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>> shop & dine in the 49

promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 san francisco owes must of the charm to the unique characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the economic engine of the city. >> if we could a afford the lot by these we'll not to have the kind of store in the future the kids will eat from some restaurants chinatown has phobia one of the best the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of san francisco.

>> chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and that's the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhood that hadn't changed a whole lot and san francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north beach community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and

shop here so we can keep this going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. >> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and

didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san >> good morning everyone and thank you for joining us. my name is beth stokes and i

want to welcome you here. the supportive housing home to 134 single adults. i'm the executive director of the pittsburgh -- episcopal nudity services of san francisco. one of the leading providers of supportive housing. we are committed to finding solutions to end homelessness by helping individuals and families with the tools necessary to exit homelessness. including pathways to housing, workforce development, and permanent supportive housing. of the formerly homeless residents who access our services, 98 % remain permanently housed. ninety-eight %. so we are very proud of that. here we are you currently are, we have the highest risk and most vulnerable san franciscans. this five-story property was completed in 2,009 with development funds from the city and county of san francisco. it is one of the best examples

of solutions to ending homelessness in our community. we are proud to partner with the city of san francisco to end homelessness and i'm very, very pleased this morning to introduce you to the honourable mayor, mark farrell. thank you. [applause] >> mayor farrell: thank you best. i think the house for hosting us this morning here in san francisco. you know, we do not have to remind anyone why we are here this morning. why we are here today for this announcement. homelessness is a crisis in the city of san francisco. our city government needs to step up. our city, our region, our state, our country is dealing with this tragedy every single day on the streets. the roots of the epidemic are complex. there is no single solution to solve the issue. we need to pursue a wide variety of initiatives. we need to fund programs that have been proven to work. we need to be flexible to fund

programs that will work. we need to measure ourselves by the success of the individuals living on our streets today. and when they get off a street and get into shelters and onto their own 2 feet and onto better lives. today, i am announcing approximately $30,000 in funding to address the homeless crisis in san francisco. first of all, i'm doubling down on the homeward bound -- bound program. this initiative helps struggling individuals with family members and loved ones. i know elements of this program may seem controversial, but we have to acknowledge the fact that it is here in san francisco where we have had a very effective program. as mayor of the city i'm connected to programs that are working and making a difference in their lives with getting people off the streets of san francisco.

last year, 900 individuals used project homeward bound and of that total, lesson from four % turn to the city of san francisco. this program works and is having a dramatic effect and we are doubling the funding for this program. of those individuals that have been helped by project homeward bound, a man is here today from his home in reno. at one point he was unsheltered and struggling with mental health here on the streets of san francisco. after he spent time at the general hospital, we were able to connect contacts, and connect them back home with his family. he arrived last month and sergio and the rest of his family are thrilled to have him back and he is making progress daily. that is what compassion looks like to me. without programs that we are

funding to make a difference in individual lives. for are resilient individuals who have overcome great hardship, this budget package will fund projects to help to make sure they will never be on the streets of san francisco. we are adding $2 million to fund 150 new supportive housing units across the city of san francisco. and $2 million for the opening and operations of a building, a site with 50 supportive housing units in san francisco. with those new units brought online, san francisco will boast more than 7,000 permanent supportive housing units and here just right here in our city. the most per capita of the city in our entire country. along with adding new units, i will be investing one and a half million dollars to provide additional services to these units. it will provide assistance for our communities and provide the resources necessary to help individuals who are coming off the streets.

most importantly, and most substantially connect this budget package will include $50 million for new navigation centres. helping support our new facilities here. we will provide a million dollars for programs for transitional eyes use. a population that has been dramatically affected with homelessness in san francisco. we are specifically wanting to address this. we are providing new access points to provide resources, supports and services for families and residents juggling with homelessness on the streets. this is a comprehensive package. this is about making sure we create new exits off the streets through temporary shelters and permanent supportive housing. it's also making sure we provide the resources necessary to stem the tide of new people becoming homeless in san francisco. we will not solve homelessness overnight in our city. but in san francisco we are

investing for the future click as mayor, it has been one of my biggest priority since week one in office and i am incredibly proud of the policies that we have moved forward with in the city. we are going to continue to put a foot on the gas pedal until my last day in office. this funding package will ensure the city of san francisco, for years to come will have the resources necessary to continue to address the issue on the streets of san francisco. we are not going to do this alone. takes the help of community leaders, of organizations and individuals willing to come off the street, but we are making progress and we are making life better for those that are on our streets and we are making life better for san francisco residents. with that i want to thank you all for being here today i don't want to bring up to the podium the person who is really leading the charge here and has been doing great work for our city of san francisco and will be doing so for years to come. our director for homelessness and supportive housing. [applause]

>> thank you mr mayor. i'm here with the department of homelessness and supportive housing. first i want to thank san francisco community services for hosting this event and for all the amazing work that they do. we are very lucky to have an organization like ecs and san francisco and we are also very lucky to have them at the helm of the ecs. they are doing an amazing job leading this organization as the backbone provider and homelessness response system. i also want to thank our staff who are here with a few folks are here from the homeward bound program to, every day, are out hoping to reunite family and people who are homeless with family and friends who are able to take them back into their lives. the chair of the local homeless correlating board, and then other hs h. staff. thank you for being here and think all of you for joining us but mostly i want to thank mayor farrell for this budget proposal

that he is putting forward. we are very excited about the fact that this budget represents and really reflects the work that we laid out in our strategic plan when our department was created by mayor lee. we spent a year figuring out what can we do to best address homelessness and san francisco? we laid out a clear plan with specific goals. this budget practice really reflects what we see as the priorities that were developed not only by staff members and also in consultation with our nonprofit providers and advocates and people expressing homelessness themselves. we are very grateful to see this expansion that focuses on three important areas that will help us, number 1 reduce unsheltered homelessness and opening up more navigation centres. to end homelessness by providing rent subsidies and supportive housing sights.

we really appreciate mayor if there -- farrell. supporting 50 people every week exit homelessness through a variety of programs. but every week hundreds of people replace those folks get off the streets. we need to figure out how can we use programs like homeward bound, eviction prevention, flexible housing grants for people so we can help folks get back to the last safe place where they were staying and reduce the number of newly homeless people in the city. this does all o is all of thosed we are very excited. i'm looking forward to being able to dig in and start doing this work once the budget is approved by the board of supervisors and signed off by the mayor. thank you very much. is now my pleasure, we have two hs h. clients in the house with us as well. one in the house and one on the tv screen. first i would like to introduce mr williams, first of all, and i want to thank him for our service to the country.

he served in the navy for eight years. helping defend our country and ended up homelessness -- homeless but we are very pleased it is now he is living in the operant residence which is by this property which is housing that we put together for people who are veterans and to have also served the country and military and are experiencing homelessness and needed a hand up to get off the streets. mr williams moved in recently and joined me i join me in welco the podium. [applause] >> hello. i am a san francisco native. i am a u.s. navy vet and i live in the bay area predominantly most of my life. i stay at supportive housing for the past few months and i am just happy, you know, to have a

place to stay. i am benefiting from trying to get being put in a situation where i can get my life back together. it's looking good. i wish it was more programs like this to help people, you know, change their lives. thank you. >> thank you mr williams and fortunately, with this budget we will have more housing like the auburn, it is very close to the auburn and what it we are excited it will be opening up very shortly. also we talked about the homeward bound program and the mayor made reference to mr bravo who is over there on the tv screen. he is one of the many, many individuals whose families participate in the homeward bound program over 850 people a year and all of those

experiences are unique and i will tell you that that although this program sometimes may appear controversial to some, we get so many lanter is on a regular basis of people thanking us for reuniting them with their family members and people who are homeless themselves whose lives have really turned around by getting reconnected to family and friends. we're very proud of the work of this program and very excited mr bravo was here and it's going to be able to share some of his thoughts. mr bravo was there, and was able to share some thoughts. we will try to reconnect quickly. but while we are doing that, i want to share some of the homeward bound stories in addition to mr bravo's. one gentleman that we have been made aware of was homeless in san francisco and reunited with his family in north carolina and is getting his master's degree at yale. we have another individual just

recently, maybe four or five months ago, he was a senior citizen who ended off -- ended on the streets and was not really sure where she was exactly. and we were able to bring these guys over here and find her family member and return her to her family. escorted her back to where she was and she is suffering from dementia and we were able to reconnect her with her family. we also have so many stories of people going back to tennessee in chicagand chicago and peoplee bay area and folks were able to reconnect with their people. i think it is an incredibly important part of it recovering from homelessness. like a not everybody has family or friends they can return to that when they can, one of the processes and healing and recovery from the trauma of being homeless is having people around you who care about you. i think there's no better medicine than that. we are really proud of the homeward bound program.

i think we are going to end up having to conclude. let's get a last-minute technical failure. the mayor spoke briefly about mr bravo's story but his son was on the streets of san francisco suffering from severe mental health issues, we were able to make a connection with him and get him reunited with his father in reno and is now receiving intensive mental health support in order to help the sun get back on his feet again and be the best person that he can possibly be and this would not have happened without the homeward bound program. i think at this point we will go ahead and conclude the program. thank you very much for being here today. [applause] [♪]

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[gavel] >> calling this hearing tord oer. good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco historic preservation commission regular meeting for wednesday,

may 16, 2018. and this does not tolerate any disruptions of any kind. and when speaking before the commission if you care to, do state your name for the record. we will take roll at this time. >> president wolfram. commission commissioner. and commissioners, first on the agenda is general public comment. at this time, members of the public may address the items on interest to the public within the subject matter and jurisdiction of the commission and with respect to the agenda item, your comments will be addressed when we reach that item on the agenda. each member may wish to address the commission for 3 minutes. does any member wish to speak on n non-agenda item? seeing none, we will close

public comment. >> director's announcements is item one. >> the director will be joining us shortly, but i am happy to forward any questions you may have to him for answer at a future date. >> an item two, review plast events of the planning report, staft report, and announcements. >> a few items to share. at last week's planning commission hearing, the planning session unanimously support ed the certification of the central draft eir as well as the amendment to adopt the central area plan. and just as a matter of housekeeping, i wanted to remind you that during the hearing, they will be providing review and comment on the pending district nominations that the commission made as part of the

central soma plan perservation policies. we will keep you updated on that hearing and forward you a copy of their commentsreservation policies. we will keep you updated on that hearing and forward you a copy of their comments after that hearing. and the arts commission has told us they will be holding a hearing in early july to officially accept the cayman heights sculpture into the collection, and once that action is completed, the commission will work with department of public works to create an m.o.u. between the agencies outlining the responsibilities. as soon as we have that completed in early july, is likely when the safety wall landmark nomination will go to the full board for consideration. and finally, wanted to make you aware of the cultural district legislation that has been introduced by supervisor ronen. originally introduced in october

of last year, and as you know has gone through several amendments. on wednesday the rules committee heard the proposed ordinance, and at that hearing supervisor ronen introduced a large set of amendments to the ordinance. so in particular to revising the ordinance to allow the sponsor of an ordinance to propose the culture district to provide three departments to provide input. and mohcd is intended to be the city department that coordinates all the various city agencies and commissions with input and participation on the formation and mon the organize of the culture -- and the monitoring of the culture districts. there were two other significant changes stemming from the amendments. one is to require that cultural district boundaries be contiguous and not overlap with other cultural districts. second, a repeated emphasis that

cultural districts are intended to assist communities at risk of displacement, intelligent gentrifycation including ethnic and minorities. and there was a good deal of public testimony, over an hour of testimony, where speakers praised the ordinance as a means to keep communities in the city. and similar commendation was given by members of the rules committee during its deliberation. however, there were questions from the rules committee center and the mechanics of the ordinance including staffing levelling for the city family as well as timing on reporting and financing of the districts. and many sought clarification about the intent from the director of community development at mohcd in addition to supervisor ronen. supervisor safai did ask the presiding city attorney whether the ordinance and amendments needed a continuance or passed out of committee at the hearing. the city attorney at that time

responded that the scope of the amendments could be passed out of the committee at the hearing. the future cultural districts rising from the ordinance would need review by city commissions including historic preservation commission in accordance with the city charter. so at this point it doesn't appear that the board is prepared to forward the ordinance, the draft ordinance, to the body for review and comment, but we're happy to keep you updated on the ordinance as it moves through the process. so that concludes my comments, and happy to answer any questions. >> i am wondering since the future cultural districts would be coming to the legislation, does it affect us whether we could write a letter requesting the board for the ordinance for review and comment and perhaps postpone any vote on that? is that something that would be an appropriate thing we could do? >> yes, we would be happy to provide a letter for submittal. >> colleagues, do you concur with that? >> i thought we were supposed to

have an informational meeting on this. >> that was our original intent. but we became aware of the revised amended ordinance just last week, and then it was introduced very quickly at the board, and there wasn't an opportunity for us to prepare anything for this hearing. >> an i think maybe we should move forward with asking and writing a letter to request that we review and comment and since this does affect our work. hopefully they will take that request seriously. >> sure, happy to do that. >> thank you. commissioner, any other questions for staff? we can move on? >> very good, commissioners. we will place this under commissioner matter, number three, president's report and announcements. >> an i have no report or announcement. actually, i do have one that is the california preservation foundation is having the annual conference at the end of the week in palo alto. so i encourage members of this commission and members of the public to attend. and san francisco heritage is having their annual soiree on saturday night at pier 70, so

that is awesome. encourage people to attend. >> the same weekend. preservation weekend. yes, i think. i do have another announcement, which is for the hearing of june 6, i believe, is the next hearing date. and we are going to replace two members on an interim basis on the architectural review committee. commissioners johnck will be replaced by black due to quorum issues. do you accept that? >> yes. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> very good. commission president, moving on item 4, consideration of adoption. draft minutes for the arc february 21,, march 21 hearings as well as the regular hearing from may 2, 2018. i have no speaker cards. >> commissioner, any comment on

the draft minutes? >> does any member of the public wish to comment on the draft minutes of february 21arc, march 21arc, or may 2hpc? seeing and hearing none, we will close public comment. do i have a motion to adopt the amendments? >> yes, i so move. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners, on that motion to adopt the minutes for february 21 and march 21arc and the may 2 regular hearing of on that motion, commissioner black. >> yes. >> a commissioner johns. >> commissioner johnck. awe question question. >> commissioner matsuda. >> yes. >> commissioner hyland. >> commissioner wolfram. that passes unanimously 6-0. and that places us on item five, commission comments and questions. >> seeing no comments or questions, we can move on. >> a very good. we will take up the matter of continuance and we will take up

item nine as there is a request from the public for under the regular calendar. there is no consent calendar. so we will move to the regular calendar, and i understand the chair will ache take item nine out of order. >> we were going to make sure we have representatives from rec and park here. do we have those? >> we are going to take item nine with the request for continuance for this item. i think what we will do is speak to the continuance and if rec and park can come forward and respond to that request for continuance. >> we should probably have the requester speak first. >> actually -- >> okay. >> a member of the public has requested item nine be continued. if you could please come forward and explain your request. you will have three minutes.

>> good afternoon. i haven't been to city hall for several years. i have forgotten the procedures. i am joan wood. i have lived in telegraph hill in north beach on telegraph hill for 52 consecutive years in the same apartment. and i am a member of planning and zoning committee of telegraph hill dweller, although i am not here to speak on behalf of them. and also a member of friends of washington square. and to my shock, i would say about three weeks ago a big sign appeared in the park. it was taken down immediately. it called for a complete renovation of washington square

park, and some of that written in large crayon, park will be closed for one year. so i phoned the number which is listed and your secretary or something like that, and they confirmed that it will be closed for approximately one year. having lived there 52 years and previously been aware of the affairs of north beach and telegraph hill, i was stunned that i never heard about the park being closed for a year. i did hear that the irrigation system after four years of trying to get it fixed will be fixed. i know the playground in the square has been started as a separate project, but i am here to ask if you can postpone your approval because there is no other place to publicly speak about it except here. normally there are public meetings about huge project like that. closing washington square park

for one year is something that must be put before the public. there are many of us that live there and we're not -- anyway, this is a last resort and i have been attending every single meeting and planning of the telegraph hill dwellers and it has never come before them. i put in a call to the head of the committee and asked if there was something i should know about. she didn't call back. i hope that you can understand that part of the plan you are about to recommend, i assume, involves a lot of work involving cement, and when i asked the man on the phone from your commission, excuse me, he said this is because the grade is damaging to wheel chairs and makes it difficult for wheelchairs. i walk on that park every single day of my life if i'm not in a hospital. and there is a tiniest grade.

i can feel it because i'm 90 years old and i have arthritis, but wheelchairs don't have any problem. to -- that is the extended part of the work, and i think the irrigation system would be much shorter of a time to fix. could you please reconsider this plan and the public can have a say in it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you for letting me speak, and thank you to mr. connor from the rec and park department for allowing us to be here early and support the commission. and i want to follow up in a very specific thing that joan just told all of us. she is a person who has lived here for a long time and sometimes uses a wheelchair and knows of people who use wheelchairs. i don't and maybe other people who don't. and the whole neighborhood of a give and take of the outreach to the neighborhood is to include information and important engineering information that affect the design of the park.

for instance, by not going formally, and i know some people were contacted -- the president of the telegraph hill builders say i know about it, but we have 465 members and none of them know about it, and all of them like joan wood and like myself should have an opportunity to share with you and with the park service, first, what and how we use the park and how the use of the park might effect the engineering and design elements that are here for consideration today. for this reason alone i think it's a practical matter to allow us at least one month to so that the rec and park department can come to the board of telegraph hill dwellers and perhaps people at the church as well as where i work and have worked for over 18 years as a volunteer for the homeless. we all know there is a homeless issue in san francisco, so i would argue that some of the design elements are going to cause problems for policing and keeping the park safe. some of the various design

elements i am here to talk about. and for that reason, again, we are simply asking for a delay in the proceedings so we can all have input on the design elements. and board peace citizens is a drop-in center that i work with as well as st. vincent depaul. we all work with the neighborhood, and we have been told by mr. conover that the homeless will be kind of solved by northbeat citizen, but they can't be. it is not an easy problem to fix. it is not that we're against the project. we for the most part believe it should eventually go forward, but in addition to appearing before telegraph hill dwellers, we are hoping the city will come up with a one or two-page plan perhaps with the police and telegraph hill dwellers and st. vincent depaul and north beach citizen that this is how we see 20 people living in the park and this where is they are going. they are not all going into shelters. they are not easy to be moved around that way.

we just had a crime committed in the nearly adjacent park. perhaps you read about it in the paper. a woman sadly stabbed somebody else in the park, joe dimaggio playground. if we had the 20 people in washington square suddenly moved because of the park and closed to joe dimaggio playground, we need as a city buy-in from the community so we all agree this is going to happen and share the responsibility of taking care of those homeless people. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> excuse me. point of order. did the gentleman announce who he was? >> he is not required to. >> no. >> okay. >> my make the is mark bruno. >> mark bruno. >> >> i am the project manager for

the rec and park department managing the washington square and water conservation projects. we are really pleased to be working on the washington square water conservation project. in 2012 rec and park partnered with sfpu. , to develop the parks, water and conservation plan for 12 parks of the greatest water savings needs. washington square is the highest user of irrigation water oen a per square foot basis of any park in the city in the system. the 1.5 acre irrigated area uses approximately 3.3 million gallons of water a year. and this project seeks to reduce that water use to approximately 1 million gallons a year. we are looking to cut the water use by 2/3 in the park. additionally, the site's main lawn really suffers from oversaturated soil conditions, making large sections of the park difficult to use for the community. and the project seeks to also replace the existing subdrainage system under the main lawn to

insure that the full lawn is usable throughout the year. there have been several requests by the community to include new pathways in the project scope. the project was initially envisioned just as irrigation and drainage project. in the outreach we received letters and communication requesting the pathways. we have included the pathways in the application, although we do not have funding for the pathways yet. and this is because we are working with elected officials to try to identify the funding for the pathways and really hope to deliver it to the community. so we're trying to just do that in an alternate scope that we hope we can include. the main reason for the switch from the exist iing asphalt to e stained concrete we are proposing is for a.d.a. reasons. the current slopes on the pathways are probably at least 1/3 of the pathway has a cross slope that exceeds a.d.a. levels

and to insure that we have the a.d.a. accessibility guidelines met. so we hope to match the existing asphalt. >> excuse my interruption, but at this moment we are not talking to the project, but to the matter of continue. >> okay. and so let me skip to that. to date we have engaged with community members and north beach and major concerns about the closure have been homelessness and the duration of the closure, and alternate park facilities. we have a lot of community engagement to continue to do. and we really see this approval as insuring that the designer proposing is in keeping with landmark status of the park.