there something wrong with that, i think so let's help san franciscans i'm sure you. thank you for your time (clapping.) >> next speaker. >> i'll call for names (calling names). >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is angela brown an associate pasture we help with meals and health care and childcare and housing service including shelter reservations we're the largest in san francisco which means people line up everyday to get a shelter bed or are turned away 7

thousand 4 hundred and 37 total shelter reservations were made in 2013 ranging from one, 3 and thirty night reservations the wait list for a 90 days shelter pains in our lobby and as of today had over 6 hundred names on it each night people are sleeping in the doors san francisco, california do better we need affordable housing and places for people to sleep it's a moral obligation we're all responsible for our community challenges and guides has always good for dignity acceptance and love for all if accident community please support in legislation and thank you for your attention. >> thank you

good afternoon, commissioners thank you for holding this hearing i'm beginning listen from the united council as long as mother brown's dinger room we provide homeless service to the southeast section of san francisco which is really off the pathway we're not in the tenderloin or south of market we have a small community but a large number of homeless people ours is a drop in center people stay from 7:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. in the morning without any beds their sleeping or sitting in chairs all night long i came up with the great idea to put bedsflexia to our facility it was a vacate warehouse i've been beat up because i'm trying to get homeless people in where

they can lie down to sleep their legs are swollen two or three times what is normal they're going to san francisco general hospital it could be alleviated if they could be laying down at night this will help the next neighborhood like bayview hunters point san francisco has a housing problem we run hope house and we have interconnections programs 4 formally homeless people can get a shared unit permanent housing for regular homeless people we only have 70 beds he and over 15 hundred homeless people they come to our dinging room the

whole building is full at night with this legislation it is before you, you do know how easy it is i want to invite you ought to mother brown's you can see and americans and san franciscans are actual knowledge it's not a pleasant site i urge you to support in legislation it is very important to our community and very important to the people that are here thank you. >> (clapping.) thank you. is there any additional public comment susan come up. >> hi, i'm chris at the fairchild the executive director of north beach for the last ten years i'm here to support the legislation for 3rd district ems housing is an issue if san

francisco if you're homeless and go inside and are how's your not homeless anymore that's that that simple as we looked at our map to put shelter there are opportunities in 3rd district as and i went 80 up the district the other day they're not going to be coming from all over they're there portland square there's a great need i've gotten people off the streets and the wafer and embarcadero there they're there are and that's not going away it's all over i see a huge need we've gotten 3 hundred people into housing a e and that impacts unus on washington square i hope you support the

protective and is there any additional public comment. >> hi my name is susan rebecca i'm going to reader from is prepared statement i work to youth alliance we i did u uses to run a facility in the hate ashbury until we lost the lease because of the neighborhood resistance from the homeless we cannot secure another location in the hate ashbury so for the past year we've permitted health and human certifies as a mobile program with the support compliance with the state law we've seen first hand how to get the homeless services there are homeless people if every neighborhood of the city whether or not the services exist they can't travel around the city to get a meal

they end up on the streets disconnected tonight is the homeless having anyal for people that have died in the city for the consequence of being homeless there are people on the clients list we heard there's a fifth a 19-year-old he was really hard to engage but we were making under roads shortly thereafter, we stopped seeing him he used to come everyday to eat and shower and use the bathroom and talk with someone today, this morning we found out he died modern 6 blocks this young man died a profit

preventive - that's what happens every neighborhood that has a hopeless population they need to serve the population it is common places and just being human thank you. >> (clapping.) thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners i'm actually here for another item since i've been listening i haven't read the whole legislation but hope there will be a provision for neighborhood notification in the cases of whatever proomz programs are being suggested for a neighborhood because i think it is better when the whole neighborhood knows what bhapz

and people not knowing so my name is is a janet i live on minnesota street in 9 dog patch. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment okay seeing none, public comment is closed i want to strongly support this legislation it looks at though as staff suggested that shelters can go into areas where group housing i'll courage us in derailing protective look like expand it is loud not north part of the city why group housing is not not southern part of the city but support of the legislation as property today. >> commissioner moore. >> i support 2 mr. sharp particularly in the light of the

last few works it's hard to verbalize people have been murdered to where we sit on bush and montgomery and i think we're taking up all of suddenly something is happening nobody would very expected a reaction to that by the numbers are staggering and we're not complying with the government vote i want to ask former supervisor dusty how come we have waited so long. >> i'm glad i asked it i wanted to say your planning staff person didn't view this an words on paper but saw facilities she visited a shelter and seen supportive housing it was just in the work plan of the platt

planning department that was difficult with the planning department was small and the city was trevend activist it was not a high priority i think originally i had a conversation with marie rogers and it just ripped my heart to see people be so angry about helping people that have glutin up in the neighborhood it is their neighborhood the ones that are speaking out the loudest are saying we don't want the element in the neighborhood it has a lot to do with the department and emry rogers sthaird shared and we've been interested to everyone understand i appreciate someone you coming up saying they want to be advised the best programs are those planned that the neighborhood we do that in the castro when we opened up

market street having support housing so we welcome it opportunity it was a workload issue and once we became aware of it the department was engaged they've done a wonderful job and we have folks that felt replaced and presenter their plan. >> i want to add a quick comment about 250 kearny street for at least 10 years i worked on bush street a nice high-rise building between bush and montgomery the particular building in question used to be one of the feedback negative places in the entire district at least in the financial district a narrow definition of financial district i walk by there and all of a sudden this particular building as present to the

outside is a lovely modern clean, white entrance with carpet behalf carpet leading. >> i didn't know that was up there but it's a major improvement something positive going on pardon me it the occupied right now and all the negative things that used to be ethics commission to the flee bag hotel have invisibly if this is the one case study i want the rest of the poub public to pay attention to buildings troment overlook >> and the president set the goal of ending chronic veterans homelessness by the end of 42015 and 2016 the federal government provides us with vouchers we were able to work with sam who did the rooms but 8 other

entities bit against us a technology company and they were offering as much as 25 percent it was a very expensive environmentalist one of the reasons we are aggressive in 85 up building those vouchers are used by section 8 to rent an apartment some of the people's working in the seething were ready to make the payment so i appreciate it i welcome if my of the commissioners want to see the new building we've opened the machinery it is beautiful for 24 new young people if people could see what those facilities are like they might not as fearful as having them in the neighborhood. >> commissioner antonini.

>> yeah. i agree with the other commissioners that is good legislation and it does make us connecticut compliant with stating state law it changes the provision of having more homeless shelters and as was appointment open space car and bike parking and impact fee requirements it only makes sense in our staff report it said at least as of now those figures there were 73 homeless of which 42 hundred are unsheltered i guess my question for former supervisor duh new we've heard there's a resistance for people going to shelters because they fear for their safety or conditions do we have something in the legislation or our city

policies to properly police those shelter so that people are not at risk from other people in the shelter and there's an area that people will want to go to. >> he appreciate it the 3 parts in doing this job for 3 years it's meant that people don't want services shelters were difficult for people if you're a male and female partner you can't stay together and dog that's more important having that dog put in another area of the shelter is not acceptable and shopping cart they were told to put everything under your bed it is not going to work that's what the mayor is working on to move people from the streets there are a shelter monitoring

committee people can file a complaint people have had things take place from them and lgbt people don't feel cajole lgbt stay in parks they feel that transgender women have challenged their as i told you by women in shelter environments it's complicated one the things we can look at the hospitality houses shelters in the tenderloin it was significantly renovated and that shelter it full if i see thirty beds i'm precipitated the smaller shelters compared to the south has 3 hundred and thirty people it is a big difference the province right now people are sleeping on mats province is

able to open up their gym and people sleep on mats and have no showers they are to leave it's a difficult environment part of what may happen done the road is seeing the smaller 40 pesdz but i wanted to say that scott walter's is here. >> i'm the manager of the did you want services in the human services division mr. duh new mentioned part of what we look for the legislation in the san francisco the standard of care tell people wasn't to expect we have a dedicated group of nonprofit people that are fund to operate those shelter and then we have an arbitration process if someone is denied shelter we've

built a number of systems and courage people to counseling communicate with the shelter first many problems are solved that way a long-standing sort of urban belief about shelter not being safe we may be address older stories we try to look at those we have a system that attempts to respond to my concerns of the people urging our shelter system when we do our up to this point in time count which we'll be doing again in january of 2015 looking people of their couch suffering in a park or in a shelter or

incarcerated we've lost shelter beds because the providers of shelters said they no longer want to be sherltsd and it's hard for us to find replacements you have to find knows that meet codes this legislation helps to address the fact beven said that well, the entire community needs to be responding to san francisco it's a city and county of san francisco issue and national issue is but our system does attempt to respond to the concerns of people as they come up we also over homeless storage to people that are looking to find better and more expansive space so people don't have to keep all their belonging to them our resource centers help that

includes showers and meals and mother brown's united you council is a parking lot in that program. >> i've talked with the fire captain he's been good about situations where individuals are brought if with medical problems and after their home as left them their picking up them either for clove induced problems is there a system in place to find the homes for people that need that. >> i should mention that san francisco has a enter departmental homeless team trying to engage people on the street that may not have made use of the facilities and housing as the solution permanent support of housing is

the primary response of san francisco through the mayor's office of housing and the department of public health and the agency we're trying to expand the housing that's available we currently have 4 thousand units of supportive housing that are inclusively for a person that is homeless and with certain federal programs assessment program that helps being used for the veterans and piloted for the federally fifrntd programs trying to find the homeless that are more responsive our homeless count the total number has not changed but the veterans homeless it is important to note there's a significant reduction in homeless meaning people that are homeless the longest we

don't have fence all around our shelters people come to the city who were homeless but we're taking the national approved idea to respond to homelessness trying to get those people we're wrapped around supportive services i'm pleased to say that the people in the housing we have 95 stability rate they stay in the housing or move to other stable housing we know it works. >> finally, i assume you've worked with cities best practices i'm not saying they're doing it better but a perception when i travel in other parts of united states and we attend the national and i liefrns conference to meet other people mr. giving you u duh new and my supervisor joyce went to philadelphia to look at their

programs if they had has many questions but they had examples of things to try and thinking about seeing some of the things we do i'm pleased to say that san francisco city and county invests local dollars in responding to this effort and community across the country that only make obvious use of the federal dollars we'll try to make that a local and national this legislation basically makes it a citywide responsiveness when i appreciate as an added tool to work with. >> thank you want to point out but a mary go is from the department of public health she leads the direct access to the shelter program people that are severely sick with mental illness and such so

the building at richmond and renée at fulsome first. >> commissioner johnson. >> thank you very much as a quick comment and the property legislation about supportive of it first of all, the addiction the city is in support of housing is the right one i've been to the opening of the baby hill garden and those people their lives have been changed by having homes it's one thing to have a invites shelter but another thing a home my question about the legislation is that my personal opinion whether people say - my

question is calling out homeless shelters is a definition in the planning code opens up the opportunity for certain neighborhoods or districts to say they don't want that use in their district or particular area i understand the state legislation says that no matter you describe the shelter as it has to be as of right and at least in one district but we've got 11 districts pick one and the other 10 can say theoretically so my question first to staff is moving backwards in the process were there other solutions to the compliance with the state law that was considered up to and including the permanent uses of hotels i'm not suggesting that's

the right way by i just want to get at the fact and no one said it here i feel last week i'm obligated to say there are neighborhood we've seen it in transitional housing i want to acknowledge that calling out this particular use opens it up to neighborhood that is a we don't want that use in the neighborhood. >> commissioner first of all, it's not a industrial district it's a zoning district. >> zoning. >> it's no a supervisorial district the important fact we currently because of the lack of a dissension that's not a right because hotels for example, are conditional use the solution to create a definition and make it right so neighborhoods can't say

we don't want it i mean assuming this legislation passes. >> it is not i mean anybody can dr it, of course, bus that's a different question and okay. >> i don't know did you want to add to that. >> as of right means it we just approve it it's not as of right of approving something that didn't require a hearing or didn't require you know more analyze it is something that is approved. >> i understand the approval that we can go through today, the homeless shelters as of right we understand that my question is for certain neighborhoods that feel strongly about it they could then i'm asking the question could they say we want to change it from as a right or to say we don't want it tall. >> it will require legislation

to change the legislation it's the board it will require legislation to make that happen. >> that's the crux of my question is that unlikely to happen. >> i can see certain areas they're going to say ground water great go to our supervisor or legislator and ask for legislation that immediately changes the right to a cu eir not permit it. >> if i may rarp through the chair we looked at you different options to amend the group housing definition but it's a minimum of a, homeless shelters there are more than more of a thirty day timeline but down to

one night we shout out to thought it was cleaner to define it so we knew what we were talking about i get what our saying i hope the planning commission wouldn't vote to carve it out from neighbors in the future. >> i wanted to put that concern out there i guess you can't handle the future supervisors or other legislators or people of authority so i guess it is something to have on the record and hopefully it won't be an issue. >> commissioner richards. >> i'll be brief i think mr. walter man and duh new i'm impressed that or with our passion you guys are the r