>> good afternoon, board members, peter cohen with the housing organizations. it has been many years but this plan -- this is the next generation plan area for those of us who went through the first generation of not only market activity in these neighborhoods but other plans this is a fresh start to learn from the past. and one thing that is encouraging is that an affordable housing plan is baked into this one. we hadn't in the previous ones but that's a problem. so in that sense the planning department has done very good effort to try to find as much affordable housing and to identify the sites which will help our member organizations but in general to achieve a higher standard of affordabili affordability. we have helped with other

organizations working in their specific geographies and providing technical support. we did a job housing fit analysis for the planning department to really to project what the affordability need is and it's about 56% affordable from very low income to middles. so striving for 50% affordable whether it's in the plan area or to miss clark's point elsewhere is not inconceivable and it's actually meeting the workforce needs. i want to spend the rest of my time focusing here on the housing district and my colleague fernando will finish up as well. san francisco is setting the standard here and this say brand-new state law and it's not used anywhere in california. so what you're doing here with this plan is creating this script for how this is looked at elsewhere in the city and there's two pieces that we'd like to focus on. one of which is a strong use it or lose it standard.

make sure as you're providing that streamline entitlement that there's a time period to use it and to get into construction because it's all about housing units and as we know that there's been a lot of permits, and this is your chance. thank you. good afternoon, supervisors, i am with the council of community housing organizations. just to continue peter's points about the housing sustainability district as an overlay in what you all are working on, we followed 8073 closely when assembly member which yoassemblt and we had one thing that was integral to 8073 is that there would be a 10% inclusionary housing as a capture in those areas that have no inclusion area. it's clear that providing the entitlement has a lot of value

for developers. they want to see this. and we think that this is an opportunity to now set higher standards for what those developers will provide. in addition to the labor standards that are baked into the housing sustainability district, we think that we can hire on-site affordability and if what the original legislation said from going from zero to 10% it should be a no-brainer to provide an additional 5% affordability in those developments that choose the housing sustainability district and all of the benefits that are conferred by right and entitlement. going through an entitlement process means that you're trying to get something done sooner and faster so, therefore, we think that those developers should be able to commit to actually building those units and that speculate on entitlement itself, their land based on the entitlements that say within 30 months that they will build if they haven't been able t to geta

six-month extension that's what you get. and i think that -- we think that these are important things and can really take this housing sustainability in the district and make it work for a better plan in central soma. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. alexandra with kilroadway realty with the flower mart. you have heard about the issue of parking and how important it is to get those 150 spaces and 25 truck parking spaces as an amendment to the plan. i wanted to bring up a few other issues as they relate to the wholesale flower market. and the first is the public open space so we ask that you make minor changes to the facilitate for the wholesale operations of

the flower market. because the flower market needs a single 115 now ho 115,000 squt space and the circulation for the trucks and it's difficult to put it in a location that is in a location open to the sky. and so we'd like the plan to have an exception to allow up to 25% of it to be sheltered by a building which is 36 feet above so it doesn't feel that it's a sheltered open space. in addition the flower market has been an inward facing business and it will continue to be a inward facing wholesale use in the new flower mart. in a way to make it efficient for the customers. and the perimeter will be back of the office space for refrigeration space. and this means while the flower market does provide windows and appropriate locations it's not able to comply with the requirement for 60% of the ground floor to be transparent because it would be looking on the back of house spaces.

so we'd ask that you build this in as an exception for this requirement as well. and we look forward to seeing next week's amendments and hope that we'll address these issues at that time. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors, john aberdeen. despite the page after page of rhetoric about affordable housing the plan is still far short of actually getting it done in south of market. it needs a number of things. first, the 33% goal should be extended for affordable housing to all of soma. two times or three times more housing will be built in a rest of soma instead of central soma. and, second, there's about a half dozen monthly surface commercial parking lots still in the south of market that should be nonpermitted now given a year or two before they have to close because they're all good infill

housing sites and to make those sites development for development for market and affordable housing. third, there's about three or four luxury high rises that will take advantage of the high increases in the plan and they should have to do 33% affordable on-site if they choose that option. now it would only be 19% or 20%. for off-site they have to do 33% affordable but i'm afraid that they'll take a way out and give us far less units. fourth, the city should condemn vacant buildings and the city has the power in a domain to chronicle the admissions for 20 years over 150 rooms and that slum lord owner has refused to sell it to anybody to reuse for affordable housing or homeless housing and you need to go after these guys. last, but not least, it's out of control in the city and we're losing hundreds of units a year. the city needs to stop that and to resort to the nuclear option at its disposal to have

proceedings by eminent domain and take those properties from those greedy owners and protect their tenants and protect that housing rental supply. otherwise we'll lose thousands of units to this. thank you. >> we can close public comment. all right, public comment is closed. so i have handed out to the committee members and the clerk the 48 amendments that we are introducing that -- that i am introducing today. the city attorney do i have to enumerate each of these 48 amendments? >> you don't. the description you gave at the

outset suffices and the document that you submitted to the clerk will be a public document that anyone here can review and come back to comment on at the next meeting. >> thank you city attorney. so i will make a motion to amend these 48 -- a motion to amend with these 48 amendments as i passed that to the members of the committee and the clerk's office and the city attorney's office. there's one tiny amendment to these amendments that i need to make which is on page 98. that the site is permitted to have a establishment formula limited restaurant so i'll strike out retail restaurant and go to limited restaurant, the

request of the key site. (please stand by).

>> supervisor safai: i'm interested to know what the concern is regarding the hotel project, and was this always proposed as a hotel project and has it gone through some different renditions? i heard some different things that it might not originally have been hotel, and so that might have been the confusion. >> are you speaking about the 1 basta project. >> supervisor safai: no, i'm speaking about the -- >> 16-m? >> supervisor safai: yeah. >> so i'm not as familiar with the project. i know they have submitted an

e.e.a. the sweeping reform that i'm making to the plan is from our community advocates on all sides actually ranging from our advocates like todco, and as much as yimby, which is that we need to build as much housing as possible in the central soma plan. one of the amendments that was suggested to our service in the last month to increase available housing is to rezone m.u.o. to m.u.r., mixed use residential north of harrison and to rezone sally south of harrison to m.u.g. this would allow all of these parcels -- well, this would permit housing and not commercial in these smaller parcels. we are accepting key sites from this amendment, understanding

that really, the key sites have really been working with the planning department for years on their projects, and this is really kind of the heart of the central soma plan, is really increasing the footprint of commercial activity in the central soma plan, but with the smaller parcels, by rezoning them into housing, that we would be able to build moraffordable housing. my -- more affordable housing. it is my understanding that one company is asking us to reconsider their site. i am making the amendment as is today, but we will be happy to discuss that specific project after today's land use committee. and so we did get the letters from both local 2 and the project sponsor, and so we will be having a discussion with that project sponsor. >> supervisor safai: great. thank you. >> okay. great. thank you. so with that, public comment was opened and closed, and supervisor kim enumerated a number of amendments that she was going to make, so do we

have a motion on that? >> supervisor safai: motion to accept. >> supervisor ronen: okay. and we'll do that without objections. and supervisor kim, on the underlying motions as amended. >> supervisor kim: so i'd like to make a motion to continue items 7 through 11 to the next land use committee meeting which i believe is on july 23. >> so we'll do that without objection. >> one last piece during public comment. i did take notes during public comment. i did hear on the comment about the youth and family s.u.d., and that's not a discussion that i've had actually prior with the community or the planning department, so we'll certainly look at the overlap of the youth and family s.u.d. i completely understand the concerns there. with the parcel that includes

fifth and howard, i actually spoke with don falk about his project. i don't want his project to get caught up with a lot of the work that we need to do with the central soma project, so we will reach out because we know 100% affordable housing is an important project. so we will certainly follow up on that, as well. so thank you very much, committee members and thank you so much to all of the community members that came to speak today. so with that, madam clerk, are there any further matters before us today? >> clerk: there's no further business. >> all right. we are adjourned. do, particuls

tough to endorse against someone that you are sitting with. they were there from the very beginning and i'm so proud to have supported sandy fewer and hillary ronin in their campaigns, they have been such extraordinary supervisors. if they would be willing to come up and sort of keep me company as i get sworn in. and then the other person i would like to invite to stand with me is the former supervisor for district 8. [applause] devin has been a prince over the last year. he has been so helpful with so much good advice.

it has been sometimes rough road, this campaign, but he has been wonderful and calling me almost on a daily basis since the election with more helpful advice. thank you. i wanted to have city attorney herrera swear me in today because he is a an an exemplary public servant. i spent my life working with and for local governments and the last three years was the deputy city attorney in oakland. i have so much admiration for the work that the folks in our city attorney's office do. whether it is defending tenants against the worse of the worse landlords doing terrible things to standing up to trump, to

ensuring that we enforce sensible regulations of new industries to all the other things that dennis herrera and his fine office do. last but not least in anyway, oh, by the way, saving city college. [applause] so, i wanted to have dennis swear me in today. he knows how to do this a lot better than i do. i'll just put this up here. >> just make sure everybody can hear. >> all right. >> everybody here? all right. here we go. raise your right hand and repeat after me. >> all right. >> i, rafael mandelman. >> i rafael mandelman. >> do sol emily swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states.

and the constitution of the state of the california. >> against all enemies foreign and domestic. and i will be bear true faith and allegiance. to the constitution of the united states. >> to the constitution of the united states. >> and the constitution of the state of the california. >> and the constitution of the state of the cost. >> i take this obligation freely. >> without any reservation or purpose of ovation. >> and that i will well and healthful' discharge. >> the duties which i am about to enter. >> during such time. >> and during such time. >> as i hold the office. >> of member of board of supervisors. >> and san francisco transportation authority. of the city and county of san francisco. >> of the city and county of san francisco. >> congratulations. [applause]

thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. a few brief remarks. they will be brief, i promise. very brief. one thing i want to make sure i do is acknowledge some of the extraordinary public service talents we have in this room. my incredibly able staff to be as given me a list. i want to start by acknowledging gina masconi who is here with us. thank you so much for being here. [applause] for your wonderful children and

for all that you represent for san francisco. thank you for doing me the honor of being here for this and thank you tom horn for bringing your good friend here this afternoon with us. we also have with us assembly member phil tang. [applause] assembly member david chu. [applause] >> supervisor fewer, who you just saw. [applause] supervisor peskin. [applause] supervisor jane kim. [applause] i left out katy tang and i left out katy tang. [laughter] [applause] and catherine stephanie. hillary ronin we just saw.

and i do want to thank president cohen for opening her office for us for refreshments afterwards. for allowing us to use this room. i want to thank our sheriff, vickey hennessey. [applause] and a day like today is a major challenge, i know for all, for the sheriff and the deputy sheriff and i want to thank you for all that you've done with us today. our treasure jose. [applause] >> our district attorney george gascone. [applause] our public defender jeff adache. [applause]

we have -- our bar director, of course. [applause] we have our chancellor from city college mark roacha. [applause] and our board president -- >> right here! [laughter] >> brigitte, not to be unacknowledged. [applause] our vice president alex randolf. [applause] past president sia sellby. john rizzo. carmen chu, i didn't acknowledge carmen chu. thank you for being here. do we have school board in the house? matt haney is here, thank you for being here. [applause] our former mayor art agnus.

[applause] i think they like you, art. and i think that is it. have i gotten the former city college christie timwolfbridge. our first gay city college trustee tim, who paved the way and our constitute trustee simmons is here as well. there are some folks who worked on this campaign without whom i would not be here. they are led by my campaign manager, kyle she'lly who is going tsmealie.mckenzie ewuing d

director. brendon shucard who did great work for us. and our fantastic interns i hope many of you will be coming into city hall with us. i know some of you are. scott carlson, john tell, jackie, jock steinberger. amelia -- i can't say her last name. and then i also want to acknowledge mark leno's campaign manager who will be coming in as another legislative aid in our office, aaron mundy. [applause] and last but not least wrapping up his business as a small business owner, bar owner, tom te mprano could not be here but starts next week, he will be my third legislative aid. [applause]

i am not even going to try to acknowledge ever single neighborhood, leader, c.b.d. head, labor leader, so many folks, the leaders of alice and milk and there are so many fantastic folks in this room, i'm going to stop there. but thank you all for being here to share this special, special day with me. i also have another cheat sheet i have to check. we are so lucky to have an amazing city clerk, angela calvillo. [applause] and her staff, not only the sheriff, deputy sheriff but a clerk office. a day like this is a lot of work and you have been so accommodating to us so thank you all for that. so i wouldn't be here without a

couple of folks who are sitting out here. i just gott got emotion a two pe who took me in when i was a kid and i did not have a place to live. that is bernie and elinor burke. [applause] >> they're pretty great. i'm very lucky to have you in my life. to have you two in my life. but i do get easily re. i would like to acknowledge and talk a little bit about two women who are not here today, but who have influenced my life in profound ways. my mother was a very important

character in this campaign. i talked a lot about her. she died actually during the course of the campaign. my mother struggled with mental illness for most of her life. the reason i did not have a place to live as a teenager was her struggles with mental illness. many of you know this, you read the heath nights story or live in strict 8 and had her show up at your doorstep, she spent time in a homeless shelter. when i was older, i was able to intervene in her life and get her into a slightly better place. a much better place. the experience of having that person in my life and seeing the reality of the mental health challenges to folks struggle with has left me with a real certainty that there are people in this world who cannot take

care of themselves and it is our job to take care of them. [applause] housing is necessary but it is not sufficient. and so one of the first things i did after being elected as supervisor was to go up to sacramento, along with our mayor elect to testify and say we're 1045 which is a bill that will expand conserveto rships. it is a tool. it's controversial and complicated. my colleagues have different feelings about it and i look forward to engaging in conversations with them overtime. i do believe if we chose to implement this tool locally it will call our bluff. it's not enough, of course, to say we're going to do

conservetorships. do you make the resources available to ensure you provide care for the people who need it? we know and the folk folks who e concerned remember that when we institutionalize on a mass basis people who were different or unwell that is not a history we should be proud of. i think the san francisco in 2018 can do better. i think we can do better than we did in the 50s and we can do better than we're doing now. [applause] that is a strong commitment of mine. the other person who i think got short shipped in this campaign was my grandmother. my grandmother, esther, is the strongest person who i have ever known. she was a holocaust survivor. when the war broke out she was young. she had a child three months

before the war broke out. that child was my dad. somehow my grandmother kept herself and my dad alive through those six years of hell. at the end, her parents were dead, her husband, my grandfather was head and most of her brothers and sisters were dead. she lost her home, her farm, everything. she had lost basically her whole life except this one little kid who she loved very much, my dad. after six years in displaced persons camps in europe, they came to the united states and my grandmother had that typical american immigrant story where she worked and scraped and saved and built a new life for herself and her family and ultimately for me. i learned many things from my grandmother. i learned about and this corny but the promise of this country and what it's meant here in the united states and around the

world to so many people. i also learned she loved this country. she was also very aware of its challenges. she con understand as a county as wealthy as this country and a country she loved so much could have so many poor people. this was at a time when the gap between rich and poor in the united states was narrowing as opposed to now when it's expanding. those values have been passed on to me from my grandmother and they're very important to me. the most important lesson that i think was the experience of my grandmother's generation shows us is that the fabric of civilized life of decency and civility and human beings treating each other well is surprisingly tenuous. it requires people working really hard ever single day all of us to keep this thing together. now we know that there is a world around san francisco and

around california that is getting stranger and stranger and more and more chaotic and hostile and difficult. and i believe, we heard a lot from the mayor elect this morning about the need for san franciscans to come together to get beyond historic difference and to try and make a future based on the vast majority of the values we share and we do not share with some of the stuff going on out there. i really believe in that. and i take from my grandmother's life and her experience a real commitment to working every single day to try and take the values that we share and make them real and make sure city actually a shining example of what we want this whole country, this whole world to be. i think we can do it and i'm excited to do that work. and i'm looking forward to joining the folks up here in doing it. i have worked, as i said earlier, with a lot of elected officials in my lifetime over the last 20 years, folks around the bay area at city council and

lots of places. this body is well above average. [laughter] [applause] >> this is a very impressive set of folks. they don't get treated necessarily always so well. as people and their commitment and their intelligence and their passion, i've seen elected official who's don't share those great talents, so my pledge to all of you is to be someone who you can trust, who is reliable. and who is a good partner for you and the work we want to represent our diverse constituencies and the city we love. to our new mayor, i want to extend my great congratulations and enthusiasm for her mayoralty. how extraordinary this city is going to be led by an african american woman who grew up in the projects. [applause]

>> it was everyone out there this morning could feel a pride in this city and a pride in what we're going to represent in this era that unfortunately will be known as the trump era. but i am so excited. i know we are excited to work together to solve homelessness and build more affordable housing and give san francisco the 21st septembe century transm we deserve. to the voters of district 8, i want to give them my extraordinary thanks for being willing to take a second look. [applause] >> and taking me at my word when i said i wanted to try to get beyond the petty differences that seem to have divided our city politics for too long. my pledge to them is to

everything i can to make good on that promise from the campaign and keep true to that. that's what i'm going to do. thank you all so much for coming and being part of this and i know there are people who i forgot to acknowledge and i shouldn't and i apologize. i hope you will join us over in president cohen's office for some beverages and some fine foods. thank you, everybody. [applause]

♪ >> about two years ago now i had my first child. and i thought when i come back, you know, i'm going to get back in the swing of things and i'll find a spot. and it wasn't really that way when i got back to work. that's what really got me to think about the challenges that new mothers face when they come back to work. ♪ >> when it comes to innovative ideas and policies, san francisco is known to pave the way, fighting for social justice or advocating for the environment, our city serves as the example and leader many times over. and this year, it leads the nation again, but for a new reason. being the most supportive city of nursing mothers in the work place. >> i was inspired to work on

legislation to help moms return to work, one of my legislative aids had a baby while working in the office and when she returned we had luckily just converted a bathroom at city hall into a lactation room. she was pumping a couple times a day and had it not been for the room around the hallway, i don't know if she could have continued to provide breast milk for her baby. not all returning mothers have the same access, even though there's existing state laws on the issues. >> these moms usually work in low paying jobs and returning to work sooner and they don't feel well-supported at work. >> we started out by having legislation to mandate that all city offices and departments have accommodations for mothers to return to work and lactate. but this year we passed

legislation for private companies to have lactation policies for all new moms returning to work. >> with the newcome -- accommodations, moms should have those to return back to work. >> what are legislation? >> we wanted to make it applicable to all, we created a set of standards that can be achievable by everyone. >> do you have a few minutes today to give us a quick tour. >> i would love to. let's go. >> this is such an inviting space. what makes this a lactation room? >> as legislation requires it has the minimum standards, a seat, a surface to place your breast on, a clean space that doesn't have toxic chemicals or storage or anything like that. and we have electricity, we have plenty of outlets for pumps, for

fridge. the things that make it a little extra, the fridge is in the room. and the sink is in the room. our legislation does require a fridge and sink nearby but it's all right in here. you can wash your pump and put your milk away and you don't have to put it in a fridge that you share with co-workers. >> the new standards will be applied to all businesses and places of employment in san francisco. but are they achievable for the smaller employers in the city? >> i think small businesses rightfully have some concerns about providing lactation accommodations for employees, however we left a lot of leeway in the legislation to account for small businesses that may have small footprints. for example, we don't mandate that you have a lactation room, but rather lactation space. in city hall we have a lactation pod here open to the public. ♪

♪ >> so the more we can change, especially in government offices, the more we can support women. >> i think for the work place to really offer support and encouragement for pumping and breast feeding mothers is necessary. >> what is most important about the legislation is that number one, we require that an employer have a lactation policy in place and then have a conversation with a new hire as well as an employee who requests parental leave. otherwise a lot of times moms don't feel comfortable asking their boss for lactation accommodations. really it's hard to go back to the office after you have become a mom, you're leaving your heart outside of your body. when you can provide your child food from your body and know you're connecting with them in that way, i know it means a lot

to a mommy motionlely and physically to be able to do that. and businesses and employers can just provide a space. if they don't have a room, they can provide a small space that is private and free from intrusion to help moms pump and that will attract moms to working in san francisco. >> if you want more information visit sfdph.org/breastfeedingatwork. ♪ ♪

>> i personally love the mega jobs. i think they're a lot of fun. i like being part of a build that is bigger than myself and outlast me and make a mark on a landscape or industry. ♪ we do a lot of the big sexy jobs, the stacked towers, transit center, a lot of the note worthy projects. i'm second generation construction. my dad was in it and for me it just felt right. i was about 16 when i first started drafting home plans for people and working my way

through college. in college i became a project engineer on the job, replacing others who were there previously and took over for them. the transit center project is about a million square feet. the entire floor is for commuter buses to come in and drop off, there will be five and a half acre city park accessible to everyone. it has an amputheater and water marsh that will filter it through to use it for landscaping. bay area council is big here in the area, and they have a gender equity group. i love going to the workshops. it's where i met jessica. >> we hit it off, we were both in the same field and the only two women in the same.

>> through that friendship did we discover that our projects are interrelated. >> the projects provide the power from san jose to san francisco and end in the trans bay terminal where amanda was in charge of construction. >> without her project basically i have a fancy bus stop. she has headed up the women's network and i do, too. we have exchanged a lot of ideas on how to get groups to work together. it's been a good partnership for us. >> women can play leadership role in this field. >> i tell him that the schedule is behind, his work is crappy. he starts dropping f-bombs and i

say if you're going to talk to me like that, the meeting is over. so these are the challenges that we face over and over again. the reality, okay, but it is getting better i think. >> it has been great to bond with other women in the field. we lack diversity and so we have to support each other and change the culture a bit so more women see it as a great field that they can succeed in. >> what drew me in, i could use more of my mind than my body to get the work done. >> it's important for women to network with each other, especially in construction. the percentage of women and men in construction is so different. it's hard to feel a part of something and you feel alone. >> it's fun to play a leadership role in an important project, this is important for the transportation of the entire peninsula. >> to have that person -- of

women coming into construction, returning to construction from family leave and creating the network of women that can rely on each other. >> women are the main source of income in your household. show of hands. >> people are very charmed with the idea of the reverse role, that there's a dad at home instead of a mom. you won't have gender equity in the office until it's at home. >> whatever you do, be the best you can be. don't say i can't do it, you can excel and do whatever you want. just put your mind into it.

>> please call the role. >> clerk: [roll call]. just as a reminder to everyone, if you could please turn off any sound producing devices that may go off during the meeting. we welcome you here today and we also ask that you take any secondary conversation outside in order for the meeting to proceed as efficiently as possible. if you like to speak on any item today, we rst