i think. okay. good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco planning commission hearing for thursday, march 21st, 2024. when we reach the item you're interested in speaking to, we ask that you line up on the screen side of the room or to your right. each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes, and when you have 30s remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. when your allotted time is reached, i will announce that your time is up and take the next person queued to speak. please speak clearly and slowly and if you care to state your name for the record, i will remind members of the public that the commission does not tolerate any disruption or outbursts of any kind. and

finally, i'll ask that we silence any mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. at this time, i'd like to take roll commission. president diamond here. commission vice president moore here. commissioner braun here. commissioner. imperial here. commissioner koppell here. and commissioner williams here. thank you. commissioners. first on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance. item one, case number 2023, hyphen 007496 drp at 638 rhode island street. a discretionary review is proposed for continuance to april 4th, 2024, and item two, case number 2023. hyphen 011307 drp at 1234 francisco street a discretionary review is proposed for continuance to april 11th, 2024. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission and either of these proposed continuance only on the matter of continuance. you need to come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed and your continuance calendar is now before you. commissioners

commissioner imperial move to continue. items one and two second. thank you. commissioners. on that motion to continue items as proposed. commissioner williams, i commissioner brown i commissioner imperial i. commissioner. koppell i. commissioner. moore, i and commissioner. president. diamond i so move commissioners that motion passes unanimously 7 to 0 placing us under your consent calendar. all matters listed here under constitute a consent calendar are considered to be routine by the planning commission, and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public or staff, so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item. at this or a future hearing. items three, a, b, and c for case numbers 2019 hyphen 017481d and hyphen 02ca. hyphen zero two and var hyphen zero two. for the property at 530 sansome street are

requesting modified approvals of the downtown project authorization, conditional use authorization, and variance item for case number 2024. hyphen 000844. see you at 1155 pine street. unit number six conditional use authorization item five. case number 2023 hyphen 008363. see you at 1567. slope boulevard. conditional use authorization. members of the public. this is your opportunity to request that any of these items on consent be pulled off and considered today, or a later date. again, you need to come forward seeing none. public comment is closed and your consent calendar is now before you. commissioners commissioner koppell move to approve items three a, three, b, four and five. second. thank you commissioners on that motion to approve your consent. calendar items. commissioner williams i commissioner braun, i commissioner imperial i. commissioner koppell i commissioner moore i and commissioner. president diamond i so move commissioners that

motion passes unanimously 6 to 0. zoning administrator would say you i will close the public hearing for the variance under item three c and intend to grant with the performance period matching the planning commission approvals. thank you. commission matters. item six land acknowledgment. commissioner the commissioner acknowledges that we are on the unseated ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. thank you. item seven consideration of

adoption draft minutes for march 7th, 2020 for members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on their minutes and again, you need to come forward seeing none. public comment is closed and your minutes are now before you commissioners commissioner braun moved to approve the minutes. second, thank you, commissioners, on that motion to adopt your minutes, commissioner williams, i braun i commissioner imperial i commissioner koppell i commissioner moore i commissioner president diamond i so moved commissioners that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0. item eight commission comments and questions. if there are none, we can move on to department matters. no, no. oh. i'm sorry. we have a item. nine. the board of supervisors resolution on state funding. this is for your consideration. commissioners to, endorse their resolution. vice president

moore, move to approve with support the resolution by the board of supervisors regarding, state funding for affordable housing. is that an endorsement? is that the action we're taking? yes. yeah. just to clarify, it's an endorsement. yes right. before we take and take make a motion, i would suggest we open up public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on this item related to the resolution on state funding, good afternoon, george. ashutosh, thank you for doing this. commissioners can i just have the overhead really quickly, please? yes. i don't know if you can see all this. i've shown this before. this is from 2017, and i can only imagine it's gotten worse. this is a chart by mr. lenhardt from the new york times, and it just shows the discrepancy between the very affluent and the poor and the middle class. and i

think that's really useful chart to look at. and maybe, you know, if somebody wants it, i'll send a copy and you can send it off to whomever in sacramento. thank you very much. last call for public comment. seeing none. public comment is closed. i will. commissioner moore, go ahead, please. i will second the motion to endorse the board of supervisors resolution. and for the public who has not read the resolution, please go to the department's website under item nine today, and you'll be getting the verbiage in its entirety. indeed, it's also hyperlinked to our agenda. if there's no further deliberation, commissioners, there is a motion that has been seconded to endorse the board of supervisors resolution on state funding. on that motion, commissioner williams i commissioner braun i commissioner material i commissioner koppell i commissioner moore i and

commissioner. president diamond i so move commissioners that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0 placing us under department matters for item ten directors announcements. nothing for me. thank you. item 11 review of past events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals and the historic preservation commission. good afternoon, commissioners. erin starr, manager of legislative affairs, welcome to spring and the four year anniversary of lockdown, so first on the land use agenda this week was supervisor preston's ordinance that would modify the tobacco paraphernalia controls in the north of market sud. also known as noma, specifically, this ordinance would amend the planning code to require an establishment that sold any amount of tobacco paraphernalia, to be a tobacco paraphernalia establishment in the north of market special use district. and required to obtain conditional use authorization. it would also establish an 18

month amendment period for tobacco paraphernalia. establishments on the planning commission heard this item on february 8th of this year and voted to approve the ordinance with modifications. the commission's proposed modifications were to one. make tobacco paraphernalia establishments not permitted in the north of market special use district. expand the controls proposed for the noma sud to also apply to the lower polk street ncd. apply a quarter mile buffer for tobacco paraphernalia establishment restrictions in the lower polk ncd, and investigate shortening the proposed 18 month abandonment period for nonconforming tobacco paraphernalia establishments and limiting the hours of operation in the noma sud. at the hearing, the supervisor proposed amending the ordinance to make all of the commission's recommended modifications except for limiting hours of operation, also in line with the commission's recommendation. the legislation was amended to reduce the abandonment period from 18 months to 180 days at the hearing, many committee

members of the tenderloin and polk street neighborhoods spoke in favor of the legislation, and the additional amendments. supervisor peskin asked to be added as a co-sponsor, and the item was continued for one week as the amendments were considered substantive. next, the committee considered supervisor peskin's proposed sud at 900 kearney street. the planning commission heard this item on november 30th of last year and recommended approval with modifications. that modification was to revise the chinatown community business district use size controls to make it consistent with the limitations in section 120 1.4. so just a clarification clerical modification on that end, during the hearing, supervisor peskin duplicated the file to incorporate the technical corrections from the planning commission. additionally, the duplicated file was amended to allow the construction of a rooftop structure to be used as an art studio. this duplicated file is going to be referred to the planning commission, as you has not considered the rooftop studio yet. during the land use hearing, there were no public comments. one person commented,

one i'm sorry. one's public comment was closed. the original board file was sent as a committee report to the full board with a positive recommendation. and lastly, the land use committee considered the mayor's ordinance that would expand allowable commercial, restaurant and retail uses. this ordinance was a duplicated file from board file 23 0701 that became effective in mid january. this duplicated ordinance incorporates additional changes primarily related to lcas, lcas, and outdoor activity areas, and specified specific district changes in response to community feedback. the planning commission heard this duplicated file on february 29th and recommended approval during the committee hearing. supervisor peskin shared he had been working closely with the office of small business, but there were two outstanding items which they did not agree on. the two proposed amendments as follows one. amend the lcu controls to base the use controls on the nearest neighbor commercial district or sud, within a half mile, or if the use is more than

a quarter mile from the nearest, i'm sorry, half mile from the nearest ncd, then the use the base zoning and nc one controls, and then amend the lcu controls to permit the maximum use size based on the nearest ncd or sud up to a maximum of 1200ft!s. supervisor melgar expressed concerned over the proposed amendments because they run counter to prop h, prop h remove the quarter mile rule and allowed lcus and lcu controls to be dictated by the nc one zoning controls. this change made it easier for businesses to understand the rules, and easier for planners to implement the rules. further, nc one districts can be more permissive than some named ncees, where more restrictive controls have been adopted. the proposed half mile buffer is also more restrictive than the quarter mile buffer that prop h removed, as such, supervisor melgar shared she was not in support of these additional restrictions, emphasizing the time and effort put into prop h. there was one public comment from a community member representing the lower

polk cbd expressing support for the ordinance and the specific changes related to polk. ncd supervisor peskin made a motion to incorporate the amendments to use to use and use size limits for lcas. the only change was amending the half mile radius to a quarter mile. based on the discussions after the amendments were made, the item was continued for one week. since the amendments were substantive. then at the full board this week, the state mandated accessory dwelling unit controls, sponsored by the mayor passed its second read, the landmark designation for the sacred heart parish complex, and passed its second read the amending the conditional use requirements for the removal of a udu, passed its second read, and then the exceptions and extensions for existing use sponsored by the planning commission, passed its first read, and the 900 kearney study, sponsored by super fast supervisor peskin passed its first read. and that concludes my report. happy to answer any questions. seeing no questions

for mr. starr, the zoning administrator just informed me that the board of appeals did not meet yesterday. however, the historic preservation commission did, and had a very lengthy hearing actually, they adopted recommendations for approval for several legacy business registry applicants, the first being ristorante ideal on grant avenue . g f d s engineers on green street, barry bird and exotics hospital on taraval street, and a and w contractors on noriega street. they also adopted the citywide historic context statement for the inner sunset and then took on the gregangelo museum landmark designation, which was sponsored by supervisor melgar, there was a lot of support, a little bit of neighborhood opposition. the

commission ultimately adopted a resolution recommending landmark status for the gregangelo museum , it's sort of an interesting landmarking designation that's moving forward to the board of supervisors. and then, they heard the waterfront resilience program that you had heard and also made, submitted their comments as necessary to keep that project moving forward, it went so long that we had to continue the last couple of items because we have a hard stop at 430 at the historic preservation commission, because the police commission meets in these chambers after the historic preservation commission. so if there are no questions, commissioners, we can move on to general public comment at this time. members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter. jurisdiction of the commission accepted agenda items with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will

be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes, and when the number of speakers exceed the 15 minute limit, general public comment may be moved to the end of the agenda. hi. good afternoon, georgia. i want to widen the lens a little further on the email that i sent to you all on monday. beyond the project, on 29th street, and to look at what it represents and to look at it in the context of the housing issues in the priority equity, geography, neighborhoods where the policies under both the housing element and the constraints reduction ordinance call for the preservation of existing housing under the current thresholds of section 317, tantamount to demolition calcs, existing housing was not preserved. on 29th street, never mind noe valley, the epicenter of de facto demolition. per the staff, the current calcs facilitate speculation and demolitions because they are not stringent enough. there is something really wrong with these values still being accepted by the city for the past decade plus, speculators

flipped properties using the calcs for a neighborhood wide cumulative increase in housing prices of over $150 million, with an average increase of over 4 million just in noe valley. most of these homes would have been considered starter homes, which were going to be protected under the policies of the 2014 housing element, but were not the ordinances creating the two suds finds the median sales price quote more than tripling from 2011 to 2021. this includes a 9% increase from 2019 to 2020 alone. noe valley projects that have sold or resold before, during and after the pandemic mirror this. some of these are flats that turned into single family homes. findings of a, quote underperformance close quote of housing built for middle income families and families in the lower amis are true, but the fact is, speculation causing the loss of housing has been ignored by the ordinances. the section 317 findings allow for the

demographics to be adjusted. not adjusting the calcs has allowed speculation and demolitions to flourish. even ten years ago, when noe valley was becoming less and less affordable, it was concerning for other neighborhoods like the excelsior and the outer mission. in the october 2021 analysis of sb nine, staff warned of low income homeowners cashing out. it happened in noe valley, where the occupant, who happened to be a family member of the owner who inherited the house, was evicted out of her home of 30 years, a home that was sold, remodeled and had revised demographics that teetered on ttd during the work. but then resold for 4.3 million during the pandemic. so much of the commission's power has been yanked away by sacramento. the demo couch should be adjusted, as the commission has the legislative authority to do in order to protect housing for families in the peg and dampen speculative

fever by preventing alterations from becoming demolitions. here's my 150 words for the minutes. if i have two seconds, can i have the overhead? yeah, there it is. that's the house that on 29th street. and that that fence, that construction fence has been up for a couple of years, five and a half years. empty? thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. tom radulovic with livable city. yeah, i'm here today to talk about the ecological crisis. we're all in. you might have read about this, and, you know, i mean, we're all good folks, right? we care about this. and what should we be doing about it? and so i would say there's a planning department. we need you to step up. we need you to plan. and that's both a requirement of the law. i mean, a lot of state law says that you need to be considering things like climate, in all that you do, every element of your general plan,

all of your decision making should be ecologically attuned, it's also a moral imperative. i mean, this is the crisis, you know, i mean, from now on, for the rest of our lives and the rest of our grandchildren's lives, we just really need to be focused on this ecological crisis that we're in, there's two upcoming opportunities to step up. action requirement. one is a requirement of law. the other is an opportunity. and but i haven't heard mention of them. i've been kind of casting around to see who in the city government's going to step up and do these things, and nobody is. so i wanted to bring them to your attention. one is the priority conservation areas update. these are designations that through mtc. so it's the yin and the yang of development, right. so you designate priority development areas is where we want development to go. priority conservation areas are the areas where we don't want development to go, where there's things that we want to protect. those might be open space, biodiversity, etc. that update, you'll have an opportunity to update those by 2025. if you update them by 2025, then areas that are now not designated can get funding because this is a grant program.

last time around, it was the planning commission that adopted these, but i don't see it in the work plan and no one seems to be stepping up. so please, priority conservation areas by next year is something that you all need to be thinking about. the other is your open space element. sb 1425 passed by the state in 2022, requires every city and county to update and open space element by 2026. your open space element was last updated in 2009, which is recent by the standards of this department, for general plan elements. however, it's not recent. 15 years ago, new elements must address equity. they must address climate resilience. they also are supposed to identify opportunities for rewilding. so since 2009 you've adopted a ej framework, a resiliency element, the city has adopted a biodiversity strategy. as you know, there's all this waterfront resiliency

conversation going on. this element would pull all of that together, compliment the land use element that you also still need to do by saying, you know, how do we also bring greenery? how do we bring create health? how do we create equity? by greening our neighborhoods as they get denser, 2006 is not a long time in planning world. so you should be starting now on this element update. haven't heard any mention of it, so i'm please ask your staff about it and kind of start talking to stakeholders about when you're going to get on this, because it's, both a requirement of the law and a huge opportunity to make this a greener city. thank you. hello. my name is tom ray. i, i just want to speak about the, i guess it was, a matter that was going to be delayed until next week or, you know, possibly a little, a little later, but it's

concerning, the rezoning plan for the area near the, geary and masonic out in the west. and, i really haven't gotten much, information from the city in, you know, through through the mail. and that's generally how i stay in touch and everything. it's like there are a lot of old timers that that live, live by. they've been living there since before i was born. and they don't, you know, it's great if everybody, you know, can email and everything, but they if, if proper, notification could be sent out to each affected, you know, person in, in the neighborhood. and this is a huge project. i'm, i'm, i really i've been working a lot and i haven't had a chance to look at the details on this errand. and it seems to be extremely out of scale to the neighborhood. and, i, yeah, i just feel like not enough, not enough has been done to allow public input from the

affected neighborhood myself and my neighbors and stuff. and, it's, like i said, many of them, many of my neighbors are elderly. and then others are working like, i work late hours and i'm having had the opportunity to make it here. and it makes it challenging when the days keep getting changed, you know, so anyways, i just appreciated if an effort could be made to, to contact, you know, all of us and you know, so we could have a little bit more input. thank you very much. thank you. i have a question, director hylis, that is a neighborhood, for which a that is a neighborhood for which a great deal of density is called for, and i know that we're not doing, mailed notice to each individual house on the west side, but i wonder if you could talk about how that group of

neighbors could get better informed and involved, especially given the amount of density that is being called for in that particular location? yeah. and we can come talk more about this or provide a memo on the outreach we've done. it's primarily been, you know, through these hearings and through the housing element. and meeting with community organizations, but it hasn't been or is a required necessarily to do like a mailed notice to everyone. so we have an extensive list of folks who have been involved who continue, you know, continues to get added to every community, organization and neighborhood organization is on that list that could be impacted and even beyond that, to those that can be impacted. and as you know and you've seen, we're getting input, which is good. that's what we that's what we want to get. but we haven't done kind of a direct mailing. so to whom should we direct the member of the public who can i mean, he can certainly sign up for email updates on our website , on the housing for all website, or if you just write

your address down and give it to us to we can mail you those email notices. so if you let me know, i'm happy to thank you. commissioner williams. director ellis, i'm just wondering why, every household hasn't been notified. because it's a huge impact. and so. so. yeah, yeah. and this question came up when we had a hearing a couple, couple months ago. we could i mean, it's a cost, there's timing when you actually do it. it's not required by the code. there is a code required, but it sets a threshold that this exceeds. so for instance, like we rezoned, you know, recently. so adviser mandelman, along with supervisor melgar, you know, have made changes to the code around rh districts which to allow like fourplexes in rh districts, throughout the city, probably 70% of the city was

impacted by that code change. and so that exceeded the threshold where we would mail neighborhood notification to everyone on that list. so we so we didn't nor did kind of the board require that as they went through that process. is it good. is there a i'm concerned like that because this is not the first time i've heard this. i'm concerned that, these neighborhoods that could be impacted, there's not enough people that know what's coming. and so i, i'm concerned about that. yeah, sure. and we can certainly give you we'll provide you with we can provide you with the memo on, you know, what the requirements are, what the outreach we have done to date is. and we can, you know, we can have a hearing on the amount of outreach you would like us to do in the future, if that. if you think that's not sufficient, you know, and the cost of doing a

mailing to. but as i said, like the precedent generally is when these larger rezonings eastern neighborhoods, etc, we don't do a broader mailing, but it's not something that's that's precluded. we certainly could. vice president moore, i would suggest that the magnitude and the extent of this particular project by far exceeds anything that we have ever seen, together with the aggressive schedule in which it is supposed to be implemented. and it's for that reason that i consistently run across people who don't have a clue. they do not have a clue about the legislation that we have been trying to discuss for years now. they're not aware of the stringent resulting, regulations we are finding ourselves under. and everybody is saying, well, how come i didn't know? and it generally reflects on the fact that a city is never forced to change. and to that degree and that sort of amount of time. and i would

agree with the gentleman, including what our commissioners are saying here, that the rest of the population doesn't have a clue. i attended just by coincidence, once a meeting, 2 or 3 weeks ago, where people, neighborhood activist were discussing, trying to make a neighborhood aware of what's going on. and there were probably 40, 50 people in the audience and absolutely nobody had a clue. yeah, they were all sitting there saying, oh, really , and i think that truly reflects, the amount of non informed people regarding this issue. and again, we can certainly we will bring to you at our next hearing on the housing element kind of what's been done as far as outreach and by all means, you know, if you don't think that's sufficient and want to direct us to do more, we're we're happy to do that. but i think it's, it's a it's a good question to debate,

as you know, commissioner moore, you know, you and i have sat in this commission for years. there isn't a project that comes forward where people say they're not informed. but i get it. this is a this is large scale. so is the rh district changes that were made in outreach is critical to us and important to us. and we as part of the housing element, we've done a ton as part of this. we've done a significant amount, but happy to fill in gaps if there are and if you want us to. director, if i may interrupt, this is not an agendized item. and this is sort of reached a point of a discussion. so i would caution you. well, we'll certainly make this an item in our next housing element presentation to you all as a topic for discussion. and just so you know, too, we're thinking through the cadence of housing element implementation hearings. and i think we had one scheduled for early april. i think we've shifted that on the advanced calendar, primarily wanted to pull together information on this, but also get a better handle for you on state density bonus and its

impact on kind of the base zoning. so more to come on that, but happy to add that have a robust discussion on engagement as part of that as well. yeah i would be very supportive of adding to the agenda on that discussion, whether or not in this particular instance, mailed notice would be something we should consider, and we ought to have public comment on that and a, you know, an agenda commission discussion so that we can collectively figure out, i'm not sure a separate agenda item is necessary. no, just as long as it's included in the subject matter. yes, it sounds as though it will be, because i think when we're coming back to you on housing element implementation and rezoning, we want to break out some of the categories like preservation has been an issue, small business has been an issue, you know, the maps in the in the heights. so we'll we'll articulate kind of when and what topics so that we can have this discussion. commissioner williams, thank you, director ellis, i think the gentleman had

a good point, when he said that, there's a lot of folks out there that don't have email and don't have that type of technology, and the mail is like, the only way that they're getting information, especially our, you know, our seniors, and so, yeah, it's important. yeah commissioner brian. just want to check in on our advanced calendar. we show the next item on the housing element is being on april 4th at that hearing. is that still are we still on track for that? i think we've shifted and we're looking for a date later in april. and we want to give you more of a detailed schedule on the breakdown of the topics we want to talk about, because i think you're right, there are specific topics, outreach being one of them. i mean, i think it's come up small business preservation. so we'll want to break that out and give you a schedule. okay. well, if it means that there's a little bit more time to put together materials in response to the issues and questions raised today, then, i'm hoping that

will be possible. and that was going to be a topic of our next discussion, as well as kind of state density bonus. and as you know, as the laws change at the state, we're or we're figuring out how to how we also make those changes and how they impact our local zoning. thank you. okay. if there's nothing further, commissioners, we can move on to your regular calendar for item 12. case number 2022, hyphen 011972 coa for the property at 557 23rd avenue. conditional use authorization. good afternoon. commission jeff horn, planning department staff i am before you is a request for conditional use authorization, for residential demolition. the project site is located on the 500 block of 23rd avenue in the outer richmond neighborhood. the subject property is an up

sloping lot with two detached residential units. at the front of the lot is the main unit of approximately 1800 square feet in size, and the second unit is located in the choir rear yard. this 322 square foot, one story studio dwelling unit is proposed for demolition and to be replaced with a new construction of a 499 square foot, one story, 11.5ft foot tall, one bedroom adu, seeking approval through the state adu program, the project's seeking this ministerial right to be constructed in the rear yard through the state adu program, and the project meets all eligibility requirements. parts of the program. in the proposal to demolish an existing dwelling unit that is rent controlled, sb 330 requires that a replacement unit be provided of equal protection rights. so this project has been conditioned to provide this new adu as rent

control through a notice of special restrictions. and there's been, no opposition has been received on this project and it's been cleared environmentally as a class one, exemption. and this concludes staff's presentation, and i'm available for any questions. project sponsor, you have a five minute presentation. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is vivian chi from masuda consulting engineers. our proposal is to remove the currently dilapidated structure as shown on the overhead projector with a habitable compliant unit. we hope to move forward with the project to allow someone to inhabit the space. we're available for. any further questions. thank you so much for your time. thank you, members of the public. this is your opportunity to address the commission on this item. again, you need to come forward or.

last call for public comment. seeing no requests to speak, public comment is closed and this item is now before you. commissioners vice president moore, this commission has sufficiently discussed the pros and cons of state, regulated adus, including the required setbacks. this project fulfills all the necessary rules, and i appreciate the sole explanation of that. this particular unit would be rent controlled in order to achieve the equal protection rights that you mentioned. i do not see any issues, and i would move that we approve with conditions. second. there's no further deliberation. commissioners, there is a motion that has been seconded to approve with conditions on that motion. commissioner williams, i commissioner braun i commissioner imperial i commissioner coppell i commissioner. moore i commissioner. president. diamond

i so move commissioners that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0 and i do believe we set a new record for shortest commission hearing ever [music] san francisco developing programs specific low to

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in the leidesdorff and in about the financial district and a good time to grow here. >> as a small business the leidesdorff is making us being part of it as being part of in project. for me makes we want to be part of san francisco. >> so landing at leidesdorff for me represents hope for san francisco and the sense that this is become such a safe welcoming area. >> we local artists coming in and exercise boxes and live music but the hub of culture. >> the downtown partnerships has a studio in san francisco. they identified 6 locations throughout the downtown area we come together with new activity and spaces. >> is between us a place to tell our own story and history.

>> it was named after a captain one the black leaders of san francisco before that was called san francisco he was the first treasurer of the city and commercial street a cross street the hifblg original shoreline of san francisco was just a few feet behind where we're 12357b8z around opportunity to bring people to locations we have an opportunity to tell stories and for local businesses. >> >> making to may grandkids a program all about pop ups, artists, non profits small business in into vacant downtown throughout the area for a three to 6 months

engagement. >> i think san francisco is really bright and i wanted to be a part of it revitalization. >> i'm hillary, the owner of [indiscernible] pizza. vacant and vibrant got into safe downtown we never could have gotten into pre-pandemic. we thought about opening downtown but couldn't afford it and a landlord [indiscernible] this was a awesome opportunity for us to get our foot in here. >> the agency is the marriage between a conventional art gallery and fine art agency. i'm victor gonzalez the founder of gcs agency.

thes program is especially important for small business because it extended huge life line of resources, but also expertise from the people that have gathered around the vacant to vibrant program. it is allowed small businesses to pop up in spaces that have previously been fully unaccessible or just out of budget. vacant to vibrant was funded by a grant from the office of economic workforce development that was part of the mayor's economic recovery budget last year so we funded our non profit partners new deal who managed the process getting folks into these spaces. >> [indiscernible] have been tireless for all of us down here and it has been incredible. certainly never seen the kind of assistance from the city that vacant to vibrant has given us, for sure.

>> vacant to ibvooerant is a important program because it just has the opportunity to build excitement what downtown could be. it is change the narrative talking about ground floor vacancy and office vacancy to talking about the amazing network of small scale entrepreneur, [indiscernible] >> this is a huge opportunity that is really happy about because it has given me space to showcase all the work i have been doing over the past few years, to have a space i can call my own for a extended period of time has been, i mean, it is incredible. >> big reason why i do this is specific to empower artist. there are a lot of people in san francisco that have really great ideas that have the work ethics, they just don't have those opportunities presented, so this has been huge lifeline i think for entrepreneurs and

small businesses. >> this was a great program for us. it has [indiscernible] opening the site. we benefited from it and i think because there is diverse and different [indiscernible] able to be down here that everybody kind of benefits from it. >> item 50 is resolution calling on department of public health to provide medically necessary transition related care for transgender related people and remove restrictions. >> in 2012 gender health sf was born out of advocacy from community stakeholders and local leaders. really as response to providing quality,

accessible jnder aaffirming care for the most under-served. (indiscernible) the way i see it, there is two ways of folks we serve at our program. the first wave of folks who never imagined surgery access was accessible to them. many folks who had to save money or par ticipate in underground economy to access the surgery outside the country. (indiscernible) really to make something real in terms of being able to connect with the gender identity and external (indiscernible) and so transform so many lives of many of trans folks who never imagined it was accessible to them. now we are in the different era and time where transrights is in the social political and general (indiscernible) and now we are serving young folks to support them and making sure their gender identity is connected

to who they are, so providing a space to support transfolks to live authentically and that is the goal to provide the level of care trans folks deserve. >> when it comes to access to healthcare, while we all believe in cost control and make sure we deliver healthcare in a cost effective manner, i dont think that cost is a reason or legitinate rational to exclude people from healthcare (indiscernible) colleagues i ask for your support. >> thank you supervisor wiener. colleagues on this item can we do this without role call? same house same call, without objection the resolution is adopted. [applause]

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>> a century ago, building a dam in the high country of the sierra to bring a supply of fresh water to the san francisco bay area was a monumental undertaking. mayor sunny jim rafh turned to michael to mastermind the project. michael was a force of nature. air fwant in some ways but also a man's man. he supper advised the construction and it was the greatest engineering seats in the united states. >> the remow location of dam and reservoir made getting to the site a challenge. >> they had to get access to the slopes of the sierra nevada so they her to build a railroad to get construction equipment and materials into the site. they had to generate power so they

built another reservoir to generate power and they did a remarkable amount of work with much less sophisticated equipment than what we have today. >> concrete for the dam was processed at a plant just upstream from the construction site, using sand and rock from the valley. nearly 400,000 yards of cubic concrete were poured around the clock. >> oshansee was a detailed oriented guy. he was having his man dig down the bedrock and they would dig and dig and pull, you know, out debris and they come and say, okay, we've gotten down. we're down far enough. we need to personally look at it and say, no, dig deeper. >> in may 1923, the dam was completed and named first chief engineer and behind it, an 8-mile chef of the hetch hetchy valley was flooded and holding back 115 billion gallons in the

new reservoir. it would take another 11 years to finish the system and bring that water across california to the san francisco bay area. >> this was the moment. it was made pososososososososososososo

>> my name is nary shay assistant fire marshal. assigned at fire pro investigation. i was born in hong kong age 8 me and my family- (indiscernible) i grew up in sunset area and all employment jaibs are with the sitdy of san francisco. when i was growing up my parents were traditional chinese parents. they emphasized school. they didt want us to join or play sports because they said school is the only thing that is important and want us to get a college education. i envisioned myself maybe being a doctor. after

high school i went to uc berkeley and major in bio chem. after college what i did happen is-what happened was i landed a job at ucsf and was a research associate there. one day me and my co worker were talking and don't know how it came about, they talked about fire department and someone mentioned i would be good for the fire department. even though i didn't play much sports i was still athletic. fire department, what will i do in the fire department because i didn't know there were women on the engines and trucks and didn't know the difference between engine and truck. the same night i was watching tv and there was a commercial of the fire department recruiting women firefighter and there was a woman all dressed

and tolds to go to division of training and 27 and a half year later i'm erhoo. when there is more presence of asian person, asian community it educates the population and helps people understand our community rchl ism i think people hate because they don't understand. i will tell the young women that definitely consider you know, a career in the fire service. don't just think it is just for men, because the fire service is not just suppression. suppression is one portion of it it. there are different parts of it. there is ems portion, the medical portion, the fire prevention portion, and there is also the fire investigative portion. all of the departments needs to work together to keep the city of safe, not just the citizens safe, also the first responders. i thinks the career in the fire

department is great. i start #d as a firefighter, i had the opportunity to also become a paramedic and then i landed in fire prevention. i'm very happy at fire prevention because not only am i able to enforce the code and make changes to help the citizen of san francisco be safe in their homes or place of business, but i think my work also make sure that my fellow firefighters and first respond ers, when they respond to a fire, the building is also safe for them. .

okay good morning. today is wednesday, march 20 issue 2024. this is a regular meeting of building inspeck. i like to reminds to you mute yourself. first item is roll call. >> and president alexander-tut. >> present. >> commissioner chavez. >> present. >> commissioner nuemann. >> here. >> commissioner shaddix. >> here. >> commissioner sommer. >> here. >> commissioner williams. >> here but we are not logged in. i will log everyone we have a quorum. and next is our