there are a continues call for moratorium that moratorium was a rejected the solution to the housing crisis to build market-rate and affordable housing and this project does that over the last two weeks we've showers shared with the mayor's office and become clear no more room would you tell us jeopardizing the financing they are not able to offer financial incentives to change that equation including 16th street last month that on a site included 16 percent affordable the demolition of one thousand plus square footage and we're proposing 41 percent and 11 thousand square feet of pdrs on a site exception it is on fair you consider this project on its

merits that project deserves your support jonas. >> okay opening up for public comment rob poole. >> excuse me - there's organized opposition to this we'll provide 10 minutes. >> jonas thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners my speech a longer

i'll have time through this is an improvement it still didn't meet the united call for one hundred union built with the affordable built at the same time and one to one replacement of pdr the labor communities alliance is calling for 50 percent dedicate to affordable housing not 41 with the percent difference we can come up with something but new york city were 23 hundred square feet of more pdr it should go without saying a influx into a low income communities there will be negative impacts the following maps is an indication the list evacuees around the proposed a nexus from your attitudes fidel is requesting a expectation from

the reduction requirement and what i want to see a better project built the code requires the mass breaks ever thirty feed widest in the massive like this exceeds the 200 feet width that requires this break and he's proposing to make it narrower just 25 meeting feet not thirty overseeing pictures are awful of sunshine but when you have an 8 are 6 foot building you'll have darkness it should be tiered and setback in the middle of his site not at the side yard supposed to be breaking up his project he's putting it on the affordable side not acceptable to the communities the presents plan calls for

replacing all the ground floor the alliance of labor asking for the entire ground floor to are pdr the parking is not necessary and desirable the project is well served by the business routes with the 27 bus that stops outside the project and 33 and 9 are outside the residents will be up for the next generation of tech workers that use carvings and lobbyist we're building for the next generation cars are at a minimum we have i thought iowa was mayor's office in agreement we were good evening to get down the ground floor as pdr instead of parking the critical parking could replace some of the 50 thousand square feet of pdrs we'll be losing with this project and minimally the

neighborhoods want parking they don't want to see free parking spaces go away to the neighborhoods the vast majority of neighbors don't want pollution or hear the loud alarm that sounds 24/7 every time a consider exists the garage if someone is not happy you should do with the environments the use of pdr is a perfect fit for the housing above i'm a director of a nonprofit housing sorry a in time arts development company that has 14 art spaces we super no problem with your neighbors we're quiet and do art we're not loud but the city it gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the space that the at least

we can do is see art space replaced that would honor the mayor and to remain the lost pdrs space i showed you in the last time about the 4 point pdrs plan to build and replace the pdrs fidel is asking for flex space only another name for high ended lofts i actually live in one here the craigslist adds for 5 hundred and 60 square feet in my units across the street from that project goes for $4,000 a month not exactly a pdrs replacement please don't gimmicks the sxmgs and should be pdrs and more of the affordable on the ups.

>> refrain from the applause it interrupts the meeting good afternoon peter coalition action network in environmental review for this project cannot be approved this project begins by demolishing 50 thousand pdr space and any claim of involuntary must be consistent with all area policies and procedures envisioned retention in the urban mixed use project the june 2007 environmental impact describes this new urban mixed use zone as one that encourages transitional patterns and if i could have the

overhead. >> have the overhead for a second and quote non-pdrs development this is the eir for eastern neighborhoods non-pdr development will be required to provide pdr space at specified ratios in the last eastern neighborhoods plan this requirement for pdr mysteriesly disappeared by the pdrs assumed it will not be removed it shouldn't be grand for the exception it bans a eastern neighborhoods plan and environmental impact report that are inconsistent with each this loss is not happening in isolation bull there is a longs reverified consultants all without proper environmental review this can't be approved with the environmental review the assumes are out-of-date the

number of housing units with the eir is in the mission a surpassed by a significant margin. >> and you have this in front of the you the preferred hours under the plan were 1696 now more than 26 hundred during the meeting sarah jones and her environmental team said no formula for deciding when the offer building will trigger the exemptions without a clear guidance they shouldn't be granted like the project bra today and addition of circumstances on the ground including the level of displacement is higher than the plan could have anticipated the significant increase in the long reserved consultants ceqa said more information such as this a comprehensive analysis is riders

that plan needs a full environmental review p thank you. >> exhibition i'm louis the executive director of the mission development agency and i'm here to talk further about how this project fails to address the environmental impacts first under as how long displacement two documents i want to include in the record one by meta an assessment of the hours affordability and documents that 8 thousand people are being displaced from the mission district and reports by the budget analyst basically has the same fabulous when it comes to ceqa we don't care about ceqa we would have a concern but there is a connection between the displacements that has happened and the physical

impacts on the environment so whether 8 thousand people have been displaced learning those people have moved on to outlet communities they're coming back to the mission for jobs, four schools and for services they're still coming back at the same time, we had another sets of people the new residents of the mission likely motion tech workers and their commuting outside of san francisco to the peninsula so, now we have 8 thousand people coming in 4 thousand people going outs those kind of impacts were not included in the eir for the eastern neighborhoods in addition in order to address the displacement in the mission there are proposals to bring 24 hundred units of hours into the neighborhoods overseeing 24 hundred units were not dmutdz in the eir for the eastern neighborhoods those based on

those physical changes and physical changes - the eir is eastern neighborhoods is not the appropriate tool to. >> thank you, sir, your time is up. >> >> that was time looked through the chair we received a request for a spanish translator to be present so i'll recommend at this time we'll tomato take that up unless. >> a public commenter that wants transmission. >> peter asked that a spanish translator. >> give us a minute they may have gone home. >> (multiple voices). >> we can find them quickly we'll have them speak first so the translator didn't have to be

here the whole meeting. >> i'm going to call a bunch of names right now (calling names). >> good evening commissioners larry junior local 38 did president of the san francisco

building trades council the some of the building trades council met with nick over the last two weeks to try and see if we can get closer and unfortunately not be able to they say they can't say build one hundred union due to profit margins and have committed to some units but were not all some and a half not commit are plumbers and sprinkler fiters and sheet metal i don't think i need to tell you non-workers is not paying standard wages and no local residents and bona fide hens working on apprenticeships and we've met with the communities they have concerns because of this point the

building trade opposes the project i'd like to ends up that saying maybe tonight to you to see that some unions may speak in favor of that i'm speaking against this project i'm here to tell you the san francisco building trades is within units the majority of building trades is not satisfied where we are a two week continuance last meeting and appreciated that but gotten anywhere thank you for your time and hope you'll consider what we're saying. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> commissioner michael san francisco building and construction it is moment all you're seeing this in the labor movement we appreciate the carpenters have been given assurance that any work with the

carpenters will be there and the carpenters while the single largest they represent 10 percent no assurance of the other 90 percent building trades we'll have discussions with the developer and that's what i think he defers to those developers have not said light work is all union we believe from what we discuss that can only possibly be that much of a financial difference and work with them if driving did you observe the costs of bids i understand you can have a function wards to the labor but important in the context you heard what is actually going on we also white blood cell the community there is a bit more for the communities in terms of pdr and affordable housing and the doesn't the to the developer

to make in those regards i ask you to whether i think to them in that regard also thank you. >> all this project going on in the mission on the gentrification and displace the homeless the missions was not designs more this type of housing toy stores and first class and bars and grocery stores and walgreens and pinball clinics and basic public services that's just the way it is the hate bernal heights sunset those parse of san francisco were not designed to hold this type of policy all of the city will look like downtown san francisco i want to keep bryant looking like 18th

street and bryant not fulsome and sutro what you have high-rise usa i suggest you put a stop to this thank you very much. >> good afternoon. i'm jordans davies i'm a concerned citizen and former mission residents building the admission should choose it's density and that destiny that didn't include luxury housing for tell the jury we need world affordable housing with communities input and preservation of pdrs we've heard how the largely latino population of the mission if not their community gentrified and jurisdiction is a treat to brown and black but the lgbt pride i'd

like to think in pride in luxury condo with the increased rents cause the liability friendly institution to be evicted and being unable to pay their rents this is write get my health care for transgender and primary care and case management those luxury developers are paint brushing our lives that's not right mrs. slay the speak there are better better ways and lastly utilized i'd like to say i came from as union household i'm generally supportive but from the union is supporting outline luxury housing they're no better than a scab come on join the opposition

cia. >> good evening commissioners rob poole/san francisco housing action coalition. speaking on behalf of the coalition individual members so this project is taken a while about a year and we supported the original versions but you before us is in regards to affordability and urban design and reduced the parking and pdrs space you know we when we saw the original project we thought the middle-income alley was effective and glad see the new version with the affordability we're - it is challenging san francisco in california limited in time limited resources to with affordable housing and so it is forcing us to get creative this project is one example of that creativity and they have to compete for the land with this perform proposal now this lands

could be owned by the city 4 is percent is above and beyond what we see in most projects it finally this project is under gone provisions not just a testament to the project team but the members of the community and a testament to the mayor's office of housing and community development for lining up the funding and my last point you know you're in - going to see more projects in the mission and last november voters some said we don't want a moratorium on housing in the neighborhood if which is a significant vote and now those parties are coming to yound most of city obviously not here believes that housing at all income levels is in the mission we urge to support the

initiative today thank you for your time. >> okay. i'll call a few more names. >> excuse me - and maybe while you call those peter is the person that needs the transmission here? >> let's get them in here. >> smission here? >> let's get them in here. >>lsmission here? >> let's get them in here. >> asmission here? >> let's get them in here. >> tsmission here? >> let's get them in here. >>osmission here? >> let's get them in here. >>nsmission here? >> let's get them in here. >> smission here? >> let's get them in here. >>smission here? >> let's get them in here. >> nsmission here? >> let's get them in here. >> mission here? >> let's get them in here. >> ission here? >> let's get them in here. >>sion here? >> let's get them in here. >>ion here? >> let's get them in here. >>ion here? >> let's get them in here. >>on here? >> let's get them in here. >>n here? >> let's get them in here. >> here? >> let's get them in here. >> one second. (calling names)

>> thank you. >> hi, i'm the president's of mission creek association and represent 80 small business in our area we're one hundred percent in favor of that project we that that is be great nick an amazing to work with and helped me relocation some of the businesses in the area for 50 years some of them would have been here he's footage that is a great emotion addition our - nick helpful in cleanliness and safety that has been challenging and supportive of the merchant that needed to move supporting them in many

ways there business mission they require to supporting them financially, logically and we feel he is a great addition to the neighborhoods i'm surprised there are issues around parking the city requires more parking i'm surprised this project is referred to as a beast i don't think that a collaborative approach and interested in having a mixed use building across the street from us. >> i'm on the mission creek board and business owner around the corner we need to resolve this situation we currently have an empty this attracting vera man and criminals and thefz and doing the best to deal with many

issues with drug addiction and other things he's our friends officer the opportunities to live and work and sell in the one location we're losing many artists to la and across the bay this is a limited opportunity for them to create and sell their quarries what i read the developer has done everything to address did concerns we totally are behind it thank you for your time and consideration. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> and maybe? the speaker that requested a translation. >> so from the translator can come and speak spot secondary my case i'll appreciate it. >> we do it consequencely. >> he'll speak then you'll

speak yeah, yeah, yeah. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> good evening i'm sorry edwardo hi commissioners >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so i'm here to talk about how the mission is supposed to have affordable housing. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> okay. and with this jurisdiction for these people to leave the city many of which live here in restaurants and

other jobs they don't have a place to live. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and yeah. i have a lot of friends that lived here now in 0 other places like oakland and hayward and have to pay bart yeah. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i just wanted to let you think about you seriously think about we need affordable housing in the mission. >> thank you very much. >> peter was that the only - thank you. >> good evening commissioners josh libraries of local 261 first thank you for taking the two week period to allow the coalition of communities and

labor and artists that came together to raise common concerns to have a conversation, of course, i think the people thanked the mayor's office of housing and oewd with the project sponsor there's been, however, very little if any movement in the conversations towards the core concerns something we'll receive the mayor's office of housing putting preconstruction money to get. >> jump start of building affordable housing not just lands more affordable housing hadn't been much movement on the affordable units they've been token increases around the lost pdrs remains a big problem and continues to be overwhelm labor problems if you were to look at holistically a situation you have a project that can get to a place it meets all the goals as

the planning commission meet all the goals in the mission and right there in the heart of that with my family and a lot of the folks you have a chance to direct overseeing conversations to move the parties closer together there's not reason to believe it will not happen it will be appealed to the boards are if you were to direct the parties to continue the conversations to do so here you'll not hear manipulative heartache with our power but this is the standard to get it right under our leadership if you can direct in mr. shamann walton coalition of communities labor and artists who spent a lot of time to say yes to something not before you it is close not throw in in fundamentally problematic ways if their resolved you've done

something special not agriculture for the community but pdr we're not we're not there yet we're not ready for you to approve if it i say so myself take for time and send us into the conversations you'll not hear a lot of heartache from the people. >> good evening commissioners. >> thank you for hearing on that issue i'm the director of the san francisco tenants union i work if in neighborhoods and live ♪ neighborhood i'm here 0 do let you know san francisco i personally as a neighbor oppose this project i was an attorney the eviction when the tenants got evicted from in location and the reason that we're talking about all of that you're giving special permission for them to build somewhere where they

evicted people we donna need to get enough in return to make a eviction worked out that it is not okay to evict willy-nilly did community didn't want this project and you should listen to their needs this is a special neighborhood where all stages a may be that is a latino cultural district like no other a place in the city and like no other place in the country the neighborhood that is famous around the country and not a place that you can recreate if you build those giants projects that the project by project with the 2000 lurk units this is part - a large chunk of the projects will really change the fabric and character port commission as low income and middle-income mostly latino neighborhood and not that if you allow projects like that i urge you to listen

to the communities that's why you're here and appreciate it thanks >> hello my name is taking care i'm from mission sro collaborative a program with the community services i don't support this project and state we need more affordable housing for the needs of the people and the homeless population which is over 6 thousand people this also effects me and people in any communities because the homeless plight is going desire diver and if not enough affordable housing the homeless problems are prevent i was homeless not fun and finding house affordable housing is not easy and by building those departments on bryant that will raise rents and displace more people thank you

for your time and consideration. >> good evening commissioners my name is susan march the mission a famous famous latino cultural in multi cultural neighborhoods many of us love deeply and in the throws of a ferrous and terrible displacement crisis that is e raising the neighborhoods well, what's needed besides the pdrs jobs the other speakers spoken about what is necessary is construction of housing affordable to the person's already living in the

neighborhoods else will work the market-rate will aau yet i cannot a new study from uc berkley shows the impact of those kinds of measures that construction is minimal the affordable housing several construction is far more effective now we're told that, yes that project brilliance one hundred and 35 units we're told the lands was dedicated and construction money i'm sorry given the cypress of housing construction and the scariest funds not enough to guarantee those units will be constructed there's no reason with to assume they'll be constructed or constructed in time to deal with the utter crisis given that and

therefore will this project contribute to the displacement crisis no think is contrary because of incentives for surrounding landlords to increase the rents and because of the approval of the market-rate projects generally do, in fact, drive upland values and make that harder more affordable housing builders quite the contrary is the case for that reason alone this project is neither necessary and desirable for this neighborhood and that's without going into the fact that 50 thousand units of pdrs space that provided jobs for neighborhood people and instead from 6 thousand 5 hundred square feet are funded the only square footage that is guaranteed and again that is

also will indirectly contribute to the displacement i ask you reject this project >> next speaker, please. >> thank you hello my name is christie part of sro collaborative and a brief summary of me, i'm a native san franciscan grew up and lived and worked here all my life i have

40 years of working, however, those years was with the city of san francisco

>> next speaker, please >> good afternoon. my name is and what are you-resident of the mission. first i like to mention that a few blue cards have back and they haven't called earnings i guess colleagues that want to speak so if you could keep that in mind. also, i want to add that thank you. good afternoon could oh should say good evening. i'm very concerned about projects like this coming to my neighborhood because i don't see , although i see a need for housing, i'm concerned they're not addressing the issues in the community, the neighbors. i live in the community. i work in the community. my family lives in the community and i don't truly honestly tell you i would be able to afford any of

this unit or get into one of those units. i want to bring to your attention also, there will be some much of a situation if the community if the developer headset sat with us and listen to our needs. we encourage you to do that because this is our community. we one make sure were being listened to this a great opportunity you have to actually help us. i don't think i'll be will to afford any of the units and that's quite scary. a lot of my colleagues are in the same predicament because they're moving away and they can afford to live in the city. we need to start looking at more community-based proposals are the ones that are on the table and not taken into consideration, and again as my colleagues mentioned earlier, we need to look into that and perhaps if you have a time we could actually come up with an

agreement. it amazes me that there's a lot of folks who are coming in and seeking [inaudible] but they don't live in the community. i need to make sure you guys take that into consideration. you know, this is where we live. this is where i grew up, this is where i went to middle school, this is were i went to high school. this is where my son is going up. this is where my wife grew up for over 20 years. so thank you pretty much for listening to our concerns and i hope you take that into consideration here thanks. speak to thank you. i will make sure everyone realizes were actually watching the testimony in the back on closed-circuit tv so what make sure [inaudible]. next speaker, please. >>hello. my name is rachel. i'm an artist living and working in san francisco. i have a tiny, tiny studio in the mission and i consider myself one of the lucky ones. for now. so many

buildings that were home to artists and art related businesses are being turned into luxury condos and those of us with studios are waiting for the ax to fall. where are artists supposed to go when 50,000 ft.2 of industry and art space turns into 4000 ft.2 as proposed by the developer for the new bryant condos? this can hardly be called urban mixed-use. studio space is nearly impossible to find in the mission were even in the city. not only forced starving artist or for those who can pay market rate. as artists, we need our studios to create our art, but they're also essential for generating income.

galleries, designers and collectors pay us studio visits to view our art and thousands of members of the public wandering in and out of our studios during open studios, twice a year. san francisco is known as the city for the arts. it's one of the reasons i moved here and now i'm very worried. as city planners, are you willing to let the cultural heart of the city live across the bay? thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening commissioners. my name is banner hill. sf native. in about two years ago i lost really important, mine. i spent 16 years of my life there developing as a dancer and learn how to teach kids how to dance, keep them off the streets. i ran a practice session for about half that time and was told at one point that we were losing space due to luxury housing. in my time at

cell space, i developed a love for teaching which is got me where i am today working with youth, pursuing my teaching credentials at the same time. however, i don't have a place to teach my kids how to dance and cell space was accurate as well as a place for artists to thrive as well so, i threw an event there two years ago to raise funds to get a sunny spot but was told that we actually had a time. that was a lie so my thing is, again, that's 16 years of my life and the mission is all about culture and being a child of the mission myself, it's sad to see a place like cell space no longer there. so, i think we need spaces like this for our communities especially for the youth and it's really sad it's

[inaudible] luxury homes. i do hope you consider like a lot of the concerns being thrown at you tonight. again i'm still teaching kids how to dance, but i'm really teaching them how to dance on the street. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> might could even get my name is crystal one. i had my five-year-old out there earlier with me. she had to go home. she would tell you she misses the community space that has a lot to offer from community card into a woolard this could get we moved in the neighborhood about a block away from since 2002 and since that time we lost several friends and other families of young children who have had to leave the mission because of they can longer afford it. i understand the local schools really hard time gaining teachers because a lack of affordable housing. public health colleagues, people who work for the city are being priced out, and just

knowing the social determinants of health, i'm concerned about how his placement, long commutes, and the increased housing expense ratios will affect our city's health. i am concerned that the land dedication for affordable housing is not going to come to fruition and i hope that you consider all the points tonight for this project. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is-i'm an organizer with [inaudible]. i'd like to add that because of the delay in hearing this item a lot of the members of my organization, a lot of the working class tenants actually facing a vegan because of projects [inaudible] actually had to leave. and their stories are incredibly powerful and him

disappointed you're not going to be will to hear them. a total of the about me. as a kid, we my working-class neighborhood and latino family were moved about every civil year for the majority of my life until i was about 10 years old. we were evicted get our rents were increased. my parents would lose their jobs. something would always happen. so from an incredibly age i learned how valuable a roof was because having one was always a challenge for us. now, as a tenant and organizer, i relive every single day of my childhood experience of housing instability. but now i see the systemic reasons why kids like me could not have an access to stable and dignified housing. luxury development and working-class neighborhoods of color worsened and amplifies the gentrification crisis that our communities are being swallowed up by kerry if you continue to deny the fact because yes, it is a fact, then you are purposely

wholeheartedly and intentionally deciding to ignore the needs of our city's most vulnerable, most impacted, most important communities for the sustainability of san francisco. to support millionaires getting richer by profiting off our backs, by profiting off our prices, trauma and despair, is shameful. 2000, plus units of luxury housing in a neighborhood that is desperately screening for affordable housing is an example of that woeful neglect. be on the right side of history . take a stand against the violence and barbarism of gentrification. be here for the people, the families, the teachers, the artist, the seniors, and yes, the kids that play every single night that they are able to have stable housing, that they pray every school night that the eviction their family is going through stops. and that their family

stress over housing committee for a little bit go away. otherwise, and this is also a fact, you will be to blame for the fact that we don't live here anymore could deny this project. build the beauty on bryant. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. [inaudible] from the housing rights committee. we are very concerned about the loss of rent control unit and just cause protected units at 18th and brian project number the beast on bryant. according to the developer there is three right control units on the premises. the destruction of these units goes against the spirit of those of the mayor's directive of 2013 and the recent than permanent controls passed by supervisor john avalos. in addition, can i have your head

please? from 1994 until 2016, artists have been renting rooms above the old cell space while those rooms-is that wrong? sorry. while those rooms may or may not have been under the price control of rent control, they were definitely under just cause eviction protection. those tenants were evicted by -and here is a day i actually helped try to help those tenants fight your eviction in i was there the day that all their stuff, they put out on the street on bryant street. you see it here and also this next picture. the day that they all had to leave and were displaced from the city. five artists living in five rooms from 1994 until 2016. these folks were tenants. i'm sorry.

if anybody knows about tenant lobbies were tenants. as i said they might have been under the price part of rent control. they may or may not but they were under just cause because they were separate agreements for these five rooms. so, that's of great concern to me that this is not being acknowledged by anybody. we are close to the disruption of the existing housing on bryant street and the proposed project because of the negatively impact the neighborhood by causing gentrification, evictions, and displacement as well as the loss of those three rent-controlled units and the rooms that artists occupied for 20 years. there is no justification for destroying rent-controlled units, precious housing resource that cannot be replaced. as state law prevents us from replacing those units, which similar rent-controlled units. i think it is clear to me and hopefully it is clear to you by now, that the only option here is to deny the beast on bryant. slay the beast on bryant. we need affordable housing in the mission, not luxury housing, and not more

evictions like this. thank you. >> thank you. let me call for speakers, please. [calling names] >> my name is catherine gibson and i am performing artist in the mission. i been living in san francisco about 20 years and came because there was a wonderful cultural way of being that we've been seeing more and more defeated over the last few years. i was around south bay throughout the 90sversion

spaces and coming together and i believe the scaling back of pdr, the loss of artist space in the city is a real shame. the fact that we don't need more luxury housing. we need affordable housing is of utmost importance. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello my name is scott weaver. i'm with the san francisco tenants union and the united coalition. whatever your tasks is to determine the efficacy of the current environment impact report of pei are. this project because this project refers to the eir. when we know that the amount of pdr space mysteriously, the one-to-one requirement,

mysteriously disappeared from the original eastern neighborhoods plan that the eir was based on, we know that we are far beyond the normally scheduled disruption of the eir in these eastern neighborhood as is contemplated. we know we are above the production of housing in the eastern neighborhoods under the original p eir. it's out of date now. and to have a project depends on the p eir for environmental review i think is a mistake in the second prong of your task is to-and i think you should require that the developer go back to planning and at least repair a modified environmental review that will include the

issues of overproduction of housing and under-and over the instruction of pdr. the second prong is hummer of your task is to determine whether or not this project is necessary and desirable. now, i'm sure i'm going to hear the refrain, well we need more housing and that's a true statement. that is a true statement, but it does depend where you build it. and building in they poor neighborhood when you're putting 200 luxury units in my think is a mistake it is inconsistent with the character of the neighborhood. what you build, luxury housing 200 luxury housing units. there is some afford housing units of the complete this but don't kid yourselves. it's not 41% contribute about esther o'dell. it's at the city's dime. it's at your and mine done. and for who? this project is for rich

people. that is going to affect the character. already, we've seen people living in this area , junta fires, we will call them complaining about carnival. so how long is that it continue to go on before we lose an important cultural institution of the city, of the mission? shouldn't the plan be consistent with the stated goals of the user neighborhood plan in which is to build a mix of housing and to preserve pdr women talk about very low income housing and would talk about 200% ami, that is not a mix of housing. that's a misnomer that you should immediately dismiss when you see it. and when you hear it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, planning

commission is good money ms.-in the mission zero collaborative and also born and raised sf kid. because of the housing product prices. i stand here perplexed. i'm perplexed at sf fundamental question before us incident san francisco today is housing. i'm not speaking, of course, from the standpoint of market interest from that angle, obviously, it's pretty clear why it's okay to build only for the upper echelon. i'm speaking from the standpoint of those two often ignored the poor and marginalized population of the city. that something so essential to the current current human expense being outrightly denied to those who most need it in the city. this is what perplexes me. in a way which is dauntingly

disheartening and infuriatingly enraging. the label we put on this development before you today, the beast on bryant, is more than a clever alliteration. it is a real characterize asian of how we see this project and every luxury development project in the city. these buildings are threats to our livelihood. these buildings are not without attached emotions. the concrete mixers maze will pour summit material over the graves of the oppressed in san francisco. this development coupled with everything else seems to me rubberstamped by this commission is going to destroy the little bit of san francisco we have left. this is all on your watch. let us not forget that. you cannot let the oppressed become an obstruction. you must first

create, and then maintain, vital human relationships with people suffer. so, with that, i ask you to deny this project, tonight for the sake of the people. deny it for the sake of the neighborhood. deny it for the sake of the city. and for the sake of your own souls. thank you. >> thank you. this thornton all i will call some more names. [calling names]if your name has been called please line up at the television side of the chamber. >> good afternoon. again, commissioners mary eliza here. we are requesting we do you do not approve this project that's currently resent to get itself pacing problem with regard to housing and infrastructure in san francisco, that a moment of

this needed to support a larger population is seriously lagging behind development of all the housing being proposed. multiple developments proposed on this block alone in the queue motive impact on the neighborhood will be enormous. this neighborhood is without sufficient transportation sewage drainage or earthquake appearing system. we do serious problem on fulsome street when it rains. sewer pipes back up on the ground floors of the building as far away as florida. i understand the same thing happens in townsend area so not really sure exactly how widespread this problem is, but there's a serious problem, this drainage, in this area due to the underground rivers and creeks. we urge you to request the study on the effects on this development is having on our existing system for you continue to approve more of them. i am going to skip over

some of this because you've heard it already. pdr spaces being lost in the mission at the base of 313% faster than anticipated by the eastern neighborhood plan that governs it. the demand for pdr space is growing rather than shrinking as was predicted when the eastern neighborhoods plan was written. any affordable housing committee built on the land and the land swap is dedicating-is currently undecided and never be built. this project cannot be allowed to go forward in any form until the affordable housing is fully funded and under construction. the commingled impact of land at market rate development and the consequent influx of residents earning 200% of ami will create upward rent pressures along commercial properties along the 24th st. corridor and the

streets which currently have small local shops and services. thereby, result in displacement of the small businesses and nonprofits currently in place. the mission action plan has been meeting for more than a year to try to find ways to preserve exactly the kind of businesses nonprofits and artist being displaced by this project. please, do not support this project at this time. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners. hector gomez did i apologize i did not fill out a card. i decided [inaudible] i just want to voice my support for all the earnest hard-working people that have been working on this project for so long. also, for project sponsor for doing such a revolutionary thing, but the one thing that i been able to latch on and not to minimize

any of the work anybody else has done, but everybody has not have skin in the game going forward to build the gold market rate housing, which is what much more important than anything else. than the market rate or with all due respect, even the pdr. so, i don't think this project could be approved without the affordable housing being in place, ground ready to be broken at the same time. at least, in my humble opinion i think that's the most important part of this. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners. thank you for and i was to speak tonight. my name is marina been set and i am a student at the international-at the monterey international institute of

studies. i'm getting my masters in international environmental policy so i thought it would come here and talk about the environmental impacts tonight. it's true that to create a more sustainable community we do need more density in the city and build higher. that is what we are are being told right now, we need to look at it holistically and also think about what those residents will be bringing to the neighborhood. we are allowing luxury housing with this project and i will bring tenants that have a lifestyle that's not necessarily environmentally friendly. so, we might have a building that has recycled water and solar panels, but we also have tenants that aren't living close to their work space, and we are displacing tenants and

it doesn't take a third-party study to figure that out. it just common sense and logic, really. so, what we have now are longtime tenants within maybe as far as way as tracy and having to commute in, and there's nothing and are mentally friendly about that. i also want to talk a little bit about my story. i came to this city when i was a child. my father was a soldier in the u.s. army, so i came to live on the presidio. i was fortunate to have that situation. but as a child, i was uprooted every two years minimum or four years maximum. i know what it's like to have to say goodbye to your best friends and change schools and leave your community. i want to three elementary schools and five high schools. but i knew that was always coming. with an expectation and children that are being displaced do not realize what's going on. you know, they can

spend the night crying kid i know that's what i did when i was a child and i saw that happened with my siblings also. so, i think you should probably not look at the environmental impact of the situation, but also consider what it's doing to children. they should be spending their time happy. that's what children should be doing. not wondering what is happening with her housing situation and what their parents have to do because they're living so far away from their jobs, and i was and eight fortunate situation where many of us army brass went to school together, but these kids are being separated. so please consider the impact of these children going through. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. i will lead to more names. [calling names]

>> thank you, commissioners for hearing all this public testimony. my name is sarah bradley and i live in the mission. there's lots of reasons for this proposal is not good enough and should be rejected. you have heard many of them tonight and i think they're all very valid arguments spanning from pdr loss to there not being enough affordable housing or that we can do better with the developers on that line. as well as breaking ground at the same time and having a more guaranteed timeline because if all the market-rate housing and luxury housing goes up to be a very long time before any affordable housing is probably seen by that time the mission will probably no longer be the mission we recognize. beyond all the technical reasons pdr and affordable housing and labor, this is to be considered

in aggregate with dozens of other luxury development currently proposed within the box of the mission. as some of the proposed luxury units, we need to take a stand with the community in this community has clearly spoken in unison between artists and residents and labor and the community serving businesses. these developments are destroying the heart and soul of the mission one block and demo at a time and this is something even the people who are currently referred to as gentrification are recognized. they know it's no longer the mission that was here even 2-3 years ago. these developers are destroying the community seven bells over generations. once these local businesses and things are pushed out pushed out by fido, once they leave the heritage and the culture of this place, it's no longer alive. no one will see their presence or feel

a connection with it. maybe will document some vestige of it in museums or books or the occasional mural, but it won't be experienced in the daily life of a person living in that place. for someone who's lived in the mission for years, for someone who lived there the whole life, imagine what would be like to live in mission and not see eye shops, repair shops like the one displaced. the candle store. easy pops and christian preaching at the bart station. at that point, are you even in the mission anymore? developers like the one proposed will erase the cultural imprint and continue to fuel the displacement of families, workers, and artists to build the standard into what it is. this development does not represent or consider the community and if they did, they would've involved this coalition from the beginning and with more sincerity. we need to move away from getting disingenuous lipservice and toward a real practice process

of community based training and development. thank you. >> good evening, commissioned. my name is--. thanks for letting us share our thoughts with you. i'm a 40 year resident of the mission. in italian-american kid i can because that dramatized the mission goes back to the 1920s. i'm a photographer, an artist, photographer and so maker. you might remember me because i was one of the few people that was here last year when we had the hearings we start talking about the mission moratorium. i can

remember one night in particular was a whole bunch of developers and was only like three of us if you do is myself and reed sorenson who i know she's here today could i do know she has talked yet, and one other person and president fong, ironically said at the end of that, you like to see more people from the mission could you said i like to see more people from your community come to these meetings. maria and i went back to the mission community and we got that word out. i'm actually part of the council of the cultural reduced their we brought it back to the council and spread the word. since that time, since you said that president fong there's always been more than three people from the mission here at your meetings. now, one of the things we told you about the moratorium was we appreciate-i mean i appreciated what you were doing, but i said and other people said, that if you did-if you grandfathered all the projects that were in the pipeline and they would not be subject to moratorium, it wasn't going to make much difference. and, where staff

actually said the same thing. your staff report came out and said similarly, don't grandfather all the projects in. but you guys went ahead and grandfathered all the projects in. so, one question just for you to think about. what good is it to come here if we feel you're not listening to us? i mean, everyone that i know in the mission is opposed to this project and its present form. so, we're saying that. we came and we we supported the moratorium. we wanted those because we do not want all the projects grandfathered in. so, again, it works best in ourselves and we come here and become here in numbers, we tell you what we think and you're not listening to us, then it's a problem. just one quick thing

before i leave, on the pdr, i'm a photographer and filmmaker could i teach at city college of san francisco. i taught at city college since 2002. i teach the young kids i want to be photographers and film makers. we are losing so much pdr space my photographers and film makers, there's professional photographers that are losing their space. so how can we help these kids that were educating if there'sfor them to rent a studio and start their career. thank you. >> hello. alison heath with growth responsibly. this project should not be rubberstamped with the community plan exemption. i spoken to you now a number of times about the failure of the zoning. the loss of pdr and maxed out residential development on the trail hill and showplace square. prior to the last hearing on this project, i did some research on what's happening in the mission. as you know, these are

neighborhood plan studied options a-b and the preferred project was approved in 2008. as of february, 2000 451 residential units had completed or were under environmental review. this is well in excess of the 1696 units that were anticipated with the preferred project, as well as options a, b, and c. we also know pdr lost residential development is occurring at a much faster rate than what was anticipated. there's no real protection in the current anything goes zoning. as you've seen from peter-presentation this evening, the plant eir acquired a specific ratio of pdr space. that was what was scheduled but then stripped out of the code right after the eir was

certified. cue mode of growth to residential development is in excess of what was studied and planned for in these eastern neighborhood plant eir. thus, the assumption made about the impacts on traffic, transit, air quality, open space, recreational facilities, and other infrastructure are inadequate. furthermore, assumptions about pdr loss were made with a presumed requirement for pdr replacement good that's not what happened. so, this cannot be appropriately addressed with the community plan exemption. everything is now open to question. this project demands a conference of analysis with a full eir. thank you. >> my name is magic. thank you

for hearing us today. what we are seeing in this room is what is happening throughout the bay area. developers whose only concern is profit divided community. jobs are hard to find so the carpenters are acting to feed their families. yet, they're doing this by turning their backs on the other unions and the community that only wants affordable housing for laborers like the men and women in this room. i have been to thousands of public meetings like these time and again i've witnessed general plans being amended my zoning being changed, and financing offered them city coffers. when the public makes their case to live and work in our own community we are told that your hands are tied by the law. there's always a way to defend the community's will by supporting the essential

purpose of laws, which should be to enhance a vibrant culture and community. think critically. be creative. use research that the community has given you, and you can uphold the real intention of the law. you, and all of us, are fighting for the soul of our city. each of us, no matter what position we hold, have an ethical obligation to do everything in our power to help keep our community from becoming a playground for the rich. this project has one purpose. profit. no other purpose. it is only making concessions to get this profit and to keep its product line on the level it wants. the rest of the people are here to ask you, as public servants, to look us in the face and tell us you

will do your job with a conscience and the wisdom and the education that you have been given to do the right thing. you have the research from the public. not your own abilities to understand the law, and interpret this in a powerful way to turn the tide. we need this now. >> members of the commission, my name is ron yan and i'm one of the owners of managing principles of [inaudible]. i'm also native san francisco kid and current resident josie a future with the beauty on bryant and a future as a community hub for the mission district. those specific structures are pleased to offer a strong support to the proposed project on 2000-2070 bryant st. are san

francisco-based company our union signatory and employs over 500 people on all projects in san francisco throughout the bay area. we are also longtime participant of the city's first source hiring program that promotes hiring of disadvantage, local residents for jobs. as this project is approved we will continue to participate in the first source hiring program. the fidel company has selected companies as a general contractor and subcontractor for this project. which means that the starting point, 82% number 82% of the workforce, will be union. this also create approximately 300 jobs over the course of the next two years. the building trades recently came out of the project because we've not been able to commit to 100% union for every subcontractor. both

fido" had several conversations with the trade we generating our interest in finding subs for competitive bids to build this project. however, the building trades demand a commitment from us for in able to obtain [inaudible] escalating cost environment. nevertheless, i want to reiterate our pledge to work with the building representatives to use as much union labor as possible. in closing, i hope-i'm hopeful you will see fido company has gone above and beyond for this project. they've already dedicated shuttle ready land in excess of the eastern neighborhood plan requirements thereby increasing the total housing to 41%, downsize the rate market side of them and creating a passageway that will greatly add to the projects character and urban design. san francisco desperately needs more housing. this project needs meets that need on both a market rate and affordable fronts. so, for these reasons

i've outlined, on a san francisco native and current resident. i respectfully urge you to approve this price. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is tom mary. i'm a native the san franciscan. i live about five blocks away from this project. the dallas street project does not give up give back to work injury to the people and community of the mission district and has destroyed a major art and industry space. it has evicted and displaced several communities on businesses and displaced blue-collar jobs. it's community offerings are an insult, less than 50% replacement pdr and the 26% land to build affordable housing comes without any immediate funding for affordable housing and will not be billed at the

same time as the other luxury units. which means it will just become an empty lot like the other past admission land [inaudible] by the city. this project is really a real estate investment scheme funded by a grant two through chase bank. all the properties run this proposal and throughout the mission are increasing in perceived value. increasing banks assets are the properties. this creates a nightmares and addictions for current residents and businesses of the mission, including, on my block, which the house next-door is worth $5 million. they are picking using

ellis act. so this is a ongoing legacy of luxury housing developed in the mission. fidel's development would be the first of 17 other investment property projects, i.e., luxury housing. in the mission that are currently being proposed. was that a president and tone about communities owning an apartment oh impact will be interpreted in these projects. will there be a latino community in five years in the mission? with the mission end up like the harlem of the west western medicine do you remember that? western addition, harlem otherwise. your decision will decide the fate of the latino community in san francisco. thank you. >> good evening, commissioned my name is mary cavite. i'm a registered nurse who has lived in the city for 30 years and lived in the mission for 13, and i still consider myself a newcomer to the mission because i think that's most respectful way for me to view it given the generation of working-class families that have made the mission what it is. i am

opposed to this development. i live five blocks away. i'm not worried about blocking my sunlight, but i am worried about it blocking the life of the mission as we know it could i worked at san francisco general for 21 years, were i cared for many many latino patients lived in the mission and taught me a great deal. many of them no longer can live there and some of them actually within garages without running water because they cannot access affordable housing. many of the city workers work at san francisco general commute as far as the delay hell because they can't afford in their minds, to live in san francisco. i want to take issue with a couple of comments that were made early on about the moratorium mother proposition

for the moratorium not passing. i believe that the voter breakdown showed very clearly that it passed strongly in the mission, and i think that is a very unfair argument to use. you can see there is a great amount of distrust about the affordable housing aspects of this development ever coming to fruition. this community is bleeding and this development will just be like a fancy bandage it i'm sure if i want i would love the walkway. that's really really present, but right now what i really see in the mission is in a form of economic apartheid what i mean is, you can walk by restaurants and you see a certain demographic that is completely excluded from those restaurants. one after the other. businesses moving in and basically trying to come up with a service or product that they know an entire demographic

in the community cannot afford. what is that? that is a form of economic apartheid and i'm afraid it will be fostered by this development. i just in just quickly want to say, you will see submitted a statement from an artist, named stephanie bailey. she was not able to be here because she's teaching better statement is submitted. thank you. >> good evening. my name is mark harris. i am a professional artist and arts educator. i been living in san francisco since 2004 and i want to start by stating the obvious, that san francisco has a housing crisis. you, this board, despite has been charged with a difficult task that i don't envy. you each have the power to make a difference with

what is going to happen here. i don't believe that this is anything more than a issue of values. the eyes of the world are constantly on san francisco writenow not only for the technology that's coming out of the city and the region, but also what we are doing to its people. our society will not be remembered-this city will not be room number towards technology. it will be remembered for its values. this is about values. we have an impressive group of gentlemen here who been pitted against people who are no better off than they are. one or two paychecks from being out of the city. that is a skewed value and it must stop. you have the power to make that change. 60 years ago martin luther king made a speech where he said,

america is constantly taking the basic necessity of the masses to provide luxury to the classes. that's what's happening here. it has to stop. thank you. >> >>[applause] >> hello. my name is molly cox and i stand with other residents of the neighborhood right around south base. i'm an educator and a mother of a public high school student in san francisco and an artist and sell space is historically so incredibly important to the arts scene in san francisco's mission disappeared it was for over 20 years the home of many friends, visiting artists from

overseas, dozens of wonderful public events, a gallery, dance studio, it will be remembered by thousands of people passing through it. i really urge you not to listen to the voice of the gentrification factor that has exhibited itself here tonight that his local americans and other people who are going to create a commercial for-profit culture in a building that at one time was constructed and made by artists who had a voice and a presence in the city. i also just want to say because i live three blocks from there, that this building seems really overscaled for my neighborhood.

a neighborhood which has a diverse group of types of architecture, including tiny little beautiful historic cottages, warehouses, yes but not vacant. interesting stores and older buildings and victorian homes. the mission is just under siege and i really request that the commission think this through because i agree with the former speaker and many of the other residents . it's really about values and san francisco has historically been a sanctuary for all kinds of people, and it's quickly becoming a very homogeneous city for the ultra rich. i know my husband and my son and i couldn't possibly afford a unit in a new building that we were displaced by the market value of our building being purchased by someone could we would have to move far afield and we'll work and live in the city and have for over 20 years. so, i really urge you to consider your options here and put them through a much stronger review than the one you've already done. thank you. >> let me call a few more names should [calling names]

>> hello. my name is mario martinez. met apprentice carpenter. local 22. i'm also resident of san francisco. brian street will be built by union general condor. like myself will be building it. apprentices and journeymen alike working to build much-needed housing for san francisco. local 22 supports this concept and we hope you support it, too. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is amy reynolds. i've lived in san francisco since 1975. i've been a member, proud member of ua

local plumbers since 1980. i've worked as the first woman utility, at the san francisco water department in 1985. i been a homeowner since 1989, now have the fortune to enjoy retirement. i am very concerned with the erosion of the middle class in this country. the strong middle class creates an economy that will go and sustain itself. yes, in san francisco there's a housing shortage and how many of the new buildings that we see going up everywhere are low moderate and mid-income residents going to be able to afford. i am 100% in favor of the san francisco building trades council

resolution in support of building a better beast at 2000 bryant st. these other four main points. that at least 50% of the units should be affordable to low moderate and middle income residents, people that experienced displacement. that these affordable housing units you fully funded before any of the construction is started so that there's no delay in building them. but the project replace 50,000 ft.2 of existing pdr space with the same. currently, i heard was 4000, but then i think i heard it was 11,000 ft.2. that this project is built with 100% union labor, all workers should be paid union scale wages and benefits. union administered a partnership programs can provide a path into the middle class for the use of the mission. including, the union plumbers sheet-metal workers, and electricians. i read the san francisco planning department mission statement on your website. it reads, this san francisco planning department under the direction of the planning commission, who i am in front of now, shapes

the future of san francisco and region by generating an extraordinary vision the general plan and in neighborhood plans, fostering exemplary design to planning controls, improving our surroundings through environmental analysis, preserving our unique heritage, encouraging a broad range of housing and a diverse job base and enforcing the planning code. if you are planning commission that is true to your mission, you will support the san francisco building trades council's resolution to build a better beast at 2000 bryant and reject the fido beast on bryant project at thank you for your attention. >> good evening, everybody.

commissioners, thank you for your time. so, there's a lot of dressing and wonderful language that's gone on on this project. i want to speak about the reality. the displacement and the racism. i'll tell you why, commissioner could the project which is an ugly building on mission where they burnt the other place on 22nd and mission, the owners were millionaires of those luxury apartments now pressuring businesses on mission to serve, as they say, mexicans and blacks to stop serving those good they are pressuring the small businesses to get kicked out of there. the same thing is going to happen with this project on bryant, where my kids went to train for music, for dance, where we've created a lot of

life in our community. so, i want to stress to you, commissioners, you have the power to stop a project that speaks about mixed-use and mixed this and makes that and all were getting is really displacement and racism. this is what were getting. this is what you're voting for if you approve this project. i think there's been a lot of good work that's gone into planning and to working towards the 50% and all that stuff, but the fact of the matter is, investors which are not developers, i don't call them developers, investors are here to make money and i've seen enough elderly ladies, 9, 83, working with a 77-year-old in bernal heights who was swindled into selling her house by these realtors and by these folks who are here to

make money. so, really there's an ethical piece beyond the windowdressing and the fancy talk. you know how may workers in the plan company that laborers in within san francisco ? one. i know him. one works here. one lives in san francisco. so, the same workers were sitting here behind me cannot even afford to live in the city anymore. so, you have a task of helping us people that live in san francisco on our people's campaigns with all these working groups to make a difference to build a city for the people who built this city. we are the ones that are here. we are asking you to help us by ignoring and blocking these projects that are destroying our very livelihood in san francisco. thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. [calling names]

>> good evening, commissioner. j bradshaw's director of organizing carpenters union. i like the carpenters to stand up tonight it was rather building everything okay because this is very important to us. a long time ago zero desert not react but something needs to be said on behalf of my membership here and that is distant comments tonight about status. this been comments tonight but how we can manipulate. i was what folks were all working-class offer this power and offer unions and talk about can be like manipulate it wrong. it's just not the case. i will leave that

there. the bottom line is we've been engaged with fidel for almost 2 years prior to getting the commitment. showed we could do it, had the general contractor and the contractors got the commitment. over 80% of the union jobs and hours on the job locked up. committed to the laborers union, commitment commitment to the operating engineers as well. you know, our fellow trades folks often times, were able to help them out afterwards that happens all the time. with a general contractor commitment and were happy to help them. but the bottom line is, we been engaged in this thing for a long time. it seems like the ball keeps getting moved on what the issue is that i would remind you wanted to the building trades council said here's what we

need. please, give us an extension on the vote could what a fine money to subsidize the project. it turned out that they had no idea how to do that and they can't do that and that's what came out of that meeting. so, we encourage you to please, now it's time to approve the project and create union jobs, partnership opportunity, the carpenters on once i built the city to begin with. we continue to do that we will happily wherever we can help fellow union members to pursue that work. but, these are all housing using the highest rate of affordable housing in the city. percentagewise. so, it's a great project. we support it 100% despite a number of cheap shots towards our organization, right, we want to stick to the facts. good jobs. recruiting apprentices, and afford the housing will be built here. that's the bottom line. thank you for your time. >> next speaker, please. >> hi. good evening. my name

is kristin ponty and i have lived in the mission since 1985. i'm a teacher in sfusd. a proud member of the united educators of san francisco. i work with the majority of our students are latino and chinese. they are construction workers. they are painters. they are in hotels and nannies and childcare workers and they'll never able to live in a place like this, nor could i get i'm latino lucky enough to have a rent controlled apartment but circuitry. among fulsome street i'm terrified of being addicted and there's no way any bus could live in this building as it's currently configured. i just want to say, e, what a lot of people said, that it's-we do not need

another luxury building. it's terrifying to live in the city right now in the mission and were worried going to lose our house. my son is born and raised in the mission. he 25. he can't move out. he still living with me. you would not be able to afford this building. i'm not opposed to construction. i'm opposed to luxury housing. i'm not opposed to you guys. the workers. i agree that workers need to work. buildings need to be built construction needs to happen but it needs to be affordable. that's all i have to say, so thank you for your consideration. >> good evening. my name is erin-i actually work in affordable housing developments. i see people every day coming to my office desperate for housing, and there though vulnerable people, the vulnerable populations. the people that get pushed aside in san francisco nowadays and we talked about, will you see it

on the nose, the homeless problem and this and that get whether the homeless problem start? so, first off, let me back up a little, i wholeheartedly oppose this project. it doesn't serve the needs of the people in the mission as it is now tiered for newcomers, it's for profit. yes, when the housing crisis 10 building more luxury housing does not help us. what this project does do is fueled the displacement and the evictions and the gentrification of the mission. by building 196 units of luxury housing. luxury. let's not forget. not middle income housing, luxury housing. the project already displaced so space, tortilla flat, the building shop, san francisco auto repair and other community serving businesses. we've heard a lot from people that are more

connected to sell i used to go there. i'm an artist. i was never working out of so space, but it's a big loss. it's a big loss. there's not a place that was artist collective loss called [inaudible] in the mission. the mission is known as an artistic place. that's what the draw is. that's what everyone wants to live here now, but then artists on allowed to live here. so, the developers is advertising he's replacing vacant warehouses was actually displacing workers, artists, and family run the community serving businesses. the project contributes to the loss of blue-collar jobs and wiping out 5000 ft.2 of arts and light industrial space. i think the new number was there bringing back 7000 ft.2 of industrial space. okay. yes, that's nothing. these are just some of the reasons-i'm echoing

people up and talk about all night by wholeheartedly oppose this project and i ask that you deny this project as well. thank you. >> hi. my name is josh wolf. i live in san francisco since 2002. the recent i live in a rent controlled building in the lower haight and just this past month my house was sold to a building owner who was [inaudible] in the past. more than likely, in the near future i will be myself looking for an affordable place to live and i do not cannot afford market rate like so many of us. like the vast majority of us. in fact, you would think that the

100% median income well, that's half the people in our city. so, half of the housing in our city needs to be affordable to half our city or else we have a real problem. in the case of this particular project, were talking about 60% ami. but across the entire city, if we don't have 50% of the housing stock affordable to the people making 1% a.m. i am below, and were creating a city where more and more people can afford to live here, and eventually i'm sure the numbers will balance out when the ami is $200,000, eventually can go any higher and we would've lost our complete middle class and we will just have a very small amount of poor people were living in affordable units and other income limited units that have been made available. but the policy should be that we need to move towards having 50% of the housing, the complete housing stock, be affordable to

100% ami or below and in order for us to get there the only way is to have more than 50% of the housing stock be available at affordable rates because we have far more better not market restricted right now. so the only way we can get there is to be starting target greater than 50% affordable. the proposal for the community on bryant is 50% of the land for photo housing, 50% for luxury apartments. while preserving the pdr space, which is also a strong jeopardy in the city. we are losing our space. were losing industrial space, and the only conceivable sound policy is the beauty on bryant that preserves all that pdr space to ensure the real viable arts community in the future while also protecting at least 50% of the housing be affordable. that's the best solution. that's why i urge you to vote no on this beast on bryant and accept the beauty on

bryant is a viable alternative. thank you. >> hi supervisors. commissioners. good evening. it's late, forgive me. tracy was murdered media alliance. the nonprofit i run its offices loted at 19th and bryant, across the street from the beauty or the beast to be. the field that him and his journalism and communications. not affordable housing or urban planning, so since i was coming here to the planning commission went ahead and read a couple plans. one of the plans that i read is called the eastern neighborhoods plan. what i found out was that seven years into this approximately 25 year plan, we have already overbuilt

-we've already reached maximum on high-end housing units. in seven years, less than one third of the 25 year period of the plan for this neighborhood, we have already built all of the high-end luxury housing units we were supposed to build for the next 25 years. we've already lost. in the first seven of the 25 years two thirds of the pdr space. that's one third for the remaining 18 years of the eastern neighborhoods plan. so, what you have in front of you is basically a developer asking for exemptions to your plan and you've got six more stacked up after this also asking for exemptions from your plan that essentially, will pull you even further and further and further away from your plan so, the

question is, where is the planning in the planning commission? where has it gone? what is the plan? now, it seems to me the community has met with the developer. i don't know if the plan is perfect and i'm not an urban housing expert, they looked at the plan and they said here's the kinds of things we need to see in this plan in order to feel better about it. and you gave them two weeks to have a conversation, not very long. the developer basically said, no, on all counts but the community has done your work for you. so at this point in time, what you have to say is, developer, go back to the eastern neighborhoods plan and bring us something that is more in compliance with what we've already said is the goal here. because otherwise, you're not planning anything and you don't need to be here because of its unfettered development, we don't need you to say yes or no. so, think about what your role is here. if there is a plan to win the projects that are in compliance with the

plan. when he projects to pay attention to the plan and we need projects that move forward planning goals. that is not this. the last thing that i'm going to say-oh, i am out of time. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> >> good evening commissioners. i really appreciate the comments of the previous speaker because i think what's really at stake here is the identity and the function of your roles as planning commissioners. i been coming to these meetings for a while now. it seems there two paradigms two interpretations of what your role is supposed to be here. this the interest of course of the capitalists and the developers, the outside interests, who interpret your role is basically rubberstamp. basic planning process in san francisco is essentially a buy right process. if something is in compliance with any number of codes but certainly not all,

then they have every right to and approval. there's another paradigm. another interpretation. interpretation that built this great city. the interpretation that says the people and citizens of san francisco deserve to have a say, to have a say in the development of their said. that's why we have up planning commission in the first place. we have discretionary review. i know many of you wish to interpret your decision today based off of existing law and the planning code, as the opposition to this development hopes you do. the conditional use exemption, the language that should justify the granting of this exemption from the granting of this conditional use authorization is necessary and desirable. that's the language. that's the standard. a standard that unfortunately developers of water down over the years. we are here asking you to revive that standard. now you've heard plenty of testimony tonight cataloging the litany of abuses this developer has already placed on the community and the great impact this project can

have. just to review, it's not just that they have displaced businesses and residents. it's not just their destroying places where art can thrive. it's also that every single one of these new affluent residents is going to bring higher purchasing power that is in turn going to displace commercial businesses, long-term businesses that serve long-term residents. so, in turn even the rent-stabilized residents of the mission, even those who lucky enough to live in afford housing are going to find her very life blood squeezed out of that neighborhood. finally, this is an important year for american politics not just in san francisco but across the country. the democratic platform, the resurgence of interest across the country is with one voice saying, money should not decide everything. the fundamental question before this body tonight on x, for the rest of the year, is who has a right to live in san francisco. i know, that answer the questions being answered by the

market. if you can afford to live in san francisco then you can live in san francisco. what we are saying is there should be a different standard. the citizens of this great city are up here tonight-i've been speaking for hours pleading for you to take your role seriously. there is room for copper mines here, but the deal as it stands is completely in eradication of the mission we all know and love. that fight urge you to oppose it. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioned my name is-i'm a 53-year-old resident of the mission district and live a couple blocks away from this project and am here to oppose this project as is. i am also the president of the tino special district. our council voted last night and voted unanimously to oppose the beast on bryant. our council represents small businesses, service, nonprofits, arts

organizations, renters and homeowners in the area. we have over 100 members and reach out about 2000 and the neighborhood and mission. this project is not compatible, desirable, or necessary in this neighborhood. 40 displaced several businesses, arts organizations, jobs and rent-controlled units. basically what we are doing is replacing a certain amount of people with other types of people that are to become-that's three out of what can happen with this project. there's going to be [inaudible] but who are they and are they going to be able to pay these higher prices and work on services will be offered to the community? the mission district right now is that a negative pdr space and affordable housing, but what is necessary is affordable housing. losing the majority of the space to larger units is not utilize the parcel to its full potential could remember,

large parcels are needed to receive federal credits for affordable housing. so you could do better than this. you should not accept a minimum. one thing i also want to mention was the flats café, when they were addicted they called us and were looking for help because they're not receiving help from this developer. also, it's premature and inappropriate to use eastern neighborhoods eir data as a baseline where we should be waiting to use the mission action plan 2020 data as the true based on. thank you and i oppose this project. >> hi. my name is-and i really

appreciate the presence of so space when it existed at 2050 bryant st. because i work for a nonprofit called green action for health environmental justice and they hosted the space where we could have our fundraiser. so, besides providing a space for culture and the arts, south space added to the vibrancy of the nonprofit community by arousing us to use the space. i also spend time volunteering with project homeless connect. so in the capacity of a long. i saw many many homeless people in the streets of san francisco, especially around that place. i've also known people who make money into high income bracket such as health care professionals. my own primary care provider cannot afford to live in san francisco. he works at san francisco general and i even know high-tech workers who cannot afford to live in the mission and have to live in places like daly city or the east bay. a lot of friends in the arts that's moved to the east bay. i know the tino people that had moved to the

peninsula suits to san mateo because then i cannot any longer afford to live in the mission could i myself came from the peninsula. i used the and san mateo and i know what it's like when you live in a community where there's a lot of wealth and the majority of the people are white, upwardly mobile people. there isn't a lot of culture. not very interesting. our claim to culture is the pet museum, and so that's why i chose to come to san francisco. i really like that dedication in celebration of their heritage, their ancestors heritage and their culture. you can't put a price tag on that. there's no place like san francisco. so, for the sake of the people in the community and the multiethnic culture, and the environment, please delay the vote and send this back to the drawing board so becomes a beauty on bryant. >> look, i know this

commission will do nothing to protect the long-term artists small businesses, and nonprofits that are being driven out of our city. and why? for real estate development. this commission has proved itself to be rubberstamp for every new luxury housing development it sees. no matter what the displacement consequences. you are responsible for destroying hundreds of thousands of square footage of low rent pdr and art spaces with your approval of this project and every other project. even when you do approve new pdr and art projects, you don't set any condition that it be affordable

and theartist groups and small businesses get any relocation help at all. let alone be able to return someday. you are a failure as a commission. now, as before, we have to go to the ballot box which is our only hope for cities communities to survive. luckily, our voters are ready to act and it's not just me. get this. according to a taught poll, 84% of those asked reported that the displacement of the artist studios, small storefront businesses and industrial work spaces used for pdr is-was considered to be a very very serious issue for the future of san francisco. an equal number feel the loss of neighborhood character and cultural heritage, which this project would cause, is also devastating. most of those polls support a ballot measure to replace all the most unconverted spaces dedicated to artist studios and workshops. we will do that. we will go to the ballot. i want you to know

-i want to know what part of this you don't get. i mean, you are directly responsible for building the future of san francisco on the wrong track with your inability to manage the city's growth. and you are also responsible for the loss of artist spaces, cell space, lunacy, women's theatre collective, treehouse gallery, 340 bryant, the museum of craft and i think belcher street arts studios, johnson's center for the arts, café-sound factory, automobile, tool and die, the lap, studio four, the receiver space new color century, and i could go on and on. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is