Spell doom for the positive community, social and spiritual qualities that are diversity and character that have made our south of market neighbourhood a special place renowned around the world. Unless, instead, we intervene directly now to secure affordable locations for all the community buildings, assets and homes that run [inaudible] to make our best south of market future possible. [coughing] and unless instead as a city and a community, we leverage this extraordinary growth and maximize the effective use of its enormous resources to realise the best neighbourhood possibilities it offers. To create a 21st century south of market neighbourhood that will be as special as the last one. This is the vision of our central Soma Community plan. It can be done. Good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you for your time. Im joyce from the toddco development plan. Were looking for Affordable Housing. Without these provision, market first will overwhelm soma declining the diversity that has made it the special place we all khish. Thank you. Good afternoon. John eberle, president of todco. The planned document you have in front of you details all the provisions that we believe it will take to accomplish these objectives. We want to especially highlight the empowerment and the necessity of empowering the community with a Community Advisory board. It isnt just the eastern neighbourhood stuff. It isnt just stabilization. Its reviewing the entire accomplishment of the entire central soma plan over the 20, 30 years it takes. That is the only way to make sure it can be done. Thank you. Thank you. So, can we have representives of the second group . Welcome. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is karla and i am the executive director of west bay filipino Multiservice Centre and im helping facilitate the we are soma coalition. Today speaking will be myself, mario demyera, connie ford and misha olivez and were respecting the we are soma coalition. We are soma. We are a coalition of Service Providers and organisations that have been working with the community for over 50 years. We have decades of experience working with government agencies, the mayors office, the private sector and Community Stakeholders to really make sure that the existing soma communities in an instrumental part of the conversation. We are not new to displacement but we definitely see central soma as an opportunity to learn from the past. And to bring holistic growth tots soma as a whole. I just wanted to say this from earlier, too. Were not in opposition of central soma. Were just speaking to make sure that the existing community is represented. These are some of the organisations that we represent. Sorry. If you want to see it for a second longer. [laughter] laugh and the vision that we have is we drive for a soma that stabilizes, preserves and represents all of its Community Members and works toward the growth of a hollistic community. And we really want to Work Together with somas diverse Community Members, governments agencies, like i said earlier, and the private sector to really make sure that the central soma plan is inclusive to the overall soma neighbourhood. The areas that are really important for us to discuss are around Affordable Housing, community facilities, resident services, open space and living wage jobs. And our priorities that were going to be talking about today are around stabilization, preservation, community involvement, Community Control and what growth towards a Holistic Community really looks like. So heres mario to speak about stabilization and preservation. Good afternoon, commissioners. Happy black history month. Thank you for this opportunity to speak to the commission. My name is mario demira, im the Community Development manager with soma filipinos. Were a cultural generation in the making. Filipinos have lived in the south market for a century, a continue wows influx of filipino families pushed out of our homeland has formed the life blood of soma filipinos. Our struggle to make home, preserve culture and build community is the story of soma filipinos. For decades, we faced and resisted displacement from institutional policies like redevelopment and various ways of tech and Financial Capital boons. Soaring housing prices have fored many of our working families to live in substandard Living Conditions in. A recent town hall, a local elder talked about how as many as these familis can lives in a single room occupancy unit. Korgtsz the housing balance report, weve lost 125 units with protected status. This shows that somma filipinos as well as the broader working class Soma Community has been impacted by unjust housing policies. We believe that, if done properly, the central somaarea plan can correct some of the institutional wrongs and not only stabilize and preserve community, but create pathways for some of the most disenfranchised people to thrive. Stabilization, cultural preservation can be accomplished by developing a comprehensive strategy that protects the existing Affordable Housing stock while also expanding Affordable Housing development. We need to invest in our local workforce. As the south of Market Experience unprecedented growth in multiple industries, our local indigenous Workforce Needs to have access to living wage jobs. Additionally, we need policies that support the aspiring neighbourhood growing businesses and also protect longterm cultural legacy businesses. As an example, soma filipinos night market has brougtz over 10,000 people to the old mint and has generated an average of 60,000 in Economic Activity in a single night. Lastly, the central soma plan can potentially provide opportunities to develop partnerships that help sustain and expand communitybased organisations, that provide direct services, advocacy, training, recreation, Public Safety and arts and culture. Community on the frontlines of displacement are often asked the question development for whom . Let us make it a Just Development for all. Thank you. [please stand by] [please stand by] to this in the end means obtaining these goals. That is the instrument is a cac or a community cac. Any way, we are in all of these organizations, support whats going on here. We just want to have input, and we, the workers, we the residents, we the developers, and we the city, if we all Work Together, we can make this work, so lets keep going at it together. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is michelle olivas. I am with united playas. I am born and raised in San Francisco. I have lived in soma since 2000, and district six and soma specifically have born the brunt of development in San Francisco with little or no return on investment in the community. This cannot continue. We have a lot of feedback to share, but today, we really just want to make sure you hear. We are concerned that we will be involved in this process, and that we expect that the Community Voice is sought out, respected, and incorporated into this plan. As a soma resident, its really challenging for me to kind of idealize this wonderful new neighborhood thats going to be happening a couple blocks away from the rest of soma, and our Current Community is in crisis. So we have a unique opportunity to move toward a more holistic soma, but the service thats being poured into the community have to benefit the entire neighborhood. We expect a really strong Community Voice and control of the benefit and impact fees so they can best be used to meet the growing needs and emerging needs as that neighborhood figures out who they are. We look forward to working closely with you are. We have been working with steve and we look forward to that continuing, but just really incorporating some of the ideas, some of the priorities that we have really working together to make sure that the central soma plan will move forward in a way that supports and builds a great soma for all. Thank you. Thank you, miss olivas. Are you the last speaker . Okay. Great. So well open this up now for general public comment. Ive got a number of speaker cards. If youll lineup on the screen side of the room, that would help. Aaron, kim, rochelle, lisa, jina, nora, wilma, and you can speak in any order. Go ahead, maam. Go ahead. You can speak. Members of the planning committee. Good afternoon. I live in 631 folsom, which is the San Francisco view, but im just going to say, i dont have a view. Follow street street and the Lincoln Building killed any view i could have, so i just wanted to get that out there. While the rapid growth of the Tech Industry in San Francisco especially in our neighborhood has been an exciting element and an economic boone to the say, Rampant Development without looking at other options is a problem in an already congested neighborhood. Long time residents already struggle with vehicle traffic conjustification due to the proximity of highway access ramps, the ballpark, the Convention Center and the ever increasing use of lyft and uber to move people around the neighborhood. Increasing Office Spaces only increases the number of commuters that will have to come in from outside the city. Those who lived in the soma since 2008 have created a real neighborhood in all sense of the word. Weve established a Multigenerational Community over the years. Now were watching it become over shadowed but soulless glass and steel towers. Please keep those of us who invest this community in mind and approve the 2013 midrise central soma plan this year. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. Im gina carriaga, and im here on behalf of soma neighborhoods and sf blue. By our neighborhood, i amy specifically addressing the area bounded by folsom street and i80 twine second and third streets. Im here asking you to consider modifying the central soma highrise plan for this area and to adopt the 2013 midrise height limit in this area. We are a mixed use residential neighborhood with unique and Historic Architectural resources such as the Second Street clock tower and the Carlyle Building on harrison street. Within a block of the clock tower, there already exists five residential buildings totaling 600 condos and residential units. On any given day youre going to see us locals among the workforce commuters and hundreds of giants fans walking through our neighborhood. By the way, this is one of the sunniest neighborhoods in San Francisco, and we get a terrific view of the sky just as pedestrians. Its a wonderful pedestrian experience, and that will only get better with the citys Second Street improvement project. The central soma plan would allow buildings up to 350 feet to be built in this area. These properties are not close to b. A. R. T. And theyre not close to caltrain, but they are located at the foot of the bay bridge exits ramp. Extreme development here would encourage more automobile usage, not public transit. The 2013 midrise plan would allow up planning from the current 80 feet but would cap limits at 130 feet. We still this is a good compromise and would still allow for substantial development on the properties while maintaining the current midrise on the neighborhood. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, president hillis and members of the Planning Commission. Im courtney dankroger, and im here on behalf of planning the old u. S. Minute. It is a singularly importance resource in San Francisco and the u. S. West. As a central soma planning process progresses, it will be important toen shufr that at least the proposed 20 million retrofit funding committed to the old minute remains intact. Much work has been done to date by many on the revitalization of the old minute, but the efforts must be supported by sufficient funding through the central soma plan process. This is the window of opportunity for the old minute, full and productive reuse. The old minute is an anchor to the area and thankfully its restoration is a goal of the plan, but without a strong commitment to needed funding, the old minute cannot serve as the catalyst that the central soma plan deserves. Now is the time to clearly affirm the citys commitment to the old minute and cement its place in San Franciscos history of culture and learning. Thank you. Thank you, miss dankroger. Next speaker, please. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is jim morshau, and im here representing San Francisco victorian alliance. Were an old Preservation Group from the 70s. We are very active with over 300 members. We met last night, talking about this, and following miss dankrogers comments regarding the old mint, were here to extend our comments as well, that this is one of the most incredible assets, and when i heart mr. Wertheim say the philosophy is keep whats great, few things come to mind at least in a physical presence in this community, few thing thats can rival list. Its been on the National Trust for Historic Preservation for several years, and it is absolutely key to preserving our heritage. It provides benefits to tourism, cultural development, Community Development. Its long overdue, and the cha now in charge of the site, we have every reason to believe that the funding will be well spent and hearing some other comments, you know, some of the opposition groups bought up, the filipino knight market, weve had all kinds of people coming up for history days. What we envision here is no musky underused museum doing boring things, but making this incredible historic asset into ann an enlivened, activated and preserved space so that it will find its new life and its new role as well as respecting its past. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next mi. [ inaudible ] and i know a lot of work has gone into this plan so far, but if we are going to create those affordable neighborhoods, then we need a lot more Affordable Housing at the right level of affordablity than is in the current proposed plan. Thats how were going to get to the neighborhoods where the people who help build it get to stay where their kids get to grow up and raise their families there. Where people who come for those new jobs can stay for those new jobs. We just want to continue to have deep Meaningful Community involvement and its continued creation and implementation. Thanks. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is wilma parker, and i am here representing a no group, not even far city, who has a plan next to the mint, not even heritage, but i am a pedestrian. I have been walking past the mint for the past 40 years. Of course im interested in the mint. Its an incredible bozart building, and its been incredibly neglected. In the old days, i used to be able to go in and it had a childrens room and you could do pottery, but then, it got locked up. I know all of asia, europe, countries everywhere cannot believe that we have such an asset as the mint and we dont flaunt it, little more than we do do. It was our eiffel tower. It was our leaning one until we got a new one. It is our coliseum, and it deserves to be more than a tourist attraction or some kind of a political distraction. The mint is an amazing asset. Its hard to know really what to do with it, but theres so much that can be done, and it is a shame that people come here and they cant really see it. Im glad theres a night market, but 40 years a pedestrian, you wont catch me there at night. We all know the story of the mint, the men the day of the quake knew they had a we will there and water. They decided to keep the hoses on, they nearly fried to death, but when they came out in the morning, they were the only building standing. If they would have kept that up, the streets around the mint would have run with gold. They are running with gold now, with the flashing down the steps. Theres been a little bit of an improvement. Theres that big sneaker company, i think it was nike, i dont know. But they had that whole place relandscaped and hired a guard. Thats the only real improvements the mints got, and i would actually like to see it returned to some real use. Im happy with the cultural use thats going on there, but however, im going to Say Something there that isnt often heard. I have a great new idea. We know theres going to be another big influx of money in San Francisco. The strikes of gold put not only San Francisco but america on the map. Money would have been found. Were going to get a new influx of gold from the marijuana industry. Now, i understand the mint is owned by San Francisco. The marijuana is legal now but not federally. The mint belongs to us. Lets open that bank they want. Banks dont want to touch that money, but we could have a bank