats that turned into single family homes. findings of a, quote underperformance close quote of housing built for middle income families and families in the lower amis are true, but the fact is, speculation causing the loss of housing has been ignored by the ordinances. the section 317 findings allow for the demographics to be adjusted. not adjusting the calcs has allowed speculation and demolitions to flourish. even ten years ago, when noe valley was becoming less and less affordable, it was concerning for other neighborhoods like the excelsior and the outer mission. in the october 2021 analysis of sb nine, staff warned of low income homeowners cashing out. it happened in noe valley, where the occupant, who happened to be a family member of the owner who inherited the house, was evicted out of her home of 30 years, a home that was sold, remodeled and had revised demographics that teetered on ttd during the

work. but then resold for 4.3 million during the pandemic. so much of the commission's power has been yanked away by sacramento. the demo couch should be adjusted, as the commission has the legislative authority to do in order to protect housing for families in the peg and dampen speculative fever by preventing alterations from becoming demolitions. here's my 150 words for the minutes. if i have two seconds, can i have the overhead? yeah, there it is. that's the house that on 29th street. and that that fence, that construction fence has been up for a couple of years, five and a half years. empty? thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. tom radulovic with livable city. yeah, i'm here today to talk about the ecological crisis. we're all in. you might have read about this, and, you know,

i mean, we're all good folks, right? we care about this. and what should we be doing about it? and so i would say there's a planning department. we need you to step up. we need you to plan. and that's both a requirement of the law. i mean, a lot of state law says that you need to be considering things like climate, in all that you do, every element of your general plan, all of your decision making should be ecologically attuned, it's also a moral imperative. i mean, this is the crisis, you know, i mean, from now on, for the rest of our lives and the rest of our grandchildren's lives, we just really need to be focused on this ecological crisis that we're in, there's two upcoming opportunities to step up. action requirement. one is a requirement of law. the other is an opportunity. and but i haven't heard mention of them. i've been kind of casting around to see who in the city government's going to step up and do these things, and nobody is. so i wanted to bring them to your attention. one is the priority conservation areas update. these are designations that through mtc. so it's the yin and the yang of development,

right. so you designate priority development areas is where we want development to go. priority conservation areas are the areas where we don't want development to go, where there's things that we want to protect. those might be open space, biodiversity, etc. that update, you'll have an opportunity to update those by 2025. if you update them by 2025, then areas that are now not designated can get funding because this is a grant program. last time around, it was the planning commission that adopted these, but i don't see it in the work plan and no one seems to be stepping up. so please, priority conservation areas by next year is something that you all need to be thinking about. the other is your open space element. sb 1425 passed by the state in 2022, requires every city and county to update and open space element by 2026. your open space element was last updated in 2009, which is recent by the standards of this department, for general plan elements. however, it's not recent. 15

years ago, new elements must address equity. they must address climate resilience. they also are supposed to identify opportunities for rewilding. so since 2009 you've adopted a ej framework, a resiliency element, the city has adopted a biodiversity strategy. as you know, there's all this waterfront resiliency conversation going on. this element would pull all of that together, compliment the land use element that you also still need to do by saying, you know, how do we also bring greenery? how do we bring create health? how do we create equity? by greening our neighborhoods as they get denser, 2006 is not a long time in planning world. so you should be starting now on this element update. haven't heard any mention of it, so i'm please ask your staff about it and kind of start talking to stakeholders about when you're going to get on this, because it's, both a requirement of the law and a huge opportunity to make this a greener city. thank you.

hello. my name is tom ray. i, i just want to speak about the, i guess it was, a matter that was going to be delayed until next week or, you know, possibly a little, a little later, but it's concerning, the rezoning plan for the area near the, geary and masonic out in the west. and, i really haven't gotten much, information from the city in, you know, through through the mail. and that's generally how i stay in touch and everything. it's like there are a lot of old timers that that live, live by. they've been living there since before i was born. and they don't, you know, it's great if everybody, you know, can email and everything, but they if, if proper, notification could be sent out to each affected, you know, person in, in the

neighborhood. and this is a huge project. i'm, i'm, i really i've been working a lot and i haven't had a chance to look at the details on this errand. and it seems to be extremely out of scale to the neighborhood. and, i, yeah, i just feel like not enough, not enough has been done to allow public input from the affected neighborhood myself and my neighbors and stuff. and, it's, like i said, many of them, many of my neighbors are elderly. and then others are working like, i work late hours and i'm having had the opportunity to make it here. and it makes it challenging when the days keep getting changed, you know, so anyways, i just appreciated if an effort could be made to, to contact, you know, all of us and you know, so we could have a little bit more input. thank you very much. thank you. i have a question,

director hylis, that is a neighborhood, for which a that is a neighborhood for which a great deal of density is called for, and i know that we're not doing, mailed notice to each individual house on the west side, but i wonder if you could talk about how that group of neighbors could get better informed and involved, especially given the amount of density that is being called for in that particular location? yeah. and we can come talk more about this or provide a memo on the outreach we've done. it's primarily been, you know, through these hearings and through the housing element. and meeting with community organizations, but it hasn't been or is a required necessarily to do like a mailed notice to everyone. so we have an extensive list of folks who have been involved who continue, you know, continues to get added to every community, organization and neighborhood organization is on that list that could be impacted and even beyond that, to those that can be impacted.

and as you know and you've seen, we're getting input, which is good. that's what we that's what we want to get. but we haven't done kind of a direct mailing. so to whom should we direct the member of the public who can i mean, he can certainly sign up for email updates on our website , on the housing for all website, or if you just write your address down and give it to us to we can mail you those email notices. so if you let me know, i'm happy to thank you. commissioner williams. director ellis, i'm just wondering why, every household hasn't been notified. because it's a huge impact. and so. so. yeah, yeah. and this question came up when we had a hearing a couple, couple months ago. we could i mean, it's a cost, there's timing when you actually do it. it's not required by the code. there is a code required, but it

sets a threshold that this exceeds. so for instance, like we rezoned, you know, recently. so adviser mandelman, along with supervisor melgar, you know, have made changes to the code around rh districts which to allow like fourplexes in rh districts, throughout the city, probably 70% of the city was impacted by that code change. and so that exceeded the threshold where we would mail neighborhood notification to everyone on that list. so we so we didn't nor did kind of the board require that as they went through that process. is it good. is there a i'm concerned like that because this is not the first time i've heard this. i'm concerned that, these neighborhoods that could be impacted, there's not enough people that know what's coming. and so i, i'm concerned about that. yeah, sure. and we can

certainly give you we'll provide you with we can provide you with the memo on, you know, what the requirements are, what the outreach we have done to date is. and we can, you know, we can have a hearing on the amount of outreach you would like us to do in the future, if that. if you think that's not sufficient, you know, and the cost of doing a mailing to. but as i said, like the precedent generally is when these larger rezonings eastern neighborhoods, etc, we don't do a broader mailing, but it's not something that's that's precluded. we certainly could. vice president moore, i would suggest that the magnitude and the extent of this particular project by far exceeds anything that we have ever seen, together with the aggressive schedule in which it is supposed to be implemented. and it's for that reason that i consistently run across people who don't have a clue. they do not have a clue about the legislation that we

have been trying to discuss for years now. they're not aware of the stringent resulting, regulations we are finding ourselves under. and everybody is saying, well, how come i didn't know? and it generally reflects on the fact that a city is never forced to change. and to that degree and that sort of amount of time. and i would agree with the gentleman, including what our commissioners are saying here, that the rest of the population doesn't have a clue. i attended just by coincidence, once a meeting, 2 or 3 weeks ago, where people, neighborhood activist were discussing, trying to make a neighborhood aware of what's going on. and there were probably 40, 50 people in the audience and absolutely nobody had a clue. yeah, they were all sitting there saying, oh, really , and i think that truly reflects, the amount of non informed people regarding this

issue. and again, we can certainly we will bring to you at our next hearing on the housing element kind of what's been done as far as outreach and by all means, you know, if you don't think that's sufficient and want to direct us to do more, we're we're happy to do that. but i think it's, it's a it's a good question to debate, as you know, commissioner moore, you know, you and i have sat in this commission for years. there isn't a project that comes forward where people say they're not informed. but i get it. this is a this is large scale. so is the rh district changes that were made in outreach is critical to us and important to us. and we as part of the housing element, we've done a ton as part of this. we've done a significant amount, but happy to fill in gaps if there are and if you want us to. director, if i may interrupt, this is not an agendized item. and this is sort of reached a point of a discussion. so i would caution you. well, we'll certainly make this an item in our next housing element presentation to you all as a topic for discussion. and

just so you know, too, we're thinking through the cadence of housing element implementation hearings. and i think we had one scheduled for early april. i think we've shifted that on the advanced calendar, primarily wanted to pull together information on this, but also get a better handle for you on state density bonus and its impact on kind of the base zoning. so more to come on that, but happy to add that have a robust discussion on engagement as part of that as well. yeah i would be very supportive of adding to the agenda on that discussion, whether or not in this particular instance, mailed notice would be something we should consider, and we ought to have public comment on that and a, you know, an agenda commission discussion so that we can collectively figure out, i'm not sure a separate agenda item is necessary. no, just as long as it's included in the subject matter. yes, it sounds as though it will be, because i think when we're coming back to you on

housing element implementation and rezoning, we want to break out some of the categories like preservation has been an issue, small business has been an issue, you know, the maps in the in the heights. so we'll we'll articulate kind of when and what topics so that we can have this discussion. commissioner williams, thank you, director ellis, i think the gentleman had a good point, when he said that, there's a lot of folks out there that don't have email and don't have that type of technology, and the mail is like, the only way that they're getting information, especially our, you know, our seniors, and so, yeah, it's important. yeah commissioner brian. just want to check in on our advanced calendar. we show the next item on the housing element is being on april 4th at that hearing. is that still are we still on track for that? i think we've shifted and we're looking for a date

later in april. and we want to give you more of a detailed schedule on the breakdown of the topics we want to talk about, because i think you're right, there are specific topics, outreach being one of them. i mean, i think it's come up small business preservation. so we'll want to break that out and give you a schedule. okay. well, if it means that there's a little bit more time to put together materials in response to the issues and questions raised today, then, i'm hoping that will be possible. and that was going to be a topic of our next discussion, as well as kind of state density bonus. and as you know, as the laws change at the state, we're or we're figuring out how to how we also make those changes and how they impact our local zoning. thank you. okay. if there's nothing further, commissioners, we can move on to your regular calendar for item 12. case number 2022, hyphen 011972 coa for the property at 557 23rd avenue. conditional use authorization.

good afternoon. commission jeff horn, planning department staff i am before you is a request for conditional use authorization, for residential demolition. the project site is located on the 500 block of 23rd avenue in the outer richmond neighborhood. the subject property is an up sloping lot with two detached residential units. at the front of the lot is the main unit of approximately 1800 square feet in size, and the second unit is located in the choir rear yard. this 322 square foot, one story studio dwelling unit is proposed for demolition and to be replaced with a new construction of a 499 square foot, one story, 11.5ft foot tall, one bedroom adu, seeking approval through the state adu program, the project's seeking this ministerial right to be constructed in the rear yard through the state adu program,

and the project meets all eligibility requirements. parts of the program. in the proposal to demolish an existing dwelling unit that is rent controlled, sb 330 requires that a replacement unit be provided of equal protection rights. so this project has been conditioned to provide this new adu as rent control through a notice of special restrictions. and there's been, no opposition has been received on this project and it's been cleared environmentally as a class one, exemption. and this concludes staff's presentation, and i'm available for any questions. project sponsor, you have a five minute presentation. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is vivian chi from masuda consulting engineers. our

proposal is to remove the currently dilapidated structure as shown on the overhead projector with a habitable compliant unit. we hope to move forward with the project to allow someone to inhabit the space. we're available for. any further questions. thank you so much for your time. thank you, members of the public. this is your opportunity to address the commission on this item. again, you need to come forward or. last call for public comment. seeing no requests to speak, public comment is closed and this item is now before you. commissioners vice president moore, this commission has sufficiently discussed the pros and cons of state, regulated adus, including the required setbacks. this project fulfills all the necessary rules, and i appreciate the sole explanation of that. this particular unit would be rent controlled in order to achieve the equal protection rights that you mentioned. i do not see any

issues, and i would move that we approve with conditions. second. there's no further deliberation. commissioners, there is a motion that has been seconded to approve with conditions on that motion. commissioner williams, i commissioner braun i commissioner imperial i commissioner coppell i commissioner. moore i commissioner. president. diamond i so move commissioners that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0 and i do believe we set a new record for shortest commission hearing ever

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>> i started in contra costa county graduated from berkeley and a liven deputy for you a number of years special jeff recruited me to san francisco the former elected public defender of san francisco and i began as a line department here and then asked me to be training direct and the managers of the felony unit the unit most serious case. after he passed away, i was appointed to be the public defend and electd and recently reelected. but you know what i think about what you know the story of public to the office i like to start with my parents. they come from a farming village in india and dad was the first in family to finish high school. there were a couple people in his village who saw him and encouraged his parentses to pursue studies and move in the country when i think of what

public defenders dot most person thing is to see our clients so than i can hopefully realize their full potential that is important to me and to our office and the cult usual of our office. >> you know the right to a public defender was developed in 1963 in gideon case ensuring the right to a public defender. we take this very seriously in our office. my vision is that anyone in our office should be representing the people represent the same way they want their love 1s to representd and people think if you have a public defender representing you in san francisco you will bet better than a private attorney. we will leave no stone unturned no motion unfiled and try to perform the highest level for clients >> that's fantastic >> often when people think public defenders they jump to the idea of somebody defending somebody in court your office

does more than courtroom representation. >> i'm an elected public dem felonieder i campaigned on that it is important we break the mold of what is public for our office on accomplish. fiercely defending is the core of what we do and that will never go, way. as the only elected public defender there is an elected da and sheriff in every county. in the state but one elected public defender. it is important our office pushed envelope and engage in the national and state wide and local policy that will impact community how public safety and our clients. we have local policy directors, state policy director. we are active in sacramento in trying to make the law change in order to be more humane system for our clients. we are believer in advocating

for community power. we have two 501c3's in bayview and fillmore that are be more magic under the umbrelast public defender's office. these are youth empowerment organizations that do programming throughout the summers. which back pack give, ways to kid school sflois start the school year and believe engaging youth will prevent them from become clients. and put people on the path to thrive. we have a program, end of cycle program. culturally competent social workers going to the jails and finding out what the individual needs. we'll fight for their best legal outcome in the case. and the position of trust the fifth amendment protects the conversations that our clients can have with us. we can use that to really

encourage a trusting rep and telling us what they need and be frank and connect that individual with the substance abuse or mentor or housing or employment and educational opportunities hamp that individual needs to thrive and reach their full potential. that is another piece behalf we do. 17 units across our department and you know we take collaborating across units something we try to do every tail to meet our mission, vision and values >>. a part is ensuring recidivism does not reoccur >> of course the left thing we want to see is a client to return to be a client again. we work intentionally from the moment we start representing a client with our skilled staff and other members of our team to try to figure out what is that future going to be for the client when they leave our care? >> now, some critics argue public defenders have a heavy case load.

how is your office mechanicing this and what issues are most important to you. why we have a heavy case load. unfortunately, this is a problem across the country, public defenders are not funds equal low to da offices our fund suggest 61% of the da office. and the police department has 14 time the our budget. and there is the sheriff's department and any time the entities are detaining our cloinlt in i way it is up to us to defend this is manage we are working on locally. and alsoination wide to change that. we need more staff and every wing of our office. the logo is greater than one. so we know that we need to be greater twhoon individual in the office and use our teams effectively and strategically and skillfully and put in more hours to make sure we reveal truth and make justice happen in

courtrooms. greater than one also symbolizes the fact we are collaborating with other communities organizations to try to support and help our client and move policies that will help our clients. an example of this is the pretextual stop campaign we collaborated with 110 organizations throughout the city to convince the police commission to pass the general order that stops some of the stops traffic stops for things that don't impact public safety and lead to often con41ational interactions with the police and civil yens and. we wanted to minimize that mostly the shootings we read about and the the violence of inneraction gets in car and tragic occurrence that can happen. by collaborating we can be powerful than the sheer numbers in our organization.

>> sure. so you know like cities cross the country san francisco struggling with fentanyl and homelessness, how can our office contribute to help mitigate or solve those problems? >> one thing we can do, again often times with community based organizations; is to really try and figure out how we address the demand. you know. treatment on demand. again. finding people opportunity with housing or employment opportunity. you know mitigation or just any form of counciling that helps people. move in more positive direction in a way more inviting oppose to co hearsive. now we don't have enough beds for everyone who needs that intensive treatment. contributing to staffers to get more funding for people to get treatment they need. because the reality is there

will always be someone to fill the need. we work on the demand, which evidence based there was fee of dealing with addiction will move in a more positive direction. >> then, finally, what else would you like residents of san francisco to know about you and your office? >> i think what i like the san francisco residents to know is how muchow important it is that the public defender be aggressive. right now we had a huge backlog of cases in san francisco. there were over a housand passed the last day. a right to a speedy try and have case passed the last day. we had to plaintiff and against the court t. is important this we have an independent public defend 30 is willing to do that. and we got a good decision from the court of appeal and now the courts move quick and are

honoring this and the effort from policy team to 850 bryant the courthouse is to draw attention to this issue it is important we have an aggressive public defender. had someone gets convicted for something they did not do it impacts their family. clients are greater than one, it is important we fierce low defend. the same time because when someone gets convicted of something they did not do they are less likely to access the j.w. they need for stability or housing and then will impability a lot of people and lead to more issues on the streets and affect public safety. also to realize we are a public safety organization. we have social workers and take this social worker mentality or

support facilitative prop and get cloinlts to a better place. when our clients get to a better place we are all safer >> thank you mr. raju. we appreciate the work. thank you for your interest in the development. you know i wanted to say if anyone wants to know more about a lot of the initiatives and unit in our department they can go to you tube we have a dairy defender series. and people should look at that to learn more about the different units. also we talked about the dibilltating impact of convictions we have a clean slate program exsponging hundreds of records every year. and people can go to our website sfpublicdefender. org and move their live in a positive direction >> thank you very much. >> thank you >> that's it for this episode we will be back shortly for

government government i'm chris manners, t t t t t t t t t t t t >> [music] you are watching golden gate inventions with michael. this is episode exploring the excelsior. >> hi i'm michael you are

watching golden gate inventions highlighting urban out doors we are in the excelsior. pickleball. let's play pickleball! pickleball is an incredited low popular sport growing nationwide. pickleball combines tennis, bad mitton and ping pong. playod a bad mitton sized court with paddle and i plasticic ball. starting out is easy. you can pick up paddle and balls for 20 buck and it is suitable for everyone in all skill levels you see here. the gim is played by 2 or 4 players. the ball must be served diagnoty and other rules theory easy to pick up. the game ends when i player or team reaches a set score 11 or 21 point bunkham win bright 2

pickleball courts are available across the city some are and others require booking ahead and a fee. information about the courts found at sf recpark. org if you are interested in playing. now i know why people are playing pickleball. it is so much fun you play all ages. all skill levels and pop on a court and you are red to g. a lot of fun i'm glad i did it. all right. let's go! time for a hike! there is i ton of hike nothing excelsior. 312 acres mc clarin the second largest p in san francisco. there are 7 miles of tris including the there was fer's way this spreads over foresxeft field and prosecute voids hill side views of the city.

and well is a meditative quiet place in mc clarin p you will siendz labyrinth made of rock:now we are at glen eagle golf course special try out disk golf >> now disk golf! so disk golf is like traditional golf but with noticing disks. credit as the sport's pioneer establishing the disk ballsorption and the first standardized target the disk ball hole. the game involves throwing from key areas toward i metal basket. players use different disks for long distances driver, immediateerate. mid range and precise shot,

putters. players begin at the t area. throw disks toward the basket and prosecute seed down the fare way. player with the lowest number of throws the end wins the game. disk golf at glen eagle cost 14 dollars if you pay at the clubhouse. there is an 18 hole course this is free. du see that shot? i won! am i was not very good now i have a huge respect for disk ball player its is difficult but fun. thank you for joining me in the excelsior this is goldenate adventures.