Lowincome families and seniors and individuals that cannot be present because theyre working or unable to be here. One of the main concerns we see daily in our office is definitely Affordable Housing. Even as i speak, there are many of these families that are also applying for a wait list. There is already a shortage of Affordable Housing and the need in the neighborhood is great. Prices in the south of market neighborhood is escalating rapidly. If you look onto craigs list at market rate sro [speaker not understood] at 1700, a large studio is at 22, a twobedroom at 3200. Many of these residents have been living in the south of market neighborhood for over decades and what we do need is Affordable Housing. So, right now were asking you to ensure higher Affordable Housing impact fees for Affordable Housing. That is the need. And even before soma became the place to be, you know, i grew up in the neighborhood since i was 9 years old. So, theres families there that have remained decades.
Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is [speaker not understood]. I work also as a Community Organizer with Tenderloin Neighborhood Development corporation. And we have couple of Family Housing and studios and folks who are mostly families and People Living in western soma. And i wanted to say i believe western Soma Community plan is such a beautiful example of how seven years of community planning, sometimes these things are really technical and its a lot of times done very top, top to bottom approach. But this was really a grassroots effort and i really want to commend the people who stuck through it for so long and i want to say that as supervisors you guys want to respect the community process. And second is as an organization who is a member of the community, town council has [speaker not understood]. We support the idea that tier 1 mentioned, housing and transportation should not be pitted against each other and there is a way that we can Work Together to bring comprehensive tran
Community especially with ti co and we heard that the hotels are the great neighbor and they are 247 and so, we propose to remove that cap and instead allow hotels as of right up for 75 and above 75, still require a conditional use. And we also want to make sure that we are nurturing neighborhood retail environments along fourth straight. There is something about an nc district that allows for a fine grain and, fine tuning district that you want in your neighborhood which is what we love about our neighborhood commercial districts and the good thing about the district is that you cant have commercial specifically stores on the bottom and the residential above. Which probably makes less sense in this part of soma so we want to come up with some kind of hybrid and fine tuned retain on the ground floor and allow the office use up above. Finally we want to talk about the potential for having no housing in the area that is currently zoned the salaries from 4th and 6th. From soma. We recogni
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