>> clerk: good afternoon. welcome to our june 4, 2018, land use committee meeting i'm katy tang. to my left, supervisor safai and i think we'll be joined by supervisor kim in a moment.

our clerk is erica major. madam clerk, any announcements? >> clerk: please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. any documents to be submitted in the file submitted to the clerk. they will be on the june 4 agenda unless otherwise stated. >> supervisor tang: let call item 1. clerk: to re-authorizing the section 210 concerning new production, distribution and repair space and development of new production and distribution and repair appropriate findings. >> supervisor tang: afterwards, we'll have planning staff after the presentation. >> thank you, chair, tang. and good afternoon. good afternoon to you, as well, supervisor safai. i'm an aide in malia cohen's office. and we're here to ask for your support for item 1, which supervisor legislation designed

to incentivize permanently affordable pdr space. it works somewhat like on-site affordable housing model. higher-income, mixed use office space offset the cost of maintaining affordable p.d.r. it's a narrow region and p.d.r. spaces across the city. if we don't build these spaces, they will cease to exist and we want to reserve as much p.d.r. space as we can. the legislation was -- this really is removing a sunset from a pilot program that was established in 2015. and it uses a cross-subsidation model, with the ground p.d.r. and the other 2/3 with office spaces. no residential allow. the project sponsor must submit

a detailed business plan as specifying who the tenants will be, measures they're taking -- measures to ensure the building types are suitable for p.d.r. users and make an effort to work with the community and the city on hiring workers from disadvantaged backgrounds. i will invite planner diego sanchez up to give a few more technical details about how this would work. >> supervisor tang: great. thank you. and also in your presentation, you coul maybe sure results of the legislation and the -- upon its expiration, i'm sure it's helped many projects in the ity. if you could share if it had expired what we would be prevented from doing. >> diego sanchez, planning department staff. superviso supervisors, the planning department heard this may 3. several members of the public testified to show their support and how successful it's been at 100 hooper site. several commissioners remarked,

e e expressing their gratitude to supervisor cohen for establishing this and they voted unanimously to approve the ordinance. that's the report from planning commission. if you have further ils, we can fill those in as well. thank you. >> supervisor tang: do we have any questions, comments? okay. seems like it's a good thing. so we'll good to public comment on item 1. any members of the public that wish to speak, please come on up. >> supervisors, kate service, sf maid and i will just answer directly as the project sponsor and now owner of 150 hooper, which is part of the 100 hooper campus. this legislation is really the only tool we have right now to incentivize new construction. and very importantly, on sites that are basically empty. these are p.d.r. sites that there is nothing usable and this

is really adding density and making it possible for these kinds of projects to pencil. 150 hooper itself, which is a portion of the 100 hooper project, will be open actual later this summer. it's four stories, 60,000 square feet of significantly beloet sw-markce it will house dozens of manufacturers with guaranteed more than 60% of their employees across the building being low-income at the time of hire. so it's been a resounding success and we're very excited to see more of these kinds of projects move forward. we hope you will consider supporting this today. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. any other members that wish to comment on item 1? okay. yes? come on up. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thor sizloski, 1850 bryant project in the mission, a nonprofit building that we're building in the p.d.r. 1g

different hit. we're in support of this legislation we'd like to see if can be considered to include affordable housing as part of this. and also child care, understanding that to incentivize p.d.r. development in the city is to create public benefit as well, to allow things that create public benefit. if you can allow office, which is something that will generate income for the project, which is a public benefit. so just wanted to submit that for your consideration. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. any other membef the public wish to comment on item 1? seeing none, public comment is now closed. we're joed by supervisor kim. can we have a motion on item 1? >> i would like to make a motion to send it to full board with positive recommendation. >> supervisor tang: we can do that without objection. so moved. thank you very much. madam clerk, item 2, please. >> clerk: item 2 a president

lose authorizing the continued operation of the navigation center located at 1950 mission street through september 30, 2018, and the continued operation of navign center located at 20 12th street through december 31, 2021. >> supervisor tang very much. and this is an item that is sponsored by the mayor's office and supervisor kim, i don't know if she wanted to make any openin remarks? do you -- okay. >> supervisor kim: thank you, colleagues. this is just the extension of two of our first navigation centers at 1915 mission and at the civic center hotel. because the construction will not start as originally anticipated, we're just temporarily extending 1915 mission until september 30 of this year and continue the operation of our civic center navigation center through december 31, 21. this ensures as we're waiting for construction to begin, that

vacant sites are not being left unused and continuing to house people that live on our streets at the navigation center. as soon as construction is ready to go and ready to build the housing at 1915mi tio i will be100% affordable housing for families and that the space will be available and we have our other navigation centers, which are currently under construction, ready to open. we do have the department of homelessness and supportive services here as well. not sure if you want to make any comments. >> supervisor tang: with that, we'll bring up emily cohen. >> thank you, supervisors. as supervisor kim said, this resolution before you will extend operations at the original 1950 mission street and civic center hotel. you all are quite familiar with what navigation centers are, so i won't go into much detail. the 1950 mission street navigation center opened in

march, 2015. it launched our building other centers. it's bee part o a solution to address street homelessness. development on site has been delayed until at least fall of this year. we're proposing to extend our operations there until the end emb, which willl the replacement site to open in time, so guests that remain at that navigation center can transition and so that we don't have an ongoing, vacant parcel at 1950 mission. civic center hotel is a 93-room former hotel being operated as navigation center. it will be developed into housing and the construction has been delayed and they don't anticipate beginning the construction on that site until the end of 2021, so we're proposing to continue the use of the site as a navigatiotern cen until they're ready to break down. replacement sites that -- or

currently sites we're currently working on in terms of navigation centers, bayshore navigation center will have 128 beds. quinn navigation center will have 125 beds. and the soma navigation center at 5th and bryant will have 86 beds. so we're continuing to grow capacity and preserve the space available to do so. articulates the extensions that we're requesting and this this articulates how many people have been served at each of the navigation center sites since opening. as you can see, the programs are having impact for critical people unsheltered in our community and we want to continue this as long as possible. happy to take any questions that you might have. >> supervisor tang: great. thank you for the update. questions and comments? seeing none, i know we've talked about a lot of these centers and want to thank the department for all of the work on this.

at this time, we'll open up item 2 to public comment. any members of the public that wish to speak, please come on up. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is dale seymour. long time person in the city of san francisco and in the tenderloin. spent 18 of my long time years homeless, living out on the streets. so i know a little bit about this situation with navigation centers. so now i run a school that hopes formerly homeless people that gets their lives together and there's a good number of my students that are living in navigation centers, so they're a very important part of the fabric of the city. i just spoke at a land use summit last week in seattle, washington, andost every question was directed at our navigation centers. so we really should realize what a gem we have in these navigation centers.

the navigation center civic center when i was homeless, i lived in there. the department of homelessness put me in there for two years. so i know thencor o having a place to call yourself home, even if just for a few more days than we're expecting it to be. both of the navigation centers, actually improve the neighborhoods. i know what civic center was before it game a navigation center. that street was nothing nice whatsoever. i know what mission was before the navigation centers. some people that are protesting it say the navigation center brought all of that population to the mission. no, it didn't. no, it didn't. that population was there way before. and it's people that are in the navigation system that go in and out and mind their own business and don't bother anyone and they're actually improving their lives. so whatever you can do to keep this extension going until september, we may have to be here again in september in case construction doesn't start.

i don't want to see that block being vacant not one day for anything. thank you for your congratulations. -- thank you for your consideration. >> good afternoon. my name is annotte leonard wiki and we're with community partnership. we're here to support the centers in san francisco. the civic center has been a safe respite for 336 street homeless adults. we've served folks that otherwise would not access shelters, including 125 women and transgender women that are particularly vulnerable living on the streets. and we have 46 participants that identify as veterans. housing takes time and it's a limited resource, but in our time at civic center, we've ensured that 153 formerly homeless adults are now in safe and permanent housing. that's 58% of our total.

prior to coming a navigation center, the neighborhood wasn't so great. the ground floor was mostly boarded up windows and neighbors express aboon quality of life and safety issues. with our navigation center in place, the entire ground floor is used. it's light and bright and we've rejuvenated the block and addressed concerns. removing the civic center would create opportunity form the community to erode. continued support enables us as a prior tousn the folks meant to be serving. the continued operation as navigation centers and civic center navigation center in particular displays to the community that serving people experiencing homelessness with respect and is aing nitty is a san francisco priority. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

my name is dennis mccray and i'm the director of shelters for episcopal community services. we are the operator of the 1950 mission street navigation center. as you can see from the statistics, we serve nearly 2,000 people there and we continue to serve people. we have 75 beds there right now. we are -- we are aware that there has been some concern about the impact that the navigation center on the immediate neighborhood where the navigation center is located. we actually are quite diligent about making sure that the immediate landscape around the navigation center is kept as decongested as possible. 95% of the people you may see on that block are already housed. and they have no connection to the navigation center.

so we are diligent in making sure that staff go out every day. we clean up every hour. they go out on a regular basis ae tent out there, we immediately call the hot team, to have them come and address folks and see if they are actually interested in services. we have an incredible relationship with the san francisco police department and they come by quite often. and we've been putting up no loitering signs outside. so we will continue to do due diligence to make sure that that area is kept clear. thank you. >> how you doing? i'm joseph livingston. i stay at the navigation.

it's a good program. i was homeless. i've been homeless since '95. and they're helping me find a place. i think you should keep that. no don't put no other buildings up because you need builds li thato they can house people. if you don't have buildings like that, how they going to get housing? you put it in places you trying to build, you know what i mean? keep the place. they doing a good job. and them people that hang out front, they've been hanging out there since that was a school. police didn't get them away from there then. they're not trying now. they're trying to make us look bad. thank you. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name george agler, i'm a resident over there at navigation center. now they help people that want the help. and they have helped me so much. i wish there was more of them.

it's great. .nd -- excuse you don't know how much they've helped me. and i wish there was more of them, you know, to help everybody that wants it, you know? an extension would be great to help everybody else like they helped me. they helped me tremendously get off the street and try to get a roof over head. it's -- they're doing so much work for us, you know? and i want you to understand how i feel in my heart for the place. if you would just think about it. it get a lot ofeople off the streets and puts a roof over their head and they help so much the people that want it and a lot of people want it. and the people that are hanging in front and stuff like that, i imagine they've been there. i don't know. but they don't get involved in our stuff. the people coming out there, they come out there and clean the area, to make sure everything's right, you know, for the residents that live in

there. and i just -- my heart wishes that you would give the extension and it would carry on, you know? the navigation center has done so much for everybo there, especially for me, you know? thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you so much. are there any other members of the public that wish to comment on item two? please -- please come on up, if you would like to speak on item two. >> my name is michael rodriguez. and i'm a resident at the navigation center. i've been homeless for five or six years, directly in this neighborhood. if there wouldn't have been a navigation center, i wouldn't have been able to get myself get together again. we've had focus and focus on the things that we need in the

community. i've worked with the hot team to show them where the encampments are at. in reality,hey don't have enough help. there are not enough facilities to house everybody. there's not enough housing. we get circulated. we go in and get cleaned up and try to work on our paperwork and work on housing. if there is no housing, there is nothing they can do. we go back on the streets again and go back to the same camps. it's just a circle. and i think it's terrible that people are trying to criminalize housing, criminalize being homeless. you know, wha we need is some affordable housing. i mean, who can afford $3,000 to $4,000 for a 1-bedroom. i don't make that much money in two months. so, yes, i believe that the

navigation center needs some kind of extension and maybe even open up other facilities to help us get us off the streets. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much for sharing that. any other members of the public, please come up for item 2. >> i guess you got to hear some opposition sometime. i guess my problem with the navigation center is is the city and county of san francisco is

not trained in standards of care in the contract. jeff kaczynski and his people have actually blocked the monitoring committee of doing inspections of the navigation center. so we're at a point where we don't really know what's happening and i don't know what -- i don't know if the city auditor has done another audit to see what's happening, how long have been stayed, what type of services are happening. we just have a lot of problems because the grievance policy, the shelter extension policy, we -- it's just -- it just seems like they've thrown all of the protections with the navigation centers out the window. all of them.

the shelter extension policy. the grievance policy. the shelter training manual. it's an excessive list of them just throwing out laws to protect the homeless. we -- this is a horrible direction that san francisco has taken where we can dump homeless people somewhere and just ignore the laws and protections that people have fought five, 10, or more years for. i think i just really believe that you should do something as to how jeff kaczynski and episcopal services of san francisco has refused overtly to follow the laws of -- and their contract of the city and county of san francisco. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. any other members of the public that wish to comment on item 2?

okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, any questions, further comments on item 2? okay. seeing none, can we get a motion to pass this forward with positivetion as a committee report? >> supervisor safai: so moved. >> supervisor tang: okay. we'll could that without objection. thank you, colleagues. madam clerk, any other items for us today? >> clerk: there's no further business. >> supervisor tang: okay. thank you. we're adjourned.

>> let me know when you're ready. >> good evening, and welcome to the may 23rd, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. board president frank fung will be the presiding offer. to my left is deputy city attorney who'll provide the board with legal advice. at controls