painstaking sequa gives the city authority to mitigate that doesn't maple it happens this will give us a solid future with resiliency. in the city's responses a mention of quote consequence of failure of a project. we read that to maple that under pressure a permit could be issued in a known flood zone but which developer moves on who is left with the consequences the business owner and homeowners i'd like to talk about ocean beach to develop a master plan and involves the city spur the army core of engineers the ocean will have its way and sand it is getting in the way the sand that was pit on the beach was washed

away from 3 months perhaps better options would be configurations if in that area and natural tied lands and other things to be considered. wastewater treatment plants the southeast water treatment plant this involves everybody in the city southeast treatment plant dates to 1952 settings techniques date to 1938 the plans are at sea level there are 20 outlets where wastewater flows into the bay and saltwater cleans the watermelon and deteriorates equipment days should be instead of to stop this intrusion the oceanside plant hastening countered

intrusion the 89 equate cause one of the roofs on the southeast plant to fail there was an out flow of untreated water into the bay considering those things i think puc did have a 20-year plan they work in my neighborhood thais they're well organized and doing a good job but this new plant is expensive and it's a serious situation i recommend to puc please increase pulling put that up adhere higher on the priority list mission bay. mission bay is considered a flood plane yet new development is mush roaming the pirates s are issued without accomodation for sea level unfortunately this

is a good idea they've hired a consulting engineer from holland that's helpful we ask the jury asks for your support permits not be given out going to until the things are in place. the vulnerability of sro they are also in a two year study trying to determine what to do to keep our airplanes with us. regional considerations we must be careful our mitigations don't put our neighbors at great risk putting up a saufl to force water into other counties bcdc are worried about this they have

41 cities that surround the bay and san francisco is a major factor we sit as a gateway to the bay the jury asks one or more staff be representing us, please. also is a matter of policy on any new development within the purview we ask that bcdc be involved at the onset their wise and watchdogs for our precious bay. early concentration please. money. once this assessment is granted we'll be in a better position to receive federal grants but what is grand jury said time is running out for money they're looking for creative shorelines that will be considered the credential pay as you go will

not work it is suggested in the draft guides rising fees are targets if we don't stay ahead of the tied we'll end up spending more money in the long return recur dpw had a consultant rectify the juries report and were kind enough to send me a copy he brings up a good example with pay as you go funding talk about the exploratorium they're in approximately 17 year lease it doesn't retrofit beyond the needs and the expensive to retrofit at that time, may cause abandonment of the investment if money had obey spent to elevate

the sidewalks they'd be enjoying a longer period no one cares about money and stokes than the insurance industry their geneva industry has done a done a report and concluded credential fixes will not work in closing this is a huge issue and you have so many other things it look at we have to look ahead to the future we urge the city to stay ahead the curve and plan aggressively for the future of our city thank you very much. >> thank you. we also have a presentation from roger kim the environmental director.

oh, environmental advisor to the mayor >> good afternoon board members human resources roger kim i'm senior verse to the mayor first i want to thank the members of the federal generalizing for their attention to this issue and highlighter a few efforts underway inform prepare the city for sea level rise i have departmental folks here today to skewer questions and a few departments that be o will be making brief pregnancy of the work underway. let me begin by saying the mayor and the city and county are taking the risks of sea level rise seriously in our departments are involved in cutting-edge work to prepare the city and the mayor buildings the city needs to lead with adversities own assets to

prepare for the sea level rise in front he directed a comprehensive plan. we have a guidance for incorporating sea level rise in capital planning going to the capital planning committee for action on is 22nd of september this guidance incorporated the most up to date science owe about enable the capital planning committee to better understand and prioritize to prepare for a sea level rise it's also going to deepen the coordination on this issue daifrd b heart from the sf puc was the co-chair of the committee that drafted and will spend a few minutes to update why you, we have chris to talk about how we evaluate sea level rise in our thoughts about

planning and building code changes in accident future and finally we have representatives from major infrastructure departments highlighted in the report to you to give you, in fact, highlighting highlights to prepare the city for sea level rise including the sf puc and the airport and the port with that, let me i'm going to turn it over to mr. b heart to talk about our guidance >> thank you. >> thank you roger and good afternoon program director at the puc as roger said we've been meeting about a year and appraise the capital planning in san francisco spub sub title to support adaptation we're pleased to have 7 members on the department including the puc the airport and puc and planning and public works and the planning

program additional two consultants that are doing a lot of work for a number of clients along the shoreline including the city democrats. the guidance draft form will be credit card by the capital committee open september 22nd i'll outline it's feature it gives a consensus on the science we believe that climate change should at least start what science and figure out which is confusing and the wide array of report on a particular variable are understood they're not written for us it will take an effort we're learning the state of the art mapping product by itself public speaker at the same time our work was going on with the sewer program this should highlighter our data to understand our shoreline and offer lazy the sea level rise

and storm surge to look at understanding our assets might be xoesz k30e9d it provides 4 steps one starting with the conceives looking at the life cycle of the assets that is the level of protection and step two vulnerability assessment are you imposed to this endorse and what's the adoptive capacity of the foot of your asset for future it it is right way and step 3 risk assessment we think this will help the departments to prioritize and the adoption what are we going to do to make our assets good we enlighten the prelims as a interactive process t we're going to be learning

over time this is the first time we're doing this and the first that anyone is doing this we think that organic implementation of how this thing works in david is important it will continue to be driven and departmental level the departments know their resources best as roger mentioned at the cpc level accommodating the uncertainty is important we've come up with a balance between the need to act today to create resiliency and the longer than outweigh, we'll tliptly manage the public infrastructures >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon chris from

the environmental city planning i want to talk about a little bit about the planning and building code. >> excuse me. we haven't opened up public just yet. >> part of the staff presentation i wanted to make sure no one was standing in line for the public comment. >> i was going to cover the responses from the planning and building code and the planning department addresses the review under sequa and attach on what the planning department is doing to fellow through on the master plan. so starting with the code amendments we're still at and early day in considering option for amendments to our existing codes and our responses that this requires further analysis and preempted to report back to

the grand jury when i say early days we've had numerous discussions with many departments and are moving in the direction of developing language and to amend appropriate codes really to approach sea level rise in the same fashion as development is dealt with in regulate flood plans today, the best fshgsz of where the sea has taken the approach in the sequa analysis for our large plan areas in areas under prishthd to be effected by the sea level specific the treasure island and the shipyard development. in both of those projects through the sequa analysis we really treated areas you know

those development areas both as areas their subject to flooding in the present-day but we added on top of that unprotected sea level rise and plan those developments as you would developments in a flood hazard area with multiple areas of protection instruments for future adaptation as we learn more in the future as the plans of the sea level rise progresses this is not a new approach for the planning department we've been addressing the impacts of sea level rise on plans and development since 1998 i did not do an careful search for sequa go documents but based on institutional knowledge and going back to the supplemental eir in the 1998 we addressed sea

level rise in that document and just a few examples of more recent project with the irs all addressing sea level rise the moratorium project and the candle stick, the recent cruise terminal and the couple of projects we're currently working on that will have a detailed analysis the warriors and the mission bay and the planning eir. i just wanted to note that sequa ultimate perspire is disclosure for the public what the environmental plans or proposed project to be and affords ample opportunity for public participation and the planning department encourages members of

the public and the grand jury who would like to contributed to how the city is addressing this issue sea level rise to participate in the sequa process and take advantage of the opportunity it provide and briefly with respect to the ocean beach master plan there numerous departments the puc, the dpw, mta, and others along with planning which are following up on many of the recommendations contained in the plan from the planning department prospective in particular we have proposed to amend our local coast program itself first time in 20 years to address the sea level rise as well as the recommendations in the ocean beach master plan addressing coastal hazards we

have a couple of applications in the state and hopefully those will be approved later this thank you. thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon chair breed and good afternoon distinguished committee members i'm joe bear the manager at the san francisco international airport. being on the bay sfo is aware of our vulnerabilities from the flooding from the bay today is where he in place sea level that protects the bay front perimeter and a drainage and pumping system to remove water from our terminal revise the airport is protected we have no known

vulnerabilities there's near gap areas that is unprotected as identified in the grand juries report in order to understand this we've hired a consultant to performance a study ♪ study their performed bay water moldings in the vicinity of the airplane an assessment of the sea levels from height in turn of height and structural quality and depend strategies and remedies for the airport in ways to protect us from both extreme storm events and sea level rise. out of the study we know we're most vulnerable to excuse me. to extreme storm events that's where we're concentrating our new term efforts. that will be includes clogging up the known gaps and

constructing new sea levels in the north field area. but during the time to implement that process we'll focus on sea level rise this has a loerj term rising it is going to be much larger and will effect our entire bay front and north and south boundary. the protects we put in place will have to protect us under sea level rise and storm events as i recall the board authorized the airport to accept a grant we applied with the county of san mateo from the california coast to study two creeks that empty into the bay north of the airport understanding the interaction with the bay b will be important to determine the protections both for the airport

and our neighboring south san francisco in this case and san mateo county. and finally, i'd like to assure you have two things first there's a statement about water on our runways in the grand juries report the airport doesn't have a problem with running water on our runways that's important to the airport and second you should know that airport management and staff is taking this issue seriously trying to evaluate our risk and plan appropriately to protect the airport into the future. thank you >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. lauren senior planner with the port of san francisco i'm here to share you and the public the

port is well managing the waterfront in san francisco we're taking this very, very seriously and doing he everything we can to plan and insure we address our vulnerabilities, in fact, we've been considering this item for quite a few since 2009 we've been including sea level rise within our jurisdiction, in fact, one of our engineers submitted a proposals to bcdc for adapting the sea level rise in 2009 as well between 2011 and 2012 we solicited a consultant to do a comprehensive evaluation of the impacts along our shoreline and using this information to help to look at

the design going forward in conjunction with the guidelines we've been involved with with the sea level committee in developing for the city. and in addition, weer actively involved with a project a pilot project assessing the vulnerabilities and looking at the adaptation strategy store mission creek and the surrounding mission bay area that project we're working with super and other agencies as well bcdc, in fact, we've been working with bcdc and incorporating and advising with them about our waterfront use plan and in addition working that them on their bay policy relating to sea level rise. we also are flaking right now a comprehensive study related to the seismic vulnerability with our seawall and that study

should be available in 2015. in addition we've been active in the participation of looking at solutions for sea level rise and adapting the rising tides project and working with the bay area doing council and working with fema on a coastal hazard study and we've been working with the san francisco bay adaptation resiliency group as well as sf lifeline council and in addition helping the department of water helping to identify the priority projects within the state to help protect us from sea level rise including the seawall. we've been talking with the federal agency like the u.s.

core of engineers and looking at structural engineering solutions to addressing the vulnerabilities in downtown san francisco that being said one of the other things we're actively collaboratively with our fellow departments in understanding this important issue and as such the more we understand together about what are the common vulnerabilities and the priorities for the city the better off we'll be to position ourselves to act as a citywide group to look at potential funding mechanisms to address some of the adaptation strategies >> thank you very much. >> will i david him lessor

again, i'm going to focus on the sewer program it's on a upgrade it gives us an tremendous opportunity as we're rehabilitating our older system to be incentive to the system we can make margin investments the s i b is 4 levels of targets empathize with our infrastructure structure and most jermaine to today's hearing adaptation to climate changed part of the assessment we're involved in a climate adaptation system is completing an asset inventory underway now with the critical tool i've mentioned that is the mapping of various

shoreline activities when we have that asset inventory coupled with a layer of indication we can look at the assets most at reflex and develop an adaptation plan after the owl lazy comes the documents of the measures to puc protect our wastewater projects we're looking back flow to prevent saltwater and we know it's going to happen protecting our pump stations and a loss of functionality. preserving capacity for stormwater and finally identifying the sewage on oceanside and north point. thank you. >> thank you that concludes our

prediction we're happy to answer questions. >> thank you okay. is there a response to the city's presentation for the members of the civil grand jury no, not at this time that we'll open this up for public comment. >> thank you supervisors and chairperson i'm dr. max leno at the scene a recent retired scientists located in the south bay in her mountain view i was ahead of the adaptation study for my center much of that lies between 10 feet of high water. i wish to remind the committee of the 2012 innovating national council report entitled sea level rise for the coasts of

oregon and washington past perpetrate and future. the numbers posted in the report is 11 inches of sea level rise by 2050 and 36 by 20 one hundred it has large upsides that would be adjusted this can add several feet to our tides due to king tides as well as el nino's the tide gage records show clearly the effect of el nino and in 18982 and 1998 thank you your time >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. i'm laura i'm with super thanks for holdings this hearing thanks to

the civil grand jury for adding the enforcement support for the sea level i'm here to support the project we've no evidence of moved from 5 to 10 years from the sequa documents to a public conversation to prepare our shorelines i know that san francisco is enclosed on many sides so today, you've heard many departments talk about not only the vulnerability assessments they're doing alone in their areas of interests but working collaboratively together on a number of projects that are considered leadership models for the region to highlight two super is working or working with the agencies here today as well as federal and state agencies in the ocean beach master plan on then