Tactical P3, Big Impact for Labor and Innovation

Learn about the City of San Francisco’s unique and practical permitting framework. Private industry and organized labor have used it to foster the growth of emerging technology, providing a case study for how the city is fighting climate change and advancing the green economy through innovation. Presenters cover the considerations and goals of the framework and describe its success in deploying building-powered, curbside electric vehicle (EV) charging, a technology that enables greater EV adoption at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional charging projects. Hear firsthand about the project’s reliance on local union labor and its cascading benefits vis-à-vis fair wages in America’s second most expensive city and workforce development as the green economy becomes an inevitability.

While this project was deployed in just a few weeks’ time, its success partially lies in its measured approach toward data collection, reporting, and analysis. It allows the city to be as informed as possible about the project’s benefits and lessons learned — with sensitivity toward operations and maintenance, community engagement, and the general political landscape — before proceeding with a permanent, larger-scale deployment.