this is not a case of the yimbys. we are yimbys, but we come on-site and say you need to have proper planning in san francisco. you need to be careful. at the end of the day, it's affordable housing, and at the end of the day, we can prove we provided affordable housing, and we provided it to everyone. but changing the zoning of that building is disingenuous, it's not right. but it's what going on. this matter will not be settled, it should not be settled because then, we need to have the overall, overall discussion about where these -- it's not a commercial corridor. this is not geary, this is not broadway. it's just two blocks. we cannot accomplish a lot of housing, a lot of open space, transportation, a lot of things in india basin and in the bayview in the plan that you have that's just sitting on your shelf. you need to go and revisit that plan. 18.5 years is what i wanted to let you take away. when you ask communities to go ahead, please respect them. >> vice president melgar: thank you, miss richardson so -- >>

steven buss with mission yimby. you know, it's fine to demand things of people that want to do something in a neighborhood, but we should make those laws, right? it shouldn't be this project-by-project negotiations. it should be clearly defined rules set in law, and you should follow those laws, right? but specifically, i want to talk about something the pastor mentioned. he said, you know, we can put businesses like this along valencia or in places that are already gentrified or not at risk in gentrification. what about noe valley? let's make room for innovative businesses like this. why is noe valley a residential only neighborhood? why can't be absorb expensive, high end restaurants? >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is joe garvey. i live about a block from this location, and i'm a coowner of a restaurant a few blocks away. and i'm just -- i'm just baffled by hypergentrification being associated with cuisine that doesn't fit the neighborhood. the price point doesn't fit the n

our community advocates on all sides actually ranging from our advocates like todco, and as much as yimby, which is that we need to build as much housing as possible in the central soma plan. one of the amendments that was suggested to our service in the last month to increase available housing is to rezone m.u.o. to m.u.r., mixed use residential north of harrison and to rezone sally south of harrison to m.u.g. this would allow all of these parcels -- well, this would permit housing and not commercial in these smaller parcels. we are accepting key sites from this amendment, understanding that really, the key sites have really been working with the planning department for years on their projects, and this is really kind of the heart of the central soma plan, is really increasing the footprint of commercial activity in the central soma plan, but with the smaller parcels, by rezoning them into housing, that we would be able to build moraffordable housing. my -- more affordable housing. it is my understanding that one company is asking us to reconsider their site. i am making the amendment as

speak in favor of the project sponsors, todd mavis and kevin chang, and i'm also here on behalf of yimby action, a housing advocacy group in san francisco. as someone who's relatively new to san francisco and one thing who's younger, one thing i hear from myself and a lot of my friends, we have a lot of anxiety about our housing. i talk to a lot of people, and i feel like everybody here has a housing story. if you bought recently or you say oh, yeah, i got out bid by all cash deals, 90%, because i had this great story and i was able to connect to the previous seller. i had people who say oh, yeah, i'm going to get an eviction, owner moving in, or new construction, and the owner might hike my rent up by 10%. i know about owners that talk about the sacrifices that they make. it's a one bedroom that they flux into a three bedroom so they can stay in san francisco, and even that might not be enough. san francisco is losing rent control units, they awe're los families. i know a lot of people that say hey, when they look at the math, it's not worth it. i think the project i requested a reheari

laura clark, yimby action. i'm going to second a lot of what cory was saying. i get a little dead inside too, and it takes hearings to really remind you why you got so mad in the first place and why i've been out here fighting for housing for what feels like way too long. you heard a lot of community members talk about their personal needs for housing, you've heard about people that are excited to build the housing, you've heard about the amazing community benefits that the project is going to have. i think you get it. i think you all have seen the level of crisis that people have. so i'm going to speak to people that are here fore the banya. i hope that you all have also learned something from this hearing. i hope that you have heard and listened to the people that are out here asking for those 1,574 units of housing. i hope that you have listened to yourselves talk about views. so -- and i'm saying of this from a place of views. sonia trura got married on the roof of the banya. it's a beautiful place that feels like it's surrounded by nothing. there could be

i run yimbi action, yes, in my backyard. it's a great project. it has the potential to do a lot of good. i would like to take a moment for this e.i.r. and reflect on how much time and money and very elaborate bureaucracy is being spent on this and will it get us the quantity of housing that we need? it seems like a great project. and yet we're spending a lot of bureaucratic time on the discretionary processes because of the way that we have constructed our bureaucracy. and there is an ability that we have to make a lot of these things nondiscretionary and avoid these kind of hearings. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is ken patsil, administrative director of city ballet. we're the second largest ballet school in san francisco and i would like to bring to light, in an economic environment where arts have gone by the wayside, we had two long-term ballet schools close and leave san francisco because they couldn't afford to make it. this group has made a commitment to the arts that we as city ballet appreciate more than i

i talk to some people in the yimby unit, and they say well, that's 5%. we need to address what we've -- just like the entitlements, we need to address what we already have before we keep trying to take on more. you know, what is the reason why units are sitting vacant? >> supervisor safai: i have a question for commissioner moore, yes, please. thank you, commissioner, you might want to pull the microphone down. so i appreciated the conversation we had the other day, and i was appreciative of all of your international experience that you bring as well as all the work that you've done in san francisco. so i first want to say i think that perspective is very important. so one of the questions that i have is this is me as a city planner in the work that i've done here locally in a number of different positions. what do you think are some of the biggest missed opportunities over the last 20 years from the perspective of planning in our city? i'll start. not to catch you off guard, i think that when i look at mission bay, for example, i think every time i ride

laura clark, yimby action. i just wanted to bring it to your attention as we did at land use, that this will affect tndc's affordable housing project. and i know that's been brought to your attention, but i hope we keep in mind this kind of financing difficulties when we add delays and unexpectedness, all projects are affected by this unpredictability, especially affordable housing, and tndc is at risk right now. >> cory smith on behalf of the housing action coalition. also, welcome supervisor brown and supervisor mandelman. also, echoing laura's comments, we just want to make sure that these housing units get built. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you. are there any other members of the public, come on down. >> good afternoon, supervisors. we also support the continuance. there's still a lot of things in the e.i.r. that we have a lot of comments on that we would like more time to analyze and to work with our supervisor with and the city with, so we support this continuance. thank you. >> president cohen:

. >> again, steven buss from mission yimby still. i sympathize with what she was saying.t level activation, but what's there currently doesn't activate the street. and i feel like this is just a net improvement over what it currently is. at least this way, there will be a nice ground level cafe for the employees there, and i -- i just don't see why -- i feel like this process is wasting your time. like, this is not a big deal. the ground floor cafe, you have much more important things to deal with, and i think we should just approve it and move on. like, no one's going to really be upset to have a ground floor cafe that they can look into. yeah, it's not public, but a lot of cafes downtown are not public. it's just the nature of our public. just approve it and move on. >> president hillis: any other public comment? seeing no other public comment, we'll close public comment. commissioner moore? >> commissioner moore: what's in front of us is an abatement and conditional use, and i think this is worth some discussion based on what we do when we sit here and are tasked with