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Chris Foley

Commissioner, Seat 5, San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission

We identified Foley’s voice at 18 meetings.

18 of 19transcribed meetings with their voice identified
1.5min a meeting at the Historic Preservation Commission, at least
8questions at the Historic Preservation Commission
16 of 16present at roll calls through Aug 19, 2026, from the clerk
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Next Historic Preservation Commission meeting: Wed, Nov 4, 12:30 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Two clips, newest first

  • Chris Foley · Commissioner · Historic Preservation Commission · Jun 3, 2026 · 1:09:00

    “Family zoning is not going to be— going to go destroy all these buildings. But again, planning staff, preservation, the mayor’s office, and the board president are working together to make sure that we do preserve these great buildings.”

  • Chris Foley · Commissioner · Historic Preservation Commission · Jan 21, 2026 · 1:39:02

    “I actually do appreciate the project sponsor what you’re trying to do here. I was wondering, do you have a preservation architect on your team?”

Issues Foley raised, by number of meetings

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Every roll call

Present at 16 of 16 roll calls at the Historic Preservation Commission, roll call through Aug 19, 2026

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Nov 19, 2025 to Aug 19, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 17 of the 20 meetings we hold, through Aug 19, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
Questions

Foley asked eight questions at the 18 Historic Preservation Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Foley’s 5 questions to city departments at the Historic Preservation Commission, 5 went to planning and zoning.

Who they question: 5 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Historic Preservation Commission5 questions to city departments
Historic Preservation Commission: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Planning and zoning5100%
Neighborhoods Foley named

One place Foley named in meetings

Lines where Foley named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

San Francisco
  • South of Market 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s Analysis Neighborhoods file (DataSF (City and County of San Francisco)). A dot says the place was named, not where Foley was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Foley’s voice

18, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Foley’s first remark.

  1. Sep 16, 2026Historic Preservation Commission0.1 min35:38
  2. Sep 2, 2026Historic Preservation Commission0.5 min22:42
  3. Aug 19, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation1.1 min45:27
  4. Aug 5, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation0.6 min32:04
  5. Jul 15, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionDevelopment and land use1.5 min24:40
  6. Jul 1, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation7.2 min34:17
  7. Jun 3, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation1.0 min1:08:36
  8. May 20, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation1.9 min25:10
  9. May 6, 2026Historic Preservation Commission0.2 min20:27
  10. Apr 15, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionBusiness and economic development0.9 min1:23:41
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  1. Apr 1, 2026Historic Preservation Commission0.7 min1:05:19
  2. Mar 18, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionBusiness and economic development0.7 min37:46
  3. Feb 18, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionBusiness and economic development1.3 min51:45
  4. Feb 4, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionDevelopment and land use1.2 min46:37
  5. Jan 21, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation2.2 min1:12:20
  6. Jan 7, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionBusiness and economic development · Historic preservation5.5 min43:09
  7. Dec 17, 2025Historic Preservation Commission0.2 min52:50
  8. Nov 19, 2025Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation1.2 min43:36
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Foley was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Chris Foley’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Foley said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Foley or of San Francisco alone.