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single unit built we've asked him him for a plan to the mission to this day, no plan in 2008, we had a community plan and this city failed to implement other housing plan yet 37 cranes with up in san francisco that this city approved. >> (inaudible). >> thank you sir, thank you. >> we need 3 thousand new units thank you. (clapping.) >> public comment is over.
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(clapping.) save the mission staples with that community thank you. >> seeing no other members from the comment that want to comment public comment is closed. >> abstinence. >> sir we still are a meeting please please. >> supervisor. >> thank you, thank you very much if i can please have everyone's attention if i may ask my chief of staff put up this projector. >> i want to make sure having
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begun tloul through all the public comment giving this board an opportunity to deliberate and give what i think that both sides of the issue deserve a you really don't care yes or no on this proposal apologize to ask hillary put up this slide if sfgovtv has a map of the 13 sites where we build affordable housing in the mission today you know there's a lot of emotion today and i have to say for me today is the sort of a very, very challenging day and yet a really rewarding day it is been very painful to hear the
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stories from so many people i know that folks may have been entrusted by the passion and meekly emotion you have to understand how personal this is for so many of us i was moved to see hocking so many people chewy who is dealing with leukemia i know for him to come out to a meeting is not an easy thing that is how important this is and what i would simply say to any colleagues is is that i don't claim to say a panacea i don't know how anyone can come to the building with a solution a lot of things need to happen
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but in my whole 10 year as an effected e elected officials i've not sown what or someone like what happened here today not seen a community so moved by what is happen on the ground that 8 housed into a hearing there are still people lined up to speak didn't doesn't happen just because so it is about the reason why those folks came out i asked you to ask yourselves what you do to pie colleagues if you're own district was golden o going drove 8 hours and hear from our constituents how power less they feel
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we have an opportunity to give this community a chance to take charge of its own disney we may not agree but the fact should mean something. (clapping.) >> now let me say this is you know someone started the hearing in public comment this is our cell man thank you for the supervision for so many of us there are so many reasons this is important to people there's so many today, we're talking about a community that wants to preserve it's identity that wants - i hope colleagues
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have not decided that to the extent you air on the side of giving this community the benefit of the doubt i believe they deserve that benefit i'll say this to our community and i'll end with this i hope my colleagues do the right thing i hope that mayor ed lee can work with us to do the right thing but i also know that this is not the end this is the continuation of a movement because we have started something in the mission and - regardless of what happens or didn't happen here tonight this community will continue to
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we're not going away i want to end up with this quote from a writer who said all the forces in the world are not show powerful as an idea which time has spoken the idea builds housing for the middle-income and middle-income in san francisco is a time who's time has come thank you. >> 1 o'clock this hearing has been held and now filed madam clerk read item 39. >> an urgency items for the demolition of informs gain or loss of 5 or more resident unit for the distribution and create
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the permit for a hundred percent affordable housing in a portion of the mission plan funded by the north side of caesar chavez and the west of bryant and route 101 and van ness and madam clerk call the roll. >> on item supervisor kim supervisor mar commissioner hwang no supervisor wiener. >> hold on just a second. >> supervisor cohen i was expecting an opportunity to ask questions for the staff i everything it is late we went straight to 0 vote i - >> i apologize supervisor cowen so supervisor cowen. >> thank you so alright madam
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president. >> so colleagues is there a motion by madam chair rosales and supervisor farrell it has been rescinded at this time i'll recognize supervisor cowen. >> i have several questions about the policy discussion we have before us on this particular item a lot of the questions are district towards the staff how proximate causes and units will be impacted and schedule are affordable how many units will actually be affordable? >> the question is how many projects and units will be
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would be affected by the proposed ordinance and this is a total of 1574 net new units on the line. all of these we do have the inclusionary requirement which is 12% so we know that the minimum will be met. when developers are going through the pipeline they declare whether they will actually build units after their approvals happen or provide fees to the mayor's office of housing that we can do the projects that the mayor's office of housing does and at this point there is a limited that are affordable but we would get the minimum and in addition some of the projects are subject to hiring requirements than the standard inclusionary. >> okay. it's really late and usually on a normal day i would be able to follow all of that. it's like 11:16 o'clock.
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>> [inaudible] >> excuse me. we're trying to deliberate so if members of the public are going to continue with out bursts we will have you removed at this time. it is late in the hour and we want to get to a vote and respect the process and all the members of the board of supervisors to ask questions. thank you. >> so my question are there affordable proposed units that would be stopped under this legislation that wouldn't be allowed to go forward and being built? >> yes. if i was doing math i would do the 12% of the 1500. we could get out my iphone. >> [inaudible] >> thank you very much. the man is good. and so those are either units or in lou fees paid to the mayor's office of housing on the units. >> and the property on julian could be impacted? and clarify that project on 80
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julian so the audience -- 80 julian. >> i see 179 julian. 80 julian. 80 julian is -- >> supervisor campos correct me if i am wrong but i believe 80 julian say project for -- is it a halfway house? do you recall. >> i am showing it's a project with seven units. so i think the plan department has an application that states this is a eight unit supportive housing project for single mothers sponsored by a native american non-profit organization. >> so that you're telling me that could be tied up if this legislation moves forward? >> yes. that's on my list of affected projects. >> okay. okay. hold on. hold on. for these projects
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that have been proposed but not entitled has the sponsored indicated they plan to do on site inclusionary or pay for fee? >> they're required to do one of those. >> i know they're required but in the pp a applications have they indicated one way or the other? >> are you asking for a specific project or in general? in general we have an indication there will be about 17 units on site. >> okay. how many units have been built in the mission over the last five years? >> in the last five years there have been about 500 units completed in the mission district. >> okay. how many of them have been affordable units? >> i'm showing nine-point 4% of those were affordable, about eight. >> eight? >> i'm sorry. oops. 141. >> 141 out of 500. so my next
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set of questions have to do with impact fees and the infrastructure, so impact fees are not just used to fund affordable housing. they're also used to fund key infrastructure projects. in the eastern neighborhoods such as park and transit. many of you have heard a lot of discussion about the challenges that we are facing in the southeast that we have a over proliferation of buildings being built yet we don't have the infrastructure to support them so one of the things that i am concerned about is this impact if this legislation moves forward how will it impact these fees, these dollars? in particular i am concerned about the east-west traffic, public transportation from 16th and mission into the bay view -- dog patch neighborhoods, so my understanding that the impact fees generated in one
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neighborhood are not necessarily earmarked for the neighborhood. is that correct? >> that's correct. they're for the whole eastern neighborhoods area. >> so when you're we're talking about impacts it impacts the mission and all of the neighborhoods in the planned area? >> that's correct. >> okay. so has the eastern neighborhood program, the expected impact fees from this project? >> yes, the citizens group worked with the staff to do programming every year and look at what projects are ready for funding and they kind of target out the projects they would like to get built. >> can you tell me what projects in the mission district are earmarked to receive the impact fees? >> okay. in the current listing the projects include but not limited to the 16th street
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22 fillmore, rapid transit proves, disbar field square the aquatic center and pool improvements and the jury commons and playground and the jose coronado playground and equipment and to rehabilitate the mission rec center. >> okay. correct me if i am wrong the eastern fees can. >> to fund any of the improvements throughout the plan? >> that's right. >> and the mission district requires that 75% of their fee revenue is required to go to affordable housing in the mission. >> that is only in one zoning district in the mission. that is for the mission nct. >> okay. only in one area and is there funding going to the other zones in the mission? >> for affordable housing? yes.
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>> okay. so i'm under the impression this is a large revenue source for them, and is that correct? >> yes. >> do you know how much? can you quantify 75%? >> oh for just the 75%? yes the 75% -- it depends how long the moratorium is in place. if it's in place for the full -- to affect all of the pipeline projects it would be $7.2 million approximately. >> all right. so just a few weeks ago the board of supervisors unanimously supported federal funding application for the 22 fillmore /16 street rapid transit improvement. it's my understanding that some of the projected impact fees were developed to support this project. what would that impact be on the 22 extension without
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these fees? >> that would be a good question for muni. they're currently thinking that these impact fees will go toward that fund. there maybe other funds that could be rearranged. i don't know the answer to that but i know it's affected by the loss of the funds. >> i see. can you tell me what the estimated impact fee lost if the legislation passs? >> overall for -- so we just went over -- it would be almost 2 million from just the one housing fee in the mission and for all of the inclusionary housing funds we're estimating that those would be 100 -- almost 125 million. >> 25 million or 125 million? >> 125 million. >> okay. just for the folks at home i noticed that supervisor campos shaking his
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head in disagreement. when i am done i will definitely turn it over to you so we can get a dialogue going. i have a question for the mayor's office of housing. >> [inaudible] >> okay. i apologize that my back is to you mr. lee. are you ready? >> yes, i am. >> okay. what types of projects -- what types of projects does this -- should this legislation move forward -- how does it slow down given the fees are not used to fund a variety of affordable housing priorities? >> the mayor has budgeted -- has credited a very ambitious affordable housing budget in part to address many of the concerns that the members of the audience have raised today. i think we're all in concert about the need for more affordable housing, and the inclusionary fees or the impact fees are
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clearly a part of what is needed to fund what is a very ambitious affordable housing goal. the mayor's goal is clearly the 10,000 deeply affordable units. they must be subsidized to make them financially feasible to leverage outside resources. and the types of housing that would be funded would include everything from senior housing to supportive housing to low rent housing to public housing so all the fees that are collected for the purposes of affordable housing get leveraged probably two times over. >> all right. a couple of questions for you olson on just the sites for possible acquisition so it's my understanding that the community working with the mayor's office
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has identified 13 possible sites. you have heard it in the comments from public comment, and 13 possible sites in the mission that would be acquired and developed for affordable housing. could you please give us a sense of the process for acquisition of these sites? how long does it take? >> well, i'm not quite sure of the exact location of these 13 parcels that were identified -- >> [inaudible] >> i'm not quite sure of the exact locations of the parcels. i see the map but the map is not in the greatest detail that i can actually see it, so i do have that particular copy. i would like to say that even prior to this hearing after a walk down south venice with supervisor campos the mayor directed my staff to actively
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look at a variety of parcels in the mission, and we have done that. we're in the process of doing that. some of those parcels might be these 13, but the mayor has directed staff to look at acquiring some of the parcels to preserve the affordable housing -- >> so can you -- >> what we found out in this process is that the mayor and supervisor campos walked down south van ness and the mayor looked at many sites along that walk and staff basically followed up with the owners of all those sites, sites that appear to be under utilized may have long-term leases on them. sites that may appear to be ripe for housing development maybe tied up with another use, or the owner may not be interested at all at selling their property
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housing, affordable or otherwise, so the process of looking at those sites is really much more so than doing an analysis of sort of the capacities of the sites and whether -- what planning would call a "soft site" and would take us talking with the individual owner and seeing if the owner was actually interested in selling that site or not and at what price. given the run up and the prices of land and the expectations in the city overall the whole notion is also the question of is it appropriate price? >> can you -- >> so the fact it's a solve site does not necessarily mean it's available. >> >> i get it. maybe i can interject here briefly. what exactly is the city's process
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for acquisition? >> well the city's process for acquisition -- if we were to get into a letter of intent would be to bring that property back to this board for authorization to actually enter into a purchase and sale agreement for the purposes of acquiring it for whatever real estate purposes on behalf of my department for the purposes of creating additional affordable housing. >> so what's the source of funds used for the acquisition? >> the sources of funds are varied. one of the things that again we had the luxury or we had the fortune of the mayor and the board seeing the need for additional affordable housing funds when the redevelopment agency went away, and through the vote of the people we have the housing trust fund, but the housing trust fund in of itself is not sufficient to cover all
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the -- to replace redevelopment funds in whole, so the mayor's office of housing uses both the housing trust fund, federal funds, both community development block grant funds and home funds in addition to our inclusionary or jobs housing linkage fees. historically the mayor's office of housing relied predominantly on our linkage fees for their gap funding. in addition to the housing trust fund and the proposed housing bond that the mayor is proposing and bringing through the board process the mayor has also worked with the governor's office to try to recapture some of that redevelopment funding -- funds that were previously lost with disillusion, and the mayor announced the other day that
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one of the things that the trailer legislation would do finally passed would create an additional $500 million in capacity for affordable housing in the remaining legacy project development areas and that would increase the budget that we have for our affordable housing over the next six years from 1.1 to 1.6 billion dollars for affordable housing which we hope to leverage two times over. >> so what are some of the tools available to use in order to help this real serious issue? >> the staff is working on a variety of things. as the mayor has mentioned in the past we're working on a variety of administrative things to speed up the approval of affordable housing. the mayor has provided an executive directive to all the city departments to expedite
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the approval of affordable housing. the mayor is also looking at a variety of changes in the inclusionary program that would facilitate the production of affordable housing. we're looking at an affordable housing density program that would require -- would allow developers to have more height in exchange for doing more affordable housing above the baseline affordable housing, so and we're also looking at what we call the accelerated fund which would try to tie up parcels, more other housing in anticipation of the permanent funding from the city overall as well as the small sites program which was something started with the housing trust fund. a goal of the small sites fund and any other acquisition fund would be to acquire existing rent controlled buildings and preserve them as long-term affordable housing. >> so you sa
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