i want to thank oewd, sarah dennis phillips. i want to thank -- i know moses was there, the building trades was there for these discussions about this particular project. i want to thank david chiu for doing ab 73. i mean, this is exactly what we were hoping would happen from this type of legislation, that we'd be able to get more housing that's going to have really well paying jobs, it's going to create affordable housing, and we're going to get it as quickly as possible. so this is really, to me sacramento lengths beigislatio able to work in conjunction with san francisco and being able to get what we need, housing into central soma that's going to be providing middle-income jobs. i have to comment on this call for 50% affordable housing, all right? i mean, we are seeing projects right now in the mission disappearing because they can't afford 23%, 24%, 30% affordable. let's be clear, a call for 50% affordable housing is a call for zero -- 50% of zero is zero, so it sounds great. let's call for 75%, but we can't get 20% to penc

. >> good afternoon, commissioners, sarah dennis phillips. last year, mayor lee committed to put the city on a path to support the delivery of 5,000 units of new and rehabilitated housing for the foreseeable future. we've accomplished that in recent years. i think we're facing a challenge moving forward, but we're stepping up to the challenge. mayor lee issue does an executive directive with 1702 that basically instructed city departments and city staff to be a part of the housing solution, and the planning department took that instruction to heart. they came back almost immediately with a list of strategies, they took their knowledge of how the process works to come up with ways to make it better. they looked at how much staff time was spent on what, they came up with a list of process improvements to free up that staff time and the commission time which i think is important for you guys so you can all focus on your energy where it is needed most, which is approval housing. mayor farrell understanding the city cannot control the building of