must be taken under consideration within the plan. as they say, the road to misery is paved with good intentions and there are a lot of things that are imposed upon us and the community that's lived there, existing community, is treated as though they were the furniture that came with the place. there must be oversight and a voice for the communities being impacted. somebody mention the the ongoing fees for cultural sustainability is very, very important. we're dealing with communities that are being squeezed, who are working extremely hard to maintain their equity and their presence and to continue being an asset to the cultural fabric of san francisco. job, once again, who are these jobs going to go to and what jobs are going to be generated. are they going to allow people,

particularly residents of the neighborhood to stay. will they be sustainable? are they going to be jobs that will allow people to pay the rent. speaking of rent, housing stabilization. we need to make sure that there are legal services and tenant services so people don't start getting evicted all the time. thank you. >> thank you, mr. robles. >> thank you, supervisors. carl shannon. we're project sponsors for three major projects, two of which are 100% housing. 900 units at the creamery and a project at 5th and howard. the third is a combination of office and small affordable housing. steve has been to thousands of meetings. we've only been to a couple hundred. he's been working on this for seven years. we've only been working on it

for five. we're thrilled to see this come forward. it's a huge package of community benefits, unprecedented in the city's history. we do have a timing issue with our 5th and howard project, where to get the tax-exempt bonds in place, the project needs to be approved and ready to go by 2019. that seems a long way away still, but having been at this for seven plus years wanted to be sure that we're aware of that. look forward to getting this done. we look forward working with the community and bringing the public park forward, which is part of our project. >> thank you. and don shaw reached out to me personally to ensure that this project that's 100% affordable housing will of is not impacted. and to ensure that we move forward with that project or pass this plan in a timely

manner. >> i'm alice rodgers, vice president of south beach mission bay organization. i want to commend the planning department on all of the extreme outreach and hard work they put into the plan. and likewise, want to commend the community, people that are here today and john elderling, in particular, for helping the city focus on this as a community plan. it's always talked about as industrial, but as these people have illustrated and you well know, there's a very rich community and cultural legacy in this area. so i'm looking forward to this being a plan that ends up not

displacing people that makes good on its promise of cultural and community, community involvement and guidance. and i want to thank you supervisor kim for asking the prioritization of the strict projects and the other projects. so far the promises have been quite general and i have had a hard time seeing it brought down to the street and i appreciate your comment today on air quality. it is an emerging issue. it's not a new issue, but it's a difficult issue to grapple with. and i think it's an emerging, important focus. thank you so much. >> thank you, ms. rogers. >> good afternoon. teresa flanderick, community action. i'm here to support my friends, my community in soma. we represent soma.

what we also know is how important it is to feel and know that you are safe in your neighborhood, in your home, that your home will not be taken. and so to have funding that would also afford a purchase of some of the rent-controlled buildings so they're not turned into tics and luxury condos and sold to the highest bidder. to preserve the housing that is there, also the sros. that it would be great to have funding that is specified for these purchases, as well as any affordable housing that is to be built, if there is no more land yet because it's been used for other things. that becomes a problem. so in terms of securing a cultural district, a community that's been there for many, many years, to do all that we can to preserve what is there so that the people can continue to grow

their community, rather than have it destroyed. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisors, for holding this meeting. i'm raquel odondis. i thank the planning department for the presentation and glad to hear that the plan is to keep what's great in soma. for us, what is great about soma for decades is the seniors and immigrant workers of that been fighting to make the neighborhood livable, for everyone. and this is before the city and planning and the whole region has come to focus on soma as a place to build this housing. so we hope to keep the existing community there, that's first and foremost. as you know, central soma's

plans comprise our cultural district and many vulnerable seniors. we've survived many waves of displacement and to the most recent with the tech boom. we've lost half of our community in the last several years, but we're still here and we love soma and soma is a cultural and social hub for filipinos city-wide and region-wide. while there could be many opportunities with the central soma plan, there are no illusions that there aren't risks for our community. the new development can bring about another way of displacement for our community and other populations. we need to make sure there are strong measures and concrete investments to mitigate potential harm. we look forward to working with the planning department and board of supervisors and

everyone involved to make sure there are relay ford -- real affordable housing and that the public benefits are soma-wide and not just central 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.

issue. >> homeless in san francisco is a challenging issue that effects owner in the city in many different was as of the 2014 homeless census over 64 homeless

in individual in the city to try to address the issue we've got a program for chronic homeless welcome to the navigation center. >> this pilot project is for people living on the street what makes it different the navigation center is able to accommodate homeless encampments lowell u allowing people to keep their pets and bring their personal bloonlz. >> the full realization that people don't want to be homeless not refuse services but from the services don't meet them and not relevant they're not going to be successful if you look at the

budget losses we've got a community sacrifice important people to get food and laundry we're standing next to the bathrooms it is designed to be a dynamic and brief residential experience where right of on this site city staff to connect you to homeless places to return to family dine is up for medi-cal and all those things that are complicated for people. >> the other exciting thing city agencies come on site and provided the services for folks this is existed to see when the goal of streamlining a a whole processes of getting people on go gentle assistance into housing as much as possible. >> way totally different you can come and agree as please and get laundry services and showers any time of the day and night

it's twenty-four hours a day whatever and twhefr it's not like any other she recalls. >> they come and help people for what it is they're required the issues they need and reach out and do what we can to say okay how can we accommodate you to get you set up and straight never in my mind imagined a program like this this place it different and a a lot a lot that better it works. >> the navigation is center is a collaboration of partnerships too city departments one is the homeless outreach team managed by the san francisco distributing i look forward to the navigation center we'll have our agents go out and help and say don't go anymore over and over send our

dayshift out they've meet the population and hang out and hang in the encampment and transport people and be with them and make immediate impacts with me and my staff. >> bringing our wloongz whatever you go presents a problem this place their help with the storage i don't have to worry about it staying here you know you're getting things done they need to get things down done to get off the street avenue of the hope alsoness is gone. >> they help you if you're hungry go eat if e you need to go places go. >> they're 4th district it awe auto. >> it was funded through a

unanimous donation and of may 2015 an additional $3 million to help to continue the program beyond 18 months. >> you see people coming out they're ready to being so the future homes you know how variable the navigation center is my message for the constituents yes something can be done do break chronic homelessness it is being done. >> this is a community that sets an example but i how to pick an area that was funky they've seen we're trying to do is help their neighbors they've seen getting sicker and more frail and broken down on the streets and welcomed us that's a powerful statement people are exist and president in they're becoming to see the movement for folks and people on

the streets are only survival modes where is there next meal and their itch more carefree. >> the staff here is interpretation the first day i have a appointment and everything was made all you do is go through them this makes a huge difference. >> to get settled in a helping hand, to get on my feet, take care of the issues i have and get out of bed and help. >> even though the navigation center has been up in march 2014 the program is creating successful outreach for it's clients. >> a month ago they came to me

and asked me to go into a new program i moved into here and now 3 months later i have my own place it is mine i lock my door don't worry about my stuff it feels human again >> good afternoon everyone. i'm barbara garcia, director of health. we have mayor london breed and supervisor jane kim. we're so happy to be here today, we're opening a new part of the respite providing services for those who need that kind of support from our shelter system.

this respite has been open for over 10 years and providing over 45 beds for those needing support around alcoholism and around another 30 beds for those coming out of hospital who need additional support. these are focused on the shelter system to ensure that those individuals who need more medical support and i want to acknowledge supervisor kim who has been a champion for the expansion, particularly when she spent time in the shelter and saw that many individuals needed additional medical support. this took about two years to open with the renovation and with the staffing and we're so happy today to be with you to open these new beds, as well as the fact that the staff is there already, we have served over 3,000 homeless individuals in the past 10 years providing the upmost care for these individuals who really need support and provide them the additional support to continue

their pathway into housing. at this point, i would like to ask for mayor breed to give us some comments and she has been a big champion around homeless issues and very happy for the respite to be open today. thank you very much. (applause) >> thank you. i want to start by thanking director garcia for all the work that her and her team have put in to really making this dream a reality. supervisor kim has been an amazing champion on this expansion. and our mayor, mayor ed lee actually had an opportunity to tour the facility. he was really excited about what it could do for some people that we know that are facing challenges, our most vulnerable population. we think it's as simple as showing up to a shelter, but just imagine if you have a medical issue. just imagine if you have a wound or something going on with your

body that basically you have not been medically treated for. people who sadly are living on our streets need medical support, too. often times, imagine when we're in the same situation and we stay home and need time to heal, this is what the respite center is going to provide, a place for people to heal, a bed, a safe space, three meals a day, support they need and 30% of the people who have been helped in this respite center have been permanently housed. that's been amazing. the staff is not only providing the medical care, they're providing the social services that go with helping people transition into permanent housing. our goal has to be to make sure people are taken care of and this is one way to do that. to go from 45 to 75 beds is

tremendous. which means we have a larger capacity to serve more people and that means everything for the person using this service. so i'm happy to be here today. i want to thank the staff and everyone who has been active in making sure that this space is not only providing care, but is providing compassion and support and resources because we want to make sure it's a wrap-around service that will eventually help people into something permanent where they have homes to live and the support they need to be sustainable in our housing market that is so challenging for so many. thank you for being here and with that, i want to turn it over to my colleague supervisor kim who has been a champion and an important part of making this possible. the funding and all of the things we needed to do to get this place open, she was a fierce advocate for that. i want to turn it over to

supervisor kim. (applause) >> thank you. thank you mayor breed for being here today. it's a little sad to be here without mayor ed lee. i had fought and advocated for $4 million to expand the medical respite shelter and i remember the day he called me and said he was going to make it an important piece of the budget. while it takes some time for the build up, it's amazing we have this resource in our city here today. director garcia mentioned why i came to fight for the medical respite shelter, it was because when i was appointed acting mayor, much more briefly, my staff decided i would spend my first night as acting mayor in one of our single adult shelters in my district. in my first night there it

became clear to me that homelessness is not just a poverty issue, it's a public health issue. the residents staying there were far oral far older and sicker than i imagined and we're seeing so many brothers and sisters aging in places on the streets. so i worked with director garcia to fight for our adult shelters and to see what the nurses are doing every day at sanctuary, next door, they are doing god's work. our residents need to see a nurse every single day and need the medical attention they can get at the shelters. the expansion of a 24/7 medical respite shelter is a huge resource in our city. i don't need to tell anyone what we're seeing on the streets today, people are so sick and to have this resource with

increased beds and 24-hour attention from doctors, nurses, psychiatrists is how we address homelessness in san francisco today. i want to thank director garcia, who has been an impassioned person working on this and to dr. barry stephen who is not here today and kate shuten and dr. alice chen. and finally to president breed, who knows -- probably the supervisor who knows my district the best on the board of supervisors, she's in fact the only colleague who constantly asks me of the needs because she knows our residents there. i want to thank you for your

support and for your support of a safe injection site. we also have to address substance abuse in our city as well. thank you for being here and i'm incredibly excited to double the expansion of the medical respite shelter here today. (applause) >> thank you supervisor and mayor breed. i'm honored to be able to present our doctor and medical director of the respite dr. kelly egan. dr. kelly egan has professionalism and compassion in the way she has brought the new respite expansion and all the patients she serves directly. so dr. kelly egan. (applause) >> thank you supervisor kim, mayor breed and director garcia. as medical director i have experienced this program's transformation first hand in recent months.

medical respite has served the sickest and most medically complex people in homelessness. in the past we have accepted referrals only from hospitals and now we can accept them from shelters for people who are too sick to stay there and are at risk. i want to put a face for the clients we served. we recently cared for a gentleman with a new cancer diagnosis and he needed a place to rest and recoup rate. without a bed -- (laughter) without a bed at respite, cancer treatment may not have been an option for this gentleman. and we have been working with a woman working intensely with physical therapy, she can walk and take care of herself now again and ready to go back to the shelters. and we're seeing an increasing

aging population among the homeless, people who are cognitively impaired and unable to keep themselves safe. they receive behavioral health, primary care, assistance with medications and referrals to psycho social services such as housing. personally i want to thank the staff of medical respite and sobering who provide the care day in and day out and shelter house street medicine, these are the care teams that provide compassionate and patient-centered care for our patients every day. i'm proud to be a part of the team. thank you. (applause) >> here are scissors for the supervisor and mayor to share.

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was asked to do is water system improvement program and one thing i looked at is about the 4.8 billion dollars wurthd of work and a lot of the work was regional. we looked at how can we make sure that we provide opportunities for san franciscan's and people in the region and so we looked at ways we can expand our local san francisco lb program. so, we thought about it and worked with general manager at the time to form an advizry committee to talk about how to include local businesses in the region. >> i was on the first committee back about 10 years ago and the

job changed over time. in the beginning, we just wanted people to know about it. we wanted to attract contractors to come into the system which is a bidding system and bid on some of these projects. our second job was to help the sfpuc to try to make themselves more user frndly. >> i like that they go out of their way, have contractors trying to teach and outreach to small businesses and lots of creative ways. help the community as well. there is so much infrastructure going on and repair, new construction that i think is helping to get construction back on its feet. >> my faiv rlt part of the committee has been that we have played a opportunity for many

small businesses. [inaudible] women owned business to come in and [inaudible] sfpuc. it is a great opportunity because some are so small they have been able to grow their companies and move up and bid other projects with the sfpuc. >> everyone i was talking about with any contractor [inaudible] and super markets and things like that and i realize the transition was on the sfpuc. he got that first job and knows about the paperwork qu schedule and still works on this type of job, but he works with general contractors that also did other things. pretty soon it is like he did that one and that one.

it completely changed his business. >> my name is nancy [inaudible] the office manager and bid coordinator for [inaudible] construction. worked on 10 plus puc, lbe contracts. today we are doing site maintenance on the [inaudible] chr site and currently the gentlemen behind me are working on every moving and basic specs of plants. in order to be success you need to work hard, bid low and keep a look at the sfpuc website for future bidding opportunity. >> this is a successful program because it provides opportunities to regional communities that might not have opportunities to work for large scale projects. the sfpuc is a fortunate agency we have a lot

of capital program that span over 7 counties who also to see how some businesses like [inaudible] and bio mass started as small micro businesses grow and expand and stay in the program and work on several projects before they graduate from the program. that is what warms my heart. >> my name is college willkerson, the principle for bio mass. bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible and show the city and county of san francisco we can also perform services. >> this program had tremendous impact to the region. in fact,

the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. this has h a major positive impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded $50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. and, i significantly helped the business. it is one of the major contributors to our success.