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need consulting and help with getting rental read they have issues with their count they'll be provided avoidance next the certificate holders for people that have been displaced through the ellis act consistent with what the program is they'll have second preference and thereafter is san francisco residents and is as you've heard before with our mayor's office of housing oewd will be overseeing is outreach and also the lottery so is developer and partner team related they'll be implementing the marketing plan. >> thank you.
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>> you're welcome. >> commissioner bustos. >> yeah going back to commissioner singh's discussion about parking and again, it is something we've been talking about and i know that since is original conception of objecting this property even the developers have realized that people want sort of larger unit more than 1 or 2 or 3 bedrooms that means nor families; right? that want to bow those properties or live in those unite so expecting families to move around on a bicycle is an elicit it attitude people that have families you know maybe in one affordable units need a car i'm holy hoping there are other people from the parts of city
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will that will be able to live in this building there maybe folks from bayview that can live here but their churches or synagogue are in the southeast portion they'll need to drive to church or vista family member i know there is a transit first idea that is buzzing through the whole city but it is almost that policy or that way of thinking is meant for a small group of people and does not take into account families community that rely on their automobile and if of we look at the elderly if they want to go grocery insurance policies in certain places they're not going to ride a bike to go grocery insurance policies and have to carry bags i know there
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is a grocery you guys are looking at i applaud you, we had discussion what type of store we're talking about i want to highlight is kinds of things we've been talking about and i i know the city is pushing something but mid-market in the history of san francisco is city has pushed something that has not worked so we need to think this through the second thing i want to talk about the sbe update before i busted my knee and foot and was away one of the last commissioners are commissions i talked about you know the need to do those small business enterprises minority businesses owned businesses about creating fairness about equal listing the playing field so i'm glad to see the numbers you guys are looking at is up there but in that spirit of fairness i
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would hope that i mentioned this before but it is almost a month we look to businesses and services that have been here in san francisco for a long time we have because of growth of whaepdz in many of the areas a lot of people from outside are moving in and starting a business and getting the services then we have businesses that have been here for decades not getting nothing whether that is architecture firms or other types of professional services to even carter coffee is goals is spirit was to be fair and so i've asked this before i hope we can as you work with our staff and - let's look at what companies have been here 0 a long time and give them
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an opportunity to get some business that was the spirit of is whole thing if a company moved in to take advantage of the new gold wishful u rush it's 2309 not fair for the folks that have been here for a long time keep in mind that as we look at the work you guys are doing as you put out our rfps and try to reward people that stuck it out and survived in the city that believed in the city about a boom right who wanted to make the city the best city they deserve to have a good chance and you know what if they're missing something or they need proven ways god we'd love to hire this contractor make it
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workout make it a win within for everybody i mentioned this on the phone this is what it is all about let's lift everybody up so i ask for that consideration as you guys go forward and are looking at hiring people in companies for service thank you but i think it is a great project i think you know you have a great reputation here in the city of do the right thing and you know you got a partner that is do the right thing so i want to thank you for that. >> okay commissioner mondejar. >> yes. for the record could you explain is madam chair of reducing the affordable units from one hundred san francisco to one hundred 50 did we get something in return for the what
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20 units we've lost i know this is because they said to expand the unit to two or three bedrooms. >> our rvp requires that 27 percent of the total number one number of units be affordable they've met that requirement with is one hundred and 50 as far as what we get in return what we got in return was unit that are larger from what we originally requested if you look back at our rvp for the ocii units we said that is units need to be a minimum of 5 hundred square feet for is one bedroom and 70 is 50 for the two bedroom and we end up with 840 plus and
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11 square feet for is 3 bedroom we got larger units that i think will be more comfortable to those people that are in there. >> and because of this the grocery store was reduced to 12 thousand 57 hundred from 22 thousand; is that correct. >> it was reduced i don't know if it was reduced specifically for that reason i'll ask bill whitney to come up and address that. >> commissioners with respect to to the grocery we started out with our usual concept of trying to combine two floors what we found as we talked to people two issues of is previous scheme is first is that was a fish nor
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foul size the larger grocery's want thirty to 40 we couldn't do under the circumstances but something central to our design that cuts to is site the larger gorgeous wanted continuous space partly is lack we were not going to compromise that to get to the larger grocery their tech people that is true e thought they might not got a compatible size to commissioner murphy's point there is a lot of local groceries in today is work or world there's kind of sweet spot is 75 to 10 or 12 thousand
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square feet is a garage selection, if you will or possibility we have not picked anyone it is a combination of all those things. >> thank you. >> any other questions. >> i have a couple of. >> real quick commissioner one thing i'd like to if tiffany and jeff one thing we can do i know that we talked about certificate of preference and would it be possible some point maybe in the next few months hold or sponsor a workshop for the public about certificates of preference where we could talk about how you know how to do better outreach to them but also if we're looking at workshops have to do around
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kuwait credit let's let people know we didn't forget about them but two get people prepared to be on is look out that things are happening and maybe we can get a pipeline of folks to be able to do that if we hosted somewhere i think it would be great impeople will see we didn't forget and we can probably do a lot more outreach especially right now it is a heated thing people will appreciate that chair if we can host. >> we have on our forward looking at calendar i think is mayor's office of housing i believe a report on is housing - >> we do through the chair on is forward calendar a look back on is 13, 14 our production and part of housing production to
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contributed to ocii through 2020 will attribute 40 thousand affordable units 21 hundred are through ocii projects and related to t n d c block 8 contribute but certainly a start from the public hearing on our production duo to date and we'll be glad to work with you and our city partners with the stakeholder engagement. >> so okay elsewhere. >> i have a point so maybe perhaps when we get to the commissioners matters we can bring that up i had a couple questions it is in line with some of the other questions my fellow conversions raised i'm interested in the market study that ruled in a great demand for larger units in
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turn to reduce the number of units i'm interested in that study itself i think perhaps two years ago maybe i'm just remembering a different development where the market demand study was for is smaller units i'm intrigued a shift in the market perhaps and can i have someone address that. >> i'll ask bill witnessing i didn't to come up and answer that. >> madam chair rosales we can certainly get you a copy of the market study but i'll tell you why it's happening in my opinion we're not strangers but with the former development agency it opened in 2001 we track the market as it's gunning gone with when the paramount opened the square feet in the building was seven hundred and 70 square feet
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studios and ones and two's at the time people thought that was small a kind of new york building now that's large and if you look at the large buildings developed recently particularly in the middle market area is 14 hundred unit they're all really small there's a huge surge if you look at building coming online i'm saying there's anything wrong with that but is second thing in the market study b will documented this is for is very expensive tall buildings in the market unit high rents interestingly it is not just a rent per square feet calculation the smaller the higher rent it is true for some level rather is
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bigger unit are commanding higher rents in some cases it is a practical thing paying that much rent a phenomenal rent not looking rent per square feet that is renter talk but to put all the things together a lot of people see the privacy in the market of transbay and other areas there's really a deficit, if you will, of larger unit offset also by so many very small unit you don't mean mike units but a building an harrison street is one hundred percent studios in the building again serving the market not a question of right or wrong but we didn't go in with a preconception of doing this we assumed smaller units we looked
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at what was happening it steadier us in a slightly different direction. >> do you think that more families or folks that point more space to grow, if you will an investment in the property to hold it. >> i think there is a sector of the market that is egging merging i don't know if we have another experience in the city to see that you may be beginning to see that by the way, as commissioner fewer commissioner bustos we didn't anticipate this but when the paramount opened that garage has 6 percent spaces per unit we evaluate park the whole garage i think that was roughly the percentage of people that had cars today at the paramount 32 percent of the tenants park cars in that
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building in terms of because of transit option that is how mentally ill are young we didn't necessarily see that coming there seems to be less demand for parking although i can't frankly quickly commissioner bustos with some of your comments about people going to part is city those things are evolving over time i think one thing that helps with the point if there were some type of charter school dentist didn't have many people now between mission bay something maybe in the works that would be a big a real key to more of that happening not everybody can afford or want private school that area really was not financial so primary so that would be significant the answer
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is i don't know yet but you're probably right that's my guess as awhile you're there let me ask you another question i'm districts about how is developer pick the general contractors at least right now in attachment 4 a robust picture of our professional service providers what is the process that you would go throw in selecting a general contractor do you have one in mind. >> i'll give you the criteria we typically work with one or more contractor just to advise us on cost estimates that's not is selection of the contractor building the project for us in a kinds like this a couple of
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criteria one they'll have to some of this is obvious they'll have to have san francisco high-rise experience we will want someone that is has in likelihood has business with ocii as we have over the years because all the criteria that you have to address we don't want someone that is unfamiliar with local hiring requirement and things like that a building of this size when is really enormous they're going to have to have a certain bonding requirement you know what else can i say and then we have a strong in house construction design team people on is staff full-time we like for example our head of krauks construction was is project manager for is team that built
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the paramount we rely on their input but local experience familiarity with ocii and other local requirements financial capacity are probably the main criteria i don't know 3, 4, 5 that meet that you can threshold, if you will, can you consider is ability of the general contractor to expedite the project? well we really don't rely on them to expedite but to perform that's our job managing the team of consultant we have a fair amount of history in san francisco not that is not to do your job but working with ocii staff and city staff and you know people say it's difficult it is difficult if you let it be
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difficult >> it's good to know. >> you know actually, i think if you work with the process you're fine here but local experience outlets it is really the one side of the accompany expedite but do no harm that's is first rule. >> one other reasons i'm asking those questions i have our sbe policy as the fellow commissioners said in some of the reports we've received in the last quarter excuse me. shows - >> okay shows that is transbay area as compared to hunters point that some of the minority business in particular participation in the construction side is not as
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robust in transbay. >> whout without knowing the details but historically that mass as much be a function of the type high-rise development as the location imi don't know the particular facts there are simply fewer firms when you get into those complicated structures that have that kind of experience i don't know is details historically that is probably been the case certainly in is wood frame world achievement tends to be higher okay. >> well take that note yeah. absolutely go ahead. >> commissioner mondejar. >> go back to our seat. >> it is a beautiful building i've seen the model and is rendering and the pictures you sent to us do you have any plans
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for local arts or what you're going to do. >> i should know this in many cases a public art requirement i don't know is there one. >> public works projects no commercial in other project areas but i think o m organization might be able to address your landscape what you intend. >> is one thing i'll say it is good question we introduce to do in our projects whether it's formally requires is distinction office buildings have public lobbies so there is not that much interior public space we try to work define if we're going to do anything in the lobby and something like that and is landscape easier we try to find local artists we did
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another project with was it redevelopment or mayor's office of housing jeff would know in crescent coffee 2 hundred affordable unit project and mission bay north on is show place square side of the 280 we paid for a local measure lift we try to do i'm glad you brought it up i was thinking about it ever there is a requirement we're going to have something some art and we do try to use local it just make sense it is a good thing to do people feel a little bit more at stake and i have a beautiful facade on market and sphere the beverages for example is outside are works of art and
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so i was i didn't see anything about art. >> jason can confirm we're only in schematic design but when we could be with the finished product those details will be filled in you're right the real opportunity to outside on clemente that will be shut off in the perry say in a lesser degree in the lobbies but a lot of public spates there's where this opportunity will be i think. >> okay. thank you. >> do we - >> i have one more. >> go ahead. >> not for him. >> one more question. >> dr. jackson and any public comment on this item?
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>> no, i just talked to the young man mr. white to inform him, i want to inform i'm a certificate holder i received a letter from olsen lee last year that the certificate holders will not be any longer than after 2016 i'm glad you're going to hold a hearing auto while take our comment during public comment. >> yes. at my age 82 i forget. >> i'll remind you. >> laughter. >> so commissioner mondejar. >> one last next thing or thing i want to hear from the nonprofit partner t n d c if it's okay. so i just want to know how that this meets our requirements as a nonprofit partner do you have any comment. >> thank you for asking commissioner don falk we're really thrilled to be part of
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project we're very passionate about our values and sxhuts we feel like it is important to represent those in our discussions about design and financing and how the project will carry forth i think in our mature selection always partners we felt like we needed to hear and see that and relate it they'll be responsive to us when we raise those issues that's our experience so far as far very good. >> thank you very much i appreciate it. >> would any commissioners like to say anything about is design i think that is beautiful i personally like the terracotta. >> here's one hundred and 50 affordable units 77 percent and 50 or 70 inclusionary units will be first and second story what's
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is rest of the affordable. >> is - >> over one hundred 50, 70 is second-story. >> yeah. in the first 7 stories of the tower and the remaining 80 ocii funded you units are located in is adjacent one adjacent podium which as 65 foot podium and is second podium is the remaining ocii funded unit will be. >> will be there on top of the building anyone. >> no. >> no. >> okay. >> all right. thank you. >> okay. any other questions or comments? is that two items we're going to vote on this separately and
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everyone ready >> rosales if i could have the design stand up >> thank you so much very, very impressive work thank you. >> okay. so we've got two items 4 b and c we'll take them separately. >> can i move. >> yes. commissioner bustos would you like to move 5 b. >> is first one. >> yes 5 b so commissioner bustos has made a motion and seconded by commissioner singh please call the roll. >> commissioner mondejar commissioner singh commissioner bustos sxhorlz i have four i's.
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>> is next item is - commissioner singh as moved is there a second. >> second. >> commissioner bustos seconded that. >> commissioners commissioner mondejar poimg we're voting on is second one i have questions on is second one i thought we were only discussing the first resolution. >> it was open for both but it's fine if i think we - do we have to. >> well, it's been months ago and seconded i have a question on we had a discussion on this on the standard i want to make sure this is ones attachment 21 where was that
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