so -- we are coming here to ask you to give us a break and let us have an opportunity to have some manifest destination what we want our community to be about. main concern are our children and the education they need to receive. we are already engaging some of the large corporations around here creating career opportunities, not job opportunity, but career opportunity for some of the finest of our young who got education and continue to be educated so they can participate. and positive input from the corporations in our area that want to come and help our children get educated and career, not just a job, but career. and do positive things. thank you for listening. please move the project. we have been waiting a long

time. we have, we are in negotiations to get a grocery store. people cannot buy groceries in the bayview because of the other stuff going on. we need to move the project to finish the negotiations for our grocery store. negotiating with grocery chains to come in and go into partnership with them for a grocery store. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you, next speaker, mr. bryan. burb >> james bryan, western region director. today we face you with a major travesty. ladies and gentlemen, when i was just a young tike, i met a young man named alex pitcher. a man that presided over this community that had impact in

developing this community, along with leaders like espinola jackson, leaders like al norman. let me tell you this. you cannot let building walk into the bayview hunters point area and buy our properties and remove our residents by the process of gentrification based on the fact that they got more money than any of us. so, let me make this clear. the community has sat down for several years, i think dr. good said something like six, it's been more than six years. we previously had these conversations about what would be best for a community facility. we came up with this location. let me tell you this. previously when we had the first mitigation for the project at the southeast facility, let me tell you what they decided.

they decided to put basketball courts on top, the community was up in arms. let me tell you this. this particular item will be just as up in arms as a thing for this community. this community will not let you all say the building gets to come in, buy out properties and remove our community. i want to thank you for listening to me and hope you reconsider anything that building and the other departments have decided to do without coming to this community. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, oscar james, resident 71 years. served on the joint housing committee, overseen all the government that transpired up on top of that hill, also indian

basin. also served as a commissioner for the model cities area that welcomed the development that was done through the joint housing and the redevelopment agency. now, indian basin was never designed for housing. it's the old wrecking yard, dumps area. what they did for indian basin was supposed to be light industrial. morgan equipment company moved from where the college is on fill street to 1550 where they are talking about, we want to put the college down, relocate the college to there. and advantageous for the college to go there, versus housing. housing was never recommended for that area. keep that in mind. it was a community's wishes, i'm the last of two, my mother-in-law, she's 100 years old, she was going to come today but had a doctor's appointment

for her heart. she's 100 years old. and dr. espinola jackson recently passed. we were the last three that served on the redevelopment agency for the o.c.i., we were the watch dogs for the redevelopment agency, to make sure the redevelopment agency did not do what they did in western addition. do not, do not put these houses there. let the college go there where we, the community, wish to take place. thank you very much. >> president hillis: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is kimberly hill brown, i'm secretary of the san francisco public housing tenant association. i have served in many capacities in this city. i am a native of this city, born at letterman general hospital. i come from a military family, navy. my grandfather served in world

war ii, the korean war, retired from the navy and from the san francisco shipyard and treasure island. my grandmother, a copper colored woman, the first copper colored woman to live on revere street in the bayview. my blood, my roots are rooted in san francisco. the native tribe of this area and as a bayview original resident i am here in support of 1550 3rd street. the people did their due diligence. came to the city in equity, clean hands and they followed the process that the city has forced to put for the a petition and make statements on what they would like to have on that corner and it is a

multi-generational community center that will host the whole community. if it was not for the elders in the community, we wouldn't have southeast center. our parents, they weren't on welfare, they were not sitting around. i'm 47, will be 47 in april. and my parents and community, they went to southeast community center and learned many trades and skills and they fought to have the first extension of the san francisco city college in the southeast community college. we are here, our young people are here, our elders are here, i am here. we are here to say do not make any changes for a developer that's coming johnny come lately. can they even build affordable housing? when i worked for the san francisco housing authority, they did it -- and backed out

because they couldn't figure out how to develop low income, mixed income housing. so, who are they to come forward now? >> your time is up. >> president hillis: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. joyce armstrong, president of the public housing tenant association. and in the words of our elder, amos brown, shame, shame, shame. shame on you. this is a blatant abuse of power on behalf of this department, o.e.w.d., and the m.o.c. mayor's office of housing and community development. they should be holding developers to be accountable and fighting for inclusionary housing, which we feel is low to moderate income for the residents of hunters view.

for everyone not going behind the backs of the community, and the sfcf commissioners and departments for a quick payout. we say enough, enough, please move 1550 so we can have that building there for our children to come. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you very much. next speaker, please. i'll call more names. eddie, dorothy, eleanor, dana. >> good evening, my name is neola ganz, i'm with the p.h.t.a., a former housing authority commissioner. i am appalled that 1550 evans is still a conversation. to my understanding, this project has been approved. why is this project deliberately being delayed? this is not a housing issue here. to me, it's an abuse of a power

issue. when a project goes forward all entities must plan together, right? so, all the years of work and meeting of the community on this project has been approved and every inch of space of the 1550 evans property is accounted for. all space is needed. the bayview hunters point will not give up their vision and years of hard work for johnny come lately, to add his $0.02 in on the plan. so, commissioners, doing your privatization, the residents' needs should be over the developers. it is imperative that this project move forward once and for all. thank you. >> thank you.

next speaker please. >> my name is gwendolyn jackson fagan, the doctor of the late espinola jackson. the home that you know of my mom. i'm here to ask you please, allow my mother's legacy to live. do not allow these contractors to bury the legacy. here today we have five generation of my mother's children, some coming from college, would my family stand, please? these are my mother's children, grandchildren and great. please break so they can, they were able to come and i just wanted them, sit down, family, and then we have another community who stands along with us today. yes, community, stand, community, so we are all rising up together to ask you, please,

let our vision continue, let it live on. do not bury my mother's legacy. she fought so hard and sweat that educational facilities, for education to continue. but i have one last start. i just was reminded of by the wastewater and solid waste. that's a state of the art plan, where we have waste and they have a state of the art. is the interest more on the waste and the people here than our people in the community? we need education, they need to continue to be able to strive. so, please, let the plan go. in my mom's name, the community name, in the lord's name, amen. ok. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you.

thank you. >> yes, sir? >> president hillis: thank you. all right. >> good afternoon, commission president and fellow commissioners, mr. ryan. linda vidaka richardson, former san francisco planning commissioner. i used to be where you are. i used my time when i was here to look after the most neglected place in the city and county of san francisco history, the bayview hunters point. for 18 and a half years yours truly and all the people here, day in, day out, we worked with the planning community department, all the city agencies, all original agencies, all federal agencies, the san francisco development agency. we put together one of the kind of a planning document during

your 100 year anniversary i was invited, prominently displayed for the bayview master plan. a jewel. two and a half years ago, same people, got together following the process, talking about the community center. bayview is for justice. san francisco wastewater sewage is processed in the bayview. for how long now? for decades on end. when people of this community have been breathing odors, pollution, we got to get us a community and put a plan together. that's why we are here today. why is it when people in the bayview put together something, working with everyone, at the end of the day, it can be usurped. that's why we are where we are today. we do not want any housing because that site is not even

zoned for housing. also bear in mind, 90% of the housing in bayview hunters point in the city and county built in the bayview, we are pro development, we want housing but let us have a community center with multi-purpose use, where they can have education institutions. >> thank you. >> and i hope that -- you will bear with us, so please, we'll be back and hope that we don't have to litigate this matter. thank you. >> president hillis: next speaker, please. >> my name is eddie zang, long time community activist and commissioner of the southeast facility commission. through myself and commissioner's attention a whole bunch of disturbing emails communicating through the

planning staff and the o.uwd and the mayor's office, including in derailing our plans and community plans to build 1550 evans as a community center and i want to submit this to the commission chair, for the emails that we have. and the emails includes, detailing the plans of the 1550 evans which the commission and the community adamantly rejects so there is no transparency between the planning department, because they have never had any contact with the commission, or commission members and the subcommittee. so, this is unacceptable. because if we have a city and county that designated the southeast due to litigation to support the needs of the community, yet the city and

county and the developers and l planning commission for that matter, if you are not standing aside, circumventing the system, that comes into question. so, why is that happening, right? who is the planning commission or the mayor working for? is it not for the people? not for the people in the bayview? not for the people in san francisco? or is it just facility for a small packet of people, the developers. all right? so, i will submit to you to review this document, to really focus on the needs and the wants from the community because all the process that we came together month after month, year after year, to survey the community, to get the best use of that faith in partnership with p.u.c., i think the planning commission and the mayor's office should honor that. thank you very much. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please.

>> dorothy kelly, a resident of the bayview and part of the hunters view resident council. 1550 is public land that should stay in the people's hands. we are losing large pieces of the neighborhood for wealthy developers who turn a profit on the backs of our community. this is a racist land grab and the bayview will end up getting the short end of the stick. you have greedy white developers working with white-led city departments purposely undermining the self-determination of our black and brown community. we have seen this before in the neighborhood, and we know how it turns out. the community usually loses. it has to end. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you, miss kelly. next speaker, please.

>> how you doing? the land at 1550 evans is a site, new southeast community center. site and the new city center 40-year-old agreement with the city and county of san francisco, specifically the sfpuc, the big six. bayview leaders, dr. espinola jackson, cheryl jones, alex pitcher, and other, advocated and in short, the facilities would develop for work force childcare education opportunities and open green space in our community. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. welcome. >> hi. i'm here to talk about former

bayview president and a current member, a concerned member of the community but he's directly working, and he works with personal benefits. michael has long profited off his relationship with bill inc. and even directly asked for the support to derail this project. so, please, let's move forward. please. thank you. >> president hillis: all right. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is laurel windsler. i spoke to you several weeks ago about the san francisco flower relocation, i'm a floral designer in san francisco with my own business. marketing at the flower market since 1988, 30 years. and one of the specific aspects i want to address with you today is the misrepresentation of fact that you've been receiving from

the developers in this matter regarding how the vendors at the flower markets feel about the proposed relocation to piers 19 and 23. i have here a survey that was done of market tenants and 78% of the market square footage, which represents roughly 70% of the vendors, are opposed to the temporary move to piers 19 and 23 on the grounds that it will be unworkable. 12% of the square footage of the market which is seven vendors approved of the move, and four were undecided. we just received this information, we'll be happy to get you copies in the days going forward. this is information that will not be presented to you by the vendors because they are limited and being able to speak out on

this issue, by the tri party agreement that was signed with killroy. so, we are here to say this concerns us greatly, if our vendors think it's not workable, we are not going to be able to get the product we need to do our jobs, to keep our businesses alive, not to mention what it's going to do to their businesses. so, we urge you to require killroy to locate us to 2000 marin street, in the tri party agreement, still acceptable to all the vendors and all the other stakeholders in this issue. thank you very much. >> president hillis: thank you. and yolanda, coredelia, charles, kimberly, joanne, sylvia. >> dana delorea, thank you for working with the developer and making the process a win-win for everybody with the flower

market. there is a couple of different points i wanted to touch on once again. that the flower market is a huge plus for the city. having it up and functional is something that brings in good publicity, good business. the legacy businesses that are in that location should have the ability to return and for zoning, if you can please ensure that when you are making the decisions regarding zoning, if you can ensure that the businesses will be able to return to support the diversity of the businesses and the business owners. my primary concern with the piers has to do with safety and crossing over the promenade. there are several areas where people are walking, there's motor, not motor bikes, but the pedal bikes for tourists and other traffic that crosses over that walkway out of the promenade. we are going to be doing a test on that, so hopefully i'll have

better information for you next time i see you. i'll pass my time to the next person on this issue. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you, next speaker, please. >> hello, nice to be here today in support of the flower market. my name is claire marie johnston. i've, my business is flowers claire marie. i brought you guys some flowers a few weeks ago and had my business since 1988, and i care deeply about the flower market and the community. and bottom line, it's not going to work down at the piers for many reason, we'll send you paperwork on. killroy has not been abiding by the agreements. they have not been working with the vendors, so, we have formed a coalition to try to support the flower market, been in san francisco over 100 years. and this serves not only, you know, expensive hotels, but down to the people that come in to work at the flower market.

it's a really broad industry, and it would be a great loss to the city to lose this market. there's only -- it's the best flower market in san francisco, even martha stewart said that. we just want to know we can get your support to get killroy to honor the agreement they signed to get the flower market moved to 2000 marin street. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is eleanor gerbersif, a born and raised san francisco resident, and i own wall flower design. here to oppose the temporary move. i purchase my wholesale flowers at least three times a week early in the morning.

the tenants of the flower market are multi-generational working class businesses and the move to piers 19 and 23 could potentially mean the loss of some of those businesses for a multitude of reasons. first off, the traffic scenario with the embarcadero would add commute time to everybody's commute. it would make it very difficult for some of the delivery trucks to deliver flowers, which would diminish the total capacity of our flower market to provide flowers to its customers. and additionally, since both tenants, staff and customers would need to pay for parking, that would represent a hardship. for some of the staff who quite frankly don't make a lot of money and have free parking at the current site.

so, we are asking that we, that you urge killroy to honor its commitment to move us to 2000 marin street, which was the only location that was agreed upon by all parties. and lastly, i just want to say that it would appear that the comments for today so far have been about the fight for the soul of this city, and so thank you for hearing me. >> president hillis: thank you, next speaker please. and if there are others in the room who would like to speak, line up on the screen side of the room. >> and also persons in the overflow room, you should make your way up if you want to speak under public comment, general public comment. >> good afternoon, my name is sylvia burges and i have a floral design business in the bayview. i have been in the flower

business 35 years and dealt with people all over the world as well as in our community. we have hosted many, many events, all of these have been produced by and large with the help of the flower market. and part of makes our laborious job easier is to get in and out of a venue. the flower market has access from 280, 101, quite easily. going down to the embarcadero, quite frankly, is going to be a traffic nightmare. killroy, the developer, actually did a, some sort of a test and a traffic test to see how long things would take. and it's another half an hour's worth of time for the truckers who deliver all of the flowers to the vendors that we need to

access. we got a letter from cal flowers, one of the biggest truckers and delivery companies for flowers and we, i think, have forwarded this to you but we are going to forward again, and the letter is, i represent the california association of flower growers and shippers. cal flowers. the association's california members are comprised of flower growers, flower shippers, specialty, nonornamental growers, manufacturers of floral hard goods, packaging company, etc., etc. they have associate members in 47 states. he's -- his letter says i'm writing to update you on all of our position -- to update you all on our position in this ongoing matter. we understand that the proposed temporary relocation to piers 19 and 23 -- pardon? >> president hillis: that's your

time, thank you. you can submit that in writing also. >> we will do that. appreciate your help. >> president hillis: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is joanne abernathy, i was born and raised in the bayview district. i used to be next door to alex pitcher and introduced to espinola jackson, i used to go to the meetings with her all the time and i know some of these meetings we went into, there are some things that y'all are doing, i don't know who's doing it, did not pass when she was living and when she's gone, it passed. because nobody can show y'all that paperwork but god is good, i found some paperwork that y'all are going to want to see.

but i did not bring it today, not the right time in general comments. but there is a housing petition going around put out by a man named alex, i'm not going to embarrass myself and say his last name, but name is alex, and works for the indian basin neighborhood house. and this petition, it hurted my feelings to even know somebody is going to put a petition out without asking the community, and espinola's family, if you put the petition about southeast college, or southeast center. that, i mean, that really hurt me because we have these pictures up there, we know, i know for fact, i was if he funeral when the city got up there and said they were going to give it to them. they were going to give her the keys to the city. i still don't know if she got that.

so, it's a disgrace to hear this man named alex is putting the paper saying they want to build housing on 1550 and something else with the southeast. and then not letting the community know, not informing the family, who knows? this conversation you are having behind closed doors that we are not informed about. we need to be informed first before you make any moves on our community. >> thank you, ma'am, your time is up. >> president hillis: thank you. >> i only heard one beep, i heard three on some of them. >> president hillis: there were two. thank you. next speaker, please. you'll hear a little beep after, when 30 seconds is remaining. >> my name is mr. moore, iron workers union, a couple calls to action for you guys. first off, the planning commission should direct the planning department to move ahead with the current plans for the southeast community center at 1550 evans and stop all the

unnecessary delays. second, the planning commission should investigate the head and the collusion with building inc. and other departments for overriding public projects without community consent. and third, ethics commission should look and take appropriate action, power to the people. [please stand by]

generations that are here and believing that out of a mountain of despair, there is a stone of hope, and that hope is that you will listen to our leaders, you'll listen to our children, you will listen to the generations sitting before you. we have helped build this city. we are going to stay in this city as long as we can. we will not go away. >> president hillis: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi.

laura clark, mb action. i ran over because i heard -- you know, we all watch sf gov tv if you're totally insane, i so had some concern about the -- [ inaudible ] >> -- and i would encourage in the future all conditions have an analysis put forward by the planning commission. i think that's reasonable. i would encourage it would include things that are often not included, such as things that are having to do with ceqa. it is very difficult to measure what never comes before this board. why was the rfp for the mcdonald's site shorter than the allowable zoning? how did that decision get made and why was that decision made? i would like to see an

analysisen come pass that kind of loss because that is what our ballot initiative is really trying to capture. our ballot initiative is trying to say what are the things that are never even proposed because they know how much of a battle it's going to be before they get that subsidized affordable housing built? an analysis should also say what is the actual amount of money that it costs to organize all of the community meetings? what is the amount of money that it costs in staff time for all of that outreach, what is the amount of additional fees that incurs to subsidized affordable housing developers and wie're talking about government money that is used for affordable and then is lost in the analysis and the fees project. i would love for the analysis to include these loveable knowns where are currently unknown unknowns. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please.

>> commissioners, my name is kirk grimes. i am the president for the branch institute san francisco. i'm also a bay resident and i live in the city and county of san francisco. i think by now, you all know that the bayview has a history with the southeast facility. i also think that by now, by the show of people in this room, and what you've recently heard, that you also know that the 1550 site is a site that the san francisco publici utilities commission has led a transparent process to inform and engage the community on what the needs are. i think by now you also know that this has come to fore. it's come to our attention that build inc wants to do something different. this process was ignored. our community was not included. i think some people have

mentioned a petition, but i think what we've been hearing today, and i'm sure you would agree, that the current plan for the new center of the 1550 evans represents a collaboration of self-determination of a neighborhood that has suffered and worked to overcome impacts through the city's placement of a sewer treatment plant. have any of you ever been out there? it also represents to the city and county of san francisco, the puc's 40-year commitment of an old legal mitigation agreement. i'll be brief in saying that for my last 30 seconds, by supporting build the inc's effort the city of san francisco is prioritizing interests of a private developer over that is of a community. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you, mr. grimsman. ne -- mr. grimes. next speaker, please. >> hi.

steven boss with mission mb. got two things. one, the issues, well, around 1550, i'd like to point out that sb-827 would help mitigate these kinds of issues. it would allow new construction to happen in wealthy exclusionary areas that have traditionally not allowed apartment buildings to be built, and it would be very good for social justice to allow, or rather, i'll even say force the rich neighborhoods to build more, to absorb that gentrification and displacement pressure. second comment is about 1266 hampshire street. i live very close to this. it is supposedly the oldest residential building in san francisco. built in 1850 something, and

it's historic, and until recently, there was low income latino family living in that building. they were evicted with the ellis act. specifically, this family was four generations of latino family, an octogenarian, her son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, and their kids, and this were evicted and converted to a t.i.c. if this was a condo, this wouldn't have happened and they would be safe in their homes. but because t.i.c. loophole, they were able to be ellis evicted. that's when the realtor told me when i went to go look at the building, so i urge you to study that t.i. krichltc.'s do this loophole because this was what happened at 1261 and 1266

hampshire. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm lottie mills. there is no housing issue because housing was never part of the community request or mitigation. this notion that you know what's best for us, with out community input is totally unacceptable. let's be clear: the land is not zoned for housing, it's in the middle of an industrial area. keeping this land for 100% public use would meet the afore

mentioned mitigation and keep space open to all southeast residents. taking this land for affordable housing means that only 40% of the project would actually go to the bayview residents. think about that, please. have a great day. >> president hillis: thank you, miss titus. next speaker, please. >> hello, commissioners. my name is ashley rhodes. i'm here with some of our brothers from the community. we are the aboriginal black men united, abu. we're a community action group in the bayview-hunters point community. our founder is mr. james richards. we are here to speak on the 1550 project. it is to our understanding that this is a project that's laid out for the community. the two plus two plus two is something that we wanted, what we need in our community. it comes to be that the young

people in our community that we claim have forgotten, those that are not able to participate in the regular system, this is for them. this is for our community, and for build group to come in, knowing that they already have the shoreline, they're building plenty of housing down there on the shoreline. we've been to the meetings. we know about it, and we're saying we're just not going to sit by and let build group come in and take what they need out of our community. our young people need an opportunity to be educated so they can be successful in the world, and this is a great opportunity right here that the san francisco public utilities commission has made possible. so we want to see that happen, and we -- we -- we say okay, build inc, it's okay to build on the shoreline, but don't come up into the community and take what we have. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. [applause]. >> president hillis: thank

you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. >> president hillis: good afternoon. >> my name is dr. detriece rogers, and i am the first grandchild of doctor espanola jackson. reared in san francisco, my goal, when i graduated from high school was to go to law school. i wanted to be a politician like my grandmother and be a voice for the voiceless. however, i became an educator, and so i'm fighting for education. i am in the process of becoming an administrator. i've been a teacher for 14 years, and 1550 is a great foundation to continue the legacy of my grandmother, in terms of continuing education for the voiceless, continuing education for those who are at risk. we are ask that you do not

allow any housing development to take place. we ask that you continue to allow education programs to continue in the san francisco bayview community area. thank you so much. >> president hillis: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i'm pastor john versas, and i stand in for pastor bill. why are you changing your minds? this has been already promised to us, and i don't understand, that anybody could change. we want to educate our people. we've been moved out of fillmore and all of them places, and who can pay 50,000

for an affordable how's? nobody can pay that, so what you all are trying to do is move us out of the city. we want to say in this city and it be affordable to stay here, not to move us out of the city. them people's trying to do -- you want us to move where the people altogether is having trouble and no jobs. that's what you want to do, but we're going to fight it, and fight it all the way. if approximate we have to have people coming out and stopping this job, we're going to do that because you want -- not personally -- could kill us. you put us where we live, and we live in a slaughter house. but you don't want to live there, but now, the housing is

beautiful up there, and silicon valley, want to move down there? and we're not going to stand for it, and we going to fight you all as hard as we can. [applause]. >> president hillis: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is tina marerro. i'm a resident in the community, and i'm speaking about build inc claims that they want to build affordable housing, but affordable housing to who, and who are able to afford them? at the end of the day, nobody cares about the bayview or our fair, our fair housing. it doesn't make any sense to us or our community. just -- thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. how are all of you?

my -- i'm dr. veronica honeycutt. i'm the chair of the citizens advisory committee for the shipyard, and i'm here because this is a very important matter that needs to be resolved. now let's just break it down. the community operated in good faith by attending all the stipulated meetings, and that took quite a bit of time, okay? number two, any good new concept should have been introduced to the community and discussed within that context so that some decisions could have been made. and you know, i'm reminded of something that my grandmother used to say to me, what you do in the dark comes out in the light. okay. so when people do these little side meetings, and use their privilege and their connections to be able to fashion some new deals that exclude the community, well, then you understand why the community is not happy. that's when you have people

that build these rooms or -- and go down stairs to the room down stairs, it's for an opportunity to speak. so i'm saying this to you because it's really kind of a nonsense situation -- it's a common-sense situation. the community has done what they're supposed to do. they want a community center. now if they can have the jewish community center over there on california, and if we can have some of these groups come to you, and when they present their parks plans and all of these little plans, no one says to them, you have to build affordable housing on these plans, because in those upscale communities, they are not going to allow you to do that, okay? let's get real about this. all we're asking for is a comprehensive community center that would meet the needs of everyone in that community. that's all we want. thank you very much. [applause]. >> president hillis: thank you, dr. honeycutt.

next speaker, please. >> sue hester. i would like to thank espanola's family for speaking out today. the planning commission needs to hear from communities that are being run out of the city and the flower mart vendors need to be heard, as well. i want to talk to you about the mission. on -- 11:00 on monday, on mission local, the issue exploded about 1266 hampshire, and i couldn't hear what you were discussing prior to me coming in because i was out in the hallway. but this is the oldest house in san francisco, and displacement of families that are non-english families or latino families that have lived there for 30 years. that is what is happening week by week on the mission.

that is why you have arrested people from the mission. i along with a lot of people from the mission participate in the eastern neighborhood's planning process. no one was talking about this level of massive displacement happening as part of the eastern neighborhood's plan. the planning department changes the industrial areas of the mission, and the process we have right now has broken-down. the planning department needs to have dbi move all buildings that are older than the earthquake to the planning department for approval. i found out when i went onto the pim that no planning analysis had ever been done of any permit for this project on hampshi red e stre

hamp hampshire street. there were a whole lot of complaints, but there were no planning. planning told dbi to pay, no project in the mission before the earthquake gets -- must get routed to the planning commission. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you, miss hester. next speaker, please. >> hi. are you -- my name is janet, and are we ready to talk about 43 emerson street? >> president hillis: no, we're on general public comment, so your item will be coming up. okay. >> president hillis: is there anybody else who would like to speak on general public comment to items that are not on the agenda? seeing none, we'll close general public comment. commissioner johnson? >> commissioner johnson: first, i want to thank so many members of the bayview-hunters point community for coming out to express your outrage about how this process has been handled at 1515 evans.

i want to actually share that outrage and disappointment. despite a long history of planning related discrimination and displacement, the african american community and that community has continued to come to the table in good faith to have a hand in the destiny of their community, and we failed them today. i think the civic process shouldn't work for just some, it has to work for all. and especially knowing this history and honoring the community that again and again has come to the table in good faith, we can and we must do better, and so i'd love to see a clear plan in place for how we're going to address the concerns that were brought up by the community and also just frankly repair our relationship with the community members that came out today. >> president hillis: thanks, commissioner johnson. commissioner richards? >> vice president richards: so i'm not sure where 1515 is in the process. i haven't actually taken a look, but if it's not -- with this kind of an outpouring,

maybe we should have some kind of a brief informational on it so we can wrap our minds around it. i did read about it in the newspaper, but i don't have a lot of the deep history a lot of the neighborhood has. it was just an article. i throw that out there if some of the other commissioners are interested in it. i know i certainly am. regarding the flower mart, we have new things hurled against the developer and there's vendors now involved in not wanting to service the stands. every week, it's another issue. i really, really think before we vote on central soma, having an informational on the flower mart, where it's been, what it was supposed to do, where it goes, is a good idea because it is a cultural asset to the city. it's kind of a one of a kind and before i vote on central soma, i want to make sure that i understand what really is

going to with the flowon with what actually is happening, and what would be happening. i'm happy to meet with kilroy, and i'm happy to meeting with anyone from the flower mart if they're open to meeting with me. i do agree with miss clark. we're trying to get efficiency cost savings wrung out of the system. that was one of the mayor's directives, former mayor lee before he passed away, so any data the department can get on data savings, cost savings as a part of the initiative would be welcome. i think transparency is the key so we can understand what the impact is. >> president hillis: thank you. did you want to address that? >> yeah. regarding 1550 evans since i was included in a couple of the e-mails, i think it's

appropriate to say we received communications about the site a couple of months ago. the property is currently zoned pdr and will require a zoning for the community center to do some of the work that they want to do on that site, so you will see a recommendation to the board regarding zoning. it is certainly our intention to fast track that process and bring that to you as soon as possible. with respect to the housing question, the issue that was raised by a couple of colleagues is simply the question of whether part of that site could be used for affordable housing, and i recognize there was a long-standing process that the community worked out to -- to develop the community center and educational building on that site. the site, as i believe, about five acres, and we were asking whether some of that site could be used for housing, i understand how strongly the community feels about it. we were not involved in that process that led to the current plan on that site, and so i

wasn't aware of the long-standing process that led us to the place that we are today. but nonetheless, we will bring you -- the community center can proceed regardless of whether there's housing there or not, we will proceed with that zoning and get that to you as soon as we can over the next few months. >> president hillis: okay. when do you anticipate that -- that happening? it's just a zoning change for us to do -- to be able to implement the -- >> yeah. the zoning change, because it's currently a pdr-2 zoning, it doesn't allow them to do what they want on the site today. i anticipate it could be here in about three to four months. >> president hillis: all right. so we look forward to that, so we can help implement the community's vision for that site, so thank you all who came out to testify today, and we can move to the first item on the calendar. >> clerk: very good, that'll place us on item 8, case number

2018-00319, pca extending the lower polk use district for an additional five years. >> the item before you would amend the planning code to extend the lower polk street alcohol restricted use district until june 1st, 2023 or five years, and to expand the circumstances in that district when a temporary closer of a liquor establishment is not considered abandoned. a representative from supervisor peskin's office is here to present on the item. i'll continue my presentation after his remarks. >> thank you, commissioners, commission president hillis for considering this item before you. i think aaron basically described the whole thing. it's pretty simple, straightforward ordinance today. we are extending the sunset on the lower polk alcohol district by five years. it currently expires on may 30th. this would extend it to 2023.

we are doing this at the explicit request of the lower polk neighborhood and the community who have done a great job to steward this neighborhood who have worked hard to bring in the various proprietors of business in the lower polk area to bridge those communications between the business owners and residents who are very frequently living on top of bars, who a couple of years ago were proliverated and causing a lot of problems, and now, it's a fun part of town that's undergoing a lot of change, a lot of re revitalization. the only other changes to the r.u.d. that we're making today is to accommodate what's going on at 1331 polk. the project owner there is moving on with a project