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Thank you supervisor, its great to see you here after eight years of working on this. My name is Fernando Marty and im representing the council of Community Housing organizations. I am also the district 6 representative in the eastern neighborhoods cac. And i worked at asian neighborhood design while this plan was under process. We have been here before, where we encounter a tendency to pit Affordable Housing and Public Transit as though it was a zerosum game and something that is very interesti...

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 a...

Impact Development Fee does not cover housing at all. And when the transit sustainability project and fee, a discussion that were having right now, i dont know what your confidence level that well see significant changes from the tdif. And well see what happens. But i wouldnt hang my hat on that. So great. Those are my questions. Supervisor kim. Thank you. I was just going say that i know well have a robust discussion after public comment, but i wanted to note that some of our folks have been wa...

I was on the western soma Planning Task force since 2006. And i want to congratulate and commend jim niko for what a great job he did. As ken said a second ago, i know a lot of people came and left and there ways was a group of local residents who were not happy about what was happening and tried to create disruption, but it wasnt possible. It was left up to western soma to say what was said. So particularly when it comes to entertainment, this is where i think it was left out. And i think we ne...

Presentation. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to 11th street between folsom and harrison. Can we take another moment . Sure. Well take mr. Lewis. Good afternoon supervisor. I am here to plead to not let the pursuit of the perfect be the enemy to the good. Not to let loud voices screaming for a single issue be the enemy of the plan. No plan will satisfy all constituents and all needs , but looking at the eight year process and the hundreds of meetings of the task force. It was an impressive process ...

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