start i just want to again thank all the department staff that has worked on this, specifically barry hooper charles sheehan, and i also want to thank elizabeth felter for doing the equity analysis on the legislation. next slide. so for today's objectives, i'll just briefly touch on the health, safety, resilience and climate context. we've heard a little bit about that in our introductory presentation, so i won't spend a lot of time on that. but i will review in detail our stakeholder process and our outreach. i'll go through the key tenets of the legislation. i'll talk a little bit about the impacts, particularly around the cost effectiveness and the impacts to our housing pipeline, and then we'll talk a little bit about the implementation and the equity. next slide. so the context for this legislation is really around health, safety, resilience, and climate. all four of them together. this legislation provides an update to the san francisco building code, which we are able to make amendments under the purview of the health and safety code. and the objective of this proposed legislation is

i remember actually upsetting barry hooper with my insistence that we should have done this long ago, he was, as is so often the case, correct that we had to do it the right way at the right time. and i do think the outreach that's been done that was described by you, cyndy, and that was affirmed by one of the speakers tonight, has been truly impressive. i do want us to support this ordinance and to urge the board to pass it. but like so many other people that we've heard tonight, i would like you to try to strengthen it. i know you're pretty far down the path here in terms of your work on this, but i think that a number of the points that have been made to us both in writing and orally about the need for increased transparency, for example, for a tightening of the exemptions, for a second look at the use of decorative gas fixtures, for example, i think that those points deserve some additional attention, and i really hope you will give them that attention. i don't at this precise minute know the best way to make that happen, and debbie, if you could give some advice, i'd appreciate i

i remember actually upsetting barry hooper with my insistence that we should have done this long ago, he was, as is so often the case, correct that we had to do it the right way at the right time. and i do think the outreach that's been done that was described by you, cyndy, and that was affirmed by one of the speakers tonight, has been truly impressive. i do want us to support this ordinance and to urge the board to pass it. but like so many other people that we've heard tonight, i would like you to try to strengthen it. i know you're pretty far down the path here in terms of your work on this, but i think that a number of the points that have been made to us both in writing and orally about the need for increased transparency, for example, for a tightening of the exemptions, for a second look at the use of decorative gas fixtures, for example, i think that those points deserve some additional attention, and i really hope you will give them that attention. i don't at this precise minute know the best way to make that happen, and debbie, if you could give some advice, i'd appreciate i

the commission, on august 12th, 2020, the code advisory committee reviewed the presentation by barry hooper with the san francisco department of the environment and ab112, implementation of all electric construction regulations. after discussion of the proposed ab112, the committee members requested minor changes to the bulletin and once made, the code advisory recommended ab112 by the building inspection commission and respectfully submitted tom sessler, the secretary of the advisory committee. and all of the committeers have received all of the core spons correspondence via email. all had some of our content and i will read one into the record and they were all in support of ab112 and the commissioners are writing to for new construction ordinance introduced on june 30, 2020 by supervisor mandelman. i'm a native san francisco and i reside in san francisco and i am a design professional in the industry. the department of environment has put forward a solid case for adopting this new ordinance. i agree this ordinance is critical to fulfill the city's commitment to strengthen our city's abil