administration, and he is not ideological, and he brings to government what is generally missing a great deal of -- common sense. when he looks out of a problem, he looks for a solution. he looks for the best solution. every job he has done has been a success, so to have him on the planning commission is a big success for the city. he understands the process of government like no one else does. he understands the complexities, not only at the local level but up the state level. he sees the forest, and he sees the trees. we are blessed to have his

nomination a. >> thank you, mr. donahue. >> good afternoon. i am also here to support the nomination. while he was on economic and workforce development, and i did not necessarily appreciate all his actions or decisions, but i appreciate his rational decision making. i urge that you push forward his appointment. >> thank you, mr. brennan. >> i would like to speak in support of the nomination. as a member of the board of appeals, he hit the ground running in a way that is rarely seen. he came to that scene with a profound understanding of the

function of government agencies and what they could and could not achieve, and that is knowledge and death he will bring forward to the planning commission. it will be of great loss. i am looking forward to a commissioner to take that seat, but he would be an exceptional commissioner gregory >> thank you -- he would be an exceptional commissioner. >> thank you. >> he would make an excellent commissioner. he understands complex issues, and i asked you to move this forward for the full board. >> thank you, mr. o'connor. >> ♪ i really hoping that you

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the vice-president of stadium operationsit speaks to mr. hil'. my strongest recommendation for my strongest recommendation for richard ellis for the planning supervisor kim: thank you. seeing no further comment, public comment on this item is closed. >> i think all of the members who came out to speak on behalf of mr. hillis for the planning commission. as i indicated, i think this is an excellent appointment, and i think it makes sense that the

mayor would make this recommendation. it will be, however, sad to lose you, mr. ellis, on the board of appeals, but i think you're -- it will be sad to lose you what mr. hillis, on the board of appeals, but i think you'll benefit here. i support richard hillis to the planning commission. supervisor kim: supervisors, we have a motion. supervisor farrell: i am happy to second that emotion. a little bit on the board of appeals, but more directly with the mason center and my district. i really look forward to working together. i>>supervisor campos: and very w people can get him to come with a tie, so kudos to you mr. hillis.

supervisor kim: we have heard three it commissioners from the planning commission. it is always great for that. i want to say that in my time working with you, not as a commissioner, but as a member of the board of appeals, just in your time at the mayor's office, i have found you were incredibly divergent and spent a lot of time listening to the committee. i also appreciate the creative nest. your knowledge is based around different tools and techniques, particularly the issue of affordable housing. i think with the challenge of the impending dissolution around every development and that development agreement, there is a lot of fear in the terms of our ability to actually build what we promised. although we had not quite reached that number of 30%, we came really close. i appreciate kind of your diligence and i look forward to

having that skill set on the commission as well. i want to continue to state that i am concerned about the diversity of the commission. we have lots of representation from certain communities that have previously been on the planning commission. the incredible amount of development that is happening on the east side of the city, particularly in the southeast sector, eastern neighborhoods, it is incredibly important for that to exist on the planning commission. that is an overall comment. we have a motion and second, without opposition. thank you. madam clerk, please call at 4. >> item four, a charter amendment, san francisco housing trust fund and housing production incentive act, to promote affordable home ownership, programs and the city, and lower and stabilize

the impacts of affordable housing regulatory impositions on private residential projects, and to authorize the development of up to 30,000 affordable rental units in the city. supervisor kim: thank you. i know that many of you have been waiting for a long time. for those of you and the overflow, if you like to comment for this item? -- if you would like to come in for this item? we have three co-sponsors for this charter amendment. we have supervisor wiener, supervisor avalos, and myself. i would also like to recognize they are here and if they want to make any comments, or if we can go straight to the mayor's office on housing for their presentation? supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: thank you,

chair kim, and colleagues for giving me the opportunity. although we have a lot of different perspectives on the disagreement about housing, i think most if not all of us can agree that we have a housing crisis and a housing affordability crisis. although we have different perspectives of how to get to the end goal, i think we very much want to have a city where the diversity of our population across income levels are able to stay here and thrive and raise families and be contributing members of our community. much to the maersk credit, one of his top priorities from the moment that he took office was to make sure that we have sustainable funding for affordable housing in san francisco, and particularly with

the demise of redevelopment, the urgency was renewed. i want to give a lot of credit to the mayor and the mayor's staff and the mayor's office of housing for really moving this process forward. but even now want to give extra credit to the mayor and colleagues for recognizing that affordable housing is one piece, a major piece of the puzzle in terms of housing, but it is not the only piece. that housing in this city is very complicated and it comes from many different directions. in addition to finding affordable housing, we are also creating enough housing so that we cannot continue to have a situation where supply is not keeping up with the incredible demand for housing in this city. and through a lengthy and

transparent and inclusive and the first process, -- reverse process, this housing trust fund has come forward. it is something that addresses affordable housing, addresses market rate housing. it is the kind of package that a lot of different people can get behind. we have seen in the past in san francisco that if you go to the ballot with a housing measure that does not have the broad that, the first support, you are not always going to win. this is the kind of package both the charter amendment and the accompanying legislation that is being drafted where a broad coalition can come together, get this passed at the ballot, make sure that we are finding affordable housing, picture that we are giving the incentives that will create enough market rate housing as well as different kinds of

market rate housing where we can address our housing crisis in a meaningful way. i was proud to be a co-sponsor of this charter amendment from the beginning, even before all of the terms had been fully negotiated, and i did that a little bit of a leap of faith because i think this is so incredibly important. colleagues, i look forward to continuing to work on this important issue. supervisor at the lowvalos: tha, chair chu -- chairjkimn, sorry. i want to aecho supervisor wiener's. this was really a recognition of our housing crisis and san francisco and the manifestation of that, which ferries across the city.

i want to give the mayor great credit for making this an issue that he came out with in january. clearly, we have a great deal of the union amenitanimity. we have very distinct housing needs, most other places in the city. we don't have a lot of development going on in our district, district 11. i think we have had three projects over the past four years. we have actually had a huge increase in population, about 8500 new residents. no new housing, but 8500 new residents. people double up in households, several families living together and households.

today, i started door knocking in my district for some reason -- [laughter] i was walking down the street, the apartment buildings, single- family homes. i went to several homes, chinese families, 10 people living in an apartment. filipino families, eight people living in the same apartment. latino families, but degenerations living together. five, six people. -- multiple generations living together, five, six people. the issues are stark. the number of people who are working class who are managing to hold onto their homes, barely, is start in district 11. the people living in substandard housing is start in district 11. i was with a friend of mine helping me do outreach, dropped her off at my home. she lives in a garage.

the need for affordable housing and actually stabilizing housing is great. other parts of the city are very similar, the needs. i am very pleased, one of the things i discussed was how we could serve communities like the excelsior and our mission. where there is a high deal of property ownership, but people struggling to maintain their properties. that we have a portion that could help stabilize those households. i want to thank the mayor for the inclusion of these changes. lastly, i cannot stay the whole time, but i will be following. i want to thank my colleagues.

lastly, i was part of the effort in 2008 on prop b, the affordable housing set aside. i think this measure has a great potential to be better than that because we're not using a whole part of our city budget and general fund but cobbling together existing funds that have been used and we are able to do the financing that can stretch those further, that can really be significant, adding up to what i hear is $1.2 billion over the next 30 years. that is significant, and nobody else in the country is doing it. if we do it here in san francisco, it would be a great model for the rest of the city. supervisor kim: thank you, supervisor. i was tempted to call you can't post. [laughter] supervisor kim: we do sit on the budget committee together,

and we were just there this morning. supervisor avalos was still there, before he looked over. supervisor campos? supervisor campos: thank you. i certainly think all of the members of the public who have been working on this quite some time. a lot of people have come out to support this effort, and i certainly share in the blood all of -- i certainly share in the goal of having affordable housing at all levels in san francisco. but let me be very clear. there is a reason why i have not added my name is a co- sponsor of this item. i ashare in the objectives and goals that have been articulated by the other supervisors, but i think there are fundamental questions that remain unanswered about this proposal.

the fact is the amount of money we have, even though it is significant over long period of time, it is not a lot of money relative to the needs of affordable housing in san francisco. not only is it a very modest amount of money, but we're talking about creating a fund and in the process giving up a number of things that are very significant. i think there is an overarching question here about the overall value of what we are giving up. and the value relative to what we are getting in return. i would like to be in a position where i can support this effort, but i need to hear more about the cost benefit analysis. i need to hear more about what it is we are giving up in exchange for what is proposed. no one questions the need to

create an independent source of affordable housing. we need to make sure that we cannot create unintended consequences and that in five, 10, 15, 20 years from now we don't look back at what is being done today and regret some of the actions being taken. so with an open mind, i look forward to hearing from the mayor's office, their presentation. i want to commend the mayor and my colleagues for the work that has gone into this effort. it is certainly commendable that the mayor of san francisco has made this a priority. again, i don't question the intent, but i think with something as important as this, the devil is true the in the details and i look forward to having a discussion about those details. thank you. supervisor wiener: thank you for not calling me supervisor farrell or supervisor at

elsbernd. i appreciate supervisor campos' comment, and i think that is the right way to look at it in terms of different people with different perspectives giving and getting different things. one of the goals of any kind of significant measure like this is to gain broad enough support from different aspects of the community, to actually get it passed. i think any person in this room or anyone who is interested in the issue can look at the proposed charter amendment, the proposed companion legislation, find things they love and they did not love so much. but the goal is to have something that is broad enough, broad enough appeal, whether affordable housing community, market rate developers, of

various kinds of housing advocates, everyone can get behind it. i know there will be a temptation, which i am not criticizing, to say i like this, but not that. i just want to knonote that onef the primary goals is to make sure that we maintain a broad coalition so that we can actually get this passed. without that broad coalition, it is going to struggle to pass. we need this to pass. supervisor kim: thank you, supervisor wiener. i will be brief because i want to get to the presentations. i want to acknowledge that we have their representative from the comptroller's office to the answer questions because there are pieces of this to discuss mechanisms and the general fund to create this affordable housing trust fund, and we also

have to people from the mayor's office of housing. i believe that mr. adams and mr. buckley will come up here today. i personally appreciate that the mayor has made affordable housing revenue streams a permanent source of revenue streams and the production and the acquiring of affordable housing a priority. i think not only was it an important for step as he begins his term as mayor, but i want to appreciate the speech in this with which this is coming forward. for something this complex, but six months is not that much time. it is incredible to made the determination that went into this process that we could pass something that will go to the ballot, and a year that we expect high turnout. i am hoping, of course, this will resonate with people.

and those that impact moderate income and low income housing individuals. i think there are a significant set of gifts in this charter amendment that is before us. i think that makes many of us uncomfortable because they are things that we personally remember fighting for recently. they were big wins for the community in the sense that we were saying in the city when you want to develop and profit, there are ways you also have to contribute back to the key immunity, whether affordable housing, infrastructure, open space, the sorts of things. i want to acknowledge that discomfort, but also recognize we are also potentially talking about projecting new revenue, revenue that currently does not exist, whether through the dissolution of redevelopment or the general fund that will potentially also be supported

and, and with this fund. that is an important piece of this conversation, and for me the passage of additional revenue othat will be invested, whether by our businesses or real-estate in the city is an important aspect of what to give is from the other side as well. at this point, i will bring up mr. adams and mr. buckley, who have the presentation. i'm sorry, mr. olson. we're all having problems with names right now. >> it has been a long day already. it has been a long road. for me, the road starts in july of last year, when with the governor's budget that he proposed to the dissolution of the redevelopment agency. a year ago, was the deputy

director of the redevelopment agency in charge of housing. i think that redevelopment agency, through the decision of the board and the mayor, in 1989 made a momentous decision to use tax increment bond financing for the creation of affordable housing, and the redevelopment agency did that well. over the 20 years that it had the opportunity to do so. i think the redevelopment agency would have continued to do that, but it was not given the opportunity. in december, when the state supreme court ruled that the legislature could basically eliminate redevelopment and the government could not use local tax funds to restore redevelopment, the redevelopment agency basically went away.

and for all of us who worked at the redevelopment agency and worked in the field of affordable housing, i think it was a very dark time. now what the heck is going to happen now. the redevelopment agency was one of the primary sources of local funds to basically support the development of affordable housing in san francisco. it was used to leverage outside resources and state funds, federal funds, and in the early part of redevelopment, and early 1990's, san francisco and the wonderful community of san francisco basically more advantaged in the state in terms of leveraging state resources to do acquisition rehabs and the new construction of affordable housing, and it really created

this new time of growth in affordable housing. when that went away, i think everybody was concerned about what was going to happen, what was going to replace it if anything. people were talking about i.f. d.'s and whether they could wrotuse those to replace redevelopment. in january, at the mayor's inauguration, he spoke of affordable housing, he spoke of the loss of redevelopment and the uncertainty of affordable housing redevelopment. and the mayor convened a working group, a housing trust fund working group to try to create a substitute for the funding that was lost by redevelopment. this working group, as daniel

adams from the mayor's office of housing will tell you, what rate lot of alternatives -- went through a lot of alternatives. we vetted things suggested by a wide range of participants, and we are now ready to present to the board and the general public a consensus solution to the loss of redevelopment funding. on behalf of the mayor, i would like to thank all of those who participated in this process. this is not a process where everybody agrees, but we feel that we have a housing trust fund measure consisting of both the charter amendment and the affiliated legislation that continues the work of the affordable housing