>> no problem. thank you. you pointed out some of those and we'll touch on those but rezoning the west side and looking denseifying the west side, especially along the commercial corridors on the west side. improving our process, especially for code compliant projeblths. we know it takes a long time to get approval for projects for affordable and market rate. affordable housing building the amount of affordable housing called for is tremendously difficult. we know we need not only additional city resources but additional state and federal resources. in the need to engage in real community planning, in cultural districts like soma, japan town, bayview and other neighborhoods we prioritized, fillmore concern addition and excelsior so we know implementation will be a challenge and lot of

work. our work-our department is focused on implementing the housing element so look forward working with you all and with that i'll turn it over to mrs. jung. >> good afternoon. good afternoon chair melgar, supervisor preston and peskin. thank you for such a substantial and generous introduction. i'll just jump into a brief presentation where we just want to for the benefit of the public give a brief summary of what the housing element includes, what it means, and then share with you some of the changes that were introduced into the plan after we were here at the board and we were in close conversation with the

state agency, department of housing community development and some of our stakeholders. next, please. so, just brief--so, starting with the values, you have already made reference to that. we have in front of us a housing element that ask addressing the challenges that we are facing right now that we are facing today, but historic challenges that many of our communities have encountered. this is a plan that is focused on center on racial and social equity and it-the goal is to eliminate community displacement. that requires that we consider affordable housing choices for everyone in all neighborhoods, and as you mentioned, the housing solution is not just the building, it is about the neighborhoods, so addressing how housing

relates to thriving neighborhoods in ways that we become more resilient to the climate changes that we are facing every day with the recent rain and the health crisis, the pandemic we just experience. the housing element is complex and as supervisor preston indicated has many hundreds of pages, but the bottom line, we started with the community, community dialogue to get to the goal objective policy and action. that is what the plan is. what staff has done is we have done some of the analysis and drafted the policies in response to that and we conducted the environmental analysis that is required, so those are requirements by the state, so across the state all cities provide the same level of response

analysis and solutions and in this case it just require an additional effort to address some of the specifics. you indicated too, the state has placed more substantial requirements on how to do this housing plan. it has emphasized the affirmatively furthering fair housing component. this is a housing plan, but we know that the people who are struggling with housing are communities with less resources. it is a issue of scale. is this the right scale, is this the right number? i think we all agree the city region and state has not delivered the housing our community needs, and so right now this is three times the amount that we have had in previous cycles. the sites inventory

meeting figuring what places we have available. if we were to build housing today what could we build? it has required a lot more detail. we needed to provide a lot more information and again, the last item, we have been asked to do things better, and i would say more then deregulation, it is adjusting the regulations so we actually do what we need to do in the time appropriate for our communities. this is a big task and as you all have indicated, a big task requires a big dialogue, and we have probably spent 3 our 4 times the amount of time and resources engaging folks in their own territory in their own communities and our thanks go to them. some conversations were complicated because they have not heard from our government

agencies a reasonable response for many decades because they struggled with many issues. there was a wide gamut of conversations across communities, across geographies. there are many pieces of analysis, but this is one picture that describes our challenge. among our rentsers across all races our folks are paying more money then they should be paying for housing, which means that other expenses are compromised. but when we look at over-crowding and unhoused population, it is very clear american indian, black communities, native hawaii and pacific islandser (inaudible) taking the brunt cht these are people on the streets that have-sharing very small units multiple

families and some of the housing conditions are very poor. this is just to identify how we are centering our solutions towards these communities. so, in order to address that, it is not just across races but across geographies. this priority equity geography is a very important geography identified by department of public health are areas where health outcomes are much more challenging. incomes are lower and where we have concentration of communities of color. we also have as many other geographies but this is a crucial one. we also included areas at risk of displacement and the solutions the problem is big but the solutions need to be targeted to the specific communities in terms of race, in terms of history and also in terms of geography. next. one important geography to

develop this solution have become our cultural district and this is part of your input as the board of supervisors, this is what we heard from our communities. there are many strategies these communities are proposing and there is a framework for that. this is the process of consultation. another geography that is important to identify is what is labeled as well-resourced areas and this is geographies coming to us from the state and it is a regional assessment of what are the census tracts where we find population with higher incomes, with better health and with better resources. so, these are the areas where we want to identify housing opportunities, and as you have indicated, the housing opportunities are different at this time. it is more of the medium and small size to address the specific needs of the

community and this is what we are hearing from our residents. this refers to some of the numbers you have also mentioned. the numbers have tripled and this is just a comparison of what would we need to do in a average year in relationship to what we have produced in the past and the numbers in orange are bigger across the board. but you can see for moderate income housing, we produce more then half of that, but for the other two, for moderate and very low we barely made it to a quarter of the target that is in front of us, so that indicates again where we need to target our efforts to address this housing challenge. overall, when we need to address our rhna targets we take into account what is in the pipeline. what projects being proposed and are filed. we have about

45 thousand that can be counted towards rhna because they are likely to have it in the 8 year cycle but there another 35 thousand units that will need to be created through rezoning efforts. this is just a overview of the structure. there are 5 goals that you have seen in the document and it goes from recognizing the right to housing, this is the first time the city is making that statement. repairing the harms of historic racial ethnic and social discrimination. fostering racial socially inclusive neighborhoods. sufficient housing for our residents today and tomorrow and neighborhoods that are well connected with community culture. this unfold to objective policies and programs. this is a complex structure and as you indicated there is a lot in this plan and there are more then 300 actions but there are three areas

if i can orient you to have the implement actions have been organized. affordable housing. there are a number of actions under that. centering communities of color and vulnerable groups. and housing production and neighborhood infrastructure. the point as you indicated we have diverse city of neighborhoods, diverse communities and this plan is only successful if it can meet the needs of the residents . so, a little on what happened after we last were here engaging with you in conversation and how your input was incorporated. as you indicated there were a number of vocal grume r groups from our city that engage in conversation with us but also with the state and the state took into account many of the specific comments. one of which was how do we know we will be making

substantial progress? how will we be accountable to the communities and the state? that became the cycle checking point, which indicates, if we haven't permitted enough units, half the units required to rezone, we need to adopt new strategies. depending on where the gap is. this assessment needs to be done by income groups, so it wouldn't be sufficient to say we have adopted 30 thousand units or we have received-approved 30 thousand permits. we need to break that down by income. if the gap is in the low or moderate income, we need to figure out what is the additional funding, what are the additional strategies and support communities have on non profits or agencies to deliver

the housing. if the gap is above moderate we might need to consider additional rezoning and additional capacity for private investors to deliver on that front. so, there was also specific points that the state required-ask us to include related to additional funding, so if we don't have the appropriate funding, the city will need to step up and identify additional resources and similarly land banking will need to be considered very specifically at that point. again, the affirmatively furthering fair housing metric the state put a lot of emphasis on making it more specific. it wasn't enough to just have that as a goal, it needed to have a specific factor. two other points, affordable housing funding and sites. we are very mindful of the point that we don't have the money we need for 46

thousand units, but what we have in the plan is a set of strategies that create the foundation how we do that, and one is identifying what are the existing resources including prop i as discussed at the board, but also identifying what are the vehicles to bring those additional resources and those additional strategies. we don't have the money, but we also need to get organized in a likely different way to produce the housing or retain the housing we need. we need to as a city become more efficient, we need to lower the cost of housing in order to address that. so, towards that you requested that the interagency working group and affordable housing leadership group both form early 2023 by march. there were also a lot of

emphasis on clarifying public land and housing program requirements and lastly, the point already mentioned, you did want us to take the cultural districts as a substantial platform for implementation. those were some of the comments that were addressed in the tail end before it went for approval at the planning commission. moving towards the implementation, the public engagement, the community engagement needs to work very closely with equity communities to identify their own priorities and are paths as well as engagement with communities that will experience substantial change as the zoning increase capacity and provide new housing opportunities. next, please. so, in closing, this is here in front of you today.

we will have the full board will have the hearing that the full board tomorrow and on 31 and this includes amendments to other elements of the general plan. as you know, january 31 is going to be a busy day, so if everything goes as expected, the board will approve the plan, then the document will have to go to the mayor for her signature and then it will have to go through hcd for certification. it usually takes them 60 days to do the final certification. in light of the process and the fact we haven't-we are not making any changes to the plan, we are seeking certification the same 31 or february 1. as you already mentioned we

received the pre-certification letter that places in a good path. i want to thank our colleagues at hcd who work very hard before we took the housing plan to the planning commission. they workshoped some of the specific points. they got substantial comments from very different communities and they provided some very specific guidance. i also want to thank the three of you and the board of supervisors for the leadership that has been guiding this housing element. you have engaged with us, you have provided substantial comments as you all indicated we have a extraordinary staff within the planning department and in our partner agencies, ocd, hsh, oewd. they worked very thoroughly

in the development of this plan, but the big thank you goes to our communities. they have taken time away from their families, from their work to engage in this conversations. they have been very honest, very forceful but also very clear and have brought much hope to our city in terms of creating new possibilities for housing our people in the way they expect. housing our people today and housing our communities tomorrow. thank you very much and we are here for any questions you might have. >> thank you. that the extent of the presentation? any questions colleagues or more comments? go ahead. >> thank you chair melgar. i did have questions. thank you for the presentation mrs. jung. starting with the-you were

refereranceing the mid-cycle and reviewing where we are in terms of our progress and it makes good sense to not wait until 4 years in or 8 years in and to try to figure out strategies, but i do wonder just focusing for a second on the affordable housing commitments and correct me if i'm wrong-my analysis is based on current or even near future foreseeable we will not be hitting a target 4 years from now. when i see things like we will look 4 years from now, see where we are and then consider whether we need to do land banking, site acquisitions, some of those strategies, which i think are in there as general strategies anyway, but i guess i do wonder why we would be

waiting till that-we are not. go right ahead. especially on acquisitions. especially in this market and we talked about this, if there was a market where we could be acquiring property for affordable housing this is it now. private market ground stand still, we have these sites and can be acquiring them. is that ramped up acquisition strategy something that we only do when we are failing 4 years in or start yesterday? >> we start yesterday, and the point for emphasizing those strategies is if we get to the mid-point and we have not acquired the sites we think is-if we haven't approved the housing units for low and moderate, the land acquisition, rb the site acquisitions and additional production of affordable housing will need to be strengthened and expanded beyond what we are indicating in

the plan at this point. >> thank you. do we currently as a city have an acquisition strategy and land banking strategy? >> we do. we should invite our ocd partners if they want to add additional comments, but if you want to understand some of the numbers we can provide perspective on that. we do have the programs but the point is we need to expand those programs. we need to strengthen them programs and secure more und ifing for those programs. >> thank you. i don't know chair melgar if we are planning to have a presentation from ocd and want to questions only for planning or is there overlap? just want to- >> i don't have a presentation from ocd. >> director shaw is available to field some of the questions as well. >> thank you. >> thank you. so, i'm not aware of a acquisition plan for

the city. this is a point of frustration for our office. frankly we raised a ton by going to voters for prop i to fund acquisitions and can't get movement from the administration around acquiring significant number of properties. maybe director shaw can-is there a acquisition plan in terms of land banking in terms of acquiring properties for the development of affordable housing in terms of small sites acquisitions, an acquisition plan and how do we get our hands on it? how does the public see it? >> director shaw, are you on? >> i am. can you see me? >> nope, not yet. >> i apologize. >> there you are. >> there you go. through the chair, supervisor preston you are asking if there is a acquisition strategy for the city?

>> that is one of the questions, yes . >> okay. i think right now the answer is yes, we are still developing as part of the nofa and understanding land banking that has come up. the idea now is the strategies still support our preservation through copa and through the other mechanisms there. we have resources available you are aware of in that space and trying to understand the additional resource to support the preservation strategy. also what has been shared, sbc, the new number of sites that are identified through the housing element and understanding the other priorities that mrs. miriam shared relates to meeting the planning goals around high resource i income and cultural district and also thresholds and are availability of funding set by the state we continue to refine and understand

the unit counts, the properties that will be feasible for receiving gap financing from the city. the challenges of acquiring and holding other properties when we have a full pipeline and so i will not say we have particularly a plan, we understand the challenges, thresholds and opportunities that are-that exist now within both this market but as we think 4 years from now, do you build each actually implemented development of properties that will be acquired? so, we are understanding the levers of impact, the ability to successfully get state financing to build-to get the gap finances for the units of housing we want and we are understanding the thresholds rubric and constraints for how we identify the sites that would be best

competitive for state financing. so, it is not a any site comes on board and we buy it, the question in the end, because we are reliant on state financing and understand the implementation of the housing policy goals and housing element how we make sure those align to get the housing built versus just have land for housing. >> thank you director. i have a number of questions and just want to make-i think i want to get some pretty basic things on the record. i want to say, it is okay if we don't have these things. we can all work together to create them. just to follow up around acquisitions, do we have a-does ocd or any other department have a list of sites where

development has stalled and the owners can be approached about selling the property to the city or to an affordable housing developing? is there a list of such sites? >> we have been getting those ad hoc lately and working now to formize similar to what we did for project home key, which is one e-mail where these potential acquisition opportunities will be received and evaluated by ocd. that should be available hopefully within the next week. i have been talking to my staff about that, but since we are committing to transparent and competitive process, we are trying to make sure now we are not willy-nilly and have them in one place for evaluation. i do want to say once again that we are resource constrained. we have a full pipeline. now

the idea is that a building comes in and we can buy it. it will take the appropriate vetting. we dont want to set the market. we also want to understand that entitled projects meet the housing mix and the competitiveness for state financing and so i want to make sure in the end and we all understand that as we understand the opportunities coming in and centralize that we will be evaluating based off competitive for state financing, meet the unit policy goals and meet the unit count for policy goals. so, i think we will have a very decerning eye to these products as they come in and understand if they meet the policy goal jz financing goals for both the state and city. >> are we currently land banking? let me be clear, it is one thing to say that there are limits in terms of the pipeline in terms of ability to fund the actual construction, the idea of land banking is you

get ahead of that. you actually are acquiring sites. you are banking the land, holding the lands until you run the ballot measure or get the state money or whatever it is or frankly sell the property later because you can't do that but you buy up property now without regard to the availability of resources to develop it now. is the mayor office of housing currently engaged in any land banking? >> we have some sites, the one on van ness the former mcdonald through a land dedication. if we get land we want to build on it so think we have been focused on the idea of production and not the idea of buy and hold. >> okay. >> (inaudible) build as quickly as possible. a buy and hold is not been the priority at least for me as director. it has been buy, hold and build as soon as possible because we

understand the deficit we have in terms of unit production raised by planning. >> thank you. i want to get clarity on that point. the site you are talking 600 van ness is our office negotiated and worked and thank you all for your involvement in that. that is a example of land banking. is that the only one or are there other sites we are acquiring without being limited by what we can develop immediately? >> no. we don't have-we are try ing to make sure we receive state financing mr. supervisor. we are understanding now i think you know, even with our buy hold and build we were not able to build for a while because we were not competitive for state financing so we are trying to make sure we are not only seeing opportunities sites but maximize either location or unit count

to insure they are competitive for the resources that come in because we understand there is a full pipeline and limited resources right now for the next bond. also i think you know as well, there is a huge carrying cost for the developer or the city when we buy and hold and don't really work diligently to accelerate that development piece. so, either security, for safety, for interim uses, we really want to make sure that the property is moving into-moving into that development timeline and applying the state resources and city resources as fast as possible but we know there is a constraint on the part of the city in terms offunding we have available and we know that we are still continuing to advocate and get clarity around

how to be competitive for state financing. >> thank you. and i would argue that some of these constraints are self-imposed but we'll get to that in a minute. i just want to note that what i think the disconnect here as we are talking, we have a housing element that is proposing strategies to meet unprecedented affordable housing goals and we are saying to do that we have to ramp up as of yesterday, right, our acquisitions and strategies like land banking. what i hear from the mayor office on housing is that is not the strategy they are employing. they are not land banking. that isn't a strategy. i guess my question, there is a

disconnect. does planning need to have a more proactive role in a land banking and acquisition strategy because it doesn't sound that is the ocd strategy? yet it is in the housing element as something we need to be pursuing. >> to answer your question, the biggest problem is resource constraints. we are looking for-one problem but we are looking for additional resources and pointed to additional resources here and you can make the choice between lands banking or developing existing sites. i think given the limited resources that are available, ocd is caught making a decision between improving-using their resources to improve a site, or to go out and land bank. the examples of 600 van ness or 1945 mission where we change the code in a one-off sense to allow for land dedication, we can explore that and

look at that on a broader scale. that is a trade-off between you give up inclusionary housing in order to get land. but, certainly it is a option and a tool you used here at the board to acquire sites. if we want to do that more broadly we could explore that within 415 to allow for land dedication. >> if i may madam chair and supervisor preston if i can jump in. it is a little disappointing to think that we are not considering this as part of the overall strategy over time, and yes we are financially constrained, but land today is cheaper then land tomorrow and in so far as this is a plan for 8 years and much longer then that

whether through land dedication in certain instances or out-right purchases in others it is a investment and one is probably better off doing that when the market is such that that is a more economically favorable and feasible investment in today's economy then in the future economy. it is a conversation worth having and the notion if you are not ready to go in the ground and dont have capital to put the sticks and brick up you walk away from those opportunities, i think is short-sighted for what it is worth. >> mr. peskin i want to clarify once again, we are-the buy hold policy is expensive, but we are coordinated with planning as well. we are trying to understand the feasibility of these sites. understanding the idea of scale, so as a planner myself i do think in the longer term. i just know that i am here in the

office and directed from the mayor and board around as much housing as quickly as possible. i think that both and do exist. i'm excited about the issuance of nofa for acquisition but it is exercise understanding how not just to have sites but understanding now how we set up success for the sites eve in in the future and also acquires advocacy at the state level around just getting certainty around the state financing. some creativity as director hillis brought up around other ways to amend code to not only expedite (inaudible) it is a both, and. i do want to say that, but the directed from the mayor and sense of urgency of her community and you all has been around getting as many units on the ground as fast

as possible but it is both and. >> thank you. sorry to butt in colleagues. >> thank you, i want to talk about resources because the idea the resources are not there. i'll start with prop i. the excuse of there are not the resources. there would be the resources. now raised over a quarter billion dollars of which the mayor budgeted exactly zero dollars in any budget given to the board of that for affordable housing and it has been a battle every step of the way to appropriate and get 8 votes we need each time to force the appropriation of funds for affordable housing. prop i is a projected to raise $119 million in the upcoming year. that is lower then normal years where it is more like 170, $180 million, so i would

like to get on the record through the chair, director shaw, do you support using prop i revenue for affordable housing? >> so, through the chair, i think that we are looking at all resources available to support the acceleration of the pipeline agnostic of the color of money. we want flexible money and want to figure out the resources to do that. but i think the other piece in this too is, i differ to the mayor and her leadership on where those resources go and how the resources come. we coordinate closely with the mayor budget office and the mayor for her to understand the pipeline and the need and make sure she has the analysis needed to make the decisions she makes and pritorties for the budget. >> i'll take that as a no at this point.

>> okay. >> the-there is a statement that we would be doing these acquisitions engaging in this strategy if we had the resources and are i get that we dont have the resources to scale up to the level we need but the problem is we do have some resources to the tune of hundreds of million dollars ocd can be used to acquire sites and that is not happening so no reason to think a we can go to voter jz ask for more money if we are not spending what we got and b to think we are serious meeting those goals if we are not using the funds we got. let me related question, director shaw you mentioned the cop deal, certificate of participation, that was the last budget cycle after the mayor refused to budget the prop i revenue for affordable housing for exactly these acquisitions. the mayor the board of

supervisors, myself, budget chair ronan struck a deal or supported unanimously by the board for hundred million debt financing to raise money now to do affordable housing. $40 million for acquisition of sites and the next step in the process is the mayor's office issuing a nofa these funds were available. that was last june. none of the nofa have been issued for any portion of that deal. we talk about being eager and excited to do acquisitions with that $40 million, or $12 million for educator housing in that package or $20 million for public housing in the package or $10 million for sro elevator repairs all that was mayor office of housing desk as of beginning of before last summer and not a single notice of

funding availability is issued so folks can apply and we can start acquiring those sites. why 8 months later we have no nofa and when will those nofa be issued since this seems like these acquisitions are a key part of our strategy? >> mr. supervisor we are finalizing the drafts right now. in consultation with agency partners and the mayor budget office. >> and can you tell the public when since i have not been able to get a answer when those will be issued? >> i can't give you a firm date but we are finalizing those and hopefully be out shortly. >> thank you. i want to say and i won't belabor the point but we are losing deals, losing sites and i got to say, it is like it isn't just a disconnect, it offensive for us to be seriously put all this work into the planning

department, come before the board passing this kind of housing element, claiming housing acquisition for affordable houdsing development is priority for the city and how we reach the robust goal jz have a site like 400 devis dareo former gas station where the seller is ready to sell, the city could buy it tomorrow with these funds, the city could buy the site tomorrow or do a nofa, that could be 150 units of affordable housing, half for formally homeless people and you won't issue a notice of funding availability or otherwise acquire the site. so, i'm a little-if you sense frustration it is the disconnect between realty of saying we don't have the funds and even when the activist and voters create the funds here or the board gets creative with the cop deal to create the

funds here, the mayor office of housing will not acquire the sites. >> sorry-mr. preston i know you have acquisition on the mind. our staff is happy to celebrate the fact we are breaking ground on a number projects. i know we are thinking acquisition but the idea right now is we probably have the most number of units under production this year and so buy hold and build we are building and that is exciting. and i think that as we understand how to meet the need to get the shovel in the ground, get people in these units, we are do ing that work and making that happen and also doing that concurrently with aligning with advocacy, doing the appropriate analysis, do interagency coordination to make sure that any acquisitions that are

proposed are strategic and buildable and so, as we see these new units come out, we are learning more and more around what is secret sauce to get the state financing. what is the unit count. what is the location. what is the population mix. how does it align with the city. i know we are on this acquisition space, but i think the priority one priority for the housing element is to get the units built and we are working hard to get that done and very successful as a team in doing that. >> let me just follow up on the funds for a second here. does ocd have funds at its disposal that are not being committed or spent? do you have a balance of funds or is it when we talk lack of resources, is it that there is zeer er

zero there? if a site is available tomorrow is and neighborhood folks or someone comes and says this site maybe the city should buy this site, is it your position you don't have the funds to acquire those? >> i believe we have resources available through the preservation funds. we are trying to build the pipeline out as well but we have a pipeline of projects with funding associated with those for the successful development of them, but once again, i think we now as i shared in an e-mail sir, now we have a lot of other sites that may be feasible through the housing element and we are try ing to make this a transparnt competsive process where it isn't someone calls i says i scr a piece of land i want to sell you, if we have not run it through the process to make sure it can get built. i think we are really pushing right

now and that has been institutionalized more through this new nofa process or not the new process, reinforced by the nofa around the need to be strategic around the acquisitions and not just take what comes in my inbox and write a check. we want to make sure it can get built. >> we have just more specifically this board in all most two years ago allocated $10 million, social housing funds, then november that year did another $64 million, my understanding is out of the $74 million 100 thousand, $74.1 million over a year later in one case 14 months, another case all most 2 years a grand total of $500 thousand has been spent for most of for

small site acquisitions or other soulsh housing, $500 thousand has been spent and total of $10 million committed. in other words, we have literally $64 million for all most 2 years sitting there which we could have gone out and bought several sites for affordable housing if we are committed to land banking-not talking about the pipeline and what you can afford today, but if we were committed to land banking we could have bought those sites and instead those funds are sitting at ocd and reasons absolutely inexplicable not spent and never gotten a clear answer if that is the only case or have other pots where there is 10 or hundreds of millions for acquisitions we are not spending. >> i mr. supervisor i believe the intention is acquisition and preservation program which is when we called the small sites program. it wasn't the acquisition of new land. we have two types of programs

within our housing agency. we had new production and then we have preservation. we consider the acquisition of property that is not inhabited not housing to be production not preservation. so, the understanding was those funding was for the preservation formally small sites program. there was direction and commitment on the part of the community for needed reforms to the small site now acquisition preservation program to make sure we had a transparent and responsive program. it look longer to work with community. it took longer to work with developers. very happy that we finalized those guidelines in september. we have been working closely with development partners to understand opportunities sites through the acquisition and preservation program and we now have a new director of preservation, bringing

on a new small sitess manager as of next week to really accelerate that acquisition through that program. so, acquisitions for land that is not housing would go through our production of which that would be added to the pipeline of which we are subscribed all most over-subscribed. there is funding available through small sites which is the acquisition rehabilitation and rent stabilization which that money was for. there are two different intentions but with word acquisition still there. >> supervisor preston, i appreciate you pointing out some of the areas in which the specifics don't match are aspirations as stipulated in the housing element. i like to take a little of a step back director shaw, because this housing element

really is a roadmap for what we intend to do. rezoning, production. it is not the doing. that will come later. i wonder if the mayor office of housing and community development has anything like that. land banking, acquisition, preservation are some tools towards a end but not the only ones, and i just like in the housing element we say, 82 thousand units we get x from here, x from there. i wondering if the mayor office of housing and community development has the same. other-i know hsh just came out with a strategic plan where they talk about numbers and timelines. i don't think i have seen that from the mayor office of housing and community development. i know a few years ago when fred blackwell was the director of then department of

community development. he was the first to do it a little bit backwards. we looked at neighborhood need and what number of housing units were the gap in that neighborhood and then came out with sort of a number for the investment by neighborhood we needed. and wondering if your staff has done any such analysis and matched to the tools? i will also the repercussions for not doing right by the housing element, this commitment we are making in front of the state is a potential reduction in affordable housing dollars. (inaudible) affordable housing dollars which will absolutely effect our production in affordable housing so it seems to me that it behooves us to plan and so when i hear we are being strategic to me that is tactical not strategic. what i want to see, if the housing element-the goal is to

affirmatively further fair housing and we know in some areas there is no affordable housing production and some areas we concentrated all the affordable housing production, how specifically are we going to do that? how are we going to take tools supervisor preston was talking about and looking at the land prices in those specific areas? how are we going to make the acquisitions, build capacity among the non profits to do that? what is the plan or do we have a strategic plan? do we have a plan to do a strategic plan because to me that would be what would guide us in the implementation of this part of the plan around affordable housing. >> supervisor, there is close coordination between myself and director hillis. as i shared once again, i- >> director shaw- >> no. but i can tell you right now that

there has been-because we had a lot of resources. we have been in build mode. i think-i'm excited around the target that the housing element puts out. i'm excited ocd placed a regular role in identification of the strategies. excited that we are going to play a critical role on the committee of funding and for affordable housing coming out. and i'm excited that i wisay under the mayor's leadership and staff analysis in consultation with planning i think you have seen a significant increase in the amount of resources dedicated to what are identified as highly resourced areas in advance of the plan going out. 730 stanyan, 4200 gary,

2550 irving. understanding geographic equity of reinforcing racial equity and so a lot of what is in that plan are based off also input from ocd and my team and it reinforces orientation of our office under leadership of mayor breed and under my charge as the implementation agency for this work. >> thank you. no shade on the great work that you and your staff are doing. i realize there is production going on everywhere. i will just point out that those specific examples that you just stated, those were all opportunities driven. there was a opportunity to do something and the stars aligned. there was never like a plan ahead of time. yeah, we are going to go to the sunset and build x number of units of affordable housing

where there hasn't been. we are going to maximize density on gerry boulevard because the west side-just saying, as long as i have been in san francisco, mo has been opportunity driven. now that we have this opportunity and things are shifting with the state in the housing element perhaps we may want to reconsider how to do that and perhaps do a little bit of strategic planning in advance but thank you so much. >> i do want to correct you. i do want to say gerry and irving was housing on the west side. that tagted geographic equity and there is a number of resources to support building both the interest community

engagement and connections for our existing non profit house who may be oriented to other neighborhoods to understand the market in community and on the west side to do more work. so, we have been strategic and intentional in advancing both the racial equity and geographic equity goals that are detailed and affirmed in the housing element, and that are also reinforced by the funding strategies from the state. >> thank you director shaw. i'm not going to argue with you. as i remember it, the money for the capacity building was a opportunity that the supervisor of those districts at the time put forward working with your office, but what i'm saying is it want part of a overall plan. thank you so much. go ahead supervisor preston. did you have more questions? or comments?

>> maybe we could for a second switch back over to the folks at planning just on the enforceability side. just if we find ourselves like two years in and-there is four year mid-point-pardon my skepticism but everything i heard from director shaw is we are sort of doing okay, and we are kind of like going to keep with the same strategy. i'm not hearing strategy, i hear a lot of reasons why we are not land banking or not doing these other things. i'm not hearing, here is a new vision as part of this housing element of how we ramp up and be doing not just double, we are tripling the goals and only reached half of them so we need to-if not mistaken a factor of 6 increasing our affordable housing or 4. i see 4 from

(inaudible) so, i'm not hearing a strategy to do that. we are all trying to drive that strategy and basically running into whether it is a brick wall on the cop or a brick wall on spending prop i money or a brick wall and excuses on the preservation side. i agree with director shaw that there is preservation work and site acquisition work. the problem is we get complete obinstruction from ocd and mayor office on both fronts. we have money in the bank on the preservation side and generated funds from prop i they won't spend on site acquisition and this idea of basically only doubling down on one model of financing and there are plenty of others that they are not even exploring. but, so i think it is really clear from this conversation that despite what is in the housing element we are not on track to barring a huge change from the mayor's office and ocd and perspective. we are not going to be anywhere near the

goals we are proposing two years from now let's say. what does planning do? you put all this work and time and energy and create this document, it has goals. the state signs off on the goals. is the answer nothing? what happens two years from now if we are only meeting a quarter of the goals on affordable housing? >> thris is a iterative process and there is no silver bullet to solving our affordable housing. it is whether funding or how we do it and i think mr. shaw is correct, ocd was very much a part of drafting the very specific actions that are in this plan around finding additional funding for affordable housing whether it is local like vacancy tax or regional bond or prop 13 changing to go with the state or looking for additional federal

resources for vouchers or-some of the things we can't do on our own but it has to be part of a concerted effort by us. you all, the mayor and ocd to achieve this, because these are huge numbers that we are trying to get to for affordable housing. i think we have the elements of what chair melgar is talking about, our strategy we developed with the team that has been working on the housing element to start to get at the questions. it is looking how to reduce the cost of housing, how to partner with institutions, non profits philanthropy like ucsf to find and build affordable housing so it is yes to all of it and you should hold us all accountable, the mayor should hold us accountable in actually meeting the targets that we set out in this plan and in meeting the actions we set out in the

plan. hopefully the state can come and decertify the house element but i think it will be discussion here among the city team working on it, you as the policy makers, the mayor as a policy maker and figuring out how we get it. we published prior to this with housing affordabilityt strategy document and have to continue the work but the numbers are huge we have to get to to meet our affordable housing needs. >> thank you. and i will wrap up. let me just as i maybe often do, or do too often say this may be a bit of the elephant in the room what is not on the paper. it is like we are go-not hit the goals and talk about ways to get more funding or talk about ways to rezone or permitting-all that.

i will just say, as supervisor dedicated and tremendous amount of time and energy in the last few years to generating resources for and identifying sites for us to make good on some of the promises, it is not permitting delays, it is not zoning, it is often not even lack of funding that is stopping us from making the progress we need, it is political games and retbutions coming out of room 200 that has nothing to do with housing policy and frankly is obstructing us from achieving our housing goals. i dobt expect to see that in a housing element but i will say at hearing when we look at the strategies and how likely we achieve those, if we do not have a more collaborative approach from administration on acquiring sites and

land banking to work together to spend the funds allocated and view these as opportunities for us to come together to meet these goals instead of opportunities to drive wedges and have political fight, we ain't going to get there if we don't have that shift and that's not on your plate directly, but i would be remiss if i reviewed and went through a hearing on the housing element without identifying that very real barrier to achieving our affordable housing goals laid out in this document. thank you. >> thank you supervisor preston. i just wanted to pivot a little bit before we go to public comment and tell you about the things i really appreciated in this housing element and the work that your staff did in listening to me and my staff and incorporating our feedback. i want to thank you for the

attention to the commercial corridors and increasing the opportunities to connect housing to transportation and to look out for the health of the business corridors by adding more residents. i also want to thank you for looking incorporated areas you had not looked at before. areas in my district that have been rezoned or traditionally zoned for religious use that have seen under-used land for a lot. some of the areas where there is very low density that is close to opportunities, educational opportunities, job opportunities and i am grateful for that. i will say that for the housing stock in distrist 7 which is predominantly single family homes and single family detached homes, the process has been an impediment and

so we see all over the district folks who have these enormous houses and their kids left 20 years ago, their tax base because of proposition 13 is very low, there is no incentive for them to go anywhere, they want to downsize but no plans to go, and so i'm looking forward with working with you to revisit some of those process changes to make sure that people have the opportunity to age in place in the communities they love while also making room for new generation of west side residents, because i do think that the way that we use the land on the west side 40, 50 years ago is very different then how we will use it in subsequent years. i hope. i also one thing i did want to flag that i

would appreciate more opportunity to act on as we go forward with any rezoning or implementation is infrastructure particularly when it comes to the electrical load. the board has been on the same page with our relationship with non-public electricity provider, pg&e. i am increasingly becoming worried the electrification and new development that has all electric construction that to minimize our carbon footprint, will pose a risk to the infrastructure we have. the lack of infrastructure we have, so i'm looking forward with working with puc and other departments to solve for that issue on the west side. we are seeing in the housing element aside from the up-zoning on the

commercial corridors we are building out the balboa reservoir, stones town, park merced, and i'm worried about those thousands of units that we will be adding, some will be affordable, many will be affordable, but never the less, everybody uses power and everyone is hooked up to the sewage system and will need water, so i do worry about the infrastructure needs that go along with the plans that we are having right now. so, with that, i don't know if president peskin has questions or comments before we go to public comment? >> i do not. i think i want to thank both of you and supervisor preston in particular for the issues he raised and when we are looking at 4 fold increase and we have been failing on the moderate and low income numbers we have as i said a huge

challenge in front of us and it's-some is subject to market and some is within our control and we need to get our hands around those aspects that are within our control and for this supervisor i think land banking particularly short to mid-term land banking is part of that policy solution over the next decade. but we will continue to do that and i am hopeful that perhaps we can break the prop i log jam and set the money free and endeavor to do that in conjunction with mayor breed and her staff. >> thank you president peskin. >> thank you chair melgar and thank you to both you and supervisor peskin for the excellent comments. i

just--chair melgar as you were talking about the districts specific and think it is a fair point how these issues play out differently in different districts and are it may be just before we go to public comment just want to comment for a second on more specific district 5 stuff because wetened to get in the abtraction and talk about land banking and acquiring sites. my office-we released a report today on opportunity sites. i would hope there was like a acquisition plan, that is quhie i was asking about that before that our departments would be creating this list of opportunities, so we released this district 5 call to action of affordable housing opportunity sites and these are like in some ways the low hanging fruit in the district and look forward working with chair melgar and all supervisors on stuff

that is important in their district with these opportunities but i can speak to district 5. this is sites-these are sites for large scale development in a otherwise dense district with very little available land. we identified 6 sites that are publicly owned currently or have a owner that has expressed interest and ready to selleter to the city or affordable housing so that is 6 sites, the dmv field office, that is the touchless car wash, 400divisdero, 600 van ness, the other former mcdonald site, 730 stanyan which i think we are moving forward on and also the northern police station parking lot, a huge parking lot. absolutely no reason and discussed thin past and move forward with housing there and proxy and beer garden

site, dedicated parcel k for affordable housing 25 years ago and still haven't moved forward. i think it is important that all of us as supervisors are looking and the mayor office is supporting our efforts to say, we will take this pool of 46 thousand units and we will lean in and really try to make it happen and work collaboratively between supervisors, community and the mayor's office to make these sites realty. what i just mentioned those 6 sites, that brings you a estimated 1250 units and there is absolutely no reason in the next couple years we cannot have locked down these sites and move forward with entitlements, acquisitions and having a real plan for affordable housing and that doesn't touch all the other sites where development may have stalled, where we may be able to approach. i'm saying this as a supervisor of a district in a lot of

ways it is really built out. we have all most no single family. contrast to district 7, you can barely find single family zoning. i don't think we have any left in dist rict 5. single family homes but only zoned areaerize cut out by redistricting. and even there we can identify these sites if there is a shared commitment from the administration to move flward aggressively. what does that mean? budget the prop i money. i cannot believe three years later we are fighting about prop i money. this is like we have affordable housing goals, let's meet them. put prop i money in the budget for affordable housingism spend the stuff we allocate. respond the stuff sitting in a account because the mayor office of housing won't spend it and work together to generate the additional funds that we need so we can really scale up. thank you. >> thank you so much.

with that, madam clerk let's go to public comment. >> thank you. any members who would like to speak on item 4, line up to your right. the first person can approach the podium. those on the telephone line press star 3 to be added to the queue. only press star 3 once and you hear the system indicate you have raised your hand and taking 2 minute public comment today. first speaker, please. >> hello. my name is (inaudible) the director of housing rights committee of san francisco. this is frankly state blackmail and you all know this. we need to vote yes on this. thank you all for your work. but, the state is frankly passing the buck. they are tell us we have to build housing without giving the funding we need to build it and we need to prioritize state,

federal, local government money to build affordable and low income housing. our major concern of housing rights committee is displacement, and frankly demolition that in which situation we fast-tracking and putting out a carrot to demolish existing housing and frankly the most affordable units like the sheer number and the rate of the actual rents, lowest rents are in rent controlled housing. and, we often see seniors who can't afford the low income housing we build. they would love to stay in the rent controlled housing. they do because of our protections even though maybe sometimes are at war with their landlords. we are not seeing the solution is just (inaudible) we

need to regulate and we need to say we are not knocking down rent control housing and we are going to stop it and we-because otherwise this plan could be a disaster. we need more affordable housing and need to build things, but tenants are not interchangeable coggs in a system. you cant displace a thousand tenants (inaudible) vote yes on this. we have lot of work to do. >> thank you very much. take the next speaker please. you have two minutes. >> thank you. good afternoon chair melgar, supervisor preston and president peskin. may name is jane natoll i. thank sf planning for diggent work on this. i think all the questions that have come up show we still have a lot of work to

do. we know a lot has gone in so far. certainly a lot more opportunity i think that supervisor preston you are very correct in saying there is lot more afford able housing to build so have to get creative and do a lot more and this is beginning of the work together. i look forward to that piece but it doesn't stop here and a lot has gone on so far but we need to keep driving that and look at the ways we can do what we can do better within the city and also other opportunities we can take advantage of more funding where we can get it, but i think it is really incumbent to reflect on the work so far and move forward with that and then continue to do it, because a couple years from now if we are not hitting the marks the state will tell us. hcd isn't go ing to let us rest on our laurels getting this passed

even though they said it looks good so far from their perspective so encourage everyone, keep having the conversations. there is a lot more work to da. i live on the west side and certainly many of the comments from chair melgar were taken. i know a lot of those sites and those opportunities, but it is also going to be a change. it is a little different. we need to do a little more then i think one affordable development in the richmond every 10 years or so. it has to be a better pace. i look forward to all this. thank you for your work on this and please vote yes on this. >> thank you so much. any other members of the public who would like to speak on item number 4? seeing none, we'll move to remote call in line and have 25 listners with 17 in the queue. let's take the first caller. you have two minutes. >> good afternoon commissioners. jay price on behalf of the housing action coalition. here to talk about the housing element which i

believe was the subject that we started earlier. thank you for all the great work to the planning department, community groups and everyone involved in this process. it is a true testament to this work that we receive the preliminary approval letter by the state. as a result of that i urge to refer to full board because certification is just the first step as has been laid out and there is a lot of work that needs to be done. i was pleased to hear everyone on the committee address that implementation is really the crux of the issue at hand and the removal of-includes the removal of unnecessary constraints providing additional affordable housing funding and rezoning the city so looking forward to the work that is yet to be

done. thanks. >> thank you so much mr. price. next caller, please. you have two minutes. >> hello. my name is millo (inaudible) calling with (inaudible) and this is a big deal what's happening. that we agreed on a housing element. get certified. we are committing to building 82 thousand homes. it is huge, so congratulations for getting this over the finish line but as others said before me, now is when the real work actually begins. we need to figure how we are go toog do this and how we build the affordable homes and i'm a little annoyed when people are like the money and like, the gamesmanship. okay, there is a political gamesmanship. if you ask most of the people in san francisco, would you trade-affordability is

one side and going up against a height limit on the other side or going up against density controls on the other side, then affordability wins. affordability is the priority. let's loseen up the height limit and density controls and we can get the affordability we all say we are needed and all grand standing about, we can do it, woo we have the tools. specifically, i live near the church street corridor. church street should have big buildings on it with intense land use. now there is 3, 4 story buildings sparsely populated commercial uses. some businesses. not all store fronts. it is right on the j. this is a prime example of somewhere that would

benefit like vastly from high er intensity land use, residential land use, being more vibrant. it is already walkable to lots of schools and parks and services. it should be much more so. and then for some of the supervisors they talk about how regulations haveen been impediment. now again right by church near dolores park- >> thank you so much. let's take the next speaker. we are at 2 minutes. >> good afternoon. joseph (inaudible) west side opportunity coalition and race and equity planning coalition. it is critically important for the board to move the housing element forward and approve it so san francisco can be in compliance. however as discussed through this hearing,

this isn't the end of the story. the board has a critical role to the city hiring policy. currently the housing element leans towards unfordsable market base strategy meeting our mandates. as we have seen for the past 8 years, this approach is excess of market rate housing and shortage affordable housing, housing displacement and hardship for low income and communities of color throughout san francisco. the only way to course correct is focus resources and policies on affordable housing starting now with this year's budget. planning spnt months thinking through market rate upzoning, rather then working with communities on new approaches to affordable housing. the board has the power and responsibility to form working committees immediately to make budget recommendations quickly to establish a resource and land use plan now so we can aggressively purchase development sites and apartment buildsings for long-term

affordability. board members spoke in november about the state needing to help out. i want to bring up the fact (inaudible) rights equity all planning coalition has requested budget allocation from the state to san francisco affordable housing efforts. the board can support this request. once the board is focused implementation on racial social economic equity start to advocate for change in the rhna allocation. it is great to have goals but instead of force fed laughable mandates from the state let's start with making the financial district a resilient neighborhood with housing and commercial. it is a huge challenge. start with a fresh approach to affordable housing that puts us on track to house the homeless and stabilize the vulnerable communities and tenants. focus on the challenges (inaudible) >> sorry to cut anybody off but we are timing each speaker at two minutes. next

speaker, please. >> hi. this is allen (inaudible) long-term resident of san francisco living in eureka valley. i strongly support the planning department's new housing element. i think it's long overdue but i think it is really well crafted. shout out to the planning department for a great effort. i also like to-listening to this conversation we spent so much time on land banking i think it is a bad idea. we do not need to take sites and put them to keep them vacfront years and years like we have on some of the sites already. we need to take the money we have and get housing built. we do not need to buy empty lots. anyway, that's my 3 cents. >> thank you so much for your comments.

next speaker, please. >> hi. this is chris (inaudible) i live in sunset. i want to support the housing element plan and particular want to emphasize the need for density along our transportation corridors in the sunset. it's just ridiculous that we have run-down buildings with either no commercial use or limited commercial use. we are sitting because there are so many restrictions on building just to the current (inaudible) let alone increased height limits or anything else. there has to be serious attention to the extra zoning tools residents use to stop reasonable building to be built. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon. (inaudible) san francisco land use coalition. the city has no chance of achieving rhna goals for affordable housing as developers make more profit on market rate housing, 30 percent versus 20 percent for affordable housing. there is no plan regarding mohcd financial funding plan. it is far from evident as so called streamlining a planning process will provide more equitable access to low income communities and to communities of color. again, it is evident that the modified processes will benefit developers as to racial equity and planning rep coalition has previously pointed out, streamlining or other strategies

dissempower low incommunities and communities of color while empowering for profit developers. scott wiener and david chui tried this with adu several years ago. they spent months on the legislation. some total of what they accomplished were two adu's, so small density projects will be very limited. no cu, no dr, no neighborhood certification. what is the gentle density? thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is jonathan (inaudible) resident of district 2 and member of northern neighbors. excited about the housing element. thank you so much for the hard hard

work that especially the planning department staff put behind the housing element. and, despite all my excitement but hearing today is mainly continuation of the blaming between paulition its that seems to have been bogging down san francisco housing policy for years. instead what i see thin housing element is a vision for at least 82 thousand more homes and embracing you to commit to-asking you to embrace this vision and truly commit to achieving this. for this implementation of the housing element and all the plans laid out should start immediately. it is most importantly maximize housing to reach the equity goals and remove the inequities between our neighborhoods. make sure to remove constraints building as much as possible to make san francisco an attractive place to build. i would love

to see you all embrace the vision for san francisco as a true (inaudible) i know it can be not just a pretty suburb and with the housing element and density that comes with, the ability to support useful public transportation and get people out of their cars and really make progress towards our climate goals. thank you so much for planning and please support the housing element. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is (inaudible) with sf (inaudible) i want to thank staff for all the work they've done. it is frankly a miracle that they have a housing element that would be compliant if adopted in front of you. as you know, san francisco currently has multiple investigations being conducted by the state reg yulator into san francisco now, but none the less because of the guarantees in

this housing element, there is a path to housing element compliance. it will take constant vilgolog olog to make sure san francisco is in (inaudible) but this housing element is extremely important as a first step along that path. there is really no alternative to adopting a housing element. the alternative wooub would be loss of affordable housing funding and would cause displacement, so there is no alternative to adopting this housing element and it is a fantastic housing element for what it will do for san francisco. finally creating affordable housing options in rich neighborhoods like the west side that have opposed it for so long. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next

speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. members of the committee. my name is alex (inaudible) calling as a member of the housing stability fund oversight board. couple things. first of all, on the housing element specifically itself, i really do want to congratulate like everyone else the planning department staff. they really have the (inaudible) putting this thing together. it has taken a long time but i want to celebrate the housing element use of housing (inaudible) looking towards the west side as really our new growth area and strategically upzoning in order to allow more people to live on a patch of land. i also wanted to specifically note and call out supervisor melgar's comment about our life support system. the electric system and transportation, sewers, all these things. it is

absolutely critical those as we prepare for this next stage of growth. i was alarmed however by what really appears to be mocd unwillingness to use the tools at disposal to even attempt to meet the goals identified in the housing element. the fact is, i too am a planner and what i see as a planner is just all most a paralysis by analysis. (inaudible) we talked about this stuff two years ago and throughout this process trying to get a straight answer out of staff about how the money is being spent or how it is intended to be spent has been like pulling teeth. i'm not a dentist and dont like pulling teeth and rather see

us building and meeting the housing needs. enough hiding behind the process and twiddling thumbs and letting opportunities pass us by. we is a clear mandate, a political mandate, a financial resources to do these things- >> your time expired. >> let's asking our housing department to wake up (inaudible) >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> supervisors, let me advice the planning department you do a needs assessment. on the 20thousand units the academy of art has taken away, put them in place. we have over 65 homes vacant, and we have over 50 million square feet of commercial space downtown vacant. you

can do it in this key areas easily, but you all don't have the depth nor capacity building, nor tenacity, nor the fortitude to serve the poor. with this housing element is just going to serve the rich. we need now to focus on the poor. those who make below $80 thousand. that is your challenge. if you don't fulfill this this time you will never fulfill it in the future. this is more (inaudible) i represent them. you all have no respect for the indigenous people. you have no respect for people of color. you have no empathy nor do you have the heart to

uplift those that need help. thank you very much. my name is francisco decosta. >> thank you so much mr. decosta. next speaker please, you have two minutes. >> supervisor, this is lorraine petty affordable housing advocate for seniors. seniors are all most 20 percent of san francisco and some 50 percent of our homeless population. all races cultures and neighborhoods. most seniors have disabilities. we yuds used to be the middle class before rising rents took over. now we have-we are largely low income. we trusted when we reached old age there would be still a place for us in san francisco. land for our children and grandchildren. we have lost that trust.

today before you have a map for the future called the housing element. the roadmap is paved with good intentions, but no guarantees because our needs are being held hostage by the state laws that are embodied in this new housing element and demanded ransom is our self-determination. if we pay the ransom we promise some measure of security. in other words affordable housing. but wait, our coffers are bear and the money we voted for our security isn't spent to achieve it so whautss polk left? it is up to you supervisors to keep the pressure on. in the implementation we count on you to keep us from displacement. to preserve and add to

our affordable housing and the inclusionary programs we worked so hard to establish. we need you to insure our lives and our voices will continue to matter and be heard but we need you to keep us from being swept away in the wave of expensive housing that is-- >> let's take the next speaker, please. >> good day supervisors. i'm (inaudible) san francisco tenants union a member of the rep coalition. we engage in the housing element process over 2 years championing racial and social equity and final months planning incorporated some of our recommendation. the over-all approach planning has taken with the housing element silence low income and people of color communities deregulates market rate housing and are provides no concrete strategies or resources to meet the

affordable housing mandates which adds up to a housing element that violates the fair housing act and cause even more displacement and gentrification. it is up to us to work together communities of color and low income along with this board and planning to correct the dangers of the housing element during implementation. (inaudible) this board to turn language centered on equity into meaningful changes first by identifying and securing resources for affordable housing now. the board needs to form a multi-agency stakeholder body to develop recommendations to be included in the mayor's budget for fiscal year 23-24 and develop a full set of local regional and state federal funding strategies beyond fiscal year 23-24 to be completed by january 31, 2024 if we have any chance of meeting the state

affordable housing production mandates. this work has to start immediately. rep supports the resolution adopted by the housing stability funds oversight board requesting the revenue proposition i estimated to generate $170 million in fiscal year 23-24 be ongoing annual revenue source available to the city to assist in the achievement of the housing element affordable housing goals. we need to take- >> thank you for your comment s. >> bye. >> let's take the next speaker, please. you have two minutes. >> good afternoon chair melgar, president pesten and supervisor preston. chairly summer here policy director community housing organization. the hard work of planning staff to craft the housing element is forcing to reckon with our performance in creating affordable

housing. for too long our city relied on the system that is not up to par to tackle the affordable crisis we face. it is no longer a crisis in the most vulnerable communities,b it is a affordability crisis touching all most every sector of the work force. the labor council and jobs of justice documented (inaudible) according to california news group state wide affordable score card san francisco is d for very low income housing, c for low income housing and grade of c for moderate income housing. not surprisingly received a in above moderate income. we do not see a plan in place to achieve 46 thousand (inaudible) especially the deeply affordable housing that inclusionary units are not able to deliver. we urge the board of supervisor jz mocd to play a proactive leadership identifying the resources we need.

the housing element forming a stakeholder body to present funding recommendations, the board will have to form this group immediately so the mayor can incorporate the recommendations into there budget and must be front loaded to insure the city makes tangible progress in year jun does not fall behind. the board will consider the recommendation from reinvestment working group to establish the (inaudible) this new institution can be sustainable major source of funding through support for affordable housing but require early investment in capitalization to pay in coming years towards assisting san francisco to achieve our affordable housing target. (inaudible) >> thank you so much. let's take the next speaker, please. we have 23 listners and 11 in the queue. if you have not spoken and would like to,

just press star 3. >> good afternoon supervisors. (inaudible) rep coalition. appreciate the conversation today. rep advocate for racial and social equity in the housing element over 2 years and offered solutions in the city wide people plan so the city has a pathway for the goals. guided by the solutions and expertise of communities most impacted by displacement and affordability. we know this is a critical time and we need to move the housing element forward but as we transition to the implementation phase we know it is critical to get commitment from the city to make the language actions and policies in equity into real concrete meaningful change. we need to identify secure resources asap for affordable housing if we have a chance meeting the mandate. we need to prioritize exfreemly low and low income housing and

insure mechanics to fund the needs as this is housing principally occupied by protected classes in neighborhoods across the city. retain input and solidify leadership from communities of color, low income communities and cultural districts to insure we are not removing the voices of those who have been historically discriminated against and disenfranchised participating in the housing policy. we need to recognize and straess the pattern of falling short on affordable housing funding and construction while at the same time added streamlining process which lead (inaudible) help make the stated goals of (inaudible) in the housing element real and not just words on paper. prioritize issues and solutions we lay out work closely and show you commit to truly prioritizing equity. we have lot of work to do so let's actually do it. thank you. >> thank you so much. let's take the next caller.

>> yes, good afternoon. this is annette billing sly a member of the housing action coalition and at ths stage of the game i will be brief. everybody probably will appreciate that. hearten bide the good work by the planning department on the now state compliant housing element and urge this committee to recommend the housing element to full board for approval. thank you. >> thank you so much. next speaker, please. >> the call attention to the housing element and rep city wide people plan. a visionary blue print laying housing and land use policy that center on racial social economic

equity. without rem the city would not have any real pathway to the stated goal of centering equity in the housing element. following that the board gathered to discuss the draft housing element. back then there was time to shape the housing element for the better and rep accomplished that. while the time for talk is over, we need real changes now. the board the mayor planning and mocd needs to pivot now from business as usual. (inaudible) have a budget request and assembly member ting office. what has the city done to get funding from the state? i appreciate supervisor preston direct questions today about land acquisitions. planning can't just write land banking as a strategy in the housing element and give excuses about why they can't do it. the city can't sit on hundreds of millions of dollars for

affordable house. the city has knoun for years about the goals and 57 percent goal. so, what has planning been working on preemptively? working on rezoning that result in redevelopment 2.0 to encourage massive market rate development that demolish existing housing and small businesses. this is the wrong approach. we all need to work on policies that respect existing tenants from displacement and retain community input. in your remarks today tell us what you're taking on. work with us to make it happen and make real the housing element goals of racial and social equity. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> hi. i'm (inaudible) planning department staff for all your hard work. i wish this was not a state forced process. sad it came to the state

forcing and wish you all in the land use committee to do your job sooner to create (inaudible) affordal housing. we all know that not building houses cost displacement of low income housing and middle class priced out. please pass the housing element. maximize (inaudible) and please start a study for the social housing program as soon as possible. we all agree market rate housing doesn't solve the lack of affordable housing but it has to get the price down for the middle class. my hope is that by building at least 46 thousand market rate and affordable housing we can have a vision for both low income folks and reduce price for middle class instead of pedaling (inaudible) nimby home owners. start the work to hopefully exceed the rhna goals for both affordable housing and market rate housing. >> thank you so much for your comments.

next speaker. you have two minutes. >> linda chapman. first of all i want to honor the director and staff for the way that they did outreach. it was wonderful and i know they got completely different perspective whz they met with some of us from sga about the housing element. i had to drop out after that and couldn't (inaudible) i beg you do not do inclusionary housing in a mixed use development at least when condos and coops. i am a veteran of 17 years in the coop(inaudible) why did i have to drop out of this process? because i'm being sued by the hoa president telling the man down stairs to sue me for punitive damages. i

have a trial date on the 6 and trying very hard to get state legislation that give something like the rent board but when we were writing the (inaudible) we put administrative thing. besides which completely different income level s. people are the lower income people are hopeless. one building that is already built in our neighborhood, the wealthier people have 24 hour desk service, 5 full time equivalent employees for the poor person to pay. developers also produce units in those buildings that are not sold or not rented and on two buildings on pine street that have been approved they are completely uninhabable. against the law. no air, no light, nothing. all in a light (inaudible) you cannot have that

kind of thing. preservation of existing housing is incredibly important. when (inaudible) made a mistake and said- >> thank you for your comments. let's take the next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. bruce wolf with care community land trust the member of race equity in all planning coalition. d5 resident for the past 30 years. thank you all for your efforts and oversight on this urgent and imminent issue but it isn't enough just to be compliant with the state. we are san francisco, a trail hadf blazer. (inaudible) emerging non profit affordable housing provider. it has been difficult and frosterating to see how many eligible small sites that are actually eligible for acquisition funding go by every month by the dozens, and this has

been a constant since the beginning of the pandemic. release all the monies now and make it easier for smaller stakeholders to play a equitable part achieving the rhna goals and preventing (inaudible) the rep coalition organizations engaged in every part of the housing element process for nearly and 2 and a half years. we need permanent affordable housing with reference to section 3, preventing eliminating homelessness, rep finds there are too many actions focused on providing temporary shelter accommodation. it is critical that planning recognizes the fact expanding shelter accommodations is not a housing solution. san francisco housing element must focus on funding and land use solutions for providing stable dignified affordable housing for all. rep coalition demands the board of supervisors make the goals of centering racial and social equity in a

housing element real and not just words on paper. to do this prioritize the issue we and rep lay out and work closely with american indian black and other communities of color seniors and people with disabilities to make sure their needs are met first and foremost implementing the housing element. >> thank you. let's take the next caller. i apologize if i have to cut you off. we are at 2 minutes for public comment. let's take the next speaker. we have 7 in the queue. >> hi. this is gloria berry. san francisco native. i live in district 10. it is sad that the state is forcing our hand. therefore, let's use all local money available for deeply affordable housing. i would like to emphasize that i would like the narrative to

be emphasized as deeply affordable housing, not just affordable housing. my family was evicted for condo conversion. i extended military service because i had nowhere to come home to. i married someone just to get housing. later when i was homeless due to symptoms that were later diagnosed as cancer i was homeless for 3 years. i worked, was not on drugs and i'm a veteran. additionally, a lot of times when folks are displaced they are given vouchers but development will not accept them in the city attorney says he just gives them warnings. they need to be fined. we need to stop complaining about homeless when we keep having policies that are causing homelessness and districts that won't build deeply affordable housing. i'm going to say it 3 times, deeply, deeply,

deeply affordable. anyone that needs a market late unit feel free to contact me. i will help you get a signed lease in three days. we need deeply affordable housing for the people that drive us around on buses, cook your food, provide security, work retail for you to shop and all below living wage jobs. thank you. >> thank you so much for your comments. let's take the next caller. >> good afternoon board of supervisor. my name is robert (inaudible) i am a volunteer [difficulty hearing speaker] the implementation we have now, it is really the hard part. glad to see there is a lot of focus on affordable housing funding. i think there also needs to be a lot of focus

on strategies which involve city raising money without-one big issue not discussed today is how feasible projects are considering many of the requirements in place. inclusionary zoning has not worked that well for san francisco considering the market is really unable to produce housing right now. it is not capital (inaudible) century urban (inaudible) century urban analysis showed that housing is just infeasible to build. we need a social housing program so we can use-(inaudible) to build and maintain

housing at scale for all residents of san francisco. if we engage in such a plan. a housing element does include a program (inaudible) i encourage the board to prioritize this plan so we can have a viable model for social housing. i think that we should (inaudible) we under not wait for the private market. just get a study going. start a social housing program so we can meet the state mandates. thank you. >> thank you so much. let's take the next caller, please. >> hi. my name is jessica (inaudible) your locreal estate agent. i want to thank the planning staff for the housing element. i have been following the last 2 years about it. now that we are reaching

our goals of getting it passed and hopefully in compliance and signed by the mayor i want to focus the most important steps is maximize rezoning the entire city, especially in the district 4 and 7 and 1. the well resourced neighborhoods so we can take advantage of the housing element and build 82 thousand new units of housing for the city. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. next caller, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. peter (inaudible) with the mission economic development agency. we are proud member of the race equity all planning coalition. first of all, we want to join others in thanking the planning department for the long hours of dedicated work on this housing element and also for maintaining

ongoing and open dialogue with residents and organizations throughout the process. we think it is important to recognize that this document did make some meaningful steps towards structuring equitable development. it is worth noting and building on in future housing policy as we want to make sure it is in line with all phases of the critical implementation. including the addition of affordable housing circuit breaker that trigger to expand affordable housing and land banking funding at the cycle half way point if not in line with targets. expansion of affordable housing geography in order to build a neighborhood that haven't been building affordable housing as well as recognizing cultural district jz priority equity geography maintain a community voice. recognizing areas vulnerable for displacement needs special relief from up zoning streamline and

other impacts. maintain inclusion era housing and state density bonus levels for the timebeing. recognizing our central freeway removal include impacted communities and recognizing special needs and blue caller spaces and are jobs they create especially in immigrant communities. we do share concerns for sherbet some of the elements that remain, such as the market rate housing circuit breakers. we do appreciate that there have been exemptions added to that area. we also share the concerns from (inaudible) demolition provisions we like to continue to work with the department around those areas. and finally we look (inaudible) make sure we meet the 46 thousand unit goal. >> take the next caller, please. >> good afternoon and thank you for this important hearing. my name is richard (inaudible) i live in

san francisco over 45 years. i live in district 9. i voted for proposition i along with majority of san franciscans and i want to thank supervisor preston for pushing to make sure that the funds get spent on what i voted for and don't understand why we are not using the money to acquire land now so we can build on it to solve this problem. i also wanted to say i agree strongly with supervisor melgar who talked about the need for a strategic plan. in my estimation we need to build 10 thousand units a year, and according to the cost estimates i heard it is $19 billion just to build the affordable units, 46 thousand units. so, where is the plan?

where is the money and how are we going to secure that amount of housing? i don't say building it because i think we can repurpose a lot of office space, there is a lot of empty office space and empty buildsings in san francisco that could house people. police listen to goria berry's comments play over and over again in your head. deeply deeply affordable housing is what we need. people should not drive from modesto to work in san francisco in a restaurant. that's nutty. absolutely nutty. thank you and look forward to seeing some improvements. >> thank you so much. take the next caller, please. we have three in the queue. >> my name is mike chan a resident of dist rth 2, part of (inaudible) a group

for livable neighborhood. i'm asking you to please recommend this to the full board positively. i'm someone in my 30's and one big thing is people in my age and younger who will love-coming from all sorts of walks of life, new-comers and people who drew up here, they are people who-folks who of all different races, color, lgbtq and coming with a huge uncertainty whether they are able to stay here because housing is so unaffordable and so i think the housing element and ambitious plan to build housing especially for the (inaudible) will help create a path really enlarge the path for people to stay here and become residents long-term residents who want san francisco (inaudible) invest also into san francisco. this is

just a start and as evidenced by all the comment there is a lot of work that needs to be done. a lot of things, a lot of initiatives and so i are encourage everyone here and land use and supervisors that we should keep pushing, we should be looking for all strategies to fund low income affordable housing and let's get this passed. thank you to the planning staff and supervisors for your diligence on this. that is all my comments. >> thank you so much for your comments. let's take the next caller, please. >> hello. my name is (inaudible) [difficulty hearing speaker] living in oakland. my home town was from modesto. i support passing the housing element. (inaudible) and market rate units

in throughout san francisco not just pockets of (inaudible) an example of the wrong-doing sf has done in the past with discriminatory actions (inaudible) another example is eastern neighborhood plan of 2000 which that effected the mission district as we see today. supporting the housing element insure retain intended to 46k homes for low moderate income people by 2031 and this is important in western sf where i used to live. (inaudible) and help avoid displacement in places in san francisco where i'm seeing now and oakland and east bay and hoping (inaudible) keep themselves accountable to build the housing and (inaudible) displacement of minority people of myself and i see (inaudible) modesto my

home down. let's get this right. hopefully you all have a great day. supervisors, planning department and yeah, thank you. >> thank you so much. let's take the next caller. again, this is public comment for item 4. if you like to speak and have not already just press star 3, otherwise we'll take the last 2 in the queue. >> good afternoon supervisors. (inaudible) the state hcd requirements the housing element must further fair housing to bring the housing element in line the board needs to take leadership to work with low income communities. we must prioritize extremely low and low (inaudible) insure there are mechanisms to fully fund these needs. this is the housing

principally occupied by these protected classes: (inaudible) implementation and (inaudible) racial social and economic equity. thank you so much. >> thank you for calling. next speaker please. hello caller? >> hello. sorry. had to unmute. this is adam (inaudible) from district 6. i have seen san francisco go through its ups and downs and the one thing that is constant is lack of housing. over the decade housing availability in san francisco has gotten smaller and smaller, so moving this housing element especially one that is recommended by the state is compliant forward is a must do. if we dont do this if

this doesn't move forward all bets are off. we lose affordable housing funds, building remedy, the whole bit. that said, we do need to mike make sure we are working together. one thing that we have seen over the years in san francisco politics is neighborhood fighting over where housing goes. housing to be fair needs to be everywhere. we can't just jam it in one corner and think that is one thing the housing element prevents. this is a great start but it is just a start. following up on this is going to require a lot of cooperation which isn't something that san francisco is good at in politics but i think if we can make that change we can make this happen. if we don't, we are not going to be able to have affordable housing. if we just spend money on land but dont have a plan to build, then we are just going to have a birch bunch of land. if we give sites to

non profits without a plan, we are going to end up with stuff like 730 stanyan which was promised to be ultra-affordable housing and now when it goes live says that it is going to have housing at 110ami. that isn't ultraaffordable and only supported with a 15 year subsidy. we need to make sure affordable housing is affordable in perpetuity so we don't knock people out of homes when rent go up as we have seen in la which affordable housing expires so let's make the element happen and affordable housing happen- >> let's take the last caller er in the queue. >> hi. my name is mitch (inaudible) calling for san francisco housing development corporation calling to support the adoption of the housing element and say thank you to staff and all the folks who put so much

effort into this and exposed so many ideas. i potentially want to thank staff for including the circuit breaker that focus on (inaudible) land banking. (inaudible) we need to land bank in areas that are upzoned before they are upzoned otherwise land will go up 3, 5 times before the city can get in the game. (inaudible) i want to staitd we have 21 thousand very low income (inaudible) that need to be approved in the housing element as well as 12 thousand low income and (inaudible) we are always going need more funding to reach the goals. (inaudible) struggle to reach extra effort into that portion of it. once again, support the adoption and thank you very much to everyone who put so much work into this housing element. thank you. >> thank you so much for your comments. that completes the queue madam chair.

>> thank you very much madam clerk. so, i understand that supervisor-president peskin has left us. do we need to excuse him? >> yes, if we can take a motion to excuse him. >> motion to excuse supervisor peskin. >> on that motion- [roll call] >> two have two ayes. >> public comment is closed. any other comments from anyone before we take a vote on whether to send this forward with positive recommendation as a committee report? i think everybody had their say. >> on the motion to recommend as committee report- [roll call] you have two ayes with one excuseal for

president peskin. >> motion passes. thank you. do we have any other items? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> we are adjourned. thank you. [meeting adjourned]

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work at the covid command center and they did incredit able work there both in terms of navigation and shelter-in-place hotels to other team members who led equity and lgbtq inclusion work to make sure we had pop-up testing and information sites across the city as well as making sure that data collection was happening. we had statewide legislation that required that we collected information on sexual orientation and our team worked so closely with d.p.h. to make sure those questions were included at testing site but also throughout the whole network of care. part of the work i've had a privilege to be apart of was to work with o.t.i. and a community organization to work together to create a coalition that met monthly to make sure we worked together and coordinated as much as we could to lgbtq communities in the city. >> partnering with community

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information on the ground. we're allowed to get. and prior to the pandemic, there's always been an issue around language barriers and education access and workforce development. now, of course, the city has been more invested in to make sure our community is thriving and making sure we are mobilizing. >> all of the supervisors along with mayor london breed know that there's still a lot to be done and like i said before, i'm just so happy to live in a city where they see trans folks and recognize us of human beings and know that we deserve to live with dignity and respect just like everybody else. >> being part of the trans initiative has been just a great privilege for me and i feel so lucky to have been able to serve for it for so far over three years.

it's the only office of its kind and i think it's a big opportunity for us to show the country or the world about things we can do when we really put a focus on transgender issues and transgender communities. and when you put transgender people in leadership positions. >> thank you, claire. and i just want to say to claire farly who is the leader of the office of transgender initiatives, she has really taken that role to a whole other level and is currently a grand marshal for this year's s.f. prize. so congratulations, claire. >> my dream is to really look at where we want san francisco to be in the future. how can we have a place where we have transliberation, quality, and inclusion, and equity across san francisco? and so when i look five years from now, ten years from now, i want us to make sure that we're continuing to lead the country in being the best that we can

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elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery

for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful murals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪♪♪ ]

>> for us, we wish we had our queue and we created spaces that are active. >> food and drinks. there is a lot for a lot of folks and community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner

and where our ancestors gathered to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night.

so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it

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>> shared spaces have transformed san francisco's adjacent sidewalks, local business communities are more resilient and their neighborhood centers are more vibrant and mildly. sidewalks and parking lanes can be used for outdoor seating, dining, merchandising, and other community activities. we're counting on operators of

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valencia has been a constantly evolving roadway. the first bike lanes were striped in 1999, and today is the major north and south bike route from the mission neighborhood extending from market to mission street. >> it is difficult to navigate lindsay on a daily basis, and more specifically, during the morning and evening commute hours. >> from 2012 to 2016, there were 260 collisions on valencia and 46 of those were between vehicles and bikes. the mayor shows great leadership and she knew of the long history of collisions and the real

necessity for safety improvements on the streets, so she actually directed m.t.a. to put a pilot of protected bike lanes from market to 15th on valencia street within four months time. [♪♪♪] >> valencia is one of the most used north south bike routes in san francisco. it has over 2100 cyclists on an average weekday. we promote bicycles for everyday transportation of the coalition. valencia is our mission -- fits our mission perfectly. our members fall 20 years ago to get the first bike lane stripes. whether you are going there for restaurants, nightlife, you know , people are commuting up and down every single day. >> i have been biking down the valencia street corridor for about a decade. during that time, i have seen

the emergence of ridesharing companies. >> we have people on bikes, we have people on bike share, scooters, we have people delivering food and we have uber taking folks to concerts at night. one of the main goals of the project was to improve the overall safety of the corridor, will also looking for opportunities to upgrade the bikeway. >> the most common collision that happens on valencia is actually due to double parking in the bike lane, specifically during, which is where a driver opens the door unexpectedly. >> we kept all the passengers -- the passenger levels out, which is the white crib that we see, we double the amount of commercial curbs that you see out here. >> most people aren't actually perking on valencia, they just need to get dropped off or pick something up. >> half of the commercial loading zones are actually after 6:00 p.m., so could be used for five-minute loading later into

the evening to provide more opportunities or passenger and commercial loading. >> the five minute loading zone may help in this situation, but they are not along the corridor where we need them to be. >> one of the most unique aspects of the valencia pilot is on the block between 14th street. >> we worked with a pretty big mix of people on valencia. >> on this lot, there are a few schools. all these different groups had concerns about the safety of students crossing the protected bikeway whether they are being dropped off or picked up in the morning or afternoon. to address those concerns, we installed concrete loading islands with railings -- railings that channel -- channeled a designated crossing plane. >> we had a lot of conversations around how do you load and unload kids in the mornings and the afternoons? >> i do like the visibility of some of the design, the safety aspects of the boarding pilot for the school.

>> we have painted continental crosswalks, as well as a yield piece which indicates a cyclist to give the right-of-way so they can cross the roadway. this is probably one of the most unique features. >> during the planning phase, the m.t.a. came out with three alternatives for the long term project. one is parking protected, which we see with the pilot, they also imagined a valencia street where we have two bike lanes next to one another against one side of the street. a two-way bikeway. the third option is a center running two-way bikeway, c. would have the two bike lanes running down the center with protection on either side. >> earlier, there weren't any enter lane designs in san francisco, but i think it will be a great opportunity for san francisco to take the lead on that do so the innovative and different, something that

doesn't exist already. >> with all three concepts for valencia's long-term improvement , there's a number of trade-offs ranging from parking, or what needs to be done at the intersection for signal infrastructure. when he think about extending this pilot or this still -- this design, there's a lot of different design challenges, as well as challenges when it comes to doing outreach and making sure that you are reaching out to everyone in the community. >> the pilot is great. it is a no-brainer. it is also a teaser for us. once a pilot ends, we have thrown back into the chaos of valencia street. >> what we're trying to do is incremental improvement along the corridor door. the pilot project is one of our first major improvements. we will do an initial valuation in the spring just to get a glimpse of what is happening out here on the roadway, and to make any adjustments to the pilot as needed. this fall, we will do a more robust evaluation. by spring of 2020, we will have recommendations about long-term improvements. >> i appreciate the pilot and how quickly it went in and was

built, especially with the community workshops associated with it, i really appreciated that opportunity to give input. >> we want to see valencia become a really welcoming and comfortable neighborhood street for everyone, all ages and abilities. there's a lot of benefits to protected bike lanes on valencia , it is not just for cyclists. we will see way more people biking, more people walking, we are just going to create a really friendly neighborhood street. [♪♪♪]

dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are today. my name is leo sosa. i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account. how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of

technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date. the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to

make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see. >> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something. >> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really it's just awaking opportunity. >> keeping their attention is like one of the biggest challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. and we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve. this is like my first year officially working with kids. and definitely i've had moments where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can

make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and programming. at the bottom here, we talk to

them and we press these buttons to make it go. and this is to turn it off. and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves. it actually can go like this. >> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school

district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not

have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and development corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. it hasn't been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try? . yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello. he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are

clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program. that just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and there's a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer? and he says it's a program that teaches you computers and art. and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer. right. so trying to find him a job in the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't stop him. through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to

a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his legal status. he ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this >> right before the game starts, if i'm still on the

field, i look around, and i just take a deep breath because it is so exciting and magical, not knowing what the season holds is very, very exciting. it was fast-paced, stressful, but the good kind of stressful, high energy. there was a crowd to entertain, it was overwhelming in a good way, and i really, really enjoyed it. i continued working for the grizzlies for the 2012-2013 season, and out of happenstance, the same job opened up for the san francisco giants. i applied, not knowing if i would get it, but i would kick myself if i didn't apply. i was so nervous, i never lived

anywhere outside of fridays fridays -- fresno, and i got an interview. and then, i got a second interview, and i got more nervous because know the thought of leaving fresno and my family and friends was scary, but this opportunity was on the other side. but i had to try, and lo and behold, i got the job, and my first day was january 14, 2014. every game day was a puzzle, and i have to figure out how to put the pieces together. i have two features that are 30 seconds long or a minute and a 30 feature. it's fun to put that al together and then lay that out in a way that is entertaining for the fans. a lucky seat there and there, and then, some lucky games that include players. and then i'll talk to lucille,

can you take the shirt gun to the bleachers. i just organize it from top to bottom, and it's just fun for me. something, we don't know how it's going to go, and it can be a huge hit, but you've got to try it. or if it fails, you just won't do it again. or you tweak it. when that all pans out, you go oh, we did that. we did that as a team. i have a great team. we all gel well together. it keeps the show going. the fans are here to see the teams, but also to be entertained, and that's our job. i have wonderful female role models that i look up to here at the giants, and they've been great mentors for me, so i aspire to be like them one day. renelle is the best.

she's all about women in the workforce, she's always in our corner. [applause] >> i enjoy how progressive the giants are. we have had the longer running until they secure day. we've been doing lgbt night longer than most teams. i enjoy that i work for an organization who supports that and is all inclusive. that means a lot to me, and i wouldn't have it any other way. i wasn't sure i was going to get this job, but i went for it, and i got it, and my first season, we won a world series even if we hadn't have won or gone all the way, i still would have learned. i've grown more in the past four years professionally than i think i've grown in my entire

adult life, so it's been eye opening and a wonderful learning

>> good morning i'm calling our tjp regular meeting of january 12 of 23 to order. i'm rafael mandelman the vice chair and sitting as share our share cannot be here. this meeting is held in person at san francisco assistant district attorney hall. members may attend in person or watch on cable channel 78 or 99 or sfgov.org to stream the live meeting. >> madam secretary. >> thank you. i will note that director forbes and gee and