>> good morning i'm matt franklin a proud approximate honored president and ceo of mid pen is my great, great pleasure to welcome you to shirley chizism village. >> the ground breaking for the future home of 135 san francisco educators and employees of the district. how about it. [applause] we are done it. we marshalled the will and

resources to be at this day. it is irrelevant rable. we look forward it celebrating with all of you. everyone here has been part of the journey and worked with us to get to this very proud moment. . together, we created a plan. a resource the will and the plan and now the execution turning of the dirt to credit what i am confident will be model educator in district employee housing. the best in the country. it is buzz of the work we have all done together. today we look forward it honoring you and celebrating together your contributions to this effort. i want to begin my remarks talking about the residence denials of this district in this community. so we were selected work on this development 4 and a half years ago.

and -- in putting together our proposal we drove around the district and of course the first thing we noticed was play landful a rable effort from the communities. and the first meeting we held on a beautiful weekend day in the center. play landful i brought my boys with me. a gorgeous day. and i will tell you i have been dog this w for 30 years. works in 11 counties in san francisco and monterey bay area. and the beginning of the first conversation i of was i'm for affordable housing. if you have done this work you worry about the but. now i live in southern marin and

involved in my community and can't tell you how much i here i'm for affordable housing, but. i heard i'm for affordable housing and for it here. and we want to be involved, but we have thoughts and input we want and it was amazing. and the energy in the what it say busy this community you created play land and engage am that the neighbors had and have. and the way this supervisor tang and the city worked to do it. we knew it said a lot and counter to when narrative people want to have about the sunset or san francisco it was not our experience at all. i want to honor the neighbors of the district. will who have been involve anded

have input. features we point to and will. that are products of this engagement you lived up to your initial commitment we are for it here and we want to be involved and have a voice it has been fantastic the work made this a richer community. and i also. to highlight that the 3 organizations that came together to help govern and guidous this journey. and that is the superintendent's office from the school district. the union of the employees and teachers and the city and mir's office of housing. if you work in this field you know how river and heard that is. right? seriously. i work in the districts up and down the state it is heard to

get districts and cities every day will we came in literal intimidated and it was amazing. everyone around the table was rollingum sleeves. we get the work and how we will get focus groups going to work to understand. and it has been an amazing journal etch we learned so much and you see it in this community we are creating together. the district knows their teachers they know employees. they had all sorts of great data the union had feenemial data worked with us from the beginning to create focus groups of employees and educators so we

could listen and learn when their needs were and express in the ways that get policy but there are features of the development that are tailored to this workforce and community. we have been able in the great partnership with the district and the city with their investment and expert ease to create a range of incomes we serve. we are going deep on the income spectrum 35,000 for a husband hold and all the way up to 150,000. we learned teachers live in households. educators live in how did holds there may be other earners, there is a spectrum of need. in the moderate range have a difficult time living with their families in the city. and so we have a wide are range

of income in order to based on everything we learned together, and planned together this we know about the needs of the educators in the city. they gave us all sorts of input in the design. a lot behalf they want we hear from other residents they were eager to have common area space and we will have a generous out door courtyard and indoor spaces for exercise rooms and gyms. and they were eager for kids to benefit from school based after school program. you teach all day in the class does in the money you would not like an after school program for your kid. in the afternoon. working with the neighbors we got generous community serving space on the ground floor youth programming and services that was a need identified.

and i'm prud we preserved a corner of the soit that will be accessible to the public. and will be in the spirit of play land. and of course, we endeavoured with city and per ins and architects to envision a beautiful, high quality physical environment. which we know is a necessary condition to creating a great communities. it just a platform the fun part will be in 18 months when is we get back together and see this communities forming with residence denialses moving in. but we than quality of the built environment matters and creates this precedent for the community getting off to a great start there is a lot to celebrate and eager to invite our partners to share their thoughts and

reflections and i'm going to start with supervisor mar. [applause] >> good morning and i am so excited be here with you for ground break being of the village in front of this dramatic back drop here. and really today represents a huge step forward for our public school educators and new strategy its husband our essential w force and the sunset. i could not be prouder that sunset is home to this project. >> the village is the fordable housing that our workers need and deserve and thrilled support t. i did want to story by saying today is historic for the sunset. one of my top priorities expanding housing to meet our community needs. and the village not only addresses the housing needs of

educators but it is the very first 100% affordable housing ever in the sunset district. and amazing project will lead to are house nothing our neighborhood that meets our needs including our sunset district's fared automobile family housing breaking grounds onnishing and 26th avenue. >> and at a time when san francisco residents frustrated with the extreme cost of hozing and state of schools this project provides hope. not just to the educators and families who will be able to have a new home here but provides new home for our neighborhood and our city that we can build real solutions to our biggest problems and do it effectively and clantive and

creatively. this as matt mention third degree project brought our neighborhood together in the face of contention around housing and the village embrailled by community. and it benefited from the input and collaboration from the neighborhood. and again it is brought us together here over the last 5 years on our interim base. the site was reimagined and repurposed by the community play land on 43rd avenue. youth this is u noticed artists and gardeners and yoga teachers and skate irs and using public land for public good. and bring the sunset together. ir want to thank katie tang and her staff for w on creating play land at 43rd avenue. and thank the community it was a community envision and create ed

space. i some of the stewards here today. thank you very much. play land is gone the needs it serves are not going. and in addition to the delivery needed mixed income housing, the village will continue to tradition of public serving space on this site with a community room and public art by local artists. it has taken collaboration to get here. to be in the school district it came together in the service of a vision. that teachers and educators should be able to live in the communities they serve. we am deliver on that vision. we will deliver a housing solution for under serve the community and social and racial equity and he doing it together. let's also and yes, we need to build more and build faster and do more to address the housing

crisis impacting everyone in our city but we should take this moment to celebrate this missage today. if you are teaching our kids in san francisco you should raise your kids in san francisco. surely the village you can. again i want to thank united educators of san francisco. the mayor and her mayor lee before her and the mayor's office of housing. the school district leadership. for all of their work on -- initiating this project. and thank you to mid pen for your work and bringing it to life and the sunset xunt for embracing this and this will be a wonderful new project i'm proud and excite today is moving forward. thank you. [applause]. >> all right. thank you. now invite jenny lamb the pedestrian board of education.

good morning, telephone is wonderful to be here this morning. we are so fortunate to realize the vision which has been in the works for a decade and demonstrated the true commitment of collaboration with the city, county of san francisco and sf unifies district and the community. it is the first educator housing communities for san francisco and sfusd and only one of a handful of housing developments in the state of california. the development is built on sfusd owned land this would not have been possible without legislation and prop e in 2019. it was just down the street in 2019 where i spoke directly with educators, it was a couple who

also have an feint. edkirts in the district. and they shared their store we kneel me how it was difficult and is difficult to find affordable housing. they are so committed to our students, their profession and the public sector they were sharing how important it is that san francisco offers housing for educators and staff and they want to raise their children here. that discussion, this morning has continue today stay with mow throughout the work of the board working in community with our labor partners of recognizing right now we absolutely need to support our educators and staff that have been doing the work on the front lines every day and service to our students. >> we believe it this hozing

solution will create opportunity for educators and staff. in the district and allow the sfusd to retain a strategy w force dedicated to students they deserve this. and this is an example of how our city issue community and school districts can work toward machine goal when is we come together well is nothing going to stop us in doing what is necessary and needed for the betterment of our students and our city. i want to thank the san francisco community. our city partners and the voter who is made the project possible through their contribution. i want to extend my appreciation to the many sfusd staff who contributed it make thanksgiving a reality through steadfast dedication. there have been counselless hours, days and nights of meet

beings on the weekends. want to acknowledge and thank don, karissa fin low and karen sulveteran who are joining us today. long with viva mologyy. young lee who is here. and so many more of our staff. thank you to our city partners i know the staph is here you will hear from them examine this w is not possible without everyone here this morning and more that were acknowledging and thanking. i look forward to welcoming the first residence devenlts the village in fall of 2024 and want it acknowledge we are just getting started. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, president lm i appreciate the detail on the staff engagement. there are many issues you deal with in the realm of education and say that one of the thing

this is toed out how hands on and engaged the districted has been and it is the right thing. how you will get comfortable with the just being the beginning and trying to seize more opportunity as we go. so00 autonewest addition to the real estate community and real estate development community in san francisco. superintendent wang. >> thank you, good morning, everybody. i have some my third month on the job and look how much i accomplished! in this time! no. it is really i know the effort of the district, city and union leadership this has med this help. this is while i'm new to san francisco this is in the an issue with which i don't have familiarity. 25 years ago i started as aer i.

another city that housing can be difficult. and at that time, it wasave challenge. i taught in the lower east side where i could find a place to live was washington heights the tip of machine hattan and i would take the 2 train down and take 50 minutes to get down to the school. which i guess was helpful as a new teacher it was when i did lesson planning for the day and a challenge on the way home i would full aslope on the train after a full day about students. and that's why we there are reasons we want fordable housing we want our teachers in the community they serve and our educators to be in the communities they serve. where focus can be on their school and their class recommend and not worrying about half-hour, hour and a half commute or the other challenges this educators face in finding housing. i'm glad to be joining the team this project is starting.

and again know it has been a lot of hard work and it alines with when we are trying to do to recrew and retain educatorings. we increased salaries and from 2016 it 19. an 18% increase. but still did not match what the increase in costs in the city. we recently negotiated another 6% increase for the school year. it is in the enough to help our educators with the financial challenges than i face in finding affordable housing we are pleased this project is moving forward and again alines with our vision of recrewing educators and will appreciate the other work happened in the city to support educators finding housing. we have part inned with the city on programs such as teach are next door. down payment assistance loan. month low housing clinics and

legal advice. these are ways which we support our educator in finding affordable house nothing san francisco. i'm looking forward to seeing the building develop when i'm out and coming to the ribbon cutting and -- know matt introducing the next speakers i want to appreciate the president of uasf and past if the president it is. they are wonderful and than i represent the people dook the work with studentses and glad we work together to support them. thank you very much. >> thank you. iel. i have to say, as i introduce cassandra and ask her to come up we were so happy to see the union at the table from day one and i think that, too, i will put out there part of the model for how to do this right.

played a role in everything. a strong and helpful voice and i think first and foremost for us. helped the future residents of the community live at the center of the discussionless we had. as we go through this. that can get lost and the pro formas and the plans and it is so valuable and it is a far, far better community than it would have been without that. so, cassandra? [applause]. >> hi, thank you. good morning. the president of uesf and i'm here attended with for you of my predecessors or 3. dennis, suzanne and lita. as well as other leadership and folks who represent the 6, 500 members. who have been struggling with

affordable living in san francisco for decades. folk who is are dedicated to this work. right. as the challenges of education have been apparent to everyone, which is one of the things made clear during shelter in mrachls everyone got an inside seat. to had it is like if you had not before. some of what is left in the conversation i appreciate previously folks said; educators are not single entities. we are members of families. sometimes single parent households. sometimes no children households. sometimes we care for our elder family members or in some case i then and there is something we worked on was we take in our students as faster youths. we are commune members and sometimes presidents of nonprofits, creators of other

business opportunity. my point is this we are integral, critical and engrained members of the community. commune which we work whether at the school house. or where we live. if it is traveling in my case 3 hours round trip cross to oakland. we fuse to give up teaching there. or if a wuk down the street. can you imagine? being able to live amongst and with educator who is see, care for and educate our youth the foeks that are the most important in our opinionful in the city. the individuals who are very much our 40. those other folk when is we hope to teach to care for as well as we get older as well. it is important to understand this is their working living

condition. when an educator has the presence of mind and time to not just of stay after school and grade papers but to be involved in all of the community efforts, student's outcome and connection to their teacher to their educator and the school secretary, to the janitor who is my favorite person when i was at school. then there are even deeper and measure connected to their education. to the trust of not just this school but any school that followed. it is an investment. this project. in the future. and also hopeful low one of many steps this san front the district and of course, we -- have in the housing taking care

of -- planning for an fire community to work for the entire community. we are just one, one -- aspect if you think about education as one entity. but we are a microcosim. we report an entire healthy community. even in one building but also spanning from early ed to elementary, middle and high school. and then of course, college or city college or perhaps the workers that live around us. that are doing this w. it all speaks to a healthy community. we were happy to be involved. we know this work very well. we know our members and our students well. and we hope to be involved in more to solve a krois like that

called the staffing crisis and sometimes many other crises. there is in the a one single solution to this issue. because we are not one single issue. we are the entire community. of it will tick all of us coming together and we are happy to be involves and take leadership in the spaces and happy to work with folks making sure that the solutions are creative. innovative and intense. this. we are proud of this. we are looking forward to the first day of move in. some of us. and -- [laughter] i don't know but moving is horrible. but tell be great. i'm sure. so that someone does not have to move againful thank you very much. [applause]. >> we will invite you cassandra

toor favorite day when is we come and help the new residents move in. everybody needs help when they move. seat mask. birch introduce our next speaker i want to take a minute to tie together the last 2 speakers superintendent tucking about is experiencing in new york. and then such a passionate description of our incredible educators in san front. i want to re >> et cetera on the work we did together to name this community. shirley chizism village. got a lot of enput and so i hope if you get a mobile home you will take a moment to seat board we put up by the entrance. our staff had fun. we have enthusiasm around upon this name. it was an amaze pregnant leader.

the first african-american women elected to college in 1968 from new york. can american woman to be a series contendser for the democratic nomination for president in 1972. and importantly started in early childhood education before she was i don't know the nick name i think in congress than i called her fighting shirley. honed her skills in the community and the class room and an incredible champion for those under served in her time. we are proud of that name and appreciate the collective work to come up with that it lives. now it is my pleasure to introduce our critical part ins

a fundser to the development. investor in affordable housing throughout the bay. fiona chiou from silicon county bank. >> good morning, everyone on this beautiful, classic san francisco morning. on behalf of sill condition valley bank it it is an honor to be here on this long awaited ground breaking. silicon valley bank is prud to be a project funder. we are providing 98 million in construction and permanent loans and a tax credit investment. this americas our largest single project investment to date. and we went all in because you did and dedicated to solidifying this model for other community to follow suit. our purpose is to fuel

innovation for a better world and better world is one where our educators are feel well supportd and valued for tremendous role in developing our children. so, a small thing, i happen to be at one of the children who was educated here at francis scott key junior elementary school. i confirmed with my mother i attended here from k-second grade. and i was driving entering the grounds i had a moment, i don't have the clearest memories of my class or teachers but i remember walking out and feeling brave because i was a city latch key kid and took the network judah home while my parentings were working at city gentleman jobs trying to build their american dream. i did not know then as i do now the greatest lesson gained was how to be brave and resourceful.

that sweet memory of my small connection to the site has lifted mow up the past few weeks during the challenging times. it is -- no audio. um really to rise boost abstract terms we use in policy and financing units ami, and huannize the critical issues we are all facing. and -- these are truly challenging times need for affordable housing is continuing to grow and as those the need gross so does the complexity and challenges to get it built. we have incredible per sdmers incredible sponsor mid pen housing a dedicated team who are using their resourcefulness and resilience tow get the housing built and help the residents

succeed in it. so thank you so much mt and the entire team for selecting us for your trusted per in we are committed to being your strongest advocate on this journal tow build this project to fruition this say public/private partnership made possible by the san franciscouneified school district. san francisco mayor's office of how doing and community development, supervisor mar and mayor breed. thank you so much for this bold vision you had and we are committed to staying alined with you to bring the project to meet that vision. i'm in awe of seeing all of you here and think burglar the hundredless of community stake hold and neighborhood advocate who is fought for this project will not let you down. here is to a smooth construction. and tha you, again and congratulations!

[applause] >> all right i like to offer a quick reflection on the role of the city. the mayor's office of housing and commune development at the table from the beginning. that it is an office i had the privilege to lead for first 5 years of the administration before i came to mid pen we were dedicated to housing and got a lot done around supportive housing. i can tell thank you in my spare time i was over at the district offices with the then head of real estate. about once a week offering my services. we got 40 people they understand real estate. i studied. we can help. was my pitch. and -- you know despite the incredible work of mendoza the mayor's education advisor. the bottom line is -- 2

organizationless as a city in a district we did not have the relationship, we did not have the trust or spirit of collaboration necessary for this to be fluid and to work. the rolls royce expertise will work for you. what is you and your vision where do you want to go. with that and when i walked with the very beginning it was mayor ed lee. the bulk of the development and the decisions the financial decisions and commitment under mayor breed i saw all 3 at the table and how they were working together it was striking. it has continued. mohcd dog ed in helping get this done. dog ed in honoring had than i hear from the district. it speaks to the different tone

that is set today and in no mall part because of mayor breed's leadership. like to offer the mayor to share thoughts. [applause]. >> finally here! let me tell you. i really was worried about how long if took to get this project done. fiona can appreciate this as someone when went to the school it must feel great being here and making in this place for educators to live and work and thrive and we have been hearing the conversations over the decades about the need for educator housing and often times when we put things on it is ballot. there is a lot of conversation about housing for teachers housing for firefighters, housing for all the people but we know that the laws that exist

really make it so complicated. so difficult to get a project like this done. just even the 18 among delay to rezone this property to make it appropriated for housing in the first place. i appreciate supervisor mar because part of what he and i have constants low discussed is the need to get more housing built in this part of town. we are talking about the lost 10 years only 37 new affordable units introduce in the this community. the need to build is so important. the need to build means there needs torn collaboration we know there is a community here. we therein is nittive people who grew up here. and it is important we work together and try to be aggressive about getting housing diagonal yes, but it irrelevant is a partnership and does take a

village. hai love about this property is everything this it represented. it represented school. you know it was a school and then sad low a storage. i don't know if i'm happy about this i was happy the community came together in this space and turned it in the new and improved play land. i was not born when the original play land was opened. about it was a great space for people to come. a great space for people to really enjoy themming. so many kids and families. that's what shirley village is going to represent. it will be that great place for community to come together and communities space. not just the housing with a safe, fordable mriz to call home but a real village and community. that's when we need to create in san francisco now more than ever.

cassandra i'm proud of your leadership and finding solutions to provide housing for educator in san francisco. today i was thinking about my former english teacher mr. mckenzie. i did not appreciate him this much. il be honest. because you know mr. mckenzie's class was heard and heard low ever smiled. and when i found out this he lived in [inaudible] i did in the know what that was at the time. when we were learning about maps and locations and how long it to being to get to work. i started to tree him different because i felt like he guess out of his way to come this far to be there for us. so the least we can do is behavior better in his class room. that should not be the case is my points. that is why this housing is so important. it is important to what we need

to do to develop a better future in san francisco. yes, we need more aggressive with housing policies. we need to be open minded about the possibility of using under utilized spaces like that accomplice to create house being opportunity and we need to make sure there is a real connection between the people this we want to have access to the housing and their ability to get in the housing. this is another ball game we are discovering and fact this is the first educator housing we have been able to build in san francisco. i am so happy about it and pleased and what this sayings is this we can do it. we can do it when we have collaboration. we can do it bh we stop waisting time with petty to the tick and can do it when we listen to each other even photocopy it is in

the when we agree with. this it is proof positive this we can do it. [applause]. i want to thank uesf and the folks who were a part of this and everyone when came together the now superintendent takingal credit long with our -- board members and others and -- our supervisor mar and just to say i want to really give credit where it is do you i was a member of the board of supervisor when is ed lee made the commitment and wanted to get this project done. and so i want to appreciate him and his work this is a testament to the important work he cared about but the person w that we all need to care borrow and folk us on here in san francisco. i'm happy to be here. this is realist a significant accomplishment. i almost paused several times to reread what i was going to

today. to make sure that it was actually this grounds breaking that we were finally breaking groundom this project. and i had to call and ask are you sure are we doing this. we are doing it. we are doing it and we have to make sure that we work with our educators the 1 who is work in schools within the area to ensure that there irrelevant is a direct connection with educator who is work hard and work close to this area and access to the affordable housing so we can truly create the village we know that shirley would be proud of. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause]. thank you. mayor. going like this i was thinking about the classroom had we wrote the answers on the hand. all right. it bring us home this so much

more goes into this then and there we had a chance to call out here. aly is the direct of mid pen's san francisco and north bay office and involved in this develop the from day one. aly will bring us home the final speaker. [applause]. >> thanks. get red for the long list of thank yous. thank you everyone for joining us here today. what an honor it is to stand at this grounds breaking the representatives so much work and dedication from the speakers you heard from today and represent hope for the future of educator housing. everyone has an interaction with educators and everyone has a story about a favorite teacher. classroom aid or councillor that helped you through a tough time. everyone knows educator in the communities. we know educatorings struggle with housing insecurity.

educators have an impact on lives and communities and prud to give back and recognize their hard work through this housing. i want it say from the bottom of my heart and i peek for everyone when i say thank you to the many, many folks who have helped this educator housing become real every the membership years of planning including identifies this piece of land, engagement with niches and future residence denials and the commitment to house educators. they will benefit through stability of housing knows than i will not guilty worry about rent increases, long commutes or other stressors. this allows folks to spends time on self care. personal had beenys less in planning, working with students rather the long commutes. thank you to the vision and financial support from the city including the mayor breed and mayor lee and technical support if community development. machiney project managers that

worked with us including fitzpatrick in the crowd here and director shaw, judi hall. and others when worked tireless low on this development. thank you to circumstance fu sd use thanksgiving sited the first example of educator housing. thifrpg its lee and steven, don, and karen sullivan and uesf for involvement during the design process we sat around the table optimizing the building designful bedroom mix and amenity tologist best serve the future residence denials. thank you to supervisor mar and staph for staying connected and involved with the community during this process. and your involvement as we work to build on your relationships "art community as we bring our public art work to life here and thank you to the fremdzs of play lands for thoughtful input during the design of the out

door space stilling known as play land and serve as a gathering space for the neighborhood and thanks it sunset youth services. not only for the important work you do but for being part of this process and bringing your synergies to the space with the community. thanks to development consultants and the team including grown from california housing per inship corporation and our architect and condition transactor team for working with us. to uphold mid pen value condition transact practices so we are living them not writing them in our strategic plan we dedicated a fifth of construction contract of this development over 14 million dollars to small local accidents. we are achieving community center said practices that address the legacies of disinvestment and inequality by

pursuing the condition transacting to grow the next generation of accidents and great opportunities. thank you to patricia and david casey and casey and kim and matt irwin and seek out the small local businesses with us. and thank you toal the work and support from the mid pen team including on property management, compliance, legal, accounting, construction management, residence den services and communications and business development departments. thank you to the folks on the day it day real estate development from mid pen w to figure out all of the nuances of the deal including andrew, lisa, matt and jay. and finally i want to thank and recognize the project management team that got this across the finish line and closeod construction finance nothing referred time. we were awarded federal tax

credit in john you have until december it start construction. but the leds got busy and were able to start construction by august. so, i mean it feels like december. great work by senior project manager michelle quill. lauren fer and he associate project manager jazmin lee. thank you everyone else this had an irrelevant in this project and fiwas not able to rescue noise you by anymore we see and you appreciate all your work on this development thank you. >> all right. this concludes our program. stick around for refreshments we doll a turning of the dirt here. thank you. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!

>> i lived in the mission neighborhood for seven years and before that the excel see your district. 20 years a resident of the city

and county of san francisco. i am the executive director of a local art space nonprofit that showcases work that relate to the latino community and i have been in this building for seven years and some of my neighbors have been here 30 year. we were notified from the landlord he was going to sell the building. when we realized it was happening it was no longer a thought for the landlord and i sort of had a moment of panic. i heard about the small sites program through my work with the mission economic agency and at met with folks from the mayor's housing program because they

wanted to utilize the program. we are dealing with families with different needs and capacities. conversations were had early in the morning because that is the only time that all the tenants were in the building and finally when we realized that meda did have the resources to buy the building we went on a letter writing campaign to the landlord and said to him we understand you want to sell your building, we understand what you are asking for and you are entitled to it, it's your land, but please work with us. what i love about ber nell height it represents the diversity that made me fall in love with san francisco. we have a lot of mom and pop shops and you can get all your

resources within walking distance. my favorite area of my home is my little small patio where i can start my morning and have my coffee is a sweet spot for me and i

>> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of operation. >> one of the main drivers is a one stopper mitt center for -- permit center. >> special events. we are a one stop shop for those

three things. >> this has many different uses throughout if years. >> in 1940s it was coca-cola and the flagship as part of the construction project we are retaining the clock tower. the permit center is little working closely with the digital services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. >> the digital services team was created in 2017. it is 2.5 years. our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. >> one of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the scale. we have 58 different department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. >> we are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to

navigate through the permitting processes. it is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed. our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city. >> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing people to apply online for the a.d.u. it is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add

something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit. you have to speak to different departments to get it approved. we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. people struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. >> when people arrive they canshay what they are here to. it helps them workout which cue they neat to be in. if they rant to run anker rapid she can do that.

we say you are next in line make sure you are back ready for your appointment. >> we want it all-in-one location across the many departments involved. it is clear where customers go to play. >> on june 5, 2019 the ceremony was held to celebrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. six months later construction is complete. >> we will be moving next summer. >> the flu building -- the new building will be building. it was designed with light in mind. employees will appreciate these amenities. >> solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle chargers in the basement levels, benefiting from gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300 bicycles. when you are on the higher floors of the building you might

catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling in forms. they will have good conversations with our staff.

>> president swichlg good ff. evening and welcome to the september 28, 2022 hybrid meeting of the san francisco board of appeals president swig the presiding officer and joined by vice president lopez. commissioner trasvina and commissioner eppler. welcome. >> and commissioner lemberg is abcents also the deputy city attorney will provide