francisco and it was beautiful. the one thing i found bad about san francisco was the fontana, but i grew up, i was in boston, a student -- >> you have 30 seconds left. mr. clerk, if you could reset the clock due to the confusion to 25 seconds. or i think it was 28. >> it was the time of the big unrest in berkeley and i thought it was urban warfare. i was so surprised. i couldn't believe it. and then we moved to san francisco and i've loved it and we stayed here. we've never considered moving anywhere else, i hate to see this town turned into a place like new york city. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you, a couple more speaker cards. david, jerry, paul, diana and

mary. >> ok, may i? >> supervisor tang: yes. >> finally, ok. george, president of the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. please support and pass the proposed resolution of the board in opposition to the bill. thank you, aaron peskin, as the city of los angeles have appeared to have done. i would like to devote the rest of my time to a moment of silence for scott wiener's attempt to kill the character and depth of our neighborhoods. use my last 30 seconds for silence.

[bell ringing] >> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. i'm from san francisco and thank you for not rolling your eyes, change is good, but that implies improvement, not just any old change. not hyper development. i think it was james baldwin who called redevelopment the negro removal act. what is happening in the fillmore is happening in omi. you have foreclosures, prices are zooming. can i even afford to stay in the city? anyway, go to paris. why is the beautiful? because they don't allow this cluster mess. go to the paris suburbs. they're horrible. they're huge towers, dense clusters, everyone hates them.

the french hate them. the city parents knew you don't allow this sort of thing in city limits if you want a beautiful prosperous tourist city. i am in favor of affordable housing, but you know, this is not -- [bell ringing] >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. >> the overhead, please. >> supervisor tang: sf gov tv, overhead. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i'm richard, i oppose state bill 827. will rogers said every time a politician makes a joke it becomes a law. every time he makes a law it becomes a joke. a very, very bad joke for san francisco. as a senior elected official of san francisco it would be a travesty for you to disenfranchise your stitch of their rights have a say in the local use decisions within their

communities. 827 is a poison pill with respect to land use and decision making. it eliminates local control, knowledge, history, custom culture and standards. why should we support ballot initiatives in june and november proposed by supervisors who fail to support a broad consensus of san franciscans? thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is jerry, it's clear that the demand for housing exceeds supply. excess demand driving up the cost of housing. san francisco has 18,000 people per square mile. or 6266 per square kilometer.

with 6266 people per square kilometer, san francisco is currently as dense as hong kong, denser than london, and equal to job poor india. sb 827 is expected to increase the housing supply, but never modelled. if the goal is to increase the number of square mile, it would make sense how many people the infrastructure can support and where the increase in density should occur. >> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker. >> may have overhead, please? my name is diana, aaron peskin for mayor! i mean you here today. is this is such an important issue. i am a 65-year-old senior

citizen. scott wiener, what happened to you? we're so disappointed. we believed in him, elected him, thought he was going to do good. my beloved city of san francisco is continuing to grow and expand within our 49 square miles. i disagree totally with sb 827 and the wording to override local planning process. we will not be denied the democratic process. we have voted many times and said what we wanted, now we have height limits, the same issues again. now that he want to change our laws. we cannot have this, supervisor tang, i'm very, encouraged by what you said about the revisions because [bell ringing]. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is david. i wanted to clarify we're not

voting on 827, we're voting on peskin's resolution to allow san francisco to have a say. and i think the main point we really should concentrate on is the basic principle democracy, self-determination for our communities. and not fall into the trend that is happening nationwide if people look. not just from the trump administration, in general, about that privatize everything, privatize the roads, social security, parks. and not allow people to sue large corporations, let polluters pollute and we don't have a say. and if you don't, if you go ahead with this bill in sacramento, you're falling into that trap of giving up our rights. i expect that the planning commission and the supervisors to respect the rights of the citizens of -- [bell ringing]

>> supervisor tang: thank you very much. next speaker. >> my name is mary, i live in the outer sunset. i want to address the floor area on the bill. i live in a typical sunset district house, the four area ratios, under this bill, looks like it will 3.5, 4.5, or allow for 10,500 square feet. that is 1,000% increase in density on my little tiny lot. we need to also think about the profound demolition that could occur. also, it's very unclear how the housing accountability act works in conjunction with this bill. and last but not least, the city of san francisco up-zoned 100,000 units in 1990s repairing the damage of the down zoning from the 60s and 70s, thank you

very much. >> supervisor tang: going to call more speaker. bruce, rose, genoa, rita, please come on up. >> good afternoon, my name is paul weber, i'm a resident of north beach and here to state my conclusions since we only have a minute. there is still time to act if you do so now. i urge you to recommend that the board approve the resolution opposing 827, cause the city to deploy lobbyists to seek the support of state legislature in opposing 827 and cause the city to seek a judicial determination there is not a compelling state interest in the need for market rate housing to provide bonuses there with no inclusion err

housing which the bill does in a land locked city like san francisco to warrant wrenching away what is an exclusive municipality affair. i appreciate the one minute. >> hi, my name is adrian. i am a resident of the lower haight. please oppose senate bill 827. it simply is not what the citizens of san francisco want or need. >> supervisor tang: next speaker. >> supervisors, we need your help. we need your help to protect us against aba 8237. it is bad for california, but worse for san francisco. not only will it inflate our real estate, it does not reflect the transit problems, traffic problems, infrastructure. the bill is based on many bad

assumptions. just one. many developments have shown that transit can replace those who use transit. transit oriented development migrants as well be called -- might as well be called transit rider. this is like handing over our transportation problems to über. even -- except the impact of 827 will be permanent and irreversible. once the towers are here, they're here to state. once the state takes over the planning, we'll never get it back. >> supervisors, this bill will tell you that all of the problems that can be caused can be amended and that's not necessarily true. and the problems are worth it, because it means we have more affordable housing. that is a lie.

if this will result in affordability, then why is manhattan and hong kong not the cheapest places to live in the world? >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. i'm going to call a few more speaker cards. greg -- i apologize, i can't read some some of the handwriting. >> one of the most positive aspects of san francisco besides the bridge are the charming neighborhoods. this initiative is threatening to destroy those neighborhoods just as that picture showed with the sore thumb sticking up like we have with the fontana and a few other buildings in san francisco. i feel it's necessary for us to maint control of our own initiatives and things that are happening here. centralizing this is un-american

and usurping the power, that is the opposite of what the founding fathers wanted to provide and protect. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. i'll ill-prepared because i only found out about this last night. which is too bad because this room wouldn't hold all the people if they knew what was going on. so i'll speak from my heart. i was born here. and i can smell money and corruption. simply. real estate developers, low interest rates. of course they buy the rivers. we need to keep control of our land. i think you should think about when you meet your maker if you pass this. thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> overhead, please.

>> 827 is a scheme relying on factors for huge heightened density increases that circumvent review under san francisco's general plan. land value increases and creates pricing unattainable by the majority. trump-like sp 827, kills local control. all these bullet points i have displayed on here and the jordan park improvement association under the leadership of larry costel costello opposes 827 & so this is an image i want to leave you with. i turn all this and include my first overhead under sunshine

into the [bell ringing] >> thank you very much, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is chris bigelow. allowing many more sueses on the property -- uses on the property will increase our already inflated land values. in a city where speculators grab every fixer upper on the market, the last thing we need to do is incentivize speculative behavior. in today's market, will yield 2-3 units to the developer. imagine what would it to do the price of land with ten units. we need a set of criteria capable of responding to the context of the urban environment. this bill is a blunt instrument.

supervisors, we live here and we're your constituents, not some special lobby in sack sacramento. i urge you to oppose the resolution oppose this bill. i've watched the city go from a charming neighborhood to a place where there is no parking, there are streets torn up, there are pits an holes in the streets. we've watched this city change and grow beyond its limits. and, yes, housing is a problem in this city. but this bill, these two bills, are not the answer. and i ask you to look at who is supporting it in their suits and ties and not living in san francisco, and then look at who is supporting it, local people, local neighborhood people,

people who care and have lived here for a long time or want to live here for a long time. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i have a queasy feeling in my stomach as i don't understand why news agencies were told -- we weren't told sooner about the bill. i get "the chronicle" and there is nothing in it. we had to scramble to run here. it feels like a slimy bill and i'm sad to say, but it sounds like wiener cares about more lining the pockets of developers than he does the people of san francisco. many people like me who are poor in san francisco, live near major transportation routes. wiener is proposing to take away our freedom, space, air we breathe, sunshine. food will become more expensive and it will be harder to live in my area. this bill is wrong, it's saying

let's put high rises on lombard street. if this bill made sense to people of san francisco, mayor lee would have initiated it. thank you. >> supervisor tang: going to call more names here. catherine, kathy, dennis, dr. lisa, ozzie. >> my name is greg miller, i think the proposed senate bill is atrocious public policy. the bill would essentially privatize and automate the planning process to replace the power to transform the character of our communities in the hands of individual real estate developers and investors. competitive pressures will make expected profit margins that criteria for urban planning. the combined impact of many individual business decisions is unlikely to lead to ideal

optimal outcome. eventually overbuilding and lower quality of life seem to be the likely outcome. for those who doubt this, i refer you to the performance of the unregulated banking industry in the course of the previous decade. thank you. >> next speaker. >> my name is ashley, i'm the vice president of the marina community association, we strongly oppose this bill. i would like to say that i'm appalled by this bill. it is shocking that san francisco being such a unique city would ever even not oppose this bill. and it would be in favor of it. as we sit in these rooms today, in 50 years, half of us may not be here, but these buildings will be here and the city will change. you have the power to leave your legacy. do you really want your legacy to have no longer the neighborhoods to be destroyed

and relationships to be destroyed by the bill? i am urging you to go back to the drawing boards and figure out a better plan. and for this. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i'm jackie, cultural action network. so this bill solution to california's housing woes, is not working. and not only that, those who provide the solution are blaming you for those woes. claiming that you are resistant to new residential development. so scott wiener believes the state should govern housing the way it should govern education. the planning department can set policy, but the state sets the ground rules. where does that leave local control? sb 827 goes beyond slash and burn territory.

so, 827 should -- would dramatically increase the city's population and the demand for services. police, fire, school, transit, without providing funds to pay for the new services and lets the state off of the hook for funding -- [bell ringing] >> thank you very much. it's one minute today because we have quite a bit of public comment and potential quorum issues. i firmly oppose sb 827 and 828. the reality is you're creating a model for higher developer income, not more affordable housing. it's not true that the more housing you build, the more affordable it becomes. as others have mentioned, look at hong kong where housing is 18 times over the median income and the most crowded city in the

world. and rental apartment is $3500 a month. compared to san francisco as of 2016, was 18,000 per square mile. why can't we learn from other's failures. i'm asking to you reject this legislation, it has no basis in reality, no matter how you amend it. it will only increase economic unrest, upending every plan that contributes to the housing allocation requirements. >> my name is dennis. i urge you to support tresolutin opposing 827. it's a final resolution for replacing, the middle class, working, elderly, but ma

massachusetmass they made sure that the suburban counties would not have to share the burden of providing housing for the workforce. tech is building campuses bigger than the pentagon, but next to no housing. 827 could have come out of the trump administration as another measure to support the housing measure like the measures proposed to open public lands to extraction. so for whom is 827 written? who wins? who loses? it's on the side of the people. >> catherine howard, sierra club opposes 827. it interacts with sb 35 to

preclude public health and environmental protections and review under ceqa, the environmental quality act. the ceqa act is one the foundational laws in california and helped to cut climate pollution, protect open space and protect wildlife habitat and farm lands and ensures environmental justice and equity are part of the decision-making process and gives all californians the opportunity to know what is planned in their communities. certainly in the current political climate, we should be supporting as much environmental protection in california as we can and as part of that, we should be supporting ceqa. please oppose sb 827. thank you. i'm going to call more cards here.

this bill is a power grab that overrides our local housing controls. i believe voters elected you to speak up when your power to act for our benefit is being challenged. don't be fooled by the bill's amendments. help for tenants during a three and a half year relocation and right to return is underhanded. it will create a whole class of development refugees being shipped off to distant unfamiliar communities. let's create another hooverville, maybe wienerville would be a good name. a real housing problem is due to unregulated capital and speculation we need sensible controls on both. we don't need an elected representative that goes to

sacramento and panders to special interest. simply put, wiener's bill will gentry phi and knowledge noise our city. sb 827 is a shameless land grab engineered by special interest who won't stop short of selling the entire city to speculators. we keep hearing we need more homes, but why isn't anyone talking about the 30,000 new homes for which the city issued permits. why do we let developers sit on issued permits if we have a housing crisis? this is the inconvenient truth about the housing crisis which is in reality the affordability crisis fueled by the behavior. if senator wiener was concerned about the housing crisis, he

would proposed measures like vancouver introduced. on december 21, when the planning commission held a hearing on strategy, one person after another stood up to tell the commission about their concerns about upzoning of the mission. supervisor safai, what would you tell these people when they find out it's not just the mission street corridor, but [bell ringing] >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jim. i'm 43 -- i've been a resident of san francisco for 43 years. i see there is really quite a housing crisis here, but still i'm opposed to 827 for several reasons. here's one. the bill does nothing to curb the rampant speculation that is fueling the housing crisis. part of the problem here is that the large amount of real estate

investment by overseas investors. seriously driving up the real estate prices. so i'm saying why not follow the example of vancouver, canada, which is tackling the same problem with taxing on nonresident owned property and rental income. other than that, the bill looks to be a great deal for developers and does little to solve the housing crisis. >> i'm going to call more names here. peter, lorraine. chelsea. anastasia, denise and bradley. >> i'm president of the lone mountain civic association, we represent 500 homes surrounding usf. i'm with my fifth generation native granddaughter, this is her first community action. we understand that senator

wiener is trying to disrupt the norm. this legislation has so many unintended consequences. increased pollution, immense impact on infrastructure, displacement of low-income residents. especially the assault on character. we encourage you to oppose this measure and let's work to find solutions that don't usurp local control and also don't destroy what makes us unique. this is the first time i've ever agreed with aaron peskin on anything. i'm glad to find common ground, thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is lori, i'm president of the cal hallow association. the association does oppose 827 and supports the city's

position. i have to say that when i sent out, albeit late, notification of the meeting, within hours i had over 100 e-mails opposing it. it gave me faith that once everyone knows, you'll have enormous tsunami of resistance to that. don't despair. i think we can get this solved. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is brian. i'm here today to ask you to support the resolution that calls for opposing sb 827. because we don't need another bonus for developers and speculators. it's outrageous for senator wiener to up the developers' profits without the slightest benefit to inclusion housing. the legislation gave out more height in exchange for upping

the inclusion percentage to 30%. sb 827 has none of that. what shows the true motives of senator wiener. average dwelling is no more than 1500 square feet. this ups the ante to 10,000 square feet per lot, with no mandate how many units should be built in the space. multimillionaires will have the entire 10,000 square feet for their luxury homes. meanwhile, there will be more evictions and buyouts for tenants that make up 54% of house [bell ringing] >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon, my name is kitty lynch. and someone told me there was a plan in the city to build high rises along lincoln from 7th down to the beach. i think that person had been channelling scott wiener.

the city is already -- this is my opinion -- ruined in a way, because the prices of homes and rents are so high it restricts the population to rich people and it's not very culturally colorful. this bill would kill any cultural flavor in the city that it has left. it makes me glad i'm old and won't be living here that long. my house will probably be demolished because it's on a transit line and across from golden gate park. >> good afternoon. my name is bradley. i support this resolution asking for us to oppose senate bill 827. it's bad policy, if we want to see the state take over transportation network companies, the tncs, how well is that working for us?

have we been getting across town faster? i don't think so. we know best how to govern our own planning process. 827 will severely limit our ability for planning processes. and frankly, there are other ways we can expand housing. we're in a crisis, but this is bad policy, this is bad civics and this is bad democracy. and frankly, i'm a little bit disappointed in scott wiener pushing this through. it does have the appearance of some balances, but when you look, you can see that this is not going solve [bell ringing] good afternoon, i'm peter, speaking as individual. i am a long time resident of san francisco and strongly oppose senate bill 827 and 828.

i want to thank the supervisors and supervisor peskin in particular for bringing this opposition forward. basically, i can say that i agree with pretty much everything that has been said by the supervisor and by the public. it cuts self-determination. please go ahead and stop scott wiener's war on san francisco. thank you. >> thank you, i'm going to call up more names. renee, lori, dennis, nancy, i have two of our cards, nancy, jennifer, and tony. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is denise. i live in the haight

neighborhood. for years, we've been hearing about housing crisis and feeling it, but instead of this -- this bill doesn't point to the culprit which is the speculation and high cost of living. and they try to call it a problem with the permit system. but in fact, it's really just an affordable crisis. i mean i know units in my neighborhood that have been empty for months. so there is housing but people can't afford it. this is a boondoggle as far as i'm concerned and i urge you to send oppose -- support the resolution to oppose this bill that is only going to help the speculators and remove a good populous of the city that can't afford to live here then. >> i'm lorraine, a voter for 50 years. district 5. i support item 2. i vehemently oppose 827 along

with 828. i believe together, those two senate bills would establish a state housing dictatorship of profit-taking. just as the federal government is trying to dictate to san francisco how we accommodate our immigrants, 827 and 828 attempt to let the state dictate how we accommodate the needs of the residents. i believe it should not be amended, it should just be thrown out all together. i think you can put pink ribbons around a hydrogen bomb, but it still will blow san francisco to bits. >> supervisor tang: i know everyone is spirited, but i have to remind everyone there is no applause, shouting, booing, screaming in the chamber. use spirit fingers. >> i urge you to support this ordinance to oppose 828, the

planning department put it this way. the bill provides additional value to property owners throughout the state without concurring the value capture. this bill wouldn't allow local planning to take place or give a pass for necessary studies and implement programs to capture appropriate levels of the increased value for public benefits and impact mitigation at the same time the zoning is implemented. 827 is a speculators' dream and tenants nightmare. we'll get more market rate housing that is too expensive for us that live and work here. this will intensify displacement and incentivize speck laying. my home -- [bell ringing] >> supervisor tang: i wanted to

announce there is overflow room that is open in 263, so that is an option in case anyone wants to watch the hearing from there and come in when they're called to speak. >> hi, my name is chelsea, i'm a longtime resident of the district, i'm an artist and tech worker. i just want to come here today and say i'm opposed to the bill. it says it's supposed to solve the housing crisis and i want to ask what housing crisis? and who is going to solve? i think the housing crisis is for working class people. there are on craigslist 193 units of 1-bedroom apartments in the mission district. the cheapest studio in the mission is $295 a month. i'm a renter and i'm one of the people that if i were to be evicted, there no way i would be able to afford a market race house.

>> hi, renee, 25 year resident of san francisco. i support the resolution to oppose 827. scott wiener is a smart man and knows how to write legislation that would protect vulnerable residents from displacement while accommodating new residents, yet he has written this developer giveaway instead. they've been spreading pop prop grand that -- propaganda that zoning is racist. i want the supervisors to consider we're at a crossroads. you can choose the already cleared path for speculation -- i can't read my own writing -- or carve a new path leading to greater equity in san francisco.

>> good afternoon, lori from the inner sunset. please support this resolution opposing 827. 827 will not compel any more density. that means vast swaths of suburbs will not be -- for wholesale city wide rezoning with total disregard for planning department work to accommodate growth within a farm framework that values green space. it so favors unrestrained development as to silence all other voices. disproves any alleged concern for the environment and further drives up land cost undermining

affordable housing. the amendments offered by wiener are as telling as they are disingenuous. on their face -- [bell ringing] >> jennifer, we are opposed to 827 for the displacement effect it's going to have on low-income tenants across the state. park has a right to return for tenants but it's not working. we're seeing hundreds of eviction petitions before the demolition occurs. i ask that you push this resolution onto the full board. we deserve to get everybody on record for something so radical am. >> supervisor tang: more name cards, peter, rick. peter, marilyn.

supervisors, in terms of the affordable crisis, 827 is self-defeating. accord to a study by the firm commissioned by the city, market rate housing creates a demand for additional affordable housing. and so that may be up to about 30% according to that study. even with our inclusionary zoning requirements in place, we are not gaining ground on the affordability crisis, in fact, it's getting worse. so for every market rate housing development, we have a greater problem with affordability. so contrary to trickle-down

economics, more market rate housing means a worse problem for our affordability issue. thank you. >> nancy. i support the resolution from the board of supervisors to oppose 827 and 828. these bills are like imminent domain confiscation of developers. these bills support the destruction of affordable housing without any montéreg montéregielation regul regularlation. people will be forced to sell out. this is a great city because of the neighborhoods and the diversity. not because of its density. i think you need to make sure that we preserve what we have already and the quality of our life. also, would like to make sure that my beautiful historic house

is preserved in the future for generations to enjoy, because if we don't do this know, it will be torn down for the land value. >> hello, supervisors. i'm losing my voice, but thought it was important to come here today and speak. thank you for having. supervisors, latinos have been displaced from the mission. thousands of latinos have moved to bayview. our new neighbors are looking at 3rd street and saying hell know for the luxury development. that is happening today. 827 makes this problem worse. for 827, adding value to land is far more important than recognizing the value of our people and parts of the city with lower land values like bayview, visitation valley,

these neighborhoods will be hurt first and worst by the law. 827 claims to demolition at that reward speculation. that will lead to more of the same problems, illegal and legal evictio evictions. oppose 827. it's the wrong planning for district 10. >> good afternoon. my name is marilyn, i live in north beach. i urge support resolution opposing 827. combined with president trump's opportunity zones will further displace low-income residents seeking affordable housing because developers could eliminate the capital gain taxes on any projects and opportunity zones in san francisco. those include chinatown, soma and mid market tenderloin. what this means is developers

will receive large tax incentives build luxury house, further gentry phiing those neighborhoods. i would ask that we work with senator wiener to modify his bill to incorporate these concerns. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm robert. i urge you not to pass this resolution. we've heard a lot about neighborhood character concerns. the character of a place is truly defined by the people who live in it. people cannot afford the bay area. what is our character as we stand by and watch our neighbors leave because we're more concerned about architecture and buildings than the young people and families leaving our city?

i left work to point out the obvious. not building housing has not worked. the plain fact is that san francisco is unaffordable. where will the children of our city live? what will the character of the city look like when only the wealth kri can live here? will we have children in the future? none of these are answered by the rz lieutenant-governors. i urge you not to pass it. thank you. in i urge you to stop the resolution that senator wiener has put forward. that we need to discuss it in the committee first is astonishing. i have three points to make and i hope i can make them in one minute. one is this is a proposal that

changes san francisco for generations. we have an irresponsibility toward future generations to preserve san francisco. we're the caretakers of the land. we don't own property. the property will be here for hundreds of years and the hills have been here and people have tried to raise them before, and the earthquake has stopped it, or money has stopped it. we need to stop these hills in the city get destroyed. the second one [bell ringing] >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm karen, appearing as individual in opposition to 827. i've been working for over a decade to preserve japan town. one of the products of that effort is the j. chess, the

cultural heritage and economic sustainability strategy. this document has been adopted by the planning department and the board of supervisors as a model that will help our neighborhoods continue to be able to accommodate growth while preserving our cultural and economic growth. this legislation will undo that, override it. oppose it anyway you can. i've seen what follows. and it is not going to help our neighborhoods. >> i'm leslie with housing rights committee. we support your opposition to sb 827. i've been evicted twice in two years and this is what happens when we build luxury only housing.

if we don't repeal costs and put in anti-displacement measures and instead just build, build, build, we're going to lose our working class low-income poc populations. so we need to put in those measures before we consider any developer giveaways. we need 100% affordable housing before we think of doing anything like this. thank you, peskin, for moving this forward. >> hi, i'm peter with the mission economic development agency. and i'm here to speak in support of this resolution to oppose sb 827. in agreement with many of the points made so far, we want to touch on a few particulars about how this is not an equitable bill. proponents i want to say that the bill will disproportionately

effect our neighborhoods of colors, because those areas already have comparable zoning. additionally there is no value recapture which doesn't take into account all sorts of things, including what is going to happen with traffic on those corridors? if we think that people are going take transit, upscale people, that's mistaken from the data. and finally, it does penalize communities of color and our low-income communities that have [bell ringing] >> good afternoon, supervisors. there is a lot of enthusiasm in this chamber for transit oriented development and unequivocally affordable housing developers and advocates have been supporting it. that's how our housing works best.

the studies are clear about the environmental and social benefits of tod. that is not on trial here. the question you're hearing is, how does transit oriented development get facilitated? i would argue that san francisco has been a leader for years, if not decades in very smart and creative upzoning, whether it's rincon hill, eastern neighborhoods, home sf, supervisors tang which got through unanimously, we know the examples that the department planning makes that clear. the other thing, this may make it harder to get affordable housing sites because of the competition for sites. i ask you to look at that issue and go slowly, please. >> supervisor tang: i'm going to call more speaker cards. john, marley, john, stephen, cory, laura and norma. >> good afternoon, supervisors,

particularly katy. i voted for you and i'm asking you to please vote for san francisco and oppose senate bill 827. i'll cut to the chase. it's not a housing bill, it's a real estate industry gift. neighborhoods, small businesses will be driven out by high rise rents and national chains will win. 96% of the city can and illin s illinois -- will be laid waste to maintain, not accommodate the growth anticipated. with 143,000 units in the pipeline, why do we need this bludgeon? please oppose 827. my children are the 6th generation in california. i prefer they have a place [bell

ringing]. >> i came to san francisco because bay area is the center of the renewable energy revolution in america. people who agree that density is better for the environment, the department of earth system science, the university of california, california center for population research, ucla, energy resources group and university of environmental law schools, california berkeley, sierra club, i could go on for hours. international people have seen density leads to more sustainability. support 827. anything else is climate denialism. >> blah, blah, blah.

i've been to several hearings over the years, through different departments and the thing that really strikes me is this is san francisco coming out. this is the mission. this is hunters point. this is cal hollow. these are san franciscans that are really coming out to support this. this is a terrible, terrible bill and it's going to ko us. you have to oppose it. but one thing i'd like to say, if san francisco was a woman, i'd call scott wiener a misogynist. >> good afternoon, i'm karen. dues paying members to support the resolution opposing senate bill 827. for us, we've been strong on

zoning conservation, but the issue here is state overreach into local municipalities, areas of governance and it could be a really destructive precedent for all of the localities in california. so please support the resolution. thank you very much. >> supervisor tang: i've been calling up people who turned in speaker cards. tom, dennis, sarah, connor. >> good afternoon. i want to thank the two supervisors who are still listening to the public. i want to thank aaron peskin for bring this forward. we do support the opposition to this sba 827 and some people are

menging the cousin 828 coming up alongside it. i just want to deal with the fact that there is no effort to stop speculative behavior which is causing the housing crisis and particularly the affordability crisis. i think they should deal with the real problem, which is the speculative behavior which is increasing the valve the land. i'm going to write a more detailed letter. i have a short one here for the supervisors who haven't gotten it yet. please support peskin's resolution. >> i'm john, i wanted to commend the resolution to oppose senate bill 827. i think it's an attempt to

rezone san francisco and i think it would incentivize speculative behavior. and as founder of a district, i would like to emphasize the impact on historic structures. these are old transit corridors. the impact the pressure would put on old buildings would be unbelievable. >> good afternoon. my name is jon cooper. live lived in cal hollow for 45 years. one of the things that makes san francisco a wonderful experience is the variety of communities. and sectors. and this bill in my opinion will kill it. this is one size fits all. it's the state legislating zoning and planning for the city. and that is based on the

assumption that the same zoning and planning concepts apply for santa barbara, that would al -- apply to san francisco. i believe it will increase prices and density in san francisco and decrease the participation by citizens in san francisco of zoning and planning. i have been before the planning commission and i am very much aware that these talented people take into consideration the unique elements of [bell ringing] >> hello, i'm a life long brown woman and born and raised in california's farming communities. and to many of my fellow brown family members who suffer from asthma and other effects of dirty air that come from co2

emissions, i strongly believe that senate bill 827 is going to give cleaner communities for people of color and improve walkability and our access to come to democratic events like this, to come and be a part of decisions and feel enfranchised in our home state. >> hi, laura. the executive director of nimby action. a pro-housing organization with over 1200 members. we launched membership about a year ago. we're growing fast. we're growing fast because people are desperate and the policies outlined as so wonderful for affordability are so obviously failing. we're failing to make san francisco affordable for the midding class, for low-income