. >> hi, my name is eric kaplan, i live in district 3. i'm excited about this housing element. i think it's an opportunity to help us if we want to call ourselves a sanctuary city, we need to make space to provide sanctuary. if we want to provide refuge for across the country, we need to have more than a tent for them out by ocean beach. i would really like to see a greater percentage of the housing in high opportunity areas. i live in a high opportunity area in telegraph hills and i would love to have more neighbors here. four decades ago, san francisco chose to have a housing shortage and now reno's giving us an opportunity to make a different choice. thank you. >> okay. members of the public, last call for public comment on these two items. if you would like to speak to either information or presentation, you need to press star then 3 to be added to the queue. when you hear your line has been unmuted, that's your indication to begin speaking and you have 2 minutes. >> linda chapman, before my time was told, i was trying to call for general public comment and it was impossibl

. >> hi, my name is eric kaplan, i live in district 3. i'm excited about this housing element. i think it's an opportunity to help us if we want to call ourselves a sanctuary city, we need to make space to provide sanctuary. if we want to provide refuge for across the country, we need to have more than a tent for them out by ocean beach. i would really like to see a greater percentage of the housing in high opportunity areas. i live in a high opportunity area in telegraph hills and i would love to have more neighbors here. four decades ago, san francisco chose to have a housing shortage and now reno's giving us an opportunity to make a different choice. thank you. >> okay. members of the public, last call for public comment on these two items. if you would like to speak to either information or presentation, you need to press star then 3 to be added to the queue. when you hear your line has been unmuted, that's your indication to begin speaking and you have 2 minutes. >> linda chapman, before my time was told, i was trying to call for general public comment and it was impossibl

. >> caller: hi, my name is eric kaplan and i live in telegraph hill and i love shared spaces. i have long felt that san francisco does not have enough spaces to eat and drink outdoors and that's been the silver line and i hope you make it permanent but i have concerns about the program as proposed and i want to highlight they're focused on the shared nature of these spaces and the fact that this is how we're talking about how we use public land so the the thing of having business owners approve a shared space this is based on the erroneous idea that parking spaces belong to the property owners. i want to make sure there's public access to these places and i understand that you know, if you are a restaurant that does table service you need to be able to manage your tables and take care of that but, when you are not currently doing table service on the shared space, i think it should be open to the public 24/7. and serren dip tusly, you know, commercial corridors, where these places are going up, are some of the most transit accessible parts of the city so, these are the parts w