its own is a really interesting and good project. as a compositional piece, this is an extremely well-designed building and very interesting and complements every we have done in the transit center. however, the concerns surrounding the specifics is very important to me and should be considered later next month. >> commissioner fung? >> when i read the draft of the ordinance, is there anything in that that i missed that relates to either shadow or some of the other issues brought forth. >> it's the future. >> that's what the commissioner eluded to. >> i want to make sure the draft does not reflect any comments on

this. >> no, there will be a draft motion before you on or after november 21st, adopting the recommendation from the rec and park commission. >> you might note for my fellow commissioners that it's highly unlikely i'll be here on november 21st. i may be out of the country. >> well, we need you. >> good to know. >> commissioner richards. >> we've got a building that's fully baked.

zero tolerance means zero so i'm not in support of this and i wouldn'wouldn't be able to go tp at night. november 21st is only 30 days away. it's not like they'll resign the whole project. so i'm going to say no. >> commissioner moore? >> i'm very disappointed to hear that if i'm correct, if i heard it correctly, that park and rec made a decision without consulting with us. normally they have a joint meeting and discuss this matter. can you clarify that, mr. foster? >> in was a zero tolerance park and in 2012, when tcdp, the planned area was adopted, the ac ls for seven parks was increased from 0 to .03% which would create a budget for

parks ntcd, inclusive of this project. presidenpresidentprocedurally, a commission. this was approved at on september 19th this year. >> this doesn't increase the amount of shadow, just the location, is that correct. >> well, there is a net increase in shadow,..01%. >> it's when you adopted the plan in 2012. when you meet with the -- when the two commissions meet jointly, it's to look at the shadow budgets on each of the parks and you did that in 2012 for all of the parks affected by the towers and the transit center plan. this project is within this budget. >> commissioner moore. >> perhaps we should replay that

meeting and on the awesomions presented because height limits in the trans-bay have been lifted or hired since that time. >> someonsomeone needs to make a motion anyway. >> commissioner johnson. >> so i am absolutely sympathetic and very concerned with the issues that have been brought forward by the community. i also think that on balance, this is a good project. i know that today, we are

initiating a general plan amendment and i know that the community and the parties are continuing to have conversations about this project. and so, i think when i look at this project, it makes sense that we initiate the general plan amendment and actually hear the full project and give an opportunity to have a community conversation about the project before us. and therefore, i would move to initiate the general plan amendment. >> and schedule a hearing on or after november 21st. >> yes. >> is there a second, commissioners? i hear no second. >> is there an alternative

motion? commissioner richards? >> i move to not initiate and not hold a hearing. >> commissioner here? >> could you procedurally explain to us what that means? >> i mean, if you don't initiate, then you're not initiating. >> commissioner fung. >> i move to continue this until after november 21st. >> second. >> you want to continue the initiation until after november 21st. >> yes. >> so that would be december 5th. >> i would hope that in that initiating hearing, you can come back with different designs. [ laughter ] >> please. >> may i speak to that. >> yes, go ahead. >> i wanted to be clear with the commission, it's not possible to resign the building.

>> to my point. it's fully baked. >> that's not the problem. we would have to reduce it a 39 from a of 60. >> we heard from the chinatown communities that they have issues, with the willie woo-woo, and so, i think that for me to support this, i would want it to have the full support of the community or at least neutral. i also heard mr. dulavich say some things that were pretty important to me in terms of

we're impacting a playground in a community that is vastly underserved by open space for parking for hotel guests. so i think that, you know, there's other options to mitigate the impacts and i think if we give you a little bit of extra time that we may be able to work with the community and with folks to see what can be done. , to address their issues. >> can i make one more procedural point? if the commission does not initiate the general plan amendments today, then we won't be able to hear the general plan amendments. they will not be before you so theyou onthe remainder of the entitlement. >> i'm sorry. can you explain that, jonas. >> i think they understand that. the initiation today prevents

project from coming to you on november 21st. so that, basically, on december 5th, is for you to come back again for initiation of general plan amendments in a scheduled hearing in the future. >> there has to be a three-our four-year gap and probably coming in 2020 as a result. >> for the balance of the entitlements. >> that's right. >> well that is certainly a disappointing outcome today. >> thank you. >> commissioners, there's a motion seconded to continue the general plan initiation to december 5th. on that motion, commissioner f fung. (role call). >> so moved and that passes 5-0. >> commissioners, case 2017 2017-0000565cwp for the community stabilization, policy

and program inventory and informational presentation. >> for several years they have been working on expect stabilization issues and it's fair to say that we started in a more kin kind of detailed and unknowing way with the 2020 work and we have taken that and expand it city-wide with what's in front of you today. i think it's fair and i've written me memos on this issue t the impacts of displacement with the city's growth is affecting the entire city right now.

i think it's fair to say that as a city in general, we are doing a substantial amount of work on community stabilization and we're doing it in a number of different ways from across a number of different departments. and we also believe, of course, that we have do more. but i think we need to give ourselves a little credit in that the city is doing, frankly, fomore than i see any country in the city doing. and we probably should give the magnitude of the crisis here. i believe we can produce new housing, as well as stabilize our existing neighborhoods. as i've said many times, the department spends about 90% of its time on 10% of the city, on the production side of the house, if you will, and this work is about spending more of that time on the other 90% of the city that is being affected by the changes in the city. so we do need to do more on the other two peas, preservation and

existing residence. this work andy will present is a daft, which essentially compiles and has no one place everything the city is doing to date and trying to move to the next level and understand how and where to expand those efforts. so with that, i'll turn it over to andy nelson who will make a presentation. thank you. >> thank you, john. good afternoon, commissioners. i want to apologize, we seem to have a bit of a technical snafu. wait, they're solving it. so i'm going to go ahead and start with the presentation and then we can pull it up and you all should have a copy of the presentation. good afternoon, commissioners, i'm andrea nelson, planning staff with the city-wide equity team. i'm excited to share the public draft with you today. before i start, let's to take a moment to think about our

broader vision for the vulnerable populations we serve, such as people of colour, low income households, seniors, people with disabilities and people experiencing homelessness, among others. while it is a city-wide responsibility, it is critical that we as the planning department take action to stabilize our communities and prevent displacement. this initiative is an opportunity for us do just that. so here is a general overview of what i will be covering today. first, i will set the context by touching on a few challenges facing the city and sharing a few of the city's existing policies and programs that seek to address these programs. then i will share our process to assess the city's existing efforts in collaboration with agency partners, community stakeholders and the public.

last, i will share the key priorities moving forward. >> i'm sorry, andy. if sf gov can go to the computer. >> let's start with challenges. as we know, san francisco continues to experience a vulnerability crisis. over the past several years, we have seen demographic changes that illustrate these challenges. they have gained households and the city has undergone additional dem graphic changes, including the loss of the black population and hous households h children. housing is the biggest challenge

but nonprofits and artists are also pushed outside of our city. i'm going to highlight three examples of our efforts. first, this is an important program in the city, preserving an affordable unit and removes housing insecurity issues for tenants on the other and generally less costly to acquire housing rather than build it and more effective to stabilize tenants rather than relocate them. since 2014, 308 units have been acquired. when we talk about stabilization, it's not just about housing, the city is defined by the diversity, culture and art.

the cultural district's initiative seeks to strengthen the unique cultural identities of san francisco's neighborhoods. and to preserve and promote the cultural assets. there are currently seven districts partnering with a plan. in addition to this, the city manages numerous programs to retain and stabilize businesses. this is just one example. it is designed to retain didn't stabilize long-standing anchor businesses and institutions. legacy businesses and their landlords are eligible to apply for business assistants and business stabilization -- rent stabilization grants. it includes dog-eared books, the cole hardware and the roxy

theatres, among others. among the city efforts, we took stock as a city and looked to assess the city's existing portfolio of tools. were wanted to unify them no one and identify priorities moving forward. we have very thankful to mohcd and the rent board, dbi, the department of homelessness and supportive housing, the art agency commission, among a number of others for their continued involvement. we also worked with representatives from 40 community organizations that implement, utilize or interact with the city's existing programs and policies that help to stabilize and prevent displacement. these include, but are not limited to the san francisco apartment association, the sr collaborative, and the tenants union.

we undertook broader efforts and more than 2300 residents pratted iprattedparticipated in the cit. we determined that there are three goals that we wanted to address in this initiative. the first is to protect and stabilize communities and we seek to mitigate ongoing displacement and we want to help vulnerable populations thrive and contribute to the city's culture and economy. so to achieve these goals, we worked with our agency partners to organize all of the city's existing efforts into four main categories ranging from tenant protects to economic development and a benefit of this is that we are able to share everything the city is doing no one place. this initiative primarily

focuses on the city's work to protect tenants and preserve housing. the housing production houses are identified in element 2022. so there are two primary components of this initiative. the comprehensive policy are and program invent tor inventory ine assessments. each of those ideas are qualified by the complexity, the quality, by the implementation resource needs and a couple of other qualities. and the ideas to future consideration have the potential to increase community stability and are available in an interactive website for people to understand them better and to sort. they have not been fully vetted for legal funding and feasibility consideration.

and then out of that inventory, we summarize primary components into a report and an executive summary focusing on key elements for implementation which i will go over. but first i wanted to give you a sense of what one of these assessments looks like because there are a lot of them.

this protects sros and tenants. the strengthening enforcement and we go into details on how that could happen. moving on to key priorities. based on community input and close yar coordination, key priorities are established listed on the slide. two examples of specific key priorities are to expand rent

subsidy programs which we currently have the city programs but mocd is working to expand it and incentivize the pdr or production and repair spaces and explore a lufi option. they are looking at this is a part of the city-wood strategy. city-wide strategy. in addition, key priorities and potential city programs and policies. and while complex and challenges could substantially contribute to community stability, in the coming year, the city will assess the implementation of these different key priorities. so over the next couple of months, we will be gathering and compiling input on the public draft. the final report will be released by the end of the year and all of this will feed into

the housing affordability strategy in 2022. but i want to end with commissioners, our city is you undergoing a great challenge. this is one of the most difficult issues most major cities are grappling with. how do we grow while protecting our most vulnerable populations. the community stabilization presents a decision for the decision-makers and city agencies to take a strong stance and commit to new, bold policies and programs. thank you for your time. >> thank you. any comments? we will take public comment on this item.

>> i'm the policy and planning developer and i wanted to talk some time to come out to support this initiative and also to provide some feedback on it. so a few years ago, tndc convene add group of neighborhood stakeholders in a group called the tenderloin development without displacement initiative where we met for about a year, looked at data and worked with andrea nelson in the planning department to think about strategies unique to out neighborhood to ensure that the rate of displacement doesn't continue. and we're really excited to see that. the strategies that we came up with are contained in this document. the two that we focused on in particular are expanding tenants right's education and also preservation. we have a goal of reaching a total of 40% of the tenderloin preserved as affordable housing,

which is a big goal but we're further ahead in that regard, at least. and so, to that note, one comment i want to provide is that i know in the city and in this document, there's a lot of talk around the small site's preservation but we want to ensure we're talking about larger sites, the type of sites we see in the tenderloin and other densely populated places in the city that should be preserved. there's a community group compromised called the tenderloin's progress. i don't think anyone was able to be here to comment but they come up with talking of thousand of residents and holding a forum and a lot of what they're talking about is in line with this program, as well, so i just wanted to mention that that's an

important component here. so yeah, thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi, jennifer with the tenants' union. i want to thank the commissioners earlier when you were talking about tenant advocacy roles. keep on it. i still think the issue i'm constantly coming here is missing from this report and that's how permits issuance actually affects tenants and how there's a lack of investigation, if there's tenants in the building. it seems simple to add a check-box, are there tenants in this building and everyone will be happy and in general, i know there's a lot of movement at the state level and some of our supervisors, even, to eliminate

discretionary review and it's really the only thing that we have to help tenants. so please, please, please preserve it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. when you come here, you know, and i talk about these demolitions that didn't start -- when i talk about the demolitions that are alterations that are demolitions, it's not just because of losing the housing at the site but because they become expensive housing with a snowball effect. so i prepared comments and i wanted to say just as the master plan encourages retense of retef housing to meet the community destabilization, the master plan encourages housing for section 317. i will show you the length before the loss of multiunit housing due to displacement that

destables communities and the extreme alterations, most often horizonal and vertical expansions with the removal of the front and rear facade. that's my definition of what an extreme alteration is. 22 to 26 day street across from this, that originally sold for 1.3 million in 2014 and after-the-work sold for 4 million in 2014. then 22-26 day, the six units, 500,000 above the asking for 2.4 million in 2015 and i 2015. there was at least one spanish-speaking tenant in the property. you know about 3345 tarraveell,

that was saved. but next door at 35-34-35-36 which became three deluxe condos having a horizonal ec pang expad that was sided by the tenants putting the pressure on 3544. so i urge you to see the linkage in these properties and i'll show you the pickets now. the one on day street which was this house, which was a nice house and it became this here,

right there, 4.7 million, but then here is 22 day and that was ellised across the street. that would be helpful in projects like this issue, thank you. >> any other public comment on this item? >> good afternoon, commissioners. peter cohen with the community housing organizations and just acknowledgement to staff for all of your hard work and thanks for reaching out to folks in doing the research. a few comments. just wanted to connect some dots, just interesting things that have happened in the last couple of days. just yesterday, the budget

analyst's office released a report called job's housing, which is the first time of looking what our workforce is in this city and how those worker households need housing that is affordable to them. not surprisingly, there's a huge gap in the for low and middle-income workers and the availability of housing and i think it's good to sort of understand where we need to be with these displacement strategies and other things and i think that report is very clear of what we aren't doing and where we need to get to to house our workforce. the second was an article in last sunday's chronicle. it was in the business section, not even a top headline article. the title was, why the wage gap is widening across the state. it's a very similar theme, talking about the polarization of, if you will, the have and havenots, in termses of income and wealth and how that plays

into our housing policy and how we need to prevent displacement in informative. in terms of goal, there's tracking and we're losing 300 on average units per year from a household evictions. it would be great if this strategy has a goal saying that number should be zero, zero household. these are, you know, no-fault evictions, aiming for zero and that's the stabilization end goal. so i think it would be helpful for this report to a articulate that's what we'll get to. lastly solutions, i want to point out the community opportunity to purchase act which went into effect a month ago is something we're hopeful is going to give us a leg up in being able to be faster in purchasing more buildings, whether they're small or big, getting them off the speculation market and the issue of corporate rentals and you've

seen come up. we need a regulatory response and i hope the commission and board move quickly to tamp that down. an active conversation about lan trusts, a different with to get housing into a more stable ownership tenure. i know it's abstract but there's movement on it and lastly, the public bank. this is something we should be excited about. we have to think really big, these policies in the report are great but in some respects, feeling like we're nibbling with the toolbox. public bank and land trust is something to think about, so thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm the president of the neighborhood council. i think good points have been made and we need the public bank but two things i would like to

raise, job's housing balance and let's stop building office buildings that we don't have housing to provide and, of course, if we stopped being a bedroom community of the peninsula that would also help. [ laughter ] >> but let's see movement on that. instead of approving the next big, like, the previous building, let's start looking at what else we need to have and related to that, split role, property tax will be on the ballot in march or november. we can look at additional income from property taxes and we can be starting to think about how that could be used. and how it coulding leveraged. our housing, the middle-income people. i understand in the utah hate, e

merchant's association saying the workforce is working two jobs to pa pay rents, even if ty commute from oakland. so please stop building more buildings that put pressure on our neighborhoods and please start looking at opportunities from split role. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other public comment comn this item? with that, public comment is closed. commissioner? go ahead. >> i will commend staff that this is a very well-written document. there's one area -- and you understand that the primary issues these days is housing and we all understand that. and the various varients on that

issue. the one area that did not get a lot of discussion and it's in your list of major items was small business and neighborhood. small business has been primarily compromised of residents and locals in every city. the economic engine represented by small business is also quite substantial. yet, what we see and i've always felt this, is that our policies with respect to the neighborhood commercial land uses, inherently are biasedded agains biased in s appropriate in the neighborhood

commercial. i'm in total disagreement with a lot of those exceptions and that's why we have a lot of empty storefronts and we have very little foot traffic and therefore, the synergy between people buying services and goods and the social aspects of people getting to know each other. >> thank you. commissioner johnson. >> thank you. i want to thank staff for all of your very hard and collaborative work that you have done to bring this forward and also thank our community partners for sharing your perspectives of what you're hearing from your constituents and wanting to see the department going forward. particularly appreciated mr. cohen's comments. you know, you think that we have to one, sharpen the tools in our

toolbox and that's really the work that is focused here and then think about how we can move forward with those tools. and i think, you know, at every, i would say, at least once a month, we have issues of drs, where people are living or have potentially outlived or evicted from units and feel kind of lake we don't have the right tools to understand what's happening and follow through and protecting tenants. so whether it's hiring somebody within the department, with tenants' lense or a check-box or both, which is what i would advocate for, i think closing the loophole on that is important and also, of course, agree on demolitions and losing housing stock. also, just think that there is incredible innovation that's

happening around stablization. you really appreciated the comments around land trusts and there are people of colour and indigenous women in the east bay that are making national and international news that are incredible and i think maybe a year ago, we had talked about bringing in some of those innovative ideas and having a hearing on land trusts, for example, and so i would love to dedicate a portion of the hearing to talk about those amazing work that's done in other cities and right here in the bay area. thank you. >> commissioner richards? >> so i think this is an amazing piece of work because it really looks like everybody is trying to figure this out from a whole city point of view rather than one group trying to do this and another group doing that, so highly, highly comment the work that's being done here, absolutely. a couple of questions and comments. an 18% sro rates translates into

how many sro spac rooms? any ideas? if there was a proposed project to turn sro rooms and union square into hotel rooms, and i don't know if you remember this where we would swap them out and it got complicated and commissioner fung walked into pow and gary and it was appalling that there were only -- the place was absolutely empty and falling down and the few remaining original tenants who were there before 1979 were slowly, you know, going to be dying off and this building sitting there empty. we know where the empty places are and how do we get them rehabilitated and get people in them? it was shocking. >> thank you for that comment and yes.

question. digging into the sro data was one of the more fascinating parts of the date. on page 36, there's more detail around the vacancy number. >> sorry. >> no, it's a dense document, that's ok. but out of approximately 390 spaw390 srohotels, 50% of the gt residences were vacant. this is one day, october 15, 2017. >> i saw it firsthand. a couple of other comments. we have, over in my end of the woods, delores heights is becoming the new pacific heights. there's 333 cumberland with a ball room and my question to these people who were doing this, you know, why don't you buy a mansion and why do you have to knock down a house and built an 8,000 square foot house

and combine lots? i think looking at what the definition of demolition, looking at lot mergers, we're going the wrong way. it's for larger living, not for extended families. everybody who wants to come and fit into a 15-bedroom house because they maximize the square footage, they all say it's integrated living. and i want that but everybody that comes before it says the same thing, how many of these bedrooms have anyone sleeping in them. there has to be a way, water records, something. we did an inventory on stabilized housing when we did the five-end project, a half mile radius, now five years ago and i think it would be interesting to take a look at the same map and see what sold,

what became owner move-in and take a look at where we are after five years? it would be an interesting snapshot. it's right where most of the developments are happening and that would be a good one. the other thing is to get the housing built that we've entitled. you know, 72,000 some units. to there's a report in the business time that there's a dip in the number of things, the. we had 250 units entitled. you know, try to incent the unused development capacity. we have another 70,000 potential units up and down taravel street or wherever but people aren't taking advantage of that and there might be a way to do that, low-interest loans, to get housing built. it's kind of a shame that a way

to protect tenants' rights through a dr? you mean, we sit up here some weeks didn' and i feel like we'e rent board. i think we need to look at what the rent board is. i had a conversation with robert collins and he said we only set what the fair rent should be. they hold the hearing and somebody takes away a service or amenity, they reset the rent. i think that a real inventory of what the rent board should be or do enforcement would be a great idea. with probably should off justs the demo calcs because we've been talking about this definition dem know now, what, two and a half years? so maybe they could adjust the demo calcs and we wouldn't have to see georgia every week and she could do something better with her life.

and how do we partner with the state? the state, you know, we've kind of got this healthy/unhealthy tension with the state and we waive $400 million around but it translates into 100 million. it looked like a lot of money but everyone got one unit and that's not a big, splashy marshall plan but one big city. mr. chang or mr. gordon or his brother said most of the people in chinatown don't make 40% of the amu. i. we're talking about affordability and people don't make enough to live in it. wow! i mean, it will take several years and hopefully things cool down and we'll do it and land

trusts. we have to go really big. so great, great, great job. can't praise enough. >> so i'm so excited about this, you guys. i think it's really fantastic work. i think what i am most excited about, even though, you know, these are all of the things you listed are good, policies, is to have all of these different efforts that are done by different departments in different organizations and in different communities no one place. and i think that just every five years, we submit to hud, our priorities for, you know, community development, block grant funding and there's a meeting here and there and then people don't see it and i think what i'm most excited about, besides that you guys involved the graduato greater community t this is available.

i didn'can you talk about how tl be available and interactive and how folks in the community, doing housing, economic development, business development, whatever can access this and see the commonalities of the different efforts and resources that are spent and how they can use this? >> yes, thank you for that question. again, can i have this screen transferred over to the community? >> yes. >> thank you. so we are excited because we are able to develop in the process of defining our interactive website that basically is about the project. there will be a link up here to the draft of the report, the inveninventory and consideratio.

so under the inventory -- so we were able to develop one example of an assessment. so each assessment will -- each of 22 assessments will have a whole page. so this is short-term rental regulations going through the backgrounds, what is important about it, the issues, and then key trends and then gets to the ideas for future consideration. and then there will also be a page that shows all of the different ideas for consideration which there are over 100 in a way that you will be able to sort. so, for example, i could say, let me see all of the tenant protection and housing stabilization ideas that are less complex. and then, if you go down, so

each of these boxes is an idea for future consideration and if you click on it, then you can learn more about each of those ideas. >> misty, are you watching this? [ laughter ] >> so thank you for that question. >> that's fantastic! >> and you think for the advocacy community, this is a really powerful tool when we're discussing new policies, new investment, new five-year plans and you think this is great. thank you. director ram. >> i want to thank andy who has been working on this for, i don't know two years, meeting with folks across the city. (please stand by).