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Thank you so much and can you please read item number one. Item number one is ordinance of the administrative code to the Northern California of journalists as a nominating body to the board of supervisors to hold the seat on a Sunshine Ordinance Task force from a ratio ethnic minorityowned used organization and to modify the qualifications for that seat. Fantastic colleagues, weve heard this item last week and dont have a rep from supervisor peskins office. If theres to comment, well open to this up for Public Comment. I would like to make a statement. Members who call 415 6550001 for Public Statement and the meeting i. D. Is 146 9714708, pound and pound and if you havent done so, dial star three and system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin. Are there any members of the public online . There are no callers in the queue. Thank you so much. Public comment is closed and i would like a motion to forward this to the full board with recommendation. If we can have a role call. role call . Can you read from items two , three and four together. Well ask to keep comments under five minutes and then two minutes per caller who can talk about one or several of the candidates today. Item number two is a motion approving rejecting the nomination for the reappointment of season diamond to the Planning Commission for a fouryear term ending july 1s july 1st, 2024 and number three, removing the nomination for the reappoint of joe kopel for a fouryear term ending julr move is approving objecting the board of supervisors, norman yee for maria teresa imperial to the Planning Commission for a fouryear term ending in 2024. Thank you so much. And i believe lets start with mr. Diamond. Good morning. Good to have you and thank you for your all your service thus far and please share with us whatever you would like. Thank you, can i just make sure you can all hear and see me . We can. Wonderful. Good morning, supervisors. Last november, i was honored to be appointed to the plan commission. Its a big responsibility. I made decisions that are very tough with the best interests with covid in mind. There are underlying problem, especially communities of color related to racial and social equity, housing access, economic recovery and Small Business vitality and our commission is well structured to be reactive, but instead of with the status quo, the commission could be more proactive in addressing the lanuse issues related to the pandemic and systemic racism. And given that our commission seizesees hundreds of cases, its uniquely situated to see the trends. For the past 40 years, lawyer representing profits for major real estate projects, volunteer board member, land use lawyer, educator and now commissioner, i had never been willing to settle for the status quo. I see my job as understanding the concerns, doing the due diligence, listening to a range of views and advancing the meaningful change. So as one idea, instead of merely responding to legislation at a time when people were already set on an approach, perhaps they could hold forums and retreats with the lands board use committee, automobile subject t. This collaboration mik well for phase two of the racial and social equity and additionally, we could change the assumption, the commission is the second to last stop this the process. By the time the Commission Sees projects, applicants have been spending money for years pursuing an approval, generally permitted by the code and applicants and staff resist much change at this late stage and activists are left to react to make projects designed without them. We have some power to require changes if we can show nexus. This can result in those who depend those who show up to protest, undermining predictability and consistency. Instead, perhaps we should insist, require that long before a submission of the ppa, applicants meet with staff, their supervisor, Community Groups and the commission to discuss the proposed project. Theres been a lot of turnover on the Planning Commission in the last year and i think we can benefit from some stability. The Current Group has a great working relationship where we help each other to formulate suingses to tough problems. So i hope you confirm all three of us. Nine months ago, the ceos from numerous nonprofits showed up at the rules committee to show up. I did not want to ask them to take time out to testify against so soon after the last hearing but have the submitted support letters which should be in your packet. Finally, i have worked hard to develop credibility with my fellow commissioners and with the other players in the process. I have learned so much and believe i have so much more to contribute as a commissioner. If you it would be an honor and a privilege to continue to serve. Thank you. Thank you so much. Do either of my colleagues have any questions . Chair ronen, i dont have any questions and ill wait until after Public Comment. I would like to interrupt one moment. I believe were having a technical issue that retrying to resolve on our Public Comment line. If you dont mind taking a short pause or recess, we would appreciate that. Ok, how long would you like to recess . Five minutes, please. Were going to recess for five minutes. Sorry about that short break. We have Public Comment back up and running and we are on iteming two, three and four ad were hearing all three items together. The way we will move forward, we have already heard the comments of the Planning Commission, suzannsusan die man diamond and, the three of us will be asking questioning or making comments and well hear from the next appointee and do the same and when were doing hearing from all three appointees, we will open this up for Public Comment and every member will have two minutes to speak about any or all or some of the three appointments. And so with that, thanks again, miss diamond for comments and supervisor stephanie, handing it over to you. Thank you, chair ronen and chair diamond for your remark. We discussed so many different topics, including housing on the west side and how were doing better and hope to continue to and also racial and social equity in housing and retail vacancies. We covered it all and i think our conversation was an hour. I want to thank you for what you said about being proactive instead of reactive on so many levels and how the Planning Commission might work with the board of supervisor. I dont have a question per say because i dont want to take a lot of time and im supporting your reappointment. I think youre a great addition to the Planning Commission. But i want you to know that your emphasis on so much of what we do, especially at the planning level is reactive, that if we could really somehow as a Planning Commission and board of supervisors work on po policieso address that with so many listings that come to you, i would love to participate in that. Dont really have a question and thank you for your incredible work. Youve been wonderful. Thank you for reaching out to me at times and i look forward to approving your appointment again. Supervisor mar. I want to thank commissioner diamond for your very thoughtful and diligent work and leadership on the Planning Commission thus far and its been very impressive. Yeah, just to see you step into the Important Role and i just have one question ill ask of you and the other commissioners who are being reappointed or nominated for reappointment and i would like to get your thoughts on housing balance in the city and, you know, like many in the city, i think its very important that we are more thoughtful about our strategies to address the housing crisis in our city and that means im looking at the housing that were approving and building in our city. There was 25. 5 housing balance and its a pretty extreme in favror market rate housing. And this is reflected when we look at how were making progress towards our regional goals or the Housing Needs allocation and, again, im sure youre aware that we are needing exceeding the market rate housing, i think, by 138 and that goal is through 2022. Whereas, were far behind in meeting rena goals for Affordable Housing. And i just wanted to get your thoughts about housing balance or imbalance in our city. Thank you, supervisor. That is the primary topic that occupies the commission in terms of how we spend our time, not at the policy level but the implementation, but there are so many things we could talk about within that broad question, and so let me mention a few items. And the rena goals are a good place to start. We, i think, were meeting a third or less than a third of the Affordable Housing. And thats a really important point because while we must produce more of it, the question is where the funds will come from in order to do that. Because we dont have enough money. And we also link market rate housing to Affordable Housing and so that market rate housing is the source of some of our fees in order to build Affordable Housing. And the concerns around this question also relate to, is it tall dance buildings . That does produce a lot of housing and if its on site, we get fees, but we need to be focused on increased production on adus, particularly on the west side so that we are looking at all sources for new housing. The adus may not be, quote affordable but less expensive than downtown luxury buildings. We also need to be giving more thought to what the impact is of where we place our dense housing. For years, most has been going into the Southeast Quadrant of the city with impacts on displacement. I live six hours from gary boulevard and thats a prime increase for dense housing, not downtown skyscrapers, but five, six, certainly stories and many of the units need to be Affordable Housing. I do think we need to continue to produce all kinds of housing, but we need to be very focused on the strategies for Affordable Housing and how we use the dollars available to us to produce the maximum amount. I want to thank you for all of your hard work, miss diamond and like supervisor, mar, i have one question i would like to ask all of the commissioners. In june, the San FranciscoPlanning Commission adopted a stronglyworded resolution acknowledging the harm harms tocommunity of color and strategies to raise equity in San Francisco. Of course, i was excited about this and i want to ask you what this resolution means to you and how you intend to apply this commitment to change the real life impacts of communities of color on low income workers and Small Businesses. And so, maybe ill talk first about what it means to me personally and why i felt so strongly to adopt a resolution and talk about some of the specific programs, actions that i know were considering to include in phase two of the racial and social equity initiative, which is the primary program we are using or structure to implement change. And so for me personally, i think a few factors behind my deepfelt drive in order to address this problem. And in no particular order. The first is, i have spent much of my volunteer life as an adult involved in creating and sustaining Community Centers. I believe that Community Centers are the way to help everyone in our Community Flourish and it is abundantly clear that we live in a society where flourish is absolutely the wrong word to describe whats happening to major elements of our population. We need to be hypervigilant where were building stocks and the racial and social equity and we need to do a racial and social equity Impact Analysis. And the same way we do sequa analysis to understand the environmental impacts, we need racial and social equity impacts and there are some who would like to incorporate the subject under sequa. I feel like that will take a long time to accomplish and wont be caught up in the courts and we dont need to do that. As a city, we can decide that racial and social Impact Analysis is a requirement before we do most of the projects that we undertake and we can implement that as a commission of the board and i hope that becomes part of phase two. Second, we need to give life to our cultural districts. Theyre an incredible device that focuses on the value of San Francisco is this conglomeration of amazing neighborhoods and many reflect Cultural Heritage and if we want to preserve those, we need to understand when were proposing a project in that district or adjacent to that district, the impact of the Cultural Heritage. I have been on the commission since we adopted the japanese heritage district and i have seen projects that have come before us in the philippino Cultural Heritage district and where not enough time was spent, even by staff and or by the commission until we were called out by the neighborhood groups to say you need to Pay Attention to this and i agree with that and i think thats a really important device to go forward. Thirdly, the two suggestions that i put forward in my remarks at the beginning, i think the preppa engagement is critical. That is where we understand before anybody gets set in their ways, what the impacts are and what the activists are concerned about and even if what the developer is proposing is consistent with the law at that point in time, it may be that is not the intent that people had in mind and that revisions and amendments are necessary and i would much prefer we do that at the beginning of the process than three years into the process. And finally, i would say and this is the other reason, the other comment that i gave is that we shouldnt be developing anything without the input of these Community Groups that are most affected by it. And so when i said we should be having a collaborative approach, not only should the board of supervisors and commissioners be working but the groups most affected at this need to be at the stable, working with usand forms and retreats that benefits everybody. I appreciate that answer. It was the offer of the cultural district legislation and its incredibly important to me and i could not agree with you more on that and thank you so much for your service. And next, were going to call up commissioner jewel kop particular el. Thank you spel. Thank you for be. Thank you so much. This has been a whirl wind of a four years and im still to this day honored and privileged to have gotten the nomination and appointment from late honorable mayor late and to be here four years later requesting a reappointment from the rules committee and its, again, also moving up the ladder from Vice President to president has been completely humbling and i dont take this position for granted. It is a lot of work and a lot of responsibility and i really feel that we have a Great Commission as we speak. Me, myself, im a proud paying member of Electrical Work for district six in San Francisco and i do speak for labor, but i also represent 32 Electrical Contractors here in San Francisco. So i also can look at the business side of things, too, and things need to be addressed equally to make sure we have businesses that employ labor and so, we cant have one without the other. And i do reside in that district currently and just am thrilled to see how we as a city are reacting to these crisies. Im seeing businesses open up and more residents lean towards normalcy and at the same time us taking Public Safety and health as seriously as we can, because we have to bounce back from this and i have to give a great shoutout to our department and secretaries. I think weve had 20 hearings since a small break, since the shutdown, but im still, im in amazement were able to continue to move forward and i understand you started your hearings sooner. So thank you for allowing the city to move forward. Supervisor stephanie. Thank you, chair and thank you, commissioner kop particula. We had great talk last week. Evacuee known each other for a long time and i so appreciate your labor roots and thats how we got to originally know each other. But i also want to appreciate your steady leadership on the Planning Commission during this time of so much change with the new planning director, with the four new commissioners and now with commissioner johnson retiring. And i think having your steady leadership at the helm has been really good and obviously, its not only steady leadership, i think that, you know, a lot of things that you and i discussed last week in terms of being there for the working people and the middleclass and focus on racial equity, that im sure we can all proud to see the Planning Commission pass the resolution. And when we talked about the groundfloor retail space and what were going to do in terms of this pandemic and how its hurting our Small Businesses. I appreciated our conversation around that. I dont want to prolong this, because i dont have any questions because im supporting you. I just think youre a great addition to the Planning Commission and i want to emphasize, too, that often, ive been around for awhile and i know chair ronen can attest to this, as well, is that the Planning Commission getting along so well like this. There are differences of opinions, but i think the respect all of you have for one another and how youre working together is something good for all of us to see and i just, fen, your leadership has been great on the Planning Commission and thank you so much and i am thrilled to support your reappointment today. Thank you, supervisor. Thank you so much, supervisor stephanie. Supervisor mar. Thank you, chair ronen. I would echo supervisor stephanies thanks to commissioner koppel, to all of your tremendous leadership and commitment to the Planning Commission over the past four years and really what you bring to the unique perspectives to the important decisions at the Planning Commission is very much appreciated and, yeah, i had a question, again, as i told commissioner diamond. I would be interested in your perspective on the housing balance, expect housing balance report released by the Planning Department shows that were still, you know, have a pretty great imbalance between producing market rate housing versus Affordable Housing. The figure was 21. 5 in the latest housing report and the fact that on ou our arena goals,