soma. there is provisions for development of community assets and strong community oversight of benefits. and last but not least the dedicated funds to community and economic development. thank you. >> i'm michelle levis, soma resident. as you all know, soma has been in development for san francisco and has become a neighborhood of ultra rich and ultra poor. i would like to advocate for an increased range of affordability. we have families where two families work minimum wage jobs and they don't qualify for the

affordability, making too much. i have a struggle between talking about the new dream community when across the street, part -- pardon my language is a [beep] show. it's hard to not think about what is happening on the other side of sixth street. the school is in crisis. we have one school in our district and talking about a new school is ridiculous to me. we had to get pinterest to pay for a second social worker because we have the highest number of homeless kids. 85% of middle schoolers were reading below grade levels. we know that means they will drop out and become incarcerated. for us, it's a huger issue, instead of just what is happening in the footprint of this plan area, but we hope that some of this can reach over to the other side of 6th street. park and rec in this plan, i

frankly have more faith elsewhere than the soma plan. the rec center has not had hand towels since may. so there are issues when we talk about renovating the rec center and creating parks, what it means for now? how can we creep eight new when we don't take care of what we have? and i feel there's disproportionate investment in structures, not people. there are people in crisis that need the support and putting it into a building or a set of activities doesn't meet the need where it is. i don't want my kids to have to see that on the way to school. it's a huge issue that we hope can be taken as a whole and not just within that footprint. thank you.

>> seeing no further comments on item number 3, i request that we close public comment. >> public comment is closed. i want to thank all of the staff and members of the public and supervisor kim and her staff for the long road it's taken to get to here. in the first hearing i raised some questions about whether or not there are studies that could allow for more housing and we discussed that offline, and also talked a little bit -- supervisor kim, haven't talked to you about it, but the initial prop-k notion of metering and to see if there were ways that we

can meter the amount of housing as offices being developed. i think that's a conversation we should be having. before i got back on the board, supervisor kim attempted to do that and ran into some opposition from the other side of this building. but to get the plan forward, it has to get out of this board. it may be an opportunity to insert metering in, so we don't end up with office and then housing way later. you guys can take a crack at that as you would like, but also a way to communicate with my colleague as we're supposed to do. >> noted. we'll come back to you. >> and i know that we've had conversations and i know -- first of all, i know through watching some of the planning commission meetings, there's been a lot of public comment about the balance of housing and

office and there's been requests to examine where we can adore add or convert within central soma. can you go into that a little bit? >> yes. the plan has 7,000 housing units rebuilt. i.e.r. assumed 8,000 or so housing units in the area. so there is margin to move that around. that said, since we started the conversation, we identified a few locations where we have additional housing. the planning department was not considering use of the state density bonus in this area. supervisor kim, we looked at that, so it's resulted in about 600 more housing development units. and we've identified a few

office sites proposing to carve out space for affordable housing, so that adds to the total. there are not many more moves up our sleeves to add units altogether, unless some of the sites that are slated to be office somehow switch over to be residential and that moves the needle, recognizing you want to move that within the bandwidth of i.e.r. or else we have to start that over. so we discussed this previously and -- >> the 30,000, 40,000. >> right. it's abstract, but to make it a jobs-oriented district, we're requiring large parcels to be jobs-oriented and the threshold is 30,000 square feet. if it moves to 40,000, it will be several hundred other units built in the neighborhood.

>> thank you. a number of things i want to know -- one additional question for mr. wartheim. one member of the public talked about height and shadows. >> yes. we would not allow any building to move forward with a shadow on south park. that is built in and that's why heights around south park are around 45 feet. and we'll make sure any building would not. >> so none of the heights being contemplated in the central soma plan right now would add additional shadow to south park? >> no. >> thank you. i just want to acknowledge the members of the community that came out today.

and for talking about the priorities that the community would like to see in terms of how we distribute the benefits of the central soma plan. and, first of all, to acknowledge that we have a community that's accepting of density and growth and height and i think that says a lot about the neighborhood that the south market is. but ensuring that as we accept growth and we understand that it is a role to build more housing in san francisco and the bay area that we want to ensure that the benefits or the value that private developers are building upon, that it be shared with the community and how we would like to see that value shared. and to reiterate to be sure that we're supporting our small businesses and our legacy businesses and those communities with the leather lgbtq

community, as well as filipino, and making sure it's more than historic districts, that we're able to support them to live and continuing elements of south of market community. i also heard a need to ensure that we are supporting our tenants and allowing them to continue to live there with support services and legal support in language-appropriate services and that we are ensuring preservation of affordable housing and building new housing. i had just heard about a site grand aurenti, single-room occupancy hotel units that have housed philippifilipino members community and the city is working to acquire the 22 units, but i had a heart attack when i

heard about the $10 million in deferred maintenance that is coming with that site. and so there's a lot of work to do to preserve units and not build new ones. finally, i think it's important to note that we're able to articulate the list of priorities that we have under the different buckets of benefits. and i did want to just, again, support some members of our public that spoke about air quality. i think it's incredibly sad when we hear about, you know, all the particulate matter that people see on the leaves and our trees in the other open space areas. i see that in my unit where i live when i open my windows, but we want to be sure as we grow this neighborhood it's safe neighborhoods for children, families and seniors to live in. so i'm very excited about the

plan of the portion of the plan that will be dedicated funding to improve air quality and greening the district. i think that's just vital. we need to make sure that people are living, thriving, and we're doing what we can to mitigate for the negative environmental impacts in the neighborhood finally and most importantly, what i walk away from, we need to think about how the governing structure of the fees as they come out through the multiple buckets, affordable housing, residential, environmental, pdr, open space, schools, childcare and cultural preservation, that as much as we can that we set our priorities with the soma plan and we have a long-term governing structure that can ensure that fees 5, 10 years down the road still reflect our

community priorities. we heard mention of the cac through the former redevelopment area plans. i should note we have the soma stabilization fund that looked at how to distribute infrastructure and community service, looking at it as an option for some of the fees as well as the eastern neighborhoods advisory committee as well. so michael is to work with the community as well as planning to set up a governing structure for how we disperse fees in the future. i think there's a lot of work to do and i ask the community to help us to develop our list of priorities as well, as we think about what the priority services are, i'm struck by, you know, hearing the staff at betsy carmichael, in terms of the

readi reading level scores, it's hard it hear, but sacramento does project spending needs for prison based on 3rd grade test scores. there is a nexus between when children succeed in elementary school and the likelihood of ending up in our prison system. so whatever we can to do strengthen our communities in the long term, i think we should certainly be focused on that. finally, i mentioned this in the beginning, but really thinking about our cultural districts and how we support that through the central soma plan as well. so this is the second of three hearings that i've called on the central soma plan. i want to thank all the departments for being here.

we've didn't ask all of you to come up and speak today, but think it's important for the departments to hear from the board and members of the community. so, chair peskin, i have no further comment. i make a motion to file this item. >> councillor peskin: happy to file the item and look forward to the third hearing and hearing both from members of the public as well as continuing to work with supervisor kim and planning department staff on the notion of metering. with that, we'll file the item and adjourn the hearing.

>> good morning everyone. this is a great occasion and i first want to say i'm not doug

shumaker. you may wonder where he is, he's doing father duty and that's something we encouraged him to do and something important he had to take care of with his son that he will talk to you about if he's here before it's over. i'm jane grass, i'm ceo of mercy housing nationally. but i was in the role that doug is in and i'm delighted to be here and see the development come to fruition. it's been a few years. some of us remember 1989 and then the long moment of what are we going to do, what are we going to do? here's what we're going to do, we're going to develop 108 units of affordable housing in this wonderful neighborhood. there are a lot of people to thank. i'm not going to thank them all

today. i'm sure you're happy to hear that. there's a long list. just know you are all thanked and some of the speakers will acknowledge all of you, no one is to think they're being left out on purpose. when we step into the completed property in 18 months or however long it is, we'll do the official and proper thank you's. this is a village obviously and we acknowledge that. this is a great legacy of our former mayor, ed lee. and we all have been shocked by his passing and you can't start an event like this, which really does, you know, it's a statement of his legacy without starting by acknowledging him and i wants to start with just a few moments of silence before acting mayor breed steps in and speaks for the city. let's have a moment of silence.

>> thank you. there couldn't be a better person to be talking today than acting mayor london breed who is a champion for affordable housing throughout the city, for those most in need and those just in need. i want to thank london for being here today in her busy schedule. please welcome acting mayor london breed. (applause) >> thank you all so much for being here today. today was on the schedule for some time and i was supposed to be here with our mayor, mayor ed lee to really just welcome in what we know is going to be an amazing project. he and i worked really closely together on affordable housing. we know this was near and dear

to his heart. what is so amazing about the project, 108 units of family housing. for not only low income residents but extremely low income residents. a lot of our homeless families that the mayor and i worked so hard to get off the streets into permanent housing, they will live here. they will live here when we get the project done. and i'm so excited about that because it's moving forward as you can see behind us, all of the amazing people are already on the ground working to get this done. and so many people have played a role and i just want to thank mercy housing for working on this project for the services that will be here, the childcare, the residential support, all of the different things that are going to help to make this not just a home for families but a community. and we couldn't have done this project without the help and support of the hayes valley

neighborhood association and you will be hearing from its president in a little bit. but the hayes valley neighborhood association, the group working on developing this area after tearing down the freeway. i grew up not far from here and i remember entering right here on to the freeway and i was here when the '89 earthquake happened and this freeway closed down and look how long it's taken, 1989 and it's 2017 and we're finally, finally just doing so many amazing things in this community where the boulevard is now this beautiful place for people to enjoy. this is one of the final pieces that's going to complete this area. that's going to continue to allow it to continue to be a thriving and amazing community. and i could not be more proud to

represent you as supervisor and as acting mayor in mayor lee's honor and get this project going so the families can move in. this is so amazing, this is what we do best as a city. and i will definitely be here, supervisor, mayor, whatever the heck i'm going to be at the time, cutting that ribbon and helping those first families move into that place. everyone here, the financing we received from the state, bank of america, mayor's office of housing, there are so many things that go into making this a reality. thank you for your work. this is so amazing. i'm so proud and happy today. this is what we do best. these are the kinds of things we have to shine light on to make sure people know all the amazing work our mayor helped us to do in our community and all over the city. thank you for being here today. (applause)

>> we're going to move through the speakers relatively quickly because afterwards we want to toss the dirt, which is an important picture for all of us. (laughter) obviously. i want to welcome the ceo, president and ceo david sobal, thank you for being here. >> thank you so much mayor breed and whatever title you have going forward, we're so thankful to have you. i'm going to be brief but i want to hit a few key points. founded in 1988 by a group of community leaders focused on ensuring that african americans and other people of color have a chance to stay in san francisco. unfortunately that mission is still very much an issue in san francisco and not to bring us down today, but it is unacceptable to us as i'm sure it is to all of you that we have

a city with fewer than 50,000 african americans as we stand here today. it's unacceptable to us as i'm sure it is to you that we have lost half of our artists in the past 20 years in san francisco. i'm sure it's unacceptable as it is to us, that we have thousands of homeless people still on the streets and i'm sure it's unacceptable to you as it is to us that we have thousands of working families that can't afford the median rent of a two bedroom apartment in san francisco, which requires an income of $120,000 a year to be affordable. and with things going on nationally out of washington d.c. present additional challenges obviously. that said, we are extremely fortunate to live in a city that is so supportive of affordable housing, that love to see new projects built that serve formally homeless as this

project will. that we have a mayor's office of housing and board of supervisor team and mayor's office that supports all the work we do and mercy housing does. we are truly fortunate to have the hayes valley neighborhood association that came out in full support of this project immediately. and so we have a lot of positive things behind us. we have a wonderful team of architects that's going to make this project absolutely gorgeous. and as mayor breed said, 108 families will be housed here permanently in affordable housing that is beautiful, fits in with the neighborhood and will be a joy and source of pride for all of us, including ground floor retail space and community garden. for that said, our lenders are going to speak in a moment, we want to thank bank of america

and state housing of development as well. and i can't wait for 18 months from now, we want to do it faster and better, we'll see what we can do on that. thank you for being here, we can't wait to celebrate and keep the legacy of mayor lee going. thank you. (applause) >> thank you david. we all know that the city is an important partner financially and in every way possible but there are also other financial partners, the state of california through housing and community development is one of those partners. craig shields is here to represent the state. >> good morning. last summer i had the great honor of breaking ground at an affordable housing development in the tenderloin with mayor lee and i think he would be very pleased to see what's happening here today. we know it takes a lot of

devotion and determination to get the fancy shovels in the ground on a day like today. the california department of housing and community development are so pleased to see this project moving forward. together we implement affordable housing and sustainable community's program. that's a big name for a focused goal, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state of california. we encourage people to get out of their cars and walk, bike or take transit. and by placing affordable housing near key destinations like grocery stores, childcare and job centers. this combines all the great features in one awesome location. this mercy housing project was the recipient of one of the largest awards in the second round of funding, over $16 million. for many years this site was

devoted to moving people past the neighborhood. now it's being reimaged to house over 100 housing units. the residents will have great access to several new sidewalks that will be improved as part of the program. we are so thankful to be here today and we are really excited to see this moving forward. thank you. (applause) >> thanks craig. you always have to have a banker. they always come to these events. and today is no different. but we're really pleased, we have a great banking partner in bank of america. our guy, he takes care of us in many, many ways and if you -- i'm not going to tell you the numbers but they're staggering, a lot of bank of america money is going into this transaction. we're pleased for arie to be

with us today. thank you. welcome. >> thank you jane. so it's a pleasure to be here today. and first i would like to thank all the other great partners who are part of this great project, mercy housing, san francisco housing association, california housi housing growth council and the mayor's department of housing and acting mayor breed and late mayor lee. obviously there was a huge loss when we lost our partner in crime mayor lee who has been the affordable housing mayor. it's hard to go to these events and not see him here with us. and not know that he is just -- he is missing the event hanging out with michelle obama, which i think happened a couple weeks

ago. we invest over $4 billion last year in affordable housing. when we make decisions on where the money is going to go, the numbers are important. we are a bank. what's more important than that are the people we do business with. organizations like mercy housing and cities like this, like the city of san francisco and mayor lee. a couple years ago, there was this crazy plan to rebuild all of public housing in san francisco. and i took it back to the leadership at bank of america and washington d.c. and i said i want to talk with you about this plan, ignore the fact that this housing has been neglected for the past 40 years, that it's very difficult housing that there's going to -- it's going to be very complex. we need to do the right thing. we talked about it and every time something got difficult and we were trying to decide is this

something we really wanted to do, we went back to who was behind the project, mayor lee and the fact that he grew up in public housing, the fact that he worked as a civil rights attorney protecting public housing tenants, because we knew he was going to stand behind the project thick and thin made the difference. it's the reason why bank of america was able to invest over $2.2 billion in this city and it shouldn't be overlooked. people really do matter and having a mayor like mayor lee really mattered when it came to institutions like bank of america investing and putting our money in this city, something as crucial as affordable housing. i think it's -- it's fitting we're here today to build more units. we look forward to building many, many more units. mayor lee and i joked we'd have

26 more parties, he's not going to be there but i think we'll all enjoy being there and every time someone walks into a unit, every time someone can live in the city, it's a tribute to our great mayor, mayor lee. thank you. (applause) >> thank you arie. today we have randall winston with the california strategic growth council. i had to ask what their role was, they said cap-and-trade. i get it. we're really pleased to have randall with us today. randall. >> thank you. thank you again. it really is an honor to be here mayor breed and other partners and i'll be brief. craig my partner here touched upon most of it but as a mobile agency body we bring together all the state agencies led by the governor's office and invest 20% over a billion dollar

cap-and-trade fund into affordable housing in sustainable communities. this project shows the types of investments we need to make to continue to link housing with transportation and achieving a host of our community benefits to achieve our state's climate goals. let's not forget we have the most ambitious goals not just in the nation but in the world. and so while we're continuing to build projects like this, that advance sustainable communities, we're thinking about our larger national and global impact to lead the way. it really is an honor to be able to contribute to this project and we look forward to continuing to do so. so thank you. (applause) >> thanks randall. and finally, our last speaker today is probably one of the most important in many ways. this is hayes valley neighborhood and we all know what has been going on in the neighborhood for the past 30 years since we started dealing

with this freeway, the central freeway. and we're just so delighted to have a neighborhood group led by gale, led, am i correct? you're the lead -- present lead that really is involved in this development and has welcomed it and is part of making it happen. with that, i would like gale to speak on behalf of the neighborhood association. >> thank you. hi, i'm president of the hayes valley neighborhood association and i'm going to end on a positive note, bear with me, the mission of the hayes valley association is to present friendly association and community involvement throughout hayes valley. preserve and reinforce cultural and economic diversity. restore character, and architecture and make sure our

community's participation in the governmental process. hayes valley neighborhood association has learned when attempting great change, no is just another way to say yes. yes to creating community that was lost. yes to taking out a freeway that slashed community apart. yes to finding safety for our family and children and especially our young black men. yes to parks and green spaces and living alleys. yes to morel meantry and middle schools. yes to building more affordable housing, over half the freeway parcels are devoted to affordable housing and marginalized groups, such as mentally disabled and formerly homeless and lgbtq elders. a big yet to be amended yes to current legislation to allow

subsidized hoa, yes to local artists installed in temporary settings for all to enjoy. yes to maintaining and expanding our infrastructure that reflects 21st century ways of living in a dense urban environment. i stand on the shoulders who came before me. over 50% of our freeway parcels like this one are dedicated to affordable housing. i can shout over that one. bmr should be located on site to ensure economic diversity. local businesses and artists ink baited to grow. embracing all for the benefit of the community is our goal. we hope to see these new residents engaged in their community. to repeat what was said to me,

welcome to hayes valley. (applause) >> nice gale. thank you. we feel welcomed. very well comed. delightful. okay. i'm going to say one more thing about all the other -- there's a lot of people involved in a lot of financing of this development which is very expensive as we know. but then someone has to figure out how to build it, what it ought to look like, they have to do it, thank you to all the doers out there, some of you are obvious because you have the orange hats on and the little outfit. some of you are not. just so you all know, we recognize, we started, you finish it and make it happen. thank you. you are acknowledged and adored actually for all your hard work and now i'm going to end this ceremony and we're going to have those of us who have spoken put on hard hats and grab the shovel and take the important picture. there's coffee, please drink the

coffee and eat whatever they have over there to eat and thank you for being here. >> ready? >> you have to throw it up. >> no way. >> everyone look at me, please. ♪

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years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out.

>> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd get

>> welcome to the regular meeting of the san francisco ethics commission for december. i'll call the roll. vice mayor -- well, it could happen. you could be elevated right now. [roll call] >> so everybody's present. we'll now have public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. >> i'm bob planthold. i want to say that during the time off that you have over this holiday season and in the next few weeks, it is time to