Pauline, charlie, and shada, three members of the boys and girls club who hangout at bodecker and will now have the opportunity to hangout at city center. We have an Elementary School student, a middle school student, and a high school student. Were so pleased to bring them up to say a few words. All right. Before i begin, the fact that everyone here today, everyones smile made my heart feel warm and tingly inside to fight the cold weather. I believe that playgrounds are important because it provides a safe place for children. I remember the park before the renovation. I remember as a child that this area was a danger zone that i should avoid. I remember finding myself repulsed by the smell emitting from the park, and then, it got renovated. I was amazed by how much the park changed. The streets were cleaner than they had been since i was a child. I genuinely fell in love with the beauty of this playground, and how well its been maintained. I also believe that playgrounds are important because of the influence they have on the community, making it more colorful and livly like at bodecker park. Imagine all the kids coming together as they laugh and play together, maybe even making new friends along the way. As they grow older, they will look back and tell stories how impactful the Civic Center Playground was to their lives. It was a place making ever lasting friendship, the place they looked forward to going to, and the place they call home. Thank you so much for this beautiful park. [applause] hello. My name is pauline, and im in 8th grade. I have been a member of the boys and girls club for eight years now, and i sometimes visit bodecker while at the club. I like to do reading and art in my spare time. I have been living in the tenderloin my entire life, and throughout the years, i had spent a good amount of my time at bodecker, ellis, and also helen diller Civic Center Playground. I enjoyed the tire swings, regular swings, and other things at these parks, and i often made my mother and brothers push me around. I like being able to spend some time outside with my friends and being able to leave Technology Behind and be with my friends. I wouthink parks are important because it is a way to spend time with the people around you and wind down. It is a way to be active with your friend and possibly make new friends. Parks have a magical ability to be able to bring people together to form a small community. It is a great way to stay active and improve your communication skills, plus, its always fun to be able to see a new park with brandnew play structures just like this. Thank you for giving us this park. [applause]. Hello. My name is shada, and im in sixth grade, and i have been a member of the San Francisco boys and girls club in the tenderloin for six years. I love to read and watch harry potter, and i also love to swim. I lived in the tenderloin for seven years, and in that time, i have really enjoyed going to bodecker park, because it has swings, i climb the web, and it is a place to have fun. I am excited to have this park, because i want to see how people enjoy the new structures. Whenever theres a new park, i try to go on everything there. If theres a new slide or monkey bars, i go on them. I am excited to try everything this park has to offer. I think parks are important because they are a place where kids learn to play with other kids, and they help us to be active. Also, parks are entertaining. To me, a park is where teams, kids and eve adults can gather up and play. They can share laughs, games, and most importantly friendship. Also, what if there were no such things as parks . Where would kids gather and hangout . For those reasons, i think parks are important. Thank you [applause]. Werent they wonderful . All right, guys. For you, for you, and for you. All right. Before we we get the show on the road and we flip the switch, and i bring up our very special honored guest, let me just offer a few additional thank yous. This effort at civic center, there are a lot of folks who are really investing a lot of love and attention, and i want to thank the downtown street team, i want to thank hunters. Family, i want to thank the civic center ebd, i want to thank our city administrator, naomi kelley, and the very special amy cohen for all of our civic center comments where amy has been very much of a driver in getting numerous city agencies and nonprofit partners to Work Together to make this a happier and healthier place, and amy, id like to recognize you as one of us as well. Also, my profound thanks to jorge arias and the whole team from bossman construction, and to the amazing andy cochran for such an inspired design. But our most important guest tonight, and shes so modest, and doesnt like taking credit, and shes sitting in the back. Shes my hero, and my dear, dear, dear friend, jackie. This is for you; and now is the time for us to actually flip the switch. So why dont you and our Three Friends lead us in a count down. Right on. All right. Were going to count down from ten. All right. Here we go. Ready, everybody ten. Nine. Eight. Seven, six. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. If everybody can turnaround and look in the square right here, and theres a tv camera. All right. The helen diller playground contains some of the most innohave ati innovative and interactive lighting programs on any playgrounds. Weve designed each to compliment the play found. The first piece connects the two playground with a forest of Lighting Fixtures spread across each playground. We call them pixel poles. They animate and grow like they have captured fog inside them. When visitors move in front of the poles, they lite up and slash with colors. The pixel poles have custom Lighting Fixtures created specifically for these playgrounds that exist nowhere else. The second project covers the plaza right in front of you all between the playgrounds. We call it carl. We wanted to ask, what if San Franciscos fog settled down in the plazs to play wi plaza th visitors. He likes to connect to different groups of people, so you may see the light forming connections across the plaza. It takes a great and ad venturo adventurous team to make this happen. This is a new combination of public instruction with custom hardware and software. They can grow and aadapt as the city changes. For the next month well be watching to see how the public plays and dialing in the project personalities to match. This new combination of playground building with new technologies will let us adapt to a changing city and kids at play. I would like to introduce the margaret general kins dan je dance company, which has adapted movement for this celebration. The dancers are aalex carington, chin four, three, two, one. Welcome to the helen diller Civic Center Playground. [applause]. Not only did the total death on our streets from traffic collisions decrease dramatically in 2017, pedestrian deaths did as well. Since 2013, fewer pedestrians have been killed on our streets. This is really good news. You know, no one wants to see the accidents on the side of the road, no one wants to experience going to a crime scene on the road knowing your loved one has been hit by a car or sadly tragically killed. This is about bringing that number of 20 from 2017 down to zero. We dont want another death on our streets because of human error, because of anything that we can avoid. If we change our behavior, we change our roads and we do a better job here in the city and county of San Francisco. My ask of the public, number one be aware of your surrounding, be aware of the law, be aware of the street signals and crosswalks and try to work within the laws designed to keep you safe. Look at where we were and look at where we are. This vision will be a reality. We all have to remember that all of us, all of us every single day, no matter how you get to work, school, wherever you go, all of us are always pedestrians. This impacts all of us. School starts again on monday, so i hope as you are reporting today you will encourage people to slow down, to be mindful, to recognize that youre going to have more cars on the street on monday. Were going to have more kids on bikes, more kids walking. Please, be slow, be safe and be mindful. I just want to urge everyone at the sound of my voice to make some corrections. If you operate a motor vehicle, think about it, think about the person standing on the corner. Think about how fast youre driving. Think about the stop sign youre about to come to. Just think. And just doing so, youll help someone live another day. I guarantee that. I guarantee that. All right. Well, first of all, good afternoon everybody, and in case everybody is wondering, today is not only valentines day, but ash wednesday, hence the marks on my for head. [ inaudible ] in sro here in San Francisco are available for every single resident. I am incredibly pround to be standing can supervisor ronen and supervisor sheehy. It is incredibly important for so many of our constituencies here in San Francisco, both in terms of gender, our Transgender Community, it affects so many people here in San Francisco. I think as we continue to see push back from our federal administration in washington d. C. , just this week, our department of education announced theyre no longer going to be investigating transgender student bathroom complaints, which is a step absolutely in the wrong direction, but in San Francisco, we are different. We are not going to allow hatred todom namt, we will continue to standup for our communities here in San Francisco. We will be a beacon of hope. I do want to thanks tha severa individuals for being here today, as i mechanicsed, these issues take a lot of leadership outside of city hall, and this one was led by two incredibly courageous supervisors, and so i want to introduce the first one, supervisor hillary ronen. Thank you so much for being here. Im very, very honored and excited to be here. I also want to extend a special thank you to jordan davis who brought this legislation to our office and said, when you were supervisor camposs chief of staff, you forgot sro hotels to include that specifically in this lemggislation, so it was pleasure to correct that mistake, which we would have put in the original legislation but accidently left it out. So thank you, jordan. I just want to say what weve learned about this legislation about making bathrooms all gender bathroom is when the traps gender stands up and fights for itself, for recognition, for dignity and safety, it ends up benefiting everybody. I dont know about you, but every time im out in public, and theres an all gender bathroom, that benefits me as a woman, it helps disabled individuals who might have an opposite gender caretaker. It just makes our society better, safer, and more welcoming to all of us. So i just think we should look to the Transgender Community fore guidance on all policies that we work on in San Francisco, because it always ends up benefiting not just the community but all of us. So my deep, deep thanks to everyone thats here today, to claire, to the mayor who made an unprecedented move of joining us onto the legislation before he even signed it because thats how much he supports this community. And to the only out member of the Queer Community on the board of supervisors, jeff sheehy, who always is the first to standup for and advocate for his community. Thank you. [applause] so first, i just really want to thank jordan davis. Ive been in your chair. Thats how i started. I hope im still considered an activist, but when someone can come to city hall this change, thats brilliant. Thank you for your leadership. I also want to thank mayor farrell for his supporting this and signing this and leadership along the way. I think this is really very important that sros are brought into the mix. You know, this is where many people live without a lot of resources, who are marginalized, and making sure that the dignity of our trans and gender nonconforming community is recognized, respected dignity of this community is recognized on all level in our society is absolutely critical. Im very proud to sponsor this, and i just want to make one other point, since mayor farrell brought up whats going on in washington. We need to, every time we come together, with one of the communities that have been particularly targeted by this administration, they have sought to target the most vulnerable communities in our mix immigrants, muslims, and the Trans Community because they think they can get away with it. So even though every time we come together, even though were making headway and were leading in San Francisco, we have to remember that around the country, peoples rights are being taken away, and in this city, immigrants rights are being threatened every day. We have to align ourselves with other communities in solidarity, that are particularly targeted in these times. So again, thank you to jordan, supervisor ronen, to mayor farrell. This is great work today. [applause]. Sorry. Claire. I was just supposed to introduce claire whos so great, really doing a tremendous job in filling the shoes and taking on off tereaf teresa sparks, so id like to introduce claire farley, whos Senior Assistant to the mayor. Good afternoon, everyone. Im so happy to be here with all of you today in this historic moment, and this would not be possible without you, mayor farrell, for your continued support of making sure that our city is committed to lgbt folks. Also, thank you to supervisor ronen for your incredible leadership on this, as well as your office, and specifically, also to supervisor sheehy, and all the cosponsors on this important legislation. I also want to take a moment to thank joerd on and the jordan and all the members on the sro task force. This victory really does belong to all of you, so thank you. [applause]. As trans and gender nonconforming people, we are all to familiar with the stress, the violence that comes with trying to use the bathroom that match our gender identity and expression. As our rights continue to be attack in the country and under the federal administration, it is important now more than ever that San Francisco continues to be a leader in the Movement Towards fair and quality rights for all. No one should have to worry about facing the stress of going to the bathroom in the place that they call home, so all gender sro ordinaryians will extend our existing protections and will ensure that our rights are extended to the full community. Furthermore, it will increase access for people with disabilities, residents who have caretakers. This resolution is important to make San Francisco better. Of course we know theres more time to be done, and together we will continue to advance the initiatives, the policies and programs that support a thriving trans and gnc community here in San Francisco. We will work to implement policies like this, future policies and programs that help sustain the livelihoods of our communities. Lets make sure that San Francisco continues to be the beacon of hope and change that the rest of the country desperately needs right now. Depend, thank y again, thank you so much for being here today and for this amazing step forward. I hope you will join us in the work ahead. Thank you. [applause]. All right. Were going to get to the signing here. All right. Here we go. [applause]. [gavel] welcome, everyone, to our Land Use Committee meeting of february 12, 2018, monday. I am katie tang, chair of this committee, and were joined by supervisor safai and supervisor aaron peskin is filling in today. Were joined by supervisor catherine stefani. Any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 27 board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. Is thank you very much. Can you please call item one . Item number one, ordinance amending the planning dozed establish the gearymasonic special use district in the area generally bounded by geary boulevard to the south, masonic avenue to the east and assessors parcels block number 1071, lots one and four to the north and west respectively. Thank you. I will defer to supervisor stefani first since this is in her district. Thank you. You heard this project last week. Most important, it allows the number of Affordable Housing units in the project to go from three to 22. That is more affordable units than the total number of units in the original project. Again, these amendments raised the inclusionary from 18 to 23 and broken down as 10 at 55 of the a. M. I. , 4 at 80 a. M. I. , 4 at 110 a. M. I. And 5 at 120 of a. M. I. And the appropriate a. M. I. Bans will apply. The second recommendation is around car share spaces and the Commission Recommended four of the spaces be reserved for car share. On the advice of the City Attorney, the amendments increased the findings requiring car share and the 16 spaces to be reserved for car share use. Again, i want to thank the Laurel HeightsImprovement Association for being forwardthinking and the Developers Working so well with the neighbours. This project in a neighbourhood that hasnt seen any new housing is very welcomed. And i just want to thank everyone for their hard work on seeing this across the finish line. I was aid to supervisor farrell when this started over two years ago and to see it now is just incredible. So im happy to bring this uniquely dense neighbourhood and project forward. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor. Any other colleagues . Supervisor safai . No. Ill reserve. All right. And if we dont have any questions for planning staff as well, then i will open this item up to Public Comment. I have two speaker card