and harassment at 3 times the rate of other shelter residents. a popcorn who's also done those surveys might have i do some interviews that were really upsetting in terms of what people are experiencing simply to rest their heads. and, of course, outside the shelter the health deteriorates. everything gets worse you get a small infection or a cold and it turns into phenomena. i think that san francisco is san francisco, you know, we're a gay town. we're supposed to be craig's and we have a huge population

without housing and they don't have a place to go or live. we've been working on this looked like we're really, really excited about this. our experience with delores street is great. we create a warm and caring environment where people are really made to feel it's atkins a sanctuary. and we're completely confident this space is going to be exactly that and people who were not able to rest are now able to do so. hoping you're going to support it and confident you're going to support it, it's really historic. thank you >> thank you.

>> hello the executive director of the aids foundation. i want to take a moment's the memory even if erick. when tommy and i came up with the idea for the homeless lgbt shelter we had a two prong strategy. one was to procedure beds but i went to erick and if we could find space in one of his existing buildings we didn't have time to wait for a huge long process. others mentioned that 29 percent of the homeless count identified as let the record show and others have said it's higher than that. we experience it differently and

we're about 15 percent of san francisco population but 29 percent of the homeless. there's a reasons for it and i think that all of us are recognizing it's time for the city of san francisco to take a close look at how we deliver services and have rates of disparity. the two most concentrated neighborhood the castro have the highest rate of speculative evictions. we don't have american people lgbt focused housing infrastructure at all really. we do not - we've not invested in believe out the resources for the community. also, we don't have the same opportunity for fliethsd to

affordability as the non let the record show community. unless you're not that lgbt you don't know what it's like to grow up in illinois whoets who's too gay to hide and get attacked and what it feels like. so people would rather like that. >> in the park in san francisco then to go back to mississippi or texas or whether we have escaped from. this is the only place on earth that we have so we have a special bloogs to maintain a sanctuary for lgbt people. i think this is the moment where the city is recognizing there's a problem and not all gay people

are rich and thank you for your support >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm at lyric. i feel it's important for the commissioners to approve this as a former queer trans youth it's difficult four us i mean the queer and queer variant. when i was in the homeless shelter it was difficult i faced many prejudices. even when shelter say they address accident queer or the transgenders i know they don't. i notice a lot of any sisters from the age of 16 to 24 their subject to a lot of abuse and be

it physical or verbal they suffer abuse in general. it's hard to exist in a closed-minded society. you're not seen as the person you are but whatever someone else knows you represent. so many of my sisters are forced out into the street to do prostitution or anyway to make a living. i feel as though we're losing some of the brightest minds to the struggles of everyday life. i'm not sure if you've been homeless but sometimes, i have to make the hardest decisions you have nothing to turn to and when you go into a homeless shelter you're at your lowest

point you basically fall between the cracks if they can help you. and the only homeless she felt that really is for queer or gender variant people is the larkin and it's full and it can be closed for a year or months. and in those months we're losing people like clock work. girls symcome here thinking they have a chance to live a no more life but you don't get that they're out doing prostitution or because you don't want to go into a place where they call you a faggot. so to have a proper growth and development for them and so i think it would only be right for

the commissioners to approve such a thing. okay. thank you >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm charles stevens i'm a case manager at the lyric be floektd the castro. i had to prepare a speech but i'll provide a prospective that's unique to me being on the ground level and seeing the day to day kind of need such as a the delores promise. at our organization we assist folks connecting them to resources, assisting them with name and gender change and providing them that food stamps. you name it we do that.

the birth challenge we face and that's the population is accesss our services is housing. the need for a spectrum of let the record show housing is a real necessity. there are so many resources out there for people who don't identify as lgbt q. there are people dealing with substance you abuse and african-american and people dealing with domestic violence. there's only one place of access for lgbt adults and we need more than that because there's a lot of challenges that arises with this population. i have people coming to me who are being hoorsz from shelter

staff and made to use restrooms that they don't want to. a lot of times the staff is unable to or unwilling to assist with the lgbt resources. and there's a lack of inclusive. and many of the shelter - it's my sincere hope that the delores shelter program is supported not just fiscally but as a community as a whole. this is a huge need for the lgbt population especially for our

young folks >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello like charles i'm a case manager at the lyric. i appreciate you taking the time to discuss the lgbt homeless shelter is so critical. many of the people have addressed this issue so i'm going to keep it brief. one of the main things i think we'll see the lgbt community benefit through this shelter is supporting a staff that's familiar to ronald to issues that the lgbt community face. when we have a staff that's trained to respond to issues of violence and harm reduction as well as deescalation we'll see

many of the young people and adults that will be seeing people transition to long term hoosiers connections. like was said the shelter takes one to four most to get into. when new lgbt q folks are coming into the city which is happening regularly in order for them to engage in the shelter they can show up at 9:00 p.m. and only a few folks will get in so those folks are showing up at the shelter as sort of a last

option to air-conditioned another 25 beds to house folks is going to be huge for us as case managers when we're struggling to refer our participants to save housing. so again, we appreciate you're taking the time to consider this issue and we at lyric ask you to support this. thank you >> thank you i'm going to call more names (calling names). >> good afternoon president fong and commissioners. i'm the shelter manager for the program. on top of that i'm a native san franciscan born and raised here and would here my whole life. i'm here to express to you guys this is long overdue in the

city. obviously there's a need here and the lgbt q folks are living on the streets and barely accessing other shelters and feeling uncomfortable and it's not only our duty to do this by the correct thing to do. i'm confident as both the manager of the program and as a san franciscan they will continue to do quality work. please take into consideration and thank you for your afternoon >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm francis and i'm here to lend my support to the delores facilities extending the amen

amount of beds. i do know what it's like to be transgender male and it's quite dangerous for members of my community. simply going to the shower or bathroom could mean bad thing. i want to encourage you to approve extending 24 more beds for delores street. thank you >> thank you. >> (speaking foreign language). >> i'm going to translate for

her. >> and as a member of a transgender community i wanted to ask you to support this project. for us it's very dangerous out there and because there's a project for this we wanted to come out and support it. and a (speaking foreign language) >> and our community we have - we suffer a lot and so we really want to thank you for considering supporting this proposal. >> (speaking foreign language). >> i want to thank you for your support for all the transgender

folks. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is jose. i'm a volunteer at the delores street services. i'm going on my third year. i volunteer at the office and been at the shefrments, too, and i wanted to reinforce way you've heard. as was told thirty to me at other shelter they were harassed and made to not feel welcome and they told me that's why they preferred to come to delores they felt safe, welcomed and respected. and as a volunteer myself i'm going on my third year i too

feel respected, save and a welcome. i hope you'll - i think it's nothing more than basic humanity and it upholds what san francisco is known for a sanctuary city >> any additional public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner moore. >> the best way for me to acknowledge what's been said is not to say anything but move to approve (clapping). >> commissioner borden. >> i want to thank everyone who's worked so hard and this is shocking to know we don't have other than we don't have for

adults she felt for lgbt community members. i'm dump founded at this so anything we can do. so thank you. >> commissioner yu. >> i want to echo those comments. it shows that all people from all walks of life come together and that's what it takes >> i'm very much in support. this is a wonderful project. as pointed out almost all of the participants would be characterized as homeless. but i think it's important that the shelter westbound combined with social services and it

sounds like that's the case those who are working in the shelter have job training and have health care and food. they have whatever their needs are and i think it's important that dllz street is going to be able to help people to become self-sufficient in the future and i'm sure that's what's going on. i think it's important that the two things working in the concert so that we use your day hours as well as is the evening hours of housing >> commissioner. >> thank you and thank you to you all the folks who testified. once in a great while and very rarely are there times when you

feel good about voting for something. it's quite different than some routine matters we have. it's acquit different than voting for high-rises. sorry to the land use attorneys (laughter) in any case it's one of the rare times for all of us to be able to assist in this small way because we just are here for the last, however, any, you know, hours but given the amount of time put into this by other people is what it is about. the architect of this project the former commissioner allen

martinez (clapping) >> commissioner. >> just to echo those words. there's great merit for this. we've seen condo projects after condo projects and to recognize there's other projects in itself city. maybe a question for the human services department. on i think it's important to understand how beds are signed and where and how long do people stay. what's itself turnover, you know, we're bound to see those in the future >> again scott. in the adult emergency system itself has bedded are available we over them for 90 days with an

extension of thirty days. it would be released for one night beds we have atkins the 90, thirty beds. the way beds are assigned one of the clients can go to one of our sites to wherever there's an vacancy. we're looking to improve that. we're working with 311 so we'll be able to expand their involvement in making shelter reservation and making the access to the 90, thirty beds more uniform and equal across disability, gender and so forth. so we currently have the changing system in place but we

hope to expand to include a call in service of 311. >> thank you. >> i wanted to make a comment. i think it's important to have the space for shelter like this. obviously you explained the programming and the services that are provided what make it work. you know, my sort of dream is san francisco is filled with energy and innovation. we see people step from all walks of life to help this. i'm hoping that the supervisor is working on this and san francisco what move up and it's the compassion in this room that's the key. so i'm obviously in support.

commissioner moore and a just one final comment i hope that the passage of 181266 will further hope to support what the city and state can do. >> on that motion to approve with conditions (calling names) so moved commissioners that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero (clapping). >> congratulations to you hearing for thursday august 14th and when spanking before the commission please do state your name for the record. commissioners we left off on fern a and b for case numbers.

and at 333 branson street request for a larger authorization and large development authorizations. good afternoon >> i'm here with our environmental planning division. it's an office negotiation o authorization for the brandon street for the project is seeking modifications for permitted sfrit encroachment and the horizontal mass projects. and the new construction of a 6 foot story at all. the proposed project will empathize 1 hundred and 45

thousand square feet of office space and will include 12 bicycle parks spaces and 5 car share parking spaces speaker the prevention so is designed with one private court yard and one private. since the packets the department has received a total of 3 comments on the proposed project. one supported neither way and another comment was on the traffic analysis as well as on say rooftop equipment and a third member talked about the project design. copies of this correspondence has been provided to you. after analyzing all impact the department is consistent with the project in the overall

quality to be surrounding with the character. within the mixed use office zoning district as of july 2012 there's approximately 2.2 million office space allocation. the project represents an allocation of 7 percent of the large office space. the authorization of the office space will allow four new businesses in the area which b will attribute to the office businesses in the area. this concluded my presentation and i'm available for any questions. thank you. project sponsor please. >> okay waiting for the time to pop up. good afternoon president fong

and members of the commission. i'm jim rubin and we're working with the project sponsor. before addressing the project itself i believe this is the first occasion that kilroy has had to come before your commission. they've been active in the city and have done a lot of projects. there's another one after the alice and there's another kilroy project. if you look at the overhead i've put on that overhead a graphic that shows you the building that kilroy has acquired in the last two, 2 1/2 buildings. they've have not had to come here but they've done a lot of work. by the way, example that's where

pact 12 as ronald and it's something of a media building. 333 brandon is before you and thirty 1 is next door and the lieutenant is in that believe. 100 first street is not an attractive building but it's been completely repositioned and the lobby is redone and it's better today. 350 mission is a high-rise building that's been 1 hundred percent lease to sales force and seven hundred and 40 thousand feet and that plaza been redone as well. and anybody knows this is a tremendous improvemen