supervisor. >> supervisor safai: first i'm going to start with supervisor norman yee, who asked me to do his in his absence. luis pasea, outside? went to the restroom. okay, we'll get back to him. going to have to wait now. we have a titan in san francisco we're going to honor today, and i mean that from the bottom of my heart. i have such a great honor today to honor someone that i like to call a friend, a mentor, and has been a long, long-time neighborhood leader, someone that has been leading out in my district essentially from the time that i was born. mary aguilar savilla harris, it's my honor to recommend today. she's a graduate of lincoln

high. in 1974, and this is where a lot of her community advocacy began, she married her life partner, another person that i like to call a friend, al harris. and they moved to the lake view neighborhood of san francisco, where they raised four children and are proud grandparents of nine. she shares her birthday with baby julian born july 31st. let me start with this, mary is a proud member and graduate of coleman advocates. a lot of coleman advocate supporters in the house. in 1992 she worked with the community in the police station to rebuild trust at the height of the crack epidemic in the lake view and took back the broad randolph corridor with neighbors and the police department, and they identified and established one of the first substations in the neighborhood.

she serves on the citizens advisory committee in the blue handle of the san francisco police department. she's a past president of jose ortega elementary school, where they advocated and won that school to be included in the school bond, and those of you who know jose ortega, it's one of the nicest schools in the school district. rebuilt on a beautiful hill overlooking the ocean. she was instrumental in advocating for and working with people the trail blazers before her in the neighborhood, mini and lovie, and those were their names, mini and lovie ward. that's what the rec center is named for, transforming, again, part of the neighborhood that was overrun with crime, illegal activity and drugs and violence. and that has now transformed into one of the most beautiful clubhouses and playing fields in the entire rec and park facility all over san francisco. children and families come from all over the city to partake in

that, and we're very proud in that in district 11. she founded the first and only beacon, providing services to families and their children for decades. the beacon was the model used by the san francisco unified school district to establish community schools programs, and she serves as an executive director of that program and has in the past. she worked with mayor willy brown in the beginning of his administration and was able to rebuild the oceanview library. she stayed in his face and many of you who know mayor brown, once he makes a commitment, and if you're tenacious enough to get his word, he handed his word to her, and they rebuilt that library, and mary can now take single-handed credit for that. i can go on and on. and the next person that we're going to honor, luiz, that serves on the ocean avenue association and revitalization project, mary was one of the

founders of that, laid the groundwork for that, and now we have a cbd along ocean avenue that's helped transform that neighborhood and that commercial corridor. she's a member and a founder of the friends of the geneva carborn and power house working to get funding to revitalize one of the only historic sites in district 11, which now has been received about half of the funding, and work has begun, and we're going to do a ribbon cutting in the coming spring for what we believe will be one of the premier performing arts and cultural spaces for young adults in san francisco. she is a member, and when i say she is tireless, and i have to say, i am lucky i never had to run against mary harris for office, because she is everywhere, knows everybody, is on top of every issue, and is a member of every single association and group and activity in district 11. and that is no exaggeration.

she's a member of the new mission terrace improvement association. she's a member of the police station toy giveaway program. she's helped to establish the excelsior action group, the neighborhood empowerment program, the outer mission improvement association, the improvement association, the excelsior improvement association, a former president and lifetime honoree of the district 11 democratic club. it goes on and on and on and on. and i just want to say, it's truly an honor to honor my friend today and someone i like to call a mentor. and by the way, it took 14 years to earn her support, and i mean that, 14 years, but once i earned it, i know it's there for life. mary harris. mary aguilar harris.

>> thank you. thank you so much for the honor, supervisor safai. there's a few corrections. i never was a president of ortega. it was my school in the sunset, francis scott key, and a ten-year school volunteer, and i never was on the advisory board of the beacon, but most everything you said was accurate. and i am humbled, very humbled, to be in the company of the other honorees today, and i can hardly look at all my friends and family that have come to join me today, because i'm afraid i'm going to cry. thank you so much for coming, sharing this moment with me today. i would like to accept this honor in the name of my parents, antonio and carmen aguilar, who came here in the 1920s.

my father came first to los angeles and then to san francisco, fortunately, so he could meet my mother. my mother came in the '20s also when her father died when she was 12, her mother had already passed when she was 2 years old. she came here to live with her siblings, who already had come to san francisco and were working and had homes here, so they finished raising her. she came not speaking english. she arrived by a ship and was supposed to be processed at angel island. however, being the name of savilla, they never got to her that friday. they went in alphabetical order, so she was then detained at 12 years old, not speaking english, never knowing if she was going to get out of jail or not. monday morning she was released and finished being processed.

she then went to school, she had a very hard time not knowing english, being called wet back and spick and other derogatory names, but she got through it, she got a job, and married my father. she went to beautician school, as they called it then, so that she could work and live where we had a home in the valley and they had a beauty shop down below, so when we came home as kids from school, she was there and we could say hello to her patrons and let her know we were home safely and go do our homework. my parents -- my father was a union man, very strong union man, a shop steward. i remember going to church with him one day and i said can we get some donuts after church, i'm hungry, daddy, and he said, no, there's a picket line and we do not cross picket lines.

[ applause ] that was my dad, and my mom worked into her 80s. first as a beautician, and then taking care of the elderly in her home. they always paid taxes, they always voted. they were very proud to be mexican, but also very proud to be americans. they moved from the valley when i was 5 to the sunset. i wasn't quite sure why that move happened, because there was nothing but sand dunes at the time, but i later came to love it because of the amenities there, skating rinks, play land, you name it, it was a wonderful place to grow up, and we had the home until 2010 when my mother passed, so i consider the sunset my first home and the omi my

second home. my parents were very proud individuals. they never took any kind of government money or charity. they believed in family first, and whenever any family member was out of a job, they took them in, or if they were ill, they took them in until they were well and could get back on their feet. so i take this honor in memory of them, and i thank -- i'm thankful that this city is a sanctuary city. i'm thankful to you supervisors for doing the right thing, and i hope you will continue to do so. i thank you very much. [ applause ]

>> oh, you did so good. >> president cohen: thank you, supervisor safai, and congratulations ms. mary aguilar harris. [ applause ] next, supervisor safai is going to be presenting on behalf of supervisor yee, who's not with us today. are we ready to go? >> supervisor safai: okay, great. luis? >> president cohen: are they here? okay. he's coming down.

>> supervisor safai: okay, great. >> president cohen: next time, luis, sit in the front row, okay? >> supervisor safai: all righty. so, luis is a san francisco native. it's my honor to honor you on behalf of supervisor norman yee. he's dedicated his life work helping people who live, work, and attend school in the southern neighborhoods of san francisco. he was born at st. luke's hospital. st. luke's! all right! grew up in the engleside and excelsior districts. he met his future wife, monica. luis earned a degree in international business from san francisco state. and he and his high school sweetheart are raising their two children, mariano and gabrielle, in the same neighborhood where they were raised, the engleside.

luis brought his experience working in hospitality, banking, and small business to the ocean avenue commercial corridor, and what a transformation that has done, so kudos to all your hard work. as the director of the ocean avenue cbd, luis has helped business owners form businesses, support each other, and other community organizations and organizers serving district 11 and district 7. he's most proud of the legacy business program, stabilizing the av, faxing garage, and ocean hair design, so they can continue to serve district 11 and district 7 residents over in the omi and oceanview neighborhoods. it's important to luis to continue to serve his community in a way possible supporting local businesses and teaching his family that this type of community involvement is one of the most rewarding things you can do in life.

he is currently learning mandarin and cantonese to better serve the businesses and residents served by the ocean avenue cbd. it's our honor to honor luis today. thank you, luis. [ applause ] >> thank you for your honor, but i'm not the director, it's dan weaver. i'm the small business program manager for -- no, no problem. >> supervisor safai: sorry, i'm just reading the words given to me by the district supervisor. >> but i do believe in helping the community, i believe parents are the number one teachers in children's lives. raising my kids in san francisco to be better people and not just telling them, but showing them to be productive members of society, the community. i believe that the community

should control their local economies and by controlling the local economy of that community, they can hire the people within that community, and they can direct how they want to build that community. so like ocean avenue, i believe that the community is -- should be the number one, the needs of that community should be foremost, should direct any policy or any plan that cbd does form. i believe that my children are my biggest teachers. my wife is my biggest -- my number one partner in life, my cheerleader, but my kids taught me how to be patient, you know? they are just my ultimate employer, dictators. they don't know the meaning of no. can or cannot.

and they are number one, but i did learn a lot by working in the cbd, by dan weaver, especially, and neil, neil ballard. i am very thankful. i am very thankful for the people in oewd for helping me bring services to our small businesses, to strengthen them, to help them grow their business, but thank you so much. thank you for the honor. >> supervisor safai: thank you, luis. [ applause ] >> president cohen: supervisor ronen, thank you so much. i want to thank the honorees today, and especially thank my colleagues. i know we have a long board meeting ahead of us, but i just appreciate all of you for taking this time. these days when we honor

different communities, they are my favorite days actually at the board of supervisors, and being able to recognize all the unsung heroes in our community, of different communities, is really such an honor for all of us, so congratulations. you are a historic bunch, the first-ever latinx heritage month honorees at the board of supervisors. one last round of applause, and thank you so much, everyone. have a great evening. >> supervisor, we have one more. sorry folks, just kidding, we are not done yet. we have one more person to honor. >> supervisor tang: unfortunately, my honoree couldn't make it, those in the restaurant industry, it's hard to peel away from the job, but i wanted to state about them, alvarido express and celia by

the beach. of course, one of the best parts of living in san francisco is our rich and diverse food culture and nothing embodies that more in the outer sunset than two of my favorite places to dine, alvarido express and celia's by the beach. i want to honor the current owner and operator and his mother. phil is actually the grandson and mila is the daughter of the original owner of celia's. celia lopez rodriguez and perfecto rodriguez. for nearly 60 years they have been serving delicious food to the bay area and a first of more than a dozen of those restaurants opened in the sunset district in 1960, but the story doesn't begin there. it begins in mexico, where celia and perfecto first fell in love and decided to move to america in pursuit of the american dream. celia and perfecto immigrated to the bay area with little more than the clothes on their backs. through working various jobs, they saved money to buy a little

diner and eventually celia began serving mexican food to her customers, who fell in love with the bright, comforting flavors. they worked incredibly hard, 16-hour shifts at restaurants for three years before they could save enough money to move their children to san francisco, and eventually they worked their way through the restaurant industry from dishwashers to the kitchen, and then they opened up enough money to open up celia's cafe on 45th avenue. and since they weren't sure if mexican food would be popular in this mostly irish neighborhood, they started out serving american classics like hamburgers, fries, and shakes, which i had no idea. and celia was a pioneer way before her time, to be a latin woman business owner in the '60s had their own obstacles. their daughter, mila, her daughter mila, continues the tradition of strong latin female business owners today at both of her locations.

so the sunset has always been a home for them since day one, and we are so thrilled to have them as a part of our community. i will say that for me, ebx is my go-to place when i don't know what else i want to order, and if anyone were to ask me where my favorite burrito is from, it's definitely ebx, so i definitely want to thank mila for continuing the family tradition in the sunset district, and i also want to extend my gratitude and respect to their father, perfecto, who passed away in 2009, and celia, who passed away in 2012, for investing in our neighborhood and building it up. and so, again, just want to thank them and recognize them. i wish they could be here today, but again, i know they are very busy running their restaurant, so i want to congratulate them and congratulate all the honorees today. [ applause ] >> president cohen: thank you very much. supervisor ronen already said her closing remarks.

i want to say again congratulations. hopefully next year we'll probably tighten up the program a little bit, make it not two hours long, but what a wonderful way to kick off latinx month. congratulations to all the award recipients, and thank you for being here today. madam clerk, i think this concludes our commendations. could you please bring us back to the agenda? >> clerk: given that it's after 3:00 a.m., items for public hearing of persons interested in the certification of a final environmental impact report or feir for the proposed central plan issued by the planning commission dated may 10th, twooint. this hearing has been continued open from the meeting of september 4th and 11th 2018. item 40 is the motion to affirm,

conditionally reverse the certification subject to adoptions for findings and item 42 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings. >> president cohen: thank you, m madam clerk. so what we have before us today are four appeals for the final impact report for the proposed soma project in district 6. our consideration of the appeals involve our analysis of the adequacy, accuracy, sufficiency, and completeness of the final environmental impact report. we will proceed as follows. given there are four appellants, up to five minutes for each appellant to describe the grounds of their appeal, up to two minutes for public commenters to speak in support or against the appeal, and up to ten minutes for representatives of the planning department to present its analysis for certifying the feir. up to ten minutes for real property in interests to present

their project, and again, another up to two minutes for public commentary in support of the affirmation of the environmental impact report. so, finally, each appellant will have up to two minutes for a rebuttal argument. seeing there are no objections, i will gavel down. we will begin this hearing, and i'd like to acknowledge my colleague, supervisor kim, who would like to open up this hearing with a few remarks. supervisor kim, thank you. >> supervisor kim: thank you, president cohen. i will be brief, because we are in for perhaps a lengthy appeal hearing today. we have five different appellants. just want to say some general comments. this is a plan that has been in the works for close to a decade, although really at the planning department over the last eight years it came out of the eastern neighborhood planning process that we need to re-examine our zoning and uses in the central soma area plan, in particular with the major infrastructure

project, central subway, that will be coming through the south of market. what is before us today is not an approval of the plan, and so i will not speak directly to the plan, but merely to the appeal of the eir that is before us today. we have a somewhat unusual appeal today in that we have five different appellants that are actually making different presentations today, and so i just want to let my colleagues know that we will have members of the public that support one appellant but not the other, and what we're telling members of the public that would like to speak against one appeal but in support of another, is that you split your two minutes. the clerk is aware that you may come up and speak more than once, which is not typical of board procedure, but you can divide up your two minutes to explain why you support one appeal, but do not support another. we look forward to the presentation on behalf of all

the appellants and i'll certainly have a list of questions for our planning department, as well. thank you. >> president cohen: all right, thank you very much. madam clerk? >> clerk: all right, at this point are the appellants here? please come on down. is there an order by which we're having appellants present? >> president cohen: order was not given to me. if you have a preference, supervisor kim, we can defer to your recommendation. >> supervisor kim: okay.

>> clerk: madam president, a suggestion we can go in order that they are listed on the agenda. first would be richard drury of lozeau drury on behalf of soma neighbors. >> thank you, my name is richard drury representing sf blue. sf blue represents hundreds of residents, many of whom have lived there for a very long time, and we have serious concerns about this plan. i would at some point like to show something on the overhead. i want to emphasize, blu does not oppose the plan. we favor development in central soma, we favor the mid rise option, but i want to emphasize, that would allow almost all of the development, but without creating a second financial district in central soma, which is what this plan really does. we want to keep a livable neighborhood, where we have housing, where families can live, where we have access to light and air. there is no question that san francisco needs more housing. there's also no question that

central soma provides a great opportunity to provide thousands upon thousands of new housing units. unfortunately, this plan fails to do that. instead, what this plan delivers is a whole lot of office space. we get in this plan 63,000 new workers, but at a maximum, only 14,000 new homes. in other words, the plan makes the problem worse. we are exacerbating an already problematic job/housing imbalance by creating four times more jobs than housing units. so we will have yet more high-paid workers chasing relatively fewer housing units. that's a problem. we urge the board to send this back to staff and bring us a plan that creates more housing and comparatively less office space. that's what san francisco needs. now, i'd like to talk about the defects in the environmental impact report, and in particular i want to focus on cancer risk. the eir here in this case admits

that this plan will create increased cancer risk in central soma by 226 per million. now, i want to put that in perspective. the significant threshold in san francisco is seven. 226 per million compared to 7. this is 32 times above the threshold. again, to put it in perspective, i spent years at communities for a better environment where we fought oil refineries. the phillips conoco refinery in rodeo is the worst, it has a cancer risk of 23 in a million. this plan will create a cancer risk that's ten times worse than the worst refinery in the bay area, ten times worse. yet despite the fact that the eir admits that increased cancer risk, it does not have adequate mitigation. in particular, it does not include a requirement to

retrofit existing buildings like sfblu with air filtration units that can reduce the cancer risk by better than 90%. now, new buildings that will be built in the area will have to have filtration, but the existing buildings like the residence of sfblu and others in the area will have to suffer a 200 cancer risk per million. i'd like to show on the overhead, this is a has been from the eir, and right here, that is -- this pink square there is sfblu, so you can see the pink squares are the areas that are going to move from clean air or not in the air pollution impact zone, apez, air pollution effect zone, into an apez. because blu is currently not in an apez, the building was built without filtration.

doesn't have filters. but because of the plan, it will suffer an increased cancer risk of about 50 in a million, which will put it into the apez, so these residents will be breathing dirty air in a building that is not equipped for it, yet the eir does not include a provision for air filtration on it or other buildings. the city has said they are going to create a fund, the residents can apply to the fund for hand held filtration units, but there's no guarantee we'll have access to that money. and so we think that at a minimum we need that mitigation that the existing residents of central soma need to be safeguarded from this pollution. traffic. the eir says that the program will not have significant traffic impacts. [ bell rings ] however, we're putting 14,000 new residents in central soma. of course it's going to have significant traffic impacts. the travel analysis shows ten of

11 freeway onramps will suffer, quote, breakdown levels of traffic, and the eir admits vehicle miles traveled will increase. that's a significant defect in the eir. we need traffic mitigation to reduce the air pollution of the plan. thank you. [ bell rings ] >> supervisor kim: mr. drury, it's listed you are the attorney for blu and central soma neighbors, but you only stated you represent sfblu. does it mean there is another presenter for central soma neighbors today? >> that's correct. thank you. >> clerk: i understand that to be angela cabande? >> supervisor kim: no, she's representing somcan. >> clerk: it's my understanding

mr. drury filed an appeal on behalf of sfblu. >> president cohen: next we'll hear from angelica cabande for the south of market community action network. after angelica we'll hear from john elberling for the yerba booun ya consortium, followed by phillip babich of reed and smith. welcome, angelica. >> hi, i'm angelica cabande. any development or rezoning of this area has an affect to the entire neighborhood and city. excuse me. while we are not opposed to further growth, we are opposed to the planning's proposed transformation of this area into

a new financial district. the central soma plan incorporates areas that are covered under the soma youth and families special youth district. which was adopted by the board of supervisors in january 2009. the sud's purpose is to expand the stock of affordable housing, as well as protect and enhance the health and environment of youth and families. the eir and planning staff undermines the sud score by pointing out only a portion of the sud overlaps with central soma. instead of focusing on that, the planning needs to be strengthened for the controls of the soma youth and family special youth district and those controls should be incorporated through the whole central soma plan, not just the boundaries of the sud that overlaps in the plan. the environmental impact of this

placement is clear. there must be a more complete and thorough understanding of what the impacts will be if this plan is adopted. with that, the following controls are what should be included. that the eir be studied against the city's healthy development measure tool, which was developed by planning and partnership with the department of public health and community organizations during the eastern neighborhood rezoning. somcan was part of that really long process. incorporate four-bedroom units as a requirement into the plan and restriction on micro units and market rate sros, including amending existing laws when no

sro building can be converted into tech co-ops. an opportunity to purchase act so we can more effectively and aggressively purchase rent-control buildings and aggressively land bank south sides for future new 100% affordable housing developments, such as the caltrain rail yard as one site where affordable housing can be developed. >> supervisors, continuing with those controls that should be included, an updated jobs/housing linkage fee. the fee is currently based on a study that was done and conducted in 1997 and was outdated and needs to be revised. the city must conduct a new study on the jobs/housing linkage fee and have the full board of supervisors pass and adopt recommendations that come from the report. also, requiring living walls and

all new developments. the city needs to be proactively working on ways to address global warming and increase environmental protections. one way to do this is to require living or green walls in all new developments. living walls not only add green space, but work to address global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. and then lastly, restrict the use of red lanes to public transit only and do not allow the use of electric foot scooters. thank you, supervisors, and we are asking you to please uphold our appeal and implement the controls that we have discussed regarding the youth and family zone. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you. next speaker, john elberling.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm john elberling, and i'm speaking today as the manager of the yerba buena neighborhood consortium, and i'm here, we're here, appealing this environmental impact report, because you won't find a map that i'm just handing out to you today in the project eir. this map shows the filled lands in san francisco going back to the era before the gold rush. and as you can see, a substantial portion of those lands are, in fact, in central south of market. the problem is, when the planning department was doing the initial study for the cir,

its staff determined without a public hearing or any vote at the planning commission, that seismic issues would not be evaluated by the eir. so, you will not find this map. you will not find the discussion of the hazards that these soils represent to existing development in soma, new development in soma, and most of all, the up to 50,000 new residents and workers that will be living and working in central soma in the future as a result of this central soma plan, if it is adopted. everyone knows that soils in south of market are bad. in 1906 it suffered the worst damage in the city. in 1989, it suffered the worst damage in the city. multiple buildings had to be demolished after the earthquake. putting 50,000 new people in that district, where damage to

existing buildings can be life threatening is not responsible. the problem is not the new buildings. the problem is the existing buildings. yes, we have a seismic retrofit ordinance, yes, there's a soft story retrofit ordinance, but none of those ordinances require fixing the foundations beneath those buildings. if a foundation fails, cracks, settles differentially due to liquefaction or settlement of soils underneath it, even a retrofitted building can, in fact, partially collapse or fail. and it is the risk that poses to people nearby on sidewalks adjacent to them that it's life threatening. and, in fact, in 1989, two women were killed on sixth street in central soma when exactly that happened. a big building lost part of the wall, and they were killed by

the falling bricks, because they were unlucky enough to be right there. what the eir should have done was, of course, fully state these issues, fully evaluate them, find that this is a potentially significant impact, but most of all, what it needed to do was identify the mitigation measures that could potentially greatly mitigate and even eliminate this hazard. and an obvious example is a city ordinance requiring the -- first the evaluation and then if necessary the retrofit of the foundations of all existing buildings in central soma that are located on known hazardous soils. that isn't now an ordinance. there's no requirement. it will take two decades, perhaps, to get all the work done, but it could literally save hundreds of lives. there is a 75% chance, says the

united states g.s., of a major earthquake on the fault within the next 25 years. it will be closer than loma prieta was, probably stronger than loma prieta was, and south of market is going to suffer a very great deal of damage, and if you or i are lucky enough to be on the sidewalk next to an old building on bad soil that happens to lose a wall, a parapet, whatever, because foundation cracks and settles several feet, we could be the victim. that is why this eir should not be certified until it does this analysis, identifies those mitigations, and gives you the chance as the legislative body to then -- [ bell rings ] -- for the city to pin that down, the obligations of property owners and the time scheduled to accomplish it. thank you. >> supervisor kim: thank you.

next speaker is phillip babich. >> good afternoon, members of the board, and staff and department representatives. my name is phillip babich, i'm with the law firm reed smith. we raised three issues on appeal, but the one i want to focus on is our first issue, and that's that the eir should have considered a higher housing density alternative that could have reduced certain environmental impacts on transit, traffic, and air quality to less than significant. and i would also like to briefly address two points raised by appellants sfblu and central soma neighbors that argue that less, not more, housing is required. our first issue is that the eir should have considered a higher housing density alternative to address the significant and unavoidable impacts on certain aspects of transit and air quality. the alternative we suggest would keep the same number of jobs as called for in the plan.

in this scenario, there would be a reduction in certain impacts on traffic, transit, and air quality. there is support that higher housing density could lessen these impacts as shown in city planning documents, state planning documents, and the department's response to comments. we provide these documents in support of our appeal. our documents show that increased housing density would not only lower greenhouse gas emissions, but it would also lower transit distances between homes and jobs. by reducing these distances, there would be a reduction in the impact the eir found to be significant and unavoidable on transit, traffic, and air quality. in response to this issue, the planning department mischaracterized our argument to mean that by increasing housing, the number of jobs would decrease in the plan area. this is not our argument. we argue that there should be

increased housing with the same number of jobs as called for in the plan. the planning department also argues that even if this alternative maintains the same number of jobs, that would just result in lower greenhouse gas emissions, which are already found to be less than significant. the planning department ignores that along with lower greenhouse gas emissions, there would be lower air quality impacts, which the higher housing density alternative seeks to address. thus the eir should have considered a higher housing density alternative to lessen these impacts on the physical environment. now, finally, this point is also a reason why some appellants are wrong that reducing housing and jobs would reduce impacts on transit, traffic, and air quality. for example, sfblu argues that the one vassar project will encourage automobile transit, because it is not close to

caltrain or b.a.r.t. they are not correct. one vassar, an important node, an area close to the central subway, it is also close to the transbay terminal. sfblu also argues that the plan will increase cancer risk by 226 per 1 million. this is not an accurate characterization of the eir's cancer risk assessment. there are two cancer risk assessments in the eir. one is under a hypothetical scenario which places all planned traffic as if it were fully built out instantaneously on top of conditions in 2014. this is the 226 per 1 million cancer risk. the other risk assessment is for the actual plan fully built out in the year 2040. this risk is 8.1 per 1 million.

this is a realistic assessment. sfblu's heavy reliance on the other number is misplaced. one vassar respectfully request the board of supervisors grant our appeal and reverse the planning commission's decision to certify the environmental impact report. thank you for your consideration. >> supervisor kim: thank you very much. at this time, we will hear from -- we will take public comment. just so i'm clear, these are for the people that are in favor? is that how you wanted to run? all right, you'll have one minute. is that correct, supervisor kim? >> two minutes. >> president cohen: two minutes? >> any time -- >> president cohen: excuse me, we have not opened public comment yet, thank you. supervisor kim?

>> supervisor kim: just to clarify, there are members of the public that want to speak on behalf of one appellant but against another, so we've asked them to divide their two minutes. we won't count that in their two minutes, so we know they'll come up to speak twice, but they'll be limited to a minute for an appellant and against another appellant. >> president cohen: great. i wanted to make sure we reflect your wishes. two minutes allotted for every public comment. thanks so much. >> thank you so much. whenever there's a confusion on your hands about cancer causing situations, you always put profit over safety. you did that in the bayview, you just found radioactive material out at the bayview. it's been guaranteed safe for public to live. you've got radioactive material out there that's got a life span for 94,000 years. you're using a scanner, test machine, that's not qualified to detect the material. and then you print out results

from that ineffective machine and lie to the public, lie to the government, lie to the community, and say it's safe for people to live. people are dying. people are born with birth defects. now you got the same situation on your hands again. if you can't get 125% pure results from tests, from not only one organization, but the federal government, which is the top of the line as far as test of materials is concerned and not people who have got a financial interest for a financial gain, because you've got investment in that property, there should not be no moves made. moreover, you're price fixing on these units. you talk about inclusionary housing. you always say it's inclusionary, but yet when it comes time to fill out an application, the people in low income, very low income, retirement people, senior

citizens, their income is not high enough to be included in the inclusionary law, which is law that all the constituents voted for. [ bell rings ] and you have the audacity to campaign and say you want to help the most vulnerable people in the city, but when it comes time for you to do something about it, you do just the opposite. it's not fair. you're running a corrupt organized enterprise and you're depriving the most vulnerable people of the due process and civil rights, protective rights, pertaining to due process and equal protection under the law. [ bell rings ] >> thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. next speaker, please. before the next speaker, i'll just remind the members in the public gallery, that if you are in support of a speaker's comments, please use your support of hands. next speaker, please.

[ speaking in a foreign language ] [ speaking in a foreign language ]

>> good afternoon, supervisor, i am a worker here in the soma district. i am against the central soma plan, like building, tall buildings, that will cause gentrification in our communities. most of the families that live in our neighborhood are manual labor workers, and they do not work techie jobs. yes, it is true that there will be a solution for a housing crisis, but who will it be for and who will afford the rent? will it be for people who -- who is central soma plan really for, will it be for the poor people or will it be for the rich? the central soma plan is a way to misplace more of the ordinary people.

>> next speaker. [ speaking in a foreign language ] [ speaking in a foreign language ]

>> my name is -- sorry, hold on a second. good afternoon, my name is mary jean sombrano. i live in district 6, and i support the appeal that somcan has said. i hope that you all will support the appeal, which is housing and to prevent displacement and not -- which is not included in the eir. yes.

sorry, i apologize. trying to interpret. the housing and the units that are being proposed are not matched and not being included in the eir. it will affect the buildings and units that will just promote corporate rentals and temporary rentals and commercial uses that will -- yes. sorry. yes. the units -- the truth is that the -- it is not right that they will just promote livable units that will not be permanent and

that they will be -- they should be included in the eir. >> supervisor kim: do you want to ask the speaker clarifying questions and in the meantime go to the next speaker? >> yeah, sure. >> supervisor kim: please, continue. >> good afternoon, everyone, i work at somcan. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> translator: i support the appeal that was made about the eir, because i believe that does not include -- the -- it does

not completely study the effects of it in our health, the health and wealth of our community. >> translator: from the beginning of the noise, the quality of air, and the tall buildings, it does not consider those things. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> translator: i am fearful that the speed, the added speed of wind, will affect those who are elders and those people with disabilities. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> translator: the additional

inflow of cars will also affect the safety of the streets, and this was not considered upon building the eir. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> translator: included in the construction and the influx of more traffic, it will affect all of the families that were living here in the neighborhood. thank you very much. >> supervisor kim: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> jonathan burke, representing central soma neighbors. let me start with a simple question, how many of you will be comfortable with the rezoning in your neighborhood that would

allow ten oil refineries? by the city's own analysis, the panel exposed the residents of our neighborhood to the equivalent cancer risk of ten oil refineries. no responsible parent would simply sit back and allow their children to be exposed to this cancer risk. the majority of this pollution result, one reason the plan significantly increases traffic congestion is a proposed development that includes two 350-foot towers located at the entrance to the bay bridge. if you put bulk at the entrance to the bay bridge, you encourage automobile commuting. the original version of the central soma plan did not contain these towers. they were added to the plan to enrich one developer. in doing so, the city is sacrificing the health of our children in the name of development. it requires the city mitigate any adverse health impact.

if the eir does not even consider the most obvious mitigation, relocate the towers away from the freeway entrances and closer to public transportation. we have consistently asked the city to restore the original version of the plan on our block. our proposal would not affect either the flower mart, the development, or any other development in the central soma plan. [ bell rings ] in addition, we offer to withdraw opposition if just the commercial proponent were scaled back, leave all the housing in place, but we would turn down, the state of california precisely to empower citizens like us in situations like this. if you reject our appeal today and pass this legislation, let me assure you we will use our rights to do whatever we can to protect our children. if you force us to enter a protracted lawsuit that will hold up all development in soma, then we are fully prepared to do that. [ bell rings ] >> supervisor kim: madam

president, the speaker's time is concluded. thank you for your comments, sir. next speaker, please. >> i want to apologize for my puppy barking. my puppy is usually better behaved than i am. i always tell people, i joke, she doesn't bite, but i do. so, you know, here we are again in san francisco with a republican board of supervisors. you know, i feel like one of the rape survivors against judge kavanaugh who is trying to tell you that rape is not okay in the 21st century. killing your residents is not okay. >> madam president, i'm pausing the speaker's time. you may not have entered the room when we started this hearing, but this hearing is about the certification of the final environmental impact report for the central soma plan. >> yes, as i was saying before you rudely interrupted me, listen to what i'm saying before you interrupt me.

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