lucky jeans, boot camp, all were broken into the same night. we have problems. we have a problem with our homeless. one that lived on one of the wealthiest streets in the world and now she's on the street, because of her illness. and we have to protect them, too. and i think that this legislation needs to be reworked. [bell ringing] >> supervisor ronen: thank you very much. thank you, we'll recess until 11:30 at which time we'll resume public comment. >> thank you so much for your patience. i'm sorry that we're reconvening late but we have a new fire chief in the city and county of san francisco which is very exciting. i'll reopen public comment on item number 1.

please come forth. >> good afternoon. my name is richard song and i'm with the ssfrpd, the recreation park department. my question is a little more specific of the proposed surveillance equipment, there was recently placed into the b.a.o., and at the washington mason street. and the recreation center. and i was informed this is new surveillance equipment so i'm not sure how it applies to said location or how it applies throughout sfrpd where there's already existence of surveillance cameras. so what i'm trying to do is to clarify how the procurement or the upgrading of such surveillance equipment at separate locations would be cost

related in the audit that's in -- of the listing here and the audit and the use of surveillance technology. is that mainly dealing with the cost to operation at location? so there's another point they wanted to ask about that has to do with when the locations are closed, can such surveillance systems be used by the police department to do their on-site patrol through this surveillance? and if that was possible i think that it would be more effective policing work and in general i am in favor of the -- led by supervisor peskin's administrative code acquisition to mainstreaming technology. thank you. i just had a few questions in

mind. >> i'm a fellow at the san francisco public county defender. and i wanted to address the comments made earlier this morning with software not being able to be used, you know, in circumstances such as terrorist investigation. well, i read a news article earlier today regarding the very sad bombings in sri lanka and how a student at brown university was identified using facial technology as a possible suspect in that investigation. and it was fairly quickly i guess corrected or law enforcement made a statement that, you know, this is a false call but the damage had already been done and her life now is full of, you know, anything from death threats to her family being in hiding, right? that's something that is my

concern. that my family, while they're visiting me here from the south bay, go from another community in the bay area that has recognized the dangers as well as the beneficial uses of it technology and balance them to a place here in san francisco where i live where it's my community and where i attended law school. where we can be watched and surveyed without our awareness and consent. and that's why this ordinance is so important to me to place -- to place some safeguards so that we can have surveillance in an appropriate manner. thank you. >> hello my name is nathan scheer. i over the blast two committee meetings i have shared a lot with you how important i think that it is that we really take -- take seriously the responsibility to balance public

safety and the civil liberties concerns. so i won't go too far into that today. what i will say is that it was really great this morning to watch all of the community members to come out and share their positions, their perspectives, and the way that technologies can affect their lives more positively and negatively. and i think that one of the important things about this ordinance is not that it shuts down the conversation but that it creates greater opportunity to continue these conversations and to make sure that it's not just a small group of people and vendors that are having their voices heard. and, rather, that everyone in the community is invited and that we're pushing forward responsible use, and requirements for policies so that we're really not falling into the mistakes that other municipalities have. and where years later they have realized that something they were doing was violating the local or state or federal law. so i really just want us to

really to voice my appreciation for how many folks from the community and your patience and the intent that you gave into listening to the people here today. and how excited it makes me about the fact that if this ordinance passes that same opportunity for community insight and input will be provided for every time that we make a decision about the way that it took surveillance technology am impact our communities. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm meredith sera with the stop crime organization and i too have enjoyed hearing all of the different perspectives on this ordinance. and i have a slightly different perspective from the last speaker and i think that -- i wish i could see it as an opportunity for dialogue but to me the ordinance is a costly layer of bureaucracy that really does nothing to improve the safety of our citizens.

and my main concern is that it's unreasonable for anyone in a public place to expect to have privacy. i mean, we live in the 21st century and everyone knows that there are cameras everywhere that you go and people's cellphone cameras and surveillance cameras. so to me this ordinance seems like a solution in search of a problem. the 2017 city survey from the office of the comptroller found that residents' feelings of safety had dropped city-wide but that people in the southeast part of the city reported feeling the least safe. and i believe that residents across the city would welcome more and not less surveillance.

and in closing i'd like to ask you to please hear more concerns from the groups that maybe have not been heard so far, so like different neighborhood groups. i was grad to see so many people from chinatown here today but i think that there's a lot more groups out there that may be unaware that this ordinance is even in the works. so, please, don't be in a rush to pass it. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is seresa dugie, for the empowerment center. i'm also the advisory board for the police station, so i work a lot with the community. and also i thin thank our distrt supervisor here, we have been working tremendous with the --

with the community and letting everyone know. and this legislation is with a careful study of the impact of the law enforcement agency in maintaining proper safety in our city. and it is moving too fast. and we need to work with more with our community. and since we are working we have not been addressing this to the community at all. we didn't have the community involvement. so i would like to be dropped back and really have more community, you know, involvement. and we just heard from the mayor, linda breed, to talk about how we would like to invest the best for our community. you know, this is an investment. so i would really appreciate but

for the safety of our community. >> any member of the public who wishes to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. did you want to make any remarks supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. so i do want to reiterate what some of the speakers have said which is i think that there is a misunderstanding about what this legislation does. and i'd like to associate myself with the comments made by one of the speakers who testified since we reconvened, that just this kind of dialogue is precisely what this legislation is aimed at. and as i said in an earlier hearing, good policing does not mean living in a police state. and living in a safe and secure committee does not mean living in a surveillance state. that's what is at the core this legislation is about.

i actually wanted to talk a little bit about not so distant past history as these technologies evolve very quickly. in 2009, a woman -- and this is public information -- i'm reading from an "examiner" article from 2015 -- who was working as a muni driver and was pulled over by police who suspected that she was driving a stolen car and was surrounded by a number of police with guns drawn. we settled that lawsuit for $495,000 in 2015, and it turned out that the license plate reader misidentified her license plate. and that could have ended much more tragically. in today's "san jose mercury news" there's an article actually speaking about this legislation that concludes that by saying that the partnership on a.i., whose members include

facebook, google, amazon, apple, microsoft, i.b.m., as well as academic researchers last week said that law enforcement should not use artificial algorithms to make decisions about jailing and arresting people. so we're talking about how to use tech correctly. and given the history of abuse, i think that this is an important public conversation to have. i would commend the amendments to you and i again want to thank my co-sponsors and the city departments, particularly the city administrator, who came up with i think a very good idea of running all of this through the committee on technology, and that is housed by the subject matter experts from various departments. and with that i will submit it to the committee. >> thank you. supervisor watton. >> commissioner watton: i want to thank the supervisor peskin

for bringing this ordinance forward. there's a lot of miscommunication and misconceptions about what this ordinance actually does and does not do. all of us here take public safety very seriously. we take public safety very seriously. in fact, i have worked closely with communities in my district to make sure that we have resources for cameras, to make sure that we have resources for things like lighting, things that keep our communities safe and protect it. and this legislation does not have an impact on any of that. this legislation simply says that we want to make sure that if you're a city department that there's a certain technology that you want to use for surveillance that it gets approved, we know what you're going to use it for, because we have to protect the rights of everyone here in san francisco. and it does not stop you from putting cameras up on your homes and it does not stop you from putting homes up on your businesses. these are things that we actually support and work to make sure that happens within the community.

but it will say that the city departments will not be able to arbitrary pick and choose the technology they want to use to do things that will be harmful and erase the things that we have worked on for centuries in terms of the protecting of people's rights. and we don't want to ever put anyone in a position or to put the city in a position to where we're being sued because something that we thought that was a technological advantage actually was used wrong and put somebody in a predicament. that could be life-and-death. and i don't think that a lot of people understand what an interaction with law enforcement could equal for anybody, but definitely for a person of color. also our role is to make sure that we reduce negative interactions with law enforcement. and so this also works to curtail that because when you're a person of color or anyone who

comes across law enforcement and it could be from being pulled over, it can be at a time of arrest, that there's always a window of opportunity for things to go negatively. so we want to try to reduce those interactions as much as possible. but i am 100% about making sure that our communities are safe and that we do use technology in the appropriate manner. but we should not be giving anyone carte blanche to put anything in place without it being vetted, without us having a conversation about how it's going to be used to make sure that everyone's rights are protected while we keep communities safe. but i do want to thank everybody for the conversation that we've had over the last couple months around the legislation. i will say that supervisor peskin and his office has been very responsive to some of the issues and concerns from city departments, from folks in the community, and that's why there are several amendments that have also been added to the

ordinance. i think that his office has done a great job of addressing some of those concerns. so i'm 100% in support of this. that's why i'm also a co-sponsor. and, again, i just want to thank you all of you for coming out. but i do think that we really need to read and understand what is actually in the ordinance. this is not stopping people from using cameras. this is being responsible with technology. >> supervisor ronen: supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: i want to thank those who have shared their opinions for this legislation in addition to the three hearings here in the rules committee where there's been a lot of public comment. we have -- all of my colleagues and i have received hundreds of emails about this legislation. so both in support of and also expressing concerns about the legislation. and particularly around the

potential unintended negative impact that this legislation might have on some key issues. and, you know, i do want to state that i'm very much in support of the intent of the legislation. you know, i do think that it's very important that we update our, you know, our city laws and codes to -- to reflect the growing use of surveillance technology in our city, and to ensure that we're protecting privacy and the civil rights of our residents and the communities here in san francisco. but also, you know, as somebody actually -- along with my colleagues who are very committed to ensuring public safety in our districts and in our city, you know, i really, you know, take the comments that we have heard from a lot of resident committee members throughout the hearing and through email that we need to ensure that we also balance safety concerns with the legislation. and in particular i think that there's two areas that -- that

are sort of concern about the legislation that really resonated with me. and the first one is around ensuring that we can continue to use -- or that the police department, you know, and other city agencies can continue to use video surveillance footage that's provided by residents and businesses in investigation and even prosecution of crimes. and that's something that is very important to me, especially in the sunset district where we have seen an increase in home robberies and home burglaries and impacts on our neighborhoods. and even expanding these video cameras in homes and businesses is an important strategy. so that's why i really appreciate the amendments that were made to -- and to really reflecting the specific recommendations that we have heard that say that not only should the ordinance state that the police department and the district attorney's office may

receive the video footage, but also it says that they can use it. so i think that was a very important amendment. and the other concern that was raised that also resonated with me is ensuring that this ordinance doesn't put undue burden on our departments to implement it. and, you know, i think that is a very real concern. and we have heard from the departments about that as well. so, again, that's why i appreciate the amendments that were also presented today by supervisor peskin, reflecting those concerns and addressing them. and saying that departments can submit one surveillance technology policy that covers multiple surveillance technologies. and then also the amendment that really uses the committee on information technology as really the body that's going to do the work to kind of develop the policies so that it will remove undue burden on the departments

to comply. so i feel that we've gone through a very good public process on this. of course there can always be more, more outreach done, you know, on any important piece of legislation that we're working on here. but, again, this is the third hearing that we've had it here in the rules come the. and supervisor peskin introduced this months ago. there's been press coverage. and, obviously, there's been a lot of public knowledge of it, just given the high volume of communications that we have received about this legislation. so i'm in support of the amendments that were brought forward today and they address a lot of concerns that i have heard in the community in support of moving this legislation forward. >> supervisor ronen: thank you and i just wanted to add my thanks to both the public and to supervisor peskin and his staff for this piece of legislation. and i think that it's, you know, i associate myself with all of my colleagues' comments, but i also just wanted to emphasize that technology is moving at

such a rapid rate that we have no idea what's coming. i mean, some of the things that exist today have changed our lives in such dramatic ways from just a decade ago. and we don't even -- i don't know that we can even comprehend what is going to happen over the next decade. and having a policy within the city and county of san francisco to have an open, transparent discussion about that so that we know how our government is surveilling us and how our government is using this technology in order to address crime and all of the -- all of the matters that are so important to all of us is to me a no-brainer. we absolutely should have that conversation and we should have it as openly and transparently as possible. so i just wanted to echo my colleagues and thank you again, supervisor peskin, for this legislation. and i'm very proud to be a

co-sponsor. and with that i will go ahead and make the motion to accept the amendment. without objection, that motion passes and then do one of my colleagues want to do the honor. >> i move this item forward with a positive recommendation from the rules committee. >> supervisor ronen: without objection that motion passes. >> thank you, colleagues. >> supervisor ronen: mr. clerk, any other items on the agenda? >> clerk: (indiscernible) that completes the agenda and that was recommended as amended. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. that's right. and with that the meeting is adjourned.

>> i lived in the mission neighborhood for seven years and before that the excel see your district. 20 years a resident of the city and county of san francisco. i am the executive director of a local art space nonprofit that showcases work that relate to the latino community and i have been in this building for seven years and some of my neighbors have been here 30 year. we were notified from the landlord he was going to sell the building. when we realized it was happening it was no longer a

thought for the landlord and i sort of had a moment of panic. i heard about the small sites program through my work with the mission economic agency and at met with folks from the mayor's housing program because they wanted to utilize the program. we are dealing with families with different needs and capacities. conversations were had early in the morning because that is the only time that all the tenants were in the building and finally when we realized that meda did have the resources to buy the building we went on a letter writing campaign to the landlord and said to him we understand you want to sell your building, we understand what you are asking for and you are entitled to it, it's your land, but

please work with us. what i love about ber nell height it represents the diversity that made me fall in love with san francisco. we have a lot of mom and pop shops and you can get all your resources within walking distance. my favorite air area of my homes my little small patio where i can start my morning and have my coffee an is a sweet spot for me and i

>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families

together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at.

we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪ ]

[gavel] >> good afternoon and. it is now 1:00 p.m. and i'm m miguel bustos for tuesday may 7, 2019 for the commission on community investment and infrastructure. welcome to the public both listening and seeing. madame secretary, please call the first item. >> clerk: the first item of business is item 1, roll call.

please respond when i call your name. [roll call] >> all are present. the next meal meting will be held in city hall and please be advised the ringing and use of cell phones and pagers and sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited and the chair may thoerd removal of any -- may order the removal of anyone and c, be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent comment on each agenda item unless the commission adopts a shorter period. it's recommended members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and fill out the card to

the commission secretary. the next order of business is item 3, record on actions taken at a previous closed session meeting if any. there are no actions. next item is 4 matters of unfinished business. there are no matters of unfinished business. next item is 5 new business consisting of consent and regular agenda. first the consent agenda approval of minutes. >> do we have speaker cards on the item? >> clerk: no speaker cards. >> does anyone wish to speak? seeing none, i'll close public comment and turn to commissioners if there's a comment. >> i move the agenda be accepted, the minutes, i'm sorry. >> i second. >> commissioner: madame secretary, please take roll.

>> clerk: commission members please announce your vote when i kale your name. -- call your name. the vote is three ayes. >> thank you. the motion carries. madame secretary please call the next item. >> clerk: item 5b elect the chair and vice chair under section 27 of the successor agency by-laws and successor. >> we have the election of the chair and vice chair. do i have nominations for the position of chair? emergency rosales. >> i'd like to nominate miguel bustos as our chair. >> i second that. >> okay. thank you. i'll accept the nomination as

chair. nominations for the office of chair is now closed. [gavel] are there any members of the public wishing to speak on the nomination of the chair? seeing none -- mr. james. >> james of needle point. we've always had good chair persons on the committee but i'm glad you're nominated as being the chair and you'll do a terrific job because you are concerned about what happens in on you communities. thank you very much. i wish you all luck. >> thank you, mr. james. no one else?

i will close public comment. madame secretary, please call the roll. >> clerk: please announce your vote for chair when i call your name. [roll call] the vote is three ayes. >> commissioner: thank you, commissioners. so now we need to elect the vice chair. do i have any nominations for vice chair? >> i would like to nominate commissioner rosales. >> commissioner: i would second that. >> i accept the nomination, thank you. >> commissioner: great. so i'll close nominations for the vice chair role. are there any members of the public wishing to speak or comment on this nomination for vice chair? seeing none. [gavel]

madame secretary, lease -- please call roll for vice chair. >> clerk: [roll call] >> clerk: the vote is three ayes. >> commissioner: thank you. congratulations, vice chair rosales. madame secretary please call the next item. >> clerk: the next order of business is agenda item 5 approving the project which consists of 422 residential units including 21 below market rate units and neighborhood retail and services space approving variance findings for development standards in the candle stick point design for development concerning one exception to maximum building height. two, total blank wall limits and dimensioned and adopting environmental findings pursuant

to the act redevelopment project discussion action and action. madame director. >> thank you, madame secretary. through the chair we're excited to have the item before you. the approval of the schematic design and the tower in candle stick point. the first tower to be before you. it would yield 422 units of residential mixed use with some retail community space, etcetera. we're excited because this really starts to shape the community in candlestick. with that i'll turn it over for a presentation on the item. we have the development team here as well. >> good afternoon, chair bustos, members of the commission. director. i'm an assistant project manager in the hunters point shipyard and candlestick project area.

i'll be doing the presentation for the schematic design for the candlestick north block 11a. i'll quickly review the agenda. the commission action will be what we're requesting today four to act on. and then we'll go through the project description the bmr description and design team will also give a presentation. i'll briefly discuss the community benefits associate with the project and the conditions of approval and next steps. in considering the project, there are a few considerations in the commission actions and some of those are variances or exceptions to the des moines for development standards or what we call the d for d.

those include the maximum building height, blank wall limits and a non-habitable projection dimension. in addition to approving the schematic designs. it's part of the bay view point area and plans to include office space and community facilities and it includes a new park, open spaces and will served by new transit lines and infrastructure. in this map includes and identifies the blocks in candlestick that have been approved to date and those for

future approval. to date, the competition has approved schematic designs for blocks 2a, 9a, block 8a or the international african market and block 6a and ocii 100% affordable blocks at 10a and 11a. cpo3 where block is 11a is located would approved for design and is seeking aprobable for design and located next to blocks 2a and 10a north and ocii 100% affordable housing development. you can see the 100% affordable housing site. this project is a mixed-income

home ownership project consisting of 422 residential units, 21 of which are below market rate and dispersed throughout the first 21 floors of the podium and tower. all the project amenities will be shared by all the residents. the project will also have 4,000 square feet of community activity on the ground floor. and the bmr is at 80, 90, 100 and 120 percent. this is just a brief view of the unit distribution for the first 21 floors.

now i'll turn it over to the design team to give you a specific and detailed look and information about the design of block 11a. i'll be back to discuss more of the other benefits associated with the project. >> members the commission. i'm with five point and a want to first thank you for giving me the opportunity to introduce my design team. i had the honor and pleasure to present building 6, 8 and 9 and block two and it's an honor to

create cpo3 and cpo4 for the residential section. i'll turn you over to the lead architect on it to walk you through the design. thank you. >> brendan donovan and thank you for your time and we're really excited to be here today and present the project. this is the first tower in candlestick. it is going to be the new gaetd -- gateway into the city from the south and take that responsibility very seriously. we've had a number of meters with ocii and the successor

agency and the agency and the design represents a lot of work of which i need to represent the number of people that are part of this project and on this slide you can see the names of the companies involved and those folks who have been asked to be here today. i'd lick our team members to stand up and be recognized for the work they've done. these are the structural engineers, the landscape architects and my design team project manager over there and phil and lee and our m.a.p., and also our associate architect. we're super excited to have them here. the word architect is singular but the project is the work of a lot of folks so thank you. .

on the next slide this is an overview of the side and just to understand what is going on around the site, this slide shows how along harney way the b.r.t. and the bike lane will be pock occupying the space between the building and adjacent wedge park. below is the film art center in the cpo2 section and is this also noting where the sun angles are. the yellow indicates the way the pattern of the sun will be going around the sights. north is to the front of the page and to the south is ingerson and the passage which is a pedestrian only midblock.

these are a vows of diagrams. the first which we began working on two years ago which was to understand the zoning for development and how to stay within the zoning and comply with it yet create the kind of space we were hoping to create. so this first line is about the zoning envelope. then we get into the masting. it's limited to 12,000 square feet we wanted to set back the tower and create separate planes within the podium of the building. also at the ground floor, the retail is held back and the upper floors are held back and there be draet -- creating more sculpting of the massing and these are the terraces.

there's a terrace at the lower section and the pedestrian terrace and then the sky terrace at the top. further accentuating and calling more architectural movement to the building. and this is the view from harney. so in this presentation we'll be stepping around the tower at four different views from the four corners of the project looking at both the tower and the podium in context. we'll then come back to pedestrian views. the lower sections of the building, what we call the podium and we'll get into some of the materials and how we've r relegated and articulated that

facade. so this is looking to the west. this is the view along harney way and the mid block break. you can see how the tower has been sculpted at the top at the terrace and top and back. that is a screening element. and there's mechanical equipment up there which needs to be ventilated and cooling equipment and also equipment used to surface the equipment of the building and the element serves as an architectural element reducing the size and mags at the back. -- massing at the back. it works to our benefit to take what was a functional element

and yet create some sculpting opportunity at the top of the building. as we go back to the north side and look back to the south we're moving in a counterclockwise fashion, we're looking back at the corner of the mid block break and m street. here you can get a sense of how the tower top is reduced in its massing and the element defines the base, middle and the top. we take another view of the tower and this is down ingerson and you get a scale of the base and the tower. now we're starting to get down to a more pedestrian level.

and we wanted to see what is in a successful neighborhood we could translate to this project looking at streets like chestnut or union or even in my neighborhood, i live in the richmond walking clement street, the rhythm of the retail is not uniform. that is the richness of our neighborhoods. so breaking up this facade into various components was very important to us. so as you can read from left to right we have the elements which define are defined in white. below that is intended to be a restaurant and then a color that harkens back to the tower color. the center section. that is located just above where the community center is envisioned and another retail spot and then the pedestrian and

here you can see where the lobby is accentuated by the component. it becomes not only terrace for residents and it celebrates the opportunity that we'll experience walking into the lobby of our building. this is looking back down ingerson and you get a closer view of the window wall system looking down from the tower. we allow that material to get closer to the pedestrian realm. but also picking up on what will be more human scale are canopies that are different colors and heights creating this variety along this pedestrian experience. and then we move along again at

the pedestrian realm. this is looking back along harnio way at -- harney way at the pedestrian perspective. we have the terrace which defines the entry to the lobby, the tower and then the podium section. we took architectural license that breaks up the facade and we're excited about the accent color and what wore doing to bring it down to the ground level. as we move to the next image this is one of our favorite images and dramatic if you move from the top down it's the canopy of the roof and element of the stair and that brings down the color, our podium section and you can see how the color shows itself along the midblock break at various elements along the elevation of

the mid block break.mid block break at various elements along the elevation of the mid block break. this is now looking at the mid block break. all the units and harney open at the ground level. there is no retail along that section. this turns around to the neighborhood lobby and wanted it more neighborhood serving. it's a fantastic lobby and smaller in scale and back to the p pedestrian only mid block break and excited how m street worked out and down the perspective you can get a sense of the challenges on m street. it's the only street to bring utilities into the building that service the building,

electrical, water, gas and the parking. you can see the center section that is the driveway and the pattern facade at the ground level. behind that are electrical transformers, meters. all the things that make this building work and again this m street we're happy is turning it into a feature and neighborhood serving smaller scale lobby. this is a straight on view capturing some of the same articulation. the elements that come from harney along the mid block break but with a different rhythm architecturally and to the tower and almosts that help define the

tower top, and offer mechanical screen on the back and on the right side of the tower stepping down is a series of sun shading elements. this helps further define, articulate and slenderize the tower itself. and then the punctuation, the real architectural statement is the sky terrace. that is the element that really sets our building apart from looking at the south view. this is a night image and look at how it could be a beacon arriving from the city and how the tower would announce itself being the first tower out of

candlestick. here's an idea of lighting elements at the top of the building and how the terraces also are lit. we brought a material board. it's over here against the wall if you care to come up and kick the tires of some of the materials it is there. the elevation shows where the materials are located. we've called them out in the image and this is an exciting pedestrian active zone along ing ingerson with block 11a on the left and the ultimately the fine art cinema on the right. so active street and a wonderful new neighborhood. reflecting the wonderful

neighborhoods of san francisco. that concludes my presentation. hopefully i've covered all the things one might have questions about but certainly here to answer any questions. >> as i mentioned there are several community benefits associated with this project. we discussed the below market rate unit of which there are 21. the 4,000 square feet of community facility space on the ground floor and as with the other projects that have been approved in candlestick point

there will be a 0.5% contribution of the sale of each market rate unit to the community benefits fund. and there's also the small business and workforce policy just 50% of contracts and 50% of the construction hours with -- will go to spes and to san francisco local workers and more about the small business and local workforce the 118 worked hard to meet ocii objectives through the professional services team selection achieving participation rate of 45.1%. with 45.5% of those firms being minority-owned firms and 1.8% being women-owned firms.

as is standard with these types of approves there's a few design conditions with which the developer will continue to refine or identify in the design development phase of the project these include compliance with the wind mitigation measures, black walls, materials and colors, and further study off the exterior details and community space locations. the developer has also committed to following the occupancy preferences for the project including early outreach and emphasis on certificate of preference holders.

now i'd like to recap the requests for the variances beginning with the tower screening height. this variance request is to increase the tower screening height to accommodate the mechanical and roof-mounted equipment. it would be an increase from 320 feet to 350 feet. and this is for an exception to the blank wall restriction. currently it allows for a maximum of 20% of the total facade of blank walls. in this case, the building is subject to other design restrictions on three other sides of the building. these include a b.r.t. or bus rapid transit line along harney street, the required for a pedestrian retail