City and County of San Francisco Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Weekend. [Meeting adjourned]
>> good afternoon, everybody
and welcome to the board of supervisors of tuesday, November 17, 2015,
Madam Clerk can you please call the roll.
>> commissioner avalos supervisor President London
breed supervisor cowen supervisor farrell
not that present
supervisor kim
supervisor mar
supervisor tang supervisor wiener
supervisor yee Madam President we have quorum. >> thank you ladies and
gentlemen, can you please join
us and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
>> thank you, Madam Clerk any communications. >> I have no communications Madam President.
>> colleagues, any changes to
the regular board meeting
minutes of October '68 sienna
motion by supervisor mar and
seconded by supervisor
christensen colleagues we'll take that without objection.
Those minutes passes unanimously
they'll be passed unanimously after.
Madam Clerk can we please go to our terrors item >> the the first order of business is today is appearance
of the honorable mayor ed lee no questions from supervisors the
mayor May address the board up to five minutes. >> unfortunately, the mayor
couldn't join us today all to
taken a motion to a data of
December 1st board meeting is
there a motion supervisor cowen and supervisor
mar colleagues we'll take that without objection. The that
motion carries unanimously
Madam Clerk go the consent agenda.
>> items 1, 2, 3 comprise
those items considered route if
a member observe it will be separate. >> roll call vote.
>> commissioner avalos
supervisor breed
supervisor campos
supervisor christensen
supervisor cowen supervisor farrell
supervisor kim
supervisor mar
supervisor tang
supervisor wiener supervisor yee
there are 11 I's.
>> those ordinancess final psa unanimously Madam Clerk enough time next item a resolution for
the resolution of intention to establish infrastructure
financing district number 2 resolutions one dash 10 and
other for the city as a port of san francisco. >> colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is adopted unanimously next item, please.
>> item 5 for the ordinance of
stacey a citywide sustainability fee and is it your understanding the application of existing
impact fee with some exemptions while the transportation
sustainability fee remains
operative to add definitions clarifying affordable housing
and homeless shelter exemption from the sustainability fees making conforming amendment to
the planning code and affirming
the ceqa in making other appropriate finding. >> supervisor campos.
>> thank you Madam President
as I note the last time we voted
it is important for us to hold
developers account when it comes
to the impacts that the developments have on public
transportation I do think that
we as a board have made a
mistake and left a lot of money
on the tally I'll be that concludes my report this today I belive that this is an issue
probation officer needs to be
revisited by this board as this
board is new at the studied going forward that is one issue
we need to revisit and make sure
that the next time we hold the
developers the for the impacts on public transit. >> thank you supervisor campos supervisor christensen.
>> I just wanted to say
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this rolling and all who support
2 we recognize the impact on
transportation in the dense
neighborhood those things will
be hench h helpful thanks to the
proprietors and grateful we're moving forward with it.
>> thank you seeing no other
names on the roster colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The ordinance passed unanimously next item, please.
>> item of a resolution retroactively have the sheriff's
department to is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? A nine hundred mentally ill crime rent program fund administrative code by the
state and community corrects
through the recidivism fund
July 1st, 2015, through 02018.
>> same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is
adopted unanimously item 7.
>> to retroactively authorize
the accept and expend of 12
thousand from roommate hero to
sponsor mayor ed lee action tour
permit 22, 2015 and June 2015. >> same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is adopted unanimously next item.
>> item 8 is a resolution to
approve the establishment by the public utilities commission of its commercial paper notes
program in an agency congratulate not to exceed 90
millions for the construction replacement of existing water
and power facilities under the
power enterprise for the
acquisition and installation or
rehabilitation of facilities for
renewable energy and energy commercialism same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is adopted unanimously next item, please.
>> item 9 resolution to
meeting authorize the department of the environment to accept and
expend is 17 hundred thousand
plus from inc. To disposal for
household hazardous waste from
2015 to 2016. >> same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is
adopted unanimously next item to retroactively authorize the
punting to accept and expend a three hundred and 24 thousand
grant to participate in a
program enhance the sfraefk aids
program and monitoring the
evaluation from April 2015 to 2016.
>> same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is adopted unanimously next item
item 11 resolution to authorize the public health to submit an
application to continue to
representative the funds for the
ryan white from the health
services administration and
requesting 16.6-hundred hiv
relieve program funding for the
metropolitan area from 2016 to 2017. >> same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is adopted unanimously next item, please.
>> item 12 to authorize the public utilities commission to
accept and expend a $5 million from the san francisco general
hospital for the procurement of
furniture fixtures and
information to this for the Mr.
Brown and mark zuckerberg and naming various places through
the acute care and trauma building. >> same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is adopted unanimously
item 13 and ordinance to amend the building code and planning
code for the list of elephants
for a merger or between to
require an affidavit and notice if the state hospital or bathrooms are removed and affirmed the ceqa determination and other appropriate finding and supervisor wiener.
>> thank you Madam President
colleagues today before us is
legislation to make sure that
all tenants in san francisco are
referring notice as the owner of
their unit is seeking a permit
to demolish and or more the
unions so they willal know and contest the demolition and the
removal of their home right now in san francisco for attendance
who live in legal units it is
from the owner is proposing to
diminish their units the tenant
gets full notice and to contest
the demolition permit, however,
for illegal units including the
tens of thoits thousands of in-law unit the landlords could
go seek and obtain a demolition
permit for the unit without providing notice whatsoever to
the tenants and so the tenants May find out well, after the
fact and after it is too late to appeal that demolition alter
extraordinarily from the dpw or the board of appeals this
inequality is unfair when you
have people paying republicans
for decades at risk of losing their homes without notice
whatsoever a because that unit
is not legally recorded in san
francisco this is not right and
close the loop this legislation
requires that the residents of
illegal units receive the same notification that others attendance receive in various
languages and posted so if they
choose and presuming they'll
choose to fight for their home
and be able to remain in their homes during the housing crisis to keep them stable and this
helps us to do that I want to
thank building inspection
commission for providing support
this as a good step in the right
direction colleagues, I ask for your support.
>> thank you, supervisor wiener colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The ordinance pass on
the first reading unanimously Madam Clerk next item.
>> 14 for the administrative
code for the preference 2, 3, 4 allocating the city housing unit and second to tenants evicted in the ellis act to create a third
preference for residents in the neighborhood where the
affordable housing is located to
make conforming amendments for the administrative code and
planning code to affirm the ceqa
and make other appropriate vrntsz.
>> commissioner avalos.
>> oh, supervisor cowen. >> thank you thank you very much thank you
I just want to take a moment and
just express gratitude to all but community leader that work with us on the legislation I
want to recognize our staff that
have been with us both in my office anticipate supervisor President London breed's office
we both care, he deeply about
this legislation as native san franciscans this legislation
will effect the communities that we represent
and I also want to remind that
my colleagues remember we're not only district supervisors by citywide supervisors we have a
responsibility to continue to protect the interests of all san franciscans I also know there are many people in the
communities that are here today
that have paid not only in
blood, sweat, and tears but many
people have lost their family
members due to displacement and people work towards the housing preference those in the chamber
and can't be with us san
francisco is a unique and desire for it's neighborhoods those neighborhoods will continue to
lose their soul continue to lose
their characterization as
population continue to dwindle
if we don't step forward and
stop the hemorrhaging of low
income san franciscans and most
important to insure they can stay in the neighborhoods and
raised their families and where
they choose to remain we're not
only seoul just talking about the african-american communities
this is a community that gets
the most voice and attention because of the horrible population numbers that have
drilling down many of us in the
chamber have talked about those
alarming rates of
african-americans we've lost but
also the latinos brothers and
sisters not long ago they stood in the chasm asking for you
support and I was proud to support the members of the
mission they pushed towards the
moratorium to stop the pressure
that is forcing them out and
many of the api somalians have
come into the chasm and we have yet to produce something to help them
all the low income residence in
the city are struggling to stay
in san francisco
I have the as to his four
largest hountsz in district 10
by the caucus and significant
population their cupped by aging
and san franciscans everyone is
struggling I venture the
district has one of the most diverse parts not by accident
but because it is the last parts of san francisco that are affordable
so this is real this issue we're
dealing with laeshth issues I canned express how much this legislation means to thousands of san franciscans but the
bossing of people that come to committee. >> (Repeated.) >> the constitution of the united states. Over the last
month to testify for over an
hour with their expressions of personally how much this legislation will mean to them this is because we're talking about the legislation we've left
hand to thousands of hours of
testimony from people in this chamber crying for support and help
what are we are doing for themer
we're doing for the families-
what are we are doing for the
families we've pushed out during
the redevelopment those members
that listened for hours what are
we are doing for them this is
not a perfect solution didn't answer everything and address
all the problems we're dealing with when it comes to
displacement but it is the best
first step we we have to take
right here today and must act
now not time to continue to
continue to push the can down
the road I ask you think about
the thousands of san franciscans that line up day to day year by year four generations packed their bags and left san
francisco how can we continue to
sit back and do nothing so
colleagues you hear the passion
in any voice I respectfully ask
you're showcasing support for
that transformation active piece
of legislation thank you.
>> (Clapping.) Supervisor President London breed's.
>> thank you supervisor cowen
really articulating exactly the
sentiments of myself and many
others who are part of a number
of communities that have watched over the years as members have
been adapted out of this city I don't know who is winning the
lottery I know who is losing
african-americans and an
alarming rate has left the city and time after time and the
officials in the city say we care about the african-american community and the challenges
they face and here is an
opportunity for those who care
to do something about that growing up in the western
edition communities almost
before I knew who was I combhi
who the redevelopments agency say they destroyed the western
edition I watched as homes were
removed and wondered why kim my
neighbor was noting in san
francisco and not play outside
together I wonder why they were teacher of the year down
building with fields with
vacancy I wonder why people in any communities explicit live
there this is what the problem
is
we have far too long neglected
to try to do something initiative progressive about the issue
this is not a new problem
but this is and this is not a
new solution a new solution in
san francisco in new york they
have neighborhood preference
basically since is lasts 1970s
as far back and san francisco
time and time again the leaders
choose to side nothing we lose
not only african-americans from
the city but also a trooif
microorganism we have used and
continue to use outdated housing
policies from the 1960s and 70s
to try to address what is a 2015 housing crisis if we want to continue to support our communities if we
want to continue to make sure
that we have a trifling african-american population and
we think continue to call our
city a diverse city we need to
do something no, this is not
perfect legislation and not
solve the entire problem but a huge, huge step in the right direction I want to thank the malice for
helping to put together this legislation I want to thank the
mayor for having the courage to actually bring this legislation
forward and thank you to
supervisor cowen for her advocacy and supervisor wiener and supervisor christensen for
being co-sponsors on this
legislation this legislation is
about doing when is right and
putting legislation to dealing
with a problem that sadly has
gun on the neglect of the african-american communities and
the neglect of allowing folks to have access to affordable
housing when we go to folks in
the community and is support us support this affordable housing
build more affordable housing
unfortunately now, when I do that people are saying why
should ii can't live there my
friends can't we can't get assess to the housing across the
street from where we grew up any
kid's want to live in san francisco born and raised
qualified for this affordable
housing yet they can't get access to affordable housing they supported and fought for
and continue to push for that's
a real problem so today colleagues, I hope that you will consider supporting this
legislation the time is now
we can't wait we can't continue
we can't continue to sit back
and do nothing meanwhile we're
building and, of course not
enough especially not enough of affordable housing we have we've got a lot more work to do in order to address affordable housing crisis but this is a way
to make sure that people in those communities know that they
have a right to be there they have access and especially we
the chronicle how I wasn't surprised but struck by the
nature of the story one percent
of the bmr are not assessed but is african-americans deplorable
we see that we knew about the disparities in san francisco
there are recently but when it comes to the african-american communities the disparities are desire and we have a
responsibility to deal with that
I see this legislation as a step in the right direction I believe
this legislation has impacts on
other districts and it is almost
we're trying to do a jigsaw
puzzle with different sets vpdz I believe this is moving forward
especially to look at how we
might reverse some of the
disparities we're seeing in san francisco especially with working-class and locating african-americans and other communities of color I've been
concerned that the discussion of
this legislation it could at times pit communities against
one another unfortunately, a
there's a limit supply of
housing across the city and it effects different population and
that is something I think we
can't avoid but to me I see that
when we were failing so much the african-american communities we
see that the african-american
community is organized around
promoting this legislation and
see it as with an tool one to
lessen the disparities and willing to support it we have
many things to address the issue
what struck me as well as about
the article no real clear
assessment of why we're at that number for african-americans in
the affordable market we need to
be honest as a city why those
numbers are low why what is the racism in place and is barriers
outside of the community and what are the barriers people
find within their communities
that prevents us from above and beyond when the mayor's office
of housing to insure that people
can find heirs and the programs
to get ready for housing that is available online this is not
explored or discussed we're not
looking how to have the connection between what is
offered we're in real desire need to make those changes as soon as possible so I hope this
legislation though I believe
that is somewhat flawed can help
us in a new direction to put greater resources in supporting
the communities that have
historically and immediately
been burger to assess in the bmr
market I do appreciate supervisors supervisor President London breed's and supervisor cowen for bringing this legislation for working with the
mayor's office on it I think I'm
not totally comfortable but will
be supporting it I realize this
is much we need to do to lessen the disparity thank you.
>> Mr. Chair I'll remind the
audience no addable support use you're showcasing fingers.
>> thank you, Mr. Chair I'm
strongly supportive of this legislation as brought to committee and proud to support
it from the get-go and thank you
to sxhopdz and supervisor cowen
in particular their, their
extraordinary leadership for moving forward this matters we
are finally starting to increase the amount of affordable housing
in san francisco and opening
itch more the city sponsored
projects with the nonprofit
partners we're also seeing more
and more offsite inclusion
housing and goes to accelerate as the shipyard commissioners, on that motion into existence and treasure island and the
other projects that will deliver a significant number of below-market-rate housing we
have to be prepared and frankly
not prepared ray we have a
lottery system that is completely and utterly broken
some communities that are do not
do well and we need to make sure
that everyone in this city is
able to assess and have a
realistic shot at assessing our affordable housing if every
single neighborhood in the city
and everyone this legislation
will help move us in that
direction people need to be
confident it affordable housing
is in their neighborhood and right now frankly people don't
have that confidence
it is absolutely the case we
need to be building affordable housing in every single
neighborhood in san francisco and every single neighborhood needs to have affordable housing because their people that are
struggling in all parts of this city and frankly this
legislation will help to builds support to create affordable
housing in all neighborhoods in
this city if people have confidence the affordable housing being build down the
street is actually for them and their neighbors their going to
be more supportive and we'll
have much, much more of a possibility of getting board
based support more affordable housing that is equally distributed around this city
I also want to say in terms of
lgbt community we are finally
going to be seeing those 55 unit
projects one hundred 10 units of
low income senior housing with
the focus on lgbt seniors open up in the near future and make
sure that our residents have a
fair shot of getting into that housing the timing couldn't be better to make sure that the
lottery for the project is done appropriately with a
neighborhood preference
and so I'm strog supportive thank you supervisor cowen and supervisor President London
breed's I'll be supporting this strongly today.
>> supervisor tang
thank you very much I want to thank you supervisor President London breed and supervisor
cowen their working hard and piggy backing off of what supervisor wiener said to make
sure that the people in the neighborhood can access the avenue in their neighborhood I think that the main point of
concern I have there are some neighbors we're not seeing that level of affordable housing
development and that is
something that separately I'm
working on since coming into
officer as I speak I'll ask my aid to place on the projector
for you the map that shows the upcoming pipeline up through 2020 of the affordable housing in san francisco
so sfgovtv if you could show
this a lot of the left side in
district 4 we have 7 units of below-market-rate housing coming
online in the next year and
prolonged up up to 2020 so to I appreciate what the supervisors
are doing to make sure that the
residence are staying in their
homes in baufrts there are many, many neighborhoods including all
of district 4 if their displaced
they will see 60 percent the affordable housing taken away from their preference
and so what does is say about other neighborhoods that
residents come from and get evicted they'll be pushed at the
very bottom the waiting list I
agree with the supervisors we're
citywide supervisors need to
help everyone that gets displaced no matter what neighborhood that's indicative
of the dilemmas that some of the
neighborhoods face including my own milestone working on trying to get the support more
affordable housing to be built
in the neighborhoods despite the
neighborhood option so really I
think I'd like to propose 3
separates amendments we it can
take 3 separate votes one of them is the mayor's office of
housing to do some annual reporting the reason I'll
propose I want to have a better
sense of what is going on there
and how many even planners are
applying under the cop, o m I
ellis and what are the district
where the affordable housing is located
where are they selected from the
lottery and if they were were
they able to operate in the bmr
units and mount other pertinent information that the mayor's office of housing that can inform our efforts moving forward to better help the
various communities that should
be assessing those affordable units this is the first
amendment I can go through the other two first. >> commissioner walker why not you're showcasing motions you
want to make as a whole and
entertain conversations to have
a discussion around others
amendments and take them one at a time.
>> the second amendment to add
to the second category the
definition of displaced tenants
educate 2 a tenant in san francisco after January 10th
received a meows notice that his
or her landlords gets the units
under the section of the rent
ordinance to create or adding in
the o m I eviction into the
second educate keeping in lien
with the ellis act evictions at
20 percent and as well as the ellis act provisions of the 10
year retainedcy and the 100
percent if so being considered whether you're showcasing ellis
act evicted or being displaced because of a owner move-in
eviction our someone that needs
the help from the city there
shouldn't be a dimension between
the two types I'd like to see us
add in the o m I for the
displaced tenant and thirdly,
speaking to my main point earlier the amendment to decrease the neighborhood
preference down to thirty percent
I was supportive of the original
version with the 25 percent I know that absolutely is
something we can include as a preference but if we're going to
increase it to 40 percent on top
of the displaced category of 80
percent and on top of the cops we're effectively shutting out
and taking away the 60 percent
of affordable units that is open
in for any of the other
displaced tenants so those are
the 3 amendments I'm proposing
and we can take all 3 amendments separately with separate vote. >> thank you supervisor katie
tang we'll do that lets keep going with comments supervisor yee. >> thank you very much
I'm also want to show my appreciation to supervisor cowen and supervisor breed and
bringing this issue up this
basically due time and basically
several people have mentioned
this is the perfect solution I agree with several the
commenters this is not the
perfect solution, however, when we if we're looking at
correcting the wrong that was
done this solution is better
than doing nothing I 80 want to
make that statement thank you
for at least pushing us in the right direction we need to continue looking at better
solutions in the future but we
cannot wait for that that to
come we need to move now I'll
not be supporting some of the supervisor tang's amendments
that she introduced I also
wanted to say that I won't push
this discussion today since there is a duplicate file sitting at committee right now
if we truly building in the neighborhood preference we need
to focus on what the neighborhood is and not get
confused with the district I'll
take this as an for example, I
take one end of district 7 and
then basically have some affordable housing like possible
near city college and 3 miles
away is still my district and
the people living 3 miles away
don't consider the other area
their neighborhood so it dans
sdnt making make sense to
improve this supporting the neighborhood preference and the
way I'll start the discussion to
say wherever a project is built
let's provide a radius that make sense in which people will
consider that area is their
neighborhood not something that is three or four miles away maybe other district make sense
to have a district it is much
smaller and several large
district not fair for something
in my district to happen and a few plain clothes away they can't move into the same neighborhood that's my concern and hoping we'll have acknowledge open discussion in the future otherwise as we
discuss this I'm hoping to
support the original amendments today. >> supervisor mar.
>> I know this item is in the
context of other large items
that are on our agenda and I'm
thinking a lot about development
projects that have a displacing
impacts and long term creative
multi strategies to Mr. Chair
the lower-income communities of color
to xhooez points I don't want to
do something that is better than nothing and to supervisor breed
question of who is winning in
this lottery for extremely limited affordable housing slots
I'm not sure and who is losing
yes african-americans are losing
but also chicanos and latinos from the mission lower-income filipinos from south of market
and many, many others groups too
I guess I worry when we create a
preference system that is based
on a couple of spiritually
districts we're losing out on
the strategies of fighting displacement and unfortunately,
the solution to displacement is
to stop displacement not to rebuilding department paifrg as
a number of groups have said I
worry that fighting over the crumbles of affordable housing
and giving me preferences to different categories it is not neighborhood but district we're
talking about and if only 4 major spiritually districts we're talking about right now
and in the near future as
projects in the pipeline 4
districts of setting up a system
that pits people of lower-income
people of color and supervisor tang said a lot of
considerations needs to be made
on the west side I represent as
well as I want to say when I
looked did affordable housing on
geary the core net theatre I
asked about 10 preferences can
be given to district 5 and
district one close to the area
the response from the mayor's office of housing was fair
housing laws and is hud's and
others low prevent that I know
that as legal question from the memo I want more findings of
that as we receive the
cautionary memo I know in this legislation some of that is
still up in the air if federal
funding vofdz or states housing
laws say for example, a district
8 not all district 8 are affluent or white people but
I'll say from the preference is
given for district 8 and not to
other stlaerl displaced and
other areas that makes me
question the 25 and 40 percent I
guess we have a danger of san
francisco as foreheads blackwell
on the foundation convened a
meeting a couple of days ago
thai showed you that san
francisco has ground grown to
the majority off people is now
going down so that it is a total reversal of the diversity that's
groin grown in the city we'll
see because of different housing
policies and cost of living that
change in the demographics of
the people not only color but a
rapid desegregation I fear that
the proposal like this without
carefully and thoughtful
approaches like chinatown and
other neighborhoods that we May
be adding to a rapid desegregation of housing and
fooufr u fooufr that push out of
people of color I support of
racial justice I have serious concerns and hopefully slow down
and perhaps continue to discuss a lot of the different items supervisor tang's amendments I'm
supportive of the first and
third but carving out noting another preference for owner
move-ins I see that for the west
side but wondering how it this
impacts on the people that have been evicted in others I think
we need more time to understand
the implications I appreciate
the approach from sxhoepd and
supervisor cowen but I support
the multi racial in the broader context of building more housing
for the displaced community that
are all around us that's my
$0.02 in the context of this displacement and development right now. >> supervisor campos.
>> thank you very much
Mr. Chair and all the members of
the community for this item I
guess this is not a simple issue
I have a lot of mixed feelings
and thoughts maybe none will be
happy with what I have to say let me say this I've come to
this board asking the board for
help at different times in my
district in the mission and so I
am very much aware of why supervisor President London breed and supervisor cowen have
working hard on this issue
and let me say it is not entirely clear when you accountability the neighborhood
preference in terms of the
specific impact that it May have on one district and neighborhood
and part of challenge we have with the neighborhood preference
legally we have limit onyx from
my district in the mission which is what I generally lands on
this issue I think that the con
seis sews people want to see a better preference people affiliate neighborhood say 40 percent neighborhood preference
is not enough for the mission I actually think that important purposes of the project in the mission that is not enough is it
should be higher I think that 40 percent is probably at this
point as high as we can go in a
way that is legally defenseable
and if I could sit here and say
I could defend 60 or 70 percent
or 80 percent I would like make that motion I'm not in a place
to do that I recognize what many
of the advocates have said which
is that in some respect make a maybe a better approach or
bitter way to look at this not a
one-size-fits-all but perhaps variations for each neighborhood
and within the district perhaps
a neighborhood with a within each district I recognize that
with that said, I want to speak
to members of the public of my community working on that issue
for the last few weeks I was
disturbed to read the paper
today and the way that issue has
come across it seems like that
there is different groups within
san francisco that are being pit
against each other and as a gay
latino man it has been
especially difficult to see that
if you read that art it comes
across as members of the latino community coming out against
something that is beneficial to the african-american community
that is problematic for me and
real concern and I'm not sure
what the right policy outreach is
I'm going or I'm not sure how
far we can go in terms of
neighborhood preference and I think that at some point procedurally this is done and
duplicating the file so we have
we'll remain something p to work
on moving forward make sense
and I would urge both supervisor President London breed and supervisor cowen and the folks
that or who are on the other
side of that issue to figure out
how to work together on that piece
what bothers me about some of
the way that comes across I
don't know what will work I also
know that even if you don't
agree with it for elected leaders in the african-american
community and many members of the african-american communities
this is something that the priority for them
and just like the mission came
here and said whether you agree
with the cost or the moratorium
or not give us the benefit of the dough
and have us have some say over
our own destiny I think consistent with that approach to me it make sense that even
though this is not clear how
this will cut into the the ends have members of the african-american community
including the elected leadership we want to try this we'll
support that it is in that spirits that I will be
supporting this I think that it
make sense that we would give
this a shot and it does bother
me actually that some of us came
here and required support what
we minded in the mission yet not seemed like we're doing that
here this is the problem for me
and I think that if whatever
happens out of this I hope what happens every group the african-american are is
chinese-american or the latino
community the an low communities
you all of us figure out how to
move together collectively so it didn't come across as divided I know that is a real problem and
I know that the folks that are
coming from the mission and
chinatown to advocate a
different approach are doing so in the interest of everyone's interest but I think that right
now that is not how it has come
across I'm committed with working with with supervisor President London breed and supervisor cowen to move forward
in a way that allows us to not
only you know be united but come
cross as united I don't think we're there the second point I will make
this is where I have to be honest to members of the public
that are coming here to support
this I will be voting for this
but let's be realistic about what this means
if you really care about what is happening to the african-american community in
san francisco and all you do is
supported this policy and push
for this then we have failed the
african-american community
this is a small percentage of a much large problem that could
potentially be impacted and it is significant
but if you care about san
francisco making a priority of keeping african-americans in san
francisco and all we do is this
policy I, I have to tell you the
outcome will not be different
than that we have right now and
anyone respectfully anyone that
tells us otherwise in my humble
opinion is not giving you the
full picture of what's happening if you want to keep african-americans it is not
enough in this city not enough
to do what we're doing here you
have to do something about most of developments being approved
by this board of supervisors and
this mayor are not building housing for low income people
and working-class and
middle-income the fact that the inclusionary rules that the developer building the luxurious
projects are asked to pay for 10
to 15 percent affordable and
what that number is higher it is not clear when those will be
built if you care about the african-american community you
have to address the fact that
san francisco and this mayor are talking about spending hundreds of million dollars dollars on a
new jail and one millions for
each cell and that new jail
which will make that cell more
expensive than a affordable unit for working-class families in
the city all of that has to be
addressed if you care about the future of the african-american community (Clapping.)
So I will be supporting this
effort but I will I have to tell
you this I will be coming back
to this issue of how we're
helping african-american stay I
have a year two months left in
any term and I'm committing myself doing everything we can
to make sure we have not just african-americans we have
latinos and asian-americans we
have working-class people we be
ann loss and teachers and every
single person who wants to stay in san francisco it is not just
about this vote I'll be voting to support this but reminding us
as we move forward if he care do do the right thing by this african-american community and
other communities that it didn't end up with this the on the
thick I'll say and ask all the
folks who have been lobbying and
advocating for this is that I
would encourage eir receptionist
of the confines appreciable
within the brown act and the
laws and I will ask supervisor cowen and supervisor President London breed and a to reach out
to the community the folks who
are on the od's today so we can have an inclusive discussion
going forward to the extents I can be involved I'm committed to
doing that I think we need everyone such as as soon as
possible to be on the on the same page.
>> supervisor christensen.
>> so our housing situation is an steel complex we've looked at maps with the affordable housing
is planned at any office studying I know where
displacement is occurring in
high concentration where there are concentrations of qualifying
residents issues like transit
and jobs and schools a lot of
complex abashes a at the heart
is a simple sidewalks that is
losing one home is stressful and difficult but losing ones
neighborhood a correction to
friends, schools, shopping,
cultural activities and familiar
environment is devastating
combining this measure with the opportunities of the housing
bonds we've just passed give us
a chance to more carefully
consider the fair and equal dispercent of affordable housing
around the city and help disperse the facilities with the housing projects the good news
is that as a city we will build
more housing
we've just passed the largest
effort to date in this direction never enough but.
>> huge step forward we need
to locate the housing equally across the city so displaced residents regardless of neighborhood can stay home and
for that reason I'll be
supporting the legislation as well. >> supervisor breed. >> thank you I appreciate the comments of
many of my colleagues here today
and I just wanted to talk about supervisor tang's amendments I am supportive of annual
reporting I think this is really
important I know for certainty that annual reporting exists with the mayor's office of
housing and the current system
we definitely could provide
language in the resolution that
could make sure that they do a
better job as it relates to neighborhoods preference and
ellis act evictions we can have
a better understanding of how
who is taking advantage of this
housing and how to make the
legislation better as far as
adding a category I'm not poster
of that without a lengthy discussions in the land use
commission talk of adding o m I
did was in the language and
removed for more lengthy discussion at a later date I'm not closing the door to
including o m ii want to make sure that that discussion takes place we can include the
predicament language as it
relates to owner move-in evictions so and won't be
supporting that amendment and definitely not decreasing the
percentage if to thirty percent
so colleagues, I again, I will support the first amendment but
the other two are amendments
that I actually can't support today. >> thank you.
>> supervisor kim.
>> thank you. I know that
quite a bit of dialogue and
efforts have down or impound into this for neighborhood
preference I want to say he support some of the overall
concept of why we put neighborhoods preference in avenue, I get that people want
to stay in the neighborhoods and communities their
part of familiar routine and
friendship and social services
and patterns that is disruptive
which one moves from one part of
the city to another, in fact, one of the things I've learned
around the displacement of
housing in chinatown I one by
one replacement housing was not
enough when we offered the replacement housing the attendance tells us I'm part of
a community I know if I don't
get out of bed my neighbor will
check on me to see how I'm doing those are the concrete things
that people have when they're
part of a community that go
beyond the replacement housing I had concerns around the preferences because I know that
the district I represent is building a disprompt of the affordable housing in san francisco and, in fact, our last housing
balance report in September that
was compiled and accustomed by the planning department 50 percent of the affordable housing is in the district in the south of market and tenderloin that is a boon and
benefit to the residents of my district we'll sure up to 40
percent of units in the neighborhood go to the residents
I know that residents in the tenderloin and south of market and treasure island support this for that reason
I just want to make sure that
there ashlt unnecessary impacts
in other districts for mother
not as much support housing is
produced one district is not
more deferring as another and hopefully, this encourages our supervisors to make sure that
more of is built in their
district looking at the numbers
of the residents you know our
ratio is large represent of the
rest of the city 34 asian and
167 percent latino if we are concerned with assuring a
diversity of residents that are
getting priority more affordable
housing in our district we working hard to make sure that our residents apply more affordable housing I like many of the colleagues will be supporting this I supported this out of land use commission for
the respect that both supervisor cohen and supervisor President
London breed's did I certainly
understand the outcome and we
have a vast under representation
of african-american and latino and our 100 percent affordable housing not run by the city I
want to see that increase I'm worried about the legislation
won't would have the impact that
is deserved it didn't matter if
you have preference if you're
not applying the city needs to being able be sure that residents building if they apply
they'll get it I've heard from
residents they don't apply they've lack faith in the lowest
system if your name is not in
the pool you'll not get picked;
right? Two we've invested in
the application progression when
I worked at chinatown cdc we
were door knocking and buying
newspapers and opening our doors those applications are very
complicated I can fill it out
for myself without a ton of
guidance but we need to make
sure that we invest in those
type of infrastructure so for every single community and neighborhood south of market unfortunately an organization
that helps many of the south of
market and tenderloin residents and many residents want affordable housing because of
that kind of support and it is
important that we look at the system and what is disadvantageousing certain folks
do we need to work on the
history and taking care of the
conviction and supervisor cowen
and I co-authored and what type
of work for the residents to
make them giggle and building more affordable housing clearly
not enough if folks feel they don't have the opportunities of
housing in the city I think that
is important to allow this to
move forward to have the
outcomes we want to see and
whether it will achieve those
but which is why I'll be supporting supervisor tang's third amendment to make sure we
get the data to make sure we
we're getting the outcomes I had
one question to supervisor tang
on the addition of the
organization m I to the second category to the second
preference and I just time to
clarify that this is up to 20 percent?
>> of the displaced your
excluding the o m I along with
the tenants.
>> that's correct not changing
the overall but including the 20 percent that I know that looking
at the data we have a tremendous
amount of owner move-ins
revocations on the west side of
the city that bring more
equality to the perch system.
>> thank you, supervisor kim supervisor campos.
>> thank you Madam President on the amendments by supervisor
tang I will be supportive of the amendment on reporting but I
will not be supportive of the
other amendments as I noted for
place like mission for us lower
the percentage from 40 to to in
my verify is the wrong approach for us
and weren't to the owner
move-ins evictions he appreciate
the spirit and intent but a large discussion that needs to
be had around that issue I know
there is a framework in place
with that discussion because it
May be that in the end what commissioner chung is proposing
is something that is included
but I think there needs to be a larger strategy and quite
frankly a large strategy that addresses the metabolic
evictions the one thing I forgot
to mention it is important I'll ask especially supervisor President London breed and supervisor cowen as we move forward and sort of working on
this what you look at what is
happening in places like the
mission you have and the latino communities in particular you
have latinos making up 15
percent of population and yet
only benefiting from 5.4 percent
of city units and 11 percent in privately development unit I think that one of the challenges
that I see is not just the rules
in terms of preferences but also
how it is that members of that communities and other
communities are figuring out what is available and the
outreach that needs to be done I
actually think one the things
that necessarily has to happen
the city needs to invest resources for better outreach in theirselves communities and
especially in the latino communities, the african-american and the chinese
community we need to figure out
how we reach out and make sure
as those rules change that members of the neighborhoods in those communities said they can
benefit from those policy
changes thank you.
>> thank you supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much and thank you for the support colleagues looks like we're in a
fairly good position a couple of
things I want to acknowledge
questions and issues and also want to speak to the audience
members we want to acknowledge
people that came out to the land use commission twice to hear
this item and focus on this item
and joined us in the chamber
today stand up and give us the board of supervisors an opportunity to acknowledge you
thank you for being here
those folks that came out to
champion this issue our
incredible and very much an
international part of this
movement to move forward thank you very much for being here (Clapping.)
The other next set of folks we
need to recognize are my
legislative aide to me and supervisor President London breed's office and conner
johnson and others are incredible in move people here and educate them and fighting
back the lies and is rumors that
are out there as well supervisor kim through the chair
to supervisor kim I want to pub u talk about the issues their
quit on point and I want to also
educate the folks that are here
about what we are already doing
in terms of tirz I got a couple
of hundred thousand dollars to
go to an advertising campaign
and a media market okay to reach
people that grew up in san
francisco and are no longer here
or are here struggling and
advertising in a meaningful way
and in multiple languages so we're not excluding everyone
that is the first time we as a
body have taken our money and put it in allocated in such a
way to help with the outreach
you talk about the outcome we've benefit working on the mayor's
office of housing is codifying
how those developers advertise
now as you're showcasing
advertising in sf magazine I don't know how many people reads
sf magazine I'm using that as an example we're not doing going to
reach the urban market how to
you put together rules those
personalities we'll come and go
but in the codification the
malice a set number of wards
words and pictures whatever it maybe we're actually working on
that to make sure we getting the
advertising where we need to be advertising and no one gets left
behind and the application process we've done a tremendous
job I want to acknowledge one of
the my champions kathy davis and
kathy didn't say but she is the executive directors of the
george b davis senior center
we're building thousands of
units of senior housing which is
not enough we need more but the
thousands we have she's single-handed collected 4 thousand applications for 2
thousand units so my point is
when you puts diligent work and a little bit of dollars together
but will reach people you will
get them to turnout and fill out
the application and can change
the tide we've spent time talking about ousted migration
and what it comes to in
migration retention that is just
as important as speaking to the
makers of this policy as we
continue to talk about housing
for all and for every person in
the chamber that voted for prop
a thank you very much you've
significantly helped us to build public housing part of the
affordable housing and inside of
san francisco noted directly
related to this particular piece
of policy but we talk about the
housing we can't forgot billion
those people in housing and prop
a is second to none daily and
police chief both irs that are
open and so as we continue to talk about supervisor campos
about housing and in the mission and the dimes we're most
certainly to make sure we are
talking about those in all kinds
of housing whether subsidize and section 8 and market rate
housing not market-rate but below-market-rate housing inclusionary, however, we want to category no one gets left
behind
now could you don't I think so supervisor tang's prospective I
don't supports the neighborhoods decrease in the neighborhood
preference he agree with many of
the folks that came out in
public comment and if we could
get more maybe we'll do it and
looking for a way to get a
higher percentage one-half not
found that so it is I think goes
against the desire of not only
this body but the general public
to decrease the percentage for for neighborhoods preference
and also during to the hearings
hearings we heard in land use commission I chair we heard from
dozens of people that wanted a
neighborhood preference one the
key components to reward neighborhoods that have accepted
the development and affordable housing in other neighborhoods
so hey, you want to put people
into in action go talk to the
developers and get this moving
over west side it is not fair
the district have to share the shoulder responsibility we all must share that responsibility
for decades the west side of the
city has had a adopted a not in my backyard but now we're changing it approximately will
on this board on the west side to begin to see the see change
and it is you know if you talk
about anyone that grew up in san
francisco none thought we'll be developing in the shipyard toxic
maybe property but here we are buildings 12 thousand 5 hundred
units on the west side those developers find.
>> way and this legislation is going to insure hopefully b be
in place the folks on the west side that May not benefit as
wild as we want today but in a position to benefit from it in the future that's why we're
making the decisions that has
the best interests of people in
the city we can't make a decision now to limit you have
the future we can't see those
units didn't mean they are not
in our future I believe this
legislation is significant and
will fairly benefit all of san
francisco I do support the third amendment that requires the mayor's office of housing to report yearly the
number of migration and preferences
eligible for the demographic
because if you're not counting
it and not keeping track we need
to do a better due diligence of
how to keep tracking track alcohol, tobacco & firearms units like the police officer
how many times they're stopping
people the same rational notice
the po a will write me gary in the examiner will write me changing brurndz this is
interesting go changing the
neighborhood boundary from the supervisorial to neighborhood it
looks good this is one the most
sounds data driven piece of
policy this body has seen in a
long time thank you charlie he
has a fantastic model if we
narrow and make that legislation
and I applicable to not only the
baby community that excludes
people in our best interests to stick with the supervisorial
indict and I want to remind the
folks their made up of folks and
keep them intact folks take a
moment and shed light on a couple of misconceptions thank
you for listening and thank you, colleagues I'm grateful for your
partnership we can't do it without you.
>> thank you supervisor cowen (Clapping.) And supervisor wiener.
>> I'm not sure how to follow
that I'll do my very best
I wanted to I spoke with
supervisor tang and I'll be
supporting this amendment and be
supporting the owner move-in amendment we adapted I don't
know if it was last year or the
year before the legislation for people evicted in the ellis act
that was important but people that are evicted many owner
move-ins solemnly swear are not
at fault and they deserve preference as well in addition he appreciate what supervisor tang did in including that
permission for the people lived
in the united for at least 10
years so a longer-term tenants
will probably be protected if
from the rent control and the preference they deserve I'll be supporting that not supporting
the amendment to reduce the
percent from thirty to 40. >> thank you, supervisor wiener supervisor kim.
>> thank you. I you just want probation officer reiterate that
I as will that will supporting the two amendments that supervisor tang has movtd on o m
I and at recording I want to give the neighborhoods preference category at 40 percent a chance and will be that concludes my report that as say, I think that would be
helpful for the board to hear
the comparison of evictions over
the last 10 years one thousand
plus ellis act and owner move-ins sleeksz looking at the
district particularly along the west side and saets suicides 2
to 3 times the number of o m is
as ellis act 2 hss hundred Mrs.
But more owner move-ins and 62
over the last 200 and 24 owner
move-ins evictions and district
740 ellis act eviction but one
and 32 owner move-ins and
district 10 only 35 ellis act evictions. >> many more owner move-ins on
this 42 and one and 60 owner
move-in evicts and the other
districts their intended to be
more o m I given the nature there is more disparities continue the two I think that particular on the west side and
the saets sector you will see
two to three times more move-ins
no, not at all evictions not a reason to put them into categories some of the concerns
from the vehicles there are so many they're worried about that
flooding I think that category
so with that said, I don't see a
policy reason to differentiate
it was an the two evicts and I appreciate supervisor tang including the 10 year
requirement because I think that
you know we really want to help
the long terms tenants that will
be much more anxious if they get evictions verse one that has
been living in the units for one
to two years we should be supporting that amendment. >> thank you, supervisor kim.
>> supervisor tang thank you, very much for the
discussion I said to one more
thing that is not you know
solution for everything I wanted
to mention we've our office drafted legislative legislation we're waiting for the
legislation we're going to
require that when someone is filing paperwork notifying the
city about an eviction the city sends that individual a notice about the affordable housing
that is available through the
city's malice program we feel
this is one way to reach the
tenants if they don't know about the program they're not
obviously going to apply that is one basic step up to the plate step we can take to require the
city to provide the notifications to see people getting evicted so again, I
think this legislation go passes
we're eager to layer that on top of this
and so again colleagues, I do want to thank you for your
condominiums ii think we have
pend on deck the affordable
housing bonus program that I've
a co-sponsor of and so to speak
status quo to the comments and hoping to accommodate more
residents on the west side and
on deck and look forward to
working with each the
supervisors to make that happen thank you very much.
>> thank you supervisor tang supervisor campos. >> thank you Madam President I
want to note on the owner move-in eviction I'll not be
supporting that but something to consider director borden's my
hope if we're willing to look at
the issue of providing a
preference through this program
that another thing we want to consider is whether or not we
need to revisit the rules and provide additional protection
around o m I did is a problem in
some parts of district essential
that is a large section I hope that happens. >> thank you supervisor mar.
>> to supervisor tang's points
about the o m I perch I guess I appreciate the attempt to
certify the tenants that will
help residents that new district
as well given the san francisco transportation authority plans & programs committee staff that supervisor kim gave residents
that have been displaced as a result of the organization m I
evictions I guess my concern is
that this is all giving a false
hope por favor 0 people that are
displaced and forced from their
home the lottery system within a
lottery system when there is
inadequate amounts of affordable housing coming online we move
forward as a city but creates that people fighting over
crumbles and not a real solution
I think we need a careful study of the different groups of
people evicted and giving an
alleged apprehensive how it
impacts other groups as well
that's example I'll be voting
no, I'm going to stick my neck
out for the african-american and
displacement of whole ethic and
rational or racial communities that one-size-fits-all didn't
carve out the neighborhoods most
in need and have two broad of a stroke including the districts
not having the displacements
that the mission district and
the african-american and the
bayview hunters point and placed
like uc berkleyist displacement
reach studies it show that many of the advanced stages of gentrification and the south of market we'll be talking about in
a couple of minutes I know of of feel that a one-size-fits-all
approach is not the right one it
has the danger of pitting communities of color against
each other though I'm supportive of the african-american efforts
to maintain their communities
this is not the rights approach
I'll be casting a no vote. >> thank you seeing no other
names on the rosters we'll take commissioner sanchez amendments
one by one and the city attorney
has comments regarding the owner
move-in represents so
recommendation so schaung has made a motion to do annual
reporting is there a second
seconded by supervisor cowen
Madam Clerk call the roll on the amendment. >> schoolz supervisor avalos.
>> just a point of clarification. >> each supervisor tang has
proposed 3 amendments.
>> right what's the first amendment. >> providing annual reporting.
>> it is it was moved by
supervisor tang and sect by supervisor cowen. >> Madam Clerk call the roll.
>> and Madam President for classification when supervisor
tang read those items they read
them backwards. >> I'm confused.
>> okay. Please call the roll. >> commissioner avalos.
>> reporting way on annual report. >> correct. >> commissioner avalos
supervisor breed supervisor campos.
>> supervisor christensen
supervisor cowen
supervisor farrell
supervisor kim
supervisor mar
supervisor tang
supervisor wiener supervisor yee
there are 11 I's.
>> okay. This amendment is
adopted unanimously
on the next amendment which will
be the doctor from 40 percent to
thirty percent it was moved by
supervisor tang and is there a second.
>> seeing none, the motion fails
and on the o m I our deputy city attorney john gibner, deputy city attorney can you provide us
with an explanation avenue what
you're suggesting regarding o m I evictions. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney speaking with
supervisor tang on the does the
substituteed is the changing to the tenants displacement and findings the sections of the
ordinance overseeing facts is
the number of evictions citywide
and increasing into 2010 to 2014
housing is dmrrg unaffordable to
the majority of san franciscans
so displacement through evictions leads to san
franciscans not in the city and
one the public purposes of the
tenants preference is to enable
residents to stay in the city if possible we'll recommend that
the board add in those finding
as part of the proposed amendment.
>> okay. Before we move on
this we need language I need
language before I make a decision about this.
>> I'm happy to read the
language in the initial substitute ordinance.
>> just to be clear does that
mean this will not count as the
first reading or have to go back to committee?
>> the two the amendment that
the board has voted on does not
require a continuance so the
board could adopt the ordinance
on first reading with that the o
m I meant supervisor tang proposed with or without the language I'm suggesting the board could denouncement today
and pass the ordinance on first
reading nun of the ordinances
that were proposed so for will
go back to the planning commission. >> supervisor tang have you
passed the language for you're showcasing proposed amendment.
>> yes. I wanted earlier.
>> I'm sorry, I don't have it
in my possession oh, this.
>> okay. And can you read the
ifktd bordering and sure john gibner, deputy city attorney
again so the first efktd 3 understanding were removed in
committee that would be at back
in as part of supervisor tang's
proposal the first finding is
that from 2010 to 2014 the eviction notices with the rent
board increased 45 percent and
in specific neighbors the
mission and the outer richmond
and on the percent were significantly higher than the
city average and the second proposed finding read san
francisco tenants are bag
displaced through eviction and
current market-rate rents are
not affordable thus when the displacements occurs rhyming in
san francisco is not a viable
option for more residents
especially protecting and
moderate income hours and the
next for the affordable housing is necessary to achieve the purpose of increasing the opportunities for those
residents to continue to live in
san francisco even as market rate housing rents rise.
>> okay.
>> so supervisor tang has made
a motion to move this amendment
forward seconded by supervisor
yee Madam Clerk Madam Clerk, please call the roll. >> commissioner avalos supervisor breed no supervisor campos no supervisor christensen supervisor cowen no supervisor farrell no supervisor kim supervisor mar no
supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee
there are 6 I's and 5 notice
with sxhooemd supervisor campos supervisor cowen and supervisor
mar in the dissent
the amendment passes on the pamphlet as amended.
>> schoomz supervisor campos supervisor President London breed
supervisor campos
supervisor christensen
supervisor cowen
supervisor farrell
supervisor kim supervisor mar
no supervisor tang no. >> supervisor wiener
supervisor yee there are 9 I's with two notices supervisor mar
and supervisor tang in the dissent
the item passes as amended on the first reading
(Clapping.)
Madam Clerk go to our 2 o'clock accommodations starting with
supervisor yee.
>> thank you supervisor President London breed
colleagues this pass sunday on
November 15th our city took part
in it's first raw day of
remembrance for road traffic
victims the world day is a
global action to honor those
killed or injured we road collisions together with
advocates and the families and
friends I would recycle to honor this day at the board of supervisors
this year really marks the 10
anniversary the adoption of the
world day of remembrance by the
general assembly in the 20th
anniversary of the global
remedies their common place we
over look rookie those tragedies can I supervisor President London breed I mean supervisor President London breed can I wait a minute. >> oh, yes.
>> members of the public can
you please exits the chamber
quietly 53 we still have
business to 3 we still have business to to we still have business to the chamber quietly we still have business
to conduct.
>> thank you can you exit
quietly thank you very much.
>> and to members of the
public if you're coming into the
chamber please keep the noise level down commissioner vice President Low has a very important accumulation to show
some respect to the people that he's honoring much. >> thank you very much supervisor President London breed
I also like to mention when I
was there with several of my
colleagues this past sunday it
was really heartfelt to listen
to the stories of the people to
talk about their relatives that
passed or struggling to recover
from their tragedies I mean, I'm
fortunate I got banged you will
by a car it took me of months to recover I feel like I'm recovered when I heard those
other stories of people that had
been seriously injured they're
struggling avenue year and
trying to remember the impact
for families and their loved
ones whether they did person
device from the tragedy or gets
seriously injured every year
over one.3 million people are killed global warming this is U.S. Bancorp acceptable they can
be prevented by making streets
survey and improving the driver behalf and the increasing the
government entities last year
the board newsom adopted vision
zero by educating the public
open traffic safety and
endorsing the laws and adopting
policies that saves lives we
hope that vision zero to put an
end to all pedestrian deaths by
the year 2024 but we have a long ways to go san francisco's has
the highest percent in 201334 vehicle relate death in our
street and last year that number
was slightly reduced to 29 and
overall thirty people are killed and injured in traffic incidents
in the city I want to thank overseeing people in walk sf and others communities of the vision zero for their tireless work to
push those important issue
though the forefront and want to acknowledge the survivors of
crash victims that are dedicated
to making our streets safer
because you are out of and you're showcasing efforts we're
moving color to meeting our
vision zero goals and make sure
that no other families will have
to endure the loss of a loved
one that so many hsa have faced
in the city streets we want to
ask our state representatives on
the legislation there to step up
they need to help us we cannot
do it locally we need laws
passed at the state level including allowing local
jurisdictions to put up safety
cameras including having
regulations that regulate our
tougher bus more closely
those are the similar things
people can do and act on it now
so is supervisor kim in the room?
>> no
okay. Right now I'd like to ask
monique up to say a few words
monique survived a crash in 2013
since then she's been dedicated
to go make our streets safer I'd like to also advocate the
survivors and friends of those
who have been victims of road
traffic to receive this special
accommodations I will be giving okay monique.
>> hi first of all, thank you supervisor mar, supervisor kim
and supervisor wiener for coming
out only sunday memoriam for
traffic victims it was nice to
see you guys it warmed any heart thank you.
>> I just want to share my
story two years ago I was
crossing the street and hit by a
driver going 40 miles per hour
suffered a brain injury and had
brain injury and been in rehab
to train myself to walk again, I
lost my research job at uc
berkley and he no longer have
the help going to graduate school every day I suffer from
any memory and this process is
slower and my attention is not
the same my life has really changed
the saddest part of all that I was preventable
you know if it can happen to me
it can happen to you or you're showcasing family members do you
think I want my mom or dad or brother are boyfriend walking
the streets in san francisco you
don't, no I don't feel it is a
safe city to walk
so I ask to please act quickly
and push for ground zero or
distortion and let's support the
great organization like walk sf
to reengineering over streets to
educate and get more awareness
around this issue of traffic
safety and to enforce some of
the laws to make sure that
drivers are not driving recklessly
again, if it can happen to me honestly it can happen to any
one of us
thank you.
>> (Clapping.)
>> thank you supervisor yee
now I'd like to recognize supervisor mar.
>> thank you supervisor President London breed
colleagues we are honored in the
chambers with a long time rent
board and richmond board person
acknowledge minimum for the reernts and landlords in the
city the gentleman has a long
history for service for the city and county of san francisco
in 1973 hired by the economic e
oc for the head start program
thank you for supporting the low income Mr. Wong was not limited
to to the state bar a couple of
years literary and 77 hiring by
the mayor's office training as
part find comprehensive came
back ac to oversee programs in
83 hiring by the rent board
where he's developed more friendships his contributions to
the rent board were many including the capital improvement and the evictions
units Mr. Wong was a residence of the richmond district for
over thirty years and he's known in chinatown as quote the rent
board and he brought with him a
difference skill set with a
familiarity with the rent board laws and the ability to
communicate with people
regardless ever their background
from others nabtsz as an attorney understanding the
complex case while have the
ability to explain the laws and
chop it up fountain for the law person and because of his
understanding the community and
it's infinite patience with
people he made measurable contributions to the landlord
communities bringing a sense of
fair practice to the workingings
the rent board he's here with
his partner and family members and rent board staff and
colleagues let's give a hand a
round of applause for the
gentleman for his service (Clapping.)
Please come forward Mr. Wong (Clapping.)
Please come forward Mr. Wong (Clapping.)
We'd like for you to say.
>> few words if you can.
>> well, thank you supervisors and the city and county of san francisco
this was unaccepted and probably
under deserved I really want to thank you city and county of san
francisco for the privilege of
work with the most excelled
group of people I've ever met
most talented and dedicated
people I've ever met at the san francisco rent board and a
number of members are here with us today.
>> thank you and thank you,
supervisors, thank you san
francisco, and keep safe thank
you very much (Clapping.)
>> okay. Colleagues
now we will go to our 3:00 A.M.
Special order Madam Clerk this
will bring us to the first
3:00 P.M. Special order and
somewhat complicated we have before us appeals for the 5m
project in district 6
there are 3 appeals related to
the environmental impact report
the conditional use authorization, and the office
allocation we're going to hear
all 3 appeals together
apparently, there are piece of legislation potentially 30 years the project a general plan amendment the creation of a
special use district and a development all the time that is
a complex set of appeals to
lemon quickly explain today is
procedure I've received with the it don't make any difference and
our clerk
I'll get to that we'll hear the 3 appeals together and the board
will have even though on the environmental impact report it
takes of votes to either affirm
or reverse the internal revenue
if the eir is reegd not other approval action about took place
and table the other items the
eir is upheld we'll will vote on
3 pieces of authorizing
legislation that May seem
premature on the conditional use
but we need 0 votes open is authorizing legislation first,
because no cu or office
allocations to appeal unless the board has adopted the ordinances
creating the 5m special use district from the ordinances
fail no need to vote on the cu
or the office allocation in the
ordinances pass we will vote on
the cu appeal it requires 8
votes to overturn the planning
department decision there we'll
vote on the office allocation
appeals it only requires 6 votes
to overturn the allocation here
we go so Madam Clerk call items 15 through 25.
>> item 15 through 18 comprise
the person's interested in the planning commission for this environmental impact report
dated September 17, 2015, for
the property mixed use project
on mission street and near parks as long as the 5m project
item 16 the motion to affirm the certification of the eir
prepared for the 5m project and
1-800 to reverse the commission
certification item 18 a motion
to direct the preparation of
finding related to the reserveer
E.R. Reversedal and comprise of
hearing the certification of the conditional use authorization
dated cement 17 additionally a related approval and allocation
of office square feet for the mixed use project on mission street
item 20 the motion to approve the commissions certification
and approve the conditional use authorization for the 5m project
item 21 the item is it reverse the commissions decisions approving the confusion and item
22 the motion indirectly the
preparation of finding related to the reversal the conditional use authorization
item 23 is the motion to approve
the commission decision and
approve the allocation of office square footage under the 2014-2015 annual limits program
for two buildings known as the
h1 and m site on mission street
team 24 the motion to reverse the commission decisions and
approve the office square
footage for the m and one m and
the direction of the finding for
the reversal the office allocation approval.
>> before I call on supervisor
kim for this hearing we will be
considering whether to approve the planning commission certification of the environmental impact reports
then the planning commission conditional use authorization
and then the planning commission
office allocation sore sun's
we're combining the appeals I've worked with the city attorney's
office to provide speakers with
a bit more time so we'll take that without objection. We'll precede as follows: up to 15 manipulates for a
presentation but is appellants
or the appellant representative,
up to 3 minutes per speaker in
support of appeal, up to 15
mimics or minutes for a presentation from city
departments, up to 15 minutes
for the project sponsor or their representative, up to 3 minutes
per speaker in opposition to the
appeal in support of project and
finally up it 5 minutes for
rebuttal by the appellants or the appellants representative
so, please note if you're here to speak in for or against this
project this will be the time to
do it and not in general general public comment
so with that, I want call on supervisor kim for opening
statements before we begin. >> thank you supervisor
President London breed I'll make
brief remarks before the eir and conditional use authorization and the office allocation
approval the 5m is a project for forest city and hearst corporation in November of 2011
actually 4 years ago it has been
quite a road to get to the final approval and I want to acknowledge this forest city has
been engaged with our office and in the neighborhood throughout
those 4 years
as with any large project and in
particular a special use the
scope underlying envelope and changes should be fully vetted by the public I'm looking
forward to a full discussion on the adequacy and completeness
the eir and the appropriateness of the conditional use authorization office allocations
approved by the commission in September and looking forward to hearing
from the public on all audits on
their thoughts and forbes e
feedback this whether have a
huge February in the heart of south of market I think a lot of
good points and feedback have come through much has been included in the project, however, this is the opportunities and point at which the members of the public should
engage with the board on what
they want to see and look
forward to hearing and opinions
by the appellants and members of the public okay. Thank you supervisor we'll take that without
objection. We will now open our
hearing and begin up to 15
minutes by the appellants or the appellants representative.
>> good afternoon Madam
President and supervisors
my name is rachel with prudently
and slot I'm the attorney that
is representing the forest city
sense group that files the
appeal south of market action
committee known as snack
south of market action network
came and s o s and friends the
balboa park as noticed the
appeal is based on the outlooks submitted regarding the certification of the eir
and is adaptation of finding in the state offering riding considerations the allocation of
the square footage under the
annual office approval and the conditional use.
>> be closer to the mike please.
I need my notes.
>> okay. So we submitted
substantive comments on each of
those issues and we did that
through our appeal packets on
October 16th, November 6th, and
11 and those included the
citizens of the exhibits a there
h then yesterday's we submitted
comments on the general plan
amendment the development all
the time and the special shade
limits on balboa park so
regarding the eir accuracy I
want to note that I'm not going
to go on and on here I want for
the board to hear the public's
response to this and we want to
note those are just highlights
our comments were substantive
and definitive and quits pursue scuff I'll directing your
attention to those issues
regarding the eir adequacy
as the boards aware adaptation
of all the prouflz are balances
on the adequacy of the eir the
adequacy of the eir has been
challenged then the project
can't be proposed
so this is a type of law I do I
look at ceqa adequacy and
projects and determine whether
they have or qualified to make
the accessories they do in the
iritis my professional opinion
this eir is defective that it is
grossly defetch and any approval
at risk until this requiring is
amended and recirculated
so the basic issue that comes to
you with any eir is the project
description accurate
all of the rest of the analyses
in the eir are bans this
components or adequacy and
description here as pointed out
the proponent proposed two
different schemes or scenarios
and unfortunately, the eir did
not analysis the various schemes
in a like manner so the adequacy
of the analyzed impacts is
defective you don't have the
basis for comparison to a
specific project
so adrc complications to this
the final eir proposed a
different project different from
those two scenarios and entirely
different project so the eir analysis he's didn't consider
this project in depth we say no
problem with the eir whether you
have a project description it is
confusing that is impossible for
the public to adequate will I
championing on the project for
objective reasons they don't
know what project their
commenting on and expanding
can't analysis the report
because they looked 3 different
schemes not a single project
that is in definite violation to
the threshold issue for second compliance
so even if the eir was without
any other defect this key fact
will render the entire eir
inadequate so therefore we
request that the board reject the certification and require
the eir and send that back to
the mramg planning with one
description that analyses each
the implicates and the
alternatives are compared to
here since there was two
different scenarios a different
project in the final one was a narrow analysis they were not
compared to a single project
so then I want to highlight some
that is the biggest issue for
the board of supervisors it
precedes every other questions
that preceded today is that document adequate, did it
provide notice of what the
project proposes, did the
analysis a specific project and
if not then we suggest that it is not appropriate foreign the project approval
so just to highlight some of the
other issues with the eir for
example, the eir is handing the traffic impact
the eir artificially reduced the
study so the steady area had
impacts so certain intersections
had bulge impacts and within
adjacent impacts that one would
might have impacts to jabts to
the impacts in their not
reviewed so the impacts study was two small and the internal
revenue adequacy it bans all the
foreseeable impacts that is
foreseeable to have an impact an
impacted intersection would be
adjacent to another impacted
intersection that was not
studied in consideration of the
adequacy of the open space and
regarding the shade project the
project proposes shading with itself own open space since it
was the project that was very similar to the preservation
alternative that was proposed as
the project that alternative was initially rejected because of
the proposed wind impacts
it is the interior spaces of that project proposing proposal has some of the highest wind effects of any place in the
project that is where the open space is proposed
since the wind studies were can
you think on the other project
proposals and not in depth we
feel the wind studies are I think adequate it shows the open
space is windy and shady this
does accurately show a space for
this size the open space
advisory committee passed a resolution asking the board to
extend the project so that more studies to be done on this issue
and as I say in the records there's a lot of evidence
regarding everyone or each and
every part of the open space for this project
shade and shadow impacts are
large and the friends of the balboa park virtually wrote a letter and submitted it
yesterday on this issue
and we believe that the impacts
for balboa park not sufficiently
analyzed and the eir should have anytime the impacts prior to
raising the threshold to balboa
park the planning commissioner
cindy one way or another said a
few cases it was expand in all of the cases the project proposed far more affordable housing
than this project does, in fact,
in order to raise the limit the
projects that were approved some of them were 100 percent avenue so the recreations should be high and there should be strong
reasons to change that
protection for the parks for san
francisco especially there's a
special natural resource within
is urban environment they should
be valued critically and the
other interesting thing about
that so we're looking at adopt a statement of the consideration
when a project has remaining impacts then the city May look
at the benefits of the project
and is those are over ridden and
we adopt the project anyway but
the one thing that is forgotten
that it is never adopted until
the project has been adequately
analyzed and until all
litigations and alternatives
have been considered so
coordinators an agent ant can't
from impacts to override the first month adequately analyzing
the impacts and looking at the
mitigation and alternatives here
it is during the testimony at planning commission hearing that
the buildings could be easily
rearranged to avoid shadows on
balboa park so that's the
situation where lots of people
care about that and there should
have been an alternative considered that avoided the
impacts we didn't have to look
at raising the limits of balboa park
so then the other issue was was
this project adequately acted
for cumulative impacts and
unfortunately, the eir used an
outdated study in 2012 that was
done during the recession and
prior to the growth that this
area hsa has seen as to the
analysis cumulative impacts it I
think adequate it was based on an old study
another area a lot has been
written in inconsistency with
the area plan
the project it is inconsistent
with any codes and policies and
lists each one and why it is inconsistent but what the
internal revenue did wrong with
this argument is the eir navld
the consistency with the
proposed general plan amendments in place
will that's not how it works you
look at the project under the
applicable codes and consider
what impact amend that project
will have here the eir does the reverse it considered the
project under the amendments it
was consistent this is constitutes no analysis whatsoever
and then one the last assertions
is that the project constitutes spot zoning
so our assertion this project
has been artificially separated
from the planning provision of
the eastern neighborhoods the
central selma plan, and instead
of rezone as a do you only I
downtown special development is
supporting zoning
so this project amends the height and unbelievable limits
if the downtown zone those amendments are more appropriate
they're similar in scale it the
financial development north of
market and transbay to the east
so in terms of the zoning
applications are not in the way
it looks at the consistency of
the area plan and this prohibited spot zoning it is
hidden with the analysis of eir
so it is should be done more
adequately so it could be more
apparent my time is about up and
that's all I have to say and I
do urge you to look at the substance comments that have
been a lot of time by people
that care about south of market
and you're not against this
project per say but feel that it
really should be amended to
respect areas surrounding area policies and that this project
can be maids to be more
appropriate as a step down-
step up project within south of market.
>> so thank you very much at the appreciate your time. >> thank you, supervisor kim you have questions.
>> I do have a question for the appellant.
>> on what you considered the
underlying arguments or the most
more argument in the appeal in
terms of instead of instead of
the project makers must looking
at look at 3 areas for the
reich's description and the
internal revenue stage meant the public was excluded if
commenting just to speak on this
point
what are the more substantive oversights in the project
description and the alternates
from the current project as
finally negotiated you felt.
>> the services analysis.
>> well it is good to make the statement nothing you thought
the oversight was in the study.
>> well, I disagree I believe
that we mentioned all of those
points and just the fact they were 3 different project
descriptions you don't have to go further that-
>> if that's okay most of
large projects before the board there are multiple project descriptions and alternatives and the final be negotiated
project that comes before the
board tends to be a mixture of
the multiple projects it continuing comes up in large
projects never the project is
the same when it comes to the
final boards how is this
different from any large project
and the major substantive oversight that has not been
analyzed in this study you feel that we should looked at in
order to reopen the eir.
>> I reviewed the projects
myself and what I see happening
is you're right that projects
evolves and change and anymore utilization is proposed, etc.
But you have kind of a
confluence ever problems the
project was not fully identified
not a single project to gentile
with that's the initial problem
itself dangerous there are
several projects proposed not
true under second a definite stable you have to start out
that way and the other thing
when I see projects amended
that's after the project environmental review has been
completely for this project in terms of a full discussion of
impacts of a sage project you have all of the alternatives
compared to that single project
and then you're fully at easy to
look at the amendment and
mitigation and adopts them not within the financial eir you
presented with a new project and
if those happen then the mere analysis needs to happen.
>> can you-and could you explain substancely what is
anything's that is in the project as negotiated
specifically what analysis is
Multiple voices: .
>> they're not subject to the
life analysis one scenario
compared to one report and other within. >> instead of being general
list the specific and I don't
have-this is a big project we
submitted probably oh, I'm-
Multiple voices: .
>> and because I want to understand you're showcasing argument.
>> I understand the basic premise not has nothing to do with with detail by the
application of how this project
was handled to I'm not going to
go into details when we are talking about big picture the
big picture this project was not
handled in a correct issue
across the board to ceqa.
>> can you name a large project in san francisco that
met the standard here today.
>> sure most projects do
adhere to-the project that
meets our standard that you've list here today.
>> another project the board
do is looking at.
>> over the last 10 or 5 years
that meets the standard today.
>> what people contact me
there's a problem I don't review
projects that don't have
problems my clients are public interest clients when at the
receive a problem they come to me. >> so.
>> it's fine if you make the
agreement the eir analysis is nostril complete because you
need one specific description comparison to several project
alternatives that are analyzed in the eir that you should be
able to describe large projects in san francisco that meet the standard here today.
>> the eir is not based on
higher recognize so I'll ask that the boards look at the
substance of those letters and
not do an my recollection. >> thank you.
>> okay.
>> thank you now we will have
up to 3 minutes for any speaker
who supports the appeal so if
anyone is in support of actually
appeal for any of the items
before us today please line up
and come forward 3 minutes each.
>> and this is on this for those members of the public who
want to speak in support of the appeal can you please come
forward quibble we have a long
agenda first speaker please.
>> the only objection to this
5 m project is affordable
housing section of the overview
complex you advertise that you
have affordable housing and then
you've got $310 million housing
bond that specific explains how
the bonds as opposed to be use
for low income and memory
protect breaths of people
but yet when you look at the
requirements to move into the
building the lowest rate to move
into the complex is that $1,000
a year okay. The in relation
set up to 85 thousand and the
top is one and 50 percent and 40
percent a one hundred $7,000 a year those numbers are not
related to people that are in
lower and memory income brackets
that's the only thing I object to I have the same type of
problems with other issues we're
talking about today, too pertaining to affordable housing and my public comment I'll
addresses 3 areas where the boards we're talking about commercials and affordable
housing, and the reason why
minorities are on the receiving
ends the discretionary areas are
dropping down so other than that
I'm fine with building apartment thirty percent affordable
housing should be split between
the maximums point of about 48 thousand a year for instructors
and school teachers and the on
the 20 percent balance should be for low income people
who are in low income bracket thanks. >> thank you. Next speaker.
And just for clarity this it is
for mbes that basically are
opposed to this project.
>> and support the appeal.
>> thank you my name is jane
kim wild thank you you thank you for having me.
I live on mission street on 7th
street a couple of blocks I've
been involved with mid market on
many organizations and to start
19 with john king the critical 5
m this as real estate deal with
large this is from a writer this
from the chronicle that owns the
property no question that 5 m is
only about profits for the
developer there notice justification for tripling the
allowable height or at building separation across the street and
not requiring the affordable
housing to say be built on seethe the only justification
for profit for the developer
city law allows the zero
tolerance foreshadow an parks
and nobody defended the yerba
buena gardens shaded starting at
320 up to a 29 increase 2, 3, 4
shadowing this is own bet the
city not the rec and park nobody
talks about the incredible
damage to yerba linda island
this is not acceptable and wind
or we're outreaching opposing we
have a proposal that comes fell
off you many benefits we ask you
to consider it 5 m was not all about how's as people building
and 5 m is not building 40
percent low income it is
building no lower-income housing
and the feasibility study to the
city and doing member of the
public nothing to build senior
how's and created for 83 units
the city has to come up with the
thirty plus million dollars they
center no obligation and can
sell that property and 5 m is
given credit for quote building
71 units of low income housing in the tenderloin they're
required to pay gap funding to a project that is short funded and
has been for 10 years the
reality is 5 m is about 14
permeation oust moving in the
right direction housing 86 that
goes from one hundred to one 50
ami no low income housing on
this site to break every law to the promise of affordable
housing is just wrong it is too in why you don't think king
quote the end result is a
dynamic project rather than a real estate there's no denying
the option on the ground and air of thick high-rise. >> thank you very much ma'am,
I'm sorry we have a long list of
people we need to move to the next speaker I'm sorry. >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> my name is jackie
and as you heard from the previous speakers this project violates the codes and zoning regulations and a proper
analysis of winds and shadow impacts
the eir fails to adequately
analysis the impacts of high
traffic pedestrian safety, open
space, shadow and shade effects
and is in violation of general
plan despite what the vice
President Of forest city says there has been no collaboration
effort and it doesn't have the support from affordable housing
and arts groups I'm here to
challenge the certification of the eir
to developers successful efforts
to alternate the zoning spot
stone and codes have resulted in illegal exception to this district
the description of the project
is in inadequate you've heard before and it is I think
complete which makes it misleading
this development b will lead to
another round of displacement
ellis act evictions, tenant buy
outs and intimidations the rent-controlled unit tenants and
50 it is criminal of the city to
advance this project you built
luxury condos and office towers in a working-class neighborhood
without consequence to exist residents you're showcasing giving us uaw hundreds of
millions of giving to forest
city and hearst corporation a
mind blogging value to the land
they'll make is on to have money
this is what it is all about you
want money here's money (Clapping.)
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> hello my name is elizabeth he will
I understand a lot of this
you're not just putting a big building that are expensive you're showcasing throwing
hundreds of people out on the
streets I've been given an eviction notice this next year
I'll get another one and he
didn't want to speak to me I
can't take to talk to the landlords those are the kind of
people that are building those
buildings and picture yourselves
on the street and the sheriff drawing you out and trying to
said what is like to be evicted and at least people will be
thrown out we should be shamed of ourselves the filipinos
fought with america and so other
people don't do this don't
approve this it is bad news and
you're going to hurt hundreds and hundreds of people living
and sleep on >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> (Clapping.)
>> hello I'm sorry betty
trainer I'm here representing
friends of bodecker park the
coordinator it is over 10 years
olds and vaccinecy for the park
the closed park and now this new park, of course, I'm here to say
we are opposed to the project
because of the shadowing of the park
I'm surprised to say that the recreation and parks department commission considered this shadowing insignificant well it
is not insight to us who use the
park the area where the shading
show a shade is the community
garden we have vegetable and
plan for an orchestra yard in the string or spring is it so
significant to the people that
use bodecker park we're not
given any, no, sir, that this was potential shadowing was going to happen we asked do
staff members at the park did
you see any, no, sir, you could pickup you been pubically for
the yours astonish aware of this
the neighbors so said no, this
is another over or issue
interest was not proper 90s so
people could come to the prior
meetings and hear them I'll
conclude by saying that at our this is really a privilege or
principle at our meeting on
September 9th we reached the
contentious on bodecker park the
city law should be followed members expressions concern that
making an exception for the 5m
project shadowing of bodecker
park excess a precedence to
shadow others parks by laws to come this is this project the tower
that is shadowing the park 45 stories is in the south of market this is the mission and
shadowing a park that is in the
tenderloin at ellis near taylor
having a tower that big would at least meet our objection friends
of bodecker park I want to leave
that message was as an advocate
for the park opposite this
project in its proposed condition. >> thank you very much. >> Madam President I'll remind
the members in the public
gallery did other sideable
expression is not allowed.
>> I'm with the civic the
panthers we have a good bye
party for the beloved former necessary letter she's been forced out of the city can't
afford the rents this affects us personally
we appreciate the fact that
there is below-market-rate
housing adams and no development
agreement can reduce the impact
for the surrounding areas and no environmental impact report can
take into account the fact that of the surrounding areas the
housing project didn't begin to cover the number of employees
that will be added to the
workplace so the huge spill over
the employees from the project into the surrounding areas this
is a has to be part of the
impact more over the airt has to
take into account how much putting. >> luxury financial district
kind of construction into a working-class neighborhood will jack-up the rents in the
surrounding area once again, we
appreciate the baufrts but if
sweeney those deals with
balanced needed housing can
overcome the current laws about
shadowing about zoning, about special districts for children and filipinos
what's the points of us trying to pass any kind of abusing laws
if all of those laws are up for
negotiation for some rich
development by offering a bit of affordable housing and how is
the environmental impact report
that you have taking that into account.
>> and how can the environmental impact report take
into account the racism and
classes in ibm equalities built into those projects. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> game-changer my name is sal a resident of selma on mission street
I'd like to start off by talking about the the revised eir the
one that was approved by the planning commission
many of us and many not here
made critical comments of plan
promoted in the original
proposal and yet the eir
reviewing these plans rules of
evidence the comments from the
public I'm sorry the public's
comments the eir was both dismissive and arrest arrogance
about the citizens in the neighborhood
dbes there might be traffic
problems occurring so was there are a lot of traffic problems and displacement happens all
over the city those are the issues that were dealt with in the eir
and totally out of line what
with what the public was
concerned about this project is essentially a
wounds on the face of selma so
out of scale by bulk and height
and by bring in so many people
to a quiet quiet neighborhood the city planner talks about the transition from high buildings
to low buildings but yet the buildings proposed are higher
than anything to the east
until you get to the financial
district and the transbay terminal the developers themselves also were blowing smoke by saying we
have this lovely park and the
pictures they show are green
space and people playing in
sunshine the people will be
there other on a and in school
and no green grass nonetheless
you painted it green one the perfect members said
this was a quiet neighborhood up
until now there are plenty of
people that walk in the israel
that live in sros who work in
the nonprofits, who live in
retirement homes in the
neighborhood
mena street you know you walk
down it people sitting often the street sometimes with needles sometimes without better to be
safe than sorry but the fact those streets become thoroughfares as a result of all the people coming out the
neighborhoods there is will we talk about the city's vision
zero vision zero is going to be
challenged by the way, by this
project tremendously not only on
5 Dr. Street but the israel that
surrounded this particular
project thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> hello my name is teresa and I'm a community working in south
of market for of years now
I'm fairly young on this 29
years old and I know there are
people before me that served in
the community and building in the community and he can't speak
for the experience of those
changes might have been meant to
them
I mean, I'm an immigrant from the philippines and became a
citizen my family is one of the
filipino families gtsdz to the
united states in generations
because of colonial history every one of he knows the history international hotel I
hope you know an old manila town
adjacent to chinatown parishes
completely o blalt as of expansion of the financial
district no doubt this will
happen again in my lifetime one
for international structural that chinatown will be long gone
every one of he knows the
history of fillmore of baby boomer the range of black populations in san francisco and every single one of you know the
digestion gentrification of mission and the latino
population I hope you're aware the yerba buena redevelopment
the histories of rincon hill and
the xugs conclusion of others
filipino I was not personally
around during those times but an
historic issue of every urban development and a history of
this displacement in our city
but those histories if you look
at them are not historic issues
not at all the changing
landscape of a is there any public commentic opposition
masking under the banner of
economic process yet this city
is too much to live in the working-class can work here we
know the city are majority of working-class and immigrants and senior citizens and disability and veterans and homeless trying
to find existence in the city I myself is fight for my future
for the last year the community
has been drifted and hurts we're
fighting for our existence
supervisors blood cell about
give you us an inspiration this
city is ruled by due process and
this is completely unfair please practice you're showcasing
preach of justice and hope that is you're showcasing policy interests for the moral
encourage of what is political
and what is not 86>> thank you. Next speaker, please. >>
(Clapping.)
>> good afternoon, supervisors.
>> and all of you I'm victor I
live in san francisco for 10 years
but I have been in michigan for
25 years I moved here because of
the transportation and my age
you're not asking 88 years old
this building if they continue to build this I can't say afford
to live here and to rents that
because I live in the area 7
mission there is is where is for
the homeless I'm on collecting
money for any husband he works
ssi seven hundred how can I
afford to live with that kind of
building they have
start to build with that income
I can't say eat
that's one thing I don't like
that kind of building to big wilt in this place I I don't
want to move from the place I'm only there office building
collecting money for me for the
rents and he everything
volunteering percent income this
building I assure they built
this I can't say get that kind
of rent I'm renting now
I'm senior citizen my husband
worked for the money I'm
collecting and I enjoyed to live in san francisco
I'm american citizen now a long
time ago
probably 20 years
that's all I can say for those
people that want to build that
kind of building thank you thank you, thank you very much. >> (Clapping.) >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> Madam President before the
next speaker I'll remind did
mechanics of the audiences you
can use our finger rather than a hand of support. >> good afternoon ma'am, and supervisors I'm a residence of
san francisco I live here for 20 years
I'm asking for a interpreter to
speak very well, so I can say
what I'm saying. >> okay. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> >>
I was a full-time volunteer
in the church and also I work in
an industry. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> I'm always in the selma because here a lot of events and
place I can go to a full-time
volunteer at the church in the
ministry and doing a number of
things in patches.
>> the project and volunteer at the project helping the
homeless and those are people
that are looking for honest and
respectful housing I'm sad for
them it is hard for them to find
good homes and instead of
staying in shelters and being
line sardines they prefer to
sleep on the street. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> so I'm sad for seniors that
can't afford rents like me I
only accept social security and preparation if affordable
housing is built it should be
the primary. >> affordable housing. >> yeah.
>> oh, because we can't wait I
can't wait 10 years to live in affordable housing
if it's not not built. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> so I hope we can study it a
prioritize for search and
seizure 5 m only for the rich
what about people like me the 5m
provides nothing our community
need in fact, the only thing
that guaranteed is the situation
means more residents can't live
there so I ask you're showcasing
please have the senior people
they're in the help of God I
know you're here everything he
ask thank you very much ma'am. >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. I'm rose
eager a residence of selma now I
was displaced from the sunset district
and I now live in selma ground
floors is very did the for me to
adjust but anyway, I want to do
I want to share a legislator
eric to a song that sank over anothers faster sometimes, I
think we'll never make it
through those times everywhere
we go we get feed the same old
lines never seem studio leave us
with what we thought we began
break it out and rock it up
politicians promise us they'll
solve our needs but the same old corporate greed they north get
their money and have a job and
double talk the public paw are
break it on out and speak out
tonight everyone is telling you
to do this and that and to be is coming up with the same old
facts we or so confused we
wouldn't even notice we or so far from the truth.
It is up to us to stand up and
find a way for all the future
days because we if out-of-towner
around and become like them, no
hope for etch and everyone one
break did on ousted speak out
together this is our selma and
san francisco it is be where are
we're going to shadow yourselves in the wind and cold with no
money we're a spirit we are
artists we are san francisco.
>> >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> hello, I'm leslie with the human rights committee and hopefully, people will continue
to speak out san francisco is
top ranging in income and
equality evictions and unavenue,
I urge you to see that is
worsening the country
co-sponsoring to our nexus study
every time city allows one new
high ends units needs to build
43 units not $73,000 to afford
that that study was in 2007 we
can estimate it is worse so
let's say 60 percent actual
affordable housing tim and
others did an investigative journalism that said no condos
are not owned by the residents
but 2 and 3 homes for the rich
we don't need those we need
homes for people that are here
I'm is not affordable we're
asking I to prioritize the
housing for current residents
and evictions are up around market-rate developments and residents get displaced you
can't keep up with the services
kicked out of the city think
about how yourself you'll keep the services south of market if
place are you going to fund them
or subsidize them they're out of you're showcasing subsidize now homelessness is driven by the
evicts we can estimate
homelessness will get worse with
this project additional
criminalization it follows the
classes gets worse so I'm asking
you to prioritize our vulnerable
residents thanks. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> I'm old and get older as the
hours past here waiting I've
lived in the mission for 40
years a tenants a lot of parallels between mission and
selma racially diverse
neighborhoods and working class
neighbors and increases of great
wealth and extreme poverty
seeing offhand pa what is
happening in the mission block by block and family by family
losing thousands of latinos and african-americans and longtime residents and low income residents I don't want to it
happen to selma thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> my name is patricia I'm been
listening to all this testimony
that is going on I don't want to repeat everyone but some things
that really stick out to me one it is like what is happened in the missions I live in the
missions I've been living in the
missions for thirty years I was
ellis acted pr I figure out it
and won but I'm not in the majority
I watched my neighbors, watched the whole neighborhood change
and people that have lived there for generations are pushed out
it is exactly what is happening in selma
I think this government should
be appalled apt the way they treat the minority in our city
there are okay to live in the
areas while not considered valuable once their valuable
then let's get rid of those
people he want rich people in here
that's obscene and faster the environmental impact report I
think that it a shell game this
one here this one here and pull
it out and see what's under it, it is being rushed this whole
thing is rushed they wanted to start this construction before
they actually do the foundation
of what has to be done as far as
the people in the neighborhood it is a neighborhoods of
families
it is a neighborhood of working-class people of neighborhood of seniors and you're going to displace them
and there is no place to go
then you'll make it illegal to be on the streets where else to
go the people with the tents are
the luck ones the other ones
have cardboard boxes look at our conscience and do the right
thing thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> Madam President supervisors my name is office of the city
administrator to duffey I live
nearby the project
I'm half german and irish in my
german side wants to
my irish side now german side recognizes we're in a changing
world and situation and what was
acceptable and really good deal
would have been 20 or thirty years ago we are seeing what we
need to get out of projects or
reject them altogether but has to be higher than in the past
that is what I come out with the
people maybe get a little bit better deal I I've got to tell you there should be enernex between communities and one communities gets one thing connected to go another thing and I can see that or for this
project that is something that
is missing I represent you know the
demographic that makes half of
you're showcasing income that's
the high ends of the demographic
and a whole lot people in the single-room occupancy sro no kitchen or bathroom and it is
messed up and not working no kitchen or you know minimum
kitchen facilities there is a huge low income project across the street and not one person in
the hosts is going to be have
assess unless a family how many
people in homeless have families
not one person having assess the
tdm is putting up I want the
gentleman to explain that is not
the case people living in sros
that will subnormal and less
good health and lower life
expectancy 10 and 20 years no
fuel units where is tdm for us
where do we fit in I'm sorry.
I'm getting heated I'm having 3
minutes I'll only used to having 2 laura. >> how about a nexus that
helps the neighborhood that it
would think way to improve the projects. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> and just to the members of the public you're not general
obligation bond to use the 3 minutes
Laughter: .
>> govern supervisors
regarding the eir in our camps
have given the detailed
descriptions of the placed you
need to address those instead of saying tell it differently
you've got it in writing please
address it this project has eir
flaws in many ways one of them
is it there not developer paid affordable housing that goods against the housing policy for
many years that the housing should be built at the same time
as imagine and, of course,
putting luxury housing in office a huge office building in a residential neighborhood is the
kind of a first
they have been enormous changes
to the project since the last
time that people got a chance to
look at it 1 or 2 weeks is not
sufficient for us to do that an
earlier speaker pointed out that
like some of the projects we've known like the open space in golden gate park and the picture
said one thing the words said
another to the pictures show
this wonderful grass but the context is different and
noontime sun is not enough the
buildings don't step down an
alternative plan presented and
that alternative plan that was matched the central selma plan
heights was in locations of
buildings was not considered it should have been equally
analyzed I appreciate that many,
many, many things were conceded
to by the developer at the beheaviest of supervisor kim and
others and it is good work but we can do a little bit better here we'll widen the evictions
of our neighbors and firstborns
and the loss of this working-class we're going to be
here some of us May not be here
what that happens so, please
this eir is that flawed we need
to have a retake thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> hi, I'm tony the board President Of the manila
foundation I agree with the last
speaker drawing board looking at
the draft eir and consider the ramifications to the
neighborhood this will have
our history here in san francisco is one of the evicts
and displacement as was the case
in the middletown neighborhood
on kerry street percent deemed
too valuable for filipino
communities to living on and
that showed the volume of the real estate speculators in the real estate industry it is
strong and continuing to do the
same thing to this day I find is
high disrespect to talk and
entertain the idea of luxury
condo in selma
in light of so many luxurious development in the city particularly in the mission
we've seen the flight of so many
latinos families in any concern
really is for the filipino
neighborhood in selma the working-class neighborhood but particularly the filipino
community we've had so many
elderly and families and housing has to do with connects the dots
with transportation it is a
valuable community it is a wonderful community a community
with heart and a community with
culture and it is a community
that you can when you walk in
selma you feel welcome and feel
the beirut beauty think environment don't respect the beauty of existing neighborhood
and didn't appreciate the doout
beauty of exist culture in the
neighborhood like forest city in
brooklyn to that neighborhood to
that city to those neighborhoods the so-called affordable housing is not affordable for phobias
that are here a lot of folks
that came here and speak
eloquently about being forthcoming of their financial situation and their family
situation many are many have
just getting by enough in the community that supports values and loves them and people from organizations that serve the filipino community and the
greater communities that see a
value in having us here I trouble building this
development will hurt us in the
long run and hurt us and cause
evicts you can't tell me that developing condo and high-end luxury housing will not have an
effect on the exist community with the rising lands prices and
that is going to give-
>> thank you very much. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> yeah good afternoon ladies and gentlemen,
neechlz a ricco and my family
live here in selma since 1973
I work as a apartment case
manager for teenagers and young
adults 14 to 24 years old I'm
also a caregiver for our central
selma central selma a selma it
my home since 1973 we are working class families here in
selma as far as I, remember I look at the children look at the children in front of you you know, I was there age when I
came here to the united states
here in selma from the filipinos
open f philippines it is sad
they have to experience the ash
absurdity of growing up in selma
because of what is going on
today in the beginning I was in
support of this project because of large money that they
promised to give to the city
but then I realized the money
will not save our community you know, I realize this project
is good are for the city of san francisco, good for the line up on the screen side of the room,
good for the developer, but you
know what it is not good for the residents of working-class families
I ask the board to delay this
project until they can guarantee
that the working-class families
will not be displaced in selma
thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please
the kids from west bay will be
talking on the other hand, and
I'll interpret for them. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> thank you
said I will translate said he's 10-year-old his mom again housekeeping and his mom a
single mom wants to help the
filipinos south of market to
they would not be displaced up
next it mick.
>> my name is mick can I'm 8
years old I want my physically
family to stay in the south of market.
>> I wouldn't want more
filipinos kicked out
we did a-we helped them. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> I will translate that was
robert he's a father of one of
the youth michael he says he's a
filipino since 1989 they were
almost evicted because of that
experience he thought he needs
to help defend did filipinos in san francisco he says this
project is not did not help
filipinos and base it filipinos
will not afford that so-called affordable housing that it
proposes he says that project is a slap in the face of working-class families that live
in the selma
he and his family are opposed to
the project and thank you very
much >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> I'm via I can't into west
bay it services the under south
side of families and seniors
supervisors I'm proud of the
filipino youth they've help to
dissolved defends one of their homes and friends and family
that's why we are here to speak
for the filipino for being
discounted and set aside the
filipino communities of central
selma will not benefit for the following reasons the scaled
affordable housing is out of
reach for the low and extremely
low income people we all service the filipino heritage district
we hope for xutsdz an anti displacement element
this project targeted for the
weight will hasten the
displacement of low extremely low income filipino families
previous plans for the zone are
set aside and those plans were
meant to protect the filipinos in the central selma supervisors
the vision of this project will
eventually result in a filipino
heritage district that is not
including filipinos that I will
ends by thanking supervisor
campos I don't know you but I've
read with deep admiration you're
planning with the communities
among them many filipinos in our district you consulted and surveyed their needs and
developed housing with them for
them this is process sir, is to admirable and respectful of the
people I believe that is the blueprint for the rest of san francisco
if we were to adopt that process
there would likely be no need to
be here today. >> (Speaking foreign language.) >>. >> (Speaking foreign language.) >> supervisor kim.
>> I have a question for vivian.
>> I've heard the statement
that the housing built ear not
for filipinos when we were negotiating the ami similar to
actually what several of you
were at the table negotiating
the giebts for one to two
hundred and 50 percent ami the
salaries for newer practitioners
and open technologists and secondary middle school teachers
and career technical teachers
and special education teachers I
guess my question if I feel like
those are ami levels not available to filipinos are there noted filipinos
teachers and nurses and if so
I'll ask the first question.
>> oh, supervisor
so I can only speak for the
people I represent the people at table are low income people.
>> you said initially in our
first attempt is this is not 0 housing builds for filipinos I have to ask the question we're
specific when he looked at the
ami that fit within one and one
hundred 50 percent I'm we're
saying they're getting displaced primarily nurses and teachers
they fit if the ami of one to
one 50 percent you stayed this
will not house filipinos I guess
my question not filipinos.
Teachers and nurses
>> yeah. Supervisors I don't represented o them only extremely low income filipino families they're the workers and incomes are lower of that of a
nurse and teacher but the rest
of the technical question I'm going to turn it over to jam I didn't and I'm sorry supervisor
kim but according to you're
showcasing board rules 4.19 not
engage in a public discussion
during a public discussion testimony. >> I'm clarifying it is done
in the past. >> this is in the general
public comment this is a public
hearing during I cannot right
now a discussion to engage in
date between you know a back and forth between a member of the public and any clarifying kinds of questions.
>> I know in the parts we've
allowed that but it's fine this this situation.
>> it's okay. Ma'am, supervisor. >> supervisor kim but should
we step aside now.
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> I'd like a translator
please please. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> I'm rudolph better a western edition in the tenderloin and part of
tenderloin and work in the financial district when I first
came to inform with my father I
came to the selma and other
filipinos told you advised us
this was a place you can afford
to live and quickly find a job. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> over time I noticed less
and less filipinos in the central selma from hotel and security guard and others that worked in the financial district
and in the selma and tenderloin
and mission are getting pushed out because of increased
to the hate ashbury where I grew up and lived 4 years in san
francisco in the richmond be
sunset and noah valley and
sunset and mission I grew up watching willie mays hitting
home runs I love san francisco
it is my town I was wearing many
hats and managed to spend 13
years as a handy man for
self-help to the communities and
the richmond district center I'm
most proud of working with
legendary social worker of
manila town I've watched to form
poetry it is painful to look at
the lost past to see the
direction of city I'm hoping I'm
not getting into rhetoric you
probably already heard recently we're expensed the
tragedy in paris we notices the
that would be great are and
variety of reactions to this
atrocity but the sympathy has
less amount they're not had overwhelmingly post red why people don't count. >> if we're going to stand
point for values we hold dear it must be equal for all and
careful what we build and stand
for that each of us must be responsibly I refuse to
determine news people of different backward I urge the
compassion for all and guide
over actions or we'll fail think outside the box reconsider our own personal
levels of what that means as
well as the species signed
nobody from san francisco thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> hi, I'm michelle a community
volunteer and also a very large
part of working group I'm here I
hate to see what is happening in
the selma been a first-generation fire extinguisher that is the filipino heritage district an important institution to san francisco here many people can
learn about filipinos and their culture
and others place around stockton
san francisco had been one of
the council unnecessarily
opportunities in chinatown with
the chinese and the japanese and
north beach for the italians is
hard to watch it disappear but
what captured me was the fact there is not enough affordable
housing they say there 40
percent but really it means zero
not only will low and my mind
income people not been able to
afford this how are you two
bedroom is priced range between
2 thousand to 4 thousand dollartolysis a low income
person it will take half if not
most of their income and won't leave them much for water and
food and other things with the
increase land value of this project the rent-controlled unit will go up not only in the selma
but in the surround areas around
it displacing more people and
having to look further for more
affordable income rentals so I'm asking the commission to re-evaluate this and work with
the communities to find a better
solution to the affordable housing.
>> >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good afternoon, supervisors
my name is scarring listen I'm a district one residents but I've
been working and volunteering in
the south of market since 2009
build build make a developer
want to build and make a politician build build bystander you will for who completes take
a step back and review forest
city trying to tell our people they're building homes but our families what are re he
relocation but the development
not saying when they don't tell
you about the housing of luxury
they're to build builds can anyone talk about the shortage
of affordable housing oh, wait
we know the answer is capitalism
and 5 m b will justify the racism and the communities just
so you can build build to the board of supervisors
politicians come and go vote I
or no when a explicit child's of
history we need more analysis
how this project will impact selma to the south of market we
can't match the promises that
forest city will give you we
can't give white hats and dish
anti $75 million for you're showcasing organizations and can't give priority in the
housing they'll build but I
promise we'll be there when they
leave and if you're landlord so you one way or the other won't
have to leave we'll be here of they want to build board of
supervisors are you right or die
for other people or going to
let. Build build or tell the
developers or are you going to>> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> tell the developer daugd
for the build build the writer
died it is a matter of life or
death manila we won't move the I
hotels we with won't move we
shall not we shall not be moved
we shall not we shall not be
moved just recycle selma
building be we shall not be
moved >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> I want to mention the capture
is s o m a not selma is it so very important we're talking
about s o m a and you know my thoughts on this you know, I on
the city I think we need a
bigger bait-and-switch by forest
city I know just really go for
it get a bigger bait-and-switch
bigger pay off we need to go for
that and you know get sf bart in
here to get rid of the zone in
the whole city this was we needs
sf bart we need no zoning and no
neighborhood plans just around
that sf bart why not they have
such a good plan and forest city
should really open their hearts
and displace people you you know
so say this is this housing will
not materialize it is a bait-and-switch so they have
open their hearts and pour and seniors and the displaced people
and sleep on the love open space
they're going to build that's my
suggestion, of course, I'm face
oozed I'm against the plan I'm
working in a nonprofit supports difficulties with disability and
make $28,000 a year this is not it possible you know maximum is 16th street and mission is like
if you work in a nonprofit and you're an artist you can afford
our housing that the bait-and-switch they said if
you're an art and work in the
nonprofit you can afford $60,000
a year I can't afford it needs
to be drawing board thank you thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> >> good afternoon,
supervisors I'm jena a social
worker for the past 13 years in
the slment the tenderloin and
the excelsior area I'm I feel
that affordable housing need to
be on you're showcasing priority 100 percent affordable housing
we don't need 4 hundred and 60 o 70 foot condo that displaces my
community I've been working in
the selma for 14 years I have seen familiarize becoming homeless where do they go I
don't know and I think that is
time to address the disparities that luxury condos bring into neighborhood and need to fight for the people that built the
city and have been here for a long time
the board cannot improve the project because of the displacement project I'm concerned that adapts elderly and the working-class community
I serve and I hope you also send this project back to the planning commission and demand
that that project follow local
and state laws thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good afternoon, supervisors
thank you for having us and I
just want to you know remember
the all the victims from paris you know there is some big issues going on I want to
remember them and I want to thank you you guys especially
you guys are saying no to 5 m
I want to thank you guys in advance
I'm against this project
specifically just because of gentrification against gentrification
10 years from now what is selma
going to look at the environmental impact report I
don't think it addresses our positions
you know it is simple thank you
very much. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> game-changer supervisors I'm teresa
I opposed this 5 m project
I'm a residence of s o m a we lived with others
we were one the luck ones we had
family here and so many
filipinos arrived having to deal
with the situations on their own
selma is
oma is our home.
>> we will fight against those who wish to divide please don't
be like the replying and the land use commission because the so-called public century were
deaf and blind to our realty
what will happen in you pass that 5 m don't be duped by their
lies and show of money their dpiftd our community because of money don't allow forest city to
make up their own rules that is a dogger precedence to our city
to most of us we will not be
bought when you're looking at
the millions of their supposedly
offering us part of development agreement in a realty that's
only peanuts compared to the
billion dollars out of this
project I'm requesting the longtime sustained number one
money is short term and gives 5
m the easy fix in order to get
the city's approval and to those
there is nothing favorable that
about this project and investing
the laws and restrictions how neighborhood figure out to
protect us from developers like forest city nothing sustainable
all are catered to bring in a
group of filthy rich people that
don't care about us what is
sustainable think of the
economic and social impacts of
gentrification the long term
effects of gentrification and
displacement garbage nobody talk about that traffic and environmental pollution and crime and sores prices no affordable housing and
visions and special treatments
to the rich and elitists happening by this administration
forest city they're no diversity
than airbnb and they're
releasing speculators ron conway
the big tax who powder million dollars to promote lies and
confusion we wanted you to know we will keep on fighting to
protect our communities and
protection filipinos today who
will be serving- >> thank you very much. Next
speaker.
>> hello, I'm silva johnson
explained on the rich people is
one I'm I have to tell you I get
my there and tell you to quit
the devil is getting more powerful he knows I'm getting stronger and stronger he will
not deal with you this is become
and then stop him because the
power of God is more than he can withstand and you'll be
supervisors explaining to
everyone and looking at him in
the eye that I have already seen
that is going to be changed
because this is will not ruin
no, no anymore I've had enough
who I am or what I stand for or
my purpose and family which all
of you regulations I'm proud to
say you final got something that
stand for about liability and
more car parts and children we
have what stands for and we're
charged with the idea people
like-I think that is going to
come to appear to everyone
hiring the truth will stand to
where we'll all say and is
difference between-we'll be
able to make that more clear
make sure that you'll hear who I am I'm tlument I have to tell
you you'll be able to understand
because you will not been able
to with me he'll lose any kind
of devices with our children he
knows he will withstand with the
left hand that have been we'll
stay with him he won't have the
a lot of money and-I don't
think he'll standers it, it is
about jowls and we'll having all
have and-
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good evening board of
supervisors this is one the
spanish specialists will take over. >> (Speaking foreign language.) >> so good afternoon good evening board of supervisors I'm
mrir miami. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> so I work in the soma with
the filipino and latino families >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> so-I belong to the organization and I have some
stories to share with all of you
that come from the latino and
filipino families that will be- >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> so I just want to say a few
years ago I've been working with
the organization and a few years the father and mother is
elsewhere to stop coming since
the organization because their
rents and simply were displaced from san francisco. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> and now comes this time around the neighborhood district
of soma and the fire
extinguisher families are
displaced from there. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> so I ask myself you supervisors what happened to the
developers that displaced the
working families their hard
working what happens to the developers.
>> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> so I ask you again those hard working families that
worked in good jobs and send
concerned their children to the
public schools where are the
families now being displaced
speeding I feel not able to hope
people what about the children not continuing their educations
where there will they continue
to study. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> so I ask you to things for the stopping of this project so
theay here and study and remain
here and the parents to remain
here to support themselves. >> thank you.
>> thank you. >>. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> so good afternoon good
evening supervisors I'm here
with the organization
>> I'm a resident of the soma district. >> (Speaking foreign language.) >> don't believe that the 5 m
project that is proposed should
be approved it is going to
negatively effect the residents
in the soma district. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> and if you start to think
about that to feel this. >> (Speaking foreign language.) >> that the more the ones who
be will be affected is the elderly. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> you don't feel this because
none of you sitting here live in
the soma district. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> and if you feel this
project should move forward. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
Then what matters it the money
and especially those in the soma. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> tassel to your attention. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> and if you have look at of
conscious to please think about
all the things. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> all the negative consequences that will be
brought to this area because of project. >> thank you. >> thank you.
>> thank you. Next speaker. >> hi good evening supervisors
I'm jasmine I'm an educator and
artist and activist work with
the workshop as a concerned citizen of san francisco not
rush to break the zone laws and
the communities trust and
instead recommend you go back to the planning commission and
follows the laws and impacts the residents of the soma neighborhood of the neighborhood it effects the negative impacts
on the people of san francisco most indirectly that displaces the working-class people that
are essential to the economy and
community and displace the
latino and fire extinguisher and working-class xhibt in san
francisco additionally I want to emphasize not only will those
groups be negatively impacted by 5 m but all san francisco will
suffer I know for myself not a
san francisco native not nancy pelosi filipino not working-class will be affected by the 5 m I posted to san francisco from boston I moved
here I was draw up to the rich
diversity of ethic and the
filipino and chinese community that makes it easier for lgbt
folks to live here because of
the arts in san francisco all of these things what I think of
what I think of san francisco
I've seen the city changes in the last couple of years maine
due to the tech and the high
income residents that are
changing the reversal market
we're struggling to pay our rent
that numerous others artists of
small art organizations are leaving san francisco leaving
the cultural sworn an educator
and nearly all my friends had to
move to the eastbound I'm living in a rent-controlled unit
apartment I live in fear of
being evicted spold the understanding the 5 m promises
to build are not fiberglass I'm
a marching single person with a
moderate consistent income with
no way to afford those units the working-class people in the soma
can't afford those unite they'll
be displaced I say all those
things I don't want to emphasize the the you'll not be building those
building if you care about the
people of color their fighting their neighborhood you're still noted looking at them when they
speak I'm trying to speak as a privileged person you'll listen
to I know that-
>> thank you very much. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> hello, I'm john I'm a san
francisco residents I'm here to support 5 m.
>> S.P.C.A. Directly into the microphone.
>> I'm john a san francisco resident and here to support 5 m.
>> this is the side of the
meeting people that are opposed
to the projects are speaking.
>> I did not know sorry. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> blessing I'm a lessons
secretary of universal indoor
nation of tribes chapter they
chapter of firstborns and come
radicals living in the south of
market that are effected if this
5 m project cbos forward please
don't port 42 hours is that
displace poor working-class
support the protecting affordable housing only not
luxury condos and office spaces thank you.
>> didn't go my name is-
richie association and I live in district one but I'm here
because I think this is a very
important issue that effects the
whole city
this area this plan is in essential driving the filipinos
out of their community they've been driven out several times
before in the past this is
important to me because the
japanese-american with or forced
to going to concentration camps
in world war ii and in the 70s
by the local government because
of urban renewal japanese-american communities
was forced to flee to leave our
town in the same incidence the african-american communities was
also forced to leave and this
story two communities now this
new situation which is not new
it is ongoing full thing process
that is been building building building
people say gentrification well gentrification on the other
hand, but it is racism
this area has full of filipino
2000 filipinos there is latinos
and chinese and unfortunately,
many are modest income so this
is not only rational discretion
but economic discrimination the
whole city has been for decades
paid to play and it's a sad, sad story at this point in time we could
do something about this is not
the only projects on the road we
had 8 washington project and the
75 housing and the 5m and in the
parts and in the next future
we'll have polk street all the
projects provide housing yes,
but people don't live here right
now we need housing for people that are here now if so
ridiculous we need housing we need affordable housing
please don't not approve that
project or the eir thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> my name is t g the director of the working group a 43
organization in the soma supporting the asian communities I'm also a residence with the
studio an organizer with the
error with the communities
center and south of market
communities network and a
tenderloin residents two years
ago I married my best friend at
the local church central city is
my home I'm proud to work here
unfortunately found a strong
sense of communities but for
myself and filipino medical examiners that represents our
cultural heart but forest city about that transport anyone in
its place the 5m will put our communities at further fraction
and displacements itself lurk
units will not house the
protecting seniors more our
artists or service workers that
delays inform air force
homeowners and the 87 onsite as supervisor kim negotiated is
targeted at individuals making
one to one 50 percent of ami my two.
Households will not quality for
a studio that is able to be
afforded my neighborhood might
the thirty stories towers will o
blalt this scenario a huge
surgery inland value will only 0
skrokt the rents with this
rapidly reducing the people the
contribute that makes it special
if we don't take a stand another
tragedy for that the books another of him and yerba buena at the end of the day this is
not just a soma not just a t l
but a city issue. You're showcasing vote will set
a precedent for the community planning in every san francisco
neighborhood for years to come
you hold the power and
responsibility to stand up this
not it who will you build for you're showcasing constituents
that serves our county thank you
serves our county thank you >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> I'm crisis not filipino
japanese and I'm queer too I've been working in soma for quite a bit the year after the
earthquake I started working
here as a security guard as an affordable housing director and
as a planner if a
community-based now access to housing coordinator for bmr as well as affordable housing
I'm here to tell you this I
think the diversity of soma is
beautiful I love soma since the
first day I started to work
there and the people the
diversity of people and
especially 6th street it is in a terrible departments time but
love the way that people work together and the filipino
communities was very accepting
of me mainly because of way I
look but because of the enlists
I was able to bring japantown
task force they were spooird and
member of mac in the mission and those gifts that that ability to see what is happening in the rest of the neighborhood to bring that and talk about the
way that people are treated in a different way and different standards and bring that up to try to have solutions is it
really important and this is the diversity of soma
I am someone that work beed on the south of market family zone
that was our opportunities to
try to carve out 80 a place with
the craziness of rincon hill and
mid block and created the youth and family to remain the
character of this area I believed in
this project here is something
that is going to destroy that
character I want to be clear how does that work and fifth street
are an important part of
community I believe in stooeshl
you're saying the eir and says
you can going if to 4 hundred
and 40 feet in the block and in environmental impact very little
there were responses nothing you
can do about it you can sit there and say this is I think
adequate and see the open space
that is provided they have two
hours of sunshine 23 hours of shade that's no a gift to the
neighborhood you can say that
the I'm here to talk about this
this is a community vision would
we've presented and the same
amount that provides luxury
housing that won't industry this
neighborhood- >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good evening board of
supervisors I live and work a few plain clothes away from in
project as a resident in the communities I've met filipino families and clients to express
is 5 m will nostril help to sustain the residents income especially for the filipino community
right now dozens of families I'm
working with can't afford to
rent an apartment in system central selma it has
consistently transcribed to the
you think affordable with the
eviction and displacement and working-class residents and
increasing those impacts are
real a responsibility of the
city to advance the 5m saying
this project will include the central selma and impact it
presents a greater risk for the
soma residents if 5 m project is
approved does that impact the
surrounding impact and will have
a displacement of the filipino communities soma is a place
where filipino or so starter
their america dream please don't take this communities and trust
and approve the 5m because of
the impact this project will cost thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> hi, I'm chris a film maker
here I walk around it looks a giant construction site I don't
want that to happen to soma
because I kind of want to see
the culture that is built around
this still intact I sucks that
it really is a bummer that stuff has to happen about the 5m
project the city and the
developer has mislead the public
claiming the special prauchlt
for the community that the community benefit will not
happen if at the explicit get
the special approvals
you know as also known as an art
I'm kind of tired of seeing a
lot of good people leave this
awesome place and as it turns
anti into take away something by the way, yeah recycle please
don't approve this this is
really awful it is bad for the community I care I'm only
speaking from my heart I care
about my community the diversity
and everything you know I care
about that place so thanks.
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> hi, I'm robert marquis
living in district 5 work at
market and 7 since 2001 and
evicted and to market street but
krment soma is my home for the
filipino communities I came from
florida group white that washed
if a similar cultural and when I
came in here he took a little
bit of wine cultural in soma I
ran into people that became part
of my community and marble arts
in the south of market part of
sharing the art
my experience I want the
filipino community to
participate in the chinese new
year's parade and participated
in the citywide books it was
apple I congress place I'm here
to you of the on twitter tax
break committee about one
million square feet we saw what
happens with the million square
feet so this special zone it is
about one million zone we're
talking about high luxury condos
and high resale and high-end
office space to quote splendor
someone from the transportation or transportation genocide I
don't have to make this up rather than talk about that 15 years from now what are we are doing to do to address this
we'll be pro-active and address
it now get the vision to what
the space is supposed to look like I don't know how housing
happens in this city I was on
tndc has double credited for the 67 is avenue, I heard this
property was ready to go in
2009, this city's budget has
increased like 2 and a half billion dollars I don't know
what it takes but what you start talking about avenue, I think
this is the opportunity to slow down and look at the leadership
to look at up and say what do we
want to do this a million skis u skews in the most valuable
square in the world right now it
is valuable and magical you guys
can approve it I ask you to take
you're showing time to get a
real environmental impact report done. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> tom the government of the
people for the people
how about a city with those standards
another neighborhood another
neighborhood courthouse fighting
for its neighborhood housing not
being built for filipino for 8
percent of the people in san francisco changing events and
changing times and changing values
it is california we run other out of gold in the gold rush
maybe the hours needs a new
system magnificent profits for healthy neighborhoods and
growing and maintaining them and letting people grow old and
letting the babies be born and
kids growing up what if up to
date change our housing
evaluation success isn't a
developer massive profit can we
continue growing a healthy
neighborhood people fighting in
the mission tenderloin is going different neighborhoods not for this people of san francisco government of the people by the
people for the people something
is amiss what if new developments all new
developments get thirty percent open to the market
what happens if we pull 10
percent of the old folks from
the local zip codes 15 percent
of people living in those local
zip codes around the development and I.
>> and pulling the society up
it's time for a change what
happened 5 percent for the people from san francisco long
term elderly to move into any
new project condo or apartment
what happens if we can get 10
percent of the people of the
units in each building for the
teachers, police are fire, sewer road, electrical and muni
workers and thirty percent left
for people that are less
fortunate seniors that could a
have an income I've lived too
long and people that have a home
but they're being-they can't
maintain have to move out and veterans integrated foster kids
people in the community people
in our healthy we can raise
everybody I'm for change thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> hello good evening
supervisors I'm andrew I'm a
resident of soma and I wish to
urge you to not rush to approve
that project let's reexamine it
an adequate eir let's take a
step back and send this back to
planning so we can further see
the impacts on the communities I
moved here 11 years ago with the
thought of a vibrant community
now joy fully in the midst means
it should be perpetual threaten
no matter the composition of the
new companies taking up office
what we or will be eir vocally
tossed by the way side how many
community centers and affordable
units and other promises sway
not the bottom line what grew
over and over combaveng on its
own displaced by the person's
thereof hugh how far where will
it go next and how much blur the
lines of character between one neighborhood and another before
everyone realize and wakes up up
with no motivation what we unwitness employee created together please don't approve
that project and send it back to
planning thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> hello good evening. I'm tin
I can't with gabriel I work with
san francisco immigrant and
migrate women I'm speaking in
support of appeal and not ask the board of supervisors to rush
to approve the 5m project we're
relying on the corporate investment without the
regulations is not the solution
to the affordability crisis 40
in san francisco the voters
asked for thirty percent affordable for low income it
puts us farther and farther
behind without the housing goals
and causing further dam in the
soma community we're not here for you're showing sympathy for
the evictions and widening
income disparity happening in
the city you're considering a
project that contributes to the
worsening of racial and I think
equality if this so-called
sanctuary city not just the
contemplation of fm filipino but the chinese and black
communities we're here to seek a
fannie in genuine planning
moments with the victories for
the community happen because of
the overwhelm punishing for
what's right we need genuine community planning that will
rather looking for the
well-being of the community
take for example, at the rosemarie she's lived with the
extends family if the soma with
the little income manages to
send people to the filipinos and
to the social fabric of soma
works at a hotel as a
housekeeper ambassadors come to
stay here fell workers work with
locals and tourist cbo shopping
and received an eviction notice
and here neighbor got one thousands of rose marie's
outlining throughout the city
the city of needs to do a better
job of protecting rose marie and
the city needs to ask the
community what kind of planning
to will a dignified life but
rosemary are displaced and many
more like her not talk about the great contributions of filipino
building and making this city
and country great without talking about what makes them
struggle make the rights
decision by accepting this and
sloin the project progress and
make that more inclusive for the
phone please not contribute to
the mistakes by contributing- thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> hello, I'm karen smooth
I'm a 6th district generation
coming from the chinese-american
with solidarity with the residents speaking convince the
5m I came to speak out against
the mayor's proposal for the $80 million construction of the state of the art jail project
that came before the board
you'll probably familiar with several the members of the board
opposed did jail for the serves
as part of jail are part of disproportionately brown and
black communities should have access without being bokdz into
jail and how it is recommended
to the issues of housing it is 0
objective u obvious but needs to
be restated jails are not the kind of affordable housing they're asking ignore 100
percent building they'll be and
their gentrified with the increasing calling for the criminalization the ill and the others
if you approve that luxury
development that that pathsic
with no low income housing
you're showing sending a clear
message house people behind bars
if the 5 m project were 100 percent truly affordable housing
that would be a true statement
including jane kim and will have
alternatives to incarceration thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> good evening from san
francisco rising alliance san
francisco rising alliance an alliance coalition of long term
coalition offer people that live
in the south of market
the bayview and in the western
edition and the mission in the
outer mission in the o m ion on
behalf of the members of just
cause of kohlman advocates and
others organizations we urge the
board to support the appeal and
reserve the certification the environmental impact report
we're joining the real eloquent course of voices you've heard
and so for all the manifold
reasons of justice of inequality
the displacement please, please, please sends this project back
to planning thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good evening. I'm andy blue if the plaza 16 coalition
we're that here in solidarity to
reject this project in 5 m we're in a crisis
city and world not a moment we needed the elected leaders to
foresight for or fight for the
people now we need over elected
leaders to fight like hell
against corporate greed who
needs to go over the family zone
who says it prioritize the needs
of people over the profits of
the hearst kormth in forest city
who can say is is not driven by
greed the up zoning is a generous gift to the hearst corporation and forest city at
the expense the exist community
why will the up zoning and who
benefits if the up zoning
you simplely caught up build this without severe consequences
for the residents we know that
the plaza 16 and mission developed when they heard about
the monster in the mission by max must at 16th street and
mission the folks in the mission
knows exactly what happened when
luxury is built it is happening
to them they're being displaced
18 thousand latinos from the
mission since 2000 what would
happen to the filipino the
unaffordable bmr's on site not
for existing residents therefore
when did cost of housing
skyrockets people will be displaced forever you kabts say you're showing
hands are tied we don't have to
keep accepting the crumbles uniforms u criminals that they through us for the arts spaces
we have to say no to austerity
there are alternatives and the
communities has come up with a
fantastic vision for the space
this alone is reason to reject
this and send it back to
planning look at it meets the
needed of zoning and it is within the current height that
stands for the project and three
hundred units of affordable
housing and tons of office space there are alternatives and
you're showing hands are not
tied not take the crumbs from the hearst corporation we need
you to fight the city is in a
crisis the would world and the
scared duty make the right decision thank you very much
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> were evicted-I remember the phone leaning and walking
the streets to a revolution
somewhere within the israel of
mini in a and significant and
the dirt past the condo for the
next 20 years we'll planning the
life of this place she says
where will they go the families, planting children like rice
along the streets and behind the
warehouses until they're paying the day's when their social
security check arrives is there
a zone for it to refugees and
those is city planning they're
planning another location for
the 21st century with the city
free for those who have awkward
back cards with the relocations
of you and me this time not a barbed wire fence to stand
behind that was written in 1989 1989
and it is so relate today
there is a vision for the city.
>> I started working at the
south of market in 2004 after
college and now a youth
counselor there here
so right down the broke this
project is you know basically take over the filipinos were
displaced if manila town
adjacent to chinatown and then
if yerba buena through the
redevelopment the 5m project
proposal in south of market is
the latest attempt to drive out for purposes from their homes
and neighborhood the up zoning in the proposed 5 m sud will
accelerate the displacement of
thousands of filipinos and other
working-class families youth and
seniors in soma those developers
have never understand here and
had their roots they don't know
the this will not help the if
that families and residents
instead approvals will impact
the following residents and the
massive displacements of
filipino communities
based on the urban project the
action initiative in collaborative with the
researchers at ucla community-based organizations
and the statistic resource where
do the south of market is if
it's advanced stages of displacement and gentrification
the 5m project will accelerate the displacement and
gentrification documented by the report
I know longer than recognize
this soma and recognize san
francisco I recognize when is happening please, please not the 5 m.
>> thank you >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>>
good evening. I'm a youth
program yoerd at the filipino
community as an usher born if
the filipinos and actually used
to live off bryant street light
one of the folks that actually thousands of people that have
been displaced and live in the east bay now so when we say displacement it is a real thing
for so many people for the by
the way, and so many people in
the country and this world we
live in filipino are displaced
at&t alarming rate of 6 thousand
filipino looking for work in the phone numbers we looked for
resource and job opportunity we face the same kind of displacement and issues we
fastback home I want to say
gentrification is a fancy way
for systematic racism is a fancy
word for displacement I want to ask you a question for who is that development the people that
live in the neighborhood the
people that grew up here the
artists and educators and a in question populated earlier around the income disparities we
know that a lot of the people a
lot of filipinos have home caregivers and housekeeper
struggling to make ends meet we ask a people centered
development I want to a press
conference that commissioner avalos organized earlier this
week we really involved the
community in the bernal height
area and got tare prospective in terms of the people ordinary development we know there is
holes in the project so we want to really think about the
concerns the community and the concerns of the people
we know that san francisco has a
history strong history of labor
movement and a strong right here
or his and the bernal height
hotel that sparked history many filipinos fought for the welfare
the community I want to ask you
a question and I'll I'll leave it at that there's a strong kind
of sentiment of think about our
hearts with our hearts and minds is this development for the
people is it for the
neighborhood and soma is it for
the families like my aunt I didn't that spoke earlier that
who decides who lives in the
soma district 3 kids with their stepped up to the plate families
or students that grew up like
myself or those who are privileged hopefully answer the
questions when we think about development.
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> I'm speaking in tagalog a
community organizer and worker
in the south of market a when I first moved here became involved that the senior citizens in san
francisco and most of time I
heard about their issues of housing. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> up to now housing is still
their issue >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> they're only able to live
here 5 or 6 or more people in a
room in a studio just to they
can food other basic needs.
>> I'm asking. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> so I will often ask what I
think do you think that 5 m will
help the needs of people and
seniors here in san francisco. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> >>
this includes seniors and
others are disabilities. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> what will happen those overshadows by massive towers
how many will benefit from this development and other
developments constructed in san
francisco? >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> people are hoped more
affordable housing have died waiting. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> others are moved to other
places to find housing and stay
with family and friends living
in difficult situations they're
in difficult circumstances. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> until when.
>> when you're going to leave
them in that kind of situation. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> how long where will they be
able to get descents affordable housing. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> when will you notice them and notice the retired seniors the homeless with disabilities and
other workers in san francisco
who can't afford housing. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> so these are my questions
when will you notice them how
long with it take for you to
answer they needs the same way
with the quick notice of
attention that 5 m is getting. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> will they die waiting. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
>> is 75 percent of our income
goss towards housing this is the
in-law unit I'm one of the thousands of san franciscans who
are going to be displaced who does are you think came a
time is not just effecting for purposes but everyone if you walk outside of environment commission in the tenderloin and the financial district homeless
is not just within filipinos but folks
brake latinos and whites I've
seen mothers no streets holy their children asking people for
money to pay for the rents I've seen the elderly begging
for money so is he, pay for
their medication this is is kind
of san francisco that we have
today
and I'm not sure anymore in is
democracy the people we put in those seats are really working
for the people who needs the help the most
and 40 is for the the new
thirty when people are displaced out of the south of market
so I'm asking you today to really think long and hard about
the families that really make up
the culture of san francisco and
not just for the wealth why a
and elites the working-class is
not enough to live here in san
francisco so, please also take into consideration
and this is not a san francisco for all
self-defense not anymore it is only for those who have the
money to stay here with the 5m
going up not for my family thank you.
>> next speaker
>> my name is rich a thirty
year ago long residents in san francisco
you know I'm proud to be still
work with you know the green
parties and a laborer I
certainly hope or past perplex
you know if I f getting
proposition kicked to the curve
elsewhere hopefully, you'll get
together collectively and find
out more proposition we need to
be you know taking forward here
in terms of getting more
affordable housing because you
know, I myself have been you
know a victim of a owner move-in
eviction two times and I've been
out here from midtown and every
occasion up until the time I get effected I truly understand the
injury to one is an injury to
all that is something I'll never
take for granted thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> hi, I'm larry irony work with the justice cause a nonprofit in san francisco and
oakland that work on housing
rights a residence of the
richmond I've worked in the
tenderloin around homeless issue
and the mission and soma I'm irregularly the board not to
approve the 5m because the displacement the serious impacts that will create in san francisco like you've heard the
eir is inadequate and the board of supervisors shouldn't approve
that project right now
this is a critical moment with
gentrification displacing so
many people that is a struggle a
real struggle to live in the
city with the stories tonight we
need a community led development
you've heard that over and over we need the community led
development and planning that
values the needs of working-class black and
filipinos the most impacted by
the gentrification right now
I'm irregularly you as representatives you represent
this city and values and represent the community need to
hear the communities and listen
and not approve this project
thank you. >> next speaker
>> good work I'm valerie a 10 year residents of the richmond district and teacher in san
francisco in soma
I ask you to support the appeal
because the affordable housing
it advertisered I don't qualify
a two year teacher dictated my life to becoming a teacher at
the school I work at and join I
did not needs this 50 percent medium this document is
available if you google it as
the 5m place of business plan
and see how much and the san francisco teachers make and
maybe they can make it so we
actually qualify for this I've
done the math I'll mother quality more affordable housing
for another 10 years I've asked the board of supervisors is it
fair to ask the teachers would
literally dedicated their life
to the soma tifrns since being a
teacher in the school and
community they want to serve is
it fair to ask them to wait
until another decade my favorite
part of day is riding the bus I
see the second grade I know I'm
on time whether I see the
students on the 47 bus I don't
want to be the traverse that
communities on bart and knows
what happened in san francisco the night before if you support
this project I know I'm a fifth
grade teacher I look at the
kindergarteners and ask myself
when those kindergarteners are
fifth graders I can honestly say I will not be their teacher I don't know if oversee families
will be able to afford to live
in the soma and if I'll be able
to afford to live in san
francisco and with the teacher
burden or burn out you're asking
the sfusd teachers go on google
and look up how little teachers make and make the affordable housing affordable for the
teachers that you advertise it
to be don't use teachers as our
commercial we'll not stand for that thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> my name is michael I live in
soma I'm chinese
I am american please does not
approve this 5 m project
I've lived in san francisco for
11 years I find it the most beautiful place because of the people because of it's communities
and if we let this 5 m project
bull do so drove that then all
our communities will be lost we
heard many voices heard and
they're loud and clear they have
not think represent byed by 5 m
5 m should go back to brooklyn the kindergarteners housekeeper
I want them to be here 5 years
from now I want them to still love san francisco
and want to still be here in san francisco to represent our
tourists today they all they
talk about is how high the rents
are I don't want to talk about that
I of the them to recognize I
love to live in san francisco
give me you're tired you're
showing poor our illustrated
mass yes and no to be free you
know that poem that is what soma is about our communities are
about and could I the voices are
loud and their clear I want you
to hear them and want you to
represent them as we want to
represent this beautiful city of
san francisco thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good evening board of
supervisors and my san francisco communities
and lauren an ecology nurse and
residents and nurse and filipino-american and mexican-american
I bring up I'm a nurse because I
have heard it will be the 5m the affordable housing will be
affordable for nurses
I don't agree I think we forgot
that in my experience that most
people I know come out of school
with student loans on top of
having to cbo into housing I
personally can't been raising a
family in the near future
I wanted to talk to the board of
supervisors and talk to the filipino seniors local and next door people that support this
project and ask the hard questions
what promises do thank you tell you that affordable about in the
be affordable did they warn you
how the lands value raise and
the landlords will want to cash
in on higher rent is this much is a good thing do you
understand why people are looking at the bigger picture
see the down falls of the project do I know every time a
large project that is a
population gross while the fire extinguisher and mexican
population gets smaller in 1990
the physically population points
7 pose after yerba buena was
built sf overall from 74 k to while the filipino population
declined to 5 points 2 percent
by 2000 four years later the sf
population grew back the
filipino again declined to 4
percent does anyone see a pattern they're on opposite side
of the issue who was told to
some and what truth as seen by
others a good project is
supposed by most not barely
passing by half barely 57
percent barley pga proposition f
would have stopped airbnb from
illegal units 5 of percent voted
no barelywant?
>> thank you. Next speaker.
I'm adidas I'm going to speak in
a none citizen california way
but I'd like for you to consider
on vote 21 to reverse of conditional use authorization specifically in relationship to the youth and family zone supervisor campos in you're
neighborhood the quatro is
requesting the businesses be
seven hundred and 50 square feet
only asking for a business door
25 feet a new business door in the memory and safety of
children in the youth and family
zone we want our children to be
able to walk on howard street
diane fought for the businesses
being safe havens for children
that conditional use within the
project proposal we'll prefer
the housing on howard instead of
the 6 thousand trips that don't contribute to the neighborhood
safety in terms of pedestrians
item number 224 reverse the office allocation san franciscans for reasonable growth talked about the methodologies in the impact of
offices
we know that the additional
office space is exacerbating the housing issues in san francisco
that's why very they have to do
the mitigation to the with affordable housing but create more impacts for you to
understand that miriam spoke to
where are the people now I'll
tell you they're in oakland
oakland rents have doubled since
2008 and san francisco hsa is
causing that take care of you're
own business it is understanding
how you impact other
shame an spur spur said they're
doing regional planning in this
office space were built inform san francisco how much better
bart and transbay traffic would
be instead of building the transit in san francisco we've
let it cbo in 2009 interxnl hotel the three hundred plus
foot hotel is the exception to
height everything will get lower
simple math 4 hundred and 70
feet is higher not lower than
three hundred feet we would
okay. Now we say in the impacts
are not sashl you think of
displacement oh, this is ones the parking lot this is about
speculation you don't have to
believability manifest destiny the developers are having a the
hearst got to us to the spanish
34er7b war and started the U.S. You mean perilism more
sophisticated now they center marketing departments and campaign manager that is managing the communication not
something that is acceptable the
shadows we want you to reject
against stephen on- >> thank you very much. Next speaker. >> good evening board of
supervisors
I'm going to say two or three things you've probably heard
from a number of speakers
room they bear repetition because it is important we be absolutely clear what you'll be
doing in you vote to uphold this
highly inadequate eir and override city policies in order
to allow this budget to go
forward the simple fact of the
enabling height is a multi
million dollars give away to the
developer that will also raise property individuals in values
that will fuel a wave of
speculative investment and
evictions as landlord are to
cash in on the improvement of the neighborhood on the transformation of the neighborhood
time the distribution of a working-class filipino for the third time in san francisco
history what does that mean that
neighborhood is being displaced
for the third time they'll lose
essential housing no onsite regional housing summit in the
neighborhood 85 units is not worth talking about the
affordability or of those unite
are navigates o units are barrel
affordable to the teachers not
affordable to most teachers that associate groups will be disrupted address nets that people use in employment
disrupted and people will be
away from their culture network
and for seniors that is likely
to prove facility is this what
you want you'll have to please
think about what is want you
want to do some people on the board of supervisors May want to
create a new community with the planning but I'd like to think the majority of this board of
supervisors is on the side of the people of san francisco siemens corporation those that
see the projection and vote to
uphold the appeal thank you >> thank you very much. Next speaker.
>> good evening board
I'll make this quick a quick
question in house how many of you are born and raised or living receipt you see how small
that number is those are the
people that voted you all in
here you're kicking of out how
will be that who will vote for
you with that said, I'm in
district 6 and worked in there 4
four or five years and the soma
and arts it is path eric I'm
ready when this hits the t s
we'll be ready thank you. >> next speaker
>> good evening excuse me. I'm
marie an organizer with the cause
I work everyday with tenant in the missions fighting the
massive wave of displacement
that are pushing out walking latinos and the gentrification of changing the fabric of our neighborhood for all the reasons
the soma the members of the
filipino community working-class
immigrant, have already stated
this project should not be approved the negative impacts
are great the zoning and planning set a dangerous
precedent for the city and
negative effect our ability in san francisco we need community-based planning to have development without displacement
there is currently a community
alternative that has comparable
that builds has a comparable
housing you urge you to support
that and not the 5m proposal thank >> thank you very much. Next speaker. >> hello I'm available to answer any questions you May have is arena a san francisco resident
I'm filipino and I for most of
my life undocumented I'm an art
and educator I currently work at
3 different places all teaching
gigs as a faculty at the college
and teach at a purchase in
hayward in the east bay and
right now I have a teaching retainedcy at betsey carmichael
first graders theatre arts this is their first time you know having access to arts education
and I'm there to provide that
and happy to be interest and I
just want to mention that it is
becoming too frequent in the classroom that someone moves
away and the numbers of students this was taken care of is dwindling
just the other week last week
one of my students I told him
next week we'll do math and one of the students was saying well,
I'm not going to be here I'm
moving to la that is becoming
the pattern and it is ready e
really sad an elementary school
this should be serving kids no affordable housing nothing no
where for them to live I myself
can't afford the affordable
units projected by the 5m I'm
struggling educator and artist
this is impacting all the bay
area someone mentioned impacting
oakland it is impacting displacement is already been
happening I've seen it and known
a lot of people that have been
leaving san francisco so go to
other places I lives live a
really tiny studio I'd like to
see to move to a place to see
sunshine but not move to oakland
I can't afford hayward where I'm
from I'm asking and imploring the board of supervisors this is
an opportunity for you; right?
To right an injustice an
opportunity for you to undo the
description we faced in the filipino community
and this is also an opportunity
to hear the existing communities
that exist in the soma another
opportunity to create an quilt
development we need very, very careful community input there community members who believe
that this project will benefit them
but I'm very skeptical I wonder
I wonder if the benefits will
show up in 4 are 10 or 15
remembers why will we be around
if we're already getting displaced at the current
momentum is it beneficial for
the community that's all I have to say. >> next speaker
>> I grew up in the soma and
want to betsy the uc berkley and could have worked anywhere but
back to the south of market and
worked at a cologne person for
low income youth and artist I've seen an amazing amount of chapping in the communicated and once again little developers are
calling the shots
there is 6 hundred luxury youth
and no affordable housing on
site one time community benefits
payment in exchange for that the ongoing displacement evictions
that will last for generalizations and this unprecedent of creating a special use district on top of
pa family and youth zone
and so when they say there is not any displacement it is coming from people that never
experienced what is like to be
displaced I was displaced in
1990 in u tom with my family our
studio arts benefits studio was
kicked out of our place and it
took us 10 years to reclaim our
space that is a traumatic
experience for the third time my
family accompany monday I'll be
leaving the city any landlord
raised any rent by 15 percent
I've involved any my how late
that about that when in their
building up the space not driven
by the community all we're
asking for a 50 day continuance especially in the neighborhood
the community that is historically displaced over and
over and over again, thank you.
>> thank you. Next speaker.
>> hi, good evening. I'm mary
and I've been living in san
francisco for tech sf of 12
years I love san francisco I
went to the middle school and
lincoln I go to sfaiftd I live and teach in the excelsior and work with the soma right when I
say that I want you to
understand that I'm here because
consider this city my city I
hope you do too I'm a san
franciscan at heart that girl
that wears a san francisco hat
and everyone tells me you're
from san francisco you know they
give him that look it is not
easy to live here I'm not
beginning I against change if
new community is constantly told
what is good for us this housing
is affordable we know what is
good for us I want you to listen
if you want to be responsive to
the people you serve then act responsibly thank you.
>> thank you. Next speaker.
>> good evening supervisors
thank you, again it is probably
going to be a meaningful evening mountain valley pipeline my name is allowingcy I'm here for the
5m project and working in the
south of market for almost 25 years south of market 25 years and it is totally different from
the south of market I see, I see israel with families and
children right now it is such a
fair you know community and I am
very afraid of what is happening
in the future there is a lot
issues expressed some eir and
special use and many more and
words that have been repeated
time and time again like
displacement and gentrification,
affordable housing, community driefrn plans people don't say
it they want to repeat what
other people say but I think
that is the goal of the like me,
me to make sure that someone is
lvns because I do not feel that
someone it is listening I feel
that this has this project is so
fast tracked and if we don't slow down a lot of things will happen developers come and go I
hope that all of you will be
here when somebody is entangled
by the development he why don't
you be there before them and
look them in the eye and say you
have a solution when someone is
evicted not afford rent because
of the developments like 5 m I
hope you'll be that there look
them in the eye and say we have
a solution right away right now
the community you're not
offering a solution
affordable housing 33 I still
couldn't figure out how 33 the
new plan of 4087 units on the
building that is only built we
have 87 units of 100 percent,
120 and other ami if earning 10
thousand plus if you're an ssi is problematic will it can
problematic if you're going to
be required to make between 7 to
one thousand and one hundred
thousand dollars to be able to
afford the ami let's think that
that and not redefine
legislation for the many if
we're going to do this we're lotta's fountain earthquake for
the many that will afford luxury
condo unit thank you.
>> thank you. Next speaker.
>> good evening supervisors
my name is dos I represent the
asian pacific islanders a f c I
o and the co-chair thought
chapter I'm here in support of
appeal I live in district 6
south of market and in the early
90s and back in the late 80s I
work in the south of market and
see the effect of gentrification I can see right now the
high-rise that is in the area
and the filipino community is
they're running away now we want
to have another I hotel we want
you to consider the appeal to
listen to the community in san
francisco and my community the filipino community
has been tremendously effected
if there 5 m project will continue just give us time to
think and to really make sure that the community is being listened to
we know that there are a lot of
supervisors that are becoming to
our community to vote for them
the vex legislation we'll went
you and remember you until we
find justice to the filipino in
san francisco and the bay area
thank you.
>> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> hi good evening supervisors
I'm affordable housing I can't a
resident for the so in soma I
used to live on the borders between chinatown in a rent-controlled unit our
building has two flats and one
downstairs the landlord sold the building they evicted the
neighbors and waited for the
motto turn so socioso they moved
into arch 3 bedroom flat and
took the building off the market
so basically senior against
senior we've lived in the
building for 23 years seeking
represent from the san francisco
tenants union and the rights
committee after 3 years we got
tired of fighting and move
forward my grant went from a
flat to senior home with no walking distance assessable to
their community a year later the
building was up to sale for over
one million dollars my family
was split up and no longer had a community while my landlord was
feeling it up in the st. Francis
neighborhood of multi million
dollars homes I've moved 7 times and affording often and forced
to move and my point is people with money whether say anything
to get their way I see that 5 m
is doing the same to the
community in 5 m people united
will not be sdpaeftd their
strategy of buying support is
how they've been preceding blind
and sugar costa-hawkins affordable housing is considered
senior abuse they know in the
heart of the hearts they've not
been able to afford the affordable housing because if it
they tell him it the truth of
the matter thaip their family will get evicted atheism be on
board and the city will use big
words to make 2 sound they're doing something go back good for
the community please don't allow
5 m to proceed san francisco
heart and soul has left please
help our community of what is
left thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> hi, good evening. I'm german
a very honored to be here
speaking on behalf of the workers in the south of market I
identify as a worker in the south of market for more than a
decade and been an honor to
integrate with a lot of the
people I see day to day that are
struggling I'm here to in support of appeal and asking you
all to do the same to please
allow time for the development
of the plan
let me tell you real quick 9 impact right now in the community right now the community is fragmented a lot in
be fighting and it is hard to see day to day people I consider
my family are in disagreement
our community is not perfect a
lot of the disagreements and conflicts have long existed
before this has been proposed
but it is only dense if I had as
we lost so I do want to you try
my best to look at the benefits package by the developer it so
you would go this is beneficial
but if so is it truly on impact
on the community I'm terrified
of the trickle down effect with
the psychosis rents in the area
around the project and which 0 could lead to displacement of our community
so I know there is a lot of talk
the avenue, I want probation
officer give honor but who is it truly affordable for I know f
there is a saying that is tossed
around 40 is the new thirty what
good is it if it is not assessable to the growing
working-class and the growing
low income population and the
demolishing middle-income I
don't qualify for the housing
again, I urge you to please
accept the appeal and allow for
more time for people driven plan thank you.
>> thank you very much. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> how you guys doing I'm robert
I live in the outer sunset I
have a lot of friends but I have
to work 3 jobs to be in the city
my homeboys blessed me
historically the filipino and immigrant families has been
underserved and left without the necessity support of the community of immigrant in the
city from the 2000 to the 2010
census filipinos are declining
to 36 I'm sorry three hundred plus representing and 4 percent
of the city population up to a
quarter or 25 percent of 4
million filipinos in the U.S.
Undocumented a higher percentage
in san francisco many filipinos have been displaced because of
the market-rate since the 1990s
and many struggle for the
housing in the excelsior today,
the overall census the filipinos
is going down many filipinos
can't stay in the city soufrpd
the 5 m over 2 thousand
filipinos of immigrant and
chinese will be greatly impacted
by the project and increasing pressures of being displaced
filipinos were displaced from
the chinatown and then from yerba buena center to the
redevelopment the 5m proposal south of market is the latest
attempt to rob the filipinos of
their homes and the 5m sud will
accelerate the displacement of thousands of dpw and
working-class families from soma
activist do you, you got to right?
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> sue hester I'm the
attorney for san franciscans for reasonable growth I'd like to
build on comments to the eir
that were filed by david john's
we were extraordinarily active
around the 80s our testimony on
the eir specifically is the
david testimony for the city to
figure out what the housing
needs were for office space what
eventually was the official city
position on transit and building
affordable housing
that led to the downtown plan,
which is one of the things that
is being amended by this plan
after the downtown plan was
passed I worked with people in
chinatown just to go around the
I hotel and people in chinatown
people in the tenderloin, people
in the central soma were very
concerned about expansion that
they saw the potential expansion
of office areas into their neighborhood they were all low
income neighborhoods the entire
area around downtown was and is
low income
except scattered newly high
affordable housing none thought
at the time, we would be moving
montgomery street to fifth and
howard when we dealt with the eastern neighborhoods area plan
we didn't conceive this area
being high income housing and high income offices so out thought that we got the
youth and family zone it was a statement by little planning commission and the board of
supervisors I have to remind you filipino and low income people
living in those areas and they
need to be protected
today it is all kind of wiped
out because we have no
redevelopment agency so we have
this fantasy the planning
commission can function and do a
d-4-d you know the difference
24/7 a redevelopment agency they
had staff and stated on top of things and looked at it did
project in the context that the
people were effected a bunch of
you the board when there was a
redevelopment agency this is not
new development you have
assuming the powers of the
redevelopment agency and
rezoning and not going to
monitor a damn thing as people get displaced
thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> supervisors david osgood from
rincon point my family came to
soma in 1849 and lived there 25 years want to express support
for the appeal and two minutes
and 40 seconds left what to do
oh, just kidding thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good evening supervisors
my name is angelica I'm with the south of market community action network
our appeal shows from the
beginning the 5m project has the
community platform we'll let you you know what the respective community looks like in the
south of market please get the overhead
we put together our community
vision on the 5m site with the
community advisor in the south
of market the soma action committee of the artist and
working with an architect from the U.S. City
the community is not against the
development of the community in
soma half of the city's new
housing is located in the south of market other projects have respected
the zoning why can't the 5 m
a good example of that is, we
actually work with the a gi on
ninth and mission to look at as
a right to build there and the
developer showed us the
different rendering of africa
look like on site and actually
let us look at the rendering and we were able to click where the developer the affordable housing
we want to see in the
neighborhood
the community has produced
drawings that prove the city and
the developer have mislead the public their claiming the
special approvals are needed for
the arranged unit and the
community has product drawings
this is not the case the site is for mixed use residential use
and part of the youth and
special youth district since 2008
just want to-our community
vision provides 6 hundred plus
units of housing so 6 hundred
and 88 unit instead of telephone
onsite bmr our community vision
is for 50 percent onsite affordable 50 percent affordable
is consistent with the city's
housing balance policy this is
not achieved by take advantage of the fact that harvesting corporation as owned even though site for decades no compensation
for the land and utilizing the
tax go exempt bond financing our community has office space and
other space we proposed 200 and 40 thousand square feet of
office and move the office space
off the family special use
district instead of the 8
hundred thousand square feet of office proposed we have ground
floor retail but we want to see neighborhoods starting
businesses walk central soma the eateries this keeps the
buildings for community arts and space
we were holy hoping we would take advantage to work with the 5 m. >> thank you very much. >> thank you.
>> >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> no other members of the
public would any other members
of the public like to provide public comment testimony seeing none, public comment is closed
and we will move on with our
hearing ma'am, you've already
comments on this item at this
point we will move for our presentation from our city
departments and you'll have up
to 15 minutes total.
>> good evening supervisors
john ram with the planning
department I'll make a few
opening comments and staff to address the specifics of the appealed on the projects
nonresponsive you I want you to
see my remarks from the context of the appeals of the conditional use applications on this project that is essentially the approval the project itself
I'd like to make 3 points will
the project recognizing the strong feelings of the room and
recognizing the concern of
changing the zoning for the site
first make that the public
benefits accrued will not be
possible under current zoning it
will not allow us because of
prop c limiting the housing and the non-restricted avenue and
other benefits on the site and
secondly, the site is a site we
believe has already been c-3 as the downtown plan was adopted
and it is a site that is within
a block of bart and muni station
and it is, of course, in close
proximity to the scoping this is
a high density mixed use development it is the item before you you before today and
I'll point out the site on the western edge of the high-rise
district a number of reasons because of the affordable units and the historic buildings to
the west of the site it is upcoming likely that the high-rise district will continue
to the west and thirdly, I want to talk about the plan and why from a conditional use we
believe that meets the standard
for the necessary and desirable
the rezoning of the site and the
density have allowed us to
history it to the eastern side
allowing the open space on the western side of the site several
benefits it allows us to cluster
the open space in a large grouping and allows this between
the development and the rest of
the soma neighborhood that
provides a space that the entire neighborhoods use and provides
that in a location 3 the least shadow because of orientation of
the site we believe with the conditional use should be upheld
and I'm going to turn it over to
staff to talk about of specifics
of the appeal thank you very much.
>> thank you director ram and good evening supervisor President London breed and
members of the board from the planning department before we address the particular issues
raised bye bye the appellant I
would like to you touch briefly
on a key feature of the public
so we have a robust package here
I think in particular respect to
the housing 3 components just to make sure we understand what
we're going to do ouch mission
street this is a piece of land
this was dedicated along with
$12 million to constrict 83
senior affordable housing units
50 percent of an end to the
means, and, secondly, the tndc
side on this trairt will have
$18 million for 71 ami raiveng
from 25 to 50 percent finally
and on site affordable and
reevicted housing in the project
site 87 rental units at the 21
and 50 percent of medium income that is clear and my understanding over the course of the project with respect to the
issues raised by the appellant we did submit our written
response on the 5th of November
without painstakingly detailed a couple of issues the appellant undertaking claims that the
project is incomparable and will oblas rats the south of market
special use district and supervisors the 740 paralyze in
the sud sorry in the project in the family sud it is important
to said what that sud does it
does first, the height and level of for a minute with respect to
the parcels, and, secondly, that
requires the confusion from the planning commission for a
handful of uses counter to the
family and youth environment I
want to make clear the 5m
project has so you get those conditional uses and it has provided affordability beyond
that is required in the sud and
just to be clear on kind of an bureaucratic points the
conditional use authorizations
that are on appeal together, and, secondly, supervisors the appellant say the open space in
the project is not well
considered and not considered we
the community address not adequately there are about
rather is about an acres pub
assessable open space on the site and analyzed to review
sdpeven this project is with the
city it's been discussed at
great length with public hearing
this will be memorialized
through other approval documents
and binding this sponsor to
provide that space really in
brief it is plentiful that is
use full and locked in and thirdly, we're getting to the
end with the colleagues the appellant suggested the project
is in the filipino community and
the community adoption of the filipino culture heritage
district the supervisors will restate some of the facts no affordable units in the property today
in and the project will displace
none once more at the r request
of the planning commissioners we had a study of the project of the affordable units within a
quarter of a mile within the
project site and 90 percent are
subject to some level of protection
I do also want to remark with
respect f to the filipino
culture district the da has been
modified with supervisor kim to
require the payment of $300,000
to use to study the integral and
essentials to go adopt the
filipino cultural district so by
not approving the project we'll
place that but we need to find
alternative sources lastly the
appellant says that provides insufficient housing and the remarks I opened with 40 percent
of unit in this project that are subject to income restrictions
and 5 m will be the first
private project to steady the
standards the 33 standards of
prop k higher than the 12 and 20
for the bmr's and would steady
the 17 and 27 percent standards
for the youth and family st.
Jude sud it takes multiply income and the official project
is a good deal for the city with that, supervisors I'm going to turn it over to michael thank you for your time.
>> good evening supervisors
michael environmental planning department staff ami I'd like to
address the points on the appeal
and state it is the departments position that the environmental
analysis complies with the states guidelines in chapter three 1 of the administrative
code before I get into the specific points I'd like to addresses I'd like to reiterate
that the standards here for the
appeal of the eir is to provide
substantial evidences the commission's findings of the
document being accurate and
adequate and complete is somehow
not true or appropriate
the disagreement with the eir
conclusion so objection to certain preferences for the
alternative is not considered in the environmental analysis and
not a basis for an appeal with a
reerlg felt parklet to certify
today is 16 page letter focuses
on the development agreement the
planning issues and reiterates
the tops and the shadow that has been added addressed in our
response 0 to board and in
submittal of the November 6th letter.
>> like to briefly touch the
issues to demonstrate why the
analysis is sufficient and the
appellants appeal is inadequate
the allegation the eir
description lacks 19 it's characterization of the project
and the allegation is not
supported by the draft eir subscribes a variance with a
great amount of housing and a
greater than amount of office
space it is okay under ceqa the
project is sufficient for the impacts because that includes
adequate information about the density of the location and
resulting in the urban form
the response of comments documents that changes the
documents project in the impacts of the proposal ceqa compels the
scombakz are feasible and the
ways to mitigate or change the
project in ways to avoid effects the proposal the item before you
does that changes the dir and
the documents and the respond to comments no new information is
available to change it more has
the project sponsor said anything that lessons the
effects it is the disclosure of
the revised project explicit
warrant anything the drs is sufficient and supervisors this
is a desire by some in the
community to find an alternative
the rank of alternatives is reasonable for the impacts in
relation to the impacts and the code compliant was developed by
the staff not by the members of the community and the community development alternative is to be
submitted for review and consideration and provides no
evidence suggesting why it is sufficient
that exclaims with the approach and analysis of the cumulative
impacts is sufficient and it is
based on other things failure to account for planning and central
soma as stated in the draft eir the future projects and
cumulative promotions is linked
to the circulation of the
preparation and central soma is screwdriver in the eir all known
promotions were considered and
this is the cumulative effects
to the extent they'll be in the
future didn't render the
analysis sufficient and future the central soma draft eir
didn't consider by the 5m is 5 m
is insufficient and the I'm the
extroverted and to dates the eir
has not been published no cumulative impact analysis and
finally a number of issues
regarding the technical studies using the land use and planning
and shadow and transportation is
an example of how the complaints
relate to the policies or to making findings that are outside
the scope and the land use and planning in terms of the draft
eir about the planning the appellant alleges that implementation of the special
use will result in conflicts and
imagine consistence with the eir
less than significant finding excuse me.
>> this considerations of
possible conflicts it bans with whether it conflicts with the
policies I'll emphasis that was
adopted forbids the purpose of
mitigation no such policy is
mentioned so it is significant
solemnly swear heard about the shadow effects with with regards
to shadows the appellants failed to provide evidence on the other
hand, on how to say defective
once the ceqa is suggested
whether the shadow is on public
open space to reduce the safety
and the analysis is compliant as
provide in the draft eir and is
okay with the record the testimony of the compliance with the planning code section a city
ordinance that restricts the
shadow on open spaces and the
shadow is insight does not
effect the appeal addressed vision zero or zero tolerance of
the application that characters
some parts morning available to
accommodate shadows with ceqa
with that, I'll remain open for
questions that the supervisors
May have about the adequacy of
the eir we find that adequate.
>> thank you, supervisor kim. >> thank you supervisor
President London breed
where to start there's a lot of points brought up by the
appellant I want to start with
an argument that has been made several times by the appellants
regarding spot zoning so any
questions are directed to the planning department to talk
about what constitutes spot
zoning what especially the
district is and roughly how many
suds exist as large as the one before us I'll place there one
little champs with 24 project is
renewals separate from the
central soma and in general good
city planning is when we do
larger area plans verse singular
parcels and look at the plan to
make sure we have to the proper
mix of housing and retail and open space and affordable
housing, etc. And make sure that
we're setting the same standards for competitive standards for the benefit that we call
interest projects in the same
areas so 3 we all reach the criteria rather than negotiating them one by one Ms. One or more
the biggest champs of this
project I've wanted this to be
moved with the central soma and
be part of overall visions for
the south of market that will run los angeles the central
subway and to address this to
talk about what constitutes spot
zoning and what constitutes sud
and relationships to the planning code.
>> through the chair supervisor kim dan with the planning department staff thank you for that question
the idea of a spot zone is
typically uses in the context of
new legal spot zoning that is
the focusing of the city's land
use committee regulatory powers
to lessens the values in the
context of knowledge or frankly
any of the other special use
district in the city industry is today, we're specifically
enabled to target our land use
recollections and shape them
that leads to better enhance public benefit on the other
hand, we feel stronger this
arbitration does that and it the
pattern a long-standing pattern
for the special use district
that has greater than value supervisor yee you raised
questions respect to the central
soma plan as well as and kind of stepping back historically where
this project the 5 m site was stripped out of the eastern neighborhoods before central
soma it goes back to a 7 and 08
the thinking it is essentially the same thinking in central
soma was began to be considered
that is it is a techniques
opportunity site it is a major
site and has possibilities that
don't exist most elsewhere we
wanted to give it a not lump
into a much larger process this
isn't to say we didn't take on board the vision and overall
city goals of this planning
process but only to its
uniqueness and size and in the
case of knowledge the single
ownership we wanted to take a deeper dive and what suits it in a development it benefits the city.
>> can I follow-up with that
I'm curious as to you know what
the criteria of standards of
planning department use to
pressuring pursue an sud when
this particular large parcel
will have an enhanced or special
or greater than plan in response
how does the level of community benefits offered by 5 m compare to the similar udz say how it
compares to the level of community benefits that are
being explored by the adjacent central soma plan for similar site parcels.
>> supervisors I can help ken
oewd my colleague has prepared
to go over a comparison with you the benefits to this development and this special eye district compared the understanding the
central soma is not passed but
we we expect and a planning May
economical we'll do that
specific comparison for you.
>> good evening Chairman And
board members I do is.
>> sfgovtv please.
>> thank you so our thoughts did working closely with the planning department as we
developed the 5 m development agreement
and we were tracking both the progress of central soma and in
order to insure the 5m project
is on pair are the the truth of
the matter and so what you have
been 0 the slide central soma
plan seeks to provide benefits
in the bucket with affordable housing and transportation, open
space complete streets nonprofit office
so the central soma plan what we learned from the presentation and my understanding from
planning the central soma is
still probably under study and the development tools likely a year away from the implementation
but what we did learn at a presentation is that in order to
achieve one goal such 33 percent of affordable housing in the central soma plan there are
trade offs so the plan could not
achieve 33 percent affordable housing without the job housing
linkage and the visionary fund and san francisco abatement appeals board other targeted
benefits and vice versa in order
to achieve the 33 percent with the value the truth of the matter.
>> do you mind I want to see
by side comparison of the fees that are expected of central
soma or if you want to look at
the transit center district plan the open space fees the
inclusionary fees and the transportation fees side by side
can we see this project is
giving equal set of benefits
that is my one of my
reservations about approving
this is an sud when it could
have moved alongside as large
area plan where the eastern neighborhood but side by side
xaern of the fees and benefits
and it pace 100 percent of the
impact fees and required in the
c-3 donning and on top of we
laid on the transit district the
plan is sill of actually, the
one area plan that creates the
greatest impact fees for the
hundred to in order to accommodate they're paying 100
percent of the fees in the c-3
zones and on top of their
negotiated $12 for the transit impact fees for the accommodations of the high-rise
structure if you look at central
soma again central soma uses all
the tools and one central soma
we'll know more clearly what
central soma expects to do
anticipates 22.5 new sxeej for
the entire district and the
planning expects to achieve
$2 billion in revenues $89 for public development per square
feet and those are achieved over
a 25 years the build out of the
25 years to build out the area
when you apply the central soma
analogy 5 m will be 90 percent
of public benefit and more importantly we can trailer the
benefits for the project and able to address critical
affordable housing in the near
future we achieved on pare
slightly above what central soma intends to achieve. >> come back to planning I
have to hear a little bit more
about the criteria that planning undergoes when it determines to go through the process of
creating an sud first, as having
a large parcel move through
larger area plans and not being in touch with the developers in the central soma there are a lot
of large project that have been
obviously compiled from the fire
hydrant to south of harrison on
the bay bridge and fisherman's
place there are projects that
met the criteria and receiving a
sud creation as opposed to in terms of the thinking process
that planning went through to
put 5 m on a separate track. >> through the chair
commenting dan with the planning
department frankly commission there are
excuse me. You mentioned a range
of sites, if you will, in the central soma or other
significant area plans 5 m is
one of which it really with respect to the central soma
predated that plan it was
thought of advance of the plan
and on the other hand, to owing
to the plan that is not a
project we thought should be
sidetracked for a year while
that plan perhaps has additional
12 months for additional project entitlement particularly in the
case of central soma one thing
beamed the central soma will
meet the community as part of central soma process we don't
anticipate regulation or an approach coming out of that suggests what is the item before
you not the right thing for the
next 15 or 50 years.
>> what are some of the suds
created near the 5m project. >> there are quite a few of
the projects supervisor I'm not familiar.
>> just a small issue.
>> the plazas involved the
d-4-d type of documents.
>> what it is in the
continental hotel an sud.
>> I'm not sure my colleagues, we can get back to you.
>> it was it was seven hundred and 6 mission.
>> yes. Seven hundred and 6
mission was veterans bam /-
alabama and the unique sites.
>> this is back to the mayor's office of housing and community development around the affordable housing piece
there was a lot of said about what is guaranteed and not guaranteed in this project whether this project really
achieved 33 percent affordable or 40 percent and Madam Clerk, any announcements?
>> housing I want to clarify
that we talk about very fluid what affordable housing means so I would like some clarification
on what has been condominium and
also how if there's a guarantee
to insure those units come
online and for example, the
developer are project sponsor reneges what are some enforcement mechanisms to make
sure those units get built.
>> there was a lot of said ken
rich with oewd I appreciate the opportunity to clarify the
record and make sure you have
the facts we have not every and
will not ever negotiate an agreement with affordable
housing or another benefits not guaranteed working with the city
attorney I'll start with that
the project produces 6 hundred and 1 market-rate housing the project produces an additional
200 and 41 affordable units a calculator will tell you that's
40 percent when you look at
those units
when the project pulls a brirment before they pull the building permit for the first building they'll need to write a
check for the city to be used
for the project that is I'm sorry how many unit?
>> for 71 units they'll not
get a building permit or not
been able to put is shovel in
the ground until the city has a
check at the same time they'll
not get a building permit until they've turned over the parcel
up the street to take a brief
just recycle anyone that buys a
piece of land the city if they
find something nasty underneath
the ground we have the ability to say no, thank you the cash
value of lands and find another
piece of land to built build on
none will incorporate that into
their purchase agreement we get
the trailer unit and the land
for the senior housing when
forest city comes to the pull the building permit they'll
fwufs the money to build the
senior units $234 million there was something said during public comment getting a piece of land
but not the money for the unit
that's not true we're getting
the 0 money if they we don't get
the cash no shovel in the ground
the that building building will
include 87 onsite unit at moderate and Madam Clerk, any announcements?
>> that will be built with the
building our assurance of enforcement on that they don't
get a permit from the city until
the 87 units are provide it is
worth noting oversee are at
moderate from one to one hundred
50 percent we working closely
with the 40ers percent with our
office and happy the office got
the 40 percent and make sure
that the teachers from the data
district the hundred to one
hundred 50 percent will cost the teachers a hypothetical two
teachers and one child doesn't
in one unit those income levels
make the data we used the data
from the school district so that
is pretty much the overview I
have kate hartley this is a pretty much how we're getting it
down it is a real 40 percent and I'll be happy to answer any questions.
>> have we had a project that
met 40 percent in go on single project. >> never, ever.
>> could you go breakdown I'd like to get clarification.
>> the rank of movement in the
number of units as kate will do
that my overview symmost of after being provided workplace a 4 minute walk of the project
will be at low income only the
87 units onsite at the moderate
by the way, can't give you the exact numbers.
>> good evening supervisors
kate hartley for the eddy taylor
project we intend to build have
combination of 87 set aside
projects for the homeless and
provide the operating subsidize
the tenants will have very low
extremely low incomes and with services provide.
>> what's the average rent in the units.
>> the rents are $300 and they
the rent is paid with the bebsz
of the tenant will qualify what their stabilized.
>> the average rent of the 19
units I'm will be at $300 per unit for formally homeless families.
>> that's correct
both the projects eddy taylor
the balance of the units will be
up to 50 percent of area medium
income that is $35,700 the rents
of that that apply to 50 percent
unit at one bedroom is one
thousand $19 at 50 percent of
area medium income for one
bedroom $2,000 a month less than the market rent.
>> how much for the 2 bedroom for an ami.
>> at 50 percent ami is one
thousand $146 it is-
>> how many unit at 50 percent ami.
>> the $18 million that is
going to the eddy taylor project
is the remaining gap to get that
project installed for several
years because of funding
deficiency so the overall will
be $18 million will fund 71 unit of hundred units and additional
fun will be provided by the mayor's office from other funds
but also the developer has been
very diligent in getting state funds as well.
>> I want to clarify the eddy
and taylor is one hundred units
plus and 5 m will be fully
funding 69 of these one hundred and 3 units; is that correct.
>> we have 71.
>> sorry I Miss Counted and
they'll be fully accounted for I
think this is the discretionary how many units are they really
building eddy and taylor when
you include 67 mission how many units at 50 percent of ami.
>> we're building the total
count we're anticipating 83
units so 20 percent is 18 unit
so the balance will be at 50
percent of ami now-
>> how many units ami.
>> 83 times 80 percent so-
about 64-65. >> 65 total of this ami.
>> that's the total
development how many units at 50 percent ami >> at the moment is 8320
percent is homeless.
>> it's one and 35 we're
building one hundred 35 at 50
percent one hundred 35 who's
rent is 8 hundred to one
thousand plus dollars; is that correct?
>> yes. On both sides sorry. >> thank you.
>> let's talk about the
middle-income unit I want to
hear more about what we're building anothers one hundred
and one 50 what the rents are
and the average medium income.
>> so there are 20 percent of
the onsite units are at 100
percent of ami that translates
to one person howled at 71
thousand plus for two people
many a household that is 81
thousand 5 and 3 people that is 91 thousand seven hundred for
example, in two bedroom units that's affordable at 100 percent
of ami the rent will be 2 thousand 6 hundred plus, the
income is $91,700 so for
example, the household of 3 with
two wage earners and a child two workers macro 45 thousand
there's a year each
at one hundred 20 of the I'm
that's a circumstantial person
86 thousand two 896 and 3 one hundred 10 thousand 50
rent for a studio the ones and two's is 2 thousand 38, 2
thousand 244 and 3 thousand 56
again, a 3 percent wage earners
24/7 people making $55,000 a
year and their rent will be 3
thousand 46, again that is
significantly less than market
value rent in the neighborhood.
>> what's the market represent
and approximately $400. >> what percentage roughly do
you on the city is building. >> how much middle-income
housing is the city building in
the pipeline and we built
middle-income housing as part of inclusionary project programming in san francisco middle-income
housing is a type of housing no
support from the federal
government or state government
or in fact, any local programs besides the inclusionary programs it is the group middle-income people are group
of people that will or are at
least well severed in meeting
their affordable needs the
regional ascertainment measures
how much housing to be
believable at various income
categories in the protecting category we'll get the tax
credits 42 percent of what the
regional ascertainment arena
says we should be this that's horrible but for middle-income
people moderate income we're
alters 19 percent we're really
not doing a good job of building affordable housing for people
who are between say 80 percent
of area medium new mexico income
up to one hundred 20 percent in
addition because rents are ohio
in san francisco an
affordability gap of area medium income in many neighborhoods not
all we see that gap in soma. >> thank you very much I see
that a couple of my colleagues
have questions as well I'll
give them the opportunity. >> thank you, supervisor kim and supervisor yee. >> thank you supervisor kim sforp asking about the affordability of units it was
confusing with the presentation was made its a little bit clear
in terms of number see my
question is the soma youth and
famed the special use district
was established as the eastern neighborhood plan so my
understanding is that part of
this project the 5m is going to
be excluded in that particular
sud how does the development
support of vision of soma youth
and family special district.
>> through the chair supervisor with the planning department staff
the southernmost four parcels
along ho the sud
and part of legislation change before you would remove those it
is important to note two things
first, that the project does
comply with the precisions for
the youth and family sud namely with only affordable and two
conditional use when I think
that perhaps more interesting
and relevant frankly is that the planning commission recommended and as land use commission
amended the sud for the 5 m
project the 5m sud so is actually incorporates o
requirements that live together
or today in the 5m sud but
expectation for restaurants the
adaptation choose the 5 m sud
will expand the controls that
exist of the youth and family sud.
>> thank you for that one.
>> this is in regards to
shadows I know that you spoke
quickly and I did not understand
it was so fast about shadows
in terms of the open space that
the new speak up and I sort of realize there are issues around that I'm curious what impact
does it have in terms of
shadowing impact of the new open space.
>> michael planning department staff in the context of the environmental impact report we
would liquidate the change from
the existing future conditions
so the open space does not exist
so the mary court and the open
space interior was considered in
the preparation of the design for development documents in the
parking space so not so we'll
analysis in the context of the
irtd we will look at the project
shadows on existing parks in the
area so the consideration of shadows on future parks is something to be considered as
part of planning process for at project.
>> do you know that with the
current vision of what they're
planning to build and for the
new open space is-with the sun be maximum missed are in terms
of the spaces and there are a
number of considerations
included perhaps Mr. Guy is
given he managed that process but, yes considerations with
respect to building setback and
massing that seaside this solar
assess to the sidewalks and the
ground plain and pedestrian plane.
>> would you like to further elaborate.
>> kevin guy forming with the planning planning department I
was a member of the project team
as mentioned the solar of the
building was considered among the factors in terms of the overall site planning efforts
for the project there were
earliest ration of the project
that included one additional tower or building with the deletion of that building inspection with the reconfiguration of the site
planning the massing on the site
opened up opportunity to not
only make the property open
space a little bit more
contiguous in its form but open
up opportunities for responding to not only shadow conditions
but wind conditions for the
usability of those areas. >> thank you.
>> thank you supervisor yee supervisor mar.
>> I know you're probably as
tired as us I appreciate the staffs persistence and stamina I want to say that I think there
is a dick with the hours we've
heard from community testimony
from the stories streets of displacement and multiple ways of filipino and displacement in
other community to but I know
that the gentleman went through
a quick reading of the analysis
and one you said you did a displacement analysis but you
read through it so fast I don't
know what that was to me this is
a spur sized spot zoning and up
zoning of a four acre parcel in
an area arguably a resident area
that has huge impacts of 6 thousand low income immigrants and filipinos and other low
income folks it will impact for generations so I'm wondering
what the analysis of displacement I believe that uc
berkley an urban displacement
projects staff miriam and mccain in their early displacement process there are key
neighborhoods like much the eastern neighborhoods that are facing advance gentrification and displacement and as many in
the audience said there are
fancy terms you're pushing out
existing residents largo seniors
and disabled and families in
favor of development and up
zoning super sized up zoning what's the analysis of the
displacement in our planning has been.
>> thank you supervisor mar
we look at the question of
displacement in light of what
ceqa will ask us as part of population housing analysis that
is constituent in the check list
so what we have in our analysis
as 3 primary questions those
really relative to whether the
project will should the
population directly or
indirectly whether it displaced existing affordable units or
create additional hours with the regional housing summit of
housing u housing and whether
the project displaces people in the construction of replacement
housing elsewhere so the focus
in the ceqa analysis is the
physical environment and in that
light what we will look at whether or not for example, there are existing residential
units on the site that will be
directly effects or the project
would do so them population it
requires additional housing the construction that potentially
has significant effects that's the context we look at.
>> so for the impacts on the
physical environment is there a
consideration of impacts on the
human environment of people that
are displaced in that analysis.
>> good evening supervisors
sarah john's environmental review officer ceqa talks about
this xeevensly and elaborate
that the issue to consider in ceqa is impacts physical impacts
on the environment so we need to
consider the social economic
gakz to other decree they cause
the physical impacts or caused
by physical impacts so the
questions of the-issues around affordability, around social
issues around the communities
that is something that is
explicitly limited within ceqa to the physical impacts so what
we're considering is whether the
project is in fact, result in a
loss of handout necessitating housing unit that could have
physical impacts but in the the
context of second consider the many issues that were raise by
the community members those are
planning related issues that are outside of the second analysis.
>> I'll say I call it a super
sized it is the doubling of
height much higher than the international continental hotel
and adidas chang talked about the past planning I'm not the I'm not talking about the eastern neighborhood but the
planning that set a health of
the intercontinental everything
is down towards I'm wondering is
the spot zoning he building that
spot zone we were seeing it is really an artificial separation
of the project from a lot of the existing planning from the eastern neighborhoods to the central soma plan I'll ask that
question that adidas asked is
this in contradiction to the
past neighborhood plans but also
in that heights and scale down
the intercontinental heights.
>> john ram why? In the context one of the things we're doing in the advisory committee central soma plan we're looking
at where the heights should be appropriate in the corridor from
market to king street
and what we're concluded in that
scenario how to maximize the
height near the station this is
exactly what this side and
whether a few feet within the
reasonable rank of the enter continental is less important
than maximize missing the height
we believe that the massness of
the building on fifth street is it the right thing to do and
then it steps down to the west
certainly and probably person up to the time there is a number of historic buildings to the west of the site and because there is
a significant number of units that are already rent ellis act protected in some fashion to the
peftd e west and is this project
in contradiction to the past or central soma plans.
>> it was not included in the
agreement and been include in
the central soma I want to
reiterate what dan said not
anticipate any changes to that
plan part of central soma is the c-3 and our concludes not
changes to the central soma plan.
>> I'll repeat something that
tony rob less said and echoed
our director as the I hotel is
raging on for several years in
1970 he said this is two value
inform allow poor people to park
on 2 that view is what is
happening with this project I
want to give credit to karen johnson and forest city for always sharing the community benefits and really explaining
them to me I think there is a
real disconnect that many from
the community that do understand
the community benefits page and this is not enough from what I've heard I heard one comment
from the gentleman saying that
the community if understand the quote robust community benefits but I know that people
understand in many ways what the
benefits are they just disagree
they're not adequate given the
huge give away and the community
benefits being no where near
enough given the displacement and the social impacts that happy that is e happen that is
credulous you said within a quarter mile radius of the
project 90 percent of the
residents have some level of
protection if displacement I
this is a nuance I'm not sure
what some level you're protected
or not I'm wondering what the
level of protection maples means and a what you see as there available not only for one
member to protect yourself but
what is in place for protection from displacement.
>> through the chair
supervisor campos dan what the
department we agree that is
nuance and difficult to outburstly analysis at the risk of displacement what you're
department tries to do with commissioner richards was to take into account all the available housing resources between a quarter of a mile of
the project site and look at
those to understand what unique
circumstances might apply the 90
percent figure you mentioned is 78 sub categories I'll run
through them in the first to
acknowledge one take at a level
of risk might mean many ways to
interpret the data the 90
percent is a did you want supportive and below-market-rate housing and the mayor's office of housing. >> those are options of people
that are going to be displaced
where they can find other source of housing.
>> I'm sorry this is existing housing housing our the ground
there are about 8 thousand total
handout within a quarter of a mile of knowledge site and 90
percent of those are subject to
one of those categories I'll go into if you like.
>> briefly go both the categories. >> of course
adult market-rate only unit
owned or leased by moe 50 sro
units and nonprofit owned 100
percent housing projects and
lastly building subject to rent control.
>> and what if developer
wanted to come and hike we're
doing here and change the use of those properties take over the
properties and want to build at
high levels of luxurious and non-affordability.
>> I know that is what people are concerned about.
>> the first, this site didn't
contain any housing this? Not
factored into the number, and,
secondly, a range of controls
that apply from the lumped and a rent control in terms of making
sure that folks are not displaced sxhifshgs at the
planning commission channel his
thinking he is very attuned and interested in tracking this on
or about over time we can
monitor and learn from what
happened to generally speaking
what a project last week 24 brings forward.
>> how it this different I
guess we didn't track the
housing stock under the city's
jurisdiction and the housing that was there that offered some level of affordability we
xementd to be permanent we looked at the filipino community displaced historically in san
francisco we this man I will
arrest yerba buena area how does
this be different in the way
those community were displaced.
>> supervisor it is my
experience didn't touch on the massive episodes.
>> it's a rhetorical question.
>> this site didn't contain new affordable housing it is
robust set of land use controls
of the loss of affordable units. >> thank you.
>> all righty seeing none,
seeing no other names on the
roster it is time for the
project sponsor to do a
presentation followed by public
comment for those members of the
public who oppose the appeal. >> good evening supervisor President London breed and supervisors.
>> I'm sorry you have up to 1 minutes.
>> I'll not take it all evening supervisor President
London breed and supervisors
deputy representing the project
sponsor for right for our time
and the numerous supporters I
don't expect to take more than 5 minutes with respect to the
appeal you've heard under the
scope the ceqa and disclosure
status and nothing put forth
presents evidence in fact, the
departments November 9th appeal
response provides detail why the
dr is adequate with respect to the conditional use appeals it is slightly different the planning commission which
required to make a series of finding was evidenced in the record the kinds of things the planning commission discussed
and put in the record relate to contextual comparable and the
sites and uniqueness of the
location, housing benefits and
transit and hpc and plans and
policies consistent and
supervisors why did this not the appellant refer to the standards
it is because of the appeal is about something else about the appellants decide satisfaction
with the project and it moves
forward through the process
the sfmta the arts commission and planning commission all made those finding all found the
project to be approved and all recommended you approve it as well the appellants don't want
the project to move forward and
the appeal reflect their unsuccessful attempt to
repackage their opinion on the merits of project navigate not
an appeal in the acceptance it
is just presented to this board
a series of bullet points in a
series about the project
as staff indicated in the presentation the appellants have
priority nothing new in the late submittal that bears under decision
by craft the evidence in support
of planning commission depreciation he guess is eventually among other things
testimony over several meetings,
numerous staff reports of eir
and response to comments on the
memos prepared by staff November 9th memo by the sponsor and the testimony of the people and the testimony from the
supporters of project it is
based on facts and evidence it far exceeds the legals
requirement and the commission
are all supported supervisors 2, 3, 4 closing the appellants bear
the burden that the record supports the rarely of the planning commission not there
not close it is opinions that is
bullet points and it is far outweighed by the evidence of
the planning commission determination it consists of plastering and commercial buildings the project computed 40 percent
housing you've heard from the May I have who those serve
theirs real units 40 percent a
big number and those levels of
affordability is unpreened and
this is noted in approving the project created urban design and
major office spaces open spaces
and wide variety avenue arts and
workforce and all misdemeanor in
a way to go to people serving the community-based organizations serving the members of the public members of
the community we ask you vote to reject the appeal and move
forward to approve the project today.
>> thank you, thank you okay
since the project sponsor is
done with their presentation I'd like to open up for public
comment first speaker who are in
opposition of the appeal so basically those members of the public who support this project now is the time to speak you
will have up to 3 minutes but not general obligation bond to
used all three of those minutes
first speaker please.
>> good evening supervisors
I'm gabriel metro cal can have
from spur and against the appeal
I think that is clear that the eir is adequate co-authored to the staff presentation but over
the course the comments are not
about that they're about housing
policy there is no disagreement about the affordability crisis
E.R. The displacement happening
in the city was there is
disagreement by a or about what
we do as people gather in san
francisco this project is on a
site that is a parking lot and
under used office today for the benefiting anyone the project
officer many of the things the
city is trying to get
market-rate address ann affordable housing and open space and workspace it offices
those in a place that is among
the best transit in the country it is exactly know the kind of project the city tries to get
I know those voted are not easy
change is though the easy
I think you will almost every
ever see a project great brown
you there are a lot of reasons
normal run of mile projects can't get to this be
affordability this is in the
planning process for a very a
long time I'll ugly to move
forward tonight >> >> next speaker.
>> >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good evening supervisors my name is jennifer I'm here to
speech from spur in support of knowledge project two main points this is a good project
for the city and the objections
in the appeal have no fwrounz so
number one a good project 5 m
will build housing and open
space on a large under utilized
transit this is exactly are the
general plan calls for density
near first time and 5 m will provide 40 percent of affordable
housing for low income and other
folks this is in direct response
to our city's need of avenue and 5 m provides significant needs for the neighborhood in the
stone as Mr. Ram spoke to and
number two the appeals have no
fwrounz this as gone through scrutiny of the public hearings
lake this one we don't agree
with the objections the 5 m project will in the displace
residents or conflict with the
filipino cultural heritage more
conflict with the soma use
district and the fact 5 m
delivers benefits and as part of
benefits that serves the
families in soma and the new open space and pedestrian
improvements and the million
dollars for the families the
delay of this project will not
support the project moving forward. >> thank you.
>> at the time.
>> rudy did you just cut in line. >> they gave me the green
light we have to leave so first
of all, to say good evening supervisors thank you for having me.
And I'm honored to be here to
roeptd or represent for our neighborhood the south of market
the soma and thank you for waiting brothers and sisters out
there in the haul you guys have
hard jobs this is the longest
we'll waited in city hall for any project and any issue we
believe in the project that is
being built at 5 m people you
see right here are from the neighborhood born and raised
from the south of market
tenderloin, treasure island boo
where you stay at where you live?
>> where you grew up downtown?
As you where you at which I feel
and where you at rock man?
Where you at?
>> that's right.
>> I'm at the jails man. >> were youal. >> yale.
>> this is us we are the people you're talking about that
live in district 6 I am filipino
if I believe if this project
would have got rid of all
filipinos I wouldn't be up here
speaking we've been in the
process of these 5 m listening to the anticipates needs they accommodated the community they
sat with us for years and I-a
lot of meetings and so up here
we are the last we understand
the gentrification we understand the displacement in san francisco that's why we're doing what we're doing we are building
with the developers to figure
out to to stables ourselves where people are being displaced
now you want to talk about facts
what's the first project that startled really getting rid and displacing filipinos that's that
project on fifth and howard the
big hotel did we get any housing
out of that what did we get we
get us from the people of the neighborhood nothing there was an organization that
opposed this project that for 5
m who actually made deals with
them and obligate money we didn't get anything we are the
people from the neighborhood so
we stand here in solidarity speaking up for our community
not all the developers are not
all bad like police officers we want to build relationships to
stay in san francisco we have people here born and raised I'm born and raised in the south of
market of that south of market I
know for a fact if we live in san francisco period is
important for us to learn how to
build relationships with the
current situation we live in the 21st century I'm not here to
hate on nobody we're not united
haters we're the united
>> thank you, thank you very much. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> hold on one more speaker. >> one more.
>> hi, I'm reading a letter on behalf of don for the san
francisco filipino and the
mission hiring haul he asked you in support of 5 m project that
development project is making a
long latin electrician to the
how are you u hour of the rich
filipino community 5 m will a
dictate 12 thousand square feet specifically for art and
cultivate and education the 5m
will create initiative art for allowing new opportunities for the filipinos for art and
culture to be showcased this is unprecedented and we applaud forest city for making arts and
cultural a priority in the 5 m
project we believe that art and culture can you think if I and
lift people up and the art
benefits package has the ability
to do just that historically
individuals suffering in the
lower income ranks call central
soma home and soma has neglected
the community 40s people including filipinos to leave the
5m is different it seeks to work
with and exclude ethics itself but especially the filipino
community this approach is different than any we've
experienced 5 m understands the needs and stresses the residents
in soma and through the plans and agreement that have obsoleted on tackle ways to
address the needs the community
has always throughout the
community system for the studios
and manila town foundation and
at san francisco filipino center the building would be the fifth
center for the filipino arts and education programs and other
space for the community not only
has the 5m troubled to the art
and culture but the project will provide an additional $4 million
to help to support the neighborhood youth dictated
funds for the bmentd school and
the gene friend recreations
center no other project has engaged the community at this
level I urge you in support of 5 m now.
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> it's hard to follow-up
on you pete good evening. I'm
rob pool the project manager for
the housing coalition thank you for having me.
We've had two presentations and
we've seen it 25 percent to 33
affordability now to 40 percent affordability and from a planning prospective and a housing policy prospective it is
exactly what san francisco needs
it is bring a lot of housing to affordable housing to jobs and
open space next to transit and the neighborhood amenity and
other jobs and next to people
the scale of this project allows
us to achieve the benefits a alu you're seeing 24 not no other
projects we see the open space
because of the buildings being
taller the safety improvements,
the payment to the tsif and the
tooifrd and all the bike parking
those are things not in other
projects unaffordable housing
what is unique that allows us to
see the titan you market rate
housing and the production of affordable housing that project
on 80 street the site was bought if 2007 its been looking for
money for 8 years this project
provides a gap for this site
without 5 m is likely that
project is detailed for many
more years the project on howard
street the senior family homes 5
m is buying the land for if to happen without 5 m that
affordable housing project might
not happen the each other and
rental building in 5 m we are
where is the building going in
san francisco we can't assess
the tax and finally to assess
the subsidizing the
middle-income housing people
don't make a lot of money to qualify for bmr's that project
helps helps that we ask you to
reject the appeal and let's move
forward tonight. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> hi, I'm with the m j m we're here in support of knowledge project and it's open spaces and
against the appeal
5 m has an ability to use opinion speak brings the community together especially
families and 1234rz when you
think about open space we should
think about an area of grass and
tables like open space can and be reflective of the
neighborhood A.M. As considered
this and made candidates to
lierlts at space
5 m is a willing engaged partner
in creating open space that is
lively and creativity and diverse for example, the neighborhoods near the site
helped to determine the 5 m open space it is this approach
working with people that makes it exciting to be involved with
5 m the 5m for the new public
space finds was to galvanize the neighborhood initiative programs
and activities this new open
space has think up to the time
to think are be an open asset
lakes the yerba buena gardens
district 6 and soma has the
lowest amount of open space you
have access where you can play
and grow and thiefl this adds
programs and can enrich the
lives of residents 5 m is a true
community partner we hope you'll
support this project thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good evening supervisors
my name is sharon
I'm here representing the making
have a family the family owns a
1912 building at the corner of
fifth and howard some of you
know it as as m & m turning
around and the irish pub and
still other as the housing built
in a remodel 1912 single room
occupancy that has 8 apartment
all rent-controlled so we also have soma we have been in the neighborhood with any father and
at bar for thirty years and
before that with any gather for
50 years the mc have a family are the neighbors the only
corner not owned by he did
hearst in this fifth and howard section through those years we've seen the neighborhood change and change dramatically
we believe now for the better
so in the latter years there's been a lot of growth and development in bringing back
vitality for the area that for a time seemed to be lost the scope of the 5 m project is significant in its impact on soma
both in his benefits and in the hazards
we have attended all the prior
commission meetings and heard
the concerns of the neighborhood the mc have a he family
expressed our concerns early in
the dir process and contaminated
we remember not supportive we
have a zero lot line with the
project our the 5 story brick
single room occupancy is
immediately adjacent to the 5 m
we are directly impacted and x's
response to us and the communities demonstrate this they left hand and forest city
has put in protects for the
integrity of our 1912 building
to our soma neighbors 5 m has
shown sensitivity with a
underlying bond one that community and has taken steps to
strengthen we have no desire to
be an island in the middle of
gentrification with 50 percent
of affordable housing is quite significant throughout those
hearings we believe that 5 m has
listened and we recommend supporting the 5m project and
not supporting the appeal thank you.
>> thank you very much at the time.
>> good evening supervisors I'm randy the executive director of intersection for the art
we're asking you reject the
appeal one development can't address everything 24s that is going on in the city the housing
and gentrification all the elements and one development
project can't redress everything in the past the displacement of
the filipino community is real
and resonates the arts community
suffered from a grateful
displacement and 5 m did
something unpreened they invited
the arts on the ground floor of
this development they wanted to
be at the table and us and see
how to inform this development
was designed what the life would
be like in the project and the
public spaces they've you
couldn't asked intersection in
the beginning louder us to play
and allowed us to work with other communities groups like
bindle and united playaz in our
programming and experimentations
and now done something they've
changed the one percent for art
so it is not a sculpture going
up in a lobby in a public plaza
one artist benefits is paid
well, this changes it so a
building is donated to arts and culture money it there for programming with the community
many meaningful ways so we are
asking you support this project
this developer and hearst have
been intellectual compassionate
and left hand and adopted and
the utmost integrity please
support this project thank you.
>> hi names a laura clark with grow sf welds to thoroughly
endorse this project and please
does not give into this delay
practices I think he I I mean, that's the point to delay once
again and we all know we're in a housing crisis
that's what we're heard over and
over and over and over and can't
cut off you're notice to spite
our faces we lard to this being
the new standard to embrace the
sxhement to take a parking lot I mean, that's what we are doing
taking a parking lot and crappy
buildings and turn it into homes
for real people is an incredible
opportunity up beg you not to
waste this thank you so much.
>> good evening supervisors I'm making cuss a filipino in
support of this project but so
it marie whom I'm speaking on
her behalf this evening she's a
third jurisdiction and mother of
3 kids and here we go I urge to
you to reject those appeals and
support the 5m it is critical
and needed in this tough times
because this is urgent needed affordable housing to families
like mine if not for this my
children eye would have suffered
my 80 years old grandparents support this we've seen what
forest city provides to us and over families and children are
I'm familiar with the site which
is mostly parking lots not
assessable for public use and
leaving it as see will only
serve those not seeing the
bigger picture I don't know the rational of those opposed to this project when the housing
crisis is at its worse the 5m is
a additionally addressing of the affordable housing and more important opportunities in san
francisco my family our families especially fmz throughout the
community beg you to approve this project that is the kind of
project that soma and san
francisco needs but all said and
done warrior the roof over our
children's heads thank you for your time. >> thank you
I'm john a resident in san francisco
and I'm not here in support of 5
m project I thought that the architecture was amazing in
terms of what the plan was I
think that the benefits that the
city is going to be getting from
the projects are incredible so
thank you and that's all I have.
>> I like the 40 percent
affordable and the dozens of
stories in a city with not that
much land important probation
officer build up so thanks so
much for all you're service.
>> thank you supervises michael san francisco building and construction trades
council we have our own account
of the displacement we are in
that economic class for the new by generation have been at least served by the housing production
in san francisco we make two
little generally to fast food
market-rate except in the
outdoor neighborhood we make too
much to qualify for subsidize
housing so some facts 100
percent of area medium income is
what an operating engineer and
other earner working a few weeks
less as common in a down turn
one hundred percent is sheet
worker metal works and other
this is I want to applaud
supervisor kim for observing middle-income in new york city with forest city that's exactly
what we in the trade need to
remain in san francisco those of
you who look at the local hire
reports over the last few years know we're a majority of
monitored in the building trades in san francisco there are not
only filipino nurses and
filipino teachers there are
filipino trade workers of plenty
but as supervisor remind me when
we testified in the past the
purpose of this hearing not to judge the facts of the adequacy of the environmental impact
report to that end we believe
that you're city staff as adequately refeuded the claims against the environmental impact
report we ask you to reject the
appeal and approve the eir thank you.
>> hi, I'm katie I'm the
director of housing development
for tndc our director was not here we have a board of directors meeting tonight I'd like to address some of the
statement about 9 who supported
eddy and taylor family housing
and additional clarifies it will
provide affordable housing to
individuals a third restored for
the families moving out of
homelessness and some with the
disabled or transitioning from
long term care institutions the 1, 2, 3 depressions bedrooms
over 70 percent will be reversed
for who earn between 20
and $50,000 a year paying rents
continue 8 hundred and 12 a month.
>> there was also an ad in the
examiner that asserted that eddy
and taylor will be built and a speaker saying the tempt was
fully fund in 2009 I want to
correct those statements it is
true that tndc will not give up
on the dream it is not true the
project was or project was already fund we've controlled
the site since 2007 and washer for the financing it is challenging in a great recession
and following the recession and
the demise of development never
enough resources to build all the affordable housing and capable of building as a result
we have to be creative and look at all resources and 5 m agreement to provide funds to
the city to support eddy and taylor give us the confidence
with a feasible plan and plan to
start construction in two years tndc didn't negotiate the 5 m
benefits plan we believe it is a good precedent for future
developers in our community the two traditional affordable
housing will serve families and
individuals earning less than
half of the medium area income
within a 5 minute walk
the layer of oversight medium is
income is exist serving the
people and as the previous speaker said didn't qualify more affordable housing
the solution to displacement is really affordable nonprofit
housing and tndc is part of
solution we urge to reject the
appeal and approve the thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> good evening the board
and supervisors
my name is jess I can't I'm here
to deny the appeal I have here people say together that this
building are too tall
and I have heard them as a that
this building need more housing
well, what is it going to be?
You can't have it both ways
what is more important to me is
not the building but what is in it
I support this project because
it is bringing affordable
housing with each building and
this is good
our roots
no one is going to have to move
out or move away to be evicted
because of this project just the
opposite this project puts 8
homes for people that have the at least please do the right
thing more affordable housing
and support this project
we are in a housing crisis we
need the housing now
and my family they got houses
they have big houses I love staying in san francisco
I'm working as a guard for 11 years and thank you
>> thank you.
>> good evening supervisors
my aunt is ill I'm reading here
remarks on her behalf
I'm the executive director of
cast the community art stabilization trust tour mission
inform create spaces for arts and cultural organizations by
quasi properties to nurture and
help to sustain arts in the city
this approach allows cast in
support of artists in a mix of can remember organization and artists we were approach by forest city
to participate with them to be
the rester and ancestor our on
mini in a as part of knowledge
project thus providing a new and
stable home for arts and culture in south of market. >> we really look forward to
adding 447 into the culture resources of neighborhood and working collaboratively with the
community to make an asset in
the upcoming district court we
want to assure people that those
hearing in the appeal cast has
secured an agreement as part of development agreement about you
today and locks in the 447 building as a permanent affordable nonprofit space we
that this will be a fantastic resource for many nonprofits in
the area that are dealing with
incredible pressure and that
will provide for programming for youth, families and seniors any public comment?
This is a long process to get
here but we strongly believe in the 5 m vision and it's commitment to arts and culture
as a vital part of this culture
and the community
I urge to take action to move
forward the project thank you >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> good evening supervisors
danny represent that with the
she want metal workers one 04 we
ask to you reject this on the
basis we feel the staff has done
a thorough job vesting the eir
and the appeal has from merit we
very supportive of project for
the vast mulch the community benefits that will bring the
city not the at least will be
good paying mirkarimi construction job for the city
youth and local residents that will allow them to perhaps live
and raise a family in this city
and create criteria pathways for
filipinos and other race and
nationalists that want to find a good paying criteria in the
building trades we ask you to
reject the appeal and move forward. >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> I'm here because I love san
francisco I think that the 5m project will be an excellent
addition to our city we've heard
about findings creative
solutions to figuring out ways to make affordable housing this
is a lot of blusters but in this
particular situation you guys
came possibility together and
figured out 40 percent thank you
sincerely for all the effort you
guys made I I don't believe this
project displaces monthly in
fact, the delay that has accelerated displacement in the city
this project will also enhance the public safety and sidewalks
that's another cause that is near and dear to my heart so thanks for your efforts open
this project and all your real
world actual solutions please
reject the appeal and move forward thank you. >> good evening supervisors
I'm have having virginia here to represent the yerba buena
alliance it is a neighborhood
organization that borders the 5m proximately that has been actively engaging with that project for several years we
wanted to acknowledge the public
outreach of the project and the nieflts for the members of the
yerba buena alliance to engage one of the things we're hearing from the members that is a concern of the arts the yerba
buena is the arts heart of
downtown san francisco and a lot
of us are upset and skefrndz
about the displacement felt cartoon art museum we're looking
forward to the art space that is priority 12 though square feet
the thoughts space for the
community and also very
impressed with the project goals
to mitigate their presence and
we want to acknowledge that
although there will be a small shadow on the yerba buena
gardens and the children's play
area between September 20th and
November 22nd and between January 18th and March 18 there
will be a shadow no less than
one hour other 3:20 P.M. We
understand our concerned about
the impacts on the yerba buena
garden but because of the
project sponsors electrician to this project their transit
impact development fee and the electricians to affordable
housing the alliance board look
at the board and agreed to vote in support of project so because
of that we ask you in support of
5 m project
and this that knowledge it is a
partner with the yerba buena
neighborhood thank you.
>> good evening supervisors.
>> my name is rose a residence the tenderloin for
20 years now I'm on officer of the filipino-american community
association I'm here to ask the
supervisors to support the 5m project I have attended the past
hearings about this project from the planning planning commission until the land use commission
hearing so I fully understand the project
we support this project because it is bringing affordable
housing with it's buildings in
that is good for our
neighborhood especially with the housing crisis in the city this
project will create homes for
people who have the least please do the right thing more affordable housing and reject
the appeal and vote yes on 5 m I thank you.
>> thank you. Next speaker.
Please.
>> yes. Please. Okay. Thank you.
>> good evening supervisors
I am angeline a resident of
tenderloin for 15 years a member
of the tenderloin
filipino-american community association
I am here today to ask the
supervisors to reject the appeal
to the board of supervisors I
ask you this will this project
bring new people to our
neighborhood the answer is yes
allow people to stay if the
neighborhood the skewer is
answer is yes homes for people
who might otherwise become
homeless or who have to leave
the city because it is too
expensive
this project creates new open
space jobs and offers 40 percent affordable housing
we need this project and I'm
asking you to say no to the
appeal and, yes to 5 m project.
>> thank you.
Clapping: . >> Madam President. >> Madam President I'll remind the members and the public.
>> excuse me. One second.
>> I'm reminded the people in the gallery.
>> one second anyone one minute please. Thank you, Madam Clerk.
>> I'll remind the owe members
in the public gallery no audible
audible sounds of xrelgs use you're fingers. >> good evening a resident of
the tenderloin and a member of the tenderloin filipino-american community association
I am here today in support of 5
m project and ask you to reject
the appeal
I live in district 6 particularly in the tenderloin
and I agree that the developers
who want to build here should contribute to the community
important forest city 5 m has
reached out to our association
to to the tenderloin residents
about the project I support this
project it will build more
affordable housing for the low
income people just like me on
fixed income and none will be
kicked out of this community
because this will be built on
parking lots I'm happy that they
will build senior housing
housing and electing housing for waifshgs families in the intend to this project will open doors
to hundreds of dollars of new
homes that are being built especially for the community
support in community by voting
down the appeal and by voting on
5 m thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good evening supervisors
my name is-a resident of the
tenderloin for 13 years and a member of tenderloin filipino-american community association.
>> I'm here today to ask supervisor to support 5 m
project and reject the appeal
we have supporting this project
because 5 m is actually
contributing to the solution of affordable housing crisis in the city
this project will have two
hundred 41 unique affordable housing as part of affordable housing my
family has lived in tenderloin
for 13 years and particularly
excited about the one of 8 plus
street family housing that 5 m
will help build and that will
have 52 units of affordable
housing low income families
I also know that this project
will be built in an open parking
space no displacement will be
a space and people in soma can
use for san francisco historic
building and help fund the youth programs I believe that the 5m
project will do more for the are
betterment of our community I
urge you all supervisors reject
the appeal and support in
project now.
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> good evening supervisors
I'm here tonight to ask you to
deny the appeals I live in the neighborhood and agree that
every developer that comes here to build should rehabilitate to
the community
and the 5m project is going to do that
and one of the most striking
features the program is the
housing for the seniors and the families that is affordable to
everybody we know this as good
project and I urge to it please
approve the project we need it right now thank you. >> good evening. >> thank you. Next speaker.
>> good evening supervisors
my name is tony from the
tenderloin and officer of tenderloin filipino-american
association I'm here to ask the
supervisors to reject the appeal one of the things I like best
about this project is that not a
single person that has to move
or being forced out because of
this project since none lives at
the 5 m site in part I think
more people in the neighborhood who might be struggling will be able to stay here because the
project because of the 34 units
of affordable housing that will
be built 40 percent affordable
housing including new housing
for seniors and nonprofits
workers the details and low
income families which I believe
will everybody should support I
urge you supervisors to reject
the appeal and instead vote to
support the project thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good evening supervisors
my name is as laparorepublicans a resident the tenderloin for
the past 10 empowers and I'm a
county organizer for the south
of market a member of the
filipino association thank you, supervisor for thank you for the
opportunity to speak in front of you and express my strong recreation of this appeal I
believe this project is a great
opportunity to improve the affordable housing problems in san francisco
particularly for those on fixed
income and low income families affordable housing is equals
stability I know by a or that because my family emigrated to
the U.S. In 2005 and we nifshl
lives with a relative on union
street wisp 10 people I have two
jobs doctoring that time we were
lucky able to get an affordable housing in the tenderloin and
had not been for the affordable
housing we would not be able to
stabilize our family last year
my son graduated and this year
my daughter is a freshmen at uc berkley because of affordable
housing
me a budget that builds affordable housing for lower-income emigrated families is worst supporting our reasons
for supporting the 5m project is because this project will
provide a total of 200 and 41
affordable homes in our
community with homes dictated to
seniors housing opportunity for
variance range of families homeless and features and even
city employees
and what is important to note
about this project not displacing any current residents that is unique opportunity for
that the city to create new
housing without ptosis people to
leave the 5m will replace
particular propose wider
crosswalks for local residents in the neighborhood this project
will create a safer and vibrant
community the 5 m project allows the city to grow while serving
the needs of the community and
being respect of our
neighborhood and longtime
residents for the well-being
should be stored are sponsored
to please marking ava priority
and vote yes own is 5 m project now. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> hello good evening, members of the board of supervisors and
I'm katherine and okay. I want
everyone to settle down and
relax no need to get excited
let's talk about the main objections that the opponents
doubt are bring one okay
well, the moon creates shadowy create shadow so the point anything that is real going to
create a shadow not really an
argument worth the water carrying
the second point is the developers over the years reached out to the community auto worked with the community and I think that is appropriate
and I know that is proper that
we regard good behavior what the
developer is willing to work
with the community and take open
space and more money for
community programs, mass transit
those are positive those are win-win for the community
developers and the city and
that's another positive another
positive the 40 percent is this
-the prop-the project all
right. We, go on and on cbo
infinity but the point is if it
looks like a duck and quacks
like a duck it is a duck all
right. So that's my $0.02 I say
reject the appeal and get on
with business thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good evening Madam President
and supervisors I'm donald a
resident the san francisco I'd
like to remind the board here
that on November 4th the voter
gave us a mandate to solve our
housing crisis with effective sliethsz by building more dwelling units subsidize for the
by the city or taxpayers by subsidized by the developers that have the ability to finance
the projects that can deal with our shortage of transmittals
that is occurred for the past 4
years of how's obstruction for
the past 40 years in san
francisco and the bay area one .8 million unions were denied
being built if we had those
units today not a high blood
pressure per gentrification and
displacement to preserve the
rental unit to preserve our lower class and disabled and
vets to live in the city we need
to build for dwelling units at
city cost using the san
francisco city codes easy the planning department is confident in taking care of that action
par so I urge you to please reject the appeal and move
forward with the future san francisco for the next 50 to one
hundred years. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> I'm joel cop he will district 4 residents speaking on behalf
of iuoe local 6 on fillmore the san francisco electrical,
contractors association located
on golf and joint apprenticeship
center on mission street urging you to deny the appeal
and move forward with the eir I
was at the 10 and a half hour
hearing and they did a good job the mitigating any concerns
we're here to recognize for the
projects that use local
contractors that May their taxed
here and employ residents
electricians and residents
apprentices put this in prospective allocate job on
eighth street that job was
waterway to an out-of-town electrical contractor that had
zero females on the job no
apprentices not one not one
apprentice not one female not be the case forest city has
communicated with us since day
one please move the forward. >> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> maim Chairman.
>>
ma'am, Chairwoman I also
graduated from goldstein's and
lived in the pinks palace many years ago
so let's be for real in the
mission district it is 4
thousand plus dollars it rent south of market is about the
same thing to buy a home in certain time is maybe a million
dollars please if I don't build
this project what is has
happened 2 to 3 stock the prices
will go up anyway so to change
it, it is up to the government
to make it a little bit even
so you see all those people if united playaz were here
many of them will have to leave their community because they're
pushed out and canned afford the rent. >> ma'am, Chairwoman This
project will allow them with the pushing of the affordable level
a little bit to stay in the community they serve that's very important to keep a community
together we have people are have
children and grandchildren in
the same area as now
I want to tell you a little bit
of a piece of united playaz not
too long ago Madam President around howard street and 6th
street there was a group of people terrorizing the
neighborhood 3 pit bulls and
drugs and they were returning
around terry riggs the neighbors
the dogs were chasing the kids
the managers made up their mind
to go out there maximum with
love and respect tell them what
time it is and move them on this
is what this community is about
and want the young or young
people their programs that live
in that community it is
important to me ma'am, that we
receive funds from this project
to continue serve our people
at&t our rec centers and schools I want you to approve that
project I think that will help the community and, of course, the number one thing they need
to keep our kids out of jail and
gang banging is jobs of this
project is not built there is no
room people are being pushed out
give us hope and victory to go on thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> good evening. I'm
marcie I'm a citizen and live
next to the 5m project I'm asking you to reject that appeal
I agree with people that say
developers who want to be it
further resolved build in soma should contribute to the
community I'm saying forest city
is contributing above and beyond
5 m has a general reduced ability they're building new homes particularly for the
community and the people who
live in soma is are struggling
to find affordable housing my
community has suffered greatly
by displacement and 5 m can prospective favorite at that
time of filipinos in the area and open space and job
opportunity to help the communities and neighborhood
thrive 40 percent is amazing and
for the middle-income housing is
what many families know will
quality who want to work jobs
this also shows how forest city
continues to listen to the community
those who are against the
project I'm sorry we need to get
going no more looking back thank you, thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good morning-good
afternoon. I'mled e edward a 0
I have a disabled daughter she
asked me dad where is my room
she's disabled we're looking for
a house for almost 12 years for looking for
house that is affordable I'm
poster of this 5 m my daughter
will say something.
>> thank you very much. >>
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I of this 5 m my daughter will say something. >> thank you very much. > v of this 5 m my daughter will say something. >> thank you very much. > e of this 5 m my daughter will say something. >> thank you very much. > >> I'm the President Of the association I'm living in the building we're in it is on the next adjacent building that is proposed by the 3 m I welcome the 3 m project this association has been formed any years ago and this building is mostly filipinos
and I'm a filipino american
the mall is full feel filipinos
that are very excited to have
this neighborhood you know
this is the first time I heard
that we're really interested to
have a home a very nice looking home
and it will be good neighborhood
very important now I am asking
you to reject the appeal and
there are still so many false
alleges including the idea the
community has not been involved
in proper notice about the 5 m
to tell you frankly in all this
forest city has been conducting all the time they have think outside the box with dialogue
with us and meetings and they
ask what don't we need what can
you is about the project their
communicating with us this is
very important nobody I can't
remember the people living in
san francisco had been asked by
making the building they'll ask
offering what do you need what's
you're problem how can I help you
nobody it is only the forest city
and I can swear I'm telling the
truth now this is important
because this is the right thing
to do this is the problem of our
city and to tell you frank san
francisco is very popper very
loves tourist and we need to
have tourist for our economy
now, please understand that I am very excited
people within our building are
happy to hear we have 40 percent
of the what is this-affordable
housing so, please reject reject
please I'm emphasis reject the appeal.
>> thank you very much. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good evening board of supervisors
and I'm happy to be here
speaking no support of knowledge project
and to please reject the appeal
am honored to represent many of
the seniors as you see they're now coming here
in past hearings on the 5m
project some in a position to
the project have stated that the
seniors don't fully understand
what 5 m is all about
I want to say that just because
we're seniors didn't maple we're
dumb we understand the details
of the 5 m project and supported
those because we know that
living go will benefit and the
soma and the tenderloin
neighborhood and for san francisco
we support building now housing
for poor people of all income levels and especially the
seniors which 5 m will do san
francisco is especially the tenderloin are changing
I've lived long enough to see
and obvious many changes and I
welcome the changes
5 m will bring neighborhoods and san francisco gentrification is already
happening all around us
5 m will help solve and easy the
problems of gentrification
by building 40 percent new
affordable housing including 83 for seniors
there are not just building for rich people but including the affordable housing in the
package of people like me and
the other seniors I'm representing
we are fully educate about the 5
m and made our own choices in support of project again gnaws
bylaw wear seniors didn't mean we are stupid or don't understand the 5 m project
I support this project because
it is bring affordable housing
with pits buildings and new open
space and more this is good for our neighborhood san francisco housing crisis we
need to see the project built we
need the housing now I ask you
all board of supervisors to do
the right thing and for the affordable housing project
please we appeal and vote yes on 5 m. >> thank you.
>> thaegz happy thanksgiving.
>> I'm carolina I work in soma
and staff at united playaz I don't typically get to come to
the events but I was absolutely
going to be here tonight a I'm
waiting to hear the discretion
sisters in the report and
completely disappointed the
appellants couldn't provide one
detail as to the inaccuracy so
for that reason he ask you,
please reject the appeal and
support the 5m because of pits
unprecedent amount of affordable
housing for a range of incomes
the lowest of the although, the folks in the Madam Clerk, any announcements? >> range that are typically
overlooked or don't typically have the opportunities available
to them as well as the U.N. Precedent community benefit it
is going to be supporting the
school and the rec and park and the children and families across
soma I ask you reject the appeal
and support of knowledge project thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good evening supervisors I'm going to present my
testimony I'm mission bay I'm a
soma residents lived in soma
since 2000 and born and raised
on hampton insure and 22 a proud
san franciscan in my early teens
I would never own a home that's
the reality that was over 20 years ago so it has been
sometime this city has been changing
I really want to see there is a
difference between a emotional
rhetorical and facts to say there is zero per of affordable
housing is not true there is 40
percent bmr housing is true
while that May not be affordable to everyone below-market-rate is
affordable to more if we have a
national discharge a serious one
we're succeed many of our first
responders live somewhere this
can help over first responders
to move back here so we hope
that's not be like the rock in-
I was disappointed we've been
waiting a long time and, yes the stories are sad there's been a lot of change in the neighborhood but that change has
happened and just like you can't
be had held responsible for all
behavior and the developers
can't be held responsible for
that all developers the sfaufkt I sfaufth there are still projects in the pipeline and supervisor kim said is easily we've got 50 percent of the affordable housing and 80 percent of market rate housing
being build in our neighborhood our neighborhood is feeling the crunch I also want to honor
people that moved for other
reasons my mother hates it I
live in soma people are shooting
up and on crack and meth and having mental health breakdown
so some people have less because
they want a safer place and not
kids to see that we need to
replace the thats their agencies
that's okay. There's a point
when soma was teaching us
everyone would lose I wanted to
end quibble by saying we've been
used to be those sister it it
want sexy to hire we've seen
incorporating people into the
community and making them feel
responsible so for us to take into consideration a hood to
save a hood from the homeless on
the street to the on the we're
in it together. >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> hi I'm heather I'm al soma
residents for that the last ten years live two blocks from the
project sites and the executive
director of city crossroads an organization that served youth
and families in soma for the
last years and personally involved 2, 3, 4 what is going
on in the neighborhood you've
heard from a lot of folks I'm
just going to go ahead and say
it one more time 40 percent affordable housing there is no
other project that has reached
this benchmark and something our
community needs and deserves
the fact that it is think income -there were working families
that need affordable solutions like homeless families in shelters and folks at every income level that needs help that is from that project will
bring that not only to one segment but all segment on top of the affordable housing there
is $73 million of hyper localized community benefits
those are not just a blank check
to be spent anywhere in the city I'm sure other district court
supervisors think this is great if it is shared one public
school in soma and the fact it
is going to benefit directly in
a prestige project in its backyard our community needs strong voices to city attorney
say it our community is
important and I applaud jane kim
for making sure that is is a
great deal and I applaud 5 m our
hosting countless meetings what
does the community need and most want
I think that has been made clear kwhu look at the fact the appeal
is without merit the fact not
one specific example can be
given speaks for itself I urge
you to reject the appeal and
move forward with the process thank you. >> thank you.
>> is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak to provide public comment at this time seeing none, public comment is closed.
>> and the appellant will have
up to 5 minutes for the rebuttal.
>> good evening supervisors
first, I want to thank you for
your patience in this whole
appeals process I'm jamy an
attorney and also a proud member
of the filipino communities I've
had the privilege ever work south of market and to say soma
is changing it is true not a
fact that is has been lost upon
me but as a city eagerness to
disregard the laws they were set
forth to protect the cultural integrity of soma to establish
and zone and adopt the plans and
codes and recessions every
regulars within a financial district dwellings in centers
not neighborhood overseeing laws
were designed not to integrate
the classes with a major of
luxury condos and so-called
affordable housing for hundred
to one hundred 50 percent ami I
stood before you proudly last
month each of you voted in favor to recognize the only filipino
district in the city now I sit
before us as a adjustors on the
most significant project in the
heart of soma a project of
powers for the weight that disregard did appropriate zoning
standards and proposes a large
standard twenty-four hour in the
youth and family zone is with zero affordable housing to any
of our seniors and families we serve in the south of market
a project in which the majority
of filipino communities and its
allies are against we talk
numbers of 40 percent affordable
housing and I sat here listening
the only overriding document it
is 40 percent is the development
agreement that development
agreement we understand it there
is no question whatsoever and
this purported been benefits but
the numbers in the agreement
don't add up I breakdown those 3
convenes the pressure portdz affordable housing the language itself is weak
it says anticipated 33 percent
that didn't give rise to obligation or duty a close
number of 33 housing is just a
dedication of land in about
faegd I urge you senior
affordable housing affordable
senior or 83 units don't
disappear here the gap fund
$18 million for the tndc appears insufficient based on the california study of affordable
housing bring $406,000 that 18
didn't equal 71 what and questionable practice our
inclusionary housing allows for gap funding to support inclusionary housing requirement
the last component of that
alleged 40 percent 58 units of
oriental were 50 percent ami are
the at least marketing I urge
encourage you to search the
agreement 50 percent ami is not
there our concerns are real over
community brought forth this appeal and I'll read san francisco administrative code
which impossessors you as
legislators and the boards the board shall reverse the planning certification of an eir from the
boards find that the eir didn't
comply with ceqa the evidence
before sufficiently shows that
the eir didn't comply with ceqa
here the failure to adequately
describe the project in the last
change on monday we were not provided any information or
notice of the change refreshed
the eir facilityly defective as
a matter of law they can't adopt the offer riding consideration
but analyzing and adopt feasible
mitigation measures that reduces
the significant impacts like traffic displacement height and
construction the city has not
done that and this project has
not the newly negotiated deal for the affordable housing
actually results e relates in the higher units that concurrently moving low income
people out the soma into the
tenderloin this deal must be
rejected until 5 m incorporated back and forth affordable
housing and in the soma area among other things those highlight the appeals the
appellants request the board
reject the certification the
choice to simply. >> thank you.
>> all right.
Colleagues 15 and 19 are held
this hearing is closed and items
16, 17 and 18 the eir are before
us
supervisor kim oh, before I acknowledge supervisor kim I
want to be clear our consideration of environmental impact report under the california california environmental quality act
involves our analysis of
adequacy accuracy and the sufficiency and completeness of
the report again, this is a
legislative hearing to overturn
or it will require 6 votes of board of supervisors at this
time I'd like to recognize supervisor kim
>> thank you supervisor President London breed on this first order item
I just want to make a motion to move forward item number 16 and
table 17, and 18
I think that based on the
presentation that we got I did not hear new argument that
brought up questions about the completeness or appropriateness
of the eir that came before us today. >> okay supervisor kim has made had a motion to strike to
approve 16 and table 17 and 18 is there a second
seconded by supervisor cowen Madam Clerk call the roll.
>> oh, supervisor campos.
>> want to make sure we have
some discussion I want to thank
all the folks on both sides of
this issue that came out to discuss this project
and I have to say that for me it
is a challenging decision it is
challenging on so many levels I
want to begin by saying that, you know, the focus right now is
the eir but I do want to take the opportunity to thank
supervisor kim so for the work she and her office have done on this project
I think that the level affordability is commendable and
the idea we're near 40 percent
is very significant I also
believe that the issue of
affordability is something that
has to include the middle-income
and marching to struggle to say stay in the city
I think for me, the challenge is
will you have a project that has
many benefits one the benefits I
want to be clear having worked
with many developers over of the
years I believe that forest city
is a very respected and very
good player I think from my commerce having worked
well-being with folks that is
hard to find people who are more
commented to doing this right.
I know folks like a election and
other who I believe really have
the best interests of this community in mind and in that
sense there is a level of
comfort the challenge I have is
that you have not notwithstanding the benefits a
community that is in a very
unique predict a challenge for
me in some rights both sides of the community coming for or
against this project but a significant number of people
from the communities that are
raising questions about the
process and what this means for
planning for this community
ankle earlier today, I cast is a
vote in support of neighborhood
preference even though I have my
own concerns about that and a difference to the
african-american members of that
community who have expressed the
desire to try something
and so when faced with this community saying a significant
number saying this is not what
we want on the face so many
benefits I don't care that I'm
at a point to vote yes in terms
of the certification my sense 24
project Mr. Will go forward one thing I'm encouraged folks on
both sides of this project and I
think one of the challenges here
is that go well-intentioned as
some of the folks were against this project I would encourage
them to reach out and sit down with the project sponsor with
the developer doss because everyone whether or not supported you have to make sure this goes
forward it is done right and
that is inclusive of everyone
involved I hope that happens because of the concerns that
this community has raised I'm
not at the point right now that
I can support the eir
by the way, I also know the
likely outcome this goes and
there is a lot we should be
proud of and look forward to working with supervisor kim in
the community to make sure it is properly implemented thank you.
>> thank you supervisor campos commissioner avalos.
>> thank you a I is similar
comments as the supervisors comments this is really, really
hard to witness and to be part
of I do want to appreciate the
long length of time that forest
city has put on this project and
the work they've done in the
community despite seeing the
community not on the same page and united you've heard from
people in the in the room about the outreach that forest city has done and appreciate the
information about the project in
the south of market but
disappointed that there is not a
unit and not sure we can be in san francisco we've dealt with displacement over the decades and seems like every decade
there is a wave of several
displacement areas in the city
that go forward I think of what
happened in the fillmore where
redevelopment in the 1960s that
effort was seen and negro
removal we saw a huge displacement of african-americans from this fillmore with redevelopment happened
there and the old manila town
area and kearny and close to
chinatown had the I hotel that
went on this was a heart of the
huge filipino community in san
francisco and we-the I hotel
was removed but a hole in the
ground for a very long time
despite the hotel went down and
go nothing built there the filipino community left that area without a concentration
after the I hotel went down and
there was a whole waves of development a lot of people of the the neighborhood was
improving I want to have better
neighborighbors I want to have the development
going forward not the
displacement and Mr. Schneider
and the planning department said
we're not teacher of the year do
you buildings not about tearing down building but rezoning the area of san francisco in the south of market and with the
impact of that for the existing buildings and residents that are
there of the people have
protections around having the
below-market-rate places to live
and sro's that give security
having the vendors accompany with lots of people money and take over the neighborhood that
is part of what this project has
now I don't believe that forest
city is necessarily has that
impact in mind they're well
within the members working with
them and actually having
stabilization people calling the
stabilization measures the community benefits and actually,
I don't necessarily see them as benefits but stabilizing the neighborhood public school will
see a huge impact of rising land
values that make pack that hard
for working people to remain in
the neighborhood but anymore
stabilization measures we saw the south of market yerba buena
a large filipino population as
well and while they were not
entirely displaced senior centers and senior housing where large contemplations of
filipinos now not the same rich
community there in the past
around you see some of the
senior housing around fulsome
and fourth and third and
filipinos used to this with the
chinese residents and the
remnants of the 3 streets named
after filipino leaders in the presidio and other places
significant for the filipino community this is one of the vibrant communities that was there I'm concerned what will
happen with that part of san
francisco another we've seen the
community history of big
projects like this that displace people this can happen allergy
feel while we're in a time of san francisco where gentrification is real
displacement happening we can see the projected rise of land value and the impacts on
community I want to stay on the
right side of history where
people have been resist
resistant to the total of neighborhood that reject that
type of rezoning and be on that side that's not the majority things that people believe are
worthy of this project to
support and their puff by I
can't I'll be voting to say
right now no on you know the measures to approve those
projects I'm been voting more
more and more in support support of appeals going forward and
that's pretty much all I have to
say I want to thank the people
on both sides I don't take my
job not easily I vote either way
amend those projects because of divided community and understand from labor and the developers
and people are here from the
community that do incredible
work additional make san francisco the vibrant place that
are in favor of this project I
want to be on, on side of this vote. >> thank you commissioner
avalos and supervisor kim. >> thank you
I was going to save my comments
what we talk about the conditional use authorization and the approval because I didn't think my comments were
relevant for the certification
of the eir I don't see any issues that were brought up by
the appellant for the eir but since my colleagues are starting
to make comments on the project as a whole it is appropriate to speak about the project. >> supervisor kim before you
do that we've not called 26, 27
and 28 we can only do that once
the eir is approved. >> but we've had two
colleagues that poke on those
without calling them I don't
think any of the comments were related to the compact reviews. >> I want you to know. >> if we're going to speak about the project as whole it is
appropriate for me to make my comments now
first of all, I want to acknowledge the community input
and advocacy that shaped this
project to for the current project and design and recognize forest city in their outreach to
our youth and families serving organizations acknowledged
they're with the sud to a
transit advocates for the
bicycle coalition and todco and
tndc and other members and residents including the
tenderloin and filipino and the
mid mall residents the project
is swarltd along howard and 6th
street removing buildings the construction of an offense tower and two residential towers with
height from 200 to 4 housing
unit plus feet with the historic
believe the san francisco
crocodile and the demster at the
and other buildings this project
proposed to build 8 hundred plus
units of housing 40 percent of those units last year affordable
to low income go my mind income
range from homes for the
formally homeless and hotels and
restaurant workers and 83 units
for the low income seniors and
87 units for moifshgs from nurses to teachers they'll met
the threshold of a minimum of 40
percent of two bedroom mixed in those developments and let me
saythanasia that's an person
requirement as well as the affordable units many developers
are building studios and one bedrooms making that impossible
for families to live in san
francisco of they afford those market-rate housing this is the
first time a developer is
committed to building 40 and
middle-income housing we
announced the giants this is the
fifth development project that
is meeting 40 percent affordable
and middle-income without the public land that we negotiated
with the giants back in June was actually many of the
shareholders that are opposing this project
this project proposed to include
an acres open space mary kwourt
park I'm announce in the
engagement will be built in the
phase one and a rooftop and include the maintenance costs
this huge challenge with our
current portfolio of recreational centers and
paperwork I appreciate the project sponsor will be
maintaining those on their dime
it will include the following
benefits some of which I'll be
introducing $3.4 million in
transit fees we expect projects grandfathered and their commenting one million dollars to betsey carmichael south of
market, only public school and
the country's on this tagalog
language program they're commenting of thousands for south of market focusing on
those who preserve and setback
filipino arts and those are through amendments I'll announce
committing a certain number of federal reserve's for the soma fund established by many of the
advocates in this room and my
appreciation chris daily to make sure that any development south
of market electricities to the stabilizations of organizations
that implies and residents one
$.5 million with the stable fund
for youth and families serving organization in the south of
market one.42, 3, 4 workforce
and now instead of three hundred
thousand for the study of culture district the developer
has announced will submit
another $500,000 a half a million dollars for the implementations of the plan on
top of the study of 8 hundred indoors this is on top of the fees we will expect a
development to be assessed the
one $.5 million with the downtown space we'll be
dedicating to the park down the
street the park this community
fought for and 2.6 for the yerba buena are circle foreshadow impacts of this development that will come in through the phasing of this project and finally one
million dollars for the old mint an historic building across the
street from 5 m for programming,
security and facility needs
anyone on the board lives 5 m I
live one block away from in
project I love this neighborhood
May mechanic lives down the
street I pass mercy housing on
all sides on fulsome and howard
and on clemente now we're building 100 percent affordable
housing at hotel on the corner
of howard and 6th street to my east I have 100 percent
affordable housing seniors by
todco and I walk down 6th street
pass the single room occupancies
hospitality I get to pass united
playaz the vendors help to purchase they'll remain a
community organizations serving
our orchards and youth I live
across the street from the
victor park that is a community
fought for in 2006 and live
across from the after-hour clubs
everyday I see kids and families and seniors and a diverse neighborhood I understand the
fear of displacement and change in this neighborhood that's why
question have fought with the
community so hard to perceive this neighborhood that meant
pretty much 534 and other small
site acquisition in the south of
market we've taught for other affordable housing project again for redevelopment and recently working with the community we're
able to save all the tenants of
512 down the street of my house
that were challenged with evictions we call no fault
evictions and finally two blocks away from my house working
closely with the tenants thanks
to the board and mayor's office
to stop the largest eviction
saving hundreds of tenants
living in affordable rent-controlled unit down the
street ideally every project
this board passes would be affordable housing but we know under redevelopment plans and
the affordable on public land
depends on market-rate for the
subsidizing of homes we know we
don't have enough dollars to build affordable housing on
every site we control this is
not even on land we control this
is the area plan we've had the
ability to use the tax
implements a tool we've built 28
percent in bay area and 35 in transbay yet not a single
project not been able to use tax
increments is building 40
percent affordable and middle-income housing we're not talking about a large area plan
or redevelopment to use the tax
incrimination but a single
project on private lands committing to affordable housing
and low income housing the question asked two the members of the public who are we build for so let's have a breakdown of the
two projects that are before us
that are building at 40 percent
avenue, I only bring this up
many posing 5 m are supporting
it the giant projects are
building inspection 4 percent
this project is building 40 percent of ami and with
candidates to units for families that are formally will homeless
the giants have not made that
commitment and 21 percent of
giants are building and 5 m is 8
percent of one hundred to one
hundred 20 and both projects are
similar in that final 5 percent outside will be dedicated to
those making one and sro percent
of ami families that are in san francisco could 10 years ago
afford to live here the average
blend of the affordable ami in
giant is one and 2 percent A.M.
Is hitting a blackened of '75ers
of ami we're building more low
income housing units in the 40
percent project in 5 m than with the giant s
and we talked about the breakdown of the project 19
units commit to families that
are formally homeless 15 percent of A.M. We're talking about
rents between 200 and 68 to $344
a month those are studios that
.2 bedrooms that cost roughly
$300 and month and one and 3550
percent of the ami those are
rent at 1 hundred to one
thousand over with the examples
we brought up hospitality and
the rental workers and come to
the middle-income units close to
87 units between one hundred and
50 percent we took the salaries
we looked at in the city data
hookt what teachers nurses and electricians and first responders making sure we are
providing for a wide range the residents
and I I also want to talk about
consistency on this board two
years ago with exception of supervisor christensen's unanimously approved an sud that
created one and thirty units of
ultra luxurious housing without
a single unit of affordable
housing this is one block away
from the 5 m project this
project was passed unanimously
not a single comment how 80 this project electricities to displacement on the south of market
24 board supports projects and
area plans that build 12 and 20 percent affordable housing on a
regular basis I have to ask when
is it enough so I think there is
two alternatives that we can look around voting for this
project the one that was
presented by the opposite
opponent to build a code
compliant project even at a code
compliant you can lower the
office space and the code
compliant 12 percent limo assume
we would at 6 hundred and 1
market-rate that means we build 72 units 2, 3, 4 comparison to
the 200 and 44 that are offend
in this project the other alternatives, of course, 90 no project
so let's assume that no project
will mean and in the best case scenario no net displacement we know that displacement is
occurring in san francisco throughout the city and south of
market so it you believe that no
project here about contribute to more than net displacement and
rotating for no project on this
site make sense then it does men
we don't support development and
this brings me back to the
discussion on the moratorium
something I actively of actually supports I believe the more timer was a because of
development in the neighborhood
that was building very this
affordable housing in the single
digits district k9 has built 200
and 69 units of affordable
housing with 6 hundred and thirty no fault evictions in the
last 10 years and district 6 has
built 3 thousand plus of affordable housing and we've had
two hundred and 16 evictions in
the last 10 years there's a difference between the two districts that's why I supported
the moratorium in the mission that means no development to
study how we can build more affordable housing and, of
course, prevent the level of
evictions district 9 has as
second number of evicts in san francisco that make sense to support no more development in
the admission here in this
district we have different
numbers
at least 6 district in the city
have evictions 2 to 3 time the rate I'm not saying displacement
suicides not real and all the market-rate in the world will
stop it but 200 and 14 real
family unit covers the 200 and 16 no fault vibrations in
district 6 in the last 10 years
that's important
so I'll conclude I didn't think this is an important project for
us to support if we can't
support a project at 40 percent affordable Madam Clerk, any announcements? >> of middle-income housing I'm not sure what project this board can support I'm e I'd like
to push for more we as an office
push the boundary but not about
building as many market rate
housing but the balance
so how the to subsidize the maximum number of understanding
we're creating a better balance
in the city we've demonstrated
through the project working with forest city and the partners when we were worship involved in
the feedback we're putting the
best project forward to this board I ask colleagues for your
support on this project thank you. >> thank you, supervisor kim
before we move to the next
speaker Madam Clerk can you
please call items 26, 27 and 2
all an ordinance inform amend
the general plan by amending the
map of the downtown to reclarify
various lots and block amending to reclarify the height and unbelievable with the fifth and
special use district and
sectional map amending fingers 2, 3, 4 of the downtown plan to
refer to the fifth special use
district amending 4 and 5
thought urban to refer to the special use district and
amending 2, 3 and 5 of the south
of market to amend the map and
in assessor oversee block from the boundary the south of market
will area plan and adopting the
appropriate finding number 27 to
create the fist and mission
special use eased the sectional
map and reflect the fifth and mission specialemulsification
use and make the offer riding
considerations item 28 ordinance to approve the development
argument between the, llc for various to include various public benefits for the percentage of affordable housing, approving the impact
fees and acts more affordable
housing and other communities
benefits as so forth in the all
the time in article four or the administrative code and authorizing the acquisition of
real property on mission street more affordable housing and
conforming compliance with the awaiting provisions of the
administrative code chapters and
making other appropriate finding. >> thank you supervisor mar. >> thank you
I want to get to a couple of
points that jam I didn't the
attorney for the south of market
coalition and I think rachel the
attorney before had raised those
questions about the thinking
adequacy of the eir and other points to supervisor kim's points about the community
benefits package including the 4
percent avenue, I building that
was stated that the housing
linkage fees are used inform pay
for the eddy and taylor
development not tenderloin that money is general obligation bond
and not considered in the 40 percent they should be paying
above that and the land dedication for the mission
street is all that it is and
unclear how much of that will follow through according to the
coalition I also wanted to say
to that when you double count
jobs and housing linkage fees is
sets a precedence tera south of
market brought this up the
gradual democrat a graphic decline of the filipino south of
market I know that supervisor kim. >> brought up the contradiction
existing within district 6 that
has now the extreme I thought
weight and also the lowest income and highest passport a
project like this I believe that
so out of scope for the
residential neighborhood and the small businesses and other
including the mid mall will
increase the land values and
over time increased housing and
commercial rents and other
things have a general first
degree impact on the whole
neighborhood unless we looked at the planning like the south of
market coalition has come up
with central soma plans and
other and try to fit velocities
in that approach I epic that the
mission has done it with the people's plan with these other
neighborhood I them that spot zoning like this without
consideration of the historic
and the gunmen first degree
gangs leads to the inner experts
uc berkley is seeing a total push out of the filipino community
some said that is happening
anyway I don't buy that we should as a board doing everything we can to look at the
cumulative and historic impacts and look at the community
planning as a keynote allowing
spot zoning like this I also
wanted to add to it forest city
as other have said good about
reach out early 5 years of a process clearly support the
shared arts support and sf made
and other good things about the
neighborhood going I don't like
backroom deals and underlying in the face of community planning
that bother me by a what is going on I'll vote in favor of the appeals and veto in solidarity with the filipino and
the south of market community. >> (Clapping.) Thank you supervisor mar supervisor christensen. >> something a little bit
robust from this corner I want to thank forest city and congratulate supervisor kim and
all who hoped to shape that
project I think contrary I'm
encouraged no existing units are
lost and one solution to displacement rather than the
cause my primary comment a
tactical one the impacts of this
on the surrounding areas have
buffoon considered by I've been
thinking the impact on fifth
street and the disappointing and
plaza I'm expecting will be a main trite location for the
residents and workers for 5 m I wouldn't imagine tampa perez
with the fees that have been set
aside yerba buena and other but
it would be why to see the
transit fees perhaps plied to
stelgd the cord and see if we
can't do something about holiday
as we're doing wonderful things associated with 5 m. >> thank you supervisor
christensen supervisor wiener. >> thank you very much Madam President so I too support
this project I think that is a
terrific project I think there
was a terrific project 33
percent affordable it more a
terrific 40 percent affordable
there is a lot to like about this project I mean, I'll be supporting that I want to
address two things the first a lot of focus on the affordable
housing aspect of this project
it is critically important and deserves a lot of focus another
piece I have think doesn't get as much attention and should I
know that is stripping but the
transportation aspect and I'm glad that supervisor kim
received referred to the 706
mission project not onset
affordable housing but the other
part it didn't pay as far a dime
in transit impact fees that's not to blame that is our law was
to blame and corrected that last week
and this week by finally taking
the historic step of not standing the impact fees to
residential so 7006 mission would have made a large impact
fee if if was in place despite what poem say over air force
that project we've seen a series of projects in south of market
area that were not paying any
transit impact fees whatsoever
and in addition when the western selma plan came forward to this
board it had odd provision as a
project get bigger it paidlessly
transit impact fees we have a
big fight but able to fix that
and land use commission that was
not appropriate after 706 mission I sat down with
department heads and indicated I
would struggle to support projects not paying transit
impact fees and that even though
we were going to eventually
adopt an extension of impact fees to residents it was
important particularly with
zoning to include the full
impact fees we want to thank the departments for coming forward
and honoring that and so 5 m is
paying in full the equivalent of
the sustainability fee and when I met with the developers early
on I made clear that was and
high priority for me and that
needs to happen they made that
happen I'm very, very appreciative with so many needs
in the transportation in the south of market and in
particular so parolee served by
transit so it needs a lot more transit and obviously this
project is a drop off of market
street I hope to mention I appreciate that supervisor kim is beginning her remarks talking
about how there is no way I wish
we had all the money we needed
just to build below-market-rate
housing everywhere and supply
the lavendz we don't have that
kind of funding I agree what
supervisor kim we rely on plenty
of tax dollars again rely a
significant part on resources
generated by privately produced housing to create affordable housing whether onsite
affordable or paying fees to
build affordable housing
elsewhere that's at&t's our core
part and the two go hand in hand
creates a green good partnership, however, I don't
agree that means some sort of differentiation with the mission
moratorium you either if you
believe as I do and people do privately produced housing I'll
support and pay more affordable
housing that applies everywhere
we know that are that the
mission moratorium is shutting
down privately produced housing will damage our ability to build affordable housing in the mission I think that is
important to do housing in the
city that we not just do it by
negotiating a deal on a specific
project but actually having good
housing policy overall and talk about moratorium and shutting
down housing production that
puts us in the wrongs direction and supervisor kim statistics prove a point less displacement
in district of and in the midst
maybe precisely because so much housing production and anymore
housing production in district
of 6 both market-rate and
affordable that has a moratorium
that puts the fire to it and
makes that worse that is a good project I'll support it.
initially by eventually reached there one of the things we've
done wrong in our city and
probably everywhere in the U.S.
How to integrate our housing
with poor and rich communities
and the types of housing in
those cotion it it becomes
closer to what could be the
ideal situations where you have
mixed use not-it would have
been nice if we had had the eddy
taylor united within this block
but whether you look at it
overall in terms of the affordable units that are being
built in the sited or in the project itself
it is a well-balanced project
and so we talk about housing and
affordable housing and the other
piece of this, of course, the office building and the commercial building the thing
that gets lost in the discussion is this whole notation of
caregiver facilities that need
to be built we're so far behind
further behind in housing in terms of the housing to serve
our young children I met with
forest city reps just a few days
ago I mentioned we didn't consider childcare but you know
the situation in the city that
we're basically don't have
enough slots for the kids and they listen and said you know
something that is last minute we didn't think about that that
hard but I think that is
important we include this so to
you know, I was pretty hard the developer is offering actually
to make a good faith effort to include childcare space so later
on when we introduce the
amendments needed this will
include the language that will
go into the agreements section
indicating this will be the developers will include 3
thousand square feet of
childcare space for nonprofit
providers and so I'll be making
those amendments later it is
another example of what other
people said in terms of forest
city in regards to they're willingness to listen and to see
what the needs are and try to
work with them but, of course,
for the commercial piece of the development this could be
childcare facilities fees that
la be charged to it anyways but
for someone to say step forward
and say I'll be able to look at
it and seriously consider
building for childcare we know the needs of the community
that's another motivation to say
this is a very good project. >> thank you supervisor yee supervisor cowen.
>> I'll call the question on
the eir Madam Clerk roll call. >> on.
>> oh, I'm sorry the motion
that supervisor kim made a
motion and senthd by supervisor cohen specifically for the
approval of the items 16 and
tabling item 17 and 18.
>> supervisor avalos no supervisor breed supervisor campos no
supervisor christensen
supervisor cowen supervisor farrell
supervisor kim
supervisor mar no supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee
there are 8 I's and 3 nos with
supervisor campos
supervisor mar and another supervisor.
>> Madam Clerk go to 26, 27
and 28 I believe there are
amendments supervisor kim for item 28.
>>
I'm sorry so we're now on the d
da and the sud did we skip over
the requesting you.
>> we are required to do items
26, 27 and 28 first before we
move to the next item.
>> I did not realize yes, I'm
submitting the first but supervisor yee. >> as I mentioned the
amendments in which you have a
copy of will go into the
agreement one of the development
to add the following to the
section 7.9 and basically childcare use I don't think I have to read the
whole thing I have it. >> okay.
>> and the other amendment I
want to make will go to the ends
of knowledge section 249.74 d-7
a and any open space says any
open space to satisfy the chvrn
to use for collaborating
coincidental residential and non-residential.
>> is there a motion seconded
by supervisor cowen
can we take this thing without objection. >> supervisor christensen. >> there's a daycare at yerba
buena center a large facility
and others private childcare on how does that work near 7th
street so I can't determine a sufficient need to set citywide
this sacrifice for this it specific purpose I don't know
we've generated an indication
this is an absolute necessity. >> supervisor yee clarify is
this a requirement or a suggestion.
>> this is I'm asking them to
build a childcare center and do
a good faith effort to do this the centers it supervisor
christensen are-is referring
to their fueling fuel with a
waiting list and this can be
more families and more needs.
>> thank you, Madam Clerk call the roll. >> for clarity Madam President
the childcare is to 28. >> correct.
>> and the sud was made to
item 27. >>; is that correct supervisor yee. >> correct. >> okay. Thank you.
>> wait I want clarity I
missed-
>> deputy city attorney john gibner, deputy city attorney
please explain why the second
amendment was maids on item 27
and not 228. >> john gibner, deputy city
attorney so the first amendment
is not an amendment for
legislation only a change to the extremity agreement at the end
of the hearing we'll provide the
clerk with an agreement what all
the changes reflected in that
the second item in the document
that supervisor yee handed out the 5 m sud amendment is
actually on amendment to the
ordinance on item 27 reflecting
the same content. >> okay. Thank you for
clarification Madam Clerk, please call the roll.
>> commissioner avalos supervisor breed
supervisor campos
supervisor christensen
supervisor cowen
supervisor farrell
supervisor kim supervisor mar
supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee
there are 11 I's.
>> okay. The amendment passes unanimously supervisor kim.
>> thank you
I had alluded to 4 other amendments in any earlier comments just to restate them
for the public and my colleagues the first amendment is to increase from three hundred
thousand to 8 hundred thousand
the amount for the filipino
culture heritage district if you
did through the soma stabilization fund for
consultation and other studies
and also implementing the filipino culture district and
make sure it went through the
stabilization fund so the cac
that represents the central soma
have a say in terms of how the funds are spent the second
amendment is the change the 1
pointed $5 million of open space and specifically is specifically
directed for the jean recreation center and the park on top of
the change to put the 1.5 in
nonprofit capital fund and
redirect it if the overall mayor's office to the south of
market stabilization fund so the
committee can see how the funds
will be spent 24 change the 1
housing unit 5 founds from the mayor's office of economic workforce development to the cac
and brought in the categories
with the soma stabilization fund economic advancement for families and individuals responding to the criticism that some of the workforce money is too high a level for the
residents that we have in the
south of market.
>> supervisor kim can we slow
down can we go back to the
transfer of the fund from the office of economic workforce development to the cac can you
provide an explanation of that, please.
>> what do you mean by an explanation.
>> trying to understand why it
was transferred to the cac rather. >> the cac. >> sorry.
>> for for workforce this is based information from our
office since those workforce fund were targeted to the south of market will residents it
would be better that the people familiar with the organizations
will have a say in terms of how
the funds are spent down it
allows the citizen's advisory
council to get impact and
feedback rather than to the
microorganisms the lower income
folks to be less skilled to have
this prop m you're on number 4.
>> yes. The fourth amendment moving one million dollars to
the yerba buena gardens anticipate the project sponsor
from m-1 to mitigate for the
shadows at yerba buena play
circle an important place to
play while this garden is not protected many advocates figure out to you insure a mitigation
of the shadows on this site and
setting a standard for non-rec
and park spaces where they have
shadow impact and the finally
amendment? From the community
that there is an early delivery
of mary court west at the ground floor level to be guaranteed
prior or prior to the construction of first building
this park will be a benefit to
the entire neighborhood it will
asset this be phased in an
earlier part of the project
verse the latter so the open
space can be enjoyed prior to
the construction by the time certificate of preference to the
paperwork and the hours will be open twenty-four hours.
>> supervisor kim has made a
motion to amend item 28 a second
by supervisor yee colleagues without objection without objection those passes unanimously
okay seeing no other names on
the roster I will I'd like to entertain a
motion on 26, 27 and 28.
>> so I'll make to move to
move forward items 26, 27 and 28.
>> do I need to make a motion
actually don't we it can role
individually and make a motion
on the office allocation on this roll call.
>> as amended. >> Madam Clerk roll call.
>> commissioner avalos no supervisor breed supervisor campos
no
supervisor christensen
supervisor cowen
supervisor farrell
supervisor kim supervisor mar no
supervisor tang
supervisor wiener supervisor yee
there are 8 I's and 3 with no commissioner avalos
supervisor campos and a supervisor mar in opposition and
the authorized legislations we
will consider the conditional
use appeals items 20, 21 and 22
are the conditional use authorization involved analysis of whether the planning commission determination to
authorize the project was appropriate
this hearing is quasi-judicial
so to overturn the planning commission or authorization the
conditional use with 8 votes of
board are required so do we have
a motion for items 20, 21 and 22 supervisor kim.
>> thank you. I'm make a
motion to moved on 20 and.
>> seconded by supervisor tang
Madam Clerk seeing no names on the roster. >> commissioner avalos no supervisor breed supervisor campos
no
supervisor christensen
supervisor cowen
supervisor farrell
supervisor kim
supervisor mar
supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee
there are 8 I's and 3 meows with supervisor campos commissioner avalos and
supervisor mar in December sent
we're affirming the planning
commission relating to the conditional use.
>> and last but not least colleagues the conditional use
authorization are firmed we will
now consider the office
allocation items 23, 24 and 25 a
conversion appropriateness of
the allocation to reject or
affirm requires 6 votes of board of supervisors so supervisor kim.
>> make a motion to move
forward items 23 and table 24
and 25 your supervisor kim has
made a motion
seconded by supervisor yee Madam Clerk call roll. >> commissioner avalos no
supervisor breed
supervisor campos
supervisor christensen supervisor cowen
supervisor farrell
supervisor kim
supervisor mar
supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee there are 89 I's with supervisor campos commissioner avalos
and supervisor mar in the December sent.
>> the office logos are affirmed.
Chanting: .
>> a 5 minute recess everybody.
>> good evening- >> yes.
>> good evening, everyone and
welcome back to the late night addition of the board of supervisors
we are now approaching our
second 3:00 P.M. Special order
this is exactly why they pay us
the big bucks it is nearly 11:00 o'clock we're conducting business Madam Clerk.
>> can we go to the next 3:00 P.M. Special orders.
>> yes items 29 through 32 is a public hearing for persons
interested in the certification
of a environmental impact report
or eir dated September 3rd for
the proposed demolition of
existing 8 level parking garage with a over basement
approximately 200 and 20 foot
tall building with 33 dwelling
units with 5 thousand plus
ground floor retail space on
howard street and item the
thirty for the certification the
eir prepared for the 75 howard
and item 31 motion to reverse
the certification of the f eir
and 32 to direct the finding
relate to restoring the commissions set of facts
certification of the f eir.
>> this the the final environmental impact report on
75 howard in district 6 thank you, supervisor kim our consideration involves the
adequacy and accuracy and the sufficiency and completeness the environmental impact report without objection we will precede as follows:
up to 10 minutes for the appellant to describe the
grounds of their appeal up 2 minutes for the public examiners
no support and 10 minutes for the representing of the planning
department staff to present it's analysis for civil rights the
eir and up to 10 minutes for the parties in interest to present their case for certification of
the eir and up to 2 minutes for
public commenters to speak in
support in support of affirming the environmental impact report
and finally the appellant has up
to 3 minutes for a rebuttal
at this time supervisor kim any opening remarks.
>> I donna do supervisor President London breed thank you
for that
75 howard is another waft in the
transit center district the parking structure I'm sure many
of you have parked
the c-3 special district at 200
height and bulk district the
project sponsor paramount demolishes the parking garage
with a 20 story 200 plus ground
square feet and one and 33 residential building
with 5 thousand plus square feet
of ground floor retail space and
off-street parking spaces this will this was initially filed in
January of 2012 and initially
with a different project proposal was substantially
amended in August of last year
to build a smaller largely as of
right 26 accomplice at all square feet building
there are multi concerns that
have been shared by the office
and the briefly I look forward
to hearing the concerns and feedback the members of the
public and also hearing from the
project sponsor on the
certification of environmental review thank you >> thank you, supervisor kim at this time the appellant or the appellants represent will
have up to 10 minutes please
come forward.
>> hello supervisors david
osgood from rincon point long
day we just point out we were fine with continuing this
meeting the developer was not
so that's, we're here don't
blame us the good news we're not
going to have many speakers
especially this kind of night
but keep in mind that this is an
area one of those areas in san
francisco that people all over town care of about actually
people all over the region and
all over the state they're
watching what we do tonight this
area needed to be planned wisely outside the scope opposition to
this and the concern about the
eir from renters, businesses like condo owners and property
owners throughout the area
we submitted our petitions to
you signed by over three hundred and 50 neighbors concerned
community groups proposed to the project
including save rincon park the coalition informative san francisco neighborhood, the
alliance for a better district 6
and central city at harvey milk lgbtq club and san francisco tomorrow and the affordable
housing alliance
not only is the eir deficient
but planning know of it's
deficiency before planning moved
to vote and rincon submitted a letter pointing out the eir was
deficient in many of the ways we
listed in our appeal they appointment the project didn't
conform to the downtown area
plan and didn't setback or step
down it makes it inconsistent with the surrounding properties
and the traffic analysis was not
done properly among other
shortcomings we also appoint the
eir is deficient when analyzing
shadows and shorter alternatives
actually 43 they especially/
novels one shorter
alternative they said it a
shorter building would have been
a alternated historic preservation are concerned
you've received our brief
written by a major california law firm
the eir needs to be sent back
and recalculated it didn't comply with ceqa talk about affordable housing let's be
clear that is noted a class more affordable housing
even though the developer agreed
today to contribute $6 million
more info offsite housing this
serves to widen the gaps between
the vaets this is a classic
example of providing the for the
other extreme at the end of the spectrum nothing in between and
keep in mind crossing the published numbers this developer
can raging rake in half a
billion dollars
do the math published estimated
indicate those luxurious condo unit subtle for one thousand to
2 thousand a square feet on the
waterfront probably going to
have the higher demand has 200
and 80 thousand square feet
that's about $500 million gross
and it is gross
and for that $6 million extra
donation that's a drop in the bucket.
>> talk about traffic we know traffic congestion is gotten
worse in recent years it is so
bad did south beach democrat
club called a meeting tenant and
supervisor wiener and an aide to supervisor kim
and improper traffic analysis
was ultimately killing
washington and made mistakes planning comes across as
desperate green in trying to use
stale data for the traffic analysis and planning trooiz
tries to stay they don't have to
update the data because traffic
has not changed puncture that is
hiss material not only has
traffic not increased their
claiming in their response
written four days ago that is it
actually gone down 26 point
accomplice including the embarcadero really?
Supervisor if you had this
information when you went to the south beach democrat club thank
you have told them traffic is
not real it has gone down 26
percent obviously traffic has
increased significantly and
their I read or required to use
fresh data the eir is sufficient
and in other ways as well
now they even tried to explain
why traffic went down 26 percent
maybe a bit of skeptical tim
frye they tried to explain that
was planning that the mandated
right turns have gone do you
thing this is humor this is
ridiculous the heavy traffic in soma doesn't come from van ness
and market but the financial
district during the times of day and those cars have in
restrictions where we go through the soma.
>> let's see shadows and shorter
amendments when it comes to
shadows let's be clear both the
eir and turn stones recently
updated study no uncertain terms this casts significant shadows
on the heart of rincon park the developers animation I'll put it
on the screen this is what they showed the planning department and I don't know if they'll show
it here tonight but if at the do
please make them stop it where
this still is
looking here this is howard is
includes all believes that have
been improved and not built like
the salesforce transbay tower
there is a significant shadow
from 75 howard alone
the turn stones updated August 2015 report states quote
the proposed project will cast
net new shadows on most days throughout the year
and therefore resulting in
significant and unavoidable
shadowing on rincon park
touchstone and the developers animation includes the shadow
from building that reason built
planning tries to use a number
to quantify how much shadow
impact and I haven't found
anyone who understands those
numbers the one thing for sure
the number while sounding small
is twice the shadow impact on
the property development next to
the victor park that development
had a shadow impact number hsa
half as big from the recreation and parks department rejected that project last January
let me quote the eir on shadow
quote any development with
subsequent height approximately,
one hundred will shadow rincon park thus, in feasible
mitigation to reduce it's impact
to a lens significant level
draft eir page 24 the eir is
deficient it didn't analysis a
shorter building of manmade a
point that a shorter this what
mitigate the building they only
have a reasonable number of alternatives we believe this
should include one shorter
alternative do you this they've
certainly had time to do a complete study
thank you very much.
>> thank you are 33 there any members of the public that time
to comment in support of appeal at this time please step forward.
>> commissioners my name is
alyssa I appreciate your being
here late this evening for an
important project I live on
rincon hill and the involved in
the neighborhood association
when it comes to amend this has
to do with the developers responsibility please keep in mind the development team stated
in the press and community
meeting they get a healthy
income from the business one of
the key members called the
garage a gold mine it is worst
remember remembering the reality
e real estate industry built
open to site they could have
built housing it is newcomers
and commercial believes that
were built next to the freeway
and paramount knew their due diligence that city requirements
call for a low building the
developer needs to take
responsible for their own
decisions our briefs
specifically raise the issue
potential flood damage to
excitement equipment on the
lower level and laushgs cars in
the garage are go the first
floor damage would be
significant flooding is a
potential problem yet nothing
about this responded on page 11
they specific say damage will be
caused mask the eir is silent on
the millions of dollars of
damage to cars and mechanic
equipment and calls the issue
less than significant
you have a choice noting vote with the folks of san francisco
enough is enough-
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> I work out at the ymca there
at near spear and howard and
infrequent traveling by this
site there is only about one
feet between this project
location and the embarcadero what you considered important regarding 8 washington what is
there a triangle of urban used
land only used for construction so, please there-this is
sierra club on the embarcadero
the list of problems associated
with that as long as you're arm
according to the legal briefs by
the california law firm the eir is deficient it analyzing
traffic and hazardous materials
and acre lovely and historic
restoration a study has not been
done it mitigates the shadow on rincon park the developer is
offering to contribute
$6 million to the inclusionary affordable housing program
despite making hundreds of
million dollars on the project
shadow impacts on rincon park is
upcoming yield on many days of
year kroorz to the turn stone report no affordable housing on the neighborhood something you
have talked about being important when you talked about
having a neighborhood preference
more affordable housing.
>> >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good morning.
>> not yet.
Laughter:
My name is-70 for san francisco neighborhood several things about that project that
is an opening problem that will
continue and at some point we
have to say stop we need housing
for people that live here
there is the number of problems
include no affordable housing on
site in the neighborhood the
projects is not code compliant
has exceptions and variances are being sought for extra height
and bulk 20 percent over the 200 height limit
specific criteria allowing extra
height are being abused it
violates urban design guidelines
calling for more buildings on
the waterfront and vitals the
building taxpayer down as called by the urban design downtown
area plan and the transbay district plan
guidelines are violated the call
for tops the project lacks
significant setbacks and this violates the neighborhood pattern
impact on traffic significant
and unavoidable for the eir architecture are cop their
stripped boxes design with
allocate nearby project.
>> good news the warriors one tonight bad news the public
might lose tonight I hope you
turn this project down thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> tom I'm getting used to we
don't need have to have a environmental impact report it
seems like everything needs an
environmental impact report
where the city is the overhead
please this is not the project
this is
this is 7th street between
mission and 6th street and we
kind of like what we are doing
here this is post communist meow
liable design that wants to live
in our city so projects
developers can make a whole lot
of money and you get no space
and south of market in the eastern neighborhoods and
downtown we have very little
park I don't want to hear anyone
put a building in planning that
will throw shadows on a park not across from market street a park
in the high dense area is not on
the ground but in the sky
a parking lot is an aerial parking lot you'll see space this is new and you won't be
able to see what is on the
overhead very soon they're
building out huge building and again not displacing people but including people from the neighborhood
we need to reduce profits we
need to increase humanity and
introduce our neighbors to our
planning and development and
thirty percent is open market
whether a condominium or it is a rental building thank you.
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> good evening supervisors
I'm reed I'm a long time
residents of the area in which
this project is located moving
in hills plaza block away I
submit materials that was part
of eir process as did my
building with the help of other
people that live in the building, however, the project
that we commented on not the
project that is before you at this point
this project has changed
dramatically from its original presentation to the planning
department it started at three
hundred and 50 feet plus then
went down to two hundred and 90
now down to two hundred and 40
feet yet this isn't the height
that was oefrnl and initially
studied by the eir further the
two main concerns that were
raised are shadows and traffic
the shadows as part of draft eir
there was not a study that was later submitted
with the traffic the same thing
on very relevance a new traffic
study submitted the public has not had an opportunity to
consider the project that is
being proposed indeed when it
was first proposed and the draft
eir was present it was stated
that what we are now calling the code compliant alternative was not economically feasible yet
that's the project they're asking for approval that was not
the project that did public had the opportunity to comment on
nor is it the project that
you've had the fill opportunity
to consider the material and
supporting documentation so I
urge you to reject the eir and
send it back to for on updated
eir that presents this project-
>> thank you very much. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> sue hester as reed said the
project is not the same as that
which was in the eir and it is
frustrating people sent a lot of
time commenting on a project the
city said is infeasible they
keep on amending the information
up this is the only high-rise
building on the waterfront
there is no more sites there are
no more sites this is it
so it deserves really serious condition you should spent
sometime planning department had
their hearing not same thing an
hour earlier we'll have late
night hearings twice on this
project that deserves people
thinking throw things one thing
that bother me, you pay the same
numb u autumn in the a formula
for a unit that sells for
$10 million as for hundred thousand dollars the project is
shifted it shifted today it needs to be explained fully in
the eir and needs to be an opportunity for the public to understand what is going on
there is nothing that will have
as obstructed waterfront as this
site the odds of the embarcadero
has this is perpetuate cash
machine for the developers
you need to step back and is
would I want to have any vote on
the plaque on the building he voted for this project I
wouldn't so I'm asking you to
continue this and get more inspiration thank you very much.
>> thank you. Any other members of the public who want
to speak in support of appeal seeing none, public comment is closed
represent from the planning
department you're presentation
please. Good evening supervisors I'm dan planning department joining me
is sarah jones any review office
and senior environmental planner and transportation planner this is the planning commission
certification of the eir it is
important to noted we're not-
we're here to speak about the
adequacy of the project we sent you two appeal letters sent by
the appellant the concerns in
the appellants October 5th and November 6th letters is similar
to comments address in the internal revenue I will summarize tonight those issues
are fully addressed and analyzed
in the eir and the appellant
doesn't provide any substantial
evidence to the contrary I speak to the appeal the proposed project analyzed in the dprir
was for three hundred and 48 at
all towers that require a health
reclassification over the draft
eir the project sponsor provided
a 200 plus tower that complies
it the eir is the alternative
the environmental alternative as
has the least impact the
responses to the alternative to increase that alternatives tower
height by 20 feet and it is now
the preferred project that was
analyzed in the eir I will touch
on the main points of appeal starting with shadows the
project shadows have analyzed in eir the draft eir found the
original proposed project at
three hundred plus is causing a
shadow on the park many park
users in the afternoon found the
shadow to be substantial and
adversely effects the enjoyment
of the park the substantial
shadow impacts were
appropriately considered the
clvmentd was the approved
project creates 35 percent less shadows we thought the code
compliant shadows will have a
significant shadowing impact an
alternative to reduce the impact
for less than significant any
building turn around the 90 foot parking garage has a shadow on
retaining I rincon park in the
afternoon a study that include
more shadows on rincon park and the little that are under construction for the baseline
conditions were established to the eir
this new 2015 study completed that he request of the project
sponsors provide a snapshot of
current conditions and make use
of project there are more
shadows from the exit and less
new result shadows on rincon
park this does alter the conclusions there is a
significant shadow and the eir
relies on the shadows accurately
and the alternatives the study is consistent and shows less
shadow the eir needs to be recalibrated the study was not
included in the eir that's not
correct and moving to the
alternative that the appellant
argues the eir should have considered provides two
alternatives in the alternative
at 280 and 220 feet the number of alternatives analyzed in the
eir is adequate and compliance
with sentencing e california environmental quality act only
requires a range to the rule of
reason that requires the eir so
forth only those no iron clad
ruling requiring the alternatives to be discussed in
the eir the purchase to focus on
the reducing E.R. Eliminating a
sixth effect of project the eir
doesn't need to consider all
alternatives but must consider a
range of feasible alternatives
in placing a 90 foot parking
garage with a one foot tall
structure is not feasible on the
project site and in November 6th
letter to the board that is
attached to the supplemental the
project sponsor says the loss of
income and the construction
associated with the one foot building is not feasible moving
on to travel the eir didn't found any significant transportation impacts the
traffic analyze use the 3 counts
in the letter for a 16-month-old
stood out and 22 masonic the
based on were established this
is consistent with the san francisco planning department transportation impact guidelines
which states that the account
collected in the previous two
years can go used for traffic
patterns to be stable you see
here the appellant claims those
accounts are stale not providing demonstration felt intersection
conditions that substantially change the baseline conditions were established the appellant
refers to the 8 washington case
the howard project is distinguishable and the
publication that establishes the baseline conditions was
published in December of 2012
and the building from
February 2011 and June 2012 both
within with the two year guidelines it is consistent with
our fwlz and taken on to farmer's market day the proper question whether the traffic data in the eir reflect the
current conditions the time the
eir was prepared they say yes.
The unsubstantiated climates in
the eir implicit one can't be
used and recounted due to temporary conditions those
comparisons are attached the overall traffic volumes were
found to be lower in the eir and
the traffic analysis with the
eir was more conservative and
therefore the traffic analyze
and conclusions remain valid and
to support the garage will stay
in the area we didn't net it out the transportation analysis is
for conservative again, the
appellant states it is not not true and his material showing
the intersections in the area
have now what we report in eir
no new issues were raised that
have's not been address and in
conclusion the eir sufficiently
is adequate and accurate address
objective staff remembering asks
the uranium accurate and we're here to answer questions.
>> supervisor kim.
>> this issue was in the last
eir and appeal as the question
on planning policy regarding
when an update is required you mentioned that the traffic
analysis for the eir was
conducted on February 2011 and
June 2012 and the final eir
according to the documents
douptsdz 3 years later in 2015
is there a policy when an update required.
>> for those types of analysis. >> we-
>> sue michaelson planning department staff supervisor President London breed consistent with the guidelines
we have a general policy we look
at traffic accounted more 2
years old not a set per say
older accounts or using on older
accounted we'll choose to use the analysis whether the updated accounts within variance that
says those can be used we have on the projects the 5 m the
project before us is the difference between the traffic updates and the certification
can range up to 4 three or four years
on many projects the 5m and the cpmc.
>> can you-is that allowable within ceqa has someone considered that in the advisory committee of tremendous youth
here in san francisco so two or
three years you know maybe 20 years ago that maybe a stretch
maybe not as much as a difference in the study certainly now to the layperson that is driving through san
francisco and walking through
san francisco there seems a
tremendous difference would is
make sense to reexamine that standard.
>> good evening supervisors
sarah john environmental impact
officer we're in tandem with a
lot of changes in the transportation analysis look at
the transportation analysis
guidelines that is among the issues to be considered, however, in terms of the
maturely change over time and is or isn't reflected in the transportation analysis when we
are doing the transportation
analysis look at the study from
the time that the accounts have
take place so to the degree that
we are considering we're not
just considering the addition of the project we're also considering overall growth
within the area and overall increases in the traffic so we
have pickup on the increases in
the traffic that are occurring
over time through the analysis
and essentially taking new
accounts would not be expected
to add addition information
about what kinds of traffic
conditions might be for seeable or present at the time that a project is expected p
implemented we've picked up on
the exterminate growth that is
part of projects and the accumulative analysis if
anything we're taking new
accounted with increased
background traffic this is the impacts of the ratify in the
area so essential that is not
going to provide a worst case
scenario of what the project
might add given the conditions at the time.
>> do you mind just explaining
that last part of you're
statement sorry so essentially
we're looking how much a traffic might be adding to the intersections surrounding the
site it takes a fair amount of
traffic from one level of
service down to a worse level of service
so you are essentially if you're
in a situation you're adding on
project traffic to background traffic the more traffic around
the area the less of an
incremental impact on the traffic so we're doing updated accounts and seeing there is more traffic in the area first
of all, we might be seeing there
is the same thing of tracking
we've amended in the eir through
the accumulative analysis, and,
secondly, it would tend to you
know the result would be more
likely to understate the impacts rather than provide what we had assessed in doing our eir
analysis as a worst case scenario of the project.
>> this is very much coming from a layperson prospective anyone
that May not understand all the
technical aspects of ceqa I
guess I think what come up for a lot of the residents if our district and around the city
maybe our analysis is inadequate
it didn't seem like the eir
griffin of given the growth that
is from a lay persons
prospective when we look at the
criticisms from our residents
how we study the jobs density
and impacts I think people look
at what we were experiencing and
wonder if we predicted any of
this with the growths in the
city and I would say that our traffic impact analysis did
predict the levels of congestion
we're seeing we have particularly in the areas
surrounding those transit center
district plan areas in this environmental impact report we
saw many intersections going to
a lot of traffic to this area the construction impacts that
the we assessed were significant
we did a fairly unusual construction the construction impacts on traffic would be
significant in this area so, yes
we did predict a lot of increased traffic in the city and weer expecting that.
>> so I guess the next
question why not a better way of implementing this.
>> there is a limited amount
you can do to mitigate forgive
traffic impacts typically
there's a little bit of
adjustment in terms of signal
Mr. Haney things like that one
you know for the immediate
impacts at an intersection you
can do is add lanes add capability and widened the intersection to move cars through quickly that is not
something we do in san francisco
typically partially because we have a constrained city not
something that is something we
have the space to do and the other reason san francisco has
made a number of policy
decisions not prioritizing the
movement of cars and you know
essentially to accept traffic in the interest of modes of transportation. >> I appreciate that response my second question on the
shadows the other issue that has been brought up by the
appellants and it southern of me the limited open space in district 6 and shadow and it's
impact on the enjoyment of our
parks the updated 2015 shadow
analysis for howard differs the
transparency of class using the
20 foot parapet am I pronouncing that correctly I want planning
to comment on this this is a big
issue in the district because
the rooftop parapet reach up to
50 feet we're seeing that
utilized in the tall buildings in the south of market so I was hoping that planning could
comment on that and sticking around that.
>> well, the shadow study was
done at the request of the sponsor they used the moving
forward they could model a transparent rooftop screening we
didn't side that in our internal revenue analysis question look
at the bulk massing but I'm not
yeah-I'm not sure about the
shadow if we could fad that. >> lisa planning department
staff if I could
to add to what Mr. Louis said
the eir analysis relied on a
shadow that modeled the building
as a shadow mass is provided an
estimate or projected the amount of shadow a
a shadow worse case scenario the
pardon asked that it take advantage of the improvements in
the methodologies that allows
for modeling of transparent building features in that way
showing that the project will
have less shadow than what we
recorded in the eir so the
important thing to remember is
that the eir adequately
identified the project will have
a significant shadow impact and
the updated shadow analysis
didn't change that conclusion we
had adequate information to substantiate our findings and
don't disagree there is a significant shadow impact. >> thank you.
>> supervisor wiener.
>> thank you just briefly
follow-up on in terms of the
congestion and mitigate that congestion, of course, the
solution to mitigating congestion is to have
world-class public transportation and that's what
gets ulcer us to the actuation
evacuation calculation we don't
prioritize car movements and so
more congestion because we
haven't coupled the development with great public transportation
that's really the only way that
we'll ever mitigate not
eneventual to have congestion we
need to make the right policy decisions.
>> okay supervisor wiener.
>> for always be consistent
Laughter: .
>> next, we have a
presentation from the project sponsor.
>> good evening mixes I'm for
the howard project we're here to respectfully ask the board
uphold the final eir for the 75 howard project and reject this appeal we concurring or concur with the planning department on
the record and in writing the
eir clearly satisfies ceqa as the department statistics no new
information on the objection the eir deserves to be upheld I'd
like to address a couple of
things I know it's late 75 howard is in the transit
district plan area and in the
transit rich do you only core it
is occupied and supervisor kim
stated by an approximately 5
hundred and 50 car parking space it is in the embarcadero freeway
and represented a structure that
can't be built again, today the
only question properly before the board is the accuracy of the
eir I want to spend a moment to
talk about 9 issues that were
addressed in order to set the
context the city recently
recently adapted it site and in
adapting the city increased the
height at the same time imposing
a unique obligations to help to
pay for the center in critical project for the city and region
it is important to note this site received no increases in
height as part of plan, however,
it is the conclusion in the
planned air this plan pay for
the assessments of amount of
approximately $43 million over
years as well as paying the open space and street improvements
and transportation fees the 75
howard project an unavoided good
the project proposes to tear
down the garage with a code
compliant residential building
with ground floor retail a platinum certification not only did this project address the
environmental wrongs of past as note supports the development of
critical infrastructure and the
improvement of the district as
well as paying all applicable fees to that end the project
sponsor has been pursuing it's
approvals contributing more to
avenue than the amounts required
by law to assist the tndc
project to come to frustrate shut up ultimately the 75 howard
project that was approved pay
the planning commission was a
code compliant project and as
such the new fee is 20 percent those project approvals again
are not properly before the
board this evening, however, the project sponsor still wishes to
make a contribution to produce affordable housing and is
therefore offered to pay additional money above and beyond did 20 percent required
by law we submit both the record
a letter from the project sponsor that offers the 75
howard is constructed to pay an
additional amount of money to
total to 33.3 percent this the project sponsor believes is consistent with the policy
direction adapted by the city
voters in 2014 by prop k
turning now to the issue that is properly before the board this
evening the eir for the 75
howard project is it is
studyingly thorough only 3
impacts identified for the final
issuing one cumulative traffic
impact that happens only from the city implements the 3w0ub89
as part of pedestrian plan that
bulb out will improve the public
safety cause the spear and
howard intersection to fail with or without this project the appellant claims the traffic
account are tools and the
department explains the uses
were taken in February 2011 and
2012 for the students
methodology although the city's
approach is not recent it is a
traffic consultant used on the
transfer experts list to perform
new account in noah valley of
2012 we submitted that report the traffic is somewhat less than the account in the eir the
traffic analysis in the eir was
on the conservative does the
city traffic consultant
performed a peer review and
agreed the appellants to the 8
washington case are completely
out merit the 8 washington
decision is not relevant it is
completely distinguishable the 8 washington of all the evidence
the city for not having a
farmer's market day the eir and
the l t w were performed on a
farmer's market day the second
reason the embarcadero here the
lcw recounted and finally to the
point the questions coming up
the ceqa guidelines sections are very clear that existing conditions are established as of the date of notice of
preparation that in combinations
with the following the city's
impact guidelines that the methodologies was correct
followed ceqa and the city's
guidelines and was without flaw
the other a impacts although
rincon park is not subject to
prop k the eir found the shadows
will fall apple areas where the
public sits it is unavoidable
they were exhausted in details
it was studied a variety of
height to give this board a
scale of shadow the project architect looked at the ones
that were referred to in the records and concluded the net
amount of hoods is about the
same amount as the shots of the
boo and arrow sculpture in the
park they're more conservative
in the eir but nevertheless,
describe that shadow as fairly modesty, however, how modest the
amount of shadow the eir
concluded a significant and you
think yield impact not mitigate
there is simply no debate so the
appellant argues that the eir if
analysis a sufficient number of alternative and requested a one
hundred foot be analyzed as the eir as the department explained
second didn't require an infinite number of alternatives
and is subject to the real
estate rule of reason that can
mitigate the impacts of eir did present alternatives including
the no project that retained the garage and discussed the
potential shadow impacts at a
variety of heights the potential of. >> a building is lowered but
explain any building over one
hundred feet in height casts a
shadow again, the eir concluded
the new shadows were cast on
where people sit it can't be mitigated the project sponsor
explain why they don't believe
to tear down an 8 building
structure to replace a 9 story structure and the architect explained the reasons for
rejecting a shorter building it
was not necessary to analyze an alternative with only that one
story taller in order to to the
decision makers about the effect
the ceqa guidelines is clear the
reason that the eir quote and so
forth only those alternatives
that permit a reasonable choices
unquote it met the standards and
it is baseless the city analysis is complete that, sir exceeds
the reminded of ceqa and we
believe that deserves our support and we respectfully ask
that you uphold this eir thank you, very much. >> thank you.
>> so at this time we will open up for public comment for
anyone who is in support of the
project anyone that does not
support approving the appeal please step forward.
>> good evening joel cop he will san francisco electrical industry the local contractors
that will be on the job and the
folks will be on this job it is
a parking lot a way better use for the lot necessary and
desirable the eir is adequate
please move forward the project. >> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> >> hi, I'm sorry we're all here
and I just want to say that you know the appeal is without merit
and we need to find better
faster for efficient was to make those decisions
we've not spent hours hearing
about shadows and cars
we're talking about a wonderful
project that is going to replace a parking lot where people live
you'll have to figure out you're
smart people a lot of you went
to fancy psychology find a way
to make better decisions thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> tim on behalf of the three
hundred organization of the action coalition we've followed
that for years and have reviewed
it in daily we will agree with the
the assessment the study is a accurate we saw the tall
projects one of the things about
this project was an enormous
missed opportunities the project
the earlier design was taller
but tried to pay a much
high-level of housing
affordability to the city tried again and again in the
tenderloin for whatever reason
the city didn't continuing of the opportunity a code compliant
project that meets the rules
we've sit out and in addition to that went above and beyond the
call of duty when was required
on the housing affordability a
very good in lieu that was leveraged two or three times and uses to build affordable housing
we need there is no significant
purpose by delaying that you
should pass this project tonight thank you.
>> at the time.
>> donald representation of
members of rent-controlled
renter we completely endorse 75
howard project simply because we
are leveraging the developers
financing to build avenue
affordable housing 15.17 in the
tenderloin supported by the tndc
and most importantly with the
shadows I must remind the board of supervisors this park is not rec and park approved that is
done by the port therefore the shadows laws don't necessarily
apply to rincon park and the day
it is casting shadows in late
August we have hot days and
tourists it is hot out there
harder any trees therefore we
need more shade not less and forecast concerning the traffic
just a reminder about the
traffic parcel it is border not touching the embarcadero no traffic on the embarcadero
directly on on fulsome and
howard spear and stuttering and
the garage opening on the
additional next to the office
square footage go against the park-against the garage
therefore the entrance is in the
additional through little or no traffic.
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good evening supervisors
danny sheet metals workers local
one 04 we remain convinced the
analyses done by the of any
S: Responsible for the ringing or use of a meet the
guidelines of ceqa this appeal
she doesn't hold merit and
uphold the decision made by the planning commission and move forward thank you.
>> thank you very much. Is there any additional public
comment-welcome and.
>> start high time over I
agree with this project on the
grounds unlike the 5m it is not displacing the national outlet
of people even the majority of
this board voted for the 5m I believe that the filipino community will be displaced lake the black community was
displaced in the fillmore area
where I ordinary from
I want to call your attention
the representatives told me the affordable housing is at 50
percent of medium that comes to
$35,700 a year for a single
person this is not affordable
housing on a scale of low income
affordable housing we have to
start at the 20 percent income
at the overall session I'll get
into further detail I noticed
you keep saying affordable
housing and you catch
everybody's eye by the toukt
it's not for people on fixed income and economically
disadvantaged and basis it on
the geological location where
the building is being built and a lot of professional people maybe working in this area not a
comparison that is under to get due process and equal protection
under the law thank you.
>> any other members of the
public that want to speak in
support of project seeing none, public comment is closed.
And I will now recognize the
appellants you have 3 minutes
for rebuttal
>> thank you very much.
>> david rincon hill neighbors
the people keep on planning and calling this project code compliant I mean the advertising
if they agree an anything that was not code compliant
I mean they're requesting surveillance or variance an
exception not code compliant and
those will be addressed at the board of appeals in December
the other thing as planning in
the appellant seems to be in
cooperation keep saying it is
rhetoric ridiculous to do a
study an alternative heights
yeah, well I guess so what we
requested was there is one shorter height be analyzed I
mean it is planning that brought
up the fact that a shorter
building will resolve the
shadowing problem they should
have analyzed with only shorter building not an innight number
and let's be clear about the
requirements for a traffic study
let me quote ceqa
new traffic analysis is required
to be taking quoting to be taken
when recent chancellor in the
aersz traffic perseverance or
traffic analysis that is clearly
the case in traffic study was definitely required
I guess the last comment would
be don't pass the buck you know that keeps on happening
people don't seem to want to
take responsibility and do what
needs to be done planning department staff should are
three hundred and 50 foot
building get out of here go back
to new york wasting times and
much money city money and staff
should nip those things in the
bud and the commissions should
if staff didn't instead of, you know, right thing to do those
things I'll ask you not to let
those get passed on to you know
perhaps a courtroom situation do
the right thing and let's quite
wasting everyone's time and
money thank you happy night and
seeing that we are done with this item
item 29 as handheld and is now
closed items 31 and 32 and 33.
>> I didn't ask to speak just
a couple of comments I want to appreciate some of the comments that made and the members of the public that are critical of this
project certainly the project
that is before us is quite
different than we've heard 100
percent market-rate on sited with that said, I want to also
appreciate this project is
lateral as a project and despite
that given the existing laws
even though there are not enough
not more than 20 percent offsite I agree with some of the
comments by the members of the public we should differentiate
greatly in our offsite fee there
is a difference between building
18 unit project in the excelsior
had an than a 90 project in the
waterfront I we should
differentiate within the units
to capture offsite in lieu fee that's unfortunate not the
allowing law we are limited that
the house trust fund therefore I want to appreciate even though it is has nothing to do with
with the developer want to
convey its support for building
more affordable housing vnz that
33 percent 1/3rd is the goal
moving to 33 percent offsite in lieu fee
I speaking to the eir in and of itself my greatest concern with
with that project is, of course,
the considerable shadow that is
placed on open space in our
district the smallest parks in
the district I have to say
sunshine an important that impacts on our enjoyment and
open space in a city that is a
cold in san francisco I think
that sunshine does matter with
that said, that would have been
difficult to avoid any shadow
impact without building a
project at hundred feet our own
zoning allowed to build up to
two hundred feet the eir
recognizes the impact is substantive no substantive
arguments against what the eir
is not comet and thorough the
motion I'll be making today is
just to move forward with item
number thirty and to table item
31, and 32 is now midnight I
want to thank the project
sponsor and the members of the public that stated there is a
lot to be said about this
project in general before us is timely thoroughness and
completeness of eir I believe
that this has been substantiated in today's hearing.
>> so supervisor kim made a
motion to approve item 30 and
table 32 and 33 Madam Clerk Madam Clerk, please call the roll.
>> commissioner avalos supervisor breed.
>> supervisor campos
supervisor christensen
supervisor cowen supervisor farrell
supervisor kim supervisor mar
supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee
there are 11 I's.
>> the final environmental
impact report is finally certified unanimously
Madam Clerk let's go back to our regular business please call
item 33 and 3 that together.
>> item 33 through 27 Madam President if you yes.
>> are the resolutions to
approve sentiments of unlitigated claims against the
city specifically 33 is filed
and by a individual for an
amount 34 for 66 thousand files
by March 2015 and filed by larry
against the city for 50 thousand
filed on March 5 and item 36
filed and a company against the
city for approximately 29 tlordz
and item 37 filed and laurence
against the city for
approximately, $63,000 on May 2015.
>> roll call.
>> commissioner avalos
supervisor breed
supervisor campos
supervisor christensen
supervisor cowen
supervisor farrell
supervisor kim
supervisor mar
supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee.
>> there are lifting I's those resolutions are adopted unanimously Mr. Clerk go to roll call oh, supervisor tang. >> thank you very much
colleagues he apologize I want
to ask to resend the vote on
item 14 owe need to make a few
clarifying statements an omi and adding that into the
displacement dagger for the community.
>> supervisor tang it was
senthd by commissioner avalos
colleagues without objection without objection the motion passed.
>> again so I can make clarifying statements we'll
retake the vote on the dire
outlet and not the amendment. >> yes. Yes. I previously
stated I wanted to omi to mimic
it with a 10 year residency requirement, however, the
legislation has a 10 year retainedcy removed from the ellis act, however, I want to
keep the 10 year requirement for
the omi category, and, secondly,
I stated is it the ellis act preference is 100 percent
preference in cases in which a
tenant is politically for a bmr
unit up for sale and resale and
the legislation provides a 20
percent preferences in such situations
so the omi category amended to
be consistent with this
provision so just a to summarize
that added the I'm for
attendants that lived in our
units for 10 years for
preference subject to the rules initially proposed in the substitute ordinances for the record in September.
>> okay. Does anyone want to
exchange their vote is that good
enough clarity Mr. Gibner Madam Clerk.
>> commissioner avalos supervisor breed
supervisor campos
supervisor christensen
supervisor cowen supervisor farrell
supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang no that was consistent with my previous vote.
>> you can change it no
problems are you sure. >> no
supervisor wiener supervisor yee
there are 10 I's and one no with
supervisor tang in the December sent
Madam President resend that vote
I'm falling asleep here I'd like
to be consistent like any colleagues. >> okay supervisor mar has
made a motion to resends and
seconded by supervisor farrell colleagues without objection the
without objection the motion to
resend the second vote has passed Madam Clerk call the roll
although it is not it's okay if
you want to change Madam Clerk.
>> on item 14 pr commissioner
avalos supervisor breed
supervisor campos
supervisor christensen
supervisor cowen
supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar no supervisor tang
no supervisor wiener supervisor yee
there are 9 I's with two nos with supervisor mar and
supervisor tang in the descents
the ordinance passes on the first reading as amended
Madam Clerk let's get to roll
call vote for introductions
none everyone is submitting all
at once. >> commissioner avalos submits supervisor President London
breed I have a submit. >> supervisor campos
just briefly I'm doing a budget
budget analyst to do a report
that will be helpful in terms of
hearing requests from supervisor
kim on the promoted new jail. >> okay.
>> new jails.
>> me, too I'm excluded if that you. >> supervisor christensen.
already called by director reiskin for additional questions on super bowl 50 for market street and looking forward to
the hearing on December 7th and the rest I submit. >> thank you. >> supervisor mar. >> submit. >> supervisor wiener.
>> supervisor yee submit. >> Madam President.
>> it is yours.
>> thank you
all right. Madam Clerk please
read public comment on the jurisdiction of the board pursuant to the board's rules. Direct your remarks to the board as a whole and not to
matter. Speakers using translation services get up to twice the time.
And not address 33 and 37.
>> hi, I'm a student at san francisco state university and
I'm here to ask for support on
solidarity with the students at san francisco state university
in resisting a porn red contract
with big soda I'm a stated
member with the food challenge
and real food guidelines are
that it is local and humane and better the community soda big
soda is not real food last year
forgive to the speaker Madam President that is speaking to
the imperfect item not introduced will have its own
introduction in a minute.
>> so we'll apologize but have
its own public comment just a
few more minutes hold on >> next speaker.
>> I have copies for everyone as well I am here regarding actually
want to bring issues with the
central subway project to the
boards attention I represent 555 forest street between brendon
none we've tried to bring issues
of the violations through to
supervisor kim as well as the
sfmta and the city attorney's
office all of which have been
ignored issues
by and large as one from fire
safety to the sunshine ordinance
and noticed the biggest one is
the fire safety and mta project as you can see the central
station station blocks access to
to the street quite simply those plans where we've had issues
getting the plans from the sfmta and they didn't provide those
through freedom of action requests and the city doesn't
provide them tell you those are
the city plans with the fire
trucks cannot make the turned
from the station goes in as
built our building and the wood
frame houses on the other side
of 4th street and from time to
time will not be assessable by
the fair trucks the lane is not
large enough and again, this
goes back to the issues of the
zone being removed and not
noticed the eir not even including the building that the fire safety is the biggest one
and the mta and the contractors
have not been following the
sfmta pd refused to enforce the
city code at the request.
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> >> monday the lord
enunderstand me on the al
government's exhibit e election
john own k o my 14 and the c
faxing 11 to talk about this
incredible report that vicky win
aired on nbc on child abuse with
the 4-year-old kid that was
beaten and bruised and burned
and just bilk and almost killed
and it shows that how the foster
the whole social services the
cps is corrupt this poor mother had hundred pictures of this
convicts showed the pictures to the social services they didn't
do anything about this is why I
run city council after senator
nancy schaaf waterways was
killed that is this system full.
That he had fills I think how
jesus said one of those little ones to stumble will would be
better a milestone were caster
into the depths the of sea I
know you personally are not doing anything about ii planned
to do a speech to the board of
supervisors in santa fe david is the person because they have
constraints on any work I should
a job up here had to take the
job judgment day is coming we're
getting color and closer to the
day of judgment the biggest
event was the cross of christ
the indictment against the
monthly one that was righteous.
>> crucified God is righteous
can't if anything of forgive sin.
>> we don't get 3 minutes?
>> oh, you've been doing 3 all day.
>> I'll demonstrate the reason
that article is written in the
newspapers but blacks getting
housing
and the advisement of commercials and also violation
of constitutional rights how
come we are innovating not
getting the same thing.
>> can we move to the next
speaker he can figure this out. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good morning tom last week he
submit the overhead again-
overhead please.
>> it's on
oh, I'm trying to zoom it there
we go part 5 of the new housing
plan it in my neighborhood I'm
only allowed so many seconds the
giant plan 15 hundred units nine
hundred thirty
percent 4 hundred and 50 unit market-rate rent-controlled let
the people have a chance to stay
in the neighborhood 10 or one
and 50 units for thirty year
residents above 65 that helps 15
percent and 200 and 25 units and
20-year residents in the local
zip codes it is substantial I
subsequent 19 units san francisco disconnecting 65 and
plus the next 10 percent or one
and 50 units for teachers and fire and police officer and
sewer and water and muni workers
and nurses and ambulance people
the next that's 70 percent the
next thirty percent 4 hundred
and 50 unit for people with
foster kids and graduated less
oh, I'm getting tired.
>> lessable the less fortunate
and this is where the city comes
in we're not creating but
changing the formula from prices
from high value profits to more
places for people in the city
thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> is the machine working?
>> okay. >> the elementary school school teacher for 16 years it's
difficult to live here in san
francisco I went into foster
care my first year of high school
sfgovtv go to the live feed from the computer.
>> there will be housing for people like.
>> okay sir, I'm sorry it is
not working can you speak you
are have two minutes
unfortunately not fix is tonight. >> the commercial.
>> I've seen the commercial I
think most of members on the board seen. >> this is completely
different from anywhere I live
it is so much prettyer the
atmosphere gives the possibility
like a have a chance like
pronunciation 6 different ways.
>> I'd be proud to have
claudia be my neighborhood and
this is what in san francisco should be.
>> this is a latino female it
is living in a foster home she
has a child okay
she's got a school instructor is
joins in on the commercial and
explains they want to be
neighborhood and live at the
mission rock thousand 9 and
at&t's and 50 apartment complex
the commercial end it is 40 percent affordable housing and
the tears are coming out of her
icy adjusted that that is false
advisement because 40 percent of
that housing pie for people making one hundred dollars dollars plus and that affordable
housing pie goes to people that
is macro $97,000 plus a year
then 4 percent of that 40
percent affordable housing pie-
>> thank you, sir thank you any public comment?
Who want to provide general public comment seeing none, public comment is closed public comment is closed.
>> and Madam Clerk can we
please go to our impervious item.
>> yes. By supervisor mar a
resolution supporting student
concerns to giving me porn right
to shrugy right to urge san francisco state university city
attorney to consider minimizing
I's the sodas for swgd that are
served on campus.
>> okay supervisor mar.
>> so to consider it is
serious injury if we don't take action that is an urgent time as san francisco state university
is making a decision the two great student leaders will
comment in a moment I wanted to thank supervisor wiener supervisor cohen and supervisor
campos for sponsoring this is a
critical time to not allow a
monopoly big soda company to
have rights to market rate to
young people to have billboards
to start to develop kind of new long term contracts with san francisco state university and
to allow them also to endo you
the departments chairs of their
choose and to stand with
students to uphold their governance right at the university any decisions
impacting the students it is their right to have a say I I know right now that is critical
for the students I'll urge
support we have a couple of amendments from the city
attorney to make that a city policy as well I urge
consideration to treat this is
an imperative item and supports students at san francisco state
university and consistent with the policies on sugar sweetened
beverages and their harm to individuals.
>> colleagues, we need to
adopt the finding and open up for public comment and adopt the items with that, supervisor
wiener you, you have comments.
>> I just want to say thank you supervisor mar for bringing
this forward and the students
for bringing this to our
attention it is good and keep up the fight.
>> so supervisor mar you've
made a motion sect by the commissioner avalos colleagues without objection. >> Madam President to the serious injury findings.
>> do I have to do those same thing.
>> I was going to do them separately.
>> is that okay.
>> that's fine were can we take that without objection without objection it passes and
the second finding we must adopt
the needs to take action to the
altercation e attention of the
board after the agenda been
moved and supervisor mar and
seconded by supervisor avalos colleagues without objection without objection that that
motion carries
and so at this time we'll open up for public comment to the item.
>> thank you clemente and other fro organizing real food
challenge and the system at san francisco state university and
throughout this country.
>> supporting you and on that
note I want to commend the board of supervisors for unanimously
making a decision on June 6th to
require the advisements for sugar sweetened beverage and to
advertise and purchase such beverages so this is all in the
resolution I want to echo it
recently at usf a study
published looking at young
african-american latino-american
children restricting their deity
for 10 days no reducing in
calories and reducing added
sugar with staircase starch they
saw a 5 point percentage drop on their blood pressure and the
most significant is 29 point
percentage decreasing in liver
fat a growing epidemic and
comment on this movement that is
happening in cross public
institutions I was surprised to
find out that san francisco san francisco unified school
district also banned sugary drink beverages and san francisco state university
should as a institution join
with them and another comment on
the what the corporations are
doing to our community is that
the study is by yale for
asbestos their disproportion in
color 70 percent of our students
identify with community of color
so it virtuosa a large factor
and again, I think this is
really important for the
students and in town hall to say that. >> >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> >> hi, I'm a communications and geography
major at $0.78 and a member of
the food challenge and in san francisco
we really think this is important for an issue and
commend you guys are great for
supporting us san francisco state university
is founded upon the intermission statement terrorism and
community engagement we feel that that contract is moving one
way or the other way from the
fund in the governance to this
date the university has not made
statement to the fulfilled their
embarking on this initiative and
this is in the resolution we
also feel that those corps and
especially coca-cola and pepsi
did have a place in the institutions like san francisco
state university we feel that is
important to preserve the
dignity of the education further
the students on campus passed an 8 page resolution for the
documents for the situation
perverse supported by 18 different student organizations
on campus over 2 thousand plus
signatures and again without any you know communications from the President
And also the california faculty
association chapter the faculty units of san francisco state university passed their
resolution and again, the other
component is the 20 percent real
food by 2020 that was put-down
into the policy for usf we
believe that extensive step is
backward it is unfortunately, that the san francisco state
university is not part of the- >> thank you.
>> that I am that time to
comment on this item seeing none, public comment is closed.
Madam Clerk can you call the
roll on the imperative item.
>> commissioner avalos
supervisor breed
supervisor campos
supervisor christensen
supervisor cowen
supervisor farrell
supervisor kim
supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee
there are 11 I's.
>> the that item passes unanimously
Mr. Clerk Madam Clerk can you
read do immemoriams. >> none presented this brings
us to the ends of the Madam Clerk Madam Clerk, is there any further business before this commission? There's no further business. .> >> happy thanksgiving
