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missed meeting, mr. clark, do you have any announcements? yes. thank you, madam chair. please ensure that you've silenced your

cell phones and other electronic devices you may have brought with you into the chamber today. if you have any documents to include as part of the file for any of today's agenda items, you can submit them to me by bringing them forward to the rail. and i'll meet you public comment will be taken on each item on today's agenda. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, please line up to speak along your right hand side of this room. alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. you may email your written comments to me at. john carroll at sf gov. org or you may send your written comments via us postal service to our office in city hall. the address is one. doctor carlton b goodlett place, room 244, san francisco, california 94102. if you submit public comments in writing, i will forward your comment to the members of the land use and transportation committee, and i'll also include your comments as part of the official file on which you are commenting. and finally, madam chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of june 3rd, 2024 unless otherwise stated. i thank you, mr. clark, please

call item number one, agenda item number one is an ordinance amending the planning code to require conditional use authorizations for establishing parcel delivery service uses prohibit non cannabis parcel delivery service as an accessory. use and revised zoning control tables to reflect these changes. affirming the planning department's determination under sequa and making public convenience, necessity and welfare findings under planning code section 302. in findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies, the planning code, section 101.1. and madam chair, i am in receipt of a memo from your desk requesting that this matter be agendized as a committee report for potential consideration at the board meeting tomorrow, may 21st, 2024. i thank you so much, mr. clerk. we are now joined by district one supervisor connie chan, the sponsor of this item. welcome supervisor chan, the floor is yours. thank you. chair mcguire. colleagues, this is a legislation that was actually before you, prior to march 31st,

when the interim zoning control for the parcel delivery service facility was set to expire. we then at that moment, duplicate the file, recognizing that, substantive amendments such as, considering the, education institutions as part of the criteria for impact as well as employment analysis, to also consider the artificial intelligence as well as autonomous vehicle in a ratio of human operated activities. these were the amendments that were before you then, and it was deemed substantive and require referral back to planning commission. and since then it did under planning commission's review and in fact was on the consent agenda and unanimously approved and now it's back to you today, it's still a very much a same legislation overall. i just urge for your approval and potentially be able to after

if you deem approve that it could also be considered as a committee report tomorrow, for so that the board can vote on again, this is to be part of the march 31st, 2024 as a approval date. so it's retroactive. thank you. thank you so much, supervisor chan, are there any questions or comments? colleagues okay, let's take public comment on this item then. thank you. thank you, madam chair. land use and transportation is now taking public comment on agenda item number one. if you have comments for that item, please come forward to the lectern now. and if you're waiting for your opportunity to speak, you can line up to speak along that western wall that i'm pointing out with my left hand. please come forward. if you have comments. good afternoon supervisors. my name is mark maloof, a business agent with teamsters local 665, the teamsters have been working on

this legislation since the beginning. we are we're honored to have worked with supervisor connie chan and the entire board of supervisors, the mayor and the planning commission on this legislation. we are especially proud that this legislation, this legislation has received unanimous votes at every single meeting, which is not an easy thing to do here in san francisco. i'm here today to express the teamsters union's continued support of the parcel delivery conditional use legislation on the additional criteria added to the impact evaluations by supervisors. chan and dorsey will further the city's discretion on parcel delivery sites by adding in the use of ai and the impact on nearby schools. we ask that you send this legislation to the full board with a positive recommendation. thank you. thank you so much for sharing your comments. do we have anyone else who has public comment on agenda item number one? madam chair, it appears there's no further speakers. okay, public comment on this item is now closed.

supervisor chan, thank you so much for your work on this, i would like to make a motion that we send this out with a positive recommendation as a committee report on the motion offered by the chair, that the ordinance be recommended as a committee report. vice chair preston i. preston i member. peskin i. peskin i chair. melgar i. melgar i madam chair, there are three eyes. thank you. that motion passes. thank you. congratulations. supervisor chan, let's please go to item number two, please. mr. clerk, agenda item number two is a resolution approving the list of projects to be funded by fiscal year 2024 to 2025. road maintenance and rehabilitation account funds as established by california senate bill one. the road repair and accountability act of 2017. thank you. we have, sylvia ho here from public works as well as edmund lee. good afternoon. afternoon. pull the mic towards you so we can hear you. thank you. good afternoon

everyone. i'm sylvia ho from san francisco public works, today we are seeking your consideration and approval of a resolution to certify a list of street resurfacing projects that will be funded by fiscal year 20 2425. road maintenance and rehabilitation account funds, which from this point, i'll refer as our mra funds. some background these funds, which are distributed annually on a formulaic basis to the cities and counties, are from additional gas and diesel taxes enacted by senate bill one. the road repair and accountability act of 2017, and as part of their accountability and transparency provision to implement the funds, the california transportation commission requires the adoption of annual project lists prior to cities and counties receiving these funds. san francisco public works street resurfacing program has identified six projects to receive next year's mra funds, which include 212 blocks throughout san francisco.

so attached to the resolution is the project list detailing those 212 specific identified blocks. all of these projects are currently in design phase and are expected to be advertised for construction this calendar year or the first half of 2025. other supplemental materials provided include a map of the same proposed blocks to be repaved with a legend indicating which are supported by our mwra funds, as well as blocks that are to be funded by other sources. i'm joined today by a member of the street resurfacing program, and together we are happy to answer any questions you may have. thank you. supervisor preston, thank you, chair melgar, thank you for the presentation. i just had a question about, an area of my district on oak street, for to wanted to check on the status, but and plans for the resurfacing, but also just

really want to make sure that there are ongoing communications with, mta is planning a, a bike parking protected bike lane there. at the same time, i just want to make sure our right hand and left hand are coordinating. can you speak more about the program? thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. edmund lee, i'm a project manager with the street resurfacing program, yes. so, we'll take note of the sfmta project. specifically on oak street. you're mentioning. is that correct? correct yes. so just in general, you know, we do have a, a utility coordination or project coordination tool that the city utilizes, dot maps . and that's a program that all of the city agencies uses, and that basically shows all of our planned and proposed projects. and we're able to use that to, to help facilitate any type of coordination that we have with

our, our projects and create sort of joint opportunities and adjust project schedules accordingly to accommodate each other's schedules. so, that is that is one venue, if i'm, i'm not sure on the specific project, if that's you know, what the schedules are currently, but i can definitely take that back and, you know, update you with that. thank you. that would be great. and we raised this because early on when some of the planning was happening around the bike lane design there, it took our office recognizing that some of the street repaving work and others, and actually some of the puc sewer work and that like would actually like we were about to design a whole thing, start to roll it out, and then basically just have to rip it up. so our office was able to kind of connect. folks, i just want to make sure if you can, if what would be great is a status. i mean, if that area of oak is now totally there's been a lot of

work there. so if it's totally done, then this may be a non-issue, but we'd love to just get the latest of the oak street work, what's done, what's planned, and just make sure you're connecting with with mta around that. sure, sure. we'll look into that. thank your office. appreciate it, thank you, president peskin. thank you. chair melgar. i see a lot of wonderful things in the northeast corner of the city. the one thing i don't see, and you just might want to take a look at, because i'm sure it has a pavement index. that rivals something in a third world country is the block of stockton between columbus and union, which is very close to the powell and grant avenue work. but that particular block is worse than anything along either one of those adjoining corridors . that's, stockton, columbus to union, stockton, between columbus and union. okay. all right. i can look at that and update your office as well. thank you. thank you so much, if

there's no other comments or questions, mr. clerk. let's go to public comment on this item, please. thank you, madam chair. land use and transportation will now hear public comment on agenda item number two related to road maintenance and rehabilitation account funds. if you have public comment on those items, please come forward to the lectern at this time. and madam chair, it appears that we have no speakers. okay, public comment on this item is now closed, mr. clerk, i'd like to make a motion that we send this out of committee with a positive recommendation to the full board on the motion that this resolution be recommended to the board of supervisors. vice chair preston. hi. preston. i member peskin, i peskin i chair melgar i melgar i madam chair, there are three eyes. thank you so much. let's then go to item number three, please. mr. clerk, agenda item number three is an ordinance amending the planning code to designate the gregangelo museum, located at 225 san leandro way, as a landmark consistent with the standards

set forth in article ten of the planning code, affirming the planning department's secret determination, making findings of public necessity, convenience and welfare under planning code section 3002. in findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies, the planning code, section 101.1. thank you so much , colleagues, you will remember this item from when we initiated the landmarking. we had robust public comment and support, it has since gone to hpc, where it was recommended unanimously. and it's back again. and we have miss pilar lavalley here to talk to us about it. welcome, miss lavalley. good afternoon. supervisors actually, i'm going to pass it along to my colleague heather samuels for the presentation. all right. welcome, miss samuels. thank you. thank you. pilar, good afternoon, chair melgar, vice chair preston and president peskin, i'm heather samuels, planning department staff, the historic preservation commission reviewed the board of supervisor

initiated landmark designation of the gregangelo museum at their hearing on march 20th of 2024. next slide please. the gregangelo museum is significant as a cultural hub and an evolving san francisco inspired, inspired folk art piece. evocative of san francisco's 1960s 70s and 80 lgbtq+ and counterculture communities. furthermore, it is a property that possesses high artistic value as an immersive visual performance and circus arts environment, contributing to the unique arts and culture of san francisco. at their public hearing at the hpc, we heard 55 public comments about the designation, with 48 in support and seven in opposition, and voted unanimously to approve the resolution recommending landmark designation of the gregangelo museum, this concludes my presentation. we will be available to answer any questions. thank you. thank you,

miss samuels, do we have any questions or comments? colleagues okay with that, let's go to public comment on this item, please. land use and transportation will now take public comment on agenda item number three related to landmark designation for the gregangelo museum. if you have public comment for this item, please line up to speak along the western side of this room and if you are the next speaker, please come forward to the lectern and begin. hello, i'm actually greg angelo, and, it's a joy to be here. it's been quite a process, and i'm really interesting, it was quite a surprise to me, and, that i didn't consciously set out to actually create this place. it just happened because i work with creators and, and it does, in fact, mark a large part of the history of san francisco and continues to mark that. i'm very proud these days that we have, several international artists from around the world who are making san francisco their home. they're coming here as a designation at the most

perfect time ever, during this time when san francisco's incredibly in flux, i think a few of them are here today. and, that's all i'm going to say for now. thank you, thank you, thank you so much for sharing your comments. let's have the next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisors. richard carrillo, legacy business program manager with the office of small business and the city employee, i just wanted to bring to your attention that the reason this item came before you today, was because the, gregangelo museum applied for the legacy business program for the registry. and, we wanted to make sure that it meets them with all the planning department regulations before we submit their application. so their application is actually done. it's fantastic. and it's on hold right now until we see what happens as it goes through this process. so i just wanted to make sure you knew that was the, you know, the reason that this is coming for you. but there's also, of course, other benefits for approval of this

project. so thank you so much for your time. thank you for sharing your comments. let's have the next speaker, please. good afternoon. i am dahlia amaya amador, a columnist writing about arts and culture, and i recently published my first book about my travels. i'm also a board member of the jewish heritage museum back in my hometown, istanbul, turkey. i'm also an avid traveler seeking beauty wherever i travel. i've been coming to san francisco for a couple of weeks each year for three years now. i visited many museums from sfmoma de young to the american bookbinders museum. in your lovely city and county, it was inevitable that i would visit the gregangelo museum after hearing about them by chance on a netflix documentary. my visits last week made me realize that gregangelo is more than a museum. it's a place where over the years, a creative community has been formed. it's a place that embraces artists and

visitors alike. at a time of economic hardship and social isolation. the gregangelo museum has created a place of inspiration, a place to breathe for artists stepping through its doors. it creates a space to collaborate, collab, create, produce and build, to inspire and to be inspired. and i have not seen any place like this in all my travels. for me, the gregangelo museum is a landmark that i would always want to come back to. i hope after today's hearing, you will vote for them to acknowledge their role in the in bringing together a community of artists and visitors and reaching the cultural scene of the city and county of san francisco. thank you. thank you so much for sharing your comments. let's have the next speaker, please. hi, my name is carter brooks. i'm a native of san francisco and i live in the neighborhood, and i rely on the gregangelo museum for my sanity these days, it's one of the few

remaining creative spaces where artists get together. we've seen so many come and go, such as sell space and eight for eight gallery and, and it and it personally affects my own historical sense since some of the pieces at the great museum are repurposed from other pieces that have been around the around san francisco, such as defenestration, which was a piece on sixth avenue and howard, so i'm just here to speak in support of the greg angelo museum as a sanity hub for artists. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments to the next speaker. please good afternoon, commissioner. my name is douglas. i'm a mosaic artist. the j&j museum is a safe place for me to work and quit with other artists and contribute the

culture of san francisco. thank you. thank you so much for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. good afternoon. and my name is wesley. i'm from haiti. i'm a refugee. i have a my friend worked at the greg angelo museum. thank you for sharing your comments. let's have the next speaker, please. hello my name is angelica reinhardt. i am from colombia and i moved to this country seven years ago. during the last three years, gregangelo museum has been a place for me to grow to collaborate with other artists and a place for me to have more opportunities than my own country. this is a place for creativity and for young professionals like me and other

international artists to grow together. so please help us become the next landmark. thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. hello. my name is eleuterio lopez. as an artist coming from a small town in california, i've always searched for community. i used to read about growing. i search for community. i used to read about growing up a lover of janis joplin. and the freedom to create drew me to san francisco at a young age. hearing about the vibrant artistic community in sf was the reason. i knew from a young age that i wanted to call san francisco my home, and seeing the greg angelo museum and the community it brings together gave me a glimpse into that part of san francisco that i've always wanted to experience. it's a special place that allows the artists to work together and do what artists do best create. it amazes and inspires those who walk through the front door. it

creates curiosity and allows us, whoever ends up there to feel welcomed. it truly holds the essence of san francisco for me and so many others. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. let's have the next speaker, please. hi, my name is nick. i'm seeing several of you throughout this entire process, so thank you for seeing us again. i think it's generally understood by society that being an artist is difficult. there are lots of movies that highlight that about how unsustainable or challenging it is, and that has been highlighted even more so throughout the pandemic, when artists were the last to return to work, were the lowest on the hierarchy of essential workers. and so moving this motion forward to become a landmark is the absolute best thing that this city can do. to really turn that around. so we sincerely appreciate your doing this. thank you. thank you for your

comments. next speaker, please. hello. my name is monica alden and i'm an artist and i've lived in san francisco for over 36 years. i come from peru, where my grandfather was displaced and over the years i've seen so many collective spaces disappear in san francisco and so many art installations disappear. and i just feel like this is a good time to turn that around. and this is one of the more inclusive and all encompassing spaces there are. i've worked on so many projects and so many places and this is one of the most genuine and open. it transforms not just artists, but everyone that comes and everyone that that that crosses paths with people who have come and gone. so i hope you will take

this as a great opportunity that it is. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. good afternoon, my name is zachary matheson. i'm a san francisco native, thank you first for taking the time to hear us speak, and honestly, i'm not exactly sure what i'm going to say, but i, i've just been marveling at the beauty of this building since we walked in, and, it's clear that you all appreciate, beautiful things. and i've been all around the world and sort of didn't. i grew up here and didn't really appreciate the beauty that is san francisco, until i came back, about a year ago. and, that was right around the time when randomly i met greg angelo and his team and visited his house and saw what a beautiful

place it is. but beyond its beauty, it's. i wandered around the world because i couldn't really find a community of my own, and i was immediately welcomed in with open arms, as an artist and a san franciscan and, i've just made so many wonderful connections through the, greg angelo and his, network. and, like everyone else has said, it's just this marvelous alchemical place to create and to connect and, i feel like that's what san francisco is really all about. beauty and connection, for weird people like us. and so i hope you, appreciate that. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. good afternoon. my name is yi

sherlock. i'm the co-creator of fabulous tea and part of the creator of the program at greg angelo museum. i want to sincerely thank everyone here to support the process because it's in a great, importance and impact for every single one. as a human being is not just about artists alone. and greg angelo museum is a place to allow us not only to be who we are, and it's a museum for humanity, history, art and heart. and because of greg angelo and greg angelo museum, now me and my creator, from an artist to an entrepreneur, we are no longer afraid of all this opportunity to be able to recreate again and again, regardless of what the environment of what happened to us. so i sincerely thank for the

moving forward and allow every single one for our next generation have the same opportunity. like us. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. hi. thank you. good afternoon. thank you for letting us speak today, my name is roman and i worked, with greg angelo for a few years before the pandemic, and i found this place at a time when, you know, i was looking. i was yearning for something that, that i could find a place, a hub for making things, for being feeling. feeling like i belong somewhere. and to put my hands in my art to work. and the pandemic kind of threw off a little things, a little few things. but over the past year, you know, i've found myself coming back to this place and reinvigorating that energy, and over those past few years, finding out how hard it is to find a place like this where

there is a hub for people to go to. and like i was saying, to not just make art, but also learn about yourself and express what it is that you have inside of you. so having, you know, brick and mortar places like this, is of the utmost for, you know, artists just trying to be in the world and express themselves and make beautiful things and tell our stories. so thank you for, you know, having us. and thank you for considering making this place, solidifying it. it is a, you know, landmark hub for me personally, and having it be one officially would be something that would benefit everybody here. so thank you so much. thank you for sharing your comments. and so the next speaker, please. good afternoon. my name is russell johnson, and i thank you for the opportunity to speak on behalf of the greg angelo museum. i'm a transplant from philadelphia area, and i've heard so many things about san francisco while growing up on the east coast and this museum sort of, exemplifies everything

that i've heard about the city. it's magical, it's artistic, and it represents everything about the city, about yourself, about the united states, about the world, i think is very important , to make this a landmark here in the city of san francisco. it's a wonderful, magical place. thank you for your consideration . thank you for your comments. let's have the next speaker, please. hello. good afternoon. my name is jeff herrera. i'm greg, angelo's brother, greg. angelo and myself are the product of multiple generational san franciscans, many who were small business owners who worked very hard to make san francisco a better place, i think what greg angelo's doing embodies the spirit and energy, the ideas the most importantly, the values that represent san francisco. thank you for your consideration. thank you for sharing your comments to the

next speaker. please hi. good afternoon. my name is kai kaniksu and i'm the co-founder of a local tea company and also the co-creator of an experience in the greg angelo museum called teen wonderland. and i grew up in malaysia in a chinese family. so this kind of art and history is very foreign to me until i meet greg angelo and step into the museum. and when i used to live in sf from oh 7 to 2013 or so, and i never knew about the museum, and that was such a shame. and that was a period of time when i was struggling with like, my identity, my, my career and my future. if i've known it earlier, my life could be changed and i and i hope that with the landmark designation status, it's going to help more people find this magical and healing and inspiring place so that everybody can hear and find

themselves so much quicker. so that's what i want to share. thank you so much. thank you for your comments. can we have the next speaker, please? hello. good afternoon velma. here i'm not an artist, but i love going to gregangelo museum, to actually have so much fun. it's really a magical place. it helped my creativity put forward and got to enjoy tea meditations and it's really a magical place. i really support and thank you for your time. thank you for your comments. can we have the next speaker, please? hi, my name is sean crane. i'm an it manager and a teacher, while a lot of these comments, i've only visited greg angelo's museum once, but i can say that it's interesting hearing all these comments and noticing that with my experience being being

someone who's really, like, closed in his own little turtle shell and don't want to come out. when i first went to this museum, the experience was, oh, i can just be free and i thought, wow, this is kind of the way california is. if somebody comes to california and visits san francisco, what are they expecting? they're expecting the cultural paradigm that it's this melting pot of culture. and when you walk into the place, you're immediately hit with that. and not only that, the caretakers of that place, greg angelo and his staff and the people that come there, the artists that come there to contribute and experience the therapeutic value alone is consistent with the grandeur of the art itself. it's really, it's really quite something. and when i left there, it was the first time where i felt like, gosh, if being in stem and being in technology, where you're very concrete and bullying about everything and everything has

structures and everything is square. it was the first time that i left a place where i felt like, oh, i have a i can be a human being, a free human being. so the therapeutic value of the place is just incredible. and i can understand why all these artists have these incredible comments. and i hope that you make a decision to preserve such massive, massive value to your community. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. let's have the next speaker, please. hi, my name is laura franza. i am a 40 year resident of san francisco, gregangelo museum is a vibrant and welcoming hub of art, culture, inclusivity and nourishment with a constantly evolving community of artists and tourists from around the world and of all ages. there, on any given day, it's a warm, safe space in a city that has lost so many of its artistic and creative safe spaces. it's a beautiful place in every sense

of the word, where people feel that they belong just by walking through the door, and it's a slice of the unique, creative spirit of san francisco that somehow still exists in a city that has lost so many of its artists over the years. thank you in advance for supporting the landmarking of the greg angelo museum. thank you for sharing your comments. let's have the next speaker, please. hi there. my name is mars wind. i've been calling san francisco home for over 50 years now, and let's see, graduated from the art institute here in the city back in the 90s, early 90s. and as a, as an artist, you see that san francisco, has the ability and knows how to support, large scale arts, the symphony, the ballet, the museums, but smaller places struggle, i had the

pleasure of being a member at cellspace for a while. i'm also, work currently at other avenues, which is a legacy business. and that's something that, comes out of city hall and that helps preserve small places like other avenues, and landmarking status is something real that this body can do to help preserve the gregangelo museum, it's a wonderful place. it's not just fun, but it's oddly, deeply fun, and, yeah, i strongly encourage you to support it, and help preserve it with landmark status. thank you. thank you for your comments. let's have the next speaker, please. hello, i'm lila khazzoom. i'm an operatic soprano and a mother of a 12 year old, so many people have said a lot of the things that i

think. but i'll tell you how greg angelo has been uniquely helpful to me, as a soprano, as an emerging artist, as a young adult, it's very easy as you pursue what you do to feel alone and to feel insignificant, we as artists, we look at facebook throughout our 20s and watch as our friends that we went to high school with pursue easier, more standard careers that make money . we watch as our friends who who don't feel like they need a career. other women maybe have multiple children, and we don't feel like we belong in that group of people either. we work every day to reach out to people, opera companies, for example, who already have sopranos. they know and say, we like you, but we have our best friends, and it's very easy to

get dejected and, want to sometimes, you know, not give up, but give up for the week or whatever, greg doesn't maybe doesn't realize it, but he has brought so much joy to my life. and in those times when i'm feeling down, not only has he made me smile with his jokes, with his own art, but he has shown me that it's important you have the responsibility to use your gifts, to use your skills that you work on to bring joy to other people. and that's not just something that's, you know, cute or nice, but it's essential. even if the world doesn't always recognize that. and yeah. and he's just brought so much fun and joy and meaning to my life in times when i've felt a little bit bogged down and this last, this last halloween, we did a thank you for sharing your comments. oh. i'm sorry. okay. thank you so much for sharing your comments.

sorry to cut you off. we have to move on to the next speaker. next speaker, please. good afternoon everybody, i just came here to support and hopefully see history be made. i feel like the greg angelo museum is a beacon or a lighthouse for the human soul, just in that you can't pay people to care as much as they care about propagating something that is so deeply human, which is just to be creative, to be able to express yourself. and i think it's an incredible example of that happening in the real world, and where there are so many examples of really, really terrible things and, just political turmoil going on that i'm seeing on my phone all the time. it's nice to be able to go somewhere local and see examples of like, hey, there's still like beautiful things in life. it's given me a lot of hope to see something like this happen. and so i had to show up, hopefully to witness it. thank you for your time. thank you so much for sharing your comments. can we have the next speaker, please?

hi, i'm susan sangiacomo. i was born in san francisco, raised in san francisco, and still live in san francisco, and i've known greg since we were five years old. we went to school together. i've spent over 45 years at this house watching it, morph and, get to the point where it is now, and it's been amazing to watch every time i go there, i which i think i go often enough, but it's always different, he loves this city. he loves its people. and he, is respectful of his neighbors. and, of everybody. so i am completely in favor of this, and i hope you are as well. thank you. thank you so much for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. and if there are any further speakers after this, please line up to speak, my name is marcello. i'm the creative director there, and i, i was i was looking at the photos. we just saw it. and because of those photos and the physicality of this place, it's a landmark.

there's no doubt, but more important is what we do, what we do to bring these people, all these people, they're here to be creative. but the most important thing is that we always celebrate artists or anybody else when they're dead. how beautiful it is that you're going to make this a landmark. while the artist and all the artists that help build this place are still alive. so i thank you for your consideration. thank you so much for sharing your comments. do we have any further speakers for agenda item number three? thank you, public comment on this item is now closed. mr. clark, please add me as a sponsor to this item, thank you to everyone who came out to support this landmark designation. i have to say, i am incredibly proud, of greg angel. and what you all have built there in district seven for my colleagues. if you have not been to the greg angelo

museum, i will again really encourage you to visit very few things, embody the creativity and reinvention of san francisco the way this place does. and also multicultural gay joy. there is just magic. and i hope you can come to support, and with that, i will turn it over to president peskin. i look forward to being there on thursday. great supervisor. supervisor preston, thanks. and thank you. and thanks to everyone for coming out. and please add me as a co-sponsor as well. yes, president peskin. likewise thank you. thank you so much, with that, i would like to, make a motion to send this to the full board with a positive recommendation on the motion offered by the chair, that this ordinance be sent to the board of supervisors with

the recommendation of land use and transportation committee vice chair preston preston, i, member peskin, i, peskin i chair melgar i. melgar i madam chair, there are three eyes. great. thank you. thank you all. mr. clark, please, call item number three for. i'm sorry, number four. agenda item number four is a resolution affirming support for the san francisco municipal transportation agency and san francisco environment department in their work with public works, san francisco public utilities commission, san francisco county transportation authority, climate and transportation advocates, equity groups, and other relevant agencies and stakeholders to expediently implement the curbside electric vehicle charging feasibility study and requesting a report containing recommendations and cost estimates for a curbside electric vehicle charging pilot program before the end of 2024, thank you, mr. clerk. we are now

joined by supervisor from district eight, rafael mandelman, the sponsor of this legislation. welcome the floor is yours. thank you. chair melgar and colleagues, sometimes we introduce resolutions because we are frustrated with the city bureaucracy and want to demand that they do something they are not otherwise inclined to do. sometimes we introduce resolutions to support and thank , folks in the bureaucracy who are trying to do something that we value and think is important. and this is in that latter category, it, the intention behind it is to highlight and support work. the mta department of the environment, dpw, puc and the county transportation authority have been doing to develop and implement a scalable, publicly accessible electric vehicle curbside charging program in san francisco. our transportation sector accounts for nearly half of our city's greenhouse gas emissions in 2020, governor gavin newsom signed executive

order n 7920, which mandates that 100% of in-state sales of new cars and trucks be zero emission by 2035. locally, we've also set a goal that 25% of private vehicles must be electric by 2030. and the good news is that more people are buying evs with zero emission vehicles, accounting for nearly 40% of vehicles sold in san francisco in 2023. but there is a problem we do not currently have the charging infrastructure to support the broader adoption of electric vehicles. currently, we have a little over 1100 public charging ports, which equates to 0.04 public ports per registered ev, or one public charger for every 25 electric vehicles, especially as the number of electric vehicles grows, we will need to scale up the number of public ports available to meet demand and our climate action goals. curbside charging is not the entire answer to the problem. much of the additional charging infrastructure will need to be

in commercial, residential and public parking facilities. however curbside charging should be part of the equation and already is in many other cities around the globe. now, the city and county of san francisco have been thinking about and talking about electric vehicles for a long time. in 2015, mayor ed lee established the electric vehicle working group with the goal of ensuring that evs are available, affordable and easy to use for all san franciscans. in 2019, that working group, having collaborated with a variety of governmental and non-governmental stakeholders, developed the city's ev roadmap, which set ambitious ev goals for 2025 and 2030, with a vision for all trips in san francisco to be emission free by 2040. and those goals were reiterated in the 2021 climate action plan, more recently, in july of last year, i asked sf environment and sfmta to focus on, giving us actual options and really giving

themselves actual options. to implement an ev curbside charging program that we might see rolling out actually onto sidewalks and since then, the department departments have engaged in an ev curbside charging citywide assessment looking at the feasibility of installation, operation and maintenance of public charging infrastructure and select locations across the city. staff have analyzed case studies from other cities like la and new york and all that already have robust ev curbside charging programs, and are also engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders to gather feedback based on the results of that assessment, they are developing a framework for an ev curb curbside charging pilot program, and the framework will identify key components, project costs and parameters necessary for the implementation of the pilot program. the goal is to deploy public ev charging stations on curbs in various neighborhoods across san francisco to help inform the program's rapid expansion to the entire city.

over 70% of san franciscans live in multi-unit housing, which means they they often lack private garages for charging. and may need to find alternative spaces. this means that these drivers have to go out of their way to charge their cars, and places like shopping centers or parking garages, where others are competing for those spaces. now, i do want to emphasize this, and i would be remiss if i did not that the best thing we can do to meet our climate goals is to get as many people as we can out of their private cars and onto public transportation, but not everyone is going to do that. not everyone can do that. and we will have some folks driving their own automobiles, and we need for those automobiles to be evs, i do have and have handed out a couple of, amendments. that's, one of them is fixing an error, on page two,

we had referred to the an interim goal of cutting transportation sector based emissions 61. it's actually a goal of cutting emissions 61% below 1990 levels. so that's indicated on page two, the second amendment that i would ask for this committee to consider, came from our friend comes from our friends at the teamsters, i think we all share the goal of ensuring that that our charging infrastructure is available for san franciscans and for the public that they are not, that they do not become the mechanism by which we allow the, you know, private folks to be charging fleets and particularly fleets that may be displacing, good union jobs, and so there's a proposal there that, has been suggested and that i would ask that this committee, put into this little resolution, i do have some thank you's, in

particular, i want to thank maya price and tim doherty, janet martinson and director tomlin at the mta, and i want to thank hannah and charles sheehan and director jue at the department of the environment. i want to certainly thank the broad coalition of climate advocates and ev owners who have been, beating down my door pretty much from the day i was elected. and i imagine others of you have also heard from folks on this issue. i want to thank ibew local six for their, thoughtful partnership and help. and i do want to thank teamsters local 665 for making this a better resolution, or i think they're going to make it a better resolution after the committee fixes it, and with that, i think we're going to hear from maya price, transportation planner at the mta, and hannah troon, the clean transportation program manager at sf environment. welcome. good afternoon,

supervisors. as we get our presentation set up over here. my name is hannah troon. i'm the clean transportation program manager at the environment department as sf environment and mta as the supervisor. mandelman mentioned, have been working closely together on this curbside ev charging feasibility study for many months now, we're happy to have this opportunity to introduce the scope and provide some background around this planning work that supports the city's climate and clean transportation priorities. next slide. so i'm going to start us off by providing some background on our climate goals and our ev trends that are driving the need for a study like this. and then i'm going to hand the presentation over to maya at the mta to share an overview of the overall project. we have a few members of our team here as well to help answer questions. at the end of the presentation. next slide, so to address the urgency of the climate crisis, san francisco has set an ambitious net zero greenhouse gas emissions goal by 2040, the

transportation sector is responsible for nearly half of our city's emissions. so it's an important part to decarbonize. and that also impacts our local air quality and public health outcomes. the city has identified several strategies to reduce emissions in the transportation sector, focusing on achieving the city's transit first policy and then electrifying the remaining vehicles that need to be on the road for various use cases. and so to this end, we have a 2030 goal that 80% of all of our trips in the city will be taken by low carbon modes like public transit, walking and biking. and then 25% of all registered private vehicles will be electric by 2030. and then ultimately in 2040, we want all vehicles on the road to be electric. next slide. so we've made some progress in reaching our climate goals. this chart here illustrates our progress specifically on ground transportation emissions. so that's cars trucks and transit. so since 1990 we have reduced our annual greenhouse gas emissions by 26% for

transportation. and that's represented on the slide, and if that trend continues as, as is from 1990 through 2020, 2019, if that trend continues, which is represented by that dotted blue line, san francisco wouldn't reach its greenhouse gas emissions target from ground transportation until 2080, which is 40 years too late from our 2040 goal. and that trend is represented by that orange line. so we do need to make some advancements to really reach our goals. next slide. so at the same time we have been making steady progress on ev adoption. in 2023, 7% of the city's registered private vehicles were electric. so we're making some headway towards that. 25% goal for 2030. and then as supervisor mandelman mentioned, zero emission vehicles represent over 37% of vehicle sales in san francisco last year, as shown on this slide. and so the turnover in vehicle stock is becoming more and more electric, and so

while these trends demonstrate that we are a leader in ev adoption and ev policy, lack of access to charging infrastructure continues to be a key barrier for many residents who are interested in evs, especially in our equity priority communities, as well as small businesses and even the city fleet. next slide. so just a quick introduction to what different types of charging infrastructure there is out there before we go into the study, scope. so home charging tends to be the most convenient and affordable option for most folks. drivers can just plug their charger that comes with their car into a standard outlet, and get about 40 miles of range in a ten hour period. this is called level one, sometimes called trickle charging. drivers can also install a higher powered level two charger at home that provides about 25mph of charge, so they can get 160 miles or so of range in an overnight standard eight hour charge. but home charging isn't available to everyone, particularly renters. those living in multifamily housing. and so those drivers must rely on public or sometimes

workplace charging that could be spending a few hours at a level two charger, which right now you would find in a public garage or a shopping center, or perhaps 30 minutes at a dc fast charger, which is the last picture here on the slide to get about 100 or 200 miles of range. so when we're talking about public charging, we're really looking at level two or fast charging options, depending on the type of vehicle and use case. next slide. so based on our ev adoption goals, 2030 and 2040, we worked with our international council on clean transportation, or icct, to develop a charging demand study to project how much public charging we would need to support future ev adoption. and that study found that we need about 1760 public chargers by 2030 to meet expected demand. and we currently have just under a thousand chargers, so we need 800 more in the next six years to meet those goals. and much of the city's work, safe environments work, and the mta's work on evs includes including the study we're presenting on

today, is really focusing on facilitating affordable, convenient charging deployment across the city. so i'll hand the presentation over to maya to talk through the study scope. all right. thank you everybody. i will continue from over here. that's okay, so yes, i'm maya price, i'm a transportation planner with sfmta, and i'm here to share progress on the curbside ev charging feasibility study, thank you, supervisor mandelman, for giving such a great introduction to the project. so apologies if i repeat myself a little bit or repeat him a little, so before digging into the study details, i wanted to take a minute to look at this aerial image with you all, so let's just pretend we have a small amount of funding to install one ev charger on any curb in the city. here's an unspecified street in san francisco where maybe this charger can go. and we can clearly see, just by looking at this that the curb space is

very, very valuable. and, not very abundant here, we can see people running errands, making deliveries, doing drop offs, pickups for their kids, or maybe even just finding a place to park for the evening near their apartment, say that we at sfmta kind of, after looking at this for a while, have decided between parking and transit that one of these spaces is available . what do we do next, so who's going to operate this charger? how will we handle enforcement if we need to use sidewalk space for the charging pedestal? public works will need to issue an encroachment permit. where is the power coming from? is it from sfpuc or pg and e? because that changes things. is this space where the community even needs this charger to be? is there a different neighborhood where this charger would better serve folks looking at this image, i see at least seven stakeholders who will need to weigh in. and this is all before going into the specifics of where in the city we're actually

looking at right now. and what exactly is the city's role in all of this? so this is where our curbside electric vehicle charging feasibility study comes in. so we're looking to answer the questions that i just posed in our imaginary one charger scenario. but on a city wide scale, the final study report will be composed of three main components a technical feasibility study where we're gathering all the information we'll need in terms of grid readiness, curb management, enforcement, permitting and cost estimates to set us up for implementation of a successful charging pilot and beyond community engagement to co-create a vision for equitable and robust charging network and lastly, putting all of this together into an implementation framework that lays out the practical steps we need to take from funding to breaking ground to maintaining public curbside chargers. this study is only the first phase of this project, which we're currently calling phase a. we're on track to complete the study this summer and begin seeking funding to

implement phase b starting in the fall. there's currently one group of people who can easily own and charge electric vehicles at the moment if they so wish, and those are single family homeowners. single family home charging is currently the most popular option for drivers due to its convenience and affordability. however in san francisco, nearly 70% of residents live in multifamily housing without off street parking or home charging access. curbside charging could address this issue by providing a home charging like experience for those facing barriers. sfmta's sfmta and sfa have been working closely together on electric vehicle related and associated grant opportunities in order to meet our climate action goals for a long time. for example, sfmta recently just upgraded 108 existing level two charging ports with new hardware in our garages, guided by the city's electric vehicle roadmap and our climate action plan. our agencies work with other city departments to implement a range of programs and policies to

support our transportation goals. some other projects to name include the central subway, van ness bus rapid transit, and the bike and rolling plan. ultimately we know that evs are just one part of our transportation solution, and not the only answer. the three key deliverables that we're going to be coming back with at the end of this study are a list of recommended sites based on our tech, based on our technical feasibility study cost estimates with a range of possible funding strategies and business models. and lastly, insight in our conversations with city partners, our team has quickly learned that many of the questions we're asking are being asked for the first time. everything that we're learning this spring and summer will allow us to make informed decisions about a curbside pilot charging curbside pilot, and beyond. so we conducted case studies in five states, five cities, including new york, seattle and los angeles, to learn from their existing curbside charging initiatives. new york city deployed 100 level

two curbside chargers across all five boroughs. seattle installed 58 level two chargers at 31 locations, using equity metrics to guide site selection and evaluating program success. los angeles implemented over 700 streetlight level two chargers and 200 blue la chargers near multifamily homes and commercial areas, emphasizing accessibility and convenience, these case studies provide valuable lessons and best practices that we can incorporate into our own charging program. here is a brief overview of all the topics we're covering in the curbside charging feasibility. for brevity, i'll just name a couple . we're exploring a variety of technology options compatible with different ev models that that will be scalable for future needs. we're assessing grid capacity for the integration of curbside charging stations. and we've been held we held a public webinar in april where we discussed project goals and timelines. we addressed various questions about the

implementation stages gathered and valuable suggestions came from this. to enhance our study. one particular helpful piece of feedback we received was the idea to incorporate e-bike charging at the ends of our charging stations. on the industry side, our engagement efforts have provided us with insightful information on best practices, challenges and opportunities. last year, a cost benefit analysis revealed that residential curbside charging could be a convenient and affordable option that sfmta can support on this analysis led to. it led to a joint agency briefing and approval to start this feasibility study. sfmta funded the study, but funding for a future implementation is not yet secured. the curbside study began officially in november of last year, and we expect to finish this summer after identifying estimated costs will begin seeking funding through grants and partnerships with the ambitious goal of fully funding and initiating phase b,

hopefully in 2025. with that, i think we have a few minutes for questions. me, tim, hannah and maya small, sorry, that was really loud, happy to answer any questions about the project, this is just the beginning. very early planning stages. so if there's additional considerations, you think we should include or that you'd like to emphasize, we'd love to hear about them as well. thank you very much, miss price, please add me as a co-sponsor, and thank you so much, supervisor mandelman, for putting together this resolution. before i go back to you, there's a couple things i'd like to say about your presentation, the city of berkeley did this, too. they had a pilot program, which is much closer than la, but i have to say, i'm also frustrated. like you, about our lack of progress on this, and i beg you to perhaps look at this a little

bit differently, so the example that you gave, the picture that you put that artery is probably the worst that we could possibly have. maybe that was on purpose. you were thinking about the worst case scenario, but i think that's not a great way to start the conversation. you know, and on the other hand, i think if we are also looking at things of this parking space times 100, that is a surefire way to not get it done. and, you know, it seems to me that, you know, when we put forward a climate action plan, we're saying, like we need to get this done and so i would just beg you to just, like, step back a little bit and look at the sort of what you're doing and the messaging around it, because, you know, this resolution, what supervisor mandelman is doing is putting, pushing the point, you know, like, just like we got to get this done. let's look at it, the other thing i would say is that, you know, one of the things that we have, especially around

commercial corridors, is like parking wars. the merchants, you know, every time you talk about loss of parking, are very upset about it. so perhaps that's not where we should start. perhaps where we start is where there's multifamily, residential, but not necessarily on commercial corridors. and see how that goes, because we know that there's that need, but we don't want to compete with other existing uses that we have, i'm just, you know, making suggestions because i do think that we need to get this done and get it done easily without getting into a big war about it, over existing land uses. yeah, i appreciate that. supervisor melgar. and we're definitely not. that's definitely not where we're going to go. we're we're targeting residential areas. i just wanted to illustrate how many, different agencies are going to be involved in. right. but if you do it globally, right, and you include all those agencies into coming up with a criteria where those things

would be, it would make it easier in the long run than picking space by space by space. and yeah, yeah, that was just an example. no, we're, we're that's we are working with, city agencies like and doing like a, a very wide citywide like. no, that's a very good point, supervisor melgar. we are going to be we are in our discussions with city agencies. we're specifically doing that like what is the criteria for where things should go. and that's going to go into sort of like a map of what are all the options. and that includes residential, for sure is kind of a higher priority. thank you. supervisor mandelman. thank you. chair, melgar. and i think you've identified some of what are going to be the challenges, in terms of public acceptance and, and siting, based on the work that you've done so far. and i the goal here is that by the summer, you would have, you know, answers, i think, to these questions. what is looking

difficult about this project? what are the main what are the hardest things? i think the hardest thing is going to be grid capacity and finding places that we can quickly get access to, power that won't turn on a long process between puc and pg and e that seems to be like the biggest. seems like that is whenever this whenever we have this conversation or think about it, any the place we do not want to be and where too many of our affordable housing projects and not affordable housing projects and any projects at all that require power, is in this question over, the interplay between our, our, our puc and pg and e and whether we're being told that we have to massively, you know, overcapacities something in order to put in a small curbside charger. now it

seems like there are you're looking at operational models. it seems like there are some models out there that are not tapping into the grid, so it seems like we, i mean, the, the depressing prospect is that we're entering into like a 20 year fight with, pg and e about each of these. charging stations. but it also seems like there may be some pathways around that. yeah, one potential pathway would be to source power from municipal buildings owned by puc or, or, we're talking to in our industry engagement, a couple of companies, borrow power from nearby buildings right, so it just kind of exploring what are the different questions in those areas, so there's the grid connection problem, potentially a funding problem if, if there's something

the city needs to do that then has to be funded as we deal with our shrinking, budgetary capacity. but it seems like there may be workarounds for that as well. can you talk a little bit about that, yeah. so there's hannah's actually in the process of identifying some potential grant opportunities for us. and we're also working closely with the to, to kind of identify additional funding opportunities. i don't know if you want to add anything. yeah. so yeah, in addition to seeing where the public needs to fund kind of like filling in gaps around charging infrastructure, there's also, of course, third party vendors that might bring the capital and have kind of that public private partnership where we're providing the permitting and access to the space. if they provide the, the capital and then get kind of revenue back on there. so that is we're in our cost benefit analysis in this study, we're looking at both of those models where the city owns and operates

a charger versus a third party owner and operator, and there's maybe some revenue share agreement in that. great. i think president peskin might have some more thoughts about funding as well. okay. but oh, i'm sorry, just my last the last thing i'm worried about is the permitting. yeah, i was going to mention that as well. yeah. because it seems like, i mean, any i, i and my office, i'm sure all these offices find ourselves. i mean, chair melgar, has has been making a study of the challenging challenges around encroachment permits in the city and county of san francisco. and this does seem like another area where we could end up just completely tied in knots, if. yeah, if we don't untie the knots. yeah. depending on the ownership model, the encroachment permit could take anywhere between 6 to 18 months, for. we should fix that. yeah. so that's one thing we're exploring is just trying to

understand a little bit more about what those permitting pathways mean. and if there's some, any need for some kind of change, to make it more easy for ev implementation. seems likely there is. but okay, all right, well, thank you very much for your for all of your work on this and looking forward to continuing to track your progress. and thanks again for your support. okay, supervisor preston, thank you. chair melgar, thank you for all the work on this. and thank you, supervisor mandelman, for bringing this forward, and i just, a couple things. one, i very much appreciate supervisor mandelman elevating in the introductory remarks, the importance of shifting folks in as great numbers as possible onto public transit. i just want to friendly suggestion as you give these presentations. i would love to see your slide that is reaching our climate action plan targets. that

features a lot of things the city can be doing, more prominently elevator even referencing increasing transit ridership. i do think it's i think we all understand that it is key to reaching those goals, but i think being explicit about that would be would be great. as part of the presentation. i'm sure this will not be the last time you give this presentation. so, and then the question i had was just around, and this is not directly on the curbside charging, but i'm just wondering if there are any parallel conversations that are happening with the property building owners, landlords and multifamily buildings around, around increasing the number of charging stations within buildings in their garages and trying to make some progress on that front as well. yeah, i could maybe speak a little bit to that, definitely. that is something that we're starting to work on more because more and more funding opportunity, and kind of utility programs are focused on putting chargers in

multifamily buildings. so as of environment, did a survey last year of affordable housing organizations to kind of get a sense of which ones have parking at all. and then of those, what's their interest level in putting in charging? i think some of the challenges sometimes are kind of sharing that infrastructure will be used for certain number of years, kind of like what's the cost benefit of that for the property owner. but in the long run, i think, property owners are realizing that this is important and there are a lot of programs. so pga, for example, has a program specifically around multifamily buildings and putting charging in where it's no cost for the property owner. so a lot of what the city's been doing is advertising programs like that to, multifamily buildings. thank you. yeah. thank you, president peskin. yeah, it was really around the issue of funding. and i understand that the inflation reduction act, has funds for curbside charging. are you aware of that? and are we working to

access that? because i think it's as much as 70, as little as 30% of the capital costs. yeah the you mean the tax credit funding specifically, we've been looking maybe a little bit at that. i think we've been focused a lot on the like grant opportunities that are that can fund kind of full the full cost of capital deployment or with some cost share with, with private parties. so there's a grant right now that maya had mentioned that we put in some an application for saying, when you reach a certain milestone in our study, can we then go demonstrate some of the technologies that we're looking at with federal funding? and i think that's funded by the infrastructure, law. but it's a good point that we should also be looking at kind of the tax credits and how they fund all about money. well say again. okay. thank you so much. thank you very much for the presentation. with that, let's go to public comment on this item, please, mr. clerk. thank you, madam chair. land use and transportation will now take

public comment on agenda item number four. if you have public comment on this resolution regarding curbside charging stations, please come forward to the lectern at this time. and if you're waiting for your chance to speak, you can line up to speak along that western wall. please begin. hello again, supervisors, my name is mark maloof, business representative with teamsters local 665, the teamsters union appreciates supervisor mandelman leadership on this resolution and the dialog that we have had with him. sfmta director tolman and the department of environment director jue, we understand the intention to increase access for our, for san franciscans to charging and ease the transition to greener personal vehicles, we view it as essential, to specify that it is intended for public use only, not commercial. the teamsters support this resolution, as amended. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. can we have the next speaker, please? hi. my name is

susan green. i live in district eight and i'm a member of the san francisco climate emergency coalition. san francisco faces a lot of immediate problems that often seem to suck up all the oxygen in our political air and our elected officials and candidates for office frequently tell us they rarely hear from residents about their climate concerns. burns. so i'm here today to speak as just one of the thousands of san franciscans who see the climate crisis as one of the biggest threats we face. it's one that all levels of government, including local government, have an obligation to address with urgency, and not just with big bucks to fund seawalls and flood and flood control infrastructure, but through measures to make it easier for us all, especially our low income residents, to reduce the carbon pollution that we're all generating. this curbside ev charging study and pilot program are great steps in

that direction. so i'd like to thank sfe and mta and supervisor mandelman and his office for pushing this project forward, and supervisor mandelman for sponsoring this resolution in support. i'm looking forward to thanking this whole committee and the whole board of supervisors as well. we really need more climate mitigation efforts like this. thank you. thank you so much for your comments. let's have the next speaker, please. hello, supervisors. ryan patterson, district eight resident, this is not the kind of action that gets a lot of attention or headlines, but i think that it's so critical to eliminate the bottlenecks to climate action that is worth schlepping down to city hall, to encourage this sort of thing. so i just wanted to say thank you. i also think it's worth noting that this does not need to compete with our transit first policies. i bicycled down turk street to get here today. we have a protected bike lane on the left side and plenty of space for ev charging

stations on the right. they don't have to be in competition. in fact, they can complement each other. we can do things like installing lockable bike posts as we do the sidewalk work for installing the ev stations. there are a lot of opportunities like that that i would encourage the board and mta to look at as we roll this out, and to supervisor melgar's point it should not take three years to roll out a pilot program, i think we need to find ways to do this sort of thing faster, simpler, especially in a time of budget shortfalls. so thank you very much. thank you for sharing your comments. let's have the next speaker, please, good afternoon, supervisors. my name is paul wormer, and i am among the many, i think, who absolutely support this program. and i want to compliment the outreach that was done. i heard some of the issues that i was concerned about, acknowledged in their presentation today. it is it is good to see early outreach being done in the planning. there is one area where i would

like to urge perhaps a slight expansion, we're talking about a systems change here and e-bike charging was mentioned, but i want to point out that e-bikes are heavy. it's really hard to schlep them up to the upstairs apartments in much of san francisco, housing and street corrals where people can store e-bikes would make e-bikes accessible to many, many more people, especially low income communities, where they are much cheaper to operate than even an ev. and by the way, they have much less pm 2.5 impact than an ev does. did you know that electric vehicles aren't that much better on particulates than internal combustion engines? because the internal combustion engines now are so good that tire dust is a dramatic problem, and evs are heavier and generate more so getting bicycles and electric bicycles accessible to

everyone. if this study could look at as you're looking at curb space and looking at e-bike charging, where can you integrate? e-bike corrals? would be a small add on, but it might create some really useful insights for moving forward in a more systems transit oriented way. thank you. thank you so much for sharing your comments. do we have any further speakers for agenda item number four, madam chair? okay. public comment on this item is now closed. supervisor mandelman, thank you. chair melgar, and i want to thank the folks who took the time to come out and talk to the committee on a monday afternoon, i also would be remiss if i did not thank zahaji , formerly of my office, who spent a fair amount of her time over the last eight, eight, nine months, sitting in meetings with some of the folks here and folks who are not here, watching this,

this project develop. so thanks to you for welcoming zara. and thanks to zara down in la for her work on this and thanks to calvin ho in my office, who's picked it up, now that zara is gone, you know, you will be giving us a roadmap. i hope, you know, not waiting until december 31st, but as soon as possible in 2024. and then you're going to need help from other departments, from the mayor, from this board, whether or not we need to find additional financial resources and, you know, my hope is that some combination of er of the ira and, and creative partnership apps may mean that we don't actually have to look for a ton of additional local dollars because they're not there, but if, if there is some additional resource, you know, that's, that's a conversation we'll have to have here anyway, we look

forward to getting the action plan, the to do list, and actually being able to move some of these, chargers onto the street in 2025, if not sooner. so thanks again. thank you. and president peskin. thank you, chair melgar. and just apropos my earlier question about, funds , maybe we can work into the first resolved, not only, a report containing recommendations and cost estimates, but also funding strategies. and i want to note, that the inflation reduction act actually, has a way to monetize tax credits to direct pay payments. and historically, and i'm actually reading, from one of the bulletins because these tax credits were used to reduce entities tax liability for tax

exempt entities like schools and local governments have not been able to take advantage of them, of them. but the inflation reduction act established direct pay. and now these entities can receive the full value of the tax credit as a cash payment, and if it's union labor, the payment is higher. if it's in a disadvantaged community, it is higher, up to 70. so i think this would benefit not only from what the cost estimates are, but what the funding strategy is. and if it is okay with supervisor mandelman, i think that we should add that sfa submit a report containing a recommendation, recommendations, cost estimates and funding strategies. okay. so, if it's okay with, supervisor. mandelman in addition to the modifications that you have circulated, on page one, as per, president peskin, on line ten, containing

recommendations, comma cost estimates, comma, and funding strategies, and then on page four as well, on line 20, the same recommendations, comma cost estimates, comma and funding strategies, i am fine with that unless there is a reason why that is a problem. i think it is consistent with the last resolve which urges the mayor, cta relevant city departments to leverage all available sources of funding. so i think, having some of that thinking be sort of pre baked into the report you roll out, but it's worth asking staff. yeah. from sf environment. just mentioning that that is already in our scope. so i think that would be perfectly fine to include. thank you. thank you. okay so i will make a motion that we adopt these amendments to the

resolution and then move it forward with a positive recommendation to the full board. and that includes the amendments that i brought to you, the amendments that were submitted by supervisor mandelman office and read into the record. thank you. on the motion to amend offered by chair melgar, and then to recommend, as amended, vice chair preston preston, i member peskin. i peskin i chair melgar i. melgar i madam chair. there are three eyes on each motion. thank you so much, that motion passes. do we have any other items in front of us? mr. clerk? there's no further business. we are adjourned.

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