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street transit and park. as re residents of ellis griffin, i support this action because it insures that the family we receive a new home within the next couple of years. please do not delay this project. thank you. >> good afternoon, my name is dr. veronica honeycut and i share the advisory committee and we have provided guidance and oversight of the shipyard development for nearly two decades. the ordinance that you are considering today is required to move forward with the project that the voters approved in 2008 through proposition g. we approved along with the bay view hunters in 2010. and that the board of adopted in august 2010.
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today's approval is absolutely necessary for the city to deliver on the promises made as part of these approvals. and therefore, i am here today to hold you accountable to these historic approvals which has decades of planning. by approving these street vacations, you will in locking benefits including more than 3,000 units of new affordable housing starting first with the rebuilding of ellis griffith public housing. more than 12,000 permanent jobs and thousands of annual construction job opportunities throughout the build out of the project, and $83 million in community -- $83 million in community benefits package that we fought hard for to insure that this new development benefits the
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resident in bay hunters viewpoint who live in this community. i'm asking you to up hold your commitment and show your support for all the work we have made and all the work we have put into this area by voting in support of the proposed ordinance. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other members of the public who wish to speak on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed on item. >> supervisor cohen. and thank you for sitting through this brief hearing on this item. every board meeting we have had this year and last year's conversation, we spent time talking about in one way or another, the need for affordable housing. one of the investments we can make is rebuild public housing and revitalize these communities. regardless of whether or not you support the project, we
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agree we have to move forward with ellis griffith. they have waited too long. >> can we take a role call on item 14. >> on item 14, supervisor cohen. >> aye. >> supervisor farrell. >> aye. >> supervisor kim. >> mar. >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> wiener. >> aye. >> supervisor yee. >> avalos. >> aye. >> breed. >> aye. >> supervisor campos. >> aye. >> supervisor chiu. >> aye. >> there are 11 ayes. >> the ordinance passed in the first reading. madam, go to our second reading calling items 15 and 16. >> hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the proposed resolution of the board of supervisors, acting in its capacity as the successor agency to the former redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco, to conditionally approve a fifth amendment to the mission bay north owner participation agreement and to permit a feasible rental project with market rate and affordable moderate-income units available
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to households earning no more than 90% of the area median income on block no. n4p3, bound by berry street to the south and the 1-280 off-ramp to the north, in the mission bay north redevelopment project area; and making environment findings under >> hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the proposed resolution of the board of supervisors, acting in its capacity as the successor agency to the former redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco, to conditionally approve a fifth amendment to the mission bay north owner participation agreement and to permit a feasible rental project with market rate and affordable moderate-income units available to households earning no more than 90% of the area median income on block no. n4p3, bound by berry street to the south and the 1-280 off-ramp to the north, in the mission bay north redevelopment project area; and making environment findings under the california environmental quality act. resolution of the board of supervisors, acting in its capacity as the successor agency to the former redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco, to conditionally approve a fifth amendment to the mission bay north owner participation agreement and to permit a feasible rental project with market rate and affordable moderate-income units available to households earning no more than 90% of the area median income on block no. n4p3, bound by berry street to the south and the i-280 off-ramp to the north, in the mission bay north redevelopment project area; and making environmental findings under the california environmental quality act. >> let's open up this hear and start with the district supervisor. supervisor kim. >> thank you supervisor chiu. >> i introduce item 16 which has mixed housing to be built at the final vacant parcel of mission bay north redevelopment area plan block n-4 p 3. the project includes 129 new rental housing units and 20 percent of the units on site or 26 units will be affordable to households making 90 percent of the meeting. for a family of
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tower, you're combined household is $87,700. the development of this last site has had challenges of which you'll hear in the presentation on oci in which they can describe in more details. it's an oddly shaped parcel and wrapped by the freeway and there's height limitations on this site in conformities to the buildings that surround it. it's consistent with our city wide program and it produces horse housing. it's a discussion we have here constantly at the board of supervisor. i want to recognize the project sponsor for working really closely with our office, the staff of ocii and the commission on figuring out how to meet many of our different dwoels and priorities and to deliver a project which will be set to break bound this year in
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august of 2014. and we also appreciate that this development fits within the policy framework that our city is building upon for below market rentals and below homeowner ship units. i do want to recognize that we do have the president of community development here, vicky who is here to answer questions am i want to thank her for her time and leadership on this issue and we have the assistant project manager of ocii lila and we have the director as well. i would like to hand over for a brief presentation from ocii. mission bay north met its housing goals so any units built on this height will help us exceed the goals we have made in terms of our
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commitment to this development plan. >> hi, my name is lila and i'm assistant manager. thank you supervisor forgiving a great summary of the project. i'm going to go over a few points. the parcel we're talking about n 4p 3 is the last to be developed. this is the last remaining site and we've had very few developer interest in this sit partly due to the requirements for this site to have 62 percent inclusionary moderate income. so they have proposed an amendment to the owner participation agreement for mission bay north so we can have a feasible project that can build out and complete the mission
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bay north project area. and as supervisor kim had stated, we have already exceeded the affordable housing requirement in mission bay north and with -- if we built the there, 4 p 3 with the amendment proposed, we would have exceeded the requirements by over 79 units so one of the things i would like to summarize, we have exceeded the requirements on mission bay north and we have met the requirements at 57 percent ami and the rehaning requirement is the 80 units at moderate income and the amendment will reduce that requirement which is 80 units out of 129. this is a market redevelopment that has no public subsidi. we have
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done analysis. it would be infeasible to built without subsudi from another source. it's a requirement at 110 percent ami to 26 affordable units and there's clean up items related to the amendments that changes the percentages that follow once you make this amendment. we're available for any questions, both the development team as well as staff. thank you. >> supervisor wiener. >> i have questions for staff so thank you for the presentation and running down the thurs. that was helpful. can you go back and tell
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me, in the plan as a whole and not just this project, how many low and very low income units have been built or have been entitled? >> if you would look at page nine in your handout, this shows the requirement of very low and mission bay north and what has been built. and in blue, you have what has not been built. for very low, 98 units required and 98 built. for the low come, 35 units were required and 135 units were built. 32 has been built which leaves leaves the 80 remaining. >> so it's 32 and you're
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proposing the other 36. just to be -- in terms of what will be built, it's about 233 low or very low and then it will be a total of 58 moderate, is that right? >> yeah. 32 plus 26, 58. >> in terms of the low and very low, the 98 and 135 is what has been built. how many low and low income units have been built if any? >> this is mission bay north. this is mission bay south. they have a different model of providing affordable housing where the developer donated affordable housing sites and the agency is building those site. there's 1100 to be built, but 150 is just about to open at 4th and channel, the mercy housing
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project. there's about a thousand remaining to be built in mission bay south, but those will not be inclusionary except at the hotel site that came before the board last year where there will be a hotel site as well as 350 residential units and there's an inclusion requirement with that amendment. >> okay. in terms of this particular plan, it's 230 -- in terms of what has been built, it's 230 low income buildings and 58 moderate income buildings? >> yes. >> okay. so in terms of this particular project, i completely understand how it has to pencil out and when you have 80 out of the 100 and some odd units, it has
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to be bmr, i get that. but my understanding in terms of history of this project, this is the final project in the plan area and it was required to be -- is required to be moderate income and it was initially, at least as i understand, contemplated as up to 120 percent of ami and 120 being moderate income and that would have produced 45 below market rate units at up to 120 percent ami. and now it's being proposed, it's up to 90 percent of ami which reduces the number of ami numbers to 50 units to 26 units. >> the initial was 80 at 110. and we looked at several scenarios who see what was the best. we built on very low income. we
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wanted to get the maximum amount of moderate income since the plan was to have moderate. we recognize that when we went to our commission, we proposed a 45 out of 120 percent amendment and subsequent to that, we talked to supervisor stef and community advocates and there was a need to have deeper moderate affordability over the higher range of affordability. what you're seeing is the feasibility amount. >> you you want to do the maximum number of feasibility units, but we reduced that number but 50 percent going from 45 to 25 units because of pressure from one particular viewpoint on affordability to reduce that percentage from 120 to a lower amount? >> i think it was a pretty
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robust discussion on -- >> i know this has been a long time ongoing discussion in this building and keep in mind that we all support building a lot of housing for folks who are low income, low income people are the most likely to become homeless, but we have a huge gaping hole in our housing policy in terms of moderate income people. people who don't qualify for the low housing that we built, but can't afford market housing. we get some from inclusionary ownership, you then that doesn't take into account the fact that there are a lot moderate people who aren't in the
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positions to buy. there's nothing for them. so when we have some of these occasion projects that come through, it seems unfortunate because there are some people who may talk about moderate, but sometimes i'm not sure if they actually believe in moderate income housing, that we lose that. with that said, i understand and i think this will serve 70 to 90 percent of ami. there's a need this that category, but in terms of flexibility, it's a shame when we have these rare opportunities to build up to 120 and everyone agrees that's the range for moderate income and because of some frankly negotiations or pressure that comes from one side but not the other, it gets lopped down to 90 so instead of
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producing 45 units, we're producing 26 units. i have some challenges around that and i understand the position that you're in and i'm not -- i wanted to provide that perspective to the agency. >> supervisor cohen. sdwl >> thank you supervisor wiener. i know for a fact that working with ocii, they're aware and i argued the same position that you do and we have a couple of thousand more units that are due fall within this 90 percent to 110 ami range in the pipeline, but we need to get it built. it's slowly but surely coming. i have a question about the mission bay over bay. on two of your presentation, there's a
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public school to be built, is that on schedule. >> we have to work with the school district to figure out a finance plan and we've been speaking to supervisor kim's staff to work with the school district to start building discussions. i think they're not ready to take on the site at this time without -- they're doing some analysis on the school capacity. there's feeling that there's under capacity in those other schools so they're doing some analysis and i think what we're planning to do is work with supervisor kim's staff to reach out to the school district and where they are on their analysis and when they'll be ready to start with the school site. >> i'm curious. this public school that was projected, is it a middle school or elementary school? >> it's a middle school. >> it's a science technology elementary school. my mistake. >> that's okay.
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>> i was wondering where we were. people are moving all around. in the pa trel neighbor, one the concerns is there's no middle school that feeds for the dog patch neighborhood, but that's a conversation for the school board. >> i'm happy to address that question. we need to build a site. we're restricted by the size of the parcel. state code requires a certain number of square foot per student depending on whether you're an elementary or high school student. this allows us to build an elementary school because it's a small size because we looked at making it a high school. the community wanted to see a technological high school on this site. this
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came from the bay view area. the second question is should we build a k-8 and we're constricted by state law on what we can do. what the school district has determined an elementary which we have a need for. i think that we have a need to build an elementary school based on the number of kids that we're seeing between zero and five in this part of the city. the school district decided to go ahead and rebuild willie brown middle school first. they felt they can take on a construction of a new school one at a time. they couldn't build them both at the same time. part has to do with the bond payments that was passed but i don't want to
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speak for the board. i think the hope is mission way will then compliment that with an elementary school in the area. we have a number of high schools, balboa, so we have to think how can they compliment one another. it's a done deal by it's a question of what will it be built. >> we need to do analysis to figure out the timing for capital -- getting a capital budget together. they want to get data. they've been working with csc members on that as well. >> i want to appreciate supervisor cohen for bringing this up. >> willie brown the academy will open up in 2015 in the bay view area. thank you. >> any further questions
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colleagues? >> i just wanted to comment on the discussion. i want to state the difficult position that i think ocii was in around this parcel. this site was originally flatted for 80 units all at 120 percent ami for homeowner ship. it was something like ssop, san francisco organized process fought for. the way that the development agreement was written, once the developer completed their object -- once they completed their obligation, there was nothing to force them to finish the site. they'll telling the land to inter grille who is in the fiscal position decades later trying to built something that pencils out for them and building 80
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units at 110 ami didn't pan out. i asked a lot of questions and i believe that ocii did a thorough skrob -- job in the back of the envelope to reinsure that the project was not possible. so that is why we are in the situation that we are today. our current affordable housing policy and i know this is up for debate has us building rental units for a zero to 90 ami. we set this up high so we can build the most units possible. the way the framework is, 80 to 100 percent is use for homeowner ship. i know this is a policy debate and not the same we wanted to have this policy debate around this parcel. the developer needs to move forward and there's time issues to make sure they build. and that's why i'm proposing to move
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forward as described by ocii. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you and through the chair and thank you to supervisor kim for that background. as i understand and i think it's important to acknowledge that this was a choice. this doesn't has to be 90. it could have been 120. it did result in reduction and yes, no developer wants to get caught up in our broader debates in city hall for that project. they want to move forward and i get that. but i think it's extremely frustrating not just for me and not just for people in this room, but for many people in this city when they see that we take affordable housing so seriously in this city and they go in and say, i can't afford any housing. i want to apply for affordable housing. i'm not wealthy. i'm working class.
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guess what, i don't qualify for any of the housing because at my income range or my being the other person, there's nothing or very little being built and so i think there is a lot of frustration out there in terms of almost total lack of housing at that range and i do think it's unfortunate that we assume that if you're in that 80 to 120 price range, you must be in that ownership. maybe someone is making 60 or $75,000 a year, they may not be in a position to own or want to own at a subsidized rate and they are renters and we have moderate income renters and that population is almost completely ignored by our housing policy unless you are fortunate enough to have a rent controlled unit that is what you need. if you have that,
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great. you're in a good situation. a lot of people don't have that because they've had to move. they're newer to the city, or whatever. they have been evicted, whatever the situation and there's almost nothing for them in our housing policy. that is the frustration and a lot of other people have. i'll support this project. i think it's important to move this forward, but it's a continuing frustration. >> any further questions colleagues? okay. with that, let me ask, are there any more staff presentations? let me ask if there's members of the public who wish to speak to this item? please step up. >> president chiu and board of supervisors, thank you for introducing myself to you. my name is vicky and i'm a principal of the group and of the interval development and we're the developer of the
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parcel also known as mp 43. it has been our pleasure to work with ocii, supervisor kim and her staff, community advocates as we have tried to proceed with this development and are excited and appreciative of the collaborative nature of those interactions so we look forward to hopefully getting the approval on the resolution before you so we can go forward to achieving financial closing starting construction and placing these units on the mark by the end of next year as our goal. further we look forward to working with your offices, your staff as we put together a market -- marking plan to make these units known to the constituents in need of housing that meets their income level.
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thank you for the ability to introduce myself to you and we stand able to answer any additional questions. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good luck with this assessor. this amendment. good luck with this item and your 5th amendment. you can fly among the stars and make it work out right and we can fly, we can fly up, up and away in the 5th amendment so the successor of redevelopment agency. we can fly away again. >> are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on
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this item? >> again, tom gilbert, south bridge apartments. 25 years it opened up and they were the first units on the -- the bay side village and dalance street and anything that's market rate, we get slaughtered. we don't have a neighborhood. we lose people. you can't take 40% rent increases in three years so i don't know about this property. i know -- what i'm sensing is it's the crumbs by a bad location. but a freeway. it's not going to be fine so we can adjust it. i'm going to say again that we need a cost, a rent control throughout this city because you don't get a neighborhood. you get
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neighbors that are coming in and the kids are six and they have to move out because we don't have rent control. we don't have a healthy community and we get slaughtered. someone has to say we need rent control again. we'll have to send somebody to sacramento to say we want our city back. we want to make this the healthiest city we can. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon president chiu, and supervisors. my name is mrs. woods. i share the mission bay committee and has for many years. we have been trying to get this site built for a long time. it's a tough site. i think a lot of these people are going to have people on the freeway loo