Can for our communities. And that type of integrity and commitment and tenacity has brought us to this point here. So supervisor kim, on behalf of all those families that would be living there and attending the mission bay school, i want to say thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you very much. Supervisor kim thank you supervisor fewer through the chair. And i want to acknowledge supervisor fewers work, since 2009 or 10, she has been advocating for a school in mission bay and last year was the sole voice on the board of education to push for dedicated funds for mission bay schools and the bond and i appreciate you being the voice, even though you dont represent our district, last year in those discussions and making sure we got on to the bond and i want to thank the giants for agreeing to committing and supporting the study process moving forward. Supervisor peskin was joking next to me it was only one night, it was more than one night, it took a lot over one night. So i dont see any other comments from colleagues, so through the chair, if we can open up for Public Comment. Im going to Say Something quickly. If you look at the timeline properly, supervisor, this is your culmination of two terms on the board of supervisors. This started in 2010, conversation culminated with the famous evening of negotiations, i think i saw you after that. Blurry eyed but happy the deal had been done and i want to recognize the giants. I think one of the things missed in the conversation but eluded to is that the giants are very prolabor organization. We have a lot of folks from Labor Community represented in the room. Not only the workers on site but the workers that will build the facility and this is going to create thousands of jobs for them and then also this was forward thinking in the sense that now we have many projects on public and non Public Land Following in the footsteps, i know we spent a year negotiating a project now that will be 40 affordable and so the expansion of that and this was the groundbreaking project in that regard. So middle class and working class families but also the long conversation we had on inclusionary housing. This is not just lowincome affordable, this is really and truly middle class housing that has not really been done. Weve had that conversation and this is all being done on the dime of the developer and the giants. I dont see any other name once the roster. Well open up for Public Comment. Speakers will have two minutes to comment on the item. Thank you. Good evening supervisors. Im chris kelton, my wife and i have lived in south beach for nearly 30 years and recently closed a business on townsend. We witnessed tremendous change, empty fields, cyclone fencing, condo apartments and mission bay. Despite all the development, we are missing the sense of a neighborhood. People drive through on their way to the 280 freeway, the bay bridge or another neighborhood seeking energy and liveliness. Im a the glass is half full kind of person and believe in a better tomorrow. Where you see a 28 acre asphalt parking lot, i see a blank canvas waiting for the broad stroke of the Artists Paint brush creating a master piece. You see a wind swept eyesore, i see potential for a better life for all, construction workers Building Mission rock, shops, restaurants, cafes, the neighbors of mission bay and south beach who will have a place to congregate, make new friends and explore new interests in an inclusive atmosphere and a better life for those living at mission rock. After propb passed, i stood in support of the project. I said at the time San Francisco had billed itself as a city that knows how to but was becoming known as a city that knows not to. I was proven wrong. Supervisors, i ask you and beg you to pass this project on and bring that potential for a better tomorrow for all. Thank you and next speaker, please. Good evening president breed and supervisors. Im a Community Organizer on staff at the San Francisco coalition. Im here to provide support for the bicycle components on behalf of our 10,000 plus members. We have seen a strong commitment from the giants to look at bicycles, Public Transit options. When it comes to the bicycle network, this means class four connections to mission rock street and when paired with class two and 3 along other streets will be a meaningful addition to our bicycle network. The Space Network will serve as the starting point for the blue greenway, trails, parks and open space along the southern water front. Its an incredibly important space and needs to be accessible for people riding bikes. Were happy to see a classone separated facility to open it up to all levels of riders and eventually connect to the Hunters Point shipyard. I want to recognize and thank the giants for their hard work in a great public planning process for this project. Their staff has made themselves available to us, so we look forward to seeing the project move forward and break ground. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Hi everybody. Im daniel turner, im the executive assistant at hamilton families and im here to read a letter on behalf of our ceo. Im writing to request your support for the mission rock project. Approved by San Francisco voters in 2015, this project will address a number of Housing Needs in the city of San Francisco. Including the need for hundreds of Affordable Housing units. With much planning and community input, the mission rockland use plan includes 40 Affordable Housing for low and middle income families. It also includes mixed unit sizes with two and three bedrooms for families. Mission rock will create eight acres of open park and space, neighborhood serving retail and onsite childcare for the community. In all of the years operating at t park, the San Francisco giants have formed relationships with the city and local nonprofits, including hamilton families and heading home initiatives to address family homelessness. The longterm commitment is why i urge you to support the project today. Thank you. Next speaker please. Im the ceo of the Parks Alliance, serving diverse city parks and open spaces, serving over 200 organization or friend of group, together with our partners, raising millions annually to improve our parks, playgrounds and open spaces. Im speaking in support of the approval of the mission bay project. Since 2003 when the mayor assembled a park force, it has served to realize the blue greenway vision for recreational areas along 13 miles from at t park to candlestick point. Much needed acres of new parts is a vital step in realizing the vision. For far too long, the eastern and southern waterfront has been disconnected from the other areas with lack of Pedestrian Access and trail connectivity making the need for the underserved neighborhoods. Opening eight acres of public space is a game changer for a neighborhood that has lacked open space and Central Community gathering space, 40 of housing goes a long way to afford to remain in this part to remain a part of this community. The Parks Alliance is please ed with the consideration that have been made to address sea level rise, land especially parkland is important to preserve, preparing the site for generations of us is a wise investment. This completion is a priority for the board of the Parks Alliance and we hope you support it as a whole and i want to thank giant and city staff for a great job in the project. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Supervisors, San Francisco building and Construction Trades Council and Bicycle Coalition for a number of years. Supervisor kim, i think in all the years and at all the various hearings before all the various bodies at which i have testified on behalf of this project and all the work i have done, i have managed to avoid a baseball metaphor, but in talking about four championships, you got me to say i think you have moved a fast ball down the middle of the pipe and giants are going to hit it out of the park. Proposition b, those of us involved in politics for some time in this year, not so many years ago, debate over Development Even more than now involved the close end combat. When i agreed to be a coplaintiff it was in fear this would be another one of the situations. I am pleasantly surprised at the broad public buyin that the giants have obtained for the project over the years and im trusting youll take care of the appropriate approvals today. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Good evening president breed and honorable members of the board of supervisors. Im the current political director for united educators of San Francisco and previously family liaison. Im here to speak in support of the mission rock project. This is a mixed integrated project that will provide housing for low income workers in San Francisco and middle class families. In particular, i want to be able to talk about how it will actually impact our para educators in San Francisco with our teachers play a role to support all students obtain a well rounded education. And this project would help many of our parents stay here in San Francisco and im going to describe who are the parent educators. Para educators are special ed teachers that work with special ed students and they work with prek students, they are security guards that help keep our schools safe and family liaisons that provide resources to keep families engaged in the childrens education. And i want to be able to say that this project is really significant because of the honest because of the honest negotiations that resulted in 40 of low income and middle income housing. You have labor, community, business and different stakeholders at the table wanted to meet the needs of the community. Growing up as a farm worker child, at the dinner table i heard my parents say if the growers would be honest in negotiations, it would improve the lives of farm workers. I urge your support for the project. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good evening president breed and members of the board of supervisors and especially supervisor jane kim for playing the long game. Its quite impressive that as supervisor safai said, you started your career at the board of supervisors with this project and youll be leaving quite a feather in the citys cap. And on behalf of San Francisco teachers and para educators, id like to continue anibells comments. Im on the executive board and 25 year school teacher, i think the whole city is now familiar that San Francisco teachers and para educators cannot afford to live in the city anymore. So representing the 6200 educators work in our school have become part of the site for Affordable Housing. Our mantra in the fight is to expand the pie, make room for middle income Affordable Housing, but in no way take from lower income San Francisco. Take the pie and expand more for everyone. In this matter, supervisor kim, giants, labor, community have weighed in on a forprofit project with 40 Affordable Housing. We hope that becomes the Gold Standard for San Francisco as we go forward. So just i wont leave you with my personal note. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. please stand by strong neighborhoods and communities versus financial profit and taxes, the city makes taxes whenever we can. Im here knocking on the door of market rate rents. Overhead, please. 80yearold gal, her market rate rent went up 600. She moved to another building and stroked ten months later. Wonderful little couple. Both of these are the nicest people. This couple, i didnt get a chance to shoot the photograph of that. This is the second rent increase. One of our residents who is still living there, a long time resident, about 20 years, she worked for the giants. She has to continue working for the giants because her below market rate apartment isnt paid for by her social security. Section 8, any unit there in section 8 . Any seniors . Weve four different groups of seniors, seniors that own their own home and cant take care of it, seniors whose legs are broken. We need to move homeless and put veterans in. There are disabled and less fortunate people that are part of our community. A market rate rent is a disaster. We need people to be able to stay and live in their community instead of making a yearly hotel. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good evening, supervisors. My name is karen. Im a planner and designer. Im here as a 25 year resident of the city of San Francisco. As a planner of some 40 years and many more than 40 urban waterfront projects including mission rock in the very beginning. Theres not one other project thats ignited the same passions and pride that mission rock has done for me. There are many reasons, but ill touch on three. The essence and value of the probably executive probably executive, the partnership forms and the leadership by the team for mission rock. Essence and values, from the day jack walked into our firm, the first days of this project, from that first day, we didnt have trouble agreeing on the values of what we wanted at mission rock, a place of interest and innovation, comfort, and choice and diversity that would have open arms to all. We agreed on that. That was the kind of think of the torch from the olympics. It was kind of the flame that has sustained us throughout. You will find that commitment to those values, the values of the public. Participation of this site in everything thats in front of you this evening. Community partnership was clear. Youve heard comments about that already, sharing, engaging, and partnering together to decide what should be in this project from the big picture to the small. Lip never been comfortable with a face value of things, but moving on with research and commitment to take the long look. As a result, this will be an extraordinary place to live, work, and visit, well worth the pride and passions that i feel for the project and all of its creators feel in the community, but also for your pride and passions as you take agency on on action on this project moving ahead. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Well, here we go again. Another gentrification of San Francisco. When this is it going to be too much . When is the congestion go to be too much for you people . If you let this project goes, it proves who you really are. Youre not thinking of the poor people that live in dog patch or down there. They cant park there overnight because supervisor cohen wont let them. Its just deplorable how you treat the poor people. Do you think poor people will be able to afford those units . Youre just creating urban blight. Herman got rid of it. You guys are creating it. Youre letting people chop up these houses, create all these expensive units that no one can afford, you know. Its more car breakins. Its more bicycle thefts. Theres more urine in the street, everywhere. I suggest you do not let the the giants need more power, a power out of the bullpen and more youth movement. They dont need this. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I thought this was the line for people who were in support of the project . Is this for people in support . This is Public Comment on the item total. Neighborhood activist. Let me tell you a story. It goes back to before most of you were born. The willie brown era, there was a gift horse the city got. It was the mission rock shelter. After a period of time when they built the stadium, they had to close it down, but when the shelter was there, you could actually see the visible homelessness in San Francisco declined dramatically. You could a person could imagine a solution to the homelessness. Thats the effect that shelter had. It was on that it was on the site were talking about here. You know, i would just say that, you know, this this is a good probably executive. Im not opposing the project. My comments are meant to be in addition to everyone elses. There is a huge segment of San Franciscos population thats being left out. Thank you for your comments. Before reverend townsend speaks, are there any other members of the public who would like to address the board on the mission rock financing district number two, the financing district plan and the bond issuance . Please proceed reverend. Thank you. Arnold townsend. I came to support this project with brief remarks because i would hope that supporting this project is as easy for you as it is for me. I will say this this project has been very frustrating to me on one level because one of San Franciscos favorite pastimes is picking apart projects like this. I really tried, and i just wasnt able to. Every time i turned around and i thought i had them, they got me. When i said there was something they were going to miss, i got a call about talking about workforce. When i thought there was some parts of the community they would leave out and wouldnt touch, i got a call about, can you help us talk to local pastors so we can explain the benefits of the project to them. When we talked about the diversity in the housing, they said, no, its not going to be only affordable. Were going to have deep affordability, not the affordable that many of the folk that we serve in our church and community cannot ev