the next thing i wanted to talk about today is that this week is national apprenticeship week. apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship are goals for disadvantaged communities in industries beyond construction, particularly and including women and communities of colour that are underrepresented in many apprenticeship training programs beyond construction. many in sanfrancisco today are thriving and our economy is doing well, there's still too far, too many experiencing unemployment across san francisco and one way to tackle this is with apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship program. i was happy two months ago we opened or neighborhood access point in more technical terms but essentially a job center in the lakeview neighborhood and it was the first one that had one of the high rates of incarceration of murder and unemployment and we were very proud and supervisor walton

joined me as we cut the ribbon with mayor breed, but essentially designed to work with wonderful programs like young community developers and the lead agency out there in the intercity youth to attach and refer people to the opportunities, many of those actually in the construction industry and we have many of our brother exposbrothers and sistee carpenters unions and they have been a phenomenal partner in putting people to work in an industry and giving many people their first opportunity for long-term employment. so today -- after that, last year, many of you supported our city-grow program, which was designed to help expand apprenticeship into a new industry in the cannabis industry. and we authored that with the support of the unanimous support of this board as a way to work with pre-apprenticeship pathways to state.-approved apprenticeshp

program and iowu workers and so we now are looking forward to working with employers and getting graduates of this apprenticeship connected. bases on the successful city bill i referenced, that work, we're looking forward to our first city-grow class being put to work. so today, i'm asking the city attorney, in partnership with supervisor walton, to draft an ordinance to call our san francisco apprenticeship ordinance to approve the workforce goals and local hiring goals beyond construction. i know supervisor walton has talked in the past about working to do a local hire in the tech industry and i know that mayor breed announced this week, i think yesterday, working on apprenticeship training work and this is to act as a complement to that but this is beyond the construction industry. we're looking to create

partnerships with city departments, in particular the office of workforce and economic development and department of human resources, to work with community and labor partners in other areas, in training partnerships and working with employers to develop state certified pre- apprenticeship pathways and meeting goals of state approved a(tiesships. we've been looking to people in new areas, hospitality, healthcare, commercial, driving, theater, all of these areas that have the potential for expansion and to work in partnership with organized labor. so i want the city, not only to promote apprenticeship as a workforce tool but to lead to life-long change. so i ask the city attorney to work with us on that and we will

get started. thank you. >> supervisor. >> to the members, the president has asked we cut away from the introduction of new business to go to 2:30 commendations. mr. president, there are three. supervisor safyaye, memdleman and hainey. >> please share your commendation. >> this is what emexemplifies of being a true san franciscoan and we honour a true leader. it's sad because we're losing that person but we're happy and super happy for his next faz phe

in his life, captain jack hart, transitioning as an instructor in the police academy. our community and the desire district has had such a fortune to have captain hart as a captain. he touches on district 8, district 9, district 10 and parts of district 7 and he has one of the largest police districts in the city and has lead that with tremendous, tremendous appplaumb. no hour of the day he's not informing me of what is happening and all of us of what is happening in our district.

his grandfather charles joined the police department after the first san francisco earthquake. and sad to say, alemany boulevard is still the site of many, many fatalities and reckless driving and captain hart, before he transitioned out, was working with our office and we now have a plan. captain hart honors his legacy and wars the star as his great

grandfather. he joined the force after attending law school. he served in pa to troll patrols and as an attorney with the department's legal division. he has taught constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure and leadership courses to more than 50 police recruit classes, more than 50. as a sergeant, captain hart lead a street crime enforcement team in the bayview district. as a lieutenant, he was the officer in charge of the candl candlestick park and lead 70,000 people. as a captain to the unit, he supervised the marine unit and lead the response to the 2017 north bay firearm storm at the department operation center. captain hart is a master instructor in blue courage, a

course taught throughout the nation. as police captain, he is always available, as i've said, to the public and ever present at community meetings, always lead with compassion, demonstrating the best of what community policing can be and, in fact, i don't think i've seen him get angry once in the two and a half years. he almost got angry at me one day but the closest it got, he tightened his lips saying next time if you can call me ten minutes earlier, that would be preciatated. appreciated. [ laughter ] >> captain hart, it's my profound honor to have you as my captain and many are here to honor you and on behalf of myself and colleagues, i want to present you with this commendation. i know some my colleagues want to say a few words but in recognition of the outstanding work in the ingleside police

station and myself all my colleagues extend the highest commendation to you, captain hart. our community was profounded impacted by your compassion, dedication and the empathy you've shown in the short time you've been there but it seems like a longer amount of time than two years. you will be extremely miss. we wish you the best of luck in your new role. i think our colleagues will say a few words. >> let me have the other -- i will have the other supervisor speak first while they're holding their kids. sorry about that. >> supervisor ronan. >> thank you, president yi. oh, captain hart, this is so bittersweet. i have to say i knew this call was coming eventually, because you are such a talent that i had

no doubt that the chief wants you to serve in many different ways and if we could, you know, duplicate you, we all would. because they just don't make them like you everyday. the care that you gave, you're just a model captain and officer and the fact that you're going to be teaching new officers that come in and be the first example

and it's bittersweet but i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. you're an extraordinary leader and you and your beautiful family, we're so grateful to everything you've given to sanfrancisco. thank you. >> captain heart, i won't say it's been a joy working with you because most of the time we're talking to each other, something has gone wrong but i want to thank you for your tremendous service. you are a treasure and it is great to have you in the san francisco police department. although, i'm definitely going to miss you at ingleside. although, we keep you in the

district at the police academy and i expect we'll work together, maybe on more pleasant things, actually. >> supervisor walton. >> thank you, president yi. i want to say captain hart, congratulations and thank you for all of your work. i know we've only had the short part of most of this year, but just to see how responsive you are, particularly having to deal with several different supervisors. you know, you don't make excuses, we call you in. there are hard decisions to be made and you actually make it happen. one major example is being able to get us bilingual police officers at two different sites and visitation rallies to work with our constituents and being able to respond to that and making it happen, versus trying to give several excuses as to why it's not possible, what the budget looks like, et cetera and you just made it happen. so your commitment to community and dedication to community is

not unnoticed and i appreciate all of your hard work. >> thank you, supervisor. >> thank you. >> so before you speak, i'm sorry, you have to -- your arms got tired. [ laughter ] >> he always seems to get the last word. >> i also want to congratulate you in your next opportunity and you're one of those captains that the community really admires and appreciates because you go to so many community meetings. every time i'm at a community meeting concerning safety or some issues with the police department, you're always there. so i really appreciate it and i really appreciate, also, when we talked about those property crime issues that we were having throughout san francisco and that you and the captain over at taravel stepped up and let's try

in our station to have, basically, your district or your station unit and i'm hoping your predecessor, captain -- mcfaddee effort you made. so now captain hart, it's your turn. >> thank you so much. i just wanted to thank all of you for taking time out of your hard day to acknowledge a civil servant like myself, but really, the credit is to be shared with a lot of people in this room, including the people that spoke up and big advocates wanting enhanced public safety and to collaborate on so many issues was great. so thank you to so many people over there in that corner. i want to acknowledge my mother, too. , for all of her love and support.

i was a little pal cadet at 16 years old is came home after a shift at the tenderloin and said, look, mom, they like me. they bought a bullet-proof vest and she took a gulp and continued to support me. it was her grandfather who was killed in the line of duty in 1931. he was hit and killed by a politically-connected person and it was in the middle of the depression. they were told you either take a couple hundred bucks -- it was 5:04 p.m. and he wasn't on duty. you can take this pay-off or get nothing. my grandmother literally to the day she died cursed the city and the police department because she was 16 years old and wore her sweet 16 dress to her father's funeral and just the way that her family was treated at the time and i was able -- when i told her, i was able to get her father's star number,

586, she was appreciative and it reminds me of the gratitude in public safety and san francisco, like the people on the board like you to create an enriched environment for us to be able to meet all of the needs and the demands of policing. also i would like to thank, obviously, my wife, anonda, who has been tireless in support. she's a criminal defense lawyer and we met over a pitch's motion. she was seeking police officer's personnel files. she won. [ laughter ] >> but i think i've won in the long-term, as we continue to challenge each other intellectually and emotionally in discussing how the world works and what justice looks like and a special thanks to her love and support and her mother who is on the board at san quentin, who continues to challenge my thinking and what humanity looks like and how we can make the world more safe and just. i would like to thank my mentor, i'm nila. he told a story in 1978 how he

had a chance meeting with a neuro scientist, saying a police officer who has all of the brain connections of a prisoner of war and that a prisoner of war is in this locked-up environment who doesn't have the warm, loving embrace and they don't sleep well or eat right and that the neuroscientist looked at him in 1978 and says if you love your life and your family, you'll quit policing immediately. and then, i have family members in policing, tell me there's good news. the neuroscientist perked right up and said, well, there is something called an enriched environment, when the prisoner of war goes home, surrounding by the loving embrace of family and friends drinking a cold beer, flipping burgers on a beautiful sunday sunny afternoon, your brain has an ability to regenerate itself. this idea of neuro plasticity, that the prisoner of war becomes whole because the toxic environment is now over.

so long in policing, we find our only ability to create a rich environment is when we leave this profession. we can't wait for retirement to create this enriched environment. when i heard that story, i said, what if we could create an enriched environment now, within our own walls of the profession, amongst neighbors and community members, that perhaps there is a way to overcome this cultural ptsd that we have based on legacy and generations of strife and turmoil and i've taken that to heart, to try to create an enriched environment for police officers so that they go out to certainly all neighborhoods in a more just way. i appreciate all of your support to create a more just world as we go along. i'm super sad to leave ingleside. i would like to thank assistant chief redman for transferring me. [ laughter ] >> no, i would like to thank him for giving me this for the two years. but we have a chance at the police academy to impact the

next 50 to 75 years of the police department and so i look forward to, hopefully, amplifying any of the good that you've seen in the ingleside, to amplify that across the department and entire organization. so i'm grateful for all of you and thank you so much. [cheers and applause] >> can i have my rebuttal? [ laughter ] >> so supervisor safaye, thank you and supervisors for your kind words. obviously, these are tough decisions we make. i know the community is not happy and i grew up in the ingleside myself so even my father is calling me about this transfer. but if you hear jack talk, you see why we want him at the police academy and he's going to

bring his heart and mind to all of the new recruits, but also in our advanced officer's training to the officers that are currently employed, he's bringing his work ethic to the academy and we're excited for that assignment. and obviously, like he mentioned, his family. so none of us get to the ranks we are without the support of our families. i know he worked 24/7 with the supervisors. it's not an easy job but he has a lot of tasks to accomplish at the academy and we're excited. so congratulations to jack. i think this -- i've worked with jack in every rank in this police department. he is not going to stop at this rank. he's one of the foremost leaders in in department and look forward to rest of his career to see what he accomplishes. so congratulations to jack. [cheers and applause]

>> next, i would like invite our supervisor from district 8, supervisor mamdleman to please

offer your commendation. >> thank you. eric guther, come on up. so today, colleagues, i would like for us to recognise and honour eric gutherts. he has served as the principal of mission high. in june, he left to start a new mission for the district's transformative mission where he supports leadership for principals and assistant principals. i did not allow his accomplishments during his tenure there to slip by unacknowledged in this chamber. after earning his bachelor's degree in english literature and a masters in education from university of california at los angelos, eric began his teaching career more than 30 years ago as an eighth grade english teacher in east los angelos. he then returned to his native bay area created and directed the bill wilson school in l.a.,

a school for homeless and run away teaches in the l.a. area. nearly 20 years ago, he began teaching english where he would serve as the english department chair and the reform facilitators and principal before becoming principal. eric has earned an impressive list of honours and awards, completing the stamford's program and was a recipient of the dream-catcher award for the art's education. in 2014, eric received the principal of the year award and in 2015, he was awarded the association region 5 principal of the year. and in 2016, edg eric received e aim-high award and was in the mission's high and the teachers who made a triumph and receive the meredith inspiration award

and named one of peer's resources 40 change-makers for 40 years. so a lot of awards. [ laughter ] >> and a lot of great work. eric's mentor and predecessor who was mission high's principal from 2001 to 2008, described eric's legacy at merc mission as transformative. when kevin left his post to accept a new position in the school district, central office, he was reluctant to leave mission in the middle of ongoing professional development work he had been leading on anti-racist teaching. i know he will be greatly missed. eric, thank you for all you've done to transform the lives of

mission students and families and i would want to invite you to say a few words. he is fabulous. he's amazing and it's a school that's been transformed and also teachers have the ability to be self-reflective and he allows that space to be self-reflective with each other and also, i have to say, eric, i went to a lot, a lot of high schools and spoke to

a lot of high school students and i had not heard one complaint from a student. i hear it from all of these other high schools, but the students at mission high school, i did not hear one complaint and they loved their experience at mission high school and i want to thank you, thank you, for your service and all of the thousands and thousands and thousands of students that you have an impact on and thanks so much. >> supervisor ronan? >> i wanted to echo that you are such an extraordinary person and your dedication not just to your students and the success of the faculty and the staff and the community at mission high, but your strong, insistent, racial economic justice is something that is unique. it's important and very few people do it with the passion and the energy and brilliance that you do.

i can't echo my colleagues enough to say thank you for all of your work. you're someone we all admire so much and can't appreciate you enough. >> supervisor walton. >> thank you, president yi. >> eric, just as a friend and someone who worked with you in several capacities, i wish principals like you could stay forever. the environment that you create for our young people, the environment that you create for our teachers and the environment you create with the school as a part of community is something that is very special and so, of course, you're going to be missed by the district. you'll be missed by the students at mission, but i just want to thank you for your service and i want to thank you for being able to work so closely with community and develop young people to send so many young people to our uc schools. that is a major, major accomplishment and i want to

thank you for setting up the environment for learning an enrichment so our students can be successful in that endeavor. >> supervisor hainey. >> thank you. er irritatioric, you know we alo much respect. i came and spent a lot of time with you and watched you in action and being a principal in a high school is one of the toughest jobs there could be. but you made it look easy. i mean, i would watch you and the way you would interact with folks and listen to people and value their voices, i was inspired just in terms of how a leader looks, not just how a principal but how a leader in general really lives what their values are and acts on what they say they are. so i just want to thank you and for you and mr. truett, principal truett, how much you've done that make that an extraordinary school. whereas supervisor furer said, everybody wants to be there,

students want to be there and thank you so much and i know you will continue to serve our kids and families in the city. >> so i was on the school board when you became the principal and when principal truett was leavleaving to go to another position, who are we going to get to fill his big old shoes, you know, literally. [ laughter ] >> and when your name came up and with your background and peer resources, i said, i think we'll be ok. and what, i don't know how many years it's been eight, nine years or something, that you've been the principal and you've completely filled his shoes and more and now, as you leave, i want to say the same thing, oh, my god, who will fill eric's shoes. so congratulations anyway to moving on and the floor is yours.

>> thank you. i'm a little overwhelmed, to be quite honest. so thank you supervisor mamdleman, and thank you to all of the supervisors. i know so many of yo many of yoe working with all of you and i'm deeply humbled by this honor today. i was at mission for 18 years and probably the most difficult decision i've ever had to make, even more difficult than having a second child, for example, or a first child. [ laughter ] >> and i really did grapple with it. but i have loved every moment of my time at mission. i want to thank very much the district, particularly folks that are here today, my friend brian fox i see back there and the superintendent and the entire district office. i cannot thank enough, concer kn

truett, who has been there for me through thick and thin. he said do you want to be principal and i said heck, no and you could put another word if for heck and i couldn't imagine taking mr. truett's place and being there. he's done such a fabulous job. and i said, if you say i have to do it, i have to do and it's been the greatest honor of my life for certain. i have to thank all of the teachers, the faculty and you asked about the new shoes. so miss mccambey has taken over and she's been there many, many years and mission is in great hand. the anti-racist teaching work, the social justice work will continue, will only deepen and get stronger and i couldn't be prouder of that. i also just have to say personally, as a child, my grandmother went to girl's high school, which is the first high school for young women in san

francisco. my father, he went to sherman and marina and lowell and he went to schools in the city, as well. i was born in the city and it has been such an honor for me to be there and to be ail to d ablo the anti-racist work but i do it on a personal level. speaking of my family, my daughter was a tiny baby when i moved to mission and she literally took her first steps there and graduated from mission. she's now studies creative writing and literature and feminist studies and said she couldn't have done it -- she said, i couldn't have done it without a mission high school education. so what else can i say? it was time to move on but i love it deeply and i am humbled and incredibly grateful for this honor today, thank you. (applause).

>> that brings us to our last commendation by supervisor hainey. >> thank you supervisor stephanie for declaring november veteran's month or veteran's awareness month. yesterday was a day we were recognising the service of so many people to our country and also looking critically at some of the ways in which our veterans are often failed when they return home. and recommitting to be able to honor them and support them and celebrate them appropriately. with that, i have the privilege today to honor del seymour, one of our cities and one of my district's most well-known and accomplished community leaders and also a veteran. mr. seymour served in the united states army, 82n

82nd airborne from june of 1967 to may of 1969. he was ranked as a specialist, five at the time of discharge, having received several soldier of the months awards and served during the washington riots of 1968 and a dust-method in the com bode ycambodia region. he's run the gamut from living on the streets, workings a taxi driver and becoming the advocate and leader we know him as today. over the last decade, he has worked closely with organizations like glide memorial church, st. anthonys and using his life experience to help inform and guide the service providers, many whom service veterans. dale has served as the cochair of the local homeless

coordinating board and has an appointed position with the sanfrancisco tl hip board. del's deep love for the tenderloin is evidence to all that know him or have heard him speak. i heard him give a sermon at glide. he educated people and to set the record straight on an often ignored part of our city. it highlights the tenderloin's rich cultural heritage and supports long-time residents and relative newcomers. in 2015, del cofounded tenderloin to perform the outstanding quality he saw in his neighborhood. a start-up workforce, trains exprepares and places community members into community jobs and at the mid-market tech companies and businesses. given the tremendous amount of work that del has done for the

tenderloin, it's no wonder that many know him as the mayor of tenderloin and this tight has beetitle hasbeen well earned. it's a rare day i walk around the tenderloin and don't see you. you're always there as someone who is bringing people together and acknowledging and respecting and valuing everyone's experience in our community, who's trying to get people to see each other and connect with each other and understand each other better. and you've you, to me, represent the best of san francisco is and the neighborhood i live and andi know it's something from your own experience as a veteran and in service and taking that experience, the good and the bad, the hard parts, the trauma, the suffering and also the commitment that came with that and bringing it in the way that you have to our community. so i'm really excited and

grateful to be able to honour you today and also the many other veterans in our community. thank you. >> thank you. >> i've been all around the world, arrived in the tenderloin 35 years ago, got out of my car and i thought they were shooting a movie. point by 8:00 that night, i was in that movie. i went on to star in that movie for 18 years, life in the tenderloin. as a medic, a combat medic, i wasn't required to fight, didn't fight, my fight started when i got to the tenderloin. 18 years, i fought my addiction, most of the time. i fought my dignity, lost most of the time. i fought for my self-eesteem and

lost most of the time and went on and on and on and i was able to get my military development and put my life on the right track. when you talk about del seymour, that's just a force. he's my crew and that's where del seymour is. i'm just the leader, or one of the members of a force that we tried to do. some of the supervisors have been here for awhile, like supervisor peskin, and you'll remember me coming here yelling and screaming years ago about workforce development and it didn't work. and i decided to go to work on it, because my idea of the way to manage homelessness is a paycollectpaycheck, not a wellfk

but a paycheck, that's quality we haven't had in the tenderloin for a long time and i want to thank the board here for that support of a lot of the things that i do in the tenderloin, special thanks to supervisor hainey. he's like a one-man show that does everything -- when he was running for supervisor -- he was a friend -- i mean, i knew him as a friend before he decided to run. when he decided to run, i was thinking, will this be another politician that will promise a thousand things to do nothing? he promised a thousand things and he's done 999. and so it's a pleasure to work with someone like him. and i work with a lot of other members on this board and i will continue to work on this board and i want to say this is an honor. in the last three yearses, i

received an accommodation at the state capitol, the u.s. capitol and at the white house and this is important to me. i have a space on my wall because this is from my folks, my family and my city and they know all about everything. so thank you so much for this opportunity, sir. [cheers and applause]

>> so thank you. that includes our special commendations for today and we'll go to our special order, 3:00 p.m. special order. since we have three appeals before us relate red t to the pg department's environmental impact report, a conditional use authorization and a public work's tentative map approval on the same project at 333 california street, please call items 22-33 together. >> ok. items 22-25 comprise the public hearing of persons interested in the certification of a final environmental impact report for the proposed mixed use project and project varient at 3333 california street. item 23 is the motion to affirm the department's certification of the feir, item 24 is the motion to conditionally reverse

the department's certification and item 25 is the motion to direct preparation of the findings. items 26-29 is the hearing of persons interested in the certification of a conditional use authorization for the planned development for the proposed project at 3333 california street. and items 27 is the motion to approve the decision of the planning commission to approve the conditional use authorization and item 28, conditionally approves the apartment approval of that conditional use and item 29 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings. items 30-33 compromise the hearings of persons interested in public works approving a tentative map for a 15 lot vertical subdivision and six 75 residential and new-used projects at 3333 california street and item 31 is the motion to approve the public work's

decision, approving the tentative map and and item 32 to conditionally disapprove public work's decision and item 33 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings. >> so again, colleagues, we have before us three appeals for the project at 3333 california street in district two. and we will hear all three appeals together. after the hearing, the board will vote on the planning department's final environmental impact reports certification and it takes six votes to either affirm or reverse the planning commission's determination. if the environmental determination is rejected, the conditional use authorization becomes moot. no other approval actions can take place and we will table

those items. if the environmental determination is upheld, we will then vote on the conditional use authorization and then the tentative map determination. it requires eight votes to overturn the planning department's conditional use authorization or impose additional conditions. for this combined hearing, we will be considering whether to approve the planning commission's certification of the final environmental impact report for 3333 california street. then the planning commission's conditional use authorization and then lastly, the public work's determination of the tentative map. since we are combining appeals, we revise our normal hearing procedures to provide speakers with a bit more time. so without objection, we will

proceed as follows. up to 15 minutes for a presentation by the appellants or appellant's recipient an repe and i will ask speakers in support of the appeal to come up and speak for two minutes, if they want. then after that, there will be up to 15 minutes for a presentation from the city departments. and then after that, up to 15 minutes for the project sponsor or the representative to present. then i will ask speakers in opposition of the appeal, in order in support of the project, and give them two minutes per speaker and finally, up to five minutes for rebuttal by the appellants or appellants representative.

so from the public, that want to make comments, please pay attention to when you'll be coming up and i won't be asking -- if you miss that turn, then we'll going to have to skip that. so please note that you are here to speak at 3333 california, now would be the time, not the general public later in the meeting. colleagues, any objections to proceeding this way? seeing no objections, the public hearing is now open. supervisor stephanie, would you have any opening remarks that you would like to share? >> thank you, president yi. i want to thank you for explaining the appeals from us and laying out the process. i will reserve my comments until after the presentation ands will have questions on all three of these appeals, but out of respect to all of those who are here for public comment, i plan

to reserve my questions until after public comment is finished, unless, of course, i need to clarify something. thank you. >> thank you. seeing no more names on the roster from my colleagues, i will now ask the appellant to come forward and to present their case. you have up to 15 minutes. >> president yi, before that starts, i conferred with counsel. so i want to let everybody know that because of the horrifically violent incident in chinatown, the mayor and i are doing a gathering in chinatown and so i've been -- and so i have to leave for that. i was completely prepared to come back, but i've been advised if i am not from the for a not a portion of the hearing, i should not be there for voting. so through the president to

deputy city givener, in -- i can come back, but i won't be back for an hour. >> john giveneringner, if every supervisor who votes at the end of these hearings must be present for the full hearing or have watched the full hearing, that the board votes today and you miss a portion of the hearing, you cannot participate in the vote. if the board completes the hearing today and continues the items and votes next week and you watch the tape of the hearing over the course of the next week, then you could vote on the motions next week. >> whatever the board's will is. >> thank you.

why. >> there to site can be redeveloped with 744 housing units while preserving the significant features rather than destroying them. but the eir presented an inaccurate and inadequate analysis. our association was the first to support the increase to 744 housing units, but it has opposed the new retail uses as unnecessary because the site is directly adjacent to laurel village. the firesman's front office is designed with a landscape that is integrated with building forums to create a seamless connection between in-door and outdoor spaces, a kind of green surround. it's listed on the california register of historical

resources, which identifies the resources that deserve to be protected. and the landscaping was designed by the famous firm of williams with a terrace of the city, trees and beautiful shrubs and brick aligning with the window frames. we make the terrace public open space that could be used for picnics and it's the first thing the developer would tear down. and the site was designed with 110 varieties of trees, plants and ground cover to give it a park-like aspect and it's believbeloved by the community. there's 195 trees on site of 48 different species. the lawns and terrace banks along laurel are historically significant with views of the city and golden gate bridge and have been used by the public for years. although its prior owner had a 2011 survey, stating that it was

eligible for listing as a historic resource, they concealed the historic significance from us until the eir scoping process began in september of 2017. by this time, the developer had designed the project without regard to the historic guidelines. when i last met with the developer, i said, you concealed this historic significance from us, but now we've got the site listed and the historic readaptation rules apply. they said forget the rules, do you like it. i said, yes, i thought that the seamless connection between the indoor spaces and landscaping was a brilliant idea. but they stated you won't resign this project. however, this process has run afoul of state sequa law but they admit the proposed project would cause a significant adverse change in the

significance of the resource. under sequa, use of the historic prescribed guidelines is the method of mitigating effects on a resource. that's what they're designed for but they were lawfully omitted from the mitigation section of the eri. ir. these are called the secretary standards including specific guidelines that explain how adverse impacts on the resources can be mitigated. for example, a one-story addition on a multistory is acceptable. the eir is defective because it failed to describe mitigation measures that would reduce or avoid the proposed project exhibit impact on the resource through the use of these guidelines. both mitigation measures and alternatives are required to be discussed in an eir and they're both different things. and the eir only considered photographing and documenting the resource that would be destroyed, but this was insufficient to mitigate the

effect. the emission of mitigation measures was prejudicial because it deprived the decision maker and the public of the full collection of design guidelines that could be used to mitigate the impacts by selecting some or all of the measures in the standards and guidelines to attaalter the design. this is evaluated as a fixed site plan and the alternative in the eir all have flaws and they do not present a full collection of the historic design guidelines. the city acknowledges that alternatives are more limited and refers to them as a package. based on these omissions, the findings that were feasible, changes incorporated into the project to reduce significant effects and all significant effects have been substantially lessened are false and not supported by substantial evidence.

the eir also inadequate analyzed alternatives to the project. after the comment period ended on the draft eir, the project dropped the five-unit proposal and only included the 744 unit change to that being the project. however, the draft failed to analyze any alternative with approximately 744 units or anything close to that. the eir only presented alternatives witha 558, 629 and fewer residential units. the eir erroneously complained that two community alternatives, one of which is a 744-unit, which i'm showing you here, were substantially similar to those discussed in the eir, but they're not because there was nothing there 744 units, evaluatedded ievalevaluated in .

about 5,000 square feet of office space in the main building and built new buildings along california street including family-sized four-story flats. and it would involve less excavation of green space on laurel hill and be built in approximately four years rather than the 7 to 15 years that the developer would take. and giving the developer 15 years to build does not address the city's current housing crisis and will have no effect on reducing the price of housing if new housing is phased in over 15 years. the community alternative has much detail as the alternative's presented in the eir and sequa does not require an alternative to contain architectural drawings. they are assuming it would be larger than the developer's unit sizes and have double corridors,

excessive space and other things that they didn't have. so they would fit with two and three-usthree-bedroom units andt use bigger units. much adieu is made about the pathway the developer wants to cut through the middle of the main building, which is being used as an inadequate and ambiguous basis for rejecting alternatives. and city staff did not request that the developer cut a 40-foot wide hole in the middle and requested a north-south pathway or portal that could meander through the site and did not need to be a straight axial pathway.

the eir doesn't disclose it. the eir doesn't disclose it.

add one level edition to the main building asper mighted by the historic design guidelines. the city, erroneous claims this would be similar to office alternative of d but d is office and ours is residential. so they're not similar. and the e.i.r. lacked a stable project description. the project shifted two months

before the planning commission hearing to be 744 residential units. and, this changed the entire climate in which alternatives would have been evaluated if we had known this from the beginning. also, the retail parking was dropped from 138 spaces to 74 and then when the special use district was released in july, 2019, it included flexible retail and social service for philanthropic facilities are not