this service decreases response time and also reduces the impact our campus has on the existing 911 system. as you know, our city has a finite amount of ambulances. we are very fortunate to have the gi bill which not only helps me with tuition, but also with housing and other expenses. back in 2012 it was pretty tough getting here from georgia and finding housing in the city. i am here because usf has been a great place for me and i think the addition of more on campus housing will have a significant impact on future student veterans like myself who will be proud and thankful to have usf to come to after service. thank you. hi, thank you for having me here today. my name is eva long and i am a junior attending the university of san francisco majoring in politics and minoring in public service. i am a first generation college

student from honolulu, hawaii i am also a pell grant recipient who highly depends on financial aid to go to usf and i am very fortunate to attend a university that cares about academic success and individual growth inside and outside of the classroom. not only myself, but 30% of usf population depends on the pell grant as well. i support the building of a new residence hall because i understand the need of it on campus. i was on campus for two years and has not only been convenient for dining and studying purposes, but it offered a space as well as able to get involved in different campus clubs and organizations. being involved on campus helps students become connected to their school, build community and allow for them to discover their passions and strengths. if it weren't for the various clubs i'm involved in today, it wouldn't have shaped me to be the student leader i am today.

i am very lucky enough to have found an apartment fairly close to school after an extensive four-month search. there are three bus lines that convenientlily takes know campus, but public transportation has never been a problem. commuting to and from school has deferred students from getting involved on campus. there are two large reasons why i support the building of a new residence hall. one, i had no choice but to move off campus my third year at usf. it is difficult finding an apartment because it is a competitive area to search for housing. i found myself homeless through july and would often find myself web caming my roommate who would visit apartments. i was 2,500 miles away and it was very hard to communicate. often [speaker not understood] skeptical for having me as a tenant because my parents did not speak english so they weren't sure how to keep my family accountable if i were to miss a payment and there was no

reliable contact to reach my parents. it was a stressful period for both my parents and i. second, with housing opportunities available to students, it really does foster a great sense of community. living in the residence hall for two years, i definitely have encouraged every student to continue to live on campus because you have that sense of community, you are not able to find anywhere else. you build yourself as a better leader by getting involved. encourage strong friendships all of which will make college a more rewarding and enjoyable experience. i support this. usf has provided me with opportunities that i hope future students get in return. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. thank you all, hello. my name is mark beaty. i currently serve as assistant director under the leadership of julie oreo, peter novack and

jennifer [speaker not understood]. i served in this role two years and had the meerction ~ pleasure of working with students, faculty and staff. [speaker not understood] working collaboratively together in the spirit of collaboration. we have been able to create many cutting edge programs to educate our students about the importance of being not only upstanding students at usf, but also great member of the community and this great city. we have an off campus annual housing fair to educate students about being great neighbors and it is highly intended. we created response protocol specifically for neighbors to share success stories and complaints and concerns if they have them. accountability is something we pride our self-at usf. i am charged with the difficult and necessary task of conduct meeting with our students should they violate our conduct policies off campus. we've even created a policy for off campus behavior called the community relations policy. you heard that correctly. we as a private institution hold our students accountable for behavior off campus.

something many schools do not do, especially the ones that have been named today. failure to abide by these policies can result in sanctions, punitive sanctions with heavy fines, such as probation, suspension and expulsion. from a small complaint or a large field issue, the university along with the diligent help of our great neighbors have worked expeditiously to address these behaviors. finally, we had a great city here, but i do have concerns about our students finding off campus housing. one of the many tasks of my job is to advise students and parents on the best way to find off campus housing. we have many students who live across the city. most of our students live in the richmond and sunset district and around campus. i have worked with several hundred, not a few, but several hundred students and their parents in finding housing and this market as you all know is demanding and competitive. i, too, was exhausted and baffled at the process when i tried to find an apartment in 2012 when i moved here. you have to compete with tech

people and people who have lived here longer and landlords trust those who have lived here longer. thankfully as a professional i can keep up. our students cannot, unfortunately. that is a basic need. again, the psychologist abraham maslow [speaker not understood]. this is why i very much support with the parents the security of having on-campus housing available to our students. it is not groundbreaking, no pun intended, but it is simply something that every institution in the country is doing to provide safety for their students. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good evening, commissioners. my name, nick wu and i'm a sophomore student majoring entrepreneurship and accounting usf. i am an international student

from china, a city called ching dou on the east coast. it is the famous ching dou beer is from. i don't drink because i'm under age, so, don't worry. [laughter] i love usf because of the diversity here and all kinds of student organizations that i can -- that provides me leadership opportunities. i am a part of the student government. i represent the school of management students and i'm also in a social fraternity. compared to other schools, our fraternities don't get housing that i think is something that is in favor for the neighborhood. and now i live off campus on clement street and i love living in the city because of

the convenience -- convenience of bus system and open [speaker not understood]. university provides muni passes to every student and it's very convenient to go to school every morning, taking number 38 bus and i do miss my freshman year living on campus because it's a great opportunity to meet a lot of good people and i can focus on my academic and also on campus involvement. i moved out this year because i was looking for a different kind of college experience. but looking for an apartment in the city is a huge pain, especially for international students like me because the landlord -- we have 15% of the -- 15% of students who are international students. that's why it is a huge issue,

because the landlord generally asks students to provide financial certificate and a credit score and this is something that we he usually wouldn't be able to provide ~. this is how i got rejected by two landlords. as a student leader, i really wish every student will have an opportunity to live on campus and wouldn't go through this pain. i am a university in san francisco and i'm proud of that. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon, almost evening to the commissioners and to the madam chairperson. my name is dr. mary wardell, and i want to share briefly a little bit about usf's character and achievement as a national leader in diversity engagement as well as local community outreach. you heard earlier from vice-chairman smith about some of usf's community service accolades. actually last year in 2013,

over 7,000 usf students performed more than 300,000 hours of community service. and you may know that usf is among a handful of universities nationally that requires all undergraduates to complete a service learning course in order to graduate. you may know he that usf sponsors more than 25 sustained community projects throughout san francisco and the bay area and we offer more than 100 service learning courses in which our students and faculty are doing service learning projects with the community. but what you may not know is that in 2013 diverse issue in higher education, a premiere magazine that focuses on diversity and the united states, named usf the number one university in the country for recruiting, retaining, and graduating minority students.

this is a significant accomplishment that usf is doing here in san francisco. we want to continue to attract those individual students to come here. in san francisco, more than 112,000 people, which is 13% of the population, live below the federal poverty line as well as 43 million people in the nation. usf through our students and faculty, is engaged with the local national and international community partners to help address these issues. and locally, we are really taking a leadership role as being the convene era round stakeholder community forums to help advance ~ conversations around the inclusion and the engagement of the most diverse, the most disconnected, as well as the most dispro he portionally impacted individuals in san francisco ~ as usf students are at the forefront of that public discourse around economic opportunities, as well as contributing to a vibrant

social life. and, so, in this spirit, i urge the commission to continue to support university san francisco and our imp to continue to attract, to teach, and to graduate some of the most excellent service minded, as well diverse students, from the san francisco bay area as well as throughout the world. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. hi, commissioner. my name is david cohen and i live at turk boulevard in the usf neighborhood, and i experienced incredibly busy traffic and congested parking every day. i do not feel this proposed building project will help a situation that is already so congested. i do not support the usf's stated plan to increase its population by more than 1100

additional students, faculty and staff by 2022 based on usf's prior growth in excess of past imp projections because i do not believe usf's assertions that it won't grow by more than the amount noted above. i believe the planning department should impose an enrollment cap on usf consistent with enrollment caps imposed by other regulatory authorities on other educational institutions that explicitly and specifically conditions any future growth by usf on specific mitigation of impacts upon the city and neighborhood. as a specific example of usf's impact, i disagree with usf's claim in the imp that usf only takes up 25% of the on-street parking spaces in the neighborhood. the reality which these neighbors see every day that usf is in session is that usf's population takes up at least

75% of the on-street parking spaces and perhaps more. this is three times the number of that -- that usf claim in its imp and upon which usf has based its so-called strategy with respect to dealing with current and future parking demand. i do not support the plan to build the dorm and 80% do not believe that usf's parking, even with new parking built with the dorm, is sufficient to support the dorm. the planning commission should not approve any such dorm until usf has addressed current concerns regarding parking and traffic and the planning commission should consider imposing an enrollment cap as an condition for approval [speaker not understood] monitor and enforce a program to address its impacts. the city should consider having usf fund a monitoring program whereby the city monitors and

enforces usf's compliance. there simply isn't any more public space to accommodate more students in the usf's neighborhood without a negative impact. thank you so much. >> thank you. next speaker. hi, my name is barbara broad ski, i live at 27 07 turk boulevard, i lived there for 27 years with my partner who owns the property. over the last 14 years i've watched the neighborhood grow and really has not been ease toy deal with the changes. i've watched the neighborhood become more and more congested with a transient population that doesn't seem to understand or respect the rights of their neighbors. i have endured cleaning up garbage and human urine every weekend in front of my house. unfortunately, i live at a corner where people like to

congregate and party, mostly thursday nights and on weekends. it has gotten better lately, but it has not completely been abated. and your front yard is basically used as a toilet and a garbage can. i've had to ask a fornicating couple with these groups to [speaker not understood] on the roof of their car. i've had my roof set on fire by students setting off fire crackers. been kept up all night, mostly on thursdays and weekends -- for some reason thursdays are a big night -- till 3 o'clock in the morning and basically i don't really consider a noise complaint good enough to call sfpd, although sometimes i have done that, but mostly for when thing got more out of control than just noise and partying. i've listened to the screams of a student being assaulted and

raped by other students in this type of group. of course, i did call the police in that incident. i've been assaulted and had a container of orange juice thrown in my face over a dispute over a parking space. i'm disabled and sometimes after i drive i need to sit in my car for quite a while to get enough strength to walk home. often i have to walk several blocks because as you've heard we do have a parking issue there. this one particular woman didn't think that i should have been sitting in my car that long and she was waiting for myspace. so, she assaulted me when i left my car. by the way, i reported it to sfpd and i did report it to the campus police and i never received a phone call back from either of them. so, anyway, i've also called the police over the illegal closing of kitrage terrace for an impromptu block it. i don't want to gone and on about this, but i have to say

as the years went on these incidents became more common. i'm very concerned we've reached a critical mass here. my concern is that the problems that all these individuals have been speaking about have not been addressed and now we're faced with yet another round of bulldozers and pounding and extremely early morning construction times, usually earlier than is normal. is that the end of me? okay, well, thank you very much for your time. i hope that you seriously consider what you've heard today. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hello, commissioners. my name is johnny and i am a senior at usf studying politics and spanish and i am here on behalf of all the associated students of the university of san francisco in support of the usf institutional master plan. originally i come from st. louis, month no which basically means i never thought i would end up in california.

however, due to my hard work in high school and financial need, i was offered a full life scholarship to usf, a scholarship that would change my life. when i came to usf in august of 2010 i was thousands of miles away from home. i was scared and alone, but in those moments of distress usf was there to comfort and guide me through my leadership, academic, and social journey. university is made up of caring students, faculty and staff that were there to help me through the difficult transition in my life. their help encouraged me not only to serve my fellow humans, but more specifically serve my fellow students by running for and being elected to the seat of the president of usf student body, a role that i've held for two years and continue to serve in. in my role i am honored to serve and advocate for the thousands of students who makeup our wonderful and diverse undergraduate student body which means advocating for them through our senate among other students with the administration and even the

city of san francisco. we as a student senate have expressed our support for the new residence hall that is a part of the master plan bypassing a senate resolution of our own ~ number 13 1405 that expresses support of the entire undergraduate population for the new residence hall to be built on campus. in order to house the students that are already enrolled that are forced to live off campus like me ~. the document also cites that we as an association have the support of annamarie pierce who attended one of our senate meetings of the university terrace association who attended one of our senate meetings and spoke in support of the new building. in closing, i stand before you to express the necessity to accept usf's institutional master plan which will make great strides towards the improvement of our institution, the lives of students, and the surrounding community. thank you so much. >> thank you. is there further public comment? okay. seeing none, public comment is closed.

commissioner antonini. >> thank you. a lot of very interesting comments. i must disclose that i'm a graduate of a jesuit university, [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood] educating men and women to serve others. what is before us today is our institutional master plan. i have a question for mary woods if she's here. there you are, mary. yeah. my understanding is in addition to the institutional master plan, the various parts of this plan that may come to fruition or may not would have to come before us for conditional use or other kind of approval before they are actually allowed to proceed? >> yes, you are correct. >> yeah, okay. thank you. so, i just wanted to answer some of the concerns of those who spoke today which revolved around two item.

number one was i think erroneously the growth of the student body, which we have documented it has been, i think, 1.8% or 1.6% over the last 20 years and is -- much of that or some of that growth has been somewhat mitigated by the fact that the university has developed the campus in downtown area which is now -- has many of their graduate business students there which is a great location because it's exactly where you should be if you're studying business and also a site in the presidio and some online studying. so, the actual group of students at the hilltop campus has been probably even less than the numbers that are stated. but both of these issues revolve around two thing. the proposed housing and the parking, and there's very much

related because the proposed housing will in many ways mitigate some of the parking problems because there will be 650 students who will not be driving a car to campus. they will -- in fact, they won't be allowed to have a caron campus if they are -- if they have student housing. therefore, that's going to eliminate a lot of the cars that might be there. and in term of the location of the housing facility, if you look at the executive summary, it basically only mentions that there will be proposed new residence hall for students up to 635 bedrooms of housing on the lone mountain upper campus. so, while there is a penciled in part of it showing a location and showing a massing, this is, you know -- refers -- their plan only refers to the need to build something in that proposed site, would be somewhere on that huge site

which is lone mountain. and even the ewing terrace people while they'd like it to be a little to the south and to the west, i'm sure this is not out of the question and we'll see more when it actually comes before us. ~ say they'd i think that's been dealt with rather adequately. every student gets a fast pass, as was mentioned. you know, they have those other sites and they do have the corette lot which is sometimes under utilized and they're going to be promoting the use of that lot whether students or other people driving around looking for parking in the neighborhood. and, so, there are a lot of parts to this, but i think those were the two that were the most -- brought up the most and i think they've been answered in this plan, not in the detail they will be answered when they come before us for approval of the individual parts.

so, i think this plan is a very good institutional master plan and quite thorough. >> thank you. commissioner sugaya. >> yes, two things. one, there is one aspect of the master plan that i think is somewhat deficient and it looked in vain for information on a little bit of campus history which would have set the stage for the identification and growth over time so that we get some idea of how the campus evolved from the 1800s into what it is today. most of the or i should say all of the depictions of the campus i think are focused on its present condition and it would have been nice to have a little bit more historical treatment. and along those lines also it would have been nice then to have had some additional information on the -- i don't

know if there are any original buildings left there, but on the historic structures that remain on campus, maybe a photograph or two, maybe a sentence or two on its history. that would have, i think, helped the context of what we're looking at. other than that, i agree with commissioner antonini. i think the master plan is all right. but i did look in vain for any mention of bill russell, so -- [laughter] >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah, just a little. i did find this in there, commissioner. some of it might have been knowledge of mine before, but it did you mention that the school began in 1855 and originally it was in the area around van ness avenue where the emporium is now or more accurately, bloomingdale's, and it was a high school and a

college, st. ignatius secondary school. the church was finished about 1914 and then shortly thereafter administrative buildings and the campus moved up there in the 1920s and around the same time lone mountain was built and that was the san francisco college for women. and both of those predate ewing, the ewing terrace because ewing terrace was for one year the baseball field for the san francisco professional baseball team, the seals and the missions. and unfortunately, shades of candlestick, the fog and wind through there, they only lasted one year and then they moved to the mission district and then later on to seal stadium. so, it appears that both of the campuses on the hilltop would predate any of the houses on ewing terrace, but that has nothing to do with the impacts. it's still important to analyze the impacts. but, yeah. and also i think pete rozell long-time nfl commissioner,

usf, i'm not sure if he was a graduate but he was part of the staff for a long period of time. and in addition to russell, police jape greg surh, mayor jordan, there are many others that are graduates of usf. but i think it's an institution. in terms of our impact, our impact is large, but i've been to boston college many times and they have a football stadium that seats 50,000 people in there in the middle of an even denser city than the area around usf and somehow they manage to make it work. and their student body enrollment is probably quite a bit larger than that of usf. so, we can have urban campuses he. >> commissioner borden. >> yeah, i would just want to agree with my previous commissioners. institutional master plan is an information document. we are not -- we are not saying the development plans as they've been presented are going to happen. there is an environmental review process that would happen. there would also be other hearings and an entire process related to that.

so, today what we are here just to look at is what the university is proposing based on their needs in the future and given the city a heads up. as the way that our code is designed, any of the things that you're talking about would definitely be mitigationses that would need to be considered in a environmental review process or any other settlement documents that you would work with the university on. so, that is not part of our consideration today. what they have done based upon the code is complete and providing the necessary information to us about their future plans, existing environment, et cetera. but the other issues will have its day and have their forums to be heard. i hope -- it sounds like there has been a rocky path. i think many in the audience recognize that there were very positive developments in the more recent work that's been done at the university. obviously while some of you may not have left the neighborhood, there have been changes at the university and it sounds like this is' progress in the direction of really meeting your concerns and i'm very hopeful that when this project

comes forth to this commission ~ that there is a good consensus around a way to work together. >> commissioner moore. >> the institutional massive plan as presented to us today was really a presentation only and nobody should expect from us to take definite stands one way or the other. i think in the general world of institutional master plans, this institutional master plan does significant amounts of disclosure and description of what it does ~, and the messageseses we are getting from the public are really quite mixed. but that is at this moment not as much of our concern except to encourage all of you to come closer together as you move forward because otherwise i think it will create insurmountable difficulties when it really come for us to look at those determinants by which we approve or support the