most of them, likely, were

men of their time. presumably, most of them were imperfect in some ways. but this particular street is named after a particularly imperfect person. whether or not we are talking about the father or the son, we are talking about a family and we're talking about a mayor who got his father's name on a street. i'm not proud to work on that street. and i really want to recommend supervisor norman yee for having the wherewithal to say we don't want this street name in our neighborhood. and i knowh is potentially an unpopular decision, but he was very clear that we didn't want this kind of anti-asian racism memorialized and honored in the district. and i have a lot of respect for that. what we don't have in this city and in this nation are a whole t of streets that are named

after women, after women of co, aft mexicans, after artists, after disabled folks, after social justice warriors, after bisexual folks, after feminist icons. this is an opportunity to do this. frida kahlo, though she was not a long time san francisco resident, i believe she and diego rivera were married in this very building. and san francisco had a mark on her diego rivera were married this very building. and san francisco had a mark on her art. thank you. [applause] i introduce students to

frida kahlo every semester. a student who is the president ofur associated student's council spoke at the press conference when supervisor norman yee announced that frida kahlo way had the most votes. as a middle eastern student, he said phelan would have been no friend to my people. he loved that frida kahlo spoke for the indigenous people and for all poor people and against those that have exploited them. to me, it is also a romantic story. because the mural of diego rivera, the love of frida kahlo's li've a heard today, will be installed in the performing arts education center to be built on that street. i'm going to end with two quotes from lo newspapers, opinion pieces. the first is from the crusader.

a high school student newspaper. let june 11th be the day we take another important step on a path to a just society based on the principle of inclusion. it celebrates creativity and compassion. hank you so much. [applause] my name is robert white. i'm a resident of phelan avenue and i'm an instructor at city college. with that in mind, i see both points of view.

with that in mind also, i want to stress that the greatest impact of the name change is going to be on the residents of phelan avenue. the individuals that have homes there that have to deal with the name change. and we will not accept it, one. number two, what june has asked for and what the residents are asking for is that the biographies of the phelan's and whoever the name change go to, they make public record accessible to everyone that is involved in making the decisions about the name change. so that the facts are evident. it's evident that phelan avenue

was named not after who is being deflamed here, it was named after his father. do not blame the parents for the sins of their children. thank you. [applause] good afternoon. frida kahlo, the artist, lived with a lot of pain, a lot of physical and emotional pain. and through that pain, she was able to -- the pain of an artist, pain of a human being, through the pain she was able to convey the beauty of what it is to be human in all its imperfection. if you want to know the values of a place, look at who the streets and the monuments are named after. in the words of james baldwin, and i think it's befitting that

frida kahlo is honored in this way. to quote the words of james baldwin, he said, "only an artist can tell and only artists have told, since we have heard of man, what it is like for anyone who gets to this planet to sur it. what it is like to die or to have somebody die. what it's like to fear death, what it's like to fear. what it's like to love and what it's like to be glad. hymns don't do this, churches really can't do this. the trouble is only the artists and only the artists alone can do it." thank you. thank you. [applause] any other public comments at this moment? seeing none, supervisor kim, would you like tseloublic comments?

at this time, we will close public comment for item number four. let me make a couple remarks here. first of all, did you want to make -- okay, when i called you didn't stand up. can we open it back up? we have to take a motion to coo open up public comment ag. can we do that without objection? we can do that without objection. great, thank you. my name'sitzlpatrick. i live on phelan avenue for 30 years. i'm opposing the name changing. one of the things i was thinking about was the irish immigrant that phelan was. the chinese immigrants. well the chinese and the irish worked a lot together to build this country and the railroad. for them to be fighting over this and to want to change because of that, i don't feel that's appropriate.

also, i'm a student at city college for the last ten years. and this lady's saying everybody agrees that they're against it to vote for frida, the name, which is not true. there is no vote there for the students to vote for this. i'm totally in disagreement for that. thank you for listening. thank you. [applause] i think there's no more public comments, supervisor kim. so public comment will now truly be closed for item number four. thank you very much. once again, i want to thank the public for coming here. i truly want to acknowledge that for those living on phelan, it will bn inconvenience. although we're gonna try our best to mitigate as much of that as possible.

i want to say that this whole process, when we started 3-4 years ago. we started looking at the unity plaza on ocean and phelan. and there was a community attempt to go through a process and choose a name. they eventually chose unity plaza. and then they created the bus loop there, which mta kept on calling it phelan loop. and at that point, the community at large sort of pointed out what the phelan name represen. mta agreed and eventually called it the ocean avenue loop. this process for me was several years old. and it cap again, it popped

up again mainly because of what the usf students were able to point out. and i said you know something, if usf will be brave enough to take this on, then i should step up myself. you know, history is history and nobody is trying to sweep history under the rug. in fact, the gentleman that p u and talked about we should make this one big learning moment, if i didn't bring this up, we wouldn't have this discussion, so it is a learning moment. i appreciate the people that actually participated in the renaming, even though it was setp u for a short time. and again, i have no pathway, there was no official process. basically, the process is i

submit a resolution to change the name. that's all i had to do. instead, i want today give some input from the community at the ti time. in fact, i really had no particular name i wanted to name it. when the committee met, we game up with five namnd i thou t they were pretty good suggestions. thelma johnson street was one. the native americans that were living around that area at the time before people took -- the western world sort of took it over. i suggested a personal favorite of mine.

somebody suggested freedom way. and then frida kahlo was the fifth name that was put out there. they said we've been thinking about this for a while and this is what we've come up with. let's just do it that way. if you -- i just want to put it out there and make sure everyone knows we're doing this. and whether the issue of somebody saying it's a business issue, i have no idea. at least that was not my intent.

my intent is very clear. i've been clear all along. and i'm sorry that my outreach to the school, i did it with the principal will -- there early on. we invited the school to be part of the renaming council and there was no response, so i didn't know what to make of it. as i was talking to the president on the phone one day, i tried to explain that. it's one thing for me to just invite. i can't force anybody to come to the table.

i kept on asking, why are they passing this out. and it's part ofir history. it's part of the history of the association next door to phelan. eventually, at a meeting, i was able to bring it up again and talk about it. say, why did we have this. people tried to say don't worry, that was back then. you don't have to worry about it now. i said, why are you passing

this out? i was very persistentecau b my kids were at the age where they're gonna ask questions. i don't want to sit here and say i did nothing to prevent this. eventually, some of the people that were -- didn't want to be inconvenienced, they were saying it's gonna cost us money. fin finally, a young lawyer stands up and says i'll do it for free. and then they kept on objecting. only after that, people claiming iveniennd so

forth, that i was able to get them to change the language to reflect the values of the day 30 years ago. again, i acknowledge that there's gonna be inconvenience. i try to do my best to lay out a process for us to have some input, having really no template to go on. i will work with the community and try to help you as much as possib possible. that's my commitment. hopefully you will understand what my intentions are.

and that it's not about a business issue. i have no idea what's that about. it's not about trying to say chinese fighting. nobody said chinese fighting the irish. i'm sorry, that's a little bizarre to me. i'll just leave it at there. thank you. thankyo supervisor yee. i'd like to add my name as a co-sponsor to this item. and you know, i think the dialogue that we heard today really resembles the national dialogue around the removal of the confederate statues. and we heard it on the debate about removing the statue in front of the main library. there's a whole dialogue about remembering our history. but i think the mayor of new orleans really hit it on the

nail when he said that we must diin remembrance and reverence of history. and when we name streets and put monuments of names, it is not just remembering the history. it is part of what is the making of thisnaon. we still live with the consequences of those decisions, the pain that followed. and to remember that during

this time, the chinese exclusion act was more than just the cse exclusion act. and the statement of keeping california white and san francisco white was a lot more than just a statement. there were deaths, there was terror,

it's very clear that this name would be name d -- both

are part of a history that was particularly involved in institutional racism. they were particularly involved in acting and codifying and behaving in an extremely exclusive and racist way toward a segment of our population that has been an important part of our history. so this is not the scrubbing of history, this is actually righting history that should never have taken place in the first place. i mean, i personally believe if not for that political connection, the street might never have been named for the father. he might have been a philanthropist and might have been iolved in other things. but at the end of the day, that is what we do. cities evolve, they're constantly growing, constantly reflecting and constantly making positive change. i see this as a positive change. i appreciate your leadership on this and would love to be added as a sponsor as well. thank you.

and so we have a motion on the floor. motion on the floor, do we have a second that? i second that wholeheartedly. we have a second and a wholehearted motion and we can do that without objection. i want to thank the members of the public for coming out to speak on this item. clmk, any other items before this board? there's no further business. meeting is adjourned. thank you very much. we closed public comment, there's no public comment once we close it.

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francisco and we're doing stay safe and we're going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. we're here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a

major fault so what does this mean for us? part of what it means is that potentially 25% of san francisco's building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people can't stay in their homes after an earthquake. they may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we don't want that to happen. >> we want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. >> that's right so that means the housing needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former building official knows better than anybody the code says if

an earthquake happens it won't kill you but doesn't necessarily say that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you builis house we're in now and this shows what it's like to be in a place safe enough to stay. it's not going to be perfect. there maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. what's it going to take to get the housing stock up to this standard? we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina

they went right over and those are -- >> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. >> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates? >> that's a good question. i think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so

developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased rotime that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in san francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. >> wewant the system and not just mandate everybody. >> that's right. >> i hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. as you're fixing your knowledge you're adding to the city wide resiliency. >> >> what does that mean?

>> that's a great question. what spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, sowe have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our

economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and thank you very much for joining >> a way of life in san francisco. when the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. tell me a little about the soft story program. what i? >> it's a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse.

>> did you the soft story program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame? >> it only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. it's aimedat wood framed buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. but the openings at the garage level and the strt level aren't supported in many buildings. and without the support during a major earthquake, they are expected to pancake and flatten ~. many of the buildings in this program are under rent control so it's to everybody's advantage to do the work and make sure they protect their investment and their tenant. >> notices have gone out to more than 6,000 owners of potentially at-risk properties but fewer than one-third have responded and thousands might miss an important deadline in september to tell the city what they plan to do.

let's talk worst case scenario. what happens in a collapse? >> buildings have the tendency of rolling over. the first soft story walls lean over and the building collapse. in an earthquake the building is a total loss. >> can you describe what kind of strengthening is involved in the retrofit? >> one of the basic concepts, you want to think of this building kind of like rubber band and the upper three floor are very rigid box and the garage is a very flexible element. in an earthquake the garage will have a tendency to rollover. you have to rubber band analogy that the first floor is a very tough but flexible rubber band such that you never drive force he to the upper floors. where all your damage goes into controlled element like plywood or steel frame. >> so, here we are actually inside of a soft story building. can we talk a little about what

kis of repairs property owners might expect? >> it's a very simple process. we deliberately tried to keep it that way. so, what's involved is plywood, which when you install it and make a wall as we have done here already, then you cover it with this gypsum material. this adds some flexibility so that during earthq you'll get movement but not collapse. d that gets strengthened even more when we go over to the steel frame to support the upper floor. >> so, potentially the wood and the steel -- it sounds like a fairly straightforward process takes your odds of collapse from one in 4 to one in 30? >> that's exactly right. that's why we're hoping that people will move quickly and make this happen. >> great. let's take a look.

so, let's talk steel frames. tell me what we have going on here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box ts much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready,