>> okay. >> welcome to the san francisco historic preservation commission regular meeting this afternoon at 12:30 pm., wednesday, february 7, 2024. >> when he reach the item you're interested in speaking to it speaker will be allowed up to

three minutes and you'll hear a chime many when your time is almost up please speak clearly and slowly and i ask we silence any mobile devices and i'll take role. >> president matsuda here. >> you vice president nageswaran here. >> commissioner baldauf here. >> commissioner campbell here. >> commissioner vergara and commissioner wright thank you, first on the agenda is general public at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter the subject matter of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. again, you have general public comment need to come forward and seeing none, come forward general public comment

is closed and move on to. >> b. department matters : department announcements. >> yesterday you're staff defended an appeal to a project that was approved and on november 3rd the granted a certificate of appropriateness to construct basically two horrible additions on the land 115 for the library so the board of supervisors um, successfully - denied the appeal in the explained and upheld the ceqa determination other than no other announcements updates. thank you. >> thank you. >> very good commissioners.

>> b. department matters : department announcements. members of the public you need to come forward nobody comments on the minutes is closed and now before you and so moved. >> and motion to approve. >> thank you on the commissioner baldauf, yes. >> commissioner campbell, yes. >> commissioner foley, yes. >> and president matsuda so moved. >> and passes item three. >> 3. commission comments & questions. disclosures. >> i have an informational i guess announcement for the commission. the china branch of the san francisco public library will

come before us at the next hearing on the 21st and offering a site visit to the commissioners if the commissioners are interested if going on a site visit about one hour of and a half i have the dates for that visit and we can have up to three combhirsz per session. so it will be from friday monday or tuesday please let me know and the second we have been sitting on the technical weeks regarding the waterfront that is part of our agenda today new number 7. and so we wanted to disclose the participation in that. >> that's all i have to say.

thank you. >> nothing further commissioners i did have a request of you next time we are scheduled to mediate on february 21st we have scheduled ar c meeting as well as the regular hearing is quite full. and we expect commissioners commissioner campbell commissioner baldauf not present bringing your number down to 5 any conflicts or recusals may not hear the item i ask you review those items um, in case there are any potential conflicts. and that's it and. >> 4. election of officers. in code of ordinances with the historic preservation commission the president and vice president

should be elected at our first hearing continue this matter to today. we should open up for public comment members of the public to address the election of officers again must come forward. seeing none, coming forward public comment on the election is closed and now before you commissioners. >> commissioner foley. >> i'd like to elect president matsuda and at our president for the next election. >> i'll second that. >> if no other nominations, we will take up the motion to elect president matsuda as president and . >> commissioner campbell, yes. >> commissioner baldauf, yes.

>> vice president nageswaran and president matsuda, yes. >> thank you that motion passes. 7 to zero and we have a good team good team >> 5. 2019-017325coa 2109 liberty street - continued from regular hearing on january 17, 2024 (proposed for continuance on february 21, 2024) members of the public this is our opportunity to address the commission on the continuous only on the matter of continuous seeing none, coming forward public comment is closed. and your continuous calendars is now before you and is there a motion to continue. >> possession to approve continuous. >> thank you on that to continue commissioner baldauf, yes. >> commissioner wright, yes. >> vice president nageswaran

and president matsuda. >> so moved. >> and under the regular discussed during the budget process .preliminary recommendation: adopt a recommendation for approval. >> hello commissioners my name is katie and i am the budget and analyst at the planning department before i delve i want to talk about this budget may it change over is coming weeks and continue night life the board of supervisors passed the budget for the last two fiscal years in late july. an idea of what we're covering tart start with an overview and updates in the mayor's office and coast guard

and will look at the volume trend and expenditures and the work program and with our calendar and what to expect next. >> the next slide from the corin woods budget kickoff meeting they held in 2023 where is the mayor's office arraignment the instructions for the and with the priority of the public safety reducing homelessness and transforming the mental health and as an overview shared the rate of expenditures is far out pacing the general fund revenues which is creating a 200 and giving million dollars deft in 2025-2026 and a $54 million from

2025-2026 with diversities in the coming years they asked the department to russet they're general fund by 10 percent in each fiscal year. the general fund will have a deficit and reference last year was a deficit of $728 million. some reasons behind the deficit include a high office vacancies and increased litigation from the tax revenue and lower than 0 reform and hospitality industry and reduce the local and sales tax and one time into our own department for the economic

cycles have a soft and continue to do so as well as the revenue compared to previous years. in terms of revenue we reduced the general fund by $920,000 that was instructed by the mayor's office and reduced the fee revenue and asized mention the mars office has a citywide deficit of $99 million and the economic vitally and accountability of services and spending. the majority of the planning department button budget in order to project the fees we look at the trends the last year was the actual building permit and trend from fiscal year 2016 and 2015 and the fiscal years from 2022-2023

to and fiscal year to and fy2022-23 the volume to to be slightly lower than the revenue the department will reduce the fees by $3 million of reducing the revenue by $4 million and assuming approximately, $1 million in consumer price for a reduction of $3 million and this reflects the trend of past several years the grant and special revenue budget is expected to stay high in the budget year the out years shows the lowers amounts because we that don't know the - the impact fees will be collected in 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 and is this will recovery the costs for

administering the impact fees and programs. and this is just lower than the previous years based expected revenue and the enter department will be relatively similar over the two fiscal years and for the recovery for some projects will be put on hold based on the current fiscal year um, those are subject to change as the department refinances the services from the planning department in the upcoming years and in the second year to determine whether or not that will actually happen this is the $920,000 reduction in 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 and to line with the mayors office reduction restrictions. with the expenditures personnel cost made

up a majority of budget we anticipate fees to be 63 in the budget a 70 percent and the costs assume that some vacancies will be removed from the budget and due to the negotiations and cip and other benefits. the overhead will likely change as the development continues and non-personnel services is software and contracts we reduced the contract to create savings and increased the software expenditures due to a shift from work order for non-personnel services and costs and increased the biggest for transaction and interpretation services. materials will likely increase and slightly they're in the budget compared to previous years for data processing costs and staff working in the

observation compared to mostly working from home in the covid years. the majority of projects budget is related to the expenditures and more specific expenditures will be known once the grant is awarded to the department and interdepartmental services will change as the cost estimates for the services in the next two years and we building that will be able to see some sieves from other departments and what they charge us the largest capitol hill's are rent and city attorney and technology support those budget will be loaded after the departments submit to the mayor's office. >> this reflects the work and the definition ftes may change we identify the vacancies will be cut. the budget equity which

was first piloted in reiterated for how the budget proposals will benefit or burden the communities of color and other marginalized groups and to the counted as equity at a minimum the work program must prioritize and center the work in an equity geography or an equity population. and with those criteria we find the senior managers looked at the budget proposals using this methodology and listed the work program and contracts that had the criteria. and overview the office of the inspector general of 2025-2026 resources allocation that 23 percent of work programs will center on equity. and here are the details of criteria that we are used to determine whether

that is equity. >> this is our budget calendars we met with the planning commission last month to review work program and meeting with them tomorrow to request approval for the work program and budget and submit the budget on february 21st and the mayors budget will be published on june 1st and button considered by the board of supervisors in june with that, we respectfully request you approve our resolution recommending adoption. >> thank you and please let us know if you have any questions. >> very good. thank you. >> with that we should take public comment this is your opportunity to address the commission on the budget seeing none, commissioners public comment is closed. and this matter is now before

you. >> commissioner baldauf. >> thank you. >> can you speak into our microphone. thank you. for the presentation i was wondering if you could explain on the graph of planning and case volume the miscellaneous cargo the building permits are relative to 14 a 15 and trending that way and the planning cases are sort of - maybe down marginally but this category of miscellaneous permits that seems to be where the deficit is. >> hi deborah planning staff so the miscellaneous permits referrals from other agencies

both city and state um, and so that - yeah, like all the other volumes nothing we control. but they - have been trending. more down i'm so we're getting fire referrals and can i explain what kind of projects are referrals so opine to that if you don't mind for example, the state alcoholic beverage will reach out to planning and ask for verification that certain land use is present on a site to make sure they can have a certain type of licenses for example and public health reaches out to make sure that a restaurant is legally authorized so plannings role to basically deal with non-uses on the site that is

different if the d b i really. >> with those receivers. >> in most cases we don't charge for referrals. >> okay. >> i guess just to put my question on the table is that i know we're in a budgetary proximate cause a problem but i'll always concerned asking staff to do more than less and don't - had is the number of full-time equivalent positions to remain unfilled to make this budget work? >> [off mic.] and sorry about that. >> on the director of the administration on the department

so with the proposed budget in front of you will have about 20 vacancies that will remain unfilled. um, so 0 every button has an attrition number in it and those positions will be vacant to meet the attrition that is $1.9 million in the budget so um, anyway and, of course, the operating people come but right now will be about 20 vacancies that will cover our budget attrition level. >> but then is the work plan for 20 percent losing less work? >> for the attrition numbers assumed the plan so when we do fte count - so the way the budget works the attrition number in the budget janitors the fte count a negative. so for example, i'm one position that

if the attrition is 10 percent by the ftes were .9 percent. or per 9 ftes so the work program takes attrition out of it shows available fte to do the work so the attritions is lineed with that number. >> okay. but just to - i don't show 20 percent less permit and case volume from this chart - from last year to this coming year so what happens. >> i'm not sure i understand the question. >> i think the planning and permit case volume is based on our estimate of what those projects will be in basically trending for within the city; is

that correct? tom? that's what you're finding we have to provide an assumption what we think the case volume and identifying and scale the staff accordingly on the assumption. but you're scaling your staff down by 20 percent with much less of a decrease in volume than 20 percent. >> well, so i guess to answer your question we look at the actual cash walking in the door and based on what we can to pay for we scale back staff 20 percent you're right at the end of the day, we this pay for what the revenue in the door and add within the years that we see the high volume in the graph a lot of big projects and now a

lot of small projects so the first have last year fees and small projects that have small um, fees associated so the project lovely it isn't decreasing at the same rate the revenue is coming down because those represent smaller fees for smaller projects so the balance, you know, how fast can people get through the work given fewer people doing light work that's the balance. so at the end of the day, we, only budget expenditures have actual revenue behind them that's the reality we're dealing with. >> thank you vice president nageswaran. >> as far as i read in the documents the historic preservation commission portion and staff time on that

maintaining pretty stable and so it is part of the program expeditiously smaller on the planning department is doing by remains stable.; is that correct? >> yeah. yes, that's correction the budget assumes the resource level for the historic preservation commission programs remain constant and permanent. >> thank you. >> commissioner wright. >> thank you and two points to follow up in the graph where it is showing a reduction in endorsement i'm confused curious why less enforcement projected will be. >> to those cases walking in the door with the graph those are actual caseload of walking

through the door it shows fewer enforcement cases for people walking through the door for enforcement complaints so those are actual cases walking through the door. >> okay. >> and i mean, i guess to clarify my statement it looks consistent for the past few years less than years further back in 2018 and 2019 and follow-up on vice president nageswaran comment about the historic preservation commission preserves of the budget remaining consistent i will ask staff to kind of confirm but the surveys um, the sf survey. >> the citywide survey. >> yeah. >> you will continue to be

funded in the same way and i think that um, (clearing throat) that will reinforce the priorities of equity and also future economic growth in the cities. >> yes. >> that's correct commissioner wright we do have the citywide survey funding the survey is a priority within the planning divisions budget that is probably our biggest way we are meeting the race goals and the particular folks on the development of our more the ethic african-american statement and the latino and oats chinese-american and native-american which we're anticipating completing over the next year. >> thank you. >> commissioner foley.

>> thank you president matsuda and to commissioner baldauf question i know that may be wrong but once the workload decreases and the mayor's office and the streamlining won't that make the departments job easier. >> it will shift the nature of the work is what we have recognized we recognize that some of the work will be was easier to a certain degree we have all sort of new state laws that have passed that need to sit within our existing regulatory framework we recognize that a lot more of the work mr. get pushed over the counter to it stepping up our planning calendar will be important we might have triggered parks and recreation for quite a bit of work we are still doing work but the shift basically towards our permit

calendar. >> i like to ask the gentleman and question about the citywide survey that particularly level of funding area is not coming out of preservation; is that correct? >> correct but we have money that have been given to sf survey but passed the allocations from the board we're been drawing down. >> we have the ability to continue the historic um, reports on various community moving forward? >> with the current budget. >> correct. >> okay. thank you. >> any other questions for the commission about the budget? >> motion to approve. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners there is motion that has been seconded to adopt the recommendation for approval on that motion. >> commissioner baldauf, yes.

>> dmaurdz, yes. >> commissioner wright and vice president nageswaran and president matsuda, yes. >> so moved. >> that motion carries. 7 to zero. >> thank you for the presentation. >> commissioners that places us on the final item anybody us on the final item anybody (usace), in collaboration with the city and county of san francisco, has reached an important milestone in the flood informational presentation. >> hello, i'm danielle a senior planner on resilience not citywide division and thanks for having us for an informational presentation on the coastal waterfront and also the flood study the flood study is led by the the u.s. army corp of engineers the port of san francisco and in collaboration with the city departments and staff and planning has collaborated with the port own this for over 5 years and thanks

to a short list of staff including. >> (calling names.) >> today we're fortunate to host the port it is a of in the chambers and soon hear from the deputy program manager for the resilience program and the studies project manager and fm mark the preservation coordinator and outside of chambers this work is supported by benson with the waterfront director and director forbes and starting january 26th the project launched a 60 day public comment period that ends in march and the study and planning and port staff has two hearings to hpc to we'll share an

overview of the draft are report for the information and public comment. we have the subsequent visit comments scheduled for march 20th to focus on the process for section one 06 of the national historic preservation commission act and the program for one 0 six the comments received today and on march 20th will be combined into a letter from the hpc to the u.s. the u.s. army corp of engineers and now before i hand the mic over to port staff the public library draft plan a milestone for the study the planning department has working closely with the port on amplifying issues like the historic preservation commission open space and racial equity to the economy beyond the project and a year to refine the draft plan and especially, as the flood study is finalize this

hesitate laid the ground work for the investment into the city's adaptation so thanks you're attention and now i'm going to turn it over to support staff. >> thank you. >> thank you, daniel, if i have would the screen aim adam the planning lead for the waterfront resilience program and the flood study at the port and mentioned my project manager and environmentally and mark the support coordinator. today as danielle mentioned we're going to go over the draft plan we released to the public a couple weeks ago and in the comment period and coming back to talk about one 06 but kelly and mark

are here to reference those topics. >> so the flood study is (clearing throat) a partnership with between - >> and this is really a draft plan that we're putting out to a final recommend plan to go before congress and at a high-level of detail have a high-level cost estimate of $13 billion and it is hard to say that really rough and subject to change in the report and if it gets approved by congress the federal government will pay 65 percent of the costs but itself remainder coming from state and local and other

sources i should say and working through the climate sf working group and public utilities commission and office of resilience and capital plan. i'm 1 to 2 talk about the risks and hazards on the waterfront going through the flood study and over the draft plan some of the key considerations and the public comment period and how to make public comment. to start with the waterfront risks looking at the seismic risks could happen and the shoreline and ground shaking and lateral and life safety risks associated with the building collapses and the a lateral from the 1906 quarter that exists today and real factor we're worried about and

flooding and looking at you know a city built on the waterfront built a lot of the waterfront is on fill that was reclaimed from the bay and the sea level rise and more extreme storms and in the baird without reclaiming a lot of the low lying land in the easier that used to be part of bay and the wetlands so by 2050 up to 5 hundred structures that are vulnerable to flooding and benefit of the 2140 damages up the $43 billion a significant issue so the flood partnerships with the the u.s. army corp of engineers covers the port jurisdictions of the waterfront that goes and extends from the air consecutive park and in the

bayview and hunter's point and the ocean beach as well by this particular studies focuses on the eastern industrial waterfront that is a general investigation and feasibility analysis in a redevelopment plan to congress and a finding of federal interest in investing in that type of project we released the draft plan and and thirty day public comment and with agency comments and technical and policy review by the the u.s. army corp of engineers and independent peer panels about that and going to take that comment into refining the plan based on those comments and cover with a recommended plan by the end of 2025 and prepared to

congress hoping for authorization in 2026 and this and that an engineering phase and that can last 5 to 10 years and in the construction that really could be built in phases over decades. based on sort of the available funding authorizations from congress and things like that so we're at a high-level and i hesitate to call three but we'll get into deeper process. and so to that point we're really deciding sort of approximately where we want to build the fences we looked at a shoreline alignment and looked alignment further into the bay that adds fill and the land size and looked inland treating from some areas and having less

impacts on the bay but more importantly on the city we settled in the middle here we're also looking at how higher do we build the fences and what level of sea level rise and storm surge not the same approach in each area and how much spaces to grade back to the existing and what to do with that space. >> what community-based organizations on top of that and not in the plan but the engineering and built structures we're not looking at encouraging signs for streets and open spaces and stormwater management no detailed plan or phasing plan or a funding plan for this that's all to come later on sort of the introduction draft plan we've going to continue.

>> we done a huge amount of risk analysis and over 6 years over one hundred and 50 trends and attending thousands of meeting and drafted strategies we presented to the public in the fall of 2022 and early 2023 and got feedback were arranged how i showed you and used that as a result of the public feedback and the cost of benefit analysis to come up with what we presented at the draft plan and analyzed that from the draft eir so this, you know, a fairly unique plan this is a a little bit of a new territory prosecute the the u.s. army corp of engineers for a couple of reasons but one a typical army

corp of engineers to analyze and collective plan baselines the national economic benefits ratio and the higher that is, we're going to select that plan that the first time anyone analyzed but other factors including regional economic jobs and small businesses loss and recreation and commissioner miller benefits and social and racial equity benefits as well including how the different strategies invariable impact disproportionately impact the vulnerable population we developed and plan and selected the plan on the comprehensive benefit analysis not only on the economic development and first nationwide model and hope 2 makes that to the process we're proud of that work on that. um, and the plan itself is dashed

boxes has a series of kind of first actions i'll go through and built from essentially 20 thirty and beyond subject to that congressional authorization of appropriation and those have been 1.5 to three feet of sea level rise and will be prioritizing and phased in and for subsequent actions developing sort of adopting and plan we do the right thing how fast sea level rise will occur but we're working towards developing projects will, you know, address the next 50 years but beyond that we don't know how much investment to be making we're developing this subsequent actions and, you know, addressing how rates of sea level rise and come in and plan designing those subsequent actions baselines thresholds through the monitoring plan and

have projects we're mrements in the near term and outside of this stayed work but using the proposition a market and satisfying bonds to invest in some seismic and immediate floods that exist today and you subject of the presentations but maybe at a later on time and developing the impact statements and we also will be developing a ceqa eir for the flood study. >> working through the approach timing kind of in the given of the phases 6 doing that and we have done that along with the flood study report. and ceqa report and this is we have to be doing a environmental compliance with section one 06 compliance

under the historic preservation commission act mentioned earlier will be developing an agreement and entering into that with the core and the historic preservation commission officer and kelly and mark can speak in more detail to that roadway we're looking at the identification of the mitigation for that. walk you through the draft plan this is an overview of the key moves for the draft plan we're looking at the flood study area from the park to the setting up to the park in the north and we divided the plan into four sub areas or reaches of the 234u678d but in general you're looking at the thick yellow line area we're

evaluating the shoreline and seismicly marking stable and evaluating and adopting the wafer will in the embarcadero over the ferry building particularly in fisherman's wafer this is trying to respond to the main themes have been feedback over the last 6 years and focus on life saturday night and emergency response and public connection to the water and focus on people and daily needs and nature based solutions and habitat and onrush and environmental judicious that is the southeast community of this study hearing. and start to reach by reach starting with fisherman's wharf and this area

goes from fisherman's wharf down to pier 27 and this area we see actually kind of large built on higher ground and we don't see as much flood damage in this area we have a lighter attach solutions that involves proving of key buildings in the flood area and adding two foot flood wails around the edges of peers and this this picture (clearing throat) what they look like and flood proving for the ground and keep wart out or minimize the damage to the buildings and adding short flood walls around the piers and the life of the walls through the flooding and moving to the embarcadero this area we see significant economic damages and significant flood risks in low lying areas around

the ferry building and south of 2 it and will defend up to three and a half feet of sea level rise and you'll see this in the southern portion we are looting at an area that is zonesly built up and complex, you know, systems of utility and transportation infrastructure it is disruptive active to do a project here we want to do is a one time build we want to build to that higher projections of sea level rise all at once without doing that twice and in other regions more space without having the same destruction so in phases over time wire looking at raising the shoreline an existing shoreline on the road and transition to sort of keep

that visibility and physical access to the water and will be in red raising the building in the wharf and bulk head building and a.d. those flood walls around the piers and have detail on that as you can see a rebuilt satisfying with the shoreline edge and graded back gradually to keep intolths - keep that visible on the waterfront and adding elevateing with the wharf structures as well as the bulk head this to put back at the higher evaluation and in transition to the piers themselves. and the plan add the two foot flood walls from a perspective while we find and seek other ways of kind of adopting those piers through the

partnership and other methods. so moving south into our south beach and through the channel and this area we are proposing to evaluate the shoreline up to one against excuse me - defend up to one and a half feet of sea level rise that's lower than we saw in the embarcadero area the reason more space we can adopt in phases we have for example, a creek edge or the kind of edges later than the boulevard you can build a berm or levy and ball park frontages and structures and connects so o to higher ground active projects developed already building their

sites to a higher evaluation like rock and 40 developments and at green coffee park currently under construction. and one other feature of this area is closure structures on the two historic bridges that cross over mission creek. 3 and fourth street structures can be closed in the event of a high tide or extreme storm event will be very disruptive because we think for many decades will be a very frequent occurrence liaison one year and long term strangles to build bridges not included in the plan at this time and moving on to our finally reach in the southern waterfront at bayview area includes the ports maritime

facilities and proposing to evaluate the shoreline up to one and a half feet of sea level rise and not the type of embarcadero and more space and this includes a combination of short flood walls along the edges of the maritime facilities and along the creek connecting the higher ground where it is a port a little bit of background and the pg&e power plants. and to give a sense this berm are levy looks like here's an work to be allowing for habitat as well as recreation open space in multiple type of uses we propose along the trees and the mission

bay so quickly into a couple of key considerations first to make the point this is, you know, a massive complex and expensive project and again, not built all at once but in phasing and we're going to be working towards the phasing plan how we prioritize which comes first and the equity consideration related partnerships or opportunities and other factors that will be coming something to consider. and then, you know, in terms of is historic preservation commission objective the body is familiar with the historical credibility with the embarcadero and the both within this study area we kreendz some of you to the historic preservation commission are on the technical historical committee and to

weigh in and to our progress on the plan and we have to be doing that compliance one 06 of the national historic preservation act and working with the army corp of engineers and with the state officer to develop that programmatic agreement they haven't engaged just yet but the development of that agreement can be done parallel to the ceqa process and, you know, signed by the port and by the army corp of engineers and the nepa public comment period has a mention now through the end of march for the nepa the public comment and working with you all and the ship and the core on the section one 06 will continue throughout the year we'll be coming back to have discussions own that and

finalize by the time we get to a recommended plan about the end of next year. sorry the end of this year. >> and lastly, you, know, we provided feedback on the draft plan a positive collaboration with the army corp of engineers and we think that is a great plan and will be better and enhanced we work through more detailed intense and public space and other historic districts to evaluate the scale of the waterfront to dptd the sea level rise and need to work with the core on more information and detail around how we address the the drainage from and and finally heard from the tenant the property owners we need to focus on minimizing

the impacts to those folks so this will be developed in phasing and construction planning moving on. so finally to go have not public comment period as mentioned open to march 29th and coming back here on march 4, '01k hearing and there are many ways that the public or other entities can comment so comments need to be submitted formally to the process or not considered through the 234e678d process. or by going to the website and so i'll leave on a positive note and hinge opportunity and driven by the risks and hazard we're seeing on the waterfront but on the character of waterfront we have today and enhance and

approve and activate and i'm here and colleagues here for any questions? >> with that, communication members of the public yes members of the public like to comment please come forward. >> no, ma'am, you have to come up to the mic. >> thank you for that [off mic.] >> thank you for the invite i'm patricia the well planned and worked with you and these army corp of engineers and i'll look at the ideas i don't know that will apply the intoxication i can wait prenatal care and have things you done and there are some funding now coming through i'm seeing in the government and let's see if we can help you i

don't give some of the funding and i think that's all i have and with regards to insurance companies as well with the flooding and things like that the more things will add in comment so thank you. >> thank you. >> last call for public comment. seeing none, requests to speak commissioners public comment is closed. and this informational item is now before. >> thank you, councilmember russ >> super interesting a lot of work you can't imagine when you do do work in 15 or 20 years i have a couple of questions that is - ferry building currently in the plan the ferry building raise that and excuse me - the historic

bulwark we stopped at the aquatic park with the renovation daytime was the old airports are we not worried about the marina. >> yeah. there are other cities agencies coming and federal agencies worked on other parts of shoreline not included in this flood study with the army corp of engineers but it is, you know, moving forward through other efforts. i do understand there is work infrastructure on the park services you have that the details but. thank you. >> thank you. >>. thank you. >> commissioner baldauf. >> a follow-up and can you use your microphone. >> i'm learn at some point i said to photocopy own commissioner foley question this

was a question i had when i got a very nice presentation on that and i appreciate this did i graham the agenda this is on we're the historic preservation commission for the entire city of san francisco i think we need to at some point to get a briefing from the department about the interrelationship of all the different efforts because i um, used the marina the small boat marina and witnessed how the renovation at christy field dramatically fixed the building at the mouth of marina so this is h going to drove dynamics it worked together i think we need to understand the whole thing together. so i'm very impressed

with the work but i don't know how we best can get like an overview finding of what is going on. >> sure and mr. shaw might be able to get insight and indulge jeremy shaw i prefer the question absolutely at beginning the presentation mention the climate sf group all the agencies are coordinating on those issues i cannot speak to the hydrology but groundwater water didn't stop 9 in any jurisdictional boundary but point out a few key plans and come back for a better explanation but adopted by cc a robust plan at ocean beach and as you go around the waterfront

ada imaginations national park services and the port and continues southeast and the development agreements are have been do approved and all have commitments to sea level rise through varies designs ada covered and finally in 2021 the planning department actually had the leadership of adam and former planning department staff and adopted the creek mobility adoption strategy that has a strategy for the marina and share it today for the creek including a number of facilities there and finally danielle and department staff working with the port and state parks on a similar plan that takes the creek and model for public outreach to do similar planning

in the neighborhood between candle stick point and there is a lot going on hard to summarize but happy to give you an overview at is another time. >> thank you and sure. >> sure. >> um, i guessed one of the things would be will be helpful in an overview is as i received the briefing there are different assumptions of the rate of rice and different benchmarks in terms of time. and it would be interesting to be able to look at all right. are we using the same set of assumptions as we march around or different assumptions. and it is i guess

i'm trying to get a big picture here. >> the city does have adopted sea level rise guidance for all capital improvement a projects that is regularly updated an update with an updated draft in fact and looking at the comments and updated what levels we should be using for planning purposes and once adopted will be updated capital planning guidance we're all working off the same, you know, exception in terms of elevation not a - no one exact figure it is why it is confusing and add a public presentation that is arranged we have a - clear combines and regularly updated.

>> commissioner wright. >> thank you for your presentation and it is really impressive plan. and presentation there's a lot of moving parts and to get our arms around i want to echo the comment of president matsuda and commissioner foley about what is um, is there coercion with the other agencies um, adjacent to and do you know um, the army corp of engineers involved in those other adjacent areas? are they working with the park services for the part of waterfront is more park service it seems to me they would be but and seems like the army corp of engineers will be - the group that has the expenditure would

be the consistent thread about will be helpful information i think. >> i'll say any project that, you know, through that study any project will tie off to high ground and so forth a complete system that is for the underground drainage as well the stormwater piping and stuff for example, on the southern boundaries as that passes the park to higher ground and the site will connect the high ground will connect not like comes the water comes around that but separate basin needs to be addressed echoes for the internet of the coast to coast coastal and this is the first.

>> for the army corp of engineers i guess i was raising that question i was asking um, but if this is is first that considers maybe some of the extra um, environment sorry economic um, impacts is that what you're saying and as well as the environmental and social and so they're not - haven't worked with lucky the city of negotiation or other cities have similar waterfront issues. >> they have studies new york has in fact has a similar study to us ahead of us in the process and in fact, new york does a comprehensive benefit analysis this is the first we've selected

the plan for that analysis this is what is unique about this one but they're process involving talking to the coastal new york and norfolk and charles stone and miami and other city's are projects with the core such as denver we are trying to understand how other cities are working with the core and what policies how to work those things and things like that but have this major project with congressional funding and other projects in those, you know, appropriations bills this type of. >> thank you. >> thank you. vice president nageswaran. >> um, i can't speak to all of the jurisdictions since i am we

fort madison we're interested in what they're doing i'm curious the center on the embarcadero so a little bit different. um, but we are still right now doing a climate initiative study to understand the sea level rise to see where all this is coming in um, so helps us to know when the army corp of engineers is doing and the suggestion was made at the last hpc meeting that, you know, the attention with mp f, you know, acknowledged there should be some coordination i think one of the things would be

helpful for everyone to understand is the timeline. when this study will come to fruition and the areas that will be um, dealt with first. um, i think one of the things i wonder about the bayview area dealing with vulnerable populations minorities a positive recommendation and the connection of transportation in that area and i'm the city and sort of a lot of whimsical things so i oh, i wanted to know what would the timeline for the work and what areas are being considered first? and also with the outside of embarcadero um, you talked about the phases of

doing improvements um, so are they building upon each other or have to be replaced? >> um, so let me try to take that one piece at a time. in terms of timeline right now we have this draft plan and i mentioned didn't include a number of things one of those things is the phasing plan and um, something we're going to be developing with the nechldz something our director is interested in as well. you know, to develop that phasing plan to get it into the final plan so um, this is over the next year to put together that plan based on the factors equity and risk factors opportunities to coordinate with the private or capital projects all of that goes into that phasing plan over the next year we're going to develop that and have more

information to share those are the areas we expect to have or we propose to have them, you know, action first if we, you know, go before congress for authorization and appropriation with design funding for those first and then get the funding for the next areas and, etc. again how that process will work but to better answer our questions 6 months to a year from now. i think one other - and like when would you start implementing some of the. >> designs once it is developed. >> not before 20 thirty that will be we have to dot detailed design phase and when the appropriation get congressional action and designed design 57 to 10 years somewhere in the 10 to

30s it is best answer. >> did he answer your question. >> one thing i want to mention that i forgot to mention which you may be familiar with the third street bridging is subject to the picks that is being reconstructed right now and will be adopted to a higher evaluation that is taken care of for the funding outside of - that's the one of the light rail. >> right. right. thank you. >> commissioner wright. >> yeah. so i actually wanted to just comment on the comment period. um, so it sounds the comment period for the nepa process is actually you said mark 29? but that the comment period for the national historic

preservation commission will continue one and two months sounds like in activity that is very, very short. and there are some groups that meet monthly or organizations meet mostly have to disseminate information to their members and also to um, deportations that we have concerning questions about in terms of equity. and then all of that has to come back and um, people have to have time to develop their comments and submit them i'm curious if two months is too short for a comment period on a project and plan of this size and scale. >> thank you my name is kelly. i'll address that what we're doing um, the army corp of

engineers is the lead for moving forward with the section one 06 process. um, there is a draft programmatic agreement in the draft document now that is out and can be exempt committed /* commented and end at 60 day comment period one of the process continues 23 particularly to the nepa and lead by the army corp of engineers we can remove comments all through the one 06 process can be revised many, many times not a set number of revisions we do very different than the nepa commenting process so opportunities for people to become consulting parts in the

section one 06 process as working closely with us through the revisions of the agreement especially, as we work closely more closely with ship 0 on that agreement so that process can continue and we anticipate that we want to moving through that process to get to a final agreement and about the same time with the final report through the nepa process that is roughly at the end of 2024. >> so this is kind of the higher level plan for the programmatic agreement and this is guiding how people um, and jurisdictions with us public, etc. would gave me um, i i guess and i think you surely know for

clarity for others historic preservation commission is also one part of environmental impact that would be corridor forward under nepa a much broader environmental but historic preservation commission is a little part of that it is good to hear there will be ability for people to weigh in. um, and just to clarify is that - like strictly under section one 06 from then on? seems like nepa and environmental impacts that under nepa will continue to be reviewed on such a plan of there is a programmatic agreement. >> yeah. so that will be a high-level nepa document high-level not termed as

programmatic document but will require follow-up from nepa we don't have design we'll have to - the programmatic agreement was set up to be taken when we get into more details knowing that will layout the steps that we get a good programmatic agreement as we proceed and more time to really address the historic resources. and the nepa process again is that high-level also so we'll have to have follow-up nepa documents for the closer project you. >> thank you. >>. thank you. >> commissioner foley. >> i want to say a couple of things thank you, you're doing a lot of things we appreciate that

i kind of want to follow up to one of my first comments i did say a strategy when i think about ocean beach i think about the marina and think about fort madison president matsuda and i do hope that is at a certain point a comprehensive strategy my concern dealing with one point is case for more damage to another part i want to mention i appreciate the board what you're doing but this family will figure out the expensive both strategy and financing thank you very much for your work and thank you very much for coming here today. >> thank you. >> vice president nageswaran. >> one of the things that the consultants were using for our

compliment climate studies the city has a website for studies and earthquakes and sea level rise. why exactly went what the addresses for that but um, multiple maps that shots interpolation of different areas. and so i think that is hugely helpful to have that and i'm sure the army corp of engineers has and in their tools or borrowing from them it. >> commissioner baldauf. >> i'm curious is fort madison center on its own it is federal part of cbg ra i don't think so why the army corp of engineers i'm curious. this is the

jurisdictional problem i think that commissioner foley is talking we have this project on an issue that is inherently unified a question to i commissioner i don't know - why is fort madison on its own here. >> so our agreement with the park services we're a master of lease of the fort madison property we have a long term plan we manage that and work with the parks services. on rehabilitation of your piers to have - they use federal funds to update the sub structure. and so that is that relationship. the

presidio have a programmatic agreement and established the presidio trust so, you know, differences objective ours the effort madison center is on the property without the section of the city of san francisco but our requirement, you know, is the federal government as well. so it is curious question we also would like to kind of delve into that into more but starting ourself and they're starting theirs we're getting into the study. >> thank you. >> any more questions or comments from the commission. >> seeing none, i think this was the agenda item.

>> it is what it is not other items. >> thank you very much for your presentation today. thank you. again. >> see you commissioners on the 21st. >> will be a full day [meeting adjourned]

>> you are watching san francisco rising with chris manners. today's special guest, carolyn mante. >> hi, i'm chris manners and you are watching san francisco the stow about restaffing rebuilding and reimaging the city. the guest is carolyn manteto talk about the organization is helping to preserve the city cultural heritage and architecture. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me e. >> good to have you here. >> can we talk bat the history of your organization and the mission. >> sure, thank you. san francisco heritage started 51 years ago and the main mission is to preserve and enhance the architectural and cultural identity of san francisco. when it started out the focus was really on the buildings,

historic landmark listings and really concentrated on downtown area with all the development happening. our organization was raising a reg red flag with historic landmarks in danger and victorian mansions so a hallmark of our organization is moving these victorian mansions in the way of development to inwestern addition neighborhood and other areas to get out of the way of development and preserve them. our organization was around before there was the historic preservation commission of the city so we were at the forefront drawings attention to historic preservation, landmarking and over the last 51 years we have seen how there are more then just buildsings in safeguarding the city cultural resources, there is also small businesses and the different neighborhood icons that make a neighborhood special, so our

outreach has really-it is really come full circle in a way because it moved downtown into the neighborhoods and now with the covid epidemic it is really going back to downtown again looking at how we can play a role in the economic recovery and revitalization of downtown san francisco. >> that's great. so, now i understand your organization is also responsible for maintaining a couple properties. could you tell us a little about those? >> yes, our non profit was gifted in 1973, the historic (inaudible) house. it is now a historic house museum but this was a family since 1886 built this victorian mansion in the same family year after year and one of the last resident of the family when she passed way gifted the mansion to san francisco heritage so since then we have been running this

historic house and the home of our office. in 2018, one of the long time members nor aa lasten gifting a building on the e h-as hate polk became a commercial corridor after the earthquake, the owner at the time, he raised the house and put 6 store front underneath in order to take advantage of the commerce so we are in charge of the house on the corner and it has been a wonderful way to get new numbers, new audiences interested in the work of our organization. during the pandemic, we have been using it as a artson residents and partnering with different bay area artists as well as cultural institutions, cultural districts and then one of the storefronts we converted into

a pop up galleries so gives a opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of the art and cultural resources in san francisco. >> that's fantastic. so, now, let's talk about legacy business. what does the designation mean? how does somebody get add today the legacy business registry and what benefits does being named a legacy business? >> i love this program. it was started by san francisco heritage and adopt ed by the city and run by the office of small business but the program looks what are the businesses really contributing to san francisco and the neighborhood. when we started the first focus was bars and restaurants but over the years it exb panded to include other businesses so these are places that contribute to the character of a neighborhood, so sam's grill downtown,

the amazingarian press in the presidio. book stores like city lights oergreen apple recently named. this year we had a lot of attention on the legacy business program. we put out a contest to the public of what you think should be the next legacy business and one of the businesses that was recommended was the club deluxe, jazz club on the corner, and 2 or 3 days after we launched the contest, the owners announced they would have to close. the rent was driven up, they couldn't afford it, coming out of the pandemic so we worked at speed to get that application submitted with them and that status convinced their landlord to negotiate with them a lower rent and this way they have been able to stay, there was a lot of social media support around this, so when you become a legacy business, not only do you get marketing and business support from the office of

small business, but you also eligible for grants and we work closely with the legacy businesses as we do our work for san francisco heritage. >> that's great. so, apart from architecture and buildings, you also work with cultural districts, and the castro theater strikes me as a place that is both. a beautiful building and cultural hub and center. what has been happening with the recent acquisition by new owners; >> it is leased to another planet entertainment and been in contact with planet entertainment by the castro theater is historic land mark building. it is recognized as a very important architectural monument. one thing-one of the

main activist organizations of the preservation of the theater we work together with supervisor mandelman on a interior landmark historic landmark designation for interior, but what happened over the is summer and people learned is there is a lot of concern not just by san franciscans but people all over the world, movie directors, stars who are very concerned about the risk to the lgbtq and film programming at the castro theater. another planet hosted community stakeholder in august, and it was so moving to see the number of people who took the microphone-everyone had two minutes to say their testimony of what castro theater meant to them and those testimonys showed this building is contributing not just as a

architectural monument but plays a role in the lgbtq community that is irrelaceuble able. >> it is beautiful theater. >> it is. my involvement in the theater raised awareness to not only the castro theater to be emblematic of the lgbtq culture and history but also there are many other sites in the city that also contribute to the identity. that is why so many people come to san francisco as a place of freedom and diversity so in my previous work i worked at the world heritage center, so when i joined san francisco heritage i was thinking why isn't san francisco a world heritage city? for the architecture alone it could be inscribed. golden gate bridge to name a few but the city is so unique

in the architecture, the mansioned and historic landmarks so hoping to start a conversation on that with city stakeholders this year. >> that is great. let's talk about your relationship with other agencies. you mentioned economic and office of work force development and planning commission. how do you unt integrate to them? >> these relationships are essential. we are working with office of small business for the legacy business program and the planning department is really one of our most crucial relationships. we meet quarterly with them and we really see how we can support not only historic land mark listings and historical cultural context statements, strategy for culture districts and city survey among many other activities that really are of concern to both

of us. for the office of workforce development, i attended a etmooing recently that the chamber of commerce organized with them on the downtown revitalization and a key goal in that meeting and in the downtown revitalization is to make sure that the city historic culture resources play a key #r0e8 in the economic recovery and revitalization especially after the pandemic. the office of workforce development has the city build program which is admirable program where youth are trained in construction techniques for rebuilding and especially with the new housing legislation, and we really want to see how can that workforce be expanded to include training in historic preservation. we have so many victorian homes, historic buildings and other places that really need a skilled labor force to make sure that they are preserved and that they help keep the special identify

of the city. we really value these relationships, we meet quarterly with the various organizations and we are really grateful for grants of the arts we receive and other supports so definitely that is a key relationship for san francisco heritage. >> the city build is great. i like that a lot. thank you so much for the time you have given today. appreciate you coming on the show. >> thank you so much raising awareness about san francisco heritage. we hope the people watching will join us in the mission to help keep san francisco special. thank you. >> that's it for this episode. we'll be back shortly. i'm chris manners, thanks >> come shop dine and play. taraval street is open for business. >> [indiscernible] the owner of

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>> the work go ahead offered i didn't the rec and park friday's local young people between 14 and 17 to be part 6 the workforce and eastern responsibility and professionalism and gain job skills and assignments in neighborhoods parking and recreation centers and includes art and crafts, sport, cooking, gardening and facility support and so many more. >> (multiple voices). >> i think we're part of the this is the fact we're outdoors and it is really great to be in nature and workreation is great first step to figure out what

you would like to do workreation covers real life working skills and expansion can be allowed (unintelligible) it is a really great program because um, students get placed all the time for what they like. join us in the experience and opportunity and i really like the workreation program it is fun to workout at the summer camp with all the kids each is different and the staff is really nice. >> why? is because i used to go to the local park often when i was a little kid. with my mom i often had to translate for my mom i applied in the hope to provide assistance for other people with first language was

for the english. >> i like this job we have fun and working and i feel welcome. >> hi. >> like how a job actually works like maybe before then i didn't know like all the jobs i don't know any of that now i do. >> it has to be self aware of things and independence of value of this taught me how to be progressiveal but still learning as i go on. >> i learned a lot like a got to adapt and challenges and obstacles come up everyday and . >> i like that we're able to really work with other people and gaining experience like how

in the real world hoe how he work with other people. >> if you're looking to develop your live skills as well as cash and working in the parks, and meeting great people and working with great staff i definitely recommend the corporation. >> it is fun. >> i definitely do the scombrifrm again that the workreation and park and i'll do that again. >> i will

>> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to have golden gate park. there is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere. it's just a wonderful environment. i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a café we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sandwiches and soup and

salad. made fresh to order. we have something for everybody >> my shop is in a very cool part of the city but that's one of the reasons why we provide such warm and generous treats, both physically and emotionally (♪♪) >> it's an old-fashioned general store. they have coffee. other than that what we sell is fishing equipment. go out and have a good time. >> one of my customers that has been coming here for years has always said this is my favorite store. when i get married i'm coming in your store. and then he in his wedding outfit and she in a beautiful dress came in here in between getting married at lands end and to the reception, unbelievable.

(♪♪) >> the new public health order that we're announcing will require san franciscans to remain at home with exceptions only for essential outings. >> when the pandemic first hit we kind of saw the writing on the walls that potentially the city is going to shut all businesses down. >> it was scary because it was such an unknown of how things were going to pan out. i honestly thought that this might be the end of our business. we're just a small business and we still need daily customers. >> i think that everybody was on edge.

nobody was untouched. it was very silent. >> as a business owner, you know, things don't just stop, right? you've still got your rent, and all of the overhead, it's still there. >> there's this underlying constant sense of dread and anxiety. it doesn't prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesn't stop you from doing your normal routine. what it does is just make you feel extra exhausted. >> so we began to reopen one year later, and we will emerge stronger, we will emerge better as a city, because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> this place has definitely been an anchor for us, it's home for us, and, again, we are part

of this community and the community is part of us. >> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says "you're welcome." no matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks. >> it is your duty to help everybody in san francisco.

it is a historic day we are announcing the community meeting we are having on the 20th with china town community college center to talk about the first sober supportive housing hotel not simply in san francisco or california but i believe the nation. i had somebody say how do you know the first in the nation. i researchd and have admit found another that is permanent supportive housing that is sober. what is interesting is that we have over 8,000 single adults live nothing permanent supportive husbanding in san francisco not one building for sober hotels. that is an imbalance that's had this project would fill that