we are using the campaign, and we are excited to announce that we will be funding this, a very crucial mental health services to those on the site. so what does the future, what is the next 18 months looking like? this is at a point of imitation for us. when the first 107 minutes come on line, this will be our time -- we are walking down a path. we have received a lot of community input. we have units coming on line, and this is the time to talk about this. this will come into play, and we will be doing a lot of policy making around that. from a financial perspective, we

will be doing a lot of work with the three sites that remain, sunnyvale, -- sunnydale, potrero. how much we will have to fund the project going forward, and how we need to phase them, considering how much we have in resources. we also need to look at construction because of the financial environment we are in, but, again, we are equally committed to the residents, so we will need to think how to sustain that work with the residence, even in the light of construction needing to be delayed a bit, and finally, we will finally see a full program with regard to the campaign and a strategy that exists for that, and starting to develop a strategy where we can actually get some funds out on the street in order to help the residents

in this process. so with that, i will pass it on to the project manager for this. supervisor mar: supervisor cohen? supervisor cohen: where is this in relation to the process? this is specifically dealing with potrero hill? >> we plan to do this in the next year, so there is tons of time for feedback. we will be before you again, and there will be ample opportunity for community involvement at that time. supervisor cohen: would this include a middle-income housing? and just to be clear, this is for housing at 80% of ami? >> work force, middle-income

housing, as well as market rate. to give you an example of what i mean about middle-income housing, we think of about 80% to 120%. middle income housing. all of this is not set in stone. we obviously have a lot of planning to do. there are the condominium purchase amounts. we have not set went levels. as you said earlier, we are early in the process, but i think the thinking is that middle band of housing would be specifically for that target population of somewhere between 50% and 120%. the market rate in our initial conversations, it would actually be affordable for families at 120% to buy the market rate. that is to give you a concept. we are trying to make it as

diverse as possible. we are trying to make sure that we have equal amounts of each type of housing, too, so you have a blend on the side that makes sense. supervisor cohen: thank you very much. supervisor mar: are we still going to continue the great community building days and the community gardens and the walks and the movie nights? are we going to be able to continue to do those community building activity is proof -- activities? >> yes. we were getting about $166 that we were getting from the redevelopment agency to support our services work, and we have specifically reached out to our campaign partners to say that we know that the community building work is just as important as the real estate work, and we will be turning to them over the course

of the next 2.5 months or so to look at community building. that makes sense. we do not anticipate, we do not anticipate having to stop that work because it is really important. banking. -- thank you. sharmaine? >> emily is going to help me out with slides. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is charlemagne curtis -- charmaine curtis. mike responsibilities and ball

overseeing entitlements for the project, and just a quick entity a question on the eir, it is being drafted. it has been in progress for over 1.5 years, and we do not expect a draft to be published until the fall. my job today is to condense about three years of work to into a few minutes. i want to go through here. this is more focused on the master planning process, but hopefully you will get a decent sense of both, because the community building work is just as important as the bricks and sticks, as we say. this was selected in 2008 to being the master development. as you can see in this light, it is about 60 buildings spread over 38 acres, and the

configuration is a radical departure from the typical san francisco street grid and probably contributed to the social isolation of the families that live there. the demographic information is startling, especially when you look at it in comparison to the surrounding neighbors. the median income is $14,600, compared to over $80,000 for a nearby zepa. it does include south of market, but i do not think it's use it that much. and there are things that come with concentrated poverty, but there are lots of hard working families, many of whom are here today who took time to come out today and a real sense of community among the folks who live there. the next slide is the master plan as it is currently in visions, and this came out of 18 months of dozens of meetings,

and the big idea here is to stage this back into the fabric of the neighborhood by establishing a street grid that connects it, and east and west. there are some that show you how this goes through the site and connects to -- there they are. so the typography of this site is really challenging with a very steep grade and severe issues, which you can only get a sense of if you start looking down some of the canyons when you go there. so it was difficult to locate the neighborhood center on an essentially flat street that will function as a main street. it will obviously not go all of the way up the hill. it will have retail, a community center, a new park, they have and all kinds of new stuff happening at the park and the community center. the senior housing is also going to be located on 24th street, so

the seniors can have access to the relatively flat street and the resources that will be located there. we will run through the next his clients that will label aspects of the master plan. this is located throughout the site. buildings will range from the walk-up's, the yellow on this live, to the elevator-served buildings, which are the darker colored buildings. the orange buildings will be a also walk-up's, but they are not off of the street. mid rise buildings are going to be tucked into the steeper part of the site, where they will have the less rigid least the visual impact. and the project will be developed to meet old standards. so in summary, this planet corporate between 1400 to 1700 units, and there will be approximately one-third each public housing replacement, one- third higher income and higher

tax credit units, as well as market rate housing. even though no parking is required, the project will include parking for the affordable units of a ratio of 0.5 spaces per unit with an overall ratio of 0.6 spaces per unit, and that compares to about 0.4% -- 0.4 currently. what those are going to be in the end is really going to be determined by the demand for retail space and by what we can really find for the community center, given that they do not expect to have a lot of read paying uses that can service debt, and the last part of this light is sell the 38 acres breaks down. there are a lot of streets. so the images on the right are located with those on the other.

this is where it dakota is off of 25th. the second is texas street, which will now go through the site. the next slide is looking south from the recreation center. we had initially envisioned an edible cardamom -- garden up there, but this is what that looked like looking out to the south. that slot is connected street, and the last one is looking north from the corner of missouri street and a new street we are calling 24 and a half right now for the lack of a better name. the community center just beyond it, and above that, the mid rise buildings that we are proposing. so that is the plan. i want to talk a little bit about how we got there. these were the goals when we

started the community engagement process in the summer of 2008. we wanted to make sure that everyone was working from the same base of information, and i will talk more about that. we wanted a clear and transparent process that would allow for community input and involvement, and we wanted to give the community enough opportunity to create a shared vision with us and all of the stakeholders for the transition of this property. we wanted to be able to produce a plan for formal processing that had thoughtful community contributions, and lastly, we really wanted to and have been working hard to try to break down the wall between the annex and the rest of the neighborhood. and because we understood that this project is a big deal, not just for the residents of the annex, where the whole neighborhood, we were really allowing plenty of time. this represents about 18 months

leading up to the february meeting, where we presented the final plan. and we wanted to include as many people as possible in the development of the plan so that the plan was informed by as many people in the community as interested in it. there were 17 meetings. that got a little messed up there, but this represents only a fraction of the dozens of meetings over this three-plus- year period. there are presentations to the neighborhood groups. there are tables at local events. as part of the process was the meetings of the annex. there were four of them, and

seven issue focused items that we were calling in focus groups at the time, but they were really organized. this is 2008 and 2009. this goes back to the goal of everyone working from the same information. this was to get people's ideas and hear their concerns and to educate people on some of the nitty gritty issues with the sensible design and sustainability. they generated a lot of great energy around bringing people together who would never have sat around the same table. supervisor mar: you mentioned earlier that some came from the elementary school. some of those are integrated into the plan, how the schools

and families and to relate. and the other issue is transportation. as a muni was looking at cutting back, my understanding was that there were a number of lines with potrero hill, to other parts of the city. can you speak more about this? >> we have met with mdta several times about this side and about the neighborhood in general, which we have met with mta several times. mta is in a difficult position because they do not have the funds. they have low ridership. they have partially implemented the transit effectiveness program in the neighborhood but not entirely. we have a diagram that shows the

good -- proposed bus stops that we have worked out with them that they have approved, and the bus lines represent the buses that would be running through the neighborhood that are called for. so whether that is adequate or not i think will have to be determined when people are actually living on this site, and it will be more -- easier to get service when there are more people clamoring for it. they are still pretty upset about the disappearance of the 53. it really was a direct connection, especially down at 16th and potrero we are in constant dialogue with the muni, and we will continue as long as

we are working on this project to advocate for better transit service to this neighborhood, and i think the transit project is going to also have to look at their own solutions that might be internal to this project, so in terms of schools, we have had some interactions with one school and daniel webster. we have not dug deep there. the project that emily is working on that i will mention able but later i think will start to get at the schools and those kids who are attending those schools a lot more directly. so i was saying that the focus groups were really a great process, and i think everybody who participated in them came away feeling really jazzed on in level and really hopeful. we did a couple of other things. we held a few other workshops,

because we knew a lot of people did not understand the land use process in san francisco. we had a workshop with our land use attorney and walked through the entitlement process step by step, with all of the points where folks would have a chance to provide input into the project and to express their views and their concerns. we also took people on tours, so it is a different ball of wax in terms of financing, but it was former public housing, and is now available for tax-credit eligible residents, also, and we wanted to get people to the beach to have them see what a we developed public housing project would look like, because there were a lot of concerns that the actor is not going to be any better than the before, and particularly with issues of crime. people are concerned that if we're going to have this much

more density, we want to make sure that things are better, so we took folks over there because short of taking them to chicago and atlanta and some of the other places where this has been done on a large scale, this is what we were able to do. so all in all, 600 people were involved in the planning process in 2008 and 2009. particularly in the focus groups, they developed key concepts and the master plan, including the street grid and having a strong labor its center. we have a recaps from the focus groups that summarize what came out of them. you will see a lot of those things are really reflected in the master plan, but to show you each one, it would take one hour or two, so we reached out to a number of people throughout the process to invite their

participation, and we will calibrated along the way about what was or was not working, and we tried to switch up and do what we need to do to reach more people. in october 2010, we started publishing a monthly column in the neighborhood newspaper to help keep people informed about what was happening between meetings and events, and we have a website that we launched in 2009 and which was recently redesigned to make it a little more cheerful, a lot more user- friendly, and it is literally going to be launched any minute now as soon as we pay for the hosting service, and there is just a ton of information on it, including diagrams and materials we have had from every meeting we have had. every download that you could want. so this next slide is just a nice visual summary of the process of developing the master

plan and kind of gives you an idea of what it would be like to be in the room for some of those groups and for some of the material that came out of it, so after completing the master plan, we set about for the master plan for these two blocks. it is one superblock right now, but the master plan involves breaking them into two blocs. there is the design for these blocks in the conditional use. this could proceed more quickly once we of a feasible financing plan in place. they have really exciting names right now. it will get better at some point. looking at the quarter of 26 and wisconsin, looking south and east, the architect on this project is not the master plan architect. the next slide is an elevation

that is a west elevation that is looking south, down wisconsin street. so, this is where we have been. in terms of next steps, this is what the rest of the year looks like. a snapshot. we continue to work on developing a financially feasible path forward with the mayor's office and everyone else. hopefully entitlements will be finalized by the end of 2012. as i said, the draft will hopefully be published in september, putting us in a hearing in november. i do not expect action from the board until probably 2013, early, hopefully. so, there will be many more opportunities for the community to be involved and have their voices heard going forward. the arrows on the slide

represent the different points and -- i just mentioned. also, even after the project is in title, there is a design that is going to be engaged by every block over the next 15 years. last, but not least, the community building work we have been active in since 2009. the work is multifaceted and includes connecting to existing programs and services, as well as working about bridges across this physical and social divide that exists in the neighborhood. one byproduct of neighborhood worked unites the trail that is initiated by roseanne scott, who could not be here today, but she has been the most active participant in the community building work, she started a blog so that everyone could contribute and share stories about everything that was

related to the trail. the idea was to bring people together more through that block. -- blog. since coming on board as a community builder in and 2010, anyone steen has been a short time facilitator and has stirred up a lot of positive stuff. we could talk for a long time about each of the items on the list, but given the limitations of time i wanted to highlight a couple of things. we're hoping to start on a 1/3 acre community garden on texas street next month. we have been working on this for a long time. we are excited to break ground and get edible food in the ground over there. we are working with the parks alliance on this project. emily is working on raising

money for the healthy generations project, which i alluded to before, which might get more into the schools. the initiative is partly based on the thorez model of community change. also from the harlem children's zone. it is exciting. that took -- it is focused on protecting the environmental health of the youngest kids. this program will be piloted, once we raise the money, and replicated once we demonstrate success. i want to wrap up by saying that everyone on the team is aware of the important of this project in terms of neighborhood impact and the potential for transforming

the whole community. we know that it is a big deal and we will continue to listen engaged until the last building is out of the ground. so, there are other folks here from the project team. becky clark is the executive vice president of the bridge. the architects are here for both blocks a and b, if there are specific preston's about that stopped. i know that there are a lot of folks here that want to talk. >> i have a question about things i've heard from, concerns from constituents. -- supervisor cohen: i have some questions about things i have heard, concerns from constituents. what is the project's attitude toward historic neighborhoods? >> historic is really a technical term.

i am not sure if that question is related to homes that have some kind of designation and code as historic, or just existing homes? supervisor cohen: existing homes. >> existing homes? one of the primary goals was to relate in a thoughtful way to what is around it. the taller, higher density buildings are located on the steepest part, so that the roofline's will not be much higher than the 40 or 50 foot building in the project. all of the lower buildings are located mostly on the perimeter, where they are adjacent to existing houses. we are proposing 40 feet. we are not proposing to increase the height limit. on wisconsin's three, we're going to lower the height on 23rd street to 40 feet as well.

so that we do not have to pop through that existing limit. really, the planned steps down. it is easier to see a model because of the typography on the site. it really stepped down to what is around it, where it is appropriate to step down. the building of blocks a and b are three story buildings, even though we are proposing a 40 foot height limit, we are not proposing to build buildings that are 40 feet. they will be more like 30, 35 feet. so, we are trying hard to respect the character of what is around it. we are also not trying to mimic what is around it. for instance, the buildings that we are proposing, they are designed to look like 25 ft. wide buildings, even though they are 75 wide buildings.

we are trying to make them look like single-family homes or two family homes as much as possible. supervisor cohen: what do you anticipate the proposed phasing of the construction project to be? overbought estimated time? >> the project will proceed in a minimum of three phases. there are only two options. one of them is north to south. the other is south to north. we have looked at all kinds of variations. those are the big options. if south to north plugs a and b, those would be first. if not, we would start at the upper end of the project, missouri. taxes would come out and those blocs would go first. once we put the first shovel in the ground, it will take