"We provide tax credits to install solar panels on rooftops. Shouldn’t lending a public hand to help people with something as fundamentally important as safety in their own homes be as much if not more of a priority than helping lower electric bills?

Two wrongs don't make a right.  And if the 8-member CB board is able to reach a unanimous binary yes-no conclusion without nuance, that is the complete opposite of the vast majority of other observers here, then maybe you guys are just so much more smarter than the rest of us.  Or just maybe you guys are operating under a dictatorship and not a democracy, as you might wish to think or have others believe?