. >> let us speak on agenda item 10 on risk mitigation. think the presentations are -- >> what i have for you was general public comment. you want to speak on item 10 or general item comment. >> i'm using my general public comment. >> ok. >> i think the risk mitigation presentation are fine as far as they go. but they're basically a repeat of the june 2016 investment committee meeting that commissioner bridges had. i think the key thing is to focus on implementation. i think that, i hope that the two speakers will cousin how risk mitigation can actually be implemented. i'm going to make three quick proposals. the first is necessary. the first one again, which i've said a lot of times, is the managing director for blah blah blah. should be a manager district or for chief risk officer. if that capacity, second proposal, at your march 21st investment committee meeting on strategic plans there's part of that strategic risk mitigation plan. the third one is that you bring in, she does this also, you bring in non consensus views about the risks

or mitigation plans. but in general, i just wanted to repeat my testimony from the hearing in september. that these are significant trees that deserve the greatest protection under the public works code. and that a street protection plan was filed, some tree protection is on site now, although i don't know if the tree protection is around all of the perimeter trees planted by friends of urban forest and if those are impacted. i did want to emphasize there was simply a lack of public notice. i did a records request shortly after from public works shortly after the hearing officer upheld the hearing officer's decision. and these plans were not available in that records request. what i wanted to do is ask that the board of appeals remand this case back to the department of public works so that we can have, there were discrepancies in the plans and abatement measures, as well as a placement lead soil removed and where they're melding it so that the public can take a look at these plans anew. look and see if t

mitigation first. not mitigation second. we know mother nature is going to come. it remained quite a bit and flooded in houston in 2015, the memorial day flood. it flooded again four months into my first administration. the tax day flood on april the 17th. and, again, it flooded harvey last year. what we do know, that there were certain mitigation strategies that have been put in place, thousands of hopes would not have flooded. for example, project brave in the city of houston. widening the channel. the city of houston is the bayou city for a reason. it's built on a number of bayous. there was a project already shovel-ready. it only took another $47 million to complete it. it is a federal project, corps of engineers, reimbursed from the feds. but that project had been delayed. instead of being completed in '15 or '16, it's been delayed to '22 and possibly later. based on the modelling from hurricane harvey, if that project had been completed, thousands of homes would not have flooded. the city of houston has gone out, i recommended to city council, we cannot wait

i want to see words on paper, not words in the air. >> all of those mitigations are in the mitigation claim separately in the transportation exhibit of the disposition and development agreement. there's documentation around how we will invest the transportation fees that the project generates. similar to the pier 70 project, which we worked on with your office, what we did, because of the proximity of the two projects geographically and because of the overlap in build-out between the pier 70 and mission rock, we developed a shared list of transportation investments, which reflect what they feel like are the needed projects. we worked with neighborhood groups to get their approval and met with various supervisors offices to review these. among those projects are things to really re-enforce the investments right-hand a the t third corridor and add investment around bus lines that serve the area, create new connections where there are gaps in the bicycle and pedestrian network, and really invest additionally in water transit. so those -- how those funds will be spent and the commitment f

. >> this is the appel of the preliminary mitigates declaration. >> hang on. before we present, commissioner fong? >> i just wanted to say that i sought the advice of the city attorney that i am not recusing myself on this particular item, but i have served on the golden gate park national everybo conserveancy. >> we're going to hear first from the city staff and then the appellant and then the project sponsor. >> correct. >> correct? okay. thank you. go ahead. so sorry. >> i'm lisa gibson, environmental review officer, and this is julie moore. she's a senior planner, and she has roughly prior 20 years of experience prior to joining the planning department conducting environmental review under the california environmental quality act, and she has a degree in geology and a masters in psychology, and we're very pleased to have her working in our department, and again this is her first time before the commission and her first appeal of a project, so she's been very fortunate. >> good afternoon, members of the commission and president hillis. as you know i'm julie

the third is something we expect from every project, which is to mitigate the impact on the transportation system, and the fourth is investment of transportation fees to support the surrounding -- that growth and the surrounding neighborhoods that already exist, so now i'm going to invite fran weld from the giants to give you an overview of the project. thanks, fran. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. miss weld. >> thank you, carly. we've been working with the port community leaders and many different city agencies for close to ten years on envisioning what the future of this part of the central waterfront will be. as you know, it's a surface parking lot today, located in an area of the city which carly well described as being an investment in area transportation planning. we hope to built on that investment and create a really robust transit oriented development with a wide mix of uses along this part of the waterfront. we have 28 acres total so i'll talk you a little bit of what the different uses of that are. eight acres are parks and open space. that's a very important component to the p

the research we suggests is that treasuris are more effective as risk mitigants are [inaudible]. and i thought we would take some questions. maybe the best thing to do if we could would be skip to page -- let's look at page nine for a minute and then page 10 beliefly. so page nine n particular the one i want to focus on is these are sort of five-year periods where you buy options. these are back tests. but what they are is purchases of one year out of the money options. what i want to make a point on this in particular, this is already addressed previously, only really works in sharper sell-offs. if you look at this, the tech bubble was a sharp enough selloff and the financial crisis was a sharp enough sell-off that if you'd owned hedges going into those crises, they would have helped you. but if you look at more mild sell-offs such as the sort of russian default in the end of the 1990s, in those scenarios, the sell-off wasn't as strong and it would have ended up being a drag on the portfolio. you have a five-year period where you had a decent sell-off but didn't do much for you.

services building and three, to mitigate the effect of corrosive soil on site. and we're anticipating sea level rise and the site has a very high water table. and of course planning, designing and constructing this building with a narrow street frontage, it's not typical. so there are challenges with that. and the site permit review has taken longer than previously planned. we are speaking with our colleagues at d.b.i. and planning on a daily basis to check in to see if there are questions we can help address or clarify to help facilitate the review. >>> with that, we'll be happy to answer any questions you might have about the project. this by the way is the view -- when you first enter from gerald and arrive at the ambulance yard, this is the view of the four story facility right behind the fueling station canopy, you'll see a canopy attached to the first story of the building, behind that, the warehouse. and a feature of the project is that you could stock four ambulances at the same time. thank you. >> president cleaveland: thank you. is there any public com

related to those, and so the mitigation, monitoring and reporting plan identifies how those impacts will be mitigated, what the implementation is reporting requirements are, and that also is before you today. sfmta will be playing a monitoring role for all of those transportation related measures. we also have an implementation role for the capital measures that are funded by the project. through the negotiated terms of the project, they will be paying the full equivalent of the transportation sustainablity fee. this means about $40 million in transportation fees over the build out of the project. so we've approached the use of the fee revenue using the southern bay front framework, which is really to identify opportunities to leverage these funds with other development fees and sfmta resources to really invest in a way that's meaningful, and so you may recall that when i brought pier 70 before you, we had come up with an approach where because of the geographic proximity and the overlap in build out timeline, it really makes sense to look at the pot of fees between these two projec

i think there's a high energy of mitigation activity going on. getting back on track with the slide, again, our challenges remain with the electrical subcontractor's pace of delivering milestones, the e-2 pylons are kind of the struggle out on the park because that's moving very nicely, the park in general. but these pylons are continuing to be promised next week, next week. and yet again, i heard they're arriving next week. web core has some individuals going down this week to visit the plant and see what's going on with the manufacturer and delivery of these items. recently you have heard a lot of worry about completion and energizing the power distribution bottles and i'm pleased to hear all the physical work is complete. i was looking into it, and i learned that there was a series of miss steps over the past year in terms of installation by various contractors and maybe some by puc as well, but we have navigated through that, everything is in place. i understand there's a scheduled review for volk acceptance next wednesday on the 14th. we sho

>> yes. >> on that motion to uphold the preliminary mitigated declaration. [ roll call. ] >> so moved, commissioners. that motion passes 5-1, with commissioner richards voting against. >> all right. the commission's going to take a ten-minute break. >> okay. mics are on. [ inaudible ] >>. [ gavel ]. >> okay. good afternoon, and welcome back to the san francisco planning commission regular hearing for thursday, february 22nd, 2018. i will remind members of the public to please silence your mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. commissioners, we left off on your regular calendar on item 19 for case number 2017-014841 cua 655 alvarado street. this is a conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon, president hillis, members of the commission. jeff horn, planning commission staff, presenting case 2017-14841 cua at 655 alvarado street. item before you is a request for conditional use authorization of a 2,737 gross square foot two story over basement single-family home, and to permit an expanded 5,096 gross square foot three story over two basement level single-fami

how will odors be mitigated? >> so as part of the condition use authorization, we do have a kind of standard conditional approval for installation of odor control unit to make sure that any odors are prevented from escaping the premises. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i have no other questions, madame president, happy to turn it over to you. >> president breed: seeing no other names on the roster, we will allow up to 10 minutes for the project sponsor, or the project sponsor representative to present. >> good afternoon. president and members of the board, i'm dan frattin, the project sponsor. we're here today asking that you reject the appeal and clear the way for san francisco's only butcher shop. this is the only place in the city selling freshly slaughtered chicken prepared accord to islamic tradition. it's important to the community who value to see the condition of the animal they're going to eat and the conditions they're processed in. i understand this is not the kind of business that people are familiar

now when it goes to risk mitigation, our view is that the whole part of the exercise should be to avoid big losses. not to try to smooth the volatility of returns due to normal gyrations of the market. why is that important? if you look since 1976, there have been 21 periods when s&p 500 has lost more than 10%. out of those 21 episodes, 16 happened during nonrecessionary periods and guess what the recovery time was? only 89 days. the markets took only three months to recover to their previous peak. on the other hand, the other five times when these losses happened during a recessionary period, they happened to be much larger than 10%. and the recovery time was sometimes many years. and these are the events that you're really trying to protect the plan against because these are the events which can lead to some optimizization of the plan levels for selling contributions. there is no one strategy as my colleague mike will momentarily talk about that can persevere and manage through these protected pers of losses that one can see during recession. the answer in our view is asset allocation

mitigation first. not mitigation second. we know mother nature is going to come. it remained quite a bit and flooded in houston in 2015, the memorial day flood. it flooded again four months into my first administration. the tax day flood on april the 17th. and, again, it flooded harvey last year. what we do know, that there were certain mitigation strategies that have been put in place, thousands of hopes would not have flooded. for example, project brave in the city of houston. widening the channel. the city of houston is the bayou city for a reason. it's built on a number of bayous. there was a project already shovel-ready. it only took another $47 million to complete it. it is a federal project, corps of engineers, reimbursed from the feds. but that project had been delayed. instead of being completed in '15 or '16, it's been delayed to '22 and possibly later. based on the modelling from hurricane harvey, if that project had been completed, thousands of homes would not have flooded. the city of houston has gone out, i recommended to city council, we cannot wait

in lebanon because you can't count the option is not to control the law or not the option is to mitigate and defend lebanese territories from begin to sion any foreign aggression i need to stress that for the past twelve years israel has been violating your. security council resolution seventeen zero one where the number of one hundred fifty eight violations per month. so the issue is not whether lebanon can control or should control. hezbollah his party which is the represented in the lebanese political system is represented in the lebanese. the man is a presenter and the lebanese government and is not the problem of anybody else outside lebanon or u.s. secretary of state television does agree he actually described hezbollah as an issue that needs to be tackled for the long term security of lebanon so what will be your response to this very clear cold air from the united states my response is very clear the urgent matter is to protect the sovereignty of lebanon and against anybody outside the second priority is effectively to lay down a strong state that will be able to cater to mitigat

if not we could look at extended hours and we will remain hopeful that we are able to get this mitigated within the next hour. the department of emergency management is here to talk about what the city is doing proactively to establish shelters in need for those who would required it. >> francis mora, the public information officer for the san francisco department of emergency management. should this go into extended hours the department of emergency management along with our city partners, are evaluating evacuation center needs. if any residence need to stay out of the area longer-term we will look at that weather a temporary shelter or something within the community. in the event people need to stay overnight we will look at any appropriate shelter facilities, making sure facilities have the necessary needs for the people. if you live in this area and have been asked to leave, we ask that you text your zip code, 94115 to 888777. -- 888-7777. that is how we will keep contact with you. again that is, 94115 to 888 -777. >> early on in this event the san francisco fire department and polic

schools can do a myriad of things to try to mitigate these things. unfortunately there is no guarantee against this awful, awful threat. implementing a 21st century safe school, best practices for things that schools can do to help mitigate such things from happening. >> shannon: i have been in plenty of high schools these days covering stories and covering violence. many of them do have metal detectors. there are a lot of parents who, that's not the ideal situation. they don't want their kids to feel that way about going to school but is it something that in this situation would have stopped this individual? >> hard to say. metal detectors, that's one of many things that may or may not be effective. a comprehensive security plan is just that. it's copperheads. many different parts working in synergy. quite frankly, it all starts with evidence-based advanced training. help to mitigate whatever threat you may have. >> shannon: i want to play something from the sheriff, broward county sheriff talking about what you do with somebodys this determined. he

the mitigation broke down. now, we have to go and look at mitigation again. >> there was a second woman who then came forward. >> that one never reported but now she has. so we have to look at it. one of the problems is getting people to report and having trust in the system. we've seen the increase in reporting. we have established through the task force. i will take this opportunity to offer a full brief on all we have done since last year. >> i don't want to take the gentleman's time. >> i reclaim the time and thank the gentlelady. it is important we establish those trusts and do those things. i think, mr. chairman with your , leadership, we have seen from our service academy, superintendents and commandants that have come and provided testimony, many times there is a very good process. when mention was made about there being a big problem i , would disagree. our hearings have substantiated that while there are issues, it certainly must swiftly be dealt with when compared to collegiate america. my goodness.

the mitigated negative declaration was published in december and it is the subject of an appeal at the planning commission tomorrow afternoon. the appeal, which is focused on potential impacts related to the future ferry service from 31, 33 to fort baker in marin county immediately adjacent to sausalito. that is the focus of the appeal, not preservation. so on the appeal, if the planning commission upholds the mitigated negative declaration, the port commission is then scheduled to proceed to make ceqa findings and consider approval of the project on tuesday, march 27 -- i'm sorry, february 27 at 3:00 p.m. if the planning commission decision is to uphold the negative declaration, if that decision appealed to the board of supervisors, then the port commission action would not be effective until the ceqa appeal is resolved. the proposed improvements by the national park service to these contributing resources were analyzed and determined to be consistent with the secretary of the interior standards. by the cultural resource staff at anchor q.e.a. environmental consultants and the plannin

seqa does contemplate livestock, and that the mitigation measures can have impacts on livestock. to the extent the project sponsor claims the animal welfare commission is charged with making recommendations to the board to protect animal welfare in san francisco. on january 26th, the commission did in fact advise the board to support aldf appeal by letter. so, aldf agrees with the sponsor statements, that the recommendations of the animal welfare commission should be followed here. in sum, aldf is glad to see the environmental effects are seeing action now, but prior to granting the conditional use permit so adequate conditions can be put in place to mitigate any potential environmental effects. it is not enough under seqa for this conversation to take place, only as a post hoc or ad hoc afterthought that cannot bind the business to mitigation measures. to the degree the board still has questions about or uncertain about the effects of the facility at this stage, aldf submits this is exactly what seqa is designed to address. the proper course to remand to the planning commission

prepared the program to equip the partner nations to enhance the capabilities to respond to and mitigate the effect of the cern incident. for the domestic incident at home while most incidents begin and end locally, significant events such as a wmd attack would require the jurisdiction from the state governments and if necessary the federal government. the response elements continuously train and exercise. while the large-scale attack is something we hope will never occur we cannot be complacent or wait until a threat is imminent to act. the complexity of this area requires a whole government approach and strong unity of effort. i work closely with the joint staff and combatant commanders and other components to ensure the department prioritizes the efforts for the unique authorities, resources and capabilities to protect the nation. they've brought a renewed focus and sense of enthusiasm to this mission is. the plans to the operational efforts. in closing we must anticipate our adversaries will continue to evolve and develop increasingly sophisticated methods. if they would be rigorous