them that i like. i'll comment on brooks hall. i think civic center will be a more passive rec rakes, but it'll be good to have active recreation. i think it'll be good to have. i think a recreational use would resonate this, but like commissioner moore, i would like to see us advocating, but you can't necessarily do that unless you have something that looks great that we can advocate for so thank you very much for this. commissioner koppel? >> commissioner koppel: yeah. wanted to echo the other commissioners. i do want to emphasize the importance of that civic spine. i know that the market and vanness muni stop is closer to

city hall, but i think we should all want to get off at the civic center stop and make that breath taking walk towards city hall and we've got the space and the ability to do that, so i think we should take advantage of that. just off the top of my head, i was looking at the plaza promenade options just because it's less traffic and more walkable open space which i think is the objective here. and then, for the civic center plaza, i like the public platform. and then, for the fulton street, i like the sanctuary, and then, the plaza, i like the platform again. but whatever might have the most potential for many more uses, whether it's a comedy show or a pmx skate competition

or maybe a music concert. also, this is the ending for a lot of our parades. whatever gives us the best ability to showcase ourselves, our historic very important buildings would be, i think, in all of our best interests. >> president hillis: thanks. commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: it's interesting. this union square, etcetera, it seems like every generation, something new emerges in terms of how we relate to the public spaces and, you know in the 60's, we put garages underneath and dug it all up, and the 90's, and the same in union square. one of the questions i have -- and this is good. it's going to take us into the future. i attend workshops, and we have stickers and all kinds of stuff. in the in person intercept surveys, was the question ever asked of how people feel when they're in these spaces, and what did they say?

i know how i feel when i walk-through civic center? >> i asked th-- we asked that. >> just in a general sense. >> yeah, not very happy about the spaces. >> yeah, it's big, cold, and uninviting. feels unsafe. >> it's what you would expect, given our own experiences. >> commissioner richards: it's so big you need to kind of connect it so that when people are walking from one end to the other, you need to connect it. it's such a big space, maintenance is key that's going to keep people coming back. >> definitely. and that's a huge part of the consideration that we're working with, to try to develop a plan that can evolve over time as we add more features to the spaces.

>> president hillis: director rahaim? >> excuse me. first wanted to thank nick. he's bb leading all the efforts here, so i really want to thank nirk and the consultant team that are here. i also want to reiterate something that what mr. haas. this will not come cheap. this will be expensive, and there's a lot of concerns where we're going to come up with millions of dollars to do this. i do want to reiterate what he said. we actually have to have a plan in place in order to do that. we have found this repeated loo he -- repeatedly in our work, that we have to have a plan in place before anyone would be remotely interested in funding it. so i do -- i mean, it's critically important that we have a plan and that that plan include kind of maintenance and stewardship and activation over time. and one of the challenges among the many that nick mentioned

was the fact that these -- the buildings around the -- most of the open spaces do not have active uses, evenings and weekend. it's not retail. it's basically a 9:00 to 5:00 environment. so one of the overlays of the plan is how to create longer term activation within the spaces. and i would also just remind us that not only is hayes valley on the edge of this, but we have something on the order of 8 or 9,000 units of housing coming in the hub, of which this will be their primary neighborhood open space as well as the tenderloin which is -- this will be the biggest open space -- this is the biggest open space for the tenderloin today, so those three neighborhoods really come together around this space, so this needs to function for all of those purposes. it took us a long time to get here, to get the funding to get this going, but i'm really

excited that we're here and at this place in the process. >> president hillis: commissioner melgar. >> vice president melgar: so thank you. i think every one of the options is beautiful, and thoughtful and exciting, so i'm looking forward to seeing how this develops. my question was how the plan that you are developing interacts with the other plans that directly affect it? so i'm thinking specifically of the b.a.r.t. station at civic center. and then, you know, the development of, like, the arts hub on the other side of vanness. so there -- you know, when they closed off that entrance to the b.a.r.t. station, you know, there was all of this talk about well, patrons can't come, but we had to close it off because patrons don't feel safe in the first place, going to the symphony, the opera. so we are investing a lot. the conservatory of music is

building their new space. the school of the arts. there's a lot going on on that other side that directly relates to this space. so can you talk about that. >> i'd be happy to answer that question. b.a.r.t.'s on a different timeline than this plan is. they're moving a lot more quickly with adding canopies than civic center station. we are coordinating with them and we're trying to have an informed process staying abreast of what they're doing and making sure this plan is reacting to it and offering input when appropriate. one example is they are proposing for their environmental for the cap owe pea structures, putting a canopy on u.n. entrances main entrance, and if we are able to complete this plan and get funding, they'd swap that out and instead we'd work to build a building that is more like a building instead of a canopy.

with stichk things lithings li conservatory, i'm keeping abreast of those private development projects and making sure they're developing -- >> vice president melgar: yeah. so my question is not about the individual projects. there is a plan to did he vel vel op that area into an arts hub, and -- develop that area into an arts hub, so there is a life, you know of -- and traffic that goes through. so i guess my question was how are we thinking about that interaction, not specifically by project? >> sure. the main focus for that particular topic has been on grove street, and we've heard very strongly from the arts -- the leadership of the arts institutions how important groev street grove street is for them, so that's why one of the main focus area for the planned

street design work is the two options for grove street. today i just showed the block in front of civic center plaza but the plan it for the entire corridor and how we might create a flexible space between the opera and the symphony and might be used so thags ae definitely something that's one of the top priorities on the street design side from the project's perspective. >> vice president melgar: thank you commissioner johnson? >> commissioner johnson: i think when i go to the people's farmer's market, and i see the vibrancy and diversity of the city there, i really think that you've carried that spirit into the design. i also think that we as a community desperately need spaces where our communities can come together, interact with each other and have conversations with each other. i think this could be an important and exciting space to really bring the services and

conversations that happen on public buildings and in city hall outside, and so i'm interested in just as the project develops seeing how we can kind of play with bringing city hall into the community into this new civic center. that's it. >> president hillis: commissioner moore? >> i just want to find a way to make the backside of the symphony hall, the backside of the war memorial, not just backs of buildings, but they are basically the bridge to hayes valley because the restaurant entertainment world of hayes valley which comes to the edge has been there for decades is as important to connect in order to really make this a whole. it's not just about creating a stage set with historic buildings bordering the space, but it's really the engaging of buildings from all sides to make it a district which is comfortable, safe, and attractive from all directions no matter on which street you

walk. i just want to make that pitch. >> president hillis: all right. thank you very much for this. it's exciting, and commissioner moore was probably kpoj rating about having this every month, but i -- exaggerating about having this every month, but i want to see this be strategic and be advocates. as you look for funding, we want to be there with you and see it through the process. >> clerk: commissioner, items 13 a and b. [agenda item read] >> clerk: please note that on april 19, 2018 after hearing and closing public comment, you continued this matter to this date by a vote of 7-0. so there will be a reduced

presentation from the sponsor and a limited time -- >> president hillis: three and one. >> clerk: three and one. very good. >> good evening, commissioners, kri may of planning department staff. on april 19, the planning commission heard a presentation -- [inaudible] >> after hearing and closing public comment, the commission continued the item to allow an opportunity to clarify whether the partially reconstructed building is taller than the building that was demolished, an issue that was raised by a neighbor to the north of the subject property. the project sponsor has provided a photo of the subject building prior to its demolition which shows that it was two stories in height and planning staff had provided some aerial photos taken before demolition. the commission will be continued the item to allow an opportunity to determine the rent controlled status of the subject building and to explore

the feasibility of ensuring rent controlled status for the two reconstructs units. the project sponsor has contacted the rend board, but the rent controlled status of the subject building remains inconcluesive. the planning department continues to recommend that the commission approve the project on the basis that the project would reintroduce two units long removed from the city's housing stock. the project is in compliance with all other applicable requirements of the planning code, adheres to the policies of the general plan and meets the general intent of the residential design guidelines. this concludes my presentation, and i am available for any questions. >> president hillis: all right. thank you, mr. may. project sponsor. >> good evening, commissioners. i am rodrigosanchez. as we stated last time in our april meeting, we want to thampg mr. christopher may for

the kprens -- thank mr. may for the comprehensive review of our project. we have made every effort not to intensify the nonconformity conditional building, including removing or eliminating some of the exterior elements of the building, that means providing additional space between the existing three unit building on the front and the rear cottage. we have made every attempt to reconstruct the building as the original condition that is 22 feet wide, 25 feet in direction and 27 feet on the other side, so it's a total of 1,330 square feet with 640 square feet perunit with an internal staircase that provides access to the second floor. we have pictures that clearly define the height of the building, which is 22 feet, consistent with the original

preconstruction, all the vacant building that did not have any occupants for approximately 15 years or so. i'm available for any -- any comments. again, i'm the structural engineer. the architect could not attend. >> president hillis: all right. thank you. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, we'll close public comment. commissioners? commissioner richards? >> commissioner richards: just a question. maybe mr. santos, you may or may not be able to answer this. the question about the rent control, we had asked for the owner or project sponsor to go to the rent board to let us know whether the reconstructed units are subject to rent control or not. >> we have the property owner here, so i'll let him speak to that. >> commissioner richards:

okay. great. >> thank you, mr. richards. >> good evening, commissioners. so on tuesday last, i got a call from christopher may to go to the rent board to check it out, and i did. and i asked them, could i get a documentation to show that this is a rent controlled building, and their stance is they don't do that. if i had documentation to show that it wasn't rent controlled, then it would be a different scenario. so basically, they gave me a project information that it was built in 1907, so therefore, it is rent controlled, and i don't have documentation to say that it's not rent controlled. so everyone is under the assumption that it is a rent controlled building. >> president hillis: i think the issue is, you know, you're demoing the old building, right? >> i so -- i asked about the front building. that's what i -- the back

building is a new building, so that is -- the -- on the last hearing, there was discussions whether or not the city attorney could make it rent controlled. >> president hillis: or you could make the rear building because you're demoing the rear building, which was rent controlled. >> that's correct. >> president hillis: would you agree to make that new construction subject to the rent ordinance? >> you know, it was up to the city attorney whether they can enforce rent controlled. i have no issue with rent controlled. i have other issues, i went through the whole process of impact fees, new construction fees, i went through all these processes, so i got, you know, dinged pretty good already. and now, you wanted rent control, which, you know, i'm okay with it. it's okay, but it was up to the city attorney. >> president hillis: right, right, right. city attorney, or mr. lindsey. >> thank you. david lindsey, department staff.

just regarding the rear building, it was filed -- it was considered to be a tantamount to demolition project because it was partial partially demolished and then partially reconstructed. it was filed as a perform three, as opposed to a demolition-new construction. i believe that the department of building inspection would still see it as an alteration. >> president hillis: i believe you're right. if it's not an alteration, it would be a demo -- tantamount to demolition. rimpds richards i make a motion. >> second. >> clerk: commissioners, there's been a motion that's been seconded. on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved,

commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 6-0, and places us on your final item -- oh, thank you. >> i'll be inclined to grant the variance with the standard conditions. thank you. >> clerk: commissioners, that'll place us on your final item tonight, and just for anyone who may be here for item 15, it has been continued to june 14. [agenda item read] >> good evening, commissioners. i'm mary woods, department staff. the project before you is a demolition of an existing one story commercial building and a construction of a new 11 story mixed use building 112 feet tall and approximately 60,000 gross square feet containing 55 dwelling units and seven on-site below market rate units. there will also be

approximately 1600 square feet retail commercial space on the ground floor, 21 parking spaces, including one car share spaces, and 61 bicycle spaces. the project would require conditional use authorization for a boat exception, a wind current exception, building a building over 50 feet tall, and street frontage greater than 50 feet wide. the project also requires an administrative zoning administrator modification of the rear yard requirement pursuant to planning code sections 243 and 307. since last week's commission packet, staff received one letter from the alliance for a better district six, stating that they are neutral on this project. the department's recommendation is to approve with conditions. this concludes my summary of

the project. i'm happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you, miss woods. project sponsor, welcome. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is john hymdal. i'm a project manager with the project sponsor. i'd just like to start by introducing who we are. j.s. sullivan has a long track record of creating modern mixed use urban in-fill projects in the city. as a firm that focuses solely san francisco we're passionate about helping shape its future. since fall of last year we have completed construction of two condominium projects while beginning construction on 719 larkin and 1433 bush. also, we are slated to begin construction on 244 lombard and

in the fall which was approved late last year. today we are pleased to present to you our latest project, 555 golden gate. it's a culmination of a collaborative design. mary woods and david winslow of the planning department were instrumental in guiding us through this process, and we'd also like to take a moment to thank the numerous neighborhood groups, coalitions, and concerned citizens whose passion and insights helped to shape this project as the project you see here today. 555 golden gate is located in the civic center on golden state currently between vanness and polk street. the site's central location and proximity to multiple mass transit options make it the perfect opportunity to create a dense urban in-fill building. this will provide the area with badly needed housing and commercial spaces. the proposed project is an is

11 -- 11 story mixed use building. our project will add 55 units of housing as mary mentions, seven of which will be bmr's provided on-site. 38 of the 55 unit does are family side multibedroom units. with 21 automobile spaces, we're only providing parking for 38% of the units, which is well below the 50% we are allowed. 555 golden gate's focus on larger units for family are in line with the city's focus. with the additional housing retail spaces and increased pedestrian presence, it can be a catalyst for growth in the neighborhood. and i'd like to introduce the project architect who will

discuss the design. >> thank you. >> president hillis: we can do the other one. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners. thanks for the opportunity to present the design. if i could have the computer. so i'm the architect for the project, and i'd like to talk to you just a little bit about the design elements of the project. i think first of all as john mentioned, it's noteworthy that the project has the high two and three bedroom rate of more than two thirds, and the building also has a majority of compliant open space that's private open space, which is a nice feature for the project. the building is basically -- it's -- we were thinking of this as somewhat of a transitional building, and it's a transitional lot. we were dealing with i avery tall building to the east of us and a shorter building to the

west of us and beyond, and so therefore we looked at this building as a way to mitigate between these two different significant heights. and furthermore we looked also at the building from an arc tech ral standpoint, we have glassy buildings to the east and more solid buildings to the west, and looked at that building as transitioning between the different architectural languages. here's some more detailed views of the building, and you can see how we're stepping from the larger puc building down to the shorter buildings. and this building really has a lot of depth to the facade. there's sort of this pushing and pulling on the facade. and i think it's also important to recognize that we've treated both facades for -- we have a

tl through lot, and we treat both facades with equal 'emphasis, the redwood side has a similar approach to the golden gate side, and we've got not only the tall commercial spaces that activate the majority of the commercial spaces on both sides of the lot, but also we have a voluntary set back on the golden gate side that creates somewhat of a patio space that can be shared with the commercial unit at that level. so here's a rendering of the building. and again, you can get a sense of the depth even from a straight on rendering and see the transition from the glassier building that's on the left and to the more solid structures on the right and how we've juxtaposed those types of materials along our building. again, looking at it a little

more obliquely. where the interior, we have a court, and the court really serves a lot of functions and i also want to thank miss woods and the planning staff and the urban design team for helping us formulate a solution that i think really helped this building. this building -- we've meant to use narrow floor plates or relatively narrow space in the building to create units that have frontage -- get their exposure from the street front janls but also have bedrooms at the rear of the unit. it helps us maximize density and create the more dwelling units in a really functional plan, but often this results to make this work, you use nested bedrooms or you have corridors that pass by the units, and we've avoided that with a series of bridges that i think is going to be a special experience with within the court. they're going to be translucent and allow light and air to

filter through. the materials are high quality glass and fiber cement panels that are integral color. and these are materials we've used on other recent projects that we've had a lot of success with. going through the plans briefly, we have all of our services underground, too, and it's part of the reason we're able to activate the spaces to well. i think i'll cut it short there, and obviously, i'm available for any questions. >> president hillis: are you done in. >> i wasn't quite done. >> president hillis: we'll give you a quick 30 seconds. >> quick 30 seconds, just walking through the plans, coming through the second floor, you can see how we have the units in a kind of clearly organized way, and we have the abundance of two bedrooms.

you go up the building, you can see how the balconies adjust on different parts of the facade to kind of create this more variety and that whole pushing and pulling and the solid void relationship. we also have a sky terrace that encompasses the remainder of our common open space which is on the 10th floor, and then as you go up, we have additional three bedroom units. i think that concludes it for the most part. >> president hillis: great. we'll open this up for public comment if there's any. no? great. what are you all doing back there? commissioner moore? >> commissioner moore: 'cause we're just talking about the civic center, i think this billion is a great example to close a positive discussion because if the alley's transforming itself, i think this building is sensitive to

the scaled rendition. i think the solution with the internal bridges which avoid corridors being like motel like running along the bedrooms and have basically bedrooms which are properly lit and ventilated is a great solution. so i'm all in support and move to approve. >> commissioner richards: second. >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. if there's nothing further, there is a motion to approve this matter with conditions. on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously. >> president hillis: all right. meeting's adjourned. thank you.

>> all right, everyone. i know that there's a lot going on today and people have busy schedules so we are going to get starteded. -- started. good afternoon. my name is david compos and i'm here today in my capacity as chair of the san francisco democratic county central committee. we have here from the county committee c. francis shay, who is another member of the committee and our executive director adam mays. what you see here is the -- a

united front by the elected city and county of san francisco, beginning with our mayor, mayor mark ferrell and a number of other officials. you are going to hear from some of them to make a very clear statement and send a very strong message that we as the elected family of san francisco stand against this decisive proposal by angela leoto. we are here because we believe that our sanctuary ordnance is ultimately about protecting not only the rights of immigrants but actually keeping san francisco safe. we believe that that ordnance enhances public safety and it's important that the people of the city and county of san francisco hear directly from our elected leadership. i would end with this before i turn it over to mayor ferrell,

that in some respects the damage has already been made and the damage is that this effort increases the fear and anxiety within the immigrant community that are already terrified of having any interaction with government, local government included. in that sense it is so important for those immigrants to hear directly from our elected family. with that i'd like to introduce the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, mayor mark ferrell. >> thank you, david. i want to thank everyone for being here this afternoon. first of all i want to say that i'm proud to be here, to stand with everyone beside me and everyone who is behind me to stand with the residents of the city of san francisco. what i also say that i'm incredibly disappointed to have to be here. never in my wildest dreams did i

think that the rhetoric from donald trump and washington dc would find a way to our become yard here in the city of san francisco. to me it is absolutely insane. you know, when i took office in january 1st of the first things i did was meet with many of the people who represent our immigrant communities here in san francisco. many of our immigrant rights groups, many of the non-profits that work in our community every single day to keep our city safer. i wanted to reassure them that despite what donald trump was doing and all of the rhetoric that he was talking back in january regarding the i.c.e raids and all of the threats to our country and to the residents of our city that we would not let these threats deter us here in san francisco. we would not let the divisive resident -- rhetoric, the insane policies that i think who we are in san francisco.

san francisco will never abandon our volu values. san francisco will never cower to the fear of a president who has hateful rhetoric. we will not do that here in san francisco. we are a sanctuary city. it's in our dna. it is who we are as san francisco. we understand that our immigrant communities make our city stronger. our immigrant communities make our city safer. they make our cities more diversive, more -- more, diverse. i'm screwing that up. they make our city stronger at the end. we are talking about families who have come from other countries, fleei persucution.

they are planting their children here, incredible members of our community here in san francisco and we are going to fight for their right to stay here today and forever here in san francisco. >> [applause] >> i will say that no matter what comes out of donald trump and the federal administration in washington dc, in san francisco we are going to reject that rhetoric. we are going to standby our immigrant communities. we are going to turn our back to donald trump's idea of building walls around our country and ripping families apart with ill conceived policies and divisive, hateful rhetoric that is dividing our country right now. in san francisco we stand for something very, very different. i will say that as mayor of the city of san francisco we are going to stand side by side with our immigrant communities here in san francisco.

not only is it the right thing to do, and i am proud to say this as someone born and raised in san francisco, it's the san francisco thing to do. we are a sanctuary city, let us be clear about that. we are a sanctuary city today, we are a sanctuary city tomorrow. we will always be a sanctuary city here in san francisco. let us never forget that. thank you, everyone for being here. >> [applause] >> thank you. thank you, mr. mayor. you know, hearing from the law enforcement leadership of the city is really critical and we are proud to have with us today our city attorney, dennis herre herrera. our public defender jeff adache and then i want to turn it over to the chief law enforcement elected official for the city and county of san francisco, our

district attorney george gascon. >> [applause] >> thank you, david. thank you, mr. mayor. thank you to the entire city family. you know, there are many things that we can today as to why there is something inherently wrong with what one particular candidate for mayor in this city is trying to propose. i will not mention the name because i don't want my statement to actually be googled and give any additional amplification to that person. is message is wrong for many different reasons. i'm going to touch up on three. one is about public safety. there are studies after studies and we are down to three and a half of three decades of sanctuary policies around this nation and we know that jurisdictions that have sanctuary policies actually are safer than jurisdictions that are not.

i personally can speak not only because i know there is science behind this but i can speak for personal experience having been a law enforcement official in three different jurisdictions. two that have very strong sanctuary policies and one that didn't. i grew up in l.a. many of you know that. l.a. has had very sanctuary policy. l.a. started the first sanctuary policy in in nation. then i spent time in arizona where the contrary was the case. i can tell you case after case of people afraid to report crimes, people afraid to coming forward and participating in the social and political process in our community and how often that led to people that were here lawfully, even born here to be victimized because earlier incidents of crime were not reported by those that feared that if they were to report the

crime they would be deported from this nation. now i'm here in this wonderful city that my wife and i call home and i can tell you that just in the last year we have seen a 17% reduction in the reporting of domestic violence by immigrant communities, both in the chinese and the latino community because of fear of being deported if you come forward, if you come to the hall of justice. here we are having a candidate looking for the highest office in our county pandering to the same things that we hear from washington on a regular basis. that is wrong. secondly, in addition to the public safety message, i want to send another message and that is social responsibility message. you know, it wasn't that long ago in the late 1800s, for some it may seem like very long but when you look at the history of

mankind really a short period of time when messages about the criminality about recent immigrants were being directed towards the irs and irs and italian. they were wrong then and they are wrong now. they were not likely to be anymore criminal than the rest of the community and certainly latinos today and the new imgrants from em-- immigrants from asia are not anymore likely to be criminals. we are a nation of laws. we have a constitution that people forget when it comes to immigration and there is such a thing as due process. the reality if someone gets arrested for a felony crime does not necessarily equate to felony

crimes. they are doing their job and doing it properly. they are under a preponderance of the evidence or probable cause. later we find additional evidence that as we move forward in the case that they did not commit the crime at all or perhaps the behavior was more consistent with a misdemeanor and the case would not be prosecuted. even in the case where the case is prosecuted we don't get it right 100% of the time. our friends in the public defenders office went from time to time, not always but that, again, speaks to -- i'm just directing this to jeff. i'm just saying that, you know, the reality is because someone gets arrested for a felony doesn't necessarily mean they have committed a felony. so we have a public safety reason, we have a social responsibility reason and we have a due process reason among the many others that you are

going to hear today. so i urge every san francisco resident to reject the message of hate. i urge every san francisco resident to reject political pandering for political convenience for some. thank you. >> we are in the middle of a mayor's race and it was important to us to invite the may skr-- major candidates for mayor to be here and there is a united front. at this point i would like to ask the candidates. i'm going to do it in alphabetical order and we have right behind me the president of the board of supervisors and i know that we have a number of superv supervisors here. thank you for being here. president london reid. >> [applause] >> thank you.

i'm proud to be here to stand united with the citizens of san francisco and our immigrant community to say that we will not demonize the immigrant community here in the city and county of san francisco. our policies would shortcut the due process rights of our immigrants regardless of their immigration status, to say that our sanctuary city ordnance makes san francisco a magnet to felons across americans is wrong. to say our sanctuary city ordnance makes san francisco a more violent city is counter to the values that we hold deeply in san francisco and is troubling. other one-third of our relatives, friends and neighbors and coworkers are immigrants in the city of san francisco. immigrants are not making san francisco less safe. they never have. our city is safer because all of our residents including our

undocumented residents can call the police, can be witnesses without fear of deportation. policies that undermine distrust don't make us safer. they breed fear, silence and distrust amongst law enforcement. as we stand here today, what is clear is that our work is not done. that collectively our suit for more equitable, compassionate and inclusive city is more urgent now than ever. as dr. king would say, we need to be reminded of the fierce urgency of now. we may have a president who fuels the worse aspects of our humanity, a president who has turned resentment into political strategy and a president who wants to build walls and ban immigrants on the basis of their religion. here in san francisco we stand

united for something greater. we stand for what is right. we stand for tolerance, for love, for inclusiveness and sanction way. we stand together in the light. san francisco is and will always be a sanctuary city as our city has and will continue to welcome immigrant communities from all over the world. we are a safer city because when we come together anything is possible. thank you for all being here today. >> thank you. i know that supervisor kim is in a land use community meeting so i don't know if she will be able to take it. i want to turn it over now to another major candidate for mayor, state senator mark leno. >> [applause] >> chairman compos, thank you

so much for assembling this group of elected officials today. i'm happy to stand with everyone here and stand in firm opposition to any proposal going forward to decimate our sanctuary city policies in san francisco. the suggestion in trump terms that our sanction way city is a magnet and i'm quoting from the mayor candidate who put this forward, murderers, rapest and child moeless -- molesters is no touch thing. san francisco is a welcoming city. there's no facts, no day for such a wreckless claim. we know this country is under a shadow of mean spiritedness and failed leadership. that is no excuse for a candidate for mayor to repeat his words.

i have already been accused by her in the press as standing with felons. i'm not standing with felons nor are any of the people standing behind me. we are standing for public safety, public health and public education. let's be very clear of that. public safety you've heard from the district attorney already. public health, we want everyone in san francisco documented or other wise to make good use of our public health system. viruses and bacteria do not know immigration status. if we want our children, our families, our communities to be healthy we need to keep everyone within those communities healthy and that means everyone should have access to our public health system that will not be the case if people living in fear and

living in shadow. the same for public education. if you think your child is at risk of not coming home from school someday because of the federal government sweeps or that you might not be at home to welcome your child if he or she goes to school because of the same fear, well then you're not going to make use of our public education system. who benefits from having san francisco residents afraid of getting a public education. that creates a chronic underclass of residents. of course the child without a high school diploma has a greater likelihood of finding themselves into our criminal justice system and the loop repeats itself. public safety, public health, public education. i also have to point out that i believe this proposal runs

counter to state law and would be preempted. we are a sanctuary state in california. there are 800 felony crimes that are not protected from sanctuary status in the state nor would they be here locally. so let's ignore wild, reckless rhetoric, focus on the safety, the health and the education of every san francisco resident documented or other wise. thank you. >> [applause] >> thank you issue senator leno. as you can see we have people from different parts of the san francisco elected family. i just want to share that i acknowledge rafael mandleman is here. we have honey mahogany. also from the democratic central committee and a member of the

board of supervisor bevin duffy is here. we have former supervisor -- i'm sorry, don avalos who is one of the authors of the amended sanctuary ordnance. then before i turn it over to our supervisors i also want to acknowledge that our delegation in sacramento is proud to be here as well. i know that assembly member phil tang couldn't be here but someone from senator scott weiner's office as well. i'll turn it over to jeff. >> thank you for allowing many me to read this today. we need to promote policies that protect people living in our city. when we had donald trump and jeff sessions to mas deport people installing fear and

terror in our communities we theed to need -- need to stick up for our immigrant communities. the last thing we need is an attack on our immigrants coming from within our own city. san francisco has a lot of real issues that need to be addressing but demonizing immigrants will not help us solve our problems. it will help us instill more fear in people trying to live their lives and take care of their families. people are afraid to go to work because they don't know if they will be picked up by i.c.e. children are afraid to go to school because they don't want to leave their parents. our neighbors are living in fear and it's policies that tell people you are a part of our city, you are safe here. last year the california legislature passed sanctuary law sb54 that is moving our entire state in the right direction towards creating safe communities for everyone. this happened in part because cities like san francisco have been leaders in this movement and today we cannot -- can continue to lead by rejecting

any effort to move us back ward. today all of us stand together to send a clear message that san francisco is a sanctuary city where immigrants can live in peace and harmony without fear and that policies like ours make everyone in our city safer. thank you. >> [applause] >> thank you, senator weiner. i also want to acknowledge some members of the immigrant rights commission, mario pass, flores cong and michelle wong. with that i would like to give the last word to the two members of the board of supervisors here, supervisor peskin and roman. supervisors. >> let me start by thanking the community who came out very swiftly last friday to affirmatively denounce this

absolutely insane initiative and then let me just tell you my thinking when i got a call about today's press conference. my first thought was let us not -- i think our district attorney said this -- give my name recognition to the individual who would politically pander like this. my second thought was that silence ends up being complicity. even though the community came out it's very important for the elected officials to come out too. let me be clear, none of us are squared of -- scared of getting on the ballot and being voted on by the voters of san francisco what absolutely support our sanctuary city status. that is not what this is about. we have an obligation and responsibility to call this out because when you have that kind of silence we all know what has happened around war crimes, around genocide, around

displacement and so that is why we are here today. i also want to say something about being an elected official. yeah, we have heated racers for supervisor and for mayor but there are moral lines that one does not cross to get one's name in the nooup -- newspaper and that line has been crossed here. if you want to put a ballot initiative on about the summer of love, go with god, god bless. wonderful things. if you want to put on a divisive, hateful ballot measure like this, we've got to call foul and that's why we are all here today. thank you to every elected official and the press and the commissioners for being here.

>> thank you for having me here. thank you to david compos for putting this together. what i have to adhere is what a true leader does is not demonize one of the most marginalized groups that is living every day of their lives in fear in our city and all over this country. what a true leader does is fight the root cause issues that make our city and our country less safe. let's talk about what those real issues are. they are poverty, they are an education system that is starved for resources. there is severe inequality and then let's talk about the easy access to guns all throughout this country. if you want to protect the public safety then let's work on the real issues impacting all of our public safety. let's not demonize a group that

contributes so much to the city of san francisco. thank you so much. >> [applause] >> thank you. we are actually going to give the last word to the other mayor candidate who was able to make it. we want to thank her for being here. you have the last word, supervisor jane kim. >> thank you so much, chair compos. we are in the committee of land use where we are interrogating our neighbor over falsified information. fairly extraordinary. i also want to be here today to stand with our immigrant community and all of our residents regardless of documentation. i am fortunate to be born in this country. not every member of my family came to this country with documentation. we have a broken, broken immigration system that is

incredibly difficult for anyone to mire their way through. i'm proud to be in a city that's a sanctuary city and i'm proud to stand here today with so many of our community leaders and our elected leaders in saying that we fully support the full breath of what that means. we don't support and i don't support the initiative that is being proposed today. if we truly believe in making our city safer then we really need to proactively act to invest in our public education system, to invest in affordable housing and to really seriously look at gun control reform as supervisor ronhan has stated. this is just a false narrative that we have repeated over and over again. this is an old story. we all know better than this. we can do better than this and i'm proud to stand here today with all of the community and elected leaders. thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you all for being here.

thank you to the press and thank you to the elected family for being here, to the community. if there's one message to the individual whose name shall not be mentioned that we want to send is enough. in any native tongue [foreign language].

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