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Lily Wong

Commissioner, San Francisco Board of Appeals

We identified Wong’s voice at 10 meetings. Named Sunset/Parkside most often: three times.

10 of 14transcribed meetings with their voice identified
4.8min a meeting at the Board of Appeals, at least
10 of 10present at roll calls, from the clerk
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Next Board of Appeals meeting: Wed, Nov 4, 5:00 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Every roll call

Present at 10 of 10 roll calls at the Board of Appeals

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

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Apr 15, 2026 to Sep 16, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 23 of the 26 meetings we hold, through Sep 16, 2026.

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

Development and land use took the largest share of Wong’s speech with a checked topic: 51%

By the agenda item on the floor when they spoke, at the Board of Appeals (clerk’s agenda times). 62 of 67 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Development and land use51%
Neighborhoods Wong named

3 places Wong named in meetings

Lines where Wong 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
  • Sunset/Parkside 3 times
  • Bernal Heights 1 time
  • North Beach 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 Wong was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Wong’s voice

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

  1. Oct 7, 2026Board of AppealsDevelopment and land use8.3 min16:39
  2. Sep 23, 2026Board of AppealsDevelopment and land use5.1 min6:40
  3. Sep 16, 2026Board of AppealsAlcohol, cannabis and business permits11.3 min8:31
  4. Aug 12, 2026Board of AppealsDevelopment and land use5.8 min5:45
  5. Jul 15, 2026Board of AppealsDevelopment and land use4.6 min7:38
  6. Jul 8, 2026Board of AppealsAlcohol, cannabis and business permits3.9 min43:39
  7. May 27, 2026Board of AppealsDevelopment and land use4.5 min10:34
  8. May 20, 2026Board of AppealsDevelopment and land use · Alcohol, cannabis and business permits10.7 min26:03
  9. Apr 29, 2026Board of AppealsAlcohol, cannabis and business permits · Development and land use7.7 min1:00:07
  10. Apr 15, 2026Board of AppealsDevelopment and land use5.2 min1:08:48
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 Wong was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Lily Wong’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 Wong 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 Wong or of San Francisco alone.