temporary constructs of two blocks with a vibrant focal point for commerce and the community. we call it proxy because it is envisioned as a place holder for a more permanent situation. tents, scaffolding, shipping containers, a cohesive project that knits itself into the fabric of the neighborhood. currently, lot k is all parking. atlot k it is bound by hayes on the north edge, octavia and linden. there is zip car parking in daily use parking, so a flat fee, $10. lot l is currently vacant.

we are planing to develop the project in two phases. first, that these be occupied by temporary habitations of retail, restaurant, art gallery, and community-based units that add to the richness of the valley. in phase one, it includes the portion of each site with a variety of food vendors. in phase one, they retained the city car parking on lot l while removing the daily parking -- excuse me, on k. phase 2 adds an art gallery on linden alley and a very small

temporary housing use it, also on the alley, and it also creates a covered exterior space and a series of pop-up retail spaces that face both octavia and hayes. president maxwell: what is a temporary housing unit? what does that look like? >> it is a two-store unit. somebody from our office is interested in both funding and occupying it. she would and of being really beside supervisor, so there will always be a presence, a kind of side manager, if so we are interested in at very small housing units -- a kind of site manager, so we are interested in a very small housing unit. this could become something that

you could convince people that you could live in a small footprint. it president maxwell: is it prefabricated? >> these are all fabricated essentially off-site and plugged into different utilities. i have just a little bit more. the local businesses that are currently a part of the project includes a neighborhood german restaurant, an ice-cream store, a new san francisco startup, delphina pizzaria, and a san francisco company. there will be no former retail -- formal retail as part of the project. it will all be local in phase two also. and then, i just have a few images that are more renderings. this is looking this islot l,

looking to the north -- this is looking at lot l. this is the art gallery piece. this is now moving further up octavia, and this is looking at kind of the second food garden with the ice cream store on the corner and the pizza korea -- peter korea vote -- pizzaria over there. then there are these very small- scale retailers, 8 x 8, and the idea for the project is the reason we're using containers is that they can essentially brought to the site and dropped on the site and can be easily removed.

president maxwell: how about the maintenance of all of that? >> there will be ongoing maintenance, and they would be responsible for that, but there is a maintenance fee as a part of the project. president maxwell: supervisor mar? supervisor mar: this is a really innovative idea. is there going to be plumbing for bathrooms on the two lots? >> we are planning to have bathrooms that are fully plummet -- plumbed, and we are looking at others to be brought in as needed. so a mixture. but we definitely plan on it.

supervisor mar: i really like you connect the arts and small businesses and non formula retail. i know there are a lot of families. there is a climbing structure that is very close by. what a great spot. >> thank you. president maxwell: are you finished? >> yes. president maxwell: done? this made me think of a spot on third, and we can do a pop up here and it popped up there. i think is great, those pop ups. >> the retail is intended to actually change and be something every quarter, every couple of months. there could be something new there. president maxwell: can people get a long-term lease? >> yes, they can. president maxwell: but it is

flexible enough. are you going to have a waiting list? how are you going to choose and determine who gets into the space? >> the current vendors are almost all people that we know because there are clients. we are architects of delphina. we did a project for the coffee, but the mayor's office of action connected us up with the others. essentially, wheatfield all calls. i think it needs to be quality establishments -- wheatfield all calls -- we field all calls. .we were recently written up in

an architecture magazine from washington, d.c., and we were the only ones trying to bring in retail and restaurant uses. there are a lot of gardens and parks but not a lot of be brought in, so it is definitely a novel approach. president maxwell: this works great there because there is a lot of energy there. >> that is right. this is a neighbor that is asking for it. there are so many vacant lot. president maxwell: and there is a lot going on around there. >> yes, pedestrian traffic. president maxwell: all right, why do we not open this up for public comment? seeing none -- oh, i am sorry. we have cards. robin, come on up, robin.

>> hi, there. i am a small-business owner. we are a new food startup, but we emerged from the food culture. we have been involved with emobile food cart around the city -- with the mobile food cart. it is incredibly san francisco and in its thoughtfulness in nature. -- san franciscan in its thoughtfulness and nature. in terms of creating a new center and helping the city make this land more valuable for future use, and the ability to

advance micro enterprise, which is so very san francisco, as well. so as a small-business owner, i just wanted to say that this is a fantastic path for the future, and we're very excited to contribute. president maxwell: well, good luck. i plan to get some ice cream. >> hi, i am jim, and i am here representing the neighborhood association transportation planning committee. about one year ago, we had a presentation that was brought to was for alternative uses on the parcels, and the hayes valley farm and other projects were represented. all of them were very, very

enthusiastically received at the first meeting, and as you can well imagine, the first two that have come have been a great boon to the neighborhood. we stayed in touch with doug and followed his progress as well as the most complicated in some ways. it has attracted incredible of enthusiasm and interest in the neighborhood. so we're here to very, very enthusiastically support, you know, we just feel it is consistent with everything we stand for, using the land, being creative, embracing newness, so we are really excited to have this. as douglas mentioned, he has been to us three times now, and he has given us all of the updates. the timing of this is especially good.

and as you know, this is finally coming to pass, as well. this is for the engagement of the alley, and in closing, we have a letter we want to read to you from the association. dear supervisors. we are offering our complete support of this project. the prospect of having a parking lot and an empty lot transformed into a vital neighborhood is very exciting. more retail and more food service businesses in our neighborhood will be great for all of our businesses. we request that you give this project were full and complete approval, both at this stage and for the next age when it comes along. thank you. the president of the merchants association.

so thank you very much. president maxwell: i have a question. douglas? sorry. maybe said when it happens, but i do not know. >> depending on when the permits are issued, in the process, on both of the lot, -- lost -- lots, and we're hoping it will be mid september, and then things will happen september, october and there is not specifically a date in mind, but we are thinking march or april. president maxwell: ok, thank

you. all right, colleagues, we will close public comment, and without objection, on items three and four. madam clerk, item number 5. madam clerk: item number five, a hearing on the progress of the housing program. president maxwell: rebuilding some of the most distressed. in revitalizing the communities. after several weeks of hard work, we have enjoyed the groundbreaking at our first place, hunters view it. the purpose of today's hearing is for staff to provide an overview of the program and to give a progress report on several development sites in the pipeline.

we wanted to bring in here today. it is not because anything horrible was happening, just that we wanted to update people. >> there are some wonderful things happening. we see this as an opportunity to get the public up-to-date. we will go as fast as you want us to go. there is a little bit of background. we will try to get into what happened last year with the important money the city invested. we have two senior folks working on this. we have others here, so we're all here to provide some

feedback. >> we have organize this into three kinds of key areas. just as a reminder, the city in this affordable housing dollars, block grant dollars, and there is lots of different ways in which we are investing, so our point here is to kind of help people understand where our money is going. supervisor maxwell is very familiar. in 2006 and 2007, we had a task force which was intentionally very broad. when brought to the attendance, the chamber of commerce, the affordable housing advocates,

legal activists. what we expected to do was create the full range of opinion in a task force so we could end up with something that we could be a consensus. in our effort to transform a public housing sites, and, again, to do this in a way that physically improves the location and enables residents to improve their lives, and at the end of the day, we are looking to have a mixed income community that has affordable housing, market rate housing, and other. this is very much a public- private partnership. we meet all of the time, literally every week, with the housing and redevelopment agency's.

we have seven city agencies that join us through the interagency council to look at services and delivery note and teams that are actively talking to us. and this will affect the redevelopment and rebuilding. they have really stepped up on the efforts to bring philanthropy to the table and help us. there are some that are a part of this effort. back in the day when we were looking at this, the housing

authority fiscal needs, millions of dollars on a million -- on a regular basis. this was not the resources, and it was a long type of -- in the meantime, these eight sides were part of a larger story which was about families in crisis and where were families in crisis living, and as they went out to work with those, we were not 26 us for helping families of we were not able to do anything about the deterioration and concerns the people had, particularly with the public housing sites. and on the east coast in particular, you have very, very densely developed public

housing. in san francisco, it is the opposite. through our analysis and work with analysis, we were looking to do it at a density that is typical in areas like hayes valley, to the early in our health these neighborhoods. so this is just a brief illustration of what we at the outset thought about capacity and potential. craig is going to talk to more about how the community process of lettuce to understand what really is a comfortable amount of new housing to occur on these sites. this is a simplistic analysis that we are doing at the beginning. boppin this is potentially a site that would move forward in the near term.

this is off of geary, and we of the developer here to talk about that if there are questions. piper there was a list of principles, how we started the topic. first and foremost on everyone's mind was insuring no loss of public housing. then go before the housing authority commission, and i think korea been very successful -- and i think we have been very successful. i think there is lots of room to improve, but the outcomes that

we have to date, and the direction we feel the we're going, i think a very exciting. we will talk more about that. so, again, just broadly speaking, three kind of maine buckets, if you will. one is the people but it. first and foremost, outcomes for the existing residents, this is not a plan that is principally for the benefit of the people who come behind them but for the folks who are living there today. secondly, and kind of the heart of what we have done today is really building a quality housing, infrastructure. a lot of this stuff has deteriorated in need significant reinvestment, and korea will talk a lot about that. and we are not try to korea and thailand. we very much believe that what we're trying to do to the extent that these of become isolated from the neighborhoods around them or neighborhoods have sealed themselves off in some

cases, separating housing from parts or whatever it would be, we are really trying to be part of a broader initiative. we're not trying to korean all the amenities and facilities that are around, and that is particularly true in the view -- which are not trying to create all of the amenities. -- we are not. what belongs where, and where can we add amenities in the right location, and it does not always involve gone right on the housing authority side, so with that, i am going to hand it over to greg, and then amy will come up, and at the end, we have ample time for questions -- handed over to a credit note -- hand it over to craig. >> hello, i will pick up from

where dugger left off. -- doug lest off. there is the pie chart you see here. there is the commitment to provide one to one replacement cost to the housing that exists currently and then add beyond that a mix of incomes, including both new affordable rental housing, first-time homebuyer opportunities, and other opportunities, which creates a housing ladder, the idea of which is to allow existing residents to stay in place so that if they so choose -- also to move into new housing opportunities. then, bringing additional residents and additional population to the area, creating

a more typical mix and healthy mixed income community. president maxwell: when we're talking about 1 to 1 replacement, we are talking about bedrooms, as well? >> yes. president maxwell: with a 5- bedroom unit, that would mean with five, you would replace five? >> that is exactly what it reflects. thank you, supervisor. in order to facilitate in part the real estate transformation of the properties and also again that goal of making sure that existing residents and not only not displaced but that they have as little disruption as possible, there is a phased development model across our largest sites. with the exception of west side accords, which is a smaller and more dense site, the other sites

that we saw on the map will all be transformed in multiple phases, and the idea is to maximize where possible on site relocation opportunities, again mitigating displacement destruction of existing residents, and, finally, concept that i talked about the housing ladder company note but these housing types themselves in terms of quality in their appearance, it should be indistinguishable from each other, something we have learned from other models in the country. you walked down the street, and one should not be able to distinguish it least in terms of building quality what is the public housing and what is the market rate. they're all of superior quality. president maxwell: supervisor chiu? supervisor chiu: york or to

minimize the displacement of people as one is being built. >> west side courts in the out later -- outlier. the one that currently is at a density that is fairly comparable to the surrounding neighborhood, and the city as a whole, so the combination of these two pieces do not provide the opportunity for us to bring those up into phases, so the idea has always been that we have to demolish the entire site, and we will do that as a single phase. supervisor chiu: and what are the ideas of relocating people of that has been developed? >> we are working on that with the residents themselves right now.

i think we need to work that out in a formal relocation plan. we need to of a number of elements at our disposal, including relocation vouchers, which we do not have yet, but we are working with hud. one of the special circumstances, and i know that supervisor chiu is aware of this, we are looking at alternative sister sites. we do not have the ability to update the fall housing ladder, so the idea is to try to find a companion side, and we are in conversations with mta potentially about entering into negotiations on ddot -- on the kirkland site. this will allow us to get a

jumpstart on some of the replacement housing and potentially be able to relocate folks there or even permanently if they chose to relocate to the second side. does that answer your question? ok, so, i will talk a little bit -- back to the powerpoint -- about the funding model here. this boils down to three key components on how we're going to make this financially feasible. first is to capture again, piggybacking on don't vote -- on doug's point, there should be inherent capacity and inherently did value in the existing sites. we're going to go ahead and both program radically in terms of developing the communities with market rate housing, but also use that as a financing engine