i've lived in noe valley for 30 years now. i've worked with deb on a number of projects associated with the cbd. [please stand by] >> i asked them before they were willing to absorb the cost and they were overwhelmingly in favour of it, and ever since it has been passed, past, they have continuously mentioned to me, i guess when asked, they didn't just volunteer it out of the blue, but when asked, they were still positive about it and very much in favor of it being renewed again. i will not spend more time boxing your ears here. i would love the nb -- the nva. it is clean, it is desirable, it's good for tenants, it is good for the public, it is good for everybody. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, thank you. my name is meghan and i have had the great fortune of living in the valley for about 11 years now. i am one of the commercial tenants that end up having to pay for the taxes, but they keep our streets beautiful. the community that we live in is fortunate to be there and at any time, i will have graff

noe valley is going through the renewal process for 15 years right now. another is the castro community benefit district. they're currently undergoing review with the city attorney. then they would have to go through petitioning. you would probably see an election for that in june and july. you also see the fisherman's wharf c.b.d. undergoing renewal. that's unique because on the land side of the district where san francisco city streets are, it's a typical district like noe valley, castro, union square. on the port side of the district, it's typically owned by the state of california, and we can't assess the state of california as a local entity -- or you can, but it's very difficult because it's the state. so there's a district that's geographically confined, but instead of focused on property characteristics, you're looking at the business and what they bring in in revenue. so that's a different type model of district, and we don't get those too often, so the city attorney and i are having some fun going through the process on that. we also have one go

i'm a resident of district 8 in noe valley. i have spent much of my life in san francisco. i spent 25 years living in noe valley, and i have been working in san francisco since the 70s. i'm a banker, now retired. i urge you to allow for access for the c.s.u. for children who are relying on government funding for payment. this is absolutely critical. i also urge you to look at the delays that have been done in terms of ongoing financing, and also, the construction oriented financing that the department of public health is asking for, sort of pay as you submit. it's extremely difficult for any company, and as a lender, i know this to be true, for any company to survive, and for a nonprofit that's living on the edge all the time, it would make much more sense for everyone to get this resolved. it sounds like the state of california has given them a clean bill of health. let's move forward. thank you. >> chair mar: thank you. next speaker. >> for give me. i'm dr. stewart butlare, and i was asked to go to the front of the line. i'm regional director for mental health for kaiser

i'm also a ten-year san francisco resident living in noe valley not too far from the project. i'm here obviously to support the project. the project sponsor has resided in san francisco for over 30 years, raising their children in the community. this is their ultimate dream home, and after having carefully reviewed the plans, i commend its thoughtful design and careful revisions in light of the neighbors' concerns. i find it to be very reasonably designed, and a very modest home with a nicely-designed family room, living room, three bedrooms on one level, plus a guest room off the family room which opens to a nicely-sized backyard, all fairly modest from what i can tell. although i understand the neighbors would be concerned about any changes on their street, i find the project to be reasonably compatible with existing surrounding homes as i view the models presented by the architect and by the d.r. requesters. i urge you to support the approval of this project as designed by the architect and supported by the planning department as well. thank you for your time. >> thank you.

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i'm a resident of district 8 in noe valley. i have spent much of my life in san francisco. i spent 25 years living in noe valley, and i have been working in san francisco since the 70s. i'm a banker, now retired. i urge you to allow for access for the c.s.u. for children who are relying on government funding for payment. this is absolutely critical. i also urge you to look at the delays that have been done in terms of ongoing financing, and also, the construction oriented financing that the department of public health is asking for, sort of pay as you submit. it's extremely difficult for any company, and as a lender, i know this to be true, for any company to survive, and for a nonprofit that's living on the edge all the time, it would make much more sense for everyone to get this resolved. it sounds like the state of california has given them a clean bill of health. let's move forward. thank you. >> chair mar: thank you. next speaker. >> for give me. i'm dr. stewart butlare, and i was asked to go to the front of the line. i'm regional director for mental health for kaiser

i wish that would, that would transfer and fly over to noe valley, because we are getting tired of these ipod houses as your staff calls them. i think the number of unit -- two-bedroom units. and i think the $44 million, that's a lot of money. it would have been nice if they could have had some affordable housing on the site, but i understand that doesn't ever really happen anywhere. i don't know if it's possible, but i do think it would be good if some of the that money went to the small sites program. i don't know if you can do that or if that's even possible. but anecdotally around the city, i see a lot of multiunit buildings for sale, apartment buildings, i think it's a generational shift. i think people that bought in the '50s and '60s are leaving the scene and their buildings are being sold by their heirs, and there's a lot of tenants in those buildings. that's anecdotal, but i think it's going on. finally i would just setting that this huge number of units, and this is conditional use, gives you an opportunity to get data back who is living there, how many llcs. it's all ownership

small project given the recent history of major buildouts on our street and in our community in noe valleyddressing the upper deck specifically, this was designed to be 3'6" off the property line of the d.r. requester and extends only 5'10" from our house, and it was done with glass railings to minimize any obstruct of view and avoid blocking of light and air. with respect to privacy, we did offer the d.r. requester to put in a frosted glass privacy screen to address her privacy concerns. we also did meet several times for mediation. we had offered other things, such as reducing the lower deck and offering to build a new fence at our expense across the property line. unfortunately, we were not able to reach an accommodation. i'd like to use the projector here. we did not include a stairway from our top-floor deck so as not to block the d.r. requester's view. i also wanted to note that as seen in this exhibit, there are multiple upper decks on our block, including a massive combined home at 2329 cronquist court, a multiyear project, which the d.r. requester supported. the deck at 2329 cronq

i'm a resident of district 8 in noe valley. i have spent much of my life in san francisco. i spent 25 years living in noe valley, and i have been working in san francisco since the 70s. i'm a banker, now retired. i urge you to allow for access for the c.s.u. for children who are relying on government funding for payment. this is absolutely critical. i also urge you to look at the delays that have been done in terms of ongoing financing, and also, the construction oriented financing that the department of public health is asking for, sort of pay as you submit. it's extremely difficult for any company, and as a lender, i know this to be true, for any company to survive, and for a nonprofit that's living on the edge all the time, it would make much more sense for everyone to get this resolved. it sounds like the state of california has given them a clean bill of health. let's move forward. thank you. >> chair mar: thank you. next speaker. >> for give me. i'm dr. stewart butlare, and i was asked to go to the front of the line. i'm regional director for mental health for kaiser

small project given the recent history of major buildouts on our street and in our community in noe valleyddressing the upper deck specifically, this was designed to be 3'6" off the property line of the d.r. requester and extends only 5'10" from our house, and it was done with glass railings to minimize any obstruct of view and avoid blocking of light and air. with respect to privacy, we did offer the d.r. requester to put in a frosted glass privacy screen to address her privacy concerns. we also did meet several times for mediation. we had offered other things, such as reducing the lower deck and offering to build a new fence at our expense across the property line. unfortunately, we were not able to reach an accommodation. i'd like to use the projector here. we did not include a stairway from our top-floor deck so as not to block the d.r. requester's view. i also wanted to note that as seen in this exhibit, there are multiple upper decks on our block, including a massive combined home at 2329 cronquist court, a multiyear project, which the d.r. requester supported. the deck at 2329 cronq

i'm also a ten-year san francisco resident living in noe valley not too far from the project. i'm here obviously to support the project. the project sponsor has resided in san francisco for over 30 years, raising their children in the community. this is their ultimate dream home, and after having carefully reviewed the plans, i commend its thoughtful design and careful revisions in light of the neighbors' concerns. i find it to be very reasonably designed, and a very modest home with a nicely-designed family room, living room, three bedrooms on one level, plus a guest room off the family room which opens to a nicely-sized backyard, all fairly modest from what i can tell. although i understand the neighbors would be concerned about any changes on their street, i find the project to be reasonably compatible with existing surrounding homes as i view the models presented by the architect and by the d.r. requesters. i urge you to support the approval of this project as designed by the architect and supported by the planning department as well. thank you for your time. >> thank you.

northern neighbors, haight ashbury neighbors for density, progress noe valley. thank you so much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. welcome new commissioner imperial. peter with mission economic development agency. and i just want to pick up on a few of these points and actually kind of try to narrow our discussion of what the request is that came in from the coalition, because i want to point us to what those key asks and concerns are. they are not potentially about some of these other issues, which is number one and director stepped away, but i want to point out we want to thank director ram for initiating some of these race and social equity plans. he played an instrumental role in that. we have a new director. we haven't had any opportunity to discuss significant concerns regarding this plan. and particularly regarding where we are in process. we are initiating this planning moving forward and yet as another speaker or two mentioned, we still have an office of race and social equity that's just been set up. it is not fully

agricultural world, a big by accident, everybody loves silicon valley, we are just land in the, world leader in the fresh, food especially, crops even noes to the country all a you came here, last year, and it was phenomenal for you to come down, walk the fields, and we with technology companies in silicon valley, even though we are in our apart, we weren't communicating as best you, should and really trying to kind of a line that, is a big part of why we started to do this. >> that really leaves my next question, you heard the along the goal, today do more with, last using innovation and technology to get there. talk to me, talk to us a bit about how that aligns with what you've already, seen in the private sector, in aligning with the public sector, these audacious goals a feeding ten billion people by 2050. >> first of all, he's goals, i think they're, bold around vicious, but is something that we need, it's probably the most important industry on the, planet harsh every, family and every life, on this planet, so this is probably the most important mission for all of us. alignments with entrepreneurs, my experience has been, they can