madam mayor, commissioners, u.s. coast guard, chief scott, mission high school. [cheers and applause] welcome to the new home of the legendary phoenix the guardian, the st. francis, your new fireboat station 35. [cheers and applause] this is only one of two floating fire stations in the entire world. it is a clear symbol of our

enginuity and our importance we place on the resilience of this city. my name is carmen chiu and i serve as san francisco administrator. one of the responsibilities of my job is to make sure we continue to plan for the investments we need in our infrastructure. whether it is our public hospitals, our utilities, our fire stations or this station right behind you. we know that when the time calls when there is an emergency, we are better off as a city when we make these investments. and so i want to thank all of you for being here today to celebrate in this wonderful and momentus day. i want to thank all of the voters in san francisco who have made possible investments like this. we know we couldn't do it without them. and, of course, we could not do it without our mayor, a person who formerly served as a

commissioner of the fire commission and now our mayor, she understands firsthand the importance of supporting our first responders and public safety. mayor breed. >> thank you, carmen. and i've got to say it's great to be here with each and every one of you. this has been a long time coming, chief. in fact, when i served on the fire commission, i had a few specific goals and tom o'connor was the head of local 798 and he asked for a lot of stuff at the time. on a regular basis. but there were a few things that peaked my interest. number one, station 49 and we got it done. and number two, station 35. and we finally got it done. and i am so excited and happy for the success of this project

because the voters of san francisco, they understand that when we come to them and ask for financial support of the sea wall, those don't seem like they're really exciting topics to talk about when you start talking about utilities and under ground and all of these things, you don't always see the nuts and bolts of infrastructure, but the voters understand the need to invest in public safety because the former station as we know was built after the 1906 earthquake in 1915. the city we know in 1906 after the earthquake, neighborhoods burned to the ground and we didn't have sufficient support in terms of our infrastructure to help deal with those challenges and we didn't just shrink and say oh, well and throw up our hands, we built. and we built that station in 1915 and it served its purpose

well. but now, as our city begins to grow, there's a need for something new. because this fire station, in fact, the phoenix, the guardian, and what's the other one named? the st. francis. those boats are the ones when there is a fire like there was down at the pier at pier 45 i believe, our trucks couldn't necessarily get to every corner of that fire, but you know what, are the phoenix was there. and the fact is when there is an emergency on the water, yes, we are fortunate to be close to the coast guard, but we are usually the first on the scene to help save lives, to help protect the water. to protect our city along the bay. that's why this is so

significant. this is going to be a game-changer for public safety and i can't be more proud and grateful to the men and women of the fire department who 24/7 at station 35 continue to put their lives on the line. yes, it's cool to be on the boat all day having a good time and being out here in the water, but let me tell you, when it's windy, it's nothing to play with. when it's a need out there on the waters, it is really challenging the would, that they do and so i appreciate not just the fire department, but the department of public works for being the lead on finally getting this project done and it was not easy, carla. it was not easy. chief, but we got it done. i'm looking at these two ladies and the third lady here elaine forbes and her port commissioners kim brandon and

others, they were like well, we don't know if we want to give you guys this property or not for free. they didn't want to give it to us for free, but we got it done. and here we are because we all work together. we worked together because we understood the bigger picture and the significance of what this means not just for the city but for the port and everything that exists here. and on top of that, an art installation to remind us of our history of what's important because we can't forget the past, we can't forget the challenges of what existed in the city along the bay, we have to remind people of that so they understand the importance of this infrastructure and the need to continue to build in san francisco. we have a growing population, but at the end of the day, we

know chief scott, chief nicholson, our firefighters, our police officers and our other safety personnel, our paramedics, we know that they will be there for us. and as we begin to re-open after two very challenging years of a global pandemic that none of us saw coming, i'm hopeful, i'm hopeful that the next generation, the folks from mission high school that we are doing the work to lay the foundation so that these young people growing up in our city, learning about what it means to serve and protect the residents of san francisco. i am hopeful that we do our jobs in building a pipeline so that they become the men and the women that you see here today. that's what san francisco is all about. opening the doors to opportunity building, evolving,

and making things stronger and today as we celebrate the opening of station 35, we are reminded of that hope more than ever. so we appreciate you all coming here today and we look forward to cutting the ribbon and getting this station open. thank you all so much. >> thank you, mayor breed. you're always a tough act to follow. and thank you sister m.c. car men chiu. i want to say a special thank you to the voters again who voted for this bond but we couldn't do it without you, but greetings and salutations to everyone here. elected and department heads, our fire commission, port commission, i am your fire chief, jeanine nicholson. now, we love our old fire

house, don't we? we love that old fire house and the history and the memories it contains. all of us have at least one story about working there. some of us many more. but she's been so good to us over the years, but she's tired. she is tired. so she's still going to be in service with our fire engine, but we are really excited to be making new memories and new history with our new floating fire station. our members live in our building we want to ensure there is the proper environment for them so they can do their jobs to the best of their ability. i want to say thank you to everyone who worked on this project from and contractors on

down to every person swinging a hammer, putting in a floor, putting in electrical. thank you for your diligence and your care in getting this done. much appreciated. also to walter hood for the incredible artwork that brings our history forward. i also want to give a quick shout out to the man with the hair, tony rivera who had a big part of this back in the day. thanks for being here, tony. so in our history from well before loma prietta, our fire boats have been really important is and now we've seen a call for services in the bay whether it be fire or people in the water. and this station will enable our members to continue to bring the best service to the

people in san francisco because that's what the san francisco fire department does. that's what we're here for. we are here for you. so this station will serve the bay, the water, as well as the streets because we have our fire engine here, engine 35. so as always, we stand ready to help wherever we are needed. i know that about all of you. every single one of you in uniform over there and thank you. to the members of great station 305 this is your baby now and i know you will take care of her. thank you again everyone and if you have not been inside, it is pretty amazing. you need to get a tour. it wants me to quit my job as a chief and demote myself back

down to the caption and have my last year through there. not going anywhere right now all right. and now i would like to introduce my sister partner at public works. it's all you know. >> thank you, sister chief nicholson. good morning everyone. i too want to take a moment to thank the voters as everyone has said, we could not do these projects without your support. we have the ferry building, the bay bridge, the beautiful bay, and now we have a new iconic image to add to that postcard, the new fireboat floating behind us.

as carmen said, this fireboat is what makes san francisco a world class city. our ongoing strategic commitment to strengthen our resiliency. you have all heard this project was no easy under taking. it needed the approval of no fewer than nine regulatory agencies. anyone who has worked with a regulatory agency knows that's not easy. at the local state and federal level. it was built on two different continents and constructed during the peak of a pandemic that affected both supply chains and labor. and yet despite these challenges, here we are today to celebrate this tremendous achievement. i do want to take a moment to publicly acknowledge the team from public works that helped deliver this beautiful project. our city architect run alameda, charles, project manager, pona

ray, sean o'brien, kelly griffin. their dedication was crucial to ushering this project through to the end. and this was a designed build project with private partners. so a quick thank you to ska, swinerton, power engineering, lift tech and ghd and all the men and women in the construction trade who built it. i also want to thank mayor breed, city administrator chiu and our partners at the fire department. sister chief nicholson. together, we are one city working collaboratively to create a better stronger city to serve san francisco today and into the future. one last plug for the beautiful piece of artwork, it is so amazing. it has the history. it's shaped like the bow of a ship and i want to acknowledge ralph remmington here from the

art commission and allow me to introduce our executive director of the port, elaine forbes. thank you. >> thank you, carla. i am elaine forbes, the port breshgt and the first thing i want to say to the mayor is we didn't do it for free. it wasn't exactly a free agreement. yes. but we so enjoyed working with the fire department to see this through. the phoenix actually was the port of san francisco's vessel. our state harbor of engineers saw importance to bring fire protection from the water way back when the fire department took over. we gave the phoenix for $1. so that was a very kind and since that point we've had an excellent relationship with the fire department protecting our piers and commissioner brandon is here with me today and she will remember we've had many fires. pier 45, pier 29, and pier 48

and that's just in recent memory and these fireboats were here to protect us. and now i'd like to say a few words to the students at mission high. we have an existential threat of sea level rise and your generation is going to deal with it even more than we are. the leaders here today are being innovative. so she'll be here to stand the test of time and we at the port under the leadership of march breed are working on our seawall and city assessor carmen chiu is going to make sure that we get it done over time, but it's a generational investment and i want you all to hear that today because we are preparing you to take it on and this harbor will be changing and will be resilient and strong. all the thank yous were given already. i don't want to repeat them because you know them. but i do want to say thank you again, we're honored to be here and get us to the ribbon cutting and the tour of the

facility. thank you so much. [ applause ] and i turn it over to assessor carmen chiu. >> thank you very much, elaine. with that, i want to thank all of our honored guests for being here today. i think all of us are ready to go cut the ribbon, right? that doesn't sound enthusiastic. are we ready? all right. i want to make sure, of course, to recognize the folks who are here before we head over. of course, commissioners thank you for being here. chief scott thank you for being here. remmington, director of arts commission. why don't we head over to the port. >> can you help me count? >> five, four, three, two, one.

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>> good morning, everyone. my name is jeffery tumlin, and i am the executive director of the sfmta, and welcome to the new van ness avenue. this has been a very long time in coming, but i am so proud of the results that all of my teams have produced. the new van ness avenue is a part of our efforts to reimagine san francisco streets, to rethink our streets to allow them to move more people as the city grows, and to prioritize the people with the fewest mobility choices,

and that is what we're steadily delivering all over san francisco, so these projects include some obvious components like the bright red new transit only lanes that are built of 2 feet thick of red concrete that's red all the way through. it includes rebuilding everything of the overhead power structure, including 375 new trees and 4,000 drought resistant new shrubs, but the best part is the undergroundwork. we dug up and unsnarled 150 years' worth of crazy utilities, including 10,000 feet of communication fiber optics lines, 18,000 feet of sewer pipes, including 19

century brick sewers, 25,000 feet of water pipes, and 5,000 feet of ductwork to power our buses and power signals. rebuilding all of these utilities and strengthening them for earthquake resistance means we will not have to do that again for another 150 years, and i am so glad for that part of the project. this project was the result of -- okay. we could not have done this without a very, very large team, so i'm going to go through and thank some of our partners, and i will miss some. so thankful for the transit commission, to the san francisco county transportation authority who is our funding

and planning partner, to mayor london breed and the board of supervisors who have prioritized this project again and again for over a decade. to the planning department, who helped us reimagine the space, to public works department, the public utilities commission, who helped us reimagine the under ground staff. to the arts commission, who helped us choose the art, to the city attorney's office, to the historic preservation commission, particularly here in the civic center area, to the mayor's office on housing development, but we also owe a very strong debt of gratitude to the folks who live and work along this corridor. digging up this entire street

to replace 150 years of utilities resulted in some major disruption and impacts as a result of the construction, and i really want to extend my gratitude and sincere apologies to all of the business owners and residents along this corridor. thank you for your patience. you put up with years of noisy and disruptive work at all hours of day and night. we have learned a lot of lessons from this project, and we are already applying this lesson to other projects, so i also want to thank, in addition to the residents and business owners for their patience, i also want to thank the people who worked on this project.

i want to thank everybody for their work along with hundreds and hundreds of people, but particularly those people who have spent the last decade making this happen. from the san francisco transportation authority, i want to thank tilly chang and bob masis, and then, i want to particularly want to thank walsh construction and all of their technical subcontractors for being out here delivering this work, including the ballet dance of rebuilding the mission and south van ness intersection. so thank you to all of those people for really making this happen. so it's very, very exciting to finally be here. this is a very big year for the sfmta. we completed the first phase of the geary rapid project earlier

this year. we completed the first phase of rebuilding taraval and the el taraval this year, and indeed, we're going to open the central subway later this year, in the fall, and i'm so happy to be here, finally opening the van ness area bus rapid transit. so without further adieu, may i introduce the mayor of san francisco, london breed. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: wow. what a big deal in san francisco today. thank you so much, jeff, and thank you -- let's give another round of applause to the great san francisco symphony for that beautiful rendition of "i left my heart in san francisco." yes, our hearts are in san francisco today, and today, because of that, we are rolling out the red carpet.

no, this is not an april fool's joke, this is finally done, because it has been a long time coming. the people of san francisco, the voters of san francisco approved this back in 2003, and the work began to look at how we were going to reimagine what van ness boulevard would be in order to provide efficient transit and safety and all the things that we need. when i think back to the history of van ness boulevard and what it represented after the 1906 earthquake, when i used to walk up and down these streets and catch the 49 to the 47 to galileo high school, not too long ago, it was auto row. this city was built mostly to accommodate vehicles, and over

the years, we've seen a significant shift, people using various modes of transportation. but also, because we are a city who pride ourselves on making sure we are good stewards of the environment, we noticed something. 47% of greenhouse gas emissions happen in this city because of vehicles, and we need to make changes. we need to make our public transportation system more efficient. we need to make sure that we improve our infrastructure so that different modes of transportation be moved around san francisco in a safe and efficient manner and at the same time having positive effects on the environment. yes, this project took a very long time, starting when i was on the board of supervisors in 2016, but you know how that is.

even scott wiener was on the board of supervisors. bureaucratic years take forever in this city, but guess what? i feel like we're opening it right on time after dealing with two years of a global pandemic, so please forgive me if i don't recognize you anymore. as we begin to reemerge, i can't believe how strong and resilient this city is. we've endured so many challenges in our city's history, but when we're able to complete challenges like this, we celebrate, but we also understand the value of what this will mean for people to get around this city, for the commuters that come all over the bay area -- golden gate regional, and the folks who

catch muni, and the kids who try to pretend to get to school on time at galileo -- this is going to be a meaningful change, reducing the travel time by 30%, making public transportation more attract attract -- attractive to people. that's our goal in these various transportation projects, so as we reopen, we have to make sure we can get people around efficiently and safely, and i am so happy that this is finally getting done because now i can catch the 49 to the house of prime rib and get there in a timely manner. now we can make sure that we support all of these businesses.

yes, the city came together and provided millions of dollars for grants for small businesses, but it clearly was not enough, and so now, the real work began -- begins. using this system, enjoying the public art, commuting back and forth to wherever we need to go and supporting the businesses along van ness, but i want to say to the kids of galileo, don't get off before it's time because we don't want this transit system to be a way to let you do what you're not supposed to be doing. i want to thank the county transportation union, the people who live along this area, work along this area and have businesses along this area. we owe you a debt of gratitude

for what you've endured during this time, and i think this is a shining example of san francisco and our resilience of what we've had to endure the last couple of years. we are going to continue to host the cleanest and the greenest fleet and move san francisco in a direction where we meet our climate goals, and we make sure that we provide transportation that makes this the priority in san francisco, using public transportation as the priority in san francisco to get around because it is more efficient than any other mode. thank you all so much for being here. we appreciate everyone that's participated in this project. [applause] >> thank you, mayor london breed. fun fact: in 2001, i was quoted by san francisco columnist john king in a newspaper story in the chronicle talking about san

francisco bus rapid transit, and the mayor, at the time, i don't know -- at the time, upon reading this article, tried to fire me over the radio. thank you, mayor breed, for your support strong of transit in san francisco. meanwhile, the author of this recent legislation would have saved -- shaved significant time off of transit in a year. senator scott wiener. scott? >> i am so excited. as a 25-year muni rider, i've seen the good, the bad, occasionally the ugly. i love the subway, i love trains, but in my heart, i am a bus person. and buses, you know, get really

neglected a lot of times. it's the large majority of transit here in san francisco, is buses. we need to find ways to make buses faster, more efficient for people. they shouldn't have to live by a subway line to be able to use transit. they should be able to use transit everywhere, and buses are the way to do that, and rapid area transit is the way that we do that. this is just incredibly exciting. when you look at the future of san francisco, we need a lot more housing. we need to put a lot more housing here in san francisco

so that people can be paired to live here. but we have to have more and more trouble transportation to support it because if it's just a bunch more cars, the geometry doesn't work. we need to put it all together to make this the most amazing and sustainable city in the world. this has been a real team effort. when you look at the work that's being done here on van ness and other amazing transit projects in the city, i had the honor of chairing our county transportation authority, and we worked really hard with the mayor, with then-supervisor breed to move this forward, but we also worked at the state level, and i want to really thank and acknowledge our entire current and former state legislative delegation, our

city attorney, david chiu, who we really miss in the legislature. let's hear it for mr. chiu. when he was on the board of supervisors, his district was right along van ness, and he helped guide this along, and working with phil ting, the chair of the assembly budget committee, we've worked hard to get more funding in san francisco. we're getting more and more momentum to have the state be a better partner to counties and cities to make sure that we're adding more transit. so this is amazing. congratulations to everyone. we learned a lot from this project. it can -- it will not take this long in the future. we're working, as jeff mentioned, on legislation to dramatically streamline bus and

rapid transportation. let's get more of it, let's get it done faster, and congratulations, everyone. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, senator wiener. one of the places that the bus will take you to is the san francisco opera, and so i am very pleased to introduce elisa sunshine and andrew king from the san francisco opera. [applause]

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[applause] >> over 40% of california's greenhouse gas emissions come from the transport sector, and of that, the vast majority of personal driving. and in addition, here in california, we're no longer demolishing low-income neighborhoods in order to widen highways, and yet, the state is growing. we are growing jobs, we're adding people. california is still a land of opportunity, and so i am utterly delighted to watch new leadership at the state department of transportation who's working to reimagine the state highway system in order to move more people rather than just moving more cars and to help the state achieve its greenhouse gas emissions goals. so i am very honored to introduce the california secretary of transportation.

>> thanks for the set up, director tumlin, to have me come after that performance. how in the world do you top that? so when you schedule an event on april 1, and and it has the history that this event has, immediately, the thought is, is this real? is it actually going to happen? everybody can see today what the fortitude of mayor breed, director tumlin, it is real, so kudos to everyone for making this happen.

i'm the secretary for transportation for the state, here on behalf of governor newsom. he would have loved to be here because he loves transportation, but he was busy this morning. we know what this is going to mean as far as reduction in travel time throughout downtown san francisco and the region, so efficiency is a big part of what we're going to gain from this. number two, the environmental benefits. environmental benefits are going to be huge. environment impact, nearly 50% of greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation. transportation is the largest,

the biggest culprit of our environmental challenges in this state, and projects like this will improve that. it definitely will improve that. it will address it. and finally, thirdly, equitable. we know how much senator wiener mentioned it before -- how much of a challenge it is to afford to live in this state, but we are coming up with solutions to make it less costly, more equitable for people to be able to move about is exactly the direction that we need to go. so kudos for people moving in the right direction but to actually be able to deliver this project today.

i city -- see ray from caltrans team. our district director, thank you for your leadership. city and county staff, mayor breed, congratulations on an amazing day like today. thank you again for having me here. thank you very much. [applause] >> completing a project of this magnitude also requires strong managerial support, so i am proud to introduce supervisor

raphael mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: director tumlin, you actually got it done. congratulations. but you know what got it done? the union workers who show that sustainable projects and union jobs go hand in hand. there were lessons to be learned, mistakes not to be repeated, but this project will make a difference in the lives of san francisco every day as transit riders whiz past cars stuck in traffic carrying students, construction workers, seniors, tourists, and anyone wise enough to choose transit first, this project will make a

difference for our quality of life. the transportation authority is proud to have helped lay the groundwork for this day by leading the planning and environmental review phases of the project as well as providing nearly $45 million to support every phase of the project from planning to construction. these funds were from the transportation authority's half cent sales tax, proposition k, which included $500 million for muni and other projects when it passed in 2003. as we look forward to another critical transportation funding source in november, i want to thank san francisco voters for their consistent support of transit first investments like

this one. yeah, give it up for the voters. [applause] >> supervisor mandelman: in the case of the van ness improvement project, this investment paid off multifold. local city and sales tax leveraged $120 million in state and local funds to support this project. so we want to thank our friends at the f.t.a.s and at caltrans for their partnership over the years of this project. finally, i do want to recognize our transit authority staff who are instrumental to the development phase of the project. tilly chang and our deputy director of planning, rachel

hyatt, and our deputy for policy and programming, anna la forte, whose staff supported each phase of the project. and i want to thank michael short who was the manager of the e.i.r. under rachel and flew in from north carolina to be here with us today. now that is love. i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge my colleagues on the transportation authority board who made it out here this morning, commissioner stefani, commissioner melgar, commissioner safai, and commissioner haney. so with that, congratulations, everyone. san francisco's coming back on transit. [applause] >> as we've already mentioned, this project took way too long,

and it also required digging up the entire street curb to curb to unsnarl a mess of utilities completely down the street. i am therefore very pleased to introduce our final speaker, one of the -- one of our favorite business owners in the corridor, joseph betts, who is the owner and manager of the house of prime rib. mr. betts, please join us. [applause] >> thank you very much. i'd like to just is you, commissioners, for inviting me. you know, there's not much to say that's not already been said, however, i'd like to tell you my point of view. yes, it was difficult, but there are two people that i'd

like to thank. katie mccarthy from the city. she informed me what was going on. we had a meeting before things started, and during construction, she always informed me when i called. the answer was right away, and this way, we could plan. we were not blindsided. another one who i really appreciated to work with is david costello. he was the best. again, a lot of things have been said already that i don't want to repeat, but there's one thing i want to say, an old saying. you forget the price, but you don't forget the result, and the result is beautiful. when you look at van ness, the trees in the middle, the bright

striping in the middle, it looks great what you have accomplished. thank you. [applause] >> so thank you all, and i also want to thank a few additional people for their strong support throughout this project. city attorney david chiu, jose cisneros, treasurer, ralph remington from the arts commission, and our entire m.t.a. board, almost all of whom are here, manny yekutiel, fiona hinze, sharon lai, chair

borden. thank you to all of you. now, who wants to cut a ribbon so that we can actually start service on this corridor and get on a bus and ride to galileo high school with us? one thing that i do want to remind everyone if you are going to get on a bus, which is going to start running in about five minutes, please do wear your masks. we'll be going to galileo high school where there will be some additional activities. get on the bus. >> the hon. london breed: well, we've waited long enough. everybody join us. five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause]

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welcome everyone. we're so excited to have you here. what a beautiful day. happy international woman's day for a female-led nonprofit. this is the best day we could have picked for a ribbon cutting. hi, i am sharon lai. i'm the executive director.

just a friendly reminder, the site is an active site meaning we have residents on the other side of the fence. please stay on this side and do not lean on the temporary railing back there. just a little bit of housekeeping. so welcome to the phase one opening of this amazing pilot project. we started this effort last year when i joined the dignity move organization and when elizabeth and her friends at y.p.o. invited me to join their efforts to turn this kept into an operational real life project, i was super eager and excited to do this. the thought that we could use prefabrication, technology in order to add alternative new housing tools into our community was so exciting to

me. and this is possible only made by all of our wonderful partners here. so dignity moves very quickly is a statewide effort. we are so excited to be bringing on our first pilot here in san francisco, but check us out. we're in santa barbara, sonoma county, and alameda county and many more as elizabeth works on our expansion plan. so we began the construction of 33 goff around the new year and we are so pleased with the support of our urban al can pea giving people the option to essentially transfer from the tent site that this was into the shelter, the structured buildings that you see on the other side of the fence where people can stand up straight in their own private space, where they have a door and furniture and they can keep their belongings dry.

that is exactly why we're working hard to get this project online as quickly as possible. so i want to start the program off by celebrating our stellar team. we have such an amazing large people of partners. many of which i actually had to pay quite handsomely when i was on the private sector. but when we called to action, they were all so amazingly generous with their time and resources and talents, they just got to work with us with basically not very much more than a vision and here we are a couple months later and people are already living in these units. to start this off, bear with me. winnerton builders, they are the amazing people on this job. they have worked really hard to coordinate with us and with the city departments in order to move people in as early and as

quickly as possible. also a wonderful group of folks who have an amazing sense of humor. so it's always fun to come on the job site. p.a.e. who is our engineer. thank you so much. paul knight, our wonderful attorney. thank you for covering all of our attorney needs up and down the state. structural engineer, we could have not made sure that this project was stable and safe and secure without your assistance. frayer electric and electrical industry. thank you so much for stepping up and being a partner in this prefab project. we're definitely making history. center thank you for sending your apprentices. we're so glad to be able to work with you on this work force training effort. this is a wonderful way to elevate our youth. our project support team. the manufacturer of these

amazing units. this is the first time in history that we've ever used these units, ever. so we're excited to show case them and, of course, a very special thank you to our architecture team at gensler. without their countless hours, we would not be able to bring this project to life. so most importantly is our pilot partnership with the city, with san francisco, with h.s.h., the partners. thank you so much for providing the land and the operating dollars for this site. the tipping point community on thank you so much for being our cornerstone funder. you guys stepped up first. you will always have the bragging rights. of course, urban alkamine. daily, building trust through a trauma informed lens. thank you so much. in home for services, thank you, andria.

thank you for being here. with the implementation support of many city departments and i mean many including d.b.i., d.p.w., fire. we certainly are very glad to be working with you on this first of its kind project. we hassled a lot of people primarily d.p.w. and chuck buckly. thank you for your assistance. innovation is hard and innovation with so many cross sector partners is even more challenging, but we are showing up as a community and i believe this is a strong commitment from our community to state that we are willing to work hard together to address our unhoused needs and so thank you and welcome again for coming and, with that, i'm going to hand this over to our visionary and our founder, elizabeth fung. thank you so much for bringing me on to this project and here

you are hearing your story. >> thank you, sharon. and i'm going to echo all of her thanks to all of these incredible partners. it's been so heartwarming to see these companies and volunteers and everybody to be so eager and part of something new and this new pilot. this has been such a dream. we started on this 18 months ago trying to think about how we can address the unsheltered portion of our problem. and this is hopefully a new tool in the city's vast tool kit for addressing unsheltered homelessness. and i want to be clear that even though dignity moves focuses on building these temporary interim type projects, it is one piece of a very complex set of solutions. and obviously we need more permanent housing. permanent supportive housing. permanent affordable housing and thankfully we have a city that's really focused on that and i want to commend our city

partners who are tirelessly working to build more housing and there are lots of projects under way. i started my personal journey in addressing homelessness by joining the board of glide's housing initiative when we built two buildings over in the tenderloin. and so from personal experience, i know how complex and challenging and time consuming those permanent supportive housing units are. i commend those working on them because it takes a lot to figure out these projects. people need a place to come now. they need an interim stop where they can feel safe and can be sheltered and unfortunately, for many people who have fallen into homelessness, there's trauma associated.

i would go out to the encampments and tell somebody there's a evacuee cannot bed available. and you might be lucky to get one out of ten. it's an important tool that doesn't work for everyone. and we are thrilled to say 100% of people are thrilled to be offered one of these rooms. i want us to have this as one alternative and one tool in our tool kits. as i like to say, our streets can't be the waiting rooms. focus on building interim housing, a place where people can come in off the streets and take a deep breath. my dad told me we should have named the organization "a deep breath." when you have a door that unlocks, all things unlock for you. when you're on the streets and you're worried about getting raped or where your next meal comes from, are you can't possibly think about other solutions. this is a place where people can come away from that trauma, take a deep breath and start

working with supportive services to figure out what barriers are in their way to where they want to go. so using california's emergency building codes, we are able to build units that are two code, they are safe, but we can do them in really rapid time. our partner gensler partnered with boss homes to custom design this panel based system that can be assembled quickly and cost effectively. and then when our project is finished and the land needs to be returned to the owner, we can pick them up with a forklift and move them to a new location. this project, the units themselves assembled are about $15,000 a room. but we're going to have two dining buildings. we're going to have a computer lab. we're going to have obviously bathrooms and showers and all sorts of amenities. lots of offices for the support staff. so all in, this project is about $30,000 per room. we are incredibly grateful to our city partner, h.s.h. who

has paid for the land lease and is paying for the ongoing supportive services, but mostly for their willingness to be innovative and try something new because we need to bring silicon valley style innovative think to go this problem and it's going to mean experimenting and trying new things to see what works and what doesn't. so i want to make a special thank you to tipping point who very early on in this process came to me and said, let's do this, let's try something new and they really had the vision and obviously trying something new is scary, it's hard to get philanthropy to invest in something that isn't proven and so tipping point's vision was so important in helping make this happen. i also want to thank dignity health who made a significant contribution to this and dignity health understands that housing is one of the most important determinents of health and it's important that our unhoused neighbors get

inside where it's safe and start to work on any medical challenges as well as emotional challenges. i'll do a shout out to the ron con roy family. first republic bank, and so many others. i'm also going to say i have been so touched by the community rising up around this. i think we've all felt like homelessness is just insolvable and we've become so frustrated and we're quick to complain about it and how much we hate seeing tents and how it inconveniences us, but people have a good heart and it has been incredible to see people so eager to jump in and try to help support a solution. we have artists who painted all these beautiful murals. we had families come, adopt a unit, so they're all custom designed and everybody's been so eager to be apart of trying to contribute. so give me optimism, unsheltered homelessness really can be resolved.

if you get people to a place where you want them to go. if we all work together, we really can end the crisis of unsheltered homelessness on our streets. thank you for believing in us. thank you for being here. thank you for supporting this innovative new project. with that, i want to introduce sam cobb who has been his organization tipping point has been obviously incredibly instrumental in making this happen. so thank you, sam. >> thank you, elizabeth. i have the privilege today of introducing mayor london breed. before i officially bring her up, i just want to say that projects like this are the reason that tipping point exists and the reason why we believe that you need philanthropy dollars. that's what my partner mayor breed does. after the tipping point, they showed that they can be worked

and so we wouldn't be able to do this work without the partnership of not only mayor breed who she would bring up later. without further adieu, i want to introduce the mayor of our city, the honorable london breed. [ applause ] >> thank you. and hi everyone. thank you so much for being here for this grand opening. and i've got to say, you know, i'm excited about what this will mean for peoples' lives, but i'm also hopeful that we as a city can do a better job at getting more housing built in the first place and getting more people into housing in the first place than we are at getting things like this done. and even though this is needed all over san francisco, what i look forward to the most is when we finally build housing on this site, what i'm looking forward to the most is the people of this community that

we can transition them into something permanent not just at this site, but anywhere in san francisco and that's why i'm so excited to be here with partners like tipping point. tipping point and the work that they're doing to help us get access to housing all over san francisco and i've got to say, sharon in particular left a very nice cushy job to join elizabeth with dignity moves and partner because she wanted to be apart of the solution. she wanted to bring her skill set to a place that's very different. and i know what we have here is part of the work that she's doing with dignity moves and will continue to do throughout san francisco because it can't just be one-sided. it has to be how we think about doing things in san francisco and how we cut the bureaucratic

red tape to get the work done. [ applause ] and this site initially we weren't talking about housing. we were talking about a temporary site when supervisor kim was on the board of supervisors pushing for housing development. then it was going to become a navigation center. then the pandemic hit and we opened it up and people who unfortunately were living on our streets and sleeping in tents ended up on this site as and i worked with supervisor mandelman and supervisor haney to make that happen and here we are, the perfect site to try this program which allows people to be apart of the community that they want to be apart of. and i think that means something because, you know, being apart of a community matters. it matters when you have people who support each other, who look out for 1 another where

you don't feel alone. and this will be a place where people will not feel alone. they'll be support not just from dignity moves and from tipping point, but on site one of my favorite organizations in san francisco that has really taken the tenderloin by storm, urban alkamie has been an incredible partner. i love you right back. and we also have another extraordinary organization that's been working in the western edition and other places in the community to help people transition to real career opportunities and support and i see elizabeth and the folks of the success center. thank you all so much for being here. because it's not just about a roof over your head. it's about opportunity. it's about knowing that people care about your livelihood and your well being. it's about trying to help

people become more self-sufficient. it's about a second chance. and this location at 33 goff street is a second chance. and so i really want to thank again dignity moves for their work and their partners and larry bear is here and aaron conway. when you ask people for support for projects like this, they don't hesitate to say yes and public private partnerships are very important. this city is so generous in general in terms of when we bring initiatives to people in the city and the voters often times say yes. this city has committed a billion dollars to help address homelessness throughout san francisco and part of that resource is that we have with the city will be matched in

some regards with philanthropy and so we really appreciate as i said dignity moves and tipping point and all of the work that they do from the city side. the person who's going to continue to work to help to implement these innovative ideas and make this happen and provide these places for folks is none other than sharine mcfadden who is the director to have of the office of homelessness in the city and county of san francisco. sharine. >> good morning everyone. i want to start by saying how much i hate going after mayor breed. she's such a wonderful speaker. i feel like it's such a privilege to work for her. we hear about it all the time and she's always telling us, like figure out new ways to do things and be innovative and i think this is such a great example of how we can come together as san franciscans and

make something happen for people who are our most vulnerable people in san francisco. so i want to thank dignity moves and home first and success center, tipping point, and everyone who's contributed to this effort including my colleagues in the city. there have been a number of people who've worked on this and my own staff at h.s.h.. this is a real opportunity for us to study something we haven't tried before and to understand how we can support to provide dignity and privacy for people but also provide services for them so they can move on out of here and let somebody else move in and they can get permanent housing and jobs and reunited with families and all of the other things that we ourselves expect for ourselves. and so thank you so much to all the partners. i'm really excited to see how this, works and continue some efforts like in other parts of the city. so thanks much. [ applause ]

>> all right. so in my nerves i realized i forgot two things. first of all, i neglected to thank home first who we're a branding organization. we only got our 501.3c status in november. they have agreed to come and be apart of a project here in san francisco, their first one north of where they work in san jose. thank you very much for being apart of this and they're units. the other thing that stuck out of my mind when mayor breed talked about cutting bureaucracy. i want to be very clear, this city rocks. literally all the departments came together in round table and gave us feedback on our permits in four days and we had these permits approved in less than three weeks. that's a historic first and that really shows the commitment this city has and it should not go unrecognized. so thank you very much to our city partners. >> i said i pestered them a

lot, right. well, so it's going to get a little chaotic here. we're going to move this podium so this we can do the ceremony of ribbon cutting with the mayor. is it okay if i shift this over there. is it going to screw up anyone? no. okay. great. >> are we ready? get in there, supervisor. wait, the supervisor needs some scissors. okay. are we ready? >> we're ready. >> okay. five, four, three, two, one! there we go. [cheers and applause]

>> the planning commission in person and remote hearing for thursday, april 7, 2022. we are requesting those person in the chamber to distance as much as possible. take seats in every other row. you must wear a mask and keep it on even when you are speaking. it will require our attention and patience. if you are not speaking and you are following usury moatly please mute your microphone for public participation. sfgovtv is broadcasting and

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call in from quiet location and speak clearly and slowly. mute your volume on your television and computer. state your name if you choose to for the record. for those who prefer to be more distant if this room gets full at some point we have arranged overflow room in room 416 on this floor. at this time i will take roll. commission president tanner. >> here. >> vice president moore. >> here. >> commissioner diamond. >> here. >> commissioner fung. >> here. >> commissioner imperial. >> here. >> commissioner koppel and welcome commissioner louise. >> here. >> i will read the land acknowledgment. we acknowledge we are on the homeland of the ramaytush ohlone. original inhabitants.

as indigenous stewards and with tradition they have never seated lost or forgotten responsibilities as tear carries of this place. as well as all people in the traditional territory. as guests we recognize we benefit from living and working on their traditional home land. we pay respects by acknowledging the elders and relatives and by observing their sovereign rights as first people. thank you. >> thank you, president tanner. first is consideration for items for continue youians. one 2020-004414 c.u.a. 618-630 octavia. 2. 2020-007806 c.u.a. for 1314 page

street. to continue. >> case 2021-41 3-d rp at 118 robin hood drive discretionary review withdrawn. as item 4. 2019-015439drp at 1937 on 17 st. avenue is withdrawn. items 12a, b, c. at 3251-33 steiner street and 2205-07 lombard street respectively for conditional use authorization variances and another conditional use authorization are being proposed for continuance two weeks to april 21st at the request of the

district supervisor. i have no other items proposed to continue. we should take public comment. members of the public to speak to any items to be continued this is your opportunity to do so. for those calling in remotely press star 3. if any member in the chamber wishes to speak, please come forward. seeing no requests to speak from any member of the public, public comment is closed. items to be continued are now before you, commissioners. >> move to continue items as noted. >> second. >> commissioner louise. >> yes. >> commissioner diamond. >> aye. >> commissioner fung. >> aye. >> commissioner imperial. >> aye. >> commissioner koppel. >> aye. >> commissioner moore. >> aye.

>> commissioner president tanner. >> aye. >> so moved. that motion passes unanimously 7-0. >> quickly i would continue the variance 12b to april 21st. >> thank you for that zoning administrator. commissioners that places us under commission matters. 5. consideration of draft minutes from march 24th, 2022. this is your opportunity to speak to the minutes, members of the public. please come forward if you are in the chambers. no members to week at this time. public comment is closed. minutes are before you, commissioners. >> commissioner koppel. >> motion to approve minutes. >> second. >> thank you. >> commissioner louise. >> aye. >> diamond. >> aye. >> funk.

>> aye. >> imperial. >> aye. >> koppel. >> aye. >> moore. >> aye. >> commission president tanner. >> aye. >> so moved commissioners. we have more than 7 ayes. it is 7-0. item 6. commission comments and questions. >> thank you, commissioners. i want to welcome our new commissioner we are glad you were sworn in and seated today. you came in time for a big item housing element what we do every eight years. this year is the third time we are hearing it in the last 12 months. before us a lot but note very frequently. welcome to the commission. if you want to say a few words, happy to have you here and have a full compliment of commissioners. >> i just want to say how

excited and happy i am to be here with all of you. having been born and raised in san francisco and lived in many of the neighborhoods across the city. ty never thought i would do work like this alongside the community folks i have had the privilege to work with over the past few years. the folks in tenderloin and chinatown inspired me to have love for planning work. i am looking forward to working with all of you and to learning along the way. thank you. >> thank you. no additional requests to speak from any other member. >> i think we have commissioner moore on the line. >> i just wanted to join with my

regards and welcome. it is wonderful to have a full commission to move forward at this time. welcome. >> thank you. >> now we will move to item 7 for 2021-009977c r.v. for a resolution to allow possibility for remote hearings if we need to. we are meeting in person we can't foresee what happens in the future and in the -- i would assume the very unexpected instance where all seven could not appear in person we could hold the hearings remotely. we should take public comment. members of the public this is your opportunity to speak related to item 7 for remote hearings. >> good afternoon. welcome commissioner. i have been here regularly since 2014. you are the 12th commissioner so

congratulations. it is a good number. i wish you best of luck. i am sure you will do a wonderful job. i am grateful for the hybrid meetings. i will be 69 in september. i may not want to come after next week after i read the article in the chronicle. san francisco has the highest infection rate in the state. 700 cases last week which is higher than we had the surge last summer. i hope you will consider keeping this as long as medically may seem necessary. the other thing to ask please consider granting the traditional time for people to speak. i think that it would be a good thing to do especially as more of you are getting together and it has been two years now, and it seems fair. that way the public knows they are listened to for sure. thank you so much.

good luck again. >> last call for public comment on remote hearings. no additional requests to speak. public comment is closed. this item is before you, commissioners. >> i will thank the secretary and his staff for managing the remote hearings, now hybrid hearings and the technology and sfgovtv doing a seamless job helping us be broadcast to homes and for serving those on it. i am impressed by the effort and execution and thank you for those who have come in person. we have had a smaller crowd than we were expecting. we didn't know what to expect with hybrid. it is safe to participate online. we appreciate those who are here. i love being here with fellow commissioners.

i am supporting continuing this. hopefully not medical necessary but it is great opportunity for participation and letting people be flexible. any comments from other commissioners or motion? commissioner diamond is on the line and commissioner imperial. >> move to approve. >> thank you, commissioners, there is a motion and second to adopt the resolution that would allow for remote hearings to continue for 30-days. commissioner louise. >> aye. >> diamond. >> aye. >> funk. >> aye. >> imperial. >> aye. >> koppel. >> aye. >> moore. >> aye. >> commission president tanner. >> aye. >> so moved. that passes unanimously 7-0.

places us under item 8. director's announcements. >> good afternoon, commissioners. welcome commissioner louise we had a chance to work together on group housing in the housing element and valued your input and guidance. i look forward to having you weigh in on our issue this is planning. welcome. >> thank you. >> if there is nothing further item 9. review past events past events at the board of supervisors and board of appeals and historic preservation. >> welcome commissioner. it is good to have you on the commission. land use this week first committee heard supervisor melgar's resolution for the landdesignation for the mother'. it needs to go to the full board

becoming a land mark. it opened 1925 part of the pool complex. it is in serious need every pair includes murals and mosaics done by female artists. supervisor peskin is added as could sponsor and recommended to the full board. next supervisor mandelman's four plex information was continued. at the full board the land mark designation for the clubhouse second read. amendment to the van ness special use for 1750 van ness passed second read. tentative map appeal was continued to april 26. that is all i have today. >> thanks. >> i have no report for the board of appels.

i did hear the zoning administrator earlier. may he has a report. >> thank you. board of appels did not meet. >> historic preservation did meet yesterday. most notably they heard a number of legacy business applications all adopted with recommendations for approval. those properties included latin jewelers at 2344 mission, the market at 2000 filbert, buddha lounge at 901 grant avenue, far east at 631 grand avenue. sf carts and concessions 333 post street, vietnamese restaurant at 505 washington. paxton gate at 824 valencia.

hellmond palace 2424 van ness avenue. the small fries children store at 3984 24th street. they considered the st. francis historic district and recommended its adoption. if there are no questions or comments related to those reports we can move on to general public comment. this is the time the public may address the commission on items of commission within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. your opportunity will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member may address for three minutes. when the numbers exceed the 15 minute limit general public comment may be moved to the end

agenda for two minutes. if those members in the chambers can line up on the screen side of the room. >> georgia. i make a compilation of documents that i submitted over the years for commissioner louise and i also made copies. what it included is timeline of demolition since 1988. that was ended in 2006. i continued to the present. scenarios to adjust, letters from 2019 about why it should be adjusted. unpublished interesting court case. october 2021 letter asking for hearing on section 317. various minutes that were approved that have discussions of this. one of them goes back to januart

after a december 2015 meeting arranged by former commissioner richards. in that meeting the staff looked at alterations, pictures that i submitted that year and the staff looked at them and analyzed them and said, well, some of these should have been approved demolitions. overhead, please. this is the one from 2015 that was one of the five we looked at. that was finished. here is one. it is different. this is on jersey. this is undergoing now. i sent you an e-mail this morning with more details. you are welcome to read that, i hope. i don't know. 2022, 2015.

same building. fooled my husband. i don't be know. thank you very much. have a good day. >> planning association. i want to congratulate you in the last month you have denied small property owners rights for safety of buildings, small business safety and viability. loss of jobs. loss of adequate parking for our tourists. what interests me the most is the last one. loss of 12,000 new housing units and if you include that with the loss of 80 part a units we

fought for for 3333 california. we were denied that. so far i can count, not counting the merchants and buildings, i think we are at 2 or 300 loss of units. how do we reach you? we have tried writing, calling, we have tried everything. we tried to have a continuance of the meeting on the wells fargo concerning these issues. we were not informed we could come to this to give viable paper information and we were denied. we did not know there was a public hearing in this building, the planner didn't tell us, the environmental planner didn't tell us, and we were denied our rights. i want to tell you that we need to make some changes. i am inviting each and every one of you out to our unique

situations on the marina, chestnuts. we have a highway in the middle of us. big portion of tourists. s.f.m.t.a. denied us our rights to have any parking at all and now we have more that is lost. i will be writing you a letter. i would like to have you come out and visit with us and see what the issues are. thank you. >> coalition for san francisco neighborhoods speaking on my own behalf to follow up on my comments from last week on the state auditor's findings for the for themethod. it was incorrect. independent research concluded that this resulted in statewide over kill of 200,000 units.

the state auditor found that it couldn't make a judgment on the overcrowding and cost burdening method. this is audit speak that they met it was incomprehensible. this resulted in a statewide over count of 700,000 units. although not state understand the audit, hcd did not make adjustments for covid. the state audit looked at 8 small penalty and didn't include. [indiscernable] in the past that aspirational didn't carry penalties. now we are sb35 they do. midway through cycle 6 the city hasn't met the mid cycle streamlining and the review could kick in. thank you.

>> last call for public comment. press star 3 to be added for the cue. if you are in the chambers, come up. general public comment is closed. unless there are comments from the commissioners we can move to regular calendar, commissioners. item 10. 2019-016230 cwp. housing element 2022. this is an informational presentation. >> i would like to say on the record because of my current employment with my work with the housing element prior to appointment to planning i will recuse myself from this conversation. >> sorry to hear that on your

first hearing commissioner louise. in 10 days file with the ethics commission i will help you out and we will request you leave the chambers. >> we need a motion to recuse. yes, sorry. one last procedural matter. sorry. >> commissioner koppel. >> i move to recuse commissioner louise. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners on that motion commissioner louise. >> aye. >> diamond. >> aye. >> funk. >> aye. >> imperial. >> aye. >> koppel. >> aye. >> moore. >> aye. >> commission president tanner. >> aye. >> so moved. thank you, commissioners that motion passes unanimously 7-0.

>> are we ready? i will kick this off. thank you, commissioners, this is our fifth hearing on the housing element. you will see it is changed. given the input you provided as well as the public. i thank the public who spent countless hours with us in open and honest dialogue where we are going as a city how we are addressing the housing issues that confront us. it is obvious the challenges we face in housing and stabilizing communities and issues around displacement. fairly indisputable. we know it is too expensive to live in san francisco for most t of us and high housing costs are

leading to gentrification. we need to build more affordable housing and find additional resources to do it. we know that we need more market >> reporter: weder variety of housing types. it leads to higher costs to producing housing. we must repair and reverse harms of past land use policies had on black, american indian and communities of color. we know the housing element must address persistent racial inequities and we must partner with communities to address these. they know best about communities and solutions to protect communities. we know that access to housing is a fundamental right for everyone. the housing element before you takes huge steps to address these issues. it puts forward the bold vision.

as important as putting forward the bold vision it puts forward actions to implement those. they are costly, some politically challenges, they require change beyond the local level at federal and state level. they require us to look at how we work and make significant change how we work and operate. you have asked for those types of solutions. the public has asked as well for those solutions. our staff certainly has not shied away from this effort. i want to call out we usually do this at the end of the hearing. i will call out the staff involved in this process. there have been many late nights putting this together meeting with communities. we have been at the for front. deputy director, shelly,

mellana, lauren and james have been at the core of leading this effort. it has gone beyond that to the current planning division and environmental planning team. i want to recognize the tremendous input from other city agencies. hrc, ocd. hss director davis is here and deputy director is here from hsh will give remarks after i am done. we have at least four additional hearings on the housing element coming up to lead to approval in early next year. we look forward to this discussion today with you and the public. thanks.

>> good afternoon. i am planning department staff. honored to be here representing our outstanding team that director hillis. >> sfgovtv can you go to the presentation, please. >> thank you. we start where presentation was the land acknowledgment. the commission already read that acknowledgment. for today's presentation i will start with going over the context of this housing element. how it is social equity and the rn with state controls. we will go over the committee driven policies and actions in the plan and end with our path forward. two years ago the department launched a committee outreach engagement for housing element

2022 update. this came at the heels of two other initiatives recently completed at the time. the comprehensive evaluation of the strategies and opportunities for improvement. housing affordability strategies. analysis of patterns of growth and implications on affordability goals. housing element update started at beginning of global pandemic. advancing social equity is one of our core principles since the beginning. in a few months we were in a renewed movement. this commission crafted a bold commitment. in a reresolution june to 20. since then advancing social

equity was the center of this housing plan. subsequent phases of outreach the department pursued what was not done before. 21 committee based organizations offered partnership to host intimate conversations with american indian, black. latino, chinese, lbgq, seniors, people are disabilities. many had trauma that the city caused over the years. the continued going back to refine progress and committing to the work. since the last time we were at the commission in january the department met with 16 groups and partners in six short weeks

to verify how to draft response to priorities. what is before you today includes policies and actions striking the balance between aspirational and pragmatic. let's start by going over the new territories in the state and regional contacts. this is very different than before. state department of housing community development is pushing local jurisdictions to act responsibly throughout the state. new state laws passed in the last few years provide keys to the housing element laws not enforceable previously. state laws require affirmatively fair housing. that means to address the living patterns not just areas with high concentration of poverty but areas of affluence and

opportunity. hcd did not certify the housing updates for many local jurisdictions in southern california. this is causing tension and stress among many stakeholders. not having updated element in time could result in loss of affordable housing and transportation funds. also loss of local control in approving development projects pending court rulings. san francisco has been one of the good faith actor in the state and will make every effort to contribute to solving the state housing crisis. before i am going to cover what is proposed. i would like to share how the various supports amount to 50 pages inform and shape this update. needs assessment of fair housing analyzed the needs among racial groups and patterns of

segregation. analysis of constraints and evaluates the effects of development controls, processes, costs, ultimate providers of housing nonprofit. it reflects how the programs were able to address those disparities and how it helped get housing built. the analysis evaluates the development capacity and how it would further fair housing. all of these analysis were substantiated by three phases of community outreach and engagement over the two years and together shaped goals, objectives policies and actions. let's go over what this proposes and start with the scale of new

commitments. san francisco's state target housing will be tripled for the next 8 years from factoring in existing housing needs measured by overcrowding in addition to projected population and job growth. we know that san francisco has fallen behind on meeting our low and moderate income housing targets. achieving these goals would mean a new scale of funding at local, state and federal level. we expect this funding gap to be between 1.5 to $2 billion per year in the next 8 years. we have to fill this gap. we have recently passed two new sources of funding. the transfer tax and employee tax. this is a new housingbon or regional funding from the area housing financing authority.

we also need to explore and support new funding sources. those astronomical numbers assume the affordable housing projects get most funding from federal and state sources such as low income housing tax credit which san francisco has not fared well because of high construction costs. this huge scale makes it clear that we cannot just rely on 100% affordable housing projects as a solution how some stakeholders believe. this new scale of commitment therefore behooves us to embrace a trade off we avoided in the past. we have to bring the costs of housing down. costs are driven by extremely high construction costs and process costs with the goal of public accountability.

however, these processes at times extend to unreasonable timeframes when it only serves a few at cost of costlier affordable homes for most vulnerable. the next few slides provide snapshot for the various communities. this would be the first housing in san francisco to call for reparations to racial groups harmed by past discrimination. the reparations framework will address racial groups who faced past discrimination that resulted in persistent housing disparities and displacement. challenging the federal laws to firm civil further fair housing those actions are needs to address racial disparity. reparations proposed include home ownership opportunities,

improved access to affordable rental housing, preferences and strategies and access to land and cultural spaces to create cultural anchors. these are formed by studies to understand the harm done to red lining, urban renew alex conclusion among others. the cultural districts program for historically oppressed groups for the mechanisms for targets resources and planning efforts to repair the harm to these communities. cultural advocate for city support and implementation to spend more time on their mission and less time explaining on a project by project basis what communities need in that housing proposals. for many in the underserved latinos, lbgq and seniors and

those with disabilities and unhoused plan calls for extremely and low income households housing. eliminate homelessness relies on supportive housing and increasing investments in rental assistance and updating the existing system to serve wider range of individuals and chronic homeless. the priority equity is put forth for strategies to support affirmative fair housing calling for targeted investments for transit infrastructure, economic empowerment job training and business ownership and increasing permanently affordable housing. other strategies call for affordable housing in particular neighborhoods to servetic

vulnerables. they are gateways to the lgbtq or immigrant communities chinatown, tenderloin. for tenants specially those in areas vulnerable to displacement the plan calls for housing stability and minimizing evictions. it recognizes and elevates the roles and resources the community-based organizations offer that offer protections in housing placement services. it calls for eliminating community displacement. upcoming racial and social equity analysis rely on most recent research to measure displacement impacts that identify benchmarks to prevent such impacts. what scale of rent control housing is needed? what geography is vulnerable and

how should the investments target these areas? the third housing needs of households of low to middle income, estimate we need to expand the development capacity in the city by 20,000 units focusing on areas identified by state as well resourced neighborhoods. the department appreciates the analysis and attention that has been circulated in the past week that calls for a much larger scale for this re-zoning. while we continue expect our estimates to shift we are confident the parkland projects in the critiques are not aligned with the data analysis for three reasons. our analysis intentionally separates large development and those in progress for more than 10 years. they are getting close to

completion. treasure island, mission rock and pier 70. in addition they have improved quality of data since 8 years ago. they will install. third the regulatory environment today is density bonuses recent and demonstrate output of more housing factor. increasing housing in well resourced neighborhoods is response to patterns of growth in the past on the east side of the city. we built mostly in areas that were also targeted for red lining or where most of the state identified high concentration of poverty. this is critical to respond to the fair housing. it would require more homes on transit corridors and throughout the low density neighborhoods. buildings of existing scale with

more homes and neighbors. the plan proposes small multi-family and mid-rise buildings, 8 story as type of housing to elevate. it is true that we have not been seeing this type of housing in the past couple decades. yet it has been the most common type in the most too far history of the city. how do we make this housing affordable reality? >> streamlining measures for multi-family homes with community benefits defined in advance. goal is to ensure the private market serves the children, teachers and nurses and middle income work force. we will build to our review processes to ensure accountabilities to the specific needs and create certainty in the review for projects that communities agree they need.

the plan also calls to minimize the need for desdiscretion when replacing single family homes with multiple homes reduce the costs for housing. housing in the districts is another tool to support building homes faster without compromising meeting environmental review. 100% affordable housing land banking programs to ensure low income households can benefit from living near great parks and schools. calls for elevating shared equity models, cooperatives so moderate income households can find home ownership opportunities. there are trade-offs especially for those with the most means. back diversity, afford build and

new city is new changes. values would have to shift. perception of right to preserve ones view from the backyard would have to give place to welcoming new neighbors and friends for children. it would not mean preserving the way the building next door looks but diverse cultural heritage to celebrate through new businesses and new buildings in our neighborhood. this culture shift would mean that we could reallocate resources in planning and other agencies from new additions to help low-income families to build wealth that they have been head back from. discretionary review can sifts to serving low income senior homeowners. how are we accountable?

one of the centerpieces is to define ways on holding ourselves account ability to ensure such account ability. the leaders should be finding priority for investment and budgeting process, collective city should plan and inform annual budget to address priorities, and that we should report and track how these priorities advance social equity. we have made bold commitments and are implementing what i am proved accountability looks like. what is our path forward? now that we have this third draft of the policies and actions, we are embarking on a new analysis to evaluate the racial and social impacts to measure the investments in the neighborhoods and benchmark the

scale of anti discrimination strategies needed to offset. identify priorities to measure scale of investments needed. analyze racial and air quality and transportation and access and environmentally burdened communities. the next comments starting in may. the dir will be released and heard by this commission in a couple months. second round of review along with general plan initiation hearings will comment in the fall. we hope that this commission review and adopt the plan in january to have a certified housing element by may 2023.

as we enter the last step to adopting the plan we invite stakeholders to advance social equity and not to only rezone the city nor is it a plan to only build affordable housing. this is calling for culture shift, embrace that our public dollars need to be invested in supportive housing for unhoused neighbors to understand making every development project perfect for a few will cost some homes for our most vulnerable. to ensure this advances racial and social equity what can we give up to achieve the goal. building equitable affordable city resilience to climate crisis. if we start now we can leave our

grandchildren a better city than the one we inherited. thank you. >> the we have director davis from human rights and director shaw from ocd. if we could take the time now to hear from them. they have been tremendous partners in helping draft this document. they will be partners to implement it as well. director davis, do you want to start? >> good afternoon. cheryl davis san francisco human rights commission. i was thinking yesterday and hello to the commission. i was thinking yesterday what to say. i think that others have done so much work and the main thing i really reflected on was i feel like an older sibling that has

come and said you should do x, y, z up like in real life when i tell my siblings what to do they laugh and say get out of my place. planning commission was very receptive. several times and i just want to recognize president tanner as well for coming into some very heated discussions where people were frustrated. they highlighted how they felt the system had been used to cause harm and continue and perpetuate harm and challenge the status quo. first and foremost i was surprised when shelly others came back multiple times. what about the commission? they said we will ask president tanner to come. i was surprised that she came. it was not a celebration

meeting. folks were honest about frustration and request for this to be more than one-time engagement. i just want to say thank you for listening. i want to say i know the director shaw is on. this is an opportunity to have this conversation beyond planning. to really talk about how we as a city and how our systems where you as the planning department, as the planning commission may agree to one thing but another department may be functioning in a different way to complicate your ability to move things forward. we have been able to have some direct honest conversations about how the stance in one department impacts another. i just thank you for helping me understand that larger role but also for the opportunity to engage both withmocd and oewd in so many different places.

it is not about building affordable housing but also about how to make sure that people get jobs that allow them to continue to pay for their rent or mortgage. this is the beginning of deeper longer broader conversations. thank you for being one of the first to take the challenge to do these racial equity action plans beyond just a document that gets submitted to the board or posted on the website. thank you so much for your work. >> director davis. >> i want to thank you for your time and energy you contributed. i was happy to be in those spaces. it was challenging. that is what we need to hear is people sharing and looking for solutions into the future.

i want be to thank you for the time and energy you put here. it is not done yet. even when you are done it is a work of continuing throughout the cycle. we want to thank you for your support and being honest with us. we hope you will be an honest partner. it is definitely collaborative among the city agencies. we recognize at planning we have one piece that we are setting the stage. departments like yours and director shaw and others on the ground delivering services, building housing, renting it out, doing the things to make it come to life. i will open the floor to other commissions who have questions of director davis before she has to leave. >> before redevelopment i was part of the community advisory

committee setting through that. grateful you have willing to have the conversations across communities not just the ones where i am part. we realize that everyone is wanting more. this is not just to recognize this is not the end all and be all but the beginning of conversation. >> you will notice in the actions that you will see ocd is prevalent. they have a big role to play. director shaw is online and would like to make some comments. >> thank you. hello, commission. i want to send my thanks and regards to the staff. you know i have been planning director and i know how hard it

is to get things over the finish line and make sure we create responsive actionable documents that can be transformative and aspirational. thank you to the staff and thank you for your leadership. the housing element is definitely in alignment with the policy priorities and the goals of the mayor's office of housen and community development. we affirm our shared value to advance racial equity and economic opportunity for residents. we know the success of the plan lies in implementation. i am happy to say that we have been hearing from communities through the consolidated plan and other ways to receive input on affordable housing. many instances the housing

element policy affirm the work we are doing right now. we are going to be able to test ideas. i am happy we are building affordable housing in high resource areas lie stanon and serving. i am happy recontinue to invest in cultural districts managed by our office and supporting them in development of their plans. i am happy to talk about we have 11,000 units of housing in the pipeline. anti displacement policies. i am happy that we invested more than $100 million in rentals for people responding to covid. the hearts and minds being changed are changed. we are champions to make sure we execute racial equity, housing

opportunity at all level of life and government. i will say it has been a challenge. to align the financial commitment with the requirement of the state. we are high cost city by state standards. it has taken a lot of advocacy by the mayor and our delegation to get the resources needed for the agenda. that african female led to 11 projects this ground for affordable housing. it is awesome. it can't be advocacy every year. we need to have certainty and endorsement of the housing element and recognition of resources needed and that san francisco has acted to create

the resources to advance. we will continue to work with you all on this. thank you for championing this process. i am happy to answer any questions if you have them. >> thank you for the introduction and the work you are doing. it is exciting to hear about the 11 projects. we don't have the advocacy and state requirements of the it is fair to ask the state for money to fulfill the requirements. i will open the floor for response to director shaw. >> commissioner imperial. >> first of all, to director shaw, thank you.

i would like to thank you and also thank you. [indiscernable] it is it is not perfect but the effort that ocd put in has been helpful. i want you to know in my other job we see these efforts in the rental relief subsidies. i would like to express that. thank you. >> director shaw are you staying or cutting out as well? >> i will cut out. i am joined by my staff. maria benjamin. >> we have your team here.

i will save my mother detailed questions for later. commissioner diamond. >> i think commissioner moore was ahead of me. >> it was an accident. >> director shaw, thank you very much for your comments. while you are here i want to ask you a specific question. if it would be more appropriate to redirect to someone else i would appreciate it. a great deal of affordable housing was built with low income housing tax credits. that is a competitive process and we haven't been faring as well as other cities. that led to prediction, significant reduction in the tax credits to the city. how realistic is it for the city to undertake efforts to try to shift the thinking of the

agencies and other level of governmental locating those credits? we need to produce a significant amount of affordable housing. yet the funds we need and used to do that are constrained by how we fare in that competitive allocation process. could you speak to that? or offer yous some hope that we may fare better going forward? >> a lot of my job is advocacy. we are part of a network high cost city housing forum sponsored by enterprise. we made recommendations to federal law to make more resources available.

we have been working closely with hud. to get more flexibility with the dollars we have and to get more dollars around subsidies. at the state level it is a challenge. that has been the state we are functioning in right now. our projects aren't scoring to the level to get funded. the advocacy also led and that is regional by the way. it led to what we now have as the cost of housing accelerator fund. not in san francisco but at the state. if we can't get the program funds through the started program can you use additional funds? it is not there. it is a lot of work and advocacy at the state level to make sure

our projects are funded. that is the biggest uncertainty for everything. the availability of state funding, tax credit advisory committee, loan advisory committee. that is the bottleneck for us for implementation going forward. >> i truly appreciate the advocacy. we are with the goals the primary source of funding that has been used to meet those goals is directed elsewhere. it feels like it is a significant misstep which hopefully the advocacy will help address. >> commissioner moore. >> you are touching on an incredibly sensitive issue. i would like to know how your colleagues have crossed the board in other communities

perceive your dilemma. you have expensive taste and will not be responsible for that. in public funding there is equity and equity. at the bottom line many of the communities are struggling with the same issues that we do. speculation, displacement, gentrification, etc. what conversations do you engage in your counterparts about productive middle ground? >> on tuesday i talked with the directors from san jose. we are in coordination with our advocacy. we should have alignment on resources. there is a lot more we can do as city and county.

it gives us flexibility and resources. there is going to be learning throughout the state and i know that i am going to be seeing the director from los angeles shortly we are trying to understand san francisco is so far ahead of oaks and competitive at a time. now we are trying to make sure in the end we are emphasizing the idea we are building communities and not just housing. we have climate resilience and goals of the state. once again we should be celebrated for having actionable going forward. hopefully serving as a model for others on floor with this like los angeles or san diego or sacramento. conversations are happening.

we are making sure we are educating elected officials andd advocateses from san francisco to make sure they understand how to get funding. >> i am delighted to hear you are in charge. what you are speaking to has followed support and doesn't require like minded people for the discussion. we have communities which plan by numbers. we have a lot more things at stake here. we are aware of community and trying to change without losing the system. thank you so much. >> i know we want to get to the public. we have one more speaker as part of the presentation. deputy director from the dent of home -- department of

homelessness and supportive housing. >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for having me. deputy director of department of homelessness and supportive housing. i want to thank planning staff for collaboration throughout the process and engaging not only the community, people with lived experience with homeless service providers but also the department in what are very ambitious goals and strong vision for ending homelessness in our city. we look forward to continuing to be part of the process and implementation. our department oversees a very robust homeless response that ranges street outreach and emergency shelter to permanent solutions in long-term subsidies and supportive housing.

many programs are in between in that sector. we know that housing affordable housing with the right level of supportive services is the solution to homelessness in our community. we cannot shelter our way out of the crisis. shelter is incredibly critical. we must have a housing focused solution. as we go through our own strategic planning process toal loin with the housing element and the other department working on these different points to make a healthy and equitable city we are excited to be part of the solution. i would want to thank you for your approach and your bold vision. >> thank you. any questions, commissioners?

>> thankful for your work and your department's work. you have a lot of work that you are doing and we are grateful for that. thank you for your participation. i know your agency's name is listing next to the actions and policies. i am very excited we are centering in equity and part of that calling for right to housing and i hope that bolsters the ability of the city to house the unhoused residents. >> that concludes that presentation. >> very good. at this time we will open up public comment. we will take those members of the public in the chambers first. line up on the screen side of the room we will take you in the order that you line up. >> it is just you today.

>> two minutes. thank you so much. here are letters to everybody. thank you to kenya and her staff. it is a large task. i can't imagine. i want to focus on a couple things when i read that stood out. one the rezoning program attachment e. it says that through re-zoning program you are going to need three years. my suggestion in those three years is to use your legislative authority and adjust it. i am a broken record. it would be critical because of speculation that could go on in that period. you have legislative authority to use controls. you have never done as you know adjust the demcallings.

five times before it was gotten rid of. the point of them was to preserve housing. i think that may be critical in those three years when you do re-zoning. other point is the tree canopy preserving tree canopy in yards. that is a conflict is demographic issues. you have got a lot of seniors, people over 65 living in the areas where you want to rezone, the plan rezones. people are going to be gone in 10 years. i think there needs to be some sort of melding of what that means. not just single family homes in sunset and park side. a lot of these people own multi-unit properties. that is a huge turnover. what does that mean for the housing situation? speculation, whatever. it is all in my note. thank you.

thanks again. ever body take care. >> good afternoon, west side community coalition. it must be revised for equity. there are numerous efforts to cut public out of participation in land use and housing decisions under mining the self-determination of communities of color and low income to rely on the developers and landlords to self-regulate the activities. this is the opposite of equity based approach to give away. one troubling example is the proposal for conditional use hearings demolitions of single family homes under 3b policy 26.

planning includes caveats. they can be occupied and can't have a history of tenant evictions. developers and landlords represent tenants all of the time. forcing tenants out threw informal buyouts do not show out they forced out tenanteds without going through the formal process. only way the advocates can bring the truth to light is through the conditional use public hearing process. staff has incorporated the coalition comments through the housing element. there may be references to equity and unequal harms than ever before. there haven't been substantive structural concerns. this policy 26 is substantial evidence of the housing element

will have devastating and long lasting effects on people of color and low income communities. thank you. >> hello. i am jessica presenting for the youth and family network. serving over 2000 and providing services child care, school programs,. [indiscernable] support groups, education work. services. much of our collective work supports low income with limited proficiency. on the west side of town. [indiscernable] particularly agencies with the

planning department. [indiscernable] on this year's housing element. sunset is using surveys that shows that the highest we know that we do want affordable housing. district 4 youth and family network is here. we don't have. [indiscernable] we stand in support of the housing element. affordable housing available in the city. housing affordability is critical to sustaining active engagement. [indiscernable]

>> good afternoon. we are a member organization of the race and equity planning coalition. it urges you to update housing to center equity. our coalition gave input. this offers a clear approach to move to greater outcomes. latest draft is first time about racial and social equity in housing. we are interested in learning more about how our organization can be involved. we talk about equity is not the shame ensuring american indian and black have direct impact. housing element diminishes voice. shifting the powers by highlighting voices in separate venue. reducing cost of development from market rate.

planning has done nothing to translate to reduce costs for renters or owners of housing allowing the market to regulate and continuing escalation of rent. forecasting of reality we experience daily. we appreciate planning staff has taken this and incorporated the language in the graft. we do not feel there is any concerns that we have. move forward on its current path. housing element will have more references of equity for the policies that planning proposes in our communities. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. san francisco land coalition.

to be in the bay area has pursued radical changes. no other city in the bay area has the same high percentage of tenant population as city of san francisco. racial and social justice is not achieved by 200 plus pages of platitude for people of color and low income. this is changes in policy statements in the document more than prove do policety. in the housing element highlights department claims our current housing element emphasized retaining existing units and rental units was misguided. implementation emphasized more demolition of single family homes. this is a lie. plenty of multi-units including udu have been before the commission for demolition. they always get approved.

when was the last time this commission everyjected a demolition? the preservation of rent control homes clearly stated in current housing is downplayed and delegated to policy 26. who do you think was the majority of rent control homes? not the white people similar to those who prepared the document. people of color, seniors on limited income. folks who have no stock options. not one nonprofit representing the people of color, tenants, low income supports this sham completely void of any policy to benefit the majority of the residents of the city. we stand in opposition regardless whether or not you rubber stamp this document. thank you for listening. >> i am cathy wisdom member of

san francisco senior disability action a proud member organization of the race and equity involved planning coalition. many seniors in the city live in poverty under social security checks which are as small as $800 or $900 per month. serious peril in terms of housing. i think of them as well. thanks to planning for providing us the opportunity to further comment on this housing element draft. we appreciate the objective 1. c of housing calls for elimination of homelessness rather than reduction. elimination of homelessness rather than reduction. regarding the numbers of homeless, housing element should be aware that tents are not

useful for meshing progress of housing human people. plan for estimating unmet housing and service needs among unhoused that produce stable exits from homelessness. lastly, please use influence to work with us to advocate at state level for repeal of hawkins. this legislation is antique. it is responsible for displacement of many people when people move out of their low or moderate income rental housing and the landlord is able to raise the rent to whatever the market will bear. another system for disaster. thank you very much for listening.

>> this is affordable housing advocate. there is a lot to praise in the 774 pages in terms of racial and social equity apfairness. [indiscernable] unresolved conflict between all of the reports in the vulnerable communities. it calls for reduction of public input. you can't empower people if you take away the right to speak. [indiscernable] not in the rezoning in market rate projects. policy 19 outreach and

engagement. policy 25 reducing. [indiscernable] arbitrary circumstances. policy 26 was automatic approval of demolition of rent control units and tenant occupied units. they are replaced by equivalent units. the backbone of affordable housing. the reason the vulnerable communities are here. the department is abandoning it. especially rent controlled units. 3.1 in 2014 has been eliminated in 2022. page 553 san francisco needs the rent controlled units. many rents have risen due to lack of control.

now further they are taking care of older units. this attitude will result in throwing many tenants to the doors. >> thank you. >> executive director of the cultural district. thank you very much, planning. a meeting to make sure the voices incorporated the housing element. american indians are 17 times more likely to have the lowest home ownership rate and second lowest income rate and lowest

graduation and unemployment rate. i can't stress how important it is to have the american indian voice incorporated. they had to deal with red lining. this is highlighted cultural use for communities resource preservation for american indians and looking at the housing in the community. i want to elevate how important it is this year's planned housing element to emphasize racial equity. thank you. >> coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. there are a number of flaws in the 2022 housing element from specific goals getting rid of

conditional use for demolition unless buildings arennant occupied to goals every zoning and streamlining are necessary to undoing sections of the 2014 housing element. san francisco didn't appeal the numbers. they didn't appeal to hcd. it took the state auditor to find serious flaws with hcd methods. hcd numbers form the foundation of the housing element this infers the housing element has serious flaws. thank you. >> hello. thank you, planning commission. i am chair of the economic subcommittee on the san

francisco reparations committee. i want to give thanks to president tanner on the commission. i invite you to continue to come and invite other planning commissioners to come and work through the details here. the public utilities. [indiscernable] had impacts. i join because the leadership. responsibility for ownership of the harm done. the planning department and commission are in need of red lining, exclusionary zoning over the century. creating housing and using reparations as foundation.

housing is first step to do better. if adopted in 2023 this will be the first plan for the black communities among others. [indiscernable] policies rely on reparations include the building and home ownership opportunities and affordable rental housing and investment in communities. it calls for stronger accountability to black communities and inform the city priorities. many issues need to be addressed. i believe this is the first way forward. work with the american reparation committee for harms done and continue to work on this plan. i want to thank you for making this step forward.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. i am a member of the. [indiscernable] we urge you to update the housing element for the equity for low income communities. it is for communities. [indiscernable] letters are cleaner equity approach for housing element to significantly move this report greater equity outcomes. urge planning to recommend the city advocate the decisions of

rental housing to allow better stabilize tenants to extend rent control. [indiscernable] the state legislation. planning should recommend that the city commit resources. [indiscernable] thank you for your attention. >> good afternoon, commissioners. corey smith on behalf of housing action coalition. we are following housing elements all over the area and state of california and are

excited about breaking the mold and status quo of the last 30 or 40 years that we believe led to our housing shortage and helped create our affordability and displacement crisis. specifically related to san francisco we are excited this is going to increase housing opportunities that there additionalnal communities. the eastern neighborhood plan was by the san francisco board of supervisors for housing production on the eastern half of the city and left the western and southern half of the city untouched. we think this added to the problem that we have for today. we think the housing element process and the things going to have to be put into place to hit our targets is about fairness and making sure we build

everywhere. i also listening to the commissioners speak with director shaw about the lack of funding available for the middle income and targets in the arena. it is a very, very real challenge. figuring out whatever we can do to leverage financial resources is crucial to make sure we build those units as well as unitss across the board. we get the opportunity to look at this from the bay area statewide perspective knowing what is happening in san francisco and other cities. generally speaking this is a step in the positive direction. it is required by state law that there are no options for the minimum number of homes. the state is watching. >> your time is up.

>> thank you very much. >> good afternoon. i am northern neighbors. i am here to tell you i love my neighborhood and i think maybing the environment of san francisco equally diverse to my neighborhood housing stock. not only leading to compliant housing but better quality of life for all in san francisco. we have a 15 story apartment building converted to multi-unit rentals next to condos and single homes. housing options for everything leading to walkable neighborhoods with residents in many stages and walks of life. i have yet to find a single person who did not enjoy the neighborhood. there are two problems.

today it would be impossible to create this neighborhood. this is something the housing element can address by re-zoning all of san francisco and particularly west side to not just allow projects but the high rise projects the city's own analysis finds are most economically feasible. we need specific funding processes to ensure the project. the combination of the massive housing crisis in bay area with wonderful neighborhoods. my neighborhood is unaffordable to many. neighborhoods like this will help the city not only reach the mandates for fair housing. it makes neighborhoods more affordable and creating options at all income level and excludes

neighborhoods. i encourage you to follow the te blueprint. thank you. >> good afternoon, i am robert truck man. i am with the volunteers of san francisco. i have heard the plan and response to housing draft. looking at some of the data provided by the department in reference to the pipeline, we do not believe the pipeline makes a fair and a accurate analysis of what is coming down the pipeline. the draft does not include themoth -- method and how it was

discounted. we see the spreadsheet of projects allow building permits with discount 9.5% of that including projects 18% canceled prior to withdrawn in 2015. this is inappropriate. you cannot see the project in limbo. they should be discounted by issuing building permits. hc has not asked demanded san francisco detail how the draft would comply with the housing accountability act. we did so with letters november 2021 and february 2022. the draft instead how to comply it says san francisco does not have the data necessary to know when permits were approved or

how long permits are waiting for approval. you are basically asking hcd to refer to city to the attorney general for that action against the city. this is a pretty blatant slap in the face for information how to affirmative fair housing. >> that is your time, sir. >> i am volunteer with action. the housing element. i want to thank sf planning for the count less hours they put into the housing element, community engagement they have done is expensive. they reached all segments of the

community. it shows in the final results. san francisco is finally moving in the direction of having more equitable housing growth in the city. i still hope more can be done. i think more needs to be done to comply with state laws. in particular, the pipeline analysis in this draft. b. if you look at the data that does exist on permits it is opposite. the current draft plan 80% of the pipeline units will be built. 80% don't get built. they are negative returns on investment for building low and

mid-rise apartments on the west side. that substantially undermines the plan. if we are permitting this on the west side and they are not feasible we are not accommodating the housing growth and furthering fair housing by doing so. i hope we can see action. 25% of affordable housing. people from the west side. this is not a plan to get there and reduce nonsegregation in the city. thank you. >> good afternoon, catherine howard. i want to support the san francisco land use coalition comments on this draft of housing elements. this housing element threatening the preservation of rent control units. i lived in rent control

apartments before purchasing a home. i have empathy with people trying to get by with single family homes. many of the people who make san francisco such an interesting and extraordinary place, seniors, people of color, those on limited income are subject to the market. please go back to the drawing board and take these people into consideration. thank you. >> i am speaking on house of san francisco housing development. we provide affordable housing.

resident services, development to all communities in san francisco, the black community and bayview western addition. the racial equity it has a long history. we appreciate the call for reparations. we encourage. [indiscernable] effective policies we appreciate. [indiscernable] it is about eviction. 1a and 3b. [indiscernable]

it is critical for property managers in the city. critical to developers. [indiscernable] 5c. the best way to do this expand the pool and give units available to children. [indiscernable] work with the city on that in the future. we have seen it is not shy about certifying elements to meet

requirements. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am a member in addition to the planning coalition. we appreciate planning for welcoming the direct coalition to comment on the housing element draft. we refer to the letter we sept on march 21st. which a dozen members had a clear approach to move san francisco towards greater equity outcomes. the rent coalition believe this draft leads the city of san francisco on a path to tipping the same development policies and destabilized communities intensified displacement. the city of san francisco failed the communities during the last housing element and destined to make the same mistake.

we must not rely on private housing market for affordability. we take land and development out of speculative market, implement price controls and prevent systematic displacement of workinglas communities in san francisco. rent coalition identified six categories of current. equity outcomes, mapping needs strategies, available and social equity, homelessness, anti displacement and cultural districts. you will continue to hear speakers to address these areas of concern. in addition, i would like to make the process concerning request as was the case for draff two. draft three is extremely challenges between release and today. it is difficult for communities to fully read, digest and respond and engage in this process.

we would like to request three weeks to review upcoming drafts before presenting to the planning commission for discussion. thank you for your time. >> good day. senior tenant with san francisco tenants union, member organization of race and equity in all planning coalition. i get the distinction of following charlie. draft three is just full of desperate policies and goals and objectives which unlike set forth in 2014 doesn't offer a clear path forward. it is matthew for the first time in historythh housing the city must produce

under be threat of losing affordable house ing and communities determining what is built in the community we recommending changing public policy and moving toward solutions that achieve genuine affordability as the scale of san francisco needs while moving the need and expertise of low income communities into the forefront of these conversations and decisions. as you know, the last housing element cycle the city could use far more market rate for affordable housing. planning has to understand the low income communities are suffering from the cune lative imbalance lananswer and performs from the last. market development strategies caused price escalation and displacement and have failed to

make housing more accessible or affordable. recommend strategies that prioritize affordable housen and holding the market to build the housing our communities desperately need. we are not seeing any strategies for making sure the affordable housing goals are prioritized. >> thank you. that is the end of your time. >> good afternoon. i am sitting here in hand i have capital city book which he says housing could become a traded financial asset. we know that the real estate people developers rule the world. with all their money they hire politicians to support their goals.

i can see a lot of work went into this housing element phase 3. i agree with many who say that we should not remove conditional use process for demolition nor should we remove the planning commission's input. benefiting developers but not tenants. this did not recognize the fact the existing buildings rather than demolishes to rebuild new buildings is more efficient way to provide affordable housing. i agree with what -- i am a member of the san francisco land use coalition. i agree with cathy howard. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. race and equity planning coalition. we appreciate planning for

welcoming us to provide further comment on housing elements. we refer back to the letter to planning on march 21st which over a dozen members had input. we had a clear equity approach to move san francisco equity outcomes. the path forward under 4b is clear example of housing bias for markets in housing as primary driver of greater affordability by reduced cost for developer and residents. hard to think of industry for for profit to regulate themselves is effective in housing. this path forward encourages demolition that places in balance our community. these work together against equity and affordabilities. replacement rental units must be rent controlled.

we appreciate the planning staff taking the comments incorporatedded our language into draft three we do not feel there is any substantive incorporation of concerns we have with housing. we urge you to significantly update housing so it truly enters equity and low income communities. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am mark, chair of land use and planning committee at twin peaks central council. i appreciate the work in the plan. it is missing a major section. the actual capacity for density on the west side. you speak to density at west side as if it is rich in resources. the one resource it isn't rich this is infrastructure and

surface. no high pressure water system. our sewer systems are at or near capacity. electricity is just adequate. we have frequent be brownouts. result is that the plans for density on the west side are no plans to increase infrastructure to support it is doomed for failure. 8, 10, 20 unit did not take into account resource reprint. they do not evaluate for projects less than 100 units. result is there is not the capacity in the infrastructure to meet goals here. without that you are doomed to failure. thank you.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. i am with the commission a member organization of the rent coalition. we urge you to update the housing element for equity for low income communities. we appreciate planning welcoming us to provide further comment on the draft and refer back to the letter we sept to march 21st which proposed equity approach towards greater equity outcomes. regarding 8 a the number of permanently supportive housing units provided for unhoused people must meet need. suggesting a target of one-third of the current count of unhoused people widely acknowledged is perpetuation of homelessness not elimination. it is critical to coordinate the entry system replaced with the

neighborhood system so the continuing care that perform outreach with trust relationship with unhoused people. the trust relationship is the only way to assess the need for correlating services to inform the city as to the number of units and subsidies to be added to the system. currently supportive housing units are sitting vacant due to overly bureaucratic. they should be replaced with self-referral goes to case managers and the ability for the case managers to refer to the shelter beds and housing units. without changing to the draft we will have nothing but inclusive strategies to inflict harm on our community.

thank you. >> good afternoon. we are a member of the recent equity and planning coalition. we are to significantly update the housing element for equity for our communities. we appreciate the planning and zoning with hsh has action in the nature of navigation centers and it is important to note that it is not just exit from that center that should be here but exits from all types of shelter for unhoused population. the goal should be to minimize and eliminate which they have to

enter the system multiple times before they can be connected with staple exit. we appreciate the objective 1c of housing element calls for elimination of homelessness rather than reduction of homelessness or priority of sources only a segment of that housed population to reach this objective the city's current practices of prioritizing homeless people for the resources rather than adding appropriate resources to the homeless system that leads to actual homeless people in the system must be changed. to that end we would like to see the element state the number of permanent supportive housing should be provided for unhoused residents. coordinated entry system is proved for unhoused people's

need for various housing option. we appreciate that. some of our language. we want to see a more strong language in there. >> thank you. that is your time. >> peter popadopolis with the development agency. we are a member of the race and equity in all planning coalition. we appreciate the recent discussions that planning staff held with community organizations. also for providing us with a more detailed road map of the mapping used here. it is laid out in the housing element highlight document and associated strategies with it. unfortunately we are unable to discuss further with the planning staff. i will continue the conversation with questions and comments.

we can then continue the discussion. in my limited time two maps here today quickly. the priority equity geography map highlight figure 7. relatively robust start with regards to mapping most vulnerable with regards to the goal of prioritizing the areas for intergenerational wealth. we would like to see this map further with our low income communities, color,tic attention if we are not skipping over vulnerable census tracks on the west side. when i get to the areas vulnerable to displacement mapping i am confused with questions right now. my current interpretation is the blue and light blue are targeted for displacement and focus plans and laws.

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if it's going to be affordable. we need to build as much supportive housing but the majority live in market rate housing and the way to make it affordable is to make the market rate lower. we used to build more housing and that was the rate we were building and the city was a beacon of opportunity and home for people all over the world and building many times less now with a city twice as large. i wanted to share i'd like to see the city commission be more ambitious and explicit to remove obstacles and resolve to the approval time. a lot of the people who do the work of keeping the city running are watching from stockton or taking busses to work.

this is a brutal way to live and we inflict that on thousands of people everyday. he's are the people who do the work we all depend on and it's deeply shameful and we should be building so much it's cheap enough for people who work in the city who also live here. and when a we're teenager is homeless -- >> clerk: thank you, that's your time. >> [speaking spanish] >> i represent the mission community.

[translator] >> first i'd like for it to be a site for buildings that are older and have high rents. and there's so many people sleeping on the streets with this heat and with the cold and we need house everybody and need to be considered part of the latino community. >> we all have a right to dignified housing.

>> there's entire families living in a single room. i would love for to you walk around the mission and see all the people sleeping on the

street. we're discriminated because we're latino. because we're latinos, we can't have dignified housing. >> please help us, we're thousands and thousands much families that can't live in san francisco. so many families have left because they cannot afford rent. when there's new building coming up -- i think she's talking about affordable housing, our community never gets to -- i

have spoken to families working more than two jobs just to affordable the rent for one room. i hope you take into account my words. >> we should not be giving incentives such as reduction of conditional use authorization to include businesses for the

services culture needs. they should be required to provide the needs of the community and support district goals. this is also that market rate development is good for culture districts. they were meant to prevent displacement and gentrification and to include all. >> clerk: seeing no additional request to speak, public comment is now closed and the item now before you commissioners and i'll remind you there's no action required of you today. this is simply for your review and comment.

>> commissioner: i want to thank all the staff and the agencies that participated today and all the callers. all who wrote letters and sent in their comments and open the floor for any commissioners who would like to kick off the discussion today. >> my comments will be similar to the last couple times. i'm proud to be a part of this and glad i think we're doing more work in this area than any other jurisdiction. thanks again. >> anybody else want to go? >> thank you for the extensive

work in this project. and hearing different needs. one thing here we talked about the investment and we can also hear the kind of i guess hesitancy or how it's aspirational. i think what we talked about from the last hearing so to see more specific strategies i'd like to hear about the housing affordability.

how is that going to be implemented and there's skepticism through achieve investment. can you talk about housing affordability strategies. >> you asked a substantial question. we are proposing something we have not done in the past in terms of scale and approach. there's more affordable housing we're including in the plan and

addressing the houseless population and the production of affordable housing. there's three components. there's a lot of concern how we'll do it because we haven't done it in the past. this is a turning point not just because the planners are here but that's because that's what the communities are asking us and the pressures have been elevated at the state and other levels. we think the framework of policies and the changes in regulations we have in front of you and some of the advances we have made in additional funding locally and other levels as you heard directly from director shaw do we have everything resolved? no. but we think even in the last few years our ability to tax

ourselves and increase our funding hasn't been done before and that's a sign moving forward. we know the small and medium sized housing is a challenge but that's our job as a city and planning department to figure out the conditions for those other types of housing that our communities are asking. we can get into specifics later. >> my question is in terms of the implementation i think there is a lot of questioning on the

implementation side of this and it's like we're traumatizing people in this document again and proposing rezoning in the west side and the implementation is a big question here though i would say the accountability is something i would like to amplify and the accountability is how the planning department is going to measure this and for the commission to see the progress of what we're doing. i'm looking forward to more housing affordability strategies i don't know if it's next year or after the approval of the e.i.r. of the housing element. that's something i'm also looking forward in terms of

having that specific strategy that be also for the public to see. >> can i ask if that would be almost a financing plan? how we'll pay for and build the affordable housing we're calling for. is that part of what you're thinking about you said here's some ways to get it but how will we fill in that bar? >> looking at the housing element in terms of the cultural districts and looking into other aspects as well -- there are rechanging of how the process is and in the cultural districts we would use condition use authorization if there is already preliminary discussion in the community. so when it's going to that, like the districts we have and to the rezoning, how is that going to

look like? that's the kind of specifics of that. like i think there's another caller that trying to see it's map like whether we identify the map in the city in the west side and also layering the bipoc community. that's something i feel like probably needs nor clarification in terms of housing affordability strategies not just in terms of the money but really looking at how communities are going to be affected. that's something perhaps that's a big ask but but that's what i'm hearing in terms of the public comments in terms of the housing element and --

>> we do point to specific revenues to bridge the gap we identified. they're substantial and there's not going to be one source of revenue to get there but i think we went into some detail and quantified options and something that can be done with the board of supervisors or put it on the ballot for voters or a federal tax rule that can lead to additional revenue. we tried to lay out options we

can put more details on that and it's a big question. the resources aren't there to get to our -- what we're asked to do with affordable housing. that's an important part we have to max the revenues with what we're doing. >> i appreciate that, director hillis. and as director shaw said in terms of the program for example do you think layering in terms of the well resourced neighborhoods that something needs to be amplified in terms of midsized building and there needs to be clarification in the

policy draft. i think people address policy number 26 eliminating the conditional use -- remove the process for that or a single-unit building that are not occupied or history of tenant evictions and another sense continue to apply conditional use requirement to demolition of tenant occupied buildings. something may be overlooked and i do appreciate what the public has mentioned in term of the c.u. for single unit buildings that are not tenant occupied because right now at the department we're still trying to

have the rent board liaison and how is that going look like. >> commissioner: we'll have better information from the rent board and will continue to build on our relationship with the rent board. we crafted that to reflect what the commissions been doing. you mostly see c.u.'s related to demolition of those rent control and you don't get beyond it without demoing without replacement or not tenant occupied and we don't see those and they don't get past the staff leaving. it's important to read the entire policy and make the distinctions between single family homes that may not be subject to rent control and

multi-family buildings that are. the focus is on single-family homes, non-rent controlled and increasing density. not replacing that with another larger single-family home but with a three or four-unit build. >> we're trying to live like a mansion and there may be a correlation of the public comments when it comes to that and we need to clarify the kind of demolition and the kind much system that there's no tenant

occupied. for now those are my comments. >> thank you, commissioner fung. >> commissioner: i thank staff for answering my questions and responded appropriately. i am supportive of not only the extensive process that has occurred throughout this element but also where the conclusions and being a pragmatist my

thoughts jump ahead how will we do this. it's been stated up here a couple times already today the big nut is how to do affordable housing. whether their ability to create and leverage fund from a number of sources, we'll see. the problem is the scale of it goes way beyond what we've attempted to do with either the last bond issue or anything else. there is a chance with the rezoning that regular market factors will create the moderate and middle housing especially along say the obvious example is the corridor where you have not

only substantial transit but have much more substantial lot sizes. when you look at the numbers and whether the state directives to us are going to change based on the realities of urban cities versus suburban cities, the fact is it's a huge nut to do this portable components that are required. i'm not talking about the market rate which is close to what it needs to be within the data analysis. so if you add the other elements besides the financing for affordable housing but for infrastructure. how do you get the people out there?

and as i said, there's potential that utilities may not be sufficient. look what they did to van ness. from a simple repaving contract you wound up doing all the utilities and now it's six years late -- anyway, never mind. we have a challenge and what i suggest to staff is that we need to provide as much flexibility in our implementation. in terms of the rezoning process, which is a major tool for us, we should consider whether there should be prioritization within that versus a singular approach which may not necessarily work because of the amount of argument we're going have from certain areas.

we may look at what has to happen if certain things don't work and how we recover from that and i brought those points up to staff and think they'll provide a good footprint for that but it's incumbent on some other agencies how the hell we pay for this. >> thank you, commissioner fung. vice president moore. >> thank you for all who engaged in this document shows specific changes and challenges between

the previous and this draft. it's well documented and the context statement is easy to absorb but i'm most impressed with the collaborative work between the planning department and the staff and there's nothing more enlightening than the document shared and how the questions were responded to. i think that is the correct path moving forward with something which new frontiers at literally every corner. i think the department and community is engaging in the correct manner. it is respectful, it is challenging. not all question have been agreed to. not all comments are being accepted and there were a few

with rung true with me and first and foremost, i believe, there needs to be a preservation of rental housing and particularly rent-controlled housing. i think given the number of units we need to achieve we cannot create a deficit in already numbers that are difficult to achieve. perhaps there's molds we can look at and start collectively and look at management of those and look at a mold the city and planning should consider.

i heard about mapping and geographies. i didn't read the state auditor's criticism of how the backbone data were assembled and i don't have tools to say it's correct or not correct. i do think when a document like that is put in front of the commission we need to ask the department to respond and take a position relative to the criticism have been raised.

and look at the foundation of traditional neighborhoods. that's a question that we should be aware of because it could create holes in the process we are not fully aware of. another part is accuracy of numbers. how complete is the census track information and some of the data we're using and there's a critical time and formation of what's in front of us and does it have affect on what we are seeing today? there's a number of 43,000

vacant units and there's a report in income for purchasing a home has risen to $237,000 a year -- i don't know anybody who has that much money, and i think there are certainly elements like quicksand and i want to make sure you have the ability to see the shifting elements and still hold steady in terms where we're moving. we cannot find ourselves at the beginning of 2023 looking at things which basically have changed or based on assumptions. thank you for everybody who commented. i do hope rapid planning will continue to lead the charge of where we're going and all city agencies and everybody who has spoken today will continue to make this the most responsive plan we've ever seen. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner diamond. >> thank you very much.

>> i first want to let staff know i think they've done yeoman's work on the project and have a document that not only analyze what's we did in the fast but projects forward using the data available to them and hats off to the amount of work work involved and extend of outreach and thank the community groups digging deep and asking tough questions and insisting we take everyone's concerns into account. and it's an evolving. and the plan when adopted is just a general plan that needs to be implemented through the zoning and adoption of policies and this level of work between the community groups and staff

and i definitely want to align myself with commissioner moore's comments in that regard. on to the specifics. i have a number of comments and observations i wanted to talk through for a moment. this is an aspirational and pragmatic document and a really want to make sure that we are focussed on the pragmatic part so it just doesn't become hopes on paper but translates into units on the ground and not just entitlements but actual units on the ground in all the categories where it's necessary because entitlements don't house people, units house people. one is on the affordable housing side and market rate is where i'm speaking.

this is very aspirational on the affordable housing side and the primary source of funding seems to be dwindling the tax credits and the alternative strategy seems very aspirational. it's not like i have any solutions but worried and concerned and feel like a great deal of effort needs to be focussed on where the money is coming from to build the affordable housing. i would they can ma a top priority.

and we'd like to see middle income housing going forward. i'm concerned that 85 feet may not be high enough on the corridors the major transit corridors. i understand from staff you picked 85 feet because that's where the change in topography occurs for building types but

i'm wondering whether we looked into higher levels and if you've had conversations with market-rate developers whether 85 feet is high enough to actually produce the kind of housing we want to see. >> hi. planning department staff. we spoke with developers but can look into patterns recently. 85 is a cut-off between the type 1 construction which more expensive. we'll note right now almost all topologies of housing are struggling to get built and we have high rise projects also unable to go in construction. the construction costs are very high at all levels. we usually see things between 85 and 160 don't really happen. they're rare right now. it's possible in the future that

may change. and we can look at things related to the street around the podium and potentially high rise or power that's set back. there are sites within the e.i.r. we looked at closer to van ness and geary at high heights like 240 which is more typical. >> i hope you're looking at a range of options. and i want to put it out as a comment. i'm also concerned we may be pushing too hard by saying 85 feet is appropriate nor side streets. i can pick any number of raf news and ninth and 13th and 46th, do we really want to push 85 feet when the current height

limit is 30 to 40 feet and mostly two-story houses. is it worth starting there and creating that kind of controversy when it seems there's coalescing of views corridors are a better place and supportive of the increase in density across the west side. i think i saw four units per lot which make sense. i question whether or not we should pursue 85 feet on the side street though i think there's a good urban design argument for having corner lots be higher as they provide natural book ends. >> one thing around the height, one thing we thought it wouldn't be added in with the density

bonus and the 85 feet along the commercial corridors would be potentially possible now because of the state density bonus you can get the additional height. we're thinking it would be an alternative but more locally based. some of this could happen. >> we propose to look at the areas in a more general way and we're looking how to get to the level of spes fiflt. we have more times and hoping to do the rezoning and getting in

the deeper level of more on the ground analysis. that said, there's ways to mitigate the feeling of height and we're talking the lower height in the neighborhood and along the corridors and stepping down. they're closer to where the transit is based on the m.t.a. five-minute network and more gradation towards the density. >> there's more work to be done to make sure we're doing this to face as few obstacles as possible to move it forward as expeditiously as possible along those lines i see request to

focus on neighborhood expression. i don't understand what that distinction is. can you talk us through that? >> there's resident design guidelines which speak to layers of quality in design. a lot of of a lot of has been projects that need to be compatible with neighbors and they're adjacent houses so things close on the block. we've been repeating a lot of the same patterns and we anticipate the neighborhoods will be changing and the dimensions of whose living there will change. we want the possibility of more expression and variation and the architecture is more reflective of the people living there and reflected in the city marking

the moment as well. compatibility has been tightly interpreted. we want it creativity and innovation to be part of the process. i know there's one word change from character to expression and character is part of every building but has to do with the durability, detail, quality. we want people to feel like they belong and the architecture needs to speak to that as well. we >> we need