miss jackson, why are you down at the board of supervisors? for 69 years i have experienced racism in san francisco. for 60 years i have experienced environmental racism here in san francisco. it was five years ago when i went before the housing authority commission, who was talking about tearing down the index. b. x was the last temporary housing that was built for black folks -- the amex was the last temporary housing built for black folks in san francisco. i asked that they would set aside one building as historical, so that they would know in san francisco.

i would like to say that griffith was built in 1962. you give me only two minutes. i would like to have three because of the fact that you need to have history -- you need to know history about bayview hunters point. it was built on landfill. there were three story buildings there that they had to tear down. water would come into the people's homes. they had to tear those buildings down. i would like to say that the $30 million that was discussed, i went to rebuild the commission meeting. they were talking about purchasing streets -- [tone] supervisor cohen: you can finish your sentence. and then you can speak to me in my office. >> at that time, i let them know

that alice griffith was built on landfill. the entire area is landfill. no one has talked about having the thing of it is, sweetheart, is that i had i had spoken to the tenants association regarding the section three federal guidelines because it is a very bad in this area. not just for that, i can say this. when we voted -- plan we voted to raise the salary -- a supervisor mar:

we really need -- raise the salary -- and supervisor mar: we really need to move on. -- raise the salary -- supervisor mar: we really need to move on. >> thank you for having me here today. my name is monica and i will make former resident of the terrorists. -- and i am a former resident of the terrorists. i am the treasurer and part of the community action building group for the rebuild and i am a part of the fancy homes. i hope that -- the community building has been invaluable to the neighborhood. of there has been great chain

since 2004. and my daughter that is a list contained -- attended the youth academy commission. she created a facebook page to help engage in involve them more in the events of the hill. in 2011, i myself and our family resource center in pershare and participation when that review have profits -- we had participant -- we had participation with a nonprofit.

i honestly believe that if it was not for this project being pushed for better communities facing, these projects would not take place in and we would still see a lot of the demand issues. thank you. supervisor cohen: thank you. roseanna? >> i am roseanne that. the main plans for rebuilding involving priests congestion and possibly last parking. it is important to rebuild the trail to address these concerns as much as possible, including the website.

that have been available for input. i am having someone read this for me, but i have been too many. i have been involved 40 w o years associated as good as possible and project that is a crucial part of this that is necessary to make this plan feasible. without that, and the change will affect us all in many ways. some of it will be quite positive. there will be a number of market rate units yes, parking may be

affected. i know how important that is like providing transportation to the under-served area. the people currently living in public housing, those are their next-door neighbors. we should address specific concerns about public housing, as one name -- one neighbor said that his fee would be completely obstructed by concrete. this is at the end of mind.

what's my name is misery. i am a member of the junior committee. buying and also the vice president of the tenants association and secretary of the overall board. i wanted to address that everyone deserves a quality of life. they were rebuilt and a lot of people were displaced and bothered by the noise in most places. i understand that it is noise pollution and everything, but it is for everyone to have a better part of life. there are crimes in my area. people in neighbors' houses have gotten broken into. my neighbors project got broken into. we all want a better piece of life. that is what we are looking

forward to. i am a member of the neighborhood watch that was started on the index. as residents, we are trying to build up ourselves in our lives. when emily came, there were a lot of good people in the chair and acts, bringing people together. there is a walk at 2:00 that we do every monday. every thursday. we have a new texas street garden. and what people have come together in our neighborhood to make our lives better. so, we can understand about what people are saying about the crime, but we are as well. everyone is worried about that. we all want a better quality of life. i think that this rebuild is due for all of us. do not just think that because you do not live in public housing that you are the only one with problems and issues.

we want a better life for our children and ourselves also. i am in my second year of college right now. i am 46. ipad -- i'm going to graduate when i am 50. but we are all looking for the same thing. people that come to the meetings that we have are really engaged with the residents. people that come to the meetings will be able to see that we want the same thing. thank you. supervisor cohen: thank you. [reads names] collects money ms. marshall. i have been in a lot of the programs. i will not name them all. we all want a better life. we all want our kids to be safe. i lived in public housing in my car had been broken into.

i had people shoot guns at my house and i am not a violent person. i work for when i get. all of the people but complain about the violence, it is not just there. it is the people that come there to drop of stolen cars. it is not always our kids. i have a 19-year-old and a 16- year-old and i do not have them outside for this reason. i want to own my own house. i have been going to first-time home buyers. many of them do not agree. there is one going to college next year. i am trying to find out everything i can about a home to be able to buy, if they remodeled. they engage in stability, letting us know that people in public housing are no less than the people that live in the

housing. i noticed that a lot of people whose complaints do not cut to the meeting, you will sit there and be left out and have that violence. you're not communicating with all of us. i would like to thank you all for this and i hope this project goes through, because i would like to be a home buyer. >> thank you for listening to me, supervisors. i am a homeowner on park view heights and an active neighbor in -- member in my neighborhood. as well as volunteering on the community group, since moving into my home in 2004, have looked into the redevelopment of the amex. i have met and befriended a number of residents that i had

never gotten to meet. there is a lot but i feel uneasy about. many of my neighbors expressed concerns. the implications for transportation in our area, they have talked about the no requirements for parking spots, given that a lot of public housing is on flat land. a lot more people have cars. especially as it were made to the public transportation problem. i think that communication between there and the surrounding community could be a lot more improved. i think that the interactive nature of them, there was more to be had there. the hope is that communication can enhance the understanding of the neighbors around and make

them feel that they have an input and a voice. my hope is that the boys will be heard going forward. i want this project to go forward. thank you. supervisor cohen: ladies and gentlemen, i have no more speaker cards in front of me, but i wanted to hold out one last call to come up and speak. sir? in the red burgundy. come on. if anyone else wants to speak, please come on up. do not be shot. >> i am a member of the park view heights association. i have been for 20 years. i want to thank the supervisors for giving us all an opportunity to offer advice. in general, we have been rather

pleased. i agree with all that has been said about the general direction. we all want things to improve. that said, one of the reasons i am late is i happen to work in san jose. many of the people that live on the hill work on the peninsula. that led to a point about parking. public transportation is not such that you can easily go back and forth between the city and the peninsula as it stands. there are concerns around inadequate parking. and the necessity for a continued police presence in the substation or the equivalent. we continue to be concerned about crime across the board. i would also like to say that many of my neighbors are concerned, still, about density.

many of us are pleased with the direction that things have gone, but in terms of height and density, we would like to see something that is less dense. finally, i would like to put in a plug, as a professor of social work in urban planning, for more housing for aging. if there is some way to include additional units across all income levels before senior citizens, this is a critical need. thank you for giving me this opportunity. five >> good afternoon, supervisors. i lived in a dog patch. once upon a time, there was a project called park view heights. there was a huge outcry, that it

was too dense. that it was going to invite low- income people. there was another group, which included me and my friends, who said that this was an ideal place to build dense housing. first-time buyer housing and so forth. it turned out that the people that moved in were not thugs or lawbreakers. they were wonderful people that were here this afternoon, concerned that we are one to build a place for thugs and lower income people. i find that somewhat amusing and i hope that he can get over that. obviously, we need to work with every neighbor. i think we have done a good job with that. one of the things about this project, even if it is the

programs we are doing regarding healthy living, and so forth. those have not really been funded by the city. for the most part, they have come from a pretty neat resources that we have glommed onto. we will continue to do that. we are working very hard with green trust on 22nd street to make sure that there is a connection from the waterfront all of the way up. some people say then that is just another way for the bad people to get to the neighborhood. i do not agree. i appreciate your having this hearing. supervisor wiener: do you know -- i think it was mr. pearlstine who mentioned that there might have been a station that moved. that was a concern from a number of residents. is there a part of the plan that

is going to move public safety institutions? is that being addressed? >> my understanding is that there is a substation right now, and it will remain until it is not needed or it will stay. i can remember when the bayview station used to be third and 20th, two blocks from my house. i have not noticed a degradation of police presence. supervisor mar: could staff provide a comment on that issue? >> good afternoon, supervisors. in the president of the neighborhood association on 23rd in kansas. i think that one thing that needs to be clear about this, from my perspective there has been a lot of marginal as asian

in san francisco. it is generally the same thing as the density issues. i can touch on the police substation issue. there is no funding for what is there now. when we talk about branching out, you have to look at the octopus and where it goes beyond where it is. one of the facilities close by, the budget for the increased population, it is not easy. to come up with the funding for the project is one thing. services for the people living there is another ball game. i am not sure if that is going to address our concerns. there is a good slide in there. 23rd is the only one that crosses from that area to the other side. currently, we have an issue with what is going on there.

with the increase in population, i think that more people will be biting muni, mta will be able to pull that off -- will be riding on muni, mta will be able to pull it off. i've lived on kansas street. we are looking forward to this going forward, but more outreach. all of the people on our blocks found out about this last year. we are getting on board with the project. >> good afternoon, supervisors. timothy:. on behalf of our 70-member organization, i wanted to commend bridge housing and what they are doing with the mayor's office. this is our idea of good, sensible urbanism. we have not heard enough discussion.

we have collapsing sources of funding to subsidize housing at federal, state, and local levels. we do not have a prayer of rebuilding public housing without models like s f. we are heartbroken at the economic crash that has done so much damage to the tools that we need for public housing and affordable housing. it also involves ample amounts of market housing. we liked the integration with services and parks. we saw a presentation from the folks in chicago that came out here. to some extent, it was modeled here. it could not happen soon enough. i would urge you to look at ways to help the funding gap that gets this off the ground. thank you. it is a terrific model. supervisor cohen: are there any

other members that would like to speak? with that, we will close public comment. the mayor's office of housing? know. why not have the bridge, up. supervisor mar: i wanted to thank the director of housing authority for being here for a hold hearing. thank you. >> police substations. there is one on site, currently, funded by the housing authority. the goal of this rebuilding is to not need a police substation. income mixing in those projects is not as much as it would be. that said, there is a lot of work to be done to come up with service connection models. the city has one that they are

implementing in hunters view. it will help to address some of the health and mental health issues that we have had. dealing with a lack of opportunity that people have, where crime comes from. we are trying to take a holistic and comprehensive approach of dealing with intergenerational, hard-core prop -- poverty. that is what this is about. the goal is that everyone will be lifted up by this in some white. there will not be as much crime. certainly there will not be more people equally more crime. if there is a need for a substation in the future, when this is built, we would not hesitate to try to get one. right now, the housing authority is footing the bill. they will not be managing this

property in the future. i hope that that answers your question. supervisor mar: sorry? >> it is the substation that is there. and it will be there as long as the station -- the authority will pay for it. they have no plans to stop right now. right now the project is a few years away. it will be there for the foreseeable future. supervisor wiener: i know that outside my district, it was replaced with a much superior design. with some issues they have dramatically been reduced. i would say that there is good design in good community planning. supervisor mar: the point that there were 4000 to 5000 new

residents, the increase in population, mr. lee from the booster organization said that there was not that kind of infrastructure that comes along to address the increased number of people. i was wondering if you could respond to that. >> physical structure or service structure of supervisor mar:? both. -- structure? supervisor mar: both. >> this would replace all of the instructor -- all of the structured streets right now. more to your point, the question, most of it will be underground. that is what is happening at hunters view right now. a big, big number, to create this street grid on site and make arkansas street, for instance, go through, which is

an important connection to the north side of the hill or the city. so, it is a big number. one of the things that we are working on with the mayor's office is in gauging the mayor -- engaging of financial infrastructure improvements. in terms of city improvements, it is like any other project in the city. there will be impact fees paid by other projects. those other issues will be studied and are being studied as a part of it as well. i do not know what it will save. the report is not done yet. this project will have a community center, where hopefully there be a base for all kinds of people to help provide service in the programs. not just for the people living in affordable housing. so that we do not have a

community center segregated by income. we will try to make that street a street for everybody. supervisor wiener: the question was raised, and i felt like we had not gotten a real answer on that. >> commissioners, my name is henry alvarez. we have no intention of changing the features or the substation requirements. now, or in the foreseeable future. if at some point in the course of redevelopment, the community decides that there is no need for it, we will not have one. i do not want to get into the specifics. we have no desire to change. supervisor wiener: do you know why it is going away, if it is going away? >> i have no idea. the station that is there now,

there is no plan to remove it for the foreseeable future. when the project needs to be built, if there is a need over conversation, over time, if there is a need for it, we will look at continuing to provide that service. supervisor wiener: please do not speak from the audience. you have had your chance to speak. thank you for the clarification. supervisor cohen: >if it were going to continue to be on site, the board would be in the community center? and there is no set program. if there were going to be a substation, that is where it would be located. we do not have a specific plan.