# Board of Supervisors Minutes: September 15, 2026

- Meeting date: 2026-09-15
- Document type: minutes
- Source format: PDF
- Extracted pages: 30
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## Structured legislative records

### File 260830: Settlement of Unlitigated Claim - Woo Family Trust - $58,930.21

- Pages: 5-6

### File 260831: Settlement of Unlitigated Claim - Pacific Gas and Electric Company - $62,500

- Pages: 6
- Vote 1: adoption, likely final
  - Action: 260831 [Settlement of Unlitigated Claim - Pacific Gas and Electric Company - $62,500] Resolution approving the settlement of an unlitigated claim filed by Pacific Gas and Electric Company against the City and County of San Francisco for $62,500; the claim was filed on June 6, 2025; the claim involves alleged property damage arising from utility excavation work. (City Attorney) ADOPTED The foregoing items were acted upon by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong

### File 251211: Public Works, Administrative, Planning, Business and Tax Regulations Codes - Street Tree Standards, Appeals, and Adopt-A-Tree Fund

- Pages: 6-7
- Sponsors: Mayor; Wong
- Vote 1: final-passage, likely final
  - Action: Wong Ordinance amending the Public Works Code to allow development projects to satisfy street tree planting requirements through payment of an in lieu fee or providing alternative landscaping; exempt accessory dwelling units from street tree planting requirements; eliminate appeals to the Board of Appeals for hazardous tree removals undertaken by City departments and commissions; amending the Administrative Code to specify a separate account within the Adopt-A-Tree Fund to receive in lieu fees for street tree requirements; amending the Planning Code to update street tree applicability requirements; amending the Business and Tax Regulations Code to prescribe timeframes for the hearing and decision on appeals of certain street tree removals to the Board of Appeals; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; making findings of consistency with the General Plan, and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1; and making public necessity, convenience, and welfare findings under Planning Code, Section 302. (Supervisors Chan, Fielder, Sauter, and Walton voted No on First Reading.) FINALLY PASSED by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Chen, Dorsey, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sherrill, Wong
  - Noes: Chan, Fielder, Sauter, Walton

## Extracted text

### [Page 6](https://sfbos.info/documents/2168/2026-09-15-minutes#page-6)

Board of Supervisors                          Meeting Minutes - Draft                                          9/15/2026



260831 [Settlement of Unlitigated Claim - Pacific Gas and Electric Company - $62,500]
            Resolution approving the settlement of an unlitigated claim filed by Pacific Gas and Electric
            Company against the City and County of San Francisco for $62,500; the claim was filed on June 6,
            2025; the claim involves alleged property damage arising from utility excavation work. (City Attorney)
            ADOPTED

            The foregoing items were acted upon by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 11 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton,
                 Wong



REGULAR AGENDA


UNFINISHED BUSINESS


Recommendation of the Land Use and Transportation Committee


251211 [Public Works, Administrative, Planning, Business and Tax Regulations Codes -
       Street Tree Standards, Appeals, and Adopt-A-Tree Fund]
            Sponsors: Mayor; Wong
            Ordinance amending the Public Works Code to allow development projects to satisfy street tree
            planting requirements through payment of an in lieu fee or providing alternative landscaping; exempt
            accessory dwelling units from street tree planting requirements; eliminate appeals to the Board of
            Appeals for hazardous tree removals undertaken by City departments and commissions; amending
            the Administrative Code to specify a separate account within the Adopt-A-Tree Fund to receive in lieu
            fees for street tree requirements; amending the Planning Code to update street tree applicability
            requirements; amending the Business and Tax Regulations Code to prescribe timeframes for the
            hearing and decision on appeals of certain street tree removals to the Board of Appeals; affirming the
            Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; making findings
            of consistency with the General Plan, and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1;
            and making public necessity, convenience, and welfare findings under Planning Code, Section 302.
            (Supervisors Chan, Fielder, Sauter, and Walton voted No on First Reading.)
            FINALLY PASSED by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 7 - Chen, Dorsey, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sherrill, Wong
                 Noes: 4 - Chan, Fielder, Sauter, Walton




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