Be rented. Right . Maam, your time is up. Thank you very much. All right. Appreciate it. Next speaker, please. My name is rafael picasso. Born and raised in the Mission District, and i cant afford the mission. Thats a shame. I grew up here. I work for the city. I make decent money. Do you think i want to spend 3 to 6,000 on rent . That would take my whole paycheck all year long. It would put me like the lady that was just speaking, on the streets. It doesnt matter if i make 75,000 a year. I cant live here no more. Its getting too expensive. A lot of my people, just like the lady that just spoke, are becoming homeless because weve got these developers who want to build these units, but theyre not building it for me. I cant live in these units. My people cannot live in these units. None of us. We want Affordable Housing. We need Affordable Housing. We dont need techie people coming into our city driving up the rents on the natives. We demand it. Think about it. Be human. Have a heart. Think about the people who was born and raised here. Straight up. Im not looking at them. Im looking at you because i know who you are. Okay . Think about us. I was born and raised here. I cant live here. I cant live in the city that i love . Honestly . I ask you now. Do the right thing by the people you represent. You guys represent me. You guys represent everything back here. These guys dont even live in San Francisco, but theyre outside developers, and they want to come in and bring outsiders into our cities and our neighborhood and then mark us like we do the day of the dead festivals. Complain about our festivals. These are things that have been going on for over 40 years. We are the mission. Save it for the people of the mission. We love our city. We contribute to this city. You are our representatives. I thank you for your time. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is sandra vacera. This project does not represent the Mission Street and its community. A building like this one is not going to represent our murals. When making a decision on this matter, think about all the families you will be displacing. Think about the culture that will be lost because once you lose that, it cant be brought back. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I live two blocks from the proposed project. I am a homeowner. Luckily, my inlaws helped us buy a house years ago. Unfortunately, my mother who lived on 24th with my son was evicted. These apartments, or these luxury condos or whatever you want to call them, theyre not there to help people like my mother who was evicted. Theyre not even the affordable units, the whole housing application process, no one i know has ever gotten in. I think you should explore that as a Planning Commission because that doesnt even work. These are houses no one can afford, and these are houses no one is ever going to get in. I dont care what lottery we say that we have. It does not really work. Im also the board chair of Mission Language vocational school, which is located at 2929 19th street. We have not been any conversations that im aware of with any of the developers. How all of this will impact the community that were trying to serve, how this is going to impact parking in the neighborhood, how this is going to impact Small Businesses who need parking for when people come to visit and support their small business, this is just bad planning. All of these condos are just inviting people from outside when we have so many people already in the inside that need housing. Please, i implore you to look at the plan. This is not helping the people that currently live in San Francisco. It sounds good on paper. It may look good, but lets really look at who we need to help. We need to preserve the communities of San Francisco. Im feeling run out, and i live here. And every single day, im looking at my new neighbors, and im like, oh, my god. What happened to all of my old neighbors . So we really need to take a whole look. We need to establish a cultural district in the city, and we need to preserve the people that are here. We need to build housing for them. Thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] next speaker, please. Hello. Good afternoon. My name is norma. I was also born and raised in the mission, two blocks away from the proposed development. 2750 19th street. I work for the shelter that serves the homeless population. Ive seen the impact that gentrification has had on the people. Im here today to oppose the baby beast on bryant street. Like roberto said, were ground zero of evictions. It saddens me of the possibility that my children and my childrens children will no longer afford to live here. We want to be able to live, work, and thrive in a city that we have always been in. Thank you for your time. Thats all i have. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is olga osborne. Ive lived in San Francisco since 1969. Im here in solidarity with the people of the mission. When i first game to San Francisco in 69, i lived in the mission at 18th and guerrero for 17 years. Ive been in ashbury for the last 42 years. Im a retired rn. I retired about six years ago. So i have rent control in my building. However, my building has been sold to venture capitalists three times in the last three years. So im right on the hit list, you know, for being evicted. Im 72 years old. I dont know if i said that. You know, i always thought this was my home. Like i say im the first one that they want to evict in my building because i pay the least rent. People underneath me pay 6,000 a month, which is the same layout as mine. And they have one unit in the front they renovated, and its probably 5,000. So i used to think i could live in that apartment the rest of my life, but i cant, probably. And i could be homeless myself. I understand this. This is bad, whats happening in the city. The venture capitalists coming in and taking over and the people who have lived here and contributed to San Francisco all their lives are now being thrown out. If i get thrown out, i will never be able to afford an apartment in the city. Neither will my children who were born and raised here also. They cant come back to the city. Please do something. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. So im another lifelong resident. My name is Carlos Gutierrez from the Mission District. When youve been here for 60 years, like my family has been, these people here from our community, they care about the wellbeing of our community. You know, weve seen a lot of changes. Contrary to some peoples belief, we actually embrace change in our community. Sometimes. But the change were seeing now is unnatural. We can stop some of this unnecessary change. Were talking about the evictions, of course, but were talking about the developments that dont keep the community as a whole in mind. The people who are evicted as a result. You know, were here because we care about the wellbeing of the residents and can we truly say that . Not all developers are the same. We have some Great Developers out there, but can we truly say these developers really care about the wellbeing of the Mission District . You have to think about that. Ask yourselves, is this project necessary for the community . Does this project think about the Mission District as a whole . And the residents as a whole . Not the leave anyone out, exclude anyone out. We embrace a lot of these changes, but lets hope they make sense for the long term and shore term as well. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is scott weaver. Well, youve heard people talking about this project in light of the whole, in light of whats happening in the mission. I think all too often in this room, youre looking at projects in isolation. I dont know if this overhead is working, but ive done a little calculation here. If i could have the overhead there we go. Based on the pipeline report, which is very difficult to go through, and then looking through the sf information map to figure out how many units are past Environmental Review built or entitled in this Mission District alone . The number i came up with is 3414. I did not count buildings with 10 or fewer units, except in two instances that i was familiar with the building. Thats a lot more than the preferred project of the eastern neighborhood plan, which was 1,600 thats the wrong number. Its 1,692. Thats more than what is studied in eir, which is 2,054. So were overbuilding right now. Halfway through the eastern neighborhoods plan. Were twice as many units. Right now. And way more by any calculation that was analyzed by the eir. How can mitigation set forth in the eir, the impacts identified by the eir and the eastern neighborhoods plan, how can that possibly be relevant in todays world when youre looking at each of these projects individually . How can this plan possibly will relevant . Thank you. Thank you. Hi. My name is marie swanson. Commissioner kopp, you said some on ellis street, yeah, some projects go through and some crash. Well, heres the crash. I was in on those negotiations. After the last time i was here with you with them, we havent heard anything, as youve heard. So im not going to address it. Im just going to say, you know, this proliferation of buildings that we have coming online around the mission, i swear to god, they all look like prisons. And this one either looks like a prison or a mental institution. Its like that stanley i didnt even know it was stanley. Everybody loves him, but i think hes really overrated at south wednesday and s and 15th. My god. Lets get a little esthetic going here. If were going to be saddled with these horribly overpriced luxury buildings, give us something to look at at least. Anyway, i hope you make them go back and negotiate more with us. Thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] next speaker, please. Hi. Having equity is a very close topic near and dear to my heart. My family has been evicted twice. I went to three different high schools because i moved around so much. Mission street has been the only street, even though ive never lived there because we couldnt afford it, Mission Street has always been my only consistent home. When i came back from grad school studying Public Health, it was a ghost town. It is a ghost town. Every now and then, every couple of weeks, i see someone i recognize, but theyre no longer here. I dont know where everyone has gone. Some have gone across the county. Everywhere. Everyone has had to scatter. Some have even become homeless. I really want you all to consider really consider what we have to say today because it is a Public Health issue. If we dont have access to housing, Everything Else in our lives falls apart. Really, really consider this. It can really affect peoples lives, so please, please find it in your heart to figure out how we can make sure that we have Affordable Housing for our community. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I dont know if you know your history, but this state of california back in the gold rush period paid people, bounty hunters, to kill native americans to take their land. Youre part of that. Because through you, an established system of capitalism, youre allowing these developers to kill us. [applause] do you know what im trying to say . You want respect because you sit up there . Well, give us our respect. What the hell do you think is going on today . You make that little girl cry. You make people come in and beg for you. Hell no. Youre wrong. Stop being the bounty hunters for the rich and famous. Were like your children. We are like your cousins. We are human beings, and we want and we will stay in our community. I dont give a what you do. Dont side with them anymore. Im telling you, were going to come knock at your front door. Were going to be at your door and in your Childrens School telling you what youre really about. Are you for the people or for the rich people . You have to make a determination, or maybe you made it already. So i dont give a puck who you are then. If you dont come outside, then youre subjective to the power of the rich, and well fight you to the end. Goodnight. Thank you. [applause] next speaker, please. Commissioners, you received emails from me giving you updates on the status of the negotiations that you had directed the project sponsor to participate in. We being the mission that represents a couple dozen Community Organizations in the mission that are providing services to those who have been evicted, to those who need shelter, and to those who need compassion. This project has many deficits besides youve told them to sit with us, and theyve told us no. As we brought to you last november 30th, it was a lot of promises with no by] by taking away the pdr space on the ground floor, they are not providing a mix. They just now popped up with a 2,500 out of the 7,500 square feet theyre going to be taking away as pdr. But what does that mean . What are the details . This is not an ironed out mitigation plan. As you can hear, the mission is overbuilt. The mission eir is overdone. We need to really sit down and get into the details. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Commissioners, im a fourth generation San Francisco resident. Were in dire need of housing. Please approve this project without further delay. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hey, im here sister, so im also fourth generation. Anyway, were the owners of the building on 27th. Nobody is being displaced out of the nest. Were moving to a different part of the city. And were all on board with the project. And we are supplying Affordable Housing as well as across the street is going Affordable Housing. So please approve this project. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. I live a couple of blocks away from this project. What youre hearing today is a lot of anger, frustration, and suffering that our community has experienced in the neighborhood. Today we marched from 20th and mission all the way to city hall. These folks in the rain, you know, in the middle of the week came to tell you how theyre feeling and how angry they are. Its been a real struggle for our community. For folks, developers, to come in and tell us what works for us, thats not good. We had a lot that came to the table. It was tough, yes, but at least we had that conversation. They heard us and said, this is what we can offer to you guys in this community. We didnt get this opportunity here. The ladies up front, they dont know gentrification, how it works. Its a Ripple Effect of all the surrounding buildings and it causes displacement. Thats what j je gentrification. Please disapprove this project. [please stand by] and so again, we dont know what it is. Could be an upscale brew pub, right . That is the kind of thing, and for something now, and without something clear, this offer is, a. , not acceptable to the community and b. , not in accordance with what you directed them to do. We hope you will weigh that into the decision right now. Thank you. President hillis thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners. This being planning, it wouldnt be a hearing without facts and figures, but im only going to drop one. Since 2000, since the year 2000, working class people, like the people from the community who have been speaking this afternoon and this evening about their suffering and their anger and their experiences have been replaced by highend earners in the mission at almost 2 1. Now, you may or may not be willing to accept that projects such as this have a Ripple Effect around them and induce displacement, but what we do know is there is a need for affordable units. That is the most effective way to stop this kind of dynamic. Well, have the project sponsors ever negotiated about this in good faith . No. Have they ever negotiated about anything whatsoever in good faith . Clearly not, even after you asked them to do so. They simply are not negotiating. That is that alone is reason enough for you to reject this project, and im asking that you do so. Thank you. Hill rr thank you. President hillis thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon, commissioners. I am brent bently, originally born and raised in detroit, michigan, and right now im at the day lever program. I represent the womens collective, and this just really makes me sick to be an american or especially a san franciscan. Its because everything so going up for no reason, especially for the rich people and the poor. And the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Come on, thats a literally bull [bleep] for everybody. And theres no love. And you think we are all americans and united we stand and departed we fall . Show enough departed we fall. Show some compassion. Show some love. Other than that, if we go the 2019 like this in advance, man, im done talking. Thank you very much. President hillis thank you. Any additional Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, well close Public Comment and open it up to commissioner questions and comments. Commissioner melgar. Vice president melgar ill go first. I have a lot to say. So i will be voting against this project. Thats what you probably expected, but i do, you know, want to Say Something about this because there are, like mr. Weaver state d, thousands of units in the pipeline in the mission. A couple of weeks ago somebody put in my packet the book about screeching owls and vomiting anarchists, which i read in the bathtub one day. It was cute. It reminded me of the illustrated marx book my mom got me when i was six years old, but, you know, what was missing in that book, which i think, you know, was a smart analysis in a libetarian kind of way was anything about race in america. And race has been the defining factor in real estate prices in america and in our cities. San francisco had a terrible history with redevelopment in the western additio