will take the van ness to reach the facility and they project a big traffic impact. the reality is that drivers know that the fastest route will go up seventh street or up ninth. most of all, they avoid driving on market and then next. the assumption that the tenderloin will be spent from increased traffic is ignorant of reality. the second is that if --, that i find it disturbing that they would build a facility here. in the meantime, they would create a speedway for those outside of the neighborhood to have the quickest access to the facility. what we are seeing is that we would exclude the tenderloin

resident. there are many of us that would try to make this a more livable neighborhood. there are many excellent businesses that are many times for gotten. what we see here in general is that they are following 8 wal- mart strategy to put competitiveness-competitors out of business. what we are really concerned about is that if they build this facility, they will not only be taken away from st. luke's but also st. francis. many of them go to st. francis. one of the beauties is how much it will short the tenderloin. we are asking that they find the transit said it. this will divert traffic away by

reducing the time the drivers can save. they can grant access to nearby residents. the idea and the concept is one in which they have a choice if to make a win-win situation and we expect them to do that. >> thank you. >> i am here as part of the good neighbor coalition. for the last two years, i work with local schools and after- school programs, agencies and organizations to assess and address the needs of the youth in our neighborhood. this is tom to approximately 4000 people under the age of 18 and an area that is

approximately half a square mile. it that makes 8 the densest concentration of cities and families in mississippi. despite the fact, there is only one local elementary school and in no middle or high school in the neighborhood. this means that a large number less traveled in and out of the neighborhood daily. when i was listening to seniors talking about their concerns with traffic in the neighborhood, as someone who is tried to cross the street, this is a huge concern for safety in the neighborhood. the majority of the children of the tenderloin live in single- parent or single grand parent households. the majority of those households have both parents working two jobs each. because of all these factors, after-school programs and youth

services are vital. valued institutions struggled to meet the needs in the neighborhood. we are working on a comprehensive health and wellness program including long- term support for local youth and child care centers that encourage the development of healthy lifestyles and job training and scholarships. we believe that when they say that they will come into the neighborhood and provide all of these benefits including jobs, that these jobs should be extensible to our youth in the neighborhood. bernanke. -- thank you. >> i am a youth leader in the chinese progressive association. and i urge you not to approve this because this is inadequate and it does not address the latest impacting our community.

this will greatly reduce services. members of the low income community means that this will help to obtain affordable health care. he works under pressure. my father gets cuts and burns, he does not go to the hospital because he does not have health insurance this is in the southeastern - san francisco. during the outreach, i have been counted parents whose sons and daughters were born in these hospitals and i have met seniors who have said that st. luke's is their hospital. we need to maintain a charitable service there. we consider the consequences of the development for the future

of san francisco. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am part of the kennedy housing partnership. i agree on the point that this is a very important project for the future of san francisco for jobs and for economic development and the health care question. we also look at how these issues will be resolved. will this be a win-win situation. these may benefit the tenderloin and central city communities. the cathedral hill has a back door as well. are we going to see an engine of grass-roots economic development. will we see an engine of

displacement? those questions have not been resolved primarily because the environmental impact report -- we are very concerned about the impact on polk street. we have started a dialogue. we also want the city family to see beyond and to see a neighborhood and knees to benefit from positive economic development. this means local hires for positive jobs. we can see the same results that happen when a large hotel started moving in on the other end of the neighborhood. the other hotels with displaced communities would face the

grass-roots participation. those elements provided jobs and affordable housing with the surrounding community and an agreement -- and a bit of stability. we called on the city family. this is about all graduates, the planning commission and the board of supervisors to step up and make sure that this becomes an engine of empowerment and grass-roots economic development so we can look back and be proud of the work that we have done through these long hearings. thank you. >> thank you. >> tell the, i am a community organizer. regarding health care, the of our mental impact report is also

disturbingly silent on the impact that this will have to health care delivery. we are also concerned with the impact on st. francis hospital it will have a major competitor moving on next door. san francisco reduce or altered the services. they are a major provider of health care to low income providers. the fact that they ignored the impact that the facility may have on surrounding communities is a symptom of their overall lack of a plan to serve low income communities. well they claims of progress in charity care and support for a healthy san francisco is encouraging, others raises concerns for our community. in 2009, the commission stated

that the charity falls short in comparison to other hospitals. the charity care at st. luke's has significant the drop since the acquisition in 2007. -- has significantly dropped since the acquisition of a competitor in 2006. the need for charity care is the highest in the tenderloin. the good neighbor coalition is asking the hospital to make a serious commitment to serving our people. we would want them to have a plan which community-based components. many uninsured patients will have access to the hospitals and this will make sure that they're

not referred off the rolls. >> anyone else at his name's i've not called? >> good afternoon. i live set 2/6 a zero great highway. i spent most of my sunday morning attending religious services at the unitarian church on cathedral hill.

i focused on the construction plans and the developments with a special focus of protecting our historic sanctuary and minimizing the negative impacts on congregational and neighborhood life. our task force has met frequently with cpmc representatives. we have reshaped their help in addressing concerns and correcting misunderstandings. one of the issues that remains unresolved and is of to serious concern is the loading dock and the noise that it will generate. this will be a concrete structure shaped like a band shell and noise from inside will echo through the neighborhood. this is diagonally across the intersection and they have huge stained-glass windows which will transfer this noise quite

effectively into the church. i had been most concerned about the back up peepers on delivery trucks that will make noise during our religious services. i learned that two other processes will be in the works. medication is listed for reducing these horrible impacts and they seem quite inadequate. i also learned that an alternative would be the environmentally superior method and reducing the size and scope of this hospital which would help to reduce many negative impacts including noise. this mandated to that wall surfaces inside of the loading dock, while they have sealed the

services have recovered with reverberation reducing coating would help, requiring coordination with neighborhood churches when scheduling these and other noisy operations would seem appropriate. restricting deliveries during religious services would be ethically responsible. thank you. >> thank you. >> i am the health advocate of the church. this third thing is that there has not been what i would call a

biological impact report. there has not been a report regarding how this would not only affect psychologically the residents of this area. because there has been a cut in services, the church has been forced to become a social service provider. however, we have not had a great deal of assistance in doing that. for many families, they have been there for the support, even the physical support in terms of getting food and clothing. cmp -- cpmc does not been completely honest.

the project disrupted the services and our ability to deliver services to those who are the working class of the city and this has the potential to dislodge families and create greater racial tensions between hispanics and african-americans. we have not been contacted in terms of how to be integrated into this entire process in terms of being provided with funding for moving if necessary and continuing to provide an increase services to those individuals because there is no services left to receive. they actually integrated the church into their plan of

services and they are able to it ethically deliver the services and therefore should not have the plan approved because they have not respected this as a church. thank you. >> thank you. i have been coming to planning commission meetings for almost 30 years and we have an overwhelming from here.

at least 80% of the people here are opposing the project as currently constituted. if you notice what happens in other cities, they say that the people support, we have been beaten nine to one because there are so many moving parts in this project. now we face a situation where they will have many cars coming through the region. the environmental impact report is not even mention this. the people who wrote this never drive apparently because how would anyone coming from mission

bay, but cheryl de somehow make a left turn on market street and decide to go up van ness. that is the opposite direction. for anyone driving their, you know, you drive up seventh and he make a left on kiri. this is logical. you'll not find that in the report. there is no impact at all. that is why they need to step up and actually mitigate these significant impacts. fortunately, we have this transit plan which has been done to address the existing traffic with a one-way streets which seem to be a key way streets and really improve the neighborhood and we needed them to fund the study. this can be done for a very small amount of money and it really allows them to say that

we are not ready in your community by building this, we are improving this. i have copies of the steady and there is a lot of interest. the plan was amended but we have had some financial problems. the other issue on the health access is that you cannot tell people in the tenderloin that they cannot access the hospital within walking distance and spent four hours going back and forth on the municipal system. this needs to be addressed and then we can move forward. people keep saying that they love to talk, they wanted to go shade and sit down. i have never heard them negotiate with anyone. >> thank you.

>> good afternoon. i am on ground zero in this project. i live right on the corner and i have seen when there was emergencies and they had accidents where cars ran over residence right to their and it took about 30 minutes for any ambulance to get to them. it is important that they take this into consideration even though a hospital might be down the street. i also want to say that that this is very congested.

people will use this corner as a right-hand turn that will not stop. i think that this will cause problems and they will take into consideration the traffic study report. maybe we can have more crosswalks hot -- crosswalks. sometimes they do not. the second thing is to create more space on the sidewalk so that the residents will have more space because we do have a lot of people that are handicapped and have wheelchairs. all of that can be in consideration. i don't think that anyone who

necessarily fight a hospital coming in but i heard some concern about the job. it is people in this committee. the community would love to have jobs in this area. even though they think that they have a voice, we are having the contention of 2010. if they would like to donate funds to us and our committee, we will be happy to accept the donations so they will be part of our community service. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am a resident in the tenderloin and i work as an organizer. a lot of good points have been

made about people's concerns and the opposition. i will not repeat what has been said. will we allow business to come into the tenderloin but not allow us to do business? a lot of us are low income without insurance and i don't understand how an entity can come in and only serve people that live outside of the neighborhood. i don't understand how that is fair. there will be a lot of jobs. the question is, where will these jobs go? they will have this in to t operating in our neighborhood but not hire any of us? i don't see the fairness of that.

>> good afternoon, i am a community partner. i represent construction and administration and i am a local resident born and raised in bayview hunters point. the document adequately meets the california environmental quality act. i believe the project and the project alternatives were thoroughly analyzed. the program is in place and they have brought my firm on as a certified local business. i would be part of the work force and development team. my employees are all from san francisco and this is a great

opportunity for my firm to not only grow but become a full pain psittacine and society that has normally been overlooked. we have requested that you move forward with the process and this is a thorough and comprehensive document and i pledge to hire locals because i am a born and raised and high- school graduate from the city. thank you. >> think you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am a landlord in the san francisco. i have several buildings that will be impacted by this new site. i am in support of the site because i think that this is a

positive development. i understand that there will be impacts that are not addressed, specifically traffic. for me, as a business owner with residential hotels and apartments, there is a study that has been done. the traffic, the way it is set up is that it will go down jerry. i am born and raised first generation and i have been living here for seven years. i will tell you, i try not to take these streets. to say that people from out of town that will be coming in will just go up and this is not the truth. the truth is that they will go up larkin and that is the heart

of little saigon. there will be many entrances and exits. people who go up towards bush and the other streets, they come back around because people will not realize with the added bus lanes on both of those streets, this area has become very congested and even through the no parking time, a lot of businesses utilize that four drops and deliveries and it is an important fact that san francisco is a trances city first the people to drive. i drive every day but people visit and they do the right thing but i drive every single day in this city. i think that we have to be more alert. if they're doing such a great

project, i don't think that the cathedral hill is built well anyway. this will be nice access to the city for myself and for the generations to come. i think that they need to bring this back specifically for traffic needs and make it a neighborhood and remember that this is a neighborhood and this is one of the up-and-coming neighborhoods just like in san francisco. anything would have to do with supporting and funding the traffic study. you have all of the power to do this. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm a resident