Those meetings, that we are not represented, so i think when we talk about development in the excelsior, we really want Genuine Development for the people already living there, and that its not enough to open the door, i think, and maybe we can talk about it later on, but i really feel we have to step outside the door and reach for the community. Again, i saw a slide that said not many of our Community Members shop in the mission area. I dont think youve been in our on our block around 3 00 p. M. It is crowded, right . Ca casa lucas, yung chi market. Its crowded. I hope we dont create development for the sake of time and making it look good on a powerpoint. I hope we take the time to look at longterm answers to these questions that we have and to include the community that is most suffering. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is thierry. Im the director of the filipino center, and weve been around for about 11 years. We work closely with south of market, and this is what weve been doing is activating our community that hasnt been at the table for a long time to work on these particular issues. Folks have talked about the neighborhood. Its working families, its recent families, and thats who were engaging. What commissioners talked about, the differentiated impact in particular in district 11, the families in the household are there, the racial demographics, and district is 1 has the highest rates of owner evictions and moveins. As sunshine and others mentioned, not just about building housing for the folks that are coming in, but pushing other folks out. By engaging folks in this community, its an acute crisis and problem in district 11. Thats why this particular planning process is very important for district 11. It will potentially reshape the entire neighborhood. Through our organizing efforts, but mobilizing youth, we got them to transfer from mta to mot housing. Thats a public site. Theres a provide site we worked on, the valencia funeral home, where we had 85 affordable. Some condos on the allemeny side. This is the imaginative possibility when communities work together. We had those projects with the San Francisco foundation, we were we were [ inaudible ] were people are engaging limiting super efficient recent immigrant low income folks who cant access a lot of the job markets, invested in the sf foundation, and theyre continuing to invest in many of our other projects to really hold the community there thats there, thats being pushed out. Folks are going out to the tricity area, vallejo, and they come back. Thats the community were trying to hold you, and were looking forward to working with you, come out to the neighborhood. We really need to do more than what we have. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello. Four years ago when i started talking about the alterations, my boys played a lot of sports, and they went out to these neighborhoods and played in these playgrounds, both Public School and cyo, so i know these neighborhoods from that. Its a real quick bus ride on the mission bus out there from noe valley. I imagine its a quick uber ride, too, from everywhere. I worry about this, i worry about the next phase, i worry about these blocks with these are things you wont see because no one will dr them, and youll lose housing, and itll become very expensive. I dont know if you looked at that sfcurved website, well, they have a little poll there comparing some with excelsior. This is a great neighborhood with great housing, and very right la vulnerable. I hope youll tighten it up so we wont see this really wonderful area of the city go away. Its not just the housing, but its the people that live there and what it represents. And ill say one more thing, the ted egan talk at the land use committee, i mentioned that report, he said the rents are across the board the same. So it used to be where some neighborhoods, you could go gee, i could go there and it would be a little more affordable. He said thats not the case, and i would imagine that unfortunately thats happening with the housing crisis and the pressures in noe valley and the mission are coming there, and i think theres something that has to be done, even if its a mo moratorium, but to protect that housing of Mission Street, because thats the last basstion of afford object housing in our city. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you, commissioners. My name is david hooper, and i serve on the working group, and i live in mission terrace. I lived there for over 30 years. I was raised in the mission. What id like to say, id like to thank supervisor safai for getting the Mayors Office of economic and Workforce Development and the Planning Department to convene the working group. Id like to say that at the groups, members of the public have attended and have contributed. Sometimes what you think you know, another member of the working group is talking about, when another member of the public comes in and starts adding a perspective that makes the whole idea more valuable. Id also like to thank Rachel Tanner and jorge rivas for their effort in trying to corral us month after month for these meetings and make something come through. As for the mission commercial corridor itself, rachel did touch on the fact that there are vacancies, there are a lot of vacancies. A lot of buildings on the Mission Corridor are typically one story high. In the future, its understood that this kind of development is going to exist when the buildings get developed. When something starts happening, they will be units above particularly newly built is seneca and mission, the sites at 65 ocean and adjacent to it. 915 cayuga, the upper yard. Were looking at 1,000 units that are coming in, and a sizeable portion of those are going to be affordable. In the meantime, design counts. This isnt vanness avenue. This isnt the inner mission. We know its going up much higher than what weve gone now, and id really prefer if not the marshall plan. Were going to have to make a real effort because the community thats there has to be able to take some pride, not just living in the buildings, but being part of the community where that is the commercial corridor. The other thing id like to say about development is it isnt just housing, its jobs. It isnt just the construction jobs. If we can find a way to get anchor tenants to come in and be with employers. For example, the market at canyon and glen park, i was there a month ago, and i said out loud, how many people work here, and the manager who was standing behind me said 106, almost all of them fulltime. You dont need a big box in order to have effective, active tenants and provide jobs within a community. So i want to thank everybody whos participated in the working group and for the people who led it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. How do you do . My names mel flores, and im here representing myself as a member of the excelsior active working group. Im present in the excelsior District Improvement association, as well as on the board of the Excelsior Action Group where i serve as vice chair. I just would like to say i have concerns about the progress of this project, specifically around the purpose project and conclusions of the working group, and ive also heard these same concerns voiced by other members of the working group. Ive been in attendance at many meetings, including the small working meetings and various meetings of the public realm. I felt uneasy about this process for some time, especially after meeting with thesub group liaisons, of which i am one. During the meeting, we were presented with a document that outlined the strategies for us to review. In reality, that was not what thesub groups had vetted upon or agreed upon. When this was brought up at the meeting, there seemed to be a defensiveness about the methodology of arriving at theet strategies. When a new idea was presented by me about parking, i was told that as a city worker, i could not record that suggestion because i know it would not be approved. Another person pushed back, and then my suggestion was recorded. I have a sampling of other strategies from other folks. The Community BusinessDistrict Housing density and Building Height are being pushed down our throats. That was a General Community member. Only the voices of a few voting members are being heard. I have some others as well in my letter which id like to submit. While i wholeheartedly submit supervisor safais desire to have a document to follow with regards to growth and improvement and developments in the neighborhood, given the circumstances, i find it hard to wholeheartedly endorse this process. Id like to request that the process be slowed down and made more representative and reflective of the community needs. I would also like to request a more thorough and careful area plan for our neighborhood. I believe that this current process does not adequately reflect the values we have fostered within our community. Thank you for your time. Thank you, mr. Flores. Any additional Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, well close Public Comment and open it up to commissioner comments and questions. Commissioner johnson . Commissioner johnson thank you to staff and thank you to everyone who gave Public Comment today. Th we are not at the end, and im hopeful that the concerns were heard. Particularly, i want to point out a couple things. Concerns around cultural competency and language. We talk a lot about language up here sometimes, but particularly for an area like this, i think its really important that cultural competency go beyond that. We do have a lot of multigenerational and multifamily households. If we were to do some sort of magic wand and have a study, probably equal only to maybe chinatown or to sunset, and so i think that we need to be taking that into account when we look at how are we what are we wanting this neighborhood to look like . I think that the physical feel and look should reflect the cultural competency of the people who are living there, so thats thats slightly different than when we talk about making sure that theres, you know, interpretation and different languages. I think thats a little bit of a step beyond. So i think a couple things one, im really sorry. I hate when i do this. Staff, on the demographic profile, you had the Unemployment Rate at 8 in the excelsior district, 7 citywide. I thought it was like 2. 6. You know, ill have to take i look at that data again, but this is a little outdated level. Its hard to get the granular data on a neighborhood as current as the citywide. I hate to call you out, but the only reason its important is if 9 is accurate, but 7 is not, the difference between 2. 3 or 2. 6, thats kind of a big jump, so i just wanted to mention that. Great. Well figure out what it actually is. Another thing couple things i want to say. You know, looking at this plan and again, how does this area differ than other areas where you may have other neighborhood plans. I would guess and maybe staff, you can jump up here if you have it. This area has a higher percentage of primary homeownership than other districts in the city. Yeah. So more households own their homes than do households in other areas. Absolutely, yes. Okay. So that gets to my next point. When we talk about [ inaudible ] all right. For just a moment. When we talk about how can we use a neighborhood plan like this to broadcast, again, its not just the Planning Department that will have to call it with so many strategies. Its also our sister agencies, Planning Department does not do everything. How do we prevent displacement what do you mean, we dont do everything . How do we prevent displacement even as we look at this neighborhood in the future, and i think technically, when you look at an area, we need to focus on what are the tools for people who are cost burdened for Home Ownership . I think we spent a lot of time thinking about rentalsubsidy or figuring out tools to figure out displacement for people who do not own their homes, which is a different set of tools, but we dont talk enough about how do we prevent displacement for people who do own their homes, and that is actually problematic. I think people tend to think if you own your home, youre all good, but if youre cost burdened, and the data we have here says that 40 of people who own their homes are cost burdened, meaning they pay more than 30 of their Household Income towards their home costs. We need to be thinking about 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