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Joel Koppel

Vice-president, Seat 3, San Francisco Planning Commission

We identified Koppel’s voice at six meetings. Named South of Market most often: three times.

6 of 9transcribed meetings with their voice identified
1 of 1present at roll calls through Jul 30, 2026, from the clerk

Next Planning Commission meeting: Thu, Nov 5, 12:00 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Every roll call, and Koppel’s other bodies

Present at 1 of 1 roll calls at the Planning Commission, roll call through Jul 30, 2026

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

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Jul 30, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 24 of the 31 meetings we hold, through Jul 30, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
  • Planning Commission: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 36% and 66% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.
Neighborhoods Koppel named

3 places Koppel named in meetings

Lines where Koppel 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 3 times
  • Mission Bay 1 time
  • West of Twin Peaks 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 Koppel was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Koppel’s voice

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

  1. Oct 8, 2026Planning CommissionDevelopment and land use4.9 min1:01:32
  2. Oct 1, 2026Planning CommissionDevelopment and land use3.8 min5:09
  3. Sep 24, 2026Planning CommissionDevelopment and land use3.1 min5:49
  4. Sep 17, 2026Planning CommissionDevelopment and land use7.1 min36:51
  5. Sep 10, 2026Planning CommissionDevelopment and land use3.6 min14:42
  6. Jul 30, 2026Planning CommissionDevelopment and land use3.8 min5:19
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 Koppel was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Joel Koppel’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 Koppel 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 Koppel or of San Francisco alone.