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finance ministers. okay. good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco planning commission hearing for thursday, december 5th, 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 will 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 queued 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 president. so present. commission vice president. more here. commissioner braun. here. commissioner campbell. here. commissioner. imperial. here. and commissioner williams. here. we expect commissioner mcgarry to be out today. first on your agenda, commissioners, is consideration of items proposed for continuance. item one, case number 2024. hyphen 004122 kua at 1533 sloat boulevard. conditional use authorization is proposed for continuance to january 30th, 2025. further commissioners, under your regular calendar, we've received a last minute request for item 12. case number 2024. hyphen

007142 crv at 1035 howard stree. the historic preservation commission considered this matter yesterday and approved with conditions that modified the project slightly. the project sponsors requesting additional time to incorporate those modifications as well as to continue working with the community on this matter. and we are requesting a continuance to january 16th, 2025. i have no other items proposed for continuance, so we should open up public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on either of these two items being proposed for continuance only on the matter of continuance. again, you need to come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed and your continuance calendar is now before you. commissioners. commissioner imperial move to continue. all items as proposed. second. thank you, commissioners, on that motion to continue. items as proposed. commissioner campbell. i. commissioner williams. i commissioner braun. i.

commissioner. imperial. i commissioner moore. and commission president. so i so move. commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0 placing us on your consent calendar. the matter listed here under constitutes a consent calendar is considered to be routine by the planning commission. there will be no separate discussion of this item 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 two. case number 2024. hyphen 005293c08 1515 union street. conditional use authorization. again, members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on this matter to request that it be removed from the consent calendar. seeing none, public comment is closed and your consent calendar is now before you. commissioners. commissioner. imperial. move to approve. second. thank you.

commissioners, on that motion to approve item two on consent. commissioner campbell. i. commissioner williams. i. commissioner braun. i. commissioner. imperial. i. commissioner. moore. and commissioner. president. so i so move. commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0, placing us under commission matters. item three land acknowledgment. i will i will be reading the land acknowledgment. okay. 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 nor forgotten their responsibilities as caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory as guests.

we recognize that we benefit from the 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 peoples. thank you for that. commissioners, through the chair, if we could go back to the continuance calendar, i was remiss in mentioning that under your discretionary review calendar item 14 for case number 2023, hyphen 004904 drp. hyphen zero two for the property at 2459 through 2461 francisco street, the discretionary reviews have both been withdrawn and will not be heard today. commissioners. again, going back to commission matters. item four consideration of adoption draft minutes for november 14th and november 21st, 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, i just have i'm sorry, i just have one correction to the minutes. so the i had a disclosure on the november 14th minutes under item 15, but it was listed as being under item 16. very good. commissioner brown will make that correction. thank you. and with that correction, i move to adopt the minutes. second. thank you. commissioners, on that motion to adopt your minutes as corrected. commissioner campbell. i. commissioner williams. i commissioner brown. i commissioner imperial. i commissioner moore. i and commissioner. president. so i so moved commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0

placing us on item five. commissioner comments and questions. i have something. commissioner campbell. sure. thank you. i want to shine a light, no pun intended, on let's glow, s.f. is happening right now downtown. it's a wonderful free art festival. it's actually a projection art festival where 16 artists from around the world who have created light and projection art. it gets projected onto the buildings downtown, various buildings downtown, and it's a really wonderful intersection between art and architecture. i encourage everyone to go check it out again. it's free. it runs from december 6th to the 15th, so it starts tomorrow night. and i think there's a big kickoff party at the ferry building. so if you want more information, let's glow. s.f. has a website, just google it and you can get the map and all the buildings

that are part of the festival. thanks. commissioner lebron. i just want to agree that it's a wonderful event. i go and look at all of the projections every year that it's been running. so absolutely, it's wonderful. if there are no other comments from commissioners, we can move on to item number six for your 2025 hearing schedule. commissioners, every year around this time, we take up your next calendar year's schedule. we've distributed hard copies for you because we noticed that the original one that was distributed did not include july 31st as a hearing. so we've added that back. as is normal, we've canceled already january 2nd. may 29th is a fifth thursday, which is customarily canceled. thursday, june 19th

falls on that holiday. thursday, july third is suggested as a holiday cancellation for july fourth, and then your summer hiatus through august. last year, you decided to include september 4th, or to take into account the labor day holiday. so i don't know if you want to do that and move or reinstate august 7th and include september 4th. otherwise, it's an october 30th is the fifth. thursday in november 27th is canceled for the thanksgiving holiday, and thursday, december 25th is canceled for the christmas holiday, as is january 1st. we should take public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on their proposed hearing schedule. again, you need to come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed and your hearing schedule is

before you. commissioners commissioner moore, i am generally in support of what's in front of us. i'd like to ask as to whether or not we have given thoughtful consideration to the easter holiday. there are people who celebrate easter in a kind of a spiritual way, and i would like that to be reflected and not added last minute. i'd like to see that previous set aside for rosh hashanah and other specific events are being considered, including. i would very much appreciate if the department's picnic that has canceled hearings in the last two years is being considered. this commission has the ability to support you in that. but i would appreciate hearing about it at this particular time rather than it being said. a week before it's happening. i think it would be comforting for the for the public, including for ourselves, to not prepare

for a meeting which is very time consuming, but just respect that you need a particular day to have your reservations at golden gate park or whatever it is. so i'd like to have that out in the open. i am also personally a very strong proponent for some of us, and there are several of us who have family and relatives abroad. having the first thursday in september. also be a holiday has been proven to be extremely effective. again, we more than ever have only three meetings a month this year, more than i have ever seen before. so perhaps we could shove some things around in order to potentially with the rest of the support from this commission, see that the 1st september or the first thursday in september is being set aside for an additional canceled meeting. so those are my comments. thank yo. thank you, commissioner brown. i

hear commissioner moore's comment just now about the first thursday in september, and i just wanted to say before i even heard that, that the part of the reason that we took that 1st september thursday off this year was at my request, because i felt it was a, you know, it is a holiday week. i actually haven't looked at the 25, 25 calendar. i believe it's still. a holiday week, but i'm open to reinstating, you know, having all of august off and then i'm actually kind of neutral on whether or not we take that first thursday off in september. i would be fine with restoring it as well. so it's up to the rest of the commission. otherwise, i'm supportive of commissioner moore's comments. thank you. thank you, commissioner imperial. yeah, i'm supportive of having the first

thursday off. it's greatly beneficial for me personally. and also that's the yeah, that's the september 4th, i believe. right. and i believe that's also september 1st is the labor day. so perhaps that's also, you know, coincide with that. i'm not sure when is the easter holiday and the rosh hashanah, easter falls on april 20th this year and rosh hashanah falls between september 22nd and 24th. so for easter, you could cancel the 17th or the 24th. for rosh hashanah, that would be september 25th, and something you can to consider if you're going to include the september fourth. that would leave you with two hearings in september, which is generally a busy month because you take a full month break in august. so i'm okay. i think if you're going to cancel for rosh hashanah, you might want to keep september 4th. yeah, i'm okay with keeping september 4th, if that's okay with other commissioners. in

terms of the easter, either april 24th, if people are interested on that, i'll i'll be okay with it. as well. commissioner moore. my question particularly was directed towards yourself practicing orthodox easter, which is not on the same date as easter. easter. so i would like you to weigh in, because in the past we have respected that easter was not as important for the rest other than orthodox easter, which is different actually, this year i believe catholic eastern orthodox easter fall in the same day. okay, well, that's good to know. but in the past it was not the case, so it rarely does that. but this year or excuse m, next year, it actually does. okay, as far as the picnic, commissioner moore, we don't have a date for that now, but but we will certainly look forward to that date and make sure that commissioners can participate. commissioner, are

you a commissioner? moore, you have further comments speaking on rosh hashanah, which is actually not an official holiday except very important to practitioners. and we made an accommodation for commissioner diamond. so if there is no consideration other than that, excuse me, sir, if you're going to come in, you have to be quie. to restate that particular accommodation was made for commissioner diamond. but if there is no request from this particular commission for any member, we could leave. forget considering rosh hashanah, which is not an official holiday. well, i'll leave that entirely up to you all. well, i am indifferent. i just kind of

defer to all the commissioners. well, in light of respectful of community and ethnicities. holiday, i would like to also bring up the lunar new year celebration. so perhaps we will consider january 30th to be an to cancel the meeting in observation to the lunar new year. majority of asian americans do celebrate that holiday. that was that is actually going to be the second day of the new year of the lunar new year. commissioner moore, i'm looking towards miss waddy and director hillis. i think balancing workload around a calendar is extremely important. if you anticipate our workloads to be lighter than there have

been in the past, we all know the script. perhaps we can leave out certain things or add others if need requires. i assume that would be done in conjunction with secretary ionin. so i would like to let the commission also know that if we're predicting a lighter workload for the coming year, that we kind of let certain things go and we and state them if we need to. yeah. i mean, commissioners, this is a projected schedule. you're always able to cancel any hearings that are light and consolidate hearings as well as reinstate hearings that you've already canceled in case there is something that is significant that needs to be heard on a particular date. but again, i leave it to you. so just to reiterate, will canceling january 30th for lunar new year,

april 24th for the eastern orthodox easter holiday, and september for the first week of september, the first thursday of september for. is that a motion? i would move that as a motion. second. okay, just to be clear, commissioners, we are keeping all the proposed cancellations already on the proposed hearing schedule. we are then amending to include the lunar year new year's holiday for january 30th, the easter holiday for april 24th, and labor day for september 4th. but those are the only changes to the proposed hearing schedule understood on that motion. commissioner campbell, right, commissioner williams i. commissioner braun

i. commissioner imperial i. commissioner moore i and commissioner. president. so i so move commissioners that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0 commissioners that will now place us under department matters for item seven director's announcements. nothing to very good. item eight review of past events at the board of supervisors. board of appeals and the historic preservation commission. good afternoon. commissioners. aaron star, manager of legislative affairs. this week, chair melgar was absent from the committee at land use. so she because she had to attend jury duty. so supervisor dorsey sat in on the committee was not a voting member. the first item on the land use committee's agenda was supervisor stephanie's ordinance. that would create a special sign district at 2301 chestnut street. commissioners, you heard this item on november 14th and recommended approval with one modification. this modification was to amend the

ordinance to allow all corner commercial businesses in nc districts to have two projecting signs, because supervisor stephanie was recently elected and sworn in to the state assembly, supervisor dorsey took up sponsorship of this ordinance. while the commission's modification was not added to the original file, the ordinance was duplicated and supervisor dorsey indicated that he would work on amending the duplicated ordinance to allow two projecting signs for corner commercial businesses and all nc districts. the new ordinance would also likely sunset the special sign district, as it would no longer be necessary. that item was passed out of committee unanimously. next, the committee considered the mayor's proposed ordinance to remove impact fees for changes of use from production, distribution, and repair to other nonresidential uses. this item was continued from the land use committee on november 18th to allow for more community outreach. during the committee hearing, katie tang, director of the mayor's office of small business, said that the mayor

was not in favor of amending the ordinance and requested it be passed out of committee, as is. supervisor peskin then made a motion to table this ordinance, given the mayor's unwillingness to amend it based on community feedback and concerns. the committee, the committee then voted unanimously to table the ordinance, effectively killing it. next, the committee took up 30 south venice study. this item was continued from november 18th as well. supervisor peskin indicated he still had more amendments. he was working on for the ordinance, and proposed a continuance to december 9th. the committee voted unanimously to continue the item to that date. last but not least, the committee took up supervisor peskin's ordinance that would institute minimum density requirements for residential projects in rc and rto district. our newer commissioners won't be familiar with this one, as it was originally heard by the planning commission on july 20th of 2023. at that time, the committee commission voted to recommend approval with modifications. those

modifications were to one. modify the ordinance to replace conditional use authorization requirement with objective minimum density standards for new construction projects in the zoning districts at 75% maximum density for new construction projects in the subject zoning districts require that no unit be smaller than one third the size of the largest unit in the building. three replace the original proposed list of exceptions to minimum density and unit sizes with a simplified single exception. that exception would be. expansions of single family homes may exceed their gross floor area by no more than 25%, measured over ten years, to the resulting home, or more than 3000ft!s, which is ever greater. and then finally incentivize projects in the subject. zoning districts to build ideal projects by removing the conditional use authorization for demolition and public initiated initiated discretionary review. during the hearing, supervisor peskin introduced amendments to include all but one of the planning commission's recommendations.

the one not included would have allowed demolition of projects to be exempt from siu and dr. hearings. if specific standards were met. the committee accepted all of peskin's amendments and the item was continued for one week as they were all substantive at the full board this week, there was just one item of concern. it was the 524 530 howard street transit center district open space impact fee, sponsored by supervisor dorsey, and that passed its first reading. that's all i have for you today. okay, i have no report from the board of appeals, but the historic preservation commission did meet yesterday, and they considered several legacy business registry applications and adopted recommendations for approval for all, for all four. the first was ace mailing. the second was african american shakespeare company. the third was jay's laundry and finally the walter adams framing retailer was were

all approved for or adopted recommendations for approval. and as stated that they considered 1035 howard street and the modifications that they made was to not provide for exceptions for the ground floor, 25 foot depth active use, but allowing the exception to the upper floors, and so they were also very concerned about providing a robust streetscape and lighting plan along howard and russell streets. so hence the continuance into january for this project, when it will come back to you, then they also heard an informational presentation on the chinese american historic context statement. if there are no questions, commissioners, we can move on to 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. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes, and when the number of speakers exceed the 15 minute limit, general public comment may be moved to the end of the agenda. miss, shoot us before you get started. those folks standing at the doorway need to find a seat, please. you're causing a fire hazard. and we. there are plenty of seats still remaining. so i'm not asking you to leave the chambers, but once we fill up all the seats, we have made accommodations for an overflow room in room 408, just down the hall where you're able to view and listen to these proceedings. and when we call public comment, every member of the public will be provided the opportunity to submit their testimony. again, those folks standing, you'll need to find a seat or make your way to the overflow room. there are plenty of seats on this side of the chambers. miss shoots. oh, hi. you have to fix the time. oh, great. thank you. good afternoon. georgia, i sent a pdf

for general public comment, and the point about the pdf was about the alteration at 4267 24th street. and it's not to pick on this one particular project. rather, it was to make the point about housing policy under section 317 as it was back in 2012 and as it is today. the sales price history of this project mirrors the history of speculative development in noe valley and other neighborhoods, as well. it is astounding that there were no demo calcs from the planning department for this project, even though there was a section 317 code implementation document approved and published in 2009 and 2010, and it remains astounding that the commission has never used their legislative authority to adjust the demo counts. the permit for 4267 24th street was applied for in october 2012. planning staff

signed off on it in april 2013. in december 2012, sf weekly published an article quoting the developers of 125 crown terrace how they used the demo counts to get around section 317 getting approval of an alteration for a house that had been previously denied approval as a demolition. i know this is the past more than a decade ago, but with the recent sale at $6.8 million, 4267 24th street is now a comp and real estate terms across 24th street, right across 24th street is another single family home approved as a demo, but it was constructing two units. however, it needed an enforcement because it was de facto merged into a seven bedroom house with a meager second kitchen, and was asking $8.1 million at the same time as the project. in the pdf was on

the market for 6.8 million, the public has been waiting for a year now for the rezoning financial feasibility studies. it will be interesting to learn about the feasibility of alterations that create high end, single family homes versus 2 or 3 or multi-unit buildings. as the rezoning proceeds. and what happens in the priority equity geographies? and i'll just close by saying that this whole pdf, i think, illustrates the whole problem with the income inequality that we have in this city in our housing. thank you. and there's my 150 words for the minutes. thank you very much. okay. last call for public comment. general public comment. seeing none. general public comment is closed. placing us under your regular calendar. commissioners for item nine, case number 2024. hyphen

008951 pca for health service uses in west portal neighborhood. commercial district planning code amendments. good afternoon, commissioners aaron star manager of legislative affairs. the item before you is an ordinance introduced by supervisor melgar. the proposed ordinance would amend the planning codes. west portal neighborhood. commercial district to principally permit health service uses and exempt these uses from the district's use size limitations. up to 5000 gross square feet. this would only apply to one specific parcel the owner of the property in question is seeking to open an ophthalmology clinic that provides cosmetic services, and has some retail component for the proposal to move forward to. existing commercial units would need to merge into one unit, the size of which would be

approximately 5000ft!s. because the west portal neighborhood has a 4000 square foot cap on non residential use size, the two units at the property cannot be merged into one even with conditional use authorization. this ordinance is intended to allow the project to move forward. the department is recommending approval with modifications. our recommendation is to modify the ordinance to remove the maximum use size limit of 4000ft!s for the entire west portal in cdd. the department supports this project and believes that it is an appropriate use and size at this location. however, we are finding that maximum nonresidential use size caps are providing to be too inflexible and are creating too many barriers for small businesses in general, only five of the approximately 50 different nc districts have a maximum use size cap in recent memory. there have been six instances where the controls in those districts have been amended to allow a business to exceed the maximum use size limitation. furthermore, clearly there are instances in this neighborhood when uses greater than 4000ft!s

is warranted. however, by placing a maximum use size cap in the district, those instances are not able to be individually evaluated by this commission. instead, a small business is only recourse is to hire a lawyer to petition a supervisor to introduce an ordinance that allows for the project to move forward, that then must go through the legislative process with a hearing at the planning commission, a hearing at the land use committee, two readings at the board of supervisors, and finally a signature by the mayor. then they must wait another month for the ordinance to become effective. all told, if everything goes as planned, the process takes about six months. not all businesses have the time and resources to wait for this. the queue process is, on the other hand, takes 2 to 3 months. if there was no maximum use size cap in this neighborhood, this business would already have their approval. we understand that this business is facing significant deadlines and can't afford to wait another 2 to 3 months to get icu approval. therefore, if the commission wanted, they could also

recommend that an exception be created for this property to exempt them from the queue requirement while still removing the size cap. that's all i have for you today, and i'm happy to answer any questions. okay, with that, we should open up public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on this item. good afternoon. i am doctor lily masoudi. i'm the doctor who has been providing services in the facility that needs to expand at this point. i did my medical school studies in chicago, and then i, my undergrad in chicago, medical school in wisconsin. i did my internship and residency in san francisco. i've been serving that neighborhood for over 26 years, where i raised my own son. the neighborhood has a great deal of senior members. we have outgrown our space and our lease is up. any delays in

getting our new space ready would mean that the closure of that practice, which already is burdening the patients because of the size of our current location. i'll give you an example. i'm sure all of you have been to ophthalmologists before. we need a lot of equipment. so if you're ever stranded on an island, the last doctor you would need next to you is an ophthalmologist with other equipment. we can't do much. so our technology has outgrown this space. as well. one of the reasons for the expansion other than the fact that our lease is up, is a lot of our senior patients have a hard time going to the downtown area to get their pre-contract testing, so they are at risk of falling, and we have to delay their surgeries until we're able to accommodate them more in the current location. i have done my best to serve this population. i'm trying to do more and i love the neighborhood. i love the

city. i would ask for an exemption in this at this time without any delay, because any delay with our lease being up means that the office will be closed. ophthalmology practices, both at uc kaiser and private practice are overwhelmed. there is a 6 to 8 months of patient backlog and that would be detrimental to patient care. if this location gets closed and we cannot proceed with matters, you know, as fast as possible. i so appreciate your time and consideration to this matter. last call for public comment. commissioners, my name is michael farah. i'm a legislative aide with supervisor melgar's office. thank you for your deliberations today. i'd like to thank audrey maloney, staff for her work on this for us, our office. i'm in the process of outreach on the recommendations from staff to both the greater west portal neighborhood

association and the west portal merchants to help another long standing merchant in west porta. they have been very helpful and are eager to see the merchant relocated from a similar location in west portal. i have not had extensive conversations with the supervisor about the recommendations. i look forward to that. she was intending to be here, but the tsunami call and then the retraction of the tsunami warning have led her not to be able to be here today. so i look forward to your deliberation, and if you have any questions, you can reach out to me. i. hello. good afternoon. my name is paul barbagelata. i am a long time west portal merchant. our family business has been on the block for over 50 years. i know doctor lilly's optometry practice quite well. she's been a wonderful merchant

in the area. many residents from the neighborhood and elsewhere rely on her practice and this particular proposal by supervisor melgar's office is a good one that i think should be approved. and i'm hoping that you could consider streamlining this so there's no gaps for service. it's a wonderful business, and i think that everyone would inommuty would be community will be very happy to have this go through on time and without delay, especially as the doctor mentioned, many seniors in the area don't have to go downtown for additional lab work, etc. so thank you for your time and i hope this is considered. thank you. okay, final last call for public comment. seeing none public comment is closed in. this matter is now before you commissioners. thank you. commissioner moore. i am in

strong support of making an exception for this particular applicant. if there is indeed consultation with the community as described by commissioner, by supervisor chavez, to extend it to the entire corridor. that is a separate matter. and i think it has reason to be examined. however, in this particular case, from personal experience, i would support the narrative of the doctor herself describing the difficulties of getting getting the times of exams necessary in a timely manner. i actually went as my optometrist yesterday, and that was a four months waiting time to get an appointment. that said, i believe that all neighborhoods deserve neighborhood corridors deserve a business like this. and again, i am supporting supervisor melgar's legislation to make an exception and make a motion to approve without modifications. second, thank you

and commissioner braun. first thing i want to say is i absolutely support doing whatever we can to allow the business to expand into this space and to not have a delay or gap in the business operations. although i'm not, i'm not going to put forward an alternative motion. i actually am in favor of staff's recommendation as a principle. i don't think that we should be conducting land use planning decisions based on individual situations. this seems like something that our land use or planning code could easily have, could have anticipated, and could have been addressed in it, and we could have made a change that that would still require the conditional use authorization for medical uses. that would still require a conditional use authorization for uses over 2500ft!s. so i do hope that we

can move forward with expanding that flexibility while still putting some controls in place in terms of the coa. but maybe that's something that a supervisor can take up as separate legislation if we don't vote to approve that here today. thank you. commissioner moore. i'd like to clarify, commissioner brown, that i am indeed very interested in expanding a discussion on polic. however, a discussion on policy requires everybody. that is just the nature of policy. that requires the department with its knowledge that describes the commission. but most and foremost, it requires the affected public relative to specific locations where that may be appropriate or where may not be appropriate, because whenever you have small scale neighborhood commercial aggregating space to achieve one result has many, many other secondary questions. and it's

for that reason that i'm making this clarifying comment and i encourage further discussion on policy. but for this particular case, i think i would just leave it as commissioner. supervisor melgar has suggested it. so that would be my comment. thank you, commissioner campbell. i also am in agreement with commissioner brown's comments and i would just add, i would be interested in expanding the policy conversation to some of the other commercial districts that were mentioned in the brief, which included north beach, castro street, pacific avenue and polk street. and i don't know what the process is for engaging that conversation, but i would yes. and commissioner brown's comment, thank you. i also think that in light of these conversations, i agree with commissioner brown and commissioner campbell and also vice president more. we should probably have it on another item and another day in 2025 to delve

deeper into the policy side of the aspect of the maximum use size limits and also some of the conditional use parameters for the particular type of retail. and again, i really love west portal. i hang out there all the time and i've seen that it's getting so much more exciting. you know, month after month. and it is one of the really great example of how when community come together and local small businesses decided to continue to stay and have your roots there. and thank you for being the anchor and take care of our seniors and also all the other people who needs i care. i think that we have a motion, but commissioner imperial and commissioner brown also wanted to add more comments. so i'll bring them up first and then we will vote commissioner imperial. yes. thank you. yeah, i you

know, i, i used to live in 19 taraval and would go and the west portal in the weekends, and i've actually gotten my glasses in the west port portal area, so i definitely understand where the community is coming from, especially the seniors, because it does take a while to go to the downtown. so i definitely supportive of the business in the west portal in terms of and the reason that i also seconded the motion without modification is for me is i don't have enough information in terms of the community as a whole in the west portal, the data that we would need to have in terms of removing the cap and also and i seconded also or support president so's recommendation to have analysis of the cap uses in general. what i've seen in ncd's small, you know, small sizes

tends to be affordable and tends to be easily moved in. but i know that there are also issues when it comes to large sizes. and also and it's also reflected in the, in our, in the, in the report. and we don't have that enough analysis as well that i'd like for me to make sure that, you know, the cap sizes are actually based on what we're seeing. so that's for me where i'm coming from. and i definitely would like to have a more conversation on the because in terms of the size caps and 4000, 5000 and where, you know, the 13,000 square foot as well, how can that be? also, you know, who are what kind of businesses are usually put in there. and i know there's a big issues or struggles in it as well. so looking forward to that. so thank you, commissioner brown. in some ways, commissioner

imperial just took the words right out of my mouth. i was going to i wanted to advocate for department staff to be sure to track this. i mean, we know that the commission has an interest in sort of examining and understanding and analyzing the implications of the caps. and so i want to acknowledge that the staff report on the legislation did a great job of providing examples of recent examples where the size caps have been challenges. but i think, you know, the more we're able to bring data and examples to this story, the better. as if this continues to be an ongoing conversation. and mr. star, did you have a comment? thanks very much. the conversation is great. i'm glad you're all interested in looking at it. i'm just wanting a little more specifics on what sort of data we see from the legislative side. is supervisors introducing these one off ordinances to make special exceptions for a business, which i would argue is an inefficient way to do land use. so what other types of information would you be looking

for that we could report back to you that would help, i guess, illuminate the issue for you. i think for me, just off the top of my head, it would be first of all, examples in which legislation was required in order to address uses caps that would be helpful. i'm sure we're tracking that we have all that information and then also information on sort of the number of existing structures that would create challenges with these caps, because as pointed out in the report, you know, some there are some larger buildings in the ncds in which the large space can't be filled. and if it's subdivided, it winds up being a subdivision into one large space only. and everything else has to be subdivided into 4 or 5. that's where the cap is. and that ncd. so any information on sort of the magnitude of how often this comes up might be helpful as well. and i'm open to other suggestions too. commissioner moore talking with miss maloney. mr. star, she

mentioned that there are indeed larger spaces which are being vacated primarily by banks, that there is an inventory capped of spaces that meet potential space requirements so that we have the ability to offer larger spaces without aggregating smaller spaces. it is an older neighborhoods, and that may apply to west portal. it definitely applies to north beach and pacific pacific avenu, where the existing spaces, by the nature of the buildings we have, are small and you could only achieve that by aggregating spaces which we want to avoid. so that is kind of the philosophy which we're coming from. in addition, really to check with neighborhoods who have fought very hard to keep the smaller scale of their environments, particularly particularly pacific avenue and let them have a say in what we're doing. yeah, i don't i

agree with you that having the neighborhood be in the conversation, one thing i would argue, though, is that the conditional use process is more involves the neighborhood more than the legislative process. i'm sure supervisor melgar has done her outreach to the neighborhood organization, but with a conditional use authorization. we do a mailing out to a 300 foot radius of the property, and we put a sign on the property. so a lot more people and businesses are noticed of that. for legislation, we put a newspaper notice for 20 days in the paper. so not as many people are noticed of that. so i actually see the conditional use process as much more. i guess democratic in an odd way than the legislative process for that. and again, we're not talking about getting rid of the queue to exceed a certain size. we're just saying that an absolute cap just ends the conversation. and so we want to allow the conversation to happen at the planning commission with the public involved in discussing

that rather than doing these one offs for individual businesses, i would expect you a significant experience in the discussion, as well as on the legislative side. we may also just not to extend the conversation into to into infinity have discussions about changing certain processes in an environment that requires rapid delivery more than ever, we may all have to change the ways we go about things, so that includes lengths of neighborhood discussion, number of people to be interviewed, etc. that is just a suggestion, but i believe that you would be a great participant in holding up the other side, which involves the actual working of making these things come to the commission for approval. so i look forward to spending more time with you on going into depth of what else could be done. thank you. thank you, commissioner imperial. yes, for me, i would like to see the data on in the priority equity

geographies, overlapping densities within the priority there. i don't believe there are maximum usage caps in the priority geography. maybe north beach, but not all of north beach. okay, so okay, if that is i'm just curious as to where you know whether cultural districts are they're affected by it, but if not, the castro is an lgbtq cultural district, right? so something like that where where there are underlying zonings as well. i will be interested to see those. sure. commissioners, if there's nothing further, there is a motion that has been seconded to adopt a recommendation for approval as proposed by the supervisor on that motion. commissioner campbell i commissioner williams i commissioner brown i commissioner. imperial i. commissioner moore i and commissioner. president. so i so move commissioners motion passes

unanimously 6 to 0 placing us on item ten for case number 2024. hyphen 009362 pca for the third street alcohol restricted use district planning code amendments. good afternoon, commissioners veronica flores, planning department staff. the item before you is the third street alcohol restricted use district or rude ordinance. this was sponsored by supervisor walton. the proposed ordinance would amend the third street alcohol rud to conditionally permit certain bars within the bayview neighborhood, commercial district, or ncd eligible bars may only have a type 42 abc license, and that's only for beer and wine. this amendment would also be reflected within the bayview ncd. the proposed ordinance also includes general cleanup items to make sure the planning code is clearer and more consistent throughout the department supports the overall

goals of this ordinance because it supports economic growth within the bayview. the proposed ordinance does add some flexibility, but the impacts would be very minor if this is limited to bars with a type 42 license. again, that's only beer and wine. the department believes that the following recommendations could both support local business owners and balance out with the neighborhood's needs. today, the first recommended modification is to amend the third street alcohol read to not apply to named neighborhood commercial districts. right now, the bayview ncd is the only named ncd within the third street rud because it is its own named ncd. the board of supervisors can create controls specific to bayview. this can be done through the ncd itself and does not need to be funneled through or replicated through the rud.

the modification would add an exception to the rud and would avoid having to do a zoning map amendment should any future named ncds be created within the boundaries. the second recommended modification is to conditionally permit all bars within the bayview ncd, not just those with type 4c licees. again, those are only beer and wine bars. this amendment would make the proposed ordinance more impactful and also make this more equitable for all bars. part of this second recommended modification is to also conditionally permit nighttime entertainment uses. if the first recommend modification is incorporated. this is because nighttime entertainment uses, which serves alcohol. by definition, these are permitted as of right in the bayview ncd. so if the rud no longer applies

to the bayview ncd, then the nighttime entertainment controls should be revisited and amended accordingly. the department's recommendation is to conditionally permit nighttime entertainment uses in that case. again, the second recommended modification only applies to the bayview ncd, and that's to conditionally permit bars and nighttime entertainment uses. the rest of the rud controls would still apply to the rest of the rud boundaries. that would not change. and again, the recommendation for you today is to adopt a recommendation of approval with modifications that concludes the staff presentation. i'm available for any questions. thank you. thank you. before we get into public comment, those members of the public that are standing in front of the doorway, you're causing a fire hazard. and i'm

going to ask that you occupy a seat. there are a few still left in these chambers, or you can go to room 408, which is an overflow chamber just down the hall where you are able to view and listen to the proceedings. and when we call public comment, everyone will be entitled to come in. so everyone standing or sitting on the floor, you're going to have to make your way to a seat or room 408. thank you. i appreciate your time. and just as a heads up, if folks are here for 1034, howard, that item was continued. oh, right. 1035 yeah, that one's not being heard today. 1035 is here for that, but we're also here to back up the mission. great. that's still here. yeah. thank you. the place is here. thank you. yeah. for the benefit of members of the public that were not aware, 1035 howard street has been continued to january 16th and will not be heard today. with that, we should open up public comment for the third street alcohol restricted use district planning code amendments. members of the

public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on this item. again, you need to come forward to supervisor seeing none. public comment is closed in. this matter is now before you commissioners. commissioner lebron. so as far as the original legislation goes, i am i'm in favor of allowing the type 42 liquor license operators in the third street. alcohol. rudd i think what i'm trying to sort of mull and figure out a little bit more is the staff recommendation and the implications of it. so i just want to ask a couple questions, make sure i'm understanding it properly. if you don't mind. so currently in the bayview ncd. well first of all. so if we remove the bayview ncd from the rudd then the land use controls within the ncd

would would be the controls. yes. okay. and so then the currently in the bayview ncd, i believe nighttime entertainment and possibly bars. i was just looking at this are are permitted in the they are principally permitted principally permitted. so if the bayview ncd is removed from the rudd, the additional change we would be making with the staff recommendation is also applying changing that to be requiring conditional use authorization for those two uses in the bayview ncd. is that right? yes, that is correct. just within the bayview ncd. okay. and then is there a representative of the project sponsor here today or i had reached out, i hadn't heard that they would be attending. so unfortunately they are not here to respond to questions. and as the department received any feedback on the recommendations from the project sponsor. no. okay. commissioner brunner, are

you talking supervisor or project sponsor? i'm sorry. the supervisor. yeah. i mean, we did talk. there was some back and forth with staff. i don't think they could be here today from the supervisor staff. they were they had some concern about the second recommendation. just expanding it beyond beer and wine. but i think similar to the last item, they were kind of they liked the recommendation but wanted to kind of to talk to the neighborhood on that aspect of it. i appreciate that. i, i think i've been struggling with the scope of the implications of the recommendations, and it seems like with the two recommendations from the department, we need to kind of take them together, because if we just take recommendation one to remove the ncd from the rudd, then we basically just opened up bar nighttime entertainment uses as a permitted use in a place

where currently isn't right. so then we would also need to apply the coa. and as part of all of that, we would also be taking an action that is now allowing far more than just type 42 liquor license holding establishments in the in the ncd. it just feels to me like too big a change without without some more community input because there's so many, so many different dials that we would be turning all at the same time as part of that. so i think for now, i'm not in favor of staff recommendations, but i'm curious to hear other perspectives on this. thank you. commissioner williams. thank you. sorry. yeah, i, i, i want to support supervisor walton's legislation without the recommendations. i think that those recommendations need more

community input and so that's basically where i stand kind of where commissioner braun was leading to. thank you, commissioner imperial. yeah, i just oh i'm sorry. sorry. excuse me. sorry, commissioner. vice president, more. that's okay. i talked with the supervisor's office and felt strong support for the limited. more limited approval, reflecting the intentions of what the supervisor had written. so i believe that commissioner brown very sensitively took apart what my concerns are as well. and we expressed that in the previous round of discussion. and it may be a slightly different discussion, but i do require i think it requires more thoughtful examining the details, because the changes are too many and too widespread. the

alcohol restricted limitations on bayview-hunters point are many are quite old. they were put together with a very big understanding of what some of the. and then at that time issues were and i think i would leave it up to the supervisor to guide us through the proper process, to examine as to whether or not the time is right to selectively broaden of what is possible. so i am supporting the legislation as it is written, and i will reserve additional judgment on further examination of a more detailed examination in the future. thank you. thank you, commissioner imperial. i also want to echo what other commissioners and thank you, commissioner braun. that was also my concern too, is like the implications and what it would mean other in terms of the details, i think if there's going to be policy recommendations by the department, i think it's good to

for us, the commissioners, to understand the details of the implications of what it would mean, like exempt for exempt. you know, the second recommendation was also, you know, an issue that i have questions, you know, what would it mean as well. so for that, i think the department, if there's going to be policy recommendations based on, i hope that there will be not just community input, but also for us to understand what would be like the layers of decisions that we would have to consider as well. so with that, i would make a motion to approve without staff modification. second. there's no further deliberation. commissioners. there is a motion that has been seconded to approve or excuse me, adopt a recommendation for approval as proposed by the supervisor on

that motion. commissioner campbell. no. commissioner williams i commissioner braun, i. commissioner. imperial i. commissioner more i and commissioner. president. so i so moved commissioners that motion passes 5 to 1 with commissioner campbell voting against commissioners that will place us on item 11 for case number 2015. hyphen 000988 bwp for the mission action plan 2030 strategies. this is a request for your endorsement for the benefit of the public. there has been an overflow room established in room 408, so those people standing against the wall, you need to find a seat or make your way to room 408, where you can view and hear these proceedings. translation services are available for those who need it. again, those people standing at the doorway or simply standing, you need to find a seat or make your way to room 408. there are a few spaces

still available in these chambers, so please find a seat. thank you. appreciate your. help with that. and just before oscar starts, i just wanted to introduce the item. and him. did you want to say something first? i just real quick. i wanted to translate what john said. yeah. so para los gay. i didn't capture all of it, but para los necesita a otro cuarto numero cuatro cinco ocho sino a espacio. aqui a traduction en espanol i audiophonics puede utilizar aqui. tenemos nuestra colega q va a ayudar a traducir durante comentario publico. gracias. but just first one. thank you all for allowing us to bring this item. i mean, i was on the commission. commissioner moore was two when we started map 2020, and it was a different time. you know, we would be here talking about housing projects a lot and community opposition to housing projects. i think this has been, we believe, a

successful collaboration between city agencies and community to address issues of affordability and displacement and strengthening the cultural district. it's actually a model that we used where we put in actions into the housing element, because the housing element just doesn't talk about building housing, but also how we work, especially with cultural districts and communities in priority equity geographies on on issues of affordability and displacement and strengthening those communities. so you'll hear obviously more about that. i want to thank actually, former director ram, who started this initiative, claudio flores, who was a big part of it at the time, to an oscar, who is now with our team, has been a he's he's he's not he's been here before at the commission as far as map 2020 efforts and in on projects. he joined our department in 2021 and now serves as our liaison to the mission district, working on

map. he's also our facilitator with our equity council. he was a member of the equity council before he came on. staff. so we're happy to have him. he was born to salvadoran immigrants who settled in the mission in excelsior districts in the late 60s. he still is a is a resident of the neighborhood, raising his four children with his wife, cynthia. in the community, he's been involved in the community for 25 years as an organizer, advocate, coalition builder, and planner for land use and housing issues. just of note, during the during the pandemic, he co-led engagement and advocacy initiatives that secured nearly 2 million in funding to support the neighborhood. he's an avid cyclist who mentors youth. he's also an active participant in the aztec dance group, performing in the mission carnival. so he's not he's not unfamiliar with the planning department or the planning commission, but this is his

first time presenting as a staff person. so we wanted to kind of formally introduce him. but welcome oscar. thank you. if members of the public could refrain from clapping and cheering for things, not just for oscar, but throughout the hearing, if you want to show your support, feel free to wave your fingers in the air in your hands and but please do so silently. thank you, thank you silently, please. good afternoon. thank you for the introduction and i am nervous as heck being as a staff person. but good afternoon. when i started this, esteemed planning commissioners, my name is oscar grande. i'm with the community equity division at planning. i serve as a latino in the mission district, community liaison for the department. my job is to collaborate with community members to identify needs and

develop strategies that support equity focused initiatives as it pertains to our built environment the streets, our homes, commercial spaces, plazas and sidewalks. we are here today to hear from me and others on this historical, community driven vision for building an equitable and thriving mission district. i'm sorry i don't know. yeah. are you. can i go to the computer, please? there we go. thank you. so today we're going to cover we're going to cover the history and the progress of mission action plan. hear from community members, a mix of residents, community organizations, business owners and others who hold near and dear this special place that we call the mission and lastly, we're asking for your endorsement. a commitment to a set of updated map strategies today. it gives me great joy to present to you the mission action plan status report and highlights from that report and

proposed strategies. i'm joined by my community partner, lucia obregon, director of san francisco latino parity and equity coalition, a mission based two dozen plus two dozen plus member organizations of service providers, affordable housing developers, economic development specialists and cultural creators. for this portion, i would like to bring up miss obregon to provide background and context on how and why map originated. good afternoon commissioners. my name is lucia and i would like to also mention that i'm a part of the equity council for the planning department map 2020 and map 2030 are more than just initiatives. they represent more than a 20 year journey of resilience and advocacy grounded in equity framework to uplift the voices of vulnerable communities. one of my favorite memories as an organizer was in

2015. i was 25 years old and hundreds flooded city hall to demand action against the growing displacement crisis in the city. and i remember feeling so inspired as a young organize. now, ten years later, i am honored to continue that work as i stand before you, ensuring the voices of the most impacted remain at the forefront of planning decision making in san francisco, the struggle for equity in the mission is deeply historical. the mission is home to two critical communities in the city. for the ramaytush ohlone, displacement began during the mission period, resulting in near eradication for native americans relocated to san francisco during the federal relocation program, promises of housing and training turned into experiences of redlining, exclusion, and systematic barriers to wealth building reflected today by the sobering fact that there is only one native owned business in the

entire city. in the home ownership rates for american indian and alaskan native communities stand at just 22%, as if planning acknowledgment of this historical harm through a resolution back in 2020 for latinos who transformed the mission district into a vibrant cultural hub, they face the devastating effects of gentrification. in 2015, during the second wave of displacement, 8000 latino residents were forced out of their homes. and despite our efforts in 2022, that number continued to climb to 12,000 latinos being displaced, underscoring the urgent need for action to preserve the cultural heritage and assure the livability and the stability for all communities to not only survive, but to thrive in a rapidly changing city. next. so map 2020 is not just a plan. it remains a bold, community led effort to create equitable, thriving

mission. the initiative was a testament to what is possible when residents, businesses, nonprofits and city workers work together. the goals of map 2020 were clear prevent displacement. promote housing equity. support cultural and commercial vitality by uplifting local businesses and cultural districts, and ensure safety and livability for all of its residents. next, this process embodied the very essence of inclusive planning, involving extensive outreach, public meetings and input for a wide range of stakeholders, elevating community voice and leadership. this process was not the work of a single organization. instead, it's a collective effort shaped by the voices of community members, local businesses, nonprofit merchant associations, vendors and city leaders, including this very commission. it was a way in which we assessed community needs, provide recommendations

for planning, have city agencies work together in a way that we could prioritize resource allocation and help share programs and policies? this timeline represents the work that has been done by this very planning commission in our collective effort that goes back to the late 90s and early 2000. since the start of the first dotcom boom. there's a rich history and president of the planning commission and the department taking steps towards incorporating collaborative, neighborhood equity driven approaches. i want to highlight two important moments that are closer to where we're at now. the first one is the adopted resolution centering the planning department's work program and resource allocation on racial and social equity in 2020 and in in 2022. the housing element was adopted by the san francisco board of supervisors and certified by the california department of housing and

community development. this is our city's first housing plan, centered on racial and social equity. so this gives us you the responsibility to support and implement efforts like map, tenderloin, community action plan, cultural districts and other community plans that aim to restore the harms our government imposed in bipoc communities. thank you. thank you, thank you, lucia, for the rich history, background of map. so fast forward to now. let's talk about impacts, neighborhood impacts, material things that we can see, feel and touch. the latest status report analyzed city data. in this report, you will read about the neighborhood impacts that were produced over the last decade. the original

map strategies named the goal of 17 to 2400 units of affordable housing. we are well on our way of surpassing this milestone. over 1500 new and acquired units of affordable housing have been built in our neighborhood, and all you need to do is walk down 16th street. another 2400 plus housing units in the pipeline, striking a balance of both market rate and affordable housing. cultural activation like dia de los muertos, carnival lover's lane and others draw in tens of thousands of locals and visitors, supporting the creation of jobs and economic activity. we have two cultural districts american indian cultural district and cuatro latino cultural district. planning created a mural inventory that documents more than 600 street murals, serves as a valuable resource for

planners and preservationists, enabling them to consult with mural experts from the community to aid in the approval or mitigation of development projects. new community owned commercial spaces have been created, providing affordable spaces for bike shop, youth arts center, galleries, art production facilities and small business spaces. 24th street has a 7% commercial vacancy rate. compare that to the 30% vacancy rate union square downtown or 9% citywide. that's about ten retail spaces out of 135 last year. over 2000 residents received tenant support in this sector of work. the old adage rings true the best defense against eviction is an informed and empowered tenant. mohcd, one of our partners through this map process, has invested tens of millions in tenant support citywide. the ad supported

commercial real estate program has been a game changer, providing everyday business owners the support to locate and to their ideal space and navigate, lease negotiations. and this is one of many investments stewarded by office of economic and workforce development. as you will hear later today in this hearing. in spite of the gains and major accomplishments, there are critical needs that require attention. the original intent of mission action plan was to track and analyze trends in demographics, housing, economics, and cultural activation, all in service of identifying strategies to reduce displacement and stabilize vulnerable communities. the data illustrates a rising trend in cleaning requests for mission neighborhood with mission streets showing higher numbers

and greater fluctuations compared to 24th street, which actually experienced a decline in requests over the last two years. but as we'll hear today from community members and others, public health and clean streets are a community priority. the mission corridor has more vacancies than 24th street, with around 56 empty retail spaces at last count. there's real concerns around displacement of light industrial jobs or what we call production, distribution and repair and spaces in the northeast part of the mission, there's a 55% increase in latino homelessness as reported by the department of homelessness and supportive housing. in their current point in time count, 31% of mission tenants are rent burdened. this is used as an indicator of affordability, meaning 30% or more of income is spent on rent. extremely rent burdened slightly

rose to 15% 25% of our american indian community are housing insecure now at 1.1 million is the average price for a home. and if you have the means to buy this, this is a great investment. but for most working people, this is a pipe dream and out of reach. which brings us to strategies. so what does all this mean in terms of decisions we make and resources that the city can marshal? there's five emerging strategies based on our analysis of existing neighborhood conditions and our engagement with community groups and stakeholders. these are the overarching strategies. are there further detailed in the memo that you have in front of you after today, we'll get back out there in partnership with community to further develop and refine potential policies, actions, resources, plus identify and advocate for the needed resources to solve the challenges facing our neighbors,

business owners, workers and nonprofits. stabilizing spaces for small businesses and community based organizations. community organizations, mom and pop shops on our commercial corridors and our light industrial businesses in the northeast part of the mission. all need access to affordable rents, long term leases, and vital resources for these services to continue and thrive. improving street conditions across the spectrum of the neighborhood, we hear the need for improving conditions on the streets. regular power washing along key sections of the mission commercial corridor, investing in the public activation of 16th and 24th street plazas and other common spaces. enhancing cultural vitality. access to cultural and ceremonial spaces. the neighborhood's cultural workers

and creators are finding it difficult to access indoor and outdoor spaces to continue producing and supporting arts traditions and community led initiatives that reflect the evolving identities of equity communities. these spaces include locations for spiritual ceremonies, cultural festivals, traditional arts or language preservation, protecting and developing these areas acknowledges indigenous sovereignty. supports cultural survival, and fosters respect for indigenous communities. contributions to the greater society. housing, expanding affordable housing, access, protect existing housing and create new units that support multigenerational families that enable our elders to age in place without leaving their communities. and the kinship kinship support networks that they know affordable housing has increased due in large part to the tens of millions in funding

that came by way of the last three housing bonds, as well as state and other other sources. there is a need to continue to advocate for more local, regional and state affordable housing funding for community identified pipeline projects. the increase in homelessness, families living in cars, the waitlist at the neighborhood's only family shelter prove that we need to double down on pathways for stable, permanent housing for vulnerable households and individuals. now, tying all these strategies together is the importance of planning and acting in partnership with our communitie, ensuring that active participation of equity communities in city planning and development process and development processes. the gains we touched on today were made possible by the hundreds of community stakeholders that have that have participated in past forums, hearings, working groups and dozens of community organizations that mobilize

their members to engage as we navigate the housing element policies and state legislation, is crucial for our department and our sister agency to be in partnership with community stakeholders and integrate community driven benefits with the ultimate goal of fostering equitable neighborhoods that are affordable, safe and thriving. strategies are, on paper, don't mean nothing. these strategies must lead to action. these words are only a blueprint that guides policy and budget decisions at this commission. other commission's board of supervisors, mayor, mayoral decisions and others. it takes a village. it takes our community partners. it takes our implementing agencies, our partner like cdd, mohcd, mta, dcyf, etc. you name them, takes all of us. and most importantly,

it takes our residents, our cbos, all small and large businesses, affordable and market rate developers and. so in conclusion, commissioners equity is not achieved overnight. and the work we've done together over the years should not be should not be undone. this is a call to continue building on the foundation of map 2030, to deepen partnerships, to create solutions that reflect the needs of all mission residents. we urge the commission to remain steadfast in supporting the equity driven vision of map 2030, and to continue fostering collaboration between the city and community. together, we can ensure that the mission's future is one of inclusion, one of opportunity, and one of a shared prosperity. and i acknowledge and appreciate the contributions

of the experience of those who came before us to actively engage in the current moment and make positive impacts, while also considering the legacy that we leave behind for future generations. so, commissioners, before you is a request for a renewed commitment to equity collective action, and this shared prosperity. and i want to just close, i'd like to end my presentation invoking the ancestors, three particular individuals that lived, worked, and loved the mission three fierce community advocates that struggled hard to make sure future generations are able to live and thrive in the neighborhood. eric quesada, carlos gutierrez, and betty meadow. thank you, commissioners and i'm here for any questions as well as my colleagues behind me. thank you. okay. if that concludes staff presentation, we should open up public comment through the chair. you'll each receive two minutes. we do have

translation services available if you need it. and we ask that you line up on the screen side of the room or to your right. let me get my little pet. can you turn that on for me? there. okay, great. thank you. if you can move it when i have it on the screen. i don't know how to make it go. and before we take public comment, we are going to take a five minute recess. oh. we will be sitti okay. we are going to resume the hearing. welcome back to the san francisco planning commission hearing for thursday, december 5th, 2024. commissioners, we left off under your regular calendar on item 11 for the mission action plan 2030 strategies. request for endorsement. again through the

chair. you'll each receive two minutes. it says three on the thing. we'll change that. good. thank you. hi, i'm georgia, and in 2017 i commented on the map 2020 and i talked about it in the context of section 317 and with a few projects that were ongoing then that hadn't been completed. and my concerns had to do with flats and also definition of demolition. so on the screen is a house that's at 25th and alabama, and this was done an alteration before section 317. and it turned into that and it became an airbnb illegal. and very expensive housing. but in 2017 there was this going on and this was the original house. and it was single family and it sold for 1.4 million in 2014, and it became this. and it is two units, but it was there are two

units that were like $2.5 million each. so here are the demo calcs. and that was my concern. and if you look real closely, you can see the horizontal and vertical. the numbers are really high. and i think if you go back and look at this thing, that alteration is not that much different than this alteration in the first alteration was before the demo house even existed. okay. so this thing also had a you.do, i think. and you look on the far right, you can see living room and bedroom, no kitchen. but he must have left it off. but it certainly could have been a kitchen there. so i mean that's a loss of affordable housing right there in that building with the two units put in that are very overpriced. finally, this is hampshire street. this was bought in 2018. excuse me, 2017 for 1.5 was turned into four ticks. that sold for $900,000 each. so you figure that's $1 million profit. and so if you look at the picture,

there's a little man and a little child and that was in 2016 from google earth. and i guess they were evicted in 2018. so i know people want to do some stuff and take care of it. and there's a lot to do. but i do think the commission could adjust the demo calcs and fix the flat policy, and that would be very helpful. little bitty things. thank you. good afternoon. i have some handouts for the commissioners. good afternoon commissioners. my name is jessica rubio. i am the policy director at mission economic development agency. we wanted to present to you a copy of the letter that you have that you should have received this morning, urging your support for the mission action plan 2030 initiative and signed by 59 small businesses, community serving organizations and coalitions. these supporters for this important equity initiative include businesses associations including the mission merchants

association, the mission street vendor association, the hispanic chamber of commerce, the san francisco chamber of commerce. it also includes affordable housing and homelessness organizations like mission housing media, the coalition on homelessness, and our cultural district and centers, including the american indian cultural district, quattro friendship house, and other critical community coalitions and services organizations that include the san francisco latino parity and equity coalition, the latino task force, and la raza community resource center. businesses also are included in this letter, as well as nonprofit assisting neighborhood businesses and workforce such as click and the mission language vocational school. oh, sorry and other anti-displacement coalitions. since we have two minutes, i figured i would just go through it in other community. our arts organizations, plus many more.

so as you can see, we have a broad and far reaching support for this critical equity initiative coming from all sectors of the community. so we urge you to continue to support the successful city and community partnership that focuses on small businesses and community stabilization and cultural driven prosperity. so please, we urge you today to continue to support this effort and hear our community members. thank you so much. good afternoon, commissioners. director hillis, my name is mary travis ellen. i sit on the equity council at the planning department. i'm also the co-chair of the american indian cultural district. i also worked for the city 32 years, and i sit on a variety of councils. i want

to speak to commitments and truths and words. the land acknowledgment should not just be performative. it should be a truth that if you speak it, you believe it. the resolution that was passed in 2020 that committed the planning department to right the wrongs that have been historically done in this city, was an absolute commitment. i want to speak to effect because i represent a demographic that promises have been made and lies came of it. and in this country now, we are being subjected to a world of lies, and we're all going to be impacted by it in this city.

most importantly, built on the blood of the ramaytush ohlone people and what the mission demise did, you need to recognize that and the work that's being done, the mission action plan, people demonizing the work of cultural districts. shame on you. shame on you. it is the representation of the people and the cultural districts that make them stand up with pride, but more importantly, what they want to contribute to this city, not just for the good of their districts, but the good of all people. and that we need to be very careful. the legacy of my people is us trying to help others, and we got stomped on. thank you ma'am, that is your time. thank you. hello, my name

is beth malik. no one should face displacement, and it's essential to build new housing to support those who cannot afford market rates. however, it's equally important to include middle class and middle income residents in the planning for our neighborhood's future. a balanced approach ensures a diverse, thriving community where all residents can coexist and contribute to the local economic, economy and culture. i have lived i've been a resident of the mission for 26 years, and i've witnessed the transformation over the past two decades. like many, i believe fostering a vibrant, safe and affordable community. however, it's important to question why 100% affordable housing developments are being disproportionately concentrated in the mission and nowhere else in the city. like i said, i've

lived in the mission for 26 years. there's a lot of people just like me that don't come to these meetings. they actually don't even know about them. and they're upset about the fact that the mission is becoming more and more crowded because of these huge buildings that are being built. it's impacting the streets. the streets are dirty. they're filthy in fact, i walk around the mission every day. there's trash dumped on every corner, overflowing trash cans. the street smells like urine, and it's because there are too many people living in this small, tiny area. you can, you can can't even find parking anymore. people block my driveway. i am very tolerant. i say please leave a note, but it is becoming more and more difficult for the residents who have lived here for decades. and

the more of these you continue to build, these large, 100% affordable housing. it's not adding diversity and economic future for everybody that lives in that neighborhood. that is your time. and that's all i have to say, but i do i do understand that we need. to. do. hello. my name is lucy janus. and i'm a resident of the mission district. also. so the mission district deserves a planning process that reflects the voices and needs of all its residents. and stakeholders. map 2030 falls short of this goal by prioritizing the interests of a select few while ignoring the district broader social, economic, and cultural realitie. the planning commission should

halt this endorsement of map 2030 until truly inclusive and transparent planning process is established. the san francisco planning department's community equity division claims to focus on stabilizing community spaces, improving street conditions, and enhancing cultural vitality, expanding affordable housing, and strengthening community based planning. while these goals are sound commendable, the implementation has created a system of gatekeeping and biased decision making that exclude the majority residents and business owners in the mission district. the mission district is. vibrancy and diversity are at stake. it is time for the planning department to listen to everyone and make decisions that benefit the entire community, not just a select few. thank yo.

i'm sorry. i really want to make sure i emphasize that everyone needs to respect everybody's comments and views. please refrain from your personal like laugh or any other ways because i think here we're here to like to hear everybody's voice are important. thank you. thank you. commissioners, my name is mary jean robertson and i currently live in district five, and i am a member of the american indian cultural district. and i do a radio show on kpo called voices of the native nations. and we used to broadcast the board of supervisors meetings for many, many years. so i, i'm familiar with a lot of the programs and the things that that all of you commissioners do. and i admire your, your work. i just wanted to remind everybody that san francisco is a very special

place because we do have so many cultural, cultural events and gatherings here. and i, i want to follow what, what mary travis allen said in that we have a responsibility to the original people to honor the responsibility that they have to the land. and we as relocated indians also have that responsibility, not only to our original homelands, but also to the place where we live. so that's our way of honoring the original people. and i want to celebrate san francisco because they're one of the very few places in the world that celebrates so much cultural diversity with their cultural centers. i was part of the neighborhood arts program that started some of the cultural centers, and the american indian arts workshop was part of both brannan street cultural center

and the mission cultural center. we held events in both places as well as in the original american indian center. so i hope you remember that american indians have a responsibility to the land and will be continuing to come before you. every time we feel that there is a protection issue of sacred land and sacred spaces and sacred people, thank you very much. hello, my name is lou dematteis and i'm a longtime resident of the mission. and i want to start by saying yes, thank you very much. we owe so much to our native peoples that were in the mission before all of us got here. also, as the head of the commission said, we do need to hear what everybody has to say and respect that. i

want to talk a little bit about the mission as an artist. i'm a filmmaker, photographer, one of the founders of carnaval san francisco. and for me, the neighborhood has a special place because the history, you know, the history of the neighborhood, it was it was irish. and it was italian for a long time. and my i had a great aunt who lived in i immigrated from italy and lived in the mission on dolores street. and i remember going to her house when i was growing up as a young child. and the mission always was a special place, and we have tremendous artists from many countries, many different places in the mission. as i said, i'm italian american. the neighborhood still has its, you know, it still has

many people from many different places. it was funding. i was thinking about it just in terms of where i live. there's like four italian restaurants, which is really great. and i, i've worked a lot with artists here and specifically with muralists, and some of my photos have been used in the murals, especially the carnival mural in south venice and 24th. and i wanted to say there's a, there's a phrase we come up with, como podemos tener morales sin morales estas? which is how are we going to have murals without muralists? they need to live in the mission to. good afternoon commissioners. my name is craig weber. i'm a third generation san franciscan. my grandmother

immigrated to san francisco in the 20s from mexico. my mother lived and grew up in the mission, attended school here in the mission. she passed away a year ago at 101 years. and i continue to live in the mission. i attended mission high school, went on to uc berkeley. so i know a little bit about the latin heritage and cultural importance of the latino community in the mission. i also know a little bit about the american indian culture. i, i joined richard oaks, american indian, who led the occupation of alcatraz in 1969. that's my background. i am very critical of this report. i think it's missing a lot of information. i'm a retired cpa. i read it from page one to page 6062, and i found that a lot of the data

was inaccurate. there's flaws in the report. a lot of the data came from the us census bureau, the american community survey, through oral and written inquiries, i worked for the us census bureau. in 2020. i went to the doors into the homes of residents in the mission. the one takeaway i want you to consider is chi 24. john jacobo was on the board. he also was an officer, vice president. he was arrested in august of this year on rape, sexual and domestic violence. he remained on the board of chi 24 for three years. the board did not act to remove him as an officer or as a board member. this organization, i would hope in your in your recommendation, you would stipulate that this organization

chi 24 should not have anything to do with implementation or funding of this of this of the map 2030. thank you very much. cb. cb sentient. our community is here. they're present. hundreds of people have worked on this report. commissioners hours and hours of time. we are all here in support and we urge you to adopt this. this is our self-determination. this is our plan. this is what people want us to do in city government, to

plan, to prepare and to present, to you our vision of our community. that's what we're doing here today. if people didn't participate in the process, if they didn't, if their retractors and they weren't part of the work that has been done by a lot and lot, a lot of people here that are sitting here, there's very little that we can do other than move forward. we have incredible needs in our community right no, incredible needs. and we got to move forward. that's the that's what we're doing right now. we're trying to take steps forward in our community. my name is roberto alfaro. i'm the executive director of homies organizing the mission to empower youth. we serve 3000 people every year. chinese, latino. we serve. we gave $2.2 million of emergency rental assistance in our community. we

are part of the. we are part of working to try to solve the problems in our community, and we want you to be part of that process, and we urge you to pass this. we urge you to vote for it. we need it. so we can do our planning in the community. there's a lot of things coming into our community that that we all know about that is going to impact us. we need this piece so we can do our work. i thank you very much. have a good day. good morning. members of the san francisco planning commission. my name is jose luis pabon. i also work for homies organizing the mission to empower youth. i am a case manager there with the erap program and i want i want to start off by saying that, you know, my family's been here since the 1930s and my family helped build and run this city since then. but today, i can't

afford to live here. i live in oakland and i commute from oakland, and by 11:00 this morning, i was trying to figure out, do i got to take the ferry back? do i got to take the bus for three hours so i can pick up my kids at 6 p.m. in east oakland? that's not fair. you know, my grandfather joined local 2 in 1948, started as a wish as a dishwasher and was a member of local two, working in in hotels and restaurants for over 40 years. my grandmother was an in-home support nurse and raised a family here in san francisco and worked in the canneries down in the bayview back in the 50s. they used to come home smelling like fish and it it is it is an absolute insult. i'm sorry. everyone's entitled to their opinion, but it's an insult to say that affordable housing is the cause of all the poverty on the stree. when we have billionaires increasing exponentially, let's just let's just do the math

right. we have a policy problem. if teachers and city workers and construction workers and even police officers can't afford market rate housing in the city of san francisco, we have a major problem. we need affordable housing in the mission. we deserve it. we earned it. our families have sent our kids to go fight in every war in this country for the last hundred years. we're not asking for a handout. we're asking for our due rights. we pay our taxes, we go to work our people are suffering. living on the street. there's san francisco residents that live their whole lives here who used to have jobs living under the freeways, living in tents, getting bulldozed out. time. it's time for action now. thank you. i support the mission action plan. thank you. my name is monica vensel. i'm on the

advisory council for deaths for years now, and my father is a code talker who has served this country under u.s. marine. and even though he lost his pension because at that time, the american indian was not considered u.s. citizen, and they had served this country. i'm here to talk to you, my friend debbie. debbie had lived here and her family since 1919. six generations through the relocation under the case of 1870. i just want to let you know that a lot of american indian from california had genocide, was was used against them by bounty, handled by scraping their head by killing them. and that's how our land was taken away from us. and that's how a lot of us are not recognized federally. and i'm here to let you know that we

have made millions by francisco pride and in the bylaw. it was written by barbara cameron and pat norman. they're both indigenous women of this countr. and we had paid our way in spite of the suffering of my ancestor. biden had apologized to my people because the boarding school, they took away our language. they took away everything for us all. i'm asking give the latino and american indian a chance to have housing. what the government have promised us education, housing and medical. that's all i need to ask you. please.

good afternoon, commissioners. my name is edwin rodriguez. i'm a i've been attached to the mission since 1985. i raised my two daughters in the mission district. i'm no longer living in the mission district, but i've been working in the mission district for the last 11 years. i'm the associate director for the business development program at mission economic development agency for. and i'm here to support map 2030. i have worked in the mission since 2011, and i have seen the impact of mission action plan 2020 as oscar presented earlier today. but i also i just want to give you a couple of examples of how impactful the mission action plan 2020 has been. retail

stores began to establish pre-covid and since covid began, the stores have performed much better than the citywide businesses. number two, as middle of last year, mission's office vacancy rate was 11.3, which was the lowest second in the city number three, the partnership between community agencies and in the city city departments provide the opportunity to us to assist the small businesses to access the different programs, grant programs in the city, for example, s.f. chain ada compliance grants, the vandalism relief programs. and we just want to make sure that those programs continue with your support. also, i've been witnessing how the impacts of

the gentrification in the mission in the last few years. a couple of examples. some of some some of our business owners are having a hard time staying afloat because of the rising cost of rent. i just want to make sure that we support and you support mission action plan. thank you. next speaker. perfecto. muy buenas tardes. a todos. aqui. buenas tardes. a todos. mi nombre es jenny aguirre and estoy presentando mi negocio se llama de salon in la distrito de la mision. y este vivo en la mision. por algunos anos y tengo un negocio familia.

my name is jenny and i'm here representing my business is kelly's beauty salon and it's located in the mission. and i've been living in the mission for a few years, and my business is also located there. el dia de hoy quisiera a poner algunas preocupaciones. tenemos como a como negocio. este empresas a la falta de seguridad de limpieza en las calles. este también tenemos un descontrol ahora de homeless desamparados. tenemos en el negocio entrando mas hombres calientes es algo interesante a no sé qué esta pasando también el problema del parking nuestros clientes. no porque tenemos no hay parking el graffiti tampoco no esta ayudando. i want to share my concerns as a business owner. those include safety. the street

cleanliness as well as the story for us to hear. sorry. do you do you want me to speak louder or the first person needs to speak louder? sorry, i can't hear. yes. oh the spanish. what does she speak? the spanish speaker okay. yeah. my concerns include safety, street cleanliness as well as the presence of unhoused people. a lot of them walk into my business parking or the lack of parking, graffiti and. and the lack of trash cans. a thank you. okay. a mini negocio familia del qual dependemos ocho personas este necesitamos, por favor. atencion. porque la mision también es parte de san francisco. no sentimos olvidados y desamparados muchisimas

gracias por su tiempo. my business is a family business. it sustains eight people. q necesitamos mas. yeah. we feel like we're not being paid attention to. and we feel like we're being left behind. and i ask that you pay attention to us. thank you. yeah, yeah. gracias. that's it. thank you, thank you. okay. buenas tardes. mi nombre es lizbeth padilla y el dia de hoy. estoy aqui representando. oh, dando mi apoyo a el programa de al perdon al plan de accion. ya tengo un pequeno negocio en el distrito llamado yesenia's boutique. el cual es una tienda de ropa? okay, my name is lizette and i'm here to support map 2020, in representation of the small business that i own is a clothing boutique called boutique yesenia's boutique and

estoy todo porque quisiera hablar. mas todo sobre la seguridad y recuerdo mucho mis yo no vivo en san francisco. pero si vienen aqui y mucho sobre el la mision y siempre hablando de qué es muy seguro de qué era muy muy latino. la gente yo no perdido ver. yo quisiera ayudaran a poder a qué yo puedo volver a center. eso el poder volver a sentirme segura en la mision y ahora estoy propietario de un negocio. si. my main focus of my comment is safety. my parents used to live in the mission. unfortunately, i'm not able to live here. but they they tell me stories about how safe the neighborhood was and how welcoming it felt as a latino neighborhood. and i want to be able to feel that myself and be part of that as well. yeah, this is a ahora estoy propietario de un negocio. no solo quisiera sentirme segura yo sino también

mis clientes porque ultimamente siempre me preguntan donde esta ubicado a mi negocio. ellos les digo ella en el distrito de la mision. muchas personas no quieren venir. dicen qué no se sienten seguras a parte también les cuesta mucho llegar y encontrar partio. ese es un gran problema cu cu mis clientes. me han dicho en el sentido de qué no encuentra partido ahi a veces tienen su carro muy lejos para poder llegar a la tienda. i not only i not only do i wish safety for myself, but also for my clients, a lot of them claim when i tell them that i'm located at the mission, they're worried about coming because of safety concerns. they can't find parking and a lot of times they have to park far away, and that makes them also feel unsafe. otro problema también es sobre la limpieza de las calles. recuerdo mis papas siempre me decian mucho también sobre qué la mision se sentia como muy agradable muy limpio y

ultimamente no estoy viendo ell. entonces my other concern is street cleanliness. my parents tell me stories about how the mission was very clean, very pleasant and i'm not seeing that myself. okay. y bueno ya para concluir la vida, por favor. nos ayudan como a consideren el tener el disenar como mas recursos para la mision. se favorece la gente. las personas se pueden sentir mas seguras q pueden sentirse nosotros como latinos. nos podemos sentir en un lugar a sentimos. qué es nuestra casa? i ask that you provide more resources for the neighborhood so that it feels safer and more welcoming for latinos, that it can feel like a home for us. y por ultimo también qué nos ayuda dando esto incentivos para nuestros pequenos negocios ultimamente ha sido muy dificil y estamos pasando por un etapa muy dificil. por donde quisiera qué pudieran apoyarnos para poder. qué nuestro pequeno negocio

pueda ir creciendo y avanzando cada dia mas. gracias. i forgot to add that. the other thing was that she wants also support for safety, and also support for small businesses so that they can, you know, keep growing. they've been feeling the pain of being operating there. and so they would like also support for small businesses. and thank you. good afternoon commissioners. my name is alicia bustos sandoval, born and raised in the mission district, a resident of the mission, a council member of calle cuatro. i'm a community tenant organizer. i worked with eight years with housing rights committee, and i'm currently a tenant rights advocate with hirschman law group. i support mission action plan to prevent displacement, to preserve housing, cultural history and legacy businesses, art and cultural centers, housing stability for families to make

sure they stay in san francisco. mission district community was vastly affected by covid, the pandemic, and many are still dealing with lingering effects. growing up in the mission district, we have lost and so many things have changed. speculators coming into the mission district, targeting tenants through ellis, or fraudulent or mis to displace tenants. many families are pushed out of the mission and out of san francisco due to being rent burden or being evicted. many natives no longer live in the city, and moving back is only a dream. i, i was commuting for two hours each way for 12 years, living in contra costa, and the dream was to move back to the community. i was born and raised in. three years ago i moved back and not everyone has that opportunity.

we really need the mission action plan to be able to make sure so we can sustain families so families can keep staying in, in the mission and also in san francisco. please support the mission action plan. thank you. buenas tardes, a todos good afternoon, planning commissioners. i am aristos kamiji, born and raised san francisco native, and i've carried out my civic duty to this city as an attorney and mediator in residential and commercial real estate matters since 2019. i have worked in the mission district at mission economic development agency mita for short for over two years. as the founder of our housing stabilization and eviction defense program, and currently also act as the director of our

asset building programs. i am here on behalf of my organization to voice support for the mission action plan 2030. the mission action plan process has helped support immigration stabilization, important stabilization outcomes for the mission community since it was initiated by community groups in 2016. in the past year alone, our organization has continued to improve the local housing landscape by providing 2000 mission households with tenant support services, 80 affordable housing placements through the city's dahlia program assisted 30 clients in becoming first time home buyers and i personally have represented over 200 households to retain their housing. while the neighborhood has lost more than 10,000 latinos since 2000. the work of mission action plan helps significantly slow these losses in the past decade and so

i'm left with our call to action that we ensure pathways continue to exist for immigrant newcomers to the neighborhood through access to affordable housing, as well as jobs and programs that meet their needs, namely, vocational training programs and continued support to local small businesses as they provide tangible opportunities for our community to stay local and continue to add more value to the growth of the city we all love. thank you all for your time. god bless san francisco. viva la mission! gracias. good afternoon. my name is natalie ortiz and i am born and raised here in san francisco. resident. i want to first say thank you to meda for supporting me in finding my housing. so and i want to thank all these

community organizations that are here because as a resident, i'm not only a resident, but i've worked in many of the organizations also in the mission like mission neighborhood centers, mission girls. i've helped organize events like cleanups, community cleanups with volunteers. i've organized about 160 volunteers to come out and clean up the community. and i'm also the deputy director of the lover's lane festival. as well. so i just want to say in the lover's lane, lover's lane group is made up of volunteers, right? we have about a collective of 25 volunteers of artists, community organizers, residents that organize a free event for the community every year, with everything being free activities for all the kids. and we do this because this is how we love our the mission. this is how we show up for the mission. okay. and so

we everybody here not only is here to represent themselves and their beliefs, but many thousands of people that appreciate all what the mission is. so i urge you to take heed and hear our voices, because our voices are not just i'm not here just for me. i'm here for a large group of people. my family was displaced from san francisco growing up. i grew up here, and we were displaced for a while, and i made it a point to come back here because this is my home. so i just urge you to take you know, we support the map, the mission action plan. i am currently working at a family shelter, and i see the families that are being evicted from the mission come to my shelter, and i'm there to support them, to find them housing. so please support. please support. thank you. good afternoon. i will be

reading in english and then translating to spanish. good afternoon commissioners. my name is christa alarcon luna, born and raised in the city, grew up in the mission and i work in the mission district also. and i'm here today to read out the testimony of vanessa sandoval, a longtime mission resident. she was here, but she had to leave due to an emergency. vanessa salvador is urging you to support the mission action plan 2030. as a mother, it is extremely important to her that her kids are safe when they're going to school and merely just walking through the neighborhood. she has a 14 year old daughter that has to walk by herself in order to get to school every day. this year, she had an incident where her daughter was assaulted at a bus stop. as a mother, obviously, this is very worrisome and why and that's why it's important that we work towards this plan for the mission to ensure the security not only of her kids, but all of the kids in the neighborhood. thank you. and then in spanish. buenas tardes miembros de la comision. mi

nombre es crystal alarcon luna naci fui criada en la ciudad creciendo del distrito de la mision y ahora trabajo ahi también estoy aqui ahora para leer el testimonio de vanessa sandoval. residente de la mision. desde hace mucho tiempo y estuvo aqui. pero tuvo irse debido a la emergencia. vanessa sandoval los insisto apoyar el plan de accion para la mision 2020 como madre es extremadamente importante q sus hijos estén seguros. cuando van a la escuela y simplemente cuando estan caminando por el vecindario. ella tiene una hija de catorce anos caminar solo para ir a la escuela. todos los dias este ano tuvo un incidente q su fue acusada en la parada del bus como madre. obviamente esto es muy preocupante y por eso es importante trabajamos en este plan para la mision para garantizar la seguridad no solo de los hijos de ella, pero sino todos los hijos del vecindario. gracias. hola. buenas tardes.

este mi nombre es jessica. pero estoy aqui para hablar del testimonio de kalyn y de paola. hi my name is jessica and i'm here to talk about to talk on behalf of kalyn. and paola. estas dos mujeres estaban aqui presentes apoyando el plan de accion para la mision 2020. they were both here present to support the mission and action plan 2030. kalyn tiene un hijo de tres anos llevar a la escuela. diario y caminar por el vecindario de la mision para la hora. ella recoge a su hijo. este ya esta oscuro. caitlin has a child that's three years old and she has to take to the school every day and he has to walk. they have to walk together through the neighborhood and by the time she picks him up, it's already dark out. por eso estaba presente aqui porque la interesa

trabajé en el plan de la mision para qué solo no solo sus hijos. pero también otros ninos vayan a la escuela y se sientan seguros. that's why she was here to support map 2030 so that we can, as for safety for everybody, not just for her kids, but all the other kids that go to school in the mission and so that they feel safe. ahora paola paola vino aqui también para apoyar el plan de accion 2030 ella camina todos los todos los dias. ella estuvo aqui con su bebé empezo a por eso se tuvo air con sus cuatro hijos de tres de dias, de dos y un bebé de cuatro meses. yo pide qué se tengamos mas seguridad en las calles porque hay mucha delincuencia y le da miedo caminar en las calles de la mision. paola was also here with her baby, but she has to step out. when the baby started crying, she walks every single day with her four children, who

are three, ten, 12 and a baby that's four months old, to go to the school and she's worried about safety, especially for her children, because she believes there's a lot of delinquency, delinquency, no, por eso esta aqui. esta aqui apoyando el plan de la mision para el plan. plan de accion para la mision 2030. porque sabe la seguridad es parte de ese plan y todos sus hijos y ella y todos los padres de familia se sienten seguros. that's why she was here to support map 2030, because she's concerned about safety and she wants safety not just for her children, but all the children in the mission. so that everybody feels safe in the neighborhood. gracias. thank yo. but use commissioners de la angel constantino, fabian vera. unidad de la papalote. good

afternoon, commissioners. my name is angel. angel ortega. i use he she they pronouns and my people are banza or banza. people of the clouds from the high mountains of oaxaca. and i am currently the executive director of bates, the bay area american indian, two spirits and also sit now on the board of the american indian cultural district. bates was established to restore and recover the role of two spirit community members into the sacred circle, into back into community. we now host the largest free two spirit powwow in the world. this last year, we welcomed 5000 of our closest community relatives to the san francisco bay area to fort mason center. so we are providing an economic engine to san francisco, something that is

very common in terms of the language of what's being looked at. more important, i think for us now that we are just opened a community space in the mission in the american indian cultural district at 415 valencia. it is important for us to continue being visible, creating those spaces for community by community, to be able to welcome folks back into the mission. we just finished a needs and strengths assessment through the living and abundance initiative, and we asked what what gives you strength? and of course all the cultural offerings, the ceremonies, the gatherings, the dance, the music give people strength. but we also ask, what are the needs? and time and time again housing came up, employment came up, lack of educational opportunities came up. so please support. i'm here

in support and full support of map. thank you. hello my name is doctor martina ayala and i am here both as a resident of the mission and the proud executive director of the mission cultural center for latino arts, a historic landmark institution that has been in the mission for 48 years, ensuring that we respect cultural diversity, that we preserve our culture and tradition. i am here with a community that is perfectly imperfect, diverse people that come from all socioeconomic and educational backgrounds, that are here in support of mission action 2020. i am also a resident that was homeless in 2018. as a result of a fire, a suspicious fire that left my

whole family without a home and without the support of the social service organizations that are here in this room, i would not be here today. it is very possible for anyone from any socioeconomic level to become homeless and end up in the streets. i am, i am proof of that. let us not confuse the issue here. this is not about poor people crowding the missio. this is not about the poop in the streets, the urine. this is about lack of proper funding. my building was just flooded due to the lack of neglect from the city, the lack of resources and the lack of accountability. let's get our act together. i support the mission action plan

2020. gracias, martina. buenas tardes, companeros, companeros y gracias por su servicio a la comunidad. good afternoon. thanks for your service to our community. francisco herrera is my name. i'm a co-director of the nuevos newly called nuevo sol de libre program, women's collective. we serve. for over 35 years, we've been here serving about 17 corners where day laborers look for work. about 850 men and about 400 to 500 women. so it's about 1300 people that create an economy locally. i'm here to support and ask you to vote for map 2030. been participating in that since it was map 2020. and you have the opportunity to create the

structure that allows us to really flourish and to make a community that responds to all, of all of its residents. and that doesn't allow millionaires to come in and displace us, because we have seen 99 year old ladies put on the street and die one month later by a millionaire who thought it was his right to kick out a 99 year old lady. if you were to tell me, if i was to tell you, i have the right to write 150 miles an hour with my fancy sports car through a school zone, you would think i was crazy, right? why does a millionaire think he or she has the right to kick out people just because they have $1 million or billion, whatever the heck they have? i've raised my children here. i've seen our community be devastated by displacement. more than 10,000 people, our schools be evacuated

of our children. cesar chavez school was serving russian speaking, english speaking, spanish speaking, sign language speaking, african-american children. and i saw that dwindle down to two, 2 to 300 students. you have the ability to structure planning, so it serves our community. thank you. muchas gracias. buenas tardes. queridos comisionado comisionado. mi nombre es guillermina castellanos. good afternoon. my name is guillermina castellanos. soy cofundador de la cofundador de la colectiva de mujeres. desde el dos mil. i was the co-founder of the women's collective since 2000. actualmente, este somos nuevo sol. today we're at nuevo sol y estoy aqui porque soy una madre de familia. qué me preocupa este

qué no me preocupa porque mis hijas han sido desarrolladas de aqui del distrito de la mision. ellas nacieron aqui en san francisco. i'm here also as a mother whose daughters have been displaced from the mission and who were born here in san francisco. por eso sigo por mas de 30 cinco anos estado trabajando por qué visto la problematica de la vivienda ha visto como todas estas organizaciones. estamos aqui. hemos luchado para tratar de resolver este problema. that's why i've been here for 35 years, working to address the issues related to housing. with all these organizations who have been trying to address this, this housing issues in the city. y como mi hija y como muchas trabajadoras del lugar con las trabajo expresan ese problematica de la vivienda problematica de recursos es una

belleza cuando hay la fiesta de las américas, el dia del carnaval, el dia de los jovenes, este hacen sus actividades. el mission cultural center, calle veinticuatro como ha sido esta mision como hemos creado esa solidaridad juntos i see how we've built solidarity together. i see that in in events such as the fiesta, fiesta de las americas carnival and how we've worked together. i'm here representation of all the trabajadores trabajadores de trabajadores, domestic workers, domestic workers. sorry, i'm here also representing domestic workers, just as my daughter, who have been faced with this housing issues and yeah, por eso estoy aqui para aprender juntos estratégicas cu nos vemos metas para trabajar juntos porque esta en sus hombros resolver esta

situacion y en nuestros hombres como organizadores. entonces yo apoyo este plan de la mision veinte treinta. i'm here so we can work together to create strategies to solve these issues. it's on your shoulders to help us solve these issues. and in ours to help address them. muchas gracias. thank you. anything to say? buenas tardes. a todos a mi nombre es anatoliko y soy trabajadora del lugar de san francisco. el nuevo sol. good afternoon, everybody. i'm dominica anatoliko. dominica. anatoliko. anatoliko anatoliko. sorry. and i'm a domestic worker. part of nuevo sol. y

vengo apoyo a la mision y action plan. and i'm here to support map 2030. and that's it. thank you. muy buenas tardes. mi nombre es elsa grigorevich pertenezco a l'organizzazione nuevo sol de trabajadores del hogar de san francisco. y estoy aqui para apoyar el plan de accion 2020. espero ustedes lo pueden analizar para apoyar a todos la gente de la mision. muchas gracias. hi, my name is elsa. i'm here as part of nuevo sol. i'm also a domestic worker and i'm here to support map 2030. and i hope that you can analyze and support this plan. thank you. thank you. thank you. hey, commissioners. my name is

omar del real, general manager at mission hiring hall, a nonprofit that serves the san francisco residents with free employment services to all, regardless of where you're coming from, whether you're born here or you're just visiting or you're just getting by. we never close our doors to anyone seeking employment services, and we're happy and honored to continue to offer these services for free to anyone who seeks them. i'm also here representing a great organization that's not an organization, but a collaboration of organizations. the san francisco latino task force. i am the co-chair of the employment and economic committee, and i'm here in solidarity with all these beautiful people, my neighbors, my san franciscans, community based organizations. please continue to support the mission action plan of 2025. thank you so much. good afternoon,

commissioners. my name is ani rivera. i'm the executive director of galeria de la raza. i'm also the co-chair of the san francisco latino parity and equity coalition, and i'm here to speak in full support of map 2020, moving it into 2030. i think this is an excellent plan that allows our community to have a resource, a tool to think and act like planners, right? to have the tools and resources that we can hold other city agencies accountable to the needs of our community. we've heard over and over, you know, testimony today of the concerns and the needs of our community and the only way we can really approach this is by having the resources and somebody in your in your seats championing it so we can hold the city accountable. we want our streets to be clean. absolutely. this does not happen in noe valley. this does not happen in pacific heights. we need that same type of care and that resource. this map 2030 is going to give us the resources that we need. galeria

de la raza is a 55 year old organization that was displaced in 2018. it was because of the map 2020 that we were able to find permanent homes in the mission because of community benefit projects that were coordinated between private and public development, we would not have a home for seven generations to come. if this plan wasn't in place. we are a direct beneficiary and we want to encourage you to support and give us the resources that our community needs to do what has to be done. the naysayers, i wish that they would stay and listen to all of us, and also grab a broom and clean your streets. this is not just top down, we are all in it together. i am a director and that does not exclude me from grabbing a broom and cleaning folsom street and 24th. it is our collective responsibility. it does not fall on one person. this map 2030 is also not just one voice and one organization. it has hundreds of voices and people, time and power that went into defining that. and we need you to please

support it and help us create our path for self-determination. thank you. penalty. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is sofia arias dorantes. i'm the deputy director at latinas, a member of the sfl pac a i am a transgender indigenous woman. my pronouns are she her as i mentioned, i am a part of para latinas, which is being in the mission since 1993, working with the with the beginning of the pandemic of the of aids in the 90s, and they started as proyecto contrasida por vida, now el aparato latinas, but always providing services for trans latinas for the latina community. i am here in support of the mission action plan 2030, asking you to support the map 2030 and for the trans latinas

because we are part of the mission and vision and mission is provide a better life. and i know that working together, we can do a better mission district. thank you. buenas tardes or good afternoon. my name is petronila. soy un membro del nuevo sol. worker center. y estoy aqui para apoyar esta causa. good afternoon. my name is petronila and i'm here to support map 2020. i'm also a member of nuevo sol, a. todos los companeros un pasado y su opinion pues yo también estoy de acuerdo en qué se ponga mas seguridad y mas respeto en la

calle de la mision. por qué no no mas en la calle de la mision in san francisco a inseguridad muchas mucha gente problematica inclusive donde yo vivo ahi en el cuarto. qué me qué me qué me dieron. just as the people that spoke prior to me, i also support having more safety in the city, more cleanliness, more respect. i do feel and not just in the mission, but in the city at large. i feel like there's a lot of delinquency, a lot of problematic people. bueno esto. no se esta saliendo del tema. pero este es un asunto me concern me. no se deberia esto no. pero el inquilino en el tercer piso causando problemas ya por un ano y pues no hace nada por resolver. ese asunto y

pues vamos a decir no sé si deberia mencionar esto no este pues ese arena de otro costal verdad pero el apoyo pero de todos modos este apoyo con con el estoy soy miembro del nuevo sol worker center y apoyo la cabeza. eso es todo dispenser me me corta forma de hablar. pero no no tengo muchas palabras para expresar. yo quiero decir preocupe. i don't know if i should share this here, but i'm having issues with a renter that's on the third floor of my building. but that's for another day. i just want to say i'm here to support the mission action plan. and sorry for my short like for the way i'm expressing myself, but i'm just here to support the plan. thank you. so.

you can use that one. yeah. okay. excellent. buenas tardes. commissioners. my name rodrigo lopez. soy el presidente de mission. street vendors associations. somos approximately cientos miembros. aqui por lo pueden tener. hi. my name is rodrigo lopez. i'm here representing the mission street vendor, which has 116 members. gracias. estas organizaciones estan aqui atras. sentados apoyando. nosotros somos cientos de familias perdido salir adelante. thank you to all the organizations that are here to support map 2030. we are 116 families that have been able to move forward. necesita el apoyo de ustedes y la ciudad para poder seguir luchando por el vecindario para un vecindario mejor, especialmente con el desplazamiento de latinos en el area de la mision. we need your support and the city support to keep supporting the mission

neighborhood, especially in preventing the displacement of the residents of latino residents. gracias. el ejemplo de estas organizaciones nosotros hemos aprendido los valores y la importancia de seguir manteniendo y protegiendo a la comunidad. thank you to this organization. we have learned the values of the values and the importance of keep maintaining and protecting our community. de nuevo gracias a estas organizaciones y necesitan ustedes apoyado a ellos para ellos pueden apoyar a la comunidad y poder salir de adelante, con un vecindario mas seguro y seguir manteniendo el barrio latino de la mision. thank you again to those organizations, and we need your support so that we can keep fighting for the for the mission and for this latino neighborhood in the city. the apoyo el plan 2023 i support map 2030. no

tardes. soy rubén balderrama. vengo soy soy trabajador de nuevo sol. jornalero y les trabajadoras. good afternoon. i'm rubén valderrama, and i'm also a member of nuevo sol y la trabajadora lugar siempre van al frente porque son las estrellas en el trabajo y aparte. yo estoy en el apoyo de la accion 2020. gracias. i'm very thankful for domestic workers. they make they and they're they're essential to the city. and i'm here to support map 2030. one. good afternoon, commissioners kelly hill with united to save the mission. i'm a 23 year business owner in the mission. and as

someone who's been in the architecture, design and fabrication industry, my whole career, strategic equity initiatives like map 2030 are a model of effective, community based planning with proven successes and potential for much more community stabilization to grow upon not 1 or 2 organizations, but 24 agencies and community entities have collaborated and identified targeted priorities for city investments leading to concrete outcomes like affordable housing production and preservation. we're here as a result of years of market rate development and evictions driving latino and working class families out of the mission at a time when the mission became like an atm machine for developers and speculators. but even after years of market rate development saturation, and through these efforts before you today, we now have over 1000 affordable housing units built and 1200 units in the pipeline. and as we stand here on unseated ramaytush ohlone land, now more than ever,

we need to expand access to affordable housing specifically designed to meet the unique needs of american indian communities, ensuring culturally relevant supportive housing options, honoring tribal identity, and promoting community cohesion. regarding housing preservation, we need to expand through map 2030, the small sites acquisition program that has been an invaluable tool in keeping long standing residents in their homes. to date, 364 units have been permanently preserved in the mission alone, many rescued off the real estate market where evictions were almost guaranteed. we all want commercial corridors to thrive and be safe. we want to continue the public investments and strategy. let's build upon the amazing work that cdd has done. partnering with commercial businesses with tenant protections and consulting the local folks trying to get and start businesses. let's continue this work on map 2030 for the future. thank you. all right.

good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for being here. my name is raina teo. i just want to take a portion of my two minutes because i haven't had two minutes in this place for such a long time to thank everyone who is here today. everyone who took a day off work, everyone who commuted here to be here. we've been here as long as you have. we will continue to be here. the expertise in the community comes from much more than just data. it comes from lived experience. i myself have been in the city for the 42 years that i've been alive. because i'm proudly born and raised here, but that is no small feat. two waves of gentrification have displaced my family. i was displaced to oakland for eight months, and i was managed to come back thanks to the community that is behind me. and all we're asking for is for stability. the map 2030 before you is righting a wrong.

i've lived through that wrong. i don't want my kids to be displaced from the city. i have very few options and 2030 grows those. and i want to say something. yes, we're talking about the mission. and this is mission 2030. but this will benefit the whole city. this is not just going to benefit the mission. the program. right now, the way the lottery works, it's going to benefit everyone. and why is this concentrating in the mission is because all the wrongs have happened in the mission so much. gentrification has happened in the mission. i don't recognize it. and i grew up in the mission. i went to everett. i graduated from mission high school. i want to see a city that includes all of us. the diversity, the diversity i see up here. that's what i want to see reflected on the street. so please, this is the easiest decision you have to make. approve, support, put money behind it, actions behind map 2030. and that's how we're going to stabilize the community. everything that you've heard about the poop and the pee and all of that, you

know what that is. that's lack of community, lack of connection between neighbors. and that's what we need to restore. and matt, 2030 does that. thank you. hello. my name is terry almaguer. i work with boulder. i am currently a land steward at hummingbird farm public land, and i'm here because i support map 2020. i feel really, really invested in it. i spent 20 years of my life going to schools, going to community meetings, going everywhere, everywhere and everywhere. they would accept us to ask people, what do you think needs to happen in our neighborhood? from little kindergartners to elders? and you know what they told us we had maps. we put buildings on on the maps. and we come from an organization rooted in environmental justice. because of the wrongs done by this commission in the 50s, because of the environmental racism that placed the majority of light

industrial in our neighborhood, in the mission right. and if you want some data, then go look at how much asthma, cancer and heart disease existed because of that. right. and the mission cleaned up and became a beautiful place with open arms and park and parks like parque ninos unidos and parks like kajal, because we organized for ourselves all these beautiful organizations came up because people organized for ourselves. and so once you make something beautiful and people want it, is it time to kick us out? is it time to kick us out? and so i really invite you to look at this map, 2020, as not just oscar or whoever. like it's hundreds. i mean, i would say thousands of voices that dreamt together and built that community that my companera reina talked about. and so i really, really ask this commission to think about what are the ways that we are not only approving this, but we're funding it, we're supporting it.

we're making sure that our voices are heard because i've never heard of a situation and i'm sorry i was laughing earlier where immigrant families working 2 to 3 jobs have more access to city hall than million dollar homeowners. thank you. oh. okay. buenas tardes. este mi nombre es antonio martinez. representando a nuestra comunidad latina de la mision veinticuatro sin fronteras dreams. hi. my name is anthony martinez. i'm here representing our community. cuatro and el otro fronteras. sin fronteras. dreams and sin fronteras. dreams. yeah. a nuestra comunidad latina es fuerte y unida. por eso este decimos no la gentrification de la mision se seguimos dando invirtiendo en el futuro de

nuestras nuevas generaciones. our latino community is strong and it's united. that's why we say no to gentrification in the mission. let's keep putting investing in the future of our new generations. mas apoyo para las escuelas publicas, mas apoyos para los comerciantes a nuestros jornaleros a nuestros jovenes artistas talentoso antes de nuestros pueblos originarios. more support for our public schools, more support for our small businesses, for our day workers and for our our young artists who are talented and who come from different nations. la mision es trabajadora honrada mucho amor. paz union y respeto para todas nuestra comunidad de la mision por un futuro. prospero y total apoyo al plan de accion de la mision. the mission is hard working. it's honest. it's loving, respectful and united for the community and for the future of the mission. our total support for the

mission action plan. yeah. pueblos originarios nuestra mission. viva mi raza. gracias. viva como una clase! we're here for our. yeah, we're here for our nations. our people. and the mission. hello, everyone. my name is annette garcia, and i'm the senior community engagement manager for mission housing development corporation. and i stand before you urging your support for the mission action plan 2030 strategies developed by both planning staff and the community. by centering these efforts on the needs of the community's most vulnerable constituents, the mission action plan provides a powerful blueprint for equitable community development through affordable housing and uplifting cultural districts, showcasing the transformative impact of community led planning. this approach ensures that the mission district remains a place

where its rich cultural heritage can thrive, alongside the stability of its residents, it is essential that we sustain the momentum and build on these successes to address ongoing challenges and ensure that the mission district remains a thriving, inclusive and culturally vibrant community for generations to come. thank you. hey, good afternoon, commissioners and planning director. congratulations. i'm with mission housing asking you to support the mission action plan strategies as a community building organization dedicated to providing affordable housing and services. you know, we believe initiatives like the mission action plan are vital to find methods of collaborative solutions with city and the community. you know, obviously, years of community driven efforts have shaped this work. i was part of the original map 2020 back almost ten years ago, with the previous planning

director and, you know, a few different commissioners. i can say that there remains a necessity for projects like this one. the situation in the mission remains one where we need to be working together diligently to find and importantly, fund strategies for a path towards equity. we're at mission housing are also very proud to have buildings, residents, and commercial tenants in both the cuatro latino cultural district and the american indian cultural district. and we strongly encourage the commission to reaffirm its dedication to this critical initiative and vote to endorse the mission action plan 2030. thank you. good afternoon, planning commissioners. my name is caroline fang and i've worked in the mission district for over 20 years, as well as lived in the mission district. i want to acknowledge my own role in displacing those who have come before me in the mission. at the same time as the chief real

estate officer at mission economic development agency. you are seeing today a transformation of the neighborhood that has never before happened in the way we looked at the planning department and the planning commission. i want to shout out my friend over here, oscar, who was one of those converts when we led this in 2016 and worked with then mayor ed lee and said we were going to bring together community and the planning department to create a mission action plan 2020 with then planning director john ram and jeff buckley. we were shot down. you all do not know we were shot down. and so today, to see so many individuals, organizations, businesses come together and trust city agencies to be there for them. when our community is hurting is something that we want you as our planning commission to come through for us on. we ask you today to support mission action plan

2030, because we've seen what works. meta alone has been able to build 1130 affordable housing units. we have another 1100 in the pipeline. we can't make it happen without mission action plan 2030. we've been able to preserve and keep families in place with 364 units of small sites housing, small businesses have been able to be kept on mission corridor. it wouldn't have happened without map 2020. we need map 2030 to make sure that the mission does not continue the way it does. thank you. good afternoon commissioners. i am larissa pedroncelli with united to save the mission. also, the chair of the latino task force street needs committee, a business owner for over 23 years in the mission and a longtime resident living on mission street. when my great uncle vidal gutierrez,

came to san francisco to work in the shipyards to help his family, dividing his time between his work farming in new mexico, i am sure he never imagined that his great niece would find her own way here. years later, as a furniture maker, woodworker, metalworker and designer in a pdr space in the mission. and the reason that my business and countless of other long standing mission businesses, including manufacturers, craftspeople and artists are still here is a result of the creation of the mission area plan and the continued work to make it a more equitable and evolving work, providing stability to counteract the displacement caused by the violence of gentrification. the pandemic was devastating to this community of essential workers, and the inequity and income disparity in this community was laid bare for all to see. and it is at this juncture that the work of this mission equity initiative map 2030 must continue to counter

increasing displacement pressures for those who come to this neighborhood with the desire of replacing us, erasing our culture and remaking the mission into their own sterile playground of affluence. as we have seen in other neighborhoods across the city. so i ask that you please support map 2030 and allow us to continue our work. thank you. hi, my name is martha sanchez and i'm one of the founding members of guy 24, which at that time was the 24th street merchants association. my family has been here for over 100 years, and i just want to emphasize the importance of affordable housing in the mission district. i wanted to give one example that there was there were six dishwashers living in one room. they grew and started advising the chefs on the recipes from oaxaca. they emphasized how you can only get

these ingredients at casa lucas. next thing you know, they're all in the new york times food section. getting a michelin star. and that's just one example of how much. not only is the mission loved, but the world really loves us. and because of things like map, that's what makes us so successful. the burrito is from san francisco. carlos santana the sanchez salsa is the highest selling salsa in california, based on nielsen reports, and we are all low income or middle income. none of us were wealthy, but we brought our creativity. even the techies that come here, they may not know how much personality, but they save lives. they bring in their innovative medical information. we saved covid. we were in the mission. we were the national phone number for people to call who had questions, and we would answer the phone and people would call us from kentucky and all kinds of crazy

places. so i just cannot emphasize, emphasize how much the world needs map and san francisco and the mission. and i'm not exaggerating on that. thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. my name is eric arguello, and i'm a resident of the mission district. and my family has been in the mission since 1928. and i'm also a founder of the latino culture district and the current president. map 2030 is a mission equity initiative mandated by mayor italy back in 2015, when over 1000 mission residents, organizations, coalitions, seniors, clergy and businesses showed up at city hall. because of the mass displacement, the community was experiencing. this initiative was to address how the city will retain low and moderate income residents and support community organizations and businesses to stabilize the community. the plan was fully endorsed by the planning commission back in 2017. this

partnership has fueled initiatives and investments that have preserved the latino cultural activities and markers produced and preserved affordable housing, and supported the retention and expansion of community businesses. some successes of the community together have advocated and produced over 1500 units of affordable housing, which is key to keeping people from becoming homeless and are affordable to live in, with an additional 1700 in the pipeline, c rates along 24th street are among the lowest in the city and currently at 6%. the city average is 9 to 10%. the mission district retail sector has performed better than san francisco as a whole, while covid 19 and online retail trends have negatively impacted sales tax revenues in cities across the country, the mission district has remained stable between 2019 and 2023. sales tax revenues for san francisco declined nearly 13% from 40 million to 35 million. downtown declined by 40%, the mission district declined by 1%, but there is more to do to reverse

the challenges created by covid 19 in 20 2022. we are advocating for continued investment, supporting community driven plans to address affordable housing production, safe and healthy streets, small business success and cultural preservation. we are asking for your support and endorsement to continue the mission equity initiative. thank you. buenas tardes. a todos mi nombre es susana rojas. good afternoon everyone. my name is susana rojas and i am the executive director of veinticuatro latino cultural district. i am sure that you all are very familiar with our organization, as it has been mentioned multiple times, not only today, but also in letters that you were forwarded. as a point of clarification, calle veinticuatro has been consistently sunshine for the past two years. they have not been able to find any wrongdoing in what we do. so therefore they use things that have really

affected our community and have been very painful, and we have dealt with very publicly to try to attack us and try to take the funding away from the work that we do. i want to let you know that we have an open door policy, and anybody that wants to come have a conversation, see what we do, or take a walk down our corridor. you guys are welcome and we will always give you a tour. we also have a question. i know that our ethics and our values have been put to question. my question is why is it that bringing dignity, honor and respect to the communities whose roots are so deep rooted that they go beyond the concrete that now covers our streets, makes them feel oppressed? oppression is what we feel every day. not the lack of privilege, not what they are feeling now. just because you don't get to tell us what to do every time, that's not oppression, that's equity. thank you. okay, last

call for public comment. hi, commissioners. my name is paloma tracy. i am the coordinator with the sf latino parity and equity coalition. today you heard some opposition to the mission action plan. i want to address a few of the inaccuracies and complaints that you've heard today. some people complain that the middle class was excluded in the planning of map 2030. and i want to respond to that by saying that this is an equity initiative. it was created to provide the space for minorities and to uplift the needs of low income and immigrant communitie. other people said that there are too many people living in the mission right now that it's become impacted, and that there's too much affordable housing. well, that's because we

need it. the mission has lost 12,000, mostly low income latinos over the past several decades. others say that map is excluding residents and business owners. but you heard from business owners today, only people being the only people being excluded are those aggressively pushing anti equity frameworks and pushing pushing misinformation campaigns. and lastly, there were some comments against one of the partners, veinticuatro. and in response to that, we want to say let's stay focused. this recommendation is supported by a large coalition of small businesses, community serving organizations, and the more than 50 orgs that signed the letter that you have in front of you. that's all. thank you. okay. final last call for public comment. seeing none public comment is closed in. this matter is now before you commissioners. again, this is a request for your endorsement.

commissioner williams, thank yo. i want to thank the mission community for coming out here. i'm a product also of the mission community. i and i'm very proud to be a part of that community, even though i live in the excelsior now, i've never been more than a few blocks away from the mission street corridor pretty much my entire life. first of all, i just want to say that i support the 2030 plan. i think there's been a lot of success. there's been great strides made and it's documented it and i just also want to take a couple of minutes to thank a few people, you know, oscar grande, thank you, marion keon, thank you, director hillis.

thank you. and thank all the previous commissioners that voted and that pushed for this equity plan for the mission. you know, for me, growing up there and being, you know, being here most of my life, very painful. what happened in the mission? those who haven't been around that long, you know, they didn't or don't have that experience. i suggest if you haven't been here, that long, that you do a little research, that you get with, with community people, that you listen to the stories, because this whole plan is a direct result of that pain. and so it it is a little emotional for me to, to, to sit here and listen to everyone's stories. but i just want to say that

this, this work that's, that is, is called the 2020 plan has helped businesses. it's helped the community. it's helped create affordable housing. it's done so many good things that why why would we ever not want that. and so i just want to lift up everyone who came here, who spent their time talking and coming up to this microphone and sharing their their lived experience with us. also want to lift up the american indian cultural district, which is, which is new and which is needed and in which about time that our native brothers and sisters are recognized and get a platform to

demand what they need. thank yo. so i want to hear what what other folks have to say, other commissioners. but i do want to just say again, thank you. thank you to the mission community. thank you for everyone that supports equity and fairness. and i think that is, you know, not unique to san francisco, but san francisco has shown that compassion to a lot of communities that were underserved or have been prosecuted, you know, in different ways anyway. but i do i want to make a motion and this

motion as, as a commissioner is my great pleasure to make. and that's the endorsement of the mission action plan 2030 and everything that it encompasses. second motion. should we finish the comments first? okay. all right, commissioner imperial, thank you. thank you, commissioner williams. and also thank you to everyone who came today again, this map, i mean, first, the map 2020, i was i was a community member around that time. and of course, a lot of the people who've spoken here have actually worked in previous years and currently in my other job as well. and so the history

of the map 2020 is still stay strong to me. and it is it is because of map 2020 that the mission is able to, you know, that that development's able to have a stake with the community members. and, you know, here as being a commissioner in the last four years or five years at this point now, there's still a lot of issues that's happening in the mission. and, you know, the mission is still have a lot to fight with. and map 2020 paves that pathway, but it's still a hard work. that community still needs that still fighting for. in terms of the affordable housing, i mean, the development when there are developments, especially when there are state bonus projects, it is something that you know, before state

bonus was being streamlined, it was something that the community has to fight for and again, discuss about what the community needs. the coherent cuatro cultural district. it is because of the cultural district that the that developments that are happening in the mission that has to listen to for the cultural district in order to make sure that there is a cultural aspect in these businesses and developments, and also make sure that small businesses are thriving. so there is, you know, i wish that this map 2020, i know that there's also other action plan. i think what i'm aware right now is a tenderloin action plan. and this one is the mission action plan. and i wish there will be more action plans that will come in the other parts of the neighborhood of this, of the san francisco that is really struggling, especially when there are developments in ensue.

so i also want to thank we see and it's very rare for me and i'm really thankful. and you know, also explainable when there are other organizations that come here and, you know, there has been a lot of narratives around a nonprofit or organization, but is this the organizations that make the community stay and vital? you see them, that who you know, the people that are working in these nonprofits are from the community, care for the community. they are the first responders. so it is quite, you know, painful when nonprofit and workers are being demonized in a way as if gatekeeping, when they're actually being in the community and being displaced for how many years and want to come back and want to serve the community. so that's something that i just want to put out there, because there has been

narratives around accountability and always attacking nonprofit workers in that way. and, you know, again, i want to also put out my strong support to the cultural districts, to casa de cuatro. we need this cultural district. we need an sud for the community. so i fully endorse these strategies. and again, you know, the commission, my job here is to listen to the community. and if there's anything that they that the commission is that it needs to come from the community first. i will not add anything if it's not coming from the community. so thank you for everyone. commissioner brown yes, first, i just want to start by thanking all of the speakers who came here today. and many of you have stuck it out, but i understand what a challenge it is for everyone to be here for such a

long time. for these hearings. so i really appreciate the turnout today for this item. i also want to thank all the organizations that have been so involved in map 2020, and now moving into map 2030 as well. and finally, acknowledge our great equity staff at the planning department and all the work that you did and have done, including a lot of translation work today, actually. so, you know, in seeing the results and progress under map 2020, it's been really great to see what some of the outcomes of that process, the amount of affordable housing that's been built, also really key. the amount of small sites that sites that have now been stabilized as deed restricted affordable housing. you know, that's not something that involves a massive development in the neighborhood, but rather maintaining the neighborhood while also maintaining affordability. so that's helpful to see. and i can see some of the successes on the ground in the mission, just walking around

24th street, even on mission street, despite some challenges that have been pointed out, there especially. but, you know, it's vibrant, there's activity, there's businesses filling the spaces. and every time i'm through there, i do see this, these successes. but there's also a ways to go. and i think that's what map 2030 acknowledges, especially around continued need for affordable housing. and then many speakers mentioned lighting, cleanliness, safety, accessibility. i get that too. i'm in the mission at night fairly often as part of my commute. even. and yes, yeah, there's some work to be done and all of these aspects. so, you know, i think 2030 is a great opportunity to move forward with that. i know there we heard some disagreements about the process and the organizations, and that's been acknowledged here today. and we also got a lot of emails about this, you know, pursuing equitable outcomes to me means empowering those who have been disempowered. and so,

you know, i encourage everyone to engage in this process, and i encourage the organizations who have been engaged in this process to welcome viewpoints and neighbors. but i will say, i mean, inevitably there are going to be those who disagree with processes, and that's okay. but fundamentally, this is to me, an equity process, and that has real meaning. as far as the map 2030 strategies go, i'm pleased to endorse them as well. you know, i'm especially eager to see the ongoing work and affordable housing and, you know, stabilizing the neighborhood. and i think this is all part and parcel of the same thing. you know, there's an effort around street conditions, but affordable housing is also part of achieving that goal as well. and then i think through this process, we can also accelerate the production of affordable housing. and some of the sites that have been sitting and waiting for that affordable housing to get built, which has also been a point of some contention in in the

neighborhood. so i think that this is a big stride toward making that happen. this is just the beginning of the mission action plan 2030 process. i know there's a lot of work to do. there's a lot of details that will iron out. i look forward to the planning commission continuing to play its role in that process, and the planning department doing that. there will be a lot of, i'm sure, very robust conversations about the details and legislative changes that come forward. but i'm i'm looking forward to that process. and map 2030 has my absolute support. thank you. commissioner. vice president moore, i would be remiss not joining my fellow commissioners in extending a profound thank you to everybody who came to speak today. it's amazing when i recognize faces who looked a little bit younger ten years ago, who were still as active and as committed to the cause as they were then. and it is reall, given what i see, a trend of

people being more and more disconnected, the remarkable effort of community that is, i think, the most amazing thing that i want to acknowledge and that i'm very much inspired by being community requires indeed what you're doing and the many negative letters that we got speak of those who haven't really had taken the chance or the opportunity to join all of you. the mission itself is large enough to have many, many more people participate. the two cultural districts are actually only take one third of the territory that is encompassed by the definition of the mission. so i enjoy all of those. i encourage all of those who are listening who weren't here to say, speak to their negative comments, to consider joining the public voice and making the mission as a whole even stronger. but i think the caring pillars of what's in front of us are the two cultural districts, which ten years ago had an

uphill battle to create the space that now is so incredibly effective. and i do believe as commissioner brown said, is a model for hopefully other communities to replicate something. and in addition to thanking director william opening the door, i do want to extend my special thanks to then commissioner hillis and now director hillis to carry on with this. this is not an easy thing to do in a department which has very specific missions, but together with a staff that is committed to equity and department and the commission that has picked up on that particular mandate, i admire and thank all of you for carrying this forward as a living example of what under equity commitment, we all can do, not just san francisco but san francisco always has led the effort. i believe that this particular lingo in this particular attitude has also entered the

discussions with sacramento and our housing element. and i think as we move into the future with the new people being in charge, it will be very, very important for all of us, not just the commission, but all of you, to continue to insert your voice in decision making. you have actually made it quite easy for us to stay on the straight and narrow over the last ten years, because we had a number of very challenging projects in the mission and it was your continued coming in front of this commission and reminding us specifically of our commitments to your efforts. and i thank you for that. and i ask you to continue what you're doing and i am in full, more than full support about not only for this plan to go to 2030, but continue indefinitely beyond 2030. thank

you. wow. thank you. so i wanted to open up my comment today as i felt like it came full circle back in 2020 when these two cultural districts were at the inception, i was serving as the historic preservation commissioner, and we were talking about the chess report and how it informed these cultural district. and working really closely, staff alongside with supervisor ronen's office and it is a joy to hear how all these amazing progress that the community made with the full support and assistance with our planning staff in our equity division. so thank you everyone, miriam and oscar and the team for these unwavering support to continue this effort. i definitely need to shout out on

the respect to the american indians, the responsibility of the land, the secrecy needs to be respected. please. i think this is a really good example of trust, and i keep thinking of learning. being a history buff, the history of san francisco, how each community was being treated systematically differently, but also marginalized in the whole history of san francisco. so this is a great bright light shed from i'm really proud to sitting up here on with my amazing director, rich hillis, and also former commissioner and commissioner moore and you guys, you guys were the champion leading this basically a new way of addressing community needs. and in collaboration with land

use. so i'm really grateful for that. the american latinx culture is very important to the mission. i myself live in the mission. i live there for now, 18 years. so i would consider please adopt me. there. i have my favorite taco place and that's our place. me and my daughter. i do share the same feelings of fear of safety. my daughter was born in the mission and we i raised her. we raised her seriously, walking down the street every day. as a mother, i always thought of the what if? and i am really happy to see that in our map. 2030 there is some strategy in place, but i will hope that specifically, i would like to call out a few things here that, for example, strategy number two, street conditions, i like you to expand

on specifically addressing pedestrian safety. it's not really clearly written right now in the document that we see. it is really important to a lot of folks who feel really safe, not just people who ended up, unfortunately, on the street, but just people like all of us here having to go about our day to day cases. and i definitely do not want to see another daughter or another child getting assaulted on the muni. stop. that's absolutely not acceptable. public safety is very important to me, i think. i'm so sorry i have to repeat my sentences, but but public safety is really important to me, and i also like to say housing for all affordability levels is very important. that's kind of how we retain the fabric and the tapestry of the history and being culturally, appropriately remain and retain people and

also attract people to move back to the mission and go back to with their roots and spend time with their family. i also wanted to address some of the comments that i received along with my fellow commissioners. there are over 3000 of letters representing other community organizations and merchants that they felt like they have not been able to have a chance to voice as many of their opinions, as much as others have been. so i would love to see our staff and also everyone who are in our community to engage and also highly encourage whoever is watching right now. please do reach out even though you don't have time to show up or be here, but you can at least send our

staff an email to schedule some meeting and hearing and make sure that your concern has been heard. and also, we are here to provide the information that you need. again, go directly to the source, which is very important because there's quite a bit of misinformation and misunderstanding, as my previous experience working with various boards and commissions. so one thing that really stands out to me, that some of the comments that i have to say that i'm pretty sure everybody is agree with me, i hope so these domestic violence and harassment and sexual harassment has no place in san francisco, not in city hall, not in anywhere, not in the mission at all. so if our one of our organization had a long overdue to address this

situation, i really want to make sure that please, we need accountability. we need you to clean your board. we need you to establish a framework and guidelines for safe workplace practices and harassment prevention. this is not tolerable. i need to say it. for the record. so actually so lastly, i just want to have one little typo that i want staff to make sure that you clean up the table. table number seven there is a numeric error on your report. table seven talks about affordable housing pipeline. the unit. net unit number for the sfmta patrol yard modernization project is not 12. it's 120. so i want to make sure that you fix it. so that's a pretty big number difference. but overall i

appreciate everybody's effort and work today. and that kind of concludes my comments. and i think that i see my fellow other commissioners, commissioner imperial, and then commissioner campbell want to say something imperial. yeah, i do have a question to director hillis in terms of the staffing, the staffing for the mission action plan, how many? because i know this is going to be part of our conversation for the budget next year. how many are we how currently? how many is the planning staff working on this. and how many are i guess my question is perhaps to increase the allocation of staff on this. i mean, you i think you raised earlier like our goal is to have

mission action plans in other neighborhoods as well. so, you know, part of this is a trade off with staffing those efforts in various cultural districts or in other neighborhoods with staffing this too. i mean, i think we'll continue on with the staff we have. oscar is dedicated to this work, but it also, you know, there are part time staff members in each division that that contribute to this depending on the issue. and then we also rely on other departments. has a big part of the work in carrying out the work. i mean, a lot of the work you see in the action plan that we have to do is work that other departments have to do about street conditions, about small business support in leasing mo cd with affordable housing. so i don't have the exact numbers, but the goal is to have a blueprint here that we can use to work with other agencies to get funding to find resources and implement what's in here. and as you've heard, it's been successful and we hope to carry

that on. i just because i know the tender tenderloin committee action plan is something that it wasn't from. oh yeah, we did endorse it and we were we suggested to also put that as a part of the priority in the mayor's budget, and i also want to emphasize the mission action plan should also be prioritized as part of the mayoral budget for next year. i'm not sure what where the mayor direction is going to be next year, but i hope that the planning department can really fully endorse this action plan by the community. commissioner campbell, thank you. i'll keep this brief. i completely echo what my fellow commissioners have said in my full support of map 2030, and i do want to thank everyone for coming out and all of the hard work that's gone into where we are today. i always think of, i mean, this this is such a difficult meeting to get to thursday or, you know,

in the middle of the work day. so i always think of it almost as an iceberg. like what we see here is a real indication of a much larger community. and so you all coming today in this amount and this kind of showing really speaks volumes. so i hope that. yeah. thank you. it's really heartwarming. so that's all my comments. thanks. if there's nothing further commissioners, there's a motion that has been seconded to endorse the map 2030 plan on that motion, commissioner campbell i commissioner williams i commissioner braun i commissioner imperial i. commissioner moore i and commission president so i so move commissioners motion passes unanimously 6 to 0. thank commissioners that will leave us on your final item on your agenda today. number 13. and for members of the public who may

not be aware, items 12 and 14, item 12 was continued. item 14 was withdrawn. item 13 2021 hyphen 010728 coa for the property at 4994 mission street. conditional use authorization. call them. clear out a little bit. i do need to make a disclosure. so let's see. so i have a professional relationship with our projects representative today, gary g. architects actually just gary himself. based on the fact that we're both members of the asian american architects and engineers association, we're fellow board members. but although we serve on the same board, it will not affect my ability to give fair and impartial consideration to the

proposal before the commission. good afternoon, commissioners. president. so gabriela pantoja of department staff, the case before you is a request for conditional use authorization pursuant to planning code sections two oh, 2.2, 303 and 720. for the establishment of a cannibal cannabis retail use within the excelsior outer mission. ncd zoning district. the project will establish an approximately 1300 square foot cannabis retail use within an existing one story vacant commercial building. the project does not seek on-site consumption of cannabis products and the draft motion includes conditions that will prohibit on-site consumption of cannabis products, such that any future addition of smoking or vaporizing room would require a subsequent conditional use authorization. located within the city's outer mission

neighborhood, the project will establish a new cannabis retail use that is not within a 600 foot radius of any existing public or private schools, and not within 600 foot radius of any existing cannabis retail or medical cannabis retail uses. prior to the submittal of the listed conditional use authorization, the project sponsors conducted and completed a pre-application meeting and a good neighborhood policy meeting. on september 21st, 2021. to date, the department has received correspondence from more than 60 members of the public in opposition of the project, and a petition signed by approximately 80 public members. members of the public, expressed in opposition of the project, state that the following reasons for their opposition due to safety concerns the location, proximity to youth, serving locations, and the exposure of cannabis products to the youth. the department has also received

correspondence from 66 members of the public in support of the project. in conclusion, the department finds that the project is on balance and consistent with the objectives and policy of the general plan and finds the project is necessary and desirable for the following reasons. the project will provide a service that both enhances and reinforces the neighbors existing commercial corridor, and the project will not displace an existing neighborhood serving retail use, but rather expand business and job opportunities to the neighborhood and support the city's equity program administered by the office of cannabis. this concludes staff's presentation, and i'm available for any questions. thanks. thank you. project sponsor. you have five minutes. and. i.

commission. good afternoon. it's gary g from gary g architects were the architects for the retail space. and also basa by tariq azer who is here today who is the applicant. on our first slide, we want to just talk about who is basa. basa is tariq has been a one of the pioneers in bringing cannabis, medicinal cannabis, cannabis to patients. he's one of the early, early leaders of bringing direct growth to dispensaries as supply. he also runs a medicinal, compassionate

program, which has as many as 200 patients. they provide educational and cannabis to these people, either for free or at a heavily discounted price. that's part of their program. next slide. along with the, you know, the educational and other things, tariq has purchased this building because he's invested his money into the neighborhood. so he is not only just a potential tenant, he will be also a property owner for this project as we go on. he's a next slide. tariq is a middle eastern immigrant here. he came to come to college and study business. he also had other smaller businesses like a coffee shop and other businesses that help and hire local employees. as far as the facility goes, the signage. let's go back to the signage to back. we will have

signs within the inside and outside the facility to remind people who are coming in, not to double park, no loitering, no smoking or consumption on the sidewalk or outside adjacent areas. next slide lighting and security. we will have lighting, lights and cameras on the exterior will be down lights that will not will not cause glare to the sidewalk or to the adjacent properties. next, slide the security guards will be there. as you can see here, this is the facade photo and the proposed facade features. architecturally. next slide okay, the security guards will be there present. they'll be patrolling the area and fortunately for this part of mission street, it's flat and it's visible from the north to the safeway parking lot and then south to seneca street. the security guards could see anything, any loitering, any

type of activity that occurs. so they're the extra eyes on the street for the neighborhood businesses. next slide. okay. cannabis odor. you know, there won't be any consumption on this site. so. and everything is prepackaged. so we will put in a new hvac system on the roof that will provide extra filter system that will make sure that there will be no release of any odors to the neighborhood. okay. and this is our sorry future communications that we've been distributed during our good policy. neighbor cannabis meetings and any contact with people. next slide okay. just in the front, as you can see, the property itself is only 1305ft!. and we propose 549ft!s of retai. so the public is only how can i

say can only be visible and interact with the cashiers in the front of the building? i believe it's just in this corner here. let's see if it works. it's not working okay, but it's on the upper right hand corner. it's a very small area and it's easy to monitor all the back of house storage, administration and security is behind and secured. all right. next slide. two major letters that were received that we noticed were one from the adjacent property to the north at 4992 mission, which is baby, baby and me nutritional. it's a woman named joyce zion. we did make outreach to her on about 3 or 4 occasions. we have copies here of the recent outreach because on her letters she did leave the phone number. and then we also

have outreach after the 20th of november that was attempted for family services at 501 six mission street. and. so we just wanted to provide you that we even though the briefs went on the 20th and even before that, as early as november 16th, we were trying to respond to the significant letters that came in to the staff. so i'm available for any questions. if you have any. very good commissioners. with that, we should open up public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on this item. you need to come forward

and line up on the screen side of the room. yeah. go ahead ma'am. hello, my name is virginia fernandez. hello, commissioners. i'm speaking on behalf of. i live in the ingleside neighborhood, and i have a special needs of very severely special needs child. she's. she doesn't walk or talk, and she has seizures. so boss has been supporting my daughter since she was very little. she's going to be 12 now, and she's been thriving off of the medical marijuana. she used to have ten seizures a day, and now she only has two. so this providing this kind of, you know, cannabis dispensary for that neighborhood because as you know, we don't have anything within that radius there. this will benefit the

neighborhood because there's a lot of people going through it. you don't know what people are going through and you don't know how their lives are going. and this benefits a lot of people with mental health and whatever, anything medical, that's going on with them, especially my daughter. my daughter is so severe that if i don't know what i would have done all these years without, you know, donating and helping my daughter through compassion. so there's going to be a lot of people that are going to oppose to this, but i really think it's going to benefit to a lot of people. that's what i want to say. thank you. hello, everyone. my name is marie and i run the compassion program for bassa and i want to read a letter from one of the members who unfortunately couldn't make it today. he she had class. this is her letter. my name is lucy. i am a long time bassa member. without the compassion program, i would not

have overcome 20 years of drug addiction and homeless homelessness. i have been clean of substance use since my son douglas was born in 2015. bassa is about community with their many specials and deals. their they make it less stressful to manage your anxiety and stress because your medication was affordable. i work part time and a full time grad student at sfsu in the mph program. i don't know if i could have made it this far in life had it not been for bassa and them having an alternative with cannabis, which i use today, the cbd cartridge for my body aches and pain, as well as stress reliever. having another dispensary in the excelsior district will be a great addition for the community as well, as they are about community involvement. good afternoon you guys. you guys are warriors toughing it out. my name is yan singh. i am the executive director of family

connection centers. i, i am a huge supporter of medical marijuana and recreational marijuana as well. my aunt, who passed away earlier this year, who was like a mother to me. relied on medical marijuana and i'm so grateful for that. i applaud bassa for their donation program on grove street. i'm here today because while preschools and child cares are not within the 500ft radius that schools are. i believe that they are still within the fidelity of influence of cannabis use. bassa is within 120ft of family connections. we serve over 1000 children, 0 to 5 every year in their caretakers. bassa is right next door to a wig center. my mother and children, which serve pregnant women and mothers with children 0 to 5 who are eligible

for calfresh and wig. who are some of the most vulnerable populations that we have. there was no attempt to have community meetings or reach out to neighbors before this happened. i contacted mel flores, who is the director of the excelsior district commercial neighborhood. there are over 15 vacant properties within a three block radius of where bassa is. across the street, there's a vacant property. i'm. i'm really disappointed that they chose to pick a property. that is right next door to a wig center for pregnant women and young children, and within 120ft of a preschool that serves over 1000 children and families every year. furthermore, it's factually untrue that there's no other cannabis centers retailers serving the community within three blocks of bassa. there's two cannabis retailers, mission organics. and let me look up the

other one that i put in my notes. mission organics at 5258 and connected sf at 5234. i walk by them almost every day and there's no line out the door. so i think there's plenty of supplies within the neighborhood. once again, i'm a big supporter of cannabis. i think people who are arrested for criminal, criminal cannabis should receive. retribution, retribution. but i just think this is a really poor decision to pick this location. thank yo. good afternoon. my name is joyce tian. i'm the owner of the california wig vendor baby and malnutrition. so right next to 4994 mission street. so i'm so thankful for letting me express my rejections on this project.

first of all, our store has established since the early 2000, so i'm the third generation owner. so as a so our store is the only wig store on mission street. we have we not contribute as comfortable and convenient shopping place for this vague beneficiaries. they we also provide affordable produce for the low income family. so as a vendor we serve we serve the pregnant woman's infants and children under five years old. so as a mother, i see my customers on regular month basis. so i love them. i, i treat them like my, my own kids.

so as a mother, i, i won't let my kids to be exposed to this cabinet products as at any time, not to my young customers. so we believe it has a serious impact and harm for them to expose at this young age and also inhaling the smoke from it would be dangerous for the pregnant woman's and the fetus. additionally, i want to mention that the family connection is actually very close for houses away. so 12344 houses away from this location. so during the da, there's a very high traffic on this sidewalk. families with

babies, toddlers walking on the street, moms with strollers and residents with groceries. so this is this is a neighborhood we with high traffic and a lot of walking, walking, walking people on the street. so i really urge you, all the commissioners to consider the impact of our healthy children. and please reject this cabin cannabis retailers to open on this location. and i also gather hundreds of signatures from my neighbors and also customers. thank you ma'am. that is your time. so many of them. okay. so thank you so much. good

afternoon commissioners. sorry. my name is susanna chen. i'm 4990492 property owner. also live there. i'm here to reject rejected opening cannabis store next to my property. i'm allergic to cannabis. smells. it could. it couldn't breathe. this bad smell could travel very far. also, i have a 18 month grand baby and the pinkness daughter pinkness daughter lived there. my tenants have teenager boys. it will be bad influence for students. and the where a lot of crime to neighborhood. please

take serious consideration for our people. we do have a right to live a good neighborhood. please cancel this. cannabis plans application. thank you. good afternoon commissioners. my name is ronaldo. we are house owner living in a nearby and we are quite surprised to see this proposal to have a cannibal cannabis retail business nearby because we found, of course, they don't have schools within the six 600ft distance, but we have five daycare facilities within this, within the distance of 600ft. and we give the list detail of the of this five

facilities already. we send an email to you and already indicates the details of the address of this daycare facilities and how close and the closest one is just to see like two minutes walk walking distance from from from the site. so we think it's really improper to approve this this plan. and if you really want to approve this plan, it's just kind of encouraging people using, using, using, using cannabis and exposed to lots of kids. it's really unacceptable. and besides, they also have a like for family, family, family, family, community centers and cultural centers. so we not just see a business street here. we see actually a living area here. there are a lot of working peoples. latinos and asian peoples living here. they have

lots of children and they actually five, five daycare facilities is the most we have most biggest number of facilities nearby. so that means there's a lot of people, lot of kids nearby working families. they need the daycare facilities to have to take care of their children when they are working. they day time. so if there's a lot of working people have kids living in this area. so i don't think it's proper to have this plan and they can choose somewhere else, but not in this place. thank you very much. and you and we have all the address and the distance. how far away it all this daycare facilities from this, from this, from this planning sites. you can check it out. thank you. hi. my name is khalid sagi. i've been working

for basta for the past 20 years and. if i'm sorry to interrupt you, sir, are you an employee of the facility? i was not. you were. you're no longer employed by this person. no, i'm not, but i'm a supporter of this location because i really. i really don't have a job. i need a i need to provide for my kids, for my family, and without basta, i'm. i'm in this economic crisis. i couldn't even get a job. and i'm thinking if it's support for this location to open so i can get a job, thank you very much. okay, last call for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed in this matter is now before you commissioners. commissioner williams, thank yo.

i want to acknowledge the bossa. seems like they've done some good work for the community and i appreciate that. having said that, i know this area well. and there there are a few cannabis stores close by, and there's also two that have been approved that are very close by that haven't opened yet and but could open at any time. there are some child care centers i know mission child care is on the next block, and i understand the concerns of the community. i also support cannabis. having said that, again, i, i don't think i'm not going to be able

to support this location. i would like to see a business go in there, but i just the cannabis, i think it's just it's too close in proximity to everything else that's already been approved. and so again, i, i appreciate your business model of helping and serving community the way you do. having said that, hopefully you could find another business model for that, that location. it needs something needs to go in there. so i'm in agreement with that. but i won't be supporting this project today. thank you. commissioner brown. i have a question, i guess first for planning staff, and then i want to pose it to the project

sponsor. so for planning department staff, just to confirm it seemed pretty clear in the staff report as well as the oral report, but there's no on site consumption allowed as part of the application or at this location. right? correct. they haven't requested any. and we've prematurely like added a condition of approval stating if they ever did want to come back with consumption, it would be a new icu application. thank you so absolutely not. not allowed. if we were to approve this for the project sponsor, i. i'm wondering unless i misread it or misremembering, there was a statement in one of your slides that there would be on site consumption as part of this application. okay. would you mind back earlier in an earlier application with the office of cannabis, there was an there was a request for on site consumption and then the pandemic came. they removed that request. so there's no request for on site consumption. okay. so the original cannabis and i think that was that was part of the good neighbor policy that their presentation slides were earlier from that period. so i

apologize for that. there is no consumption request under this. q okay, thank you for confirming that. that's that's your understanding as well. so i, i appreciate and i respect that. that's all for you. thank you. thank you. i appreciate and respect the concerns that have been raised by the community. these these concerns do come up a lot with basically every nearly every cannabis application that i've approved in my time on this commission. you know, the benefits, the good things i see about the store in some ways is that, you know, there's no visibility of the products from the sidewalk with the way it's designed. i mean, that's also a requirement. there will be security and id checks. so certainly underage folks should not be able to access the store. the security itself, as part of the good neighbor policy. you know, they they're also there to prevent consumption, immediate adjacency of the store as well. and so in

a way, what i appreciate is that for businesses that are located very close to the store, there's actually somebody there moving people along who are trying to potentially use cannabis products to. and so, you know, i reviewed the packet this store, this application seems to meet all of our requirements. and it seems like a well established good operator. and so i am in favor of approving the application. and i make a motion to approve second. if there's no further deliberation, commissioners, there's a motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions on that motion. commissioner campbell. right. commissioner williams. nay, commissioner. braun i commissioner imperial i. commissioner moore and commissioner. president. so i so

moved commissioners. that motion passes 5 to 1, with commissioner williams voting against. and that concludes your hearing today. commissioners.

>> my name is alan schumer. i am a fourth generation san franciscan. in december, this building will be 103 years of age. it is an incredibly rich, rich history. [♪♪♪] >> my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. i am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city

advisory commission. i have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry.

i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. it is almost like an extended family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. you will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male.

women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. there was a woman by the name of diana. she was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. she classified it as a third i. will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of san francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. i believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he

had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. >> the board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. jeffrey heller, the city and county of san francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. >> to impart to the history of this building is remarkable. to see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you start talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. with children, and i do mainly

all of the children's tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can start talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of san francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. >> at times, my clothes make me feel powerful. powerful in a different sense. i am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. usually i do that through color,

or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. i have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit? retirement to me is a very strange words. i don't really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the people's palace. you want a long-term career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something you're then yourself.

follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way.