okay. good afternoon. and welcome to the san francisco planning commission hearing for thursday, september 12th, 2024. when we reach the item, you're interested in speaking to, we ask that you line up on the screen side of the room or to your right. each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes, and when you have 30s remaining, you'll hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. when your allotted time is reached, i will announce that your time is up and take the next person to speak. please speak clearly and slowly and if you care to state your name for the record, i will

remind members of the public that the commission does not tolerate any disruption or outbursts of any kind. also, i ask that we silence any mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. at this time, i would like to take roll. commission chair more. commissioner braun here. welcome commissioner campbell. thank you. here, commissioner. imperial here. commissioner mcgarry. here. commissioner so here. and commissioner williams here. thank you, commissioners, and welcome back from an extended break. i, for one, am happy to be back. first on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance. item one, case number 2023. hyphen 007428 drp. hyphen zero two at 428 collingwood street. at the time of issuance. commissioners. this matter was proposed to be continued to september 19th, 2024. it is now being considered. there is now a request to continue this matter to october 10th, 2024. item two. case number 2023. hyphen

00921988 42 california street. conditional use authorization is proposed for continuance to september 26, 2024. item three, case number 2019. hyphen 022850qa. hyphen zero two at 1101 through 1123 sutter street. conditional use authorization is proposed for continuance to october 10th, 2024. item four, case number 2024. hyphen 004178qa at 5214 dimond heights boulevard. conditional use authorization is proposed for continuance to october 17th, 2024. item five, case number 2024. hyphen 006170 pca at 1896 pacific avenue planning code amendments is proposed for an indefinite continuance. further commissioners under your regular calendar. item 17, case number 2021 hyphen 003547qa at 243 staples avenue a conditional use authorization staff is requesting a continuance to

november 7th, 2024. i have no other items proposed for continuance, so we should take public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on any of these matters being proposed for continuance only on the matter of continuance. hi. good afternoon. welcome, commissioner campbell. george staples, since you have all this extra time, if you have the chance, i urge the commissioners to go out there and look at it. i did that last night, and i think it's worth a look. thank you very much. okay. last call. for public comment on the continuance calendar. seeing none. public comment is closed. and your continuance calendar is now before you. commissioners commissioner, you move to continue all items as proposed. second. thank you. commissioners

on that motion to continue. items as proposed. commissioner campbell. yes. commissioner mcgarry. yes commissioner. so, yes, commissioner williams i commissioner braun i commissioner imperial i and commission chair. moore. so moved. commissioners motion passes unanimously 7 to 0. yes screen does not properly work. make sure. lloyd austin.

okay. that makes. sure that. okay, commissioners. with that, we can move on to your consent calendar. all matters listed here under constitute a consent calendar are considered to be routine by the planning commission, and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public or staff, so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. item six case number 2024. hyphen 002223 coa at 1326 grant street. excuse me. grant avenue. conditional use authorization item seven, case number 2024 hyphen 001608083 91 sutter street. conditional use

authorization item eight, case number 2024 hyphen 001899 coa at 1657 powell street and item nine, case number 2024 hyphen 004781 coa at 1457 haight street. conditional use authorization. members of the public. this is your opportunity to request that any of these consent calendar items be pulled off of consent and heard today, or a later date. again, you need to come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed and your consent calendar is now before you. commissioners. mr. move move to approve all items. second, thank you. commissioners on that motion to approve all items under your consent calendar. commissioner campbell. yes, commissioner mcgarry i commissioner. so yes. commissioner williams i commissioner braun i commissioner imperial i and commission chair. moore item.

6.3 and six. yes indeed. i read that into the record. thank you. commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 7 to 0, placing us under commission matters. item ten land acknowledgment. commissioner. commissioner moore. commissioner moore, to turn your mic on. commissioner brown will read today's land acknowledgment. the commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost or forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests. we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to

pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first people. thank you. item 11 consideration of adoption draft minutes for july 25th, 2024 and august 1st, 2024. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on their minutes. again, you need to come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed and your minutes are now before you commissioners. do i see a motion? commissioner brown, move to approve the minutes. second, thank you commissioners on that motion to adopt your minutes, commissioner campbell. yes, commissioner mcgarry i commissioner. so i commissioner williams, i commissioner brown i commissioner imperial i and commission chair moore i so move commissioners that motion passes unanimously 7 to 0 placing us on item 12 for commission. comments and questions i would like to

take this opportunity to say hello. welcome back from a 1st december break, and i want to welcome a full commission, particularly our new commissioner, commissioner campbell, and our other commissioners who have we have only met briefly, mr. mcgarry, i am glad to see you full commission and we are ready to roll up our sleeves and positively enter into the challenges that are ahead of us. wonderful things are happening. the city looks active, the city looks beautiful, tourists everywhere doing the kinds of things that are well managed, good looking city does and i can only say it was wonderful to come home and see that there are so many changes that have occurred during those five weeks that we were all away, and i want to just expand, extend the welcome to our new group. we will all be finding our way to work as a successful team, and i see a couple of comments. commissioner imperial. thank

you. welcome everyone and welcome, commissioner campbell, and i'm looking forward to working with you as well, in the as the we have the full planning commission, i, i want to follow up on the, on the, on the hearing that requested last, last july before we went for a vacation. and i just would like to get some sort of follow up with the planning department as to what are the steps. and, you know, because i follow up, i requested for hearings for anti-displacement strategies and small businesses that i hope to have in september. but since i know we've had this conversation, but i also want the public to know as to what the planning department is doing right now in terms of preparing for that. yeah. happy to answer. thank you, commissioner perry, am i on? oh, no, this is the wrong mic. yes, we agree we

should have hearings on both those issues, as you know, on that on the tenant displacement issue in in kind of rent control and how that affects our work. we did have a hearing a couple of months ago. i know there there are new commissioners. so we're happy to repeat that. and especially a lot of issues have come up as to how these relate to the rezoning. and some of these issues go beyond the rezoning, right. because issues around tenant displacement and small business retention can happen in areas where slated to rezone, but also areas that we have rezoned or haven't rezoned in the past. so but i think it's important to do that in the context of the rezoning. and those hearings were on the list of things we wanted to tackle as part of that. so i think the short answer is yes. it's just timing that i think we want to get right. and i think you had a conversation with commissioner tanner and maybe having a couple community meetings, even before we met to get some more context and understanding about what the

public wants to hear. so, yes, you know, unlikely now to happen in september, but as part of the cadence of rezoning hearings that we want to have probably starting later this year, definitely have both a hearing on small business in our strategies around small businesses as well as, tenant protection and, and you know, how how that those are local laws work with state laws to retain existing rent controlled housing stock. so right now, in terms of the planning, kind of like planning for the, you know, for this series of meetings, is there, is there can can that be part of a, you know, a report as well in terms of the when are we in terms of these series of my understanding is that there's going to be a series of meetings with different agencies and also organizations as well, or community organizations as well, can we have that some sort of an update? we can give an update on kind of what our expected timeline is for those series of hearings, because there were

issues around preservation. state density bonus, and how state laws, which have recently changed to work with our local laws and how how we're proposing they work as part of the rezoning. so there were a list of kind of hearings we wanted to tackle. but what we're happy to send a memo or talk about it here as to what the how we anticipate those rolling out. and then you can happy to get your input on changes. you may want to make to that a memo or a part of a director's report will be great. it could be a memo, and then i'll talk about it. but happy to do that. thank you. before i turn over the microphone to my other fellow commissioners, i want to not be a miss mentioning that has been brought to my attention that commissioners have questions about successorship when a president or a commissioner leaves by reasons of for personal resignation or others. this is an interesting question that is actually anchored in the

rules and regulations that govern this commission. i myself don't have all the answers, but i'm astutely aware that we all share the question of successorship. so i have been talking with director hillis and suggesting that we calendar an item on next week's agenda for all of us to discuss our understanding of the rules and get guidance to properly proceed based on those rules that govern this commission. commissioner brown. well, first of all, i just want to say welcome to commissioner campbell. it's great to have you here. great to have a full commission in place again. so i am one of those commissioners who's had, you know, some questions, trying to figure out how our rules relate to the situation. we've recently found ourselves in, in which the president of the commission that we all collectively, as a commission, voted for as president, departs the commission and whether or not there's that question as raised by chair, more about the

succession that might occur at that time. and so i, i am curious to hear just at least an introduction to this topic. if the deputy city attorney has any perspective or or analysis of the rules as they relate to this. thank you, commissioner ron, yes. the commission rules provide that upon resignation or unavailability of the president, as you know, the vice president will, as an interim officer, take the place of president. and that's what, of course, has happened. so president moore has been taking over the role of president for the last number of meetings. the acting president does not, however, have the authority to designate a vice president, for example, so that leaves the commission for some period of time without both of the two elected officers that normally sit in those seats. the commission rules do not specify

whether the interim president must preside for the balance of the previous president's term, or only until the next election is held. however, the language in article three, section two of the planning commission's rules could be interpreted as applying only in temporary absences. in other words, not to be intended for a long term replacement of an absent president, it's the job of the commission to interpret its rules. so when there is any kind of vague language, the commission is to step in and decide what the language means. per the commission rules, robert's rules apply, except where the commission rules specify a different procedure. so although there is some language in robert's rules about what happens when there is a succession, those rules only apply when there is not a contrary or superseding provision in the specific planning commission rules. so

because the planning commission's rules could be interpreted in one of two ways, the commission has a couple of options here. the commission could hold an election for the president. and then, depending on the outcome for a vice president, if necessary, or could hold an election only for the vice president seat, which is currently open with the interim president remaining in office until the end of the current term. so it's really up to the commission to interpret its rules and determine which of those two paths is appropriate. okay. thank you for that. so what i'm hearing is this is a little vague in our rules. and at the commission's discretion. is that a good summary at the end of the day? yes it is. okay i mean, i can say that for me, i was not anticipating that there would be the succession. i, you know, i, i say this with the

utmost respect to chair moore. but for me, as a commissioner, when we had a full hearing and vote on the presidency of this commission, i felt i was electing commissioner diamond to that position and did not imagine that you know, for a fairly long period of time, if something should happen with commissioner diamond departing, not that i was really thinking about it at the time, but that the role would automatically be filled. and it sounds like it's no wonder i was a little uncertain, because it sounds like our rules are a little unclear, i would like to have the discussion about this, whether some of it's today and some of it is at the next hearing. but i also, because of the sort of time sensitivity to this in a way, i am also interested in calling a making a motion that we could vote on this at our next hearing and continue the discussion ahead of that vote, potentially. but commissioner, secretary, i own

and i think we are moving into a discussion this item needs to be counted. the public has a full right to see the commission deliberate on this matter. particularly, i have the impression that the real wording of the rules and regulations are not totally familiar, including the interpretation we're getting. one interpretation. ultimately, it is the commission themselves who has to carefully scrutinize their own rules. the city attorney's advisory to us. and i greatly appreciate the depth of their understanding. however, there's institutional memory from the public as well as from myself about the interpretation of the rules. and i would see it as an opportunity for all of us to turn a chapter together. ultimately, we need to work as a team like it or not, the election of officers that is occurring once a year occurs on the 15th of january, and that is the term in which the elected

officials officers are on the commission, and that includes the vice president, whom you voted for also. so i'm not trying to make a case for myself here, but i believe that we owe it to ourselves to be more diligent about our rules and our obligations, including the in-depth interpretation. what we are voting on. i at this moment do differ in certain points of the city attorney's interpretation, and i would like us to give ourselves the time to do this together. we have basically approximately 9 or 10 meetings left in this year, and you will, starting with the election process all over again in january. so i basically ask for you to follow the rules that we're not having a discussion or a motion or anything, but that we would be agreeing to have a meeting on the subject matter next week. and then we can move very quickly as soon as we have a common basis of what we are

reading and what we are understanding. that would be my direction. i talked with the director about it yesterday. he seemed to be in concurrence, and i think it's one step at a time. commission chair moore i'll only state that under commission comments and questions on the agenda. there's a standing item that future meetings and agendas, that this is the opportunity the commission may discuss and take action to set the date of a special meeting and or determine those items that could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting and other future meetings of the planning commission. so it's an appropriate discussion and or action to be had. i'm just just reminding you of what's already sort of a standing line item on your agenda. i will also note this. this topic has come up during the break, and there's been a lot of back and forth. so we went back and took a look at recent history as to what occurred just in the recent pas. and there was an iron and secretary iron, and i am not

here to discuss the pros and cons with you of what you have done in the break. i'm simply, simply trying to set a direction for the commission to have a discussion of changes in rule or interpretations of rule be done in an appropriate meeting, and an appropriate setting where each of us, including our brand new commissioners who most likely have never seen these rules that particular it's hard to find them, finds a way to look at them together and talk about it. that is all i'm asking for. we need to act as a team and that is what we will do. i was just going to remind the commissioner of past precedents that happened a couple of years ago. i appreciate the detail on that. next week, when we talk about it, i would greatly appreciate all the detail you have. i i understand, i would still like to have the conversation next week and also to have the election if others disagree with me. this motion might fail if others don't. i mean, i haven't even gotten a

second. i haven't actually made the motion yet, but, you know, i would move to have the election for president next week and we can continue the discussion then if people feel i'm way off, you know, out of line here, then they can decide not to have the election if they want to get more information next week instead, or if, next week they decide that this isn't a reasonable application of the rules, then the election could simply confirm the current status quo. so either way, i would like to make a motion to hold the election for president next week. is there a second? i would second that motion. if i could recommend that the motion be amended slightly so that it's a motion to, elect officers so that if there is any change, if there is not any change in the

president, you will then also be able to elect a vice president, because as it stands, you would only be filling the presidential office. yes, that's acceptable to me. yes, i'd second that very good. does the public get to talk about this motion? we could take public comment. yeah, we probably should take public comment. please. we should probably take public comment before the vote. but the commissioners may have further deliberation. i i will get back to you. okay. well, let's see if they have further deliberation on this matter. commissioner williamson. thank you. commissioner moore, i just want to i'd like to say that, so, am i clear that the elections are in january? this coming year? the normal course of elections is held, i believe, on the first

hearing after january 15th. and that's. and that's when our previous president's commission term was up. correct? okay. correct so, i mean, i just want to say that it's only a couple of months. it's, three months, and then we're going to have to go through this process again. so i think that it's i'm, i think commissioner moore has a tremendous experience. and, and she is very well respected. i think she'd make a fine i think she's doing fine where she's at. i think, that we should wait if we want to elect someone new. i think she'd be fine in the interim. and if we want to elect someone, we can wait until january, which is only a few months away. that's what i got to say, commissioner mcgarry,

please, in the interests of continuity, i believe we have to have a full contingent and that means a vice president and a president. so for that reason, i second the motion to have an election for a vice president and a president. thank you. commissioner, period. i actually would like, have more conversation this next week. and i'm glad that it will be, as part of the, you know, you made a motion, commissioner braun and i respect that in terms of having the election for officers, but i still would like to have this interpretation, the memo or what the city attorney has mentioned is something that i have not read yet in terms of the rules. so that's something that i would like to have as well and then have this really conversation. and for also for me to interpret this rule and also be able to deliberate this as a conversation for next week,

you know, in and so i will withhold in terms of like whether we should have full election or the succession until i get that memo from the city attorney. to be clear, there is no memo. i was referring to the planning commission's rules, which are available on the website, and robert's rules, which are also available on the website. okay. so well, probably i will have to set a meeting with you then just to be more clear on that interpretation, but i'd rather have a full conversation on this and also have the conversation about the succession in the past and what has happened before, because i feel like there has been a succession in the past before, but maybe i am not, you know, i'm not well versed in the history of the officers, but that can be, you know, something can be discussed with secretary on the history of the succession, so that's my take. thank you. commissioner. so i

really appreciate everyone sitting here and full room of audience. and i really appreciate commissioner mcgarry mentioned that, we have now full parties being appointed on this commission. the rule, the rule of our commission is to help the city run efficiently. and as quick as we can. my interest is to help projects move forward. that will move forward for our city, this project that is sitting in front of us, staring at us, we need to work fast together by that meaning, i really appreciate commissioner derek brown mentioned that we take care of our commission

business as carefully and respectfully as we can, but we should spend most of our time looking at the projects. i truly believe that's what made us all to serve here for the city. it's not about ourselves. it's actually what is the best for the city. so that's kind of what i wanted to share. i really appreciate everyone's input. thank you so much. are there additional comments? if not, we can turn to public comment, please. indeed, as this is turned into an action item, we should open up public comment on this matter. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on this matter. well, i think that you have to have something next week. i don't think you should vote today because i don't think anybody in the public was aware of this. i just assumed that president moore was madam president moore, and i didn't know about the vice presidency. i figured you'd figure that out yourself. maybe the one who's

the longest tenure would become vice president. i don't know, maybe director hillis would come back and be vice president, but i don't think that's going to happen. so i really hope that you will continue this to next week when it will be on the actual agenda and people can comment on it as they should, because it's a very important thing. the officers are important thing. and i'll just say this since i can't be here next week, is that i remember back in the day when it was cindy wu and rodney fong, they would switch back and forth and they were appointed by one was appointed by the board and one was appointed by the mayor. and i'm not going to say who was who, but they switched back and forth, and i think it's been a long time. well, no, i guess melgar. commissioner melgar, she was appointed by the board. but my point is that that's something to consider as well. thank you very much. thank you. commissioners, my name is

francisco da costa. i've been monitoring this commission for over 50 years. this is a convoluted subject that shouldn't have been brought out here. while we have a pending issue that needs to be discussed in the right manner, i suggest that each commission gets an orientation when it comes to convoluted matters and how they are brought to the meeting. for sure, it has to be on the agenda, and too much time has been taken. and so in future be educated on issues. know your rules, know your standards. but most importantly, have your heart in the right place so that you can take all of us to a better place. thank you very much. thank you. okay. last call

for public comment. there seems there's we do have a reasonable accommodation requester, this is sue hester. thank you for calling on me. i would agree with mr. d'costa and mr. hudak. this should be on the agenda next week. the vote going to think that's not on the agenda at all. at all? nothing about i. and voting on officers today is a slap in the face of the public. i didn't even get an agenda today, but that's another issue. please do the right thing. planning commissioners don't vote for hearing today. voted for a president and vice president today. defer the issue to next week and put it on the agenda. thank you very much.

just for the record, i believe that the motion is actually to schedule the election of officers next week, and there doesn't preclude you from not holding having a conversation before you have that. just for clarification, commissioner brown, i see your name. i just want to make that clarification as well. i apologize if i wasn't clear about that, but the motion is for an election next week, not today. correct. so, commissioners, there is a motion that has been seconded to add the election of officers to next week's agenda. on that motion. commissioner campbell. yes. commissioner mcgarry. i commissioner. so i commissioner williams. nay. commissioner brown i commissioner imperial i and commission chair. moore. no the motion passes 5 to 2 with commissioners williams and moore voting against. i like to restate my position that i believe until the commission has

a full understanding and has thoroughly studied the rules and regulations that a vote or a motion to have an election is inappropriate. and i need to put that in there because if there is leadership in the commission and any commission, it is my responsibility to point out to commissioners who have not been around long enough to understand their responsibilities, not under peer pressure, but for the mere rules by which we are by the charter appointed to the responsibilities we have. thank you. commissioners, if there's no further comment by the commissioners, if you would indulge me for just one moment, i recently learned about a state bill that has been passed and is on the governor's desk to sign. and it's it would affect all of

you directly, it's quite interesting. so the bill would actually allow for commissions, commissioners to attend hearings remotely, and so in fact, the way it would apply for this commission is up to seven hearings a year. so it's fairly significant, i think it's to take into account work related travel illness and whatnot, so that we can still continue the city's business, with a quorum, and so that we don't have to worry about that. so it's a significant change to this. the state regulation associated with with, our hearings and processe. and again, if the mayor excuse me, the governor decides to sign it within 30 days, it will become effective. as of the 1st of january, 2025. all right. and has this been run by the mayor? because the return to actual hearings was very much strongly

based on the good principle that the mayor supports an active civic center environment in which city's business is visible to all. and we are to be here in this room, including the public who want to speak to us. i can't say if the mayor was consulted or has been advised, but i'm sure she'll find out soon enough. and i really would appreciate it, because i do think that her the advice was sound and has indeed created the activity around city hall and the civic center that we all support. okay, commissioners, department matters. item 13 director's announcements. yeah. no announcements. welcome. commissioner campbell and commissioner mcgarry. oh, just briefly, this morning, i was at the reopening of transamerica pyramid, which was a great event. it's $1 billion investment in downtown san francisco. i think the good thing the building we know and love remains the same. and the

biggest changes to the ground floor in the park, in the lobby and just making it more open and transparent and welcoming. i think norman foster, who was the architect, said that was the one kind of flaw he saw in the building was just making it more open and active. so there's going to be art and cultural events in the in the park adjacent to it, and it's just much more open and inviting. so check it out. thank you. item 14 review of past events of the board of supervisors, board of appeals, and the historic preservation commission. there are no reports from any of these bodies placing us under general public comment at this time. members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, except agenda items with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. when the number of speakers exceed the 15 minute limit. general public comment may be moved to the end of the agenda. good afternoon, georgia again. could i please have the computer screen on? are there?

so this is what i sent the email about. and some commissioners have seen it, but the new ones may have not. so i think this is representative of the issue with the demo calcs. the picture on the left is 20 ray cliff terrace as it was, is an a rated in a historic district by h. l bowman bowman, a master architect. according to your documents and oliver russo was the contractor. so it's a rated the picture in the upper right. is the house under construction? now, if that's not a demolition, i don't know what's a demolition. and then the picture on the lower left is. excuse me, lower right is the house basically is completed. so i argue that this should be used as an example of why the calcs should be adjusted. so looking at this thing that's the calcs. when they were adjusted after the

enforcement. but the main one i want you to see is this one. so it's over the vertical but not the horizontal. it's right at the threshold of the horizontal 50. it's at 50. you can be at 50 and not be a demolition or be considered part of the demolition for the c values. okay. so why did it get that way? because during the enforcement, the project sponsor decided that, oh, i'm going to change the design so i don't have to come back and be yelled at by the planning commission. and that's exactly what happene. and these calcs, these values that i sent in the email in the pdf to me show that why they need to be adjusted. because if you can tear down a house like this in pacific heights, a $4 million house, an a-rated house, you can tear down anything in the priority equity geographies using the demo calcs. and that's why they need to be adjusted. so

here is here is what i think they need to be adjusted to. and i would say it's the second line which is blocked by the teletype up there. but those values 20, 32, 41, 32, 32 for all those values that would help you retain housing. that's what i estimate based on ten years of looking at these demo calcs. so if you want to maintain the priority equity geographies, housing there, i think that you really need to consider adjusting these calcs after 14 years or whatever it is, since they were put in in 22,008, and i guess that's it. oh, and you do have the legislative authority to do that, by the wa. section 317 b2d gives you the legislative authority to do that. and i think it's something that would be good to have because a lot of your

legislative authority has been taken away by a lot of different people. so please read the email i sent and i'm done. thank you. that is your time, i know. and here's my 150 words for the minutes. have a great day. take care. the commissioners i want to bring to your attention some important issues. your commissioners do not pay attention to climate change and your commissioners have no clue that this city uses clean drinking water to flush our toilets in the year 2024. and your commissioners, when it comes to climate change, do not pay attention to our children. you don't pay attention to life,

human life. so if there's something in stonestown 3500 units, you don't care where you're going to get the water from. and where is the sewage going to go to your commissioners have to be educated on issues. i know some of you all you know, work for lennar. now you are planning commission, others work at the assessor's office. now they are in the planning commission. i know your president very well. she has wisdom. listen to her. most importantly, this city is going to the hogs. we have over 39ft!s of commercial space awakened. you go to union square. you see the artificial,

artificial flowers over there. you see the assaults. you see the shootings and the killings. it's all because of planning. it's all because of greenery, lack of greenery. check a canopy of the city. on a scale of 1 to 10, it is for y'all. don't pay attention to what y'all need to pay attention to. this is the land of the muwekma ohlone. even in your acknowledgment, you all don't know the history. if you look at your general plan, you will see the mention of the tribe muwekma ohlone, and at that time, the planning person was, omigosh! but some of y'all have no sense of history

chronologically, y'all just go with buffoonery, and buffoonery gives you constipation. thank you very much. last call for general public comment. again, you need to come forward. seeing none, we'll go to our remote caller, this is sue hester. i when the you were on vacation, as well as the board of supervisors, the board of appeals continued to meet. and at their, october pardon me, august hearing, they had a presentation on a. b1114 by dbi. and that legislation, which was carried by pardon me, assemblyman haney, really

eliminates a lot of hearings. and when they explained it and had a conversation at the board of appeals, the board members were really having a lot of questions, and i would ask the planning commission to have a presentation by your staff on the effects of and the city attorney on the effects of a, b 1114 because you've already lost a lot of jurisdiction by having hearings that don't have to happen, hardly having approvals that don't have to have a planning commission hearing and appeals to the board of supervisors were eliminated. and appeals to the board of appeals were eliminated. so as your role shrinks, you need to know how

it's shrinking and more importantly, the public needs to know there is not a lot of people who paid attention to hearings in august, including, i would wager, say all of you commissioners. so please have a hearing and a presentation and a discussion on what the effects are to the public and to the commission about eliminating hearings and eliminating appeals. basically enabling staff to approve projects unilaterally without any approval by the planning commission. thank you very much. if ab 1140, i will send you a written document on thank you. okay. with that, we end general public comment. members of the public, excuse me, commissioners that will place us under your

regular calendar and through the chair will be asking item six or taking item 16 out of order for case number 2024. hyphen 006735 ps for 1324 through 1326, powell street. this is an informational presentation. good afternoon, commissioners mark loper, reuben and rose. i am not the architect. i think the architect might be out in the hallway. we didn't know that we were getting called out of order. could i have, like, 1 or 2 minutes to go and try to track him down? thank you. if not, i'll give a very poor presentation and call on the design professionals to help me. so one, one moment please. i'm sorry. gavin newsom.

hi, commissioners, mark loper, matt soisson, our architect, literally just got off the elevator. so that's good timing. if we can get the overhead, please. and, matt, i'll turn it over to you to walk through the project design. thank you. and we're here to answer any questions after the presentation. good afternoon, commissioners, matt. and access architecture and design on behalf of the project sponsor, we are here today to present the proposed multifamily housing project at 13 2426 powell stree.

the site is located in the northwest corner of the chinatown neighborhood, on the east side of powell, just south of broadway. the site is currently occupied by a two story commercial building. the project proposes for the demolition of the existing structure and the construction of a new multifamily residential building with ground floor commercial space. the proposed building has 26 sro dwelling units over six stories. there is just over 2000ft!s of ground floor commercial space through the state. density bonus. the project requests for waivers for height limit, lot coverage, dwelling unit exposure, and bulk limit. the building's massing on the lower floors respects that of its neighbors along powell. the building is four stories

tall, in keeping with the existing low rise height of the streetscape and above that, the building steps back once from the property line. the ground floor has two entrances from the powell street sidewalk. one is for the commercial space, which is shown in green and the other is for the residence. the project will also make streetscape improvements along powell, with new street trees and bike parking spaces. the typical floor plan illustrates the dwelling units organized around the circulation core abutting the south property line. the units at the front of the building have bay windows over powell, and the units facing the rear have private balconies. you can see the stepping of the massing and the building section as well. on the fifth floor deck there is a shared open space of approximately 750ft!s overlookig powell, and the roof is for

mechanical equipment and solar panels only. in terms of materials, wood siding is the primary cladding on the residential portion of the massing. while cast in place, concrete is used to differentiate the commercial facade. red laminate panels provide an accent color at the residential entry, and the bay windows above the predominant material on the taller massing is cement, plaster. thanks very much for your time. great. thank you. with that, we should open up public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on this matter. hi, i'm sharon and i'm a community planner at chinatown community development center, though the project exceeds the zoning height allowed in the chinatown master plan and is higher than the surrounding buildings, we understand that this is allowed

under the state density bonus, and this isn't our main concern. on paper, the plans fit chinatown's urban form and function fairly well. the six story development blends into the palace streetscape and the units with individual bathrooms and kitchens allow seniors to age in place and the mixed use allows residents to be close to commercial needs. i'm not speaking in opposition nor support of the project, but i just wanted to touch on the topic of affordability. the aforementioned characteristics don't positively contribute to the ecosystem of chinatown. if the population can't afford it, though, the pre-application materials show three affordable units at 50% ami. we implore the developer, owner and commission to consider what accessible housing looks like in the context of this neighborhood. 50% ami in 2024 is $52,450 for one person and $59,950 for two people in the census tract, 107.01, the tract in which the project is located. the median household income is $24,085. according to the latest census data from the 2022 american community survey five year

estimates. that's not even considering the other 23 market rate units that are likely unaffordable for current chinatown residents. so i ask you to reflect on who this development is for. i'm curious what the rents are set as in the projects performed. considering the median gross rent in the census tract was $790 in 2022, i'm concerned that without an emphasis on affordability, this project will simply contribute to the slow encroachment of market rate housing into chinatown and become a vessel for gentrification. yes, san francisco needs to meet the state's housing goals, but what are what use are units that can't be filled? thanks for your time. okay, last call for public comment. if there are no others in the chambers, we'll go to our remote caller. miss hester, i have a few comments. miss heste. okay, she may have. i have no

comment. okay. very good. then, with that, commissioners, public comment is closed, and this matter is now before you. again, this is purely an informational item related to sb 423. commissioner imperial, just, thank you for your presentation. and i also want to thank the ccdc to, provide public comment on the on this issue when it comes to affordability. as of course, since this sb 423 and ministerial, you know, it goes through ministerial approval. but at the same time it doesn't have yet the, the, the planning staff analysis in terms of the, what the building needs to have. but but i just want to reiterate or highlight in terms of the affordability and in terms of the, you know, it's at 50% ami and as far you know, and this

is, i guess this is going to be a lot more conversation as to whether the developer can actually go lower. but even though there is no legal mandate for them to go, to go through that, but, you know, i think this is only speaks as to what kind of affordable housing is going to be built based on sb 423. there's pretty much a lack. there will be no kind of community meetings or in terms of like, what does it really look like for the neighborhood that is going to be impacted on? so i just want to highlight that, in terms of what this development is going to be impacted on, on these, in this area. commissioner. so thank you for the, informational presentation, it's very clear and clean. and thank you for these comments. i also want to comment on, the idea of

affordability, i think it is really hard to try to make all your balance book justified, but also looking at, a very specific micro population here we are looking in san francisco. i'd like to get a better clarity on, from the project sponsor, maybe the architect or the lawyer, explained it for us to the record, since this is going to be the last time anyone can actually hear this project, explain to us, you, what is your affordability approach in your number of units? i'm looking at your application, but i'd like you to kind of walk us all through again. hi. commissioners. mark loper, reuben junius and rose, on behalf of the owner and the project sponsor, the base density at this site is 18 units, and we're providing three

of those 18 units as affordable at 50% ami. and that allows the project up to 27 units. the project's only 26 units. okay. thank you. and, you are doing this as based on just what is, required. yeah, we're we're complying with, with state law and, and the local inclusionary ordinance. thank you. so my only other leftover comment to that is like, in light of how what, local community has shared, the demographic data of what is the average income around the, the community, moving forward, i would hope that when people decided to create affordable housing, kind of do it by right by the people really think through deeply what affordability really means for the long run. so just talk to

your client about that. thank you. thank you, commissioner brown. yes, first i just want to observe that i, i appreciate that this building, despite using waivers, does have a pretty strong setback of the upper floors, and so it's helpful to see the massing is broken up in a way that is a little bit more sensitive to the context. the. so that's just an observation about it. but i also just want to also echo the points being made about the affordability and it's not something that there's any control over from this body as far as the use of state density. bonus. it is what it is. this is all dictated by state law, and those minimum affordability levels are dictated by state law. you can always go higher, but even so, i think this this project sort of speaks to one gap that might come up in a lot

of projects. you know, these are the nice thing about this project is that it is an sro project. so the units are very small and relatively affordable by virtue of being very small units. but at the same time, you know, because they are so small, providing units at 50% ami is not that much lower than the market rate rents compared to, you know, if we were doing a one bedroom or a studio instead. and so it's just an observation that there might be kind of an unfortunate incentive here to, to go for sro units and enjoy the benefits of being able to have less of a rent gap between the market rate and the restricted rents that a building like this. commissioner williams yeah, thanks for the presentation, i too am concerned about the affordability, i happen to know that this chinatown is one of the has one

of the lowest amis. and like the highest senior population, this housing isn't for the community, but it just goes to show that, you know, these new state laws, we have no control over what's what gets built. and, and that can have impacts, and so i would just say that, we should be building for the community that's there. unfortunately, we have no say, at this body. but as someone that grew up here and someone that appreciates, the elders and the seniors and the chinatown community, i think it's something that we all need to understand that these new state laws are going to change the game, and it's. we need to all, just be aware. thank you. i

appreciate every commissioner's comments, particularly the repeated concerns about affordability, looking at the project, it's an interesting infill project. however, there's background. there's context to it, which we don't much talk about anymore. this particular project falls into the family and senior opportunity special use district within the boundaries of the historic district of chinatown. and in addition to that, it is part of the historic esthetic resources of chinatown. there is a map which indicates that this building is a compatible building. it's not labeled a contributor, but it's a compatible building. all of this raises a type of questions, which i think were touched on by cdk's observation. this is not a criticism, but that is definitely something we all need to talk about. and as this project moves forward and goes into the planning department's

deeper workings, i hope that the planning department itself will reflect on some of these aspects and indeed raise the questions to the level that they are respectfully addressed. as this project gets moves forward without further commission review or approval. in principle, i am not opposed to the project. i think it is a good urban infill project. however, the circumstantial issues in addition to affordability, which is core and center to this particular community, don't seem to be fully vetted. thank you. oh, i'm sorry, i'm sorry, commissioner gailey, i thought thank you, commissioner gary, please, commissioner moore, i did visit this job site, on tuesday morning, it is right next to

fisher alley, and it's also right next to firehouse two. it is a very good spot for infill. there is good transportation all around it. and there it's now a one story building, and i think it it will do it will add 26 units that are badly needed to housing stock within the city and county of san francisco and chinatown as well. so thank you. very good. commissioners. if there's nothing further, we can move on to item 15 a and b for case numbers 2,007.0946 gr. hyphen zero four and wp hyphen zero four for the candlestick point development project, general plan consistency findings associated with redevelopment plan amendments and the design for development amendments. good afternoon, commissioners matt snyder, department staff, i am joined by

leila hussain of the office of community investment and infrastructure, or ocei, and we are together going to provide you with a presentation on amendments to the candlestick point development project. these amendments are in furtherance of the creation of an innovation district at candlestick, one of the planned neighborhoods at candlestick point. we're going to provide you with background of the overall candlestick hunters point shipyard phase two project. i'm going to just call that the overall project, it's progress. and challenges. and then we'll dig into the details of the two actions that are before you and then conclude with staff recommendations. next slide. actually, i apologize. secretary owen, i think we had some disclosures to make. i forgot about that. indeed. i apologize. go ahead. mr, commissioner mcgarry. hello, the project project before us today proposes amendments to the candlestick hunters point

bayview shipyards plan. but the action does not make any changes to the existing project agreement. upon the advice of the city attorney, i do not believe i have a financial conflict of interest. i would also like to disclose that i am familiar with the members of carpenters local 22 and the audience here today, but my relationship with these individuals do not affect my ability to be impartial on this matter. thank you. commissioner campbell, i'd like to disclose a past business relationship. i work at gensler and we have done work with five point. in fact, we performed work in 2019 on the d for d package at the shipyard. that was for the hunters point shipyard, which will be referenced, as a part of this project. five point is not currently a client of ours. in fact, we have not done work for them since 2021. so therefore it

is not a conflict. commissioner. so it recently came to my understanding that my ex-husband probably his the company. it's probably about 10 or 12 years ago now when his the firm that he worked at had conducted some feasibility master planning study on the previous project type for the shopping mall at the candlestick park. but, i do not believe we have any personal financial. there's no absolutely no financial conflict of interest in here. and this relationship will not impair my judgment on this project fairly. that was back in when lennar was still the project, sponsors. yeah commissioner braun. yes, i noticed that the edits to the design for development document were prepared by perkins and will, on behalf of the project

sponsor and my employer frequently works as a subconsultant to perkins and will on unrelated projects always outside the city, including, for example, current project in san carlos. i have directly worked with perkins and will in the past, with my most recent project with them concluding in 2023. however there's i'm just an employee of the company. i have no current work with them, no financial interest, and so there's nothing about this business relationship that should affect my ability to be fair and impartial. thank you. commissioners sorry. thank you commissioners. i'm glad to be here with you all today and glad to have our staff be presenting on the candlestick project before we go into the details of the project, i just want to say this project has been a long time coming in many ways, which the staff will go over, but it's very exciting. project over 7200 homes, which will certainly make a good, good dent in our 82,000 housing units that we have to build under our housing element. and i think

what's particularly important about candlestick and the development that's proposed overall is that 32% of those homes will be affordable. we're also going to have 105 acres of parks and open space, leed gold, 10,000 trees, 12,000 jobs, 8000 of which will be permanent jobs. and so this is really a transformative project with a lot of support, which you'll hear later from community. today, a lot of investment involvement from this department, from others, over the years, i want to give a special shout out today to the hunters point shipyard citizens advisory committee members who have been serving for a long time and working very, very hard and diligently, even late into the night, i think last evening, continuing to help to steward this project and ensure that it delivers the benefits that it's designed to. so i want to specifically thank doctor veronica honeycutt, the chair of the cac, for her long service. to. folks, i'll just remind members of the public that the commission does not tolerate any disruption or outbursts. if you

need to support something, you can do so quietly. you can wave your hands, wiggle your fingers, and wiggle your ears if you want to. but if you would be so kind. thank you. thank you, mr. secretary. i also want to recognize joyce armstrong, sergio gomez, pastor josiah bell, deidra smith, richard laufman, and neil gans, who are also members of the cac. so we got a lot of spirit fingers for them and we're very excited. i also want to recognize the oci staff who worked very closely with, and i know they worked for many months on this project. the developer, five points and their designer perkins and will, as well as our staff, matt snyder, who will be giving the bulk of today's presentation on behalf of the planning department, who has the privilege of being through the many iterations of candlestick. and so i think he is joining everyone in saying, we are very excited to see this project move forward today. so take it away, matt. thank you, so the two actions before you are the adoption of general plan consistency findings for two redevelopment plan amendments, specifically the bayview-hunters point redevelopment plan and the hunters point shipyard redevelopment plan and the

approval of the candlestick point design for development amendments integrated into those approval actions before you will be adoption or adoption of ceqa findings and association with addendum number seven for the eir for the entire bayview hunters point. excuse me, candlestick, i'm sorry, candlestick hunters point shipyard phase two project. okay, so just to get us remind us where we are very quickly, we're in the southeast corner of the city. the two components of the overall project include candlestick and the shipyard. they are in two different redevelopment project areas. the shipyard is in within its own redevelopment project area. candlestick is within the larger bayview-hunters point redevelopment project area. we refer to it as zone one of area b. next slide. so the overall project was approved in 2010, although in two separate redevelopment project areas. it was conceived as a cohesive,

strategically integrated mixed use project that is to be implemented through a single disposition and development agreement between ocei and the master developer. five points. the project includes the construction of 10,675 units, of which 32 are to be affordable, four point 9,000,000ft!s of office and r&d, it originally and other commercial uses. retail had originally been envisioned as a retail mall, but others supporting institutional and community uses, including sites for schools and a fire station and the like. the plan includes a robust public realm network of multimodal streets and open space, and open space and parks throughout. and as you can see in this original variant, it actually one of the one of the original proposals was a stadium for the 40 niners. next slide. because of the overall project is located within two redevelopment project areas. ocei as the successor agency to the san francisco redevelopment agency, has jurisdiction over its implementation, similar to development agreements that have

come before you, the master implementing document is a dda like a da between ocei and fivepoint. the dda includes exhibits including that that directly kind of call out the full buildout of transportation, a housing, an affordable housing plan, and infrastructure and infrastructure plan that lays out the details and processes to deliver the project. dda amendments in furtherance of the innovation district, have been approved by the commission on commission on community investment and infrastructure and oci's oversight board last week, and earlier this week, respectively. next slide though oci is responsible for taking the lead on the project, it is not to say that planning in this commission doesn't have a vital role required by the city charter and state law. you are required to adopt general plan consistency findings for amendments to any san francisco redevelopment plans, and unique

to this project, you're also required to approve amendments to the design for development planning. staff also participates in phase and schematic review. although oci takes the lead, i'm now going to turn it over to lela of oci to talk through the project's challenges and its current status and the impetus for the innovation district proposal. now, before us. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is laila hussain and i'm the senior project manager for hunters point shipyard, candlestick point. and i've been working with matt many years on this project. not as far, not as long as he's been on the project, but i've been working with him for many years. i'm here to talk about are we on the slide before challenges, i'm here to, i'm here to talk about some of the challenges we face since adoption, which was in 2010. so the project was adopted in 2010. and as many of you know,

redevelopment agencies were dissolved in 2012 and there was a period of uncertainty about whether or not these projects would continue and also whether or not the financing mechanism for the significant public infrastructure investments would be at jeopardy. so there was a period of uncertainty that started off with the adoption of the project. at that time, we also faced some preliminary delays from the early delays from navy transfers of shipyard parcels. so those were some key elements that delayed the initial start of the project. then we shifted our focus to candlestick point. there was the regional retail design that commissioner so referenced that we were working on. it was originally back then the planning was conceived of that we would have a regional retail center in candlestick center, and we worked on that for a couple of years before, you know, at that time the city was going city as well as many retailers were going through a huge shift. and then that project was discontinued. and that, that that work was paused

on the regional retail center at candlestick point. we then looked at what else can be done during that time. and we were we were in 2019, we were working on a mixed use project of a commercial commercial as well as retail in the candlestick center site, where originally the mall was conceived of, and that was around 2019. and then we have covid happen and sort of another layer of uncertainty. meanwhile, the shipyard at the shipyard delays became majorly significant because of the tetra tech fraud. a contractor of the us navy, fraudulent samples of environmental. some of the some of the parcels that were getting tested and that put a huge delay on the shipyard transfers to the point where the navy is now retesting all of those samples and that pretty much shifted shipyard phase two. and the map that was shown in a holding pattern next. but i don't want

it to be all community benefits, right? yeah, i just want to make sure that the commissioners during that time, even though there was all these delays happening, there was work happening. and the first phase of part of it was the community benefits payments. so even though the project plans were put on hold as part of the submission of those first early plans, the developer is required per the disposition development agreement, to make payments on a variety of community benefits. there's other community benefits that will come later as the project continues, but this is just a highlight of some of those community benefits we have $500,000 in scholarship contribution. we all of the developer contributions go through the cac and the legacy foundation chair on how we're going to go about distributing some of the more programmatic elements of these community benefits. so we set up a scholarship fund. we're in year

three of dispersing these funds, and then we also have contributions for education improvement fund, which is part of a larger subset of funds that will be used for either capital investment for a new educational facility or other types of education education enhancements that may be used in the community. in addition to that, the developer worked on contractor assistance during those phases of alice griffith that i will speak about shortly that were built, as well as contractor assistance in the early phases of the candlestick center related to the demo of the stadium and the preliminary infrastructure. then we have community facility spaces, which is free retail set aside, about 65,000 set aside. that will happen as this development gets built out. there's a process that again, goes through the cac on how we'll go about tenanting those those actual spaces, and they will have to approve the tenanting plan and marketing and so forth. so those are things to

come. in addition to those community facility spaces, there's a one acre lot that is will be graded, that is set aside also for potentially a new school site and another community facility entity. again, we're going to work with the cac on those final uses. there was direct payments made to department of public health for pre-development for the southeast community health center contribution, that's on keith street. i welcome any commissioner to go out there. it's a wonderful facility that provides a lot of family health care. that was that is much needed in bayview hunters point. that obligation full payment has been completed at 2.25 million, and then subsidies to the agency to ocei to build the alice griffith and the agency affordable lots. next slide please. so also again we have completed 337 units of alice griffith and agency affordable units. that's the first phase. the agency units are roughly 0

to 60% or 0 to 50%. and then the 337 of the 337 are alice griffith, replacement units. and what was great about the construction of alice griffith is that we were able to build the new housing immediately adjacent to the old housing, so there was no displacement. everyone who was in the old alice had new housing, and the new alice and the remaining units to be built on alice griffith are not for residents who are from old alice who are waiting for new units. just want to clarify that, and then the stadium demolition occurred around 2017, as well as preliminary infrastructure began. but then we had to pause because the retail center was not was not moving forward during that time. we also approved development plan schematic designs for over 1200 units that are pretty much ready to go as soon as we can move forward with the approvals, and they will be part of the next

phases of development, next slide. so this is looking a little bit forward in the sense that, we have like i said, schematic designs approved. we also what's coming up in the next phase of development is 675 residential units of which 41% are affordable. and we also have designs of infrastructure, somewhat at 80% that we will be completing, so that we can so that we can move forward on developing the next phase of this project. so if approvals move forward in this peach area that you see on the map, that is the first that is the next phase after alice griffith, and that consists of, that consists of about 1.2 to 1 point 7,000,000ft!s of commercial as well as the 675 units. and when

you aggregate both the alice griffith phase and this phase, you'll have, over 650, 615 units will be below market rate. and one, i just want to point out the one residential block at the very, edge of the state parks. 11 a is a standalone oci affordable development that we are very excited to get started. that is 0 to 60% ami and it's overlooking the waterfront. it's part of one of the gateway projects for this. as you enter the site you will see this building and it's going to be a great amenity for as one of the first buildings to be developed as part of this next phase. next slide. so, so just to, you know, matt, as well as as we go further into this presentation, there's a lot more detail about this, but just to give an overview of what is actually changing. so the total

entitlement as a whole is not changing, but as i mentioned, shipyards on hold and there's a lot of r&d entitlement at shipyard. and so we're moving a portion of that entitlement into candlestick as an opportunity to build up to 2.8. so 2 million is transferring over from shipyard into the candlestick center are. so the pink area that is the r&d or that has always been conceived of as a commercial area. but this does not mean that other uses cannot occur there. housing could still occur. there as well as, as well as the film and art center. all of those are primary uses for the center. but what is also being changed is we're allowing some of those uses, like hotel and the film and art center to also be located in the area outside of the pink triangle, so that they could take advantage of the waterfront views, depending on how those developments get built out over time. so that's that's sort of the big shift between what happened in 2019 and 2024. and i

think that concludes my portion. but i will be around for questions and i'm going to hand it over back to matt. thank you. leland, before we get into the other actions, just to look at candlestick, really quickly to get ourselves a sense of orientation, candlestick, as you know, is largely vacant, right now. the previous, previous location of the stadium state park. so it's divided. it's looking to be developed into four neighborhoods. alice griffith, hope sf site, the location of the 337 units that have been constructed. as leila mentioned, candlestick north and candlestick south are proposed to be predominantly high density residential. that would include that could include all types of housing types, including the of towers and then candlestick center. as you know, that's always been the commercial core

retail center. and then more mixed use with some job creating r&d and office mixed in with some residential was the last iteration. the site is also kind of organized by three major streets. harney way will bring you in from the 101. it will be the main entry points. it will be a multimodal street that will feature a grade separated brt or bus rapid transit grade, separate bike lanes, ingerson that comes in from the north is looking to be is proposed to be the main retail spine for the proposal and then aurelius walker is will kind of curve around the base of bayview hill that creates the triangle for candlestick center. it will extend to alice griffith. and then eventually the plan is that would be the major way to the shipyard as well. and at the center of it, where everything kind of combines is what we call call the knuckle, where sort of the planned open space is, is planned to kind of radiate out from that center and join in with the park. so let's look at

what the actual actions are before you. the first one are consistency findings with the of the general plan, with the two redevelopment plan amendments. and taken together, the these amendments can be kind of described in two subsets. the first has to deal with land use. and as we have been previously, as leila had previously mentioned, it's the big move is really transferring that 2,050,000ft!s of office and r&d entitlement from the shipyard to candlestick. the amendments also look to make some of the land use a little bit more flexible. it would enable some land uses that currently are only permitted within the candlestick center neighborhood, to also also be established in some of the other neighborhoods, such as hotel and entertainment uses. the third, just clarifies some of the terms in in in indicates that some uses permitted that the shipyards, such as makerspace, are also permitted at candlestick. the second

grouping of amendments kind of deals with extending the time limits and financing for the redevelopment project areas themselves, along with combining tax increment revenue between the two areas. next slide. the second action before you is approval of design for development amendments on the design for development is like dsgs that are part of the da's that have been before you. they essentially act as the planning code, but they do a little bit more than that. they're also sort of a vision statement. and they also deal with public realm as well as building design and how all of it interacts. so enabling the innovation district. the proposal includes adding a new standalone section that would be specifically for the district that could comprehensively address both development controls for the public realm and vertical development for the buildings. planning staff worked extensively, as rachel mentioned, with oci staff five point in the designers perkins and will to assure the development would still respect the established urban design framework that was created for

candlestick and connecting the street network within within the site to neighbor, to the neighborhoods, to the south and to the north, and to provide a strong, prominent urban edge along the two main streets at the same time, improving the public realm. there had been a central, smaller plaza. it's now proposed to be a much larger central promenade that would stretch between bayview hill and the intersection of harney and knuckle, creating a new axis between the two and just a vital new element. besides this, besides the central promenade, the public realm network. next slide, would feature a hierarchy of privately owned but publicly accessible streets, including fully built streets, pedestrian only mid-block mid-block breaks, and paseos together, creating greater porosity into the site and connectivity through it than what was previously proposed, next slide. because the central promenade is such a prominent

and new feature, we really worked hard to make that this would become a real special place, that it would feel welcome and activated 24 over seven. as such, the design for development amendments require the promenade to include at least three activation uses and three programed elements to make sure this, this, this occurs. the d for d also requires along the buildings that board it upper level solar plain sculpting to assure that that the new open space receives good sun exposure along with the controls for activities within the central promenade. the new section includes robust controls for required activation of the bordering uses. again along the promenade and the two key streets of ingerson and harney. and we have a hierarchy of activation types in some cases where we really want to emphasize that activation, we do have some retail requirements and design controls for that. and others it could be expanded

to other activating uses, not just retail but community uses. health clinics, child care, meeting rooms and the like. and then and then in other instances where where you don't have the prime location, we just we just require some, some other kind of relationship between the interior of the building and exterior of the building. given the addition of the 2,000,000fts of potential office and r&d use, heights are proposed to be increased from the previous maximum of 128ft to a new maximum of 180ft. potential buildings. heights would taper from the height, high elevation of aurelius walker down towards, down towards the knuckle of ingerson and harney, with shorter heights. also along along the along the southern border of the promenade with some plane requirements again to make sure that we have good sun access into that open space controls for daytime expression and build two lines would also

be required along harney and ingerson again to really establish a strong urban edge along those two key streets. while accommodating the larger floorplate buildings. the controls would address massing and articulation through the requirements of incorporating a menu of modulation and articulation strategies. and then we'll just look at a couple of photo simulations provided by perkins and will, and this is looking up from bayview hill looking due east. the innovation district or candlestick center is in the foreground with a large floorplate buildings and then the other neighborhoods, the north and the south, again with a variety of residential types, including towers and then turning our viewpoints, looking north, north with the state park in the foreground. candlestick south neighborhood in the foreground, the innovation district to our left up against bayview hill. and then we'll look at the ground plane. this is looking at harney and ingerson up through the central

promenade. and then across and then from the opposite direction up closer to aurelius walker, down through the promenade. a commissioners, we are recommending that you approve the findings of consistency regarding the redevelopment plans and approve the amendments to the d for d. on balance, the proposed project is consistent with the general plan, including the bayview hunters point area plan and the candlestick subarea plan. the project would accelerate the overall development at candlestick, including the development of housing, including the six 600 plus units that are ready to go that leila mentioned, and provision of job creation and economic development. the innovation district would create a dynamic new urban neighborhood as an anchor to candlestick, to bayview and the city. and finally, the project has strong support from the bayview community, including approval approval by the hunters point shipyard. cac, as i had mentioned earlier, the actions required by the commission of

investment in infrastructure, have been made a week ago, including the redevelopment plan amendments. the d for d and the amendments to the dda. and then earlier this week, the oci oversight board also approved amendments to the dda. commissioners, this concludes my presentation, and i'd be happy to answer any questions. oh, yeah. thank you. with that, we should invite the project sponsor up and through the chair. you will have ten minutes. good afternoon, chair moore and members of the planning commission. i'm katarina kidd, director of planning for five points, and i'm joined here today by serena lucic from perkins and will to talk about design framework and our vice president of community affairs, lashawn walker, to speak about community outreach, which is the heart and soul of what we do and why we do our

work, as matt referenced, i'm sorry. excuse me for a moment. . okay so, as matt snyder referenced, the approved plan in 2010 was envisioned shipyard and candlestick to be built concurrently and to share a number of resources, including land transfers and revenue. to date, there has been no revenue because the shipyard land is still owned by the us navy. five point does not own property there, and they are in charge and responsible for the environmental cleanup. and miss hussein has already enumerated the issues there, so i won't go into that. but that has caused

quite a bit of frustration, disappointment on the part of the team as well as members of the community. and i know you've heard from a number of community members regarding that issue, but as such, the development allocation there at shipyard is sits unrealized, and that includes over 4,000,000ft!s of r&d placed at shipyard during the planning process of 2016 and 2018, the upside is that candlestick does not have the environmental cleanup concerns of shipyard. and we're really determined to really move this project forward and see the next phase of infrastructure start within the next year. that's our commitment is once we get through this process to really get our permits up and running and get people back out on site, back to work, and that is all to support mixed use development, including six blocks of housing. as miss hussein already outlined two affordable blocks and inclusionary housing, as well as market rate housing and our

commitments, our original commitments to robust housing, infrastructure, transportation and the like, including community benefits, remains in place and there are no changes to those commitments, we have a resolve here to be sure that investment and jobs are realized specifically in bayview. and so we plan the work that we're doing that we've been doing in the last four years. our team with our public partners, as well as our subject matter experts, has been about making sure that we are working on long term adaptability for market conditions and that we're not chasing a particular land use, but rather we're looking at a holistic approach to be able to really move with market conditions. once we finish infrastructure conditions may be different, but we want to be ready for whatever those different conditions are. our unique location, in southeastern san francisco and relatively vacant site, it's a ground up opportunity unique to san francisco, in proximity to sfo

and northern san mateo county and san francisco bay region as a whole. is one of the top markets for venture capital funding in this sector in r&d, and it's in fact the largest in the nation, despite all the all the challenges, we are still the largest in the nation. as a region. and it's our vision that bayview participates in that and competes well with other smaller bay area cities for that investment. and so as we work on design controls and all these details that make a great place, we keep that context in mind, the image here shows the original stadium site. you'll see the approximately 22 acres, which we call candlestick center today represents the original footprint of the stadium, surrounded by a pretty large sea of surface parking. not exactly the ideal, development. so the original plan in 2010 and subsequent planning really

envisioned, a connected, walkable and sustainable neighborhood. and that was the original idea that we work on and we work from and we seek to preserve. we want to connect seamlessly to the neighborhood and make sure the street grid is extended. you've heard references to ingerson avenue and harney way. those are existing streets in bayview neighborhood, and our development would extend those streets and create a grid, an urban fabric that connects to that and invites the community into the space, additionally, you heard reference to the four harney way blocks that are ready to go. they've been designed for housing. those have on the ground floor a commercial space that we call community facilities. a certain percentage has been designated for residents, bayview residents or a process established through the cac to invite people, small

businesses free of rent, to support and launch their small businesses and so the next launch is really about a true mixed use launch housing, commercial, small business and major employers is what we're aiming for. and so all the early phases really look to bring a rich mix of land uses so that there's no isolated land use, but they work together to keep bringing those amenities together. and these images that perkins and will put together show that rich mix of land uses. and as we scroll through the image, you'll see circles moving around, which shows a five minute walk time. so in various points of candlestick as a whole, as a project area, this 271 acres, we have five minute walk time to a variety of land uses, community use, parks and open space, commercial and residential together. so every phase seeks to roll that out in phases. smaller pieces that logically builds on each other.

and we were really pleased to work with and appreciate the work of the community as well as the depth of experience. we want to thank the commission, particularly the chair, catherine moore, who has a long standing history of institutional history with the original plan of candlestick. that's very important to us. cac as well, depth of experience. we really appreciate and thank you and the members of the community who bring this this wisdom. and we carefully worked with perkins will to make sure that the changes are thoughtful. they're limited in nature. and they're only to increase flexibility and adaptability and always to uphold and bolster the very good qualities and universal aspects of candlestick that made it a great vision to begin with. and so we build upon that, perkins will was selected because they have a depth of experience with

large scale development in san francisco along the waterfront, but also nationally and internationally. they've built successful spaces that have done well, sustainable, they are known as advocates of healthy cities and our urban design principle geeti silwal has done the lead on the work here and the vision and we together have worked with the city departments to really build upon that. she regrets that she was not able to be here today to speak, but she is represented by her associates, urban designer serena lucic, who has been proactive in all of our community meetings, which you'll hear more about momentarily. and at this time, i'd like to invite serena to speak regarding the urban design framework. thank you. katerina. zooming into the design framework of candlestick center, the public realm includes a private street network, transit routes for bus, brt and bike, a mobility hub, signature buildings, and

thoughtful placement of ground floor active uses throughout the neighborhood, all weaved together to bolster and support each other, creating a lively public realm. however the champion of this public realm network is the central promenad, seen in the green hatch in the middle, a curbless, walkable and rollable space that visually connects people from the hill to the bay, but also becomes a series of social spaces with a plaza that anchors the knuckle of the pie, creating a sense of arrival to invite the public in. while also tying into the adjacent open space network. this is combined with paseos seen in the green, creating additional porosity, breaking up massing, allowing for more physical and visual connections. the private street network through candlestick center provides seamless transitions to the surrounding neighborhood and the ground floor active uses. located in the solid and dashed pink and the solid and dashed red lines was intentionally placed to create a rich tapestry of amenities, with retail zones located along ingerson avenue. keeping the 2010 d-4d intent of ingerson as a retail street, but

now continuing the retail zone into the knuckle of the pie and making its way into the center of the neighborhood. at the crossing of montana clark drive and the central promenade, further encouraging the community in this retail zone is limited to grocery stores, restaurants, bars, arts production, and more. while the purples will provide and are limited to community spaces, health clinics, childcare facilities, job training facilities and lobbies for residential or office uses. the vision is to celebrate the place we are in by creating places for gathering, showcase local art and the natural environment. the central promenade is open to the public, a connector but also a place to linger with consideration to building heights and solar exposure, creating a comfortable and interesting environment that will include programing of dog runs, restaurant seating, children play areas, music festival opportunities and farmers markets to name a few. i believe we are almost at timso i will get lashawn in here to talk about community outreach. yes that actually is your time.

that is our time. i ask that we give it a little bit more time. community outreach is an extremely important part of this project. we have gotten many, many letters trying to get a better understanding of it. so i'm asking for another five minutes, please. another five minutes. yes. five. i'll try quickly. oh you you okay? good afternoon. commission. thank you, chair moore, for the additional time. my name is lashawn walker, and i'm the vice president of community affairs for five point. and this is a very important moment in the conversation. so i appreciate the ability to stand before you. i'm going to share some new information and also punctuate some things that you've heard from matt, from lila, and from

katerina. you'll see on the slide before you a list of dates and times, and those things demonstrate a robust engagement with these amendments that you have before you. and to your point, commissioner moore, while your purview as the planning commission is very specific, you have gotten a lot of communication around our outreach and engagement and community benefits. so we wanted to make make a point to share this information with you today on the slide, i wanted to highlight a couple of particular pieces of what you see there. one of the things you see there is some time that we have spent in specific conversation with the residents of alice griffith. that is something that has come up a number of times to the degree to which we've brought alice griffith covid residents and conversation in partnership with us along the way. and we

have done that. you'll also see their conversations with our neighbors at bayview hill. we have made sure that we have brought them in deep conversation with us. the neighbors who are directly adjacent to the park, who live above the park. some of our neighbors are with us this afternoon and have sent letters of support to your attention, which we think is really important and demonstrates that we've come a long way. i also wanted to highlight there you'll see meetings with our implementation committee as leila stated, there are several community benefits agreements on this project three to be specific, one on phase one of the project, not in in discussion today to the phase two community benefits agreement is the benefit agreement that leila highlighted in her conversation and her

presentation with you. and i have the privilege of leading that work with cbos and organizations in community. the third agreement on the project is a core community benefits agreement. it is a separate agreement. private agreement between, the developer and three organizations that are known as the alliance for district ten, the san francisco labor council, faith in action, formerly sfp and ace, formerly acorn. that agreement was executed in 2008, two years before the phase two community benefits agreement that you heard about this afternoon. in leila's presentation. it is striking that a project of this size would have three community

benefits agreements on it. nothing like that has ever been done in this country and particularly in this region. we are very proud of that. in fact, in 2010, there was an article written in the uc labor, uc berkeley labor, written by ken jacobs of the uc berkeley labor center that said that our community benefits agreements here on this project were far reaching and were a model for the country. it's significant that the that the implementation committee, the implementation committee is a community based committee that was formed out of that ksba. it is significant that the ccba was executed two years before the phase two dda that what that allowed is for the bulk of the provisions in the ccba to be picked up by the dda, which is overseen by ocei.

so i want to make sure that we are very clear about that. the provisions in the in the ccba about affordable housing, jobs with the priority for local residents, those provisions were picked up by the phase two dda. what was not picked up by the phase two dda was this issue of payments that ksba has $37.5 million of community benefits in it. we have advanced 8 million of that $37.5 million. so there's conversation about what hasn't been done in the $28 million that's left. we intend to pay those community benefits once the project goes forward. i will close with this. as leila highlighted in her comments about the phase two dda and some of the ways that community benefits and benefits on behalf of community have been distributed, while we have been in the war chest. getting ready

for this moment, we have also done the same with those $8 million that have been advanced through the ccba. i will give you an example of some of the ways that those funds have been spent in partnership with the ad ten member organizations. we talked, we've heard us talk about alice griffith in the first phase of alice. we have spent 8 million, $80 million of the $136 million in community benefits, 80 million of that went to the first phase of alic, $267,000 went to ycd over time, beginning in 2011 for job training, $238,000 went to sfdc for rent stabilization for current residents of the bayview hunters point to cover arrearages, $610,000 was also spent with sfdc to create a financial empowerment center for neighborhood residents. that financial empowerment center

still exists today. $150,000 went to old school cafe to help stabilize that wonderful job training organization and restaurant. it is still in community today, and $40,000 went to apri to do a special job training for alice griffith residents. when the old alice was demoed, patrick ryan, who used to be the lead for echo bay, had to leave, but he shepherded that job training program just for alice residents. so there are lots of other things i could say about it, but i wanted to give you a flavor and so that you could understand there's lots of conversation about this ccba and we want to get to work so that we can continue to make the payments that are outlined in the ccba. but we can't do it if we don't move the project forward. but i don't want you to misunderstand. $8 million has already been dedicated and spent. thank you. very good

commissioners. with that, we should open up public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission. you need to line up on the screen side of the room or to your right. and each member of the public, through the chair will receive two minutes. mr. costa, come on up. guys. nice. commissioners my name is francisco da costa, and i'm going to speak on behalf of the indigenous people where hunters point was now the shipyard.

there were two hills. they were demolished. serpentine rock. and what you see today was created there. commissioners, the shipyard is a superfund site. none of y'all know about the superfund site. you all just know the word depleted uranium was tested at the at the shipyard. thousands of our children died. thousands of our elders died. and here we come. here comes some mickey mouse people telling you a story. this is not a story. chronologically, we have to respect the indigenous people. their remains are there. desecrated candlestick park, part of the bayview hill, was chopped off their remains and the dirt was

brought and candlestick stadium was created. now they demolished it. and it's a big sinkhole. commissioners as commissioners, you have to deal with quality of life issues. you just can't put our children and our elders and anybody who lives on a very, very contaminated soil. the navy did whatever they wanted to. i worked for the army and i was six army. his last congressional liaison. so i was privy to a lot of information that none of you all have. none of you all have. do you know when the bikini experiments were created, the ships huge animals were radiated and buried at the shipyard. thank you, mr. costa. that is your time. let me say one word,

please. mr. cassidy, i beg you, if i have to give you one more word than everyone gets, one more word. okay? that's fine. out of control. thank you, sir. that's fine. buenos tardes. my name is brenda cordova. soy, la présidente de la mesa directiva confederacion area de la bahia. mas de un tercio de la totalidad del espacio de oficina de la ciudad. el tren de cinco puntos por ciento estaba en los ultimos meses del 2023, es decir, un punto cinco millones de pies cuadrados de espacio vacant. los datos de la ciudad sugieren q la tasa de vacant no ha cambiado mucho. desde entonces entonces creo q no necesitamos q

construir mas oficina q necesitamos son vivienda verdaderamente accesible porque nuestra comunidad sigue siendo desplazados sabian ustedes q en el ano 20 debut. tenia mas del 70 por ciento de afroamericanos. pero en el 2020 solo eran veintisiete por ciento en el tramo del candace's park, los residentes son un nueve por ciento de latinos, un catorce por ciento de afroamericanos. esto significa q sigue siendo desplazados de nuestra comunidad disculpeme ignorancia, pero no puedo comprender. por qué tarda tanto tiempo una construction q no se cumplio q no se ha llevado a un termino en el 2020. esto es lo esto lo unico q a causado es

la estan robando el futuro a los residentes mas jovenes del debut y causando temor de quedarse un hogar adultos mayores. gracias we have somebody who is bilingual. help us understand what was said. i know commissioner williams is capable of helping us, but we need some summary of what was said. please i can do that. translate on behalf of brenda. she wrote it in english so that i could do that. thank you so much, so much, much appreciated. yes more than a third of all office space in the o. brenda cordova, the director of the board of faith and action, more than a third of all office space in the city, 35.9% was empty in the final months of 2023. that is 31 point 5,000,000ft!s of vacant space. city data suggests. the vacancy rate hasn't changed much since

then. so i think we need or we don't need more offices to be built. what we need is truly affordable housing because our community continues to be displaced. did you know that in 1980, bayview was more than 70% african american? but in 2020 it was only 27% in the candlestick tract, residents are 9% latino, 14% african american. this means they continue to be displaced from our community. excuse my ignorance, but i cannot understand why the construction was not completed in the time promised and now it seeks to be delayed even more, seeking to finish in 2030. why does it take so long? all this has done is robbed. the future of bayview's youngest residents and cause fear of homelessness for older adults. thank you. brenda cordova. thank you. buenas tardes. hoy de became a leader

in action y leader de la parte de la miembro de la meta directiva en este moment. yo voy a leer un una carta de carmen rodriguez. una madre dice yo vivo en bayview-hunters point para mi. es muy importante en mi distrito bayview se construyen viviendas por ciento accesibles para la familia de abajo, de ingresos y para las personas adultos mayores. no queremos ni necesitamos oficinas si construyen oficinas en vez de hogares abran muchas mas familias sin hogar es muy importante para familias para ninguna familia. sin hogar en mi experiencia la vida cambio de hace poco anos. ya ahora tengo una vivienda de bajos ingresos, pero hace dos anos de medio me

queda solar con mis hijos, porque mi marido fallecio. pero gracias a dios. tengo mis hijos. aunque aun asi me ha costado sostener la casa porque ahora soy yo. quién tiene qué sostener mi hogar. aun tengo ayuda para la renta. siempre tengo una parte me hace dificil ajustar para la renta. por eso muy importante no construyen vivienda. construyen vivienda accesible para la familia de bajos ingresos para qué ya no tengan qué haber familia sin hogar son los mas afectados porque solo dependemos de un bajo sueldo para el sustento de nuestros hijos sinceramente carmen rodriguez gracias. my

name is carmen rodriguez. i live in the bayview hunters point. for me, it is very important that housing is built in my bayview district and that it is 100% accessible to low income families and seniors. we don't want or need offices. if they build offices instead of homes, there will be many more homeless families. it is very important that there are homes for families, so that there are no homeless families in my experience, life changed eight years ago since i now have a low income home, but two and a half years ago, i was left alone with my three children because my husband died. but thank god i have enough to provide for my children. although it has still been difficult for me to support the house because now i am the one who has to support my household. and even if i have helped with the rent, i always have to pay a part and sometimes it is difficult for me to make it to the end of the month. that is why it is very important that affordable housing be built for

low income families, so that there is no longer have to be homeless families since they are the most affected because we only depend on a low salary to support our children. thank you. carmen rodriguez. buenas tardes. mi nombre es gabriela moreno, leader de fin. accion en el distrito diez del bayview. vivo pour veinticinco anos. mis hijos chrétiennes en el bayview attended la escuela de béjar y bayview academy. ellos for more on muchas amistades en la comunidad de bayview, sus amistades afro americana, latina y asiatica. eso es importante en la experiencia de vida de desafortunadamente. muchos amigos y vecinos han sido desarrollados de nuestra

comunidad. la idea de la gente se forzada a estar ellos llaman hogar en mucho. es algo. espero no pasar nunca loco deseo para mi comunidad del distrito diez del bayview. es la dignidad y el amor a nuestros hermanos. qué son de soldados construyen viviendas accesibles donde ellos tengan preferencia para regresar por toda familia. el hogar sagrado gracias. i as i read this, i want you guys to remember i am not adding to it. this is their translation. and so the passion is theirs. my children grew up in bayview. they attended bret harte and oh, excuse me, gabriella moreno,

resident of district ten and a leader in faith and action. my children grew up in bayview. they attended bret harte and kipp bayview academy schools. they formed many friendships in the bayview community. their friends were african american, latino and asian and that is important to their life experience. unfortunately, many of their friends and our neighbors have been evicted from our community. the idea of people being forced to be so separated from the place they call home makes me very sad. it's something i hope i never go through. what i wish for my community in district ten of bayview is that the city can respect the dignity and love of our brothers, who are evicted, and to prioritize over anything else to build affordable housing where they have the first right and priority to return. because for every family, home is sacred. thank you. gabriella moreno. madam chair, honorable

committee members san francisco is a world class city. you cannot have a world class city without a world class leadership. and you fall in that category of leadership and a world class people. san francisco is encompassed with world class people. success starts with home ownership and the african-americans and many of the other groups here have been denied that five point have stepped up to take care of that situation. candlestick development will make home ownership possible for many bayview rivers residents. i'm doctor walker, ceo of the true hope evangelical ministry, one of the founders and board members of tabernacle community

development corporation. five pastors in this city 30 years ago organized. and we have help and assist with other developers to concrete around 600,000 low income housing. what is candlestick project? and i thank those persons here today represented by sean walker and all that have explained that to you. so i do not have to get into that particular point. why support the candlestick development housing for all? addressing san francisco housing crisis without displacing the resident? i came to that community about 70 years ago as a young pastor. i bought in with my time is limited, but i had a small congregation of 30 or in that particular neighborhood. we moved that congregation up to around 400 people. we bought 75% of the low income people. now,

of the 900 block of that particular area. mr. street. so in time, i would like for you to listen, because the people of that community i live in, the community i built, housing myself there in the church and all that. so in turn, i believe you're a world class leadership. but please do not look at this as a dream, a dream or never happen. you must make it a reality. thank you. thank you. excuse me. hello, commissioners. my name is joyce julio souza. i am a first generation native of san francisco. bayview, hunters point, all my life i am of seven generations and still living in the bayview hunters point. i have seen so many of redevelopment in our community,

and i have seen the corruptions that you folks are pretty much aware of that you guys obviously admitted earlier today. i am standing here because when i listened to our neighborhoods like chinatown affordable housing, we keep hearing that we keep hearing these development, we keep hearing everybody coming up here with all this planning and outreach. i am the community. i haven't heard one outreach about planning. i am the community. i have seen seniors are in dire. and when we're speaking quality of life, we don't have the quality of life up there. when we're talking about economic growth, we don't have it in our community. we have saw nothing but corruption. we have saw nothing but people coming into our community, putting their hands on things that they're not even aware of. have any one of you guys walked our community at dark? have any one of you guys the planning or any any one of

you commissioners saw the real dire situations within our community as far as the seniors, the mothers, the children. i have family members who have died in this community because of things that were, you know, the contaminations. i have seen families, my families. i am a samoan first and i'm a us citizen, but i am samoan first. and i have seen samoan families also die right in the bayview community. violence. why? because we looking out of our windows. my community is looking out of our windows. why these redevelopment people coming in here working while they're looking out the windows and not giving the opportunity. so i'm here to make sure that you commissioners open your eyes, have empathy, and just know that we are woke. thank you. very good. rudy gonzalez, san francisco building and construction trades council. you're going to hear from folks today talk about particularly in

the ad ten organizations, which i had the privilege of representing when i was the head of the san francisco labor council for a few years. we have an unfortunate situation where the united states navy continues to delay in some cases, defraud and continue their legacy of corruption and it's to the disadvantage of the bayview-hunters point community. it's to the disadvantage of civic leaders, of religious leaders, of community leaders. it's unfortunate. just this year, the navy put out yet another schedule of delays. if we do not act soon, if not today, if we do not act soon, we will not be talking about any new development on this site until 2036. if not 2038. the fact remains that the land is contaminated. there are large percentages of that land that the state of california wants trucked out of our state limits. i don't know this because i read

it in an article i was in negotiations with one of the contractors this morning who's bidding on that remediation work and demolition work. it's often referred to as parcel g. parcel g will not start anytime soon. and until that land is clean and until the community have a restored sense of faith and integrity, that that land is clean, we should not develop and lennar should not take receipt of that land. but i urge you to consider that today's decision is about moving forward where the land is clean, where the jobs can be created, and where lennar five points specifically has stood by their commitments not only to community benefits, but to local hire, to local apprenticeship utilization. and that means we can bring good jobs to a community that has suffered long enough. let's not force lennar into 20 tens version of what has not come true. not because you failed, but because the united states navy failed us. let's move forward at candlestick where we

can create good jobs and do it now. thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. reverend doctor carolyn ransom scott, san francisco native, born, raised and live in san francisco, lived in the 40s in the bayview hunters point with a shipyard. my father worked the shipyard, and that was the engine that brought food to the table. i not only live, but i serve. the community served the city, and i've watched all of the changes. hope deferred makes the heart sick, said a writer. but when desires are met, it leads to a tree of life. and out of a mountain of despair. we've heard about all of that is a stone of hope. candlestick point is that stone of hope and we look forward to this project moving forward and not being held back.

we look for the hope that will put food on the table and our men and women to work in that area. we look for the hope that will give us a brighter future and allow us to build this first class city that all eyes are upon throughout the nation. we look for your moving forward of the candlestick point project, and we're grateful that you're able to have the position to make this decision. and we hope to hear from you. the project will go forward. thank you. amen. amen. good afternoon, commissioners dan torres, business representative, sprinkler fitters, local 483, san francisco native. i spent the majority of my life on the

corner of 18th and york, got into the trades, got into the sprinkler fitters. i used to take the nine san bruno downtown to work as an apprentice sprinkler fitter with a guy by the name of sean. now i have to address him as mr. commissioner mcgarry. it's up there, i just want to point out that being a san francisco native and working downtown san francisco, there was opportunity. there was an opportunity for me to be able to provide for my family, to have health care, to have a pension and moving this project forward would create opportunity for people like me. san francisco residents, natives to work in their community and be able to have a pathway to home ownership, a pension, health care, and be able to provide for their family. so i urge you to move this project forward. thank you for your time. looking good. mr. commissioner mcgarry, thank you for your time. hello, commissioners, my name is mel

simmons. i am a second generational generation general contractor on the district ten company has won original construction. i'm also a part of the sf hyperlocal building and trades contractors collective, that is a better way. construction dc development integrity first plumbing, ciw plumbing. sterling framers and will kami plastering. we are a group of contractors out of the district ten and san francisco natives. this project, is very important for the members of the community as well as the contractors and district ten. i looked at listened to some of the numbers of the gentrification that has happened in san francisco, which is dismal. it is terrible, and we

as san francisco people should be embarrassed, i see people, i see all of my commissioners who i believe are my people. although we look a little different, i do believe that the commission is here for the greater good of san francisco. and that means the greater good of the bayview residents, as well as the contractors. the reason why we're able to gentrify bayview and the black people out of bayview is because they don't have the economic base in order to stay and without a program and without an opportunity, like, five points and the shipyard provides for us this 14% of bayview that is black, that is still still there will not be there very longer, much longer. i'm thinking within ten years that that 14% will probably be down to about 4%.

and that's unfortunate, so i would like to say thank you to my brothers of the sf hyperlocal. and also thank thank you to lashawn walker, who actually came to our meeting to speak with the brothers. thank you. good afternoon, madam president. commissioners, my name is mauricio chavez. i am an organizer for the norcal carpenters union. we represent just over just under 37,000 members across the northern 46 counties of the state, i work for the 4000 members of san francisco county. i come today with you. i come today with my brothers and sisters to show our support of this. once in a generation opportunity to increase, not just the housing number, but members lives. let's

think about what this opportunity means for the membership. that means the members. the family won't have to choose between getting groceries or paying the light bill. a mother doesn't have to choose between paying the car note or paying rent. that means the child's doctor appointment won't have to be delayed for lack of health care. the health care that we've earned on the job site has helped my son, who has adhd, get the support that he needs to live his best life. what is this job? this job is more than just the aforementioned benefits of going to work. this type of development with the local hire preference means it has a positive impact on greenhouse effect. greenhouse gases, as opposed to projects who don't, who track, who bring their workforce in from over state and out of country. this development will deliver 7200 new homes, a significant dent in san francisco's state mandate 82,000 new housing units, the. we

vehemently ask that you support this candlestick development and vote yes. thank you. good afternoon commissioners, my name is derek tillman. i'm a carpenter out of local 22. i have a few things to say. not a few things. just one thing. the navy delayed on the shipyard has jeopardized the candlestick point project, denying working class people in the bayview the same opportunities that other parts of san francisco have enjoyed. this setback has held our community back for far too long. now we have the chance to finally move forward and create jobs and growth right here in the bayview. we can't afford to let history repeat itself. let's support this project and give our neighborhood the opportunity to deserve and hopefully a woman who knows our neighborhood will be the next president of the united states and demand accountability from the united, from the navy so we can all

rise. thank you. good afternoon, commissioner members. my name is anthony antifa. i'm a proud member of carpenters local 22, san francisco native raised in the mission district. i'm asking the commissioners to support the candlestick project the way it is now. i know affordable housing is important, and 34% of the units are already set aside for that. but if we push for more, we might make the project too expensive to actually happen. that could mean losing out on jobs and opportunities for people like like me. let's keep this project moving forward without adding more demands that could stop it in its tracks. the project represents a significant investment in housing, community amenities and infrastructure, and local business. the candlestick project will directly benefit carpenters with both employment and training opportunities also contributing to our broader economic and community enhancements. for san francisco. as a carpenter working in san francisco,

working on a project that enhances their own community can be especially rewarding. our members, like so many others, need more abundant affordable housing for themselves and their families. the candlestick project will contribute to a higher quality of life for the community members, including us carpenters and our families. thank you for voting yes and supporting our work and profession. thank you for your time. good afternoon, planning commission. my name is kimberly hill brown. i am the granddaughter of ahsha stephen hill, a navy vet world world world war two vet, korean vet who moved his family up to san francisco in the early 60s into alice griffith, where he went on to work at the treasure island and retired in the shipyard and retire. my family is from the

bayview. my maternal grandmother was one of the first african americans to live and purchase a home. in the late 40s in the bayview. i have family on the candlestick hill who are homeowners of over 60 years, and i support this project. this is my home. this is the land that i first walked on the shoreline of the bay. back there at the candlestick is my first view, where the new alice griffith is currently at. that is where i first played. i first walked, i first climbed trees. i snuck over to the train tracks at four, came home covered in rust. okay, this is my home, san francisco. yerba buena san francisco is my birthplace. i am the current ic chair for the

shipyard candlestick. i support this project. we need the resources and the community. it's been over 100 years since the southeast sector received any type of infrastructure improvements of this magnitude. we need this. let's move forwar. thank you. thank you. good afternoon, commissioners director hillis and members of the public. my name is andrea baker, and i am the executive director and ceo of interaction inc. interaction worked with five point to develop and facilitate a community engagement and outreach plan that created workshops where community could learn more about the reasons for and the changes to be included in the

development agreement, amendment and residents could share their reasons and questions about how it would impact them and the future generations of their community. so you've heard the facts, and they're great. so maybe they're worth repeating again. or more than 180 participants participated and shared their hopes and dreams and questions and concerns about the candlestick development project at four community workshops located in three locations over six weeks. additionally, we look forward to working with five point and doctor carolyn scott to continue outreach in the community, particularly to our youth who we believe stand to be the most impacted by this development. this kind of ongoing engagement is how we sustain diversity in

our community. during our workshops, we asked folks to tell us how they saw themselves in the candlestick development, and i think you'd like to hear a few of those comments with these affordable housing numbers, maybe i could buy a home in candlestick and stay close to my parents. i want to help make this feel like a neighborhood. we live in candlestick for years now and we love riding bikes. thank you ma'am, that is your time. thank you. good afternoon. good afternoon. commission. my name is sean mcgill with mcgill security. i am a the bayview district. i have been here all my life, and i am also the security provider for both the

candlestick point and naval shipyard job sites. i fully support this project and the opportunities it will bring to our community. not only will we benefit from more jobs and more housing, but this legacy project allows residents like myself something to look forward to and to be proud of. when i talk to friends and family that are also lifelong residents, and i update them with what is currently being planned of the space, i hear nothing but excitement and support for what is to come. please approve this project and give this community something to look forward to for years to come. thank you. good afternoon commissioners. my name is tricia gregory. i am a business owner in the bayview, a truck. i own a trucking company in the bayview for the last 22 years. i am not a born or raised in the bayview. however, i have married into a family that is first and second generation bayview residents and also now my children and my

grandchildren are third and fourth generation bayview residents. i'm sorry the lady left, but yes, i too have witnessed a lot that that community does not have to offer. but now you have a project that needs to move forward so we can get the youth and the residents into the trades with union wages, union pensions that will stay in the city of san francisco and that will allow them to finally be able to purchase a home and be able to raise their children in the neighborhood that they were born and raised. thank you. i hope you approve this project. good afternoon. my name is kumar. i'm a san francisco resident, i don't necessarily want to tread over ground that's already been covered. so, you know, this project is exciting, long awaited, and this is an opportunity to get 9% of the rhna, requirement for houses

built. the community and the city gets a lot out of the project, the jobs, the new housing. and based on the plans, a vibrant and fun place for families to live, i want to touch a bit on affordability. so projects like this are exactly how affordability happens, i was listening previously when people were talking about, oh, the 50% ami is too much. i would say if, you know, if we're talking about all of the inclusionary requirements we're putting in and we're still not having, you know, housing affordable enough for people, we really need to think about how, we're approaching this, so, yeah, more projects like this. i think that's super important, more projects that are facilitated by sb 423, which i think, yeah, that's pretty much it. you know, back to candlestick. the stadium

has been gone for a decade, it's high time. please, please, please adopt this project, we need this. and hopefully the navy will also oblige. thank yo. good afternoon, commissioners jane nottoli, i am the san francisco organizing director for yimby action. good to see everybody back here in room 400, i'm here today to speak in support and ask for your support as well for the proposed amendments. i think you've heard already from a number of speakers in community about the benefits that this will bring 7200 new homes, over 30% of them affordable, in an area where we have opportunity. really, candlestick is nothing there right now. right. like we tore it down. there's literally just an empty lot right there. so we don't get opportunities like this every day. and so i really hope that we can strike upon it. we've been waiting quite a

while. we've been held up. i know there are some other issues in the general area, but that does not apply to candlestick point. and i would like to see this move expeditiously. thank you for your attention to this. good afternoon. my name is kevin gray. i am a renter in outer sunset, san francisco, and i wanted to give the perspective of someone from about as far from the project as you can on why i still support this project strongly, the science on it is pretty clear. all projects that increase housing supply decrease the cost of living for everyone in the city. and so a big project like this is going to benefit sunset. it's going to benefit richmond, it's going to benefit everyone. and that's why i'm here to support it. good afternoon, commissioners john

eller, i'm here i'm a 35 year resident of san francisco and actually been working on this project at different parts for the last 17, i'm here in support of a i'm a volunteer supporting a labor council and faith in action. you already heard there are signatories to the ccba, actually, the history is kind of getting rewritten here that the city was actively involved in the ccba. that's why it's called a core community benefits agreement. it was negotiated in rooms around this building with mayor newsom at the time, and michael cohen and, it's referenced in the in the community benefits agreement from 2010. and it actually became part of a bunch of other agreements that the ccac and the other and the pac and other groups really argued for. and so the, you know, the fact that the city is unwilling to really enforce the workforce and housing funds in this agreement, especially when they did open up the community benefits agreement

in 2019 with the last, major amendment, which was supposed t, you know, have alice griffith done in the next, in the next five years. the, the two biggest issues is both the community benefits to actually what everyone is talking about here is exactly what the signatories and a lot of the folks that are part of this care about is actually winning the jobs, delivering on the jobs, getting those moving right away and moving the housing as this was supposed to be a housing forward project. and candlestick has always been ready for the housing and it should be, you know, fast tracked. you have a letter before you that highlights the need for speeding up. alice griffith neighborhoods and not delaying them any further. and then secondly, is really opening up the community benefits to actually make sure we're delivering the jobs and housing investments that people need so they can actually stay in the community and actually move up that ladder in terms of

both jobs and housing, i will submit this letter from, it's signed by michael cohen that actually shows that the city was committing to match the community benefits agreement for workforce. how do i get this to you? just leave it. go ahead and leave it there. okay. good afternoon. commissioners. my name is brendan green. i'm a representative of ibew local six on the san francisco electrical workers union, the project amended amendments before you represent a key and important amendment to the phasing of this construction. the shipyard has not moved forward. and as we as we had hoped, thankfully, five points is willing to move forward with work at candlestick point, transferring the 2,000,000ft!s to a location whee we can put people to work and stimulate the local economy is not only fiscally prudent, but morally imperative. the community needs these jobs, and my union looks forward to more apprentices joining our workforce and getting us back to

work here. thank you. good afternoon commissioners. my name is alex landsberg, research and advocacy director with the san francisco electrical and construction industry. i also happen to be a bayview-hunters point resident and also have an incredibly long history with the shipyard. less so with candlestick. just a quick thing about the shipyard and something that a lot of folks don't don't really remember, is that we've brought over 4 or $500 million of cleanup dollars to try to clean up hunterspoint shipyard. i administrated at one point, the technical assistance grant that was reviewing the work that the navy had been doing. and what i think none of us really expected wasn't so much that the cleanup itself would be fraudulent, like we've heard, but that the actual underlying science behind it would be fraudulent, which has delayed everything. i also worked on a back in, i think, 2000 proposition p, which was a ballot measure and ended up being enshrined in policy that

said that san francisco should not take possession of hunters point shipyard until it's clean. and i'm glad to see that that is continuing. but like rudy gonzalez said, we're talking about candlestick. we're talking about essentially fallow vacant land that has long been expected to be developed. and finally, as we're starting to climb out of the dislocations and the problems of the pandemic, we have an opportunity to move forward. we need to take that opportunity. we have lots of people in the trades who remain unemployed. we've seen carpenters here, electricians, fire sprinklers, fitters. we have two carpenters up there. i think everybody recognizes that we've got to get this thing moving. and the fact that, five points still say lennar is making these commitments. we see the participation of local community contractors. i think all of this really speaks to the value of this project and the importance of moving it forward. so thank you very much and i hope we see a unanimous vote. thank you. good afternoon, madam

chair. commissioners. mr. director, my name is roberta achtenberg and i am a 50 year resident of san francisco. i am former county supervisor in san francisco, a former member of the clinton administration. as fair housing assistant secretar, former united states commissioner on civil rights commissioner, an obama appointee. i've worked for 18 years as a consultant, first to lennar and then to five point, to help work with this hunters point community on making sure that the developer delivers state of the art, best practice, community based investments. 18 years i have been working on this project, and i can assure you that at every step this

developer has tried its very best to deliver its commitment to community benefits and community investment and community based. pardon me. i'm sorry to interrupt you, but you said you worked on this project. i am so you're sort of part of the project team. and so your comments should have been made during their presentation. i'm going to have to, actually, i've made i am a 50 year san francisco. i understand that, but if you worked on the project, then you have a financial interest in the project and are conflicted out from speaking as public commenter. okay, well, i have in past years made three appearances before this, though. thank you ma'am, well, thank you very much. yeah you said something. good afternoon, commissioners. corey smith, on behalf of the housing action coalition, i believe this is the

first opportunity i've had to address commissioner mcgarry and commissioner campbell, welcome to both of you. a little bit of a kumbaya, and we don't get these too many times here. and i'm sure as commissioner moore can can attest, this sort of uniform and unison and unanimous support for a housing proposal in the city and county of san francisco doesn't happen all that often. and that's because of all the work that the project team did. and so, so we're in strong support of the project and feeling, frankly, relatively optimistic about how the end of this hearing is going to go. but but i do also want to point out and kind of bring it back 30,000ft a little bit to see kind of where we are at this moment in time. and i'm a firm, firm believer that san francisco's best days are ahead of us. and i am very optimistic about the opportunities that we have in front of us as a city broadly and as somebody that is constantly trying to figure out how can we get housing built, how can we get more housing built faster, how can we get more housing at a variety of

income levels? and there's factors we do control and there's factors that we don't control. but in sort of the big picture macro point of view, when big projects like this move forward, it signals to everybody else that that san francisco is doing well, that san francisco, that the death of san francisco is commonly overrated and consistently overrated. and when we're able to get projects like this moving forward, and we're able to get things like the potrero power station built, and we can get the transit investment to ensure that the future residents in the candlestick park neighborhood are able to get downtown to work fast, to get to bart fast. all of these things have to happen in order for us to actually realize the potential of what we have. so, you know, major kudos to the project team. i very feel like very rarely feel like i get i get outorganized by a project team, but they've done that with all the community members here, and it's really impressive. so i want to have you move it forward. thank you very much.

good afternoon, commissioners. my name is linda richardson and former san francisco planning commissioner and also i chair the land use planning and transportation for the bayview redevelopment plan. the plan that you are approving amendment, you know, to today and during your 100 year anniversary for the planning commission, you know what the plan that was featured was the bayview redevelopment plan. our plan it was signature. it was iconic. since then, we've been coming before commissioner catherine moore and elizabeth, when you were the planning president, we were there to and we've also had decades working with rich hillis. you know, when you were the economic department, our project, we are still the only one still coming out here begging. we are still

the only community in san francisco that is still awaiting the economic revitalization that you all have approved. and since then, we are helping escort mission bay. everything and so we need your support today. but i want to shout out that, matt, that was a signature presentation. and leila, as sean walker and the five point team oci were mr. key was appointed. his mandate was to kind of help us to activate candlestick point. he has delivered. and so here we are today. you all are lucky actually for the opportunity to help to move bayview-hunters point, the southeast sector, the long neglected. so it is on your legacy now. and so commissioner so thank you for your work on the sfmta's. you were also helping bayview. thank you all. good afternoon. excuse me.

excuse my voice. good afternoon commissioners. my name is aaron sterling, owner of sterling builders, doing business as sterling framers. excuse me, i'm a born and raised san francisco resident from d11, but i've been in bayview doing, as a local carpenter and local 22 for about 17 or 18 years. how you doing, sean mcgarry, excuse me. i ask that you approve this project, this is going to bring economic development not only to bayview, but to san francisco, that will give us the opportunity to employ the youth and anybody else who wants to become a carpenter, electrician, plumber and the trades, and give them opportunity for economic development as well. so thank you for your time and ask that you do approve this project. thank you. thank you. thank you.

commission members. my name is cornelius jordan, i'm just a resident in bayview. i go to church there, and that's all i'll say about myself. really, i'm just trying to advocate for community involvement in all stages of the process. this is a great meeting to have, but it's not a binary situation that we find ourselves in, design is form and function. and so we have a company that wants to bring in form, and we have people that need functions. so we cannot be as, i guess binary again about how we move forward. but we need involvement. we need political involvement. we need, you know, community respect for both partners on either side. so i guess i'm just advocating for some wisdom and your fullest scrutiny in the development, especially the design, because once design happens, you know, that's where everything changes

20 years from now. so shovels in the ground might be too late to reverse course. so now is the time to be equitable. thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is oscar james. i'm a native resident of bayview-hunters point, 68, 68 years, my father was one of the ones who put that crane. when you come into the san francisco. he's one of the ones who put that crane together in the hunters point shipyard. that's how long we've been there in that community. my grandmother was the first one who bought a home of color in bayview hunters point. i first want to say i support this project 100%, but i think as growing up in the community and being a city commissioner at that time, we had 70% home ownership, african-americans owning home ownership in bayview, hunters point at that time the largest home ownership throughout the city and county of san francisco. since then, redevelopment has came into our

community also. western addition also japantown and other places like the soma and displaced peoples. i want to make sure those 6500 replacement housing, some of those go into this particular project, i want to make sure that our young peoples in our community be able to start businesses in the african marketplace. in this particular project, i also served on the mayor's task force for the closure of the hunters point shipyard in 1963. and i told commander again and honorable phil burton and honorable joseph alioto about the toxics in the hunters point shipyard. so my father told me about it as growing up. when we went back to when bill clinton was the president, he signed the environmental justice law. i was there when he signed it, and i told him about the hunters point shipyard, and that's when it became a brownfield and superfund project. but i support this project. but i want to make

sure the young people in my community get these jobs and business opportunities out there. thank you very much. oh, and i want to make sure the hyperlocal black contractors in our community get some of these jobs and contracts. thank you. good afternoon, chair moore and members of the city planning commission. my name is doctor veronica honeycutt, and i am the chair of the hunters point shipyard citizens advisory committee, otherwise known as cac. prior to serving in this capacity, i served on the mayor's citizen's advisory committee for community development and the mayor's economic development task force. also i was appointed by mayor george moscone to the commission on the status of women and also by mayor gavin newsom to the housing authority commission. i also have had a long career in higher education at both city college of san francisco,

skyline college, and the san francisco unified school district, and was the dean of the southeast campus for many years. i've been blessed with being active in the in community leadership roles in the omi, the western addition, the bayview, and citywide. for years as chair of the cac, i've been leading an exemplary group of wonderful people committed. and we've been i've been leading them for over a decade. our community is close to achieving one of the most important opportunities for the san francisco, for san francisco to finally make a significant comeback. we have been fighting for investment in bayview for decades, and your vote will help us keep san francisco as the innovation capital of the world. now, commissioners, we know that you may have heard or received letters from people or groups who have not attended ongoing meetings and who claimed to say there is a violation of community benefits agreement.

the developer has invested millions. additional funds have been delayed, but that is because the project has been delayed. it is not as as though the developer has built the project and not paid. what is owed. to date, the developer is compliant and works with community groups like the legacy foundation, which i chair to, you know, work with us to spend the money. so here's the issue. what is thank you. but that is your time. commissioners may call you up for additional questions. i'd appreciate that. thank you. hello, commissioners. my name is neola gans, and i'm a cac member. all i would like to do is just say that this project will be a very important opportunity for the community,

the bayview community and san francisco, where jobs, opportunity and visitors to come and tour and see what is going on at the new candlestick point. i approve, and i hope that you approve of this project going forward. thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is joyce armstrong. i'm the co-chair for the hunters point shipyard citizens advisory committee, and the very proud president of the san francisco housing authority, public housing tenant association, city wide. and i've been working on this project a long time, even before i retired in 2010. and i just want you to know that

public housing, we all support this moving forward and ask you to see that it does. thank you very much. okay. last call for public comment. seeing none public comment is closed. commissioners. this matter is now before you. i'd like to start opening. was my expression of deep appreciation for everybody who came. this has been the one of the most amazing public testimonies i have witnessed in a long, long time. and again, yes, i am biased. this project, given that i have been sitting on this commission for a long time, is very close to my heart and i would like to start to use some of the words i've heard you talk about. it's exciting. it is indeed long awaited, but it's creative, it's state of the art and it's best

practice. and there's a lot more i could pick up on, particularly when i hear a reverend walker speak about making this a reality. if it comes to good planning, if it comes to good urban design, this project has gone through a number of iterations between 2009 and 2024, and i have followed pretty much all of them. the best step occurred in 2019, when this project stepped into a whole new perception of how use current practice in urban design. mr. tom, and particularly architect david doordash from kenya, were leading the. we thought thinking about the design and i spent quite a bit of private time speaking with him and working with them on really pushing major points that were important to me, particularly. ultimately, these are not separate projects. they are one of the same, filling out the southern

waterfront and making them an integral part of our city. and i think with what i see today, i think we arrived. i spent a bit of time just last week, not only with ocie and our planning team, which i think based on the presentations we heard is significantly bringing something forward which has substance. i also took the liberty to spend a private meeting with the design team to really test and see. drawing on my memories, working with architect ajayi, how much are we holding our principles which at that time were very, very dear to me and indeed everything i got out of those meetings is that this project has arrived. the creativity lies in dealing with adversity for me and adversity is there when, and it's hard to put into words and be honest about one's feeling. when the sham about the cleanup of the shipyard ultimately

really stands clearly in front of you. and there is many, many meetings in which the community spoke to the doubts they had about the cleanup, and only it took the last step to finally come to terms with it and moving on. and i think the creative move of putting our energy into candlestick point and rethinking about how we are still delivering a fully committed project, that is what is the most important thing for me. and without getting too lengthy in my comments, and i know we have heard about affordable housing, the importance of it, i feel that many questions have been answered. i know other commissioners will continue to ask them. so one thing i ask your indulgence on. i would like to ask miss achtenberg to finish her comments. she has been an integral part of this project and i would like her to share

this incredible experience with all of us. for people who are a little bit older, they may remember her when she was actively standing in front of all of us, all the time. so let's give her a couple of more minutes to finish what she had to say for us. thank you, madam chair. and i respect the clerk's objection, thank you all. i wanted to add was that the community has been intimately involved in dispersing the community benefits that the developer has invested in this community. we have met monthly in the implementation committee for more than 16 years, making sure that the community was the beneficiary, community based organizations were the beneficiary of the five point investment. and i wanted to

assure you that we it was an honest effort. it is a hard working group of folks who have made that investment in community. it's been honest and it's been in accordance with best practices. as i understand them, pure and simple. thank you, madam chair, for the courtesy, i appreciate it. thank you. can we take a break, commissioner peel? take a break, i think, commissioner, do you want to say something? commissioner williams? i just wanted to see if we could take a break. i ask that the commission take a five minute break. we've been sitting here since 12. and please give us a five minute break. if you don't

i think it's hard for a lot of people. okay. good afternoon and welcome back to the san francisco planning commission hearing for thursday, september 12th, 2024. commissioners, we left off under your regular calendar on items 15 a and b for the candlestick point development project. and we are still working through your deliberations. commissioner imperial, thank you, president moore, first, i just want to mention that how deeply moved i am by all of the comments of the public today. especially from the bayview residents. and, and you can tell the, the, the experience and also the years of how many residents have been longing for this kind of project and also working on this kind of

project as well. so i deeply respect that kind of experience. and also showing up again to, you know, about this, about this project, i also want to, you know, because there has been a lot of delays of the shipyard, and then now we, you know, with this moving forward with the candlestick, i think for me, this kind of project deserves some, some questioning and some scrutiny to make sure that this project is actually moving forward. i don't want what happened in the shipyard to happen again in the candlestick, overall, i think, you know, what has, was a project we have right now needs to move forward. but i really want to have more accountability, more clarification, specification,

especially on the matters of affordable housing, workforce in other areas as well. in terms of the other ccba or other community agreements as well. i think you know, for me, all of the all of people's passion today and even through the emails, i don't see it as something that oppose or approval, but it's really you could tell the yearning for this kind of project and really make sure that it really comes through, so my first my question is around specification on the on what's going to be moved forward first, especially when it comes to, the affordable housing, i believe that alice griffith has been constructed already five years ago, and then it looks like there's still more development that needs to happen on the alice griffith area. and

then there's also other affordable housing that's also coming up. i believe there are parcels ten a and 11 a that als, you know, trying to move forward. but i think what i'm hearing also in terms of, you know, in terms of that affordable housing, is that the timeline of what when this construction may happen and i, you know, and so i think the phasing of this, the innovation district and then how it's tied to the affordable housing, i think we need more specification on that. and how will the public know about this kind of timelin, of course the approval needs to go first, but at the same time, i think what i'm hearing is that there needs to be some sort of form of trust at this point. we need to get some form of trust at this point that these things are really moving forward and that there are some form of community input or, you know, there's a way of communication between ocei and the and this,

you know, and this affordable housing area as well. can someone from oci speak about that? and, mr. hussain, i'll ask if you could maybe talk both about the phasing, but also just the overall housing proportions that are planned and the overall affordability, which i think mr. steiner can help with. some slides we have. yeah. so while matt is we have some backup slides for, for other to clarify other points that may come come up the project, the project is divided into seven phases. the build out of candlestick point. and there's something called a schedule performance, which is an attachment to the disposition and development agreement. and there's timelines for each of them in terms of when they need to complete horizontal infrastructure. and the first, the next phase that we talked about, which is 675 units, of which 41% is affordable, that has the developers required to submit infrastructure plans within 12 months of these

approvals being finalized. there's a couple of reasons. definitely. there's certainty. we all want certainty, but we also received a $20 million raise grant from the federal government to start the infrastructure on candlestick point that have clear deadlines. so something will start related to the infrastructure and the infrastructure that is required to start. the first phase is not your everyday infrastructure because there is no infrastructure out there to support the development. we are proposing. we are starting from ground zero to build all new sewer system, all new everything. so that is a significant time period and a significant cost investment to start the first phases of infrastructure, we broke out the phases into smaller phases than what was previously conceived back in 2010. in order to make it feasible that you could build that amount of infrastructure and development and make it

economically feasible. and so in that first phase, you have 6675 units. and then we have roughly 1.2 to 1 point 7,000,000ft!s of commercial the next, the next phase, i don't have the data in front of me, but the way the project works in terms of development, you divide a project on these large projects, similar to sunnydale mission bay. you have these what you call major phases. and in those major phases you divide you. there's a map that matt will pull up that shows these phases. and when those phases are to be submitted, they come to the city commission. the phase applications and planning reviews them as well. and it it basically shows. so okay, so this is this map is what i'm talking about. so the peach is the next phase. and then the baby blue is the phase after that. and okay so the baby. so when these phases come through essentially these applications

phase applications that show that nailed down the exact units. because sometimes, you know, we have it divided in phases. it's a lot of units. but until you design a schematic design of a building, you don't know exactly the units. luckily for us, in the blue zone, which is going to be the third phase, we've designed three of those buildings because the project has been on hold. so when that time comes, those buildings won't have we won't have to wait for design of vertical, vertical design of the buildings because a lot of that is ready. so that those unit counts are there and then as you move through the phases, you submit your phase application of how many units you're going to build in that phase. and then there's, requirements in the dda of how much is affordable. also within the disposition and development agreement, there's already established map of all the bmr standalone blocks. so that's attachment to the dda. so you

know, in this phasing map you'll know where those lots stand. and then the developer has their inclusionary requirement. so you have that certainty there in terms of certainty around affordable housing. so that's how you move through the phases. you submit a phase application that gives you details around the square footage as an exact unit counts. that's when all your bmrs are broken out to level specificity. in blue and peach. we already have that. most of that specificity because we are we are designing those because we when we were doing the retail center, we thought we were moving forward with that big phase. so as we move forward in later phases, that's what we're going to do. that comes before the cac, that comes before oca commission, and then you get to schematic design approvals. you could do any of these things concurrently if you're ready to go. we did that in alice griffith. we approved the major phase and pretty much the vertical right on top of it to get that project going. so there's and that's what we have done in mission bay and other projects that oci oversees. so

in terms of the in the phasing timeline, all of this will be presented to the cac, to the oci, in terms of schematic, you know, that needs to be happen. so there is some sort of public, you know i guess public, monitoring i guess, in terms of the, the 100% affordable housing, i believe there's also a projects or parcels in ten, 11 a and i think, is there something that is quite concrete, depending on when can that start or or which phase is that starting on. so the standalone affordable. so there's several standalone affordable blocks sprinkled throughout the project. and so in terms of the next phase of development, there's 176 units of standalone. but there's also another plot. there is another block of 60 units that have yet to be designed. but in terms of the 176 unit, the gateway

project that's already been designed. so as soon as the infrastructure gets built, then we can you know what? we'll do is probably start, pre-development while the infrastructure is going on. and so that as soon as the infrastructure is in a good enough place, we could start building all the vertical blocks that are part of that phase. you definitely, definitely have bad experience doing horizontal and vertical at the same time. you want your horizontal at a certain stage before, otherwise you're going to have contractors on top of each other, so the idea is that as soon as the horizontal is in place, that's close to notice of completion stage, which is public works determination of getting ready to accept public infrastructure, we will be getting in there so that we can start building our project. and we do have financing for that project. so it's not going to be held back by financing. okay. thank you. do you want to add mr. just about thank you. leila, i want to introduce myself. first of

all, i'm the executive director of the office of community investment infrastructure. this is a great hearing. you guys do a great job. thank you so much. our commission has similar hearings, lots of public comment. so i appreciate your patience with this project and your support. your team is pretty amazing. so you should be very proud of them. i just want to emphasize that right out the gate, the very first phase that's going to be started, infrastructure construction, which hopefully we're starting in q4 of 2025 or q1 of 2026 for infrastructure starting the scheduled performance has that within one year of the approval they have to submit plans for approval and within one year of receiving those permits from the city. and we're going to work like like hell to get those permits approved. working with the department of public works and dbi and all those folks to get those approved within one year, they have to start construction, but they plan on starting sooner than that as soon as the infrastructure is complete. they have about three years to do that. we hope that

it's done a little sooner within the closing phase of that period. we oci already have fully designed permitted site permit projects. sfc and mercy, our partners on the first projects, 75 units and lennar has housing already designed as well. there were 10% inclusionary in their. inclusionary is at 80 to 120% of area income. our projects are at 0 to 60% of area median income. so right out the gate we're at about a million, 2,000,007 of commercial space and about 600 units of housing. the second phase, the very next phase starts no later than three years from now. the infrastructure construction starts. then that takes two years, three years depending on grading, infrastructure permitting. and so on. on those blocks you have tndc and young community developers as partners. that phase has 800 units of housing, again 100% affordable on some of the blocks, and the rest are, projects that have inclusionary as well. so i just want to lay

out the immediate next 3 to 5, six years of construction, both on infrastructure, on timing and affordable housing and housing production. so we're looking into, in terms of affordable housing, you know, materialization in terms up to seven years in i mean, in terms of phasing, if we're looking into the phase one, that's another three years, phase two, that's going to be another three years. so in a way, phase one. so the phase one, phase two that we can right now i guess we can predict is around 6 to 7 years in terms of how it's going to be implemented or the process. i mean, at least that's correct. okay. and because this requires so much upfront infrastructure, i know you see quite a few infill projects here at the planning commission with single sites with already existing utilities, existing sidewalks, existing street lights, existing street trees. we're planting over 10,000 new trees just in terms of order of magnitude. so this takes time to do it

properly. again, working with the community, not overwhelm them with construction. the public communication on the hunters point shipyard cac is quite intensive. we are there all the time with them informing the community. our commission has public hearings as well, and so there's lots of communication in terms of the community and notification. yeah another question. and i think a lot of residents spoke about how there are, you know, how many generations residents and, you know, when it comes to affordable housing and, you know, just the history of the hunters shipyard, the redevelopment before, you know, i'm quite familiar with the certificate of preference and, you know, the kind of and from what i hear also from some of the community members in terms of the certificate of preference, of course, you have to be, you have to be qualified first. you have to show your qualification for this affordable housing, but it doesn't say mentioned or it doesn't, i guess what i'm trying to reach into is like, can the

co-op have tied to a specific amis, let's say 40 to 60% ami where it's, you know, if we're talking about, let's say below market rate, right? a below market rate, and it's at 80% ami, can the co-op be tied to a specific ami and is that something that's oci working on? so thank you for bringing up our certificate of preference program, which is a preference for, individuals who had been displaced by former redevelopment activities. and they have a preference in housing. so they get the first choice kind of in all of our affordable housing throughout the city, not just candlestick, but throughout the city. transbay mission bay, they get access the very first access in the city's administrative code that lists other kinds of preferences. veterans preferences, displaced, residents, neighborhood preference, they're the very first at the top, and they get

access to 100% of the units. so if we have 100 unit building and 100 certificate of preference holders apply, and they all qualify, they'll be placed immediately in all those units. they have to first want to be in that particular location. they may not want to live in candlestick. they may not want to live in trans bay. they may not want to live at 100 venice. we don't know. it's a housing choice. so we notify them and they'll inquire about it. they'll go and apply through the process, but they get first access to all the housing that we produce, affordable housing. yeah, i'm quite familiar with that. i think my question is more for the inclusionary housing units that let's say are not, you know, they 100% affordable housing will probably be between 50 to 60%. ami let's say. but there are also inclusionary units in this project. and let's say this project, there is an inclusionary unit for 80%. ami is there something that oca have been working on that also cop who are low below the 80% ami

can be, you know, allowable for 40 to 60% or something lower than 80% ami of what's being offered by the inclusionary unit. is that something? i'm not sure if that would take legislation, but is that something that ocei is working on in terms of offering a unit that is below what the inclusionary unit would offer? right. so the inclusionary program that we have is already in the 2010 agreement. and so the individual, the certificate of preference holder would have to have that income. and so when they present themselves they have to income qualify. they might be at 80% of ami. they might be at 40% of ami. and there's housing throughout the city that they have access to, including other inclusionary projects, some that have lower amis, some that have higher amis than this project, per se. okay, yeah, i hope that something that most cdd or oci try to work on

in terms of, i mean, i from what i'm hearing is that there is no mechanism for cop to offer units that are below 80% ami, let's say a inclusionary housing unit, is at middle income, but the cop preference holder is a low income. you know, so i, i guess this is more like a policy policy question. the cop or some sort of some form of enforcement mechanism. i'm not saying that you know, this, that what we have right now, i guess what i'm saying is that what we have right now, in terms of cop cop is not quite equipped to the people that may need it most. let's say if you're lower, lower than the middle income. right. so that's what i'm trying to touch on i understand. yeah not all cop holders are low income. yeah number one, i'm not suggesting you're saying that. i'm just clarifying for the public who is listening, it's not a population of all low income individuals, in fact,

many of the cop holders, as it's growing in about four years ago, then assembly member chiu introduced ab 1584 to the legislature, which created an additional preference category. descendants of certificate of preference holders, and those tend to be younger in age. some of them are low income because of their early career stage, but they actually have a more rapid, potentially rapid income growth. cycle than some of the older original displaces. some, of course, who we verified have have passed away since then. thank you so much for that clarification, i have a question. i don't know if it's a planner question or. thank you. and i guess my question in terms of the innovation district, and i can see it in the design for development and, you know, what's being presented is that even though, you know, there's a transfer of 2.5 million of office development slash residential, you know,

residential or hotel, i guess my in terms of the flexibility of different uses. and i guess it's kind of tied up to as well as to in a way of how the community benefits agreement, if we're talking about, let's say, 2.5 million office space and let's say all of them are, i don't know, life science type kind of. and that would affect the kind of community benefit agreement we would have, i'm just trying to think i'm just trying to like, how does the flexibility of, of uses affect the community benefits when it comes to workforce and training? i guess that's how i'm reading that. so the community benefits agreement that's in our disposition does not change, even though the land use has changed. a lot of the programs in the community benefit agreements is, like i said, scholarship set aside of

parcels payments related to developments and also in the future, a percentage from the future sales of the homes and the total amount of entitlement of the homes aren't changing. so in terms of the actual agreement itself, it doesn't change. there's no change being made to the community. benefits agreement. okay. yeah, okay. yeah can there be a change if, let's say, is there an opportunity to change that? if there are you know, or you don't see, you don't foresee that happening? i can't predict the future of course there's there you know, we have amended it in the past for sure. partly when we came before this commission in 2018 for shipyard, there was a lot of changes related. when we thought we were going to be building at the shipyard, we did make some changes. we also added maker space for at the shipyard for residents who want to have maker space. so we did make some

changes in 2018, but there's no plans right now. we really wanted to keep it the same because we're keeping housing the same. and, we wanted to make sure those benefits stay. no, i totally understand in terms of i think what i'm, you know, in terms of the training, because there are these community benefits when it comes to training and scholarship and how we're kind of like tying up you know, these workforce opportunities as well to training. so i guess that's where the land use and workforce kind of like go can be connected. yeah. if i may, commissioner, one thing i just want to say, you know, a lot of folks talking about longevity, i've been working on this project practically since 2005, and i've seen a lot of sort of evolutions, iterations. we're going to be here together for a long time. this is we're talking about another 30, 40 years. and throughout the process, my experience has been we hear community feedback again and again about an issue. and folks in the neighborhood raise it. we sit down with them and we say, well, what can we do to tweak things? so i'm not saying there

will be a change in the future, but my experience has shown that change then eventually comes and so if something becomes an issue and we have some solutions that could be deployed either through the program, sometimes people want to make a change that doesn't require a change of the agreement, but just an adjustment to the programmatic implementation. and we can do that sometimes through our commission or just through the working group of the cac. so i'd like to think that the city, the structure is set up to be responsive to community needs and responsive to changes that are needed. and my another question and i think it touched on, you know, where there are these three organizations that have the ccba, is ocei or is ocei, and lennar are interested in meeting with these three organizations in terms of addressing their concerns. commissioner, i have met with them in the past. i've met with

them so recently in this role, in prior roles, i've met with them. i'm available to. i'm very accessible as an executive director. i have a sort of open door policy. i'll virtually meet with anyone. i don't mean virtually. i mean in person. i'll meet with just about anybody because i want to hear what the community has to say firsthand. sometimes you hear about things through others or letters that somebody repeats to you. you'd like to hear it directly from them. but i'm very collaborative and we work closely in the community and so if they want to meet and it's appropriate to meet and there aren't any legal issues, again, we have no oversight over it, but i'm happy to meet because i think dialog helps and will lennar is someone can someone from lennar also and i think the developer is five points in particular. so yeah. five point i'm sorry, five point are you interested in meeting with the ad alliance and talk to them? i mean, i mean, this is kind of like private agreements and i think they've been asked, you know, what the what the letters have been is around those kind

of, commitments that it really goes through. so you know, and i know you have presented the extensiveness of your outreach and i always believe that it's good to have a dialog with different community groups. yes. good afternoon, chair moore. commissioners. my name is matt gray. i'm outside counsel to someone speaking into the microphone. thank you so much. of course, my name is matt gray. i'm outside counsel to cp development, the developer, and have had the privilege of working on the project since 2010. and yes, of course, we are interested in meeting and have met through the implementation committee for many years with the three organizations that comprise a.d. ten. and when we received recent correspondence from them, we've responded and offered to meet with them, and that offer will remain open both through the implementation committee, but also also through other avenues, if they're interested. okay. thank you so much for that. my i guess i guess what i would say lastly is

that, you know, i know this facing it's going to go to the primarily to the ocei, but since also the planning commission and the planning department, has some jurisdiction in it. and i'm wondering if the planning commission and the planning department can receive some sort of memo when there are, when they're going through these different phases as well. i'm wondering if that's something that oci or planning department, certainly. i think commissioner imperial, it certainly would would not be out of the realm of question to certainly keep the commission abreast of the activities as they are underway and as they are going forward, there are some parts of it that i think, as mr. schneider said, the planning department staff will be involved in. oci does have their own internal team that does a lot of the review, but we work very closely together, so we're happy to provide an update to the commission. you know, as we're going through the next phase, for example, and as those documents are approved and we begin to see activity happening. but director kozlovski, if you

want to add anything. yeah, commissioner, and i think it's a fantastic idea. in fact, the hunters point shipyard, cac is the first place that those kind of conversations occur. and we'd love to notify you of those meetings, invite you to come out to the community and hear the grassroots conversation that's going on. sometimes there are changes that need to be made based on community feedback, so you can kind of see the, the work happening. and then when these things come to the commission, they're often big kinds of approvals. and we're happy to let you know about them. we'll work with the director as well, the deputy director, but we want to keep you guys informed. you're part of the process. you're our partners in this. so whatever we can do to communicate. thank you, thank you. those are my comments. and thank you for all the, all the answers. and also, mr. thor, i your last name is so long for me to pronounce, but thank you for having time to meet with the commissioners too. thanks. thank you, commissioner williams. i'd like to thank all

the community that's been that came out here from the bayview hunters point and everyone else, i'd like to thank, the ocei, especially the commission that i, i had a conversation with one of the commissioners, and you guys need to start paying them. i was like, so i know they've they've done they've done a lot of tremendous amount of work, you know, voluntarily. and we get a small stipend. but, you know, they've done a tremendous amount of work for years and years and years to bring this project along. and, and so but most of all, i really want to acknowledge and, congratulate not so much congratulate but like, understand that the people, the community that brought the community the core

benefits agreement, right. those are the ones that are like at the heart of this whole project. and that's the bayview hunters point community. those are the residents, the church groups and everyone else that got together back then in 2008, put this together. and, you know, as someone who grew up in the city, you know, i really have a lot of aspiration and gratitude, they were able to accomplish a tremendous, community benefits package that is at that's the driving force behind this development. and so i just want to say that, we need to hold all we all need to hold each other accountable to make sure that everything that was promised, i, comes to fruition, for the residents of the bayview hunters point, and so, that's first i, you know, i, i got some comments

that, i wrote down, hopefully, let me see here. so i understand there are three amendments already to the project that have most recently, most recently five years ago, each one having about a 12 to 15 year build out for candlestick. what excites me about the project is the fact that there was an original vision and promises to invest in the black and brown communities of district ten and those displaced from the san francisco neighborhoods, such as the western addition. because of redevelopment, the vision included the opportunity to create a new middle class with parks entertainment businesses for mixed income residents to move into three new communities at candlestick, starting with

the alice griffin neighborhood. this middle class vision would be realized through job training to train the youth and goals of 50% local hire into living wage jobs in all types of careers. it would also have a mix of affordable and workforce housing with important investments to help our community to help the community, such as down payment assistance, promises to the bayview hunters point slash district ten community and organizations including labor, faith based groups for jobs and housing programs to prepare the community. there was also promises to voters through two ballot initiatives in 2010, prop g 2016 prop o to expedite the parks along the jobs with the jobs and housing. since i've learned this would be coming

before us, i have read materials, visited candlestick, met with oshii staff and commissioners, and talked to people involved over the last 15 years. i support the people who testified today who want the jobs and who want the housing to happen. and i support putting clear programs in place to make sure they have a chance to qualify and get prepared to get the good jobs and own their own home. but i am concerned with the city's priorities here. residents near candlestick have talked about the need for parks and open space, long promised to create stronger and healthier communities. i have visited. i have visited the rebuilt alice griffin public housing, a new community of about 350 or 330

families, and it's only about five years old. the conditions were so, so the parks promise to be built by this next year have not begun. and the children have nowhere to play. this is this is, you know, something that's dear to me because i grew up in park and rec in san francisco, and i, i noticed that there's not a green open space or park next to the alice griffin playground. that's one of my concerns, could could you speak to that? why that? why why why is that the case, commissioner, thank you for your comments. and i agree with, you know, certainly the essence of what you're saying. there's a fairly large park adjacent to alice griffith called gilman park that has a kids park, softball field.

as part of the broader development, there are parks that are planned. we have an interim playground park through the group partnership with the group called kaboom, which is going to be, sort of right behind the alice griffith site. our commission also asked about interim uses for the former alice griffith site, and we're looking at activation uses to make that more of an amenity for the neighborhood as well. but part of each of the phases includes a segment. the first two phases includes segments of a park closer to the waterfront. as that gets built out, those park areas will get built out as well. okay so. and of course. excuse me. i'm sorry, commissioner, and of course, you're aware because you've been out there and, you know, you're a neighborhood guy, you know, the state park that's out there. we've been working very closely with the california state parks group to talk about renovations to their site. some of the funds from this project will go to that when that when that phase

of the project gets put to but also state park money investment to renovate and rehab the facilities that are out there, there's a wind park, embarkment, that's close to the water that we're looking to refurbish to try and create another walking connection there, which has been disrupted. and also we've repaved sort of a new entrance to the back area to create a more easy drive through area. straight into the park site. but we're working with them on programs and activations as well, okay. so, you know, i want to continue with saying that, the you know, what the timeline that, that, that the next phase of the alice griffin, projects, are, are as they come online, right? the next the next phase of alice griffin. how many years is that going to be? because and because i'm just, you know, i'm

just curious if it's going to be like, you know, 7 or 8 years, you know, it, it, it seems to me that the park that there should have been some, some open space and a park kind of built in the meantime, near near the alice griffin, apartments and maybe even some infrastructure, like with the street. i noticed the streets also, haven't really been fully developed around the park is that is that i mean, around the alice griffin, housing. is that part of this next phase of construction? forgive me one second, commissioner. i'm pulling up the schedule for what we know is phase four. and you're in the schedule performance, which is part of the dda, but give me just one second.

just to keep the hearing going. maybe we can look that up and get back to you, sir. no problem, i want to i want to have some few comments on the timeline. so there's been a number of groups and residents that have talked about a clear timeline for building of the three neighborhoods in order to plan and prepare the community for housing and for the jobs there. there has also been some comments about planning for schools and that i understand are facing closure right now in san francisco, if i may, commissioner, just go back just to close out your earlier comment. at the soonest that the latest that has to start construction by 2032, by 2032. so this will become effective

after your consideration today, effective in 2025. so it'll be about seven years from now at the at the latest seven years from now, they're going to start construction on the on the infrastructure. the infrastructure always has to proceed. that takes again 2 to 3 years. and then the housing construction could begin on the tail end of that. i'm just, you know, i'm just thinking about the children that live in the alice griffin community. right now, they don't really have a space real close to them that they can enjoy, as far as open space, if you go out there, you understand? you you you work on that. the streets, you know, there's not there's a lot of industrial area and you know that i'm concerned about that. and i'm, i'm just wondering if, if there's an opportunity because of the, the delay in the

timeline that they could actually work on, on a portion of that next phase because it's just dirt right now, right across the street from the apartments. if, if that could be developed as a park and open space for the children that live there. yeah, that's that's a good it's a good question and suggestion, commissioner, the areas directly adjacent to what you're referring to are privately owned. we don't control them. we've been in discussions. the developer has been in discussions with those property owners for many, many years, as i had mentioned before, in our immediate the open space that's right in front the open dirt. okay. correct. so privately owned, except as you get to carol, that state park owned, and that's part of the future state park revitalization. but getting back to one of my earlier comments about in the near term, the temporary playground through the group called kaboom! we're working with the housing authority and have been, to

expedite that. and that is a temporary playground that is planned in the near term. i can't give you a date, but just know that it's very near term for us. and we care about the kids as well, even though they have a block away the gillman playground. we want something that's immediately within their community. we know how you know, they don't want to have to walk all the way over there again. it's just one block. but right there, also, with the interim activations, we think lots of cool things can happen to see. we have to assess what that site is like. you can't just let a bunch of kids run around in there, right? you have to look around and make sure there's no hazards and make sure that there's something that you could do that's feasible. but we're going to take that earnestly and look at what could be done to have them have something during the meantime. what about the streets, the infrastructure? because i noticed that the infrastructure it needed, like, you know, it needs an upgrade, it needs it, the street that abuts that, that open lot. right? correct so the in order

for the street to be complete, we need to acquire private property. that's part of the impediment of completing that street. there's a widening that occurs that has to take over some of that private property. that's part of the large master plan from 2010. so that's one sort of challenge to that. getting the adjacent infrastructure along the first phase is part of the reconnection of everything. but you're correct, there is a fairly new street out there that is not complete because the adjacent area is privately owne. okay thank you for that. i appreciate i appreciate your, your, attention to that, let's see here. timelines. timelines. again, let me get back to the timelines because i just you know, i think that, there's been such a delay in, in, in this project, and, and i don't want to take too much more time, but there's been you know, not not only for the bayview residents, but for the whole city, you

know, and timelines are, are really i think, essential to keeping everybody accountable. right, and so, you know, having said all that, i know you mentioned the timeline, that the next phase is going to happen, in seven years, is that is that is that like, is that is that a real timeline that's inside the, the, the agreement or is that something that. commissioner. yes yeah, it is a timeline. that is. yeah. i'm answering. unless you were not done. no no no. okay, okay. yeah. it's a part of what we call the schedule performance. it's a part of the development agreement that requires infrastructure to start on a certain in a certain year, subject to delays. we have, as we know, with the experience of the hunters point shipyard, delays in the document has provisions for delays, and it has completion dates and there's

nobody really that's more impatient than all of us. right. when i was here in 2010, when this was approved, i had started working at the then redevelopment agency in 2005, and my daughter is 15 years old now. i know folks, peers who have worked with people in the community have been born going to college, going to high school. people have passed away. so we understand what exactly what you're saying and the emphasis on it. but that schedule is within the agreement itself and the developer is impatient. they've put out over $100 million, so we know they're motivated from a financial standpoint, which is good. we are joined that way. we want the development. they want to be able to do the development. okay, good. and as far as the affordable housing on the on that phase of the, the alice griffin, community, what what does that look like?ce

i can't pull the map up in front of me because it's not zooming in properly. forgive me, but it is a mixed income that all of the remaining alice griffith is mixed income. okay, we have, i believe, 2 or 3 sites. again, our project. so 0 to 60% of area median income, we go down as low as some time to 20 and 30% of median income through a technique called income tiering. we do some higher affordable armies to get some lower ones. we do that. and then there's workforce housing, which has a higher range. and i think that's in the 140 range to 160. and then there's inclusionary, which again is the up to 80%, 120% of

area median income. so it's a mixed income community, as is alice griffith. alice griffith includes the 250 replacement units from the former alice griffith housing. so all those families were moved over and it included new affordable housing, which again is at 0 to 60% of area median income. okay. and on that next phase, how how much, how much development, how many units are going to be a part of that, that next phase in seven years, just to kind of get an idea of the housing that's coming forward in alice griffin, i can't give you that calculation. we can maybe later in the hearing with other commissioners, we can do the calculation, but our commission, those high commission, urged us to look at densifying our housing and mayor london breed. i've been here for two years as the director. all the department meetings. and mr. hillis is in those meetings. the mayor is always asking to densify housing. can we do more housing? she's pushed for more housing.

our commission has pushed for more housing. so we're going to be looking at densifying as much as possible. part of the approvals that our commission authorized was to potentially take housing from the hunters point shipyard and bring it over to candlestick. that's in the redevelopment plan for the hunters point shipyard. we have to do additional environmental review to do that, but we've committed to looking at that. the city needs housing. it needs more affordable housing, and we're going to be looking at how we intensify that development. but we do have 7200 units today, and only 330 of them are built as of right now. so we want to get started so we can begin having things going. absolutely. i agree, let me see if i have anything else. not. that's it. thank you. okay. thank you. commissioner commissioner brown. well, first of all, i also want to start off by offering my thanks to all the members of the

community who have participated in this process and have stuck with it for a really long time, have even just come to this hearing and are still here in the room at this point. it's been a while, and so, you know, this is i recognize this is the culmination of a lot of hard work over a lot of different changing conditions, with a lot of community members very engaged and interested in this, with good reason. i also want to thank the members of our city staff, who've put in a lot of effort on this for a long time. as well. and members who participated in the cacs as well of course, you know, i think a lot of my more detailed questions have been asked, perhaps more effectively even than i could by commissioners. imperial and williams, so i really appreciate all the answers that have been offered. so i more just have some thoughts at this point. you kno, i, i see that so many of the delays that have happened with this project have been the result of a lot of changing conditions over time, and it's an immense disappointment. i think that's shared by everybody, especially the part of this that involves just

outright fraud, for the navy cleanup at a shipyard, and at this point, you know, there's still we're still at a moment when there's a lot to build. i recognize i appreciate what's being said about the need to even just get started on so much horizontal infrastructure. we just saw this at treasure island, for example, where, you know, for years there was work going on, but we never saw buildings start to come out of the ground until pretty recently, and, you know, i also take heart from the fact that one of the earliest buildings on treasure island to be completed is affordable housing. so for me, i'm excited for anything we can do to keep this moving forward. and actually deliver on all of these promises and community benefits that have come with this project. and everyone's been expecting for such a long time on a few specific items. i especially appreciate the full affordable housing commitments are still intact. i've asked about this specifically, and, you know, i'm happy to see that there are

large number of units at the 0 to 60% ami level that would be delivered, including in phase two. i was looking at this. i believe it's 236 units. the 675 being, being at the 0 to 60% ami level. i'm seeing nods didn't get that wrong. okay, and especially since we have the oci sites moving forward with that project. and i'm seeing ultimately we're looking at almost 1500 units at the 0 to 60% ami level, which is which is just super exciting to me, as well as, of course, middle income workforce housing that will come with this project, i, i'm glad to see there's a lot of flexibility that's been built into the plan. i don't want to see more delays, but i'm also glad to see that there's flexibility around land uses, so we don't have to come back if there are some changes in the market and the employment uses are a little different than what we expect in the future, there's still room to do the mixed use project at candlestick candlestick center. if needed, so that's, you know, we've seen

the only constant here is change. it's good to see there's flexibility to help address that in the future for the design for development document, which is one of our approval items, i'm i have no concerns or objections to that. i'm really glad to see the retail and active frontage locations are really well positioned for the long run, where the most active retail locations will serve the broader build out of candlestick point and the community down the road are easily accessible from the entire neighborhood, so and of course, i'm excited to see what we can do to get job growth going here. construction. glad to see local higher goals, rent free small business spaces, community spaces all part of this project. so at the end of the day, i am just really excited to see changes that can get this project unstuck because we there are no benefits to be had if this project doesn't move forward. and we've seen this, this frustration with all the

perspective of the a.d. ten folks as well. and i share that frustration. and i encouraged the development team to continue to have dialog with them. and to try to accelerate those community benefits, but, you know, i want to see this start coming out of the ground, start generating some tax increment revenue, start generating some ability to fulfill those community benefits agreements that are still very much intact. so yeah, thank you very much. i'm very excited to move this forward. thank you. thank you, commissioner brian. my apologies chairman. no please please please. okay. thank you. i just wanted to i found the numbers you were asking for, after the 330 units were created, an additional 789 are to be created through the remaining alice griffith area. so i just want to give you that number 789 units. we hope to increase that again. the densification, sort of mandate, both from the mayor, supervisor walton, our commission, you guys are very interested in that. we, as you

know, san francisco folks trying to do good work here want to see housing there. it's the most housing strong project, 7200 units. it's a lot to build, but let's build more sooner as soon as we can. that's our goal. thank you. commissioner mcgarry. thank you. and thank you for everybody for coming out today, we have economic development, community involvement. when it comes together, we wind up with. i'm just jotting it down here. what was said here today? homes, jobs, apprenticeship training, health care, pensions to secure people's future. future rejuvenation is required. and it's planned for within the community, opportunities required. and it seems to be planned for sustainability is required. and it looks like we're working. we're we're working that out. and we have the flexibility to ensure that it does succeed. we have community benefits of local residents going to work. local businesses here who are going to get that work, local faith based

organizations in support of this project, which is pretty much the glue that will hold it all together. all this implies the success for a community as a whole. fraud, frauds, delays, covid, economic insecurity of all. held up this project and have us where we're here today, it was asked when are we going to get started here? i think the day we get started here is possibly today and look forward to actually getting this, this project up and running, because it is a flagship for san francisco as a whole, and it will create ripples that will actually bring possibly downtown confidence downtown and san francisco back as a whole. so i thank everybody for their time here today. and i loved hearing everything you had to say. thank you. thank you commissioner. so thank you, it's 410. i'll make

it really brief. i i spent some time visit the site and the tour at the candlestick last week, and i live in san francisco now for 24 years. i am really, aware of that site. has a specifically candlestick, has a very special place in everybody's heart in san francisco. and being the former 40 niners stadium and rolling stones play there. and while there was concert and earthquake was experienced, but no one get hurt, so the question is like, i really hope the whatever we do today, this thing should be able to hit the ground running like yesterday. we need these housing, we need these amenities, we need job and i looked at these amendment requests. this is looking at the

design review documents. below market rate housing plan amendments, transportation plan amendments, financial plan and tax allocation pledge agreement. it's all really consistent with the general plan. so for me there's not they're not much there to be in your way. i really wanted to enable ocei and the developer to secure the financing that you need. and truly bring this commitment and pledge to reality, really happy to see that the first commitment is 100% affordable housing will be undertaken with partnership with mohcd. and i also love, more workforce housing. and i really appreciate that your continued commitment in that regard, adding some availability for a new type of use in this

case is the research and development will i hope that will really, truly enable you to be as flexible as you can to attract the tenants and the investment that you need to break the ground. so i'm here in support of this and, may i motion on item 15 a i'm motion to adopt the findings of consistency. and then item 15 b i motion to approve the preliminary recommendation is to approve the d 4d amendments. i second your motion. i have i have a question to the motion is that can that can we include in terms of including in the finding for the planning commission and the department to receive annual report or reporting in terms of phasing of for the candlestick project, it says, is that amenable to the

motion maker? i think maybe it's up to see what oci because they they have their own planning code and their sets of regulations. so let's see what thoughts input. i think what i would is just put it in the findings is not something that will, you know, you know, change anything in the project, but it's more like having a breath of the planning commission department in terms of the phasing timeline. yeah. if i ma, madam chair, we present an annual housing production report to our commission. we have a workshop, what we'd love to do is provide that document to you. it's got our pictures of all of our projects, projects that are completed, and being transitioned to the mayor's office of housing, community development. you may know this about dissolution. when we were dissolved in 2012, we were considered the successor agency to redevelopment and a housing successor was created. the mayor's office of housing is the

housing successor. so when we build it like we built it with the mccormack baron, and that was transferred over to the mayor's office of housing to manage. so we transferred those over our reports report on all that. if something is complete, what stage it's at, things that are prospective will be reported on. so why don't we offer that to you as a near term basis? in fact, we're doing one, i think in the next six months. so you'll have that. we won't have an application by then, but you'll see them turning up in those reports annually. and we can provide them to the director, and he could discuss those with you. i really appreciate for you having that commitment. i just want to edit it in the findings. but since, you know, i respect the and i respect if you don't want to add it in the, in the motion or in the findings. but i thank you so much for putting for putting that as a commitment. absolutely. thank you, i am is it i mean, yeah, there's no problems on our end from having

that in the findings. so, motion to approve item 15 a and 15 b with the additional of any reporting sharing of the oci reporting, is that amenable to the seconder. is that amenable? it is very good. yes. if there's no further deliberation, commissioners, there is a motion that has been seconded to adopt. findings of consistency and approving the design for development amendments, adding a finding for an annual reporting component on that motion. commissioner campbell. yes pardon me. can i be specific if you don't mind, the agency's annual housing production report, annual housing production report. sorry. thank you. thank you. for the agency's annual housing production report to be distributed to the planning commission on that motion. commissioner campbell.

yes commissioner mcgarry. i commissioner. so i, commissioner williams i commissioner. braun i commissioner imperial i and commission chair. moore i so move commissioners motion passes unanimously 7 to 0 and can. and concludes your first hearing back commissioners thank you.

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