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>> colleagues, same house, same call. this item is approved. >> item 46 to the board of appeals for a term ending july 1, 2018. >> same house same call. this motion is approved. item 47. >> item 47 is a motion to appoint steven lee to the entertainment commission term ending july 21, 2018. >> same house, same call. at this time i'd like to go to our 3:00 pm special order regarding the university of mountain neighborhood. could you first call item 72 in order for us to sit as a committee. >> item 72 is a motion to sit public hearing on the urgency ordinance approving an interim

zoning moratorium on constitutional changes of use in the university mountain neighborhood. >> we first have to pass a motion and order to allow us to sit at this moment. let me ask if there are any members of the public that wish to speak in public comment. this is only about whether we should have a hearing today so if you want to talk about the item itself, we'll have please step up. needs to be to that matter. >> sure. i think if the united states of america from the federal level, state level, [inaudible] every city, if the united states of america, the government does have such wealthy, wealthy,

wealthy potential for every citizen [inaudible] benefit. america is truly wealthy if it can a allow each citizen [inaudible]. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on whether we should sit. if we could take this motion same house same call. without objection, the motion is approved so that we do sit as a committee of a whole and with that, could you call our 3:00 pm special item, items 48 and 49? >> item 48 is a hearing on the urgency ordinance approving an interim by highway 20 on the

north, wayland stree on the south, university on the and item 49 is the urgency ordinance approving the moratorium. >> this is an item that was brought to us by supervisor campos who i'd like to acknowledge at this time. >> thank you very much mr. president and i'd like to begin by acknowledging some of the residents of the university mound ladies home. i think it's sad we have to entertain this item that's before you today. the university mound ladies home which is located in the portal district, unless something is done by this board and this city, will be closing its doors, would be closing its doors after nearly 130 years providing compassionate senior

care for individuals of modest means. on may 8, 2014 the residents of this institution were notified the facility would be closing and according to the report from the university mound board of directors, increasing financial pressures have left the facility, in their view, with closure as the only viable option. it is actually very tragic that if this were to happen because this would mean the complete disappearance of this community. the suddenness of this closure has been devastating to residents, their families and to the entire community. the importance of providing affordable and compassionate care for seniors in san francisco could not be understated. it is with great sadness for the loss of this legacy,

frustration, lack of transparency, have unfortunately been demonstrated by this board of directors. you have with you a letter that i just received that kim d that came to the board of directors, board of supervisors, a letter which doesn't really change anything. the fact is that from the very beginning of understanding and knowing that this facility was facing closure, the city and county of san francisco has stepped up and tried to do everything we can to make sure this constitution remains open. i want to thank mayor lee and his office who have been working with my office and we have gone out of our way to offer the board of directors different way s in which the city can offer assistance so we

can avoid eviction and relocation of these vulnerable individuals. i've been shocked that this board of directors have rejected and notwithstanding our efforts to help them stay open and function as a long term senior care facility, they have proceeded with closure and continue to stand by the eviction notices, with the idea that they will sell this property and change the use of this facility. as a result of the decision of this board, san francisco has not had an opportunity to review or plan for a change in the use of this facility. the planning code provides for the imposition of interim zoning controls to accomplish several objectives, including

the preservation of neighborhoods in areas of institutional uses for preserving the contacter of such neighborhoods. and conditions associated with changes to the balance of residential and institutional uses and to preserve the residential neighborhood character by imposing a temporary moratorium on changes to the institutional use. as it stands, the current zoning for the university mound ladies home, which is a residential care facility to anything other than a residential care facility. because this change would wipe

out a legacy and alter the character of this neighborhood, i wanted to take the step to make sure that we as a city have had the opportunity to study the effects on the neighborhood and work with the community and understand how the changes like the one of this board of directors is proposing would impact this neighborhood. the purpose is to provide the planning department the opportunity to study this neighborhood and all its institutional uses. in september the planning department will present findings regarding zoning in this neighborhood and propose ideas to address concerns and potential outcomes arising from the potential closure. the controls that are before you extends beyond the site of the lum. university mound ladies home. it is a temporary measure to allow the study of neighborhood to ensure balance of uses. i'd like to address my concern that a for profit entity

without substantial plans for affordability would also -- is a potential purchaser of this site. i will be asking the planning department to examine ways to designate this site as a local landmark so we limit the ability to make significant changes. it is my hope that as a city we can find the right balance of this neighborhood and i am concerned for this neighborhood but beyond that i am concerneded for san francisco. i think that we are fighting for who we are as a city by trying to protect these women and men who have dedicated their lives to making the city what it is totd if we allow them to be evicted. i have stated on numerous occasions my immediate concern for the 27 remaning residents,

as well as those who have already left. i actually have worked with the mayor's office, my staff and have even identified $250,000 as part of the budget to see how we can assist the individuals being impacted. i'd like to thank lonnie kent with the mayor's office, colleen and kelly with the department of public health and hidden and [inaudible] with doss, as well as benson, the san francisco long term care [inaudible]. these individuals have worked tirelessly over the last 7 a days to attempt to save this facility. as we examine the zoning control in this neighborhood i'm grateful for the assistance of the planning department. i want to thank the city's attorney's office that has stepped in and acted very

quickly to put the controls together. it is with that that i would like to now proceed with the hearing and i look forward, especially to hearing from the residents and the community members who are here to speak on this item. >> at this time why don't we open up the hearing. i want to thank the members of the public who have been waiting patiently. if we could, unless there are any speaker cards, i'd like to ask members of the public that wish to speak on this item, please approach the podium. each member of the public will have up to two minutes and please line up on the right hand side of the xam ber. we have a policy that if you are senior disabled we'd like to ask other members of the public to allow them to go earlier if that is something we can do. so with that, let's hear from our first speaker. >> thank you president chiu, i'm patrick here on my own time. i cannot thank supervisor campos enough for his

leadership on this issue i've

been informed that the doss is sitting on over $600,000 in unspent community living fund money that has been sitting there in the fiscal year of 12, 13 account unspent. that money could certainly be placed on reserve and be used to help save university mound ladies home. please do what you can do keep elderly san francisco citizens living in county instead of dumped out of county. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good evening supervisors,

i'm the executive director of marry elizabeth. we are a 100-year-old non profit organization in san francisco providing nerm innocent housing, comprehensive supportive services and free meals to formerly homeless women who are low income in many who are survivors of domestic violence. we are one of six non profit organizations that partner with the human services agency for the care not cash program. we also partner with provision of designated units for dd survivors exiting dd shelters. i don't think university mound should be anything other than affordable senior housing and with approximately 90 units there, there's room for 70 plus licensed assisted living units

as well as additional supportive housing units for seniors. i'm in favor of almost any initiative that will proevent the reapproval of these nearly 90 units of affordable housing and the approximate 3 million or so that would be set aside for indirect services will never be effective if there's no fiscal housing opportunities for seniors. seems the best long-term plan is to maintain university mound ladies home for seniors, which is what the original mission is, and what the university board is charged to carry out. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker.

>> okay, good afternoon, president chiu and city supervisors. i want to acknowledge supervisor campos' work in putting this together. a little bit nervous, my mother's sitting there watching me so i apologize for the nervousness. original mission states university mound ladies home provides affordable care for women -- mostly womening in their 80s and 90s, the residents are treated like people there. they take care of physical emotional needs and they're not just bodies. the purpose of providing compassionate care for seniors cannot be overestimated. you see a large r large mansion from another time in our history to the right of the building is a chapel, stained windows at the front of the chapel. as you enter university mound ladies home you find yourself in a very spacious living room, open area with large windows bathed in natural sunlight.

very comfortable room filled with sofas, and a fireplace and sometimes they have a [inaudible] performing there. as you move through the living room and towards the left there's aeroopen room called the sun room surrounded in glass with the sun glass ceiling, walls are made of brick, sun raes then you walk into the spacious dining room. i'm not going to finish so i'm cut short. i hate to do that, but no other place like this exists in san francisco lel me say that again. no other police station like this exists in san francisco. other places try to get the sense of community that i've visited and i've visited those places and none of them come to the university mound ladies home. one last thing, with if baby

boomers being the largest growing ageing population -- >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, i'm here because i'm very concerned about the news of this place closing. as one of the very last affordable assisted living homes, assisted care living homes in our city, we need to do all that we can to ensure that the residents of university mound ladies home remain there. the world war ii sheet metal worker, alice; the other hard working san francisco residents, the veterans, teachers, marian brown of the famous san francisco brown twins who made you smile for decades. we need to stay there. so i beg you -- you have a chance now also to model

behavior for children to stand up for our eld rs and treat them with the dignity and respect they di serve. deserve. we do not discard, displace our treasured generation. let us do all we can to restore peace and home to these san francisco citizens and work to ensure that the next group of elders will have a home in their city in our city. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is tom queue and i want to thank you for calling this meeting. i wanted to point out that 130 years ago [inaudible] district was a cow pasture. we're looking at only 20 years after the end of the civil war, the university [inaudible] was founded at that time in history.

it has survived world war i, world war ii, the great depression, and many other recessions, the earthquake of 1906 and other earthquakes. so here we are today, we have a building there, they're doing a good job, taking care of elderly women. this makes no sense to eliminate that site. it should continue as is . so where do i go when i'm old? do i have to go to bakersfield? no, it's too far. do i go to sacramento. that's too far. i want to stay in my neighborhood and live in a house where i'm safe and taken care of and when it's time to die, go to the mounds hospice. we have a hospice there too, you can't forget that. so please consider rezoning this area and keep it as is.

thank you. >> thanks, next speaker. >> hello. thank you again for having this hearing, this zoning change resolution. i am jacquelyn, i have lived in the port la since birth. the mound has been a part of my life since i was a little girl growing there to sing christmas carols to the ladies that were there. it is an important part of the neighborhood. we do not have any sort of assisted living facility in our area, nor a hospice. when we had a hearing on the 10th we learned that since 1989, i believe a thousand beds have been lost. we cannot afford to huz anymore

beds. in fact, this afternoon my husband tom and i just paid our premium for our long term disability. we would like to be able to have a facility here in san francisco and as he said, not have to travel far and god knows where in order to live. i just want to say that -- please consider passing this interim zoning to continue the wonderful work of the university mound ladies home. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afrng, my name is jon, i'm on the board of trustees for university mound ladies home and i want to speak about this ordinance. what i'd like -- the urgency ordinance is designed to make

sure that we don't lose beds for senior citizens here in san francisco and this one in particular. what i'd like you to do today is to defer this decision for the immediate, for the near term, and here's why. since we had the hearing on july 10 we've been working in the background on this and we have a firm offer from [inaudible] living who is an experienced provider of senior care living throughout the bay area and they have two facilities here in san francisco and heys valley. they're [inaudible] basically secured private funding to purchase university mound ladies home on the same terms as under a right of first refusal under which we are going to sell the property to alta vista school. what i'd like to do -- ask you to do today is not encumber this property with an ordinance like the one you're considering.

the invester is one who's going into this as a partner, but knowing that the property is this as a security as well. the deal isn't done yet and what i'd like you to do is to see if you can wait just a couple of weeks for considering this. let me tell you the dates, on july 31 is when we intend to hand over the building and operation, from july 31 to august 1. they have until august 15 in case that date doesn't hold to initiate their rights under the right of first refusal. so i think what i'd like to say is that i believe this particular ordinance, being encumbrance, make the investor a little jittery and since it's not firm, perhaps --

>> just only one speaker at a time. thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is isaac and i'm with the san francisco long term care program. i'm here to express our support for any zoning changes that would allow for continuing transfer trauma that often accompanies a resident's relocation to a new setting. these moves involves declines in the health of residents. it is our position that the remaining residents must be allowed to stay and every effort must be made to keep university mound ladies home open. in 1989 there were more than 160 residential care facilities in san francisco. now we only have 77. we are in a crisis. there are not enough affordable

residential care facilities to meet the needs of city residents. frail and vulnerable elders that have lived for all or most of their lives in san francisco are now forced to move outside the county to find placement. we can do better. saving university mound ladies home will go a long way towards preserving residential care beds in san francisco and save the remaining university mound ladies home from the tragic disruption of moving from one facility to another. thank you. >> thank you. next speak. >> good afternoon. my name is peter, thank you president chiu, supervisors. as supervisor campos noted, the concerns that i have are with the lack of transparency of the current board that operates the facility at university mound ladies home. this lack of transparency in their voting, in their movement

towards eliminated the facility itself for its current use and the fact that there is a vested interest in a lot of the supervisor -- a lot of the board members who have invested money in that mound and i would like to know what it is that they're gaining from the sale. are they incurring some kind of interest? i'm sure that that is what is motivating their interest in decided immediately what needs to happen. one of the board members has invested over 100,000 in it without changing the business model. noting that it is a failed business model and still pursuing with that failed business model instead of changing that model to make it a successful facility. we need the time to vest gats this. investigate this. we need the board to actively look into the actual background of some of these board members to find out what their interest is.

thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon city supervisors. my name is patricia, my mother is university mound ladies home. much has been spoken here about university mound ladies home and the impact the closure will have on the residents, but the impact can be life threatening. my mother's at the mound, 83 and suffering of dementia. she's here with my dad and this picture was taken just a few weeks ago. this is the face of those being displaced. this is the face of ageing san francisco citizens. this is the face of someone that's spent their life at saint mary's park in san francisco. the move to impact my mother, this could be life or death for her. her husband of nearly 67 years

who is still a san francisco residents, he visits her everyday and currently our only ogss are moving her out of the city. supervisors, these are those affected by what seems to be a morally reprehensible act, the closing of university mound ladies home. my parents have been san francisco residents for over 60 years, they've own add home for nearly 60 of those years. they've owned a business in this city for nearly 30 of those years. they love this city. we look to you to make the correct decision and now support the sale of university mound ladies home and not rezoning the area for anything other than a senior housing facility. decisions that is in the best of interest of the ageing san francisco citizens. thank you. >> next speaker. >> supervisors, my name is tony