i personally have experience with avalon bay, the very difficult development company. we will have problems with them. this is just like the beginning, yes. it's a study. but that's how things start. and that's how development happens in this city. it starts with a study and then we build from that point on and on, developing facts that as you heard earlier from some of our public comment testimony that are not solid facts. this body transitions. supervisor yee will no longer be the supervisor. things get lost. i want to go on the record early. i believe avalon bay will create a lot of problems for us, those of us who have relationships in labor. many times our labor partners have come raising concerns that they haven't hired union labor to do the job. i'm talking something that is years down the line. but i just think that -- that funding -- that this is just not the right direction we need to go in and we need to re-evaluate. supervisor yee did a great job getting city college free. and now we have all these people that want to go there. we need to be mindful and res

the property owner, avalon bay, has not been cooperative. there's been a lot of hiccups in that process. in the meantime, the space is vacant. focus on developers who say they're going to follow the planning code, but be specific and ask them how they're going to be using that space. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. we appreciate the opportunity to discuss these issues with you today and the commission's ongoing efforts. i'm keeping my remarks specific to union square. this latter point is one in which we can all agree. the retail economy is changing. staff presented that today, and the real estate needs of retailers are changing as a result. we've analyzed the issues before and presented them to you. the presence of retailers on upper floors in union square is decreasing significantly, and vacancy is increasing. this is not just our opinion. this is reflected in the data. i would like to submit this data for the record today. given these changes, we urge the commission to take a flexible view of proposed non

i would like to thank the members of the balboa reservoir, avalon bay communities and bridge housing corporation, mission housing development corporation, pacific union development company and habitat for humanity for the hard work of getting us to this point. as part of the project, review process, the city hired a third party consultant to produce a fiscal feasibility analysis to provide the board of supervisors with information for its consideration and evaluating the fiscal feasibility of the project. in accordance with san francisco administrative code chapter 29. this is a necessary step before we can do an even deeper analysis of the project through the state mandated environmental review and the project entitlement process. the feasibility findings do not commit the board of supervisors. or any other public agency with jurisdiction over any part of the project to approve the terms of any transaction or grant any entitlement to developer. it will have to undergo environmental review under the ceqa act and be subject to public review in accordance with the processes of the city