cory smith on behalf of the housing action coalition in support. i did share additional planners of our petition. i want to express our appreciation to h.s.h., supervisor peskin and others who have par taken in the conversation. we know that it is important to create these types of shelters as a piece of the solution. not the only thing that we need to do. additionally, we know that shelters like this work. the embarcadero was a big play. now it's a better situation than it was before. i sincerely hope for the same thing for this neighborhood. i do understand the concern for neighbors. i encourage you to move this forward and create homes for people. thank you very much. >> caller: my name is julie. my kid go to school in the neighborhood. i'm generally for housing, i'm confused about why this is being rushed. i'm wondering what happened to the navigation center that waiting on other folks working on. we need to get shelter sight it's what people actually use. i hear lot of pet and property and concerned that the plan that i heard laid out today do

cory smith on behalf of the housing action coalition in support. i did share additional planners of our petition. i want to express our appreciation to h.s.h., supervisor peskin and others who have par taken in the conversation. we know that it is important to create these types of shelters as a piece of the solution. not the only thing that we need to do. additionally, we know that shelters like this work. the embarcadero was a big play. now it's a better situation than it was before. i sincerely hope for the same thing for this neighborhood. i do understand the concern for neighbors. i encourage you to move this forward and create homes for people. thank you very much. >> caller: my name is julie. my kid go to school in the neighborhood. i'm generally for housing, i'm confused about why this is being rushed. i'm wondering what happened to the navigation center that waiting on other folks working on. we need to get shelter sight it's what people actually use. i hear lot of pet and property and concerned that the plan that i heard laid out today do

cory smith with the opportunity to speak here today.e completely concur with community members and supervisor peskin in the need to update and clarify a lot of the group housing definitions. that is what is the sort of confusion is absolutely awful when it comes to creating new housing and this all needs to be reexplored. with the feedback from the members t proposals will have the group housing infeasible and is a moratorium and to appreciate clarifications with the grandfathering clauses and projects in the pipeline. there are a couple mentioned earlier and others that have applied and we respectfully request that the rules be locked in as are today for all projects that have submitted a pta. and the other piece we have had a number of members who do the group housing not only in san francisco and around the entire country and would really welcome the opportunity to see through that legislation. and and i quite often think about group housing as a good solution for seniors. we have many older adults in san francisco who are going to n

cory smith. excited to be here today. we want to extend our appreciation for the staff and it's coming up on a year being engaged on this topic and there's been ample opportunities and contacting staff is difficult so we commend them for they'll work they have done today and all the work certainly still ahead. we're thrilled to see housing is coming to the western side of san francisco. one of our many apartment buildings there for a long time and more will make the neighborhood better so enthused about that and want to center everything. while we'd like to have a san francisco centric view on this the, city is required by state law as are all cities across the state to update their housing element and update general planning documents to make sure we're accommodating the growth california needs and after frankly ignoring these types of work in the past and thanks to work by senator weiner, there's finally teeth to ensure that a group said no to housing for way too long no longer have that ability. that's going to result