it is a good to see democracy up close. i&m s an of the quarter and also a documentary filmmaker. i fully, fully support the plan to rebuild here because i think it will inject the community with commerce and with energy and with hope, and it would really be a big blessing to our community. as it stands, the proposed site has been vacant for many years, and walking up band -- up and down there in the middle of the night or even in the middle of the day, it is edible sketchy and nerve-racking, and it would be wonderful if we had the presence of a hospital there, and many people have made

comments about concerned they are about housing and affordable housing and about transport, and those things, they matter to all of us, and i do not like being stuck in traffic either, and i do not foresee a problem with traffic, but even if thererúk to be a little problem with traffic, i think the benefit of outweighs any traffic concern. bank you. chair mar: wjohuthank you. >> i am here for a business owner who had to go. i cannot overstate the positive impact this project would have on both businesses and residents of the tenderloin. i have had the opportunity to personally witness of the areas

around cathedral hill have suffered over the past decade. this ambitious plan would result in>< improvement in the surrounding neighbors. in addition to the jobs, cpmc has pledged to have a significant number of local hires, including employment after the hospital is located -- operating. this represents a substantial opportunity for residents to find employment and will not put a strain on the existing transportation systems. i am impressed by having adequate lighting on the 25 blocks surrounding the hospital. this will involve ongoing bulb replacement. five blocks would also beginning 8 face-lift, beginning a face- lift. (uáing a facelift. also be

this is part of the cathedral hill project. /y to affordable housing will have a direct positive impact on local residents. i implore you to allow this project to move forward so that residents of the gentleman will have reason to be hopeful that the future will provide opportunities for advancement, but for the neighborhood and for the individuals who live there. chair mar: thank you. i have one more card. >> thank you, supervisors. i have spoken before you before, and i am here to ask you to approve this. like many, i live and work in this city. i live in the mclaren park area. i also pay taxes here, and i will be voting in november.

i am a landscape architecture designer. i lost my job in 2009. i am a college graduate, a professional, an unemployed for almost two years. have found long-time in planet -- thanks to that program. i have found long-term employment. i am sad to think that many san franciscans are still waiting in line for a job. i am said by the fact of businesses around the van ness and geary . that will0#ml likely close ther doors if this project does not get approved -- i am sab by this act. in the last few weeks, i saw the so-called progressive politics at its worst. all of the forget to be

pragmatic, perfection gets in the way of all of the good that will come out of this. we the people remember who and when our representatives put politics aside and work hard for the people of san francisco. cpmc is not the enemy here. remember each and every one of you in november. chair mar: thank you. next speaker. >> michael. i am talking for the san francisco gray panthers and also the elder women's league. you have been hearing a lot about how the extreme downsizing of st. luke's hospital not only endangers its survival but also

very negativelyó7y]t impacts heh care in southeast san francisco. remember, general is being rebuilt, but it is not adding much additional capacity at all. now, health care advocates and community people proposed a plan to move 160 beds from the cathedral hill campus to six weeks, which would greatly increase its chances for a long- term survival and, of course, would benefit patients in southeast san francisco, and this/ alternative 3-a in the environmental impact report, and yet it was just rejected out of hand as being incompatible with cpmc's,financial objectives.

this out of hand rejection of a reasonable plan should be reason enough to reject the environmental impact report tomorrow. but it is not just st. eurythmics. it is a huge number of other issues having to deal with the ability of the present workers and units to be able to transfer, having to do with housing, having to do with nurses that are currently represented, at being able to represent. there are so many things that are wrong with this. this needs to change. this needs to be renegotiated under the city's master plan. chair mar: e] >> thank you, supervisors. i am a member of the van ness corridor association, and i

)ñs rebuild plan. my family and i have watched the landscape where we spend so much of our time become deserted,é there is the loss of the neighborhood we have come to love. it now appears to be a blight to our community, and we wondered for several years whatever happened to remedy this disturbing turn of events. with my wife and six-year-old daughter, i have walked down van ness with a sense of apprehension as opposed to a sense of safety that we have come to expect and desire. it was particularly on nerving to go past eight vacated dow and find myself enclosed proximity of the san francisco swat team as they attempted to evacuate a group of would-be troublemakers from the building.

way san francisco and the van ness corridor can and should be. we believe our beautiful city is able and willing to do better. today, we have a business with a proven track record, standing ready to offer a viable solution to this unfortunate situation. here is a business, cpmc, wanting to do something that will be beautiful and helpful to this community. clearing the way for them to go forward to build a state of your hospital one not on the approve much-needed health care for poor also bolster our struggling economy by creating much-needed jobs. this would be a win for the van ness corridor, san francisco, and the citizens. on the other hand, blocking this project will set our neighborhood and city back for years to come. chair mar: thank you.

>> good evening, supervisors. my name is joseph. i am a lifelong resident of the city, born and raised in the valley, and i want to address something that was brought up earlier. supervisor cohen said the only shining star would be the millions for affordable housing. i believe that viable hospitals are a shining star. i think that $1.30 billion is a shining star. i feel that 1500 construction jobs is a shining star, and i find that 3000 permanent jobs are a shining star. several structural engineers have said that the currency mix will be one of two things in the event of a major seismic event. it will either fall this white, onto cesar chavez street, -- fall this way.

start putting our citizens to work, and start putting the safety of our citizens as the number-one priority. i am voting in november. my family are voting in november. my co-workers are voting in november, and others are voting in november, some do what is right. chair mar: thank you. >> local 22. it is no secret the van ness corridor, that is a rough one. it is not easy. i can remember, and i do not know how many in this room can remember, there used to be the old jack could tell. fun times there. i myself as a carpenter apprenticed have done quite a jobs on van ness, and it is not easy, but, do you know what? it can be done. we will prevail. with that, we need to move forward for the health care for the city and county of san francisco. thank you. chair mar: thank you.

>> good evening, board of supervisors. my name is -- supervisor eric mar. ie ness corridor, and that place is miserable. we call 911 on a daily basis, and what we see is not a true representation of san francisco, i do not think, but we need to move forward with this hospital. it is viable. it saves a lot of jobs. it will bring a lot of jobs. it will bring security to this location. it will be a 24/7 operation. i think we need to move forward, and i cannot emphasize enough --

and the next 5 to 10 years, this place is going to be vacant. it is going to be worse than it is. right now, there are vacant buildings, people are just taking over and using it. it is a fire hazard and what not, and i really think we need to vote yes on this]b3yñ and haa hospital that is ready for earthquake. we have talked about this many times. i hear from everybody that we need this. thank you. $ííyñchair mar: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is david degree. i am sorry i was not here when my name was called. we helped create downtown midlantic, which was very much like the van ness corridor and the geary corridor, and i was in

at the military doing intelligence, and i have learned about our neighborhoods are chosen. g there and are involved in that community, and i am a member of the+é# directly behind this site, so i am familiar with it, and i have been very interested in what you are doing. earlier, i watched some very insightful questions being posed to the study, to the consultants who did this study, and they5[db made commitments o answer those questions by tomorrow's vote. i am hoping you all do that so that those concerns can be handled. i do support this hospital. i think it will bring much to the city of san francisco. it is well located.

it is a major impetus for the future, and so i support you -- you supervisors voted for it. thank you. chair mar: thank you. i want to call some other people, and i am sorry, i know you by another name. next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. first of all, &i want to say tht you, supervisor mar, have paid attention to all of our comments regardless of what they were, and that is commendable. &q the various projects associated with cpmc's+6es planned for cathedral hill. it has enjoyed many

personalities over the years. it has had many personalitiesr(, andvññce the cathedral used to n van ness. many of our beautiful government buildings use two line van ness. the board of supervisors has approved several projects which are improving the face of van ness neighborhood. for the past several months, they have been working with representatives from cpmc and supervisor farrell's office, including security and parking, not only to make life easier for the tenants but for the surrounding community as well. additionally, cpmc have shown us their improvement plans, including landscapes and hard

skate. it will make improvements to what is otherwise worse. i am heretd] to voice support. we look forward to having the new hospital completed and ford cpmc -- for cpmc to be our new neighbor. chair mar: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you for allowing us to speak tonight. we appreciate your patience. we serve clients all rv's city, but our clients in the tenderloin are different, because when they wake up after getting their kids ready, they leave. they leave because they feel unsafe. they go to schools as far away as they can. kky

home. they do not shop in the tenderloin or walk very far in the tender my. they got very excited. ñúo%cpmc accept medical and are competent. they got excited because they fought -- felt it would be a neighborhood to working in and play and and live in and stay in. and they have been waiting. they want to work. they want jobs. they want care. this was very exciting for them. this showed them hope in their community. and yet been asking me when is it going to happen? when are we finally going to have this place that would change our community for the better? that would help us find jobs? that will provide mental health services? plebes. i just ask you today to join us and move forward. we stand behind cpmc.

today, i am not here to support them. i am here to support our clients. cpmc has been great to us and our clients. we do not see how we cannot move beyond the politics. thank you. share -- chair mar: thank you. >> i am with a citigroup. these two sides serve as critical components of our infrastructure. taking an active part in several studies and task forces which have addressed transportation and traffic impacts, and zoning, health care services and

capacity, and much more, and were supportive as designed. >+%(as we have heard, it has hs share of economic distress over the years, but we are not really talking about that. we certainly urge the mayor's office to work through the very real concerns, and there are definitely a number of concerns remain. but we cannot disregard our current reality, which is that we need these facilities rebuilt to support san francisco. we urge you to support these projects and to move them forward for consideration of the full board. chair mar: thank you. next speaker. >> i am a resident, and i want to thank you for your service.

our firm is a business and land under within one block of the proposed project. my wife and i also live in the city with our daughter, and we have witnessed firsthand the deteriorated facilities. this is $2.50 billion but up any public assistance. city officials and the mayor's office at actually done an incredible job of extracting a tremendous and -- concessions from them. icy3cwe commend cpmc for agreeio concessions and others would not even begin to consider, including their commitment to $300 million at st. luke's hospital, in a facility that likely could be closed and this project does not move u8÷5cforward. that is the same amount spent on at&t park. to say that is not a commitment

i think is a mistake. this is in a deteriorated area of the city that has public safety concern. it is heartbreaking but not uncommon for me to find people selling drugs and urinating on the streets surrounding the property. unfortunately due to these conditions, we have had customers and employees on numerous occasions refused to return. hospital will provide an important 24-hour presence. a hospital will also act as an important catalyst for other businesses such as ours to invest in their businesses and hire additional people. if they move forward, just are small companies alone will spend millions to upgrade our situation and hire more employees. we hope you will have the courage to approve it. ywchair mar: pc÷

mr. lazarus? >> thank you. thank you for all of the time you and spending on this. -- all of the time you have been spending on this. rebuilding st. louis to keep that hospital open, and this project is good for san francisco. it is good for the medical industry and medical care, which is probably our number one industry. probably historically, we thought tourism was our number- one industry, but i think in recent years with the rebuilding of a general and the good of honda and the expansion= mission bay and the teaching facilities, biotech, and the general growth of medicine in san francisco, it is probably our number one industry, and we need to stay focused on that and stay focused on a site that can deal with the delivery of good

medical care and in an appropriate location that has access to the broadest number of san franciscans and the broadest number of people throughout the region who would seek care at that facility. this is not some underutilized site that has not haddú traffic. van ness for decades has been a sight of a major office building and mattel, a block square of buildings that attracted thousands of people per day, so, yes, this will be incremental bum 0 to some high threshold. this is an important side, as the hospitals have been appropriate neighbors the route that side of the city, but we have the opportunity to build this at the right place, at the right time, and i urge you to recommend your colleagues the approval of the resolution that is before this board and the committee today. thank you.

next speaker. >> hello, my name is -- and i support the you rebuilding. i add that several jobs in the city and outside of the city. i have served on community boards and even raise a child in the city, and all of that i have done without owning a car, so i want you to know that it is possible to rely on your legs or walking and relying on the muni and an occasional taxi cab, so i speak in particular about the comments that some of the opera -- opposition made in terms of vehicular access and congestion on van ness. many projects in the city have been killed or could have been killed based on aspects of vehicular access. i say that is nonsense. what we should be doing is exactly what this project proposes, which is building what is long overdue to give people

who are willing to take transit and what to transit an opportunity to travel almost as quickly as those in medicine to drive in their cars each and every day. i also wanted to make comments of the openness of their outreach. the chicken with my experience at the davies campus, was involved in the neighborhood there and lived several blocks away and participated from more than a year in the community outreach process, which was very deliberate, very inclusive, and i saw them address issues in a very innovative way to make that particular location more transit accessible, mainly by moving one of the main entrances right down there close to the train station or the train stopped 40 n-judah and allowing people to access that -- for the n-judah, so i wanted to say that as someone who has seen this.

chiar mar: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. my name is bernadette. i am a single mother of two completing my internship, and it is not easy. and thanks to them putting me back into the work force. it is an awful feeling, and it is good to be a good role model for my children, and they will look at me and know that that is what they have got to do when they grow up, to be productive. lif these products do not go through, and long-term job is in jeopardy. i asked you to support these. thank you.

chair mar: >> i am the president of in neighborhood association and also a resident of the fillmore neighborhood. i grew up in the fillmore. when i look at the development and and hearing all of these comments, it seems that there is in line between mitigation versus solving all of the neighbor and transportation issues. it is being blurred. i feel that we are trying to solve all of these issues with this one to limit what the recognizing the fact that oewd is managing about one dozen house and -- a and housing aspects.

we are not creating a mechanism that will allow people to stay in the area. i feel like the film82m=t more t even being discussed in this develop, and we are the other side of valencia's street. i reached out to oewd about one year ago. zthey are sf these resources. i feel if we are going to slow this development down, it should be to look at howey