in talks about this development, the affordablity. we talk about the affordablity, and we talk about affordable housing all the time in san francisco, and my neighborhood, every time the term comes up, it prompts a question. the question is, affordable for whom, and that means it doesn't affect most of the people that i deal with, most of the folks who are challenged for housing in our church. this will meet their needs. not only will it meet the needs of people who constantly fall through the cracks, but it will even offer opportunity to people who have been pushed out of the city to come back, and in some communities, that is a really big thing. we have watched in -- one, because of any real regional planning, we have watched people in this city -- i know people personally, and you probably do, too, who have moved from san francisco to oakland to richmond to antioch, to pittsburg, to stockton, and brentwood and a bunch of other places that i had never even heard of 20 years ago, and now i've got friends living there and had to find

i think we want to acknowledge that transportation has a lot to do with affordablity, as well, and so by delivering affordable units in this very well connected part of our region, we are actually collectively looking atloer coatloer -- at lower cost of living for those components, and that's an important part of affordablity in mission rock. the retail that we are delivering and envisiontion as a vibrant community serving retail will also impact the transportation story, too. we'll have markets on-site, child care on-site, services that the mission bay neighborhood currently lacks, which are creating many more trips throughout the city than what you have in a mixed use environment and neighborhoods where you can walk to a lot of different services, so we see that the transportation and the land use mix as being very complimentary overall and having housing, parks and recreation goes to the overall goal of reducing [ inaudible ] throughout the city. i think we've been proud to sort of pave the way of establishing sort of some of the most robust commitments on a number of these communi

i also agree with echoing what folks have mentioned in terms of affordablity. what is affordablity? they say it's only going to be eight units. what does that mean? what percentage of ami is that going to involve? displacements, there's going to be a lot of displacements. we all know in anyplace they do a new project, there's going to be displacement of community folks who live around the area, so it is he really important to be able to look at these things before approving a project, so i -- i'm in support of the continuance. thank you. >> commissioner melgar: thank you, miss sandoval. any other public comment on this item? okay. with that, commissioner moore? >> commissioner moore: interesting project. i'm glad the community came out and actually spoke. i'm glad to see a project which doesn't require variances and exceptions. however, i have a couple of question that somewhat mirror what the public is also noticing. this project proposes housing units in a manner that we as a commission have questioned a number of times before we had a project on polk and bush, which we spent a lo

not only struck by how much affordable housing is, but the deep affordablity. as most of you know, the constituency that we serve out of our church and the fillmore district cannot really afford what we call affordable housing. this has deep affordablity, and we can perhaps quit losing our members to churches in antioch and pit burg atsburg and many who can't live in san francisco. also, the amount of work it will provide, but there's something else that hasn't been talked about. in talking about the commercial units, looking at them, and with the giants willingness to create new commercial units, so people who own businesses, people who are hopeful of becoming entrepreneurs, can come here and open up. in our community, the lack of african american businesses, disgraceful in this city, and we usually just can't afford the spaces that are available. this has an opportunity to change some of that. you need to support this 100%. thank you so much. >> thank you so much, reverend townsend, and seeing no further public comment, i'll ask the chair if we can close publ

identified and discussed, but one of those is that the top category there is transit service and affordablity. so in that category and in others, a specific area that we really looked at was funding of operations and service to support people's needs. and that whole issue was very much on the table in part of the discussion in addition to capital. on the revenue side with the next recommendation, the task force was united behind the idea that there is a need to actively to pursue revenue to meet these needs, and it's not just to rely on taking one step or measure, but rather identify multiple actions that could be pursued over a period of time to meet these needs. so next recommendation, number three was probably one of the most contentious issues that was discussed, and that was what a major revenue source for 2018 might be. there were in the final vote, four measures that came out on top culled from a list of over 30, and probably the biggest debate was about looking to sales tax as a key revenue measure versus looking to some form of gross receipts tax. this wasn't a huge amount of disagre

probably we would look at it from an affordablity lens, not just the numbers. there is a framework that we've been using for the last year or so called jobs-housing fit. if you recall we came here in december and presented to you an analysis of the city's commerce and industry report about what the jobs-housing fit should be if we were to really accommodate or workforce over the last ten years. we need about 66% of the all new housing to be at various levels below market to fit this workforce. we did that for brisbane, for pier 70. it's not rocket science, and one suggestion we would have is that the planning staff actually look at the job projections for central soma and calculate what that housing need to be at the various income levels to house the workforce. it's fairly trade forward. we'd be happy to help. it's straightforward methodology. it's all open source. we know the suggestion from the toddco k is a floor. i would argue you're probably going to find your -- certainly, that's a good starting point. and lastly, once you get your numbers figured out, w

the ad hoc committee on personnel members, labor relations and affordablity is meeting february 21st at 5:00 p.m. section m, other informational items, one request from creative arts charter school, prop 51, application. general counsel has encouraged us to allot a total of three minutes to this item. we do have -- let's see...posted in the agenda is the quarterly report on the williams uniform complaints and the acceptance of gifts, the monthly report for december 2017 and january 2018. we do have public comment on this item, joseph adams and fernando aguilar, excuse me. >> all right. nice to see you guys again. good evening, commissioners and deputy superintendent lee. i'm fernando aguilar, director of charter arts school, and i want to thank you for the time and opportunity to speak this evening. while i know there may be only a slight chance that our item will be this evening, i feel like ioit to my teachers, family and my students to give it one more try because in my opinion, it makes so much sense. so creative arts chatter school has been preliminarily approved for a $7 millio

>> the personnel of labor and affordablity committee will be meeting on thursday, january 25th, at 5:00 p.m. >> great. any other calendar committee meetings that you'd like to announce? commissioner sanchez? >> the rules committee will be meeting february 5th -- monday, february 5th. >> okay. thank you. budget and business is... >> yes. our next meeting is going to be the first wednesday, which is the 7th. >> wednesday, february 7th? >> february 7th. >> okay. grounds will be next on monday, february 26. commissioner merase? >> the ad hoc committee which meets their regularly will be meeting thursday, february 8th, at 6:00 p.m. here. >> thank you. vice president cooke, your committee on personnel matters. >> thursday, january 25th. >> we are going to have a meeting sometimes in february on the district ad hoc joint committee. section n is memorial adjournment. there are none tonight. section o is closed session, so the board will now go into the closed session. we will >> we're back. following the closed session, we're resuming the regular board meeting. the readout for january 23rd --

our private partners, we are looking to maximize a basket of public goods that include housing affordablity, transportation integration, sustainablity, sea level rise protection, community facilities, open space, workforce development, and if there is existing use on-site, historic preservation. when we look specifically at mission rock, you see that they are meeting or exceeding a lot of those targets, and provide a set of public benefits that we're extraordinarily pleased to present to you today. you heard much discussion about the 40% standard for affordable housing. we have transportation, and i'll be turning it over to karly payne, mta, to discuss it in more detail. you heard fran about sea rise. there is an option to provide up to 15,000 gross square feet of community serving facilities, the eight acres of open space. and then what hasn't yet been mentioned is a very robust workforce development program with local business enterprise access, first source hiring, administration, citybuild jobs, and a commitment by the project to fund a number of trapiining programs to get pile drivers

identified and discussed, but one of those is that the top category there is transit service and affordablity. so in that category and in others, a specific area that we really looked at was funding of operations and service to support people's needs. and that whole issue was very much on the table in part of the discussion in addition to capital. on the revenue side with the next recommendation, the task force was united behind the idea that t i