their 40,000 feet could certainly sell for $20 million or more if it were upzone in the manner to cover costs. soil really urge you to do this. we can't just do another 30 years of let's talk about. i trust the department is going to follow through in the zoning of south of market, but we would be prepared to put this on a ballot, if we had to zone for affordability. so please get the job done. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. i will call a couple more name and additional folks can line up on the screen side of the road. [ reading speakers' names ]. >> good afternoon, commissioners, peter cohen and neighbor of our oasisings attended both workshops. so we had quite a bit of input here and what we heard and what we have been expressing is a clear priority for affordable housing. these are precious public sites. if there is any one resource that the voy has that we have very, very little of is it's land. so using that to meet a critical public policy goal of affordable housing in our mind is a so-called no-brainer. i think the slide that you saw, the first slide from mike martin real

and look ahead to policy recommendations that will protect vulnerable parks in the area in recently upzoned neighborhoods like soma. particularly those that lack adequate open space and activity space. thank you. >> thank you, let me make a brief announcement. we had expected at the beginning of the meeting to acknowledge another individual in the community and because of the mayor's state of city speech and the lack of presence of some of those people involved in that, there are people in the audience who have been waiting patiently for something that should have happened a long time ago and will only take a few minutes to do. with that i will turn this over to the general manager. >> thank you, mr. president and thanks to everyone here for your indulgence in taking a quick pause on the item. we have supervisor kim present, which is one the reasons to bring this issue up. we have a special monthly recognition to call up kelly and sergio lopez and others if they are here. [ applause ] >> this is a very special recognition to a group of people who are really doing wonderful things in their n

the eastern neighborhood plan upzoned this and other parcels in 2008 to 65'. but it deferred study of the shadow impacted to the time when development proposals are made. what we see is a significant shadow impact on benches and on the basketball court during the summer, in the evenings. this is exactly when our youth and our families need the parks and use the parks the most. from the perspective of low-income familis and individuals we have many questions whether this is the right development for this site? there is no question that we need more housing in san francisco, especially affordable housing but the question is this project needs to be built to the maximum bulk? the answer is no. surrounding buildings are generally in the 25-35' range, there are some that are 45' and this one is significantly taller. can there be setbacks and lowered? absolutely, it only has nine units. this is the wrong development proposal for this site and shadow impacts on our precious open space are significant and unacceptable. thank you,. >> thank you >> next speaker. >> good