this is the regular meeting of the building inspection commission. please turn off electronic devices. first item is roll call. (roll call). we have a quorum. next item is presidents announcement. >> welcome to the building inspection commission for december 18, 2019. happy holidays. i am vice president filling in for president mccarthy who is away dealing with a family matter. i spoke to him this morning, and as i will get to later, this is the last meeting for many of us, and he has some -- he asked me to pass along greetings, and i will when i get to that matter. i would like to thank the department staff who have been and still are attending the california building officials training classes this week. every year our staff members almost all of them are required to take classes and be up to speed on current code and issues in the building industry, and our staff attends these trainings at least once a year to refresh and enhance technical skills to continue to provide excellent customer service. everyone in the city benefits from these continuing

you do include the building inspection commission in here and building inspection is usually just buildingpermits so i'm trying to think of what discretionary entitlement comes in front of the building inspection commission. did you get any feedback on that from the folks you consulted? >> we talked with folks at the planning department to dig into all of the mechanics of this new co section. for the reasons that department and that commission handles the vast majority of land use matter as defined. i can tell you what we found is that 1.127 is not perfect. it does not match up perfectly with how land use matterser dealt with in the city. what the regs endeavor to do is faithfully carry out that code section. warts and all. you make a valid point about the building inspection commission but we thought to include the departments included in the code so to not artificially limit it and not impose the elementtation that was not imposed by the voters. looking at this further highlights in my mind i would like to at least put in, i do not have a financial interest in the land use matter as defi

there is the building inspection commission which oversees the department of building inspection. and this would be a great place to have those concerns raised if they haven't already been raised. and also it's unprecedented for this part to make staffing calls. so i think, again, if there are concerns about who should be handling this, director tom, building inspection commission, that's the appropriate venue to direct that if that hasn't already been done, i would encourage them to do that. i think we can find a way forward through this and look forward to the board's assistance in that. in terms of variance and variance timing, it would be several months. i just quoted to them six to eight months. i don't know what the current backlog is of variance applications since i'm not handling that directly anymore. but we can look into it and get that done as soon as possible. there's no preferential treatment, we can't take it out of order, but we will do our best with that. they could also revise the project so they no longer need a variance by deleting that corner. they can't recons

this is the regular meeting of the building inspection commission. lease turn off electronic devices. first item is roll call. (roll call). we have a quorum. next item is presidents announcement. >> welcome to the building inspection commission for december 18, 2019. happy holidays. i am vice president filling in

and i also want to really thank the building inspection commission and the staff at the department of building inspection. every three years they go through this trauma of updating our building code. and we're always there asking them to go further. and this is an example of that kind of partnership. and they were with us all the way. and, finally, i do want to thank the community members who showed up today and who have been showing up for us for months working on this. >> and, debbie, i do not in any way want to be disrespectful but less is more. >> got it. and i have nine slides and i will go as fast as i can. you know the context. here's the slide that keeps me up at night that tells me where our emissions are coming from. and you can see that the built environment has 44% of them, and the lion's share of that is natural gas. and natural gas impacts -- this is really important to remember -- as we are taking on the natural gas industry, it's threefold. we have climate impacts, methane is 86 times more potent than co2. and we have explosions happening not only in san bruno but in t

this is the regular meeting of the building inspection commission. please turn off electronic devices. first item is roll call. (roll

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commission. the chief billing inspector will be here for the department and building inspection and joseph duffy, senior building inspector representing the built -- the department of building inspections. we also have the program officer for the san francisco arts commission and the urban forest are from san francisco public works here for urban forestry. the board request to turn off or silence all phones and other electronic devices so they will not disturb the proceedings. please carry on conversations in the hallway. appellants, permit holders and department respondents each are given seven minutes to present their case and three minutes for rebuttal. people affiliated with these parties must include their comments within the seven and three minute periods. members of the public were not affiliated have three minutes each to address the board and no rebuttal. please speak into the microphone for continued cases, the parties get three minutes each with no rebuttal. to assist the board and accurate preparation of minutes, you're asked but not required to submit a speaker card or business card

commission. we have joseph duffy representing the department of building inspection. we have leah from san francisco public works and i believe debra will be present from san francisco public works bureau street use and mapping. the board requests that you turn off or silence your phones and other electronic devices. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the rules of presentation as follows. appellants permit holders and respondents are given seven minutes to present their case and three minutes for he re but thal. rebuttal. members not affiliated with the parties have three minutes to address the board and no rebuttal. they are given three minutes and no rebuttal. to assist the board you are asked but not required to submit a speaker card or business card to board staff when you come up to speak. speaker cards are available on the left side of the podium. please note that the board reserves the right to not call an item after 10 p.m. given the size of the calendar public comment will be limited to two minutes. if you have questions about requesting a rehearin

commission and their staff. is there anybody here from the department of building inspection, which is also involved in this? >> good afternoon. i'm joseph barber from the department of building inspection. i'm a housing inspector. >> you can drop your -- put your coat on mr. sanchez's lap. [laughter] >> that's better. >> can you hear me now? >> yes, sir. >> all right. so i'm the resident from the department of building inspection. >> is there anything you would like to add? >> we are gaining units under the hotel conversion ordinance. i think there's -- under chapter 41, there's -- they are converting all the units in 860 sutter to resident designations which means there's eight extra rooms under the conversion ordinance. so we are happy with that. we are getting extra rooms. >> thank you, mr. barber. from the mayor's office of housing, mr. adams, if you are here, you are welcome to weigh in. if you are not, it is okay. it has been a marathon meeting here at land use and transportation committee. anything you want to add? no. ms. jenson? mr. smith? all right. we will open this up to public comment. public c

building inspection will issue a foundation permanent. permit. and since this is a landmark area, the historic preservation commission will issue a certifcate of appropriatenessat hearing is scheduled for january 15th. and then i just really want to close with sort of why we're doing this. so both the wheel and, really, the community day that will surround it, are designed to celebrate the park's past, present, and future, and its importance internationally, regionally, and to every neighborhood in san francisco. we want to inspire at least 150,000 people to come to the park on april 4th, probably a lot more, and millions more to visit throughout this special year. and we want to build awareness and advocacy for the park and increase membership in all of the community groups in the park and around san francisco that steward and support what the park means to the city. so thank you very much. and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much. >> chairwoman: i'm going to call the blue cards i have. drew, michael, and then tom. >> good morning, everyone. happy holidays. it is a pleasure to be here. and i would actually say this is probably one of my