anne topia, oewd. due to a ebbing -- technicality, will not act on development until late august, but wanted to talk about the other projects in front of you. i would like to take a minute to acknowledge the planning staff that worked tirelessly to get this in front of you for approval today. staff worked collaboratively over the last three years with d.w.t., p.u.c., port, m.t.a., to come up with creative solutions in order to produce cohesive documents in front of you today. we use the framework to guide the negotiations. the southern bayfront strategy seeks to minimize this with housing, transit, jobs, open space, sea level, sustainability, equity and community facilities. each contract is negotiated to leverage investments and add value to the neighborhoods. i walked through the basics in june, but as a refresher, it's been designed to facilitate development of 25% of all market rate residential units built in the project site. this includes mbelow-market rates. it would be a combination of the foll

also to include a directive to oewd and o.s.c. to develop some baseline in what should be involved in construction mitigation. also, staging and contractor parking is always a big topic, so directing departments to work with their contractors in minimizing the amount of staging and parking taking up on our neighborhood commercial corridors. and then, you know, sort of taking a look at what has happened with central subway that if -- to bring in -- and this is an example. you're not obligated to adopt it. but if there is an error and a delay created as a result of a contractor's responsibility, that in the contract, there is a formula of which, then, they also need to pay into construction mitigation funds to help -- to help keep funding the mitigation efforts for those small businesses during the extended time frame that is to, umm, complete the construction project. also, taking a look at the small business round tables, their summary of priorities, the office of small business can develop some recommended set of procedures for e

i will then turn it over to oewd to describe the development agreements. we'll hear from the project sponsor at build and s.o.m., who are the authors of the d.s.g. document. i wanted to bring to your attention the memo that i put in front of you just now is what this is. it's a description of the changes that we with like you to make in your approvals. it includes substitution ordinance for the zoning and the special use districts. if you don't have any copies, i have some additional. >> very quickly, all right, i will just describe the build portion of the project. it is being contemplated in the context of the strategy. it's how we're looking to look at these large scale projects in a coherent, comprehensive, compatible way. the bill development project would include mixed use, predominantly residential. it would include 1,575 units. 209,000 square feet of nonresidential use, including retail, some community facilities. the project includes the big -- big gift to the city is open space component, including the improvements of the basin open space, which

and oewd for their cooperation. and i want to give a special thanks to amy binehart in my office who developed this legislation and took the lead for us. i hope to have your support. thank you so much. >> thank you, supervisor. i appreciate those remarks. any other discussion? all right, colleagues can we take this item, we can without objection. the ordnan passes. madam clerk, next item. >> clerk: to have steven lee to the commission. >> any discussion? coocolleagues can we same this m same house, same call. without objection it passes. madam clerk, call item 44 and 45. >> clerk: items 44 and 45, are two motions to approve president cohen's reapipement of dennis richards and kathrin moore to the planning commission for four-year terms ending july 1, 2022. >> all right, supervisor kim? >> i just want to thank both commissioner moore and richards for their service on the planning kim and i appreciate they're willing to continue to serve. this is commissioner moore's fourth term which is extraordinary. the planning co

i like the highlight of better interagency collaboration with oewd and office of tax and treasurers office. i think brainstorming tools in which we can hold other departments accountable to the conversations we have around small business is something that this commission can brainstorm so what kind of actual accountability tools for other departments involved in that conversation. more tech support for all business, that's something that's come up before, especially the immigrant owned, and little harder to reach businesses, how to involve themselves of on-line platforms, which ones to vet. i know in the convenience store industry, we're constantly being hit with scams, and there's, like, a lock of resources for how to deal with that. i was just talking to someone. there's an e.b.t. scam going around, so a lot of the stores that work with the federal government, e.b.t. systems, there's( there's predatory scams going on. i like the workforce small business connection resources for how to become a workers' cooperative, and i like that we identified areas of the workforce. you know, people wh

but i thought the one piece that was worth flagging, as well, the coordination that the oewd has been doing on the southern bay front strategy. so the planning director and ken rich from the agency have been here to try and speak to you on these large developments that are also cueing off of the blue greenway. that is an element, as well, and i think that we still need to try and work with all of those pieces to grow it -- >> you're absolutely right. we've never heard specifics. we've always heard there was this -- this plan, but we haven't heard specifics of how that's going to affect our waterfront, as far as the dollars and the resources. >> executive director forbes: okay. why don't we discuss this more with the planning department and the m.t.a. and see what we can propose. i think it's a very good conversation to have, and we can update the commission after having that conversation in more detail. >> but i really do want to thank you because this is phenomenal work, and we are so happy to get warm water cove upgraded and 24th street improvements. we thank you so much for includi

in february of this year, oewd reports on the retail sector, showing there was a nationwide trend of slowing retail. it's not a secret, especially with competition, with on-line retailers. and consumers also want more attractive experiences, so they might want to experience classes, workshops, readings, again, more food, beer, wine. and so, i think -- our goal of reducing storefront vacancies, it's coupled with an effort to support a diverse mix of businesses. and just have our neighborhood thrive. what we're doing here is that we are in our legislation creating a new definition called flexible retail. what it will do is it will allow for limited restaurants, retail sales and services, personal services, retail, professional services, and trade shops to all use and be permitted with goals of uses in our neighborhoods. so this particular legislation only applies to district 4. however, if any of you are interested in expanding this to your districts, this contains the tables for all the corridors throughout the city. it would be easy for me to change the tables for you. so just let me

this means funding for staffing, for a permit expediter in oewd. and this means ensuring that there's funding to support the legal aspect and the navigation of the regulatory procedures. this includes loans for tenant buildouts to meet zoning requirements. not to mention that we've got a long way to go when it goes into building our compassion program. now compassion programs is something that you may be familiar with or not familiar with. in a nutshell it's a simple -- it's simply -- it subsidieses cannibas as a medicine for low-income and for struggling patients. and, frankly, this compassionate program is at risk under the new regulatory scheme of not surviving. san francisco must be committed to patient access and also it must support a compassion program and, again, this is a compassion program for low-income patients. now my call to action is very simple. it's time to fund these programs and i think that it's time for us to put our money where our mouth is. and we need revenue to do it. and so what i am proposing is a tax that includes a stag