most is the relocation. you know, the thought you're uprooting a family, having them relocate and having them come back. this this to me is is probably the most problematic thing that i could think of when i'm thinking about how this is going to work only because there's just so much that can happen during that time and then the whole time period that folks can be out of rent controlled stable housing all of a sudden their life gets uprooted and they're having to deal with not only find new housing but move an entire family out. >> i mean it's it's just it's hard to really wrap your head around it and so and so you know, that's one thing that i think that really i hope that you guys drill down on and figure out like because this is

going to happen right is as much as we don't want it to this is state law. it's here. right. and so um and then you know there's there's the relocation specialist who i think is a great great idea and i mean i don't want to go through through everything but what i do want to do is i'd like to see this put on the fast track. i don't think we should be waiting a year to get all this done and you know, i think i think like 60, 90 days of community collaboration to really get something in place that can come back to us and maybe have another hearing that we can have the public look at it and and and have a chance to to voice their opinions. i think it this is it raises to

that level of urgency and what i'm afraid of is if we wait too long that things that we won't be able to work out everything in time and so i want to propose that to to to my fellow commissioners and into the commission as something that that we can adopt. >> yeah, well good news we're we're working hard and diligently actually i think we have our pre our post meeting set up with the coalition already so we're we're continuing to to work together and our goal would be that this would be part of the package of legislation to be introduced as soon as may and it would come to the commission for more consideration ultimately obviously go to the board of supervisors. so i think we share your sense of urgency. you know, really working in these next few months to get this dialed in to the point where, you know, we can we can put it on into a legal format call so so may may may is is a date that is a target date. >> that's what we're targeting for you. okay. yeah i would like to get rep

assets you know position on this as well is this something that is you think is is doable maybe joseph if you care to or whoever care to speak on this commission just a quick question just in terms of doable just wanting to understand what your question is coming up like trying to finalize the protections and i know it's it's it's there's a lot there's a lot of moving parts and there's a lot of stuff that hasn't been there's a lot of it's a lot of decisions or from the community and from planning that haven't been merged and i know there's a little bit of space there but i also understand the urgency and the gravity of not having these protections in place. and so what would be you know

in your estimation what would be a good timeline to try to work towards to get this done? >> kind of yeah. thanks commissioner. and so definitely it's a priority for us and as rachel said, we do have a meeting coming up to debrief this hearing and it's been great to get all the inputs and comments from from commissioners so far during this discussion. so we'll be bringing those comments and suggestions back to the meeting that we have in a couple of days. it's definitely a priority for our coalition. as you saw the the turnout today i think from what we've been hearing through our coalition discussions is we wanted to move ahead of the up zoning so we're very concerned about the zoning as you've heard during public comment today. and what we'd like to do is have a separate discussion about tenant protections from the up zoning is because the up zoning is present a whole set of complications in terms of neighborhood dynamics that we want to be able to separate from the tenant protection

because as you've heard tenant protections are already an acute issue in our communities. people are being traumatized already from the speculation kind of incentive streamlining that's already been enacted. and so yeah, so we are definitely committed to moving forward and we appreciate the collaboration and i think we'll be able to get to a place where we have a good package of tenant protections and like i said it would be nice for us to be able to move that ahead of any um zoning discussion so we can have those conversations separately. to be honest we tried to bring these conversations up last year when the up zoning were in informational hearings and what happened was the the conversations around upswings are so complicated in terms of planning and in terms of like i said neighborhood dynamics that the issues for in terms of the impact on tenants got so drowned out and then again thank you to commissioner

imperial for taking leadership on making sure that we were able to tease this out and actually have a separate conversation about what's happening to tenants in the city and how we can address it. and that initiative led to this collaboration to be able to start to put together some very complex proposals around tenant protections. so again, i would like to see these conversations continue to be separate. we know they're linked and we'll continue to link them. we understand that in terms of policy and in terms of how planning is kind of playing out but for us to be able to have these conversations with you all and with staff and move them expeditiously i think is going to be a better path forward and i think we can accommodate some of that in terms of the sequencing of things so we can work together to figure out the schedule and and talk with you all about it as well as if you have other comments that you don't want to make today myself and the staff can be available to get more feedback from you. you know at a later time. >> i just want to put myself out there to to to help in any

way i can. this is a very important issue to me personally and so i want to make myself available not that you know you guys you guys you guys are doing a great job and obviously you guys, you know, have a lot more knowledge than i do. >> i got something to give every once in a while and so but but it sounds to me that what i've heard is that moving the tenant protections separately and on a different timeline is something that is something that is needed. >> i've heard you say that i want to be clear i'm not committing to moving this faster. i mean i think may is very fast for us to get this package done. so that i think is going to require us to work really closely with wrap relatively quickly in the next because it's already basically march i mean believe it or not. so i just want to i do want to be clear that i want to overpromise on the day is that like you think needs to happen?

it is and what also may happen is that the ordinance will be a separate ordinance structurally will be introduced the same time which might mean that we can have as hearing on that ordinance separate from the other pieces of legislation early part of the rezoning. so again it's unified. but in terms of practicality, we'll have another hearing on that ordinance which would be separate from the other ordinances which will also have their own hearing dates with the commission. >> so just to be clear so so the tenant protection is a separate ordinance from from everything else right? and so i mean and i know you guys have a process to do but is there any advantage to moving the tenants protections more rapidly than then then than the other than the other legislation going? >> i mean i don't think so. director hill is may have a different opinion. it can always break away at a certain point but i think there's an elegance to keeping them together. and then in terms of sponsorship and working with the board that we're really working on these things

together it's the same staff, you know, that will be meeting with them and talking about these things but. >> director yeah, i mean the tenant protections are citywide like they would be great if they're applicable today, right? like they affect areas of the city that aren't under consideration very zoning where state density bonus and state laws still are allowed where we're seeing housing production happen. so yeah there is independent utility to move them forward. i think what director tenet is saying is made is pretty close now so it'll be a separate ordinance. >> could it move on its own? >> sure. and i think it has citywide utility. it's not just like the areas where rezoning and your comment do i mean we're hoping again you still have the discretion to say yes or no to a demolition of an existing rent controlled building. you know, we want to make sure that that still happens. whether that entails like a lobbying for state changes or whatever we need to do to get there. i think that's our kind of

policy goal in this as well. >> i appreciate that. thank thank you. did you want to talk to hill? >> yeah, i was just going to say that i would advise against making it faster every week we're learning something new. it has a lot of moving parts. it's a very complicated ordinance and we want to get as much in as we can. as i said at the end of the presentation and sometimes it'll mean that we cannot meet certain things because of state law. but you know, it's just like all of these moving parts and how they get implemented i we just want to get as much right as we can right now and mean that shorter means that maybe there are things we won't be able to do or things that we might get in trouble because we didn't find fast enough that we could you know, like i just really would advise against moving that timeline even shorter than that just because of all these different moving parts that are part of this ordinance. well said. thank you. i appreciate again, just just a

concern is that right now you know, we don't have a lot of these protections in place and so, you know, i'm concerned that things can happen from now in in when when when everything gets implemented and that's when 2026 or so or the end of this year what yeah so i mean the protections that are proposed are primarily in place via state law. what is not currently in place are areas where we may want to either go a little further than state law or say here's the law but what does that mean in san francisco? so sb 330 is statewide applies everywhere even in san francisco and you also have a little handout here that shows some of the other protections that we have in place here. so there are some other areas which i want to be crystal clear to that we all acknowledge i think are issues the definition of demolition between our agencies. i'm thinking about renovations that turn into evictions. that's not necessary demolition

. right. and so there are areas certainly of tenant protection that need further exploration i think even beyond this ordinance that are not in place and that we have, you know, ideas about doing and in furthering. >> so i just want to be be clear about that. >> okay? okay. thanks. and i have to mention this and i know others want to speak but the issue of of of having records and and keeping keeping data, i think that that is is another issue that came up in the public public commented on it and i just want to you know emphasize that we need to understand you know through those records when we you know, as we start to really understand what is actually happening out there, i think that's valuable information not only for the commission, for the public but also for our legislators to see how these new state laws are actually

what they're doing and so i think that the you know, the idea of keeping records that that aren't that aren't being kept now and there's there's a few that were mentioned today is something that also that we need to really drill down on and make sure we get right because i think it's going to be really important in the future that we can refer back to them. thank you. thank you, commissioner. i also like to wholeheartedly thank the collaboration between our planning staff and also with ref s.f. choo choo and s.f. and thai displacement coalition. >> this is truly is like we you help us do a better job to move forward with the city and adapt all the future changes that we need to do protecting tenant

occupied housing in all these various key points that we discussed extensively today are really great principles that we're trying to achieve and i think that this process and i feel that it if if nothing more than that is actually give us a more enlightening understanding of which agency has the responsibility over what issues surrounding tenants protections ,it always come back to our hearing or a couple other topics in the city is like when certain things happen what are the accountability mechanism? >> so i'm really happy to see our representative from the rent board is here still with us. thank you for sitting down with us for so long and also our counterparts and i would love to encourage all our agency to be more clear.

>> lee define when scenario happened which one of you or us is the accountability agency that enforce certain piece? for example, i think that if it's a room board it's responsible the if it's a rent control units and if it's a below market rate units and that will be a most the agency to be responsible for following up with the enforcement and accountability. so i think that's something needs to be really clear i hope i think we are getting there by the time we're done with this entire deliberations and by may we will have not only just amount ourself here today but

everyone in san francisco will have a better clarity of the mechanism to follow through. this is very important and i really appreciate everybody's effort to do this and i look forward to continue to clarify the different definitions between dbi for a demolition and our section 317. i look forward to it. thank you for everyone's attentions today and thank you for the hard work. director tanner's and your team under director hiller's leadership so thank you and i encourage our fellow commissioners if you have more follow up questions. they're here all the time. there they are all the time to yeah to to to chat. >> yeah. thank you. and commissioner campbell you i want to thank everyone for coming as well on this. i would say this is not an easy meeting to get to so thank you and i think i am also very aligned with my fellow commissioners on obviously the importance to preserve

diversity and affordability and cultural diversity in san francisco and i do support what we're seeing here in terms of codifying tenant protections. i think the city is changing and i think what we're hearing a lot today is fear around that change. but i think the city's been changing its whole life so we can't resist it really. and i do like the idea of being a city of yes and embracing change and i don't think that being pro-growth and pro-business is mutually exclusive with you know, it doesn't have to come at the expense of diversity and affordability and inclusion. so i think it's it's just at a high level something i like to think about as as we consider these sort of changes. a lot of my questions have actually already been addressed. i also have questions around the demolition definitions. >> i had questions around the existing tenant protection policies which i know we have a

lot of already and i love this graph and i think if if the plans are to integrate that into in here i think that would be really helpful because i think a lot of folks that live in san francisco the sense is we've got a lot of tenant protections already and what how is this different? so i think having this chart is really helpful. i also had questions about the relocation specialist wondering if we have resources in budget to support that and then the comments i think there's a lot of common sense in the one for one unit replacement but i was a little curious about the language there was the udu which commissioner imperial already addressed but i was also thinking about sort of just illegal squatting and buildings which if i think back to to five eight, eight mission street that became a point of contention where we had some residential units and we wanted to replace those one for one in the proposed development. but then there was also allegedly some people living in non residential units so is something that we want to address because it became it

became a an issue with that particular development. >> we can take a look further at that to kind of look how that would intersect. i mean there are as you know, many cases where people are living in non habitable places and so i think part of the challenge is that some of these protections at the state level don't extend if the building is like essentially deemed by the building official not to be habitable which many of those cases would be because you're not supposed to be living there right. but i mean we can look at how closely does that look like the udu kind of situation when is when is it like inhabitable? yeah. so maybe we can take a further look at that and i will mention ,you know one thing that we did see in the city of l.a. in terms of the 1 to 1 unit replacement and i think they're looking at trying to have more than 1 to 1 and other things so we can talk more about that with our friends at the coalition and kind of look at that also with our city attorney, you know, do they think that that's something that we can explore further? but that's a great, great aspect to bring up. so that's all my comments. thanks.

>> thank you commissioner more woman speaks laughs gets harder and harder not to repeat but only to emphasize and support it. as i have said, the real strengths of what happened here today is actually the depths of your own experience and what you brought forward as a real life experience of what's happening in san francisco. and i'm actually moved and inspired for not only the lengths of use but which you have broad specific aspects of what's being summarized today forward and as have reminded us starting many years ago but for the first time really for the first time as seen in mcniff was in collaboration between planning and you sitting across from each other and talking about the same things it has moved from theory into total practice and that's why i see the tenant protection that you outline today actually as an

emergency response just like the prepares for emergency response in different areas of emergencies, i think you're doing that exquisitely well and i do it. i do support every aspect of what has been discussed today every aspect that you are proposing and i look forward that you continue to work with each other that this comes becomes a completely unified message that is implementable and realizable in the time frame that we need to be prepared to properly and i'm putting an emphasis on properly respond to ups on it up zoning what will happen? so the question is how it happens and i do believe that what you are talking about today will give us a more nuanced understanding of what we need to consider when we do it. and the one thing i would like to encourage you and i'll just kind of asking for more clarification is actually my only remaining question is to

clarify in which area of expertise and it's a new expertise the relocation specialist would find i consider that position to be extremely important because this person becomes a mediator, this person becomes an expert with overarching experience in all fields that come together when we are trying to protect tenants and it's law, it's everything that you do. i'm picking law as being the most powerful tool but there are many other persuasive tools that i think you need to be clear about particularly when can we afford i'm looking at institution and law chair etc. aspect to have a relocation expert in specialists in place because we would need him actually yesterday i leave that was this might open open question and i thank everybody

for an amazing piece of work thank you thank you commissioner imperial i just have one question and this is i don't know if this should be on this next item actually but because director hillis you mentioned that we at the end of the day the planning commission has the discretion for the demolition, you know, but in my experience like especially when there are sb 330 or you know, state density bonus programs in my experience that it the state state law supersedes a demolition and so i want to check with the city attorney in terms of the power of the planning commission render is the demolition but there is up to state density it is a state density bonus project at that point and in my experience like it leaves us to you know in a way to to follow or the state

density law supersedes the the local law but just want to have that clarification because i notice that it's still part of the action in the commission action is the the section 317 but then again it's a state density bonus project. >> thank you for that question or question, commissioner. so i think what you're asking is whether state law trumps the 317 discretion is that and in general unfortunately the answer is yes. generally speaking we have a number of state laws that minimize as we all know the discretion that is left to the commission in a state density bonus project. as you know there are waivers and incentives that can be requested and granted. so you know, i would need to look at a specific example to answer in a more concrete way. >> but where a state program is being used for a project there will be situations where the commission does not have the kind of discretion that it would under a straight 317

approval. >> i think just to add to that that that is correct. i think in state density bonuses specifically i know there's a lot of state programs i can't remember all the cities and abs but some programs specifically prohibit the demolition of rent controlled housing and protected housing but not all. and there are cases where you know, we can't do certain things. one of the things we didn't talk a little bit about today is strengthening our findings for demolition but also some ideas to make it really clear that folks have to follow our rules and regulation is if they're proposing a demolition. >> so we really want to tighten up. i think our enforcement of these things and many of our our tenant protections are meant to prevent someone from wanting to evict somebody in the first place, right? like that's part of the goal is to say hey, this is not going to be a good avenue to go down. we want to help protect these folks and these units and so shoring up that enforcement as you talked about is is part of that and then also looking at how do we use our code in this new state landscape to have things that are a little bit

more sure and no directives want to add anything? >> i mean one we should probably have a closed session to talk about this because i don't we have not had a case where state density bonus has like required you to approve a see you for a demolition of a of a rent control unit. it's not ministerial right? you can't use these ministerial approval processes to do it. so i would just a little push back like i wouldn't when i was a commissioner i wouldn't say state approves the state law necessarily you know limits our ability to to approve a see you for a demolition but i think it's something we want to maybe we can get the city attorney's counsel and again change our code where applicable to strengthen our ability under 317 to have that discretion because i think that's ultimately the goal and thanks for the clarification. >> i yeah it's just it's yeah it's just something that keeps in my head every time in your state statements and i know that the goal for this what we're doing now is actually to prevent this but it comes to

the point of the replacement of rent controlled which i think that wraps up is trying to address. >> so thank you. okay commissioners, if that concludes your deliberation on this matter, you have one more item on today's agenda number 19 state housing laws also an informational presentation based on how are you holding up is holding this is no problem. >> i think may may have been

here before to have 12 yeah this is nothing compared to the only days i mean you guys you saw your staff meeting with oh they're spoiled no i'm just dandy but our yeah that's like terry you taken a break so i guess our officers are not here and our secretaries are yours or i don't have the overhead i want to we have a quorum that way. yeah. oh, but jonas isn't jonas your positive exciting topic? but it's something you would say.

hi. and so if we can we go to the computer please? >> good afternoon, president. so and members of the commission kate connor, planning department staff today i will present an overview of notable pieces of state housing legislation from the 2024 california state legislative session. there were less housing bills this year than previous years with approximately 35 bills that dealt directly with housing instead of providing for new programs like we saw last year, several bills modified existing ministerial programs like ab 2011 and sb nine and then there were also some changes around the

imposition of impact fees and entitlement expiration. >> so today i'm going to provide a high level overview on a number of housing bills. these bills include housing production bills which is typically the amendments to our ministerial programs. >> there are of course state density bonus amendments. >> there's a bunch of housing accountability act amendments. >> there are some fees and entitlement expiration bills and then there's also some bills that deal with reporting . >> and so just a small note i'm not going to be covering any of the eu legislation because that would take forever. so we're just going to focus on these housing production bills today. so there were changes to several of the state's ministerial housing programs. you know, as a reminder, ministerial programs require expedited approval by the department without sequel review or discretionary entitlement meaning you are not typically seeing these projects

in any form aside from the informational hearings. >> so the first program to be amended was ab 2011. this is the affordable housing and high road job act. it became effective in july of 2023 because as a reminder this program provided two ministerial review programs one was for affordable housing and then one was for mixed income housing on commercial corridors provided that there was affordable units on site. >> then there are restrictions for demolition for the mixed income program projects and there's also labor requirements . >> so ab 2243 amended ab 2011 with several different points allowing the construction within the proximity to freeways is now permitted. previously it was not but that's only provided that there's more filtration that's included in the project restricting demolitions of historic resources for the affordable projects.

previously there wasn't that restriction and now that has been added. >> there were also changes to some of the eligibility restrictions including when a site was last used as industrial before there wasn't kind of a time limit and now it's a three year lookback. >> and then there was also a requirement to submit a phase one supplemental right at the beginning and remediate the site before the construction and now that's been added as a condition of approval. >> the next program to be amended was sb nine and that became effective in january of 2022. >> sb nine provides a ministerial review process for a duplex construction lot split or both on single family zoned parcels. there's no onsite affordability or labor provisions and projects have to meet objective standards so the amendments to sb nine were pretty small but notable timelines were added for review and so we have 60

days to approve or deny rather than not having any timeline for approval. >> this really does align with planning department's current practice to provide review within 30 days after it's determined to be complete. so we're not really anticipating this to be problematic. we've made so many different process improvement so over the last two years that we're reviewing things in a much more timely manner. >> >> so for state density bonus law there are two substantial amendments as a reminder steep density bonus law. it contains probably 7 or 8 different density bonus programs. >> there's one for senior housing and one for student housing, one for affordable there's one for every single income category. >> so the two that really got modified were the student housing. it allows for a larger bonus of 50% which is more in line with how state density bonus has been amended. and then the second one is for senior housing and it broadens senior housing to include

residential care facilities which have previously been thought of as institutional uses. >> so there were several changes made to the housing accountability act as a reminder the housing accountability act was established in the early 80s and it's really intended to restricted jurisdictions ability to deny or modify a code compliant housing project provided that the project contains two units and is two thirds residential. >> so the has been amended multiple times in the last few years including with sb 330 which limited hra projects to a total of five hearings. so in order to deny a project a jurisdiction must make a finding that there's a specific adverse impact to public health or safety. and that's an incredibly high bar. >> so the amendments really fall into three different buckets. the first is increasing what qualifies as the denial of a project?

the second is adopting changes to what projects qualify as hra projects. and then the third is really further defining builders remedy projects. so this first bucket is really kind of increased liability. so over the years the housing accountability act has been strengthened in a number of ways. the burden of proof is often placed on the jurisdiction instead of on the project sponsor and the application of fines for a city's failure to comply has also seen notable changes. so the following kind of scopes are now considered as de facto disapproval by the housing accountability act meaning that they could be subject to fines. one is violation of the five hearing rule. when this was established as part of sb 330 there was no recourse that was stipulated in the law. the second is finding an application incomplete due to missing information that wasn't originally included on the first planned check letter.

and that's basically to stop a jurisdiction from giving iterative comments and requiring more and more. >> and then the last is requiring a builder's remedy project to file for a legislative amendment or some sort of rezoning and treating that as a nonconforming use. >> so the second bucket was making more projects eligible. >> so and this is really kind of a carve out for larger projects. so instead of two thirds it could be 50% housing provided that you're providing 500 units. these are very sizable projects. >> also the area has like different types of findings when you're denying a market rate project versus an affordable project and what's been determined as an affordable project, those affordability levels have been lowered. so previously it used to be 20% as affordable. and now it's been reduced depending upon you know, the income level to between kind of 13 to 7%.

>> and then finally the third bucket is providing greater specificity for builders remedy projects. so currently the city is not subject to builder's remedy because we have a code compliant housing element that was found consistent with the state housing law. >> but if that were to change these are the changes to builders remedy previously builders remedy allowed non code compliant project to receive these protections under the hra provided 20% of the units were affordable. so now there are the reduced affordability requirements that i just mentioned but the bill also provides some guardrail rules for the amount of density that's allowed under builders remedy. i think now with arena productions you know being much higher jurisdictions are seeing builders remedy much more often and they needed to put some guardrails.

>> >> so then moving on to impact fees, impact fee deferral was addressed in senate bill 937. >> it requires the payment of impact fees for many housing projects to be delayed until the first certificate of occupancy. we're a little ahead of the game on this one in san francisco. >> impact fees used to be paid at first construction document but we had fee deferral legislation last year and that was passed locally to defer up to 85% of those fees until for certificate of occupancy. and there was also a fee reduction the only fee that was excluded was the affordable housing fee. with this bill now all fees are deferred. but this is something that dba is going to be implementing. >> so then there were a couple of bills that are addressing both entitlement exploration as well as impact fees. >> so senate bill 1820 allows for a preliminary fee estimate

upon request by the project sponsor with submittal of a preliminary application meaning a project sponsor can just get an idea about what fees they will have to pay at the end of the construction project a little bit earlier and then ab to 7 to 9 provides an 18 month extension for housing project entitlements. >> this was a law that was actually put in place right after covid to give this kind of extension. it's basically being re-upped for another 18 months. so essentially if you have an entitlement that was issued prior to january 1st, 2024 and it's set to expire before december 31st 2025, you can automatically receive an 18 month extension. >> so then there's a handful of changes to state law reporting requirements. >> so now san francisco is going to need to distinguish whether or not housing is located in opportunity zones. and this is something we've gotten a lot more familiar with.

all of the sb 423 hearings are based upon these opportunity zones. it's somewhat similar to our priority equity geographies in our well resourced areas. >> so we don't really foresee this as being too difficult for us to implement. >> in addition, we're also going to have to report more specifically on income levels. >> so previously we just saw a report on very low income and now that's going to have to be further split out into extremely low income which is 30% ami or acutely low income with less 15% ami. >> and then we're also going to have to report on recent historic designations locally and how that might affect housing production. >> and so we've updated a number of our bulletins to reflect all of these changes and as well as always with state legislation we are doing our best to implement these new laws as quickly and as accurately as possible. >> but there's always the possibility of guidance from the state technical advisory

letters issued by the state or case law that's going to affect our implementation moving forward. >> and so typically i just kind of leave at this slide and but i wanted to kind of go through the bulletins that we've published and talking with commissioner moore yesterday we're trying to kind of figure out like what are the resources that we have and like how can a developer know what the law is since it's not something within the planning code? and so i attached all of them and i think they're all tabbed. i'll just like run through them very quickly as far as what they all do. >> so we actually have ten planning director bulletins bulletins one through four. they're a great read but you know bulletins five through ten. >> those are my favorite. so planning director bulletin five it deals with all of the ministerial programs but only for affordable housing projects. so if you're an affordable housing producer and you need to figure out how to get a project built, you look to planning director bulletin five.

>> the thing about these ministerial programs that includes the ab 2011 one includes us before 23 and includes a b 2162 for permanent supportive housing. >> and the one thing to kind of note is that these programs can all be used in conjunction with state and bonus law which leads us in the planning director bulletin six. so this is the bulletin that we have for state and bonus. this is the one that's probably updated most often because we end up getting more and more technical advice from the state as jurisdictions start really implementing state density bonus more vastly. again, it's often used in conjunction with ministerial programs. >> and the one thing to note about state density bonus projects is that they're always considered to be code compliant even though there are exceptions that are requested and that's in the form of the incentives and the waivers. >> so planning director bolton seven that's kind of what we were talking about in the last item is how we implement sb

330. and i think what we are focusing on in the last item is really much more about tenant protections. but sb 330 really did quite a bit. and so this bulletin is completely devoted to all of the different kind of aspects of change. >> and it includes kind of the imposition of new development standards changes to any project review process. this is also the establishment of the preliminary application which freezes that planning code requirements. and then all the repair replacement and relocation requirements which is what molina was talking about in the last item. >> and we got planning director alternate. so this is implementation of sb nine. this will also probably be reserved for all of our smaller scale ministerial programs. it doesn't have affordability requirements. it's slightly different. it doesn't have the same labor requirements. so it has its own special bulletin and i wish it was number nine but it's number eight.

>> i know it's very confusing. yeah. so planning director role to nine is actually planning director bolton fives best friend because this is the mixed income ministerial programs. and so now these have become a lot more popular with sb 423 being more you know more widely used. >> and so it goes through sb 423 and b 20 11 the mixed income versus the affordable projects from the ministerial standpoint have different requirements. they have different requirements for labor, they have different requirements for expiration. >> so we kind of gave them their own separate bulletins. >> and finally we have planning director bolton ten and that is just solely on the housing accountability act. >> and so that just kind of talks about what it is how it's changed this year and what projects are eligible. >> then i threw in a small slide about the state legislative timeline. >> so this just kind of gives

an overview as far as all of the different steps when bills are introduced, when they start at one house of origin, when they move to the next when they come back when they're reconciled at the end of the day they usually reach the governor's desk by september. we usually know if they're signed by mid-october. and then we have from mid-october to december 31st to read them all, understand them all, update all these bulletins and the applications so that they're ready to go on january 1st now and to february. >> so we're already starting the next session. >> so i think with that i think that's it. so if you have any questions right here. thank you. problem with that we should open up public comment. members of the public this is your opportunity to address the commission. >> thank you for that explanation of the bulletins. i think that was really helpful. i'm going to go home and make

screenshots when it's uploaded again to speak up tv so i really understand it. >> thank you. thank you. >> thank you for asking for it. i just want to say one thing and i guess it relates to sb 330. i know it's been a long day but you know demolition definition that really came up with that day street project. i know that's one project and i don't want to beat a dead horse but that thing started out as a full demolition. >> and i sent you the papers when i did the public records request. and you know, i just don't think gbi has a definition of demolition. >> they've got their they've got their violations and actually when they did that legislation a few years ago about the penalties after the well this polk course up there, they added that section 103a31 and they specifically wrote in as defined in section 371

b2b and c and those are the democrat s and the commission is looking for discretion and i think you kind of grab it wherever you can because you're not going to get it from the executive branch i don't think i don't know maybe i'm wrong about that and you're not going to get it from people in sacramento and i just will leave it at that and i just don't think gbi has it and i did a sunshine request with db i'm still in the middle of and they they don't know they say oh if planning says so or you could leave one state up that's the whole reason you did section 317 a million years ago. >> so i'll stop now because it's it's time to go home. >> thank you very much. have a good evening. >> last call for public comment seeing none public comment is closed and the matter is now before you commissioners. >> commissioner braun. yes. thank you professor o'connor i,

i look forward to this roundup every year. actually i have i have just two questions about some items that were mentioned so for the housing accountability act amendments under the second change what more projects are eligible? um, i didn't i just didn't personally follow the part about expanding the requirement to make findings for denial based on different now a different income mix. >> could you explain that one a little bit to me? yes, of course. so in the housing accountability act there are certain findings that a jurisdiction has to be a has to make in order to deny a project and for the affordable projects what previously was 20% those findings were even stricter. they were harder to be made and now that affordability level has been dropped so it doesn't have to be quite as affordable as it used to be and it's a higher bar for the findings to deny basically. >> interesting. okay. you would think a health and

safety funding would be a health and safety funding plan. is that is that what it revolves around the health and safety findings for? >> yes. and i don't know i don't know if city attorney if you know the exact findings i can look them up. that's a yeah yeah and then the other question i had was sorry if i could just just just like i don't my understanding kate probably knows more than i do but my understanding is it doesn't change the finding. you have to make it change the point at which that finding requirement is triggered. so how much has to be affordable before you need to make that finding is what has changed not the finding itself right? >> absolutely. i just don't know exactly what that one finding is. >> okay. well i deflated in our estimate so thank you. um, and then under the entitled let's see which one is sb 1820 uh which now allows for preliminary preliminary fee estimates upon request and spent over preliminary application. >> um i want to try to think through which of these items

might impact our processes and staff resources and uh that sounds like one that might it sounds like we're kind of developing preliminary estimates ahead of time. is that a fairly i don't know if you haven't said on this but is that a fairly light lift for the way we're set up to be able to provide those estimates or is that something where it takes i just seen a lot of other communities where that's something staff has to churn through and it's across departments to figure out those estimates. and so i'm curious kind of how big a lift that is for us and i think from like the planning point of view i don't think it's that much of a lift our planners have are very well versed in being able to calculate impact fees is incredibly low but mind is a mix. >> thank you. sorry it's especially very complex impact fees and so they'll just be doing it earlier in the process and that's only at our project sponsors request so when they file the preliminary application which they use to you know freeze the planning code requirements, they haven't even submitted a development

application so they're going to have to provide enough information so we can do the calculation and it's something that's also not legally binding meaning if the project changes when that development application is finally submitted it's not like the city is on the hook for that estimate. >> okay. thank you. those are my questions. thanks so much for the update. thank you, commissioner. i'm sorry to interrupt before we go to the next commissioner are reasonable commendation requests you raise their hand late so if we could go back to public comment very quickly, ms. hester, this is who has your um it's disappointed to see none of the people except george in the audience that i say on computer that's on the screen that were involved in the two discussion the next couple past couple hours i am encouraging my staff to do outreach to organizations that

were at the meeting including joseph smoot and get them this information that was presented today on the amendments in state law because i was i was just saying things were clicking in my mind that this may have an impact on how housing projects are handled. thank you. it's first long meetings but it was productive. >> thank you very much tonight . okay. commissioner moore okay. >> i have one question and that is the issue of the housing accountability act amendments more eligible projects and while i'm interested to look at more projects the the limits that are set for this particular eligibility seem to

be extremely high because i do not really know of any 500 units project in san francisco we have been in the high three and those 295 or 320 well this is more like hong kong type housing. >> i just want to make sure huh? >> 555 bryant has 510 three three units we've got high it's 16 floors. >> okay well thanks for correcting it seems very high and there are not as many sites available to do that type of housing so i'd like to see more eligible projects but that particular benchmark seems very high. if i may, the and the one thing that's really changed with that benchmark is lowing that by lowering that two thirds requirement to 50%. so instead of having to have two thirds of that big housing development as housing now it only has to be 50%. but you know the tradeoff is that you're already providing

500 units of housing. >> dan, thank you for clarifying that. >> okay. commissioner imperio yeah. >> i have a question on the reporting update is the what can you repeat again what is the acutely low income which am what's what is acutely low income army? yes so acutely low income is 15% and extremely low income is 30% and previously we were just kind of looking at them collectively as very low income which is 50% and this is mainly just for reporting. >> it is not it's not something that whether san francisco needs to use this kind of definition that's totally correct. >> yes, that's that's my question. thank you. thank you, commissioner campbell. i hope i'm not putting you on the spot but i think for context it could just be interesting to know i mean i've

been here for six months and i know what's come in front of us but generally what are we seeing in terms of how many projects are exercising this legislation and how do we think these changes might impact what we might see in the year ahead ? so at this point we have seen a total of 29 different sb 423, sb 35 projects with over 3000 units we've seen 52 sb nine units with about 127 units i'm sorry 52 projects for ab 20 11 we've only seen 11 projects but it's been larger projects 2600 units for ab 2162 that's 100% affordable for supportive housing we've seen six and that's for 634 units and then for just state density bonus in general we are up to almost 90 projects with approximately 11,000 units and how many of

them are moving past entitlement? >> i mean i know we always say there's like 70,000 units sitting there. >> i ask right, yeah. how many are actually advancing past entitlement? >> i mean kate's more intimately working on these day to day so i don't know. i mean we see a lot of them come into our shop and get the planning approvals. i don't know how many of those you're tracking all the way through. db why there haven't been as many like i know we were at first really tracking the state density bonus project because that was just such a hot item especially when most of them are coming to the commission and just with the economy it was kind of few and far between that were actually getting built. there was only you know a small handful of them definitely on the affordable the ones that have been able to secure tax credits and funding you know those are actually kind of moving forward but i don't have the exact number as far as the

ones that have been finalized but i can definitely get that and send it out. yeah, i think it could be interesting enough if everyone agrees getting these numbers just and then i'd be curious to know what you all are predicting in terms of how some of these changes might influence what's to come. >> i mean is there any predictions from i mean i'm it'll take me some time to digest everything you just shared with us. >> but i'm curious if if you have any i would say probably the changes this year were kind of a little bit more minor. i mean we didn't have huge programmatic, you know, requirements or new programs that came in. it was all sort of amendments to existing programs. >> so you know, i think i don't really see anybody necessarily choosing one program or another because of these changes. i think a lot of them were clean up for the 2011 changes. i think you know, the prohibition on the demolition of historic resources for the affordable is going to be something notable but then also opening up a b 2011 for construction that's located

within 500ft of a freeway is kind of a game changer because adding that you know merv filtration and making sure the balconies aren't facing the freeway is a wonderful way to be able to mitigate that without just prohibiting the housing to be located there. so those are kind of the big ones that might shift the developers you know decision about whether to use a program but otherwise i don't see anything that's going to be drastic. you commission anymore miscount i did you have the totals of all those units you just read out what is the total of those? i do not have the total but i can do that quickly. oh man must be oh 4000 i would imagine you know so he he has probably like 19,000. >> this is not a trick question but what i really would like to know is since we really very, very seriously working on using

say density bonus and all of legal acquirements which are quite stringent, do we get credit for just having them in title because ultimately the planning department as much as they would like to have a golden donkey in the basement we do not make some money to to build these buildings. so do we get to do we get credit for this when we do report to the state we do report on the entitled projects and the one thing i listed a very quick addition of all of those numbers the you know 11,000 that our state density bonus i think all you know there's a good portion of repetition between the programs like i think all of the ministerial programs use state and city monies to get there. >> so there might be some double counting but the good thing is that people find a way with multiple offers to pick those elements but under your guidance to do what works for them and so what i'm relieved about doing is that at least we get to recognition that we're taking this serious and i think i'm relieved hearing that because with the previous entitlements of which we have

quite a few of actually too many we are not getting any credit and we're behind the eight ball because we have tied up a lot of land, a lot of very, very good opportunity sites with a significant amount of entitlements for which we are not getting credit. >> so and i do think the other important thing to note is given some of the recent state laws i believe it was two years ago ab 1114 now and the years keep going by now when we have projects that are entitled out planning because we've bifurcated the process really between the entitlement process and the building permit there is no risk really remaining for folks to file building permits for housing projects. so once they're through planning there's not any other constraint other than market conditions that are really preventing anyone from filing a building permit. there's no risk of appeals. there's the impact fees. the city has deferred those to tco. so a lot of the constraints or risk factors that would have precluded folks previously from maybe filing that you know, for building permit with all the

structural and technical details are really removed at this point. so certainly hopefully we get some credit for them because it's certainly not us holding up those projects from proceeding at that point. >> all those things this will be a very critical argument when it comes to really a two up zoning and what are we realistically doing to implement of what our achievable goals are if we do get something where we get credit for some of the pipeline units, the state's requiring us to rezone for 34 thousand units. >> so the reason it's not 82,000 is because they're counting they're expecting we're all expecting some of the units that we've already entitled as well as entitlements that come from the existing zoning to count towards that 82. so that's why we're not rezoning for 82,000 units. we're only rezoning for 34. >> thank you for clarifying that.

>> thank you, kate. of course the amazing okay commissioners, if there's no further deliberation that will conclude your hearing today. >> okay. thank you. thank you

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media friends and everybody welcome to the chinese chamber of commerce. my name is dixon and uh, i'm going to say i bilingual and try to translate so please be patient with me and we're here today we have all of our esteemed speakers here today to celebrate the success of the 2025 year the snake lunar new year activities. it has been an incredible season to really bring the city back to life with all the activities that was kind of coincidently happening on the same weekend and so yeah, thank you so much for coming and thank you for all media friends for coming and without further

ado let's get started. i'm going to hang up hang out johnson i can walk. >> you take that robotic arm. yeah . >> the forefront of supporting and uplifting our community. our president donald lu of the chinese chamber of commerce he's played a crucial role in organizing this year's lunar new year activity celebrations and ensuring our traditions will continue to thrive. so please join me to welcome mr. donald lucy couple weeks

and while they don't watch on time we get duterte glow and fong she's out that. good morning everyone thank you for coming. i'm happy to announce that this year new year parade and festivity was a resounding success anchored by me a lovely inauguration in chinatown. it created so much energy and and momentum that carry into the the flower fair where we saw so many people half the sweep or one weekend from not from 10 to 5. we this year we had we also increased our our vendor we also created a new cultural block we will showcase eight pandas that are going to be displaying around the city and followed up on that. we also had the the lunar new year day celebration which also was a very festive and very the spirit in chinatown gary which has which was magical. and then we all come then everything culminated in the in

the parade and the street fair. we had over 120 vendors and the parade as we all saw was one of the most successful parade that we have in a while in the partnership with abc we saw that was the number one show in the in that day it increased enormously by a by by 27%. it was broadcast not just on abc seven local but also in over ten other market across the country and hulu and also disney plus. so this just let you know and we also have more than close to a thousand volunteers many of them are a high schoolers or some college student on the parade. it's it's a very significant for this coming year in chinatown because it's a place

for us to is not only an economic economic driver for for chinatown and the surrounding neighborhood but it's also a training ground for many, many volunteers for us. so i am very happy that i am here today to to say thank you to the mayor for all the work that you've done to support the outreach and our festivities right. your continued investment in the parade will be very, very significant not just in the parade but also our infrastructure i like to put it this way i know that you are very behind in supporting us to make the promise later to plaza something that we can we can be proud of something that's going to be iconic. so with all that i want to say thank you everyone for coming. we had a wonderful year this year and we look forward to another beautiful year of listening. thank you, president hu. our next speaker needs no introductions. since taking office he's been a steadfast advocate for our city and make sure our all our

community stay very vibrant and his leadership and commitment to cultural heritage has been very strong in supporting events like our lunar new year all activities to please give a warm welcome to mayor jan thank you donald. thank you very much and to everybody up on this stage. thank you. we're here to celebrate the remarkable success of the new lunar new year parade and nba all-star weekend and the eyes of the world were on san francisco and we rose to the occasion like we always do just like any big trip made possible by teamwork. i want to thank all the department leaders and city workers who came together to make this happen over the lunar new year weekend i witnessed collaboration firsthand on saturday, the day of the parade i visited the department of emergency management's emergency operations center. the coordination and focus were exactly what we expect and appreciate from our teams on

sunday ahead of the nba all-star game i also spent time at speeds command center out in potrero. what struck me most at those meetings was how seamlessly the teams worked together to make sure the city was ready for any situation. let me tell you there's an incredible amount of hard work going on behind the scenes to keep our city safe. residents and visitors don't always see that work but they can feel it. they can feel it when they ride muni with their family to the parade without worrying they can feel it when they shop at the pop ups that were up and down powell street and they can feel it when they enjoy the walk from their hotel to dinner. everything all the time they travel down a clean and welcoming street and feel safe. our city workers are making a difference and we are starting to see vast improvement on that

front. the stats from the weekend also tell a story of success. the lunar new year parade and nba all-star festivities brought hundreds of thousands of visitors to our city and spurred hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity thanks to the increased law enforcement and strong collaboration across public safety agencies. we also saw a significant drop in crime that weekend. crime was down 30% compared to last year's lunar new year parade weekend. in fact this was the safest lunar new year weekend since 2007 ten muni metro sites busiest weekend since the start of the pandemic. the department of public works had dozens of workers out until midnight cleaning the streets after the parade our firefighters were out all weekend responding to hundreds of calls every day and our nine

one operators answered 84% of the calls in 15 seconds or less. even with hundreds of thousands of visitors in town, this success is a direct result of the surge in resources and our ongoing commitment to safe to making san francisco a safe and clean place for residents and visitors alike. over the weekend the team activated 100 staff from the city, state and federal agencies as well as the private sector and all of our partners all sfpd officers all of them were on duty making the department effectively fully staffed despite our persistent officer shortages, it's clear when law enforcement is fully staffed and resourced we get results. so far this year crime is down

overall and my administration is committed to sustaining that trend. we're going to build on this momentum and i want to announce also something that the chief will talk about in a moment that we had a multi-agency operation in jefferson square last night in jefferson square park last night targeting the drug market. dozens of arrests were made. more information is coming. but i have to tell you and this is a message that i want everybody in the city to hear if you are selling drugs in this city, we are coming after you. we are committed to fully staffing our police department, our sheriff's department, our 901 dispatch office. we can keep our streets safe and clean not just for an incredible event like the lunar new year parade weekend or an nba all-star game but to make sure that our elders here in

chinatown feel safe our kids getting on the bus at 16th and mission feel safe every morning . the conditions are not where we need them to be. but last weekend proved that we are capable of delivering for the people of san francisco and you are going to see more of that in the weeks and months ahead. after i had i want to also end with this lunar new year weekend we announce a permanent sfpd hospitality zone task force that is now keeping our downtown good economic core safe 365 days a year. we are leveraging every tool we have, including that fenton all state of emergency ordinance to expedite the hiring process and get more public safety and behavioral health professionals on the streets more quickly. the results we saw last weekend over the lunar new year parade and all-star weekend are the proof that we know that we can achieve results.

i want to thank police chief bill scott. i want to thank fire chief dean crisp. i want to thank team director mary ellen carroll dpt dpw director carla short, s.f. mta director julie kirschbaum and new brant thank you for being on call last weekend for executing a successful and coordinated strategy to keep san francisco prepared and safe . and finally i want to thank all of our police officers fighters, our sheriff's deputies, muni drivers, dpw staff, first responders and all of our city workers for their tireless work to make these events a success. my administration is committed to building on this progress. san francisco's comeback is just getting started. thank you, mayor larry. thank you, dana. up next, we'll have our next speaker. the success of the lunar new year parade is really the heart work of all these individuals

here and the dedication of the team behind it and leading the charge of the parade is a man who has worked tirelessly to bring to continue our traditions of the parade and all the light of a new year facilities. so if i can have you introduce our next speaker mr. tony lowry, the director of the lunar new year parade. let me go. thank you. thanks and good morning everyone. good morning, mayor larry. good morning president donald good morning everybody. i just want to say thank you for all the support that you guys giving us. this was a very successful event in terms of the chinese new year celebration. we have our chinese new year parade. we have our festival chinese the history fair. we also have our basketball team growing and we are having our ymca ones coming over for this weekend. so we cannot do it without all the support from different city

agency, different leadership, upper management from from our city. so i really appreciate it. couple of things i want to share with you guys is that for the parade itself this year we have actually precise we have more than 1250 volunteers. is that truly a community event? this is an event for our community and of course we have approximately 134 units. we have about 5000 participants all over the bay area. we have different marching band. we have a total of 21 float and of course with the help with the partnership with abc7 we won't live in san francisco, l.a., fresno, chicago, houston ,philadelphia and new york. we actually have got a call from new york from one of the potential vendor that want to talk to us for 2026 already. so i really want to say thank you for everyone you guys support. that's why we have such a successful event.

and i think this number may be a little bit more understandable for our sponsor. we have a total of 25 million total minutes watch nationwide around the whole nation. so that's a huge number. so i just want to say once again thank you everybody. i think this is the greatest event. just to let you guys know we are ready to start planning for 2026 already. we had we had our first meeting on monday with the team. we are already planning for 2026 so with everybody's support i think 2026 is going to be another wonderful year. appreciate it. thank you so much. up next i wanted to bring up the next speaker because our local business is at the heart of our community and today i want to we will get to hear from incredible merchants who play a vital role in making this celebration successful. so i want to introduce chelsea hong who is the owner of rg lounge who is of course celebrating the 40th anniversary in march. so and also a long time legacy

business in the city. so please welcome chow. >> good morning everyone. first i just want to extend my gratitude to mayor lori for your unwavering support for the chinese new year parade. chinese chamber of commerce and your dedication to the chinatown community. also thank you to the chinese chamber of commerce for hosting such incredible events during the month of january and february including all the multiple fairs in the chinatown parade. i'm going to try and town usa pageant and the chinese new year parade. these events are these events are not just traditions. they're the heartbeat of this community. for many chinatown merchants including us at orange lounge, chinese new year is the busiest and most important time of the year for us. we rely heavily on these festivities. the parade and the surrounding festivities bring in numerous

tourists, locals and visitors alike and creating an incredible energy throughout the neighborhood and a positive impact for the businesses. those past weeks we were fully booked and over the parade weekend we hosted numerous events for guests who came especially for the parade and these festivities. it was amazing to see the city alive and these businesses thrive again. this is one community looks like people coming together to celebrate culture and supporting small businesses. thank you to our city leaders, our city workers that are supporting the fire department event organizers especially tony and the chinese chamber of commerce and everyone who showed up to support chinatown. thank you. thank you for next i want to introduce our next three speakers who as mayor lori has speakers his team their teams

have worked tirelessly during those weekends and in fact every single day to keeping our city safe and organized and making our community feels like san francisco is a great place to live. so i wanted to introduce sbt of chief william scott, our fire chief fire chief president and also the chief of public safety paul yet all the thank you and good morning. >> first of all i like to say thanks to our mayor mayor lori, thank you for your support and for your energy. we have some momentum in this city and mayor lori has hit the ground running. i also want to say thanks to our chief of public safety paul yet because the structure that mayor lori has put in place instantly has caused better coordination between the public safety departments in that's due to chief yes. and his expertise his ability

to get things done and his ability to coordinate. so thank you for your help and your support. i just want to talk a little bit about also let me say back to donald lu and the chinese chamber of commerce donald who is all about community to take the commerce chamber of commerce is all about community and we have to work together to make things work in this city and we have done just that. public safety partners our mayor, our policy chief of public safety we're all working together and that is why we are getting the results that we are getting. i want to talk a little bit about in detail some of what near laurie said about crime. that is no small thing. we had the lowest crime that we've had since 2017. we've gone almost two months under mayor luis administration and we had one homicide and that was before he actually was sworn in with 20 minutes after midnight. we've had one homicide for the entire year. we know that we have work to do. we know that we have challenges in a city that we believe that

we will be able to tackle and keep that momentum going forward. but it starts with our officers and the commitment to police that this police department will make a difference. it will allow us to sustain this work. we have dismantled the drug market but we still have problems. last night's arrest at jefferson square park we arrested 84 people 84 people and there's been this trend that we see where we go into an area we clean it up, we stabilize it and then a lot of the people that are causing problems and havoc particularly as it relates to the drug market go into another neighborhood. that day is over and we know it's going to take time. but you will see these types of operations when people displaced from an area that we go in and try to clean up and then go to another community. this is what you're going to see. you're going to see these types of operations. so we are committed to doing just that and it was a multi jurisdictional multi-agency collaboration. we had our cpd officers in

numbers. we had our sheriff's department you know like think sir paul miyamoto for that. we had our rec and park rangers . we had a multitude of people out there all with the same single purpose and that is to make these communities safer to stop this whac-a-mole thing that we're seeing when drug dealers and users go from one community to the next when they get pressure this pressure will not stop. this pressure will not stop. so here that message loudly and clearly i like big my partner public safety chief chrisman who will hear from him in a second and i'd like to finish with this. we know that our city has the momentum. commissioner silver from the nba during the nba all-star week said and i quote him and saying that he is seeing a resurgence in this city energy like he has not seen before. that is where we are. but it's only going to get better from here because we are committed to making the city the safest city in america. and with that, i'll turn it

back over to you, chris. i think the. good morning, everybody. first and foremost, i would like to thank our public safety team starting with mayor lori and the other members. we have a new administration in the fire department and it was very welcoming, very amazing welcome that we received from the other members of the public safety team. and it was very clear to me from the first several meetings that we had that we were going to be successful over this week those weekend's events. and the reason was that nobody was putting their department ahead of another department as far as importance. everybody only had one goal in mind and that was to keep the public safe. there were no egos involved. everybody worked really well together collaboratively. so thank you everybody for the welcome that you have given us and working with us on the outset of our administration. it's been very nice.

i'd also like to thank the members of our department that stepped up during these events specifically fire marshal chad law. next to me this was a big ask for for prevention staff. we asked them to staff several different locations including chase including mosconi, including the chinese new year route. and they did an amazing job of stepping up and making sure that there were no significant incidents. they were able to prevent anything from happening. i'd also like to thank chief erica brown, our chief of homeland security who also did an amazing job of staffing up our important areas and making sure that we staffed all the important operating centers that were set up for all that all of these events. i think i'd be remiss without thanking the public i think the public actually really stepped up to the plate and that speaks to the energy and positive vibes that we're having in this city. people did not come to our town during these events to cause any trouble. i feel like people came here to celebrate these events show their pride in the bay area and san francisco.

and that was evident by the statistics. we only had five medical events on the parade route. that's significantly fewer than we've had in the past and i think that's a direct result of citizens buying in to the positive energy that we have in this city and understanding that they are part of the solution as well. we didn't have any major car accidents because people took public transportation. so all the messaging that we sent out to the public to say hey, participate with us and ensure that everybody's safe was received and i think that's a testament to the leadership of this group in front of you and specifically mayor lori. and thank you again to director. yep, you've been a great inspiration for all of us and moving forward. thank you very much. thank you to both of you. thank you, director yang. last but not least, our next speaker will be joined by someone who is a strong advocate for our local neighborhood and businesses. i'd like to introduce district police officer danny sato. >> good morning everyone. i'm danny sartor.

you're district three supervisor. that means i have the absolute honor and privilege of representing chinatown in city hall and also the other incredible neighborhood union square where this parade wound through a few weeks ago and i'm really glad that we're here this morning to reflect on the success of this incredible event this is one of those things that we should never take for granted. it is a truly an only in san francisco event. and you know, i got to i got to say i had family visit my eight year old niece was in the parade with me and her mind was blown and we delivered that same experience for hundreds of thousands of people. and tony, i'm looking at you because it's your first year as a director but no one would know that because you delivered an incredible event i'm already looking forward to next year. i know you're going to do it bigger and better and it is our job all of us up here on stage in the city to make sure that the excitement, the vibrancy, the joy that we felt the other week that we continue to deliver that to the residents

and visitors to san francisco and we're going to do that in small bits and pieces every single weekend throughout this year and i look forward to working with all of the city to to continue to do that. i thank everyone for being here this morning. i want to thank mayor lyric, mayor lori for your leadership. you've invested a lot into this community. you've invested a lot into chinatown and it's showing success already. thank you. thank you. supervisor we have that concludes our speakers for this morning is any of our press media friends have any questions i sidney johnson of kqed have a question for the chief for the operation last night can you give more details about you know what folks were arrested for? were these mostly drug users, mostly drug dealers for users? are they potentially going to be released pretty soon? just any more context you can share about the operation specifically? yes. so of course with that many arrests and we're still processing reports and all that so i'll have more details later today. but principally what is happening is we'll go into a

community because of the rapid drug use or drug sales and we will put pressure on those drug dealers. we'll arrest drug dealers and we'll begin arresting people. we we have service providers to give services and when that pressure becomes intense enough, what we oftentimes see is those groups will go to the next block or the next neighborhood and we you know, we call that this place a lot of we believe a lot of the people that have started to hang out and in jefferson square park where we're selling drugs and doing drugs were a result of pressure from other neighborhoods. tenderloin summer and it just became untenable. so a lot of what we see and what we were there for was drug related crimes. i don't have all the time right now we'll have a more complete breakdown later today. i'm sure some people will be released but for some of the crimes and misdemeanors and some people will remain in

custody. but the bottom line to this is we're going to take action and it's not like we haven't taken action but displacement is a huge problem. you know, we see it in news stories. we hear it all the time. and what we don't want to do is get people comfortable with hey, if we put pressure on this block, we'll just go to the next block and nobody's going to bother us. that's not going to happen. we are going to do our job. we're going to make sure that we don't take a problem from one neighborhood and plant it in another neighborhood. so i know that's a long answer to your question. we'll have more details about all the charges later today. but 84 people were arrested. some will remain in custody. some probably will be released per law and we'll just keep the pressure up to make sure we clean up our city. just a quick follow up to that. there's been you know, talk as you're mentioning that some of the enforcement pressure around sixth street, you know, that that has led to some of that displacement. is that a part of the police department using that triage center for any processing yeah. or detainment you know some of those stated goals for that new

trailer center it not as much processing as we hoped to one day have but what it has been able to accomplish is we have hundreds of people that go to that center every day. they get connected to services, those that want to get connected service some people just arrested off of the sidewalks and that is part of what this is. you know, we don't when you go down the street or any street in san francisco just like that and you see people on the sidewalks that are struggling from addiction and all that you're part of this is where can they be that's a safe place . that's not a sidewalk if they're committing a crime, of course we need to take enforcement action but some people just need help and those services are there so you know, from the first day people were a little bit skeptical because they didn't know what it's about. you won't go there to get arrested now if officers use it as a process, you know those crimes are happening on the street and we go there for an efficiency perspective. but we also have an array of

city services and service providers that are there and people are starting to figure that out. some people would just go to get a cup of coffee and you know, get out of the office. i other people going there like journey home to get a connection back to where their home support system is. so you know, we're going to we're going to make adjustments with this as we need to but it's something different is something new and we hope that it's going to help our community. but police are not so far using it for processing or it's been very limited. it's been very limited but that is a part of the goal. it's a process as we get staffed up. francis we need partnership from our sheriff's office. they are stepping up just like we are. we've increased our deployment on security to mission at that corridor and the sheriffs have as well. so we anticipate that that will lead to processing just from a take off of efficiency so officers can take them there for transport. the bands can then take them if they have to go to county jail or county jail and officers go

back to the field. so that's the efficiency that we want to realize but that's a work in progress. thank you so much, chief scott. that's all the time we have for everybody today. so thank you so much for coming. really appreciate all of you here the

>> i view san francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. i just love the city. i love everything about it. when i'm away from it, i miss it like a person. i grew up in san francisco kind of all over the city. we had pretty much the run of the city 'cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would -- in the summer, we'd all all the way down to aquatic park, and we'd walk down to the library, to the kids' center. in those days, the city was safe and nobody worried about us running around. i went to high school in spring valley. it was over the hill from chinatown. it was kind of fun to experience being in a minority, which most white people don't

get to experience that often. everything was just really within walking distance, so it make it really fun. when i was a teenager, we didn't have a lot of money. we could go to sam wong's and get super -- soup for $1. my parents came here and were drawn to the beatnik culture. they wanted to meet all of the writers who were so famous at the time, but my mother had some serious mental illness issues, and i don't think my father were really aware of that, and those didn't really become evident until i was about five, i guess, and my marriage blew up, and my mother took me all over the world. most of those ad ventures ended up bad because they would end up hospitalized. when i was about six i guess,

my mother took me to japan, and that was a very interesting trip where we went over with a boyfriend of hers, and he was working there. i remember the open sewers and gigantic frogs that lived in the sewers and things like that. mostly i remember the smells very intensely, but i loved japan. it was wonderful. toward the end. my mother had a breakdown, and that was the cycle. we would go somewhere, stay for a certain amount of months, a year, period of time, and she would inevitably have a breakdown. we always came back to san francisco which i guess came me some sense of continuity and that was what kept me sort of stable. my mother hated to fly, so she would always make us take ships places, so on this particular occasion when i was, i think, 12, we were on this ship getting ready to go through the panama canal, and she had a breakdown on the ship. so she was put in the brig, and

i was left to wander the ship until we got to fluorfluora few days later, where we had a distant -- florida a few days later, where we had a distant cousin who came and got us. i think i always knew i was a writer on some level, but i kind of stopped when i became a cop. i used to write short stories, and i thought someday i'm going to write a book about all these ad ventures that my mother took me on. when i became a cop, i found i turned off parts of my brain. i found i had to learn to conform, which was not anything i'd really been taught but felt very safe to me. i think i was drawn to police work because after coming from such chaos, it seemed like a very organized, but stable

environment. and even though things happening, it felt like putting order on chaos and that felt very safe to me. my girlfriend and i were sitting in ve 150d uvio's bar, and i looked out the window and i saw a police car, and there was a woman who looked like me driving the car. for a moment, i thought i was me. and i turned to my friend and i said, i think i'm supposed to do this. i saw myself driving in this car. as a child, we never thought of police work as a possibility for women because there weren't any until the mid70's, so i had only even begun to notice there were women doing this job. when i saw here, it seemed like this is what i was meant to do. one of my bosses as ben johnson's had been a cop, and he -- i said, i have this weird

idea that i should do this. he said, i think you'd be good. the department was forced to hire us, and because of all of the posters, and the big recruitment drive, we were under the impression that they were glad to have us, but in reality, most of the men did not want the women there. so the big challenge was constantly feeling like you had to prove yourself and feeling like if you did not do a good job, you were letting down your entire gender. finally took an inspector's test and passed that and then went down to the hall of justice and worked different investigations for the rest of my career, which was fun. i just felt sort of buried alive in all of these cases, these unsolved mysteries that there were just so many of them, and some of them, i didn't know if we'd ever be able to solve, so my boss was able to get me out of the unit. he transferred me out, and a couple of weeks later, i found out i had breast cancer.

my intuition that the job was killing me. i ended up leaving, and by then, i had 28 years or the years in, i think. the writing thing really became intense when i was going through treatment for cancer because i felt like there were so many parts that my kids didn't know. they didn't know my story, they didn't know why i had a relationship with my mother, why we had no family to speak of. it just poured out of me. i gave it to a friend who is an editor, and she said i think this would be publishable and i think people would be interested in this. i am so lucky to live here. i am so grateful to my parents who decided to move to the city. i am so grateful they did. that it neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr