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across makes sense to me. i think that i like you've been clarifying the amendments how this is applied to make sure those units are staying affordable so this also g don't a good job. in terms of your comment when i moved to san francisco i don't know how many affordable housing units we know people move here because they have a dream or violation it's a great place to live or job opportunities that's an interesting challenge because the only places that people really want to live are in the established neighborhoods most people don't move to the san francisco because they want to live in mission bay so if we can
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do more pretty sure placed like south of market we need to see more housing >> commissioner moore. >> i'm interested in the legislation it adds one more tool into the castro legislation this one compliments others it's not up to us to comment on the desire for all to have it served up at once but leave it up for a fire chief discussion it makes me feel comfortable. i want to enlightenment you on the authorness when we look at the remarkable piece of work i've not seen this as a at a level of using the method doing
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you'll see where it will happen and the results. so to staff and to you this is a good piece of work i'm comfortable with that. commissioner antonini >> yeah. i follow-up on what commissioner borden said whenever we can look at the situation existing now for unite that are inclusionary at the 12 percent by state law it probably would be good to study what could be implemented as some sort of bonus for complying and help our legislation especially, if it gets challenged by someone who didn't elect to do the bonus but they might exchange it under prop c.
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i had one other question i'm not sure you have the figures alter our fingertips in terms of how many units under construction for approval to be built in san francisco i'm not saying we don't need to do this but it's good looking good to look at what we have in the pipeline >> there are both 40 thousand units that are approved but 25 or so are in the 3 big project areas treasure island development authority board and park merced and the shipyard arrest there's about 6 to 7 thousand under construction and another 10 thousand in our pipeline going there to approval progress and so con sefbl about 16 thousand to be built in the
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next year. >> that's right and the shipyard is going to take a long time park merced and treasure island is going on. i also want to thank my colleague >> commissioner hillis. >> i agree with my fellow commissioners it's not going to add thousands of units but it is in the in law legislation it could deteriorate 0 thousands of units if we look at thousands of pieces of legislation. two questions for supervisor wiener have we looked at the opportunity sites to see if it would work or talk to a developer or property owner to whether the 12 percent is right >> i have spoken to several
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developers that before we move forward who indicated this this is something that would work and again every project is unique but i have that option out there. >> the areas on this map that are covered are they primary the rh1 and rh2. >> there's the density controls. >> i know if we look at those neighborhoods we make that policy decision in the future so i think this makes sense and i'll support it. >> commissioner moore. >> in some cases we're we'll be building affordability on scale i'm asking about modifying for compliance how do you insure indeed this legislation is being used for what it is intended to do. >> you mean in terms of the units for b m r.
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i guess it's mow i think that actually enforces the b m r requirements. i know that as with anything there's also a non-compliance issue so on the compliance is important bus that's a broader issue with the inclusionary projecting program >> mayor's office of housing has a rigorous enforcement for the blow market rate units this falls under that category. >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes. i was go back to say at one of the meetings a few weeks ago i was wondering how they, you know, enforce that development that is 10 years old and still has b m r units it's not that big of a project only
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one or two in there. also following up commissioner moore's comment about the environmental report it has numbers in that so the environmental impact under supervisor mar's legislation thereer numbers in there that project how many units can be added because of this and the other question i have in terms of it came to mind when commissioner hillis were you mentioning the market octavia area that brought it mind the corner of van ness and market we already have density bonus situation there don't we in terms of adding affordable housing or not? i can't remember how that legislation >> we have an f r bonus program
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that produces for legislation that doesn't apply in that neighborhood. >> okay. thank you. i make a motion to go ahead and recommend adaptation of legislation including the proposed amendment we received today >> second. >> second. >> i want to make a couple of comments i don't believe increasing the supply will have the affordability crisis on its own i don't think we shouldn't build at all seems this legislation will benefit mostly the one hundred percent affordable projects i'll be curious to see if dispensaries want to change their projects to take advantage and that's at that the place to get more unit so i'm in support of the legislation.
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>> commissioners, if there's nothing further there's a motion and second recommending approval on that motion and commissioner antonini. >> commissioner hillis arrest commissioner moore arrest commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero. commissioners we can move back to our normal schedule of the agenda item 13 the candle stick point project and informational presentation >> i'm matthew planning staff mr. lawson the painting for the candle stick shipyard is going to give a presentation the overall status of the project and some street design issues that ocii has been working on. before he gets going i want to cue it up and remind you what
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the approvals were from this body and our responsibilities as the planning department your responsibility ashe planning commission are moving forward. i'm sure you're aware of bossing both of those were in redevelopment project areas and therefore the land use jurisdiction tassels falls to what had been the redevelopment agency and now ocii the prong has a my rid approval and i'm going to phone call know if on the ones from the planning commission. on top of the sequa related actions you approved amendments to redevelopment plans with the bayview hunters point and the shipyard plan you made modifications for the plans creating the area plans specifically for candle stick and the hunters point shipyard you approved the approvals then
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and that could be used or subsequential for approvals we created a special use district that made clear that the jurisdiction fell to the redevelopment agency but perhaps most important for today's discussion you approved the cooperative agreement between ocii and planning that outlined what staffs roll would be as the projects came forward for their final approvals specifically our roll ace staff we review comments on particular stages a major phase application what they're ready to moved on several blocks on the streetscape master plan and the actual applications their sxheefk reviews and those are
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review and comment rolls that for which we can provide input. for our roll going forward any changes to the redevelopment plan, of course, is going to need to come back to you if they occur in the 20-year build out for any other plans changes you approved the design for the documents four years ago and that essentially acted as the planning code for those development areas. even though you will individual buildings will not be coming before i any changes for the development documents we'll need our approval. so with that, i'm going to turn it over to mr. lawson who will talk about the status of the project and talk about the 3
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issues >> thank you matthew i'm a senior project manager with the office of infrastructure i appreciate matthew setting that up with the history. i'm going to talk about 1974. which will is when the navy seized operations out of the shipyard and this is with respect to street width. this in total of phase one and two is a 2 thousand unit and 32 percent below market rate it includes the rebuilding of alice griffith site it's important because it's not a $35 million hud grant from the u.s. department of housing and urban development so that work is soon to start the infrastructure is
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effectively started on the project site and new affordable unit will be dealt with in the coming years. again, this project also has a substantial open space component more than 50 percent is parks and open space this is the expensive waterfront system there's a 3.5 or 3.15 office component which is the job generating generating point so part of the mandatory was to recreate the job use. also there's a major retail component that's forthcoming and there are 3 hundred and some artists that work on the hunters point shipyard site those folks are being provide with both a
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retained project. going back to 1974 that's when the navy seized their operations in the shipyard moving forward there was as many have you recall there was a lot of entitlement effort around the candle stick point site with the 49ers in the early 2000 that fell through the board of supervisors and the mayor and the 53 redevelopment commission approved a conceptual fraction there that bracket together candle stick point and the hunters point shipyard. part of the reason i'm telling you built the fraction upon which the streets are to be considered. one of the bigger pieces of this is that parallel move with the
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better streets plan so at that time the draft was being circulated and approved by the planning department virtually counter with the candle stick point in 2010 when the project was being developed at the community level and here at the planning commission redevelopment commission and board of supervisors the mandate to the developer was follow the streets plan and that plan was reflected ultimately in there will in a 2009 structural plan and ultimately approved in 2010. to give you a sense of i'm going to skip those slides because a mating did a good job. to give a sense slide 6 in your packet shows you the point is there's an immense amount
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building here. you can see to is the subject of the decision around street width many of them are 10 sill lanes and genius with the bike lanes and many are less than 26 feet clear in terms of unobstructed width through the right-of-way this is the issue we'll talk about in a second for the fire department. you're looking at what was approved in 2010 here's a sodium in showing some of the neighborhood streets and the level of detail incorporated. this i only included that prospective drawing so you could kind of see how those streets are envisioned the stormwater places and, etc. that are highly designed streets.
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so then more recently getting into 2012 the developer having had the project approved was moving into the major phase application that's the approval of say 4 to 8 blocks of development at that time, actually more than that. so more appropriate the 10 and 20 blocks at the same time when they do that the developer insinuates more details and in doing so they've looked at did bus rapid transit rounding through that the reanalyze that the developer did with mta you're going to look at that system triggered a number of other changes to the street cross sections approved in 2010. when this plan was circulated we met with the planning department and the staff from mta we met
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that dpw and came to some consensus around a selection of street sections that will be implemented as part of the major face ambassador had our ocii commission approved the major phase in 2014 that approval reflected the changed sections. so as part of the condition we had to go through and recirculate the plan to reflect those changes approved by the commission and in so doing all the agency cooperative agreement feeding need to look at those again, it was taet at that time the fire department got a copy of the infrastructure plan they felt some didn't meet their unobstructed concern so in the last 4 months we've been working with the planning department and
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dpw and planning staff to come with the restrictions that meets he has been need. i'm going to show you in terms of a plan view. this streets shown no red show you where fire department has less than 26 feet clear you can see the project is approved floorns with the better street plan but not meeting the fire department criteria so pursuant to the meeting we turned a lot of those streets green we widened them to meet the fire department needs. subsequential to that there were concerns raised by supervisor wiener that looking at those streets when we have approved those plans have we thought through the streets so we went back to the table on may 16th
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and came up with a proposal that reintroduced many of the narrow streets and again looking at that again, we got together again and actually were building to see where the fire department had some comfortable to access those blocks on at least 3 sides with green that means they were able to access the blocks and have the appropriate response. this june map reflects a near complete consensus among the department and directors oar this is the status of today, there are additional tweaks i think are generally positive that enable us to have more generous sidewalks maybe 2 and a half feet in some cases those are being circulate to the staff and directors we hope very much
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before i depart the city it will be approved we'll move forward into incorporating them. this table on the unnumbered slide shows you the steps now we will have to take assuming we have this consensus tomorrow to incorporate the newest street cross sections into the documents. the first step is the best subdivision map currently posed for approval at dpw. that map will have conditions that will incorporate the scopes street sections i've just described and in addition the infrastructure plan needs to be reconstructed the design for development that matthew snooigd described will come before this commission for approval and as far as ocii we have the major
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phase application. with all those documents you're seeing in all the departments taking they're necessary actions we'll have a set in stone we can move forward with and have the developer build on behalf of the city that concludes my presentation. . but i know we're anticipating that you may have questions if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> why not take public comment first. any public comment on that item? >> good afternoon. thank you for allowing me the opportunity for comment i'm tirelessly the director at the bicycle coalition we've been engaged in this conversation. i wanted to flag that is in conjunction with another
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recommendation you'll be hearing this afternoon but your coalition along with other various community coalitions that spoke on pedestrian safety and public safety roadway safety are concerned about the increased widened roads they encourage more speeding and people have to hurry across the streets. we've encouraged developers in the planning department and others as soon as possible remain with the 20 foot wide streets there are plenty of streets in san francisco that are already at that wooigd width so we have concerns when the fire department can't work there so that obviously, the safety of all residents both in the cases
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of emergencies and when the fire department is responding is critical and we encourage you to take into account when making our decisions. thank you >> is there any additional public comment. okay. seeing none director ram did you want to comment >> if i may we have spent a lot of time on the lass month working through the issues with the fire department and the other city depths. i just first of all, want to thank staff gil kelly and my staff that spent a lot of time on this we think we have a solution that was piloted we all agree with some of the streets got wider but most of them are still at a width that's comfortable for pedestrians and bicyclists the streets that are
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wierlgd those r should be treated different so the travel plains lanes are no more than 10 feet there's strong data that says that drivers drive faster when the streets are wider here very much aware and work with the fire department. it is will critical this issue came up with this particular project but has made us realize we have to improve our enter departmental confusion we have a broad consensus we are working on an agreement with the departments how that will work we believe the existing system does not work well in terms of even if getting ahead of those issues before we have the 11th hour problems.
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i want to thank the commission that's is an important issue this is an important aspect the streets. we added up a allows of projects we know about in the that i'm there's 15 city promotions coming up that have new set the record straight city streets we think we're a built up city there's a lot of spaces in the city that will be built up so it's an important issue for the future. again, thank you to all the departments i want to come back and talk about those projects again >> that will be great, thank you. >> commissioner antonini. >> yes. a few comments appreciate the presentation. i notice there's talk about bus rapid transit busing this area i
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speak against light rail if you're going to have 12 thousand hoping people and homes they'll have to get off the t and get on another bus it didn't makes sense it is a clean slate we can do whatever he want we don't have the usual problems but i also can you remember you to enclosure the possibility which having that continue out to the north through cargo and connect up with third street someone wanting to reach that area from downtown will have to go all the way to t to the end and came back the connect our so in another area we may have a problem the bridge we're going to spend a lot of money to build
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anothers only for business not automobiles that didn't makes sense driving through hunters point to hunters point shipyard is a long way to go to visit a neighbor and nobody will walk or take public transit or bike there are people that are older and don't have the ability and that makes it hard to get to a grocery store the other thing prop g includes stadium money but i think we have to kind of question this entire developer and find out what's going on with the money because, you know, the lease in santa clara is only about thirty years and 49z are going to be ready to get out of there we can start to
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work on a new stadium it will go take us thirty years to build we should look at that money. amazingly we've found a site for the warriors to use some of the reasons the stadium was built at health department anything closer to downtown apparently, there is land available in the city. i would assume that present candle stick can be demolished it's not part of the bid for 2020 they can host a lot of large attention things that's the long term of accommodating 60 thousand
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