a month ago when we asked them about it at our meeting with oewd. besides affordable housing, access to local sustainable jobs is an important strategy to preserve community in the south of market. as a formula retail business, we want to make sure that their presence in this neighborhood will not display small businesses, and instead support local entrepreneurs. we are in conversation with them to carry filipino produced and sourced products. no concrete commitments have been made. as a community, we have had many experience of broken promises from corporations seeking to open in the cultural district. we would very much like to partner with whole foods on their proposed market store to be a good community neighbor and partner. however, we need more time to craft agreeable and enforceable agreements to continue this item >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners. i am reading a statement from cultivate labs. cultivate as a member of the soma filipinos and has been the lead organization and organizing undiscovered spirit they have brou

i am with oewd. because they know me. i am ace on the case. >> next speaker. public comment is closed. supervisor stefani? >> thank you. i want to add that i am excited about the work that oewd is doing and excited about the citywide public space initiative i'm impressed with the equity framework and have the opportunity to participate in an assessment of a space and i was very impressed with how thorough and how they're going about this i also want to say, great team at oewd, i know these funds will be spent wisely. i'm a former colleague and there is no better public servant out there. i'm very excited about seeing what we will accomplish with these funds. i want to let you know i am supportive of releasing the funds and releasing the budget. >> i think we are on -- in a unanimous agreement and excited about the team that will be carrying this out. this is really exciting. i do have one question about the bollards. are we discussing bollards and mental plaza. >> there was a conversation about scholars that may have been more expensive and slowed on the progr

even though planning staff and oewd really have been much more adamant than my office about precluding office conversion at the third floor, so the language that i'm introducing today is trying to find that balance relative to the third floor. my faear is that -- but that once you convert it to office, the chances of it changing to retail in the future as the retail environment changes are significantly decreased. so this is aiming at trying to preserve the retail nature of the third floor, and i grant you that whether it's the amazon effect or the changing behavior of people who no longer like to go, you know, to multiple story retail establishments. and i appreciate the word that i've gotten from retail brokers that have been very helpful in my thinking. i'm looking at you. but i think we've got -- i think we're pretty close -- i'm not a planning commissioner, but if i were a member of the planning commission, i think we're splitting hairs not conducive to any principally permitted use can be interpreted by a majority of the commission really pretty broad broadly. i think it gives th

. >> oewd proits provides permits progress resulting in the growth of mid businesses hocking beggar hasdoubled in size. >> when we were just getting started we were a new business people never saturday a small business owner and been in the bike industry a long needed help in finding at space and sxug the that is a oewd and others agencies were a huge helped walked us through the process we couldn't have done it without you this is sloped to be your grand boulevard if so typically a way to get one way to the other it is supposed to be a beautiful boulevard and fellowship it is started to look like that. >> we have one goal that was the night to the neighborhood while the bigger project of developments as underway and also to bring bring a sense of community back to the neighborhood. >> we wanted to use the says that a a gathering space for people to have experience whether watching movies or a yoga or coming to lecture. >> that sb caliber shift on the street is awarding walking down the street and seeing people sitting outside address this building has been vacate and seeing this change

with oewd do a reach out to the registered property owners. so for those that may need some help or assistance in finding tenants, with the new planning changes for allowing new popups or flexible use spaces, then, we can work with the property owner to help sort of kind of bring different entities together to perhaps fill the space. so supervisor fewer thought about that in terms of really having that direct connection with oewd, and our office is always involved with that, as well, and d.b.i. >> yeah, that's great because just as mayor breed is talking about where do we find ways to work with our associates in planning to speed up the process on housing construction, our commercial corridors and finding new businesses as retail gets tougher and tougher and there are more vacancies is a comparable issue, and we really want to do everything in our power to create flexibility and, you know, have less red tape to get these good results, whether they be popups or new businesses to make our corridors more healthy. so obviously, we appreciate all t

i would be happy to work with you on how we can actually make a pathway with oewd's work force, because when you look at the jobs that tech is able to place, those are living-wage jobs. in a hotel, hotel worker, other jobs, they're not living-wage jobs, but in tech, they are. i appreciate it. i just felt like hi -- i had to say it because there is so much money on the table. and there's an opportunity and i feel like we need to insert ourseou ourselfselvou ourself selves and part of the vetting process is the companies that are working with the communities, formerly incarcerated, people recently out of work, women who have been out of the work force, too, or people of color. these are -- so we don't have to say specifically about a race or a gender, but we can say about aligned with work force development. i know i've gone on a long time and i also want to thank you for also having a special conscience around all this money that is city money earned off the backs of hardworking san franciscans. >> i'll be brief, but there are ways that we can push it a bit more, in the envelope, and be

we're also -- have the support of supervisor kim and oewd, and so throughout this whole process, all we've heard is positive things, and ultimately, what the community is telling us that they not only want a grocery store at this location, specifically, they want the whole foods that's going to be there because whole foods has a commitment to healthy food because whole foods has a commitment to treating their employees the way they should be treated. what i'm going to now is turn this over to adam smith, the executive director of whole foods. >> thank you. good afternoon, president hillis, commissioners, and staff. my name is adam smith. i oversee store design and development for whole foods market here in northern california. i started working for whole foods market in 1999, making sandwiches in the mil valley store, and since that time, i've had the opportunity to be involved in the opening of 50 whole foods markets in the united states, canada, and the u.k. each one of its stores has its own unique character which is by design to respond and serve the unique needs of the community

trained work force, working with oewd. permitting review and other things in terms of the location of existing businesses as well. >> supervisor tang: great. thank you for taking that all down. any other questions or comments from colleagues? otherwise, we will -- diego sanchez? >> yes. i want to provide the commission's recommendation from october 25, to be on record they voted to disapprove the original ordinance as proposed and sought to explore alternatives, which this new iteration is doing. they were not in favor of a ban and thought that regulations on employee cafeterias should consider geographic considerations, size considerations, enhanced entitlement process and other alternatives yet to be defined or realized. >> supervisor safai: there was no conversation about conditional use? >> i think it was mentioned, i guess, in an enhanced entitlement process. that's how i would interpret what that means. >> supervisor safai: that's why i was wondering about referral back to planning. it was my understanding the enhanc

we're going to ask for our departments to come forward including the treasurer, the mayor's office, oewd, the airport, puc, to help us explore some ways we can provide immediate assistance to impacted workers anden ensure that services are protected. so we'll hear that resolution along with this request for a hearing, and we want to make sure we're prepared in many ways moving forward if this happens again to immediately respond. i also am going to be introducing one way that we are responding a critical way, together with the mayor, to take the mayor and the treasurer to take concrete steps to providing federal relief for federal workers if the government is shutdown again. the ordinance authorized the treasurer to secure a short-term line of credit not to exceed $20 million to administer individual loans for impacted worker who is live in san francisco or work at s.f.o. the interest-free loans will be made up to $6,000 and can go a long way to provide immediate assistance to any federal worker who needs it. i want to thank mayor breed and our treasurer sisneroos for their important lea

i want to thank the folks at irving place consulting and everyone at oewd, chris and helen for their work on this. i'm looking forward to seeing the results of the balloting and having that hearing, and hopefully forming this c.b.d., which is in an area of the city that experiences a lot of impacts and has a lot of needs that i hope this c.b.d. can address. i'm looking forward to the results on february 5. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, madam clerk. today, i'm introducing legislation to protect sidewalks and alleyways and to permit accessory dwelling units on corner lots and certain through lots, commonly known as back yard cottages. the impetus for this legislation was my -- and we will be bringing it to you momentarily was frustration with my district that went quite poorly. it was prior to my joining the board. there was a 900 square foot lot that no one could imagine ever being developed. it backed on a dirt alleyway that was actually according to glen park local historyians -- [inaudible] >> supervisor mandel

and trends analysis, and my hope would be that this is well used by other departments, particularly oewdand the mayor 's office of housing, in terms of the strategy of leveraging the cyclical nature of the construction in terms of what gets projected for financing. >> i don't have an answer. i thought about this. if there are ways that in our processes, we can look at how we can do things differently to not to be fuel that speculation. that will be really great. >> i want to thank merrian. we'll be back in two weeks. i wanted to let you know, we talked to staff. he'll be here in two weeks. he's getting up to speed on his demanding new job. he promise he would be here for your hearing in two weeks. >> commissioner moore: this type of presentation, i would consider american planning association, material, the national conference is coming up in april. i hope that this department will have a shot at presenting to a national ordinance. we have certain types of tools and certain ways we describe thing. which could inspire larger discussion across municipalities. >> commissioner richards: just

now, the start date of this, if you are interested, i can ask oewd, workforce development, to come back and give a presentation on what they're designing for the apprenticeship program that aligns with the state. >> commissioner dooley: right. i can't be in the room, but i can run the tape when i get home. i'd like to know because it's a big impact. >> so i will confer with the director in terms of what his timelines is for the apprenticeship programs, and i'll report back out, and we can make a determination moving forward from there. >> commissioner dooley: thank you. >> from the project labor agreement, it's here, i'm not going to go into great detail. about the project labor agreement, i think the most important thing, there -- i mean, it's still -- that's -- the p.l.a.'s still at 5 million, then 3 million, then 1 million, sort of scaling down that they're going to be requiring the p.l.a.s. i shouldn't say most important, but there is now an annual reporting requirement from the controller's office working with the contract monitoring agreement to report on the contract monitoring a

doing this and i hope that other departments follow and also use the data because i can see, you know, oewd, housing, all sorts of other people being able to use this data to make good policy decisions. so, i'm into this. thank you so much. >> thank you, commissioner fong? >> thank you. i'm into this as well. and reminds me of the video game sim city. i don't know if you ever played that before. partially why i enjoy sitting here on thursdays. i think it is great. as commissioner melgar says, sometimes it is reactive to things and this is a great opportunity for us to be proactive to things including resiliency in case of emergency. congratulations. >> commissioner johnson? >> i just want to echo what was said, fun fact. did you know some city was inspired by rebuilding of oakland after the fire? so it has a bay area context. and, you know, i just want to echo that i was so excited to see this and i think some of the public commenters share that i think the greatest hope of all of these efforts is that the public can really engage with it and come a new relationship with the city and also w

large projects that are asking for development agreements that we don't just simply sit back and let oewdegotiate them and actually take an active role in pushing and making sure that the policies and the aspirations of our general plan are reflected in these development agreements. it means that when we hear from developers talking about their great local hire policy that we make sure that it's actually not just bringing people in for low-level work, but we're actually putting people in sustainable careers. whether it is sustainable careers on the operations and sort of the permanent employment side or on the construction side, which is sort of my day-to-day work and it is not just getting them in there to hold the flag. we hear this from communities all the time or do traffic control, but really push developers and push the contractors who they hire to make sure that there's -- that they're participating in legitimate and bona fide apprenticeship programs and that they're paying people wages that are sufficient for them to live in san francisco, much less even in the bay area. and that