>> good afternoon, again, corey smith. obviously a little bit away from what we're typically going for or advocating for on an active basis. it's not park land. and it's sipping -- single-family homes. and specifically, the word is, families. it will be an opportunity for families live in san francisco. we want access to the park to be maintained and continue to be used by the community. we're speaking against the d.r. and want the project to move forward. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. any additional public comment? seeing none, ms. martin, 2-minute rebuttal. >> sorry. i have to get assembled. several years ago, the planning department held the eastern neighborhoods master planning process. originally vis valley was included, but dropped without notice or reason. we have suffered from piecemeal rulings that have been a problem. in the past, there's been a denial of master plan and allowed our neighborhood to be used for what the rest of the city doesn't want in affluent neighborhood. our main concern is that t

. >> corey smith speaking on behalf of the housing coalition program with the distribution of funds, we'll defer. on the housing front, we have an opinion. we've made this request repeatedly and would love to see an amendment change in this. it's regarding the implementation measure, calling for everything over 30,000 square feet have 2/3 of redevelopment be nonresidential. we're asking for 40,000 square feet. it could be more homes in the neighborhood. generally, we're very supportive. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm with the council of community housing organizations. today speaking on my experiences as a district 6 representative for the eastern neighborhood, cac. i want to echo was john said earlier about the need to have fees that are dedicated to support for the soma stabilization fee and to the two new cultural districts. it's critical that the cultural fabric be maintained and funding corrected that way. one of the drawbacks is how you off the often look at the budget, most of the funds are allocated to a certain number of priority projects and to

. >> good afternoon, corey smith, san francisco housing coalition, here in support today. it's a significant corner. it's a couple of blocks from our offices and i use that fed ex all the time. i'm familiar with it and really an upgrade in terms of use of land. we're taking a parking lot and office and building housing on it. benefits of good architects, we were impressed at the way to work in historical aspects into a new, modern project and even spoken earlier, we're at the third generation of adaptive reuse, which is fascinating to watch. a couple of things that have changed. we're aware that there is more bike parking now than was previously proposed and the opportunity along market street where we can have more bike parking and less car parking. and hoa fees, which we've talked about. it's a big deal. it's a challenge. we were very frustrated by the legislation from last year's june prop c that put the fees outside of the feasible range. it sounds like it will be coming back. and anything that we can do to be pushing on the state level in order to figure out a way so

and corey smith had a really good piece of public comment and it moved me. we sit up here with these projects week in, week out, month in, month out, and it's time to pull together and try to figure this out together. i'm very much in support of this project. >> commissioner johnson: i fully -- there are so many times that we look at these projects and issues come up that are not really for the planning commission, per se, like with displacement, it's not always us. >> it's in map 2020. >> commissioner johnson: and it's city-wide. one thing we can do, looking at the code around ground floor uses, rolooking at transit-oriented corners, it's a bind we find ourselves in we may have 2.7% unemployment, but i don't know if that's in the retail sector. there's a lot of retail vacancies. i would call on the commission to take a look at that and not just every individual project hash it out, but citywide. >> i'm supportive also of this project and i appreciate you doing the required affordable density units. i disagree that if when set the rate at 18% and it's not fe

as lawmakers question former campaign manager corey lewandowski up today after steve bannon spent 12 hours behind closed doors yesterday. i'm sandra smithrning. >> bill: what do you do for 12 hours? >> sandra: that's a long time. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer, good morning. lewandowski's appearance coming one day after steve bannon refused to answer some of their questions claiming executive privilege. trey gowdy on "america's newsroom" not too happy with that disposition said this. >> keep in mind the president and some of his sporters to hurry & conclude the investigation. so do i. instruct witnesses to answer our questions instead of going through the charade of executive privilege. >> sandra: what have you learned about yesterday's testimony, that lengthy one by bannon? >> late yesterday the senior democrat on the house intelligence committee adam schiff called out steve bannon who spent all day on capitol hill in front of their committee. bannon's attorney told lawmakers the white house directed him not to answer questions about his time in the white house or during the transition. schiff said the move is silencing bannon and protecting