coming next year whose spirit is stream lined, stop obstructing, delaying, build more housing, and this is absolutely the time. we need the housing. as much as folks would like, it s not possible to build a wall around the mission. somehow that s going to help what s going on there. this is a citywide crisis that affects every neighborhood. approve this project without delay. thank you. president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. hi. my name is richard hack. i ve heard these are a lot of good arguments. just a couple of things, the architecture of this project and the one before are hideous. i mean, they look like shopping bags or boxes. our architectural commission created a lot of create buildings. i wonder here what happened to the architecture. the demand to live in san francisco is almost infinite. it s absolutely impossible to build enough units to drive the rents down. now and then there s a little dip, because markets fluctuate, but that s not a valid arg
and this is a case where i would want to see that happen, and we can talk to the city attorney about how phase approvals work. i don t want it to just be an excavation project and they put a backhoe on it and that s it. i would want there to be the hearing is scheduled, unless there is a serious movement towards phase completion for the project. commissioner johnson: supervisor: do i hear a second? commissioner fong: well, i make a motion. are you adding that second? commissioner johnson: yes. supervisor: shall i call the question? commissioner moore. commissioner moore: i d like to make a general comment for the record. i believe the state density bonus law has flaws with it, and if you apply it equitably across the state of california which is experiencing growth, we re never going to get where we re trying to go, so i want to leave that sitting in the room here because there is something which needs to be considered at a deeper level regarding the particular prov
thing i d like to see, a. and secondly, if you decide to go ahead with this project. it should have a component of affordable housing, at least 33%. we ve got that from lennar from their project on 25th and south vanness, and i think you should do nothing less than that. talk to the community and send it back to the developer. president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. hi name is is vincent chao. i m a retired prince and resident of the mission. you know, we ve been dealing with so many homeless kids in this school district in the recent years, so when i hear that they re building more housing in the mission, it was wonderful. unfortunately, i just from what i just heard, it s not going to be for those homeless kids, unfortunately. but in general, as an educator, and as a parent, i think it s cruel and unusual punishment to subject little kids, two to five years old to a major construction right next to them for all these years. i mean, think of all the things t
thing the project could do is discuss completion of the work relative to the approvals. that would be a little hard to guesstimate, but if you gave us enough direction in terms of the metrics of where you want to see progress, that might be something to add into this. loper? thank you. good evening, commissioners. just to put some context on how long it s taking site permits or building permits to get to a construction phase, 18 months is very tight. bob tillman has actually already filed his site permit, which you should probably take as an indication that he is doing as much as he can to start the construction process if he gets through the approval process, but 18 months is a very, very tight turnaround. i know it doesn t sound like a tight turnaround, but it is. and a lot of it is actually outside the hands of the project sponsor. the city planning department s colleagues at the building department are completely overwhelmed just the way city planning is, so sometimes
president hillis: gsh gsh apply not only to the base projects but to the affordable projects, and i think that works in san francisco and other places. it doesn t necessarily work, so the state hasn t been able to pass that, but i think it s an unfortunate quirk in the state law that we re actually increasing density here and allowing for more units in the affordable housing percentage goes down. but it s just an area we don t have any control. i mean, we can stand here and shake our fist at that one, but there s not much that we can do. i think this is a good location for housing. we should be building housing in the mission, we should be building housing in every corridor of the city. i m glad we just approved housing in geary, and i think we should be building housing in a district, especially adjacent to b.a.r.t. i agree with the i think the design has gone in a positive direction in kind of minimizing the impact on mission street. unfortunately, that kind of push