i would hope we have learned a lesson from the fillmore redevelopment. that is the last time we talked about dil neighborhood with promises that it will be ok because of replacement housing and the right to move back. these are parallel. it is the closest thing we have seen since that time. this project, as the city's own consultant said, may not be financially feasible. i would urge you to look at the consulting report that specifically says that. it is part of the reason you see the reaction about the details of what is going to happen when this rent-controlled housing gets challenged. when you take a project that is not financially feasible, the only way to make it financially feasible is to start reneging on various promises. that is what you see on other predatory equity schemes of this type. on the public benefit, i think the public benefits are overstated. the capital improvements and operating and maintenance money is a private benefit. the rent control suppose a benefit -- subtract from that the loss of the house. there is really no public benef

this is the situation we have with the redevelopment in the fillmore and in japandown.ext point, which is in doing so, this project makes itself inherently unsustainable. at the planning commission, the planning commissioners themselves repeatedly asked the developer and planning to show the net carbon footprint of this project over its entire history, and neither planning commission nor the developers provided that carbon footprint, and the reason they did not is because they knew it would look bad. what they finally did do was put a slide up a few weeks ago that showed the comparison between the old units, their contribution to greet us gases, and the new units, and what it shows is that in least the first 14 years of this project, the new units would create a lot more greenhouse gas emissions, and right now, the intergovernmental panel on climate change scientists, even though they tend to be pretty conservative in careful, are saying that over the next decade, we need to start making massive decreases in our greenhouse gas emissions right now. we cannot have a spike

when the redevelopment came along in the fillmore, it created quite another problem and that prop was -- problem was that we had children that did not have parents to support them so we were using booker t. at that time to do after-school programs and to suplement what should have been done in families but was impac bell to do at that time. so we are still in that situation. our board of directors looked at how booker t. could work into -- our board of directors looked at how booker t. could best function into the 21st century and decided that one of the fall -- falouts from the redevelopment in the 1960's and 1970's was that we have a lot of transitional aged youth that don't have services, that don't have anything going for them. they age out of foster care. those that are in foster care become emancipated at 18 and there are no services for them. so this is a drop in the bucket, almost a band-aid to deal with some of those issues. we're look at providing housing r -- for transitional aged youth and we have wonderful partners. we have drew schools. they use our gym during the day an

. >> my family got moved out of the fillmore into bayview hunters point back when redevelopment was the redevelopment, and they were proclaiming to do all of us some justice. they were going to tear down the old houses and replace them with new houses, and everybody bought into that dream. does it surprise you that they admit that the whole reality was to get so many black folks out of the fillmore? because folks was means wanted to move in. >> they get a lot of grief for that, but the reality is we were part of a larger national federal initiative. in terms of the work that we do today and work we have done over the last 20 years, we have been the leader in terms of producing affordable housing. that is a document to the fact. >> we actually want redevelop. we want to see our house is remodel, kept up. poor people do not necessarily because they are poor want to live in dilapidated broken houses. these folks are dying to have their houses repaired and 6 so they do not have these issues. they are fighting to hold onto old, raggedy houses. you know why? because they know what rebel mende

black population from 1948 on to the present as a consequence of the california redevelopment act of 1945. in the fillmore, 4,729 businesses were forced to close. 2,500 households were pushed out and 883 victorian houses were demolished, destruction was huge business. with the destruction of the fillmore, a powerful matrix of black arts and leadership also perished and indigenous jazz scene, blues, maya angelou, danny glover, johnny mathis all have their routes -- roots in the western addition. the major vestige is the booker t. washington community center which has been in san francisco since 1917. the rec and services communities and in drafting 50 apartments into a new five-story structure. what seems to be the sticking point is 15 feet of height. laterally booker t. is a mixed area, which includes a muni, car barn, best buy, home depot and so on. compared with one -- >> thank you, sir. thank you. rob costo, ronald cardin, tom radulovic, katherine carr. >> good evening, my name is rob castau, a neighbor of the proposed project and also a supporter of the community center and affordable housing in gener

this is important to understand that this is a post- redevelopment world in the western addition, the fillmore, and japan town, and a lot of the job training and placement that had been the custom for several decades in this area typically result -- revolve around construction jobs, around fast food restaurants, brown grocery stores like safeway and little vision for job-training and placement had existed in trying to get people of our community into permanent job tracks the on maybe just seasonal work or work that would pay less than a living wage. so i am pleased to see that we have some real pros in the western addition fillmore area who are really taking the center. we had a soft opening last week. very exciting, but it is also exciting, not just about those looking for a job, but those coming out of a prison system, the jails, who need an effective as for to help them gain effective reentry, and that, i think, is why it is essential to celebrate the opening of a job training and placement center like this. i think this is obviously a no- brainer, but i just want to preface that we are exc

period because a lot of people don't understand that in the fillmore and japan town, for 45 years, this area of our city known as redevelopment e-2 project area was governed by a different agency than by city hall, a redevelopment agency. their land use and zoning code did not comport and did not reflect our own san francisco planning codes. operated by a very different government system in fillmore and japan town for 45 years. that period expired in january 2009. previous to that period, created some of the most significant upheaval in transformation in the fillmore and in japan town. we're now dealing with the after effects of that, where i'm proving legislation that help deal with i think some of the missteps of urban renewal this took place between the 1960's and 1980's. so that's a hodgepodge of things. >> you mentioned key issues with your district and things going on at the city. how will you balance the needs of your district with the needs of the city as a whole? >> i think my district as a microcosm in the city. if you look at the diversity of the population, class and race, you can see my district completely speaks

year range of redevelopment agency in the western addition of in japan town, they were under a different land use zoning control system and part of what was allowed for was that on the fillmore corridor south of gary boulevard in the heart of the western addition was that if a business or a company that owned property wanted to have a storefront property not used for retail purposes, then they could have office space. if you go down filmore, and the east side you will see vibrant retail and restaurants but on the west side, this is actually offices or this is held vacant until other offices comment. this is not acceptable and there's no way that we can make a good-faith effort in trying to revitalize an excuse, especially in an area that has been challenged over some decades. what this does is to correct the planning code now that redevelopments has ended in the western addition and synchronizes this area with the rest of the city's planning code so that this is prohibited -- prohibitive for a property owner to allow for storefront space to be used for a non retail business. it is time that we allow on the east and west side to benefit from this activity that has been handcu