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Hans Baldauf

Commissioner, Seat 2, San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission

Raised family zoning and upzoning at three meetings. Named Japantown most often: three times.

14 of 19transcribed meetings with their voice identified
4.5min a meeting at the Historic Preservation Commission, at least
35questions at the Historic Preservation Commission
12 of 12present at roll calls through Jul 15, 2026, from the clerk
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Next Historic Preservation Commission meeting: Wed, Nov 4, 12:30 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Three clips, newest first

“When, when you have a floor that has a major window that looks like it’s 10 or 11 feet tall on that corner, how— and there’s glass along the entire alley side, What— how is that defined as a basement for this?”Hans BaldaufCommissioner · Historic Preservation Commission · Jan 21, 2026 · 1:57:14Play at 1:57:14
“The public art for placemaking is very important. When you walk by something and there is something that humans have made there in the landscape, it calls attention to it.”Hans BaldaufCommissioner · Historic Preservation Commission · Mar 18, 2026 · 1:27:21Play at 1:27:21
“I don’t fully follow the outlines of the district in the written text. Do you have an exhibit that you can show us of the actual delineation of the district?”Hans BaldaufCommissioner · Historic Preservation Commission · Apr 15, 2026 · 45:41Play at 45:41

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Issues Baldauf raised, by number of meetings

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

Every roll call

Present at 12 of 12 roll calls at the Historic Preservation Commission, roll call through Jul 15, 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 Jul 15, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 17 of the 20 meetings we hold, through Aug 19, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
What they talk about

Historic preservation took the largest share of Baldauf’s speech with a checked topic: 72%

By the agenda item on the floor when they spoke, at the Historic Preservation Commission (clerk’s agenda times). 82 of 85 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Historic preservation72%
Questions

Baldauf asked 35 questions at the 14 Historic Preservation Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Baldauf’s 20 questions to city departments at the Historic Preservation Commission, 19 went to planning and zoning.

Who they question: 20 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Historic Preservation Commission20 questions to city departments
Historic Preservation Commission: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Planning and zoning1995%
City attorney / law department15%
Neighborhoods Baldauf named

3 places Baldauf named in meetings

Lines where Baldauf 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
  • Japantown 3 times
  • McLaren Park 1 time
  • Mission 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 Baldauf was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Baldauf’s voice

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

  1. Sep 16, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionBusiness and economic development0.8 min37:11
  2. Sep 2, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation4.3 min7:28
  3. Jul 15, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionDevelopment and land use9.6 min25:16
  4. Jul 1, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation9.2 min47:42
  5. Jun 17, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation1.1 min19:25
  6. Jun 3, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation8.2 min31:53
  7. May 20, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation9.2 min25:50
  8. Apr 15, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionBusiness and economic development4.1 min45:34
  9. Apr 1, 2026Historic Preservation Commission0.2 min9:19
  10. Mar 18, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation9.5 min9:43
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  1. Jan 21, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation · Development and land use12.7 min1:08:07
  2. Jan 7, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionBusiness and economic development · Historic preservation10.5 min45:30
  3. Dec 17, 2025Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation1.7 min50:15
  4. Nov 19, 2025Historic Preservation Commission3.9 min26:59
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

We identified Baldauf’s voice at 14 meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Baldauf was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Hans Baldauf’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 Baldauf 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 Baldauf or of San Francisco alone.