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you know and i want you you to know we know that the city has built twice as many market rates units as its target and half as many affordable units as its target that is a failure of policy it's a failure of implementation of policy and when i say let's not disturb the eastern neighborhoods plan you've got to keep that as an open question there are a lot of things you'll have to consider if you're going to read this balance but you're not going to do it in 6 months i don't think you think you can do is it in 6 months and it makes a difference when you don't reach our housing balance goals you have communities where added economic pressures of the not
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only are you losing affordable units by not building them but your creating increased evicts in the neighborhoods and legacy businesses are being driven out because newer businesses can pay a higher rents a higher priced clinic he will you know i know you know that every hundred market rate housing that is built from 2007 it creates a demand for 44 affordable units it creates additional pressure on affordable housing and so when you continue to build luxury housing you actually increase the economic pressures. >> sir your time is up. >> thank you. >> thank you.
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>> next speaker >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is adrian field representative with xarptsdz local 22 the faster way to keep poor people poor is with those moratorium and initiatives if you want to build housing we need housing those developers are building affordable housing if they're not doing it right tell them i'm confident they will do what they need to do 2040 brooirnt street that contractor is going to use union carpenters and provided not just the jobs for 6 months or a year to some lucky person that lives
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in this missions but a lifetime of work a way to a lifetime it is benefits and retirement we're confident that that is going to happen what we would like to do and like to see is this get built and it is not going to get built with a moratorium people need hours all levels of income need housing in san francisco so stopping housing is cutting off our noses to despite our face if you don't build housing you'll not have housing to live in thank you. >> next speaker >> hello, i'm kari white a long time residents in san francisco for thirty years a super bowl 50 owner i'm saddened people cocking talk down to you commissioners they disregard the
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time and energy you take to even listen to the sides that have issues on housing and construction and development in our city but we really need is sanity some even rules we stick to for a long period of time not those unnecessary unw5ir7bd expensive and frightening trurpgsdz we need to keep moving forward keep having dialog mission is a wonderful neighborhood they should celebrate that many people want to live there many more people want to live there that's a great thing lots of great things are happening in the mission because of the attention into all of san francisco not just a vocal minority just because 8 hundred people come and scream
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and yell at the board of supervisors dare i say almost make racht alleviations e.r. allegations didn't mean they speak for the entire city of san francisco this interim measure will impact count entire city of san francisco not just the mission we need stability and certainty to move forward so everyone is impacted equally not one community isolated from all others treated different with a new set of agendas it creates more uncertainty and dare i say it more cost and barriers for affordable housing in our city i really hope - i don't even
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understand this moratorium is coming from i hope you don't pass that interim measure and let the people of san francisco vote if they vote in november as one body not just a single neighborhood thank you very much. >> next speaker >> hi, i'm here on behalf of the mission collaborative and programs and lawyer street as well as the plazas 16 coalition we represent about 7 hundred plus sro tenants as well as other community members that receive our services from the delores services while we're very thankful for the work that the commission has been putting into this i think that it is important to understand that kroich is an
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important part of the growing and what you're doing is basically explaining our concerns and the need to address the sro's because it includes the whole mission it includes one thousand 4 hundred units in the pipeline for 82 percent are affordable even though we recognize the work of the commission hearing to the community and listening to the community we think the interim control didn't serve the housing crisis in the mission i don't believe that it is effective because we need a halt on the market like a market rate development many are here are breaking and entering up the moratorium and 19 days we were able to get all the signatures in order to put the moratorium on the ballot so this is a
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message about what the mission community wants and also when we talk about the affordable housing in the mission we need to i think some people needs to go to the mayor's office of housing and s see what their defines of affordable i was looking one the unions on fulsome and i can't live there i don't make enough money one studio was $2,000 from the average income that's considered affordable even though i live in san francisco and work in the midst i can't live there i've made the choice for the populations that want to remain for families living in crowded rooms of 5 or 7 people having no option working in the service industry and bars don't run after hours and some of the
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sro's we work with we're doing a sequence they've been going from 24 years to 10 plus years we've spoken with a tenants that has lived there 14 years and only a transitional practices placing for people to work and get money but now for low income and moderate income people. >> thank you . >> next speaker. >> good afternoon airbnb representing san francisco tomorrow i want to support plaza 16 and the comments of mr. weaver on the issues of the placing r planning commission to look at the concerns and how and what ways to develop e develop the mission it is important we
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look at beyond the housing issues mentioned today sunday morning and water and transit and on those issues have not been solved have you tried to get on a nonbus people in wheelchairs or tried to get down to the muni station with access to the trains we have serious concerns about the future of the city and what the steps the planning commission and planning department needs to take to adequately address it i hope you listen to the communities that supports the moratorium and listen closely because mr. weaver and spoke eloquently and accurately thank you. is there any additional public comment. >> if there is, please line up on the screen side of the room
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and we'll take additional speakers. >> good afternoon. i'm from the took could group i want to start i'm impressed how many folks seem to have drunk the trickle down kool aid and i think we'll may thisly have more units if they build more in the mission i think any rigorous analysis means it takes tens of thousands of unit to actually have a market it's balanced instead of, of course developers charge they will what the market bears and that's a heck of a lot i also want to note i'm not impressed but not positively by the don't know more 50 years the mission has been the heartland
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the city latino cultural heartland and physical and also the cancer centering of our multi cultural arts and the heart and soul they don't bother anywhere they only want to move in the problem is the city losses it's soul if in that process we don't want to be an arena district thank you then, of course, i'm sure you're aware of i asked previously last month for interim controls as many said those are cosmetic any controls that don't apply to the projects in the pipeline their game chancellor and the it is not worth it's the trouble of doing it it will be preserved as a fake as a political saw and damage the institution seen as a
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ploy that prospective don't do that you can find a metabolism whether to date or the project size but clearly those two projects have to be brought under interim control and, of course rethought it is clear there are many alternatives for bryan street that saves pdr some of it that had potentially provide affordable housing site and still provide market rate development on the 16th street and site it is clearly very complicated site how much density should be treated but not analyzed today that is what interim controls help you to do i urge you to not vote into it all thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon,
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commissioners oh i hope to be like ion that do of room i'm i legal willingly a nature of san francisco i love our beautiful city which is one of a kind opportunities don't come often for everybody the same but we have a city that has been built for families for love, for peace and for some reason is it seemed to be grinl that essence of our city seems to be going away like a pot of give him both you guys have had gum both it is the that's san francisco okay but the ingredients are missing in the pot there is a lot that is coming out we're taking it
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out one by one we need to get back to the good pot of gumbo what i'm here to say please help us to preserve this help us to keep san francisco number one on the chart in every thing i'm not playing i love our city i will die right here in this city please help us keep the city the way it was and the way it needs to stay diverse with all of us in the good pot of gumbo you all have some if you haven't lastly thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker.
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>> including but not limited to a robert to i'm wearing a hat i was made in the mission i was born in san francisco general hospital and i grew up are are amentsz, filipinos soolgz, chinese, italians it is sad all the african-americans brothers and sisters i grew up with they're all begun they've all been evicted the filipinos i grew up with all begun evicted soolgz all evicted that's 10 thousand people pushed out of the neighborhood 8 thousand being latinos is so when we talk about what do we have we had a crisis and two analyses years we meet with the mayor and told him we have a crisis please declare
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a state of emergency to allow at a time a moratorium if the board of supervisors had of done that we would have avoided thousands and thousands of people in the mission not only to be evicted but throughout the rest of the city it became an epidemic this is not the first time in the mission go back to 1996 the.org boom how many people were pushed out of the mission and the rest of the city that is interesting some of the.org boomers have joined the movement they can't afford to live here i'll give you a snapshot on valencia street a new housing condo development rentdz out for $11,000 a month who can afford $11,000 a month?
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a house on bryant street got sold for $2 million on bryant street between 20th and 19th street >> what is that 11 thousand rents in $2 million sale of that home do it puts pressure on the rest of the property owners to raise their rents to want to sell to push people out and that beautiful sister the way she put it the gumbo we're fighting to keep the gumbo in the mission to bring back the people that were born and raised to m be in our place so today you have a choice to make the right decision to look at a plan to be developed it addresses the
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needs of the dish we shall the cook and maids and everything else who serves this city and communities thank you. >> next speaker >> sue hester there is a lot of good language in this resolution i don't want to down play it but it misses the big point i participated in the entire mission eastern neighborhoods there was no discussion of us moving people from san mateo and santa clara into the mission to be housed google buses so-called google didn't run there was no decision of solving the problems of housing from santa fe north in the mission by the way we were
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going to bring people that were looking for people and subsidize them that's a benefit for those people that work there they get on the bus and don't pay transit fees their delivered with their high incomes into the mission and the place whatever they go and stressing out the community one of the things that should be asked is a tech company should cease and desits buses in san francisco a lot of the problems will decrease inform people had to figure out how to get there on their own if he wanted to live in san francisco mission instead of santa clara nothing in the internal revenue about changing dramatically changing the composition of the communities so dramatically we don't even remember that the
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mission plan was drafted during a recession it wasn't the booming economy as of now the next thing i want to say is there has been a massive change because of tech companies have changed the way people - they have brought into the city isolation and you get all your meals and services on site so people don't demand traditionally type of housing we used to have with the kitchens all they want a place to crash and willing to pay a lot of money with their high incomes we we have hitech hotels what you forbode is reports
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instead of a plan go down the good intentions really good language get the reports and get them now and don't end with our resolutions they end in 2004 didn't anything happen past 2004 i just ask you to get the information thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i feel so under prepared so nerve rocking first of all i want to thank the department for continuing to meet with us i know that several commissioners have been to the community michael will get you there i think everybody else on the mission katherine has been there we'll get her out there again, we have the community has really beard their heart and
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soul to the commission and department and really expressed their feelings of loss and sadness and the industries about all the lose in terms of families and generations of people that are losing their homes and cultural so when i heard someone they talked about preserving the gumbo i'm latina chicano ami i've been displaced but my heart and soul is in the city and with the community whoa wherever the latino community is i cannot depart from that. donald trumpet loves to spew hatred but i'm here to say i'm proud to be a latina i'm
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concerned about my community i have love for any community i know there is a lot of this sue hester said there is a lot in the enter control language that is thoughtful and good, i know that claudia and other staff members work hard to come up with something some kind of response to the pleas from the community which when it comes to develop it didn't go far enough in 4 weeks members of the community managed to collect over 15 thousand signatures to put a mission moratorium on the ballet that is a way to say we need to take pause and reflect on what we're doing as the attorney from the 2k0i7bd is scott weaver we want to be
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reflective and sensitive to what is going on in the mission african-american community i want to reminded everyone at 4 percent the latino community we don't want to get to the levels of losses of diversity in the city we're now the most populous group in the state of california let's not lose site of that 23 people don't get we're going to get what we want at the ballot box but i look forward to working collaboratively with all of you >> next speaker >> overhead please
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my name is a rick hall i live 0 potrero hill i don't live in the mission i guess my testimony is for myself and maybe the topic with broader about what is going on why those tops so hot because san francisco is being destroyed in the name of growth and greed partially with the accuse of saving the world from climatic change it's not worth the price the city is pga our leaders hide behind mandates from a bag and we should refuse to guy to there will and let
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them destroy our city i'm tired of political please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, indication like the defining legacy businesses with the thirty year tenure like tossing something to an art group to shut them up please have no part of that and why me why am i here? two years ago i had no background i was comfortably and still am retired open potrero hill i'm not at threat or at risk i moved from there to being in two years an activist i'm a member of ace, the plazas 16
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coalition, and the new cultural action need not which is concerned with culture across the city and how it is being displaced and destroyed those are unlikely alliances but to save the cultural and physical fabric of our wonderful city this isn't just the mission you'll qoc going to see it grow broader as people wake up sleeping giants are waking up i think this is beautiful i may not have known call me brother some of us about die before the struggle is over i'm disheartened to see the young people there are new giants listen to them they're watching
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over our fair city i've always loved gum both and learning to love you, too thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm deborah with the sro mission collaborative i was born and raised in the mission integrity and seen tremendous change in the mission district and the people and the mission of the mission district and it is sad too see the mission district community has been clear about was it needs- the mission district community
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has been clear about what it needs to address the crisis the moratorium on luxury development and aggressive citywide plan to rapid purchase and build affordable housing we're not in support of our interim control because it is not enough we want a full moratorium thank you. >> my name is frank i'm here to say that i think there is some good language in the controls i urge you not to delay or obstruct the housing in the pipeline i'm not president of the sunset
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