the next step on the part that darrell was talking about that is automated, the parts that can be automated ids we are wrapping up the intake and we will -- at that point, we can review the permit history that we have existing today and to display its. that is what the three r. is all about. this is the worksheet that shows the permit history and that is what you can see. that is the worksheet that popped up. >> go ahead. >> this is where all of the research is aggregated. they can then select from these which ones they want to include on the reports but there is no photocopying. all of the records they select are associated with that records so they have a complete record

of everything they have included >> that is the completed report. now what goes on behind the scenes is not necessarily captured here. it is all the research they have to do. is this complete? was or something done where there were adjacent properties and somebody wrote at 16 b. and we are at 16 a cleat they do a ton of research to make sure the list is complete. depending on if the work was done prior to 1980 they have to go hunting through boxes and hunt down the information and to manually add that. this only shows you what is captured. >> so if they find something that isn't captured, do they add it to the database? then it becomes digitized. >> they are able to add it to the report. >> as you saw the three art reports generated, that gets -- if the applicant wanted and

e-mailed it to them they can automatically e-mail it out. those documents are automatically attached to the record. >> so next time someone brings it up -- >> so if someone requests the report, same address, people aren't starting from scratch they pull that off and they can see all the permit history that was, at the time done and they simply have to augment that going forward. it will be a real timesaver for them. it is one of those examples of something that is -- it is a good thing but it does require change management and understanding. >> exactly. >> thank you for the demonstrations. it is something we can all look forward to. i do have two questions. regarding the uploading of the plans to the system, have you

tested it to see how much volume it could hold on the speed of the uploading? because plans can be very big. >> yes. uploads do work and one thing i want to caution is we are not implementing any form of electronic plan check but basically this is replacing what they do by e-mail today. they were able to upload it. the exact thing happens today with existing infrastructure. the only difference it is through e-mail instead of up to -- uploaded. >> the occult -- the electronic plan check will come later. >> are we going to -- is the permit systems going to be handling -- do they have to respond to the same system? will they be done separately like they do now through e-mails and letters? >> it is largely done the way it

is done now. everything is visible online. if we had to ask the applicant to change some plan pages, this process is what happens today. >> it will be documented and it will not be -- >> you should be able to see that or request went out and that is what we are waiting on right now. >> since we have embarked on this whole thing, one of the most major changes has been demands on data security and backups and redundancies. i know you have addressed in the past many of the redundancies that are built into this but could you specifically speak to any modifications or changes you have seen necessary? >> the data security, this will be hosted at a site and there are processes that they must go

through. there is a number of audits. there is an i.s.o. audit that they must complete and adhere to and send documentation and proof that the audit was conducted by a third party and compliance was confirmed. and there is a number of audits that they are subjected to to ensure that the data is secure and the data transmissions are encrypted appropriately and not visible to the outsiders. they have submitted and provided that information. it is very good. these are industry standard audits and do, in fact, have proven compliance. thank you. >> we don't store any credit card information or any of the transaction that happens and we passed that to your city

third-party payment providers to do the actual transactions for payments. we don't run the risk of having this data available. >> thank you. >> thank you, for the presentation. i want to stress that this is a gargantuan list that has been going on for a while and i think it is important to make sure that all of the bugs are worked out and not focused on a specific date. it would be horrible to roll this out after all this work and have it not work. i want to thank you for what you are doing. i am wondering about, forgive me if this has been discussed earlier, in terms of staff training that you have spoken a lot about, are there other plans for training the public? when that is rolled out to, where there be days where you'll be training at d.b.i. for contractors?

>> there is a full outreach plan that is pending at the ready upon completion of a good rounded test but there is a lot of outreach planned and there has been a lot of forethought into exactly how that will unfold. we need to get to the point where we are confident those dates are legit by the time we start publishing things and putting them in journals and reaching out to all the organizations. once we put that out there, the dates are stuck. so we do have a plan. it has been worked on in detail. it is on hold until we believe we are ready to proceed. >> commissioner walker has another question. >> to that point, the commissioner should be invited again. i have been one to one of one training which was very helpful in understanding. and even though we were not able to move through everything, it really does give you a hands on

so hopefully we all can go in and give her a run when it is time. >> definitely. >> not all at the same time three at once, right? >> i think that does it. thank you once again for your continuous dedication to getting this finished. >> thank you, very much. >> item eight. director's report. >> good morning, commissioners. before you is the september 2018 financial report. it provides first-quarter information on revenues and

expenditures. that is july, to september. revenues are at $60 million or $1.2 million more than the same time last year. that is primarily because of about a 600,000-dollar settlement that we received from a mitigation case. that is where the bulk of that comes from. on the expenditure side we are roughly the same. about $11 million. right now we have a projection that are at budget simply because it is so early in the fiscal year. if you look at the first page of the memo, you see services of other departments on a 16 million. it is really hard to make any projections because these aren't real expenditures yet. we are waiting until we have more expenditures. in the first quarter we normally set up eos and start working on ordering things pick may be by six months we will make more accurate predictions.

i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. >> and then one other comment, last month i stated that we provide a separate report. it has taken a little bit longer citywide. we did go to a new financial management system. i hope to have that year in our report from the next fiscal year , next month. thank you. >> good morning. i am a legislative and public affairs manager. i will hit a few highlights from the documents that we sent along to you this morning. as you probably know, there is a government accounting and oversight. that has started about the same time and restarted today. they are still on the first item and dealing with contractor safety.

that was tied to the accident in the west portal tunnels that you probably already about. but the last item on the agenda is the standard building standards. the assistant director and i will be going down to participate in this. we understand that supervisor peskin is actually going to have the city administrator and some of the participants in the recent tall building study make a presentation to the committee and answer some questions. we are also there to answer questions. the director has already established an internal implementation team that is cochaired by the deputy director and senior engineer. that they have already had a couple of meetings and begun to look through the various recommendations and timing from the tall bidding -- tall

building study. we will provide you with more details on that as we have them. in addition to that, we do have supervisor tang dealing with expediting solar approval. the department of environment asked us to withdraw the finalization of that in order to add to battery storage and ev charging. the idea is to have an omnibus bill that will cover all three of those areas. we are working with the department of environment and with supervisor tang's office to make that happen. it will probably happen between now and the end of this year. that other item that you approved here a couple of months ago where we establish a formal process for reviewing legislation that comes from the board of supervisors has now

passed. it will take formal effect as of the 19th of november. as a mention to you before, this is a process that we do right now there, it only codifies and puts it into an ordinance that had been missing. the -- with that, i would say, the one other item that rules the committee today is supervisor ronan has recently introduced ordinance to give the building official and the fire marshal additional authority if a building owner has two or more outstanding notices of violation they could require such things as upgrades of sprinkler systems or fire alarm systems. i will be going through that hearing at 1:00 today, even

though i expect that there won't be much questioning around that and that there is uniform support on the board for it. with that, i will be happy to take any questions. >> thank you for the update. i have been seeing there is an initiative from the mayor's office to add a position to help expedite housing development. i want to talk about that a little bit. >> i can't talk about it because i don't know much about it. >> i am just curious what we are doing around that. >> to answer your question, we have a meeting with the mayor and the department head and then we come up with recommendations

to have somebody oversee all of the department to smooth out the process for all the housing projects. then we will create a position. they are still changing the name they are thinking about the name but i send you the e-mail copy this morning. actually, yesterday, i think i sent you and president mccarthy the funding source from our department and the department of public works. we agree to help this is overseeing all the housing project because of lots of issues. they have their own interpretation. >> so it will be included in our next budget as an additional position or something.

>> right away, because they need to hide to the person they are. they already announced that person. >> but we will put wider funding >> that's good. >> but they need to work out with the city attorney and budget office. i sent the e-mail. i said it was ok with me. we need to work it out with this city attorney office. >> perfect. i wanted to make sure everybody -- great. thank you. >> thank you. >> update on major projects. >> the major project is roughly a little bit increase and we also add the number of units into the summary. and any other question you have. >> seeing none. >> also, i want to take this opportunity to remind the commissioners here, we have a departmentwide meeting next wednesday. you are more welcome to join us

and we will pass all the information to all staff. >> is that at eight? >> next wednesday. >> at what time? >> 8:30 am. >> said the 24th? >> coffee is provided. >> we should schedule the commissioners to stand in different areas. >> item eight b. is enforcement. >> good morning, commissioners. i'm the chief building inspector this is an update on code enforcement for the month of september. 396 cases complaints were received. of those, 375 were responded to within 24 hours. that is a 95% response right. of those complaints, there were

27. complaints with first notice of violation was 50. and complaints that were received unabated without an nop for that period was 156. and abated complaints with no n.o.v., the number was 278. additionally, i have some numbers for you on vacant and abandoned buildings and vacant commercial storefronts. for the week of october fifth 2018, a total of 326 vacant abandoned buildings were on the list. and a total of 507 vacant commercial storefronts were on the list. >> wonderful. >> thank you. i was not expecting that update

on the storefronts there. when you say the storefronts are vacant, are they vacant because there's no for least signs in front of them? is there a reason why they are vacant? >> the chief inspector is here and he will but you better equipped to answer that question >> i was actually going to ask for an update on that. i did not know -- how far into your survey have you done now? that is hugely labour-intensive to get that information. >> good morning. most of these cases are on the list because we are triggered by complaints. the reason they're saying they're staying on the list is because they are partially compliance to the ordinance. they are either being leased but we are having problems where the persons are saying, we are

putting it on the market but three months down the line it is still being shown as a lease. we still have to keep it on the list for vacant storefronts. >> so in some retail it is hard to lease right now for a lot of reasons. we will not get into that right now. we are just trying to figure out how do you know a bad player to a good player, how are you defining that? >> at this point, what we are doing is if they come up to us and say that we will apply and we will put it on the list, sometimes we update the case and the reason this number is big because a lot of these cases are a yearly thing. where it goes through the list and next year it is up on the list again. because they paid their fees and they are still open for a whole

year. i think there is only a few cases where we have one owner having multiple open spaces or open storefronts or vacant storefronts. and now we are working on it and figure out whether it is a good thing to send it to a hearing and preparing those cases for a hearing. it is kind of difficult when they come in and they partially comply with the ordinance. and now ok you have to hold onto our case. >> i was going to call and have an update on that. who would be giving it? would it be dvi or housing? >> d.b.i. >> ok. so i want to have a conversation about planning to understand how we define these vacant storefronts. i'm getting mixed information on how we get there and i know there is some strong opinions

about some of the retail uses and that will never be able to be filled for one reason or another because of the zoning issues and so on. we will have another conversation about that. i was not expecting an update on that but it is great you're putting that in front of us as well. would that be done on a monthly basis as well? >> yes. great. >> commissioner moss? >> in terms of the public reporting vacant storefronts, i do believe that is an asset that so far has not been tapped as much as we can. i know your office only has so much manpower. is a possibility that the department could issue some type of e-mail that -- and explainer of how to tell if something is vacant and how to report it that can be e-mailed out? like if you are on the city's e-mail list? i am asking how to get to

neighborhood groups. i can think of a couple of citywide groups that i think would be happy to participate. i believe it was supervisor if fewer who had a weekend where they went out and did that. certainly with the elections coming up everything -- everyone is busy. i do think eyes on the streets is something we can tap. i guess i am wondering if this has been contemplated. >> we have something on our website to file a complaint for vacant buildings and we know that d.b.i. and inspection services are proactive and providing us properties when they go out into the field. but we do have that on our website. >> right. i am wondering how often, or if ever we are telling the public that it is on the website. [laughter] >> good morning. i'm a communications director for d.b.i.

i wanted to respond to your question, commissioner. it is something that we are developing right now. the website is definitely something that we have had online. i do think, is more focus and -- this has been since beginning of this year, more focus has been on vacant storefronts with supervisor fewer, supervisor ye, there is also some legislation that is looking into possibly providing stricter adherence to the registration requirements for vacant storefronts. we will be doing a number of outreach and marketing efforts on that. whether it is notifying businesses along the corridors. we are trying to figure out with invest the neighborhoods also in how to best do outreach. we unfortunately don't have e-mails as you are saying. it is something that they have to sign up with us and that we use for that purpose only and

then also we only have property information. there is about 26,000 of them. >> yes. thank you. >> thank you. >> clearly the vacant storefront is a huge problem and the 500 looks like a big number but it is probably a fraction of what is really out there. these are just the ones we know about and have cited. they have been either noticed by your inspectors support when they're out there or they have received complaints, so we have this tremendous problem and i know we are trying to address it in a variety of ways. while i applaud any efforts to do things like temporary uses and quicker permitting of that, do you have any sense of how big

the problem really is? apart from the 500 we have actually cited, even if it is anecdotal, are we looking at a magnitude of three, four, five, you know, what is your personal sense of how big this is? >> to be honest, it is difficult like you said, we have different cases and different ordinances that we have to deal with. this is one of the ordinances that actually has multiple inspectors. we want to be proactive. you have to have inspectors go out there every single day, every single time to walk the streets and march. and then the next week i will guarantee it will go off the list and then you go back the next street. you see what i am saying? it is difficult for us to take -- make an assessment and say this is an initiative that we need to recruit every single time. for us, like i said, the best

thing we have done is we have different inspectors and signed for it -- assigned for this. he will get more help. for right now, he is the only one that is following up and all of these issues. >> a second question, regarding the 326 other vacant and abandoned buildings, do you have any finer grain on that as to how many of them are single-family homes or two or three family versus commercial? >> 326 are residential buildings and then 507 are vacant commercial buildings. >> so the commercial is retail storefronts in and any commercial industrial? >> yes. >> thank you for that. >> i might add one more thing. i think that this is a good

point. this is a very fluid situation. these businesses are coming online and going off-line all the time and coming up to the holidays, we may see some more retail spaces being used. the effort is every week. it is changing. it is ongoing. it is fairly a big task. >> totally. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment on the director's report? item nine is approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of september 19th, 2018. >> moved to approve. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second. is there any public comment on the minutes? are all commissioners in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? the minutes are approved. item ten is adjournment. >> madam secretary, before we adjourn, i would like to close our meeting in honor of sean mcnulty who is a very seasons

chief of the building inspector for the city for many, many years. he joined the department in 1983 and he retired in some time and three. he was brave enough to come back in 2007 to help out for a year or so and bring his expertise. and his relationships back to the department to help. he was very well respected by the file. he treated everyone with such great respect. somebody pointed out to me it was like as if you are family the way he mentored you. i would like to close out, if i made this meeting in honor of sean and our condolences to his family. >> thank you. >> i join in that. thank you. >> we are now adjourned. it is 11:34 am. [♪]

>> 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 is it?

>> 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 aimed at wood framed buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. but the openings at the garage level and the street 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 kinds 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 the earthquake you'll get movement but not collapse. and 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 that is 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,

>> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features.

>> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties

>> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. >> this park is open. ♪

. >> i love that i was in four plus years a a rent control tenant, and it might be normal because the tenant will -- for the longest, i was applying for b.m.r. rental, but i would be in the lottery and never be like 307 or 310. i pretty much had kind of given up on that, and had to leave san francisco. i found out about the san francisco mayor's office of housing about two or three years ago, and i originally did home counseling with someone, but then, my certificate expired, and one of my friends jamie, she was actually interested in purchasing a unit. i told her about the housing program, the mayor's office, and i told her hey, you've got

to do the six hour counseling and the 12 hour training. she said no, i want you to go with me. and then, the very next day that i went to the session, i notice this unit at 616 harrison became available, b.m.i. i was like wow, this could potentially work. housing purchases through the b.m.r. program with the sf mayor's office of housing, they are all lotteries, and for this one, i did win the lottery. there were three people that applied, and they pulled my number first. i won, despite the luck i'd had with the program in the last couple years. things are finally breaking my way. when i first saw the unit, even though i knew it was less than ideal conditions, and it was very junky, i could see what this place could be. it's slowly beginning to feel like home. i can definitely -- you know,

once i got it painted and slowly getting my custom furniture to fit this unit because it's a specialized unit, and all the units are microinterms of being very small. this unit in terms of adaptive, in terms of having a murphy bed, using the walls and ceiling, getting as much space as i can. it's slowly becoming home for me. it is great that san francisco has this program to address, let's say, the housing crisis that exists here in the bay area. it will slowly become home, and i am appreciative that it is a bright spot in an otherwise

>> so thank you all for coming. this is a very exciting day, and the person behind what we're going to break ground on, so a big hand for joy oh. >> thank you, everybody for coming here today. we're so excited that we finally reached this milestone that we're moving into the second phase of this project. without your support and participation, we're not here today, and i look forward to you to come to our grand opening at the end of 2020, when this project is completed. we're very excited to have mayor lee -- i'm sorry. mayor breed to -- and supervisor

kim to be at our ground breaking today. i would like to first -- i'm trying to make this short and cover everybody, and this has -- it's been an effort to get to this point today, and i wanted to first thank you, thank my partner and investor that came all the way from asia, they came specifically for this ground breaking. chris chang, who represents c.d.c., continental development corporation, from taiwan, and mr. ran, from shanghai. they are both very successful and socially responsible developers in asia. so i want to just mention a few

names that help us get here today. one of them is the tenderloin housing clinic and randy shaw who actually hosted our bimonthly meetings in their office across the street from here, alongside with tndc and hospitality house. we -- the housing clippnic is going to help us provide a job training program to allow the residents in their projects to learn the skill to work in the -- the hotel when we opened. so there are many parts of this project that we think we can contribute back to the community. one other significant thing, though, that the project is driving is we're taking 50% of the arts fee to allow the local

nonprofits that service the tenderloin area, the program includes wild flower institutes hidden gem program, phase two, counter proposals, the turk and taylor project, and the lgbtq interpretive program, and also, the magic theaters arts program. so there's so many organizations that we worked with for the last four years to come to this point. so of course, we're going to be building -- many years working with planning department, we're finally coming to an agreement to create this first modern flight iron building with a picture behind you, in front of

you, in the intersection of midmarket examine tenderloin. we are -- midmarket and tenderloin. and i want to thank all of the arts designer involved in the project from hindal b.a.r. and o.s.a. we're standing on this platform, and this is built by, you know, our contractor. we are confident that we can get to the finish line under budget on time, right? so there's leti. if you have any problems, he's the supervisor on-site. any questions you have, go to him. most importantly at the end, i wanted to thank my staff. please raise your hand. [applause] >> and charlie thompson, there

you go, our attorney, who we spent many sleepless nights, right charlie, working with will thatcher. will, where are you? will finally agreed to sell the land in the corner lot to us. so without any of you, we are not here today. and i want to say since january of this year, eric tau, terry re reagan, and brian baker, jessie herzog, i'm very excited for you to help us, and we're going to work together until the end of the project. thank you. so mayor breed, can i introduce

you? we're so excited to see what you're working on, creating housing for different income level residents, and your work on sort of a tough love projects here in the city. and your work that you're doing in identifying the director of the housing delivery that's going to stream line the application process and the housing process. and we're confident that the city will be a better city for all of us. thank you. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i am so excited to be here today, and i think mayor lee wanted us all to know that he was paying close attention to everything that we're doing. you know, it's -- it's great to be here today. in fact, i just did a ground

breaking earlier on 420 units in the civic center area, and now, 242 units right here in central market. and on top of that, the 65 units of affordable housing that will come with this development. it is a beautiful day to build housing in san francisco. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: and you know what i'm most excited about when building housing, supervisor kim? the fact that i helped to lead the efforts on the board of supervisors when we passed neighborhood preference legislation so that 40% of all new development of affordable housing go to the people who live in that community first. so if we are going to make changes all over san francisco, we have to make sure that we include the people who are a part of these communities. part of making sure that we revitalize san francisco is

bringing others along, but we do know we have challenges with homelessness, we have challenges with housing. we need to do better with our public transportation system, and it's going to take us all working together to accomplish those goals. projects like this take us one step closer to doing something absolutely amazing right here, and people say central market. i say the tenderloin. right here in the tenderloin. we are going to open doors and provide opportunities, nonprofit theater space, retail space, spaces for people who live in this community to use, making sure that the hotels and the housing that are available are also available to the people who are part of this community. i'm excited about the future of san francisco, i'm excited about the opportunities that this project brings, and i am committed to continuing to do what we need to do to cleanup the tenderloin, to provide job opportunities for those who need them, to make sure that we have

rest rooms and other places for people to use the rest room. and i know supervisor kim is very happy with the amount of time that i've been spending in the tenderloin. it's one of my favorite places to visit, because i know that one of the things is not just constantly investing dollars and getting people to work, it's about being involved in the community and the solutions we need to continue to move things forward. it's a great day in the san francisco area, it's a great day to build housing, and i am so excited to be at the ground breaking of this project that within two years, we are going to make sure that this place -- i am going to be here, hopefully, for the opening, as well, but more importantly, in the meantime, the outreach and the work that we need to do to make sure that the community continues to be a part of this project is going to be so very much important. and yes, i am hiring a housing delivery director because we need to deliver more housing for

residents of san francisco, and this is helping us get just one step closer to that goal. thank you all so much for being here. [applause] >> supervisor kim, you and i, we worked on this project i don't know how many years. five or six years? more like eight. okay. thank you for all those committee meetings we held in your office, and we are here today. i want to say with your midmarket tech exam initiative that you worked with the great mayor lee, and you continued working on creating the lgbtq cultural district in the tenderloin, it's great -- it's contributing greatly to the

revitalization of this area, so we thank you for doing that. >> supervisor kim: we have been working this project since 2011, and even though we entitled the project a little over two years ago, there continued to be other actions that we needed to take to ensure that this project remained viable. very few projects do i get to sit with for eight years, but this, but this project, not only is it a vital part of this

neighborhood, but this project was a key component. it went through many iterations, and countless community meetings for each of the iterations, but i'm just excited in the end the project was able to keep all the components that we initially wanted to see. we wanted to respect and acknowledge the history of arts and arts done on midmarket. whether we're talking about a.c.t. down the street to all of the great theaters like s.h.n., and i'm so excited that joy has committed to the magic theater to have their own dedicated space here at 950 market to join us in creating this cultural arts district. second, i want to make sure that we're creating jobs for residents ensuring that tenderloin residents would be able to work at the hotel and

retail at 950 market. [please stand by]

. >> supervisor kim: and that's part of why it took us so long to get to this point, to see how large the site is and what it's

going to mean to the midmarket arena. i finally wanted to acknowledge late may i don't remember ed or. i know jeff buckley is here and worked on behalf of his office to make sure we could go through so many different processes to get to this point. a project like this doesn't happen without strong support from the mayor's office, and by the way, it will continue to need strong support from mayor breed and her office. congratulations, joy, congratulations, everyone. >> lucky today to have from our well known neighbor, glad memorial, we have rabbi michael

lieszak to give a blessing. so please welcome rabbi mike lieszak from glad memorial. >> i am michaelle lieszak. did you want to see the drawings of the building here behind me? is that going to be a gorgeous building or not? yes, yes, a real site to behold here on market street. beyond the physical beauty of 950 market street, we at glide want to absolute the people at group i with the help of market street for the masses and central city s.r.o. collaborative for thinking deeply how this project will be a real source of vitality for everyone here in the tenderloin. we are particularly moved

because group i went above and offfor securing how doesing for formerly homeless people. that points to an inspired sense of responsibility for our community's most vulnerable people. beyond housing, the fact that group i donated many to our district and included grounds for a space in their building for communal space is a real gift. they worked hand in hand with the people here in the tenderloin to ensure that this area of the city continues to lift all of the people who live and work and learn in this city of san francisco. may we continue to grow partnerships like this in the city that we all love. deeply grateful. >> all right. thank you, everybody. we'll see you at the next ribbon cutting. [applause]

>> good afternoon, everybody. welcome to the land use and transportation committee meeting. i am katey tang, the chair, and i am joined by supervisor sandra fewer and ahsha safai. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >>clerk: yes. [agenda item read] >> supervisor tang: thank you. can you please call item one? >>clerk: yes. item