>> hello, this is the building inspection commission meeting. we are reconvening. i wanted to make a brief announcement that those commissioners that are not in compliance with san francisco campaign and governmental conduct code section 3.1-1031 a. one and b. one will not participate in the voting of items today.

our next item on the agenda is item three, general public comment. the b.i.c. will take public comments within the commission charge a jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. >> seeing none. >> no general public comment. next item is item four a. commissioner questions and matters. for inquiries to staff, you may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policies, practices and procedures which are of interest to the commission. >> i see no commissioners. >> seeing none. >> you can contact me later in the month if there are items you would like to bring for next month's meeting. our next item is four b. future meetings and agendas. the commission may discuss and take action to set the date of a special meeting and determine those items that could be placed on the agenda of the next

meeting, and other future meetings of the build and endorse building inspection commission. our next meeting date is december 19th, 2018. >> seeing none. >> okay. is there any public comment on items four a and b.? seeing none, item five for discussion and possible action regarding ab 082. administrative bulletin presenting guidelines and procedures for instructional just instructional, and seismic engineering design review of buildings and other structures. >> good morning, commissioners. and the deputy director of permit services. i want to wish you a happy holidays and a safe holiday coming up. for our bulletin, 082, it was at the last hearing and it had a trapped marker does watermark on it is why it wasn't approved. i want to thank our engineers and our staffing group who worked over a year on this to put it together.

there are guidelines and procedures for constructional -- constructional and geotechnics reviews. the purpose of the administration bulletin is to present guidelines and procedures for structural, geotechnical and seismic hazard engineering design review of buildings and other structures. i will also add it was up for tall buildings over 240 feet. they will be required for repair review. i will give it to our geotechnical engineer, -- and also for large projects where the foundation does not go -- go down to the bedrock. >> no point of clarification -- >> this needs a vote right now. >> okay. got it. i guess public comment. >> yeah,. is a public comment on this item claw seeing none, i will do a roll call vote on the item. [roll call]

>> the motion carried unanimously. thank you. >> next item. >> our next item is item six. discussion of possible action regarding a proposed ordinance, file 180-0166, amending the building code to enact an expedited and streamlined permit process for electrical vehicle charging stations. >> good morning, commissioners. i am a legislator in public affairs. this is an item we have talked about over the last few months. supervisor tang introduced this sometime ago. essentially, we are conforming with recently passed state law that requires all jurisdictions in california to expedite

electric vehicle charging stations. san francisco has been doing that as a matter of policy and practice for a very long time. this ordinance enables us to codify already existing practices. there was a slight strengthening of the event -- amendment courtesy of the department of environment. we have barry huber uber here who can speak to that, or if you have any questions. we have our chief electrical inspector here to answer any detailed questions. but i would urge you to go ahead and support this. it is a very good thing to ramp up. thank you. >> is barry going to update us on the amendment? >> i hadn't planned to.

the amendment that his proposed was suggested by the code advisory committee. it was asking for the ordinance to include a 12 month timeline for completion of the administrative bulletin that is called for in the ordinance. no substantive change. >> no change to that? so it is just a timeline -- what was the original? >> there wasn't a timeline. there was a suggestion to add one. >> twelve months. that is all the amendment is. okay. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this item? is there a motion to approve? >> moved to approve. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second. we will do a roll call vote. [roll call] >> the motion carried unanimously. the next item is item seven. update on s.f. permits and

project wrecking systems. >> good morning, commissioners. i am a project manager with the department of technology. i want to give you an update on the permit project. i wanted to start off to let you know that due to some personal circumstances, shawn beal and has had to leave the project team. he is transferring his responsibilities to me. for those commissioners that do not know me, my previous capacity on the project, i have been involved with the project since 2014. i have been involved daily on the project since it relaunched in may of 2017. in terms of this change of project leadership, there is not going to be an eruption to the timeline and the activities. i'm sure you have questions about sean. i'm happy to take those off-line it would not be appropriate to discuss it in a public form.

all right. now to the status reports. says the update of last month, we have completed a user acceptance testing in round three. as you can see from the statistics shown here in the top left box of the status read out, the suspects -- of the success right back of the testing was not at all at the quality mark that we expected or need. [please stand by]

>> now, the system is completely developed at this point, so we're not at a point where things are still in development. we're in a mode of testing, fixing the defects, and testing, so i wanted to make sure that was clear to the commission where we are in the state of development. and so as -- as linda, the city c.i.o. presented a few months ago, we are still wanting and

[inaudible] >> that does conclude my comments, and i'd be happy to answer some questions. >> commissioner walker, you had some questions? >> thank you for stepping in. you addressed my concern, because that is my concern, you can't be two people.

you are wonderful, but you can't be two peoples, so i just wanted to make sure we have staffed up whatever you and sean were doing covered adequately. i wonder if we could drill down a little bit on what the failures are and the high rate? what was that about? can you sync it into a sentence or two? >> yes. well, the use cases, if you were to uncover some of the cases in the d.b.i. division, if it was central plan review, their main charter review is getting applications in, getting them through reviews and getting permit cases, so their use cases are all centered around their processes. in terms of the failures, these use cases are a series of steps basically going through a process from start to finish that's within their job role, and so as they were going

through each of those steps, there's steps that are not working. to characterize those in a blanket statement is difficult because they vary, but it's -- it really cancered around discreet function points, you know, not meeting the requirements, and there are issues that are involved with -- with work flow is one of our items. we're moving from a platform, the p.t.s. legacy platform that really does not have -- there's a concept of, of course, tracking the status as they go through permit reviews, but it's not exactly a work flow structure. but we're migrating that status into accela, so it has to mold itself and morph itself into the more sophisticated work flow status of accella.

we have -- although fees with working very well, there are -- now we're testing now -- there's a lot of -- as you guys know from our fee structures, that i know you guys review regularly, there's a lot of complexity in that, so we're teasing out the fine points on fees. >> but that one's working better than it was. >> yeah. fees are being generating. there's just some subtlies that are getting teased out. it's really teasing out those types of things as well as getting through the use cases cleanly. >> being ookay. i got it. makes sense to me. so refeeliare you feeling confi about the process as we are in it, even with the high level of one and two severity cases beyond what we wanted?

>> yeah. i think the actions that we're taking now and planning around now to make sure the next round of u.a.t. to go more smoothly will address the causes of where we are now. and i did want to address your question of i can't be two people. already i do have from the d.t. staff, linda is already giving me a person that will work with me. they are also working to recruit another senior project manager to join, but in the meantime, i do have another resource from d.t. available to me that's going to be stepping in and helping me out. >> okay. >> on the -- kind of the back office-bookkeeping aspect of the project which will be very, very helpful. >> beiokay. great. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you.

>>clerk: is there any public comment on this item? >> jerry dradler. i recognize the complexity of the task that's being undertaken, but i think there's some questions that could be -- or should be asked that could be helpful in pinpointing where we are. my first question is in what area are the bulk of the system failures? my second question is what are the resources that are most c straining using -- constraining moving forward? and my last question is are the business processes changing at this time and causing problems or have the business processes been frozen or locked down? thank you. >> thank you, jerry. no further public comment? >>clerk: any further public comment? >> no?

okay. >>clerk: no. >> obviously, i -- there's three questions that were called out for public comment there. could you address any of those questions. >> oh, i could respond, yeah. the first one, i'm open to coming back or providing a report in the interim that better describes the nature of the failures that we're seeing because as i said prior when commissioner walker had asked, it's hard to just have a blanket statement that covers all bases, and i'd rather provide enough detail that you have an accurate accounting. >> perfect. >> on the other two questions, in terms of resource c constraints -- so -- the d.b.i. staff is fully participating. we have an excellent business sponsor in ron tom. so if the project needs anything from the business, we generally just go and ask the business ourselves, but if there are any

challenges that we need help with, ron tom is our go-to person in that area, and he helps on u helps out, and he's available to us every single day as our business s business sponsor. in addition, accela, they have added their staff when we need it, and p.r.o. which would be a combination of department technology and d.b.i. -- additional d.b.i. staff, apart from this morning's announcement with the departure of sean, we are fully staffed there, as well. so we're not hampered by any resource constraints at this point. and then, the last question in terms of process and requirements, yes, requirements

are frozen. they've been frozen. we wrapped up the design discussions, which was the last opportunity to introduce anything that hadn't been discussed through all the rounds of requirements that happened all the way through the ten months of 2016. those were frozen at the end of january , beginning of february of this year, and that's when our build phase started, which means we've told the developers, these are requirements, please go build it. so that is locked down, and we do have a formal change -- what we call change control process with the product in place because it's just human nature as you're going through discussions with users and they're testing, they'll say, well, what about this? this isn't quite working. so we as a project team is looking at each one of those as they come up, and saying is this a requirement and it needs to be met or is this something we haven't discussed prior? and if there is not a pressing

business need to have to introduce it, then, we put it into our parking lot for ideas, which is actually called or idea factually, which we've got a long list of all the great ideas that have popped up during the pronl that we can't take on as new scope, but we don't want to lose those ideas from the staff. so that is in place and has been in place all year. we do react to legislative changes. we've had a few of those in the timelines of a project where we have to deal with that. if we do have a gray area, where something has been discussed by staff, is it strictly a requirement that needs to be built or is it something new, then, we go back to our

executive committee and ron tom and discuss those and make a determination. >> great. >> see no -- >>clerk: our next item is item 8, 8a, update on d.b.i.'s finances. >> good morning, commissioners. taris madison, deputy department of building inspection. before you is the october 2018 report, and it gives you revenues and expenditures from july through october 2018. i'll just give you the highligh

highlights. it's almost equal there. on the ex-pension side, we did see an increase of almost $1 million, and that's due to early billing of some other departments. basically, that's the other funding we give for services -- departments that provide services to us, and last year, we had a lag in building improvements, but this year, we've got those going. because we're so early in the fiscal year, our projections are just as budget. the data is very preliminary. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, deputy. >> thank you. >>clerk: next item is 8b, update on proposed or recently enacted state legislation. >> good morning again, commissioners. bill strom, legislative and

public affairs. there is a similar solar -- expediting of solar energy permits that again, d.b.i., from a matter of practice and policy has long expedited. there is another state law that we are passing another local ordinance to conform with. supervisor peskin did introduce that ordinance about a year ago. somehow it fell between the cracks, and we're getting it revived. i hope to bring it back to you for your review next month before the end of this year. and again, as i say, that's really just a codification of already existing practices. i will say with respect to supervisor safai's proposed ordinance to have d.b.i. do additional code enforcement regarding paved over front laws, there will be an enforcement

hearing on next friday, the 26. we expect to move that forward with no debate or questions about it. i guess i would also mention that the recently enacted supervisor ronen fire safety additional ordinance did pass. that actually takes legal effect on december 10. but that's the one that both the fire marshall and d.b.i. will have additional property if an owner has a property with still two open fire safety related notices of violation that haven't yet been corrected. somebody in that situation -- and i'm told we don't have very many of those, then either the fire marshal or the building authority, building official could ramp up the requirements and say you must do sprinklers

or you must upgrade your fire alarm system. but with that, i think everything else is covered in my report unless you have any questions. >> commissioner warsaw? >> near and dear to my heart is supervisor peskin's ordinance on demolitions, and i saw the update that it's being discussed with city attorney and d.b.i. and all parties but there is as of yet nothing. if you can continue your diligence to try to get some dates as to when we anticipate this really coming up, it is one of the most important pieces that we need to stage our next joint commission meeting with the planning commission, and so any of your efforts to give us better insights in that so we can plan. >> sure. i'll be happy to check with his office on that. >> okay. thank you.

>> commissioner walker, please. >> i'm -- want to update on tang's -- the multiuse retail. >> oh, okay. >> it looks like it's coming through, and is there anything that we need to do as our -- it's right at the bottom of page 1. >> well, i know the board did amend it on november 13 and voted to approve that, but i think they have postponed the final reading, the second reading, until after the thanksgiving holiday. i don't believe there's anything specific to the building code in that, you know, that's planning code amendments essentially to enable uses to be a little more flexible so that it would be faster to go through the change of use process and therefore we could address some of these vacant storefront issues.

>> right. okay. >> i can get another reading on that for the next meeting. >> that would be good. that would be good to have a sense of -- and if it does affect any of our process. >> we continue to work closely with the mayor's office and the members of the board on improvements that can be made in the vacant storefront situation, and we are getting a lot more reported vacancies, so the total number on the d.b.i. list right now is about 500. >> right. and i think that sprung off of, i think supervisor fewer did her own inventory in her own district. it might be interesting to contact the other supervisors to have them help us. >> right. well, i know we have specifically had similar updates from district three from supervisor peskin and just recently from supervisor

mandelman in district eight. >> great. great. perfect. thank you, bill. >> thank you. >>clerk: next item is 8c, update on building projects. >> good morning. tom hui. as you can see, the construction cost of parties go up 401%. any questions you have? >> see none. >>clerk: all right. next item is 8d, update on code enforcement. >> good morning, commissioners, ed sweeney, deputy director inspection services. i'm here to report on the code enforcement activity at d.b.i. for the month of october. building inspections performs, 6,159. as you can see, it was a very

busy month. >> oh, really. >> complaints received, 491. complaints responded to 48 or 72 hours, 476. complaints received and abated without n.o.v., 241. abated complaints with notice of violation, 73. second notice of violations referred to code enforcement, 40. housing inspection services, house inspections formed, 1,041. complaints received, 388. complaint response within 24 to 72 hours, 385. complaints with notice of violations issued, 158. abated complaints with n.o.v.'s, 361. number of cases sent to director's hearing, 344. routine inspections, 154. code enforcement, number of cases sent to director's hearing, 74. number of order abatements issued, 20. number of cases under

advisement, eight. number of cases abated, 87. code enforcement inspections performed, 307. nothing -- nothing was referred to the litigation committee, and we did send one to the city attorney's office for action. >> thank you. >>clerk: is there any public comment on the director's report, item 8a through d? seeing none, item d, review and approval of the regular minutes of october 17, 2018. >> move to approve. >> second. >> okay. >>clerk: okay. there's a motion and a second. is there any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, are all commissioners in favor? [voting] >>clerk: any opposed? [voting] >>clerk: okay. the minutes are approved. the next item is 10,

adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn? >> motion. >> second. >> are all commissioners in favor? [voting] >>clerk: we are adjourned. happy thanksgiving, everyone. >> i personally love the mega jobs. i think they're a lot of fun. i like being part of a build that is bigger than myself and outlast me and make a mark on a landscape or industry. ♪

we do a lot of the big sexy jobs, the stacked towers, transit center, a lot of the note worthy projects. i'm second generation construction. my dad was in it and for me it just felt right. i was about 16 when i first started drafting home plans for people and working my way through college. in college i became a project engineer on the job, replacing others who were there previously and took over for them. the transit center project is about a million square feet. the entire floor is for commuter buses to come in and drop off, there will be five and a half acre city park accessible to everyone. it has an amputheater and water

marsh that will filter it through to use it for landscaping. bay area council is big here in the area, and they have a gender equity group. i love going to the workshops. it's where i met jessica. >> we hit it off, we were both in the same field and the only two women in the same. >> through that friendship did we discover that our projects are interrelated. >> the projects provide the power from san jose to san francisco and end in the trans bay terminal where amanda was in charge of construction. >> without her project basically i have a fancy bus stop. she has headed up the women's network and i do, too. we have exchanged a lot of ideas on how to get groups to work

together. it's been a good partnership for us. >> women can play leadership role in this field. >> i tell him that the schedule is behind, his work is crappy. he starts dropping f-bombs and i say if you're going to talk to me like that, the meeting is over. so these are the challenges that we face over and over again. the reality, okay, but it is getting better i think. >> it has been great to bond with other women in the field. we lack diversity and so we have to support each other and change the culture a bit so more women see it as a great field that they can succeed in. >> what drew me in, i could use more of my mind than my body to get the work done. >> it's important for women to

network with each other, especially in construction. the percentage of women and men in construction is so different. it's hard to feel a part of something and you feel alone. >> it's fun to play a leadership role in an important project, this is important for the transportation of the entire peninsula. >> to have that person -- of women coming into construction, returning to construction from family leave and creating the network of women that can rely on each other. >> women are the main source of income in your household. show of hands. >> people are very charmed with the idea of the reverse role, that there's a dad at home instead of a mom. you won't have gender equity in the office until it's at home. >> whatever you do, be the best you can be. don't say i can't do it, you can

excel and do whatever you want. just put your mind into it. >> san francisco's mayor, kicks off the holiday season with the 12th annual turkey giveaway. more than 4,000 frozen turkeys to be distributed across san francisco to families at public housing sites, and nonprofit organizations. the turkeys were provided by the generous support of the city and county of san francisco, the philip randolph institute, whole foods and foster farms. mayor breed participated in two giveaways with residents of the hayes valley north and south affordable housing community and residents of another complex in >> one more. [♪]

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[cheers and applause] >> wow. ladies and gentlemen, you give it up for the high school band. [cheers and applause] >> do we know how to have a good time in san francisco or what? [cheering] >> i also want to say thank you to the san francisco group for working with us to have what you saw when we first walked in. a giant dugout right here. [cheers and applause] let me tell you, i have never seen anything like this thing. this looks better than the last

location. this looks better than the old location. you really outdid yourself with the artwork, with the seating, with the buffet style food. we try to feed as many people as we can. this will be a great place to watch the giants game. to watch the warriors game, and to watch the 40 niners. [laughter] >> but nick and everyone here, thank you all so much for being here. this is absolutely incredible. you have an amazing group of young men who are representing san francisco well. that was an incredible performance. you have to do it for us again. take a bow and have a good time. make sure you get some food and enjoy yourself today. make sure that you come back to not only eat, but to donate toys so we can get toys out to kids on a regular basis. thank you, everyone. happy thanksgiving.

[cheers and applause] >> on the mural over here, we will take a picture in her baseball uniform. >> oh, my god. >> do you guys want to go over there? [laughter] >> assembly member to, do you want to say a few words? >> very briefly, first of all, where is it? thank you for giving us all an excuse to start drinking at 115 in the afternoon. [cheers and applause] >> madame mayor, i'm looking forward to working with you and catherine stefani and others. we will get a lot of business done here in left field. is that right? i have brought the certificate of honor from the california state of assembly because we do not want this day to go unrecognized by our state.

this has been an incredible institution for six years. remembering the legacy of someone who was an amazing, not just baseball player, but a community service member. i will say for a cultural note, he was an ambassador of baseball to asia. when i was trying out, my dad said, will you grow up to play baseball? and i said no. but because of him, he has brought so many people together and i very much appreciate what you are doing here. on behalf of the city and behalf of the state, thank you for everything you are doing or the community. we want to thank you and declared today to be, from the california state of assembly, lefty oh, dual's ballpark baseball buffet and café. congratulations for the grand opening. [cheering] >> thank you i would like to

accept this on behalf of my dad who passed away and our mayor who passed away too. i would like to accept this on their honor and on the honor of our great city of san francisco. because this is the reason that it is all about. we live in one of the greatest cities in the world and i want to thank the mayor and thank our assembly men and thank all of you who came. i like to keep it on the tradition that we learn here in san francisco. i am just one part of a small edge. one small part of a larger san francisco city. i want to thank -- there so many people to think here today. i want to thank two more people. actually, michael, who helped me build this place. [cheering] and all of our staff. because without them, i couldn't have done this. without our great city, i

wouldn't even have done this. thank you to san francisco. thank you ed lee. thank you to my dad. [cheers and applause] >> we have one more if his representative is here. could you come forward? >> hello. i wanted to recognize the grand reopening. thank you again on behalf of the california -- thank you. >> i would like everyone to stay in place while the cameras proceed to a center for the picture with london in her baseball outfit, and then you can all come out. all right?

>> in november of 2016, california voters passed proposition 64. the adult use of marijuana act. san franciscans overwhelmingly approved it by nearly 75%. and the law went into effect in january of 2018. [♪]

>> under california's new law, adults age 21 and over can legally possess up to 1 ounce of cannabis and grow up to six plants at home. adults in california can legally give up to 1 ounce to other adults. >> in the state of california, we passed a law that said adult consumption is legal. if you are an adult and in possession of certain amounts, you will no longer be tried. you will not be arrested or prosecuted for that. that is changing the landscape dramatically. [♪] >> to legalization of cannabis could bring tremendous economic and social benefits to cities like san francisco. >> this industry is projected to reach $22 billion by the year 2020. and that is just a few years away. >> it can be a huge legal

industry in california. i think very shortly, the actual growing of marijuana may become the biggest cash crop in the state and so you want that to be a legal tax paying cash crop, all the way down the line to a sales tax on the retail level. >> the california medical industry is a 3 billion-dollar industry last year. anticipating that multiplier as 20, 30, 50 times in the consumer marketplace once adult use is really in place, you could go ahead and apply that multiplier to revenue. it will be huge. >> when that underground economy becomes part of the regular tax paying employment economy of the bay area, it not only has a direct impact, that money has a ripple impact through the economy as well. >> it is not just about retail. it is not just about the sensor.

is about manufacturing pick a lot of innovative manufacturing is happening here in san francisco in addition to other parts of the state as well as the cultivation. we should be encouraging that. >> there is a vast array of jobs that are going to be available in the newly regulated cannabis industry. you can start at the top tier which a scientist working in testing labs. scientists working at extraction companies. and you work towards agricultural jobs. you have ones that will require less education and you look towards cannabis retail and see traditional retail jobs and you see general management jobs. those things that are similar to working at a bar restaurant or working at a retail store. >> we are offering, essentially, high paid manufacturing jobs. typical starting wage of 18-$20 an hour, almost no barrier to entry, you do not need an education. >> that means that people who do

not have college educations, working-class people, will have an opportunity to have a job at cultivating cannabis plants. there's a whole wide array of job opportunities from the seedling to the sale of the cannabis. [♪] >> last year, they said 26 million people came to san francisco. >> the tourism industry continues to be very robust here and the city and county of san francisco is about a billion-dollar industry. >> if we use a conservative cannabis user adoption rate to 15% that means 4 million tourists want that means 4 million tourists want to purchase cannabis. and we need to be ready for th them. >> in 2015, as adult use legalization efforts gained momentum in california, the supervisors created the san francisco cannabis state legalization task force. this task force offered to research and advice to the supervisors, the mayor and other city departments. >> we knew that adult use legalization was coming to the

ballot and stat that would bring with it a number of decisions that the city would have to make about zoning and regulation and so forth. and i decided at that time, at a know it was a great, that rather than have a fire drill after the ballot measure passes, as suspected it would, we should plan an event. so i authored a task force to spend a year studying it and we made it a broad-based task force. >> we prepared ourselves by developing a health impact assessment and partnered that with key stakeholder discussions with washington, oregon, colorado, to really learn lessons from their experience rolling out both adult and medicinal cannabis. >> within days of the passing of the proposition, ed lee called on agencies to act decisively. >> he issued an executive order

asking the department of public health, along with planning and other city departments to think through an internal working group around what we needed to do to consider writing this law. >> we collectively, i would say that was representatives from g.s.a., as well as the mayor's office, met with a lot of departments to talk through what prop 64 and the implementation of prop 64 it meant to them. >> the mayor proposed an office of cannabis, a one-stop shop for permits allowing operators to grow and sell cannabis. >> he wanted a smart structure. he wanted a regulatory structure that ensured that kids didn't have access and community's were safe and that consumers were safe. and he wanted to ensure, more importantly, it was a regulatory structure that encouraged diversity and inclusivity. >> this is an office that will be solely charged with a duty of wanting not only the policies

that we create, implementing and enforcing them, but also executing the licenses that are needed. we're talking about 20 different licenses that will put us into compliance with what is happening on the state level. >> this is a highly, highly regulated industry now, at this point. we have anywhere from 7-10 departments that will be working with these industry participants as they go through the permitting process. that is a lot of work at a loss of coordination. we are creating a permitting process that is smart and is digital. it is much easier for the user and for community input, and is less mired in bureaucracy. >> for the first time ever in san francisco history, standalone licenses are available for all aspects of the nonretail side of the cannabis industry. now, a cultivator can go in to the department of building

inspection and to the department of health and say, with this first registered and temporary license, and then what will eventually be a permanent license, this is the project, this is what i am going to do. >> very rarely in city government do we interact with industries that are asking to be regulated. these guys want to be regulated. they want to be compliant. they want to work with the city. that is rare. >> san francisco has created a temporary licensing process so that the pre-existing operators here in san francisco can apply for a temporary state licensed. >> we have taken teams of up to 12 inspectors to inspect the facility twice a day. we have been doing that with the department of building inspection and the department of public health. and the fire department. >> it is really important for the industry to know that we are treating them like industry. like manufacturing. like coworkers pick so that is

the way we are approaching this from a health and safety and a consumer protection network. this is just the way practice happens with restaurants or manufacturing facilities. >> because there are so many pieces of industry that people haven't even thought about. there are different permits for each piece. you have to set up a permitting system for growing, for manufacturing, for testing. for delivery. for retail. you have to make sure that there is an appropriate health code. certainly the regulation of alcohol in terms of restaurants and retail it's probably a model for how this industry will be regulated as well, both on sale and consumption. >> it is completely uncharted territory. there is a blessing and a curse with that. it is exciting because we are on a new frontier, but it is very nerve-racking because there's a lot at stake. and quite frankly, being san francisco, being the state of

california, people are looking to us. >> we hope that cannabis does become more of an accepted part of society in the same way that alcohol is, the same way coffee is. >> it is a very innovative fear, particularly around manufacturing. san francisco could be an epicenter. >> san francisco can be a leader here. a global leader in the cannabis movement and set a bar just to other communities and cities and states and this nation how it is done. [♪]

>> so ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the incredible community here in alice griffith, on behalf of the resident leaders and community organizations, madam mayor, leader pelosi, president cohen, distinguished guests, i welcome you all to the reopening of the alice griffith community. thank you. my name is theo, and i'm the director of the hope sf, and it gives me great pleasure to bring up aurelius walker for