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 how they have managed their money over the last couple of years. chair mar: 1 last speaker.

we are getting ready to close !b2cçpublic comment. >> i would like to see the data element go along with a couple of caveats in turns. the outreach, working with the cbo's in the western addition. a and i'm thinking it is only open until 1:00. g9i

there needs to be some discussion with the senior complex at that area. it will create the -- increases congestion. you have an asian community with a large senior group plus you have a growing young group of people who are looking for their first housing opportunity period. none of those opportunities are round and the western addition. people are sneaking in with their grandmothers and that type of thing. there is a lack of rental housing that young people can take advantage of and that is the critical issue that needs to be addressed with any type of

formal housing that goes up in that area. >> seen no other speakers we will close the public comment. i am just wondering if there are any questions for mr. rich or if he wants to make some concluding remarks. >> thank you for so much time. has been over 20 hours in our for hearings, and for everyone that testified. then also people from the community, thank you so much. >> just a couple of things. when i was talking about the safe passage program i erroneously described it as creating a safe@xu passage froe school -- is actually to after- school programs. in the tenderloin area. i made the same mistake at the

planning commission saw want to make sure i corrected. it is from school staff to after-school programs. beyond that we are happy to answer any questions for any that are left. beyond that also we would request continuance of the call of the chair at this point. >> s housing linkage should be an additional amount that goes for affordable housing creation and they are saying -- whether to exempt a hospital restitution from the requirement that about 17 million more towards affordable housing be contributed to the city for four blousing. i am is wondering if you could just respond to those points made. >> i think i might need a

clarification on the question. the linkage the number, just to make sure it is clear, we calculated would be for all of these facilities. i am not sure if that is what you are asking, just to clarify, could you ask the question again? >> in addition to the 2010 policy, they argued that an additional 12 new dollars would be contributing to affordable housing, given the impact of the new work force on the city, but also of mitigating other impacts on housing needs of the city, especially for lower-income residents. >> again, i will try to answer as much as i understand the question. the district offers a number of alternate formulas to calculate housing needs. +sincluding the option to be

completely absolves of it. we did our best and housing was in it the lead on this to come up with a package that made sense and where we landed was what you have seen and what you have been presented. something like five or six times higher than the jobs housing linkage fee would be. that is what we have to present to you at this point. i may still be missing the question, and i apologize. >> both should be contributing to the huge impacts on housing needs of the city, but i appreciate that answer. colleagues, is there a motion? i should just mention that for this item, these items before us, 5-l eir appeal scheduled for tomorrow,

july 17, so we really cannot take action. is there motion that we continue these items? so move, is there any objection? pplq÷supervisor wiener: my prefe would be to move the items with no recommendation. we have now had four lengthy and in-depth hearings in this committee and at different times we have had various quorums with the board present at this committee. at this point, even though i understand and agree there is additional negotiation that has to happen, i would prefer to move this out of committee and then track this with the eir, and then if necessary committee -- continue with the full board. this point where we are at the process, in any hearing that occurs needs to happen before the full board.

to keep this bottled up in committee, which is what we are doing, makes no sense after these four link the hearings. i will not be supporting the motion and it happens to fail, i would be movingñ recommendation. >> we have been urged by our staff, by the project sponsor and by the appellants to continue these items so in some ways it seems like all the parties are urging us to do this. i definitely understand your perspective. supervisor wiener: i am exercising my own judgment. we understand that these retrofits have to happen and has been unfortunate, what has happened over the last few weeks and the lack of negotiation or whatever is that does happen, has been very frustrating permit me. in terms of the big picture, it

is about the future of health care in san francisco. this is not going in a good and it is my hope that we can get it back onmdcvy track and he the world class system that we need for everyone at every income level in this city. my position here has nothing to do with what the parties want or what the mayor's office wants. it is what i think is important fficial. chair mar: there has#tç been a motion to continue to the call of the chair. can we have a roll call? [roll-call vote] to continue to the callv#a! he