As youre well aware, because youve had two or three of these already. And in its own right, even notwithstanding the density bonus, its a very good project, and the project sponsor has elected voluntarily to base the affordable on the bonus rather than only basing the affordable percentage on the base project, which under the state law, is all he needs to do. So in that regard, he has made some great strides, and as you know, this is a vacant space, so were not displacing anyone. The gas station hasnt been operable for 15 years. And i think we are providing housing that will meet the vast demand that is occurring in San Francisco for housing, and thats not going away. As youre probably aware, the Federal Reserve has moved to raise slightly raise the prime rate in anticipation of the continued economy next year being very strong, and it will continue to be very strong in San Francisco. So the people are coming to the mission with the means to rent and to buy units, and they will either use this their wherewithal to bid on existing housing or some of them will be satisfied by new housing. And to the charge that the new housing is not occupied, mr. Taboni has already said that his recently completed project at 600 south vanness is already completely filled, and most of the housing in the mission is already being quickly filled. And so i think by building this housing, we do a Great Service to those coming in and also those in the mission already. Thank you very much for your time. Great to see you all again. Great. Thank you, commissioner. Next speaker, please. Yeah. My names kevin shepherd. Im a small Painting Contractor here in the city. Lived here my whole life. Ive be about 18 years ago, i met mr. Taboni, and i did my first project with him, and ive been working with him ever since. My company has grown to 15 employees since that time. One thing about mr. Taboni, everything he says is completely gospel. Hes an honest businessman. He eats and enjoys lunch with the employees on the projects, and having an abandoned vacant lot is not doing any good for the city. And having 75 new Housing Units will be spfar superior to anything thats going on now, and like he said, 20 is going to Affordable Housing. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is ben nahidi. Im the owner of the business and the Apartment Building directly across from this project. The corner of the 19 and south vanness. The old gas station site has been vacant for more than ten years, almost 15 years, and we are very happy to see that finally there is a building that is going to this lot. A vacant lot like this creates a very unsafe environment for the neighborhood due to all the criminal activities. For the last 15 years, i have witnessed people going in and out, breaking into this lot, doing drugs, prostitutions. We are just sick of it. I hope this project gets approved, and we will see the end of this eyesore for the neighborhood. 75 units with a retail space on this empty corner will create a vibrant environment that we desperately need. And also, we are very happy to see that 11 affordable units will be given to the community that is desperate for housing. So my request is please approve this project without any delays, as its really necessary for the community. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello. My names heather marod. Im the executive director of holy family day home. We serve 150 children daily in the mission. 70 of our community is homeless, formerly homeless or low income families. We currently hold the largest homeless contract for infant and preschool children age in San Francisco. Joe taboni has been involved with holy family day home as a board member for over a decade. Hes given countless hours to directly improving the lives and conditions for many of our homeless families. Last year he helped create and fund a family pantry which provides shelf stable food daily to our community. This year, hes funned our holiday car program, and our arts and Humanities Program by arranging for the Homeless Children to see the musical alad aladdin next week. These are just a few ways joe has helped break the cycle of poverty and empower families which are our core mission at holy family day home. The vacant lot like this creates unsafe neighborhood for the mission and families due to the criminal activity. We are in whole support of the proposed 75 units with retail space with the affordable 11 units. Please approve this project with no conditions as soon as possible as its desperately needed in the neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. Cory smith on behalf of the San FranciscoHousing Action coalition, speaking in support of the project here today. You know, weve seen projects like here recently. We talk about a vacant lot, a former gas station, that we get the opportunity to really increase the land use and the value of that land use and be able to provide homes for people. As the commissioner mentioned earlier, the entire project sits at 14. 5 Affordable Housing bonus. We hope we can continue to see opportunities in the future, and some more homeless sf proms in the future, so we can be totally driving for more housing levels at all income levels across the board, and this is 3. 5 blocks from our b. A. R. T. Station. Total Public Transit is something we continuously strive for. If there is going to be commissioner johnson said, if its adaptive parking, lets figure outweighs for the future as we continue to move forward. Everybody in the city is probably a little bit somber at the moment, and talking about these ideas of trying to understand one another. I did a training action for collecting signatures for the ballot measure. Thats going to increase the rate at which we approve 100 subsidized Affordable Housing, and all the people that do that, its all volunteers. I know you all know that, but its really important that both sides see this as a struggle. Personally, my net worth is in the red. I have student debt. I live in a rent controlled basement, and you can ask my boss. I dont make very much money. I think i can make a lot more money doing something else, frankly, but it doesnt help people, and it doesnt make the world a better place, and all the people that go out there and try to help people, it all comes from here, and thats really, really important. So as we all kind of reflect on where the city is going and we know theres going to be a lot of chaos over the next seven months or so, and that even more into 18, 19, and 20, i just encourage everyone to remember were all in this together. But for now, approve this project, because the city needs housing. Thank you. Thank you very much, mr. Smith. Next speaker, please. Good evening, everyone. Im dave mcmonagle, here to speak in support of the project. I live in richmond, but im invested in the mission with family, and price president of youth at the seven teepees youth project. The challenges facing established families provides a glimpse of what joe and his business and family do to address these issues, including the project on 17th and south vanness that received our support as a neighboring property. As to this project, and i dont prov profess to be an expert in city planning, i support it because it not only brings to market 11 below market rate units and two section 8 units, but also Additional Units that will provide much needed relief to the existing housing stock, all of which will be built by hard working locals on a project sponsored by hard working localworking what is most important for me to note is that this is a project sponsored by a family owned business that started by remodelling family homes and built itself up into projects like this. Joe and his family have deep roots in the mission and have for money years served the San Francisco community through significant volunteer work. They focus this efforts in the mission, particularly under served youth, including those at seven teepees youth program. A few minutes ago we heard about their plans to develop a Nonprofit Development business that will bring us even more Affordable Housing that we greatly need. There has been comment that the promises are vague or somehow unsta unsub shall not stated. Its my understanding that these are people that follow through on ms pros, that they care about this neighborhood, and want to help solve the Affordable Housing crisis, so i encourage everyone to take hold of joes olive branch, rally behind joe and projects like this one. Thank you all for your time. Thank you. If you dont have a career path out, it wont work. I urge you to vote no on this. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. As of last monday, i just moved into the neighborhood on the 2200 block of mission between 18th and 19th streets. And while walking through my new neighborhood i saw the sign noticing about the property and how it will be on this on todays agenda. So i wanted to speak my opinions on the project. The last time i was here i was living in the tenderloin and i was in support of a project, but it was community benefitoriented project that will be built at 950 market. It will have 250unit hotel and condo units. It took 1 1 2 years to negotiate with developers to get benefits for our community, including offsite housing for Homeless People that hopefully it will be a better environment than they are in now. And job hiring for the neighborhood. I dont know if theres a benefit package with this project or not. I hope that this project does help the neighborhood out. I mean, some when they say Affordable Housing, im hoping that the percentage of the a. M. I. Is for the middle class and working class people that deserve to stay in San Francisco who are the backbone of everything we do for this city and also for lower income people that are being priced out of the city and having to move all the way to vallejo and all of that stuff. All these new projects need to be made sure that they house everybody, not just the techies or the people who are like moving in to the city from way out, who knows where, for the local community itself. Im not i dont know if im for or against this project. But i hope that this project does help the community as it is now and make it better as we good into the future. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Hall . I appreciate this developer. Hes been working with the community his heart seems to be in the right place and his attitude is a big contrast with that of a recent density bonus laundromat project. So i do appreciate. I understand hes offered a couple of section 8 units in addition to the bmrs and has a very intriguing idea about which we heard a little more detail, starting a nonprofit and dedicating some of this to that. And offering to dedicate one of the ground floor units at a reduced price, either to his new nonprofit or another nonprofit if that doesnt happen. I think it is important in this corridor to dedicate all ground floor space to communities serving nonprofit and wherever possible pdr, especially in a place where were losing a gas station. I would love to see this project move forward, but be continued so that the offers can be clarified and formalized into a more specific agreement with the mission. I do appreciate the way hes working with the community. Thats all i have to say about the project, but i have a little more time. But the project brings up a few more things, a, loss of another gas station location. Citywide, we really need to start protecting locations for certain, specific uses, including gas stations, laundromats. So this project brings that to mind. Secondly, we really need to urgently find a fix for the state density bonus that it lowers the percentage of Affordable Housing we have in San Francisco, even though you may have counted it in a different i, counting units or whatever. But this project and then also, we have grandfathered projects, tons of them, grandfathered at much lower, affordable rates, Affordable Housing rates, than what we currently have. Our prop c from the mission is like 25 . I dont even think thats near enough high, high enough, to protect for the damage, but we really need to look at these grandfathered projects and either get them to build or take away their entitlement. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Hall. Good evening, commissioners. Peter papadopolous, Mission Economic agency. I want to pick up on a couple of comments of mr. Hall, including that i think we appreciate the developer having a very different attitude working with the community and folks and looking to take initiatives to build more Affordable Housing. I think thats important. Were gravely concerned about the density law and subverts the willing of the San Francisco voters, currently allowing it to drive down by 1 3 Affordable Housing percentages on our new projects. And we feel that thats a solution badly needed. With regard to this project and what commissioner december discretion we believe does exist, particularly in looking at the Mission Area Plan priorities and the map 2020 priorities, which were mentioned, in fact by staff on this presentation, a few moments ago. We think this ground floor use is important. We are in a pdr area. And we appreciate that the city has entered into discussions with us providing our pdr uses in different ways. We think this ground floor is critical. It sets a cultural tone. Its where our immigrant opportunities are. Yes, this gas station was closed for a while. Nothing in the mission is closed except by choice at this point, right . Everything is a highopportunity site. So theres no such thing as a blighted site. Its just sites waiting for the next opportunity. Here one of those things that we think could be clarified for us is what are the uses on the ground floor . Can they be used for pdr uses . Can they be used for nonprofit uses . That could set a different tone. And can we have this use of a space . Obviously, wed like to see Going Forward across the ground floor a little i think the offer from the project sponsor is a little vague right now on how it would be used and its a shortterm use, so we would like to see that clarified, strengthened and expanded as a ground floor use there. Similarly as far as an intention to go forward with a nonprofit idea and build Affordable Housing, we would look forward to that and think its a great outcome, but we would like to see something more definite in writing, something that says, heres our plan to make this happen. So far, havent seen that happen. So these are the changes that wed look for in changes like this. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. Thank you for having me. I want to express my deepest condolences to the familiar i of family on ed lee. I know its been a tough week. I worked on lees campaign. So i got to know him pretty well. A couple of things to 793 south van ness. On 25th and mission, its been a very night and day attitude. Hes been very transparent. I met with him personally three times and hes been open with the process and what he will be doing with his affordable nonprofit. We with like more clarification with what is in writing. Hes offering two bmr units and two section eight units, so 17 . And then half the market rate for the nonprofit on the ground floor space. We would like more clarification. Right now, its only for 15 years. If that was to be permanent, that would be more beneficial. Thank you for your time and have a great day. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. Im speaking on behalf of the Residential Builders association. Before i start, i would like to offer our condolences to mayor lees family, to the supervisors, to everybody in San Francisco, to the tragedy that happened this week. Its something that we all feel and we will have to bear with it. First of all, we fully support the development of the 75 units. It helps with the housing crisis. It meets objections and policies. I came here in 1984. In 1984, i moved into a house a few blocks away from 19th and south van ness. I didnt move into a house. I moved into a room in a house with my three friends. In 1984 with the housing crisis in San Francisco, no different than what we have today. But as luck would have it, i ended up moving to holiday street and i live there now and the city has been very good to us and that we really appreciate. Talking about that, i think that joe appreciates this the same and thats why hes trying to do something with the city with his plan for a nonprofit and we hope to support him in what he wants to do with that. I think the neighborhood has problems, but this building is not the problem. I own a 4unit building on 20th street. My tenants start at 5 00 p. M. Calling the Mission Police station when the prostitutes turn up about 5 15 and that goes until 2 00 to 3 00 to 4 00. Theres with a shooting outside that building about six months ago where somebody was injured. That brings and i dont want to harp on the social issues, because its citywide, but we hope this development with help with the issues, bring more people to the neighborhood and put more people in there. Thats why we support the project and i hope you approve it tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Todd david on behalf of San Francisco housing coalition. I just want it say a couple of things. First about the state density. Lets be clear. Ive said this before, a lot of projects currently are not pencilling out at 18 inclusion. If it were not for the state density bonus, these lowincome bmr units would not be built at all. Perhaps its some advocates will to build