Is because its surrounded by buildings of a certain height and we have to protect people from wind. We have to encourage sunlight for use or it wont be used at all. As we do that, we find there are certain thank you. Thank you for hearing me as a member of the task force in 2013. I was the chair of the energy and natural resources, subcommittee of that task force. My name is cole roberts. I work with a Company Called air up here, focused on sustainability in the built environment. When we were undertaking that task force report, we understood and interacted with the community that deepened our understanding of the neighborhood. It needed to be married with robust infrastructure, infrastructure for Energy Systems and the ecology of the place thats been damaged and not restored. Theres need for investment. Soft investment in the parks and also hard investment in the energy and stormwater systems. Its not always obvious in how it benefits the community, but there are deep, longterm investment benefits. Thats why its called an investment, not a cost. They gain significantly to Smart Investments taken now. In that investment, i would include social institutions like the San Francisco mint. It is an even more valuable project thats valued today. And another that is not met or in terms of cattlizine catalg the neighborhood. Thank you for hearing me out. I respect the decision of the group. Thank you, supervisors, for hosting the meeting and the Planning Department for doing their Due Diligence to try to balance the needs of the community. We would like to see some tweaks to the central soma plan to ensure that were not a museum piece of a community that was once there. We want to see it be a community of longtime residents, businesses, artists, and activists. One way to reach this bill, is to ensure the 20 million will be allowed more public programming be sustainable. Over half of our budget is spent on infrastructure oewd is not enough to work with the community to bring long time residents to participate in the night market. Were generating 60,000 in economic activity. We want to ensure that some of this goes to the residents. And we would like to see some provisions so we can create a new Performing Arts Center. What is shown is there are 5,000 people that want to see filipino arts and culture and we need to give a platform for our arts groups to scale up. And we would like to see more pathways for community ownership. That being a Performing Arts Center or being in the commercial spaces, so the community is not stuck in this cycle of sharecroppership. Weve want to participate in the growing Real Estate Equity in San Francisco and thats one way we would like to see that happen. Thank you. Thank you for hosting this. Many of the members of the filipinos in Tech Working Group are soma natives, grew up here and moved on to tech positions. So our community, our working group, is aware of the issue us that face the community over the past two decades. Partnerships with Tech Community are central. We would like to encourage them to join the community of children, seniors, laborers, as new Companies Move in as development grows and changing the face of the neighborhood. We have survived many waves of displacement, with the most recent being the tech boom. The filipino movie will continue to thrive and take part in the neighborhood in a place weve called home for years. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisor peskin, supervisor kim. Im connie ford. I want to stand in solidarity with everything thats been said here. I have greats a respect. Ive been working with soma. Ive been on the Soma Stabilization Fund since its beginning realizing that my son and daughter in law live here and so i belong to in this instance an Organization Called good jobs for all. Were in solidarity in particular with what alex said and mario said. These jobs, this community, is going to be experiencing must be good jobs, somewhere in the report it says 30,000 to 40,000 jobs. What are the jobs . Are there categories . Are they good, livingwage jobs . Who will be the people that are doing the work at the hotels, the people that will do the service jobs in these high towers, the Security Guards, janitors, how will they be good jobs and good jobs for all is a program that well sit down with the developers as the plan goes out and we would like some of this within the plan that says, any of these jobs need to be for especially the entry level jobs need to be opened up for the community, for the people that live there, for the residents, for a targeted population that needs to take advantage, provided the advantage of living and working in a city that cares thank you, ms. Ford. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im heidi mahogny from the transcultural district. I want to thank supervisor kim for scrutinizing the funds. And not simply to certify the projects of developers. I support the public spaces that are truly acceptable and the further greening and environmental sustainability. As the owner of a small lgbt bar in soma, i hope that some of the funding will go to stabilizing the businesses that are impacted by the fast and frequent development of the neighborhood. I hope that it will support the businesses in the district and the cultural districts in soma, lgbt leather and even comptons with a corridor on 6th. Money from central soma could help to grow and stabilize projects that would belief end the displacement of our communities. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors, im rachel ryan. Im here on behalf of the leather cultural district. The Leather Community has been based in soma for over 70 years. In that time, its been home to over 100 bars and businesses dedicated to the Leather Community. Im an owner of the stud bar, the oldest queer nightclub in San Francisco, which was originally opened as a leather bar in 1966. My hope is that we can allocate some of the funds from the western soma plan, just as honey said, to protect legacy businesses and protect cultural districts. The leather district does not have a source of funding through the city yet and i think this could be a really good way to do it. Were looking for stabilizing organizations and businesses, but we have a community of older folks, many of whom are living with hiv that need access to Affordable Housing. Thank you so much. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors, im john alderling. First, i want to note the importance of funding for central soma fun, which has done great work. And the 10 billion of future development, there has to be a way to continue that worth with that funding source. Second, as many note, theres an essential need for regular funding for the two heritage districts, so we can implement them and not be an empty shell. Third, hasnt come up, but its central to be a Community Participation process attached, with all of the programs, the hundreds of millions of dollars from all the sources. These neighborhoods set up a cac to do that, but its failed. A, its too big. For neighborhoods, you cant pay enough attention to any of them. Second, its purview is too narrow. It looks like the childcare funds that come from the fees. They refuse to have any public input at all. It takes a Community Advisory board of some kind. The bureaucrats, the departments, all came to ask on every separate topic. And the members listened to each other. They were not just siloed in their own interests. For this plan to succeed over 10, 20 years, and promises turn to real stuff and need to enact that process. Thank you. And there has been an opportunity to bring our communities together. Corey smith speaking on behalf of the Housing Coalition program with the distribution of funds, well defer. On the housing front, we have an opinion. Weve made this request repeatedly and would love to see an amendment change in this. Its regarding the implementation measure, calling for everything over 30,000 square feet have 2 3 of redevelopment be nonresidential. Were asking for 40,000 square feet. It could be more homes in the neighborhood. Generally, were very supportive. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im with the council of Community Housing organizations. Today speaking on my experiences as a district 6 representative for the eastern neighborhood, cac. I want to echo was john said earlier about the need to have fees that are dedicated to support for the soma stabilization fee and to the two new cultural districts. Its critical that the cultural fabric be maintained and funding corrected that way. One of the drawbacks is how you off the often look at the budget, most of the funds are allocated to a certain number of priority projects and to a certain distribution of uses. What is needed is Real Community control over the funds, to be able to look at not only those categories that i think steve already spoke about, but to have flexibility to support programming and facilities for nonprofit uses, arts uses, local uses, Small Businesses and so forth, to be able to have fees that help to shape the fabric of south of market. Finally, i think, when a new district is created with a new advisory committee, its critical like the pacs and Soma Stabilization Fund, particular constituencies from the neighborhood be considered. That from the soma lgbt Leather Community be on there. And so we have real representization. The full cost of impact needs to be covered. Thank you. Good afternoon. Thank you, supervisor kim for having this hearing today. Weve been very active about the street improvements. Yesterday we had a meeting about pedestrian safety, open space and community planning. Its an initiative from Robert Wood Johnson that has diverse partners to build healthier communities where children and their families can thrive. There are six communities participating in this. In this initiative, when children are the focus, everyone benefits. For example, when the seatbelt laws originally adopted to protect Young Children have saved an estimated 3,017 lives since 1975. So when we heard from attendees, they would like to see more sidewalk programs and to have signs lit, crosswalks for children and their family. And to organizations that can provide culturally competent outreach and education. For example, through the folsom and howard, there was no english or no spanish surveys, and so we want to see more of that. To clarify. This is sfmta were not in spanish . Correct. So when we partnered with them, we collected 200 surveys of in three languages. I know mr. Parks is still here. So i appreciate the feedback about Children Service signs as well. I want to be sure that infrastructure includes tenant support, including tenant counseling and legal service. We struggle with our tenant support and making sure that theres that were able to serve all the tenants that come to us for counseling. And we need Legal Support for a lot of the tenants that come in for our counseling and theres just not enough language appropriate and want to make a note that we serve a broad range of immigrants and wanting to make sure there are Small Businesses that are responsibility and provide language appropriate and culturally appropriate and affordable goods and services that there are supported by an infrastructu infrastructure. Thank you. Hello, supervisors, im david wu with somcan. Somcan has been very active in the central soma meetings. Aside from the buildout of the park, there must be a dedicated source of funding that goes toward maintenance and programming on the puc site. In order for it to be a wellfunctioning, True Community space for all. To ensure maintenance, a Community Steward program should be made up of residents and community groups. Its essential that its hired from the community and competent to make sure that the new park reflects south of market. They must be held to a higher standard than what has previously existed. It must be youth and Family Friendly thats accessible and designed for youth and families. To this point, the majority are not youth and Family Process does not function as true, open spaces. They must be in the central soma plan. The design review, should be a standard for all in soma where they function as true, public open spaces, rather than being a new design process, there should be a design in place. And one example of a good plan that exists is in Bridge Housing and put together in conjunction with community members. Madam clerk, if we could allow the mike to keep going so folks can finish their sentences, that would be great. Im from the Veterans Equity Center and Filipino Mental Health initiative as well as were here with soma coalition. Soma is home to a lot of people with thattor are seniors and disabilities. We serve the community and Cultural Assets such as services for immigrants and people with adult disabilities. It should be considered Historical Resources and we seek to recognize places like Filipino Education Center and i fell like it could prevent atrisk change and knowing that places are frequented by filipino members and in the larger bay area. Some of the fees should support and guide those sites. Thank you. Tony robles. Safety is a topic thats been coming up quite a bit, with the upzoning, the wind impacts, the safety and traffic. Weve had members of our organization that have gotten into accidents, who have fallen because of high winds, because of oncoming traffic, that have spent time in the hospital with serious injuries. Safety impacts and ramifications must be taken under consideration within the plan. As they say, the road to misery is paved with good intentions and there are a lot of things that are imposed upon us and the community thats lived there, existing community, is treated as though they were the furniture that came with the place. There must be oversight and a voice for the communities being impacted. Somebody mention the the ongoing fees for cultural sustainability is very, very important. Were dealing with communities that are being squeezed, who are working extremely hard to maintain their equity and their presence and to continue being an asset to the cultural fabric of San Francisco. Job, once again, who are these jobs going to go to and what jobs are going to be generated. Are they going to allow people, particularly residents of the neighborhood to stay. Will they be sustainable . Are they going to be jobs that will allow people to pay the rent. Speaking of rent, housing stabilization. We need to make sure that there are Legal Services and Tenant Services so people dont start getting evicted all the time. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Robles. Thank you, supervisors. Carl shannon. Were project sponsors for three major projects, two of which are 100 housing. 900 units at the creamery and a project at 5th and howard. The third is a combination of office and small Affordable Housing. Steve has been to thousands of meetings. Weve only been to a couple hundred. Hes been working on this for seven years. Weve only been working on it for five. Were thrilled to see this come forward. Its a huge package of community benefits, unprecedented in the citys history. We do have a timing issue with our 5th and howard project, where to get the taxexempt bonds in place, the project needs to be approved and ready to go by 2019. That seems a long way away still, but having been at this for seven plus years wanted to be sure that were aware of that. Look forward to getting this done. We look forward working with the community and bringing the public park forward, which is part of our project. Thank you. And don shaw reached out to me personally to ensure that this project thats 100 Affordable Housing will of is not impacted. And to ensure that we move forward with that project or pass this plan in a timely manner. Im alice rodgers, Vice President of south Beach Mission bay organization. I want to commend the Planning Department on all of the extreme outreach and hard work they put into the plan. And likewise, want to commend the community, people that are here today and john elderling, in particular, for helping the city focus on this as a community plan. Its always talked about as industrial, but as these people have illustrated and you well know, theres a very Rich Community and cultural legacy in this area. So im looking forward to this being a plan that ends up not displacing people that makes good on its promise of cultural and community, Community Involvement and guidance. And i want to thank you supervisor kim for asking the prioritization of the strict projects and the other projects. So far the promises have been quite general and i have had a hard time seeing it brought down to the street and i appreciate your comment today on air quality. It is an emerging issue. Its not a new issue, but its a diffi