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consideration a continuance thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners neighbor in the immediate area i've worked in the neighborhood for 12 years not here to speak at a parent of two children i'm not here to speak at all against the school everything they've talked about sounds like a phenomenal sexual and not here to speak on behalf of the a school that is a land use decision on your part when you are dealing with a neighborhood that has experienced the type of- that is hard for people to understand every time it rains these families are worried about feces and waste and sewer flooding into their homes this is a daily
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anxiety during rainy season the idea this project having worked on hundreds of land use with community members over the 16 years this will be speed through the process without having a real community process i know i attended one over the course of year and there was some conversation and it turned out to how great our school is everyone will agree it is an phenomenal school but the time needs to be spent to look at this site and how flooding is impacting this area and how a conversation can be had about it it is there is a solution to move forward i'll ask you for a continuance for further conversation about the right way to proceed. >> next speaker, please. >> and i'm using a no vote on
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the conditional use application for the golden bridge school college street we know first hand the activating and maximizing local land for fresh food and for the residents and bring together communities in our neighborhood today, we can import anything from anymore but know the importance of local grown food is the sustainable future our city is recognized leader of america and forward thinking stewardship and inner sustainability so i urge the commissioners to disapprove the development thank you for your time. >> he observe thank you for
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your endless patience my name is karen i'm a native resident a small business owner i own mission pie in the mission district and i have a thirty year history of advocating so for healthy farming just to disclose i would like you to disapprove or find a continuance for the application for the cu for this site as a school i think doing other than that today will send a message that is okay for property to be quickly transferred and to evict an emerging community serving business very likely to become a legacy in the future with the co-holster we've sought to protect in the city we advocate the work with little
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city an reference local and state level legislation and seeing this stuart site as critical to the city and regions continued development of a misrepresent site of an urban agriculture over and over lauded as arrest an accomplishment here and other cities across the country the business model the little cities business specifically not - it's been for another by quick sales from property sales to be challenging for safety and environmental reasons and i will encourage you to take the time to look at those reasons and give this process a little bit more time thank you. >> okay see if naomi
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(calling names). >> hello, i live in importantly told the neighborhoods adjacent to the city a homeowner and own a restaurant in the mission called california's working closely with little city abstinence since the day we opened to speak of the produce that come out of that within a year of opening this is credible
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produce and credible farming and caitlin is an incredible farmer i'm here to support this land for agricultural i simple emphasize with the parents i know how tight the street and hear the concerns of the neighbors that live next door when i look around san francisco and see the construction this is the last parcel of land this is a bright line for the city we have to decide now is that the best possible use for the space is it so the atlantic ocean last inch of the lands. the city one hundred years we'll look back and see if we are proud to build that or took away a farm so thank you
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good afternoon, commissioners thank you for the opportunity to provide public comment and thank you for sitting through those hours of public comment. my name is gloria wu i was born here in san francisco and born and raised in my family and i live directly across the street into cotter street i have all the same concerns about the proposed development namely the flooding issue and i too stands with any neighbors and urge you to vote no on the conditional use application or at least to continue this item so there more time to review the new documents i understand there are documents that came in last night i feel that is new information we should slow down and review the documents separate from the flooding
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problems and the unique physical features of the lot that make 203 coter not ideal for 200 kids a need for another school ♪ area you know that many parents spoke about leaving san francisco if not for the school i'm a parent of a second dwrard it going to a school will more and more monore our son is in a spanish immersion program and thriving the school is very diverse is originally and economically so it is multi lingual and economically diverse and happy with his school great teachers and learning well and becoming a very strong and confident little boy i'm also
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the president of the pta at the school and question too talk about social justice and equal assess and equal opportunities >> thank you, ma'am, your time is up. >> >> next speaker, please. >> i came to speak about an issue of the future of our city we have 4 hundred thousand years of - as a residence of san francisco and a customer of the farnl not a volunteer justice a resident i used to live in the potrero this farm is special for people outside of the neighborhood i believe that the sf planning department has commented to urban agricultural and as caitlin mentioned sf was
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the first time to be in a zone the ordinance agricultural provides must not benefits to san franciscans and connects to the broader system and provides space and education and may save money and green infrastructure and builds office to assess public health department and economic potential 20 two at the largest - within san francisco are access to land and secure land tenure this is time to focus on agricultural systems venues have such a large impact to make a difference this really is an opportunity to believe we are building in the millennial years this matter it is important to have a school where kids learn agricultural and the public schools can be that avenue and why need to build in expense of this farm if
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we allow the school and it teaches kids where to farm i want you to think where will we send the students to farm if we don't have an opportunity to live in the city anymore thank you. >> thank you. >> hello my name is italian grid my children are fifth and six generations on my husbands side and my side i want to reiterate this is an urban farm school more than 70 percent will be used for farming not stop farming by continue it in the hands of many more children i want to say the urban farming principles under and the love of nature is going to continue in a way that impacts mental health and the
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growth of our children in a way that san francisco, california use to inform our fib situation community-based of my children were in public school and one to sunset elementary their twins their 45 minutes apart after navigating to first grade situation in the same school we faced bullying, social workers being called in to address physical that's and anxiety excuse me - this is very emotional - and 5 and 6 years old the likes of which i've never seen somebody needs to do something and san francisco schools i believe we're a model for the future and that we will show people my children one of my
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children stopped compulsively washing his hands they wanted to treat him with mexico he's tread with soil and love and nurturing and growing plants no medication a very happy child's we've seen our children transform i beg you to consider it very carefully thank you. >> handsome my name is justin and sew first of all, thank you for your patience and attention i am a fourth-generation san franciscan and i am a founding teacher of golden bridges school i've been an early choofld educator for 15 years and proud to say we've made such a change how we go forward with teaching our children and how to be in
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the world i had a whole statement written in the interest of brevity and not repeating all the things stated i'm sorry this is a policy riverside issue the people that want to save the farm share the same values we want to work together and we have - i have absolute father the school is responsible in its research of the impacts we will have on the environment, on the water and traffic and the noise of the neighborhood i also want to say that in terms of the saying we're not neighbors i'm a san franciscan and i feel like as a san franciscan i'm a neighbor to every other san franciscan we work together and this community is representative of that everybody has such can do attitude people are pitched in many families came to help on
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caitlin's work days and participated in the congeniality sports agricultural events we are can do community oriented group i want to urge you to approve our conditional use permit to continue to do our work and educate children in the will have of the land thank you. >> hi my name is maria sorenson my friend has lived there many, many years i've watched it prefarm when we used to have a lot of rain it flooded it's an issue who didn't love children i mean, i'm not a breeder he love children.
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(laughter) people can trout out all the kids it's not about kids but little space that is completely inappropriate set find buildings will go on the space i'm also reading a statement by small business this project before you today with some information come out of city hall at the 11th hour the neighborhood gsa got the documents one day from this hearing we are not told that would be published mid september as a 10 o'clock a.m. not published on line the neighbors got the two june 2016 stormwater management lesson less than a week ago we've been asking for most and the neighbors received the puc and dpw erroneous to the june memo just yesterday those
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are important technical documents that address real risk to the neighborhood they should be considered in a deliberate manner not shoved down the throats and the commissioners throats there's a lot of disingenuous in this project 200 children they'll have a walking bus oh, please people that pay tuition they - are going to drive their kids to school >> thank you, ma'am, your time is up. >> good afternoon. my name is noel my wife and i live on coter street the property that borders the school i like in the interest of brevity it is troubling we've only gotten a
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number of critical documents recently i'd like to ask for a continuance >> good afternoon my name is kit i building in the mission district and i got two kids that go to golden bridges i have a whole statement prepared but a lot of people said the points in the interest rate of brevity the school is important it raise kids holistically not only academic about creativity and self-confidence this is really, really important and something we should be doing more often for kids show a as soon as possible so i strongly support this project thank you.
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>> (calling names). >> hello my name is joel i've been intrigued by the discussion since about a year ago when the perspective the flooding that's important i want to give a different perspective on it 2014 is the last major flood in the area that was a bad one to me the initial that is not been talked about much the fact that the water is not fundamentally coming from 203 coter you saw the manhole cover on san jose and san rose that's where the water is coming from all the discussion about the per ability is fine but not significantly the record will reflect and not
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going to solve the problem one way or another the addition toilets and flushing you can do it a little calculation and figure that out low toilet phish will not have an impact i know there are studies they've been done and far more will will done and to hear the click is this a barrier to the permits on the school the flooding on cayuga in 2004 and 2014 occurred back and forth and the problem was bigger and wouldn't be solved without the community working together since coter and bridges are at the same location he proposition they'll be working together
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rather than working against each other the water will run downhill guys i'll quote from voltaire the best way to - get off the stage to attend my own garden which i will now do. >> my name is susan short live directly next to the farm on coter with my dad that owned the house since 20079 i have pictures of 203 coter flooding i should have started by saying i'm a teacher having a school on the land is not the problem the scope of the work has changed since they presented it every time is rains our two pimples are working tyler every time it rains our backyard is
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flooded we raised the house 3 feet again are - the flooding will not change and further impacted by adding development to the land back to being a teacher the safety of the children is a concern they can't get out of the back the space is enclosed entirely caitlin and little city gardens did a fantastic job alleviating the water from coming out our property and the only way to preserve the land is to actually preserve it thank you. >> hi there i'm a san francisco and sfusd public school teacher at the rooftop alternative school i recognize
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outdoor education at any school we have a large garden to learn about the stewardship and similar programs are in public schools and those throughout the city a bay area group maintains the school garden in 2016-2017 school year at the gardens students help with the lessons and spend the time to prepare the food golden bridges the programs - the current set up of coter with the agricultural use has the educational environment that doesn't happen across the system this is a missed opportunities on geometry or golden bridges if they want a larger area they should have set
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out a large garden area the space for 200 is the students is significant i only see a few garden and fruit trees and 6 classrooms making 7 classrooms that concerns me the school any need more says that the space for a farm school which seem possible in the development 70 percent of the land if have a building but not farmed once that is built with the green not farm present he hear the food preparation those don't differentiate this education outside from the other possible i'm a supporter of health and education i don't oppose this i do think that golden bridges purchased the site federal and state it was not zoned and urge the commission to i'm sorry to not approve that use and the
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resulting. >> thank you, sir, your time is up. >> hello my name is alice my husband spoke we live on coter street next to the farm probably one of the newest residents of mission terrace we've lived in san francisco for seven years we came in here with an open mind not pro or 0i9 development it was reels after being what the plan was and that we think it is not proper for the school to be developed there not properly considered the flooding aspects and noise aspects and the emergency aspects not adequate so we're asking for a continuance again and this
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school sounds amazing but this development needs to be halted and we are asking for a continuance thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> come on up and last few cards (calling names). >> hello my name is melissa coats a graduate student in chinese medicine and acupuncture the city garners is a place i've come to volunteer and exchange for fresh local vegetation that is truly a blessing with limited finances to have access to
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healthy food a have a connection to the land that is a place where my classmates and i come to harvest herbs we make natural medication for the health of individuals in the community while little city is a commercial farm it is a space that serves the city and local communities in myriad ways that can't be understated little city gardens has made it an amazing healing space where the public and neighbors and children are all welcome to come and learn locally so - let's see to participate in communities to be nourished to enjoy the nature i urge you to keep it as a peaceful quiet assessable green space as a real farm please oppose the
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conditional use authorization once you pave over the healthy soil of coter street the damage will be irreversible the school sounds like it is great and hope it happens elsewhere thank you. >> good afternoon or maybe good evening as a board member owe have physique responsibility and oversight i can tell you about the school we have a flexible and low tuition model that allows low income and middle-income families to come to the is school we have a budget deficit and raise monies in tens of hundreds of dollars we are constantly raising money and cvs this process that has gone on for over two years trying to get on the land has
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been a great financial burden we've been paying mortgage and renting a place representing a place in san francisco is not cheap we've heard a lot of where everyone is requesting a continuance and been told today that we're irish through the process well, that process is over two years from our point of view the main report has been out for over a month and the neighbors had the chance to look at it not only that but their attorneys to rebut it not new the only report that came out is something that is in response to the neighbors last minute report on a - flooding in the area to when we went back to the puc that's the only thing that came out in the last twenty-four hours it is a small report to be
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digested so you know so in that sense really no reason to say that there is lack of information that we've been hiding the planning department is not hiding what will a continuance achieve every neighbor didn't want anything but a farm everybody loves the school but were not in my backyard they've basically said asking for a continuance it a political streaming and not in good faith i strongly urge you to give this proposal the green light. >> hi there i'm scott my wife and i are lived in area intense childhood and in the southern neighborhood i can't imagine a
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school better my daughter comes home with dirt and not touched on iphone so many friends have left the school and hope to stay in san francisco to erases our daughter in the place we love i've helped to communicate with the neighbors those adjust to the projects are in the minority a quiet majority that approve of this school the current group that oppose they oppose the little city garden and that forced caitlin to have a temporary authorization for the site i personally reached out to caitlin over 6 months on behalf of the street with concrete proposals for a city owned property that is identified tentative for her farm but refused to discuss this where everyone can win the school
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listened to the neighborhood and redesigned it at at 6 figure cost it is provided all the information on sewers and traffic and the requester for a continuation are asking a political employ they've had two years to dialogue to review and respond to the project this project as a board approval are of over one thousand resident that wrote individual letters of support not petitions commissioners, i urge you to immediately approve that today so your kids are a one of a kind 50 families will literally leave this city if not. >> my name is nick a formal inspirational commissioner, i serve on the bart board but a
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father of two twins seven months old as crazy we had to start thinking about school one of them is crawling one is doing better than that the other one i think being able to - there's no perfect place to put a school in the city unfortunately, a pretty crowded place as you may know though the families that wanting to stay in the city needs educational opportunities as possible this school is unique and special not just unique in san francisco but unique across the bay area in terms of how deeply connected it allows the students to be to to the soil to our natural environment we need this is exactly the type of school i'll be excited hopefully to be able to send my twins to this space not enough space in schools in
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san francisco that's why i'm urging you to support the project because even though not the perfect place to build a school we badly need is this seems like a good spot thank you. >> good evening commissioners first of all, thank you for your service to our city a 16 year san franciscan and renter and many have's said it is hard to walk the tightrope i'm a nonprofit professional fighting for inner agricultural this is a difficult topic for me as the mother of a child that goes to golden bridges and goes there because of my commitment to a sustainable food system and
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inner agricultural we need farms he completely agree for those people in the room wearing those words on their shirts that believe them i understand how hard this is the first time i took my daughter in public that days old english agricultural is a beg part of my life i want to stay in san francisco we need more than one farm we need farms in every neighborhood i want to fight formal that but if my daughter can't be at the touch school a nature based school we'll not be able to stay here we want to be clear many people wearing the words on their shirts they don't want this
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property developed in no way, shape or form we'll fight to mitigate the sewer problems those will be hour problems and want to work the people that point more urban farms to grow financing urban farms in san francisco so, please approve you have the opportunity today to approve this project and keep families like mine here. >> thank you your time is up. >> good evening my name is katherine a bernal heights resident for the majority of my adult life and have a kindergartener at the golden bridges and here to voice my support for the proposal i'll skeptical the part of my speech how i love golden bridges i have a unique perspective i've been on the committee and like to
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speak to a few issues about - traffic we're committed to a walking school bus during the rain it days of the year our students estimate out in the rain we are committed to car share i've been a car share additionally overseeing who can are committed to all fashion of bikes to tagalongs to cycles a tan dumps i've seen them all design since i've been a member of the team intense the beginning from a first hand perspective after we presented our agricultural drawings we swiveling racked to the neighborhood feedback we switched firms with our new
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architect we've heard you'll skip that flooding i'll let the experts speak to the flooding one of the reasons i feel passionate is not just the children and staff but the participants i've seen over the four years our partners are capable of almost anything we have the manpower to fix the mission terrace flooding and sponsored did farms with free rents throughout the proposal process and offered to help them relocation, however, golden bridges cannot fruitful. >> thank you, ma'am, your time is up. >> so pleased to be the last
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person here we've worked looked at for two years and submitted many documents and held meeting and we believe we have done this in good faith we urge you to decide on our project today and not continue this thank you very much. >> okay is there any additional public comment? >> and final public comment. not seeing any, public comment is closed. and commissioner hillis. >> first thank you all for the testimony we hear a lot of controversial projects not many are this civil we get so moved so much testimony this is controversial and people are passionate on all sides i was able to go out to the site yesterday morning and tour with the folks that run the garden it is good to get that perspective and see this section we hear we
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actually had a couple controversial school haeshgz it is difficult we know there is a need for schools in the cities have a hard time findings space they can't pay what residential or commercial developers what pay they often want to be in neighborhoods and obviously a bigger impact to the immediate surrounding block than two blocks away we often hear traffic and noise hopefully good noise but we hear those issuance about schools and drop-offs but it is a challenge and they've got it obviously we need schools he bring my 3 kids to another neighborhood i wish it was in my neighborhood and it is chaotic in the morning as people drop off their kids there's walkers and drivers it clears out quickly but going to be
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impactful if there is a school not the same our goal to try to minimize that if this is approved the farm use is an interesting wrinkle we don't determine we rezone property not who farms the tenant nothing we can do to necessarily keep that tenant other than the space even if we were just a school it would be gone tomorrow or whenever the lease is up we can't zoned exclusively for an urban farm just not what we can do in our capacity and it is interesting when i was i worked for the city for 5 years and did the agreement on parcel with hayes valley farm my kids toured with that they hate me no farm on that site i have to convince
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them a mixed use housing 8 years ago they toured the farm i get kids with a good use not one we can control zoning district there is a lot of good aspects of this project it seems like a good fit in the neighborhood and this school is a good fit for this property i think the design is great and where i didn't see the original design but like the design what we see this seems like a unique school with a unique vision that fits into in sight some of the challenging things beef heard i've seen is a constrained site an odd bow tie shaped site mid block with not a ton of frontage but a big site the design renewables reflects that a fairly narrow streets and schools are in north beach on
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streets they complete with parking and residential uses but a narrow with an way street the flooding issues been through this neighborhood and seen sandbags not often with flooding but the sandbags i'll generally supportive of a school use on this site but have questions about the densest of the proposal i think we generally hear a lot more on the design, the height you know how the building looks and feels on the site that felt this hearing school or no school farm or no farm and good to dig into some of the detailed issues if i can ask the representative from the school a couple of questions i'm not sure who - >> all right. if not you can deflect them to samoan we heard a couple of times the proposal
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changed over time has the the program changed over time you know, i this we are heard it was overflow room a smaller school and grown can you talk about your program how many students. >> at the time, we first came to a terrace and association meeting after the purchase of land in the coming student year 50 students there will be 50 students and a way to create a structure for the 50 students we never said that was all we were going to be we've tasered and spoken as a as k through 8 this was heard a miscommunication a misunderstanding i felt this on or about was resolved over time the first, the design that was presented to the neighborhood
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was a k through 8 a bit of a larger building it fronted coter street directly with a garage was the frontage with a entrance into the school on one side of that there were two large building one of them with green roof and the second a second story building frond on coter street and one smaller sort of classroom in the back so the concerns we heard was where the children are dropped off we created the drop off circle not enough land preserved we made more land and broken down into smaller bias pieces and covered 2 with green. >> you have 7 classrooms or k through 8. >> yes. >> 9 classes. >> how is that - is that i mean, you're program is like twenty-four hour.
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>> wasn't a mistake. >> so currently two of the classes with offsite for example, one classroom on the farm and one classmate inside of a classroom and one in glen canyon we continue - we made the building small on purpose to hold us to make sure the children are outside once their ordinary and middle school we hope they're in publicly working in public service a big part of our school and want to make that a reality the excelsior district a great place with the jewish home to plug in students and they don't need to be climbing trees as much we hope to put them in service we purposing made the school two small to make sure we stay out. >> how many grades now. >> preschool through second grade and the preschool is in the mission.
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>> okay in timing wise when are you - what's your purchased timing. >> the foot is ready to be put on the metal we've between waiting to get a permit your architects are ready and donors ready to put into o money into the bank a bank that said if we can raise 40 percent they'll get to us one hundred we're ready to go. >> in other words have you had discussions with neighbors because when i was on the site as well as today a couple of folks from the just a few minutes homes talked about just the size of this school here in the site and you know it is unusual site and unusual development for - but what was
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you're thinking behind how this project is placed to you know accommodate our program and how - less of an impact to the adjacent neighbors as possible. >> there are two things one is making it actually too small our enrollment at the maximum will be 200 students like i said two classes not onsite that is two classes not onsite on any given day we've broken down the structure to match the housing so they'll be small classrooms with courtyards twvn last week shaped and separated like houses that was very intellectual and left the open space - wouldn't this be a great place for farmer's market we can rent out
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the multi purpose room on weekends afternoons skwoovpz and we heard we don't want more people walking 24r509 neighborhood we've been trying to build a greater community for the excelsior we're more happy to keep our doors close but happy to open up the doors and allow this to be an asset for the city and on the owner of flooding you knew of that issue it is going to impact you, i mean we're getting various message from the puc and probation officer memos but didn't sound that issue is necessarily going away your ex baiting it or not a question what you feel.
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>> we're at at advantage we can build a building higher and we can might issues on the property we'll be putting in pools that will pick up pull up water and want to put in holding tanks the children can see that means that area you play in you can't it is a big puddle or great. >> many ways it is it becomes an educational asset an viral asset believe that our families those are really they're almost all here so when the school says this is something that is important they show up i believe they'll show up for the water issue. >> thank you. >> you come up more questions for staff on the is anyone from puc here?
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>> good evening department staff none from puc is here but in communication with puc throughout the process including earlier this morning. >> we received that memo or letter from them yesterday and correct. >> but i'm not necessary an period of time maybe you can help us summarize. >> yes. yes. yes. >> i'm not an expert on the topic, however, i did talk with puc about what the conclusion were and have a hocking hydrology person here essentially what you received from the puc was that modeling scenarios and a half conducted one is for existing conditions the current site one is a somewhere in what you have three hundred people occupying the site wastewater if three hundred people and the third scenario a
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condition in which the entire site isism that he was there is flooding on a site under the existing conditions under the 25 year and one hundred year storm the project - the three hundred or 100 percent under the 25 year storm and the one hundred year storm in difference between the model scenario under the three year storm there is no discernable difference between three hundred people of - there is a difference what goes into the stormwater if you consider it 100 percent impervious that's not the conditions proposed and
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do not occur with the project. >> there were issues brought up of past projects you know them not going forward because egress concerns do you know anything about those issues. >> i have russel here to speak the project we do not i don't know if we even - those projects preceded i think that nancy can speak to the status of those how far prolong they got. >> i spoke to fire no concerns. >> that's right are you with. >> i'm with the project sponsor. >> okay just last week he contacted a gentleman proposed for 9 units
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apparently development and inquired what were the reasons you abandoned the project he said he wanted to do a 75 percent coverage on the lot and a push back from the planning department in an initial meeting that was the original position not for life safety as. >> 9 single families as part after a multi family unit. >> commissioner koppel. >> yeah. thanks for everyone that came out anymore interesting than normal not just a garden but farm we'll be looking at instead of a empty parking lot and not just a school but an interactive quote farm school fulsome i had another question for the project
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sponsor based on the programming issue schools are obviously going to be different than office or residential you're not going to be staying overnight you may possibly be shutting down for the summary what are the timeline schedules for just year rent-controlled housing the summer off and then you know lossized look at the site and drove by the front of it and the back of it and also not aware how much of a commercial influence this farm has to have you explored opportunities if it is night time or closed where the school is not utilized did some of that continues to go on and the opposition mitigated. >> the school will operate almost like a typical school
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pond through friday from 74 and class starts at the 8:30 and different program within an after-school program a lot of the timing are wlisz in terms of how many parents evenings hopefully one or two community events the whole school comes to a fearful celebration as like last weekend we put from the conditional use a summer program of six to eight weeks a summary program it is optional not desired so o to have test in the summer we're open to not having it but put it in that to offer it in terms of sharing the space in a way that comes back to commissioner hilliss original question about we had a grand vision so for what the school will be when we purchased the
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land there could be little city gardens or ultimately in our conversations with myself and caitlin and the other founders of caitlin in order to have a farm you need x amount of space and not enough for both of us we had conversations with you be interested in running a school farm she has a passion for imperial agricultural not the passion she wanted to pursue that's where the conversation ended we both started with being excited about an be outdoor school and farm and as large as the lands seems not big enough okay schematics. >> i guess process question
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the certificate of determination for the environmental review is that typical. >> jessica can answer but not not typically not when necessary come out the hearing is not required not a typical and not a typical for this size of a project for a categorical exemption. >> i was yesterday at the site and met with the folks from the school and the neighborhoods i listed out several different issues here one of them the competing hocking hydrology report i think you answered it i'm not sure i understand it but read it before i went to bed wow. a difference of opinion often this impact of the project but the simulation if you can
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summarize the simulation run by the puc indicates that the project sponsor ohio hydrology report is more accurate than the other report. >> i don't want to confuse two things the stormwater management approach memorandum that was prepared by the ohio hydrology person and the puc that is separate from the modeling that puc did so you received that meanwhile i explained so two separate things and in regards to the stormwater management approach puc reviewed that with dpw we received in a i guess a subsequent analysis from ohio hydrology person greg and we 10 took that analysis and sent it out to puc, public works as well
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as the project sponsor hocking hydrology person to review and make sure no new concerns that were raised by greg and his analysis and that there was no issues that couldn't be resolved 0 through the review design analysis. >> we're okay. >> yes. >> (laughter) great i appreciate that. >> the other issue i listed was outreach so he know you ran a two years of progress stands that if i may we talked about the terrace neighborhood can you talk about the outreach to both front and back of the project excelsior and mission terrace. >> mission terrace is in a way i imagine mission materials is
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part of a excelsior district 11 and so the outreach i was you - to reach the commercial corridor i don't know if it is mix terrace or the excelsior and reaching to mclaren park because not only with those are neighbors impacted but neighbors we want to come to our school a lot of the outreach on the wooden is this appropriate in terms of its scope and interests but families that want to join us how can we integrate ourselves i attend a lot of the meetings honestly it was negative and there wasn't a lot of talking but a lot of no a lot of save the farm signs went up we stopped knocking on the safe
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the farm signs when our campusers talked about reaching out one thing that is noticeable the houses that don't have safe the farm sign they definitely got a letter a sign handed to them and didn't put them up i found those houses imbelligerent and open to the idea of having a school i hear from commissioner koppels question he had the same question the idea of a continuance and working together were really dealing with mutually inclusive projects a farm and there's nothing that is possible with the two of them give me the commercial farm. >> at this point with the farm no, i think the school is certainly open to making
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adjustment that 9 neighbors might be bringing up but based on the concerns we've been presented we feel we've addressed unless other changes that they feel need to be made we heard a lot about stormwater and traffic and noise done extensive studies unless something we don't know about. >> thank you very much one thing that sxhefz picked up on this was for this type of a contention on or about you folks are the most well-behaved group of people in the city honestly people were talking about over each other last night and meeting like this it was hard to keep order you guys should pat yourselves on the back and hopefully get along i'm focused on the core issue for both sides is open space and farm as you
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look at the two ways to go the commercial farm which sadly the farm didn't control the farm as commissioner hillis said someone can put a padlock on it no more farm because the lease said you question and answer get out with a thirty day notice we deal with that in other mission people want something that is is a idealic thing this is about controlling the lands we have at commercial farm that is 100 percent land 100 percent community assess day and night and have it in increase and no impacts do nothing model not to say in the future some of the commissioners said someone can buy the land into the school
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and talk about the parishes you have to one thing and 100 percent and on the other hand, you have skaeblg use for the land you have two hundred students with events and 70 percent of the land as open space and a farming consultant not open to the community but deal with the school and benefits to that we've heard a lot of the benefits on both sides so sewer and sewer which is s k w e r and heard it is mitigated and the traffic and the other impacts and the lens we're tlook although on a cu an institutional use in an rh1 neighborhood is necessary and desirable and compatible so as i look at what i heard about the school its mission people spoke passionately sometimes in tears their moved
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about what the school is i think the school is a desirable accuse u use for the land it meets my necessary and desirable compatible this is really if you look at the mitigation factors that were outlined in the case report this school has done a job trying to mitigate traffic and noise you know people pedestrians etc. the only concern i have the ability to actually assign a time for a parent to pick up a child timeframe one of the mitigating things i read anyways so compatible i think there has been an expensive amount of work to make that school compatible including the design the circular driveway and the programming around people having cars move so i think that is
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compatible and i'll see what my fellow commissioners have to say commissioner johnson >> thank you very much i'm going to start with a quick question and gone from there so of the memo that has the 3 scenarios it actually said that final stormwater plan has to came into from the puc so i think that the plan has to be approved by the puc commission before they a building permit can be issued any order of operations before that so - come on up. >> do they have to have land entitlements. >> no, in fact, that's the reason why we actually had a stormwater conceptual a typical the stormwater management approachs have done during the
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permit review so to answer your question during the permit review but nothing holding them back equipment the puc looking at it although the permit process it does make sense. >> is one decision dependent another in a perfect world any process is the stormwater management plan does 24 need to come after the land entitlement. >> typically how it works we'll get the entitlements the conditional use what about authorized by the process usually that's consequential process the puc review they will approve what is called audience preliminary stormwater control plan for the site permit or the building permit at the end of the process they're the last routing station once that permit is initiated with the control
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plan before the final certificate of completion so a two-part of the first is posting entitlement at the end of the building permit. >> okay. great and as part of the their approval of the plan is there any part of decision that says if you put a emperor marble - i'm trying to you understand the project sponsors made the stormwater at issue in our decision i'm trying to decision if that makes sense seems to me under a different path whether or not the stormwater plan for
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this proposed project makes sense and if it makes sense i want to try to separate speak out from the decision on the cu that is kind of what i'm getting at and the puc reviews the final design plan they look at that for the stormwater control plan they have 9 final plan and not issuing a preliminary stormwater controlled plan if it can't pass the standards their subject to reviewing. >> right. >> that approval must happen before the ordinance of the building permit no construction will start unless the puc is the feasible and so their standard is it something the impact of the project is significantly more than the status quo would that potentially be a reason to their plan mitigation plan to not needed the standard if a
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project makes it worse with stormwater with a one year storm could the puc make the decision that plan doesn't work for the project if the impact is really large. >> i can't speak 100 percent to their nuance processes but i would presume like all the different divisions that review the building permits their standards that must be met for the permit to be orientated i do not know if jessica can share. >> there's a performance standard for the twenty-four hour hour design storm and many ways to meet that standard we had the project sponsor hocking hydrology person looking at in addition to the conceptual management approach and other basement and additional piping
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so there are design ways to meet the stormwater management requirement. >> thank you that answers my questions i appreciate it so - for me think i have a coup of other condemns and i'll see what my fellow commissioners have to say but thank you for all for being here and green house our comments sometimes, it seems it is up and down it is hard to look at everybody in the eye for 3 and a half hours we were livens and office space so many times you have three or four hundred people come out and 99 percent are giving the talking points and 10 percent help with the decision bus that's the opposite case everyone gave thoughtful comments both for the people that are here and had to go thank you for that response i
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was hoping that was the answer he i'm not a geotechnical engineer took it freshmen year of college didn't do well and i want to make sure there's a separate process for that which could result in approval or denial or change of some of the strategies here so i want to clean that we're not geotech engineers and not argue but talk about the land use and commissioner vice president richards brought up great points i'll not repeat 24 necessary and desirable or compatible one they know it is unfortunate we're can't like duplicate this land and put it somewhere else because we have 24/7 competing policy priorities when how talk about urban agriculture in the city there has been a movement
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to keep and to sponsor urban agriculture and not just farms but rooftop gardens and other spaces and there's been a movement we need more community facilities it such as schools and in terms of of the farms and things like that so it is like we have two competing priorities that everyone agrees with are a good idea and good for the city and county trying to 55 for one space that is challenging me i think that some of the decision which one will be in the long term interests of 71 and second which one has the less negative impacts in terms of interest there's a will there's a way i'll disagree with commissioner bobby wilson not
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possible to center a unzoning that would be something impermanent not the situation we're in but the farm can go away tomorrow so fellow commissioner i'll not rain on her parade how was the land marketed it is mashtd as condos you know there is something that in the fears if we to have the use the next hearing about the site will be about condo and nothing we can do about that what we can or can't tell people what to do in the long term use i'm concerned in terms of impacts of the project obviously the agricultural currently there a working farm that's great and the stormwater i don't think that that needs to be part of our decision when it comes to
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transit and traffic i'm relatively satisfied the impact is moderate for the project type of we're talking about and not keeping in the impacts the other communities when not a single-family home going into a single-family district more than 9 single-family home going to the property and the potential impacts have been mitigated well with the second design i'm so glad we saw the first one it is a larger building taking up more of the lot i'm pretty - i kind of like the implementations of having the school but definitely open to hearing other commissions on that. >> commissioner melgar. >> thank you. i want to thank everyone for coming out and sitting through our
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deliberations so want to start by seeing saying the design of this project is obviously e outstanding i'm in the business of education it is difficult to find space in san francisco to do that i also have a lot of empathy for folks that want to preserve the farm and open space i'm afraid that is there the economics of that particular use of that particular site so i was the one looking at how that property was marketed you know we see this throughout the city there is a very acute shortage of housing like every thing else and you know, i am afraid that the next project if this project didn't grow will be
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condos on that site so you know, i think that know as we continue the urban ashen subject but think about the urban agricultural and we as the city are committed we have to punish for that as well because there's a business plan that comes with that use that is tied to the land you know that if we want it we need to make that happen in terms of the economics so i like the project and i think that is a very good use of that parcel. >> commissioner moore. >> i wanted not to be in the fourth hour of public comment echo the appreciation of hearing people in a balanced and moderate way including the children were under quiet and being in the group that was remarkable because we have many
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instances this was exactly the opposite and thank you for that i'd like to share from the get go that there are slarlts in what many of you are saying respect to the gentrification and impact of traffic noise etc. i have been sitting on this commission for a number of years and briefly tell you rejuvenation of use with the impression of viral issues came about on the corner of jones california expanded in a very, very major way then there was drew with a major expansion that had many, many months of opposition an urban and urban forest high and many of the discussions went to the issue of increase in traffic i want to stick with that for one
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second given that obviously today's students are picked up by the parents and children dropped off walking or car or carpool i can tell you in all cases living next to one of the major examinations grace chath the parents take responsibility for the commitment for the schools to be non-drufb so in those incidence i've spent hours observing the examples have been axiliary i do believe there can be a managed approach to pick up and delivery of students together with a model this school relies on walking distances and being in a kind of
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system that puts a great emphasis on walking and models of transportation management i believe this is a great approach a and feel comfortable that commission has supported examples i'll caulk something i feel comfortable not impacting the design approach to an agricultural teaching mission is exemplar i couldn't see a better building when more deals with an expression of light only the land not just in the percentages of open space by whether those the composition of buildings often buildings create when you look at them from a distance they became a wall here the ability of views and air flee in
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between those buildings only 4 buildings depend on where you stand and looking the surrounding streets the composition is, exceptional by the courtyards i can see this is as a lovely model for an urban school myself coming out of that school type of close to the steiner wolf do have education makes me appreciate how this building realize this idea i'm very much in support and time to engage with director rahaim for one minute i'm under one of the few commissioners with supervisor chiu on what is now the urban agricultural legislation we had along discussions and took months and months and months to
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go through the pros and cons together the temporary nature by doesn't we'll support the sites in in between it wasn't clear that shape ultimately the development would take on that could you help >> commissioners, thank you the ordinance as you recall allowed i think referred to allowed the urban agricultural in any zions in the city without a hearing it allowed it as of right. i think what defined and agricultural as opposed to to someone growing their own vegetation in their backyard growing items to be sold threat the against e distinctions in between what we can grow under our backyard that is what is happening in 2, 3, 4 piece of land the nature of the use is really only dependent the terms of
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lease and how long they can be there in this case it is a privately owned piece of land the owner from the owner choose to keep it farm there forever it is different than the situation in hayes valley there was a clear plan that was temporary everyone knew that was proposed for a site for development nov that the agricultural is temporary it simply allows to exit in any zoning as an agricultural use but, but by right not trump the right of property owner leaving an underutilized parcel for a long time period of time we had several negative impact c-3 and one next to the puc building on mcallister and larkin so there's
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a commitment to utilizing space providing but not necessarily implied assumption i see the need that agricultural trumps any. >> certainly yes. yes. that's true one of many, many uses that are allowed on the site this is an rh1 district one can build homes because of size of site one can build 7 or 9 units excuse me - 20 if you have a planning unit you can build 20. >> that will cause a series of other problems and unfortunately, this site is not shaped or size large enough in this particular case with 70 percent of land still open from the lands would be sufficient would be an ideal location
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because they compliment each other so i couldn't be more in support of what is being property here i'm very interested in the sliding tuition model i'm interested in the inclusive model as this as a resource don't want to ask about scholarships but the sliding model in its labeled by most of the speakers is affordable we need this in almost every neighborhood in order to fulfill what people are telling us we need to create affordable housing and schools and as said we need to create a variety of schools which address the needs of different families president to bring up their children under different school and training
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models that's what is front of the us i'm prepared to move to approve. >> second. >> okay. i want to add some thought this is kind of a difficult one a great sounding school a great community and strong engaged obviously a neighborhood that is enjoyed the gardens there i think for us up here we're making misrepresent generational land use we've seen many schools as commissioner moore pointed out the class of 200020 has come in and gang boosters and changing the schools families will have new ideas and the city has new ideas and the ability to build a high school but someday you guys won't be there but will be suggested at some point that is part of decision process in
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san francisco i like the uses i wish there was a main campus in across the street for the neighborhood this happened tobacco the great farm satellite campus that's difficult to find. >> yeah. he guess you you know it is unusual and that those two groups are civil ceiling have so far apart i wish we had discussions to get closer together i'll wait for other comments. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> two quick things first one project sponsor what i was referring to the development of a sign pickup periods for each students i thought that meant a certain time this child is 355 or 4 o'clock explain what that means.
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>> that's a that's a good question. >> on page 15 of the draft motion. >> our traffic consultant is here that might better clarify no. we'll not have a specific drop off. >> that's exacting couldn't be thought will you explain that so everyone understand autopsy charles consulting traffic consultant what you're referring to say not by students by grade so you wouldn't have. >> depend on grade. >> okay. >> so kindergarten first grade wonderful i guess not for you sorry thank you. >> ms. hoff. >> so i guess a quick question ask you're directly across the
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street and seems to be engaged given the fact the project will move forward anything about this current project you see you would give feedback what you wanted changed. >> our biggest concern is scale of the project and really the urban known impacts for stormwater that is really the biscuit question for us and so it is hard for me to say other than scale and potential harm fell effects that will effect my home water going straight both my garage those are the biggest concerns. >> what is interesting he read came in and reporting was something you were involved with and reads the puc and the eir that i got and he asked those questions that any negative impact of this project if it is
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misunderstood beforehand i assume the experts can figure out and put through the mod not get a certificate sift but making the situation blow the acceptable standard for the run off that's my basis on the stormwater inform permit will be issued and at least the standard i'm assuming not going to get worse that's the whole point. >> you mean as far as the stormwater. >> not accelerate an increased amount of stormwater and right the stormwater will be the stormwater regardless of what happens. >> your other thing was the scale. >> correct again 9 amount of volume of 200 students 31 staff. >> we've heard with the model
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of three hundred students let the experts figure that out. >> i no idea how we respond to that. >> no permit i'm assuming no permit will be issued if it, it is not permissible. >> question on the land use the under consideration is adequate given the additional work done and could be defended and then the thresholds we talked about necessary and desirable and compatible a mitigation plan for any other non-stormwater impacts and actually, the fact it is 70 percent open and not 20 houses sitting there is better for wildlife and make sure that light and air and timed to make sure before we voted. >> it is about the scale of
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the project and the concerns around flooding you've heard obviously the concerns around traffic and egress. >> we've taken this seriously i hope you release that. >> commissioner moore. >> i actually want to acknowledge staff for doing an steroid job with the puc calculations we were normally we don't do that relative on the city progresses insuring that all projects that come to the land use ♪ commission go the standard way of all health and public safety issues address by dbi, fire, puc and on and on and on in this particular case you went out of your way to do this over where this project stand together with
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shiver that every step beyond follows those processes by which not cumulative worsening situation foresight e together with the possibility of addressing a problem in the addressed given what we're told he assume as the project move forward will not woolen by cumulatively address and make the overall situation better >> director rahaim. >> from my on part hearing the testimony i find is fascist two groups of people that strooirld similar missions look at the same piece of land it is a great testimony time those are the values that's unusual item there are many, many schools in the city and they usually co-exists
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in residential neighborhoods i certainly think from a normal school operation standpoint there is certainly ways to allow fourth the co-existence the two unique issues on that site the stormwater and the existence of existing farm that obviously creates a different dynamic with a similar proposal were to happen whatever the commission choose to do continue it or not i'll be i think this is an important enough situation that i will be happy to convene folks to have a discussion around how to make that work from the commission so choose in any scenario it is - you know, i think this is kind of situation we're going to see happen more and more in the city as the city grows and green
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space used for other purposes especially privately owned green space and over offer that and i personally am interested in this topic how to have those kind of uses co-exist i'll do it and we can certainly report back to you in future scenarios. >> commissioner moore. >> at that motion a motion for approval the one thing i want to say any example which from given everything eave tacked this project is doing it correctly it starts request the mission and talks about the policy rather than with just trying to get a building on the land and doing the lease to achieve that i'd like to use this example as a forward leading way of how to do
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it hopefully next time the site will be large enough to have all represent. >> commissioner hillis. >> given what we've heard it is hard not to be supportive of this in the design but i think to director rahaim's comments we didn't hear what we hear about the issues directly impacting that block and the neighbors so i'd like to add to the motion that staff continue to work on those finer grain issues that we tend to hear more about this was more farm or housing but i think there is some traffic issues and you know open - the rear yard issues that i think you know that will be good to convene those neighbors impacted with the department to continue to work on that. >> commissioner johnson.
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>> yeah. i think commissioner hillis i want to make sure there's an opportunity our findings or otherwise to have director rahaim or other staff work with the prestige team the traffic we said rear yard space i know this is a school gets tricky what are the summers and on weekends what is the opportunity so have outlet 70 percent space events in the farm that is important schools can be challenging with the school assess and all of that but want to make sure that is possible i mean request for a continuance. >> possible for us. >> continue to work with the project sponsors. >> absolutely, yes.
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>> commissioners there is a motion that has been seconded to approve with conditions and amenable to the maker and seconder directing the staff to continue to work. >> commissioner hillis. >> commissioner johnson commissioner koppel commissioner melgar commissioner moore commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and. >> (clapping.) >> commissioners that leaves us to general public comment i have no speaker cards. >> >> okay. any general public comment this evening not seeing any, thekd
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>> we're going to get started we have a lot of celebrating to do thank you everyone thanks for being here how great to be a the academy of sciences isn't this fantastic?. >> (clapping.) >> this is most certainly a jewel in our community and we thank the entire academy team for making us felt so welcome good evening. i'm ann wilson the ceo the invited bay area we're the people in the initiative the mayor's job plus program this is
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one of favorite event and my pleasure to welcome you all here this is a giant effort and teamwork added it's best the city of san francisco and the mayor's office oh, my god and dcyf and if you don't know the outstanding department in our city that delivers support and services to our community families youth and children and we at the invited way are so very proud to be partners and celebrate and thank our sponsors who support this initiative in so many ways j.p. morgan chase is this year's presenting sponsor and been with the initiative since 2013 give up for chase. >> (clapping.) >> our premium sponsors are pg&e, who is been with us from the beginning beginnings as a
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founding partner and starbuck's that fingerprint cards this project and offers jobs as pastor of the initiative let's hear it for the premium sponsors. >> (clapping.) >> bank of america is our gold sponsor and a bank of america has been with us a co-founder of this initiative let's hear it for bank of america >> (clapping.) >> entries e enterprise rents a car our silver sponsoring broujz is linked and development and our supporting sponsor is ernest and young let's thank them all. >> (clapping.) >> so tonight you'll get to meet a handful of the people that make this program work this is a team effort in every way in hands and many hearts it come together every year to make sure that young people in our
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city have great experiences and introduced to the world of work in the most positive ways and i'm so happy to see here montreal tonight many young people and employers and nonprofit partners here who make that all possible i started out by thanking the california academy it my pleasure to thank cal academy and introduce you to their executive director doctor jonathan following will i. >> (clapping.) >> well, first of all, thank you, ann and mayor ed lee for bringing us to celebrate this incredible group of organizations they're working together to serve san francisco's youth we've been here since the 1850s and our mission work with young people in san francisco and the great abag and couldn't be more proud
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to be part of a community that is passionate about serving youth in the city welcome to the academy i'm thrilled you're here this is the most beloved building in san francisco city hall sorry (laughter) by the way, we're very glad to center you in thought community and congratulation to the youth for all the work this summer thank you for all you're doing. >> (clapping.) >> eric is up next; right? >> yeah. so ann. >> no, i'm next sorry john i did not know you were done. >> (clapping.) >> so again welcome good evening thank you all for being here a great time to celebrate all the partners represented it is the best of you'll august of public nonprofit public sector
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private sector engagement investing in one of our most valued treasures our young people so thank you very much for being here and so i want to make sure you didn't miss someone that was supposed to be here ann i didn't see her we'll chore so for her really, really loud we'll keep on going these things happen nonetheless because of partnerships and the institutions but when there is great leadership wouldn't have been possible celebrating 5 years hadn't been for the leadership of the giants figuratively our mayor please welcome mayor ed lee >> (clapping.) >> wow. great audience here
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first of all, thank you for making sure he got out of city hall (laughter) you know they i know that doctor following will i and ike and everybody likes to invite me i have a long time friend claude and interested in looking to claude the albino alligator i'm looking at for him every time he get a chance i want to come in u come up and visit thank you to eric mcdonald to the entire invited way for your partnership you can 5 years ago we were thinking about all of our young people in san francisco and i was just starting out in this position and so people said hey mayor can you you know if we're going to have a strong economy we need our youth may find about jobs i snanlt jumped
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on that and said we need to private sector and the training organized good in our community together with our government and our employers to have a unified message that the tenant of this city is every single one of you in this room i want to make sure you know we've been thinking about that a los angeles county and not just jobs so for jobs sake we want to make sure your life is fulfilled as a young person in the city so that's why while we're working we want to make sure you have 9 best experience and have working a r on a great school system working on pathways to college, scholarships for kids, open space for you to play in and enjoy yourselves great experiences throughout your young life and this is why i invested in
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organizations like our investment in our children and youth and family working with the unified school district and ohio dwra and the superintendent of schools all the city colleges that's why i have an academic advisory council made up of councils advising me i know you that i'm going to talk about the jobs you know, i let me put away those notes and pend that moment yesterday, i had the opportunity to join with so many of the people on an announcement you may have read about in the local pages of newspapers that's when palin and mark zuckerberg's annunciations a multi million dollars fund in mission bay and they suggested that in our
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lifetime as well as ours but more importantly in maxs lifetime you, you know, who that is their young child born less than a years ago to priscilla and mark thinking about their child and you will have you and how we can conquer the four diseases that cause the most deaths today the cancer death, the heart dedicate, the neurology stroke related deaths and they wanted to put their heart their technology mind, their dock roll medical approach and blend it to creating this center and they choose san francisco to do that >> so i'm looking at all of
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you kids because i'm thinking about you and saying you're really lucky to be in this city i hope i appreciate it what is happening in the city is really marvelous you have the blends of the greatest technology minds, health minds, impure minds coming together in our lifetime solve and make sure we end or we manage the greatest diseases that placard us for century this is a maker thing and your witnessing it right here in our youthful years i want you to think about that has part of the environment i get to live and work in san francisco that with all the great companies that have been looking at the stashed their offices here those are many of the companies that are right in this
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room where the bank or salesforce or coffee inadvertent or some of the greatest employers they're looking for talent they it focused on you and at the focused on the young people in san francisco so i want to tell you this is what makes me really excited but having the best and brightest in san francisco coming together and solving diseases and work with all of us in government in the private sector to create the best city in the world this is where your lucky to work i want you to know more than just getting a job never about a job but career pathways about supporting you in fact, we have programs funded by the city foundation and programs like my path what kids like you, your saving and putting investment,
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in fact, seven hundred kids this summer pout over half a million dollars in savings account to have a future. >> (clapping.) >> you know, i can brag all i want about a 3 and a half percent employment rate hot economy, all the big businesses of all sizes wanted to be here and technology and health care and tourism but if i to take care of and help those without our help wouldn't have that chance of experiencing those types of things inch not done any job and other companies will agree we haven't reached out and made sure that all of our residents can benefit from this prosperity we haven't done the job we were set out to do that's
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why i'm so proud of our summer youth of our youth plus jobs program because we're teaching everyone from time to tie doing a resume lifting their heads in their interviews this is all part of your future if you're successful and if you take those opportunities as they've presented and run with that this city and everybody associated with it is also going to be successful he truly mean it i'll be a more successful mayor if you golden state warriors guys get the careers and jobs in about 3 years i get do end this job then i'll be this old guy walking on the street hoping i'll run into a ceo of is a company of a kid that we helped to get the job they'll tug any shoulders and suit hopefully and say hey mayor or thank you for
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creating and continue to create one of the best cities for people to be successful in this is what this job program means to me and everybody making sure that we have every opportunity and it comes with that fantastic opportunity to work with the private be sector all the companies and i know we had an injustice to name a few i'll name some of the leaders that's salesforce and j.p. morgan chase, pg&e, starbuck's bank of america enterprise rent a car anyone know who pa lodges is some of the companies you don't know the names they're probably some of the most successful do a lot of industrial workforce stuff and their in charge of a lot of warehouses helping us do
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pdr space production, distribution and repair they're the ones he helping us with the new industries in san francisco that make san francisco made products i'm proud of that we're trying to create other industries a hot tourism we've got to hot health care, a hot tech but want things made in san francisco we'll be xoefrt products from this area a many countries and helping out sunset development companies 4ri7b8gd their mentioned in our portfolio but those are the companies in the great companies thinking about your future and recruiting you to be their talent so they can be the best companies in the world with that, i say thank you and govern claude thank you to all the youth here
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for all of you taking care of our futures with us and continue investing counting it is over 6 thousand three hundred jobs we're counting and . >> counting and counting. >> and counting but i have to tell you in a short few years trying to get the 10 thousand jobs that are a jobs how about that >> (clapping.) >> again, thank you very much everybody and congratulations put money into our own pockets you know i also was thinking while i was coming over here it is great when i earned any own money so mom if you want me to buy the eggs and milk this week i'll do it i earned it. >> (clapping.) >> thank you very much one more time mayor, mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) >> as you can see we figured
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out the lighting we got to together we're all good so again, i probably heard it before but failure often an orphan success has many, many parents we're delighted to invite what we want to experience tonight acknowledge our champion partners and at the same time celebrate the young people happening and experiencing those intrerpz and jobs we'll bring up a series of participates an employer and young person for a short exchange about commitment of the employer and he is experience felt young people as you've heard from ann and the mayor j.p. morgan chase, that's been one of the amazing pretending sponsors joined. >> us in 2013 and hadn't missed
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a beat $200,000 so we're thrilled this they're here to please welcome jim and your young person it >> patricia martinis. >> coming down patricia give us a coup of mike's. >> (clapping.) >> your to stand right there with jim get in the spotlight make sure this one is on - >> there we go. >> thank you. >> well, thank you urban design and nice to be with you. >> mentions jerry brown's is proud to be a continuing spore we're delighted of the impact on the neighborhood and mayor ed lee thank you for your leadership and i hope you had a
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great summer that first job is a great thing thrumming before something about your experience. >> well, i endorsed a new career i was internship and something paw i don't think we can hear you there we go. >> yeah. i was internship for an event planner and did a lot of events planning and get to like venues and got to do a holiday party i did a walk there through like 2016 holiday party in december yeah. (laughter) mark yeah >> and has this changed our education path to the future do you have different plans paw before this i had my mind on the study of body and everything now
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i'm like in marketing sports marketing and got a lot of connections although mark and connected to someone in new york for marketing so like yeah. >> did you have fun. >> i had a lot of fun yeah. >> great. >> (clapping.) >> thank you very much. >> thanks jim one of the exciting things about the initiative and one of our goals to create as many diverse opportunities and possible for young people to see and appreciate the wide array of job counties and career opportunities that exist in our city we are thrilled that one of our other are partners webcor stepped up with great opportunity we'll invite thomas a director at the webcor to come up that his young person that is. >>