>> >> >>

>> >> good afternoon, and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic development committee. i am scott wiener, the chairman of the committee, to my right is supervisor jane kim, our committee vice-chair and to my left is supervisor malia cohen.

and supervisor cohen i would like to welcome you back. our clerk is lisa miller and i would like to thank sfgtv for broadcasting this hearing specifically larson and -- any announcements? >> the clerk: yes. please silence all electronic devices. any speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear in the agenda on january 28th unless notified. >> we have a robust turnout for today's hearing. we have overflow seating in the main board of supervisors chamber room 250. if you have completed your public comment or your item is completed and you are inclined to give up your seats some someone can come in from the overflow, that would be

terrific, however you are under no homage -- obligation to do so. please call item one. >> sf sf 1 1311214 multifamily house are revenue bonds. >> i would like to bring up miss pam simms who is doing the presentation. >> good afternoon, i'm pam simpson of community and housing development for a bond for hunters view phase 2a located at 227, 228 west point road. the sponsor team includes john gun three as a general

partner. the sponsor is in a process of procuring an investor and construction lender. when completed it will be a 107-unit housing development and one manager unit with 32 bedroom units, 8 four bedroom units. it will be targeted to households earning month more than 50 percent or $48,000 for one household. 27 will be affordable rental or tax credit units. these contracts are conduit and do not require a placement of a bond. the debt allocation committee will be submitted on january 15th. if awarded an allocation we'll return later this year to issue the bond. here with me today are sponsor

representative from the company and from divine. we appreciate your support and look forward to seeing you with the ground breaking. this concludes my presentation. we are happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. we can go to public comment now. >> okay. at this point we will open up public comment on item no. 16789 1. i have two cards. for this or any other item, if you wish to make a public comment we have blue public comment cards and pens in the front and you can fill that out and hand it to the clerk. public comment today will be 2 minutes. go ahead. >> my name is francisco decosta. i really don't like coming here. i prefer writing about you guys and so i have come here to that people at home can know the schenn gans that are going on here. we know

the john stuart company is all over the place. thousands of units at the presidio, treasure island, tenderloin, north beach, hunters view. why are we giving this gentleman more work? why? so here we have millions of dollars, $45 million in bonds, catering to the join stuart company. but then you read the language here and what you get from the board you see that the signed document so that they can speed up this process. which is okay. i'm going to ask you. if you are really represent the four people, low income because

that's public housing land which is not mentioned here anyway. what are you doing for the poor? right now in san francisco we have the filthy rich and the middle classes evaporating before our eyes. now we have the john stuart company pretending he wants to have low income people, but that's going to be our -- all market value or market price units. where is the board of supervisors. this is why i write about you all because the internet gives us more power to write about you. stop the schenn gans. thank you very much.

>> next speaker. miss jackson. >> you know phase one of hunters view was never completed. the tenants had never requested any of this madness going on with the redevelopment agency. they are still redevelopment. hunters view was never part of the redevelopment area. they have rewritten, they have cut and paste, because the area a was never part of hunters view. i used to live at 13 west road. i know the community. the people are sick and dying there with all the toxics. that is one of the most rich toxic area there is. i'm hoping you do not support this because they are lying about what is going on. and there was a report done about the schenn gans of the

city hall. what i see is all the people where are they now? they are at city hall. the money talking about, the tenants themselves requested they come from san francisco back in 1992. guess what, now the city has the funds. the bayview community don't have anything at all. every dime that came here through grant to san francisco came through hunters point. from eoc and the hope program and the housing development, development housing. it came from us. we are the ones who stayed up 24 hours a day mostly to get these programs in. but now we are not involved. i hope you do not enforce this and like it was

stated. stuart, he has gotten millions of dollars from bayview hunters point. no one in my community makes $48,000 a year. supervisor scott weiner: thank you, miss jackson. next speaker? >> i had not planned on speaking on this. but i was around the fillmore district got dismembered. this is the same game, the exact same game that happened to the fillmore district years ago that you are building affordable housing and then we promise the units to be people being glaes displaced. they didn't get it. the people that lost their housing didn't get it. i want you to start looking closely and if you want to sit down and talk to me, i

have got the history. what's happening right now is the exact same thing that happened in the fillmore in the 70s. under the auspices of we are going to do it and 3 years later under this affordable housing they get people to come in and young people who have never worked, children of realtors and after 3 years they sell it at market rate. something needs to be done. and, i have got the history. and i don't want it to happen again. thank you. supervisor scott weiner: thank you. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> colleagues, the matter is in the hands of the committee.

supervisor cohen, would you like to make a motion? supervisor malia cohen: i would like to make a motion to submit the resolution. supervisor scott weiner: that is the motion. if there is no further discussion we can take that motion without objection. madam clerk please call item 2. item 131202: agenda[hearing - at&t sidewalk utility boxes]1312022.sponsors: wiener; kim, farrell and avaloshearing, directed to at&t, the department of public works, and the planning department to discuss the roll-out of the at&t u-verse telecommunications upgrade, focusing on the permitting and site installation of the sidewalk cabinets, and to discuss the current community outreach and permitting process and suggest improvements. sf 21234 >> supervisor scott weiner: thank you. i called for this hearing to provide a status update and informational hearing on the at&t boxes placed in our city. i want to thank our supervisors kim and avalos for cosponsoring

the hearing. more than a year ago we had a ceqa appeal at the board of supervisors for the at and t boxes and it was affirmed by the court whether a legal issue of cat categorical was appropriate. we didn't want these boxes on our sidewalks. almost exactly the same time that we affirmed the cat egorical exemption my office and other offices issued a memorandum of understanding with at & t agreed to a certain

level of outreach and participation working with communities in decisions relate to go placement of these boxes. understate law at & t has a discretion but we have our limits. we can do is ensure that @ & t is working with local neighborhoods to determine if there is appropriate places to place the box whether there are private property or other locations not on the public right of way or action in connection with boxes to reduce some of the challenges of the boxes create whether we are talking about public art or pedestrian upgrades and so forth. these

boxes do have impacts on our sidewalks. we did have a hearing last year in general, it's not just about at & t boxes but other boxes whether it's providing cable services or people waiting for a bus, but they do take up very valuable spaces on our sidewalks and can lead up to graffiti and other challenges. we want to ensure to know how to process is playing out. we worked with our district when permitting is coming out for a particular location for a box. i know we hear from constituents who have

significant concerns about boxes being place on their street or neighborhood and i know it is a continuing challenge as we work through this process. i know that we all share a concern for our sidewalks in wanting to make sure that sidewalks are accessible. that we don't have graffiti and that we make sure that we are impacting our neighborhoods in positive ways and not negative ways. as part of the memorandum of understanding that a number of us enter into with at&t with ceqa process. this is an informational hearing, not a

hearing where we'll make specifics about specific boxers. we have it very clearly for a process for people to object to boxers and work with at&t or not work with at&t and address a hearing by dpw ora appeal or permit appeals. i encourage you to work at&t or dposhgs department of public works or work with a resolution in the dpw hearing. this hearing is not a substitute for that process. i know for anyone in my district and i'm sure this goes for my colleagues we are happy to provide information about how to participation in that process. the purpose of today's hearing is to get a status report on how things are going, where we

are and where we think things may or may not go in the future. the department of public works will be providing information for you as to where we are going and we'll invite at&t after the presentation from dpw to talk about where it see's the process and the planning department is here today if questions arise. the planning department has at the request of myself and others gotten involved to work with dpw to make sure that any boxes that are placed on our streets comply with the better streets plan because we have a plan that was adopted unanimously by the board of supervisors that has certain standards in place for what gets placed on our sidewalk to make sure our sidewalks are usable for everyone and walkable. with

that, i will recognize supervisor kim and after we have initial comments we'll turn it over to the department department of public works. supervisor jane kim: this year i'm before the land use committee and happy to be a cosponsor as well. they have a number of utility boxes on the south of market street because at the time the tenderloin was intentionally left out due to a lot of concerns around public safety concerns that utility mounted boxes would cause in a dense neighborhood. i have a lot of interest about these boxes here in our district. i did see some of our constituents from south of market and tenderloin here and they are intimately aware that some of these issues are pedestrian safety and open space. we have the fewest parks

and the smallest parks amd all of the city and public space is important. as we look at the number of boxes that are being put throughout the south of market area we have a lot of concerns from our tenants and particularly a lot of our disabled and senior tenants. of course we have concerns about some of those that are allocated in our youth and family special youth district in western sylmar like the areas of carmichael and multi-recreational park. on top of that we do have very narrow sidewalks and some of the highest collision rates for pedestrians and cyclist. in addition we have heard from sfpd located in our

neighborhood that are worried about i level barriers when they are scoping out illegal activities. we have concerns from our constituents about defecation, urination, to vandalism as we increase street furniture throughout the committee. i'm really interested in how the process has gone thus far. i did vote against the certification of the eir a year ago but my concerns are whether the environmental views are adequate at that period impact on the city. now i would like to see now that it has been going forward, i would like to see the process and one where the community has an opportunity to weigh in which are incredibly valid around helping us to build complete and safe neighborhoods. i'm really looking forward to this presentation today and also from members on this issue and

how the process has been for them thus far. thank you. supervisor scott weiner: thank you, supervisor kim, seeing no further initial comments, i will invite the department of public works, bureau streets use and mapping and i also want to note that carla schwartz from the bureau of urban forestry as well as netey are here today. >> good afternoon, committee members. my name is lynn fong. thank you for allowing us to provide you this information. we have a short powerpoint presentation we want to show you as we go through the different permitting processes. first of all, we would like to discuss the definition of what is the surface facility? a surface mounted facility can

take many forms, they can take communication force, hub supplies, controllers and electronic panels and ticket vending machines. for the at&t and surface mounted programs there are cabinets that are frequently discussed. the two types are the interface cabinets, the green boxes that you see throughout the public right-of-way. and devices. at&t facility cabinets are still cabinets 59 inches wide, 48 inches wide and 26 inches deep. they house telecommunications equipment that allow us to provide communication services to speed telecommunication services. so the purpose of the program: