the slment the tenderloin and the excelsior area i'm i feel that affordable housing need to be on you're showcasing priority 100 percent affordable housing we don't need 4 hundred and 60 o 70 foot condo that displaces my community i've been working in the selma for 14 years i have seen familiarize becoming homeless where do they go i don't know and i think that is time to address the disparities that luxury condos bring into neighborhood and need to fight for the people that built the city and have been here for a long time the board cannot improve the project because of the displacement project i'm concerned that adapts elderly and the working-class community i serve and i hope you also send

this project back to the planning commission and demand that that project follow local and state laws thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors thank you for having us and i just want to you know remember the all the victims from paris you know there is some big issues going on i want to remember them and i want to thank you you guys especially you guys are saying no to 5 m i want to thank you guys in advance i'm against this project specifically just because of gentrification against gentrification 10 years from now what is selma going to look at the environmental impact report i

don't think it addresses our positions you know it is simple thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> game-changer supervisors i'm teresa i opposed this 5 m project i'm a residence of s o m a we lived with others we were one the luck ones we had family here and so many filipinos arrived having to deal with the situations on their own selma oma is our home. >> we will fight against those

who wish to divide please don't be like the replying and the land use commission because the so-called public century were deaf and blind to our realty what will happen in you pass that 5 m don't be duped by their lies and show of money their dpiftd our community because of money don't allow forest city to make up their own rules that is a dogger precedence to our city to most of us we will not be bought when you're looking at the millions of their supposedly offering us part of development agreement in a realty that's only peanuts compared to the billion dollars out of this project i'm requesting the longtime sustained number one money is short term and gives 5 m the easy fix in order to get the city's approval and to those

there is nothing favorable that about this project and investing the laws and restrictions how neighborhood figure out to protect us from developers like forest city nothing sustainable all are catered to bring in a group of filthy rich people that don't care about us what is sustainable think of the economic and social impacts of gentrification the long term effects of gentrification and displacement garbage nobody talk about that traffic and environmental pollution and crime and sores prices no affordable housing and visions and special treatments to the rich and elitists happening by this administration forest city they're no diversity than airbnb and they're

releasing speculators ron conway the big tax who powder million dollars to promote lies and confusion we wanted you to know we will keep on fighting to protect our communities and protection filipinos today who will be serving - >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hello, i'm silva johnson explained on the rich people is one i'm i have to tell you i get my there and tell you to quit the devil is getting more powerful he knows i'm getting stronger and stronger he will not deal with you this is become and then stop him because the

power of god is more than he can withstand and you'll be supervisors explaining to everyone and looking at him in the eye that i have already seen that is going to be changed because this is will not ruin no, no anymore i've had enough who i am or what i stand for or my purpose and family which all of you regulations i'm proud to say you final got something that stand for about liability and more car parts and children we have what stands for and we're charged with the idea people

like - i think that is going to come to appear to everyone hiring the truth will stand to where we'll all say and is difference between - we'll be able to make that more clear make sure that you'll hear who i am i'm tlument i have to tell you you'll be able to understand because you will not been able to with me he'll lose any kind of devices with our children he

knows he will withstand with the left hand that have been we'll stay with him he won't have the a lot of money and - i don't think he'll standers it, it is about jowls and we'll having all have and - >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening board of supervisors this is one the spanish specialists will take over. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so good afternoon good evening board of supervisors i'm mrir miami.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> so i work in the soma with the filipino and latino families >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so - i belong to the organization and i have some stories to share with all of you that come from the latino and filipino families that will be - >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so i just want to say a few

years ago i've been working with the organization and a few years the father and mother is elsewhere to stop coming since the organization because their rents and simply were displaced from san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and now comes this time around the neighborhood district of soma and the fire extinguisher families are displaced from there. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so i ask myself you supervisors what happened to the developers that displaced the working families their hard working what happens to the developers. >> (speaking foreign language.)

>> so i ask you again those hard working families that worked in good jobs and send concerned their children to the public schools where are the families now being displaced speeding i feel not able to hope people what about the children not continuing their educations where there will they continue to study. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so i ask you to things for the stopping of this project so the young people that want to stay here and study and remain

here and the parents to remain here to support themselves. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> . >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so good afternoon good evening supervisors i'm here with the organization >> i'm a resident of the soma district. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> don't believe that the 5 m project that is proposed should be approved it is going to negatively effect the residents in the soma district. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and if you start to think about that to feel this.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> that the more the ones who be will be affected is the elderly. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> you don't feel this because none of you sitting here live in the soma district. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and if you feel this project should move forward. >> (speaking foreign language.) then what matters it the money and especially those in the soma. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> tassel to your attention. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and if you have look at of conscious to please think about all the things. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> all the negative consequences that will be brought to this area because of project. >> thank you. >> thank you.

>> thank you. next speaker. >> hi good evening supervisors i'm jasmine i'm an educator and artist and activist work with the workshop as a concerned citizen of san francisco not rush to break the zone laws and the communities trust and instead recommend you go back to the planning commission and follows the laws and impacts the residents of the soma neighborhood of the neighborhood it effects the negative impacts on the people of san francisco most indirectly that displaces the working-class people that are essential to the economy and community and displace the latino and fire extinguisher and working-class xhibt in san francisco additionally i want to emphasize not only will those groups be negatively impacted by

5 m but all san francisco will suffer i know for myself not a san francisco native not nancy pelosi filipino not working-class will be affected by the 5 m i posted to san francisco from boston i moved here i was draw up to the rich diversity of ethic and the filipino and chinese community that makes it easier for lgbt folks to live here because of the arts in san francisco all of these things what i think of what i think of san francisco i've seen the city changes in the last couple of years maine due to the tech and the high income residents that are changing the reversal market we're struggling to pay our rent that numerous others artists of small art organizations are leaving san francisco leaving the cultural sworn an educator

and nearly all my friends had to move to the eastbound i'm living in a rent-controlled unit apartment i live in fear of being evicted spold the understanding the 5 m promises to build are not fiberglass i'm a marching single person with a moderate consistent income with no way to afford those units the working-class people in the soma can't afford those unite they'll be displaced i say all those things i don't want to emphasize t t you'll not be building those building if you care about the people of color their fighting their neighborhood you're still noted looking at them when they

speak i'm trying to speak as a privileged person you'll listen to i know that - >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm john i'm a san francisco residents i'm here to support 5 m. >> s.p.c.a. directly into the microphone. >> i'm john a san francisco resident and here to support 5 m. >> this is the side of the meeting people that are opposed to the projects are speaking. >> i did not know sorry. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> blessing i'm a lessons secretary of universal indoor nation of tribes chapter they chapter of firstborns and come

radicals living in the south of market that are effected if this 5 m project cbos forward please don't port 42 hours is that displace poor working-class support the protecting affordable housing only not luxury condos and office spaces thank you. >> didn't go my name is - richie association and i live in district one but i'm here because i think this is a very important issue that effects the whole city this area this plan is in essential driving the filipinos out of their community they've been driven out several times before in the past this is

important to me because the japanese-american with or forced to going to concentration camps in world war ii and in the 70s by the local government because of urban renewal japanese-american communities was forced to flee to leave our town in the same incidence the african-american communities was also forced to leave and this story two communities now this new situation which is not new it is ongoing full thing process that is been building building building people say gentrification well gentrification on the other hand, but it is racism this area has full of filipino

2000 filipinos there is latinos and chinese and unfortunately, many are modest income so this is not only rational discretion but economic discrimination the whole city has been for decades paid to play and it's a sad, sad story at this point in time we could do something about this is not the only projects on the road we had 8 washington project and the 75 housing and the 5m and in the parts and in the next future we'll have polk street all the projects provide housing yes, but people don't live here right now we need housing for people that are here now if so ridiculous we need housing we need affordable housing please don't not approve that

project or the eir thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is t g the director of the working group a 43 organization in the soma supporting the asian communities i'm also a residence with the studio an organizer with the error with the communities center and south of market communities network and a tenderloin residents two years ago i married my best friend at the local church central city is my home i'm proud to work here unfortunately found a strong sense of communities but for myself and filipino medical examiners that represents our cultural heart but forest city about that transport anyone in its place the 5m will put our

communities at further fraction and displacements itself lurk units will not house the protecting seniors more our artists or service workers that delays inform air force homeowners and the 87 onsite as supervisor kim negotiated is targeted at individuals making one to one 50 percent of ami my two. households will not quality for a studio that is able to be afforded my neighborhood might the thirty stories towers will o blalt this scenario a huge surgery inland value will only 0 skrokt the rents with this rapidly reducing the people the

contribute that makes it special if we don't take a stand another tragedy for that the books another of him and yerba buena at the end of the day this is not just a soma not just a t l but a city issue. you're showcasing vote will set a precedent for the community planning in every san francisco neighborhood for years to come you hold the power and responsibility to stand up this not it who will you build for you're showcasing constituents that serves our county thank se

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm crisis not filipino japanese and i'm queer too i've been working in soma for quite a bit the year after the earthquake i started working here as a security guard as an affordable housing director and as a planner if a community-based now access to housing coordinator for bmr as well as affordable housing i'm here to tell you this i think the diversity of soma is beautiful i love soma since the first day i started to work there and the people the diversity of people and especially 6th street it is in a terrible departments time but love the way that people work together and the filipino communities was very accepting of me mainly because of way i

look but because of the enlists i was able to bring japantown task force they were spooird and member of mac in the mission and those gifts that that ability to see what is happening in the rest of the neighborhood to bring that and talk about the way that people are treated in a different way and different standards and bring that up to try to have solutions is it really important and this is the diversity of soma i am someone that work beed on the south of market family zone that was our opportunities to try to carve out 80 a place with the craziness of rincon hill and mid block and created the youth and family to remain the character of this area i believed in this project here is something that is going to destroy that character i want to be clear how

does that work and fifth street are an important part of community i believe in stooeshl you're saying the eir and says you can going if to 4 hundred and 40 feet in the block and in environmental impact very little there were responses nothing you can do about it you can sit there and say this is i think adequate and see the open space that is provided they have two hours of sunshine 23 hours of shade that's no a gift to the neighborhood you can say that the i'm here to talk about this this is a community vision would we've presented and the same amount that provides luxury housing that won't industry this

neighborhood - >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening board of supervisors i live and work a few plain clothes away from in project as a resident in the communities i've met filipino families and clients to express is 5 m will nostril help to sustain the residents income especially for the filipino community right now dozens of families i'm working with can't afford to rent an apartment in system central selma it has consistently transcribed to the you think affordable with the eviction and displacement and working-class residents and increasing those impacts are real a responsibility of the city to advance the 5m saying this project will include the central selma and impact it presents a greater risk for the

soma residents if 5 m project is approved does that impact the surrounding impact and will have a displacement of the filipino communities soma is a place where filipino or so starter their america dream please don't take this communities and trust and approve the 5m because of the impact this project will cost thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm chris a film maker here i walk around it looks a giant construction site i don't want that to happen to soma because i kind of want to see the culture that is built around this still intact i sucks that it really is a bummer that stuff has to happen about the 5m project the city and the

developer has mislead the public claiming the special prauchlt for the community that the community benefit will not happen if at the explicit get the special approvals you know as also known as an art i'm kind of tired of seeing a lot of good people leave this awesome place and as it turns anti into take away something by the way, yeah recycle please don't approve this this is really awful it is bad for the community i care i'm only speaking from my heart i care about my community the diversity and everything you know i care about that place so thanks. >> thank you.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm robert marquis living in district 5 work at market and 7 since 2001 and evicted and to market street but krment soma is my home for the filipino communities i came from florida group white that washed if a similar cultural and when i came in here he took a little bit of wine cultural in soma i ran into people that became part of my community and marble arts in the south of market part of sharing the art my experience i want the filipino community to participate in the chinese new

year's parade and participated in the citywide books it was apple i congress place i'm here to you of the on twitter tax break committee about one million square feet we saw what happens with the million square feet so this special zone it is about one million zone we're talking about high luxury condos and high resale and high-end office space to quote splendor someone from the transportation or transportation genocide i don't have to make this up rather than talk about that 15 years from now what are we are doing to do to address this we'll be pro-active and address it now get the vision to what

the space is supposed to look like i don't know how housing happens in this city i was on tndc has double credited for the 67 is avenue, i heard this property was ready to go in 2009, this city's budget has increased like 2 and a half billion dollars i don't know what it takes but what you start talking about avenue, i think this is the opportunity to slow down and look at the leadership to look at up and say what do we want to do this a million skis u skews in the most valuable square in the world right now it is valuable and magical you guys can approve it i ask you to take you're showing time to get a

real environmental impact report done. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> tom the government of the people for the people how about a city with those standards another neighborhood another neighborhood courthouse fighting for its neighborhood housing not being built for filipino for 8 percent of the people in san francisco changing events and changing times and changing values it is california we run other out of gold in the gold rush maybe the hours needs a new system magnificent profits for

healthy neighborhoods and growing and maintaining them and letting people grow old and letting the babies be born and kids growing up what if up to date change our housing evaluation success isn't a developer massive profit can we continue growing a healthy neighborhood people fighting in the mission tenderloin is going different neighborhoods not for this people of san francisco government of the people by the people for the people something is amiss what if new developments all new developments get thirty percent open to the market what happens if we pull 10 percent of the old folks from

the local zip codes 15 percent of people living in those local zip codes around the development and i. >> and pulling the society up it's time for a change what happened 5 percent for the people from san francisco long term elderly to move into any new project condo or apartment what happens if we can get 10 percent of the people of the units in each building for the teachers, police are fire, sewer road, electrical and muni workers and thirty percent left for people that are less fortunate seniors that could a have an income i've lived too long and people that have a home but they're being - they can't

maintain have to move out and veterans integrated foster kids people in the community people in our healthy we can raise everybody i'm for change thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> hello good evening supervisors i'm andrew i'm a resident of soma and i wish to urge you to not rush to approve that project let's reexamine it an adequate eir let's take a step back and send this back to planning so we can further see the impacts on the communities i moved here 11 years ago with the thought of a vibrant community now joy fully in the midst means it should be perpetual threaten

no matter the composition of the new companies taking up office what we or will be eir vocally tossed by the way side how many community centers and affordable units and other promises sway not the bottom line what grew over and over combaveng on its own displaced by the person's thereof hugh how far where will it go next and how much blur the lines of character between one neighborhood and another before everyone realize and wakes up up with no motivation what we unwitness employee created together please don't approve that project and send it back to planning thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello good evening. i'm tin i can't with gabriel i work with

san francisco immigrant and migrate women i'm speaking in support of appeal and not ask the board of supervisors to rush to approve the 5m project we're relying on the corporate investment without the regulations is not the solution to the affordability crisis 40 in san francisco the voters asked for thirty percent affordable for low income it puts us farther and farther behind without the housing goals and causing further dam in the soma community we're not here for you're showing sympathy for the evictions and widening income disparity happening in the city you're considering a project that contributes to the worsening of racial and i think

equality if this so-called sanctuary city not just the contemplation of fm filipino but the chinese and black communities we're here to seek a fannie in genuine planning moments with the victories for the community happen because of the overwhelm punishing for what's right we need genuine community planning that will rather looking for the well-being of the community take for example, at the rosemarie she's lived with the extends family if the soma with the little income manages to send people to the filipinos and to the social fabric of soma works at a hotel as a housekeeper ambassadors come to stay here fell workers work with

locals and tourist cbo shopping and received an eviction notice and here neighbor got one thousands of rose marie's outlining throughout the city the city of needs to do a better job of protecting rose marie and the city needs to ask the community what kind of planning to will a dignified life but rosemary are displaced and many more like her not talk about the great contributions of filipino building and making this city and country great without talking about what makes them struggle make the rights decision by accepting this and sloin the project progress and make that more inclusive for the phone please not contribute to

the mistakes by contributing - thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> hello, i'm karen smooth i'm a 6th district generation coming from the chinese-american with solidarity with the residents speaking convince the 5m i came to speak out against the mayor's proposal for the $80 million construction of the state of the art jail project that came before the board you'll probably familiar with several the members of the board opposed did jail for the serves as part of jail are part of disproportionately brown and black communities should have access without being bokdz into jail and how it is recommended to the issues of housing it is 0 objective u obvious but needs to

be restated jails are not the kind of affordable housing they're asking ignore 100 percent building they'll be and their gentrified with the increasing calling for the criminalization the ill and the others if you approve that luxury development that that pathsic with no low income housing you're showing sending a clear message house people behind bars if the 5 m project were 100 percent truly affordable housing that would be a true statement including jane kim and will have alternatives to incarceration thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> good evening from san francisco rising alliance san francisco rising alliance an alliance coalition of long term coalition offer people that live

in the south of market the bayview and in the western edition and the mission in the outer mission in the o m ion on behalf of the members of just cause of kohlman advocates and others organizations we urge the board to support the appeal and reserve the certification the environmental impact report we're joining the real eloquent course of voices you've heard and so for all the manifold reasons of justice of inequality the displacement please, please, please sends this project back to planning thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. i'm andy blue if the plaza 16 coalition we're that here in solidarity to

reject this project in 5 m we're in a crisis ♪ city and world not a moment we needed the elected leaders to foresight for or fight for the people now we need over elected leaders to fight like hell against corporate greed who needs to go over the family zone who says it prioritize the needs of people over the profits of the hearst kormth in forest city who can say is is not driven by greed the up zoning is a generous gift to the hearst corporation and forest city at the expense the exist community why will the up zoning and who benefits if the up zoning you simplely caught up build

this without severe consequences for the residents we know that the plaza 16 and mission developed when they heard about the monster in the mission by max must at 16th street and mission the folks in the mission knows exactly what happened when luxury is built it is happening to them they're being displaced 18 thousand latinos from the mission since 2000 what would happen to the filipino the unaffordable bmr's on site not for existing residents therefore when did cost of housing skyrockets people will be displaced forever you kabts say you're showing hands are tied we don't have to keep accepting the crumbles

uniforms u criminals that they through us for the arts spaces we have to say no to austerity there are alternatives and the communities has come up with a fantastic vision for the space this alone is reason to reject this and send it back to planning look at it meets the needed of zoning and it is within the current height that stands for the project and three hundred units of affordable housing and tons of office space there are alternatives and you're showing hands are not tied not take the crumbs from the hearst corporation we need you to fight the city is in a crisis the would world and the scared duty make the right decision thank you very much >> thank you.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> were evicted - i remember the phone leaning and walking the streets to a revolution

somewhere within the israel of mini in a and significant and the dirt past the condo for the next 20 years we'll planning the life of this place she says where will they go the families, planting children like rice along the streets and behind the warehouses until they're paying the day's when their social security check arrives is there a zone for it to refugees and those is city planning they're planning another location for the 21st century with the city free for those who have awkward back cards with the relocations of you and me this time not a barbed wire fence to stand behind that was written in 1989

1989 and it is so relate today there is a vision for the city.

>> i started working at the south of market in 2004 after college and now a youth counselor there here so right down the broke this project is you know basically take over the filipinos were displaced if manila town adjacent to chinatown and then if yerba buena through the redevelopment the 5m project proposal in south of market is the latest attempt to drive out for purposes from their homes and neighborhood the up zoning in the proposed 5 m sud will accelerate the displacement of thousands of filipinos and other working-class families youth and seniors in soma those developers

have never understand here and had their roots they don't know the this will not help the if that families and residents instead approvals will impact the following residents and the massive displacements of filipino communities based on the urban project the action initiative in collaborative with the researchers at ucla community-based organizations and the statistic resource where do the south of market is if it's advanced stages of displacement and gentrification the 5m project will accelerate the displacement and

gentrification documented by the report i know longer than recognize this soma and recognize san francisco i recognize when is happening please, please not the 5 m. >> thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. i'm a youth program yoerd at the filipino community as an usher born if the filipinos and actually used to live off bryant street light one of the folks that actually thousands of people that have been displaced and live in the east bay now so when we say displacement it is a real thing for so many people for the by the way, and so many people in the country and this world we live in filipino are displaced at&t alarming rate of 6 thousand filipino looking for work in the

phone numbers we looked for resource and job opportunity we face the same kind of displacement and issues we fastback home i want to say gentrification is a fancy way for systematic racism is a fancy word for displacement i want to ask you a question for who is that development the people that live in the neighborhood the people that grew up here the artists and educators and a in question populated earlier around the income disparities we know that a lot of the people a lot of filipinos have home caregivers and housekeeper struggling to make ends meet we ask a people centered development i want to a press conference that commissioner avalos organized earlier this week we really involved the community in the bernal height

area and got tare prospective in terms of the people ordinary development we know there is holes in the project so we want to really think about the concerns the community and the concerns of the people we know that san francisco has a history strong history of labor movement and a strong right here or his and the bernal height hotel that sparked history many filipinos fought for the welfare the community i want to ask you a question and i'll i'll leave it at that there's a strong kind of sentiment of think about our hearts with our hearts and minds is this development for the people is it for the neighborhood and soma is it for the families like my aunt i didn't that spoke earlier that who decides who lives in the

soma district 3 kids with their stepped up to the plate families or students that grew up like myself or those who are privileged hopefully answer the questions when we think about development. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm speaking in tagalog a community organizer and worker in the south of market a when i

first moved here became involved that the senior citizens in san francisco and most of time i heard about their issues of housing. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> up to now housing is still their issue >> (speaking foreign language.) >> they're only able to live here 5 or 6 or more people in a room in a studio just to they can food other basic needs. >> i'm asking.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> so i will often ask what i think do you think that 5 m will help the needs of people and seniors here in san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> >this includes seniors and others are disabilities. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> what will happen those overshadows by massive towers how many will benefit from this

development and other developments constructed in san francisco? >> (speaking foreign language.) >> people are hoped more affordable housing have died waiting. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> others are moved to other places to find housing and stay with family and friends living in difficult situations they're in difficult circumstances. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> until when.

>> when you're going to leave them in that kind of situation. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> how long where will they be able to get descents affordable housing. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> when will you notice them and notice the retired seniors the homeless with disabilities and other workers in san francisco who can't afford