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commissioner sugaya that i agree with him and i understand why he is voting against the motion. i brought it up originally the fact that they should have separated and we would have prevented and we were prevented from considering them separately. i hope i do not see that again in the future. i am agreeing with commissioner olague and that the space has to move ahead. i am not like to complicate this but you can vote on one form and not the other. bundling them you do not have to vote on the package. you can go separately. you can vote separately. commissioner borden: in the tenderloin, they are having a hard time getting a grocery store. i do not want to belabor the point, but for whatever reason, we do not have a lot of grocery operators. i think the reason you have these two uses is for other reasons. trader joe s model is not for large stores like safeway. they cannot get a grocery retailer. in reality about the size and space of this site that has put us in thi
you can vote separately. commissioner borden: in the tenderloin, they are having a hard time getting a grocery store. i do not want to belabor the point, but for whatever reason, we do not have a lot of grocery operators. i think the reason you have these two uses is for other reasons. trader joe s model is not for large stores like safeway. they cannot get a grocery retailer. in reality about the size and space of this site that has put us in this situation i would caution against bifurcating the two because the issue is the only works by bringing these parties together. it seems to be the case. i think we have the labor the point around what concerns us and we have taken the best measure that we can. but at the end of the day, we do want to see the space filled. the size and scope of the space this seems like the best kind of outcome at this point until late redevelop the project and do something different. commissioner moore: i believe it is perfectly fine to approve
public comment at this time. one minute. wow. sue hester. i have as much to on this project as they do. we have been asking at the community level the department to do a dashboard showing. what type of housing is being proposed, pardon me, approved by the department, and constructed by price level? we ve been asking for it for four or five years. peter cohen and i particularly have been diligent on this. we ve been asking it so that you would have something to look at that shows what are we building, how does it meet our housing needs, and we keep being shined on by staff. it always is going to be a project that we re going to deal with in the next year, the next six months, whatever. but we don t have it. and more is the shame because rincon hill is one of the areas where it needs attention. what is being built in rincon hill? what is being approved in rincon hill? is huge. it s a huge chunk of what you re doing. and where is it skewed? skewed toward very high end housin
i ve been asking it for at least five years. before you were even the planning director, because we need that information. we need to know who is being served. and i m tired of extensions. the market has changed since this project was approved. the economy has changed. and we keep chugging along building really high end housing. thank you. president olague: is there any additional public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner sugaya. commissioner sugaya: i have a question for the developer. thank you. you re saying that you anticipated about a year s worth of construction documents, etc. but you re only asking for can we extend this longer than a year? no. so it s conceivable that you might be back if you fall short of your it s conceivable. commissioner sugaya: ok. that s all i needed to know. president olague: commissioner antonini. commissioner antonini: i m very much in favor of this extension, certainly with this particular sponso