. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> the motion to not to disclose what we discussed in executive session. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> onto item 6, pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> item 7 aannouncements. please be advised the use of cell phones, and pagers and other sound producing electronics are prohibited during the use of this meeting. please be aware members of the public have up to three minutes to make a public comment on each item of the agenda unless otherwise stated. onto

item 8 public comment on items not on the agenda today. >> is there any public comment on items not listed on the agenda? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. >> item 9a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon members of the public and port staff, i'm elaine, the port's executive director. the first item is i wanted to report on fleet week, which was october 7 through 14, where the port was a very proud sponsor of the event. it was exceptionally well attended. it's an event honoring our services. the city participated in disaster debris management exercise which dem felt was extremely helpful and important to exercise our own planned removal and opening of major roadways and also to process with our federal partners was very helpful. we also

had several joint military civilian exercises as well as the parade of ships and of course the air shows. but what i want to do is thank port staff that put so much time and energy into making the event another smashing success. staff worked evening and weekends every week and much of their work goes unrecognized because they are behind the scenes making sure nothing goes wrong. so first joe riley and ken were on security. from the maritime division, we had our team making sure the vessels came in and were safe and secure aaron, bren don dominick, michael and edgar. and in the maintenance division we had lots of crews out before during and after making sure our waterfront looked wonderful for our guests. so i would like to recognize the laborers division, the truck drivers, ironworkers and specifically tim, alex, oscar dave, kevin and del.

thank you for making us shine once again. a quick update on the safe embarcadero navigation center. i wanted to update you on the advisory group which is to advise us as this process and as the center gets cited and services provided. i have appointed rick dickerson and alisa rogers as chair and vice-chair of the advisory group. i seah alice is in the audience. rick is a former co-chair and we know ms. rogers, she is the co-chair of south beach rincon mission bay neighborhood association and the chair of sea wag. so thank you for serving. the next meeting of the advisory group is coming this wednesday at 5:30 at the south beach harbor room. they will get an update from

homeless and port housing. they'll be announcing who they selected as a provider. five keys operate the center which is 128-bed facility and we hear very good things about five keys. the public works department will provide an update on construction. if you've been by the site the insides are being constructed now. the police department will be providing an update on police incidents within the safety zone. there's good collection of data, incidents in september totaled 90, which was showing a continued downward trend since june when 125 incidents were reported. so getting the baseline for the area is incredibly important. and that is something the police department is going. i would like to report that state senate bill 451 the state tax credit program has been passed. this

is something the port worked for some time on. the historic state tax credit program can be used in conjunction with the national program of course with tax reform the value of the federal program is lower than it was before the corporate tax rate went down. but having this additional program will be very important for our piers you'll be hearing about today and 12a potentially a financing tool for our historic piers. the program has a cap of $50 million with a $10 million set aside for smaller projects. the projects will be screened by the california tax credit allocation committee to demonstrate return on investment. of course all projects will have to conform with the secretary of interior's standards. the tax credit program the federal one has helped other pier restoration projects and historic

restoration. so the timing couldn't be better for us. and i want to thank mark brad, mayor breed's legislative staff for supporting this effort. so congratulations to everyone. another tool for historic preservation. now i would like to talk about the san francisco's chamber of commerce trip to seattle. brad, will you play that for me, please. so brad and i joined the chamber of commerce for the city trip to seattle september 25 through 27. we were excited to join the new ceo of the chamber, rodney. we were also joined by many business and electives and a great delegation. i'll wait until the slides come up. great. that looks like the second

slide on the first slide. yep. okay. great. so if you could go back one slide brad. so the first slide shows the delegation. and brad and i went. we also had some of our consultants who were on the seawall team, specifically cmg who was the urban designer. we had two representatives from cmg. and you can see here it's a variety of elected and business leaders on this day trip. next slide. we kicked it off with me and brad and some of the consultants talking about the embarcadero seawall program and what we are trying to accomplish portwide. it was a great way to start because we framed for the delegation what we are trying to accomplish in san francisco and then proceeded to look

at what's happened in seattle. seattle has a lot of similarities to san francisco. it's earthquake country. when we had our big earthquake the freeway had a collapse issue. when they had their big earthquake in 2001, their seawall failed. their double decker freeway stayed up, but their seawall failed. so they began a very aggressive effort to replace their seawall to deal with seismic risk. it was fascinating for us to see the parallels in construction of a seawall in earthquake country, to see a historic seawall and some of the decisions they made in terms of keeping the piers open through construction what they did about water levels and their historic fabric and the state actually pulled down that double decker freeway because of earthquake risk. and now the community of seattle is engaged in a multibillion dollar effort to really connect

their city with their waterfront in the way we have a connected waterfront with our city. so it was very, very interesting. i have to admit i didn't realize how strongly parallelled our experiences would be and how much we would learn from this trip. it was very very exciting. so some of the points that brad has highlighted here is the parallels they had a multiyear program to plan design and build. and one of the things their project team said is you can't design and implement as fast as the world changes. there's such a far lead time on the effort to plan a capital work like a seawall replacement. the other thing we learned which many people might think is obvious is you can't replace a seawall in the same place the seawall is coming out. the seawall has to continue to do its job while you construct the new levee and protection. so we can't say we are keeping the line of defense because the line of defense will be different with the new seawall, just from looking

at construction very, very interesting for the team. they had a lot of coordination with their community and stakeholders. and we could talk more about that. but they have a lot of homelessness issues and concerns around new waterfront that has just so many parks and open spaces and how that will be managed for the benefit of the community and how to deal with some of the issues that frankly we are having in san francisco too in creating a waterfront for everyone that's safe and secure. and they, interestingly did already what we are thinking of doing, which is the tax to businesses and property owners adjacent to the waterfront to pay not for the seawall construction, that was geobond funded but for the billion dollars of improvements to create parks and open space in connection to the waterfront. and they had a tax rate that acknowledged the closer you are to the waterfront, the more value you were getting from the improvements. and they taxed condominiums and homes as well.

the person in charge of the project marshal buster said he still has some scars from negotiating that special tax. but it did get approved and it's very supported. they took a while to get there but it's a major funding source for their improvement. and we are planning to do the same with our downtown cfd. so that gave us a shot in the arm that it's possible. okay. let's go to the next slide. that's it. okay. so it was an excellent trip. and we think in terms of next steps, we are going to want our commissioners to see the seawall in seattle to bring the project here or bring you there. there are excellent parallels and lessons learned from our community our sister city up north not true sister city, but seattle up north who really has a lot of parallels to what we are going to undertake. thank you brad. next i would like to talk about the american association of port authorities conference.

president brandon, from the maritime association and i attended the conference october 14 through 16 in norfolk virginia. this association, american association of port authorities has 130 members all public ports. and it was founded in 1912. so it is the biggest association of ports. at the convention a long-term ceo kurt retired after 34 years. and we welcomed in the new ceo, chris connors who was a shipping and logistics veteran. the host city, norfolk virginia is known as america's first port. it is a settlement dating back to 1607. so it's rich with history in terms of the james town settlement. it is the largest naval base in the country. it's the sixth largest containerized cargo complex in the united states. president brandon and mic and i were very impressed with the tours that

we saw. there's a robust shipbuilding and repair industry a thriving export and roll on, roll off and cruising. so really kind of an he can electric itan activeport. the conference is interesting. there was an excellent panel on coastal resiliency. there were other topics related to economic development and green port. we had an unparalleled opportunity to network with colleagues across the country. and we of course got to receive i already announced the aap communications award for the embarcadero seawall campaign. so it was nice to be there and see our own staff awarded an honor. the next convention will be held in september in quebec city. this is

an important opportunity for us to network. i want to thank you president brandon for leading this effort. it's important to show san francisco's best foot forward. i have a late breaking announcement. i'm happy to share at the 14th biannual state conference just today the golden gate society and port of san francisco received an award for outstanding environmental protection for the wetlands and upland habitat restoration of pier 94. the project was recognized for an exceptional degree of public engagement and having aa ten-year agreement allowed for investment in the project. i want to give a shoutout to carol and david who is here. and hanson who really donated a lot of materials to help us with the work and graciously accepted public access to their adjacent

to them. that concludes my report. thank you. >> is there any other public comment on the executive director's report. seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner gillman would like to make an announcement. >> i wanted to make an announcement that actually many people recognize the great work of the port for fleet week. i had the honor to close the fleet week celebrations on october 14 to represent the port with betty, the commander at the navy's regional southwest sector and the committee that puts on the fleet week celebration presented the port which i will give to you to hang this plaque. they wanted to recognize all the work we do every year to welcome hundreds of thousands of visitors and service members to the port. it was a lovely closing ceremony. and they wanted to make sure they recognized the port for all the work they did. >> thank you.

>> this afternoon we move item 8 to the end of the night's agenda so we'll move onto item 11. 11a is an informational presentation on citywide resilience efforts. >> we're having some technical difficulties. so for people using the laptop today page up and page down. good afternoon president

brandon, commissioners brad benson the port's waterfront resilience effort. i'm here to introduce two presentations today. everything that we are doing in the waterfront resilience program is nested within a broader citywide policy framework. back in december of 2018, a port and city staff presented some of these citywide efforts to the commission. and we wanted to provide updates about two of the efforts. first we are going to have adam garett, the deputy director of citywide planning provide an update about the double rise vulnerability and consequences assessment. and then we have brian strong, who is the city's chief resilience officer here to speak about the

hazard and climate resilience plan. these are two very important plans for the city for understanding about hazards. the city is facing and how we can be more resilient in the face of them. and so no further ado i'll invite adam up to present. actually i think this is in the opposite order. so let's have brian start. sorry. just page down. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is brian strong. i'm the chief resilience officer and director of the office of resilience and capital planning. it's very nice to be here. i appreciate the opportunity to come and talk with you. a little bit more

than -- well, not quite a year ago, i think it was in december i came and did a presentation on this hazard and climate resilience plan. and it was all the things we are intending to do. so it's nice to come back some ten and a half months later saying most all the things have been completed. and i'll give you an update on it. and we are beginning to put together the strategies and get ready to submit this document to fema. so it does work. there we go. by the way, this is a recent picture we got. we shared it with some of our public information research. a lot of people are talking about. i'm the last person that should be marketing san francisco. it's why the chamber of commerce never invites me to anything. so i'm jealous. however, this is more in the area of what i end up dealing with from the city's perspective, which is how are we preparing for hazards. and now we've been doing

this local hazard mitigation plan. it's a fema requirement. if you don't complete it, you are not eligible for fema funding. general assistance funding after major disasters, that includes hazard mitigation grant programs of which the city applies for a number of them that we receive on a regular basis. so it's a very big carrot that they have for us to get this done. so we will get it done. and in the past, it was really -- it came out of the department of emergency management and it was really more reflective of some of the efforts in our capital plan and some of the approved plans instead of reflecting on what's happening as opposed to what we think sets some strategy for where we want to go as a city. so that's how we are changing it this year, trying to make it more forward-thinking. and there is state legislation as well, sb379 that rerequires

we do a climate action plan. so you no longer think of hazards as just earthquakes and major things but you have to think about heat and climate and air quality and sea level rise per the state's requirement. so it actually fits with what we are doing. the picture here again two years ago when we were doing a lot of our resilience planning work we never thought air quality was going to be an issue. we barely thought heat was going to be an issue. a lot of these things, it's a rapidly-changing environment that we are facing. and certainly the 30th anniversary of the one who created one of the buildings in the marina, that has been a big part of our program all along and it will continue to be a part of our program to make sure we are resilient for the next large earthquake. certainly the seawall applies to

that as well. so some of the goals we have, it's really to make san francisco a safer place. that's really what it's about. reducing risk, advancing partnerships among agencies throughout the bay area but within san francisco as well. a lot more work around coordination. one anecdote is i think we were looking at how many departments are working on climate change or sea level rise, and it was 17 departments are working on it. so just getting san francisco departments to work together is part of what we want to do. aaddressing inequitable impacts that we know are happening, especially in the southeast side of the city, increasing awareness and building capacity. those are some of the goals. as we are working with the board of supervisors in the mayor's office we expect some of these goals may change as well. so think about how we put the plan together. these are the hazards the primary hazards the city is face. we are focused only

on natural hazards so we are not thinking about terrorism, those are addressed in the city's emergency response plan. but we are not addressing them in this plan. but you can see there's the geological, the weather-related i mentioned to you high wind, as we know with the public safety power shutoff program that's associated with high wind and dry air and heat. so actually you can have three of these things happening at one time, which can be extreme heat, poor air quality because of fires and winds which contribute to all of it. we have combustion related like fires following earthquakes. and we have pandemics like pandemic flus and hazardous materials that are either there and some can be naturally occurring some can be from former shipyards and so forth but some of that can

be stirred up after earthquakes or sea level rise or if groundwater goes up, we need to be aware of those issues. in the developing the plan, this is just my way of organizing it. so we understand the hazards. we've gone through and looked at all the assets the city has. and these are sort of categorized around people emergency response, housing business and industry, transportation, utilities parks and open space. we do mention contaminated lands as well, utilities and infrastructure those are the assets that the city has. and then we are looking at how those hazards are going to impact those the vulnerability and consequence assessment. so we combine the two. and now we are able to understand what assets are exposed what's the risk of their exposure. and then what's the consequence of that exposure. what does that mean for the communities what does that mean for equity, the economy for our

environment. from there, we are looking at how do we address these issues. and that's the strategy development. and that's the phase we are in right now. we've been in it for several months. and i'll talk with you a little bit more about what those strategies look like or how many we have. but this is really been a lot of the work of getting down and meeting with departments and understanding what's in the strategic plan and what are you doing that affects resilience or could you do things a little bit differently to think about resilience when you are doing it so it would be broader and have multiple benefits. so while we've been doing this, we also made sure we did public engagement. so this started in june and went through early september. and this is sort of prior to submitting the document to fema. so we had workshops about 50 plus community-based organizations and ten plus local businesses to talk about resilience

and hazards and their concerns around those issues. we did a survey. we received 500 or so responses, 500 plus responses from san franciscans asking them questions about how have you been impacted by a hazard. you can see the table on the right what -- and the heat if we had extreme heat, what types of facility would you be willing to go to? would you be willing to go to a library or rec center? or what are your concerns about going to those types of places? you can see in the survey it's interesting, that it's not surprising the number of people who were exposed to poor air quality and heat, it's been a recent issue. but i was surprised you have 15 percent or so that experienced flooding. and we expect those storm

flooding events to happen more and more often. so we expect these numbers will go up. and we are going to want to follow up with additional surveys in the future. after we submit to fema in december, and by the way, we are not allowed to have the board -- fema requires we submit it to them they give conditional approval and then the board gets to vote on it. so that's their process. once we submit it to fema we want to make sure this is a living plan and not something we tuck in the drawer for five years. but were you going to have a website, we are going to have constant discussion about it. we know there's a real craving for information. they want more information about what's happening about what hazards they may face, what the what the city is doing about it, how we are able to communicate with them before and after an event. what the process is for doing those things and how can they be engaged and part of the process. i think sometimes they feel we are telling them what's going to happen and how they should respond as opposed to

working with them to understand how t role they would play in addressing the issues. and then we also -- i mentioned we would be going back to the board of supervisors with the resolution after fema approves it for them to approve it and then there's a final fema approval. so just quickly, we have over 70 or so strategies right now we are looking at to mitigate risk. they are categorized in three different areas around resilient infrastructure and that's going to involve a lot of the port properties and assets, resilient buildings. again this gets to a lot of the privately owned buildings but also city-owned. and then resilient communities. and those are some of the plans we have around working with communities whether it's the neighborhood empowerment programs we have or the neighborhood emergency response teams the nurse teams or those types of efforts. and then we really see the city's role in

doing these if we are either an asset owner we deliver services, we do a lot of research planning and sort of guidance documents. we have sea level rise guidance document we are just updating now. we are doing research on extreme precipitation to understand what types of storms we can expect in the future but we also have adopting and enforcing regulations. so that's where we see the strategies falling into seven different categories so people can understand the city's role and how they can participate. finally, this just shows the overall timeline of the program. so i mentioned the assessment phase is done where the strategy phase is actually is partially done. we are still doing some strategy development is what i would say. and we are in the process right now of drafting the document. in fact in two or three weeks we will have an internal draft out. and then in about three weeks,

three to four weeks we'll have a public comment draft that will be available. and then in december we'll be submitting it to fema. so that was a lot of information. i hope i didn't speak too quickly. but i'm happy to answer any questions you may have before passing onto adam who will talk about one of the big strategies that the hazard resilience plan is proposing and wants to see moved forward. >> thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners. adam from

the planning department. and i'm here to give an update on the sea level rise vulnerability and consequences assessment. it's actually a good thing we had brian start because the hazard and climate resilience plan he presented is sort of looking broadly at the climate-related hazards that are affecting the city. and this work, it started earlier because we were thinking about sea level rise and we weren't necessarily as aware of some of the other climate hazards. but it really nests within that. and it's sort of a deeper dive into sea level rise as a specific hazard. so just quickly i work for the planning department. i work in the citywide planning division where the city comprehensive or long range planning and policy function. we work on a variety of topics anything from housing to transportation, land use and community plans. we work with the board on a number of those major developments with design and resilience and sustainability. it's all underpinned by the authority of the general plan, which we kind of steward and maintain. so this

fits obviously within the resilience bucket. and so i'm going to talk a little bit about the background on our sea level rise plan. you will have heard some of this before but it's sort of a refresher and update. some of the methodology of what we use to develop this study, you'll notice a lot of similarities to the methodology the process that brian just presented. some of the key findings and some of the specific findings as they relate to port infrastructure and then finally a couple of our next steps. so by way of background, in 2015 then mayor convened a group of agencies to form the sea level rise core committee to think about the current and future impacts of sea level rise and coastal flooding on the city. it involved a number of agencies. it is chaired by brian strong who just presented, and my boss emery rogers. one of the first kind of products the

committee developed was a sea level rise action plan, which came out in 2016. you can see here the vision from that plan to make san francisco a more resilient city in the face of sea level rise. and that plan also set out a series of steps of what we should be undertaking to help the city become more resilient citywide to sea level rise. so the first step there was to review and understand the science involved in sea level rise. and what we should be expecting and projecting out by the end of the century. we have done that and worked with folks in both the state and our local government to do that. and then the next step is to assess the vulnerability of the city and the risk of the city to sea level rise and what are the consequences. so similar to the hazard in climate resilience plan, we are looking at vulnerability and consequences. and that's the report i'm going to present on today. and we are going to have a final draft and expect to be publishing

it within the next month. from there we will be working to develop strategies adaptation plans and strategies in implementing those over time. and as you are probably familiar, working with the port there's already a lot of work in the realm underway even as we continue to have a greater understanding of what's vulnerable and what the risks to the city are. so just a little background, what we've been using in terms of methodology these are sea level rise projections. these come from a 2012 report of what level the sea level rise we should be expecting over the next century or by the end of this century. you can see as time goes on, the range gets wider because less is known about how much carbon the world will emit and what the feedback loops will be. so the ranges of sea level rise get a little wider. and we are looking at an additional 40 or so inches of storm surge and tidal surge. so the

upper range we looked although was a sea level rise of 108 inches above knee high water. so that's what our report was based on. and we looked at ten different scenarios within that range from today to 108 inches. since we were well underway on this report, the state has updated its guidance and revised those ranges. the nearer term wasn't really change. the longer-term ones projected out a wider range including a higher high end which we haven't looked at. it's not a huge amount of different area for san francisco because we are already capturing most of the areas that are former fill areas and the city starts sloping up beyond that. so we are not talking about a significantly different area. but we want to acknowledge the state revised their projection process. so what do we do in this report? we looked at exposure first based on

those scenarios and what would be exposed and we looked at the vulnerability of city-owned infrastructure and assets. i should say publicly-owned because there's noncity entities as well. and vulnerability is really a consequence of both the asset sensitivity, an electrical substation would be highly sensitive. a park might be less sensitive. and adaptive capacity, what is the ability of an asset to adapt to flooding or sea level removeable objects are there things that can be doneesly or are they more fixed. and finally we looked at consequences on the economy. this is the same hazards as brian just described. this maps shows the vulnerability zone. this is the area of the city that would be exposed within that 108-inch sea level rise scenario. and what the orange circles represent is where

there is work underway or active projects that will build sea level rise adaptations into their project. so this shows the city as it is today. but as you know, we are building out a lot of the waterfront, particularly the southeastern waterfront. projects are building adaptations as well. so this map changes over time as projects get built. next we looked at vulnerability and consequences across a number of sectors. you can see here utilities, public safety infrastructure, transportation across a number of different roads, open space and port facilities and development projects. and we also looked at it -- we also took a different slice of the same information but it's how do these systems interact at a neighborhood level. so we looked at all the neighborhoods in the city that touched on a shoreline and their individual profiles for each of the

neighborhoods and how do the different systems that get affected impact each other. so for example if a bridge goes out that impacts other transportation infrastructure and the ability of people to access various different things. our key findings, these are just numbers of people businesses, jobs and infrastructure at a very basic level of what would be impacted over the ten scenarios you can see it's pretty significant. again, this is with no action by the city. this is if nothing happened between today and the end of the century and we didn't do anything, this is what would be impacted. this is to give a sense of the magnitude of the area and what's in the area that would be affected. of course we are working already on addressing some of these issues. and then we identified a few sort of themes or high level issues that really kind of rose to the top in terms of things we need to be thinking about. so one is sort of transportation impact.

it's important to note here that this is both local and regional and requires governance and collaboration efforts from across the city. but it also involves cal train transit terminal major pieces of the infrastructure, the embarcadero station or various yards within the sea level rise exposure zone. the significant loss of shoreline open space, particularly on the eastern side of the city, which is a pretty valuable resource for communities across the city. it's a good amount of area. on the one hand, this is the type of infrastructure that sea level rise can creep up without major disruptions. on the other hand, it is a major resource for people across the city. we talked about new development and the adaptations that some of these major projects like mission rock or pier 70 are doing, at the same time the science continues to evolve as we move along in time, we'll know more about where

those curves will go. and we may need to revisit some of the reimers or risks of those developments as well and. and the last two are i think very crucial one is to really think about holistically the joint risk from both overland prescription precipitation flooding where you have at odds needs of what you need to do. with overland flooding you need to let the water out. with coastal flooding you need to keep the water out. so that's become an engineering issue and something to think about in some of our low-lying areas particularly around mission creek. and lastly i think brian alluded to this but as sea levels rise, groundwater levels rise. at some place it may emerge out of the ground

and it impacts the potential to mobilize contaminants in formerly-industrial areas. it's largely an issue in the eastern side of the city. and this is an area we need to do additional research. we don't know all of where the groundwater would rise, and we need to keep looking at that. so for each of the shoreline areas we developed maps like this. this is a lot of information. this is just sort of an example showing the financial district and all the different aspects that are publicly-owned within this district that would be affected. so you are looking at embarcadero, muni station the building we are standing in, some public safety buildings, the muni light rail and various piers and port structures. here's another one from the creek where you have a treatment plant, you have various port cargo facilities. you have a number of muni maintenance and storage yards. you

have the bridge over the creek. how do these systems impactinteract with each other. it doesn't happen all at once, it doesn't happen overnight. although in some cases it could be more storm-driven. in some cases we are seeing flooding today. in the creek you can see the area where the numbers 7 and 8 are by the top, there's a muni yard there and that yard flooded in past year during a minor storm event combined with more higher tied. tide. these are just a couple examples i'm showing you today. the last piece is more of a deep dive into the port facilities themselves. so we looked at the port multihazard risk

assessment for the seawall program is looking at the embarcadero facilities. so this report actually is not looking at this. this is looking at the southern waterfront facilities and what would be impacted there. and we looked at it across a number of categories, port structures which is historic buildings shipping piers open space, which is self explanatory. transportation which is varied and the ground transportation links to port facilities. a stormwater sewage infrastructure and ongoing adaptation projects. here's a couple examples of maps we have produced. you can see the faint blue line showing the 108 inches. and you know, the entirety of the jurisdiction is captured within this line. so we're really seeing that all the port facilities are potentially at risk from sea level rise and coastal

flooding. and so this is showing all the port structures that are there. the map on the right is showing the port open spaces. and we have those across those other categories as well. and so finally just some kind of high-level key issues that sort of emerge from this report, from this analysis and findings. not surprisingly, you would see a lot of maritime facilities and industries. and that would obviously impact port and related jobs and services that these facilities provide. and for all of these the degree of impact is obviously driven by the elevation of the port facilities, by the condition, by how they are used and whether it will be temporarily on permanently inundated across a number of scenarios. so different facilities become vulnerable at different scenarios depending on how high up they are. port facilities play a critical

emergency response function in terms of both staging areas and areas for people to aassembleasemiassemble or evacuate. so that would have a big impact on the city's ability to recover from a natural disaster. shoreline open spaces are at risk and this is a valuable resource and access for the for the city. dependence on access to transportation links both ferries and ability to access ferries. but also the links to the port cargo and industrial facilities, the road and rail and port facilities would be impacted as well. and finally, the number of the piers have stormwater utilities that run under the deck of the pier. and this would be a greater corrosion, tidal debris and inundation and

that would impact the city's ability to let stormwater out to the bay and could potentially affect water quality. so in terms of next steps, we are working holistically to think about not just sea level rise but kind of all of our climate hazards through the planning work that brian was just talking about. we are moving into the sort of four, five, six of that. or at least four largely. so some of the other aspects we are looking at are resilience building codes and guidelines for both existing and new developments. how do we develop a resilient capital plan and funding program for what is going to take to make these adaptations. and then developing adaptation strategies, kind of at the neighborhood level. all this information i presented to you is really sort of internal city information that we then want to take out to the community and say here's what we see as at risk. and what are

the priorities and values of the community and what should we do about that and how does that manifest in your neighborhood in terms of what types of adaptation strategies. so to that end we are working with the port on their resilience efforts for the sea well. we are working on the ocean beach adaptations where those are more localized, community-based planning processes to develop adaptation strategies and projects. so with that that concludes my presentation, and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you. having watched how the city has progressed on this effort in terms of both resilience and sea level rise, i think today's update and presentation has shown tremendous amount of progress. so

i really appreciate both brian and adam coming and showing us i think it's very important it's long-term and strategic but obviously we have to address it. and seems like with some of the things we see across the country and just in terms of the weather-related hazards that we all know even most recently are affecting the state more and more. so these are important topics. i guess i don't have any questions about how you are going about it or what you are trying to do. i have just a couple questions to understand given that we are not the only coastal city, that obviously we have a lot of other -- we just heard about seattle earlier in executive director forbes' report. how would we compare where we are at this point in understanding these issues related to some of our counterparts in other cities. and are we sharing knowledge on an active basis? >> ?

>> we are kind of in the thick of it and other counties around the bay area have kind of progressed further. they just released an adaptation framework so they are at the the next steps san mateo county is also at that next step. they had some informal conversations with other cities. and brian can talk to that more. but we have also been working -- and i didn't mention at the regional level with bcdc who is doing this work at the regional scale. so we are trying to coordinate what we are doing with what they are doing too. and as i mentioned some of the neighboring counties are ahead of us and others are not as far along. >> i would just quickly add san mateo is kind of ground zero in the bay area, because they are the most impacted by sea level rise getting it on both sides the bayside and oceanside, sort of like we are but more vulnerable especially with some of the

issues in pacifica and so forth with losing the -- the deterioration of the shoreline. right. and the other -- we are also -- i was at a uti coastal resilience conference recently. there is a lot happening all across the state. san diego is doing a fair amount with their port as well and looking at trying to use more green materials not necessarily changing their seawall but trying to use different types of materials than the typical riffraff that's been used. and then i would say across the country a lot we've been learning a lot from florida and the miami beach, miami ada, that area dade, they are experiencing sea level rise more than anywhere else in the country and they are also dealing with hurricanes. we've been looking at the work they are doing and a lot of the best practices are coming out of that region.

>> i had a couple other questions. you did mention, actually, brian in your presentation that we haven't had a lot of outreach engagement and you mentioned the private sector. i guess in terms of we heard from seattle in terms of how they are dealing with some of the private sectors in terms of neighborhoods in terms of contribution to help with some of the infrastructure and improvements needed. what will be the next step for the private sector on the resilience side other than making them aware the city has a plan, et cetera. are there any actionable items that are going to come down the line as far as the private sector is concerned? >> i mean, i'll just start. they've been very -- i think the private sector part, they've been very open. and i think the work done at seawall 337 the giants and so forth and their willingness to raise the level of

their -- raise the ground level of their project is based sort of on our guidance and forth, just shows they are really interested in stepping up. and we are seeing it with some of the individual development projects, especially in the downtown area the flower market where folks are willing to go up without any requirement without us telling them they had to, without any type of mandate. so that's been ongoing. and then we are seeing it, i think, in the participation on a lot of our workshops. so we've had the chamber happen really interested in doing this. and they actually have a whole group dedicated to climate change. we've seen some of the other businesses coming to us and asking us how they can participate in this process or what should they do. and often we try to -- like the guidance that we have for our own we kind of try to set a good example. if we develop guidance even though we can't necessarily require the private sector to use it, they can look to

it as a way for them to sort of justify the work that they've been doing. and then i do think we are talking -- well, brad, do you want to step in on some of the port stuff? down the road we are probably going to be looking at potential guidance would be the first step and then down the road it's changes to zoning and stuff. they have been working with property owners that have persistent flooding. >> and that's very helpful. but i guess eventually also it's a question of where is the funding going to come from. and what are the solutions to that. >> i would just say to the resilience program and embarcadero seawall program and flood study, we've been with the chamber of commerce spur. i was very proud of director forbes when we were in seattle. she took advantage of that opportunity in front of the

chamber delegation to talk about the downtown cfd special tax. i was like that's bold. [laughter] and then we were with marshal in the seattle crew and they talked about about the negotiation they had gone through to implement it and how it worked in that very broad area of downtown seattle. and it was just great to see the receptiveness of the chamber del gas station ideas like that. they seemed to -- delegation ideas like that. so we'll continue that. >> my last question relates to are we required to get fema approval. so i want to understand what fema approval does for us. what's the benefit? i know we are required to do it. but does it mean? >> it means we are eligible for a hazard mitigation grants number one. so the

poc received a grant to do work on some of the dams they have. they received a 700 thundershowers dollars7 -- $700,000grant. we received $2 million in hazard mitigation grants for one of the health centers. castro mission health center to do seismic work on it. the significant dollars that are coming up in that program. and then it really is, if you have a big event and you are out of compliance then technically you are not eligible for, new york for instance they got hundreds of billions of dollars to do work there. fema could say no you didn't meet our -- you are out of compliance so you are not eligible for those funds. >> okay. i just wanted to get confirmation that that's what it really means is access to federal funding. thank you.

>> commissioner gilman. >> thank you for the presentation. i have one question about your scenario models when you were modeling all those scenarios. i was curious if you looked at population migration or loss of housing. i was just curious how populations would shift across the city as part of your modeling. >> the scenarios those numbers and scenarios are based on current populations today. so we also do model kind of population and job growth over for our bay area, the middle and for our land use planning and understanding of growth capacity, where growth would be happening. those numbers i showed you don't actually include that. they show just a snapshot of people and jobs that are within

the inundation zone or the future vulnerability zone today. it's a little bit -- it's not exactly apples to apples, those numbers because it's saying future sea level rise but current population. that's what those numbers are. but i think you bring up a good point that we also ought to be thinking about future sea level rise and future population. one reason we haven't done that is a big portion is in the waterfront development plans that are building sea level rise adaptations so it doesn't change those numbers significantly, because once those developments happen, those areas are no longer within the vulnerability zone, because they have built up, if that makes sense. >> okay, yes that does. that clarifies a lot. thank you for the report. >> thank you so much for the report. this is extremely important work. and it's so good to know the city is working with the

various departments to make sure we are all collaborating on this effort. because i know this is only the beginning. and we have a long way to go. so thank you. >> item 12a request authorization to issue a request for proposal for the adaptive reuse rehabilitation lease and operation of the south beach piers at piers 38 and 40 within the embarcadero national register historic district, consistent with the goals and policies of the draft and port's resilience program. this is resolution number 19-43. >> good afternoon commissioners. david with real estate and development. thank you for the introduction, leah. can i have the screen please?.

>> i'm sorry. we are having more technical difficulty. if we can just take three minutes and organize this. sorry about this. >> no problem. [off mic] >> let's see what an engineer can do. [laughter]