-larkin street project in district 2. i believe the granting, the increased densities from 16 to 24 unit will promote the general welfare of san francisco as it provides much-needed support for transitional-aged youth. i was pleased actually to see today that lori brook, the president of the c.h.a., was quoted in the "examiner" as saying that c. chmplet a. was not against the project, they were just against the city making a precedent of changing zoning rules. i was heartened to see that, and that gives us a way to move forward and accept the project in the area. although it's a little different in the c.h.a.-cal hollow association's letter written by their attorney, which follows a different tact and brings up numerous issues outside of that, among them being issues of crime. he brings up anecdotal evidence of crime at 864 ellis. i actually went on crime stat website and over the last six months at that location, there were 283 crimes reported. if you move two blocks over to 564, or three blocks over to 554 ellis, you ac

at larkin street. i've been through multiple things. i'm very highly active and i'm strongly endorsing that this shall go on, because i notice through all the people that i've seen, some people like to be homeless. people like to piggyback off other people. people like to be given services. san francisco is the number one place in the entire world that helps homeless people and they feel like it's a freebie. this endorses and also helps weed out the people who are truly here to make something out of themselves. i was in crutches with a bad leg, nowhere to go, and then i got accepted into the house. two years later i'm at our institute. i'm going for my bachelors. i work full-time with benefits. i'm working hard and i'm actually part of the foundation and throwing a charity for them. and it's because somebody gave me the opportunity not to piggyback, not to ask, not to beg, but an environment that endorses working for yourself. and i feel like you're going to hear everything that this place is being use

i have worked at larkin street over 10 years. you have heard from a wide array of people about the impressive services at larkin street to help young people got off the streets and move on. i strongly believe that as a society we have an obligation to provide for those in need and do it in the best possible way. to me, young person who is living on the streets because it provides a stifel our tentative than their home is in great need and i can think of no greater importance than to provide affordable housing. i have come to see homelessness as a really important time in a young person's life. this is something that can be moved beyond. it is not a permanent condition, and that larkin street has a track record of making sure people move beyond homelessness. we are effective at what we do at housing is the cornerstone. providing housing is not enough. we need to do it in a way that really reflects how much we care about our clients and makes them feel welcome. i ask you all to think about the young adults that you know, your child

larkin as a product manager. i live in cal holow. i want diversity in my backyard. i cannot tell you how knowing it is to see the 22-28-year-old walking down the street drunk on a saturday night. these youth are responsible. they have responsibility and obligation to our society. guess what, larkin gives them hope to do that in to fill the obligation that we want them to succeed, and it will do that. we need to increase the density. 24 units. that is not that much. but across the street at the condo, guess what, it may not be -- it may be empty because it is not that pretty. larkin is creating a building that will preserve the integrity of the historic structure. does what, a toxic little money to that. why? at the end of the day, we have to put fear minimum wage in 12 or buildings. somebody was saying about i guess open space? guess what, three blocks away is presidio. that is the only urban national park outside of washington, d.c. it is not that hard to do whatever you want a few blocks away and i walked all the time. at the end of the day, when i was 22, the unit i live in was 7 by 10 and 10 by 12 living space and i survived very well.

and larkin street. so i'm heartened to read that. and in the past when we've spoken with him he has mentioned that he does have some concern about affordability and transition-aid youth and those types of issues. although he hasn't supported the past two projects, perhaps in the future we'll be able to work with him on some of these future projects for transitional youth. even though we don't agree on these two, i think his heart is in the right place and he'll come around hopefully, if it's some project that he can agree to in the future. again, i think it's a great project, and i'm happy to support it and i think it will be a successful use for the site. commissioner miguel. commissioner miguel: yes, i'd like to make some personal acknowledgements. my education in transitional youth started about a year ago, in june of 2010. i had conversations with amy, who started first place for youth and is now the policy director of the john burton foundation for children without homes. jennifer smith spoke to us from there today. and then the

and larkin street can back up what they say they can do. they can help keep the neighborhood safe and actually help improve the neighborhood by increasing diversity and giving people who don't normally have access to these nice grocery stores or the marina district, giving them a chance to live in that neighborhood and helping sort of increase the diversity and helping everybody in the end. thank you. president olague: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm a field representative with carpet enters local 22. i'd like to go on record saying that the carpenters local 22 do support this project. myself, what i'm hearing today -- and i don't want to think this way, but i'm hearing a little bit of we would support this project if it was 16 units. we would support it if it was 24 anywhere else in the city. but if it's in my neighborhood, i am not comfortable with it. i could be wrong on that, but i just want to go on record and say that i think this is a good project. it's good for local 22. it's good for residents, it's good for the fa

the complaint was made on the larkin street. it went through two nov's, and the building is weathertight. it is not pretty, but it is vacant. 2514 23rd. that is in various states of disrepair, illegal construction without a permit. open to whether probably still. two buildings, same city, same department, unequal treatment. commissioner hechanova: mr. butler, was there a tracking number when you filed the complaint? >> no, none are given. there is no process. complaints should be given numbers, just as permits are given numbers. then you can ask, what has happened to complaint number -- whatever the date may be. what happened? it is in the system, it is being sent to this person. as it is, no record. commissioner hechanova: thank you. mr. murphy? commissioner murphy: this ordinance, since it started, this one department has done a pretty good job, spearheaded by john.

. >> the city i believe was up larkin street, and everything west was counties. i think larkin was here. that is the original charter. then in 1850, van ness, who was the supervisor, did the addition. it was called the western addition, even though it was in the middle of the city, because it was west of larkin. >> i did not understand that when i was a child. it always seemed that it was east of where everything i knew was. >> all this down here was county of san francisco, so there was a point in time where you could be in the county of san francisco, but not in the city you live in these outside lands. >> lead problem is if you look at the orientation, no. is up. we are going to turn it the way we are normally accustomed to seeing it. here is where the golden gate bridge is. here is where the bay bridge is. the county went all the way down here, and about a year later, they moved the county to write about here, so this was county land or outside land, and this was the city. this was 1861, so the city has grown by this much. these were added, and they are basica

in essence, in the bay area, like on larkin street, i want to see people invest more in people. love the giants stadium, but i want to see cumins investing in a humans, instead of expensive. expensive buildings. i love to see the mayor and governor invest more in education than in incarcerations. so i am committed with the music and the platform that i have, if i have to, to give a little spanking to those who need to break up. we spend way too much on weapons. all the money that we spend on tv advertising, gears of war, that is stupidity. in new zealand, they passed a law that said that you could not sell it. all those games about killing people. they do not want it. to me, i'd equate that with columbine, with war. once you desensitize a human being, you cannot tell the difference between shooting someone in a video game and a real person. some people can be gentle and kind. i can be ghetto when i want to be. i grew up with the black panthers doing peace and freedom benefits for them. so on the one hand i like the softness of spirituel the day, but i also like the energy that y

. >> as executive director of larkin street youth services. we have been around for 27 years to provide as that of housing, shelter, medical care, and education employment services for runaway and homeless youth in san francisco. we have to dig ever shelters. we have 10 housing programs. we have a wide array of education and employment programs to help young people get off the streets and to be about to build the skills they need towards independence. our goal is to help used to reach their full potential. the need for these kinds of services in san francisco is alarming. we estimate that their 5700 young people each year in san francisco at risk for homelessness. we were a part of the san francisco -- [chime]