and tihdi documents including the naval agreement, trust change, tihdi, transition housing rules and regulations and the habitat management community facility sustainability and transportation plans. the vote at the end of the evening was 20 in favor of the recommendation and one against. of the three members who were not present at our meeting, two members wrote strong and heartfelt support letters of the plan. and in addition to that, the four residents of the islands who sit on our board also voted in favor of this recommendation. so we had a very exciting evening and we're all looking forward to continuing and to the next steps. thank you all so much. president cheng: thank you. nancy shanahan. i would like to remind you that the froms -- there's no guarantee that the promised benefits will be delivered. according to press reports, the project sponsor, lennar corporation, has filed for bankruptcy in a similar base project citing economic pressures. media reports indicate they're financially stressed. the proposed project does not require financial guarantees that will ensure that

but most importantly, tihdi, a community organization, a nonprofit. all of the home life catholic charities have attended numerous meetings. i was told that official numbers could be from 250 to 500 at the special meetings. we can conclude that the process to this day has been a very great process. it has allowed san francisco residence to be part of the process. in fact, one of the speaker's earlier, my colleague at san francisco tomorrow, mentioned that city staff has gone beyond the call of duty to make the document accessible. that is the respect of the staff and hints at my earlier statement, thanking them for going beyond the call of duty. the other issue i have has to do with this sea wall. at this point, i am going to call staff and please ask you to read, because i think this document is very significant for you to read to the record. can you find that document, please? i will give you mine. >> dear president chiu, i understand the board will be certifying the final environmental impact report over the next few weeks. there is a land use comm

the affordable housing advocates on treasure island, tihdi, are asking you to approve this. so is the citizen's advisory board. i feel that this horse has been beat to death. i am also a new commissioner, but this has been going on for 10 to 15 years. we cannot afford as a city to let this project go. we cannot delay it and delay it and the late it. it makes the sense. it is time. it is ready. like my colleague just said, and some building trade members in the audience have said, the trades have been hit in a way where we have never seen it before, unprecedented. we have 30% to 50% unemployment across the board in the building trades for over two years. i cannot tell you how many stories of members -- the membership is dropping out in huge numbers because the cannot afford to stay in the unions. secondly, they have no health and welfare anymore. they are running out of unemployment. they are draining everything out of there for 01 if they can get it. i hear the stories every day. this project needs to happen to revitalize the city and to get construction back on track. it is

for the community meetings and public hearings to talk about the project, including hearings before tihdi and the planning commission, primarily focused on transition housing plans, as well as meetings here and before other commissions. that is in addition to 250 public meetings since the planning commission began. there have been a couple of changes. some were made in response to public comment. those include the retention of the chapel that exists on the island, mainly from comments we got from island residents. we upgraded by facilities and bike paths leading from the bridge to treasure island. we reduce the height of the tallest building by about 200 feet as a result of public comment. produced the commercial parking ratio. we also, as you know, were faced with the governor's budget proposal to eliminate redevelopment, and the risks associated with redevelopment. at this point, we do not know where that is going to end up. we are adopting a financing district model to finance the plan and will talk about changes associated around that, which in vote -- which travelled around housing a

we have met at the tihdi board. we have met in subcommittees, on tuesdays, on wednesday, on thursdays, on saturdays. we have held meetings on the island at city hall, at the court, at the library and we have had numerous public meetings with opportunities for the public to express their opinion. we have a board of very involved and educated and challenging members who have discussed every element of the e.i.r. and we -- i know that the response time was extended for the public to give additional comments on this. so after a decade, everything has been vetted quite substantially. our cab met on tuesday where we voted to -- or we took action on recommendation to approve all of the transaction and entitlement documents of the 24 members of our board, 21 were present and the vote was 20-1. so it was overwhelmingly in support of the plan and the e.i.r. and i hardly encourage you -- hartey encourage you to certify -- heartily encourage you to support the e.i.r. thank you very much. >> my name is jennifer clary. i'm presid

i sit on the tihdi board and the good neighbors board as well. we support this plan. i have brought a client of our program here to speak to you briefly about her experience living on the island. thank you very much. >> i have lived on treasure island for nine years, and before that, i was homeless for 13 years on the streets of san francisco, doing drugs, and i got clean and sober, and once i was clean, i needed housing. housing on treasure island save my life, me and my young son. to cut any funding for any housing for any homeless program should not be done. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am with the laborers' union, and i would like to express our overwhelming enthusiasm for this project moving forward. i would also like to thank supervisors chu for being there from the beginning, but in particular, we want to recognize supervisor kim for being there where it counted, and the very opportunity to increase the amount of housing. while we're not going to say that it would be criminal to move this project forward at 25%, we do think that was a heavy lift

>> tihdi is a commission. there is oversight by the board of supervisors. the contracts entered after a certain level are approved by the board of supervisors. the board of supervisors would have to authorize the issuance of future ifp's. there is some accountability as with other city agencies. another issue that came up was whether the bonds are riskier than redevelopment bonds. they are basically the same funding you would buy if you want redevelopment bonds. actually, the bonds cannot be issued until the property tax increment is coming in. investors to invest in ifp bonds are investing in the same stream of income as those who invest in redevelopment bonds, future tax revenue. it is still risk here than tax increment bonds. there is no recourse to the general fund. the bond holders can only count on those residents for tax increments to pay for those bonds. our recommendation to bridge the gap is a reduction on affordable housing, with the ability to get it back. we talked about reducing the inclusionary housing level, cutting back on parks and transpo

most ambitious effort at social justice in the homeland -- in the homeless development program of tihdi not just in san francisco's redevelopment history, but the most ambitious effort for homeless programs in any project in the nation. i am not aware of anything comparable elsewhere. it is still in there. also, i see still the most ambitious effort in san francisco redevelopment at genuine community building with tihdi, the good neighbors, the dedicated project-specific staff, all of which we do not have, for example, in mission bay. i can speak to you as a resident of mission bay north for five years. there is nothing like that there. but there is on treasure island. we have incorporated as much advanced technology for waste water treatment as can be done -- that has been done in san francisco to date. we have incorporated the most favorable relocation transition plan for existing residents of any project in city history. and of course we have the most ambitious, the most extensive transportation mitigation program of any development in san francisco. it is the first to use congestion

we participate in the tihdi jobs brookridge program. we have had 60 island residents is through this program since we have implemented it, and we just provide jobs for real people who live on the island, and we think it is a very successful program, and we encourage you to support it because we only see it growing as the economic project grows. we're just urging you for your support. thank you. >> good afternoon. walden house has worked in partnership with the treasure island homeless development initiative for the past nine years, providing a list of services to women and children. services we provide include vocational and educational opportunities, assistance, housing and family reunification. due in part to the privilege of our location, we have excellent outcomes and low recidivism rates, and you have had the opportunity to hear from some of our success stories today. we urge you to support this moving forward with the project, providing helping and treatment opportunities to current and future residents of the island. thank you. >

affordable housing, we discussed 2,000 new units of affordable housing, and units dedicating to tihdi use for homeless as well as inclusion units. again, we have the opportunity to increase the number of units over time if we're able to get additional resources from the state or on the local level. community facilities will be renovated public school as well as new police and fire station and up to 33,000 square feet of additional community space including space for daycare, senior care, as well as just general community space. there's a land pad created for the treasure island sailing center and environmental education center and retenth of existing facilities including the chapel of the existing gym and dlansy street life learning academy. finally, there's numerous jobs created between 2000 and 3,000 construction jobs annually as well as 2,000 permanent jobs on the island at build-out, i'll turn it over to josh sletski to talk about the various items before you. >> good evening. i'm going to take you through the eight actions before you this evening that are necessary to enable the

city is proposing now to use infrastructure financing and to change the way the mechanism works and tihdi doesn't become a redevelopment agency, the proposal for the tida board to retain all land use decision making i think is not a good policy for the city and the comparison chart that was given to us by staff had the former way, the redevelopment scenario approvals worked and the way the s.u.d. approval structure works and it's a concern to me that the street scape master plan, for example, that's listed here, the parks and open space master plan, are all approved by tida board and not the commission. i would think that street-wise we would want to maintain some power over that. it doesn't mention here and i couldn't find it elsewhere that for example the conceptual parks and open space master plan would be referred to the rec. park department. i think it mentioned the art commission, but in any case, you know, that could have been in some corrections or somewhere but i do not support the idea that the tida board -- nothing against the tida board, but conceptionualy that the tida board

still the most ambitious effort in san francisco redevelopment at genuine community building with tihdi, the good neighbors, the dedicated project-specific staff, all of which we do not have, for example, in mission bay. i can speak to you as a resident of mission bay north for five years. there is nothing like that there. but there is on treasure island. we have incorporated as much advanced technology for waste water treatment as can be done -- that has been done in san francisco to date. we have incorporated the most favorable relocation transition plan for existing residents of any project in city history. and of course we have the most ambitious, the most extensive transportation mitigation program of any development in san francisco. it is the first to use congestion pricing. it is the first dedicated ferry system within the city. and the controls, the metering, and other medications to address the issue of impact -- there is nothing like this that has ever been attempted in the city before. this is far and away the most visionary and most community- responsive project -- redevelo

in 2010, the mayor's office average and tihdi decided to raise that to 8,000 units. the impacts to traffic are phenomenal to the east bay. you'll see 42 unavoidable significant, unmitigateable impacts in the e.i.r. that is before you and that was before the world changed again and governor brown brought the whole concept of redevelopment financing into question and the public benefits to affordable house wrg reduced to 25% but that is a 17% reduction. the impacts have been increasing. and the public benefits have been eroding and the e.i.r. you have gotting and i have seen as of april 12, 41 pageses and it was brought to my attention yesterday, 96 pages in additional changes. i do not want to ask how many of you commissioners have read those documents but let me say it was not possible for me to read them. it is unlikely that you have read them. i cannot believe that you know what you're voting on. >> thank you. >> madam president. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there any additional public comments? >> hello, commissioners. my name is vince courtney. 261 in san franc

knowledge all the work you have done to bring this project to fruition and want to thank in particular tihdi staff and board, tida, and good neighbors for the work you have done, and continually advocating with my office over the last couple of weeks. affordable housing is one of our main priorities, something we have identified as being a continued need for the city of san francisco. we want to house people. we want people to be able to afford to live in the city. it is good policy and important for our environment. the jobs are here. we need to make sure people can afford to live here and do not have to choose between higher rental and housing costs or high transportation costs. i think treasure island is an important part of that. i will just say -- the last thing i will say is that i do host office hours in district 6, and i will be on treasure island on may 23 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at boys and girls clock. please come see me in my office. we would love to hear from residents about concerns or things that are going well on treasure island. i do have some questions about some of the item