Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20180210

SFGTV Government Access Programming February 10, 2018

Initial application dates was grandfathered to a lower transportation fund, and theyre paying the full transportation sustainable fee equivalent, and we at mta with our City Partners have agreed with these revenues along with the pier 70 development which has already been approved will be reinvested in this area as opposed to distributed citywide, and the reason we feel really comfortable doing this is this neighborhood and southern of this area are really aware where the majority of this effort is happening and do deserve concentrated investment. The kind of investments that youll see is building along that network that i described earlier, so really looking at the t third line. Exposing and concealing gaps in our bicycling networks, and funding improvements for bus transit in the area. So with that, im going to turn it back over to phil, from the port. Supervisors, that actually concludes our presentation today. We are available to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you. Great. Thank you so much. 1k3 and so i want to call up members of the public who wish to speak. People flock to these different neighborhoods in saech search of something novel and different. Yet where i live, people drive through on their way to a different destination. Those that live in the area leave to go to other neighborhoods. Mission rock will create an inviting, inclusive, vibrant neighborhood drawing on the residents of mission bay, mission rock and south beach. Mission rock will bring about new friendships and relationships, the very essence of community. Neighbors supporting new small businesses. It will friday more Affordable Housing, presently in short supply, and with eight acres of open space, it addresses a desperately needed facet of urban living. It is important to recognize then in the undertaking of this project, the giants held numerous workshops and open houses. It was commendable the hard work and dedication exhibited by local groups such as south beach rincon hill Mission Bay Neighborhood association and the Mission Bay Citizen Advisory Committee whose voices helped shape this project. With their input and commitment to a better San Francisco along with civic leaders, social interest groups, and other political leaders citywide, the Mission Project is a model development. It is a winwin for all. The reverend Arnold Townsend said something at the Port Commission hearing january thank you. And as the timer comes up, youre welcome to finish your sentence, so if we can allow people to do that, thank you. Thank you. Hi. My name is stephanie mueller. Im here to represent delancey street neighborhood. I agree weve been friends and partners of the giants with at t park and the entire building of the community, and we are so looking forward to the possibility of jobs, the possibility of some Affordable Housing. Just as an aside, you know, as you know better than anyone here, delancey streets dedicated to helping people change their lives, and they spent two, three, four years in this neighborhood. When they graduate, looking for jobs or housing in San Francisco, its impossible, so we are so supportive and so excited about this project. And i just wanted to come here to be able to say that, so thank you. Thank you, and we love delancey street. Good afternoon, chair tang, supervisors kim, safai. My name is bruce, and im speaking in support of the items associated with the mission rock development. Im involved in the community, serving on the board and transportation rep of the south beach, rin son hill Neighborhood Association, however, my Public Comment today is being provided specifically as a native san franciscan and a nine year resident of mission bay. Over the past six years, ive had the opportunity, along with my neighbors, some for up to ten years being involved in the process fof the planning of the mission rock development. This included providing feedback on a variety of public documents and had Numerous Community outreach meetings and wosh shops. Nod to current residents and local businesses, the developers of mission bay were also involved in the process. This is good for us as neighbors, our community and ci city. As i mentioned, this helped shape the project we see today, striking a delicate balance on the amount of parks, waterfront access, housing, neighborhood serving retail and restaurants, preparation for Sea Level Rise and office space. Im not an expert in the financial aspects of development, but this project brought together an amazing and Diverse Group of stakeholders and experts to find the optimum mix of land uses while providing some flexiblity to ensure success of the project. There were some land minute discussions, thank you, supervisor kim to agree that this project could raise its Affordable Housing from 33 to 40 . With that, we have the parking along the waterfront, and please provide the necessary approvals to allow the mission bay waterfront to move forward. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisor kim and supervisors. My name is vanessa, and im here to show my support for the mission rock. Im a proud san franciscan and living in dogpatch for over 14 years, and this community is my family. I lived in various neighborhoods, but this dogpatch is my really connect close hearted people. That being said, as board of member of the dogpatch association, ive seen amazing changes all around dogpatch community, the bayview district, mission bay, and mission rock. This is exciting. We are living in exciting i am times because our city is growing for the best. Heres why i ask you to support the mission rock project Mission Project will address the need of Affordable Housing which is desperately needed. As we all know our population is increasing, and having Affordable Housing now is key. Mission rock project will support area Median Income which will support low to middle income households, include Public Servants such as nurses and teachers. Mission rock will have units for transitional age youth, and id like to share with the last 30 seconds i have here how important transitional age youth is because i used to live in a group home. Ward of court of San Francisco. I did not have those services after i left the group home, and i think what the giants and mission rock are doing is great to support transitional age youth from foster and group homes. I ask that you please approve the mission rock project and lets keep the communication going. Thank you and have a great evening. Good evening, supervisors. My name is karen alschuler. Im a resident of San Francisco. I cant stay away from the excitement of the edge of a city of a great city or working to find the best role for that edge in the city or reaping the benefits of the investments we and private people city and the private people make in those areas, and taking leadership because its so visible. It tells the story about a city. In that experience, i think mission rock stands out for me. Ive been engaged since day one, jack, on the project, and i think its really stayed true to its values, open arms and focus on the public first. Id like to emphasize the way in which the community has played a significant rollover ten years, and in ten years i have to stay engaged, nimble, and inventive. We have made partners, partners from the local community, partners around key issues, environment and energy, and focusing then, inviting them to be our partners and making decisions are what this committee looks at, land use and transportation. We invited them to be our partners in order to get down to specifics. The neighborhoods and particularly the local neighborhoods where people have grown to create a Mission Bay Community in those years have been invited to the table to make choices about what is needed, what fills the gaps, what needs to be programmed, so that it will be rewarding for all. Theres no back door to mission bay, mission rock project. Its open to all of its neighbors, and i invite you all to come to the table to discuss, live in, and enjoy it. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. My names corrine woods. Ive been involved in this project for more than ten years and in mission bay for much longer. Im also a close neighbor to the mission rock project and at t park. I wanted to thank the giants for the collaborative way they approached this process. Weve had many, many meetings, many, many workshops over the last ten years, and the giants listened to the community. I get my park up front, which is really important. I want to thank all of the other city agencies who have cooperated on this. This has been a tremendous interagency cooperative effort oewd, mta, planning, public works. Everybody has worked together on this to get to a project that i hope will be better than mission bay, and i urge your support. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Good afternoon, madam chair and members of the public. My name is maya aguilar, and i serve as the manager for the San Francisco Parks Alliance. We are over 200 Community Groups leveraging every year, we try to raise millions for or parks, playgrounds and open spaces. Im here representing the Parks Alliance in support of the mission rock project. I served in the Parks Alliance for two years and ever since completion of the big trail has been a huge priority for us. We believe that opening the waterfront and making connections to reconnect the waterfront to the population, its a really important piece of this project, and we applaud the Mission Rocks efforts on planning eight acres of new open spaces and revitalizing th the mission for San Francisco residents. The parka lines believes that giants have been extremely in addressing the city needs for more active recreation opportunities. We are truly thrilled to see the San Francisco giants commitment on prioritization of parks by the first phase of their plan. Were particularly pleased with the considerations that have been made to address Sea Level Rise, the creation of open waterfront and investments towards the use of alternative methods of transportation such as bike connections and bike share stations. On a personal note, on the Parks Alliance, we have been trying to inform and engage Community Members from all the waterfront to the big front projects that are happening on those areas. It doesnt matter in f we had groups of five or 50 people, the mission rock project was always open to receive people who were here on those projects. Thank you so much. Im here today okay. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im alice rogers, and id like to comment through three different lenses. First as a neighbor, im going on a quarter century here in San Francisco. Here from the sausalito waterfront and now on this waterfront. As a neighbor, i did participate in the many workshops and hearings on this project, and i cant say highly enough how extensive the outreach was and how engaging all of the visuals so that neighbors could really engage in a thoughtful way. Id also like to mention im a director or an officer of the south beach rincon Neighborhood Association and mission bay. We do engage in policy levels, and this Development Team was very generous in meeting with us on the retail and public realm component, and they, over the course of their development, shared the information that they were cultivating, and they really are a beacon for us in terms of retail and public realm. We have a failed retail and public realm at the moment, so we are very looking forward to this. And lastly, im a director on of block San Francisco, and i would like to commend this project in terms of its pedestrian safety. It again is a standard bearer on that level. It addresses our values of diversity, inclusion, and equity, and after that, we hope that you wont see mission bay on the map as a data point because theyve instituted so many of the better streets and safe streets standards. Thank you. Thank you, miss rogers. Good afternoon, madam chair, supervisors. My name is ken tray. Im a retired 25 year social studies teacher in San Francisco, and im here representing the united educators of San Francisco. Were the 6,000 plus folks who keep our Public Schools running day in and day out. So the first thing that uesf wants to note here is that we are in full support of this project and in fact, if i was wearing my hat, id tip it to the giants, to supervisor kim, to the neighbors, to our labor partners, local 2, the Hotel Workers and others, who reached the 40 affordable rate of housing, 40 affordable rate of housing in the city of San Francisco. So i have been involved in many negotiations over too many years, and this out come is superlative. It represents San Francisco values. One thing i want to note, and im sure the follow through will be there is that in the plan, there is the space to make sure that San Francisco educators find their homes in the mission bay project. And so i know that in a few years therell be a number of teachers and other school staff with the other thousands of neighbors who will be enjoying the incredible open space, the livable breadth of the roads and the retail shops will be enjoying that space and also will have a number of teachers and school staff who will be able to walk to teacher night at the ballpark. Thank you, mr. Tray. Thank you, madam chair, members of the committee. My name is amy lemley, and im the executive director of john burton advocates for youth. We work on behalf of Homeless Children and youth and children in california yaez juvenile justice and foster systems. The good news is californias system has improved considerably in the last ten years. The majority of young people will be safely reunified with their family or to adoption, however, theres a significant number of young people who dont progress to that, who actually remain in our foster care system until thiss no longer age eligible. Within 24 hours, one in three will experience homelessness. Longterm, its even worse. If we really care about longterm, public homelessness, this is the opportunity to intervene, and im very happy to report, thats exactly what this project does. It has set aside these beautiful units for San Franciscos former foster youth and integrated those units into the mainstream housing, which is just spectacular. So we know that with this foundation, former foster youth in San Francisco will have the opportunity not just to stay in their community but also to get a leg up in Higher Education as well as have economic security. So i urge your support, and thank you very much. Good afternoon, madam chair tang, supervisors kim, safai, and peskin. My name is henry kanilowicz. Im the president of the San Francisco district of mer kmants associations. I got your names right, right . Thank you, supervisor. It is a really fabulous thing that the giants are doing. Not just building a place for housing, for shopping, but scm village, and a vehicle tack lar project it is. Here they are, and as she just said a second ago, 40 Affordable Housing, however do we get that . I commend the giants for what they do for this city, and what theyre doing for this part of town. I look forward when theyre finished of going into the shops, be it a grocery shop or a cafe or barber or whoever is going to be there. The open land, fabulous project. Its great. Go giants. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im todd elberling of toddco. This project does not provide enough housing for all of its future workforce that will be in the offices on that site. It does not achieve 100 jobshousing balance. Its clear tho everybody in this ro to everybody in this room of the expansion of the Technology Jobs in our area. Its no fair to promise other housing thats going to be built on Treasure Island to meet the deficit that this project will cause. From now on, these large projects like pier 70, india basin, this project, the power plant site and maybe others, need to be completely selfsufficient with a 100 jobshousing balance. This is a great housing site. Its a great site. Theres no problem with the economic feasiblity to build the housing here. There is a way to not solve the problem but do a lot to lessen the deficit. This project includes flex sites that could be either housing or Office Development in the future. What should be done is this agreement should be modified so that those sites will have to be housing sites. Thatll bring it pretty close to full jobshousing balance, just like pier 70 achieved. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is kristin hall. Im a San Francisco resident, and i work in the neighborhood of mission rock, but im here to discuss my experience working on this project over the past five years and share that it

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