. >> laura clark, n.b. action. so one of the things that wasn't announced during the summary about activities at the board is that a.d.u.s and new construction was talked about but not included in this legislation. and you are the body that has seen the most opportunity for a.d.u.s in new construction. you have seen large single family homes that you have noted repeatedly could benefit from an a.d.u. and you have struggled to figure out how to wedge the opportunity for an a.d.u. to be like after they build it and then put it in and sort of get around that prohibition. and i would recommend to you that you pursue actually leading the charge on, crafting the legislation that would create a.d.u.s in new construction. and maybe it will come as trailing legislation from the board, but since you have the most firsthand experience of the desire to get, you know, that two unit to a three unit to a four unit, for not wanting to see mega houses but instead wanting to see a couple apartments, you have the opportunity to reall

i'm laura clark, for the record. i run yimbi action, yes, in my backyard. it's a great project. it has the potential to do a lot of good. i would like to take a moment for this e.i.r. and reflect on how much time and money and very elaborate bureaucracy is being spent on this and will it get us the quantity of housing that we need? it seems like a great project. and yet we're spending a lot of bureaucratic time on the discretionary processes because of the way that we have constructed our bureaucracy. and there is an ability that we have to make a lot of these things nondiscretionary and avoid these kind of hearings. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is ken patsil, administrative director of city ballet. we're the second largest ballet school in san francisco and i would like to bring to light, in an economic environment where arts have gone by the wayside, we had two long-term ballet schools close and leave san francisco because they couldn't afford to make it. this group has made a commitment to the arts that we as city ballet appreciate more than i

. >> hi, laura clark. this plan needs a lot more housing and it doesn't need to come in the plan itself but it does need to be coupled with a commitment to building housing elsewhere to compensate for this. because too often we have passed things that increased our economic growth and did not come with housing to boot. we can speed up the production of housing in this plan with great legislation from assembly member david shue but we're talking but category off dwelling units a at the knees by not allowing them new cob instruction. -- construction. i don't see a commitment from this board to be advocating for the kind of housing production that we need to compensate for this plan. i see this going another step and another direction of continuing to see the displacement that we have seen. and so i would love if this is going to move forward for it to come with either a verbal commitment or some kind of legislation that there will be housing built to compensate and it needs to be said when we pass this legis

laura clark, yimby action. i'm going to second a lot of what cory was saying. i get a little dead inside too, and it takes hearings to really remind you why you got so mad in the first place and why i've been out here fighting for housing for what feels like way too long. you heard a lot of community members talk about their personal needs for housing, you've heard about people that are excited to build the housing, you've heard about the amazing community benefits that the project is going to have. i think you get it. i think you all have seen the level of crisis that people have. so i'm going to speak to people that are here fore the banya. i hope that you all have also learned something from this hearing. i hope that you have heard and listened to the people that are out here asking for those 1,574 units of housing. i hope that you have listened to yourselves talk about views. so -- and i'm saying of this from a place of views. sonia trura got married on the roof of the banya. it's a beautiful place that feels like it's surrounded by nothing. there could be

laura clark. this is why i joke that d.r.s are, we're never having a block party ever again hearing. they bring out the worst in us. they pit neighbor against neighbor in this very destructive and hostile way that is sad and disappointing. the homeowners association came out here and told you their agenda pretty clearly. they said that their mission is to preserve the value of the neighborhood. the fiduciary interest of the neighborhood is what they said. in other words, they're here because they want high property values. and we maybe shouldn't take that into account in our public policy making the interest of a homeowners' association are not the same as the interests of the people. we need more housing. this is all zoned single-family home only. it's on zillow or i guess i looked at redfin, walkable with excellent transit. there is no reason why this shouldn't be upzoned to allow a four-unit building at the very least. and now we're debating whether dormers are in context or out of context whil

i'm laura clarke. i want to reiterate some of my favorite parts of yesterday's inauguration speech. "we have people who come from all over the world that come to create, who are innovative, who look at san francisco and say, that's the place where i want to be. and we have failed. we have failed to build more housing to accommodate the increase in the number of job opportunities that have poured into san francisco, pushing residents who have been here all their lives out of the city they call home." and my favorite part, "the politics of no has plagued our city for far too long. not in my block, not in my backyard. we have made mistakes in the past by not moving housing production forward all over this city. i plan to change the politics of no to the politics of yes. yes, we will build more housing." and my favorite of her tweet storm, "at the root of so many of our issues is our housing crisis, our unending systems of laws designed as if to say no to creating more homes and we've seen the results. it's time to say yes to more affordable housing, middle income housing and market rat

laura clark, yimby action. i just wanted to bring it to your attention as we did at land use, that this will affect tndc's affordable housing project. and i know that's been brought to your attention, but i hope we keep in mind this kind of financing difficulties when we add delays and unexpectedness, all projects are affected by this unpredictability, especially affordable housing, and tndc is at risk right now. >> cory smith on behalf of the housing action coalition. also, welcome supervisor brown and supervisor mandelman. also, echoing laura's comments, we just want to make sure that these housing units get built. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you. are there any other members of the public, come on down. >> good afternoon, supervisors. we also support the continuance. there's still a lot of things in the e.i.r. that we have a lot of comments on that we would like more time to analyze and to work with our supervisor with and the city with, so we support this continuance. thank you. >> president cohen:

laura: i was for the iraq war. we're not going to relitigate it. president trump saw the old way didn't work. he is trying a new way. general clark -- we have to have a longer conversation. great to have you on any any case. all right, we will have you back on radio. we will take a break and be right back. makes it hard to br. so to breathe better, i go with anoro. ♪ go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way, with anoro." ♪ go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators that work together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. anoro is not for asthma. it contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. the risk is unknown in copd. anoro won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. .. glaucoma, prostate, bladder, or urinary problems. these may worsen with anoro. call your doctor if you have worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling, problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain while taking anoro. ask your doctor about anoro. ♪ go your own way ge