City and County of San Francisco Tuesday, September 13, 2016
>> good afternoon, everybody
and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors for tuesday, September 13, 2016,
Madam Clerk can you please call roll
supervisor avalos supervisor President London breed
supervisor campos
supervisor cowen
supervisor farrell supervisor kim
not present supervisor mar
supervisor peskin
supervisor tang
supervisor wiener supervisor yee Madam President we have quorum. >> thank you ladies and
gentlemen, can you please join
us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
>> Ms. Short Madam Clerk any communication.
>> I have none to report
colleagues, any changes to the
September 6th board meeting
minutes sienna.
>> Madam President that's the
minutes of the September 15th
and August 8th and that's July 15th.
>> and 2016 and August 8,
2016, is there a motion seconded
by supervisor peskin colleagues without objection, without objection those meeting minutes
will pass after public comment.
All right. Madam Clerk can you
please call the next item. >> you.
>> the policy decide between
mayor ed lee and the board of supervisors the mayor any
provide comments up to 57 manipulates and from supervisor
wiener up follow-up questions
are in order not exceeding that
5 minutes per supervisor.
>> Mr. Mayor any opening remarks. >> thank you supervisor President London breed and good afternoon, supervisors and, of course, to the public thank you for being here today supervisors working with from
the break I hope you enjoyed
your time off reflecting on 2016
I'm proud we passed a balanced
budget for the priorities for
the residents public safety and neighborhood services and, of course, our work is never done
and today, I'm happy to announce
we have maintained one of the
key services that are vital to
our excelsior nauseated and the
working names with the childcare nonprofit with the helmet foundation and our mayor's office we have security funding
for the purchase of a building
where mission and caregiver
consortium is locate for nearly
50 years 24 organization has
taken care of of generations of children and helped working
families thrive in the city when local nonprofits face issues of
displacement we as a city are
committed to helping them find creatively solutions every time
we invest we invest in the
future success of our city we
were able to secure $5.58 million to purchase the
building so 200 and 24 children
that attend the mission caregiver consortium everyday will get the early education
that is critical in their
development this permanent home
allows the staff to get services and provide caregiver to the bilingual and neighborhood families
this new partnering is part of a
my larger investment to
contribute $720,000 foyer
children, youth, and families over the next two years
like in the budget season let's
between to work together to
insure our money and energy
energy is improving neighborhood
safety and the quality of life and first supervisor wiener to
ask proposed questions to the mayor. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, very much.
Make and Mr. Mayor welcome to
the board chambers Mr. Mayor we
continue to see crime take into
account people of english limited proficiency how to encourage more bilingual
abilities to prefor and join our
city's public safety team as police officers, 9/11
dispatchers and firefighters we
can better prevent crime through
efforts and assist the residents
if their victimized by crime. >> thank you for that question supervisor
about 22 percent of san franciscans are limited english
speakers and because of this our
city invests time and resources
in marking services available in
multiple languages when the next
earthquake or event happens what
the people need the police all
the residents must have the
ability to interface with the city departments our power
rourgs that is our people our
city workers we have done a going down of recruiting
workforce three hundred and 76
members of fire department and 4 hundred plus of the police department identify themselves
as proficient in a second
language and in the development
has 29 dispatchers will fact of
the matter 22 percent of public
contacts are bilingual. Since fiscal year not to exceed
and 2011 the total number of bilingual employees has
increased by 58 percent this is
a good foundation we are still trying to improve
we use social media and radio and community newspapers and
community centers and events to
do outreach and child remunerate
f tables at the festival to hour
the festival and the others
festivals and we recruit through
media outlets like the
newspapers and radio station importantly the city provides
bilingual premium pay that helps
us to track a workforce affluent
in many claungz user languages
our office of economic workforce
development continues with the
testing so candidates can take
the firefighter proficiency
examines had someone calls 9-1-1
we use the largest translation
service so a language didn't
stand in the way of him or her
getting help and the immigrant
affairs with one of the futile
in the nation that provides
assistants with is in house of
certified language specialists
we have on demand document
translation assistance whenever
needed especially in crisis
situation through the obamacare
we have an ambassador program
for a high crime area of the
city where rational tensions
will have been high in 8 languages our city employees
that grew up in the neighborhood and speak if languages of the
community they serve and finally
I'm concerned drishlgd our department of human resources to
center a recruitment plan to
make sure we maximize our target
of multi lingual candidates supervisor wiener those are some
of the programs with the recruitment of the language workforce if you have
suggestions I'll be open to hearing them and make sure we implement them >> thank you, Mr. Mayor and Madam Clerk move to our regular
agenda with the first item.
>> or the next item.
>> item 2 an ordinance for the
intentional streets and the
respect public services within
a-1 ab of the project area with
5 plus acres in the lake merced
reversing the easements rights
with the utilities and authorizing the department of
real estate for the vntdz by the actions of the furtherance of this ordinance. >> roll call vote.
>> on item 2.
>> supervisor wiener.
>> item number 2. >> no.
>> I'm sorry supervisor yee.
>> thank you supervisor President London breed.
>> so this is a pretty straightforward legislation and
what I want to do is introduce
some language for further
amendments for further
clarification and if maybe city
deputy city attorney can read it
into the books I'll appreciate it. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney.
So last week just right before
the vote on first reading the
board received a letter it from
k g and e and the project sponsor has discussed with pg&e
and met with the departments and
the sprofrz and came up with page 11 lines three and four
this amendment will think
deleting the words revocabulary
and replacing it with easements
and next adding a clause that will read other convenience
structures equipment and fishgsz
for the operation of such utilities and cut down trees and
brush that is a hazard to utilities
and macro similar amendments on
in section 3 on pages 10 to 11
and replacing with that easements and adding another reference to cut down trees and
brush that is a hazard to utilities.
>> thank you so this is a clarification language as amended so I'm asking my
colleagues to support this.
>> so supervisor yee has made
a motion to amend seconded by
supervisor peskin colleagues without objection without objection the maemths
that motion carries unanimously
Madam Clerk call the roll.
>> on item 2 supervisor wiener
supervisor yee
supervisor avalos
supervisor breed
supervisor campos
supervisor cowen supervisor farrell
supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor peskin supervisor tang there
11 I's the ordinance as amended finally
passes is it on the first reading
passes unanimously on the first reading item number 3.
>> item 3 is an ordinance to
levy property tax at a combined
rate of one and $1.18 on taxable
property with the san francisco unified school district and the
community college the bayer rapid transit and the air
quality management district and pass through rate of
approximately $0.08 per residents pursuant to the
administrative code for the
fiscal year year ended June 2018. >> colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The ordinance passes unanimously.
>> item 4 a resolution to
authors the approximate 6 thousand plus lease on cap
street with cap, llc for a 5
year term two 5 year options for
approximately 200 and 40 thousand.
>> same house, same call?
>> Madam Clerk items 5 through 7. >> to approve the treasure
island development authority to
extend the term for 2016 for
total term through November 30,
2017, and amendment for the
caregiver and item 6 for the master lease and item 7
amendment number 41 for the land
and structures master lease colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? without objection the
resolutions are adopted
unanimously and Madam Clerk call
items 8 through 22 together.
>> items 8 through 22 are
resolutions that authorize the
illusion and delivery of multi
housing revenue notes not to
exceed one-item 9 is
$35.4 million for sacramento
street and 95 I 18, 15 street
and.1 million for 711 and 895 pacific avenue a unit project
and 88.4 mental illness for
pacific avenue a 200 unit
project and next for turk street
a 200 and 3 unit project and
item next is for harvard road a
project and item 15 is $47.5 million for sutter street
a project and item 16 is $69.3 million for clemente
street a 200 plus unit and next
is a $41. Million for ellis street
and item $1834 million for
mcallister street items 19 is $29.4 million for bush street a
one and 8 unit project and item 2018.3 million for california a 4 unit project
item 21 is for 34 mental illness
for yoirth street and 22 for 50
guerrero street a one and 10 unit colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? Without objection those
resolutions are adopted
unanimously and item number if you. >> to authorize the department
of health forceps and expend a
200 and $71,000 from the
california rehabilitation to
participate in a rehabilitation
services program through
June June 2019.
>> same house, same call? that motion carries.
>> the acquisition of real property from the housing
authority to afford to the
general plan of preserving and
enhancing for the purchase price of $1. >> same house, same call? It is adopted unanimously and item 25.
>> a resolution to respond to
the presiding officer judge on
the finding and recommendations
contained in the 2016 civil grudging entitled auto
burglarize and cause the
findings and recommendations
through the department heads.
>> same house, same call? We'll take that without objection.
Skip over the 2:30 and 3:00 P.M. Special order.
>> item 34 was considered on monday, September 12th it was
forwarded as a committee report
recommended an urgency ordinance
to approve a prohibition on
storefront mergers grandchildren
seven hundred plus square feet
in the quatro special use
district for 12 months in the
government code section this
item requires 9 votes Madam President. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you supervisor President Breed and colleagues
today's vote to extend the
prohibition on the quatro street
something we as a board passed
in July 2015 this control has allowed this commercial corridor
to receive much needed services
to preserve 40 small storefronts
and unique character of this
corridor and to do so awhile
respectfully entry-level businesses
we're asking an extension of
what we approved this will give us the necessary time for a special use district and working with the planning department and
my office and the communities to
do that that special use
district would zoning is
something we'll work to protect the mom and pop shops and make
this corridor such a unique
place and that also to protect
the cultural institutions that
currently characterize the
quatro with that, I respectfully request your support I'll be happy to answer any questions you May have. >> supervisor cowen. >> thank you supervisor avalos
I have supervisor campos I want
to enlightenment you it is an
excellent idea I supported if
the land use committee yesterday
and I have been very
enthusiastic since the day I
introduced this measure it is an
interesting question your course
of action to we're aware of the gentrifying forces to do business in san francisco it doesn't make sense to do the
storefronts in the mission and
possibly other locations small
so that they are remain
affordable I'm concerned about
the super sized merchant vendor be potential restaurants and
businesses so I like and I like
the fact the buildings were
created very small storefronts
and I think that is part of
richness that makes the mission
the planning commission mission
I'm happy to support in and love
for you to add my name to the legislation thank you. >> thank you, supervisor.
>> thank you supervisor cowen. Supervisor wiener
>> I mean, I'll be voting
against it for the same reason
I'm enlightenmenty of the work that quatro did with the
community and as I stated when this first came to the board
whenever it was this year or last year this was simply a conditional use for a merger
I'll have no problem supporting
it you about I have concerns
about a ban it asking can have
benefits in any view not enough
flexibility I understand where
why the legislation is moving
forward but I'll maintain any original position.
>> thank you very much Madam Clerk on item 34 supervisor wiener. >> no supervisor yee.
>> supervisor avalos.
>> supervisor breed.
>> supervisor campos
supervisor cowen supervisor farrell
supervisor kim
supervisor mar
supervisor peskin supervisor tang there are 10 I's with supervisor wiener isn't descents.
>> the motion is approved
unanimously
Madam Clerk call I call the next items. >> they were considered by the
rules committee on thursday September 8th and forwarded as committee reports item 35 was
recommended as amended a motion
to appoint dionne, scott and
others waved and kendrick terms
ending 2016 to the municipal of
accident terms efrnd 2018. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you supervisor President London breed I wanted
to express my support for those
four individuals that come from organizations that have been working closely with supervisor
avalos and my office on how we
can rethink municipal finding
our community has a partnership
coalition for civil rights and have helped guide our two
offices how to best address those issues we first, of course, more
pubically talk about this when
our two officers in krungs with supervisor peskin worked to
lower the fees and help with the
locking provision we want to continue that apply creating
this task force for the municipal fines we collect money
with a balance that the public
for the public good that of the
moving our residents into poverties or contraction we shouldn't have anyone in the
jail because they can't pay the
municipal fines I'm excited
about the appointees and
particular alicia that 0 wrote this is not a ferguson problem how traffic courts drive inequality in california and
enforces our concern with the
protecting residents that
excessive fines can lead to
consequences for people with
damaged credit and unemployment and homelessness. >> thank you, supervisor kim. >> seeing no other names on the roster, Madam Clerk can you
please call the roll.
>> on item 35 supervisor wiener. >> supervisor yee.
>> supervisor avalos
supervisor breed.
>> supervisor campos
supervisor cowen supervisor farrell
supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor peskin supervisor tang
there are 11 I's.
>> the motion it approved unanimously Madam Clerk please call the next item.
>> a motion to approve the President Of the board of
supervisors london breeds
nominee for the term ending July 1st, 2020. >> supervisor campos.
>> thank you Madam President I
know sometimes, we do a prohibit
job of criticizing when things
are not done but sometimes, we, recognize when go good things
happen I wanted to thank the
President For the nomination of
imelda to be on the braid this
is a mission but many members of the latino communities have been
combais with the need and importance of having someone
from the communities on the
planning commission especially
consider countering those are the neighbors
impacted we so much of the
displacement that happens in
she's an excellent choice. >> thank you Madam President. >> supervisor kim.
>> I wanted to add my words as
well and thank you to merna for
agreeing to be nominated she'll
be an excellent paternity with
the deep-rooted competent and we
know her work at the jamestown
she served as a executive
director and with office of economic workforce development I'll be translating your work
into a commissioner it can be
difficult but seeing her work on the department of building
inspection shows her ability to
find common ground with
competing interests I look
forward to working with commissioner mondejar on the planning commission. >> thank you supervisor mar. >> thank you supervisor President London breed for a
great appointment I'm proud like supervisor kim and supervisor
campos to support commissioner
mondejar not only an expert
along the 9-1-1 former mayor's
office on housing lead on homeowners I know that she understands the fears of displacement and gentrification going on in the neighborhood I
think it was she was described
at the rules committee as she
can w be funny but has a
tremendous heart and others lens
she seize land use is productive
and economic excellence us u but
as a mom raising three children
I think that was said something
that generations said the-
someone stood up for her and her work empowering union people to
be the leaders of future at
jamestown in a number of
organizations also popped out
like joel we'll hear in a moment
I think that mirna will make a
wonderful circus and thank you
to wu as a chair person but commissioner mondejar will bring the voice of community and
wisdom and a heart to the
planning commission so thank you supervisor President Breed for
in the meantime, her I'm proud to be a supporter. >> supervisor avalos.
>> I want to add any name a supporter and thank you to
supervisor President Breed for appointing commissioner mondejar
for the board of supervisors she
has an incredible amount of
experience and understand the planning issues from a lash
perspective and used to work as
a carpenter and understand it it
into a insider and worked with the homeowners actives
and she knows it really well
planning issues from the community side she is running
her lastly job is running a
nonprofit for children and
families who are really impacted
by the housing crisis in san francisco and her appreciative
will be invaluable so I want to
say thank you for the selection
I want to say thank you commissioner mondejar to take on this role this is a tremendous
amount of work and your service
is greatly appreciated to accept
this very challenging position writing the volunteer text of
the issues in the mission I know
won't be easy you have my support. >> thank you supervisor avalos. >> supervisor yee.
>> thank you. I want to thank you supervisor President London
breed for selecting mirna not
only is she a residence but her
being apparent and having the
sensitivity of people that have
been displaced understand many
of the challenges we face with
people here in san francisco and particularly those children the
children so as you, you know
I've been trying to push the discussion around housing
children and families and I
think she'll be a good ally on
the planning commission to
understand this so anything else
I totally agree with and will be totally supportive of. >> thank you supervisor cowen.
>> colleagues, I had the great
opportunity to itself is the
rules committee and listen to
not only the testimony in
support of mirna but had an
opportunity to listen to her presentation and she entertains
questions from the body and I
too want to acknowledge this is
a supple
candidate she has the healthy
blends and the efficacy
understanding of the know how of
planning and land use issues and understanding the housing crisis
for the mayor's office I mayor's office of housing so we're
fortunate to have her in one particular person and a strong
leader and able to execute
through the noise of proving
bull it often stifles the conversation not only in the
chamber but in the planning commission discussion she's an incredible human being and we're
fortunate to have her we want to recognize the leadership that cindy wu brought to the planning commission so my compliments to you thank you.
>> thank you supervisor cowen supervisor wiener. >> thank you Madam President
I'll supporting mirna today and
I'm concerned known her inform
quite a few of the and she's
incredibly smart and thoughtful and supervisor cowen she really
is able to cut through some of
the ideology local stuff that
permeates land use decisions I'm
confident she'll be a good planning commission commissioner.
>> thank you to each of any
colleagues for your willingness
to support this appointment I
remember when I met with mirna
last year before I reappointed
her to the dbi commission one of
the things she said to me stuck n my head what is happening in
the mission we need someone on
the planning commission that understands that and willing to step up up to make sure we're providing the kind of leadership
and providing the right
decisions from the planning
perspective those positions have negative consequences on the community and I know that that's
why many of the folks that push
for the mission moratorium we
were compassionate they wanted
to see change and us make better
decisions and not allow what is
happening in the mission what happened in the western edition
to actually happen in the
mission community and that
really stuck with me that's why over the time developing of
don't relationship w with mirna
I feel good and confidence is
she'll be the kind of person
that would be a great planning commissioner
she has a rare mix of understanding planning and understanding housing.
>> united way what it is like
to be a parents an immigrant all
of these things in one person a graduate I'm proud of more importantly she has a heart of
gold and cares about the
community and doing good things
for people and been an advocate for doing the right thing I
couldn't be more proud to have
brought forth a great appoint
and glad many of my colleagues votes for her it demonstrates
she's the right person for the
job and thank you to commissioner wu so for her service on the planning
commission and think in this
particular case we definitely
got a great respect and proud of
that and looking forward to
mirna service on the r on the planning commission with that,
colleagues Madam Clerk can we colleagues, can I have a motion? >> without objection the
motion d is approved unanimously. >> call the next item. >> >> a motion to approve joel to the planning commission
for the unexpired of the term
ending July 1st, 2020, a thank you supervisor katie tang.
>> thank you since a lot of
festive with the previous item I
don't want to speak to mirnas appointment but those two commissioners will be doing a
wonderful job as part of planning commission and speaking
specifically to Mr. Cop he lives appointment as we're losing
commissioner representing the west side of our neighborhood commissioner antonini I think
that is important to have that
west side perspective on the
commission and joel is saying there is a lot of development
happening in san francisco but neighborhoods especially our outlying neighborhoods there are more opportunities for that development especially with the transit and commercial corridors I think that having that kind of
perspective on the commission is really important secondly, of course, Mr. Cop he lives background in the labor
communities and attending the planning commission and so forth other hearings and understanding
how the process fshgz will not
take him long to understand the
workers of further as a
commissioner, I think that again
both commissioner mondejar and
cop yes, ma'am e he will will be
fine replacements and thank you
to the commissioners for their service. >> thank you supervisor tang supervisor wiener.
>> thank you Madam President I
want to thank the mayor for this
nomination I have known joel for
quite a few of the and I worked
with him for many different
issues he's a you thoughtful
person and also I think has a
perfect temperament for this
role being a planning
commissioner and adhere will
hear many people with different
preserves will do a good job. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. >> supervisor cowen. >> in the rules committee I had an opportunity to listen to
the testimony of folks in
supportive of Mr. Joel cop he
will and he is a leader when the
cameras are on and off he's
benefit consistent and has the
labor in the forefront of his
mind and a champion and when
people are petitioning and not
he's been consistent and also experience has taught me
people's values don't change 4
this is a person that values the hard working of men and women
and he'll be an excellent
enlightenment and opportunity to
have labor sitting as a planning commissioner my enlightenments
to the mayor.
>> thank you supervisor mar
thank you to the mayor for
appointing joel cop he will and
building major projects from san
francisco general to even analyzing the building block at
the burning man a wide rage e
range of living for planning use
and his experience of labor management and the apprenticeships for young people
to come up through the industry
and green jobs his work on sustainability and sustainable building and development will be valuable to the planning
commission go I want to thank
darrell honda for being Mr. Cop he lives friend but introducing
him to my office I know that Mr.
Cop he will will be a good planning commissioner and building projects from the
bayview to 9 lower hate to other
projects I know Mr. 0 cop he
will will be valuable I can't
wait to see him in action and a
lot of things from a-was acknowledged I know that joel
will be a mentor to others he's
been and appreciate of the mayor
to appoint him I'm proud to nominee him. >> thank you sociosupervisor campos.
>> I didn't support the prior
to the mayor but I'll be happy
to support him those kumba moments don't happen at the board of supervisors but this is an individual that will make sure that everyone that comes before the commission is heard
and will keep an open mind for
the issues that come before us I
want to thank the mayor for the
excellent choice. >> thank you supervisor campos and supervisor farrell.
>> I want to echo my
colleagues comments and
particularly our role of labor
will be truly valuable go congratulations and look forward to years to come.
>> thank you and I want to
also lend any voice to the choir
and sing our praise thank you joel for being an excellent
example for what that means to
be a true leader and work with
people your heinecke program
with I b w was provided job
opportunity along with the work
you've con to give back to the community specifically with the
church in our community and in
the springs baptist church
through rehab and bring people
together has changed that
community along with the peacock
lounge and other things I know
you do you're a native san
franciscan and do it from the
heart I know you went to lowell
high school I'll not hold that
against you you made it out when
you did want to usf and thank
you for your service.
>> thank you for your advocacy,
thank you for your lou
gehrigness to serve in the
capacity you know you'll be an excellent choice the second best
choice next to the one I made so
it's all good congratulations.
>> and with that, Madam Clerk
can we take this same house, same call?
Without objection the motion is
approved unanimously congratulations.
>> all right. Roll call. >> supervisor wiener your
introducing new business first.
>> thank you very much Madam Clerk.
>> go colleagues several items
but I'll mention 2 of them the
first is a resolution to support
a proposed regulation for the health and human services
federal agency to stop and prevent states from stripping
title 10 health funding from
planned parenthood title 10
provides funding for that family
health and preventive health
services helps to fund 42 health
services around the country for
low income people all sorts of
health services 14 states at a
minimum have sought to cut title
10 funds to planned parenthood
not for any actual merit basis
but rather due to politics and
the irrational hatred to stop
the planned parenthood we help
the low income people in this
country so this rule would ban
states from cutting title 10
funding unless it is bans a providers ability to actually
deliver the services this resolution will put the city of san francisco on record of
support for this proposed regulation
and would direct the 0 clerk to
submit the resolution as part of
federal rule making process and
in addition I'm introducing
today with my co-author
supervisor tang a supplemental
budget appropriation of 70
thousand to help protecting
children afford eight grade
algebra one course as you recall
the school district eliminated eight
eight grade algebra one so
children that are ready for
algebra no longer have access to
algebra in eight grade I along with supervisor tang have expressed disagreement with the
school district we want our kids to have access to every resource
to be many a position to assess 21st century jobs in
biotechnology and children that you are ready for algebra in eight grade should have access
to algebra the unified school district has
not reversed its decision to eliminate algebra one our
families are spending money to
have their skids have a private
eight grade algebra one course
ready for geo try in the eight grade, however, low income
families can't afford the cost
of having their kids with a algebra one course this
supplemental of $70,000 will
provide one skips of $700 each so their children what access
algebra one it is my hope the school with reinstate algebra
one and this supplemental what
about a temporary bridge but for now make sure our children have
access to all of the resources
they need to have the rest I submit. >> thank you, colleagues one
in memoriam today, I wanted to
adjourn in honor of merry
resident who passed away on August 16, 2016, she lived in san francisco for over 20 years
and will find the city for her
represented beauty and firemen
of expression and future an
advocate for the environment she
worked for climatic change specifically sea level rise
while she was a member of the
san francisco grand jury she
gathered the injuries for the
investigation of the ocean
waters and interviewed
government officials and experts
and developed addressed civil
grand jury report no action has
been taken the city has development across the
department committee and hsa has
issued a report moving forward
she exemplifies how the civil
grand jury can make a difference
and one person influenced the at
the city officials she'll be
dearly missed by 20/20 children her sister and colleagues and
the former and current members
of the civil grand jury that
admired and o done or said her
May she rest in peace the rest I submit.
>> skip over supervisor campos
and go to supervisor cowen. >> thank you supervisor farrell. >> supervisor kim. >> okay. >> and since supervisor campos
is back in the role do you have roll call?
>> thank you very much Madam Clerk.
>> colleagues today, I have an
item that relates to the very
important issue of public safety
and including public safety has
been top priority for me in any
office since we were elected
I know that for the residents of
district 9 this is something
that these very much at the top of the list in terms of what government can
do for the neighborhoods
and you say that I paid it from the momentum we passed
legislation for the codifying of
at large any experience on the
police commission and as a supervisor nothing is more
effective than public safety on
the law enforcement side than
having a police presence forefoot patrols
that to me is something that is
a during the time to many
activities we want to void in
the neighborhoods this is foot
patrols have to be a key
component of any policing strategy
community policing is not an
abstract ideal is requires hands
on commitment to make that
happen so I want to begin by
acknowledging the work of our
acting chief tony chaplain as
I'm concerned gotten to know him
in the last few weeks because it
is clear he gets it in terms of
the portions forefoot patrols
and policing and based on our conversations and discussions
around this issue I'm happy to
report today that the chief has
agreed to any request to bans
foot patrols in any district
specifically to enhance foot patrols on 16th street and
mission an area an issue that
had issues actually way before
it became part of district 9
when it was part of district 6 I know that supervisor kim working hard to address those issues the
work continues I want to thank our acting chief
for agreeing to increase foot
patrols on the court ord
corridor in bernal heights he understands the pro-active in public safety so to the people
of the mission and to the people
of bernal heights I'm happy to announce there will be
additional resources that will
be provided by this acting chief of police.
>> thank you chief chaplain for his responsiveness and
willingness to work with us on this important issue having the
officers in our community that
radio familiar and understand
the neighborhoods are critical
and that vibrator get out of
cars is important you you know
the biggest importance is having the relationship with our
communities that only happens if there is a person attachment so
I want to thank the chief for that and the rest I submit.
>> thank you supervisor campos.
>> supervisor mar. >> thank you
colleagues first of all, I want
to say I appreciate a lot of us participating in the san
francisco transit riders transit
week we kicked off yesterday's
morning we focused on some key
issues in the district the 5
rapid that is my straight line
for beach to city hall has on a tremendous improvement and thank
you to the mta and the interest rate or transportation authority
today at 7:30 amy was on the
bart with the transit riders and
many others promoting the 38
geary line the most wildly
travels line west of chicago
many people ride it everyday as
a cal system but thank you for promoting this week and throughout the week for
improving transit and also one
of the star residents of the
richmond district lives in gg
park an al bin and an alligator
he tlieflz in a place in golden
gate park and supervisor farrell
loves claude but he turns 21
today or this week and the
academy of sciences is
celebrating his birthday one of
the iconic residence of the golden gate park and the autism
is a stark place with the beautiful academy of sciences
and in the academy in 2008, he arrived shortly before we
reopened the academy of sciences
and he's led many children and
families to love him and helped
to educate millions of museum
visitors and car share mask you
can see him blow and below the
water claude is nearly 200 and
50 pounds in honor of his birthday a night life on thursday and unfortunately for
adults 21 and over but a great
opportunity to worry about a
happy birthday to claude I'll
disrobe for one second and say
that the 46d defensive thank you
to collin and eric ready are you
a soccer team and artists and
rappers and a ground swell from
aaron losing a member of a
contract also maurice the kansas
city chiefs and devon from the
patriots and germany relay and
others from the titans of the
rams and other 46d and eli held
up in support of racial justice
and equality and thanks to all the high school and professional
athletes that are looking at the
lead of collin but especially
historically giving thanks to
john carlos and others from the san francisco state university
and mohammed ali for helping everyone the rest I submit. >> thank you supervisor mar. >> supervisor peskin thank you, Madam Clerk and
colleagues this morning I called
for an investigation into the review and approvals of the
millennial tower in support of district 6 supervisor jane kim
as I think you're aware last
month know the news broke the
millennial tower has been
sinking from 16 inches far more
than the 4 to 56 inches of the
estimate that was presented in
the geotechnical reports done
and anticipated to sink over
thirty niches as the clay soil
continues to compress with its
friction piling system at the
nbc said that was a clear lack
of education between the city
and millennium and between the
millennium and the purpose or purchasers of over 4 hundred
units we have a duty to get to
the bottom of it and figure out
who know what and when both so
we can address the financial
impacts as well as psychology impacts of the individuals living in the building and make
sure we know the right thing to
do is going forward to that end
we'll be holding a special meeting in the oversight committee to have the investigation he next thursday
on 22 at 10 amy am introducing a
resolution and I apologize. I
didn't refer to them wards to
the preservation of the lamp
fishgsz along van ness 200 and
59 that are slated for removal a
historic part of city and can
and should be refurbished I want
to thank the coalition to save
the lamps of van ness avenue for
their efforts I promise the
e-mails will cease and cordially
visit you and constituents to
the world premium premium of a
documentary town you, you May
have read in the chronicle day
viewing October 9th in the film festival and the changes and
policy matters that we have been
debating and addressing here at
the board and could co-stars
joel rodriquez and later on be a the recognition I didn't and it
was fun to participate the rest I submit. >> thank you supervisor peskin. >> supervisor tang. >> thank you
so today, we are in the middle
of national drive electric week
so one of the things I'm doing
is introducing a hearing request
so we can get information yuptsd
from our city departments as to
how it is that we can reach the
goal of securing an all electrical vehicle light
vehicles by the year of 2020 in
san francisco an issue that I
car about in terms of the city
but on the following step to
fourth how it is to better
support our private citizens to drive electrical vehicles are
especially someone many lives in
a multi unit building whether it
is from or market availability
for us to convert to electrical vehicles so first, we'll begin our conversation with the city
departments I look forward to working with the department of
the environment and the puc and
our city administrator's office to achieve those goals and
lastly I have a resolution today
that has been a lot of busy trying buzz to have san
francisco part avenue network of thirty other cities to highlight
and bring education and
awareness to the issue of our
declining pollinator population
in the world actually, I know
that some of you wonder why it
is important to panes to the
bees and pollinators next your
eating a blue beggar keep in mind the populated narrator are
important so we are taking a
pledge as san francisco to
reduce the use of pesticides in
our city properties courageously
people to do landscaping that
attract our policy narrators so the rest I submit.
>> Madam President the end of the introduction.
>> our 3:00 P.M. Special
ordered call items 26 through 3
comprise the special order for
the public hearing for
individuals in the planning department from the
environmental recur from the california environmental quality
act dates May 11 for the
proposed project located on 2000
through 200070 bryant street and next items are the motion
associated with that appeal and
items thirty is the part of
public hearings of persons interested in the certification of a conditional use
authorization dated June for a
proposed project 2000 through 200070 bryant street and items
31 through 33 are the motions associated with that pole. >> thank you, Madam Clerk we
have before us appeals for the
project on 2000 through 2000 and
40 bryant street in district 9
there are two appeals relayed to
the determination of the
exemption for further environmental review and the conditional use authorization so
we're going to hear the two appeals together
then the board will vote on the
determination of the environmental impact that takes
6 votes to affirm or reverse the
board determination if it is rejected the conditional use
authorization become mute no
other actions can take place and
table those items in the environmental determination is
upheld we'll vote it I requires
8 votes to overturn the conditional use decision for
this hearing items 26 and thirty
will be considered why to approve the depreciation that
the project on 2000 to 200070
bryant is exempt from further
environmental review from a community review exemption and the conditional use authorization since we are combining the
appeals I work with the city attorney's office to rise our normal hearing procedures to
provide speakers with a bit more time without objection we will
precede as follows: up to 15
minutes for presentation by the appellants or appellants
representative up to 3 minutes
per speaker in support of
appeals up to 15 minutes from
the staff and from the project
sponsor or the representative up
to 3 minutes per speaker in
opposition to the appeal and finally up to 5 minutes
renewable by the appellants or the appellants representative
please note if you're here to speak on the 2000 bryant appeal
now it the time to do so with
that, we'll open up the hearing and I'm going to turn it over to supervisor campos if you have
any opening remarks before we get started. >> Madam President I don't have any we have a number of
folks I want to make sure we get to the presentation so hear from all the members of the public that are here. >> okay. Thank you supervisor campos and with that, we will
open up to the appellants you
will have
15 minutes.
>> good afternoon, supervisors and supervisor President London breed's
sfgovtv I have a presentation if
you I can bring up the laptop here.
>> thank you.
>> so we're here for the
bryant street starting with the community plan exemption appeal
for the project at the 2000 example 270 bryant street and
here to request on behalf of the
beauty on bryant committee and
the mission that you uphold the
appeal for the plan exemption
and require project level environmental impact prior to further consideration of this project
and you all should have a
handout of this great.
>> conditions have changed significantly those eastern
neighborhoods plan environmental
impact report was certified
during the great revision we are
experienced a boom in housing in san francisco since the eastern neighborhoods plan eir was
certified the significant
population and jobs surge has
been accompanied by the
appearance of longer than
reverse commutes to silicon
valley and ride share cars
citibuild the city for the
working class families and newly displaced returning to the city accompanying the surge in
population is a surge in housing
development with social and environmental impacts there are currently 50 projects and 2000
united built in the pipeline in the mission
this 2000 and 2070 is one of the
projects with the cumulative
impacts in the mission
the bryant street project was
granted an exemption instead of
requiring the environmental
review to be constructed on the lives environmental impact
report and was excused from pits
own environmental studies what's the problem with this the
potential cumulative impacts of bryant street and other
foreseeable projects were not
considered in the ooermentz eir
because this level of housing
development was not considered
you can see the mission housing
openings studies option a,
option b and the preferred
alternative at the 1696 that my
understanding is where policy it
based on off of and up at the
high-end option c with many unit
the actual total including the
bryant street project for for
seeable is 2154 all options
study have been exceeded are
the planning department was in
correct that the projects have
been disclosed in the eastern neighborhoods the eastern
neighborhoods eir forecasted a
range of measures and studies
that set ab preferred plan and c it considered mitigation to the impact levels
however, no such studies were
done for the current level in
the mission including this
project on bryant street
there's no way to evaluate the bryant street impacts in existence against the eir because the cumulative impacts
of this project and the other 50
plus in the mission were not
considered so the yellow area as
you can see will be options abc and preferred
that we looked at and moved beyond that into new territories
to the option and mitigations
that were considered in the
eastern neighborhoods versus the
bryant street impacts that were
not studied in the underlying
neighborhood because their
outing outside the scope we've
exceeded the numbers in the eir
quote the number of foreseeable
issues May see the p eir by
approximately 3 hundreds and 50
dwelling units there is an
agreement we have exceeded this
staff report goes on to say that
residential totals along with an
expected translation to a
population increase somehow
allows this despite not studied
this impact from the case report
again quote the total number of non-residential is well below
the maximum evaluated in the p
eir as the overall population increase
population is not identified in those eastern neighborhoods plan
as a measurement tool for
cumulative impacts even if non-residential
development as translated to population were considered a
valid measure the forecast by
the eir of 8 hundred and 35
thousand has been exceeded a
decade ahead of schedule as you
can see san francisco has gone
up by the contentious bureau 8
hundred 64 compared to the forecast in the eastern neighborhoods eir and the eastern neighborhoods eir office space of the population estimate
that is being used it off by 100
percent in the density in the eastern neighborhoods
the 2008 eastern neighborhoods
eir planning estimate is one
employee per three hundred
square feet whereas co-authors
to a london breed reality firm
by 2017 office density should be
at one employee for roughly half
in summary c p can in the be
grant because the underlying eir
didn't support those exceptions foreseeable housing units was
exceeded by 4 hundred units and they're not studied by the underlying eir population is not
identified in the eastern neighborhoods eir because a
central measurement for the
analysis on housing projects the
eastern neighborhoods population
forecast for san francisco for
2024 has been exceeded by 2017 office population is neither here nor there one hundred
percent more dense than in the eir
the bryant street check list for
the contribution must be
considered when granting a c pe
quote not resulted in potential
offsite or cumulative not
identified in the p eir this confirms the board of
supervisors is the appropriate
body to rule on this project eir
exemption criteria are the
territory, the jurisdiction of
this board the board of supervisors therefore has jurisdiction
claims by city planning and the
staff does not have jurisdiction
are incorrect the ceqa appeals
is clear section 21 plus appeals
the decisions subject to appeal
in accordance and so forth in 16 the following ceqa decisions maybe appealed to the board of supervisors certification of a
final eir is one and 2 adoption
avenue negative declaration by the first decision making body
and 3 the determination of the planning department's or any other authorized department that
a project is exempt from ceqa.
>> housing numbers are not the
only eir pdr is happening at a
pace of one plus forecast in the
plan and nearing the maximum
units in the urban mixed use
zone and a considerable number
of unourptd building not
required zones how much pdr loss
is unclear and calls into question the reliable of the ooermentz to address the pdr
loss and it's impacts and as you can see on the schart
for the mission we're looking a
sum of proposed conversion up to
5 hundred plus out of plan
adaptation of nine hundred and
15 thousand and we're concerned
what is the missing layer
between those illegal opted out
warehouses where no loss of pdr
was expelled at the time of the pdr.
>> this community exemption
must be upheld and the cumulative projects can't be
allowed for the growth and
impacts in the pdr have been overrun neither non-residential building or translation to
population has been correct or a
reliable measure of what the project can be assess based on the between the board of supervisors is the predicament
body to rule on the appeal of c
pe for granting threshold
exemption the affirmative action
it is important for the residents.
>> bryant street conditional
use appeal bryant street
conditional use appeal we ask
you to uphold the conditional use authorization for this
bryant street project
this project is not necessary
and desirable, this project has
displaced countless intermission
a long-standing institution and
tor actually restaurants on the
site for over thirty years and
all shops those two businesses a
music studio and landscaping
business this project will have
an additional displacement for
water residents will create for pressure on mom and pop's
policies are needed to accompany
those projects that limits their direct and indirect displacement
effect in the community such as the mission
design and affordable units the
main concerns the centerpiece of this project May not be
achievable some of the units are
circulated as we understand a
little bit under t capped
minimum size additionally a
variance is granted for the mid
block alley surrounded busy 67
and 8 footed building this
creates issues of light and that
will-this will result in a
loss of further affordable units
the beauty on bryant the owner
continues to claim he's meat the
necessary plans not true the
only thing the beauty on bryant
plan that calls for 50 percent
affordable and 100 percent union build
the mission needs safe development policies before
those large project are allowed to go forward and those protect
the mission and it's most
vulnerable community members
mite policies such bryant street and displacement and other
impacts associated with them the significant and ongoing financial investment and
affordable housing for the next
5 years and consideration and
mitigation of the cumulative
impacts of development in our
micro neighborhood thank you for your time and consideration we
ask you to uphold those two appeals.
>> thank you very much
and is there any additional
comments from any other folks
from the appellants please come forward now.
>> can you pause the time Madam Clerk.
>> supervisors.
>> have you here to provide public comment.
>> so just a second. >> all right.
>> seeing none, and at this
point we will open up to public comment for any speakers that is
here to speak in support of the
appeal so, now is the time
you'll have up to 3 minutes. >> okay love you guys see you all the time
all I want to say that was news
to me when I came up trying to
usurp doing something like
national you know did public comment thing
and I just don't get it we're in
a housing crisis and have environmental issues federal
bureau what I didn't read but you're trying to get away from
has nothing to do with public
comment on environmental issues is it so against federal law I
don't see how you guys can get
away with not having public
comment on any large-scale issue. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> hi supervisors I'm shannon
I'm sick like hillary clinton
I'll power through that coming
out because this is critical you
guys we have so many opportunities but we have come
to you and said please that's
not the same conditions under
which the eastern neighborhoods
plans were written those were written when we needed
development this is a time we're
in severe country's we've all
seen massive displacement I'm one the artists my studio is
around the corner we've seen
hundreds of artists leaving the city and affordable housing lost and generations of san
franciscans being forced to leave the area how many 67 us
and you in the salaries we afford you can afford to
relocate in the city now I'm
concerned heard it is low as 6
percent can stay in the city if
we're not in the homes we are in
now it is essential in this huge
structure this huge set of
structures this huge former site
of a major cultural hub of the
mission of the then controlled small businesses that are here
for generations I have a
developer that is trying to
skate in hope you don't require an environmental impact statement and on policies that
were developed in a crash hoping you'll right thing to do that
and the point the world is
watching we were a cultural and
diversity mecca of the world and
creativity and our tolerance and diversity and support of each other as a community is
something that the world is
watching and it is incumbent on
you as our representatives as
our represents your it we don't
are high powder attorneys if corporate place we care about our community we want to live here and see the generations we
want to continue to be a place
where artists and others come we
have to demand environmental
impact report that will stop the environmentalists and what we
can demand as a community and
society to prevent donald trump
from coming in and putting in
one of his towers let's stop and
have a new plan where we are now thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please.
>> hi my name is-I work
with the plaza 16 organization to oppose another large development in the mission thank
you for your time and also want
to acknowledge all the hard
working folks it came a long way from whether it was originally I
think it is problematic that
there are is $30 million worthy
of public money to make this
project nor palpable to the
community unless there is $30 million to build affordable
housing on a large section of every in any development of
market-rate in the mission I
don't see why we're doing this
that's all I have to say thank you.
>> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please.
>> good afternoon, supervisors
mary lisa I'll speak about the people that are being left out
of the conversation about the
people that I walk past all the
time on my way to city hall
from the central station and the
cheers and on crutches I'm
wondering why there are so many when they were not here where
are they coming from the sros
for whatever else went into the
sros he reason every time I see
them I think of a friend of mine
that is similarly situations
smart not on the sidewalk his home was closed on in berkley
had a single-family homes that
was built for him a hand-crafted
home with a for a man in a
wheelchair and fortunately
people cared to take care of him those people don't have friends
hair out there for a reason and
why are they out there where are they coming from their
multiplying from no where their coming out of the buildings
we're emptying to allow other
people to move into I assume
this particular type of project
is exactly what we're concerned
when we talk about gentrifying the neighborhoods exactly the
kind of project we don't want to come into the mission particularly we are in a
situation we are in and we're
not only it turns out not only mom and pop sophomores that are
having problems I found out that the local safeway is having
problems in the safeway has to
lock their together paste up
inside of a located case you better building the mom and pop's are having trouble we're
on the wrong pathway we need to
change something about what we
are doing and slow down take a
break from this massive housing
development that is going on and
businesses I'm on the side of mayor of palo alto enough we
need to share our wealth with
other places in the country but as far as this particular space I wonder how many more people
we'll see out on the sidewalk in wheelchairs and on crutches and
we lie a allow those places to come into the neighborhood keep in mind. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please.
>> good afternoon, supervisors
I'm ass son healthy in July I
urged you to support the 906, 16th street and today, I'm here to talk about the failure the eastern neighborhoods is not
just a neighborhood issue
it is flailing potrero hill and
soma and failing the mission the
city is enforcing the changes across the eastern neighborhoods overlooking the impacts
overbuilding luxury housing and
failing to provide the infrastructure and communities
benefits it promised to support growth
there are policy failures that must be acknowledged and addressed despite a number of
goals in the mission plan a
critical pdr is stripped out of the umu zoning at the last minute and as a result, the plan
didn't have the teeth to achieve the deserved balance continue
housing and pdr uses and provide
good jobs for its residents the
plan promised a significant percentage of new houses for
people with a wide range of income instead the neighborhood is really from rapid gentrification and displacement
while speculators are given a
free pass to build for maximum
profit meantime the city is
approving individual projects
for community exemption that are
potentially out-of-date eastern
neighborhoods plan eir
instead of xhukt robust without an appropriate compensation of
direct, indirect and tomb u
cumulative significant environmental effects must I
much to the detriment of the
mission for those reasons I ask
you to uphold those appeals and
have an environmental review thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> hi my name is leah I'm here
to speak on behalf of the people
that would like the mission to
be more affordable I have went
through homelessness and have friends that are artists
everybody needs a home it is a human right not a privilege
and I think right now we have
more than you enough luxury and market-rate housing and the
mission is this is just one out
of many in the pipeline we have
to stop the beast on bryant if you have to build those
gentlemen needs jobs I want you
to approve the appeal of the conditional use authorization it is okay for them to build but
have to build housing that is
affordable you know has to be a
dual requirement of a conditional use authorization it has to be necessary and
desirable the very wealthy the
people that use the luxury
housing can afford to travel
many times not they're only home
on the homes in others 12iz this
is a vacation home I don't like
it when luxury places can be
rented out but on or before and
charge up to 12 thousand a month
push more people out and be more homelessness please keep in mind
the people that you would be
serving with those items to I
urge you to approve the appeal for conditional use
authorization for 2000 to 200040
bryant street we don't need more
homeless people or employed
people because not enough for
pdr this stands up for
production distribution and repair what makes san francisco
special remember the mission and
remember what happened to the
fillmore that used is to be the heart of west we don't want the mission without the hispanic cultural and artists we don't
want it to be all gentrified and
homogenous I lived in place like
that I lived inburg gave him it
is nice-to basically ask to
retain the richness that san
francisco is known through withhold or world. >> ray hart for san francisco open government.
Thomas teaches that lived here
my whole life willful governance earlier during roll call supervisor peskin mentioned the
building that is national news
16 inches sinking and now we'll
hold a hearing after the barn
door is shut and figure out what
to do about this the special use
district in the navy I know that
one word uses a few expletives
this is poor profrmg now you're
hearing from the public how the
eir that was used to grant this
was in fact, not defective but up to date and out mooted
basically your looking at a
project that is based on irrelevantcy basically what
needs to be done a full ceqa study it needs to be something that
you listen to you have the
citizens coming here I was in
retail for a lot of years and
every customer that complained 9
didn't comblan took their
business somewhere else I think
for every person that comes to
speak perhaps 9 or 99 feel the
same thing but don't have the
stamina to do that I question sometimes that board of
supervisors actually listens to
the citizens or the outlined
case they have rotates in their
pockets or checks in their
pockets or attorneys you need to
pay attention to the citizens
that are telling you that using
updated eirs and statistics that
is presented in the appeal
presentation is not right if you're going to do something do
it right if the people that
built the building sinking 16
inches did prior planning they
won't be in the situations for
the people that can't sell or
give away the apartment are
stuck now we'll have a hearing
and figure out what to do a
little bit late let's not do
exactly the same thing let them
get away using out 340e9d studies that no longer apply 3
are invalid for the situations
that exist and especially that
happened in 2008, when our country almost went did you
observe into economic turmoil
it is 2016 walk up listen to the
citizens of this city they're
the ones that put our backsides
in those seats
thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> my name is thomas ray a resident of the mission district and a native san franciscan
currently there are 22 luxury
housing developments planned for
that the mission for 2016 luxury
units and only 200 plus affordable units everyone says
those luxury units help to solve
san francisco's housing crisis
2, 3, 4 reality they're not tax
advisors reports show that many
condos built since 2000 have ab at the owner's with silicon
valley and executive director
and corporations and some live
as far away as new york city and
hawaii and hong kong using them
as rentals a third or second homes
a-a number of these are
listed on airbnb and v rb o up
to $12,000 a month or $6,000 a
night during the evening no
lights shining out from the
windows those developments are investment properties not
housing their preceded value
along with the properties
increase 2 to three hundred rate causing to raise evictions
around them and cause the
displacements of thousands of
low and middle-income workers new workers in san francisco
including city workers,
teachers, and even construction
workers and many tech workers
cannot afford to buy those units
so who is that for the development on bryant street causes transportation and
parking problems at the current
rate of luxury housing and pdr
in the mission and the it's already damaging effects of
higher rates and evacuees is the mission district and it's cultural and latino heritage
community and business will not
be here in 5 years and will exit out of san francisco and will never come back
it will become extincts like the
former african-american in the western edition I encourage the supervisor to look at the effects of luxury housing development in the
mission and throughout you san francisco
the truth will shock you thanks.
>> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> hi I work at the women's
building today, I come to you as someone who is directly working with the mission community evidence he everyday I have
women and families and children
coming in to our building to ask more affordable housing everyday
I have people that have been
evicted and have no where to go
and everyday refer them to
shelters with long waiting lines
and small areas to stay there
and housing that is list 12 to 6 months and everyday I refer
those people to resources I know
full well, are not all the time
able to accumulate their situation who is there everyday
working with those people it is
noting not only heartbreaking
but wrong the mission can't
afford to build for luxury housing and not take into
account all the people that are long term residents of the
mission we don't have an environmental review but I have
is the stories that I get to
hear everyday and the women and
families I see crying and cry
with them everyday in the office
please I urge you to take into
account the community members
that are struggling because of the housing crisis that is going
on here in the city thanks.
>> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> hi I work with the housing committee and a native
we're in full support of this
appeal it is very important when we think about the beast on
bryant we think about a block ray hart for san francisco open government from your community
taken away we look at that
we look at our says that a safe
haven for the youth; right?
What will happen there and
seniors being evicted 80-year-old and one hundred
years old seniors are evicted why not 100 percent affordable
housing we live in a city where
there is a city as proves that
can be able to have a voice for now for seniors and families along that block there's a
number of families that are long
term residents what will happen
to them and the community as a born and raised in the mission what will happen to the
traffic congestion; right? We
see the bus going down bryant
street what will happen on our
way to central nervous system to school what burglary happen a lot of commemorating and it is
very for the seniors will be affected people with disabilities will be affected
and the homeless will be affected would we rather see
people on the streets and living
in their cars we need after I
hope you support this appeal thank you.
>> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> hi I've been working with
the brilliant team and trying to
figure out what to do I want to
remind you, we got nothing at
the beginning not one pdr replacement and figure out really, really hard to get some
replaced we got half of the land
which doesn't-means no building we've been meeting and
talking with people and trying
to figure out if the mayor's office of housing can actually
pay and fund it what will it look like exactly how will they fund it
because there are some measures
and things they can do but don't have either architecture specs
what that looks like light or
like the children or enclosure
on the back rear of the yard not
a nearby park or anything else
so we're trying to figure out
what was actually promised and another thing the eastern
neighborhoods report is updated it is about 8 years old a lot
has happened in 5 years the
community has changed within the
last two years so, I mean I
don't know know how much more to
appeal I come here for housing appeals and police brutality
haeshgz he can only say one
thing that is excessively not safe in the mission I mean, I don't know that you guys are
familiar this is alex and he
would have not been killed not
been gentrifiers how to deal with other people you know I'm
from a city I know how to get
along with different folks and
different backgrounds we love it
we come here to find our families and support a lot of
communities came to the mission
to rebuild their families
formals war torn country's what
do we do with people on the
streets the police shoot them
I'm trying to figure out how the
city can support its people as
far as the-when will it go up
and why does the city have to pay for the biggest part of it
our cultural is no the commodity
you can't go into the mission
and buy the mission you have to
love the community not whitewash
it the mission is the mission if
you don't like it don't move there thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> before the next speaker
I'll remind the audience the
board rule no audible rule
you're welcome to use our
supportive fingers.
>> with all due respect we're
not the audience but the public.
>> my name is magic since the
majority of you are attorneys we
want to see you take down this proposed development I'm concerned repeating witnessed
zoning be twisted and just plan
ignored to serve the rich you
have a head start with all the
work by the people given
testimony I imagine if you're working for an international
nonprofit for one thousand
dollars an hour the conversation
would be we'll shoot this thing full of holes let's start with allowing affordable housing is
not creating or President The
the vague neurons at a crucial minded more affordable housing
doesn't show the intention it
couldn't happen at all if this
is watts the way it is approved
those developers don't give a damn that about affordable
housing we can August this is a
time of cycling and tearing down
building to be used we can
agriculture a origin intent to
build a none-the height of this proposed building not aligned with the character of
the neighborhood and will offer
shadows structures and nothing
can stop us from demanding a new
eir it is updated and not
expected when in eir was worked
on it will devastated the
cultural beauty of this area and
we can prove it we need to turn the jobs argument on its head in
the long term the people that
are employed will be without
affordable living spaces
exposing this for a greedy point
can make a great media comment
and have their songs played in
tv and adds it is not a crime to
stop those who motivation is
profit okay. Guys. Let's take
it down now let's hear it recent
lawyers we not to witness our
expertise I want to finish with
a quote from supervisor cowen the soul of san francisco
neighborhoods are on the line doing everything we can to insure local residents can
remain in san francisco and the
communities they live and grew up on thank you.
>> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> tom gilberty
a sustainable equal for the
growth we need a different
ratios
with the private sector new
funding physical plans and
housing plans for healthy
communities it is obvious the
neighborhood is up in arms and
the neighborhoods will follow a
plan of development that has
lawyers architects and money they've got their presentation
down pat and people in the neighborhoods are usually the
businesses hey we can make money here, too.
>> instead of letting the
developers plan everything with
their money back and their
profit motivate we need to tail
up our growth a new policy across the board something that
does something with a bite into it
we need to create less stress for everybody
now let's see if I can make that work.
>> the housing plan is absent
different what if we start
request 20 percent of community
of protecting affordable homes
veterans and for foster kids
section 8 the homeless right off
the bat 20 percent that will be
40 units what we save 20 percent
of 40 units are teachers and
firemen and nurses and sewer workers and community workers you know your community how
about if we go up with 5 percent
for seniors that have lived in
san francisco for 50 years and
seniors this way they can move
out of their homes and people
can move into their homes we're detailing this production for
the people of san francisco to
move in how about 20 percent of
people in the local zip codes
and then we'll let thirty
percent be the open market you know this is where you ever
been is free to pay as much
money for this monster as they
can the developers can make a
little bit of their money not 60
or 70 percent of open market-rate
we need a different policy
sustainable equal lyric
itarian
I attend all the schools in the
city high school and-the
project the developers got exemption without providing community benefits and we're concerned how this the
city is going to pay for the
other half of the buildings that
is asked to build other than we're concerned that you know
we're seen as folks that does not want the development if our
neighborhood that's not true we
want to have new housing we also
want fair housing for everybody
we don't believe that that
again, when the plan was
approved that under the circumstances without the policy
it was approved so we like you
and need your help in looking at
this project over in support us
and to the appeal so thank you very much.
>> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please.
>> my name is kim I live in
the outer avenue I'm here to
speak in support of 24 appeal if
we lose the mission what will
happen the dumbest person know that the market-rate with the
people of regular income will be
displaced and rent will go up if
you can't act on this what can
you act on tuesday.
>> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> supervisors today, we have heard the people speak
the people have reached saturation point
this appeal and many other
appeals will come before the
board of supervisors
do not just listen to the people
today in san francisco we have middle-class people slipping e
sleeping with their families on the streets and here is the planning department and I'm glad you
choose two new ones I think you
should send this back to the
planning department to see how
the new candidates votes on this
plan it is faulty it is faulty
and the city has the audacity to invest $30 million without a
check list you hear about the
eirs and hear about sick workers and have intelligent people over
here one of the things that happened in city hall is
wheeling and dealing
people pay to play
and this crap must stop
I represent the first people I'm
for the indigent people for the
poor for those who are hurting
amusement for the developers and
don't bring the union workers
here who are absolute in
understanding real understanding
and that's why you'll get jobs
you're not going to get jobs
because by bringing the union
people here they are creating a
division and we are a force to
be recollected with four times
we shut down city hall
four times the mayor is not
doing due diligence all those
colon I didn't see that support
the mayor are not doing due
diligence I want to praise all
those who came here and were so articulate how they understand
what is happening happening to
this great city named after st.
Francis
some of you supervisors have
compassion but those who get all
the money from the developers so
be shamed of yourselves and the planning department I know some
of you all I know you all mean
well but somebody puts a gun to
our head and your rubber stamp
get real and help the poor thank you.
>> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> hello my name is mary
mendosa and I'd like to
to the fact that using a plan it
was not specifically written for the mission district something that is updated is something
that feeds to stop
the people of the mission
district need to be respected
and addressed in those point in
time so the community is heard
so the community is respected
they feel that respect recently, there was a collective
of artists that presented at a
film latino in their poetry was
called upon by an artist and
gentleman said published in an
article I'm one of the artist
who submitted work and the topic
was the gentrification that so many people have been exercising saying the artists this is
something the city is losing was
attempting to express so I wish
to share a bit of that poem.
>> looking at any rear window
Dr. Priscilla chan out the sky
the soul of the palm leaves a
curtain sets the stage I feel
burnt-out by death and loss
showing so much has gone wrong
my heart is heave of heavy I
can't breathe I wake with the
morning do have and draw any
bedroom curtains to dance with
the trees my mind remain clouded
by fog by the merry range the vibrant colors dance the
dedicate back to life spray by
spray drama enfolds with the
images of the past
the-lights the way for the
aztec warrior to lift up the day
rise with the sun
larger-than-life and strong and beautiful ground and rooted and skin standing at all
my window becomes my looking glass
the round circle of sun transforms by moving cranes that
build them of them up or tear
them down the story is not yet
over we're still here thank you.
>> thank you >> next speaker, please.
>> hi my name is julian an organizer with the group ace we
are work with low and moderate income communities in the
missions, bayview, excelsior and other neighborhoods and one
thing our members have seen
throughout the city is developers getting special
exemptions to be able to do
whatever they want sometimes
there is a forgiven leave that's
what is happening here a
dedication of space by the city that in front of tens of
millions of dollars to let the developer get out of his
obligations to pay for affordable housing
you know lennar another big
developer just got away with
building three quarters of l housing and some of the
affordable housing buildings are
out of reach for low income people
lennar is also getting away with
putting something on the ballot
prospering organization to get
out of it's obligation to the community it's time to say
enough is enough and we can send
a message here today and reject nicks bound for approximately treatment time to say not to
delay this development and not to delay beast on bryant.
>> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> thank you san francisco
native first want to appreciate supervisor mar for bringing this initiative it is critically
important and it is bound to
what we're talking about today, we're talking about gentrification
while we're talking edition u
gentrification lost 10 thousand
latinos and housing skyrocketing
an issue they're putting community against each other the
carpenters can't afford to live
in the building but they're here
defending I guarantee the
majority are not from san
francisco but the biggest issue the issue of this city selling
out we're not selling out to the
highest bidder we are selling
over 5 hundred that's the most you can give to a supervisors
campaign we're selling out to
the lowest building nick is a vulture someone that says a
piece of lands I can afford but
no one else can I'll take it
I'll extract whatever he can and
find a way to make money at the expense of a community I don't
care them at least at the very least he get my money I'll go
what is the issue the issue with
that he gets the time to leave
whenever he wants when my father
was displaced from his home over
40 years he didn't have the
choice it is gone as elected officials the duty and
responsibility to fight for our
people our people are dying in the streets gentrification
killed alex wearing a 49s jacket
someone said I'm scared of the
hispanic with the red jacket on
and supervisors on this board
want to kick this outburst
because it's not appealing to
the human eyes guess what you
causes that issue I'll ask you
to please for the heart of the city
the hood that I grew up in have bravery
show you May sell out to the
highest by evidence but you have
people that are accountable to you thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> hello
I'm louis I was here last week
but you closed thank you supervisor mar for supporting me
and helping me understand where I've been in this struggle of so
many years I was a lead person
at geneva towers when the mayor was the headed of the human rights commission he never
supported me then even though he
was sexually harassed and almost
choked to death when a white man
was in my apartment and not
wanting the off duty police with
a gun to stand in my door.
>> I heard about this in the
mission I don't think that we should be selling out everybody or everything interest the
people I'm in a a lawsuit with
the international reality company they discriminated
against me I tried to apply for
the community right here 50 feet
from any church I've been and
been in the bayview all those
years until he was evicted from geneva towers we've seen what happened with
black people he heard people talking about we were the people harlem of the west in the
fillmore and the same thing in bayview gentrification is killing bayview the people
around there they can't get jobs
and housing we have those ab u
guys very nice guys want to work
and help people get jobs don't
get help from your or our
supervisor in district 10 I feel
like I'm put on a trial not to
get support david who is a ceo
of the how are you development
corporation my daughter spent
her hard earned cash to pay for
a unit harassed me and he takes
over the meeting and have the President Going on against you
he sat in the meeting ma'am, ma'am,
I'm pawing your times please bring our comments british columbia back before the board.
>> this the same thing I don't
want to see the same thing
happen to the moishth and in the
fillmore and still going on in bayview hunters point my people
are forced out the churches are
there we come before the church
later on so bad things happen
when good people step back and
not do something that's how
hitler did because the democrat
parties runs this city thank you.
>> thank you >> next speaker, please.
>> this is about the appeal of the determination of exemption.
>> okay. Thank you. >> yes.
>> I want to say san francisco
supervisor good afternoon
as I'm risen for I'm here on
behalf of any building to give
to give thanks to supervisor jane kim supervisor jane kim thank you
very much for bringing hocking
hospital near our room as you
May know I survived 9 times
heart attack I tell you like
many other people if you can put
your hands on the new building
to take it down one thousand one
van ness in the theatre movie
you're going to take it down and
make a new one you're
responsible for that our-not
only that you're responsible for
low income people low income can
pay rents still three or four
thousand that's bull people
coming 80 try to give you something else and make it something different you have
time before they take the building down and the building
another building new for all of
us or for people that need it
please make it new to protect
the low income protect the poor
people because nobody has 3 thousand for one bedroom shame,
shame to have that you must
understand you have great
supervisor around I building none of them going to say not to
delay support you all of them
going to be with you and before.
>> what you do in the future
thank you. I tell you one thing
God bless you supervisor jane
kim God bless you.
>> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> my name is spike I live
down the block from the supposed development and heard dozens why
to vote yes to support of eir
and the appeal the planning
department doesn't duo do their
due diligence do know what the
true impacts using a scaled eir
they wrote the recommendations that concludes my report.
The project without including
any community concerns regarding
increased traffic with a bedroom communities for commuting tech
workers and congestion with 83
cars parking coming out the neighborhood and reverse the displaced residents driving in
and out of their schools and cultural centers that are effected due to the project
legally this project needs a new eir that goes would you any
question this project is better than the original proposal from
back in the day but that's not
due to any benefit advance this out-of-pocket by deputy city
attorney a sliver of land it
quality under 18 percent of affordable units he's on this
building 3 the city is building
the rest on our dime not his how
does he get away his college bud
why a finances the project nor
his liability wife works for the
mayor's office of housing she
was supposed to keep her hands
off a complaint was filed this project shouldn't go forward
watt an investigation into the mayor's office of housing and
until that investigation is complete there are questions into the affordable units in the
sliver of dedicated planned or
lands did t rules only allows
I'm sorry one and 18 units to be
built this is by adding two additional floors and increasing
the construction costs but the mayor's office of housing didn't
had had market they accepted the
developers numbers that one and
33 affordable units will fit two
vicinity he arithmetic say that
is not true per ethically and legally please uphold this thing appeal and look at this project
when there is smoke there is
usually fire send 24 for a eir
and let it's been investigation
move forwarding of this project
I have a copy of the complaint I
didn't make 8 thousand copies
but I'm sure you'll get it.
>> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> good afternoon. My name is
rodney I happen to live down the
street from the beast on bryant what we're looking at affordable
housing wasn't what we're
looking at diminished dropped
services for individual in the city when professional people
start to have to leave the city,
teachers, artists whatever people that support of
infrastructure of the city that
keeps our kids who are doctors
and nurses people services
workers starting leaving the
city a diminished drop if services
my colleagues are leaving the
city dedicated to teaching but
dedicated to obgyn living comfortablely they're looking at
the quality of life living with
4 to 5 roommates you can't
afford anything and working 45
and 50 hours a week weapons is
those people leave in terms of
the education
it drops it diminishes
so by having this beast on
bryant by having this man move
on and take over the patch of
land and no regards for how
people are living what the
neighborhood needed or the city
needs
you're creating a void you're
creating a void you May not recover from so, please take the
this project and think about
what we need not right now not
for the immediate future but the long term future of the city and
what that holds for people that
come here and invested and
worked hard not looking to get
wealthy in the terms of a bank
account but they're trying to
contribute to thank you. >> thank you next speaker, please.
>> good afternoon supervisions
or commissioners with the latino
cultural district we're here in
support of both appeals the latino cultural district was created was the eastern neighborhoods plan was not
working I've been hearing about
the lgbt cultural district and been hearing about the african-american culture
district and not have to do this in the eastern neighborhoods
plan was working we appreciate
what we're doing now with the
protection side of but not
enough and not knowing if it
will be working the eastern
neighborhoods was from 2001 to
2008 it is 8 years old and not
capturing the number of people
displaced and pdrs we're way
over the numbers in the eastern neighborhoods plan
map 2020 we'll be working on that if the eastern neighborhoods what about
ambulance was working we need to
look at the plan to redo make a
new plan happening now and do the internal revenue for the
development when the eir was
completed in 2008, didn't apply
for what is going on today so,
please uphold and support those
two appeals thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> hi my name is marie
sorenson would the quatro
I want to know who sold-out the mission because it seems like
the mission has become a free-for-all anyone can come to
the mission and build because we're doing inform grandfather you in
well it's a wrong the mission is a place where
people are lived for a number of
years and it is a very
culturally diverse area
we really do need to protect it
let's go on to the-I'm going
to throw the words about the
supervisors spoke up about sam
lee's and not want to happen in the mission that happened in the
fillmore you need to put up or
shut up we need an eir for the
mission not done since 2008 the projections are already of what
is in line to be built are over
the 2025 predictions the mission
is a mess we need an eir the eastern neighborhoods plan
is updated but guess what it was never followed anyway
they only took it into a
document they can change on a which I am the fact of the
matter the beast is a perfect
example and lennar is too
of and about how the eastern neighborhood plan was mark
farrell a suggestion not really thought of
the eastern neighborhood plan
stated from the get go that
transit rich corridors should be
reserved for housing fwrrdz the
beast on lennar the monster in
the mission all those apply yet
they were all grandfathered in
so that argument just went out
the window why do we have plans
and meetings that set zoning regulations they can be bought
and changed at the drop of a hat or I should say several thousand
dollars a pause on the mission
we need to have an eir done
because the mission is slowly
fading into the sunset and the
mission will be just like san
francisco is like every other
will fresno there's no culture
left well fresno has culture
we're pricing everybody out smobd.
>> my name is rick hall I
disagree with the prior speaker
the mission is not slowly fading
into the sunset but driven there
at a rapid rate I'm here to ask
you to support both of the
appeals that absolutely clear
that the underlying eir is obsolete since you consider just
look at the world we live in
today versus what was projectionable or in the minds
of the people that wrote that eir
you know it was-80 how could they takes into account this
stuff you can imagine you you
know what the warriors stadium
there and pier 70 yeah. Maybe
they've countered a bunch of
numbers but no idea of the
impacts of what happened since
it is both the cumulative
impacts and change circumstances
absolutely require this thing public school declared obsolete
and stopping used for exemptions
secondly, we do need a major new
policy because part of what
we've part of our problem is
that we are just overhead please -
>> we just not following
Inaudible:
We've over built above moderate
income compared to the rene e
numbers by one and 57 percent
and only built 12 percent the rene e affordable housing, of
course, the world will be so
different all we do is build for
the rich and let them on an "x" batted basis replace the poor
and the rest of the culture it
is clear to me this appeal is timely thank you thank you. >> next speaker, please. >>
sorry and the other thing I'll say I've been to a lot of
hearings about this stuff and
kind of anxious to hear with
planning has to say today, I
call it the eir improve bans I
heard them camtc with changed
numbers and after supervisor
peskin did some calculations he
said God you've within one-
>> thank you very much.
>> it struck me repeating on
and on over the last few weeks
about a link between climatic
change deniers and those who
fail to recognize the failure of the eastern neighborhoods plan
we don't understand how the
denyers despite all the facts
the facts are in the eastern
neighborhoods the goals were
60 percent affordable to low
income to moderate not even
close we're off by a factor of 5
somehow the sacrificed cow can't
be slauthd pdrs we've lost pdr
at a rate two to three times
that was anticipated in the eir the eastern neighborhoods plan
had a goal of diversity in our
neighborhoods and preservation of our businesses
that's not happening either
so when you have a business and
your plan is not working or in
your life in a life plan is not working what do you do do you do
the thing that is unskilled you
no. You reset you reevaluate as
in eir and replan that's what we
have to do here we've talked about some of the
numbers planning has been going
to con tomorrow's trying to
explain how we're somehow 24
units with w is not more than 16 hundred units the pacing is two
to three times the rate of the
eastern neighborhoods plan
because testators up to 2025 so why this failure let's assume
the people that put the eir
together knew what they're doing
I'm not going to question their
knowledge of motivates ceqa
requires that we redo an
analysis or an eir analysis of those issues
the economic changes in the
price of housing since the look
at the 2007 nexus study it is
doubled the price of rental and
hours is actually more than
doubled will change 17 percent
of people can afford to buy
those luxury units that will
disrupt the neighborhoods we're
not anticipated in the advances gentrification and the
redevelopment money will be gone
the redevelopment money was gone
in 2012 as opposed to 2008. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is jackie I'm with
the cultural action network
want you to know that nick has
sdroitd a thriving neighborhood
that was home to arts and neighborhoods serving businesses all of which helped to define the spirit of this neighborhood
and now he seeks to claim credit
for sclaen up the messy created
the environmental impact report
is essential and should include
the environmental impact of what
this project so big dwovrd to
have on the community as part of environmental impact
report a study should be done
been the open space issue not
enough open space on-in this project
the intercourtyard that comprised the open space doesn't
meet the codes that require a 45
degree from each ended the
courtyard in terms of not big
enough and it is not going to be
migrated by the private terraces
located on top of the building
so many of this project modifications that should be
studied under the eir rely on siamese with the affordable
limousines despite the fact that
no final design even exists for the project
so we're appealing to you to the
board of supervisors to order an
eir in this-for this project.
>> and lastly instead of a
poor trying to do something for
the neighborhood what nick is
doing is segregating the rich and wealthy people in his
proposed project that should be
studied and this should be again
part of the oz impacts should be part of environmental impact
report that's what the I in the
e eir.
>> thank you. Next speaker.
>> hello my name is ivan I'm
with justice and-for alex I'm
here to wholeheartedly request
you stop the beast on bryant
until you the supervisors demand
that an adequate environmental
impact study be done for the effects on the latino community
and other people of color in the
neighborhood
I'm here on behalf of the
justice for alex coalition and
alexs parents because they lost
a son
after a new comers to the
neighborhood called 9-1-1
because they were afraid of the
latino wearing a red 49's jacket
and baseball cap.
>> they racially profiled him
the police raced up the hill to racially profile him and then
the thirty seconds from the
moment they arrived two officers
shot first 23 bullets between
the two of them followed by
another set of bullets 11 for
for no-a total of 59 bullets
shot by sfpd because a white
newcomer was front yard of a
latino man so, please consider the impact of those projects
when you don't have any
consideration for how those communities are going to
intricate and respect and
support of working-class
communities of san francisco
youth are profiled and
discrimination and also part of
justice for pat coalition he was
shot to death also a homeless
man sitting on the ground when
the police officers approached
him you'll see on video less
than 7 seconds killed him before
shot with 7 bullets shop the beast on bryant thank you. >> thank you.
>> next speaker, please. >>. >> are are tell you any public comment on this item?
Who'd last week to speak in
support of appeal please come forward.
>> my name is a sincerely advert
and he was part of eastern neighborhood plan and we spent
years putting that plan together I was also part of mission area
plan that was put together and
honestly tell you after a decade
of that that was she felt
literally ignored not used by
planning department and by the city of san francisco
and it is painful because that
had that these plans been
followed we would not be where
we are today so I want to read a little bit of an article because
sometimes it is like when I say things people don't get it May
be a writer from a newspaper to do a little bit of research
they'll it is fact here we go. >> we heard it over and over
as the high price of housing in
the city the serious applying if
apply to san francisco reality market in the south of market
and particularly the mission
have experienced development
adding thousand of development
of rent-controlled units and
basically a tennis maeshthd today; right? That's what the
reality market is saying and all
predicted over one particular
unit building a developer
created currently 80 vacant
units usually at a time like
this they're really busy but now
people are not snagging things
up and not getting the multiple
offers an enmistakenly soviet
union of the rental market in
the rental developers and bending backwards to attract
renters demand is the same but
the supply shot up dramatically
hundreds if 0 not thousand of empty units in lecturer development an individual at the
ebay was shopping on the market
and currently lives in the
mission bay high-rise she's
lived there 10 years and now
looked 2 henry adams that has 23
hundred and 41 units and guess
what her landlord is dropping
her rent to keep her there
landlord are dropping rents and
green house one month free rent and free parking and can't fill
up the units do we need today at
with the crisis more lecturer units that's the question where
are replanning-
>> thank you >> next speaker, please.
>> my name is silvia johnson.
And these all these that we're
working on affordable housing
and the police department has
been all set up for that
advantage the police department
didn't realize you know natural
that-because I've been taking
medical classes those medical
classes are-with the art and this is where.
>> Ms. Johnson we'll pause
your time not general public comment if public comment for ceqa appeal
so if you can keep.
>> that's that's what I'm talking about
I don't need co-finding from the
audience please refine our
changes to speak thank you.
>> Ms. Johnson continue.
>> the written anti schedule
that has been through and
happening not put affordability
how long in the world I mean
this is been totally ridiculous
an appeal and explained for
court haeshgz as he lived in
federal court and been in the
obama administration the judge
threw me out of court that's
ridiculous 415 where's the real
process in san francisco of
houses and there are dozens of
there but bad poverty and suggestions
that we needed to ride out where
this process in building the
houses and being in you know
different classes and proceeding
this has been really worldwide
and to be issued and have gotten
a lawyer to look into that
because george my name and sent
the check back I asked him to
reschedule the court hearing
offer in oakland this is a bad
process for this the police
department make me forced to do
that I know who is doing the
enforcement who our human
society and our awards this is
planning to get people sick and
stuff where is-you know in
the medical reports really being
vandal for this process is
really living a normal life in
the city for the police department too.
>> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. I'm here
to ask to support of ceqa appeal and the conditional use
authorization do we need really
any more luxury units in this
town probably not will they
highway money not in the crisis
gets worse and effect the
moderate and protecting people
no quite the contrary
doctors as I said several times
doctors have shown in san francisco the construction of
luxury housing over the last
decade since 2000 has resulted
in increased displacement and
increased housing costs burdens
for low income renters and I'll
point out their study they
believe that'll their
displacement is underestimate
now if you have any further
doubt probably talk to the
tenants that gets threats with
the evictions every time a
luxury development is announced in the eastern neighborhoods yet
we're talking about studying the
maximum number of housing units
are foreseen by the eastern
neighborhoods plan undercover of
an eir that only studied the construction of that units and
really the question is how?
First of all, how do we know how
is this possible the luxury
promotion of displacement
necessarily or desirable for a
neighborhood that has lost tone
thousand people and counting
since 20008 thousand latinos and
counting since 2000 and
culturally estimated that among other things that is because of
mess and the murder have to
people in the neighborhood to
witness alex actually in go
brunn 0 because of gentrifiers
it is inchiefable not to promote
the further gentrification and
displacement with some ohio such
a unstudied commute by the
displaced none knows about the
study we know they're not good
and a hurry ride sharing in the
mission car ownership went up 79
percent this is crazy the
underlying plan the eir I'm
sorry are obsolete please
support of appeals. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> good afternoon make and members of the board of supervisors a native san franciscan born and raised and
lived in the city all my life I
want to first of all, take a
moment to thank joshua and others for really coming together I'm here to ask for
your support for this appeal are
I want to inform this board this
honorable board that when we
fill up the board rooms in the
planning commission with what is
supposedly construction workers
from san francisco nothing is
further from the truth 90
percent of brother are not part
of one and 34-year-old labor institution san francisco's
carpenters local 22 which is one
and 34-year-old outlined we had
74 construction-and yet local
22 lost 11 hundred members so
your families are not going to work and san franciscans are not
going to work it is commendable
the community is sporting labor labor has supported the
community I ask you to remember
that jay the organizationer that
owes one plus didn't live here
and adrian didn't live here not
been part of community and
richard the executive secretary doesn't live here and care about
the stakeholders we're the
stakeholders we want to remain
here and fought for construction
jobs and cia for must have us is
a laughing stopping stock
they're the carpetbaggers in alameda didn't stand for carpenters the carpenters know
we're part of community we've built generations of carpenter
local 22 have built this city
for generations as far as the
eye can see anywhere you look at our brothers and sisters built
it city let's take the place of
stakeholders it is shameful and
you should bring them to task for them please uphold this appeal thank you. I appreciate
all you do for the city we're the city thank you.
>> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> okay really, really, really tired and
in cultural shock flew in this
morning from standing rock in
south dakota north dakota I'm
sorry I've been camping and
cooking for the people and I'm a water protector
and paper doll that is the erltd
in the camp who great, great
grandmother figure out and asked
me I was from san francisco she
said oh, san francisco is the
baddest place in the world.
>> can I ask the question do you think about the water and the infrastructure when you keep
on building on this land
do you think that what that will do to the by the way, all the
water and the plastic and people
that don't care in this city
I feel sick coming back and he
only want to get out of this hellhole that I'm in front of
the right now that is called city hall
you should be shamed of
yourselves but okay. That
didn't matter does that because
the fat takers take the fat that
is what paper doll calls them
and the pipeline at this moment
have the streets blocked and the
swat are there with it rifles
and facebook has blocked the
live streamers the life
streamers have been arrested my
friends are arrested and I stand here do you think about
proprietor when I hear well, we
need algebra in eight grade
school but put for police in the
mission district if the children
know more about science perhaps
they'll not be in gangs do you think that that first, the 7
generations or only think about
the greedy fat articulating
taxiers there are taking
everything they can they need
labors as a slaves we'll be there.
Shouting:
That was when the department of
justice came in.
>> thank you very much
thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> I'm a mechanic of the
justice for mario woods and for
accountability I come here in
support of alex parents in
requesting that you create a
permanent memorial plague in
brunn 0 park and if queer honest. >> ma'am, I'm sorry we're
going to pause your times this
is the ceqa appeal we're not a general public comment.
>> no. We're finishing up the ceqa appeal.
>> oh, when is.
>> we'll be in this particular
hearing for another thirty
minutes or so sorry about that.
>> any other members of the public that want to support specifically the appellant.
>> I live nearby I don't know
if all the enlightenmenty was
focused on this project but I
would say that I know it would
be nice to shed nor light on the
problems created by those kinds of project.
>> a looking at any notes for
clarity we're talking about at
least maybe 45 minutes before
minimum before we get to general public comment
just one more accurate time period
okay any public comment on this item?
Provide commissioner kim in support specifically the appellant seeing none, public comment is closed. For that position.
>> and we're now going to go
into the presentation from the
city departments starting with
we're going to start with
planning okay
Ms. Ann marie rogers welcome.
>> oh, excuse me-I'll pause
on the city's time and ask supervisor campos.
>> any apologizes this issue
was raised during public comment and even though not raised
during the appeal presentation I
want to make sure that excellent from the substance the
presentation this issue be
addressed specifically the fact
that was through the chair an
ethics complaint filed about the
role that was played in this
process by a member of the mayor's office of housing who has a spouse that was involved in the project that I want to make sure that before we get
into the substance of the
response to the appeal that that
issue be addressed by the mayor's office of housing so if I May through the chair.
>> would you like the city attorney to address.
>> I'll begin with them and
ask the city attorney.
>> good evening a question of
protocol is this part of 15 minutes.
>> kate hartley with the mayor's office of housing and community development I welcome
the chance to respond to the
undo influence by sophie hayward
any colleague the mayor's office of housing and community
development of policy and
legislative affairs and
established a protocol marina Ms. Hayward provides the senior
management with a list of all the projects that her spouse
works on when we have that list
and it is changing with some
regular it we set up a firewall so Ms. Hayward can't influence
the acts is that pertain to that
project
that means no sitting in on
meetings regarding the activity
no strategizing no letter
writing or work products no
activity that in any way
influenced the okay of mohcd
involvement in the project the
specific request was specific
relevant to 2000 bryant I was
the main staff person from mohcd
working from the gibb I can attest that sfgovtv sophie
hayward doesn't participate I'm
concerned read the ethics
complaint and there were several
e-mails which sophie was copied
on the content were procedural only
when I picked up this project at
the potential land decade project several months earlier the first lands dedication
project I remind open and needed
guidance regarding how a land
dedication move forward there
the lotta's fountain earthquake
process and sophie respond that
is was procedural only and her
response was a very generic-
so I wanted to suppress that
again sophie didn't participate
in decision making anytime 9
project came up she go up and
executed heifer our analysis was
done by the book for the section of the planning code we followed
the perusers we evaluated it as
prescribed that's the way we
came total outcome we did I'll be happy to answer any questions you May have. >> thank you. >> through the President I
want to ask through the chair
the city attorney we want to make sure we are following all
the ethical requirements and to the extent that 0 there was a question raised about whether it
is appropriate for that the board to proceed with this appeal in light of the issue
that was raised I want to hear
from the city attorney and if
you can give us our guidance in terms of the complaint that's
been raised and the response are if the city the mayor's office
of housing what is your view in
terms of the tournamentness of
the board continuing with this appeal. >> john gibner, deputy city
attorney. speak up. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney. That's the first anyone has asked me to speak up
my office has conferred with Ms.
Hayward to make sure she's
taking the appropriate steps to avoid any conflict of interest
based on any conversations with
her today after receiving the e-mail mentioning the ethics
complaint and the presentation
that appears there are-not participated in or made any
decisions or thought to use her
position of the mohcd or in the
other city department related to
this project
there's no problem with the board moving forward with the decision today
one side note related as well
the e-mail that was distributed I received this morning I
believe the rest of you that the
city attorney had dictated this matter might be continued because of the ethics complaint
I think that is just made up the
city attorney none in my office
or none in the public
information office made in any such statement.
>> thank you Mr. Gibner I want
to make sure if the contrary or
are concerns that are identified by the city attorney I'll follow
that and not precede we want to
make sure I asked that question
about we heard from the city agencies.
>> now opening to the city agencies you for the city departments
you'll have up to 15 minutes by
no means needs to use the entire time. >> thank you very much supervisor President London
breed and good afternoon. I'm
emery rogers today is couple of
ceqa appeal statement led by
thomas and the are project
planner and on the cu been continued by rich
and also let the board know in in addition to the people that
are here for the specific questions we have additional
staff to address the policy that transcends the project
important to the community and our department
we have claudia flores and
matthew schneider claudia is leading the plan
as you May know planning related issues likewise displacement are
29 first and foremost for people living in the moishth and our
department has been working with
the community including mohcd,
oewd on the mission action plan
many works to create and have affordable housing and bring stability to the mission a
variety of strategies under review including the changes and that go beyond that
to address the issues for the protections and housing
preservation and economic
development not specific to the appeals the project before you
is the demolition of 6 buildings
with 3 dwelling units and new
construction of 6 story building with mixed use
one and 69 market-rate housing
and 3 opponent below-market rate
unit and approximately 12
thousand pdr space and 840
parking spaces the project
provides an open space for the mid block alley and dedicated
lands to the city and mohcd as certified this land can
construct up to 98 dwelling
units as of right and I'm going to turn it over to lisa to
discuss the connecting appeal.
>> thank you, ann marie sxooepd and members of the board
I'm lisa the question you're considering today is whether the
community plan exemption that
was issued for the 2000 bryant
street was prepared no longer to
ceqa and the ceqa guidelines it
was raised on the 16th street environmental impact report that
was heard on July 26th
the familiar issues specifically
whether or not the growth
projection and eir remained
value for the subsequent
projects the board denied the
16th street appeal affirming the planning department reliance on
the eir for the focus for the eir I'd like to briefing recap
the planning department position
on the gross projections the
gross projections eir reviews to
assess how population growth supported by the eastern
neighborhoods zoning area plans
can impact the environment they didn't establish excuse me-
not establish limits on the pace
or the extent of growth further the eastern neighborhoods eir
did not establish a growth
threshold above which the eir is
no longer valid in approving the
eastern neighborhoods eir and
zoning in 2008, this board voted
to manage and control the
density type of and location the
g board didn't establish the
growth caps that some cities and
places in california do that to
restrict the quality not what we have in san francisco further
the growth projections in the
eir did in the establish in fact
an inspiration date the eastern neighborhoods eir will remain
valid under ceqa until such time
that the plan is amended or updated ceqa did isn't permitted
the planning department to
reopen the environmental plan in
the absence of an update is that
plan that's in ceqa guidelines
so how were the growth projections used the ceqa evaluated the population growth
in areas of land use, population
and housing, business activity, employment and transportation and air quality and art and
utilities and public services the eastern neighborhoods
determined with prelims alcohol, tobacco & firearms plan will
there will be unavoidable
impacts into twrit and traffic
and shadow and on the impacts
too that were identified as migration measures the adaptation the eastern neighborhoods plan required implementation of those mitigation measures the board
adapted a statement of overriding consideration
accepting the trade off between
the plan benefits and the environmental impact once a lead
agency adapts a community plan
and certified a program eir for
the eastern neighborhoods the california environmental quality
act mandates that process to review the project that process
is the c p p process we're following ceqa mandates that
projects that are consistent with the development density
established under the plan shall
not be subject to additional
environmental impact only to
examine if there are significant
impacts peculiar to the site we're prohibited from renaval
the city as a vision in the plan
purchases of determine where a c
p is grand for a density
provided by the plan the accuracy of the congregate
assumed in the eir is relevant
only in that vaulting whether
the projects will result in new
or substantially more impacts in
the eir the departments response growth has not exceeded the
projections in the eir rapid
development is developing in the very impacts that are disclosed
in the eir those are the changes we've heard that the speakers
speak of that's the case with each of bryant street impacts they're identified in the eir
and anticipated and those included the land use due to the
pdr and traffic and transit and
recreation and open space so the proper question to ask
here in the appeal were any such differences in the gross
projections readies to
substantially more significant
vifrl effects we've not seen in
any evidences presented to us.
>> Madam President can I before we. >> supervisor peskin.
>> Ms. Gibson.
>> can we pause the time thank you. >> supervisor peskin.
>> I heard something different
in core than what you represented and in co-sponsor
have an I was the dissenting
vote any recollection of that conversation about actually
there was a recognition by the
planning department as to that
sub region of the problematic document that we might be running up against those numbers
and the impacts I think there
was a statement joment but
indeed time for-you don't see
your statements I think you've
attempted but nostril allowed to tell us what questions we're
allowed to ask but that being what that is the real question
to me if we analyze as many as
2000 units and now have 25
hundred units in the pipeline
what are the associated impacts
as to all of these things whether offering riding considerations in 2008, I agree
with you, you that that did not
on the face mandate having a new
eir but think we have to once we
are saying hey we built for
units in 8 years than expected
to build until 2025 how do we recognize that. >> thank you supervisor peskin
through the chair the question
that you asked it we noted what is a different position I'm
concerned stated when that was
stated at the 9001, 16th street hearing regarding the
projections at that hearing the
department acknowledged that the
numbers that have about
projections the current ones that are participating in the
eir show that there are the
amount of housing in the mission district I'm sorry in certain
locations is reaching a level
that was near what was projected
at the time of eir was prepared
so and today, we have that can speak in a better manner with
the specifics of those numbers I
can tell you how those numbers
were used is relative for the
subsequent projects and wear
studying as we do exemptions we
evaluate the conditions and the project site location determines
that anything that has changed
would change our conclude and
analysis that we had at the
project impact so we have
certain tops on the projections
to evaluate and look at it land
use, we use it for analysis of the population and transportation and air quality,
etc. We have new information we
just want our analysis and
identify where the individual
subsequent project will have a
severe impact the projection
itself didn't-you have something else to add
we'll have you continue with the presentation since that was
going to be a part of it Madam
Clerk can we reprogram the times please.
Yes chris through the chair
fannie mae to clarify Ms. Rogers
classified that on the appeal she acknowledges that going forward as growth continues on the eastern neighborhoods plan
that maybe that the department
conducts more project specific
analysis that is not to say that
we will no longer rely on the e-mails eir or the planning exemption for a project but
rather as we did in fact, on the
90 1, 16th street focused on the
eir that look at a specific
topic one of those tops that the impacts on traffic in this case
we found after a focused eir
that look at the transit impacts
this project will not result
under a significant impact on
the transit as growth continues
we May do more of the projects
analyses that is not equivalent
of the eir and good afternoon
chris department staff briefly first, the eastern neighborhoods
eir remains valid as a basis for the communities plan booemdz the remarks about the population
estimates were used in the eastern neighborhoods eir the population growth and the loss
of pdr space have not exceeded
what we anticipated in the eir
mr. Schneider as growths slides with the gentrification and
displacement constitute a
significant impact that were not anticipated if the eastern neighborhoods eir as important
as those issues are those are
social and connective impacts
that are nostril subject to ceqa unless evidence to a physical effect on the environment the
appellant has not provided that
evidence we came to the
permitted-such a physical
impact not considered by the eastern neighborhoods eir as
occurred as a problematic
document the ooirmz eir did evaluate the impacts associated with displacement in the context
of the amended increase in
population and intensity o
density clicked the physical environments was less than
significant with that said gentrification is policy issues
and addressing those as a
separated matter for
environmental review and claudia
is here talking about the 2020
and with regards to the public
benefits are not provided public
benefits are provide the public
benefits plan was with the plan
in 2008, as shown in attachment
d with the response public
benefits are provided as the
permits are issued gun matthew
schneider is available for
questions near and dear to my heart in
regards to the consortium the
project is not with the applicable plans they conducted
angle clalthd analysis and
determined it is as the
exclusion in conflicts with the
plans that a significant impact previously identified in the
eastern neighborhoods eir will occur thank you.
>> good afternoon, supervisors
rich department staff we review the conditional use authorization and the planning department responded to the
appeal on June 2016 the planning
commission considered the
project the majority attributes
were approved through the large project authorization those
elements are subject to the
second appeal to be considered we the board of appeals the conditional use authorization was needed only for the
demolition of a 3 dwelling units
relative to the issues on the
appeal the planning commission
found the demolition to be necessary and desirable in order
to incumbent the mixed use
project it is consistent with the urban mixed use zoning
district and the height and bulk
district the project meets the
open space for the roof terrace
that measures up to 15 thousand
square feet and a decade of a
parcel measuring 90 feet and
mohcd has certified the land
dedication will exceed the 35 percent more affordable housing
by Mr. Matsuoka up to 98 dwelling unit more affordable
housing the project provides a public assessable mid block
right-of-way and also undertakes
did sites the project is not
required by current law to
replace the pdrs by provides 12
it thousand ground floor of pdrs
it meets the planning code and
general plan and not relies on
the-this that concludes my presentation.
We're all available for any questions thank you.
>> with that, I know there are
questions from supervisors we'll
start with supervisor mar I
wanted to go back to one of the
comments by chris thomas you
went through that quickly in rejecting the appellants
suggests that are cumulative
impact of displacement and
impacts especially on low income
residents artists and small
businesses as I recall you said
that ceqa didn't allow you to
look at associate and economic
impacts not subject to ceqa your
concluding you e conducting you
looked at the displacement could
you clarify that because 2008 to
now I'm in agreement with the
appellants that there have been
significant changes whether your
latino or chicano and the
demographics of that population
from huge areas of mission and
the southeast parts of the city
to push out low income residents and people with disabilities the artists and small businesses
like some that have been in that space potential legacy
businesses and I think that to
call that some of the displacement less than
significant didn't strike me as
factual I guess that's my
question first.
>> chris the guidelines say
they'll be the threat as social
effects and an eir May change
the effects through anticipated
economic and social changes to
physical changes from excuse me
-economic or social changes to physical changes accused in
return for the economic change
the intermediate changes May not be billed and greater or necessary to look at the change
of cause-and-effect the focus
should be often the physical
changes the eastern
neighborhoods europe concluded
this could be with the gentrification and displacement
will not result in the physical impacts on the environment so
for the department to consider the gentrification as
significant impacts under ceqa
we'll need substantial evidence last week the jobs housing and
balance whether not occur
without the plan, and, secondly,
after stabbing that their causing physical impacts on the
social environment when the case
the eir we're not aware of the relationship between the
physical effects as physical
impacts on the environment.
>> can you do your best to
paraphrase what you just said.
Laughter: .
>> I think the city attorney
will like to elaborate in essence what ceqa is
directing us to do no consider
the social effects so the changes and demographics.
>> you can't look at the human
impacts or social impacts it is
outside of the ceqa guidelines.
>> that's correct except to
the degree and result in the physical impacts of the
environment and perhaps the city
attorney can elaborate.
>> excuse me-deputy city attorney mirena burns. Through the chair it schis
stated it well, I'll say that
the ceqa statuettes and the ceqa guidelines and several cases
that are directly think point on
this question clearly state that
can't consider the socioeconomic
under ceqa in and of itself that
separation needs to be made and
physical impact on the
environment like air quality,
transportation, all the other effects we look at typically under ceqa related to growth
so it is not that we can't in
any situation consider the socioeconomic under ceqa unless
the impact has to contribute to
it a case out 6 backings fields they're the board of supervisors
were considering approving a
couple of wal-marts and the
opponents were arguing the super
supervises will lead to urban
decay and blight in the downtown
bakers field it is important to
look at the blight they very
evidence that showed that
approving the wal-marts were going to cause physical changes in their downtown area that's
the link that needs tobacco made to us to take into consideration the socioeconomic simply in the
ceqa process not to say those
are not important policy
considerations the city look at
a policy process through the large project authorization this
is just to say that ceqa is a state law we are implementing
the state law it requires you
require the physical changes the environment.
>> and you're saying prominent
thank you, Ms. Burn your rejecting the significant
changes that have happened that we should be analyzing it based
on the conditions now we have
2008 eastern neighborhoods
analysis I guess it still didn't
stick with me not significant
changes to require an eir based
on the current position by the
uc berkley and others have
looked at by consensus looked at
the mission and down to the
consensus track to me the changes have about so traumatic
if usual a low income person or
one of the businesses from the demolished buildings it is hard
to see that is not a significant
change and our policies ben tech
companies in 2011, 2012 have led
to this rapid change especially in the mission but now stretching thought richmond
integrity and other places hard
for me to accept not significant
changes whether you're looking at socioeconomic and human a
impacts or the physical ones
what would transpiring the need
for a new eir what's the conditions.
>> lisa gibson
you have speaking the eastern
neighborhoods eir in that case
the ceqa guidelines provide a
road map when subsequent review
is needed for an eir in section
of the ceqa guidelines once a
project is approved the lead
agencies is conceded until
further discretionary is
required if there is further discretionary review after the approval didn't require the reopening of that approval if after the project is approved any of the conditions described
that are in a different section
of this document occur the agency needs to prepare
subsequent reviews when it is
prior to granting a next
discretionary approval the eastern neighborhoods didn't have a discretionary review
approval on 2 it we have discretionary review approvals
on a project that is proposed
pursuant to the rezone but not
discretionary action on the plan
itself so by further it says
when there is no further action
if the situation that we're- there's no other responsible
agency grantsdz an approval for
the project there's no action
that the agency needs to take
so basically, there's no
reopening of the eir unless there is a modified
project for the eir itself.
>> even though the conditions
have changed so significantly from 2008 to 2016 you're saying
never going to be reopened I ska
asked was what would trigger the
reopening short of human suffering and impacts of low income and cultural communities that many are expressing from the audience.
>> what you're describing it
what I characterize as the
people perspective and
experience based on build out in
the planned area and accumulate
as a result of the zoning
district there is a dissatisfaction for the significant impacts
identified in the eir and what
would require reopening the eir
to address those changes
revisiting the zoning in the
decision maker or policymakers
want to look at this in the eastern neighborhoods because of
the data showing that the
consequences are not desirable
that's a policy matter whether that needed review under ceqa
when we have a project that is relooked at.
>> so basically you're hands are tied you can't even if significant changes in a neighborhood like the mission or
around the project you can't do
a current analysis that looks at
even the physical or eir. >> now we are talking about
for those promotions we're
conducting our environmental
review through the community
process that's where we identify whether the individual projects will have project or cites
specific impacts
peculiar to the site and from
the standpoint what is peculiar.
>> for the 901, 16th street
street appeal that was before in
July was one were there was a
peculiar impact related to
historic resources and in that
case that was no an impact in the eastern neighborhoods eir
and therefore we did a exemption for the environmental impact report and higher level of
review to address that and also
transportation impacts that were addressed that were considered
peculiar to the project.
>> if this board 11 votes were
to require a current date eir
how long would that take and how
much would that cost and delay the project.
>> you're asking if you
require an eir you mean for this
project how long and how much it
would depending on the finding
with regard to the sufficiencies
you'll wish us to secure I'd
like to point out that we
conducted a special technical studies 5 or 6 for that project
not only for an eir you do
technical studies but about-
so we look at the environmental tops and specific areas are
we'll feed to study and in
general preparation of an eir
take between a year to two years
for a focused eir between the two.
>> would likely delay the project for one or two years and how much would that cost.
>> that is not a question I
could go answer best answered we
the department.
>> wyoming you estimate. >> emery rogers through the chair.
>> how much of other irs eirs.
>> those fees will depend on
the special studies but let's see roughly there easily could be hundreds of thousand even if dollars to a million and put in
your costs for a consultant it
can be well above that.
>> hundreds of millions of dollars I appreciate your
answering my question.
>> thank you supervisor campos.
>> thank you thank you Madam President wanted
to follow up on the line of questioning that supervisor mar
and supervisor peskin were following
and I appreciate the question
from supervisor peskin as it
relates to the corbin appeal
because I think consistency is
important he was the no vote on
that item so I appreciate where
he's coming from I respect that
I think what supervisor mar is
getting at we have two types of
appeals the ceqa appeal and the
cu and sort of what the
limitations of the appeal are
and what I find the most
frustrating about ceqa is the
very limited and narrow way to look at social impacts like displacement and so I'm wondering if I don't know if it
is a question for the planning
department or the city attorney but sort of what is the
relevance of that issue of
displacement as we engage in environmental review. >> because I think know that
is the question for so many of any constituents; right?
Why can't we look at that and deputy city attorney mirena burns.
The ceqa status addresses it
through the definition of what
you substantial evidence and
which way need to support our decisions under ceqa
this can, found in the public
research code
subsection c says substantial
evidence arguments and
unsubstantiated that evidence
that is erroneous which don't
contribute or caused by physical impacts on the environment is
not substantial evidence this is
specific dwellings and the ceqa
guidelines further describe that
by saying through the definition
of a significant effect on the
environment an economic this can
be found in the ceqa guidelines
an economic or social change by
itself shall not have an be subsequent effect but were
related to a physical change May
be considered that's the key in
ceqa we're looking at under the state law mandate what are the physical changes to the environment the question before
the board is whether there are-
that link is between the social
changes and economic changes and the physical changes of the
environment and that link needs to be supported by the substantial evidence in the record
the board know the question
before you in the context that is very specific type of
exemption that was created by
the ceqa statute itself that
says where a project is consistent with the development
density the zoning and general plan that has been adopted
through an eir that is what the eastern neighborhoods is
consistent with the zoning sdrent general zoning we look at
the specific set of questions
the question is I understand
that the board a grappling with
wrote a there are previously identified impacts in the eir as a result of new information
which was not known at the time
the eir was certified or
determined to have a more savior impact that discussed in the prior eir so the washer and
dryer needs to look at whether or not this is substantial
evidence in the records those previously identified
transportation impacts, impacts air quality all those to population and housing the eastern neighborhoods eir does
consider have been changed because of substantial new information in the record to
show the impacts will be more
severe that didn't reopen it
means the dp e if you find
substantial evidence to support show have looked at and directly the planning department to do
>> judge following up on that point; right? People say off ramp this project has impacts in
terms of traffic a number of things
environmental in nature so the
question is the extent to which
the neighborhoods eir look at
those so maybe there are no through the chair to planning
just building that the analysis
in eastern neighborhoods that
with standing that is the crux
of ceqa appeal here.
>> through the President. >> could you speak into the
mike so we can- >> sorry.
>> the eastern neighborhoods eir. >> I'm sorry just for the record whether each person
speaks please identify yourselves thank you.
>> chris thomas planning department staff
the e-mails eir covered rapid
tops and many of the tops were
evaluated on the basis of the
impacts from the new zoning and projected population that
results in the prelims of the
eastern neighborhoods plan
so that's the pragmatic review
of the tops that were covered and we looked at.
>> number of issues and do
kite the tops for transportation
for example, that was of there
was a transportation impact
study done and evaluate each
issue there a study or a matter
of information in the eastern
neighborhoods eir. >> another issue related to the
ceqa analysis on the issue of
the greekt projections in the eastern neighborhoods eir
I want to have a better
understanding of what your
response to this question of you
know whether or not we're talking about in any units a
number of units that have been
approved that go past what was anticipated in eastern neighborhoods
if you can if you can address
that specific point.
>> through the chair chris thomas many of the speakers
point out the number of units anticipated for the mission
district have been exceeded in
the itching range of the units have been square feet, however,
what the eir looked was
population projections and not a significant amount of development of non-residential properties the population
projections have not compete
what was anticipated in the
eastern neighborhoods eir.
>> I have a question through the city attorney related to this
point
I sort of see the point from the
appellants and from what
communities members said at some
point, is it appropriate to cap
the number of units built in the neighborhood you know the impact because of impact of those units can have
on a neighborhood and I'm trying
to I think to me that's an appropriate exercise and better to be safe than sorry we plan
the future of a neighborhood
like this one I'm trying to
understand how to go about doing
that it is appropriate to do that.
>> deputy city attorney mirena burns. Through the pointing mechanisms
through the planning code and
state law for issuing the zoning
moratoriums that maybe something
the board May want to consider
or another route through the
planning code what is described through the staff the eastern
neighborhoods eir analyzed
growth and what analytical tools which were the projection of at the time the departments and the planning commission and the
board in uphold the eir and
appeal thought what was a
reasonable analytical tool 24
was not a in the eastern
neighborhoods eir but a cap but
do board can create that. >> as the planning department
a question about that I know
that there is you know map 2020
that the department is looking at
I mean is that something that is considered rezoning can you can you believe there is a point at some point we want to cap the
number of units that are being
built as a way of protecting the
character of the neighborhood
and claudia adachi the action
plan 2020 we are looking at the
larger policy changes and we think first and foremost acknowledging the gentrification
are real in the mission and they
were important to look at
and so we there's been
conversation whether it is
appropriate under a ceqa look at that and as far as specific
zoning tools we've been
discussing one of them for
example, a pdr requirement we
looking at to allow for affordable housing on a number
of limited pdr paralyze that
will trigger that will be a
policy change we're also looking
at on corridor as well as are
there additional zoning tools to look at affordable housing in
the mission those are the co-changes we're starting to work on. >> thank you
I have a final question that I'd
like to ask 9 mayor's office of
housing as I mentioned that land
dedication has been a tool used
before I want to be completely
blunt about this you know we've
heard a lot over the last couple
of years about the meta project
that basically, had allowed for
the building of luxury housing
in challenge for a developer
buying property pies piece of
land in the neighborhood 100
percent affordable will be built
as a concept that is something
that can makes a lot of sense
because it actually allows us to think outside the box to
maximize the number of affordable units that are ultimately built
the problem with the meta
project you had the luxury
housing the market-rate housing
that was built on site and yet
we're still waiting for the mayor's office of housing to
build the affordable housing
and you know I don't want to
dispager anyone but as we're
moving forward here in visions of affordable housing being built and I'll tell you that a
big concern that I have I know
that members of this communities have can the mayor's office of
housing actually make this
happen do this? And is it going
to be the kind of thing that if something like this goes forward
takes a long time before we see my thought affordable housing
built what is the commitment the mayor's office of housing
because from my perspective you
know as a concept I think that for something else to work we
have to see the construction of
the affordable housing piece as
quickly as possible quite frankly as I mean, I think
my goal would be my hope would
be it happens same thing can you
address that issue to me that's
a big question that rightly
people are raised I certainly worry about.
>> yes. I'll be happy to
address that kate hartley mayor's office of housing we are
very aware of the criticism
moving slowly and no denying it
we're constrained over the years
by the fact that affordable
housing costs a lot of money and the mayor's office of housing
and years past have not had
large budgets in a way it has
now there are years in the very
recently past our total budget
was $5 million that's not
funding a project we are very
fortunate to be in a very different situation right now we
have a large amount of affordable housing fees job
length and job fees as well as
the three hundred and plus
million dollar housing bond and our partner in housing
production occ has been able to
issue bonds on their project
area income so I have sense my
department has September a
letter to your department that commits to expediting this
project with an rfp out in 4 weeks that includes a normal
outreach to the communities
about the rfp which is why it
didn't go faster and have the
money in place have $2 million
ready to go in the fiscal year
of predevelopment funding for is
this project can move immediately into the design
phase we can't make architect
and engineers work faster than
they humanly can work there is
typically a 12 month period of architecture design is he will include in the rfp the importance of expediting this
project and we have the funds to
do it and we firmly believe that
it will be unlike previous land dedications because of budget authority that we have and
because we know this project we know that affordable housing in
the mission so so important.
>> myself and so many people
in the community working hard to
pass the housing bond
$310 million, $50 million of
that has been dedicated or pegged for the mission how much
of that are you thinking of
using can you believe
talk about that i actually.
>> the 50 mental illness we
issued a notice of funding for
the prop a funds that is
specifically dedicated to the
mission one response and that we hope. >> so the 50 mental illness that remains available for the
neighborhoods and absolutely.
>> how much are you dedicateing.
>> we have $30 million
dedicated in addition to not
having the acquisition fees we
have the price of the
development the developer will
investor this preshovel rode in
the having hazardous materials
and upgrading activities that add costs to the project the
overall cost of this project
should come in lower than a
typical project we buy the law land. >> a final question in the
letter you talked about the issue of having affordable units
how many will be built from any
perspective we want to see as many affordable housing units
built as possible I understand a
projection of one and 36 units can you address that issue.
>> we believe you can build up
to one and 36b units on that
site the minimum amount of units
that Mr. Meet the section is 80
that will the total production
will be well over waterproofs we
don't know the exact unit
account because for a community-based developer to
binge think a design team to limousine with the community input and working with the
developer we don't have a count
right now but telling us in the
mission affordable projects that
are underway like 17 fulsome and
shot well and on the density
we're achieving are exceeding
our original projections we will
put into our rfps that
developers who submit proposals must maximize the affordable
unit count and the number of
units they can deliver will be
part of selection process. >> supervisor campos can I ask
one questions are any of those
including federal funding at all for any of the subsidies. >> no. >> thank you
I know that my colleagues have questions so thank you. >> supervisor campos is finished I want to make sure it
is made clear that in all of
those instances we plan to use neighborhood preference.
>> absolutely.
>> neighborhood preference and
woeven and ellis act a work preference all of the things eave passed here at the board of supervisors
apply in the case of any development that includes
affordable housing on site and
we have legislative preferences
we will apply certificate of
occupancy I know your refer to the difficulties at kennedy we were unable to implement overseeing preferences due to
flood action and appreciate the
hard work you've put into
restoring that decision
ironically hud has slowed us
down on the last capital project in the hud funds in san
francisco a program funded with
called section 202 money and hud
has eliminated that program and no others capital funding available so those difficulties
were going through are on the
kennedy's no longer apply
because hud as capital projects.
>> just to be clear the 202
program would go away but the possibility of new potential capital programs or no. >> not currently inform.
>> thank you for that claefrts and supervisor cowen.
>> please excuse my back I'm going to speak into the mike
here we go another ceqa appeal
we have a lot of them them one
thing that is consistent the call the eastern neighborhoods
plan is constantly called into
question and framed as a document it is updated and why
the heck are we using it basically
I wanted to know from the planning perspective why we continue to us the eastern
neighborhood plan when it is updated.
>> lisa acting environmental review officer the reason we
have continuing to us the eastern neighborhoods eir plan
is as I stated in any
presentation we're mandate to do so
the ceqa guidelines established
a streamlining progress when you had a problematic eir to
evaluate a plan as we did in this case, the subsequent projects
development in cornerstones with the plan should be evaluated to
what we're calling a community
plan exemption process.
>> what entity mandates we
create a plan and that we
implement that it is it a state and the requirements for that a
jean plan is a state requirements the eastern
neighborhoods eir fulfills that
mandate and then we're required from the california environmental quality act that
was established by the state legislative for the impact
analysis of that plan
we courthouses to prepare a
problematic eir we do so we can
achieve the benefit of
evaluating in one document and
comprehensive set of cumulative
types of issues that result from
implementing a complex plan that
covered so many of the large
geographic area so we did a
problematic eir to consider the
interrelated rezoning effort
issues and to a that informs the
rezoning progress and the
decision makers choices with
zoning action abc real quick
what was it create.
>> the eastern neighborhoods
plan was they are second reading in 2008. >> it took 12 years. >> more than 10 years. >> more than 10 years.
>> between 8 to 10 years to
create this plan a large community effort.
>> how did we plan prior to the eastern neighborhoods plan.
>> so we had zoning in place
at that time, in the areas of eastern neighborhood that
identified what the land use
controls in terms of height and
bulk and we reviewed permits in
accordance with the wlumd. >> you took project by project and now the eastern neighborhood
plan covet like a map that if
you want to build in a certain
area either set the criteria you must meet. >> that's correct.
>> so my question and don't
interpret it as disrespect I'll
asking on behalf of my
constituents that has has many
ceqa appeals how do we get rid of eastern neighborhoods plan.
>> that's a question that is
quite frankly 0 outside my area of expertise the implementation of the california environmental
quality act I think that is a
policy matter and one that decision makers should.
>> so a policy matter so take up with the board of supervisors
and even the planning commission
I see people first ann marie and
then-and get a legal thinking outside the box. >> emery rogers the board of
supervisors when they feel a
need to update the planning to
undertake the efforts to
initiate staff to work with the
communities to update the policy
that's one way it can happen and the board of supervisors can
make gentle policy addictions
and amend the planning code to
the general plan as the zaff has
said you can do a moratorium and
change in every manner the zoning controls or ask the
planning commission to engage in a big community process.
>> I I know you guys are tired
of coming here we're tired-
no. Your not tired I'm the only
one that's tired of that.
>> oh, another one that is tired.
>> deputy city attorney mirena burns.
I think that Ms. Rogers stated it the entities that can initiate it the planning commission the planning
commission has a long public process and hold hearings and
refer them to the board of
supervisors that sends the vote
up and down to the amendments to
the general plan any changes to the eastern neighborhoods a community plan of the general
plan needs to go through the
same process the board can initiate to the planning code
didn't have to wait for the
planning commission as with the general plan amendment so if any
amendment is made not to conduct
plans to the specific zoning you know density and requirements all those things in the planning
code it is something this board
can initiate and refer to the planning commission for its
recommendation recommendation.
>> so self-we get rid of the eastern neighborhoods plan we
can go back to the prior and deputy city attorney mirena burns. Through the President The state
law mandates we have a general plan.
>> I'm sorry the subsection of the January plausibleness no
state law we have to have a
community plan that is a
planning tool we've chosen to
implement the general plan is
citywide a broadly brush stroke like market octavia plan, eastern neighborhoods is a broader planning area and sub
plans within the eastern neighborhoods like the central soma, western soma.
>> thank you
so I guess my question ann marie
and May predate you in the tenure in the planning
department but it seems like the eastern neighborhoods is giving
us a lot of coronation and makes
it extremely hard to move the
projects I see the for fathers
and mothers that thousand it was
a good idea as a tool to streamline the process; right? If you have a project that meets
the guidelines we don't have to
go through certain I even an eir; correct?
>> that's the ceqa side effect
but not an effect of the plan.
>> okay. Okay. So what do
you think if you can look at
your crystal ball if we getting into the weeds of the eastern neighborhoods plan how much work
it will cost hear me out what
would san francisco what would the san francisco process begin to look like.
>> we have a good crystal ball
for that when the eastern
neighborhoods eir was underway
we look at the effects without
the plan so the ceqa at that
time, said the goldman sachs impacts for displacement
foreperson loss of pdr would be
much worse and the communities
were engaged if an effort and throughout the plan they were
uncomfortable with the prelims
through the zoning code and the laws to adjust that.
>> thank you, matthew
schneider I heard you had slides or something could you kind of
briefly describe what is on your slides.
>> many of my slides matthew schneider had the numbers and
have general slides of what the communities benefits we're looking at you could say a benefit with the
impacts that came with that note
existed before had we probation officer not had the eastern neighborhoods wouldn't have rays
the millions of dollars that
have leveraged other fees and
made the projects on the front
burn eerie have a map and happy
to go over that but essentially going to provide.
>> thank you I don't think we
need the map at this point but
curious to know thank you for
entertaining my questions and
taking that walk down the
infinity road supervisor peskin
perhaps take that underway and
talk about it offline but a
perhaps have it san francisco historic preservation commission
about the eastern neighborhoods make its third reading. >> throat President. >> supervisor peskin.
>> thank you. I have other
people that are on the roster. >> thank you supervisor cowen
the last time it took a decade.
>> thank you supervisor yee.
>> I video a few questions the
staff is correct in terms of
what would be easier for to
change some of the codes I'm
looking at some legislation to
make amendments to the house we
look at the 40 percent of multi
bedroom units and that will
change things also but the
question is
for the any such effort.
>> I agree
the land is part of a
entitlements that will prevail.
>> is that's correct from the city attorneys.
>> deputy city attorney mirena burns.
I apologize I was conferring
with any colleague and didn't
hear the question restate it please.
I have sp fear you have two
developments of two buildings
next door to each other possibly
at market-rate and might be
built before the affordable
housing so what would someone
moving into the market-rate
building to appeal the
affordable housing because they
May find some excuse not having
it built I guess she was saying
it is part of the deal and it
would not be any pail is that true. >> the appeal is before you
now this is the same project the market-rate project and the land
dedication of affordable housing at least this portion of the
project is before you now three quarters that project for the
affordable housing needs to go
through a separate approval
progress and approval process at
this point we'll do the environmental review and need
whatever the planning code it is true that the latter project
will need to go through the
imprisonments progress and the ceqa process at that point.
>> can that be appealed.
>> yes. Able to be appealed.
>> you tell me it couldn't be appealed.
>> kate hartley I wasn't sure
I defer to my colleagues. >> I'm sorry it could definitely be appealed what
can't be appealed the dedication
that the curing the mayor's office of housing will still own
that lands the rightful owner what is potentially appeals
whatever actual project that was proposed for that thing.
>> oh, okay. I don't know how
to express that that is really a
concern we have to look at it
because that is both lesson and
now the other comment the housing units the number I'm
pushing from the other ended in
terms of discussion of what it
means to have single families
one bedroom and studios are
units and basically, when you have two families many of the
people that are being pushed out
of the mission are families I
have a comment about that.
>> educating hartley mayor's office of housing we are
concerned been that I will say that what the trends we are
seeing that families in so san
francisco seek the two bedrooms
that the two bedrooms are very,
very chief and tlooemz are not
as desirable because of higher
rent we want to build the
housing that meets the needs of
low income families and we will
work with the community-based
developer to achieve that rate
balance of units size.
>> thank you supervisor yee supervisor kim.
>> thank you a couple of questions on the affordable housing
I know that you said that can't give us an accurate number of
units that can be built on the
lands that is dedicated can you
give us a rough estimate of the
maximum and minimum given the
multiply affordable units.
>> 1 hundred to 1 and 36 and does the mayor's office of
housing have any thoughts or
thinking about what kinds of affordable housing and little
income ranks will be built on
this site and 2 will be the
typical affordability that is 20
percent of the dedicated to say
folks and the balances to
households of 50 to 60 percent
of medium area income in xhofrn
conformance with the tax rules. >> by the way, they give you
more flexibility in terms of
funding autopsy that's true and you know within of the
things I'm struggling with in terms of this we don't do a lot
of land dedication I think that
it was you know a worthy option
that was explored in the eastern neighborhood process and one of the concerns in the developments
that our office gets to work on
length of production even if affordable housing to the market-rate so even if they're
not on site we link the certificate of occupancy of the market-rate to the affordable in this case we're depending on the
city to build the affordable
housing not the developer so I
guess I'm struggling with how we're going to make sure that
the timelines of those two
projects will sync in line I know that supervisor yee's
question raiseer concerns about the appeals further down the
road with the new residents and
master residents coming in and
appealing the new environmental
approval permits even that go on the affordable housing project
sites I know you tried to answer
that previously with supervisor
campos I curious what is the
number of land dedication projects on the mayor's office
of housing roster I know I added
one last month could you give me
a complete list.
>> we have action on brandon
and shot well in the
predevelopment we got 101 hyde sort of a different procedure coming to the mayor's office
this is the third project that came through section 419.
>> the thirds because you
don't consider 101 hyde a land designation project.
>> not coming through this
legislative project.
>> so 4 projects could you give me a better sense of the
timeline for how those 4
projects work distinctive the work that the mayor's office of housing needs
to do with the flex proposals and the financing opposed.
>> it is in predevelopment we
are working hard community
outreach going on with the
architecture work is advanced
801 brandon a time constraint because of the market-rate
developer had staging issues we
were delayed and at the time, we didn't have the plumbing available we understand the
project will be coming to us and
he accelerated the reservation
we're happy to see that coming
along and 101 hyde there were
funding issues we were going to
accelerate that a little bit so
we are working on that and.
>> when you say accelerated I'm
happy to hear but in that case
the developer committed at a pay for all dedicated costs.
>> there was a $5 million
contribution so that's great
we when we first received it we
thought we cognizant get gap
funding up to 10 years that's much accelerated and sorry the
gap funding was within 5 years. >> uh-huh.
>> and so again what do you anticipate the housing for the housing on this site.
>> as I stated to campos we
equipment to rules of evidence a
proposal within 4 weeks for the lands dedication he typically we
give the developers six to eight weeks to prepare they are proposals and it takes usually
for this type of project about 4
weeks to go through the city
process with the city and
interview the candidates, etc. Than the selective developer
takes 12 months to do design and
that May or May not be a little bit longer depend on communities
input the bedroom size will be
important as we discussed the
open space will be for those are
issues to work out and then the
permitting process takes about 12 months
so that's the normal timeline for the affordable housing
great just one more question I
probably can do the math we're
looking at the project before us
is 2000 plus market-rate units
total is that correct? >> could you repeat that.
>> the at the moment number of market-rate units.
>> oh, one and 96 market-rate
housing on the project plus.
>> one and 96 matters of units
will be sdpielt for this project
if the project is approved and
roughly one to one and 36 units
of affordable units on this site
if we took the lower amount what
will the percentage be achieved.
>> if you have a total count of three hundred then the
affordable is 33 percent at hundred, however, the way it looked at the percentages the
number of affordable units as a
function of market-rate so
that's 50 percent it will
achieve having percent at the low ended.
>> I appreciate that there is
confusion in the board chamber
how we calculate the units and
onsite and offsite it is clearly late out in the housing
ordinance thank you for that clarification thank you seeing no other names
on the roster, we will get going
and a presentation from the
project sponsor or their
representatives good evening supervisors supervisor President Breed and
I'm steve of marcille the planning department explained
why the project complies to ceqa
and I won't repeat that
testimony but focus on the
appeal first, the facts the project is code compliant and
the incursion ordinance not
taking up xhoingz from the board
yet 22 percent a total of
hundred plus master units we
lost 6 units at the planning commission hearing
there's no condos proposed in
addition the project includes 19
thousand square feet of pdrs use in the zoning district no
replacement is required a terrific example how the mayor's office of housing and planning department can maximize affordable housing and pdr space
isn't mission a point of
appellant and the supporters disagree the project has dedication of 19 thousand square
feet of lands to moe view the to
46 percent of the market-rate
one market-rate units and brt's
in a 6 story building and full
ceqa cleaners for the one plus an dedicated lapd's and
dedicated to moe in a shovel ready condition missouri
identified the gap financing to construction it's building in the near future and 19 thousand square feet of ground floor and art space
in discussions over the last
week, we agreed to further revision adding 3 thousand
square feet to the pdr space on
the moe building that incumbents
a arts facility and they've
committed to provide 5 thousand
dollars in capital to build out the community space and agreed to provide 4 thousand square
feet of pdr on the market-rate building as substantially reduce
the grants for years
the project this project is
vastly different than 2014 the
original plan further 2 and 74
units only pdr and no pdr art
space for bmr. >> more than meets the
building alternatives with the
appellants prepared in 2017
going for dedication 36 percent
to moe and the preservation of
10 thousand square feet after the planning commission approved
the sites this appeal was filed
a few words about the ceqa
appeal
the appeal it bans an assertion, however, the number of units completed in the eastern
neighborhoods including the mission district is well blow
the projections, however, the
ones under review the units are approved remain well below
including this project in July
on July 26th this board object
the appeal on the street project
you made that determination
this appeal is almost identical
and we urge you to look at this
appeal several 100 percent
approval-just as this c pe
don't on fulsome street and on
mission street
96 unions on shot well street
over one hundred on south van
ness and plus affordable units on this site
the board to determine the
eastern neighborhoods ceqa
sclaernsz for those affordable
will be delayed we ask you not
to take that action I expressed with the planning department if
the pdrs needs to be revised we
looked at the context should be in the context of the eastern
neighborhood plan not on the c
pe of yields projects the c pe included several technical
studies with transportation, air
quality, noise, historic
resources and hazardous
materials and it computed the
mitigation measures but not note
for review and resulting in a c
pe because of the peculiar
impacts of this project turning
to the appeal the appeal is
solely the decision to look at 3
vacant units to create for units
one and 39 will be affordable
finally it requires conditional approval regardless of a number
of replacement units or the
number of-no others element
requires a cu rather it was approval for the large project
authorization an oil that had
been heard by the board of
appeals tomorrow 2 of the
existing units were owned and
the third was empty those are
subject to rent control the 3
existing units are replaced by the market-rate projects plus
the one plus on the dedicate
lands the planning commission
required the 3 units above and
beyond that is satisfied with
the land dedication
planning code section sets forth the criteria the planning
commission must conditioner they
determined that meets 15 of the
18 criterias and on that basis
project finds that the public interest is served by granting
the cu we ask the board uphold
that sensible position
in its appeal the gentleman made
no attempt to address the
section 317 but want to accept the land dedication on this 70
to units what result in the
dedicated lands and commissioner
President James it doesn't justify the rent-controlled
units excuse me.
However, based on the concept
design determined the dedicated
land can yield one one hundred
and 36 units the new pvrment
affordable units will meet the
criteria for demolition of 3
existing units as testified
missouri identity gap financing
needed to construction the one
and 36 units and the moe issued
an rfp to choose a developer and
should be under construction by
plate 2017 or early 2018 as soon
as the gentleman has cleared the
site and gone through mitigation addressing supervisor yee's issue the ceqa about before you
covers the market-rate and the
moe sites the c pe will be the
ceqa clearance for the one and 3
a 6 affordable project and want
to point out the earliest on the
market-rate is 2019 another 3 years from now and kate described the permitted process
for the moe building we
completed long before that in
2017 but under the planning code with supervisor wiener he sponsoreder earlier this year
year didn't require the projects
to going come back to the planning commission but can be
approved by the planning staff
that will afford opportunity for no opposition
and the gentleman said a 6 story
building to be constructed on
the dedicated land and claims
that moe can't take advantage of
the density bonus program-it
provided up to 3 additional
height for the developments and
an 8 story building can be built on the dedicated land
the appellants assert that the
proposed demolition of one of
the building which was occupied
by intermission for the
commission not have approved the
cu and they addressed this by requiring 18 percent of pdr
space and the commission found
the project makes the adjoin
plan-as I mentioned the pdr
art space can be increased and
the gentleman has pledged
$500,000 for the art space the
same size as the former mission
and pledged an additional monies
for the subsidized grants
ambassador as a mission action
plan 2020 as confirmed for the construction of affordable
housing in the mission this is
the lack of land the land decade
directly provides the land at no
cost to the city
in consideration the planning
commission required the plan required 19 thousand square feet
and the last thing we found a
way to increase that to 22 thousand square feet and is
available for the legacy in the site this is a code compliant project consistent with the mission
plan, with the zoning, the
height limit that is the 42
percent ratio and the pdrs
replacement space that appraise $7 million in funding to the eastern neighborhoods money to
the transportation sustainability fund and the
childcare funds we ask the board
reject this and allow the
project and affordable housing
to proceed thank you.
>> can I ask for the reduced
years I think I Miss It was
reduced for what the pdrs or
units autopsy for 4 thousand
square feet of the pdrs use in the market-rate building.
>> so you're saying the
reduced rent you're putting rent
control other than commercial
space an pdr space particularly.
>> that's what we offered. >> I get it.
>> and the 98 units what's the
i'm for those units area medium income units.
>> those units that moe built. >> the anarchies. >> 3 units on the manifesting
those are 55 percent of ami a
rental project 55 percent and
haitily can address them. >> we will have our typical
project for the balance.
>> no what's the area medium income requirement for that the
units in general just the
standard or is it a higher like
80 percent ami or 50 percent or
55 percent ami.
>> I'm I'm going to turn it over to supervisor campos.
>> I'll pass so as you, you
know we were engaged in
mediation and doing things that go beyond how the project came out of the planning commission I
want to make sure I understand
what you're saying so can we go
back to that my point how to
increase the number of
affordable units how do we
increase availability of pdrs especially affordable pdr can
you go back to what you're doing
in negative declaration to what came out of plan.
>> the planning commission
required us to have 12 thousand
of pdr space in the market-rate
building and 20 thousands of pdr
art space in the building that's what coming out came out of the planning commission to get to
the ground floor we've lost 5 units of market-rate housing
that had that been property as ground floor on there under
street those have been converted
to pdr space the revisions the
moe design a inefficient car
share parking garage a garage
that communicated 3 car share
space and a configuration took up 25 hundreds square feet
question offered to move those
two car share spaces into the
market-rate building garage and
reducing our patricia's by 3 a
total of 5 car share spaces in a market-rate garage to both the
market-rate building and the other building that increases
the amount of ground floor pdr
space like 25 hundred to 3
thousand square feet that again
niece to be feinstein finally designed.
>> the second thing the gentleman offered money to
create a community art space in
the 10 thousand square feet or approximately that amount.
>> so the total pdrs goes from
19 thousand to 22 thousand approximately, yes.
>> if well, one possibility is
that that additional 3 thousand
can be used for pdr but could be
used more affordable housing units ; right?
>> could be again, the final decision is moe.
>> can I ask a question not
for you or to moe if we are talking about an additional 3
thousand you know square feet in
space that can be used for potentially more affordable
units you have a sense how many units we're talking about
if it is 3 thousand if that
additional 3 thousand feet is
used for affordable units as
opposed to to pdr.
>> three to four
okay. Now can we get clarity on the number of units at the
beginning of this presentation
sir, you gave the number one 99 I believe is incorrect.
>> I don't believe I did the
one 99 is our proposal the
planning commission reduced that
by 5 units because they required
additional pdr ways to eliminate
5 ground floor units from one 99
to one 94 their bmr units to
replace the 3 units that the
project was we're demolishing a
total of one and 91 market-rate
and 3 bmr's on the market-rate side.
>> and one and one is the
actual number of market-rate housing. >> that's correct. >> in terms of affordable
units one 36 is the maximum that
is projected depend on what
happens; right? Plus-and
then depend on what happens on
the three to four more units.
>> okay
can I ask you about the $500,000
you mentioned can you explain what that is.
>> that's the capital money to
support the build out of the
ground floor of the moe building
for the communities arts facility.
>> can you can what do you
mean that's a broad term what are we talking about here.
>> that's a combination of a
gallery space other spaces I
think that is what people have in mind as a potential arts
facility on this location as a similar concept that would be
operated by community nonprofit or more than one community
nonprofit a combination of
program space, gallery,
performance space
other community artists.
>> it will be run by a
community member, player what does that mean.
>> moe and it's developer will go through a process of celebrating.
>> maybe we can hear from moe.
>> kate hartley we'll want the
developer to take the lead and others developer being a
community members on the team we
have ongoing some arts dedicated space and other mission
developments we'll be able to understand the market better and
learn from that lease up as the
gentleman said the space can
does have the size to accumulate
a dense gallery or office work
spaces that can be used by artists also there are
organizations in the city that
do master leases of that space
so we have good operators in the
city that can participate and look at it for the development
team to bring on those players.
>> now just a final alteration
out of the planning commission
they designated 12 thousand square feet for pdrs one thing
that was confusing in the
process do they say anything
about whether or not it is market-rate or below-market rate out of planning.
>> it was completed and market-rate.
>> so you said that you're
doing we'll pledge to contact
1/3rd of the 12 thousand
limit that to 250 a square foot
for 55 years okay.
>> with the minor increase
over that period of time we'll
pledge we will engage the
sprofrs to send he property
tenants our way to make sure that subsidized space goes
studio a tenant.
>> okay. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, at this time it is time for public comment so if
you are interested in speaking in public comment not general
public comment
renewable for the appellants
please come up step up to the
platform as a reminder you'll
have-sir unfortunately you
poke so for the appellant. >> okay.
>> I'm sorry.
>> thank you come on up.
>> hi, I'm candice President Of the merchants association.
>> you have a bigger mouth and stronger voice.
>> I getting.
>> hi, I'm candice I'm world
in support of 24 project
24 project is going to be
amazing for small businesses in
the area.
>> I'm dave part owner across the street and we're talking about significant changes to the
neighborhood earlier and there
have been a large increase in
crime directly around this building a lot of encampments
and bicycle chop shops and drugs and not talking about marijuana
we believe this project building
this project will help from this
and break into the by building
my main pointing point I want to
it is a san francisco is going
through a housing crisis and to
stop the housing units is
counter preview to solving this
crisis we're in a mixed income h
mixed income building in between
18 and 19 dwindle across the
street we've been there 8 or 9
years I don't see that will directly effect the
neighborhoods our goal is simply
to make your or our neighborhood.
>> beautiful staff of save
place to work and live this will
put us closer to this goal. >> next speaker, please.
>> good evening. I'm a I have
a small business around the
corner a board member the mission creek association we
like to see the improvements
productive not left vacated in a way that is meaningful and resonates with the communities
from what I'm concerned read and seen the ground floor project
does that how it provides much
needed housing as my colleagues
said air force one and 36 units
thirty percent will go to
homeless and special needs- that will provide artists
communities and up spaces that
is really, really important and near and dear to my heart to
have it going through any
communities obviously many artists in the community can't
find spaces and must relocation
to the east bay and provides
space for hanging how the
gardens and cafes and community
centers and provides a vibrant visually enhancement to the neighborhoods
I would urge the board to vote
in favor of this bryant street project thank you.
>> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you. >> good evening supervisors my
name is alex a research with
carpenters local 22 a proud
member of the local and just in
light of something that was said earlier I'm concerned not worked
on a job sites I'm concerned worked on carpenter projects as
much as the person that smears
all the men and women that the cia has first of all, talk about
the shorted history of our
involvement locals involvement
with this project involved and a
half we knew it wasn't going to
fly we got up on the developer
the gentleman made the decision better to work with carpenter
union and our organization and
we really worked to turn this
thing around and bring you the project today I want to speak specifically to
the concerns directly to many of the supervisors since supervisor campos is the
only with an the first one here
immediately wanted to direct
talk to first of all, we all
know lands for one and that of
units didn't come cheap or easy
your inspected successor as-
if we can't do one and 36 units
and someone is giving the city
the lands that will not happen ever supervisor avalos has stepped
out supervisor avalos was one of
the big proponents the unit
contractor takes citibuild we
got a write up and supervisor
avalos knows 2 takes more than
public works and this will help
supervisor peskin I hope I
remember how hard mission assess
fought for land designation in
this this process this is really
amongst the best we were in the project 8 years ago when building the eastern neighborhoods and contrary to
some popular statements here we
approved that right as the
economy was collapsing not when
the-to the supervisors as a
whole and urge you to stand
against the sin cynicism
whatever when a project gets
this kind of treatment where we talk about building affordable housing and have people saying
we don't want that and talk about the blue collar workers
hundreds of people working on
this project for getting through the project
and the same goes for the multiplied planning process what's the point of doing this
for 10 years. >>-
>> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> good evening my name is a
lisa and here to talk about item
43 the california save bill 1289 I'm sorry ma'am, we've not opened up for general public
comment that will be after we
finish with that particular
appeal I apologize thank you. >> next speaker
>> I guess good evening
instead of good afternoon my
name is michelle jones the
co-owner of the auto shop I'm here to tell you as a business
owner in that location for 3
seven years we're in support of
this project being built
when the scoping was changed
from pdr to land use we knew
there will be urban development
when the gentleman worked with
us and helped us move 4 blocks
away in the mission and still in
supervisor campos district my husband and I have owned that business for 6 years and he's
worked for 17 and lived in the neighborhood in supervisor
campos district for 2 two years this project spelling needs to
be built the gentleman has been straightforward and
straightforward with everyone of
the tenants in that project he
helped us to relocate if we
wanted to stay in the city one
attended purchased his own
building inspection and the only
the building was no where near and nice as this building we
have the ability to hire more
people and have a nicer
environment strait up the
gentleman said everything he did
and he was honestly and
forthright he did everything to
help us move and he at this time
34 blocks away from from we had
a homeless person murdered one a
half of a block of our new
location if people had a place
to go and live in housing maybe
they'll not be murdering on the
street and I ask you to build 24 project thank you. >> next speaker
>> I'm a resident of the
missionary specifically pretty
close by the construction live
on bryant between 20th and 21st
about a block away I guess first I'll speak to you know a lot of
the sentiments that the appellants talked about in terms
of concern over general
displacements certainly as a
mexican-american living I'm
sympathetic I'll say that given the large amount of affordable
housing that is part of this
proposal that you know stalling
it or you know putting the development into a halt threatens the increase of affordable housing in the region
which you know, I think to
anyone that is concerned about people having affordable housing
in that region that should be a
concern about blocking the project
I think secondly, you know when
it comes to talking about the
environmental impact of the project people that have spoken
previously to me talked about
the down side in terms of crime
I walk by that area frequently and walk any daughter frequently
by that area there is a lot of crime you see police officers
there frequently and people are
breaking into the building and
people getting assaulted in that
area so when I evaluate the net
impact of constructing and
renovating that area versus
leaving it in a status quo
states not ideal for me, I have
to error on the side of
renovation versus you know what
I see going on what is day to
day in that neighborhood. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please.
>> good evening supervisor President London breed and supervisors my name is richard
davis I'm a homeowner and at the
union condominiums at 2125
bryant street those condos are
coming priced of over 70 members
and on the owners board as a private citizen the bryant street represents
over two years of discussion and compromise with the community
the interesting note as proposed
today bryant street resist 100
percent the demands of the
mission as an activists and
transforms vacant warehouses
into the vibrant use apartment
rental development including three hundred plus in 19
thousand square feet of pdrs and art space bryant street representatives from the largest affordable
housing projects in the mission
by a private verbatim a total of one plus certainly proposed thirty percent of the affordable
units will be offered to
homeless, special needs resident
and housing aribnb no more than
$30,000 a year that's social justice per mayor's office of housing and community development has identified this
as a nonprofit affordable partner if successful this
appeal will kill the one and 91
units of market-rate housing but the affordable housing project
that shares this site
please deny the appeals and vote
in favor of a much needed
accountable project.
>> thank you. Next speaker.
>> my name is adrian carpenters local 22 in san
francisco lead organizer in san francisco born and raised in san francisco from visitacion valley went to school at the john o'connor and city college
and to clear that up the folks
standing right here to any side
are carpenters that want to go
to work at this job we are here
ways we support the developer,
the sponsor of the job that
because he's supporting us to
use a signatory jsht for
signatory union contractor
that's why we're here there is
jokes involved and homes that is what a san francisco needs jobs
and homes the other part is
staff it was interesting he
really liked staffs input the
appeal didn't seem to hold water
according to staff you take that
appeal and $2.50 and get anywhere in the city it doesn't
matter if you don't look the mri
missionary planner or the eastern neighborhoods plan well
change it but don't sit here tonight and hold the
spokesperson head underwater
because a plan that is in what I
believe is legal and it is justified and that's what everything in san francisco is
going with don't try and change
hours in the middle of the road
the plan is what is here that's what we are working with I would like you to know we definitely
