it's a nice sro. there's a lot of sro's that are not very nice out there, and in order to keep it nice, we need to have decent rent and a decent living place for our tenants, and our architect has provided us an option that we think achieves that. the building that's proposed does not achieve that. that would ultimately result in our building going towards the -- you know what some other sro's look like, so thank you. >>vice president richards: thank you. members of the public in support of the project. public comment, mr. smith? i wondered why you were here. you can speak after mr. smith. >> well, are you asking for those in support of the dr. >>vice president richards: the project sponsor. >> that was the dr requestor. >>vice president richards: i am ae sorry. it's late. >> my name is roy harnish, and i'm a resident of the building next door that would be affected by the project, and having just looked at the plans that were sent to us with these kind of shallow light wells, versus the plan that the

> pacific bay inn, from what s that it is an sro. i believe it's run by the tenden housing clinic. >> thank you, interesting. i come from a neighborhood where a church of christ scientist thn adaptively reused on delores stt 19th. i look at the preservation altee and my own neighborhood and howe able to get housing in the chrin science church. and i look at the difference ine units and it makes me take paust i'm seeing this in front of me e quite frank with you. any other comments? commissioner johnson. >> thank you. this is an eir hearing, so there many aspects of this project the not that great and troubling. i will mention something that ts with facadism and this project. i think there are issues with displacement in housing and oths which will be duly got ton. but i think the facadism has dit impact on our analysis in the e. i don't believe that the hpc had their -- i think they're workine report or it's in process. maybe there was one about guiden facadism looking at other urban. i'm thinking seattle that did sf it. we don't hav

many of the families we serve still live in sros. so we need to make sure that we have a range of opportunity that helps them and that he can stabilize organizations that help them to flourish as safe havens. we've served the community for 50 years and serve 100 people daily in a 1,000-square-foot space. we need to make sure that we invest in our schools. 50% of our youth are underperforming in math, science, reading, and we need to make sure that we have quality services to the school that exists. vmd also has no programming. it's great that we have something in there for them and that it's consistent with the park that was here. the central soma park, it can be extremely beneficial, especially since it's across the street from the middle school, but we need to be sure that it's for our families. project sponsors have met and we need to make sure that that conversation is ongoing and that it represents us. >> thank you, carla. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i want to say thank you to jane kim, for taking the leadership role and the

the sro provides mostly low income housing to about five percent of the city's population.they often provide shared toilet and bathing facilities. ronan says transgender residents asked her to amend the law because going to the restroom can be very stressful and even dangerous for them. the board of supervisors voted last year to approve legislation requiring all public single occupation restrooms to be designated as gender-neutral. >>> in oakland a new type of shelter is open for people who have been living on the streets. the city opened the village of 20 shelters set up on a vacant lot and -- in west oakland. they are open to anyone who has been camping nearby. only one person moved in yesterday. it was the first day those shelters were available. that person did not want to talk to us, but another man says he is weighing the possibility of moving in there. >> i don't like people telling me what to do or where to go. it is enclosure where you get out of the rain. i know it is a transitional thing, a step towards something else . >> the shelters are insulated, but not hea

. >>> the city's all gender restroom law, it would include hotels, 30,000 people live in sro's, many of them have shared bathrooms, transgender tenants approached her asking for the law to be amended. >> two teenagers have been charged with killing a man who was just trying to sell his iphone. >> it's really sad that these two young men decided to take this course in life. >> the technology that allowed sheriff's deputies to find and arrest these suspects. >>> senator conyers is retiring, how the race to replace him will be a family affair. >> skies are clear tonight, and temperatures will plummet, >>> two 18-year-olds charged with murdering a redwood city man over an iphone last month. how deputies were able to solve this case so quickly. >> technol critical role in solving a recent homicide. 32-year-old daniel carlos was using letgo to sell his iphone 10. >> that communication was very important to us, because it -- he left a digital footprint, but so did the suspects. >> for whatever reason during the exchange at a gas station in san leandro, sergeants ray kelly says marcus fortun

. >>> the city's all gender restroom law, it would include hotels, 30,000 people live in sro's, many of them have shared bathrooms, transgender tenants approached her asking for the law to be amended. >> two teenagers have been charged with killing a man who was just trying to sell his iphone. >> it's really sad that these two young men decided to take this course in life. >> the technology that allowed sheriff's deputies to find and arrest these suspects. >>> senator conyers is retiring, how the race to replace him will be a family affair. >> skies are clear tonight, and temperatures will plummet, ♪ ♪ it feels good to be back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> two 18-year-olds charged with murdering a redwood city man over an iphone last month. how deputies were able to solve this case so quickly. >> technology played a critical role in solving a recent homicide. 32-year-old daniel carlos was using letgo to sell his iphone 10. >> that communication was very important to us, because it -- he left a digital footprint, but so did the suspects. >> for whatever reason during the exchange at a gas station in s

to preserve the housing that is there, also the sros. that it would be great to have funding that is specified for these purchases, as well as any affordable housing that is to be built, if there is no more land yet because it's been used for other things. that becomes a problem. so in terms of securing a cultural district, a community that's been there for many, many years, to do all that we can to preserve what is there so that the people can continue to grow their community, rather than have it destroyed. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisors, for holding this meeting. i'm raquel odondis. i thank the planning department for the presentation and glad to hear that the plan is to keep what's great in soma. for us, what is great about soma for decades is the seniors and immigrant workers of that been fighting to make the neighborhood livable, for everyone. and this is before the city and planning and the whole region has come to focus on soma as a place to build this housing. so we hope to keep the existing community

i live in the sro. one of the better ones but i'm on ssi. okay. we haven't had a raise in four years for cost of or nothing. if we don't have rent control and our rent keeps going up but we keep the same money. i've been thinking about that and thinking about that. my landlord said there's nothing i can do about that. you're a good tenant but every time you look around i'm giving out more and more money. we need that rent control. i hope and pray i'm speakering speaking for a lot of good people in there and i hope i speak for them when i say repealing that costa-hawkins act, that's a no-brainer. do what's right. okay. thank you. >> supervisor: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisor. first thank you, supervisor. you also made my day so thank you. it's about time we repeal costa-hawkins. i work with low-income families. i'm part of the action community network. the majority of families are low-income families and as a tena tenant organizer i've been through cases of costa-hawkins and lots of other forms of eviction.

but we're just getting started with a huge led giveaway and we're forcing on affordable housing and sros to give tremendous benefits to those who need it most and working win community partners on that and you'll hear more. it's a large initiative we'll be roping you into as well. finally, the moment of the night where we ask new staff who have not been to a commission meeting before to come forward and introduce yourselves. your name you're doing here in the department and anything else you'd like to say. so magda, kevin. have you been here already? you have. okay. >> good evening. my short name is magda. i joined about one month ago. i'm working with san francisco energy watch and i'm in the fellowship. i'm applying to be here in august. >> welcome. >> anyone else going to introduce themselves? >> thank you. >> we'll move on to commissioners. thank you, debbie, for that great presentation. >> any public comment? eric brooks? >> okay. good evening, one more time commissions. eric brooks. directors report covers just before every realm but i want to focus on management of natural areas a

this was fantastic, however, it was oversight and didn't include sro hotel rooms given that those aren't public accommodations, but actually are shared bathrooms in a private setting. i have been speaking with transgender tenants of residential hotels, who have told me that this change would help them feel safer in their homes. s.ros are home to 5% of the city residents, 30,000 people and many do not have their own private restrooms, rather shared toilets and bathing facilities. this would apply to single stall restaurants. this would be for parents with child of different gender, gender nonconforming people and women who have to wait in longer lines for men. this issue is particularly important for transgender and gender nonconforming individuals because of the safety concerns when deciding which bathroom to use. people of all genders deserve to feel safe, using the restaurants where they live. so please join me in supporting this law. i want to thank supervisors kim, sheehy and peskin for cosponsoring and thanks to jordan davis, the newest member of the -- i'm not sure if the newest me

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whether we need to develop the al sro, long strange -- long-range strike option. he was ready to direct us to do things the individual administration, but in the end he said no, this is much better left for the trump administration. so one of the things that is being discussed in npr is do we make new nuclear weapons? right now that b61 12 is the single airdropped that we have and we have life extension program for that. you could make the case that we want smaller nuclear weapons that would allow us to use them on different platforms, et cetera. upload in case russians try to break out come you can make all of those arguments. but right now i'm assuming that the nuclear posture review will say maintain the triad at new start numbers and you need a survivable nuclear deterrent, and ss be enforced is the most survivable one. so regardless of how comes out a mostly confident the ohio replacement program is going to be funded. how many the missiles carry, how many they carry will all depend upon avenue start negotiations go. right now we have the option to extend it