height bonus going down. i think that is a good point that has been raised. it is inconsistent with the eastern neighborhoods and i don't believe from all my conversations with folks who are involved in the western soma citizens task force that anybody understood that that was what was being proposed by planning staff. second, i think there is a correction in terms of what the amounts of money that -- [speaker not understood] presented affordable housing costs, a number from [speaker not understood] used for in-lieu fees was cult multiplied by on-site whereas in fact the number should have been used as an amount that would have been paid of in-lieu fees. you use in lieu fee number multiplied by the in lieu fee percentage. in which case what we end up with is a loss of $9 million to the city in affordable housing funds which typically gets multiplied by three times. that's about some 6, p, 8 open hand projects, 6, 7, 8 when they cause [speaker not understood] apartments, 6, 7,

8, broadway family apartments. >> thank you, mr. marti. >> can i ask two questions? chair wiener? mr. marti. >> i want to make sure i understand what you're saying. did you just say that in eastern neighborhoods the transit fees don't go down? that was not my understanding. that is what i heard, that they remain stable. so, they stay at tier 1 from the base, where a project is rezoned or not. is that backwards? >> i believe in western soma the fee adjustments were modeled in part on eastern neighborhoods, if i'm not mistaken. i want to make sure we're operating from the same facts. >> cory teague staff. the model 1 is different from eastern neighborhoods, umu. that district, the resident impact fees are kept at tier 1 all the time. and instead of having the impact fees tiered based on the

up zoning, the affordable housing is tiered up with the up zoning. and the rest of eastern neighborhoods, your i am impact fees are tiered 1, 2, 3 based on up zoning. if you lost height or got up to 9 feet you're tier 1. if you're basically 10 to 29 or 28 feet, one to two stories, you get tier 2. and then above that is tier 3 throughout eastern neighborhoods. and you don't apply tier 1 just to what your old height was and then higher tier as you go higher. that is the tier that applies to the entire development when you take full advantage of your height bonus or not. ~ whether >> when you have eastern neighborhoods, it's capped at tier 1 for transit? >> in umu only, the residential impact fee regardless of how much the property was up zoned is capped at tier 1. 2 doesn't alternate. tiers don't move. >> [speaker not understood] transit child care open space? >> right.

and the commercial is tiered, which is like 90% transit. that one is tiered. it basically takes the residential impact fees and affordable housing and shifts them and tiers them differently. >> mr. teague, another comment mr. martine made, was the issue of reduction in transit and other impact fees transit open space, child care, was that something that -- >> in terms of -- >> how did that get -- >> there is a series of discussions and meetings and analysis done before i was on as the full project manager that looked specifically at these larger sites and how the community wanted to handle them. it was obviously an opportunity to provide additional benefits to the community t. was just how do you do that. so, what ended up in the code came out of those -- of that process. >> which was a code of a reduction in the impact fees?

>> right. basically a reduction -- basically umu model, reduction of residential impact fees, but an increase in affordable housing. >> great, thank you. >> sure. >> supervisor kim? >> next speaker. gilbert crizwell, here to commend jim meko and the task force, but also my community and my neighborhood of pearl street, elgin park, guerrero, duboce, laguna, valencia and market street who also had input to the task force, attended the meetings of the task force and community meetings. please come to a compromise and move this project forward. stop treating the residents and voters of new district 8 and district 6 as stepchildren or gay orphans of third world country. thank you.

>> thank you, mr. crizwell. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is angelica [speaker not understood] and i'm with the south of market community action network. i just want to read what our sticker says since it can't be seen. it says housing plus transit plus jobs equals a complete neighborhood, and that is what soma plan is to us, a complete neighborhood. i'm not going to repeat what others said, but i just want to emphasize that as elected officials, we shouldn't depend -- our community needs on affordable housing against transportation. ~ pit against if anything as city official, you should ensure that the city needs all those things are balanced and our priorities and our needs of affordable housing, jobs, and transportation are all prioritized versus accommodating developers' financial returns or incentives. i think that is a real cause of

why this amending legislation is up, is to not have more -- for me, not more fees to developers. and i don't think that is affordable and i don't think that is [speaker not understood] for our community. we need to make sure that our priority is prioritized and affordable housing is one of it. so, i hope that you would consider the amending legislation of higher impact fees that goes towards transportation, open space, a higher impact fees that will benefit the community without taking away affordable housing. thank you. >> thank you, ms. cabande. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is mellie [speaker not understood]. i'm with [speaker not understood]. please prioritize affordable housing for low-income residents of soma. who will benefit public

transportation if we are being thrown out of our own community? disclose our community, this location could be a huge impact for our family. i can see that housing is the number one problem in our city more than the public transportation. the city is conducive for walking and it's more beneficial for help. we are going to work, church, and store. my plea to you, my dear supervisors, please attend to our needs for affordable housing for low-income family like me. thank you. >> thank you, ms. [speaker not understood]. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jesus. i'm also [speaker not understood]. i work at south of market.

and the city needs more affordable housing. we need -- we should be pending against the different needs of the city. and say why? because i work with a lot of families that live in soma and we need affordable housing. so, i wish you put in more housing. thank you. >> thank you, mr. perez. [speaking through interpreter] good afternoon, my name is [speaker not understood] and

i'm the vice president of the community [speaker not understood] association. we're the largest tenants based grassroots organization in the city and 1,000 members are low-income mono lingual seniors. one-fifth of our seniors live in [speaker not understood] housing in district 6 and [speaker not understood] regarding west soma plan. i'm a resident residing in a [speaker not understood] building in soma and paying 30%

of my income towards rent. before that i lived in chinatown for over 20 years and rent was 80% of my ssi income. i work hard so i feel very lucky to be able to find senior housing but a lot of our cta members are not so fortunate. some of them have been waiting over a decade and still unable to find suitable low-income housing for themselves.

there is a great affordable housing need in our city and we are in support of more affordable housing. please don't take away any affordable housing fees from the west soma plan. we are concerned about transportation, too, but having a roof over our head is more important. we shouldn't have to pick one over another. thank you. >> thank you, mrs. wong. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jocelyn [speaker not understood], and i'm with the [speaker not understood] housing program and the veterans equity center. i'm here to represent many low-income families and seniors and individuals that cannot be present because they're working or unable to be here. one of the main concerns we see daily in our office is definitely affordable housing. even as i speak, there are many of these families that are also applying for a wait list. there is already a shortage of affordable housing and the need in the neighborhood is great.

prices in the south of market neighborhood is escalating rapidly. if you look onto craig's list at market rate s-r-o [speaker not understood] at 1700, a large studio is at 22, a two-bedroom at 3200. many of these residents have been living in the south of market neighborhood for over decades and what we do need is affordable housing. so, right now we're asking you to ensure higher affordable housing impact fees for affordable housing. that is the need. and even before soma became the place to be, you know, i grew up in the neighborhood since i was 9 years old. so, there's families there that have remained decades. what the constant need is to remain in the neighborhood and affordable housing. thank you. >> thank you, ms. manelo.

hi there. my name is marty de lollis and i'm a youth coordinator and also an existing resident and have been since i came here from the philippines. and, so, my plea to you, supervisors and developers, is to not -- to not lower the, you know, what it's called? the impact fees for the affordable housing because as you can hear from everyone else, there are a lot of us are, you know, that don't have jobs, that are homeless, that are trying to survive in this city. so, why would you take that away? because, you know, transportation is good and all, but we have that and why are you putting us against each other? instead of going together, instead of like, you know, building the city together. so, it seems like even the developers don't even have much time to actually come out with an actual accurate estimate. all you hear is estimate, estimate, estimate. so, why can't we have like --

step back for a moment and figure out, you know, how can we actually grow as a city and how we can actually become, you know, unified together? we don't have to like put each other against each other. and you're hearing so many of these community members. they came here last minute to show you guys why we're here and why we're here is because we don't -- we need affordable housing. we need jobs to actually afford housing. and transportation fees, you know, we could work with them. we could walk, we could drive -- like we could take the bike our bikes or something. but please listen to what we have to say. we need affordable housing. we need jobs to afford them. thank you. >> thank you, ms. lollis. (applause) >> we have one more speaker left on this pile and i want to call 10 more names.

miriam madelein, [speaker not understood], alisa cruz, [speaker not understood], michael nolte, [speaker not understood]. hello, supervisors. it really is wonderful to see our elders here, our elders supporting affordable housing. i worked for senior and disability action. we advocate for elders, for seniors and for people with disabilities. i needn't tell you that it's a hard struggle living in san francisco if you are an elder or somebody with a disability. particularly if you are homeless, you know, it's not a good thing. and anything that's going to take from the affordable housing stock or affordable housing development in soma is something that i'm definitely against. i've seen elders, i've seen

people with disabilities come in our office to be told that there's no available housing, no affordable housing to go to. it's very demoralizing, it's very demeaning, you know. the developer really have run this city. i mean, let's face it. they have run this city. who is the city for, is it for us? is it for people, is it for ordinary people, people that are born here like me who barely can make it here? and i want to stay here and i want my family to stay here and i want elders to stay here. a city, this city without our elders, with our families is not a city. so, i implore upon you not to take any money from transportation against housing, and to keep the higher impact fees on developers. thank you. >> thank you, mr. robles. hi, i'm [speaker not understood] warner with ccf

architecture and i'm here speaking on behalf of design professionals in the area, also for cal cutter [speaker not understood] i think stated this case earlier last week. he couldn't be here today, but we are over 40 to 50 design professionals in the western soma valley district area and with the new proposed draft language, this would no longer allow design professionals to expand on the premises and that would mean that people, architects interior designers, landscape architects, engineers. and while we support arts activities and pdr use, we also think we can and already do coexist very simbiotically. we would request a western soma plan that would allow design professionals as a permitted use as long as they don't

exceed 5,000 square feet in any single building, don't have more than 20 employees, and don't occupy ground floors. we've reached out to many of the design professionals in the area and i have several letters of support signed and i'd like to give those to you. thank you. >> thank you, ms. warner. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is dara joposner. i'm a very soon to be licensed architect. we are located in south of market and would like to support these pro he posed amendments by ccs because we really feel like and i feel like these small businesses, the whole community, these type of design professional, especially those run by

successful owners once they reach a certain point are going to be required to move to other location and it's going to start to disintegrate what is a strong community. and also force people who are small right now and do want to grow to leave as well. you know, and i've noticed -- now i can walk and bike to all our industry resources primarily which are all in south of market. and, so, [speaker not understood] the access to get back to our everyday resources going to be challenged. we rely on the design center. we rely on [speaker not understood] for businesses, the metal shop, hundley hardware, all of the design center. ccs was started in soma 25 years ago. we contribute projects to the community and to the entire city. lulu restaurant was our first

project and we're still here today. we've grown strong and we don't want to be limited. we want to stay small, but feel the limits are too low. and in an industry where a few are already nickel and diming, we can't afford rent in the financial district. so, please consider these amendments and allow our community to thrive, especially after we've endured the years of crime and public defecation and used needles. now that the community is going to improve we don't have to leave [speaker not understood]. thank you. >> thank you, ms. [speaker not understood]. supervisors, i'm john goldman of goldman architects, and i am here to speak about 340 11th street which is the only project in western soma which is grandfathered in by the planning commission that

needed to be grandfathered in as a pipeline project. it was proposed to be housing above commercial for the block of 11th between folsom and harrison. we had a very illuminating meeting at supervisor kim's office with members of the nighttime entertainment industry. we learned much more about their concerns. i have been meeting with my client for the past couple weeks since the meeting and with encouragement on my part convincing them there is a need for office on that block of 11th. they have now decided to change the housing use to office. and, so, i just wanted to let you know this. you know that we are behind your proposed amendment which actually eliminates the ground traffic clause. the wmuo zoning for that block of 11th being the only wmuo zoning near that western part of the western soma plan. actually, i think works to my

client's advantage and they're going to be looking forward to changing the project and working with the wmuo zoning. so, that's mainly what i wanted to you know today. we're behind you. your proposed revision. secondly, since i'm here, i might as well say i'm totally in favor of architects being allowed in sally per the ccs description. when an architecture is done right it's an art. it's an art activity. and back in '89 architecture sort of banned from soma except on third floors and above, it would be a shame to treat architects like we're not artists. because we are. so, think about it that way. >> thank you, mr. goldman. and i do particularly want to thank you and the building owner mr. low for really spending the time with our 11th street corridor owners. it's great that we can move forward on a united position in term of the zoning here. so, we really, really appreciate all of that work. so, thank you. i will call 10 more speakers,

then. you can still come up before the last speaker comes up. ryan styer, lorenzo [speaker not understood], mark [speaker not understood], peter cohan, bernadette [speaker not understood], and hattie wi. if i called you among other speakers, please come up. thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. i'm grace de mano and i am a member of [speaker not understood]. and it's really a great need for families to have affordable housing and jobs as well because in order to support families, thank you very much. >> thank you, ms. de mano. thank you for being here.

i'd like to hand these in to the supervisors and one for the clerk. hi, my name is michael knolte and i'm with [speaker not understood] alliance for district 6. we personally want to support the implementation of the western soma plan. over the years, many of our current and former members of the alliance have been involved in and participated in the implementation of the citizen planning effort. now we'd like to speak to the issue of what's obviously being talked about, land use issues, which is housing and transportation. this is a community and a community has to function. not all members of the community are allowed to live there and operate there and obviously transportation is important, but what's more important is a sense of community. and if we're eliminating people that have lived there a long

time and asking them to leave through gentrification practices, this is not right. so, not only that, we also want to maintain that businesses stay in the area because, again, our organization [speaker not understood] district 6 is made up of small businesses. we want the small businesses to be there. we want the residents to retain their ability to live there. and we want to see the multi-cultural community to stay there. and we don't want to see them removed for special interests, you know. and i also want to point out i'm a native san franciscan and i enjoy the fact that this is an international city and a need to stay that way. thank you. >> thank you, mr. knolte. hello, my name is [speaker not understood] i'm here to

speak on behalf of s-r-o families united. i'm in favor of the western soma plan but i'm also in favor of the support for affordable housing and businesses and jobs. -- in the community. ~ we need to focus on moving our community out of s-r-os and shelters before we can think of anything else. let's not pretend like transportation isn't -- or housing and transportation aren't equally as important to people. and please support amending legislation of higher impact fees. higher impact fees will benefit transportation and housing on the same level. thank you. >> thank you, ms. gaska. good afternoon. my name is ryan thera, i'm a community organizer with tndc also a sixth generation san franciscan and hold a degree from sf state. the key is participatory

approach. as the land use committee you should be aware of that. and with the amendments that are being introduced counters what the process has already been put in place, which is a very extensive community plan, which is the proper way to go about planning to introduce these ordinances discredits that whole process that has happened. we need to stand here and not try to pit transportation advocates versus affordable housing advocates. we need to support both, but the general plan of san francisco prioritizes the development of affordable housing above everything else. so, you cannot take away from that. that needs to be put as a priority and be pushed through. thank you. >> thank you, mr. satira. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is lorenzo listana, i'm a community organizer with tndc, fill pin owes in the tenderloin. i am also a part of an

organizer ct organizer in south of market. actually we organize the residents in [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood] as an organizer, i see that a lot of families like leave in one small -- one small bedroom apartment [speaker not understood]. ~ live most of them like sleep in the kitchen on the floor. so, if you will take away affordable housing funds from the soma, you know, western soma plan, i think that would be injustice to them, you know. you are depriving them of a chance to get an affordable housing. so, hopefully, you know, you would make sure that affordable housing fund would still remain in this plan and like, you know, that would ensure that these people would get a chance to have an affordable housing. thanks so much. >> thank you, mr. listana. good afternoon, supervisors. peter cohan, council of

community housing organizations. you heard from my colleague [speaker not understood] earlier. we do support the western soma plan coming out of a long process. it is important to remember fundamentally one of the objective of the plan or primary objective was stabilization in the community and affordability over the long term while planning for increased development. it is in a very susceptible part of the city, as you know, supervisor kim. this is an area which has gone through the most dramatic transformation as the most vulnerable to gentrification. so, affordability is key. just a couple numbers to repeat. the loss of affordable housing that would be incurred under the amendment that is being proposed is 28 middle income vmr units. that is not insignificant by any means and i know the supervisors have emphasized mixed income housing as a priority goal. that's when we would lose, 28 units of bmr housing equivalent to $79 million as you heard. what seems to be the desire to make up for, if you will, a $6 million of an infrastructure impact fee that would