union without having to demonstrate for years and years and years. i take expectation to the hospitality industry is totally divorce from community and family benefits. i know there are thousands and thousands of workers in those industries. close to a thousand families have been forced out of their homes because of the industry. the guarantee that this developers make certain that all workers will have the affordable health care to make ends meet in the city the pensions she need to retire in the city and the

health issues from the work environments are all crucial. but this hotel is different. this hotel anyway's that workers and their families will have those opportunities. and that's why i'm here today is ask you to vote in support of this project. it does provide some well needed jobs in this community and i thank you for your time >> thank you. >> good afternoon i'm the executive director of the hotel counsel. tourism is a major industry in san francisco. it brings in money to the general fund.

hotels he themselves contribute over 2 hundred millions to the cities general fund which is used for city services. and it supports the grants benefits program. hotels most importantly employes san franciscans. this hotel that's been built employ people that live in san francisco, generations of people who have lived in san francisco and immigrants who have moved her. and the ability to have another hotel in our city will help people get jobs and also attract more business to san francisco. we had heard the hotel rooms is 33 how rooms. and, yes we've lost business

because of our limited number of hotel rooms. and will ultimately be helping san francisco and we're very much in support of this hotel. it helps the economical impact for this city and welcome the people who come to san francisco and spend money. people who spend time in a hotel spend twice as much money while they're in the city. and that's something to remember. so again, we encourage you to support that hotel and the approval for this hotel to move forward and provided jobs in san francisco. thank you >> hi i'm part of the mobile

health center and the free student clinic. i just wanted to point out that my stance is the project is not necessary and desirablely fails to medicate the impact on the neighborhood. the south side of folsom less than 3 hundred feet away it would have to pay an additional $14 plus in impact fees. so yep nike urge you guys to vote no. and a thank you any further speakers? >> good afternoon.

i am living here on fifth street. i didn't have any intention to say something here >> excuse me. ma'am, could you take your hand off the microphone. >> i just want to share this, you know. i have been very emotional about this. i have a very, very hard to get housing here. i came from hawaii in 1993 expecting that i could have a good american way of living here. the american dream. but i i understand up in an apartment and it's very expensive. i work as a dell i didn't wageer

only. your expecting to pay monthly for your bills and the landlords is very strict because they want someone to come in and have bigger rentals. so my expectation is that i will be more american way of living here in san francisco. but what i heard is that i h have heard i had read this obstacle limited housing. number one where? how much do you pay? how much do you earner to afford that small space for your family? now it is not easy to be thinking ail the time for that

expenses the biggest is the housing. now in my experience i was really emotional because i thought i could have as i said but when i heard all these things that everything will be hotel, hotel now somebody told me somewhere oh, i live in san francisco. they say oh, you must be very rich. i say i am not rich. i was only earning $9 from the hotel before. now for your conscious mr. and miss in this commission i wish you could finally have the conscious. your conscious will tell you that we need housing not hotel.

so i'm just emotional i'm sorry. good evening everybody >> thank you your time is up. thank you. any additional speakers? new speakers? any additional speakers? okay public comment is closes and turning it over to commissioners for comments. >> i think this project is beneficial. first of all, it's not asking for economy exemptions it's 1 hundred and 20 feet in a 1

hundred o will and thirty foot zone. it does have some measures it has to comply with we do have to have a restaurants and bar and it will be much better for the guests. and then the thirty 9 exemptions are very, very poor are the wind currencies are less than when the hotel was not there. the exceptions are written in such a way if i do not dpish the wind you're still asked to have the thirty 9 expectation for that. the tourist bus loading is a produce of the site where the

site has a limited size and so these are minor expectations i don't think are a problem. we do have a shortage of hotels in san francisco and it keeps us from having the bigger conventions. it will bring a lot of jobs. this project sponsor has a very good knowledge of labor and he know about sick leave and he's in the process of building a hotel on 694 mission which was

approved with no continuances no opposition and was very similar to this project. this has no parking so there's no additional impact on the parking lot thing and the project sponsor does give a lot of things out like childcare fund and those are projects we require in san francisco. jobs are created in san francisco like this otherwise there's no money. so you've got to have projects to do that. a lot of support i mentioned local to and john and the hotel and traffic birthday, san francisco travel. and i do want to ask project

sponsor a few questions. durable the continuances i did ask to get involved i was never called for that. by you did hear about some of the things you've offered. i heard you had offered to hire within the neighborhood. i mean, there's local for the construction hiring is dictated but i understand the project sponsor as made a or offered more jobs >> there will be 80 jobs offered for the hotel. and we offered to hire first from the neighborhood we asked

to set up a booth at the location and they equate to about $40 an hour. with pension benefits and health care. so, yes that's correct. and >> and i also heard there was a certain amount of money over a period of time. >> there was an offer of significant money which enables me to come before you and if the project is not approved if i can get the overhead. i guess it's not very large but

it goes up to $1,419,000. i realize that's the enterprise price in the code. there is no metic or code for the conversations we were having with the neighbors and one gentleman said it was about money >> that's any understanding there were some significant offers in terms of numbers. but you're doing a lot of in terms of what's dictated by the city >> all those numbers are from the studies. and the rules demands quite a bit from developers of housing

and commercial buildings so it all adds to helping us with the needs for childcare and our needs from other things it comes down from no where it has to come from someplace. i notice the speakers talked about the open space. and the 24 hour security for seniors. having a vibrant hotel there with guests coming and going and eyes on the street a lot of neighborhoods suffer from crimes and that activity is a good anticrime measure. it's it's a good looking hotel. >> first of all, i thank

everyone for coming out. we were worked with you on the family planning zone and i'm glad you're here. one mistake we made when we passed the family zone is we didn't put a lot of detail in that. so there's no guide around the affordable housing unless their providing a housing project. that's the challenge we have because we have very few neighborhoods where sdonz it - we couldn't add an affordable fee because the law does not allow us to do that and this

puts news the funny position is that we zone the land but not the cost of the land and people ultimately bring before us. we'd love to see affordable housing and we hope to talk to the mayor's office how we can identify sites to have this through funds that fees are paid into and the mayor's office have private developers work on. you have my commitment to work with you on. in terms of this project and assuming it's a family zone i, i have sat down with supervisor kim's office i understand the frustration but the family zone

doesn't really have anything in it to precludes us from supporting this hotel. with the planning code it's a blunt instrument. if you want to say under conditional use here's the standard; right? we have done various codes there's a metic. for example, if you tear down a building you have to meet the threshold and that does not exist here. the one thing we need to do is look at a process that is important to fame.

when we develop a family planning zone we put in childcare and when we look at projects we need to have a way to make this project better for families and we don't have that. i've committed to supervisor kim how we can respond to what we've seen from the community feeling that it's not there yet. in terms of the issues of hotels there is a challenge in this city in terms of midrange hotels we've seen a lot of hotels do the condominiums and frankly the hotel business see - unless you're doing a mid hotel

authenticity not economical. whether times are good or bad so there's a real issue around hotel. by there is too an opportunity around jobs in hotels. the best situation would be that the developer work together and find out how the jobs can benefit the community. i also think that we want to make sure that our planning information calendar i recognize that kim was frustrated and i want to make sure that the planning staff has information at the counter in the planning zone they can reach out to song

kim. they did do outreach in the community being it right or wrong we can rectify that at the planning information counter. but so far as the merits of the project it does provide jobs it is in an area where there is a lot of tourism and it makes sense. if it were across the street it would be different it doesn't change the project being across the street. but if the project is okay across the street why wouldn't it be okay on this lot. i'm supportive of the project and i'm supportive of lifting up the family zoning.

you have my commitment. i don't think it's a zero-sum game. we can benefit the community as a whole and i'm committed to do that. i'm supportive of the project as well >> commissioner wu. >> i want to thank the people who came out today. i think it's important that folks living in the neighborhood and on the ground get to say what they see. i think my comments are to staff and departments. i don't think it was necessarily highlighted that the youth and family zone was an important part of where this hotel was or was to be located i understand there's very little codes.

there's affordable housing bonus requirements but it's clear there the neighborhoods process that was really important to folks and it should you have been clear to reach out to the people who had proposed and advocated the zone in the first place. we encourage a board reach out. on the youth and family zone i would also ask staff to work with all the folks who came out today to make it real. there's this great preamble in this but it's not manifest in the code. there's a lot of things we've learned from plans about

restricting certain uses and restricting bedroom sizes. and i think that as the central corridor process is coming up we want to make sure we talk about corridor. this project needs the code requirements as they were laid out. on the commission i think it's our job to apply that code and those recollections to the projects as they come before us. i'll leave it there for now >> yes. i'm sorry. just to follow up commissioner wu i think the coordinated takes in the eastern boundary of the youth and family zone so

certainly we'll have to take into consideration seriously in terms of commissioner comments from board and also commissioner wu with respect to reexamine the special district. i was reading the special use district legislation on my phone here and i was kind of surprised it's a sparse or as - i don't want to use the term useless but it doesn't provided much leverage for the commission to take action within our judicial powers to do the kinds of things the preamble and the at the present time, was supposed to do. even in the staff report if you read it says the site is also within the family youth and

zone. but it doesn't preclude hotels and offices. it's also intended to protect the yoeth and families by adopting policies of lower expansion of housing opportunities like restaurants and bars. but in a lot of ways the mechanisms that are priority in the code don't allow this kind of thing to be fully implemented. so i think the other two commissioners are right unfortunately we're faced with a situation here within the context of - well, the only choice we could have is to deny it then where are we? the property is not within one of the lower density areas.

i would imagine this location of the property it's going to be extremely expensive. if we deny this particular developer doesn't move forward on this project and pits the property up for sale i would think it would be very expensive for some housing - affordable housing developer to come in and try to develop this particular parcel. it's extremely difficult for me on the other hand, maybe it's not completely desirable but if you deny it there's going to be

a vacant property there and it will be difficult. on the other hand, as we heard testimony from local two the operator has committed themselves to opening themselves up to unionization. i'm very close to that because my case worker in my office works for the 2. i know all about the hotel. i other people inclined to vote for it and put the community on notice there is a planning

process underway that will involve the planning zone >> so thank you for this item. you know, obviously every thursday we're here talking about the need for affordable housing and family housing. i think generally we'll made good decisions to allow the city to provide more familiar housing clearly it's not enough but i don't think we're faced with the approve the hotel and there's other needs but i think that the hotel will generate fees for the city to be used for city services in housing. i agree with