cars a day. it comes in, and inhaul away the toxins. it is a closer in this area, until it reaches this point right by the building and comes right next to the building there. [bell rings] i want to mention that we have concerns about parking, the future of the zoning. i admire the work that they do. we hope to work with your office, supervisor cohen, to deal with parking, read striping, limiting the parking. i know this is a transit-first city. but one concern is what about later on? head -- heaven forbid anything happens to any child or parent, because these multi-ton locomotives come barreling down every day. we're very concerned about that. but i think this is an overdue project.

i am just concerned about the location. supervisor cohen: once the locomotive passes this area, where does it go? >> the goes into our real yard at pier 96. your attendance of the port of san francisco. union pacific generally comes in in the morning. we are increasing our business, and the port is looking for more opportunities. we have got money for infrastructure, and we want to create more jobs in bayview. this is sort thisa pdr area with industrial stuff. we're concerned about the increase in our business, whether that will affected. we have had very fruitful meetings, and their commitment is wonderful. i believe in what they are doing. they're passionate about it. they're going to work with us and the india basin to deal with these issues of parking and safety. the port is planning a variety of different emperor for projects around the

intersection. a tricky intersection when you have that kind of confluence of tonnage and the kind of thing. kind of scary. we are afraid of the president this said. other than that, i think this is long overdue. supervisor mar: i see the rail line around quint. i see some kind of a brick building. >> that is where they are. there will be on the third street side of that. building two. they're sort of away from that. not on the corner specifically. but we're concerned about parents and children coming they're looking for parking. i know there is no parking requirement. we were hoping for something like that. we want to work with your office to deal with that. i think dr. burke and ms. albright understand our concerns. i think they're going to work with us to try to contain

parking so that folks do not put themselves in harm's way. >> good afternoon. ruben sanchez in them. i own to thousand square feet at 34 53rd street. if it had not been for my friend, francisco da costa, i would not have known that this issue was coming up to rezone my building. , and neither do i see my address on this article, number 3. so it really concerns me that something is going to be rezoned with my 10,000 square feet without my knowledge. so i do not see this to be sunshined in any way. i would never have owned this. i do see health issues. as an owner, i know of a lot of health issues. one, starting with my friend door. there is a sewer smell coming

out of this tree that is extremely strong. i would never put a situation of children smelling that disgusting smell. i do not have children in my building. it is purely adults, a construction company. but it is a serious concern. that toxic smell. and of course, the parking, as everybody is in discussing here. there is none. and the cars flying by go anywhere from 50 to 80 miles per hour, sometimes with police behind them. it is a pretty dangerous location. thank you. supervisor cohen: thank you. did you fill out a speaker card? the court can give you one. cynthia, neo, linda, and danielle.

cynthia williams, you are up. ms. williams, please. >> [inaudible] supervisor cohen: ms. williams, your turn. >> good afternoon. four years ago, i went to the bayview child health center to interview for a job. i am an american family therapist, and i went there to interview for a job of case manager. not knowing whether i would be hired or not, i was so impressed by the work that was it described in what they were doing. i was hired.

i spent almost 17 years working with the city and county of the san francisco human service agency as a child welfare worker and then a supervisor. what i became aware of when i went to the bayview clinic to work is we are all serving the same children. what that clinic was doing for the children in that area was phenomenal. in that they were addressing issues that are not addressed in most most pediatric clinics. most pediatric clinics would not have mental health or any of those services that have been described to you. i agree with what ms. albright and the doctor were saying to you. the building that we are talking about is the same building where so turner truth -- so turner -- sojurner truth's foster agency

was for years. children have been in and out of those buildings forever. i want to say that what the children in the bay view area need is a place with comprehensive services. otherwise, they are moving around from place to place. it is important for the community to realize that there are children with diagnoses that are identified by this clinic and have not been identified elsewhere. as a result, we have at least one child right now who is in hospice because of a misdiagnoses that had not been taking care of when she was a little girl. there are other children who have those same kinds of things. we need to have a comprehensive area where families can go to get the services that they need from all of these players. i do hope that you will please

vote favorably on this. >> thank you. next we have [unintelligible] >> thank you, supervisors. i am a 30-year resident of the petition vallate. we do use the bayview child health center. my son has been going there for four years. technically speaking, he has been provided service that is very bell needed. i am here as a parent. i am not here as a technical advisor -- i do now even know what is going on. what i do know is that our children are always the last ones to get services. environmentalists are upset, but the only people that lose are the kids. my son has one more year at this center.

the doctors have been great. the staff has been great. he is just flying. services were provided. what are we going to do? find a place for them to go to? people say that they will be hit by a truck. that they are breathing sewage error. as a parent, all that we want are healthy children. i do not know what the compromise is, but everyone needs to get together and hash it out. just act on it. that is what we need. healthy children. you all know that we are always the last ones to be served, and we should not be. our children are dynamic. let them shine. thank you very much. supervisor cohen: thank you. linda moore? >> thank you, commissioners.

i am at 8 -- i am an attorney who has prosecuted child abuse cases for many years in san francisco. i am one of the five public agencies that signed the memorandum of understanding for the child advocacy center. we are all very much in support of this center. it will allow support for these services for the children who have been damaged by but they have gone through. they can get a forensic interview in a child appropriate setting, where all of the agencies that need to be there are behind one-way glass and feed them questions. any other social workers, the district attorney, they will all be in one place, so that the child is interviewed once, not over and over again. within the same building they can get the medical care that they need, crisis counseling,

long-term counseling, their families can get counseling. the agency can make the determination necessary to decide whether there is a criminal case that can be prosecuted in whether or not the child can be safely returned home. what kind of counseling does everyone involved in the situation need? i have done many interviews of abused children. they are often so profoundly heartbreakingly damaged, this situation, the child advocacy center, is the best that we can do. the very best to make sure that they receive the services that they need. to make sure that they are safe and that they can go on with their lives, so they can heal physically, emotionally, and psychologically from this trauma. we wish they would support us. >> thank you. -- supervisor cohen: thank you.

next we have [read names] >> i am danielle. i am an active community member there. i am currently working with their to dream through the bayview opera house. i have taught after-school programs at george washington carver. i am currently a student at charles. i am also a client of the san francisco child abuse prevention center at all,. -- center cloctalk line. and, um -- i have been there for the last five years. i am a single parent. my son is 7 years old. supervisor wiener: can i just

say that talk line is so great and it is a wonderful service to the community. >> i am grateful to be here to support this on both sides. paul klein is a way to give back to the community -- talk line is a way to get back to the community. this center will help so many people. i cannot tell you how many students i have that come in and talk about seeing gun violence, drugs, family members in prison. they need this support there. coming at it from both sides, i strongly encourage you to support what they are doing and what is needed. thank you. supervisor cohen: thank you. [applause] >> hello. i feel like i am here to represent two roles.

first of all, i am part of bcac. i am a social worker by training. i do child care and psychotherapy with the families in the clinic. in addition, i spent the first six years of my life in the bay view community. i am here in two roles. someone who grew up in the community and someone who is coming back to serve in a professional role. it has been a privilege to be a part of this program. coming from a relationship-based program, where i am allowed to parallel that process with families that i work with. i have noticed some collaboration of we have. basing their relationship in the community is where it starts. leading the families where we are is the hardest part, but it

has been a part of the mission of the clinic to meet the families where they are. i am here in support of cyw and where it would be located, because access to services is huge. a lot of times they will not go to where they need to to get services. they are spread out in every direction. part of what we want to do is not just work with the children, but the parents and family as a whole. that is a huge step. supervisor cohen: thank you. next, we have [read names] >> hello. my name is helen edward.

i work in the bayview. i have a teenager in the bayview. i have two foster kids that i raised there. yes, this is a must. even with all of the schools, my kids at the academy, and everything that is coming to the school. the access to it, you could take your teeth to this place. it is accessible to everyone. if my daughter did not have a test today, she wanted to be here like she was at the last meeting. she sees what they need in the bayview. also, the parking, there will

always be meters. that is what san francisco is. there is a parking structure going up across the street. it is not like it is not accessible or parents cannot get to it. i think that people need to fight the good fight, instead of just wanting to have an argument. thank you. [applause] >> next we have -- supervisor cohen: thank you. next we have lark. is she here? meghan, c'mon. [reads names] >> i currently live in the bay view area. i have lived there for a little over three years now. i have five small children that go to the childhood center. their ages are six, one of them will be 5 in february, then four, then twins.

we all go there on the boss. having to go other places for different things -- i have some kids with behavioral issues right now. we have been to a lot of things. we come there often. to have to go other places, if i am referred somewhere else, i just do not go. on the bus i cannot control my kids. it is dangerous. me traveling with them on the bus, they would be more susceptible to being hit by a car. for me, it is a lot safer. i do not really take the kids out of the area. either way, it is dangerous for me to go farther than stay in one place. i just think that it would be a good idea to have to go through. >> thank you.

-- supervisor cohen: thank you. miss mavis? >> thank you for the opportunity. my name is made this pita -- mavis pita. i am the mother of six children who have been with bayview since they opened their doors. this is probably the very best clinic my kids have ever been to. they have been to three other clinics before coming here. the doctor and her staff are very good with them. whenever they are sick, even if they are fully booked, they find a way to see them. i have a 14-year-old with type 1 diabetes. her specialty doctor is on california street. sometimes we miss her diabetes appointments because we always do not have money for gas to get there. having this new clinic that they are trying to open now will help

us get to her doctor. hopefully and a crane special ability -- specialties -- and a crime -- and the queen -- en dochrine will be the next specialty. my oldest daughter's asthma was never controlled. dr. burke has found a way to control it. i live one block away from the bayview health center. it is very convenient for me and my family. i always tell people to go to dr. burke, the bayview health center. they provide you not only with medical care, but they help you when your children need counseling. they helped me. we have our own rooms. it was called the latina room.

they are very good people. the clinic, i think that our community really needs more offices like this. supervisor cohen: thank you. sharon [unintelligible] [leads names] thank you. >> i worked at the bayview child health center. i also bring my children there. i have been there since they won. i remember how excited i was. i used to work at pacific heights. i had a lot of people that tried to persuade me not to go. they said it was a bad area and i would have people in my face, that it was violent, but i would never change the fact that i have moved over to bayview. the things that we have done for these families, just being in that neighborhood, there are so many stories that i could sit

here and tell you. six minutes would not be enough time. although we have done for this community, so many times i have had patients calling up today saying -- i need to be seen. i cannot get to my specialist. they are too far away. time and time again, the doctors say just to bring them down. we have increased the number of people coming in for emergency room visits. so many people come down and they are just like -- we have had people go to the emergency room and leave the emergency room because they could not stand to wait or because they had other kids at home with no one to watch them. it is great to hear people say that even though the bus is late, it is easy to walk to the clinic. our community is in pain. the doctors are just trying to collaborate with other partners to help their pain and

suffering. we have parents who have gone through so many -- who have had so many traumas and never had the resources for themselves. now we are bringing them for their children in their children's children. why would we try to stop this? you say that there are so many issues about traffic, the train, the smell. all these years, what did you guys do? why are you waiting until now to bring this to the community? where have these issues been for these past years? supervisor cohen: thank you. >> why is it now an issue as we try to bring help to this community? you talk about this and that, but what are you doing for the community? for the children? supervisor cohen: thank you. >> i live in south san francisco. i bring my children here. why? i trust the doctors. supervisor cohen: thank you.

>> i highly recommend that you support this. if you really care about the future of this community, the children, please support what it is that we are doing. supervisor cohen: thank you. [applause] >> my name is [unintelligible] chandler. i am also a community activist. this is a major concern to me. it was brought to my attention by [unintelligible] jackson, who has been a civil rights leader in my community for many years. she is our library and history. i respect her. i am in a neutral zone. i am very concerned. number one, dr. nadine has been my doctor and the doctor of my children. i met her at brown elementary school, where she came for

outreach. it is in excellent health center. whenever in there, they assist me and my two children. my concern as an activist is that we know the concerns of bayview hunters point. the toxic issues, the smell, it is always there. the fact that we have not did anything about it -- i do not know why these so-called activists, whoever they are, have not been able to do anything about this sewage smell, but it is there. i do not know that element, particularly. i do not know the history. according to what is being told to me, this is the area where the sewage plant is. if that is the case, then we really need to leave look at the situation -- relook at the situation and deal with making

sure that we stop up putting -- not having our children to be put into that environment. that is the outcome. it is not about the child advocacy. she is excellent. i know that she will bring the greatest resources. but that solution, if that talks and is there, we need to deal with that. supervisor cohen: thank you. [reads names] >> good afternoon, supervisors. i simply want to tag on to the folks who are suggesting that we hold this off for a little while and explore other options in terms of location. i come from as far back as 1969. i actually worked at that location, evans and third street. i know that that is the cross-

section of functionally a freeway. you have big rigs rolling through there. i was shocked to hear mr. schmidt said that there are trains, locomotives that roll up to that building. i am not certain what is going to happen in the rezoning of that facility. where trains can actually still roll up to it. it seems to me that that is a very awkward condition for a facility that is designed to be on the health care matter. i would also say that, you know, when you look at where that location is, it seems to me that it is more -- i am all for that project.

but it seems to me that it is more for the people who are going to come from out of town, or different parts of san francisco, who lived in different parts of san francisco, to come to work there and have easy access to get to work, as opposed to the folks coming from eight, 12, 15 blocks from third street. no one in hunters point, bayview, comes to evans and cargo accepted the gas at those stations. supervisor cohen: thank you. >> let's look at it differently. supervisor cohen: [leads names] >> supervisors, my name is david [unintelligible] i am from the railroad. huwe have a herd of 60 goats up there as well. the first that i read of dr.

burke was in "the new yorker," one year ago. i was incredibly impressed by the work that she is doing in her commitment to her children in her care. let me say, from the outset, i am very supportive of the project for child wellness and advocacy. i am here to express strong reservations and concern over the compatibility of this location. as a railroad operator, neither i, who is about 200 feet across third street, nor a lot of interested parties learned of this until after planning commission approval. i read the staff report and it makes no mention of any trains are trucks in the area. i think that there was some problem in terms of due diligence in the part of the planning department staff