>> good afternoon welcome to the land use transportation committee for january 27, 2020. i am the chair of the committee, aaron peskin. i am joined by vice chair safai see and dean preston. our clerk is erica major. do you have any announcements? >> please make sure to silence cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. items today will be on the february 4 agenda unless otherwise stated. >> could you please call the

first item. >> item 1. ordinance amending the planning code to allow authorization of a limited restaurant use in the jackson square special use district that does not comply with the current requirements of a limited restaurant use if a building permit application furthering the establishment of such use was filed by january 19, 2018. >> this is a piece of legislation trailing that adopted a year ago that we introduced at the request of the jackson square association. for those who do not know it, jackson square historic district is the city's first historic district, geographically small but rich in history, and over the years through fine tuning of

the ground floor retail controls for this area including the jackson square special use district, it has been able to maintain a vibrant mix of art galleries, antique stores, design studios, unique restaurants and bars and retail establishments along the alley network. the legislation before us today would allow for a blue bottle coffee store to open at 909 montgomery street on the northwest corner of montgomery and pacific. they submitted applications in july 2018 before the board approved the modifications to the special use district. the cafe has been sitting there ready to open. i want to thank the planning

staff and planning commission for their graciously waiving authority to hear this item, which reduced the period of time that we otherwise would have experienced and will minimize any additional delays and we have since met with blue bottle. we are pleased to hear they are using this to pilot a zero waste business model. representatives are here to speak to that in a little bit. i want be to also acknowledge the reuse coalition. i think miriam might be here and planning staff, ms. maloney, if you have any questions. with that i open it up to public comment. any members of the public or from blue bottle who would like to comment on item 1? if you do this is your moment. if you don't, all right.

going once, come on up, sir. >> i am the c.e.o. of blue bottle. we are going to use this location as ground to test conversing use of the disposable cup with a reusable cup. first time done in san francisco by blue bottle, and we announced this at the end of 2019. it has already had global amount of bless. it is inspiring people not only in the coffee industry but google and sweet green and whole food service and starbucks changes. a lot of eyes will be on this test. we are thrilled how supportive you are behind the initiative in san francisco. we want to do it at this location. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public to testify on item one?

seeing none, we will close public comment. if there are no questions, can we send this to the full board with recommendation as a committee report? seeing my colleagues heads nodding up and down, that will be the order. please read the next item. >> 2. ordinance amending the health code to authorize the director to allow existing medical cannabis dispensary to operate provided he has been verified as an equity applicant. they have complied with all requirements of article 33 of the health code. >> we had a long hearing on in two weeks ago. the city attorney advised because some of the changes were substantive that we needed to continue it to today before we could send it to the full board.

i know that honey is here from supervisor haney's office if you have any questions. if not any members of the public who would like to testify on this item number 2? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am terry finch. i represent a medical cannabis dispensary 1944 ocean cooperative. we are opposed to the ordinance in the current form would suggest an amendment. my client empathizes with the dispensaries that suffered landlord abuse. when his landlord decided to break into the dispensary and put him on the street, when he had an existing lease and would not pay the same represent as other dispensaries that were willing to pay more. there was a lease in place the

perspective tenant was willing to pay more money than he was. the ordinance as currently written fails to protect against those landlords who participate in this behavior. it only focuses on the location from which the permittee is moving because of the landlord's behavior. we propose an amendment to the proposed ordinance to disallow portability to the mcd use location where the location is the subject of a wrongfully vacation or forcible detainer judgment. my client has personally beenen broiled in litigation over his location for two years. he has spent nearly $100,000 in attorney's fees currently in his location. we believe that this -- he is currently tried that case before

judge and the ruling should occur within the next six weeks. we believe the ordinance as proposed will allow the current landlord to circumvent the relief requested in that particular litigation currently and allow that landlord to sell the particular property. because of that we would request. >> than thank you. have you discussed this with the office of the sponsor or is this new information to everybody? >> we have discussed it with -- we tried to discuss with the aides of your offers. we reached out to honey mahoney but have been unable to talk to her about it. i left a message last week and several weeks ago. we have not connected. we intend to talk to herb about

this -- her about this after the hearing, if possible. >> next speaker, please. >> i am sue. i was wrongfully evicted by the landlord. i am the mcd holder at 1944 ocean. i operate a small businesses. the goal is to provide the protection of small business for the legislation. it should be considered potential abuse. equity mcd has been abused by landlords. i would like to voice to the

supervisors how we could prevent the abuse. thank you. >> thank you for your testimony. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am aaron. we own 1940 ocean avenue. according to the department of health there are two available mcd locations at 1545 and 1944 ocean. i am also an equity applicant in the process of applying for the retail cannabis space at 1940. my retail application will be blocked by whoever decides to move into the vacant mcd at 1944. my family's location is 1940 it is within the 600 feet. my location will be blocked. i believe this comes down to

equity applicant versus applicant. the town of the little guys fighting for the same right to operate in san francisco. i request the legislation is amended so an equity grandfathered mcd cannot move into an equity applicant in the process of applying within 600 feet of that available location. if this passes it would disenfranchise me from operating a business in a building owned by my family my father left it to his children and grandchildren. my family has been small business owners since 1937. my father saved to buy this building at 1940 ocean. this gives my family one shot to continue the legacy of mall business owners. my father passed in october 2019. his wife suffering from

alzheimer's has 24 hour care. i can empathies with heidi. my family was forced to move from two separate locations. i would like to reinstate i am an equity applicant. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. you guys have heard numerous testimony over the last time we were here, and there is a clear issue what this is about. it is about keeping an equity business that has been in business over 15 years to continue their business. this is not about some lawsuit from previous owners, not about future equity applicants. this is about an owner and 20 employees already displaced. they have already suffered.

i ask you guys to spend month more time hearing any more amendments or anything about this matter and move this to the full board. people are waiting to get jobs back the owner of the establishment is still suffering. please move this forward. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. thank you again. this is me just asking you as a operator, owner-operator for the past 15 years, we were made to close doors on december 15th. i don't think you realize the first person that spoke, the attorney, his client has an operation. his situation with that location was awful, it sounds like. they are now up and running. unfortunately, we had nothing to

do with that. we have been working on this legislation now for almost 11 months. hoping that we would be able to be allowed to get our people back up and running. me as an equity applicant back up and running. yes, this is a town about equity. this is a town about opportunity, and as a native of san francisco i ask you to please allow this to happen so my people can get back on their jobs. thank you. >> thank you. any other members of the public who would like to testify? seeing none. we close public comment. maybe we can hear from honey mahogany. there may be a misconception that this legislation which is pretty narrowly tailored would have any impact whatsoever on the -- what i don't fully

understand the ins and outs of legislation -- i don't think that if it were amended per the attorney's request would apply. >> i am not clear that it would apply. we made arrangements to set up a meeting to talk about this. they have evidence they would like to show us. the intention was to allow a limited portability to make sure someone on the original application was able to move if they were displaced from the current location to another previously designated as a cannabis ready location. to the best of my knowledge, the amendment they are asking for would not impact this case because again the landlord is potentially selling thing. the

building. i don't know that this would have an impact on this. >> legislation as you saw we tacked on something to a piece of legislation we did a year ago. we did it in record short time. because this is an evolving area of law, why don't the folks from ocean meet with the sponsor's office. it is an intriguing idea. we have a long proud history of not rewarding bad actors in residential evictions. there may be some crossover there to that kind of behavior in commercial situations. it is worth exploring. i urge you all to meet with supervisor haney and his staff and if it makes sense we can entertain amendments. i don't want to get in the way of the current case we are trying to solve but let's have that conversation. i am happy to participate as

chair of the land use community. >> this is a stopgap measure for type 30 permits. they there transition to 16 so soon. it may be better served to apply an amendment there. >> good point. that is why we should have these conversations. if there is no objection we will take the legislation as is, send it to the full board with recommendation, and we will do that without objection. honey, if you want to involve me now that supervisor haney is not a quorum of the committee i can talk to you. >> item 3 an ordinance to abolish the north of market affordable housing fund and have certain fees collected in conjunction with north market affordable housing deposited in

the city-wide affordable housing fund. >> ms. chan. the mayor's office of housing. the one question i have because this is before us three times. you guys request a ti a continu. we are going to get this done. i understand the amendment you are seeking changed -- i thought the fee was indexed way up. now you are asking for it to stay where it was. that is the one big question i have. with that i will turn ittofer to you. >> thank you. mayor's office of housing and community development. we originally brought this to the committee to allow mayor's office of housing to deposit fees from the north of market fees into the city affordable housing fund ana and the plannig

commission recommended the fee get in decked since it -- indexed since it has not been done since created. there is one fee forthcoming. because we did not actually make the amendment in committee last time we were here, the legislation was sent back. since then the planning department has gotten clarification that they are able to index. they have existing authorization to index the fee starting in 2011. the planning department can speak to that directly. we have spoken to supervisor haney's office and understand this approach of indexing the fee from 2011 is a reasonable approach, and that is why we are seeking to change the legislation back to the initial

$5 per square feet fee amount. planning will automatically apply to indexing from 2011 forward. my colleague is here from planning if you have questions how they have that existing authority and are able to do that. >> is it meroln. >> ne? >> are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item. >> thank you. i brought this matter -- it came to my attention after it went to the planning commission. the agenda did not discuss increasing the fee 250% which is what the recommendation was. i represent two project sponsors. now, i represent one in the

special use district. we have been in discussions with supervisor haney. this would increase the fee. this fee was originated in 1985 before there was an incollisionnary housing or program with market rate housing. as you know, since then we have inclusionary ordinance that has increased the burgeon and obligation and the housing fund. in the special use district the inclusionnary is 25%, highest in the city. the project at 550 farrell street will have 25% inclusion air rehousing. it was not practical to pay a fiof $25 per square foot on the building. it doesn't work with the numbers.

just a little background on the project. 111 units replacing a private parking garage with a 13 story residential tower. it will pay the child care fee, transportation sustainability fee, north of market fee, school fee, altogether with what ms. chanproposed the fee is $1.8 million. that is a lot. the project sponsor thinks they can handle that with the increase. taking that fee several hundred thousands would endanger the feasibility of the project that is the reason we brought this matter to supervisor haney. >> thank you. any other members of the public to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed.

i believe what was actually amended in the board back in july is precisely what is in the packet so we don't need to take any additional amendments. that has the $5 and change in the long title. as staff discussed, that would be indexed by planning to 792. anything to add? >> we talked to the deputy city attorney and we believe we had to make amendments today to go back to the $5 per square feet and provided the actual red line to chair peskin for the amendments. >> i think the red line is what is in the packet and has been publicly noticed. am i correct? >> that's right. the packet reflects the reduction from a 25 fee to $5 fee. >> that will be indexed by staff

to 792. >> any questions or comments from colleagues? seeing none, can we send this to the full board with recommendation without objection? that will be the order. madam clerk please read the next item. item 4. ordinance amending the plumbing code to delete the local amendment to the california plumbing code referring to the san francisco public utility commission's rules and regulations in the section on cross connection control and to add local cross connection controls for beverage dispenserses and a testing requirement for back flow prevention and assemblies or devices and affirming the findings. >> we had to continue this because the amendments were substantive. they have been discussed.

any members of the public to testify on this item? seeing none, we will close public comment. without objection finally get this off our plate as they are finally getting -- finally getting along. this will be sent without objection. you do need a red line of the previous item and you would like us to resined the vote. can we go back to item three? i will make a motion to c resined the vote and make the amended in the red line i have given to the two of you and send that item as amended to the full board with recommends without objection. now, madam clerk could you read

the fifth and final item? >> eye team 5 ordinance amending the planning code to enable the use of development project sites during the project approval and entitlement process by authorizing the planning department to authorize certain interim activities at development project sites as temporary uses for up to 36 months, subject to extension at the discretion of the planning director. >> we are finally all on the same page as to this interim activity legislation which has been thoroughly discussed by this body. we dealt with 36 months to the 24 months and definitions what is eligible and interim activity. it is all discussed and all before us with a handful of

amendments which we will speak to and hopefully we can get this to the full board today. ms. malone, the floor is yours. >> this was last heard on december 16th. before that the planning commission heard the item on april 25th. this has been amended quite a bit since the commission saw it one amendment was the intention to make today is to take a requested modification from the commission which is to amend the requirement to increase residential density to instead only require an increase in residential density if there was existing residential on the site. i am happy to answer any questions. i will keep that presentation short. >> that is correct. that is oat out on page 6 -- set out on page 6 at line 11 to line 14. are there any questions?

supervisor preston, the floor is yours. >> thank you. apologies. i have not been along for the whole ride of this item. i had a couple of clarifying questions. does this apply just for private development sites or public sites as well? >> this applies to all sites across the city. >> in the same breath there are different things that apply to different sites in different parts of the city permitted use or in certain cases in an area bounded by division and market and whatever applies to other things. it depends on where you are. >> it depends also on the project application. that is the largest.

there must be an application to what we call tantamount to demolition or demolish the existing structure. there has to be a structure. it has to be enclosed. that structure needs to be proposed to become a development of something else, the full demolition tantamount the temporary use would go inside of the original structure proposed for demolition. >> does this -- i am wondering if this shifts decision making. thinking my district at 7:30 stanon there was an r.f.p. around the use. they were responsible for vetting those. some of those i could see applying here involved uses that may be at issue here.

does this move decision making around those uses from the department over to the planning? >> i would say no. i think the big clarification is that this is a planning department permit that needs to have authorization of the property owner in order to be applied for so in the case where you have the property that is owned they are applying in the first place. the decision to apply rests with whoever the owner is. >> last question. so i notice in the earlier iterations the homeless shelters were amended out. i am trying to understand if this advantages things other than home less shelter or if there are parallel provisions elsewhere putting homeless shelters on equal footing as

interim use. >> i am not aware of the legislation that balances that to take the homeless shelter out. i believe they were taken out after the commission. we recommended that a much larger amount of land uses be allowed in these sites. i may be wrong. i believe homeless shelter was one of those. i would pose that question to the land use committee. >> you want to add to something? >> i believe that the ordinance allows temporary use if it is principally permitted. homeless shelters are permitted where group housing is permitted. pretty much the whole city except rh-1 and 2. i don't think this applies to those. >> on 18 and 19 it does, any use

principally permitted. >> thank you. >> you are welcome. >> i have been advised by council this happens from time to time that in so far as the legislation that is in our packet and before the public does not have the amendment that we just discussed which really takes us from a residential only to much broader universe that when we actually accept those amendments which i think we will do it is going to require a one week continuance because that amendment will broaden the legislation. that is what ms. pearson advised me. i want to put that on the record. are there members of the public who would like to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i make a motion to accept the

amendments as proposed. >> we will accept and continue as amended for one week. you don't need to come next week. with that, the item will be continued and we are adjourned. >> welcome, everyone. and thank you so much for coming and i am claire farley and the

director and a senior advisor for mayor breed and tony newman, and today we are gathered on this historic day to open up san francisco's first trans home for transand non-conforming adults in san francisco. [applause] and it's such an honor to work for a city that continues to celebrate but also to do the work to make sure that our community gets housed. without housing, without housing we will not be able to help our communities thrive. every one of us need to come together to be a part of this solution and st. james and larkin street are doing that today. thank you. [applause] so first we have honored guests with us today and i'll turn it over to her. and mayor breed has led the effort and she made $2.3 million investment into transhome which

includes this opening today which is going to be 13 folks housed and 55 folks to receive subsidies for folks who are low income and she spearheaded with the community and the office and tony and we're so honored to have a mayor that continues to commit and really work to make sure that everyone in this city can thrive. so please welcome mayor breed. >> mayor london breed: thank you for joining us on this historic day. when i first became mayor in san francisco and met with the folks in my office, many of the department heads, i made it clear that equity would be at the top of our agenda in everything that we do. we need to change the culture of san francisco and not just talk about the problems that exist, but actually to make the kinds

of investments that will deliver real results. and it comes from my own experience of growing up in san francisco in the african american community, living in poverty, and waiting for something to be done. we know what the data says, but we don't always make the right investments that ensure the results that are going to change the lives of the people that we want to serve. and so when i met with the trans-advisory committee and we talked about the challenges that continue to persist around the opportunities for grants and the arts community and opportunities for housing and opportunities for programs and other services, the discriminatory practices that exist with job opportunities that they seek, the challenges with our homeless population and learning that people who are part of our transcommunity are 18 times more likely to experience homelessness than anyone else in this city, i knew that it was important to not only listen and

hear what they had to say, but to invest ar resources in tryino make sure that we can change what those challenges are for the better. and so i'm so grateful to be standing here with claire farley who is the director of the office of transgender initiatives for san francisco, because she has brought so many people together and to come up with incredible solutions. and is the reason why we have invested in this past year's budget, thanks to the supervisor of this district and others, supervisor peskin, $2.3 million for this initiative of trans-home s.f. and this is one of the first, most incredible projects that we are cutting the ribbon on today that will provide safe affordable housing for people who are experiencing homelessness. and so it is so great to be here today. and i really want to thank tony

newman because tony newman -- [applause] and she's a force and is committed to this work and she has hit the ball rolling with staffing up and working with folks in the community and making it clear what was needed, which makes it easier to provide the funding right to the places where we know that it's needed the most -- rental subsidies and wraparound support and services and making sure that we have the right people in place to get the job done so that we can get people off the streets and to get them into housing. so thank you so much to tony and the work that you do, to the mayor's office on housing and community development, and to the coalition, to larkin street and youth services and especially to the san francisco transadvisory committee who i have mentioned before the work that they continue to do to make sure that we call attention to

all of the inequities and the various city departments as it relates to funding and how it needs to change to make an impact on the lives of people who are a part of this amazing community and a true important part of san francisco. so i want to thank... (♪) (♪)

>> our young people, as well as reaching the thousand new shelter beds which is such an accomplishment and thank you so much for your leadership to make that goal happen. also i want to recognize our commissioners who are in the house today as well as our department heads, dr. colfax from the d.p.h. and others, leadership at mohcd for their support and really making sure that these programs get funded and that there's equity continuing throughout the work.

and as well i want to welcome the district supervisor aaron peskin. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you. i think that everything has been said but not everybody has said it. in addition to our d.p.h. director grant colfax i want to acknowledge and to thank the director of our department of building inspection, tom hooey. thank you to larkin street and thank you to st. jerusalem's and to the office of transinitiative incentives and the mayor's office of housing and community development. i am here to give a district 3 welcome. and let me just say that we are delighted, we were delighted to appropriate the funds, and i could not be more proud that this is the first facility and it is located here in district

3. which has a very proud, long lgbtq history from the black cat down the street to polk street on the other side, this is where it all began in san francisco. and we are profoundly aware that homelessness is acutely an lgbtq issue. and today we are taking a large step in addressing it and in solving it. welcome to district 3, to the 13 individuals, i will register you to vote the second you move in. [laughter]. [applause] >> thank you, so much, supervisor, and thank supervisor mandelman and supervisor haney, they were not able to join us but their teams are here and so thank you so much for your efforts. before i introduce tony i wanted

to recognize the anonymous building owner of this property who is renting this space to us and he and his partner are committed to making sure that transhome is a success and that we continue to work to make sure that our communities are housed in the city. and without having such a strong and supportive and inclusive manager of this building, we would not be here today. so let's please give he him a hd and thank them for their support. [applause] so now it's my honor to introduce tony newman, she's the director of st. james infirmary and i would like to say that i helped to kind of create the idea, and now she's the mother of the project. so please welcome the mother of trans-home, toni newman. [applause] >> welcome, everybody. i'm just so excited to be here today and i want to thank all of the partners here, hugo from the mayor's office of housing. and we have open house and we

have larkin who have been very supportive. and larkin is so supportive to me and st. james and the navigating team of matthew payden and jesse and camden, that have been working day and night to make this available for you. we're excited that st. james can be a leader with larkin. and larkin has been leading the youth for many years. and they have taught us how to do this. and i want to thank my board of directors for coming and i have four board of directors and two will be speaking and now i introduce akira jackson did she's here. she's a sponsor and she's been fighting for housing but i don't think that she's here, so jesse santos is going to come up and to introduce our first resident moving into the house this week. jesse, and jane, please come up right now. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for being here and this is a dream for us, for the trans-gender community.

i will introduce jane, the resident in our house and she's a beautiful woman. [applause] >> hi, i am jane cordova and i was born in central mexico and i came here when i was 16 years old and i grew up in l.a. and eventually made my way to san francisco, which is i live here for 10 years. and i went to new york and we stayed there for another 10 years and i'm very happy to be back in this city where our community has the most resources and i'm very happy to be here and to have a place finally to call home. thank you. [applause] >> i'd like to call up joquaim and jane, come on up. [applause] hi, thank you for coming, i'm

joaquin ramora and i'm here where i proudly serve as a board member and as an advocate for harm reduction and transsupport in the greater bay area. thanks to mayor breed and our trans-home and everyone else who helped to make this project come together. today we can celebrate that our trans-home is a step in the right direction for the city of san francisco. this ensures that transgender people have an opportunity to become successful in our society. stable housing is fundamental to creating access to resources for survival. our trans-home will provide this foundation to create a support system for those living on the margins within our city. excuse me. members of our community are constantly faced with unjust incarceration and poverty and constitutional and emotional violence. some encounter even more severe consequences and our transgender

sisters of color are experiencing hate crimes and murders on a daily basis and this goes unnoticed. the society must understand discrimination based on race and gender presentation. we must continue with this momentum and inspire more programs for the needs of our community. it's our due diligence as transpeople to ensure that the issues are confronted and change. we need companies and foundation and government to commit to advocating for transgender causes. our trans-home will provide the opportunity to not only recover and survive but to thrive and survive the power members to become leaders and role models. and protecting our community members and we are shifting the narrative away from being defined by our margins and barriers towards being defined by successes and positive impacts on the world. the housing crisis in the bay area has become recognized as an ongoing issue and despite this we're continuing to demonstrate that there's ways to empower and to support our communities with pride.

i feel proud to know that san francisco is a place of historical resistance and refuge for people of all walks of life and that we continue that resistance by uplifting our marginalized communities. thank you. [applause] >> i'd like to take a second to acknowledge akira jackson who is unable to be here today. i'd like to thank her leadership, without her we wouldn't be here today. and st. james is honored to be part of this project connecting folks. -- thank you -- connecting folks with the services and homes that our community needs. we look forward to continue to fight for the rights of our community. thank you. [applause] >> well, thank you all so much. and now we're going to move the podium and cut the ribbon.

one, two, three,. [applause] thank you all so much. (♪) (♪) >> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry he -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's journey because every autistic

child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open

adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but

my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i

rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides.

i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months.

my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy.

how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow

all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary.

calling health commission to order. i will call the roll. commission chung. bernal present green present. the second item on the agenda is the approval of the january 7, 2020 minutes. >> commissioners, the minutes are in your hands. any additions, corrections to the minutes? >> hearing none, i have a motion to adopt. >> second. >> all those in favor motion carries. >> thank you, commissioners, there was no public comment on the item. item 3 is the director's report. >> good afternoon, commissioners, grant colfax, director of