no really. i've worked on some projects, if you want to try and reach beyond your grasp, this project is really that. it's only because of some people that are sitting here and some people that are not here today. mayor breed and supervisor kim, i can't say enough about these two individuals. nothing goes through city hall this fast, at least in my experience. the reason this happened is there were great advocates in the city. people saw the benefit of it for the community, and it happened at an extraordinary rate. but before i talk to the building, i want to talk about some people that made this happen. some of you who may not recognize that this made this happen, jessica downs. you're out there somewhere. can you raise your hand?

honey, thank you. the amount of time that this requires requires help from somebody who is your friend and believes in it with you, and jessica did that. i is also want to say we have a top team of anybody in san francisco. as i represent the conservatory, i can't tell you how famous our team is. the development crew, the senior staff, our c.f.o., katie, kathrin -- everyone here from the sfcm staff, raise your hands. ladies and gentlemen, this is a great group, and we would not have gotten it done without them. this started in a couple of interesting ways. mark cavanero accepted my invitation for a cup of coffee. we had no project, no site, nothing. mark started sketching on his own what it would look like, a facility like this.

mark brought his team, a great crew at cavan 0ed ro. this team worked tirelessly. this project is a residence unit for students. it is two spectacular performance halls, a recording studio, teaching space, a restaurant, yes, sitting right here. if you can imagine the architectural constlants like doing sweeping glass on the west and north walls that also create a beautiful acoustical space. but the reality is 90% of the concerts in those spaces are free to the public. this is a great way to bring music in, and in that building, 99% of the students are on financial aid, and the 27 units are rent stablized, and every dollar it generates goes back to

support scholarships for future students. [applause] >> these guys did an extraordinary job. i can't say enough about how many hurdles they across for us. our law firm did amazing work. there was so many folks working at the city level who also provided this great work. and the fact is it was the team that made it happen, and i said to our c.f.o. this morning that at every point in this project, there was somebody on the team that made an extraordinary event happen. otherwise, the entire thing would have stopped. that's how much this was a combined project. but ladies and gentlemen, we don't do projects like this without people who actually believe and put substantial resources behind them. and i can't tell you how

fortunate we are in san francisco because when you look to davies hall, the opera, the conservatory, sf jazz, to the museums, to the incredible cultural life that we enjoy here, it is because actually not as many as you think, but actually, a very small handful of people for generations have made those things happen for this city and are making this building happen right now. not here are richard blum and senator feinstein, and others, all whom made substantial financial events. can we give them a round of applause, please, for their leadership on that. [applause] >> the next phase of this, the architect, we have lots of fund raising, as you can imagine. financing makes it all happen, and this was a tricky project to finance. hey, we're this conservatory of 400 students, and we want to

build this $90 million building on vanness. think about this. this happened because jim herbert decided it would happen. jim, on behalf of myself, thank you to you and all of your team. it's 3.9 prs fixed over 30 years because jim thought it was important to put up this building. jim and cecelia, i just want to thank you for that. it was incredible. early folks who were in, carol and lyman casey. carol's family has been supporting the art ms. this city in so many ways with affection and tremendous investment. carol was one of the first people who walked in my office and we were talking about this, and she said this needs to happen, and she continued the investment and continued the

investment. carol i want to thank you for all that you've done for us. thank you so much. [applause] >> along the way, every project has a patron saint, actually, and the fact is i will talk about this a bit more today, but we lost bill bose early on, and when that happens, that laefshs kind of a vacuum in leadership. barney osher stepped in and made this thing happen. he not onlily invested in this, but i can't tell you what it meant to this being accomplished. and so this brings us down to the finish line. we were in raping of getting this done. jim was prepared to give us a loan, but frankly we were short and we needed a gift and a

bridge that was crossed, and a colleague and a friend of mine who was a wonderful composer, but i have to tell you, you see his name because of the enormous amount of giving done, and that was gordon getty, and gordon stepped in and absolutely made this project get across the finish line, and that was how we got there, and gordon, i can't thank you enough. but i want to say that none of this, none of this would have han if it weren't for bill. -- happen if it weren't for bill. bill bose, even before there was a property, even before there was a design, it was me and bell at the union club with bill saying, we need this.

he was quiet, and he said, you know, that sounds like a good idea. bill believed in the necessity of housing for students from the moment the civic center project was arrived at on oak street. he has given so generously to so many projects: students, environment, the arts, education. he has advanced so many companies and career throughout his lifetime. and he really resisted anything being named for him. and the fact is, the fact that this building will be named for william k.bose and ute bows will be wonderful, because it'll have a great soul. and perhaps one of the things that this led me to do was to get to know ute, and i will talk about that at lunch today. but the people we find in this

city in this kind of work aren't to be found in many places in this world. they just aren't. that brings me to the final folks i want to thank. we wouldn't have gotten here and i wouldn't have gotten here if it weren't for our board chair, tim folk, and his amazing wife, virginia. virginia, thank you for being here, by the way. i want all of all board members, can you raise your hands for a second -- we have multiple seven figure donors that -- out in the audience. i've never seen a board this cohesive, this supportive that made it a pleasure. it's a dream come true for this conservatory, but i think it's a dream come true for all of us. i can't say more than thank you, but i wish that i could because

the gratitude runs down to my very bones. it's a privilege to be standing here with you all because it makes me a better person. i can tell you we've crossed over, 109 million for this project, but there's still time to investment any of you that are inspired to be involved, let me know. so let's fine will he get to the reason we're doing this. students, can you raise your hands out there. we're going to give you a round of applause. [applause] >> if there's ever a moment where you're wondering if we can get it done, if you stand for a moment in our building with our students, you wonder how you can get it done. they're amazing young students, and they will go out and change the world, and they have changed the world for over 100 years. the fact that we can put a roof

over their head that's affordable is amazing. as i said, 99% are on financial aid. it's my pleasure to introduce the chair of our student council. she is a master's student of voice, mia skolnick. >> good morning, everyone. my name is mia skolnick, and i am a second year master's student in voice here at the conservatory. sf conservatory is a special place, and i am so proud to be here. i applied to several conservatories around the country, but i chose to come here because of its diversity, values, and the feeling i got

when i came here. there was a welcoming atmosphere at the conservatory that let me know right away i was at home. two years ago i was living in portland, oregon, where i grew up, working a regular office job, singing on the side. i had gotten my undergraduate degree in music had you had drifted away from my passion. one day, i had a realization that life is too short not to do what makes you happy, and that was what led me to san francisco and to the conservatory. sfcm is providing me with skills and tools to become a professional musician out in the world. the caliber of excellence we have here at sfcm is simply unmatched, and i wouldn't be getting this kind of education anywhere else. the bose center will expand our dynamic community as our campus

more than doubles in size providing even more state of the art opportunities and resources for students. the bose center will mean so many wonderful things for our future, its proximity to the incredible arts partners in the civic center area, beautiful new spaces for collaboration among students, if a kilt, and visiting artists, and most importantly, it means that sfcm can reach and inspire even more musicians of the future. on behalf of all my fellow students, thank you so everyone who has made this project possible, and now, let's break

ground. [applause]

>> there are kids and families ever were. it is really an extraordinary playground. it has got a little something

for everyone. it is aesthetically billion. it is completely accessible. you can see how excited people are for this playground. it is very special. >> on opening day in the brand- new helen diller playground at north park, children can be seen swinging, gliding, swinging, exploring, digging, hanging, jumping, and even making drumming sounds. this major renovation was possible with the generous donation of more than $1.5 million from the mercer fund in honor of san francisco bay area philanthropist helen diller. together with the clean and safe neighborhood parks fund and the city's general fund. >> 4. 3. 2. 1. [applause] >> the playground is broken into three general areas. one for the preschool set, another for older children, and

a sand area designed for kids of all ages. unlike the old playground, the new one is accessible to people with disabilities. this brand-new playground has several unique and exciting features. two slides, including one 45- foot super slide with an elevation change of nearly 30 feet. climbing ropes and walls, including one made of granite. 88 suspension bridge. recycling, traditional swing, plus a therapeutics win for children with disabilities, and even a sand garden with chines and drums. >> it is a visionary $3.5 million world class playground in the heart of san francisco. this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org.

>> good afternoon, everybody. welcome to the land use and transportation committee meeting. i am katey tang, the chair, and i am joined by supervisor sandra fewer and ahsha safai. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >>clerk: yes. [agenda item read] >> supervisor tang: thank you. can you please call item one? >>clerk: yes. item one is receiving from or

conferring with or receiving advice from the city attorney under codes regarding anticipated litigation in which the city would be a defendant. >> supervisor tang: all right. and at this time, i'd like to see if there's any members of the public who would like to speak for public comment on item one. okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor tang: colleagues, can we get a motion to convene in closed session? >>

>>clerk: we're now back in open session. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. so i just want to let the public know that this committee took no action during your closed session. can we get a motion to not disclose what occurred during closed session? >> supervisor fewer: move to not disclose. >> supervisor tang: we'll do that without objection. okay. madam clerk, next item, please. >>clerk: is there a motion to file the hearing? >> supervisor tang: yes, a motion to file the hearing. >>clerk: yes. >> supervisor tang: okay. we'll do that without objection.

[ gavel ]. >> supervisor tang: next item, please. [agenda item read] >> supervisor tang: thank you very much, and we do apologize our closed session took longer than expected. i do think there should be someone from supervisor brown's office, and she is right outside, and we will give her a minute to join us.

thank you. we're now joined by supervisor brown. again, thank you so much for your patience. >> supervisor brown: thank you very much, chair kim, and supervisor -- i mean, chair tang and supervisor kim and safai. last week, i introduced legislation for the divisadero and fillmore n.c.t.s, and it was to figure out the affordability percentage of these projects. i have actually two projects. one's going to the board -- to the planning department november 8, and the other one is coming

down the pipeline. this is the mayor's -- is extending the site plan for these two developments for 18 months and throughout the city, that i needed to set this affordable rate as soon as possible. so as i said, one is coming on thursday, and it is actually grandfathered in at 13.5%, and the other one is grandfathered in at 18. so today, what the legislation will do, the divise adoadero, t are the ones that will be coming with 12% in the pipeline with 55% a.m.i., four 80% of a.m.i.,

and four, 120% a.m.i. it is really needed in my district. we don't have a lot of housing development west of divisadero -- or actually west of laguna, so i'm excited about this. the n.c.t., when it was rezoned, it let developments actually become denser without raising the height, so we're able to get more affordable units in these n.c.t.s. but one of the things i am doing is i am taking off the fillmore n.c.t. and one of the reasons is that the fillmore is only 50 feet, and because it's only 50 feet in height, it's almost impossible for a developer to actually be able to put the density in there and make it work. so i'm actually going to go back

out to the fillmore neighborhood and talk to them about actually going higher. divisadero neighborhood did not want to go over 65 feet. that is what they're zoned for, but i think the father-in-lillm neighborhood is much more open to it. there are some neighborhoods in the fillmore, and that is the western addition a-2 development that have 130 feet height. so i have taken off the fillmore n.c.t. portion of this and then just left the divisadero. so i'm asking this to go to the full board. i've had many community meetings throughout many different groups in the neighborhood and also the fillmore, and i've also just had a meeting last thursday with the affordable divisadero, and i have also planning here -- jacob

from planning here to -- to address any of the more technical questions that we may have, but i really appreciate your vote to -- to have this go through. i'm really excited that we're able to have this many affordable units in district five, and also, it was in the paper lining ul the fillmore heritage center with the san francisco -- lining up the fillmore heritage center with the san francisco leadership center and the housing development -- the housing development group will be doing affordable housing workshops to get the neighbors through that process. and we also have workforce academies going in for the neighborhood that they'll be doing that. and then, also, free city college. so we're going to actually have a large community hub going on in the fillmore heritage, and i'm excited about that because that will get people ready for this development -- these developments coming through the

western addition, that they can apply and actually get this affordable housing. if anyone has any questions, i'm ready to answer those. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. colleagues, questions, comments? all right. seeing none, would planning like to make another presentation? okay. let's go to public comment on item 2. any members of the public wishing to speak on item 2, please come on up. >> good afternoon, chair tang and members of the land use committee. my name is gus martinez -- first of all, i just want to acknowledge that it was affordable diviz who initially requested this legislation, and we are very happy to see it moving forward. we did have concerns that we

expressed last hearing, and i kind of want to summarize our concerns. so we request the following amendments to this legislation, please. number one, restore fillmore back into the legislation at the same time rate of affordable housing at divisadero. striking fillmore from this corrective housing legislation is fundamentally unfair. it gives developers increased density on fillmore without requiring anything back for the community. number two, we request that you include in this legislation the provisions from home-sf regarding unit mix, unit size, and unit price. number three, index required to appeared along with the citywide baseline. as you know, every year, the city baseline goes up 18%, 19%, and the development leaves

divisadero at 23%, eventually, it'll catch up. for current and future projects, require a minimum of 12% for the lowest income bracket affordable housing, 55% a.m.i. currently, it's 12% for the current projects but 10% for the future projects, and we believe there should be parity between both. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is robert. i live in lower haight. i just wanted to say that over the last two months, when i went to supervisor brown's community meetings, i went dozens of people express support for increased affordable, express

support for the development this would support. i want to stress that housing delayed is housing denied. right now, there are zero affordable units being developed right now. and i don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water if we squabble over a few units at a time. we need comprehensive affordablity reform. we need to build, we just need reliable rules for development to go forward. if we want affordable units, we need to set rules that will be predictable. we need predictable out comes. we just need a predictable process. haggling over individual projects, individual percentages is generally a waste of everyone's time here, and the people that -- the -- there are thousands of people on the list

of -- the waiting list waiting for affordable units, and the more we squabble over a few units at a time, there's still nothing being built, so thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisor tang, supervisor kim, supervisor brown, and supervisor -- well, i g guess ahsha is missing, but he'll be back. my name is lisa brown, and i live just a few blocks away from the proposed development. i'm here to speak in support of this but it will increase housing in the divisadero, and my neighborhood, and more homes equals more residents and more business and revenue for our local merchants. my entire working life here in san francisco has been in developing local neighborhood

economic development, and i very much believe that the more housing that we can build, the better off we're going to be. the housing shortage is hurting our community, and we desperately need new housing especially in transit rich areas like divisadero. so this legislation is a practical way to address the on-site affordability requirement while allowing these projects to remain economically feasible. i support this as much as i can with the highest number of subsidized housing affordable. so please support this. thank you so much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is martin munoz, and i live on oak street in the lower haight. i'm here to support the projects before you today. i'm also here to remind the board that i've been to two well attended community meetings, and the last land use meeting where we discussed this item. so i was surprised in the last

meeting when people was saying there was not adequate community outreach because i was there, and that's simply not true. in more general terms, i want to talk about this broken process that we're talking about today. beyond this process happening during working people are unable to take any time off of work to participate, i've read recently that the housing pipeline is experiencing a cooling off as of late. what will happen to our inclusionary when there's significantly less housing being built in we're spending time fighting with private developers who are offering more inclusionary units than required by law and quarrelling on a project by project basis that we are fully missing the big picture. next thing you know when we hit another recession or the pipeline dries up, there will be no money leftover to build affordable housing. we need to step up as a city and get serious. i'd love to see the board of

supervisors introduce a record breaking affordable housing initiative that includes an affordable zoning overlay across the entire city. we should be building buy right dense, 100% affordable housing across the city. i am sick and tired of central neighborhoods like the mission and soma experiencing extreme gentrification. we need social housing now, and we need it everywhere. what happened to the affordable senior housing in forest hill is unconscionable and shameful. in summary, i fully support these -- >> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is kathy draske, and i've lived over on broad rick street between page and oak for 14 years.

i'm a photographer and aphy fil maker and one of my projects has been documenting the changes on divisadero. i've been taking videos there since 2004 and making films there since 2012. we've seen many changes in divisadero over the years, but one we have not seen is more housing. we need more housing, and i'm very excited about these new developments, especially if they're going to allow for more affordable and below market rate housing to keep some of our neighborhoods in the community because that is what makes our community so fantastic is the people. so i'd like you to consider adding more housing and going forward with these developments. thank you. >> greetings, supervisors. my name is tamika. i am here again, i am here again in support of affordable

housing. native, i'm a san francisco native and truly, true low honored to just everyone who actually spoke before me. thank you, and it just feels good to know that people think like you, care about you because i am actually that face, i am that person born and raised in a community that, like i said last time, would love to just basically continue to live and work here, and it is crucial, it is key that we definitely take the time out to understand everything that everyone said here today. affordable housing is a must. it is needed, and i thank supervisor brown so kindly for definitely going into the trenches and actually doing the work, and as the gentleman said before me, definitely attending the meetings, the community members and making sure that community members are aware and

moving forward, making sure that those that definitely need housing that are aware and are well informed of this affordable housing. so yes, thank you, and just -- just hope to have this move forward, you know? this is very key, it is crucial, and as i said again, as a san franciscan, wanting to see affordable housing and not having to beg and just kind of this dream, you know? just hoping my dream can come true, wanting to live here and do the community work that i've been doing for all of my life, all of my life. so very thankful. thank you all, and hopefully, you'll be making a wonderful decision in moving forward so that we can house people and make sure that we get more affordable housing out. peace and blessing. [please stand by]

>> i believe this space here so i don't have to blow it. you will have to go to that

buzzer to have the sheriff come at me. stay tuned. you will see the t.v. more than you expect. just like chump. he is rich and white. we are here at city hall but i call it silly hall. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm tessa welborn. i want to say that affordable has had community meetings over the past three years and that we feel our actions have helped bring the kind of community support that valley brown is able to build on and we appreciate that. we are getting closer to getting these projects built. the five items that hernandez mentions about restoring the fillmore, i want to say, i appreciate that more work could

be done in the fillmore but it is not just fillmore street. fillmore covers a block on either side of fillmore too. putting it back in now would be a good idea before we look at ways to tinker with it further. including the home s.f. provisions that supervisor tang worked so hard on with regard to unit mix and unit size. we know that affordable housing includes many different things and b.m.r. units only hit a certain kind of middle class income level. we appreciate that we need the other pieces as well and appreciate that you are working on those too. i also want to remind people that there are a lot of housing, even in our district five, that has been approved and isn't being built. i encourage our supervisor to

look into seeing what needs to be done to get those kick started. but for many people, the affordable housing is going to have to be the subsidized housing. b.m.r. will not be at their income level. i am fortunate enough to be where i am as a homeowner. i want to keep my neighbors and my friends in the community too. thank you. >> thank you, very much. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor brown, do you have any other remarks? >> i want to thank everyone for coming out today and i am sorry we have meetings in the middle of the day. i am sorry. i know. i know it is easier to come out after work. but i feel this is really important and i appreciate everyone that has been working on this. everyone that has been putting volunteer hours in coming to the

meetings. a mean so much to me. i cannot do this alone. i need the community to guide me through what is best for the community. also with these developments, we get to use neighborhood preference which is huge. people from the neighborhood will be able to apply for this and 40% of affordable housing will go to people from the neighborhood. that makes it much more special for me. i want to say thank you and thank you to my colleagues for considering this. >> thank you, supervisor, supervisor brown. supervisor kim? >> i just want to thank supervisor brown. it is clear that you did a lot of work in the community to bring this forward to us and i know that this ordinance has been pending for quite a period of time at the board of supervisors. it is great that it is finally coming to completion. i want to commend you for the high level of affordability that are included in this plan. i understand that while there may be a little less low income,

that often supervisors will press for a little bit more middle income housing. i am supportive of that. i want to note that you vastly increase -- increase the site fees and off site units and even her projects of ten and above. that is a significant increase that is currently in 415. i hope you will continue to work on the fillmore and i echo some of the concerns that were made here today. i think we should talk about increased density along the fillmore so we can build not just more housing but more affordable housing as well. >> thank you. >> i want to thank supervisor brown. i know she has put a lot of work into this. i think that sometimes there is a false narrative. that false narrative is people get a number in their head and they believe that number is the number that should be applied everywhere across the city. the reality is some projects are

at different phases in their life in terms of development process and if you have done tremendous scrutiny, you have pushed the numbers to the point where you can push them and you have asked everyone to show their books. i know you have. at the end of the day, the question becomes do you fundamentally want to see development? do you want to see more affordable housing? or do you want to zero? i think that, it is not always that clear. at some point, projects can't move forward if you ask them to do too much. this body has, in the past, worked on and extracted community benefits and/or higher levels of inclusionary housing from developments that we know will never get built this is just increased dramatically over the last five years. they are continuing to go up. at some point, we will not see

any development and i know that some people would prefer that i know that this housing crisis in this city is real and the choice between a significant amount of affordable housing at different levels, which i think, i'm fundamentally in support of and we worked long and hard to increase that. and also, let's not forget that these projects were grandfathered and. by right they had much lower levels of affordability. you push that to a higher level. i commend you for that and i am in support of this today. >> thank you, very much. do we have a motion on item two? >> i will make the motion to move this forward recommendation to the full board. >> ok. item three, please. >> it is an ordinance amending the planning code and the zoning map to establish the special use district and affirming appropriate findings.

>> thank you. i don't know if someone is here from supervisor fewer's office at the moment. >> he was just in the well. >> are you going to come and speak? >> i thought may be he thought -- >> i can speak. sorry. my apologies. i will make supervisor fewer's points today. supervisor fewer introduces legislation to create the special use district at the request of st. peter's episcopal church who wanted to renovate the building and the rear yard of their lot and lease the space to the community survey nonprofits. supervisor fewer felt it would be much better for the structure to be revitalized and used to serve the community rather than allow a derelict building to fall into disrepair. she also agreed to a proposal on the condition that they would do outreach to the neighbors in

regards to the plan and mitigate any concerns that they may have. supervisor fewer is sensitive to concerns that this could potentially have parking and trapping dust traffic impacts on the residential neighborhoods which is why she wants to ensure that it is a special use district and would be exclusively for administrative offset -- office use with no direct services provided on site limiting this project will prevent the influx of traffic that would result if people were visiting the site throughout the day to receive services. as such, supervisor fewer asked me to introduce an amendment to make it clear that no on site services will be allowed and the amendment is on page 3, line five stating that the use of permitted by subsection d. one shall not provide services or sales directly to the general public in the 43029. colleagues, she asked for your consideration and support and at this time, if we can open up for public comment on this item. >> we also have aaron start here from the planning department. >> thank you.