the spirale soma mixed use office -- the central soma mixed use office. as of november 27th, 2019, there was approximately 896,752 square feet of large cap office allocations. but this does not include the additional recently-recaptured office square footage. so that would be in addition to that number. the department recommends the commission grant an office development authorization only for phase one of the project which would amount to 500 thundershowers square feet of office use. 500,000 square feet of office use. the project is on balance, consistent with the general plan and planning code requirements. the department finds the project is producing a new mixed use development ground floor for pr, childcare, retail and significant site updates including land landscaping and common open space. these almosts will substantially improve the surrounding neighborhood. the site is currently underutilized. the project will dedicate approximately 17,000 square foot parcel for the construction of affordable housing, contiguous to the project site that will add

i'm here to express our support for the san francisco flower mart central soma project. this project provides many economic housing, community and employment benefits. it is truly impressive that this project will include 100,000 square feet of neighborhood serving retail and business, a new flower mart, affordable housing, create good jobs, among many other community benefits. for these reasons, the chamber of commerce supports the san francisco flower mart project and urges you to support as well. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is michael. i work for full supply syndicate, a tenant of the flower market. i've been in business for 80 years. i've been working there since i was 16 years old. i think i'm representative of the type of tenants we have at the flower market. the historic flower market versus kilroy corporation, classic david and go lite, -- goliath. how do we succeed? we appreciate your support. we wouldn't be here without you're support. so thank you for city support. some of the things that were said, i want to clar

up to $20 million of the jobs housing linkage fee may be used to stabilize housing for existing soma residents by providing small sites for rehabilitation. scenario b is triggered if the flower mart elects not to return. if they choose not to return they set up a structure whereby the total costs will be paid by kilroy. the city worked with the sponsor and tenants to develop the requirements for the future permit location. a detailed set of standards and specifications is being developed and will be required for the new permitted facility, including the necessary tenant space, parking and loading needs. kilroy will not be able to begin construction on their primary project until they have acquired a mutually agreed upon site, constructed the improvements, including all the base building, parking, loading and tenant improvements necessary to provide a turnkey facility to the flower vendors. under scenario b -- >> begin construction or get a certificate of temporary or final completion? >> the kilroy project will not be able to begin construction. >> thank you. perfect. >> under scenar

i would like to remind everyone of the amenities approved under the soma plan. as you know, under the central soma area plan, each of the nonresidential key sites was assigned benefits that the project would be required to achieve to be a comprehensive portfolio of community-wide benefits. the key amenity assigned to the project is the replacement of the wholesale flower mart. the p.d.r. sector is critical to san francisco. companies in the sector serve the needs of local rest and businesses and -- residents and businesses and have high paying jobs and career advancements for people without necessarily requiring they have a four-year degree. they enhance the city's economic diversity and our ability to weather times in economic stress. while this project has anticipated replacing the flower mart on the existing site, this development agreement addresses the possibility for the wholesale flower vendors to select an alternative location for the replacement site. the need for two scenarios became necessary last year. the flower vendor recognized that the office den

. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally

we are from soma filipino cultural district.e are just here in solidarity with our brothers and sisters from the native american cultural district. we heard news from julia that this was on the table and moving forward, and a lot of our cultural districts were really excited and ecstatic and thought it was way due, overdue, that they would be recognized and part of this strategic effort to recognize communities in the neighborhood and also as a strategy for cultural and historic preservation. you know, we are all aware of everything that's happening in our world right now, everything that's happening in our city with displacement and gentrification. i think our brothers and sisters in the native american community can teach us a lot about how to resist, how to learn from them in dealing with issues of displacement, even deeper issues like genocide and colonialism. i think it's also an important lesson for us to learn from our native american brothers and sisters about climate in this era of climate change, of global catastrophe

if there are any in soma, we will consider them. depending on the timing, public works may be concerned with temporary timing. there's a view of trying to activate some space that could be a potential space to locate the trees across from a highway. in my opinion, i believe the project sponsor should transplant the trees. i believe it's best that public works waters the trees. again if they're in soma or delores, it's a longer route that is centrally located. if we're going to ensure the survivability of the trees, i'd rather be in control of the watering by our department. lastly, just to confirm, the four trees that are removed would be replaced with five 36-inch box trees on-site, but we're getting the benefit of at least moving these four trees off-site elsewhere in the city. i don't doubt the intent of them working with us. thank you. >> commissioner honda: i believe we have it. >> president swig: mr. buck, your suggestion is a little ambiguous, with all due respect. would you -- would you please suggest what your recommendatio

filipinos have been in soma for over 100 years. despite the designation of the cultural district, there are no public monuments recognizing our community. last year, the national endowment for the arts selected filipinos to create a strategic plan and portfolio for signage to raise the visibility of the cultural district. sixth street has been identified as a key corridor to have a welcome gateway especially with an entrance and exit at the proximity of the flower market. we appreciate this development agreement is the first major commitment about by the city and also a developer to create a gateway. and we look forward to working with the folks at kilroy to be able to design this. we would like to acknowledge the land dedication for affordable housing one block away from the project. and we hope that can build 100 units of affordable housing. lastly, we really appreciate the work of the different parties to preserve the working class jobs and the small businesses of the flower mart. good luck in the next few days in hammering out

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one, his regular trips to the bridge in soma, bringing republicans and democrats down there has had a huge impact on lawmakers here. they repeatedly talk about it. it's one of the most important and prominent moments in their careers. number two, it's how he's respected across the board in his party, and i think you'll see that in the coming weeks as well. >> a true hero, and he certainly is in our thoughts and prayers. >>> we've gotten new developments in the last few minutes, the federal government putti filing hate crime charges against the man who stabbed people in the hanukkah celebration. >> eight charges against grafton thomas who is currently being held behind bars with $5 million bail. let me tell you that the special agent who wrote the complaint essentially said that thomas walked into this home, as we know, a rabbi's house where a hundred people were gathered, celebrating the seventh night of hanukkah, and the complaint says he had his face covered and he essentially said something like, no one is leaving, and then he started carrying out this attack. according to complain

his effort crashed off the crossbar much to the relief of a stranded here and soma in the drive back neck. the other end the foals were inaccurate markers to ram was denied by rooney yahshua in an offside throw your noise house squandered the rebound and the schools stage left. marco was a side not performing like credible contenders for the title. 2 direct posses in the 2nd half gave glad back the best shots of the game but i am his son play our fight to me counts another simple save for yosh are still trying to squander one more opportunity before the whistle but he is good to his mischief huge shoulder swipe symbolic of gladbach struggle in front of the head to go marco rose's disappointment is your view cleans man's heart for reward while glad back now full 2 points behind lights hats are heading to the winter break unbeaten in 4 league games. think their for a while the by i wouldn't be making genuine challenge at the top after the turbulent season they've had so far it's not surprising really if you take a closer look at the squad have had ahead of their clash against both they

we need to start keeping moving people back into the mission into soma who can afford to live there. you have to start moving these blue collar businesses and small local businesses and artist group studios. that's what makes communities right? and we can't say let people from the outside say build taller white-out communities of small long-standing neighborhood communities that are served by transit. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. i'm with the council of community housing organizations. back when mta and planned bay area were originally looking at priority development areas they also looked at what they called communities of concern. and they like to remind me it took us two years for those agencies to actually create a map that overlaid the two together. they were very resis tent to doing that. and lo and behold what happened was the priority development areas and the neighborhoods of communities of color that were facing displacement were exactly the same. and so as you look at these maps, i would ask you to ask your staff to also look at the maps

the rainy season has started and the soma garden is rejoining this way says is the newest addition to cultural spaces and the creation of mass graham and her friend us here architecture in nature are celebrated together these ecological huts turned into works of art were built using an ancient construction technique. process where you actually get the subsoil so you have to dig about half a metre before you get the soil the only thing you add is water and stroll for about a month and it lasts for hundreds and hundreds of years it's. control so in so many ways it's one of the best i think sustainable houses surrounded by a labyrinth of plants most of which are endemic a dream come true for mask around. the dangers underneath but this is what it looks like. tenet is often dipped into coffee. and this plant has strong medicinal virtues. in a city where concrete highrises are growing like mushrooms the zalman museum is a space for humans to breathe and for nature to grow in cities going fast i think. not in the right direction many of the trees are. dying out. of the air is polluted or ev

those people in the government say we don't want to take s accord,hange actions that soma what constituency they appealing to? who is the constituency saying please, let's not do something on climate change? hank: i believe there are very strong vested interests that have different viewpoints than the average american. if you look at the average american, there is a high percentage of people that are concerned about climate change. it is just not their number one issue. when you look at all of the industries that have a vested interest, beginning with the oil industry and the carbon-based fuels, and for instance, one of the things that will be important in dealing with this problem are economic incentives. i think there is a whole variety of economic incentives we could put in place to put a price on carbon taxes and cap and trade systems. but also eliminating the huge subsidies we pay to discover carbon-based fuels. we have no shortage of them, there is no excuse. david: today, as we sit here, i think you have been to china roughly 150 times, something like that. hank: a lot. david: how di

the annual payment of the 200,000 soma street cleaning funds for 10 years being paid into a fund. and then -- that's it. those are the amendments. >> supervisor peskin: colleagues, i'd like to move these amendments that have within deemed by the city attorney not to be substantive. and mr. president i hope somebody will second that. >> president yee: sure. seconded by supervisor safai. so i just want to -- before we vote on this, i want to give -- if you wish, the supervisor of the district, whether you have any comments or -- no >> no, we worked together on the amendments and thank you for the support of that and the folks from killroy. i'm supportive of the amendments and the d.a. >> president yee: thank you. this motion for and accept the amendments. >> clerk: just for the record, we're going to mark supervisor ronen as absent for that vote. >> president yee: yes, yes. also can i back up a little bit? i should have done this earlier. supervisor ronen asked me to excuse her from the rest of the meeting because she's dealing with an emergency in her district? motion to excuse her

it seems like we have a combination of both we have both the soma of social media with the dictatorship of the liberal fascists is that a fair characterization i think is perfect and look look at how they brag about how artificial intelligence and although this is a whole internet world created by the geeks is going to lift a sawyer look how much. we've gotten it we haven't gone up we've gone lower with it everybody's a dick i don't carry a cell phone you know i did research on this going back to 1994 when i worked for the cellular telecommunications industry association and i knew about radio frequency radiation and all the dangers of the people who dictates of them and you seeing more and more people living on sound bytes they're not looking at the current events willing future trends they're getting a little little sound bite so the mentality is going down so to the lifestyles and the cultures oh the new report that just came out in the united states how heart attacks are rising so we dramatically i wonder why because could be because the obesity rates in the overweight and all the j

what i want to say about the housing in mission bay and on soma and that area is a lot of people who has been relocated out of those areas that didn't get a certificate of preference and i think they should have a preference to get some of those housing down there. will they have a school that they can go to in that area or something that shows that they had originally come from that area? they should have a preference. i also think they talk about homeless housing. all these projects that are coming about do not speak of homeless housing. we need some homeless housing to go in some of these developments people are making amends -- are making millions of dollars in their people who don't have any source of income. the opportunity to even have a job should have housing in the city and county of san francisco from being a little boy growing up in this area, there has always been homeless peoples in our community. when are we going to start watching out for those peoples who are homeless and give them real housing on some of this development that is coming in? all these people are makin

the finish of your day to day after the showers should remain isolated to the north coast north of soma county up into mendocino county if you're ading that direction this weekend do be expecting some rainfall as for those of us here in the bay area thursday and friday are going to be nice and dry and good travel days here in the bay your daytime highs today will those will eventually rise into the 50's a lot ke yesterday san jose pretty much the same as yesterday from 59 to 5degrees mountain view in redwood city 57 while oakland and hayward will rise to 56 degrees. here's a breakdown of the next7 days. we dhave christmas eve insight next tuesday while kind of crazy to be seeing that youseven-day daytime highs will for the most part be in the 50's but a couple 60's by saturday. now thursday and friday and nice and dry winter begins on saturday and will begin with a few showers but also bit of sunshine peeking sunday los likely to be rainy monday and tuesday ading right int christmas do look to be drier. robin all right. thank you hn be careful driving ou there we already have a few spin

and the protesters won't get much of the friday prayers in the small town of soma just a few kilometers from the border with turkey the town is a hub for aid going into city fighters from the opposition hired to his shop set up but he has to stop the protesters from walking towards the border but they failed turkish security forces say they were forced to send reinforcements to ensure the protesters didn't cross the border with a intensified bombing campaign forcing thousands to flee their homes in the many face a cold and hungry winter. official comes on the syria turkey border of food forcing many of the displaced to live in flooded makeshift camps where aid delivery is a few and far between an animal or woman abusing these pieces of cloth this family consists of 16 people nobody helped us we use all kinds of materials including shoes in the stove to warm up our children fuel prices have more than doubled in the past 2 months and charities and hospitals say they're struggling to respond to the crisis how about the well just stumble over russia and china have vetoed a u.n. resolution t

soma. i know chinatown is on the cusp of that. i know there are other parts of the downtown area and other neighborhoods that would have zero to minimal impact. the tenderloin and others. my neighborhood is zoned single family home. let's have a conversation about where we can have more density around transit. i think this is a good start. i think that supervisor mar, i appreciate everything you've done, in terms of moving the conversation forward and saying what you're looking for, but at the end of the day i think there is a lot of negotiation going on. i think it's very telling when the assemblyman from the west side of town is coauthor. he represents the west side of san francisco. senator wiener is the main author that represents the whole city. i feel confident in the leadership of assemblyman tinge and wiener to get this right. there is strong anti-demolition intended protections that could be more robust to your point. but they've already started. if a tenant has lived in any property for the past seven years, sb50 is not