this is what is going on cisco and you go along with it you approve these projects even though they are flagrant violations. so what is it says it has to be placed not representing the fliers who want to do their jobs you are representing the developers want to lie about what they will be building. it happened then and again and again, that is terrible, why did you keep happening? why away with that again and again and again? there is no enforcement. the director does not enforce his own rules, unless it comes to the developers that want something, then he bows down and does what they want. that is who they are bowing to two -- bowing down to. that is who this commission is representing. it has to end. the people here in this meeting should demand the termination of

the executive director. the enforcement of the code is not taking place in san francisco, and developers and builders think they can get away with ignoring the code, and they do get away with it. it is harming the people of san francisco and it is certainly not helping the homeless situation in san francisco. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please.

>> people are going to make a buck and they are not going to do it straight. this effort to address the most egregious violations is necessary. this is all over town, there are different scenarios, whether you are on the mission, whether you are in north beach, whether you are in the excelsior, whether you are in oceanview, and i really, i think it would be a great idea if you passed it and supported it any other public comment on this item we -- >> any other public comment on this item? public comment is now closed.

>> two questions. one is, other districts which have looked for governors, if you will, to control the size of expansions and related to context and character of the neighborhood reduce height limits, you know, from 40 down to 30. was that discussed here? >> we did not discuss reducing height limits. we thought that we could control the size of buildings through sar. >> in san francisco, that has been applied to nonresidential units, but this is the first time ever for a residential unit >> that is correct. >> commissioner richards? >> i have heard a lot about this , and i was a fan until i saw a project proposed in my

neighborhood on market street between church and sanchez for a five bedroom unit at 750 square foot per unit. i am now in favor of actual bedroom counts rather than this because the building code minimum is about 100 square feet and if you have five bedrooms a 500, and the other 250 divided between the kitchen, bathroom, and hallway, and voilà, you have five bedroom scene 750 square feet. i do not support the planning department's recommendation, even though i supported that before. i think the real world example is over and over again, we have had people come before us in the name of multigenerational households to get in the system. we have seen it over and over. what is the appropriate size of unit, we have had commissioners appear that the 8,000 square feet was appropriate, we think more of the average of 1600 square feet is appropriate, which is the average dwelling size. the only way to get at this is through the legislation that the

supervisor proposes. i support it as is. >> thank you. commissioner hillis? i just wanted to point out that we, specifically, told this supervisor to go with it last time he was here. >> i know we did i change my mind, sorry. >> thank you for bringing this back to us and for the work you have done in the interim. thank you to the staff. this is more of a question on the bedroom count. does that include, if there was an accessory dwelling unit, does it include both or is it just for the main residence? >> the restriction -- the restrictions apply to the main home and encourages the a.d.u. >> okay. >> the five bedroom count, if he went over that, would just be for the main resident? >> that's right. for instance, we have someone -- that's why it took commissioner richard's point. we like the fir, but we also like the idea. we have heard these examples.

there's one in the works right now on ralston where staff has approved and said that it is okay to have 11 bedrooms, you know, and they are all en suite. eleven bedrooms, nine bathrooms. again, they are arguing extended family and all these other things. if it is in the appropriate environment, i am for it. but the majority of the lots that we have in this area are 2500 square feet. to put that many people in that small amount of space, that is why we want to keep the bedroom, but we will also want to encourage the a.d.u. as a way to trade off. we also had another person come subsequent for legislation and said, i have six bedrooms and six bathrooms, and i said, why do you need six bathrooms, and the argument was about potty training in and all these other things. i didn't want to question it. i honestly didn't because i saw her again at a groundbreaking and she said, here's my daughter , she is potty trained now i said great, then you don't

need all the bathrooms anymore. [laughter] >> is that you are all good, any more than three you have to make an argument and it can't be potty training. we get all kinds of arguments and we felt like this was the right balance and it does not count against the a.d.u. >> great, thank you. i think it is the first time we have heard the potty training argument. that is a good one. i get staff issues, it is a little hard to enforce. you get it. people but dining room or family room or whatever they want and they get that, but i think both of them combined will get at the issues. >> i guess my point is, people probably will begin to try and hide them. right now they are not. right now they are proposing 11 bedrooms and nine bathrooms. that is in front of us right now i think this legislation is going to impact that because it is in the process. we will have to have a conversation with that sponsor. and even when they do start to

say media room, whatever they want to say, at least we will then have it on the record when we are talking with and dealing with d.b.i. there is a point of reference. >> great. thank you. i am support of the legislation as proposed. i get the issue. >> are you making a motion? >> i will make a motion to approve. >> commissioner johnson? >> i want to echo that. i think, you know, i want to thank the supervisor and his office or working with the planning department and the planning director to really close this and create legislation that can help us in force when people violate the code, you know, i would just absolutely agree that i think there should be a balance between this and the bedrooms. while we can't enforce the bedrooms, it is a great way to bring people to the table. i means support of the legislation as proposed. >> commissioner moore? >> i am in support of the

bedroom count versus the other. i am support of controlling the number of bedrooms, but i do not believe that the numbers are substantiate -- substantiated. >> are you making an amendment? >> i am just saying, i am supporting it, but we focus legislation on bedroom count rather than space. i do not see any elaboration in the text in front of me that speaks to that. >> commissioner hillis mac we are hoping on the motion as proposed by the supervisor, which does include it has both that and the bedroom count. >> as i understand it, the staff is not comfortable with that part of it.

>> we are not comfortable with the bedroom count. the table is fine. >> we're we are voting on the motion as proposed, or the legislation as proposed in that his staff recommendation. >> correct. >> there is a motion that has been seconded to approve this planning code and zoning map amendment as proposed without staff modifications on that motion... [roll call] so moved. that motion passes unanimously. >> thank you, commissioners. thank you for all your work on this reviser. >> that will place on item four 400 through 444 divisadero street. this is a conditional use authorization. >> the afternoon, nurse. my mary hartman staff.

this e.u. see you before you is to allow unit development to demolish existing gas stations, a carwash and two residential buildings containing three units to relocate as a dental building approximately 49 see, to the east project side, and the action of a new three to six story mixed-use building 37 of which would be affordable units. 8100 square feet of commercial retail uses, 56 offstreet parking spaces, one loading space, one car space, 170 class one bicycle spaces, 16 class two bicycle spaces, totaling approximately 150,000 square feet, and 15,000 square feet of common open space. the project is located in two

zoning districts, the divisive -- the divisadero neighborhood commercial transit district, and the residential house three family district with 65 a and 40 x. high in oak districts. the project requires conditional use authorization for a large lots development size exceeding 9,999 square feet, conversion of an automotive service station, a bulk exception and demolition, and replacement of residential units. the project also requires unit development modification to provisions lit related to the rear yard requirement, bay window projections over the street, and increase the dwelling units in the r.h. three zoning district. the department finds that the project on balance is consistent with the planning code and the objectives and policies of the general plan. although the project results in

the demolition of three residential units, they would be replaced in the new mixed-use building. the project sponsor is working with the tenant on relocation systems and returning to the site upon completion of the project. the entertainment commission has reviewed the project and recommended noise conditions for adoption as part of this project since the package was last distributed to the commission, staff has received additional five letters in opposition to the project --

>> for these reasons, the site has called out for redevelopment , and that is what the sponsor team has been working on since 2015.

it has not always been easy. prior to 2015, the underlying density controls for the zoning only permitted 60 units on that frontage go think that in 2015, was sponsored legislation to change the zoning to a district, which eliminated the residential density limitations by retaining the existing 65-foot height limit. than last year, supervisor brown sponsored legislation to raise the on-site mac affordable housing requirement to 20%, significantly higher then the 12 % requirement that was in effect when the project was first proposed. the project before you which is the board action will put together the pedestrian orientation of the neighborhood and make a significant contribution to the city's housing goals. as has been previously mentioned the project includes 194 new rental apartments, 37 of which will be on site emr.

there are three rent-controlled units to replace the three main units that are being demolished and keep in mind, these are in addition to the on-site b.m.r. there is the renovation of the historic 1060 to 1062 oak street building. it contains two additional rent-controlled units that will remain on the broader project site. in addition, the sponsor has been working closely with the tenants of the existing rental units on the site and has offered to relocate them during the construction and to provide housing and rent-controlled units within the project after it is completed. the new units will offer approximately double the square footage compared to the units that the tenants are currently in, and they will be much nicer and newly constructed units. the project sponsor is working closely with supervisor brown and attorneys on behalf of the tenants at tenderloin housing clinic to ensure this process

run smoothly and collaboratively , and we would be happy to answer any further questions that you have about that later in the presentation. now i would like to turn it over to the project sponsor who will describe the community outreach that they have conducted and to -- and to will duncan, the project architect. >> madam president, commissioners, i am with genesis we have been developing housing in california since 1987. i have developed over 900 housing units in san francisco. for context, six months ago, you approved the divisadero and c.t. it would be the second project.

my vision is twofold. first, creating 186 rentals, not condos, rentals, and 20% affordable on-site, with supervisor brown provided tremendous leadership with for the feasibility study for the community meetings, and for the legislation, which got us to this milestone we are at today. second, is designing the site as the nexus connecting divisadero and the lower hate with neighborhood serving local retail, pedestrian-friendly streetscapes, a six-story mural on the north side, and a design that conveys a sense of place. i think we went to the wrong presentation. [laughter] that is okay. i am not doing the central soma open space.

[laughter] my community engagement began in 2015 with neighborhood walks, beer with a developer, smart go smart go dinner salons, and design meetings. then i produced the faces of divisadero videos promoting the merchants, a retail workshop, it community yoga program and art trail, and 18 -year-olds working with local artists and supervisor brown's office. i also organized the stem program with drones for youth with the human rights commission , the museum of future sports and seven c.b.o., and all i had, over 1,000 meetings. i tried to meet everybody, and unfortunately, all but a few refused. it was a great experience. we have been endorsed by the

associations of divisive darrow -- of divisadero merchants, lower haight neighbors, the improvement association, and over 120 neighbors and merchants , which i guess with mary's update, it is now up to 140. the reason this matters is emily lund, who manages the san francisco prostatic shop that has been on divisadero since 1953, she shared with me her commute here from sacramento, leaving home at 4:00 a.m., returning at 9:00 p.m., which took her five years until she could find an apartment here in the city, and if you remember, just one thing about my remarks, it is this. we just need housing. i am going to have will duncan share -- share our proposed design, and i'll be happy to

take questions afterwards. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is will duncan. the project before you is the results of many meetings and feedback from stakeholders, community leaders, analysis of the area, as well as info from planning staff. all of this dialogue was critical to crafting a project that we are proud of, and we think will serve the neighborhood well. the tran -- to transform the site from this to this, we have widened the sidewalks for the use of extended bulb outs, we have eliminated five of the six curb cuts currently on the project, maintaining only one to access our parking, trash, and loading, which is completely enclosed within the building. that driveway is flush with the sidewalk, which will offer an

unimpeded experience to pedestrians. you will see outside of the residential lobby on oak street, a passenger loading zone. the uses have been ordered based on their compatibility. we're we are putting all the commercial uses, flexible format retail, on divisadero street, and concentrating the residential uses on oak street, which include the lobby, amenities, a couple of ground floor at grade units. in addition to the oak street being the primary access point for residents, we are providing a secondary access point on the northern boundary property line for residents who -- that will take them and provide them with good access to their bike storage, including family bikes, and -- and it is courted -- coordinated with the building elevator. on the rear poppy tee line, we're providing access. there is additional open space provided on the second floor.

the mapping for the project has been designed to maintain light and air for the midblock open space. you come into the site at three stories and ultimately down to one story. we are maintaining rooftop terrace at the far corner of divisadero and oak. there will be a 65-foot art wall as you will see as you approach the project, walking south on divisadero, as well as retail which will stitch together the blocks to the north and south of the site. the architecture of the side addresses three things. the divisadero, the oak condition, and the nexus for these conditions where they emerge. the architecture is while modern , is referential to 1920s architecture with a clear base, middle top, vertical base structures, punch windows.

as we transition around to the oak street architecture, the project stepped down to a lower residential scale, with three-story bays that reflect materiality and scale of the residential neighborhood. both of these things come together to create a diana -- dynamic corner with opening bays , would you like me to go on or stop? >> can you finish in a minute or less? >> sure. >> thanks. >> these create undulating bays on the corner, creating contrast and interest, and bringing a new expression to the neighborhood. that concludes our presentation. we are open for comments. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. with that, we will take public comment on this item. i have quite a few speaker cards please come on up when i call your name. we will have two minutes for public comment for each person

because we have so many folks here. [calling names] come on up please. don't be shy. thank you. >> i wasn't called, but i have to go back for a meeting. my name is gisele, i am a small business owner on divisadero street. i'm also the president of the divisadero merchants association i am in favor of this project because i believe that san francisco needs housing. i also like that these units are not condos. and i appreciate there's 20% affordable housing available. the developer, david, has been

talking to the community for years. he has been seeking our input and feedback and incorporating our wishes into the plan. he has also been contributing directly to the community, with art trail san francisco, which has put a lot more public art in the neighborhood, and we really appreciate that. the divisadero merchants association also likes that the retail spaces are geared toward small businesses, and also, we think that this project will connect the divisadero corridor between oak and page, which will have the merchants on the south side of divisive darrow of divisadero get all the foot traffic. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is kyle. i am a neighbor of the project. i live three blocks to the east of it. i support replacing the gas station with the proposed project with housing and 20%

affordable, and with all those improvements. lots of other people will go on at length about the merits of the projects, so i want to talk about equity. in 2015, this commission approved the five mean project, that was a census tract with a median family income of $45,000, at a 70 2% minority, primarily low income asians. in 2017, this commission approved the notorious historic laundromat project at 2018 mission street. this project is a census tract of a median family -- family income of $121,000 that is primarily non-hispanic, white. a lot of people talk about how it will cause gentrification, all this stuff. that is simply not true.

if this project, if a project like this was good enough for those places, they're good enough for this location, too. i hope you will not all for the fear mongering about gentrification that this project will cause, and approve it as is >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, commissioners. david wu with affordable business. this project has consistently failed to meet the needs of the divisadero community. community members have, for three years, demanded this project contain a much higher percentage of affordable housing then has been proposed. this demand is captured in the 2016 divisadero community plan that is being passed right now which was created with the input of over 500 residents that occurred over several months, culminating in a detailed plan that includes a requirement for any development of ten units or more to contain 50% affordable housing. no references made to the

divisadero community plan during this planning process for this project. it shows that the planning department and the commission, in addition to the developer, do not take seriously the needs, desires, and demands of existing community members that make up the neighborhoods that are being planned in. this is at the same time that the city itself is undertaking the interagency community stabilization strategy aimed at preventing and mitigating displacement, and ensuring that economic growth offers benefits to existing communities. this process included community meetings across the entire city. i worked -- how our community are community members supposed to take this strategy seriously when exactly that contains the same goals that has already been created and exists, is now being ignored in this project? this community planning process itself was spurred by the top-down planning process of the original divisadero and c.t. rezoning that was a complete giveaway to developers, leaving the community with no increase in affordable housing.

this is planning on top of communities, not with them. it is only through community organizing organizing and pushback that any increase in affordability to this rezoning occur at all. we ask you to not continue planning on top of the community , and instead, plan with us. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is shayna. my family owns the metro hotel. we have been on divisadero for 35 years, and have seen the change in a much less livable community. my concerns about the proposed project there is an underground stream or stream that bottoms out to the site that is most likely toxic. divisadero his is arctic just with traffic, writers, lack of zoning, loading zones were bars that restaurants and businesses. the new construction and toxic cleanup will make it worse or years. most importantly, we need more affordable housing for people who actually live in the neighborhood and make an investment in its future.

thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. isaac johnson. i live on 1040 oak street. i have tried to get in touch with these guys, the developers, since the beginning of the year. i have been stonewalled. we had two different times or we would have meetings, and the cancelled the meetings on me. this past monday, with mary woods, i was able to talk with david, the head developer here, and i had a chance to ask them some questions, which i have a copy here. i would like this added on record. i have a number of issues. none of them have been cleared up except for what they are saying, i don't believe a word they are saying. number 1, the historical building being moved right next door to me, and the impact of redeveloping my property at some point. also, the backyard, we have a

retaining wall that is 4 feet tall. i haven't heard from them at all what they want to do with that. i also want to talk -- they said nothing about how they will make this project green. they had no answer for me at all about making this project green. the meeting -- i feel very rushed. we had to use the office or something else at 4:30 p.m., so we were rushing through my questions at the end. i need them to actually answer all this stuff in writing, you know, besides that, the loss of light in my building, the foundation problem that we will run into, and future -- i need to have these issues answered at some point, so i will ask for an extension of at least 30 days. thirty days. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commission. my name is debra, i live at

mcallister and baker. i am neutral on whether the building goes up or not, but i was at a meeting where the planners brought it to the community and i saw something that is potentially very dangerous. does that show up? it is right at the corner of oh, and divisadero, and i'm sure all of you are familiar with the wall or wiggle, which is -- it takes thousands of bicycles. it starts on scott, right there. the planners have an exit for the bicycles over here on south street, and they want to the bicycles to take a left over here, a left on divisadero, and a left on oak, but, there is an

in entrance to the parking garage, not that close, right in the middle of the block, so imagine i am not me. i imagine i am a millennial, i have to go work down on market street or south of market, i am late for an interview at 7:00 a.m. in the morning, and i am one of those 184 bicycle owners in the building. do i go this way and this way and this way and that way? or do i jet across the street, right as someone else is trying to make the light, and boom. somebody dies right there. there are 184 bicycle spaces, and people work five days a week , and they are all going in and out. if they would move the entrance to the corner and put in one of those bicycle lights, then people would go out, get the light and go down oak, and onto

this safely. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i grew up in the bay area. i am in support of this project. i am a homeowner, i'm extremely lucky to be able to afford to live here. a lot of my friends and family can't and they have moved out. the reason i can't afford it is we haven't been building enough housing. there have been exactly three things that have lowered rent prices in san francisco. earthquakes, recession, and building records amount of market rate housing from 2016 to 2018. rents and evictions both dropped the flipside of this is every time we don't have one of those events, rents go up. i do not want rent to go up. we need to give -- built these units so that we can give newcomers a place to live that doesn't involve pushing people out of town. this is a rich area of the city. if we don't build housing, we will just push -- put more

pressure on to the mission, more pressure on oakland, more pressure to the bayview and more pressure onto san bruno to make up for this shortcomings in rich areas. finally i hope that we can shorten the timeline for approving new housing in san francisco. it is extremely expensive to build here. imagine process, the amount of negotiation required to get any projects done pushes up the cost of housing even further. the outreach for this project started in 2015 and construction costs were lower in 2015. if the developer was able to break ground in 2015, you could have gotten 25%. thanks to negotiations, this is the best we can do now. we should build it now. we should not delay any further. we have seen the price of delay. i biked by an auto shop across the street from zeitgeist on valencia street. the shop was supposed to turn into housing. the planning commission ordered additional shadow studies, negotiated a height down and resulting in additional loss of units. did not end up getting built. by the time they got permits, they could not make the math

work on the project. it is still an auto shop today. i hope you will not delay this project and you can turn it into housing instead of a gas station >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i second what he said well done. i am born in -- born and raised in san francisco. this is my second time having the privilege to speak in this room. i met david probably about a year ago and once he walked into my barbershop, and again, i live on peers. this project is right down the say -- bow down -- right down the street. we started conversation, and from that moment on, i felt like i met a friend for life. he has introduced me to so many

people in my neighborhood that i am born and raised in, that i honestly say i have to take my hat off to him. i'm glad he walked into my barbershop because i now have more friends in the neighborhood that i did not know, because all i do is rock from my house to the barbershop, and from barbershop to my house. i have never walked into the other businesses. but they didn't lie to me about the other businesses. i was blown away at how nice people were. from being somebody who was born and raised and seeing the neighborhood change, nobody would take the time to extend a hand and say, hey, i am such and such, blah blah blah. long story short, i would like to say again, i did meet a friend for life. i am we much more happy or

working in the neighborhood that i than i was before i met them. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> before you start speaking, i will call a few more speaker cards. [calling names] go ahead, sir. >> good afternoon, commissioners i live on golden gate avenue near baker and lyon. i just realized today that i have been living in the d5 for almost three decades. i am approaching o.g. status, i guess you could say in the neighborhood. i was one of the founding members of the neighborhood and merchants association, if you are familiar with that. we looking at this corner for so many years. i'm on the board, i was on the board of the p.t.a. for new traditions elementary, i'm now on the board for roosevelt. i was on the board for the friends of urban forest, now on the board for san francisco parks alliance. i say all that not to self

aggrandize, but to say i care about the community. we need housing. it is time to just move on. some people want a blue house, some people want a green house, the people wanting to sorry, 16 stories, some people ten affordability. it is just time to stop the bickering and move on, and i really, really respectfully but firmly ask you to approve this project and move on. we are living in housing, and drinking from water systems, and using wastewater systems that were built by our elders, our grandparents. we are just bickering. it is time to start building and do what is right. i think these folks have spent a lot of time, four years talking in the community and getting input, is it perfect, is it my dream building? no, it is not, but it will never be my dream building. i support this. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please.

>> hello, commissioners, i am a san francisco native. i have been working on housing since 1987. someday i will build the condominiums on alamo square on steiner street. i found out about this development when it was announced in david's presentation at the independent independent back in march, and so i have never seen anybody who is such an incredible community builder with sincere outreach. he offered to have an open house and beers with the developer, so the next night, i went to the madrone bar, and met david. that was the beginning of me meeting mike finch and others.

>> over 100 something market rate. that means by the next study, that it's a break-even for the neighborhood. not a net gain many of we need to have more affordable units here. affordable held real public meetings unlike the developers' public meetings where you could not talk to anyone. you could only listen to the developer. we had over 500 members

participate. i would like to ask that the affordable housing mix be better. it's not family housing. 18 studios, four one-be one-bed. it's 18 studios, wow. so take into account that this is one of the two busiest streets in the western united states. you are asking people to walk across oak street to get to one of the bus lines that -- all of those bus lines as well as the 21 and the 24 are at capacity right now. we've got to do better and we need more real affordable housing on the site than 20%. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is renee. 25-year resident of san francisco and apparently a fear

mongerrer. monger. i also agree the first speaker and subsequent speaker basically made the point why we need actually way nowher more than 2f affordable units. if the median income is 20,000 in an area that used to be low income, black people and other people, then the gentrification has already begun and it advanced. the community has only asked for 50% affordable units. i feel it's more than reasonable and yet they're only offering 20%. we don't need anymore market rate so we certainly don't need 80% market rate. and there's issues with traffic. if you are going to bring in all of these wealthy people, they

use t.n.c.s, they use all the delivery services. way more than working-class people are going to be using. so you really just are creating a traffic nightmare when you bring this in. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. san francisco land use coalition and i am echoing the same comments from the folks mentioned about the affordability. 20% is not even breaking even. you know that. next study in 2007 says 25% for low income people for every 100 units that we make we need 25 units to make up for the demand that is generated for these hundred condo dwellers. 2017 next is study we're talking

about 37% if you include the middle-income people. for every 100 units built, we need between 32 to 37 units for low and middle income people to meet the demand consumerism demand that is generated by the condo dwellers. not only consumerism but city services so 20% is not enough. are they kidding? where is 20% going to go in this market in this situation with the affordability crisis that we're facing. this is in the middle of an area that was mostly -- it's going to

be another 1535 hyde street. please, do not approve this project unless they up the affordability percentage. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is patrick o'brien and i own a business alongside with my parents. we're all natives san franciscans and we own lift gym in san francisco we have six locations all very neighborhood oriented. we don't even have showers at five of the locations and people just walk to our location so we're extremely neighborhood oriented and we offer a full

service gym from the hours of 5:00 in the morning to 11:00 at night seven days a week. we have fitness classes as well as personal training. we're pretty busy from morning up to sun down. through the night and we've been trying to get a space on divisadero for a long time, quite a few years. we feel it's much needed. i've been coming to a lot of community outreach talks and it's just -- i would say everyone i talked to, not one person has had any objection having a fitness center and there's nothing besides a yoga place and a small personal training studio in that neighborhood. we would just love for this space to go down. i think david is an amazing guy and he has done a great job and

the more spaces that are availables with such businesses is great. thank you for your time and i hope that the project goes through. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon president melgar and commissioners. dean preston. i live a few blocks from the site. i appreciate you considering this matter today. i want to just renew some of the issues i raised in my may 22nd letter to you and appreciate the continuance of a couple weeks. very disappointed i don't think there's movement on the issues raised so we ask for the need for more afford able housing, greater transit, investments on this project as well as a commitment to union labor and i haven't heard anything about any of those. they have been good about meeting with the community but not committing to anything at

those meetings. and every step of this process is refused to add any additional affordable housing to this project and at every step of this process, he has claimed that one more or any additional affordability is going to break the back of the project. the sage thin same thing you hem the property owner on tyner styr street. when it was 12% they couldn't do anymore. when it was 13.5% they couldn't do anymore. we the community organized against the give away to get a requirement of more. so now the law requires 20%. now they can still do the project at 20%. imagine that. one more unit at 13% and they were going to go broke and now they can do the project at 20. let's get real. they can do 30%. they can do a third. they can do this project and the community demands that and it's important the community has spoken through the divisadero plan and it has been ignored in this process as david woo

pointed out by the developer and planning staff. i hope you won't ignore it but instead demand real affordability in this project rather than a project with 80% of the units totally unaffordable to most people who live in this neighborhood. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is auto pippenger. i work in district 5 and i care about it. i have a number of complaints about this process. the way the community input process has been handled. there's only one fundamental truth here. the city knows it's building more than enough market rate housing and not enough below market rate and affordable housing. there's only so much available land in the city and this argument that there's not enough funding is beginning to wear thin. i do not understand the role of a city government if it's not to serve and protect the people living and residing there. there's been no resolution of a

complaints which the hearings were extended from may 23rd to june 13th on. the input of the affordable divisadero has been ignored and there are meaningful complaints here and they must be addressed. i'll concede the remainder of my time but thank you for listening. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is sarah. i am a neighbor at full ton and central. walk on divisadero regularly and it's somewhere i go all the time. thank you so much for the opportunity to speak and share. the times i walked by the site and thought about how under utilized it is are many. sometimes it's daily. it's essentially pedestrian dead zone in the middle of what is otherwise a super vibrant neighborhood. the times i walked by the site and think about filling up the car that i don't have with gas or washing it are zero. i just don't see any down side

to building this project and i think it nodes to move forward. housing is urgently needed as many people have said. three gas stations on the same block are not needed. i fully support this project and i'm excited to see it move forward. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is richard kay. i've been in the neighborhood for 28 years. i'm a in a testify san francisco an. i'm speaking in support of affordable divisadero. i stand with them to increase the percentage of affordability. that said, i would also like to mention a couple other points that have been overlooked. this development sits in the heart of a victoria yan neighborhood. there's five landmark buildings, san francisco landmark buildings within a block of this proposed structure.

there's perhaps no other cluster of landmarks in san francisco like this one. they represent the pinnacle of victoria design. i do believe that 400 divisadero is way out of scale for the neighborhood. there's only a hint of victoria victorian. i ask them to send the design back and include greater victorian elements and i ask the height limit at least be closer to the five landmark buildings within a block or so of the proposed development. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is julian mackie. i'm also chair of our lapped use subcommittee many of it's made up of community members from diverse set of backgrounds both

representativers, homeowners, those with families and those with cars and those who bike, et cetera. we ensure that we received a die set of voices and around the making sure the community's voices were heard both with the design, the levels of inclusionary housing and some more of the engagement pieces of the project. i'm happy to report that both the subcommittee and the board have voted to support the project. i commend david in the years of outreach he has done with our group and with the community speaking at general meetings and elsewhere. we've asked that should the projectory main -- the project site be remain vacant but be used for neighborhood beautification that we remain engage in the process of finding retail locations that meet the needs of all community members

and that should the project change hands or change ownership the same expectations around affordability and alternative transit use arapahoe land use are met by the future owners. we continue to work with supervisor brown's office to make sure we're meeting the needs of the community especially around affordable housing. we urge the commission to support this project. thank you. >> thank you, very much. i'm going to call a few more speaker cards. michael crows, emma stern, rachel fishman, hope williams, robert brookeman, richard kay and geo acosta. >> good afternoon, commissioners, charles higgins i live at 850 baker street grew up in san francisco. we've lived in the neighborhood for almost 30 years. i'm speaking on behalf of my family. we have been involved with this

discussion of this project for three or four years now and feel that the project has been very, very well vetted with the neighbors. we're very strongly in support of the density of this project and the process that the developer has gone through to seek as much approval from the neighborhood as possible. we're aware that people are not always going to be happy with how it comes out but we think this developer has a particularly co-operative way of going about the project and we're very much in support of it. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> my name is michael and i'm the owner of a bar and i also live there with my two daughters. one goes to creative arts and one goes tha to gala laio. i am in support of this building even though i will most likely not be able to continue to live

and do business in my building by the time people move in. at the end of the day, we need to create housing. is it perfect? no. could it have more affordable housing? it's a private developer building it. if we want 100% affordable housing the city of san francisco should find ways to do it. like mcdonald. can we get the d.m.v. can the city put money into developing 100% affordable housing and take it out of the hands at the developer. when i heard about this project, we need housing. i thought it was too high but if you are going to get as many affordable housing union it's into it you have to make compromises and as a city that supposedly knows how, we should be able to compromise, work together and to get what we need which is now housing. so yes i support this project. thank you. >> next speaker, please.

>> hi, my name is hope williams. i work in the but i live in sunset. i am in opposition to this. because of the low rate of affordable housing that will be a part of it. i don't think it's enough. i think it certainly fails to meet the neighborhood needs as articulated in the 2016 r 2016 affordable divisadero plan which calls for 54% affordability in new projects. i find it astounding that there's been enough push back and sf had to pass legislation that made it a requirement to ensure that there was 20% affordable housing with each new