[cheers and applause] >> alice rogers and then barbara inaba. >> alice? >> thank you, and good afternoon. i'm alice rogers and live up the street at brant street from the project. i've served on some of your commissions. i'm on the board of my neighborhood socials. and perhaps most importantly to this discussion, my next door neighbors are homeless people and we have 100 in our neighborhood. so i know that there is life after navigation centres. and so i'm basically supportive of the mayor's initiative. but take great exception to the way the process is coming down. you the port are in a position where you have to field without the kind of process that you have hav built after the last te we've had one of these top-down processed lands on us. i guess that happens in the city family and we have to deal with it. but i do hope that the neighbors don't conflate this proposal with the effort the support is making the community outreach. i do also want to commend port staff for trying to do outreach tto the extent they could before the proposal land that is a n

any name is barbara inaba and i lived at portside condominiums as a resident since 1994. who can remember way back then? that's 25 years, a quarter century. three, we are directly across strategy from seawall lot 330. navigation have proven to be magnets for people outside of centre. there's assault, theft, drug use, violence, trash and health issues. portside is home to many families and seniors. i'm a senior. physical safety and health to be by those mentally ill, intoxicated or violent histories. place children, families and seniors directly in the path of a large homeless population is dangerous and responsible and wrong. this is not about placing navigation centres where homeless are because the add mittanchomeless. if the port's goal is to reduce homelessness on port property, the proposed navigation centre will do the exact opposite. navigation centres should be located in areas where they will not pose a threat to safety and families. no one will consider locating a centre in the middle of seacliff or pacific heights. why blaz place this in the middf our thriving