That because part of displacement is home values go up, people already feel cost burdened, they feel like they were already kind of on the emgem edges, and so they feel like they need to sell out to take care of their families, and we should be thinking just as much about that as we do of displacement or people that are being evicted from their homes or otherwise forced out. I think thats more the case in this district that maybe is not the case in other places. And finally, the whole confluence of talking about cultural neighborhood and retail, i think those two topics crash together in the excelsior. I understand from this report but also from other information, this area struggles with vacancies, and i think the change in retail and how groundfloor businesses are able to stay afloat with how the economy is today is something we should be thinking about. We should not only be protecting businesses that are existing and figuring out what we can do to help them stay, but especially as we have Newer Development going on where there presumably more ground space, how can we preserve that space . I hope we will be able to successfully solve that problem. We have a large immigration problem here, and as we think about other areas of the city that have a stronger, sort of universal notoriety, we should be thinking about what does that mean in the excelsior, and really, not just in name only, but how does a cultural district actually protect whats the essence of a neighborhood and not just, you know, we have one, hooray, but what does it actually do to protect businesses in the neighborhood . So lots good here. Would love to see future answers to some of those problems. Again, really honing in on how do we have tools to protect from displacing people who really do own their homes, because thats a large percentage of people in this district. President hillis thank you. Commissioner melgar . Commissioner melgar thank you for that presentation, and not just the presentation, but the process that youve engaged the community in. Ive been privy to some of the conversations, and thank you for the respect that youve shown to the community. So i had the pleasure and honor to go on one of the tours of the neighborhood, and i would encourage my fellow commissioners to do the same. Its a slightly different angle. You know, i think that hearing it from neighborhood residents who are not usually the ones who go to the meetings and are or the ones who are invited, you know, and to these spaces is actually really valuable, so i think it is a different perspective, and i think its a very valuable one. I think it yields better results, so im not going to go over some of the things that folks in the community said, because i think the need for Affordable Housing and all of that i did have a few questions about what youre thinking. So particularly around the commercial corridor and then transportation. So this is an area of the city that has one of the highest proportions of children. [ please stand by ] the youngest to the oldest. How does our pedestrian environment serve those folks . How does our transportation environment serve somebody with a stroller and somebody with a wheelchair and thinking from that perspective. We can get to some of the small things that can make a big difference. Curb cuts is a simple thing that we do across the city, with ada, but it allows people of all ages to get around easier. When we think about stores, the retail mix, what are the other services that people would want when they go with their family . Is it a type of restaurant, a size, feeling welcome . What makes you feel like, okay, this is a place i can go with my kids. Some members have talked about more activitieactivities. And places to are kids to go after school, teenagers, who can maybe be more unsupervised, but where will they go to feel welcome thats safe for them . Those are some of the big ideas in digging into what familyfriendly can mean. Childcare is huge. Its a huge challenge for the entire city. And i think it connects well with the idea of retail spaces. Are there retail spaces, especially new ones, that could be childcare spaces . How do we encourage that more and incentivize more childcare spaces to locate on the corridor it can be challenge to be in that location, but mission childcare is there and they serve 225 students, young people. Thats a lot of kids. And so how do we have more of those facilities. I had a couple more things. Yeah. I think theres a relationship between density and the health of the corridor. I do think in a lot of places its appropriate to increase density. I like some of the comments that folks in the community said about one or one, for every affordable unit, but i do think thats where we, you know, could maximize it. I live in the omi. And that bart station is my station. And it sucks. So my kid used to go to school there and on every given morning, im surprised people dont get killed more. People get off of bart. They get on, you know, the k or the 29. They cross the street, where there is no crosswalk to go to city college or to take the k and then people are getting on to the freeway, 280. And then people are transferring to go to San Francisco state. And its hoards of people. I dont know why people dont get killed more in that intersection. It sucks. Well be adding more units to the balboa reservoir, the other side. And i know that the kids from city College Young people from city college walk to Mission Street for lunch. Its five blocks. Theres not a lot of commerce between. Thats where the nearest commercial district is, or the other side of ocean. Even though its two different districts, its a related corridor, ocean avenue. I think a better transportation infrastructure would be a really, really good thing for the commercial, you know, corridor on Mission Street, even though its five blocks away. Thats how people naturally get around. Im wondering how you think about that in terms of the corridor. When we think about that, its a starting point. Even though phase one is focused on it, its living in a plain by itself. The two bart stations, especially balboa and the transit resources there are huge. Increasing the connectivity for bike and pedestrians, especially on ocean avenue because its a shorter distance to walk on ocean than it would be to be on geneva, can take the 29, just a few minutes between the bart station and Mission Street corridor. So in terms of making it accessible for people, thats a huge priority. There was a couple of years ago the Planning Department led a study and looking at design improvements along ocean avenue, some of which are implemented, and some need further coordination with other agencies and city college, who has been going through its own machinations of master planning. So if were not going to limit traffic there, how do we create more space for pedestrians and cyclists. And mta has been looking at san jose and geneva, so just where the barbecue place is right now, on the side where the upper yard will be and thinking about traffic there. Sorry to interrupt. Are there any specific improvements to the muni . I think thats the problem. There are some improvements to the bart station in the last two years and i can see that right on the street. Its the muni station that is really funky and really inaccessible. You get off bart and have to walk around the block to take the k. I think they did do the renovations where you can get on a muni train in the bart station now on the ground floor for one of the lines. But there is on the san jose line and the k, i think theyre working on connections. I can get back to you on that. I know there is some construction under way. So you dont have people right now, running into the street to catch the trains. And its just a matter of time before negative things happen. Thank you. Commissioner richards ive been 3 1 2 years on the commission, and i feel like im having an outofbody experience. If you just scratch excelsior, three years ago, you would put the word mission in there. Its like im hearing the exact same recording over and over. Now im hearing excelsior. Were going to talk about gentrification. People that couldnt afford glenn park went to excelsior and other places in the city. There was an sf weekly issue all about the excelsior about how its arrived and thats probably two years ago. I have a friend who is trying to buy a house and saved and saved and saved and looking in the excelsior and he keeps bidding asking price and keeps getting outbid by people paying over ask in cash. This is the excelsior . Workingclass neighborhood. It should not be a feeding frenzy, but it is. The good thing about all of this, you are kind of ahead of the curve. So before events take their course and you get overwhelmed, take the bull by the horns and figure out what you want your neighborhood to be like. And i think thats what this program is about. And i think its a great start to build upon. And i think this effort could take a clue or a look at what the Mission Action plan 2020 is or isnt, so you can see exactly its not just a land use solution. Its all kinds of other things. Rent control, eviction. Mitigation measures, all kinds of things that can help to prevent displacement that are not typically just land use issues. Small business. Look at the Mission Action plan. It has about 600 lines of things that strategies they want to do to create the neighborhood that they want and we should get a refresh on it in the future to see where we ended. Its monumental. So work with your supervisor, mr. Safai, to figure out what legislation will be required. It will go a lot beyond land use. Interestingly enough, as residents say they want a nicer neighborhood. We want all of these little i call them chiclets, safety, small business, little tiles, they want a nicer neighborhood and it generates demand for people that say, excelsior is a nice place to molive. I want it move there. It puts pressure on people that live there. And you get a gentrification spiral. Its a tricky thing of creating a balance of a great place to live but keeping the people that live there there because they make the neighborhood. So make sure you get on the right path there. All housing will not be 100 affordable. We hear this from people in the mission. There is not enough money. A lot of this is private property and we have 40foot heights. Everybody wants 100 affordable, everybody. Every neighborhood does. And we unless we have a martial plan, we wont be able to have it, but the question is, housing for who . You saw the continuum, but we need housing for all the people that make a neighborhood. Building for excelsior is not that much different than in the mission or south of market neighborhoods. A couple of other points, mr. Hooper mentioned he doesnt want stalinist housing. Tuesdays chronicle talked about 100 Affordable Housing. John king is an example of design. 100 housing can look really good if you get the right architect and are able to spend some time doing it. I have to go down and look at the building there. And the last thing is, canyon markets, buy rite, same thing. Its the same way. 100 people working there. You trip over people working there and theyre all local. And thats a great thing, but other people say, its gentrification of, we wanted it to be nice, but not gentrification. We have to figure out both. Good job. I cant wait to see what the rest of it looks like. Commissioner fong ive been quiet today thus far, but its interesting, and thank you, staff, for putting these things back to back, because it struck some interesting conversations and bigpicture conversation about where San Francisco is and about where it wants to go with the change of leadership in the mayors office. Thats a big question for whoever ends up in that seat, where does San Francisco want to go . And to some degrees, were touching a couple of spokes of the wheel here. And in my opinion, what makes San Francisco and other cities cooler multigenerational families, whether theyre living all together or passed down generations and passing housing down to each other. It keeps the roots and the coolness of the city, whether its boston, new york, San Francisco or whatever. And that is what makes the neighborhoods and thats what makes excelsior a cool neighborhood. What i think is a little different, and you are right, commissioner richards, the mission was a preview of what well see here. It may be a little different in that theres more singlefamily homes and apartments. What made the mission get taken by storm are the number of apartment buildings there, bart, proximity to downtown, and so this may be a little bit different. But to the planning staff, we have to think about how it will be different. Im repeating a lot of things that have been said today, but one thing that wasnt said, School Systems. And how important that is to whether its new families coming into San Francisco, whether its old families in San Francisco, but not being able to live in your neighborhood and also keep the kids and grow in the School System, part of the foundation, in my opinion, about the roots of San Francisco. I hope that the School System is in lockstep with where we are and that people can grow old in San Francisco in so many different ways. So i wanted to share that. Today is an interesting conversation on multilevels. Commissioner moore to the cool factor, what makes San Francisco a great city is activism and Public Participation in shaping policy and out come. And i think given that you are all involved, even if you have certain reservations, to have a skilled voice, to participate, and shape policy, even if certain parts of the process dont exactly reflect what you are looking for. Dont give up. Practice your voice and practice participating in the outcome. I believe that the department is very skilled in the process, that the department is very skilled, in dealing with diverse opinions, with opposition and content. And i believe that you are in the fortunate position to not just react. Reaction, as in the mission. The Outer Mission still has the ability to look ahead and shape and participate. Mission 2020 plan is a reaction to what already was extremely difficult situation. It was close to the titanic sinking. In your case, you are observing and you can, indeed, use this time to strongly move forward and i wish all of you luck and im interested in continuing to be updated and i thought the presentation was very, very good as a structured piece. President hillis agreed. Thank you for the presentation and the Public Comment. There seems to be a little bit of a gap as what is here for the aspiration and some of the comments we heard from people who are living there. Its not everybody who participat participated, but there could be more of an emphasis in the aspiration on preservation of neighborhood character, maybe not starting with the change, but we recognize that everything is changing. And we dont see Much Development in excelsior, but its facing pressures of affordability and maybe it could be tweaked a bit to focus on displacement and preservation of the neighborhood, as i was reading that. Well see more of this as it develops and comes in to strategies and where were going. I think interesting questions about how housing is expanded in that neighborhood. Is it different there than in other neighborhoods . We faced this a bit is the zoning off mission rh1 primarily . Yes. Mainly rh1. Theres a little bit of rh2 and rm. And then on the commercial corridor theres some commercial and then its 45 on the ground floor and some areas 65. President hillis primarily residential areas are rh1 . Yes. President hillis and i think we want to be cognizant of how that Housing Stock can be expanded and, you know, weve seen special rules for neighborhoods. Maybe this is the type of place for this. So the renting the folks that rent are proimary primarily renting singlefamily homes. Its easier to evict or ellis act a singlefamily home. So maybe that leads to a policy discussion and how you preserve the rental Affordable Housing stock even though its singlefamily owned. So i think the great thing in the excelsior, one, its a great neighborhood. I spend a lot of time there, is that large percentage of home ownership. That will help as strategies develop and move forward and we look forward to hearing more. Commissioner moore one additional comment. I hope that this particular presentation will be on the web with families to look at and be able to retrace steps on the web, i think thats very powerful. And to the teacher that spoke, i hope you can incorporate some of what is being discussed with teaching children in all levels of the School System. President hillis thank you very much for the discussion and the public input. Commissioners, that places us at item 11, 2017013096map, burnett avenue and burnett avenue north zoning map amendment. Good afternoon. Audrey butkus. Proposed would proposed part of the street rm1. It would allow lot 36 to gain access through two rezoned lots. The owner lot 36 filed a lawsuit against the city and Neighboring Properties seeking access through easements and the sale of city parcels. The parties have reached a Settlement Agreement that resolves litigation and allows lot 36 to have access to burnett avenue. The department has received several letters and calls in opposition to the proposed rezoning the majority of the concerns revolve around potential development on the three lots rather than rezoning the parcels themselves. Several questions why the parcels were not offered for sale through a public process before being sold to the appellant. The rezone of the two cityowned parcels is consistent with surrounding zoning and land uses. Other options such as constructing the remaining paper portion of burnett avenue north or copper alley or establishing an easement are not feasible. The sale and rezoning of the parcel and burnett north provide an economically feasible solution to the filed lawsuit. So no p