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tv   Mayors Press Availability  SFGTV  September 9, 2024 5:30pm-6:01pm PDT

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families. thank you. >> i'm is he good morning thanks for joining us the public library ribbon cutting of this beautiful building thank you, mayor london breed and wiener and crocker adams for joining us with others and the city attorney david chiu and we have getting started calling up my favorite colleagues to talk about what we're working on over the years an educator. >> (clapping) so good afternoon, everyone and thanks for coming out on the san
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francisco summer day on the day i'm really, really excited to be here and have verde now open about 4 buildings on one and it is awesome to see people make this a reality for who, who are not here and congratulations don't those who brings this to fruition thinking about where we are and how we got here i joined the residents that passed away at an event for the residents and i had a talk why they live to canyon and spoke to individuals and families with a - and they talked about how amazing it is to live across the street if a huge water shed park and bike to work and how the
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beautiful amenities joy living here and building things i've experienced in the seven years plus and exciting to be here at verde and how many more homes will be delivered for people that wanted to live and work in san francisco and offering this type of successor agency for them to make their home incredibly proud and as we think forward we're at fought building a lot of parking lots ash us here i'm not alone in thinking about this and really excited to now be as a point we want to work with partners at the port and city to think how by the make that platform more home and more places for people to work in san francisco more think
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constitutional and worlds class we look forward to work you and with that, i'm i'm going to turn it over to my partner here larry. >> (clapping) tanks peggy. >> another great day we have an option here. great the opening day of the baseball field. >> and can't building been 15 requesters in the making the original home since 2010 and looking through the milestones the election in 2015 and 77 percent vote that is not easy to do; right? the voters said, yes to mission rock and then we partners with them in 2018 and
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off the racess i want to spend a minute we're excited about verde we're excited about the future this is our fourth building phase one and all the future buildings with the future applications of the city. but none of this would be polk without the workforce who built those buildings and has been a big advocate for us in pushing in the direction and we're proud to say 8 seven hundred construction jobs were made with the contractors and web and others. but we are really and we're really provider of two mission rock cohorts in partnership with oewd and mission hiring hall and 21
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graduates and i was told a story about one hundred thousand graduates and one is parts of our cohorts an all woman class and taken up capillaryy and opened many months ago. and anthony o now she's coming back to work on verde and one year out and as she's known journeying anti off and running in a career with the workforce program we're proud of amber and her policies i want to call out our partners that is critical to us with their leadership as well as verde and the programs the partnership with mission rock either since 2010 but in recent
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years, more of an advocate and more helpful and constructive (clapping.) our state senator scott wiener from day one thank you, scott (clapping.) and port director elaine gets calls from us a lot from we decide to last minute a drone show like friday night and she said mayor, we're on the track so elaine is a great partner; right? (clapping.) and is matt here but a supervisor we love a problem solver mating and david chiu thank you and (clapping.) and phil our partner for a long time and i don't think phil is
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here but and carla short our director. >> (clapping) that's thank you but at the top of the list is our wonderful mayor it proceeding over the options and thank you, mayor london breed and i'm going to turn it over to london breed. >> (clapping) the sun is making me sleepy. >> don't you want to layout and take that in first of all, let me say how much i appreciate the opportunity to be hear and the preservation of larry it took a while to get here and fact of the matter we had that f d passed beforehand we would have been here a couple of years
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ago back want to acknowledge the leadership of scott wiener and the house production in san francisco opportunities like this in mission bay will happen all over san francisco as soon as as long as we remove the bureaucratic red tape and with the giants and they helped to provide mixed-use opportunity like the ones you're exercising in verde is the future of san francisco i say the future of san francisco, this is any mission rock the global headaches of visa and signed a lease for over half a mill square feet where people want to live a grocery we all remember
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what it used to be not a neighborhood at all it was railroad tracks and a golf course driving range and it is left and i am birth that this oust but what it has been an opportunity for a thriving neighborhood a place where people work and live and where they play and with china base line park and the bike trail and the open space to live here this a really an extraordinary project of what it means when we come together and working studio make that happen as a city and many of the elected leaders that are joining us so 200 and 54 more units in the housing stock we need thousand more to come and excited about what it means
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in the neighborhood of mission rock and mission bay we appreciate the architectural i want to acknowledge the community of the folks that volunteered their time including howard wong with the southern advisory committee thank you for your work and rogers with the mission bay advisory committee and the people who actually lived here that provided what we can do as a city to make that more of inclusive diverse community we're on our way i can't imagine living here and coming up and watching a game for free with our binoculars? >> this is the future and what we want to be able to do as san francisco create neighborhood like this all over the city we don't need to look for any other cities than mission rock and bay
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to create opportunity not downtown and the west side of san francisco could be amazing and so this is what happens when we work together intro make massingic to have those units so hang out for rent sign and open the doors and get those places built. (clapping.) and i wasn't given my official duties my apologies i want to say the percent of unit will be also available to families of a certain area medium income we appreciate that will be mucked units i mentioned scott weiner's legislation was in place we would have done this a couple of
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years back but appreciate the incredible work he does if sacramento on housing as a result of sb 42 three, 75 percent of housing including affordable units and will be a gambler for housing production and so that is great to be here with the leader around housing ladies and gentlemen, please welcome senator scott wiener. >> thank you, ma'am mayor, you know, over the last 5 years i think the harder job in america a big city mayor and topics in the city and with the challenges and issues in san francisco not all unique in san francisco but i'm so grateful for your assistance and it is in the
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difficult times and we're the proof of that labor a so many good things have happened in the city thank you. i want to thank the giants from the bottom of my heart there are franchisees not always as kind as we want them to be as they hop around the city and falling out of supporters teams and now build in san francisco for between years and what i've seen a deep, deep partnership between san francisco and the san francisco giants. so many levels it is amazing stadium but also the giants devotion to the san francisco and this mission rock project is one large example of that see some sports teams want
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they're big parking lot but the san francisco giants are forward thinking thank you, thank you, thank you. so, you know, this neighborhood i've think we've all seen it blossom the amazing things happening in the entire area and the mayor and i we're at the vice. >> and judge spectacular and adding for spectacular to this neighborhood and congratulations everyone who lives and works here this is and only going to get better in the 70s and will be better and better and better congratulations we're trying to support to a level and haney and
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i worked together working to make sure we can help san francisco moved on housing and maybe takes months instead of years and years we miss david chiu in the capital a congratulations but this project thank you, david and we're doing that work because it is about the people of san francisco. and people who are on one hand what their future holds in the city and children and whether they can raise a family our job to make sure we are empowering people to stay here to raise families here and have a multi-family generation here in san francisco. and that's why we do work that we do. we um, have increased the housing goals for all cities including san
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francisco and has a big goal so that's impossible people say i hope we have can do attitude but this mission rock is an example how we make that happen and poke around the city thousands and thousands of homes on treasure island development authority or at park merced if we get it done like the giants we'll meet the housing goals we need to work together to make sure that we are getting those projects up and running and doing what it takes to make them viable that is solving the criticized so the giants thank you, from the bottom of my heart and congratulations, everyone
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(clapping.) and i think i'm i believe i'm next i'm dave the director of mayor's office of housing and wanted to say as a long time resident of san francisco and as an architect. this place is gorgeous it is just beautify the building design the high quality i want to appreciate the urban design work i've been riding my bike in this section for years and over guess last year we see any a place like a real neighborhood it is becoming something and has started to be that great thing. and part of this journey pulled over and watched part of it from the bleaches i want to appreciate all the design and also want to
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appreciate the partnership we are with the giants and as a mayor mentioned the fixed income community 59 affordable units we bend from learning from the giants about how who expedite and mayor how to cut red tape we don't want the unions in the city the director of mayor's office of housing and community development and would that paifrp we deepened the affordability and looking forward to collaboration in the next phases of this development i love to see parking lots impressive and thank you for the great work and knit our office to continuing the collaboration
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and with that, introduce elaine the first order of business our amazing director. >> thank you, dan it is good i'm the closing remarks i want to reflect on what the mayor said when you did your state of state here at mission rock last year and talking about innovation. and how we need to work together differently for this big projects in the background and our port is changing mayor. we have been leading economic recovery and with the push and kayla figuring out the infrastructure and figuring out ways to finance that are challenging and you're going to find phase two and - but we have really done mile-an-hour includes work and
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leaning forward i want to start with maggie and larry it would be nice a woman in an incredible leadership and congratulations maggie all fabulous (clapping.) this project delivered that is amazing iron one hundred and $70 million so congratulations to the local businesses that is incredible we also have architects came in the space the one a woman earth and a huge effort on bringing black and brown people into the construction gap on to the floor and it is just remarkable and you are san francisco valid team
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we you wouldn't be here unless i were that and couldn't have changed without the san francisco giant i'm happy and my staff worked real really hard on the community partners and the vision we know how hard this has been but how inspiring it has been i'm glad to close and congratulations to everyone. thank you. >> okay. i ready start with 5 example 4 example threebook. th
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you. >> (music). >> my name is orlando i'm the owner and operator of sf pizza. >> pizza is my expansion growing up i loved pizza and loved to cook and been in corporate banking jobs my that whole life wanted to own a pizza or and moved to san francisco 45 years ago and couldn't find pizza i like so one day of saving and trying to figure out what i would like to do to fulfill my dream and to literally must be that i went
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out on my own toes an interesting things skills i again have to working on the slight changes to find the right product and came up with something i enjoy and continue it. so the positive important thing in years and years and years of trying to get it where i like it is for the sauce i use a unique sauce to bring out the flavors have to mats and capital improvement plan any and using use a high quality of cheese the products work together more important to me have a high quality of pizza and made with love and what i try to keep it to be a comfortable foods or
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food and that's what i try to over and offers so having a really bus illegal day in the community and rile appeal to me and that's what i was trying to accomplish i have thought when i got into pizza the main thing if i can, make a great cheese pizza he can do anything like growing up that's what i brought to to >> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. >> it is just time to bring the community together by
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deliciousness. i am excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food. having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview-hunters point community. >> i am nima romney. this is a mobile cafe. we do soul food with a latin
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twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas as my latindescent. >> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken, links. my favorite is oysters on the grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on traditional desserts and pair them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in
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businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be
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unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from when i was a kid.
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you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people.
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good morning and welcome to the september 9th rules committee meeting. i'm supervisor shamann walton, chair of the rules committee. today i am joined by supervisor safaí. and i'd like to entertain a motion to excuse supervisor peskin for this morning's meeting. yes. on a motion to excuse a member peskin from today's meeting. on that motion, vice chair safaí safaí, i. chair walton, i walton, i the motion passes to excuse member peskin from today's meeting. thank you. motion passed. president peskin is excused. today, our clerk is victor