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was adopted and post dda households, which are households established after that date and in between that, we have what we referred to as mixed households where some people on the lease were here in 2011 but roommates have moved out and new roommates have moved in and so going back to one treasure island transition plan. we have 435 new units and partnership with one treasure island member agencies. they currently lease and manage 250 units on the island so under the transition plan, anyone
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residing in the units under management of those providers will be transferred to replacement units in the new buildings as they are developed, just a reminder for everyone, our first building is in partnership with source to plow shares and china town community development and so those 36 source of plow shares units residents will move into that first building and our second building is in partnership with catholic charities and that's 135 unit buildings so 66 units will be occupied by catholic charities residents and then the remaining units we'll be trying to transition as many pre dda building as we planned including 23 units that we will be constructing without the benefit of affordable housing tax credits and other funding and
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where we transition households that don't meet income eligible requirements for formal housing. and so, it's simple in that whoever is residing in those units will have an opportunity to move into future housing as long as they are and respective of when they arrived on the island and that promise of replacement housing is the only -- there's no other options that are offered to one treasure island resident. it's just you are promised the opportunity to relocate. >> is the catholic charities project, is that the one that. >> it's in partnership with mercy, yes. >> thank you. >> so for the village at treasure island residents the thr and rs, as i mentioned,
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extend transition benefits to those households that were here at the end of june 2011 when the dda was executed and those options that are available to the residents of villages include a new rental unit that could be an affordable unit or if they don't meet income eligibilities they're promised the opportunity to move to a new rental unit if they so chose. if they elect to leave and also a pre marketing window and units from treasure islands and.
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continue existing household does not meet the income requiremen requirements, we cannot use affordable housing tax credits and some other sources of funding specifically for affordable housing to construct those individual units. those units remain restricted and become affordable units after the household moves out. and i really bring that up because, with the current cost of construction, the inability to use those tax credit financing and some of these under-funding sources, means than we need to make up as much as $300,000 of the cost of constructing each unit out of other local sources. so that is a tremendous cost associated with the replacement unit benefit.
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so, with that recap of what the transitional housing rules and regulations promise and how they're structured, i wanted to talk a little bit about supervisor haney's resolution urging the treasure island development authority to expand relocation and transition benefits for post dda households. this was introduced september 10th of the board of supervisors and we expect to be calender probably prior to our next meeting for discussion at land use. and so, we wanted to have a conversation with bore board mes about the provisions there. just a reminder, as i i've
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discussed previously we currently have just under 400 total households and some of those households are commercial leases. leases with special entities. that are excluded from benefits under the thr and rs. in terms of fully post dda households we have 151 and of the 191 households we refer to as pre dda but include mixed households, 91 include mixed households. between the 100% post dda households and the mixed households, we have just about
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240 total households. in consistent with the adoption of the thr and rs all leases with household members disclose that the availability on housing, on treasure island is interim and without relocation benefits. being responsive to the concerns that have been raised and the amount of time that's passed since the thr and rs were adopted, i wanted to talk a little bit about how we would move forward with some benefits. one thing that's important to start with is that we don't anticipate requiring any of the existing housing to be vacated for the purchasing of development within the next five years. 2024 is when we expect to start
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demolishing some of the earliest we would expect start demolishing some of the existing housing to make way for development. in that timeframe, we'll be completing the source to plow shares and mercy buildings and begin the process of relocating residents. for any buildings vacated within the next 10 or more years, we anticipate we should be in a position to offer replacement units within the to people that have not been relocated to permanent housing but are required to vacate their current building. i have an image here you can see on the western side of the existing neighborhood about last of the residential neighborhood underlies the future development footprint for future housing but
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a significant portion of the existing neighborhood is slated to be parks and open space. and so we have some flexibility and the timing of the development of that parks and open space that's where i say, within the next 10 years, we should have opportunities within the remaining housing area to continue to provide housing for people whether they have relocation benefits or not. so, in terms of the formulating potential post dda benefits. one of the issues that's come forward is important is consultation with the city attorney and the mayor's of housing.
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subsequent to the adoption of the d.d.a. but prior to the adoption of our new rules. it wouldn't be something that we would a couldn't rules and you can move in six months from now and take advantage of those rules. there will be future population and we conclude and we should do at this time. even if we direct the village to offer new leases our lease building and units as they are vacant, they're still the opportunity for roommates to move out and roommates to move in and those roommates moving in, to not be covered by what we do today.
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so, i think that is good in a couple ways. one is we don't have to solve all problems today. there will be a set of problems for someone in the future to solve as well. so, what i'm proposing at this time is including post dda residents in the pre market opportunities. from market rate housing so that as the first buildings on ybi become available and if people are interested in purchasing new units that post dda residents could also participate in that process during the pre marketing window. and it's important to highlight as danielle included in her presentation, two of the first market rate buildings on treasure island will be rental union sits there's both pre marketing rental and purchase opportunities that households could take advantage of.
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the other thing and most important thing i propose we do is modify the housing plan to prioritize. the way the implementation of the thr and rs would be carried out to today is because we have an obligation to pre dda households, to provide replacement housing to them, when mohcd conducts their lottery process for placement in new affordable housing units as they become available, any new
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units on treasure island are pre dda would automatically rise to the top of that lottery process. and would have units be made available to them. and so, if we modify our housing plan to take on the obligation to provide a similar opportunity to income qualifying post dda residents they would also rise above the other categories of preference holders within the conventional affordable housing lottery. >> it would be subordinate to
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and just to describe what that means it would be first come first serve. if a post dda resident came in during the pre market wooing and said i want to rent unit 26, that require from post dd resident would be held until the end of the remark et wooing and a. >> they would still have that and it would be second to the first apartment of a pre dda household and all of the
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existing pre dda residents who entered into the lottery would rise to the very top of the list and the post would the list below them. because it would not increase our financial obligations, and we wanted to bring these ideas to you for discuss and for we formally draft something and bring it forward. and i just wanted to highlight in contrast with the benefits that are available to pre dd residents we're not recommending
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extending the inlieu payments and nor are we proposing to offer transition to post residents that don't qualify foray and to continue the existing provisions of the thr and rs and they don't apply to commercial resolvers. going forward, we have the workshop on the 29th. we have an outreach and coordinating and we'll be taking what we've discussed here today and to the housing plan and another thing that the resolution request is that we
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develop an outreach plan to we'll plan for the pre marketing update. >> >> this is information only. there's no action that is calender for today it's just to bring the board up-to-date so i open it up to questions. >> thank you, again. at least we can say that the way that we are implementing the thr and r's we are following pro tolls and good intentions are great and the problem sometimes are the implementations and that's incumbent on what i'm
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going to discussion what we do in addition to the fine documents we serve a supporting document. i think that even all the position out there, if you have been raiding the president and the media, not everyone can tune into our deliberations to see the quality and the extent to which we're doing this, when they grandfathered them to the document that is why we committed all these resources and we're doing what we're doing. matt haney says we need to do the post dda. years back when i was part of this process too, london breed
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came out with housing and if you live in the western edition, anything billion dollar there and people are not just examining to your neighborhood and that is the city. i'm also aware that san francisco mohcd had all these references that when people were from the western edition back in their date they are whether or notes and seniors from preferences so why am i saying the world we need, a simple table. all the of the information is here and we can help you figure this thing out. we identify what we mean by pre dda and adjust all this stuff that you've identified here, they are listed on the post dda you mentioned those dda are
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advisory and i they we need to qualify for the public so that everybody is on the same page, what does advisory rules are and where the obligations are. they need to be stated. we coming up next putting the numbers and this is essential and this is essential because even for the board of supervisors i know, i will not vote anything until we have that and because, these people here reading all the the documents and they're technical and out there when you live in front of city hall we will be bomb card and why are you evicting people at treasure island and why are you providing this and you are not doing that and how many have you read that and if we take the time based on the information we have to pel out what is it we're doing here on this column, one or two pages, they have have a
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copy and everything and it's a document and it will make my job easier and it will make everybody's jobs easier here because the way that people are interpreting this is basically they don't have that and i don't blame them and no background information just a sound advice and we can as an agency continue to do that so this is what i'm going to ask that the information is all the supported documents with you need to have this table of content where we can translate it to the treasure island so it's a way of this resolution they are aware of the advisory roles because we all have this staff and again to be com barredded and they will understand and also i need for you to secretary board of supervisors, the city and county of san francisco again has all this obligations and what does
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that mean even though the residents are going to be here with no demolition in five years. what about the affordable housing that san francisco is building there and if i'm on treasure island, what that implies that i should wait to five years now to put my name on the list when they are building in mission bay and around the places this is a question that we all need to be up front with so that opposed dda, no, they have many options and they are san francisco residents and that they are certain laws in place because they are out bound by the pre dda so this can help us and we can do the resolution but i think a lot of education also needs to be ironed out here by the board of supervisors and also when we get to a next meeting on the island, people are going to be coming out there
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to be up front what it is we're doing and where the obligations are so that it's very clear to everyone. thank you. >> so just a couple questions. prioritizing the post qualifying dda residents for the placement in affordable units does that put them ahead of the mayor's office of housing list where there might be people that have been waiting for affordable housing longer than they have been waiting but it's just because the benefit that they're on the island and they're going to get ahead of those folks? >> so the city lottery list is that and there are a number of preferences that exist within that and slightly responsive to one of the questions about you
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know other opportunities off of the island that might be available to post dda residents and one of the things that we can do is make sure that anybody who is a resident what would income qualify get their name into the system because there is other development one of the steps in the mohcd process is a neighborhood reference which is based on supervisor redistrict and we know there's a lot of development in district 6. so, it is possible that if we work with residents and get them registered they may be place off-the-record of the island but, in response to your question, this would set up a preference because we need to vacate this housing and we will need to demolish is, it would set up a priority that if someone was an income qualifying
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post dda resident they would transition on the island so that we could empty existing units and move forward with the demolition process. >> it would just, my only concern would be if i was off the island and just waiting for something and i was on that list longer than someone who was post dda and part of their lease was that i shouldn't expect to have that opportunity i mean, i think it's great and i would just be concerned are we being fair to everybody. that is waiting for an affordable unit. >> understood. >> i have one more question. so, if the resolution passes the board and comes to tight end, is this proposal then.
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>> supervisor haney's resolution is non binding so to define some transition benefits and so it is whatever we develop hopefully, we are developing recommendations that would address the supervisor's concern and fulfill the intent of the board of supervisors resolution. >> so, i mean, i guess a little bit. i feel like almost, and i know we're not voting on this today. but you know are we a little bit putting the card ahead of the horse should we wait until this
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supervisor mainly's recommendations through a resolution comes to us and say does this address it is it in the spirit of it and then we can move forward. >> >> supervisor haney couldn't be here today but we have to continue dialogue with his office. as i mentioned, it's expected that the resolution will be referred to the land use committee so there will be an opportunity for discussion at the committee level about what we're proposing as potential solutions to address the resolution and receive feedback at least from those three board members in addition to supervisor haney. >> last question is i guess at this early stage, we wouldn't have any idea how this might effect budget or cost or anything like that? >> it would depend on -- >> the proposals that we have
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put forward shouldn't effect -- we will need to develop an outreach plan as we've done with post tda residents with some costs associated with that. but this isn't materially alter the cost of construction of the replacement units and if we were to offer a transition unit to all post tda residents regardless of income qualifications, that would have very significant cost implications and that something that would not only require tida board approval and board of supervisors approval. >> thank you. make just pigging backing off of your last statement i want it to be clear for everyone here. i heard you say that because the proposal is to allow for post residents who were income qualifying mean they would have normally qualified for a bmr
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unit anyways to also have priority in the lottery system, this would result in no net new cost impact for the city. >> yes. >> for the development. >> so that's the clarification i want which is some of the affordable housing developers target a specific a.m.i. level or demographic max and perhaps they're going after funding that is earmarked for certain demographic types. with this new lottery preference, which perhaps opens up the demographic type create complications for the funding for the developer? >> each lottery is conducted according to the income eligibility requirements for that building at the time it becomes available for occupancy. so if that building is utilizing funding source that's restrict income eligibility to 40 to 06%
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of a.m.i., those only -- only those households that meet that window would be eligible for participation. if it allowed income up to 80%, then people of higher slightly higher incomes would. anybody who is put into a lottery for placement in a unit would need to be in line with the income requirements with that unit. so, somehow, some -- depending on the aia of the existing post household they may participate in some lotteries but not others. >> got it. it's very clear ask it's great to hear it's not going to create more competition that's are unintended. can you remind us of -- i know over all, we are basically delivering about 2,000 units of below market rate units on the island. when we subtract out the tie die
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units and the pre dda units, how many more bmr units do we have in this pot? >> so, we have 435 tie die units and one treasure island units. that covers the transition of 250 existing households. if we look at all other households, and i'll just talk pre and post dda, i think we're at about 340 right now. total households 190 pre dda and mixed and 150 post dda. so that is 340 universe so the 435, which only 250 of those are needed to transition existing households. added 30th 340, assuming no one
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purchased a unit or took an inclusionary affordable unit, it could be 340 and 435 or 785. we would still be building 1100 additional affordable units above and beyond that only tida parcels. >> that's really great to have. it's context. in your presentation you mentioned you consulted with -- >> we've had initial conversations, yes. >> it's very important at least for me before we have to take any action on housing policy that we have very clear buy-in or response from ocd about their official position on this because ultimately they're the department who will be handling the processing of all of this and i just want to make sure
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that we completely understand our perspective and then just same thing with affordable housing developers making sure that we've already -- i think you've done a thorough job of thinking this through but in the off chance that we missed something i want to make sure we invite them to comment on this as well. >> ms. shiffrin. >> i just had a couple clarifying questions. of the post dda population, which you said was 241 which included the mixed households. it was 151 post dda and 91 pre dda so roughly 251. >> so 242 households that includes some post dda residents. >> so, of that population, do you have a sense of how many of those are income qualified?
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>> we haven't conducted interviews with any of these households yet. we believe it's a reasonable assumption that our post dda residents fall into roughly the same economic distribution as our pre dda residents and in our pre dda residents, roughly 40% of them would income qualify for some form of affordable housing. >> and some that don't, the offering that this amendment proposes is to be included in the pre market opportunity. >> yeah. >> exclusive to that. where as the pre dda folks have the pre market opportunity and the in-lieu fee. >> in-lieu option and they are promised a transition unit regardless if they chose not to
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take advantage of a pre marketing opportunity or take the in-lieu payment, they're promised a transition unit even if they don't income qualify for it. i just want the highlight again that means that they're occupying a unit that would otherwise be an affordable housing unit and the city is paying significantly more to construct that unit than if it was being occupied by an income qualifying household and i highlight that because if we extended that same benefit to post dda, we would actually be taking units that would be available to people that have been on that city wide wait list giving them to people that don't qualify. >> when you look that there's no
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real material cost change to the proposal that you had sent? did you look at what it would be if you did include the in-lieu option for the non affordable option? >> well, right now there's a -- the inlieu payment benefit is a formula that it follows and i can give you background on that. as an example, for the eight households over the last four months, our average payment to those households has been 26 to $27,000.
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we're done and it's incredible. >> on that, what happens later on when the development because it's going to be several years before those developments. is everybody then who moves to the island then given those rights as well? >> well, no. any benefit that we established today, the ad advice is that nes to be for individuals whose residency was established within
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a specific window. the starting of that window is pretty easy. it's june 29th, 2011. the end date of that window, i included january 1st of 2020 thinking that if the board adopted this at the december board meeting, that that would be kind of an effective date in relative proximity to the adoption of the board. so then, anybody who moved in after that effective date,. >> and there's no length of residency? someone could have moved in one month before the date and still
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qualified? as opposed to the dda residents? >> that was consistent with the way that the original thr and rs were formed. if they moved in prior to the effective date of the thr and rs. >> regardless of how long they've been there? >> regardless of how long they were going to be eligible for that replacement unit and now the benefits. and there were residents see that's were established in may of 2011. >> yeah. >> that are benefit eligible. >> it's something we need to consider and maybe to think about just simply is it a definite timeline. it was one timeline set in 2011? so we set another timeline in 2019? are they obligations to people who move in after 2019 and how much do we extend those benefits
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to those people. >> that's where i alluded to at beginning of this. by the time we have to vacate all of the housing, another decade will have passed. and we may have residents who have been living on the island for nine years at that point in time. members of the board of supervisors, members of this board at that time, may conclude that they need to do something similar to what we're doing today. it's difficult but or they may chose at that time to offer in-lieu payment or some other form of compensation. there will be a class of people who come to the island just if for no other reason because roommates move in and roommates move out. they will not able addressed by what we do today. >> i think the focus has to be,
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to those who really need the assistance because they are -- because they qualify for the affordable units but if they're people who are wealthy enough for the market rate unit, rent or for sale, it's an obligation by this board to assist those households. that's for further discussion and these are just questions i'm bringing up so we can have weight to discuss and answer them. >> thank you. again, i think commissioner lai's suggestion to bring mohcd here is a very critical one. we can ask questions. i want to go back. hearing non binding and i'm also
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hearing subordination does not take a preference. so again, the implementation, having the post dda. what benefit? everything has to be delineated. that's why it's so important. if i am a post dda candidate, what benefit am i having here just to lift me of pre marketing but at the same time it's non binding on. all we do here is pass policy. but the interpretation and the interpreters, mohcd which are bound by all these preferences they go by, that needs to be spelled out for us here. even at this juncture anticipating 10 years from now and down the road we have to do our due diligence, cross all the ts and dot all the is so we've done our work here where before, we passed the can down the road so at every stamp,
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everybody understands, i still need to know what the benefits are for the post dda. a primary obligation legally binding are the pre dda. so, we still need to go to this exercise. how the mohcd will interpret a non binding resolution that is subordinating because i hear that we have to attain and attend the pre dda, what does it mean? i understand now. it's a very simple process. implication. it's a very simple process. we can build that in and invite them in and they can tell us what and how they implement a non binding resolution. thank you. >> thank you. >> are there any comments? >> if not, next item, please.
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>> item number 9 resolution establishing an ad hoc nominating consisting three members of the authority board of directors to nominate officers to serve a one year term. >> i would like to propose that the ad hoc nomination committee be linda richardson, sharon by and paul. can i have a resolution by the board. >> moved, second. >> all those in favor say aye. >> aye. the ayes have it and then next item. >> item number 10 discussion of future agenda items by directors. >> i would just like to note, bob, i just spent a week with the new york botanical gardens and we're so impressed with the operations they had in terms of their native plantings and their establishment of a native
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ecosystem and what they're doing about the soils and about high drol gee, about composting and pest management and the right native plant at the right place and the education that they're doing. next item, please. >> move to adjourn. >> before we adjourn, i'd like to give it over to linda, who would like to make a dedication. >> yes, thank you. it is a heavy heart. i, this morning, lost a very key member of my family. my brother-in-law in nigeria. dr. carter was very young and all his life he was a
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humanitarian. he used his medical practices in providing pro bono working in villages and rural places for the disadvantaged and unfortunately we lost him this morning. i will be honored to adjourn this meeting in his beloved memory. thank you. >> i'm so sorry for your loss, linda. and we will adjourn in his memory. thank you.
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adjourned. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shop & dine in the 49 with within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 my name is jim woods i'm the founder of woods beer company and the proprietor of woods copy k open 2 henry adams what makes us unique is that we're reintegrated brooeg the beer and serving that cross the table people are sitting next to the xurpz drinking alongside we're having a lot of ingredient that get there's a lot to do the district of retail shop having that really close connection with the consumer allows us to
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community >> manufacturing in cities creates this perfect platform for people to earn livelihoods and for people to create more economic prosperity. i'm kate sosa. i'm cofounder and ceo of sf made. sf made is a public private partnership in the city of san francisco to help manufacturers start, grow, and stay right here in san francisco. sf made really provides wraparound resources for manufacturers that sets us
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apart from other small business support organizations who provide more generalized support. everything we do has really been developed over time by listening and thinking about what manufacturer needs grow. for example, it would be traditional things like helping them find capital, provide assistance loans, help to provide small business owners with education. we have had some great experience doing what you might call pop ups or temporary selling events, and maybe the most recent example was one that we did as part of sf made week in partnership with the city seas partnership with small business, creating a 100 company selling day right here at city hall, in partnership with mayor lee and the board of supervisors, and it was just a wonderful opportunity for many of our smaller manufacturers who may be one or two-person
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shop, and who don't have the wherewithal to have their own dedicated retail store to show their products and it comes back to how do we help companies set more money into arthur businesses and develop more customers and their relationships, so that they can continue to grow and continue to stay here in san francisco. i'm amy kascel, and i'm the owner of amy kaschel san francisco. we started our line with wedding gowns, and about a year ago, we launched a ready to wear collection. san francisco's a great place to do business in terms of clientele. we have wonderful brides from all walks of life and doing really interesting things: architects, doctors,
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lawyers, teachers, artists, other like minded entrepreneurs, so really fantastic women to work with. i think it's important for them to know where their clothes are made and how they're made. >> my name is jefferson mccarly, and i'm the general manager of the mission bicycle company. we sell bikes made here for people that ride here. essentially, we sell city bikes made for riding in urban environments. our core business really is to build bikes specifically for each individual. we care a lot about craftsmanship, we care a lot about quality, we care about good design, and people like that. when people come in, we spend a lot of time going to the design wall, and we can talk about handle bars, we can see the
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riding position, and we take notes all over the wall. it's a pretty fun shopping experience. paragraph. >> for me as a designer, i love the control. i can see what's going on, talk to my cutter, my pattern maker, looking at the designs. going through the suing room, i'm looking at it, everyone on the team is kind of getting involved, is this what that drape look? is this what she's expecting, maybe if we've made a customization to a dress, which we can do because we're making everything here locally. over the last few years, we've been more technical. it's a great place to be, but you know, you have to concentrate and focus on where things are going and what the right
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decisions are as a small business owner. >> sometimes it's appropriate to bring in an expert to offer suggestions and guidance in coaching and counseling, and other times, we just need to talk to each other. we need to talk to other manufacturers that are facing similar problems, other people that are in the trenches, just like us, so that i can share with them a solution that we came up with to manage our inventory, and they can share with me an idea that they had about how to overcome another problem. >> moving forward, where we see ourselves down the road, maybe five and ten years, is really looking at a business from a little bit more of a ready to wear perspective and making things that are really thoughtful and mindful, mindful of the end user, how they're going to use it, whether it's the end piece or a he hwedding gown, are they going to use it again, and incorporating that
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into the end collection, and so that's the direction i hear at this point. >> the reason we are so enamored with the work we do is we really do see it as a platform for changing and making the city something that it has always been and making sure that we're sharing the opportunities that we've been blessed with economically and socially as possible, broadening that
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. >> order. hi, everyone. i will note -- well, i'll take roll call. [ roll call ]. >> so before we begin, first of all, thank you, everyone for being here. the commission is grateful for all of the public comment that we've gotten in the past few weeks, specifically with regard to homelessness and behavior health. there have been some announcements in the news in regard to that. in keeping with our responsibility at the department of public health, at our last meeting we had a presentn
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