buildings were sort of hanging out and in between everything, but -- but certainly have the character that make the district. so i certainly support all of that. thanks. >> thank you. commissioner johnck? >> well, i'm concerned -- i'm not comfortable with approving the fact that the owners didn't know about this. i'm concerned about that. i don't know. i just -- it makes me uncomfortable. i don't know how to handle it within what we're talking about. i know that that's happened before in our designation -- well, when i say happened before, that we don't always have, what -- landowner approval. i know that. i know that. >> the owners of the three landmark properties -- >> i guess that's surprising to me. >> i'd like to clarify. the owners of the three landmark properties have been notified, and these properties have been identified in the central soma plan, so those

have been identified as landmarks over the period of multiple years. >> correct. the commission -- excuse me. when we notified -- all of the owners have been notified throughout the central soma process, and all of these buildings have been notified since 2014 or 15 for local designation. we did notify everybody who was surveyed. we notified everybody in the area, the study area for the context statement. we had a specific his tore he can preservation topic event at -- or workshop at spur related to these designations where the map was available. and again, we agree with you, commissioners. we don't want to be in a position where property owners are confused or concerned about what the landmark designation process means to them. i would remind you that this is just the beginning of the process, and we do have to go through a minimum of five

public hearings just to get to landmark designation, so we do feel there is plenty of opportunity to continue working with project sponsors and property own ares on those issues. so as you will see these again in april, hopefully we can cover a lot of territory between now and april on quelling some of these concerns. >> okay. that makes -- [ inaudible ] >> and just to clarify, we haven't received letters of objection from the three property owners. >> yeah. that's true. >> i mean, we're speculating when we're saying they're objecting, but we haven't received any objections. >> no, but that -- that's helpful information for me. >> all right. commissioner pearlman, is that a new comment? >> yeah, it is. so this is all under one agenda item. >> no, they're separate agenda items. we can take them separately -- >> dhas he what i was going to ask. can we vote on these separately? >> you certainly can. >> you certainly can. >> because typically, we would not bundle so many into one

item. >> yes, we can certainly take them up separately. if there aren't other comments, i would like to say i actually disagree with commissioner pearlman about the three individual landmarks. i think they are worthy of landmark designation, and i think i've always been a great admirer of the hotel utah. there aren't ones that are so exceptional in this location that have the history of this hotel. i think it is worthy. i think the new pullman history was fascinating, and i think it's also worthy of just the pile driver. i think they're worthy of designation, and i also believe that this is a great addition -- this won't actually be a new landmark district, though, the clyde will just be an extension of the south end. >> tim frye, planning department staff. it was originally classified as

an extension to the district because the history is very similar. after looking at the property type and because it's just small scale -- they're so small scale, and when you compare them to south end, we felt they really stood as their own district, which is why we've drawn a specific boundary line. >> okay. i was confused about the specific -- [ inaudible ] >> okay. that's great. i think it deserves to be such a great district. such a great name. >> i know. >> does anyone know -- all it says was the crooks now known as lusk. does anyone know when it changed specifically and why? >> i think we have a member of the public. >> i believe -- i don't know the exact date. i believe it's in the 1980's, it changed. there was -- i was -- and i can look into this further before the next hearing, but there's a newspaper article beginning in the 1920's to change the name and a relative of matthew crook's protesting the proposed

name change, but the area residents and merchants wanted it changed because they didn't like the negative connotation of crooks, so i believe there's a map. so you'll notice in your packet that some of the maps say crooks, some of them say crooks. it remains crooks at least through the 1950's, but the definitive date on the name change, i can look into that. >> and we're -- by lusk, it just also -- was there a landowner or something. >> you know, i'm not sure what the history of lusk is, but that's something i with look into. >> i just had it on my business card for so long and just was curious, so thank you. >> i would also like to clarify this question that came out about the properties that came up. in this case report on page 17, identifies noncontributing properties, so there are quite a few properties in the district that are built after

the period of significance that are not significantly contributing, on those could be demolished, could be altered more heavily than other properties. commissioner hyland? >> yeah. i just want to add onto what you said, commissioner wolfram. i think the three properties individually missed shading for landmark. i would support it's not just the architecture, it's the use of the building, and not only the use, but the use in the current location, and that's -- rises, brings those -- rises its significance to a landmark status. i would support all three. >> thank you. commissioner matsuda? >> i also support all three, and i just wanted to thank desiree for including such great and rich information about the african americans who worked in the pullman cars. really important to make sure that we have the history of

their contributions, and rarely do you find it in public documents, so i'm very happy and thankful to you for doing that. >> can i get some clarification. did -- miss smith, did you write these reports or was this in coordination with -- >> so there are three of us. yes, i wrote the new pull mant. francis wrote hotel utah and shannon ferguson wrote the union hall. >> okay. well, they're all really exceptionally well written. compelling. they could be published at little separate novellas. case study well done. okay. do we have any motions? we can move them separately, we can move them together. >> i would propose to move them together. >> second. >> altogether together. >> all right. we have a motion and a second to initiate them together. >> okay.

commissioners, if there's nothing further, there is a motion to initiate items 10-a, b, c, d, e, and f for their various districts and properties. on that motion -- [ roll call. ] >> so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 7-0. [please stand by for captioner switch]

>> good afternoon. i'm matt snyder, department star. you are about to hearing a presentation on candlestick point hunters point shipyard phase ii. it received approval eight years ago. it has candlestick point, of course, previous location of the candlestick park stadium. and hunter point shipyard. these are in two redevelopment areas. land use and entitlement is e.r.i.

however, they're looking to make adjustments to the project at this point. candlestick point did not have any historic resources the shipyard, however, there were several resources. there were -- there was a california -- excuse me, national register historic district around some of the pre-world war ii buildings. in 2010, they extended that district as potential districts for about five other buildings. the buildings were covered in the e.i.r. and there was a significant impact. they were looking to demolish the buildings with the understanding that they would come back at some point to make a further -- make further studies on feasibility. now they're looking at retaining the buildings and also retowning add usual buildings which did not find to be significant

resources. i will let them now come forward with the presentation. thank you. >> commissioners, thank you so much for having us here. we'll introduce our architect in a moment to provide you with some of the details about the adaptive use that we can envision on some of the buildings. we are very excited about the potential for this site. and, in fact, took the history into consideration, not only in the individual buildings, but in setting a context for all of the building development there at hunters point shipyard. so let me begin by just telling you, today we're going to introduce some new elements in the project to you and then

we'll have ginser go in and tell you some of the details. so as a matter of orientation, let me just describe our project, once again, it is shipyard in candlestick point, about 700 acres in the southeast sector of san francisco. and we've been working with the city for a long, long time, much as many have you have, working to try to secure the redevelopment of this fabulous site, candlestick point and hunters point shipyard. since i was last here in 2015, since that time, we've had an opportunity to take a fresh look

at hunters point shipyard. they helped us see things and find a way to really shape the land use plan for this project in a way that really and truly and authentically celebrates the maritime history of the site. what we have in this new plan is discussion of our land use, which includes things like mixed uses. and when also have some stories to tell in terms of how we have worked this through with various community members. right now, we're at a point where we've had an opportunity to work this through with the citizens advisory committee in both sub committee meetings as well as two workshops that were held this past october and then again in january. we had an open house at the bayview opera house. so we were able to talk through

the various land use, parks and open space elements, the transportation elements. so we've had an opportunity to talk all of that through. we will be going back to the citizens advisory committee here shortly. we did a presentation before the ocii commission just yesterday. we're here today with you. and we will be talking tomorrow with the planning commission and on friday with the policy and governance committee of the m.t.a. so we have a lot of outreach and we'll continue to do outreach. the first question around, why are you doing this? in 2010, this project was approved to develop up to 5 million square feet of research and development at the shipyard. that approval was secured in the redevelopment plan. it had been cited under ceqa.

and we're now wanting to exercise an opportunity to use that in a more creative way than one may anticipate using 5 million square feet as an additional campus. we'd like it reduce the amount of r & d that was originally proposed for this site and move forward with opportunities for schools that had never been contemplated in 2010 and we're also going to provide opportunities for retail spaces including things like maker spaces. you know how some of the traditional spaces have, you know, dissipated from san francisco? so the new plan allows us to incorporate schools, additional retail spaces. we have our traditional, strong, robust transfer system. and it sets the stage for the

retention of more buildings, more of the heritage buildings than we had originally thought to be able to consider from a rehabilitation and reuse. so in the pictures here, of course, traditional land use, we have r & d, as shown in the purple. we have retail, as shown in reddish tones. but i want you to know that the retail is actually rather focused around a couple of distinct corridors. we have residential and traditional densities. low, medium and high densities the site includes two towers, one at 370 feet. another at 270 feet. but how we designed this site, and we'll go into more of that in some detail, is to focus on centering the height in each of

the neighborhood difrt -- districts and then having it step down towards the waterfront, because we truly appreciate the horizontal plain with which we're working. it's a site that's been created. as you know, was created in world war ii. so that's how we've organized our heights and our buildings and, again, just as a note here and, i know it's difficult to read on the screen, but we've got now what we have as part of our program, an additional add of 120,000 square feet for a hotel, that we think would be very important to bringing regional, as well as local visitors to the site. we have, as i mentioned earlier, over 4 million square feet of r & d. we have 410,000 square feet of

schools and those kinds of things. it's a much richer, much more well-integrated plan than we had in 2010. so we feel really good about it. i think it's all good. as a plan, it's a strong plan. and i will turn this over to ben trenell, who will talk to you about the details of each of the buildings. >> thank you, therese. i'm ben trenell, principal with ginsler, architect that's helping for the design development for this project. it's my privilege to stand here on behalf of a much broader team. david ajai is the creative visionary for this master plan and five point is the developer.

you just heard from therese. i would like to share with you the project vision that we crafted and writing into the design development. i think that's important for the unpinning for what we are anticipating will come in the future at the shipyard. it's a fascinating site. these were blasted out of serpentine rock. you see a skeleton of a building that's under construction there that is one of the really inspirational buildings, a concept we came up with, that we would like to incentivize for adaptive reuse in the future. the vision for the project was inspired -- david ajai was

inspired by this quote from mejia a -- maya angelou, talkin about knowing where we are in order to move forward in the future. and there's an interesting temporal aspect about knowing where we are in time and there's an interesting spatial aspect to this quote. as one moves through the space we create at the shipyard, and the connect through some of the historic structures, the connection to the topography, landscape, horizon, and having those types of connections. and you see here on the bottom an image that shows the shipyard when it was that economic engine of the bayview and you see it as it currently sits down. and you see a precedent of what we found of what it could be like in the future. this is a drydock at another

location in germany as a precedent for what this could look like after its completed. so our goal in crafting this vision was to really capitalize on two ideas, two big ideas. the first idea is to embrace the legacy and authenticity and character of the shipyard. it's a wonderful thing, wonderful attribute that it's easy to imagine that that could get wiped out and you would have no marker, no history of where it's at. and it's an incredible legacy and we want to draw that out. at the same time, we want it create a great, new neighborhood for san francisco. this will be a newly inhabited area. and there are certain commonalities for san francisco neighborhoods -- they're walkable, retail is central. and so it will feel unique

because of that legacy, but it will feel like it's san francisco. you might say it these are somewhat in competition with each other. it's the careful honing of this through our many meetings with members of ocii and five point and gunsler and planning it work out this vision. this is the shipyard today. the building that you see on the left, the larger building is that building that was being framed in that historic image. these are the original two drydocks. between them, a series of landmark buildings on this site. this is what we're dealing with. it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to engage in city building, where we have a chance to address some of the pressing issues in the bay area and to do that on a meaningful and impactful scale.

there's a sense of stewardship, that the things we do here will last for generations beyond us and we feel the responsibility to do this right. so we've developed some principles within the vision. so the first point is about embracing the legacy of the shipyard. part of that is the maritime topography. it's an interesting aspect of a city known for a topography, but yet this is a flat site, and you feel the connection to the horizon when you're there. this human ingenuity -- there are many firsts at this site. and we want to carry that forward with ideas about sustainability that can be applied at the district level scale to achieve, you know, more renewable power and shaped resources that make this energy efficient. we also want to draw on the scale and the craft and the cues of the structures that can be

reused. we also envision rebuilding the shipyard as something that can be a new, economic driver and reconnect to that neighborhood and establishing a residential neighborhood with a variety of retail and creating office and r & d that will attract companies that will continue to perpetuate san francisco's reputation as a place -- a hotbed of innovation. and invigorating the cultural district. there is an artist building there and we want to expand on that and reinvigorate that. we'll try to craft something that sustains that. it's a culmination of efforts in a planned form, where you can see there are a series of

districts that are stitched together with key focal points -- a greenroom, a water room, which is the drydock that we saw in an early photo. pedestrian area. open space around the perimeter. a number of artists studios, transit center. connection to the hilltop. these open-space connections tie the districts together. these are the districts, as we've identified them. and these are not a stark con traf contrast as you move forward, and across the site. this was written in 2010, where the 49ers would have played. and that plan would have wiped out the original grid and made it impossible to preserve a

number of the existing structures. so essentially, what we've done is gun back and retained the historic grid that's there. and identified the structures that we think of as seed buildings. and it's not that every single building is retained, but that these are certain buildings that have the potential to seed the site well a continuity of the legacy, touching on that first point of the vision, the authenticity of the shipyard and these are buildings that can be a powerful thread or through line from the history and moving forward to the future and that's really what that quote from maya angelou is talking about. there's a number of buildings that we set as national landmarks. those are here in dark blue and see them in the packet more

legibly. and then there are others for historic reuse or adaptive reuse. and that's, of course, pending the feasibility and what not. but what we've done is written the standards around incentivizing that so it would be encouraged. and they're awesome structures, beautiful structures. and there are many precedents for how this has been done around the world. it ends an air of authenticity that is difficult to achieve in a new build. it's something that end-users would like to have that tenants want and the tenants that we're trying to attract here, the creative users. some other examples of historic reuse projects. some are designed to function under daylight and natural ventilation, so there is interesting case stories about trying to make them sustainable about recapturing some design

tenants. this is a great image on the left of another shipyard where this was done before and redeveloped. you see a sense of the scale of the steel and the span. it's im possible to create that from scratch in a new build that's possible, but you would lose the authenticity of having the original. that's a little bit of the inside. but from the exterior, they form the urban ecology. it's the urban character to the industrial aesthetic that you see. and it ties into things that you would see around the world, buildings that would have that character. it's an example of a project that can be expanded and it's a new edition and picks up on

cues. these are the precedent that we thought about, with the roof line is new, but in line with what was old. so it's a university ike, interesting setup. this is a project here in san francisco that was adaptively reused. this is 888 brannon. and it's informed the standards. atrium, public connection at the ground floor. those kind of ideas. so this is conceptual rendering of how some of the ideas might be applied. this is conceptual in nature to an existing building that's known, loved, and referred to as building 411. it's a building where they literally built ships and it has a 75-foot width in the column structure there. what is being kept is the steel members, like you saw, from the

philadelphia navy yards, a similar idea. it's large, steel members with that authentic quality. it's the roof line for natural daylight. so this shows how you can preserve some characters and qualities of that existing structure and reuse it. and skin it with glass so you can see that from outside as well as experience it within. and that fronts the green room. building 813 is across the way. and this is a little different. it's a building that the character is internal. it has fluted columns, which is rarely done anymore. it was built as a storage shed. the question is, how can you open it up and bring in daylight and make it habitable for

people. you can see here there's a large connection at the public realm and it's a conceptual image, to give you an idea of how we've shown about the standards applied to the historic buildings that this is something that the pedestrian realm might be the enhancement, whereas the building across the way, might be something that you see more from the building scale and it's the historic character from the urban form. so the design for development document incentivizes the adaptive reuse of structures and it's pending the feasibility of it. so it's not landmark buildings. but the whole spirit and idea of the project is it's those buildings that give the shipyard the character and authenticity and the leading point, the vision, for this project. so we want to incentivize that the buildings be retained, if

possible. and it is done through a number of features. you don't have to apply all the design controls for setbacks or heights, and the logic behind that, they have a character unto themselves. you don't need design controls to find that if you are building new. it's about drawing out the character that's already there. that's the conclusion. we end here with another of these incredible, beautiful buildings, even with some missing windows. and i think we have a few additional slides about the next steps and we can take any questions that you might have. >> it's exciting for me to think about what the future may bring

for the shipyard. so here's the next steps. as i was noting earlier, we are presenting to various bodies this week. we will be then going back to the planning commission and the oci commission for formal approval. we'll be amending some of our documents. worried about the plan or disposition and development agreement and making conforming changes to one of the other documents, transportation plan, infrastructure plan, all of those things that will enable and create a framework for this vision that we have today. what we're hoping is the approval to come in from the planning commission, oci and then we'll be going back to the

sfmta board and getting permission from them or approval, rather, on a transportation plan and then things end up at the board. so we'll bring it to the board for introduction in may and hope to secure approvals in june. so we're moving forward. we're very proud of the work that we're doing. and we can answer any questions that you may have. >> thank you. thank you for coming back here. i think you've been here several times in the past. commissioner matsuda and i were here back in 2010. things that we see here are things that we commented forcefully at that time, i'm sure you recall, that we ask that you keep the original grid. so i'm grateful to see this work. it's impressive and a tremendous

improvement over the original plans so we're really excited before we go to questions, we'll take public comment. i will open it up for public comment. you will have 3 minutes. there will be a warning buzzer 30 seconds before your time is up. >> hello, commissioners. thank you. i'm stacy carter. i'm an artist who has had a studio at hunters point shipyard since 1998. the body of the work of mine deals with the history and the building of hunters point shipyard. i'm in support of retaining the buildings, and i want to call attention, again, to the important role that the site played in the course of history. i think it honors that history to retain some character.

to recognize this contribution, encourage the developer to retain as much of the buildings as a means to memorialize the historic historical shipyard, you know, i think we should retain as many more buildings besides the national historic landmarks. it's important. it doesn't exist anywhere else in the bay area. i want to see as much preservation of the physical history as possible so our future is aware of our past. it will become an attraction and tourist destination benefiting the city as a whole. i have to say, i'm impressed, but i want to be sure it really happens. thank you. >> thank you, ms. carter. any other public comments? please come forward.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm scott madison. i'm the last remaining citizens advisory committee member first appointed in 1991. i'm a shipyard relic myself. prior to dr. honeycutt becoming cac chairman, i was chairman or vice chairman in the land use plan, dda and community benefits program. my business began at the shipyard in 1984. now operates two shipyard commissaries, plus another in the bayview. it's the first, largest and most successful incubator of small food in the area. long time advocacy on behalf of

the artist and small business communities since the late '80s and reuse issues, especially as they impact the bayview hunters point community give me a perspective that is perhaps unique. i strongly support the proposed changes hunters point shipyard brought into being the african-american community that flourished and still endures in bayview hunters board, reusing buildings where several generations of african-americans and other workers toiled to sustain the nation. the now-iconic building, flagship of the artist community that took root in 1983, should not be the only structure not designated as historic to survive, when so much history is

embodied. i urge the commission to encourage the changes and reusing additional waterfront buildings. a site that can draw visitors to exciting events, generate employment, business communities for the surrounding community and city as a whole. thank you. >> thank you, mr. madison. any other members of the public wish to comment? seeing and hearing none, we'll close public comment. i think other commissioners may have comments, but i do want to say that one of the things that i find most gratifying here is the recognition of the value that the buildings can provide to the district. i think it will give it so much light and richness.

the maya angelou quote is spot on. that what was most disthank you ing -- discouraging is that the buildings were not going to do anything and that it would be generic. keeping the buildings and adding new buildings adds life and richness and gives you a sense of the past that was there, which is an incredible place. so very grateful that you are considering this plan and very supportive of it. commissioner johnck. >> commissioner johnck: it represents the city. you mentioned 2010. i remember 2015. and that was still -- i remember you saying, oh, okay. you heard us. you heard us. so i'm ecstatic to see what

you've done so far. i think this is great. is this our last pass on it? >> this is review and comment and i don't believe -- >> commissioner johnck: do we have anything back? stacy's comments and the gentleman about other resources there and -- >> i don't think it will come back to the commission unless it was for an informational presentation, which we would encourage you to do, but there are no designated resources here and e.i.r. is complete. >> commissioner johnck: exactly. >> we would be appreciative as you move forward, especially with the feasibility studies. >> commissioner johnck: that's the center of my comments, to reflect what stacy said, because there are other resources and i would be interested to see how you are addressing the balance of the program.

>> commissioner wolfram: right. thank you. >> commissioner pearlman: i wasn't around in 2010 but i remember 2015. it's amazing to me how long projects take. i'm sure it's not just san francisco, but certainly in san francisco. i have a couple that i call my lifetime projects. at the arc, we talked about the port portero power plant and the desired plan was one that basically demoed the historic buildings, except for the chimney stack. and i had the feeling that commissioner wolfram talked about, we had the same comments that if we lose all the buildings, we lose our past. i'm encouraged.

i didn't see the earlier plan, but i'm encouraged by what you are doing. i think a lot of the buildings, you know, fall into the mid century modern period and they are tremendously interesting buildings that could be adapted for so many different uses, as long as there is no nuclear waste. other than that, they're tremendously interesting and i appreciate the renderings that you did to conceptualize where we can go with the buildings and they're clearly part of a modernist period, so we retain that flavor as opposed to pier 70, where it's a much earlier period of the spanish-american war and world war i, where it's more related to world war ii and

that development period, which we have very little memory of other than this location. so this is really tremendous. and i'm excited to see it happen. i'm also -- i've been in your studio and retaining the character of the arts out there -- i've been out there so many times for events out there, it's exciting to see that there is in the inner core the artisan space that will continue to thrive out there. thank you very much. >> and just to add to your comment, building 253 was build before crown zellerbach. it was one of the first modern buildings of that type. so it's an important structure. thank you. >> commissioner johns: i would like to say that i agree with my fellow commissioners. i think it's a magnificent project. and i'm particularly interested in the way that you have chosen

to use some of the other buildings that were of a little lesser stature. >> commissioner matsuda: thank you. i remember when you were here for the first time in 2010, over eight years ago, and i appreciate you listening and incorporating the comments. i'm jumping ahead but i'm hoping that you will consider a lot of interpretive panels or murals to talk about the communities that were the first residents of the hunters point community and how it's evolved and developed today. i mean, the japanese-americans when they came back from the concentration camps stayed there as their temporary residences before they were able to move on. so this particular area is very

important to the japanese-american community and to have other people understand that and how the african-american community has built it into a strong and vibrant community today. >> commissioner wolfram: one other comment. i would encourage five point to consider financial incentives for rehabilitation of the buildings. you may find that costs are higher than you expected and look at it in the picture of a district and the way there might be some financial incentives for the buildings, because they're important to the character of the district. that's my final comment. commissioners, any other comments? thank you very much for your presentation. very well done. and this our final item. hearing is adjourned.

>> all right. well, first of all, good afternoon everybody, and in case everybody is wondering, today is not only valentine's day, but ash wednesday, hence the marks on my for head.

[ inaudible ] in sro here in san francisco are available for every single resident. i am incredibly pround to be standing can supervisor ronen and supervisor sheehy. it is incredibly important for so many of our constituencies here in san francisco, both in terms of gender, our transgender community, it affects so many people here in san francisco. i think as we continue to see push back from our federal administration in washington d.c., just this week, our department of education announced they're no longer going to be investigating transgender student bathroom complaints, which is a step absolutely in the wrong direction, but in san francisco, we are different. we are not going to allow hatred todom namt, we will

continue to standup for our communities here in san francisco. we will be a beacon of hope. i do want to thanks tha severa individuals for being here today, as i mechanicsed, these issues take a lot of leadership outside of city hall, and this one was led by two incredibly courageous supervisors, and so i want to introduce the first one, supervisor hillary ronen. >> thank you so much for being here. i'm very, very honored and excited to be here. i also want to extend a special thank you to jordan davis who brought this legislation to our office and said, when you were

supervisor campos's chief of staff, you forgot sro hotels to include that specifically in this lemggislation, so it was pleasure to correct that mistake, which we would have put in the original legislation but accidently left it out. so thank you, jordan. i just want to say what we've learned about this legislation about making bathrooms all gender bathroom is when the traps gender stands up and fights for itself, for recognition, for dignity and safety, it ends up benefiting everybody. i don't know about you, but every time i'm out in public, and there's an all gender bathroom, that benefits me as a woman, it helps disabled individuals who might have an opposite gender caretaker. it just makes our society

better, safer, and more welcoming to all of us. so i just think we should look to the transgender community fore guidance on all policies that we work on in san francisco, because it always ends up benefiting not just the community but all of us. so my deep, deep thanks to everyone that's here today, to claire, to the mayor who made an unprecedented move of joining us onto the legislation before he even signed it because that's how much he supports this community. and to the only out member of the queer community on the board of supervisors, jeff sheehy, who always is the first to standup for and advocate for his community. thank you. [applause] >> so first, i just really want to thank jordan davis. i've been in your chair. that's how i started.

i hope i'm still considered an activist, but when someone can come to city hall this change, that's brilliant. thank you for your leadership. i also want to thank mayor farrell for his supporting this and signing this and leadership along the way. i think this is really very important that sro's are brought into the mix. you know, this is where many people live without a lot of resources, who are marginalized, and making sure that the dignity of our trans and gender nonconforming community is recognized, respected dignity of this community is recognized on all level in our society is absolutely critical. i'm very proud to sponsor this, and i just want to make one other point, since mayor farrell brought up what's going on in washington. we need to, every time we come

together, with one of the communities that have been particularly targeted by this administration, they have sought to target the most vulnerable communities in our mix: immigrants, muslims, and the trans community because they think they can get away with it. so even though every time we come together, even though we're making headway and we're leading in san francisco, we have to remember that around the country, people's rights are being taken away, and in this city, immigrants' rights are being threatened every day. we have to align ourselves with other communities in solidarity, that are particularly targeted in these times. so again, thank you to jordan, supervisor ronen, to mayor farrell. this is great work today. [applause]. >> sorry.

claire. i was just supposed to introduce claire who's so great, really doing a tremendous job in filling the shoes and taking on off tereaf teresa sparks, so i'd like to introduce claire farley, who's senior assistant to the mayor. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm so happy to be here with all of you today in this historic moment, and this would not be possible without you, mayor farrell, for your continued support of making sure that our city is committed to lgbt folks. also, thank you to supervisor ronen for your incredible leadership on this, as well as your office, and specifically, also to supervisor sheehy, and all the cosponsors on this important legislation. i also want to take a moment to thank joerd on and the --

jordan and all the members on the sro task force. this victory really does belong to all of you, so thank you. [applause]. >> as trans and gender nonconforming people, we are all to familiar with the stress, the violence that comes with trying to use the bathroom that match our gender identity and expression. as our rights continue to be attack in the country and under the federal administration, it is important now more than ever that san francisco continues to be a leader in the movement towards fair and quality rights for all. no one should have to worry about facing the stress of going to the bathroom in the place that they call home, so all gender sro ordinaryians will extend our existing protections and will ensure

that our rights are extended to the full community. furthermore, it will increase access for people with disabilities, residents who have caretakers. this resolution is important to make san francisco better. of course we know there's more time to be done, and together we will continue to advance the initiatives, the policies and programs that support a thriving trans and gnc community here in san francisco. we will work to implement policies like this, future policies and programs that help sustain the livelihoods of our communities. let's make sure that san francisco continues to be the beacon of hope and change that the rest of the country desperately needs right now. depend, thank y again, thank you so much for being here today and for this amazing step forward. i hope you will join us in the work ahead. thank you.

[applause]. >> all right. we're going to get to the signing here. all right. here we go. [applause]. ou all for coming he

tonight for the good government awards. special thanks to spur for all that you do on behalf of the city and behalf of our bay area. it is an honor to be here as the mayor to recognize the award winners and to thank spur for all your hard work. on behalf of our city to the people that workday to