tv Mayors Press Availability SFGTV February 17, 2017 3:00am-4:01am PST
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gift above what is required and that is codified in the ordinance that is before us today. just a couple of things though. i just want to concur with the land use committee. i would love for there to be a consistent assessment of all of the land use development deals. it has been incredible work for my staff and office that feel that the vast majority of the developments in the city to make sure we're getting a fair deal for the city and making sure we're building as much as affordable housing as well as contributions to arts and open space and pedestrian safety and the whole multitude of things we care about when building healthy and complete neighborhoods with the vast amount of development, but you know we do have to run our own numbers and we depend on a lot of community members through the affordable housing developers to help us with numbers to make sure we're
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getting a fair deal so it makes sense for the city to provide that. the mayor's office of housing has been helpful and olson lee and kate hardly are always working with the office for the best numbers possible and we support that but i want to emphasize the 180 jones and market deal structured in a deal that we did a year ago a block away on market so we did a cost comparison between those two developments to make sure that while we're getting the most we could we're treating developers as fairly ooze possible, and not asking one to do more than the other, and so very similarly 1066 market, the market rate units and both of these projects
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are out at 25% and 101 hyde and the units there and on jones 60 units and i know there were concerns about the gap. the gap on hyde is -- and so because for a number of reasons we were able to crush the dollars more and offer the land cost more in 180 jones street than 101 hide but if we have concerns about the payment of first construction document and we didn't because we know it would take several years to build on jones and the timeliness of the payment wasn't as important to us but if we talk about the value of that this committee and board didn't question us when in the 1066 market deal we let them make the affordable housing gift as an
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exempt contribution to a foundation so they actually got tax ex contribution and by giving to the san francisco foundation so there is a tremendous value to that as well and this board didn't question that value we gave to the shorren steinos 1066 market so obviously there's a lot of deals. they're apples and oranges. this is for ownership and hotel. sen 66 market was all rentals and we do the best we can to have consistent housing deals before the land use committee but i agree it would be great to have an independent analysis from the city to make sure we're running the best deal possible. >> ms. rogers, can i invite you back up? i believe you were going to go through additional numbers. >> yeah, there were two other numbers that planning staff was
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responsible if you but i would like to support the idea of forwarding additional fiscal vetting support changes by the development agreement have such a process and the staff and commission would support such fiscal analysis by tree experts just as this body has concerned today staff and the planning commission has concerns when the ordinance was before them but we didn't have the tools to fully vet this from a fiscal perspective so we appreciate the board's interest in doing so. the other two fees i wanted to talk about besides the job linkage fee citizen gray water fee and use the numbers from the developer and the intervening woke the puc tested the numbers and concluded those are appropriate. however, planning staff does continue to differ from the project sponsor where they should be subject to that requirement at all, and as i said last week it is our opinion that the project sponsor
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couldn't have received the entitlements before the date and it's a policy decision before the board to waive it and secondly on the costs. last week we estimated of $25 a square foot and compared to recent sales and with research we found it's a set rate required by board resolution by specific purchase for the site. >> thank you ms. rogers. >> thank you. >> and again in terms of all the analysis we looked through in the past week i concur and thank puc for weighing in on the gray water analysis and planning and talking about tdrs and the caring cost questions and the biggest question whether we agree as a board and i am supportive -- i have a amendment to make sure that we do, a 1.2% growth rate over the next two years. i think that is subject to debate and so forth and i
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think we can have that discussion. colleagues if no other questions right now for staff i think we do have a lot of public speaking cards here so i would like to go through them if open for everybody else. all right. with that we will open up public comment. i will read your name off. please line up and everyone has two minutes. [calling speaker names] and i got some more here as well. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is rob peal and the development and communications manager with the housing coalition. i hope you had a great weekend. 950 market hab through the journey and came to us in july 2014 so two and a
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half years ago and my goodness a lot has happened that time. at that time it was a sud. it was clear that the project sponsor [inaudible] deliver in this case the arts committee. that didn't work out and went to [inaudible] project and a year later saw it again and now in early 2017 with what we feel say terrific proposal and maximize the amount of permanent affordable housing it can deliver. we think this solution introduced by supervisor kim is very sensible. a lot of decisions on the project were made jeerg. it's hard to predict where things go but this is a smart proposal and it's good today and we hope to move it forward. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello. i am helen beam
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representing the tenderloin equitable project development and we're here to support the 180 jones street ordinance because of the benefit its provides to the tenderloin residents and community. basically we believe that this ordinance is preferable to building on site affordable units and doubles the number of affordable housing that would be built and provides the units at a deeper level of affordability and includes the step up units available to sro tenants in city supported housing and free up their units for other homeless units needing a home and so for these reasons we believe that the 180 jones street ordinance best serves tenderloin residents and we request that the committee move this item to the full board. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please.
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>> hello. my name is josephine rivero and i live across the 550 market project since 1990. i have worked as a hotel housekeeper on the marriott for 16 years and a union representative here. i am representing the civic center -- [inaudible] park center -- [inaudible] and chancellor. i had housekeeping jobs with the union and without a union contract. i can tell you how much better it's for the hotel employees to have the union. the wages are better. we have job security and protection and we get health care and pension when we retire. the developers of 950 market have signed an agreement that will allow workers at the hotel to organize a union without fear of retaliation. this will be -- this will provide good living wages, jobs that will benefit
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this neighborhood and also today i am asking you to approve this motion for 180 jones which is an important part of this project. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. cynthia gomez at the hotel union. as you heard the project sponsors signed an agreement that will protect workers right to form a union without form of retaliation which is increasingly important and signed in december 2015 and so the hotel jobs will certainly be the kind we need more of in san francisco in terms of living wages and protection and benefits. we have members who live in the tenderloin and depend on sro and affordable housing so any project that will expand affordable housing options is certainly one we support. in this case we as i
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said the project has benefits and workforce training as apable way to good jobs and 80 jones -- the ordinance is something we're definitely urging you to support. don't allow for the community benefits and housing and the prospect of living wage jobs to be further delayed. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> >> >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is curtis bradford and president of the east tenderloin residents association and the and the coalition that negotiated the benefits as part of the thing and also here as one of the members of the tenderloin people's congress and i would like to say i am here today to speak in strong support of the 180 jones street. worked on this deal a year and a half and negotiated by members in
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the tenderloin and residents like myself and sat down with the developer in robust negotiations to reach this agreement and an unprecedented the opportunity to support this resident driven process that created this. this is what the rose dents wantd and they asked for the development and negotiate thursday development and it's just part of a whole package of benefits that were negotiated for the tenderloin including a rent free space at tark and taylor and for the employment program and part of a larger package negotiated by the residents. i was one of those people and i would really expect that our board of supervisors would support this resident driven initiative. frankly we're talking about a few dollars here and the dollars even out, $100,000 more or $200,000 this way? how do you
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measure the benefit of building affordable housing in a site in the tenderloin that wouldn't be built? we want this housing. we need this housing. we want your support. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello. i am jesse johnson and reiterate what curtis said today. the 180 jones street is important. it's crucial to the future of working class and low income people in the tenderloin and equally important the process by which the decision was made. this entailed months of negotiation between the coalition and the group and hours of conversation within the community. we covered a whole range of issues from strategies for our survival perhaps collective vision of our future, accountability, representation, transparency, all these issues were an important part of that discussion. i know in the past two too often decisions of this magnitude have been made by
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political players or gate keepers and this time was different and had empowered residents and please support that. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> hi supervisors. my name is eric and i'm a community organizer in the tenderloin and member of the tenderloin congress. support the 180 jones street project. we have a state of the art agreement and standard for developers in the future. this process took over a year and agreement that speaks to the need wants of the community. the land use committee and the board of supervisors should honor the desires of the residents and approve this project as originally negotiated. the opposition to this project is a cynical attempt by supervisor farrell to politicalize the project while appearing to be an advocate of affordable low income housing which has never been the case. don't play
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politics with our housing and benefits. thank you. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> mr. chair may i remind the members of the audience there are no audible expressions of support or opposition. if you would like to show your support you can use your spirit fingers. thank you. >> okay. thank you very much. next speaker and by the way as the next speaker comes up i will call up the next cards. [calling speaker names] >> thank you and good afternoon supervisors. my name is stephanie ashley. i'm the executive director of the st. james infirmary and here today as a member of the compton district coalition which is you know is a coalition of organizations serving and made up of the trans community in the tenderloin and the compton's coalition came together as just
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one section of a broad community effort to reach agreements around the 950 market street project and i am here to sept that section of the community and we encourage to you move forward with the 180 jones project and the agreement as it stands. supervisor kim's office did a phenomenal office bringing the community together with agreements that really benefits as much and the most needy sections of the tenderloin community and we're hopeful that 180 joans can move forward as quickly as possible. st. james infirmary and other coalitions and justice project are a block away from 950 market and we're invested in seeing the best outcome with the project and we believe that the 180 jones street in its current form is that version and we hope that you move the project forward
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with as little delay as possible. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. i did not fill out a card. i am with land lease and general contractor on the project. we see it as positive plus -- can you hear me? it's a positive plus to the project itself, plus to the community itself. we would be providing publicly about 2,000 job in construction itself over a 20 month period for the construction. we work -- our company is well known for being safe. we're safety k. we will do everything we can to project the workers and the public itself and to maintain the necessary conditions that we neil best benefit both the people who live there and work at the site thank you. >> >> thank you. next speaker please. >> yes supervisors. randy shaw director of the tenderloin
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clinic. you see togetherness in the community and every labor developer on the same page and why the project needs to move out of committee today and i appreciate the comments before why this is a good deal and not clear to some of you last week and i want to calk you when you're in the numbers game to realize something very important here. the money spent on site condos was no benefit to the tenderloin resident, no benefit at all so the fact that you give certain benefit from doing on site condos that cost one thing and comparing to 40% median for affordable housing that do benefit tenderloin residents that's humongous. taking the condo money is like flushing it down the toilet for the tenderloin and no benefits and it is not simply a money game and in an article i wrote they had to get $18 million that
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supervisor kim arrange friday forest city to fut them in play. >> >> if we have a few new rule to have all of the money there won't be any development and the whether approved they're below budget because of the construction costs go up and we have to be careful about the money and not just the dollar amount but the value and in this case 180 jones is the best value for the city and the tenderloin. thank you. >> next speaker please. [applause] >> supervisors my name is ramone and i represent [inaudible] tndc has been part of this coalition for the community to create this deal for the community between group and support of
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180 jones and have a process and respecting that process once it's allowed by the city, and we want to encourage communities to participate in their communities and so in effort to do that and support that we need to move forward with 180 jones street and because the community has put the work, has shown up to the meetings, has worked together, and i think this is a very good opportunity for the board to support a community that has shown up, worked hard, made a deal, and that shows -- that is something that's needed in our society, more people participating, more people taking an interest in the community, and i think participatory planning is important thing and we need to
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respect that. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is [inaudible] and i am representing the compton coalition for the compton's cultural district for transgender people and as a team we're excited to see the formation of 180 jones and a team and implemented negotiation as innovative and tailor made to this region of the tenderloin and we're in full support. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. jamie mayer manager director of the theater and the non-profit space for the market development. the ordinance enabled project in farther costs more than the other option. in addition the developer is providing more than $5 million of community benefit package to ensure existing neighborhood residents
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participate in the benefits of the project. it's essential that the committee pass this ordinance to make much needed affordable housing to the neighborhood. the community made it very clear this is the affordable development solution it wants and needs and we believe the developer is paying more than their fair share. any delay causes harm to those in need of housing in the tenderloin. without passage of the ordinance our option is build the fireable units on site and fewer units on site. this is not a solution for the community. the neighborhood has waited long enough for jobs and how longing and programming for this site. we encourage you to support this ordinance today so that the project can move forward. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is donel boyd and i am here to support the 180 jones ordinance because it's a step up program
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and for me who just got housed it adds back to the natural flow of things from homelessness to the shelter to sros and then to an affordable apartment so i would like to endorse it, and i would like to ask supervisor farrell a question. he said in the beginning that we are holding housing hostage in san francisco, and we includes you; right? and i want to know -- and word "hostage" means you're holding something for something and what does it take to get housing flowing and housing it held hostage. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. before you go sir let me call the next cards up so they can come up. [calling speaker names]
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>> my name is steven ten us and a 30 year residents of the tenderloin and worked and volunteered with sro collaborative and i am -- or was a number of the 950 market street coalition. for a year and a half we worked hard. we worked long hours. we went to over a hundred meetings in that year and a half and we had a deal with group i. now i don't know what your motivations are mr. farrell but i think you really blew it on this one. we had an agreement with group i. it's not just about money. it's about step up housing and getting people off the street and into housing and people like me and in sros to get something than a sro. to delay this is unconscionable. you're doing nothing but harm with the delays. there is no reason for
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delays. there's an old saying if it ain't broke don't fix it. this ain't broke. everyone wants. why you don't i have no idea. please pass it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello council people. i am reginald meadows from the tenderloin people of conquest. i want to first of all thank jane kim and her efforts she's putting forward to help the community and others to make it possible to have affordable housing down there, real ones that circumstances nothe condos. it is important to note that what we are discussing is something already agreed upon by the [inaudible] and the developers. the agreement should stand as it is for the
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monies and programs already agreed upon there should be no need for further discussion. as those joined in and determination has agreed. if money was what they really needed more of they would have discussed it at the table, not with your help mr. farrell, so for mr. farrell we need -- not that you jump in at this time and make any changes period. let's turn this situation around. if we were sitting in your chair where you're at in your nice suits and your community. how would you like it and don't concern yourself with the deed of the people but the money you get in your pockets so we have to change all this now. [inaudible] because we voted you in so why don't you act like it and do your job
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correctly. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon committee members. i was part of the 950 coalition negotiating the community benefits agreement. it's great we're working on this this week. wednesday is the 100 anniversary by attempt of politician and church leaders to shut down the tenderloin and businesses and thousand people out of work and they thought they put a lid on the neighborhood for good but as you know the tenderloin is kicking 100 years later and coalitions like the one and members of the tlgb community and non-profit folks and others come together in the tenderloin and make our community thriving and arrangements to keep our neighborhood strong. what more could the land use committee want? we're coming with a deal worked with the supervisor and the developer and community groups and a deal that will have
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benefits to many sectors of the community. we believe fully because we vetted this project for months there is an overall fwf and here we hear nitpicking what percentage of growth we will see over the years so we can less what level of profit the developers will make. we're not interested in slowing down the project because if the developer loses money and we reviewed the programs and community groups in the tenderloin reviewed the benefits here. we're confident that the project should move forward and trust the neighborhood in what is best for the neighborhood. every question you're asking we have asked for ourselves. hundreds of developers met with community groups have not been value whd think going the overall benefits here. the de-escalation traini they
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offered for all hotel workers to be trained in so they know how to deal with residents that hasn't been evaluated. the $300,000 of job training funds that hasn't been evaluated. there are benefits that haven't been considered in the amount of profits the developers stand to make and understand we went through a two year process and trust the numbers and the process and we ask you to move it out of committee with a recommendation and approved by the board of supervisors. thank you. let our residents step up in the step up housing. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> greetings supervisors, mark, aaron, jane, katie, daift elliott lewis i am have been part of the negotiation process with the developer for two years, part of 950 market street. i am implore you to look at the big picture. this project is entitled -- it's
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going forward. it's being built. ground will be broken soon so the question is do we build on site 31 units of condos for people that -- most people in the tenderloin could never afford or do we build twice as many units off site on 180 jones street and half of ami and this is step up housing for people who live in sro rooms and i don't know if you spent a night in a sro room. i have. it's a small room with a bathroom down the hall and you don't get a kitchen. this is a chance for a life changing event for people who live in the tenderloin to step up their lives. again 950 market is going forward. it can go forward with off site housing or not and for you to argue about -- you know, potential rates of growth and profit, potential rates of growth and real estate prices which nobody has a crystal ball. let's face
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twe didn't know in early november 7 what would happen november 8 that we would have a maniac for president. we didn't know that. how could you know -- how could you know what is going to be the potential interest or growth rates next year or five years? and if you look at the construction gap of what is going to cost to build 180 jones street versus not it's much smaller than other gaps in the community. the community supports this. i implore you supervisors not to obstruct off site housing. 950 is being built. let's help the community. don't block us. support us. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hi. my name is allen stewart and on the board for the magic theater and i just had three quick points. one is as a
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former business owner in the city i understand the need to look at numbers and the importance of numbers when you're building something but i heed the terrific community support that is out there for a project like this and just listening to what is going on here it seems like a no brainer to move forward so i sergeant urge in that regard. in regard to the the magic 38 who hopes to -- theater who hopes to occupy a space there and we represent who the city represents and we speak to the community and to the tenderloin community in particular and great to bring that voice to the space and the third point which has been said but is valuable and worth repeat suggest that the neighborhood has waited long enough for the jobs and housing and programming for this particular site and encourage to you support this ordinance today so that the project moves
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forward. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hi. i am sonia fernandez and work if the 38 on market. i am surprised about the delay. maybe i don't know city government but as allen said this is a no brainer. it's my understanding as a resident of san francisco and the lack of affordable housing is the number one biggest problem in the city. through the 180 jones project group and adding the below market rate unit to the housing supply. this is affordable housing that the community needs and as you have heard asked for. delaying this housing hurts those in the tenderloin. as a personal note as a former renter and resident of the tenderloin and a person trying to stay in the city and raise a family in
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the city please take action and keep us as san francisco. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is adam and i'm a literary apprentice at magic theater and reading a statement on behalf of a trustee. "i am offering my support in the 180 jones street affordable housing ordinance. as a volunteer in the bay area and arts organizations in the bay area and 35 year resident i try to support these proposals and offers that we can bring a swift and impactful solution. housing is a completion issue and the full resolution is an iterative process instead of a master plan. my frustration is that many organizations search for complete solutions with difficult issues. from my perspective there is a real offer from group i with a meaningful solution and
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delivered quickly and a step in the right direction and support by the community and ask you to approve this ordinance. the key points that offer a swift solution is this housing ordinance would add up to 70 below market rates to the housing supply more than double the units created on site. the off site housing was conceived and driven by the community from the start as the best way to serve the tenderloin's residents. to make this a reality group i is dedicated and purchasing the land on jones street and providing the payment and gift for the construction of this affordable development. these numbers are based on an equivalency study conducted by [inaudible] consulting hired by [inaudible] to confirm there are no additional profits to group i besides building on site and the project costs more than the bmr
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project option and developer is providing $5 million community benefit package to ensure existing residents participate in the benefits of the project. please approve the 180 jones street affordable housing ordinance. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is gail seagraves and work at city central sro collaborative as a tenant objectioner here in the tenderloin. i am here in support of 180 jones. on a personal note i have been in an sro for eight years, not because i want to but that's all i can afford. this gives me and other long-term residents an opportunity to have hope to actually move into a place with a kitchen and a bathroom. that happens to be very important. and i just urge you to please trust us, the community. this is a good project. we worked
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hard. trust the community and pass this please. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please mam, before you speak i have three last cards and i will call them up. [calling speaker names] >> hi. i am felicia smith and a tenant ob at organizer at the hotel. i went through a bad dedivorce after 25 years of marriage and unexpected. i was told i had two weeks to get out of the house they lived in for 27 years. i didn't know the laws. i left. i slept on a park bench for two months and a broken down pickup truck. a police officer that would come and check on me when i was sleeping in the park told me about 311 which got me
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into an sro. i was very grateful, but i have two kids. too many riewps and regulations. i can't have my kids with me at the sro. a step up program would be perfect. i could have somewhat of a normal life again. i was so depressed and desspondant until i heard about 180 jones and other projects like this and it gave me a sense of hope. it gave me hope that maybe i will be okay one day, so please don't delay this anymore. we need it. i need my kids. [applause] >> thank you. next speaker please. >> my name is otto dusty and i speak to speak last and i like to hear what people say and the
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discussion here and i appreciate it and i find my own thoughts about things improved or changing by that. i would say that i agree that the focus of this on a slightly lower income of people, working group, not the lowest income by far but lower group will work out much better for the loin. i don't know if there is more money on the table or not and maybe unless you carefully put that money in a good direction i don't know -- even if we get more money it will improve the project any. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello. my name is jawlian dash owner of holy stitch and seat two for the mid-market district. i am in full support of the ordinance. i think it
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goes without saying and everyone saying we need housing. the community asked for this, desires this. knowing everything that is based on a relationship and people to people basis when it boils down to things my perspective and sentiment and knowing joy and business owners and the community -- me myself cell clothing and art and i have relationships with many of them and support of joy and what we would do and the ethos of the community and not just as buy in in and not facetious but another level. i lost housing. i was living in the tenderloin and having a family and business that i rely on my art i see full sierk circle. the saw the project
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and youth for the factory and because of the disparity of housing being in the community of the tenderloin, being a business owner, relying on my hands for my survival and family i see the necessity of the project to get done as soon as possible. my business is across the street from the 950 project and i see the ins and outs of it and again i am in full support of it in anyway. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello. my name is windy. i am speaking today as a member of the public. i would like this project to go forward without any further delay. very few affordable housing units are built under 55% of area median income which translate to
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approximately $41,000 a year. okay. people are fixed income generally pop out at $18,000 a year. that is not even enough. there's no housing being built on that lower end. any delay is going to add costs, both time and financial. i don't understand why there is such a high level of scrutiny on this project. if you want something to scrutinize okay balboa reservoir for instance, okay. the numbers are 18% for those
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making less than $41,000 a year. that's 55% of area median income. 15% of those units for people making $90,000 a year or 120% of air median income and then $113,000 or -- 150% of area median income. 17% of the housing is there. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is judy young and i'm the director of the vietnamese youth development center and edie and mason in the heart of the tenderloin i am hear to support group i and have been working with us for three years and truly understand the needs of
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the asian community in the tenderloin. there's over 30,000 families and young people and single residents that live in the neighborhood and we want to make sure that their jobs and housing for the community as well so our center works primarily with immigrant youth and families. we urge you to pass this ordinance today so our youth and young adults and families will benefit from the purchase. our clients will get jobs on site and our families and most in need of housing will benefit from the 80 jones site. now more than every the community needs housing and jobs and imperative that you move forward the ordinance as soon as possible. i'm here to support the movement of the ordinance. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please as we're getting to the end of the line if there is anybody else to speak on public comment please line up on the far side. >> good afternoon supervisors.
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my name is [inaudible] i'm a field representative with the carp enter's union and we're here to support this project at fine 50 market street, -- 950 market street and on jones. it will bring the affordable housing that is much needed to the residents of the tenderloin and create jobs, avenues of opportunity for apprenticeship and journey men alike and we urge you to move this project forward and build it right. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. [applause] >> good afternoon. my name is brenda washington. i reside in the sro hotel and there over eight years but lived in the tenderloin for 20. i have seen the good and bad and up things and the down things, but what
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would let me down is not passing the 180 jones street initiative for step you up housing. i'm a two time cancer survivearer. every day my health is worse than the day before and i don't want to wear a diaper because i can't make it to the bathroom not having my own bathroom. i don't want to get infections because of people's handling of food. i want to fix my food. i have no where to do that so i am asking you and i am praying that this project passes and i am one of the residents that gets to live in there or even just seeing it before i leave this world would mean a lot to me. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> thank you supervisors. steve on behalf of group i the project sponsor. you heard discussion about the rest of the community benefits package that
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we negotiated with the community and i wanted to through those. this is in addition to fees and the transit fee and other fees, the child care fees as well as in addition to the affordable housing discussion we were having today. this package is worth about $5 million of additional voluntary contributions from group i. it includes free art space, 2000 free rent space. the magic theater will have a lab and training for the community. it includes $350,000 in de-escalation training, public space and safety training for employees and hotel guests. it includes $350,000 in construction mitigation impacts for low income residents living immediately adjacent to the site. it includes three $300,000 in workforce development housing
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and $75,000 for lgbt interpretive program and agreement with local two. not including that neutrality agreement is not monetizeed in this discussion so all together it's $5 million. in addition to the $3 million gift the group i is providing under the 180 jones ordinance. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> hi. dan jordan. i'm with the central city sro collaborative. i am in support of the 180 jones project and needs to be built. people are low income will be able to afford that whereas with the 950 market even the upper middle class people can't afford that not going at $2,000 a month or more. people are social security we get maybe a thousand
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dollars a month give or take and for a person who has only about two units of low income housing to be built in his district supervisor farrell i think that's pretty pathetic. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. next speaker please. and any other members of the public to comment on items 3 or four? >> okay. seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] supervisor kim. >> thank you. i do believe that the land use committee has copies of the amendments that i articulated earlier before public comment so it would be great to have a motion to amend the ordinance to include those amendments. second, i do want just to acknowledge the comments that steveetel made and there were in my talking points but i forgot to make them. outside the ordinance that is before us the community signed a community benefits agreement which makes
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the package larger than what is before the land use committee today. there is dedication to magic theater in the presidio and find a new space. they worked closely with the developer early on, i believe the beginning of last year for a ground floor art space there which will be a theater and add another theater to the mid-market corridor along kind of the historic nature of what market street has previously been with agreements that the theater would work with partnership of the youth and the arts organizations in the tenderloin to provide art performance space. of course there is several mitigations around the construction for the residents that live near by but also the $300,000 contribution for workforce development fund that will help train tenderloin residents to be employeda the
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hotel whether they finally open but finally something that could not be part of our negotiation but i want to thank the developer for agreeing to the card check with local two to ensure that the workers have an opportunity to unionize if they would like so, so again this is what is before the land use committee today and so committee i just ask for your support and again i just want to recognize and thank all of the members of the community for coming out today. it has been a very long process and just going back to the gray water exemption. normally it's something i wouldn't support but we have been talking to 950 market developer since 2013 on the project and so many changes as a city originally wanted this to be an arts sud and the developer worked with the community on a arts project that included hotel and residential, and then there's numerous design changes that happened over the summer.
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honestly we weren't expecting that the project wouldn't have site permits before november 2016 when the gray water ordinance took into effect and we felt it was fair because they had been in the pipeline for three years to give this exemption because of the length of time it took for them to get through the process, so again thank you to all of the members of the public for coming out. you reminded me how long the process was well and appreciate your patience and work and the last thing i would say we never had a project commit to step up affordable housing for single room occupancy tenants and this is really a historic accomplishment. this is something we sorely, sorely need and not only does it provide an opportunity for residents to is step up in the affordable housing unit but free up sing occupancy rooms in the future for those on the streets today so this is incredibly important. we need to expansion this
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portfolio and i know we had meetings about it but we need to make it happen and thank the developer for making that real. thank you. >> thank you. so colleagues we have more comments but a set of amendments from supervisor peskin and working with the mayor's office of housing and community development. can i a motion to accept the amendments? >> those are amendment frs item 4? >> correct. >> yes, i am happy to move the amendments. >> second. >> moved and seconded. we will take those without objection. [gavel] and colleagues i will say and to supervisor kim and my committee i want to thank everybody for the time over the past week to be be able to review the analysis. thank our city departments for coming together dwelz the developer. what is different about this project we have a baseline project but an ordinance in front of us that is creating certain exemptions and
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bestowing benefits and to the community and the unions and thank you for coming out and speaking with the representative last week thank you for doing that. that means a lot to the committee and myself but when we have a project like this in front of us and a law a separate law that creates certain exemptions i believe it's our duty at the board of supervisors and the land use committee to make sure that the city getting the best deal possible. i don't back down for a second demanding that we have a robust analysis of every deal that comes in front of us. it's not the business of the city of san francisco to be in a position not knowing whether we're getting benefits or fleeceed in a deal and we need to do that every time in land use and we will do that going forward and that's why i am more than anything aside from seeing all the units being built excited about the process because because now we will have
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legislation going forward supported by the city departments and everybody was frustrated how the process moved forward in the last months to make sure we have the analysis done and with that analysis being done, with the developer spending the time going forward with that i am very much prepared to support this project as it is and i think that we need it to continue to look hard at these development projects, and again make sure that the city gets the best deal possible building more affordable housing absolutely and making sure that everything we do is on a net basis to the developer and see it come forward and let's build it now. i know it's a long time coming and held up at planning for various reasons and six months last year and legislation to carry it forward. one week is a blip on the radar screen to make sure this committee and the full board of supervisors is able to do the right analysis going forward so with that
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again thank you to everyone. thank you to the committee members and thank you to supervisor kim and congratulations to advance and i am prepared to support this as is. [applause] . supervisor peskin. >> thank you chair farrell. i thought the intervening week was helpful to ask questions of staff and i want want to thank and welcome the comments of supervisor kim just relative to process moving forward and reiterate my earlier comments, and then -- not to beat a dead horse but i do want to say and i am fine with the arrangement how the tdrs are but to staff i want to say having looked at resolution 16 14 it does not create a price of $25. it is a resolution and i am just saying this to staff because i want to say it on the record that was aimed at the board several
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years ago selling off tdrs off of municipal buildings that didn't previously have them including city hall and established a base minimum price of $25. it was not a ceiling. the legislation that is sitting in front of me is very clear and by the way there's a study, libby stifle cited with this project and shows sales as high as $37.50 and want that on the record and with that i am happy to vote for the please call the next item three and four as amended. >> supervisor tang. >> i want to ditto comments made earlier as well. i think that seeing what has transpired this week could have been frustrating for you and i understand that but just the information that has come to light really heights something that we want to work on
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together moving forward long-term for broader policies around the arrangements so with that i am happy to support these two items moving forward to the full board. i don't know if there was a motion made or if i should make the motion. >> go for it. >> i will make a motion for items 3 and four as recommended with amendments. >> motion and a second. we will move that to the full board. madam clerk does that conclude our business? >> that is the end of business. >> thank you everyone. we are adjourned. [gavel]
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>> good morning and welcome to the government audit and oversight committee for february 16th. my name is jane kim, and to my left is -- i'm sorry to my right is supervisor aaron peskin and to my left is supervisor president london breed and i want to thank our committee - i would like to thank our committee's clerk, erica major and also recognize the staff of
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