You talk about Affordable Housing, well, where are all these families kids going to go to school . Just think of how many students, and one gentleman who very aptly said, a nurses assistant assistant, a custodian, the teacher, how did these people get the education in the first place . A lot of them dont have parents who can afford tuition, and i am so fearful that city college will just be really in a very dangerous position if you let a project the way it is now go through. I really appreciate going forward, looking forward to the e. I. R. , that you really wrap your arms around what is good for the college and the students and the future students. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Can some of these be handed out . Okay. I am a longtime faculty member at city college. Many people have said things. I just have a few details. Yes, i find it strange to call it call it balboa reservoir. It has never had water, i have always called it city college. We have hand the land we have had the land under utilized since 1946. Most of it has been meeting the parking needs getting back to our 32,000 students, and do wrap your head around 32,000 people coming to campus every day. It is like the city of hercules, moving in. We are a commuter college, and we really have that one function for all the bay area, actually. So think about those thousands of students. Most of them, proportionally take Public Transportation now, but we still have those who have needs that have to drive in or use a car in some way. We also call the colleagues, most of us who have been here many years the land that is being used or considered for all of these huge houses frequently has 35 to 45 mileperhour winds comes right out from the ocean, and goes right up to france hill , it bounces around, terrible vortexes, very dangerous. When the proposal three years ago was rejected, we were very concerned about environmental problems of not having enough water, for example, for emergencies, which was mentioned it still hasnt been addressed. We will look at the e. I. R. , what has to be addressed. This is not the place for a massive Housing Project. It is unsafe, very unsafe, and we see what happens to fires now , terrible fires that are fuelled by horizontal wind. We cant let that happen. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, commissioners. I am a 40 year plus resident. I am very active in the community. I am a member of the committee for mercy housing on ocean avenue, as well as the unity plaza. As plans come forward, you have heard that there are so many different complex issues that must be resolved in the transportation. I think it is very important that the direction established by the community and the mercy Housing Project on ocean avenue can forward and be taken as they apply to this new development. And that is that we need to have a goal that this community become an integral part of our broader community. The numbers are going to be determined later on with the e. I. R. And other Public Comment comments. We need to have a seamless gateway throughout our developments that goes to and from city call in two oh, transportation hubs because they are rich in transportation. I am a daily munimobile writer, i understand the difficulties, on the other hand, we do have a Good Opportunity as far as transportation. Also, the ocean Avenue Retail corridor, which is on a real rise, a real positive rise. At the same time, we need to encourage our bike and Pedestrian Access throughout the entire development as it moves forward, and in ensure that all of our adjacent neighborhoods have seamless access to the amenities of this new development, childcare, open space, city college, and transportation. Thank you very much for your consideration. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . Come on up. You already spoke. Unfortunately that is your time. Come on up. Come on up. Good evening, commissioners. I am with bridge housing. We are nonprofit Affordable HousingDevelopment Based in San Francisco since 1983. Thank you for sitting with us this evening. Are you part of the project team . Yeah. I cant speak. All i want to say is we are here for your questions. No, no. Any other Public Comment on this item . My name is anita and i happily yield my time to her. You really cant do that either. You cant do that. You can come and do your presentation. I will allow that, but that is not the rules. Go ahead. I would like you to consider an alternative to build this project would destroy city college. There was a plan that was approved by the voters in 2001 and 2005, and that was a for performing Arts Education center , a Beautiful Center which we need for our students to be accredited and to be able to get a certificate, and it would be something that would be beautiful for the entire south and east neighborhoods of our city, and if this if these designs had been approved for 19 years, and the vote is and they voted for and funded them, it was already always assumed that the lower parking lot would be the parking lot for the performing Arts Education center and it would be the parking lot for the entire college once a Performing Arts Center was built on the upper parking lot. This is a surprise that has been sprung on us when mayor lee told the p. U. C. To offer this land up for development. There is a compromise that is possible. Dont forget that this development, which they did not mention in the presentation, if anyone knows that the multiuse building is four stories high, the eight towers that the developers are proposing would be twice that height. Imagine what that would be. I dont know how to present this this plan would be here is that arts center as it was originally designed and approved for the last 19 years, and then the lower parking lot would have two thirds of it that would have solar panel parking, the same lot with solar panels over it to generate electricity for the college, and then only one third closest to ocean avenue would have 300 to 500 units of housing for the faculties, students, and the homeless students of city college. Thank you. Thank you very much. So, thank you, for coming out. You know, i recognize people arent here every week to kind of hear the issues that we grapple with. Im sure in your neighborhood you grapple with some also. How Affordable Housing are by far the biggest needs we have and the biggest priorities we face week in and week out. We get this is impactful that additional housing of this scale were talking about will be impactful to the neighborhood. I think the gentleman who kind of was the chair of the c. A. C. Kind of hit it on the head. Lets continue this analysis. I mean this is a great place for housing for those that are questioning whether this is a public good and should be used for a public land, it would be my biggest priority for public land to build housing and to build Affordable Housing. Its something we do and encourage all the time. Treasure island, Hunters Point shipyard where federal land transferred to the city. I let you talk the whole time. Right. So let me. Pier 70. We prioritize housing on public land into get this level of Affordable Housing im with the folks who want 100 Affordable Housing on this site. Id like that too. Unfortunately we have to make these trade offs to leverage the economic value of this land and build these levels which are huge. I dont know if some of you why here earlier where we had the affordable dividadaro group clamoring for a 50 housing on a privately owned project and unfortunately its not feasible. Im surprised many of those folks didnt stick around to actually support this project, which is 50 Affordable Housing. Its kind of what we drive for and what we need. This process is at the beginning that will be in i. E. R. , well look at density and traffic. Certainly this is a bay area that has got transit. Theres bart, theres light rail and its got. Design can solve a lot of the issues that people brought up. I encourage you to continue with this process and look at other areas that are being built at these density levels. 1,000 units of housing are 1100 units of housing is not an enormous impact. Look at where that type of housing is being built elsewhere in this city. Some questions just that came up on city college. Theres no one officially from city college here . The administration . What are they saying about do they have a need this land . We lease space to city college at vastly low rates which we love and we want to encourage city college to stay at fort mayson. Theyre not looking for a big expansion of their facility. Can you let us know what is city college saying because theyre not here today. Sure. Le with oewd. We have been collaborating with city College Administration for the last three years making sure we design this site cohesively with their plans for growth and their future plans. They own the site just to the adjacent to the east of this. As you know, they lease this site for parking but think, and i have some additional this is the good side if you turn to this slide on the presentation, you can see that theyve been working for many years on a facilitys master plan for their main campus and their Facilities Master Plan has never contemplated approaching the site to use the city site. It actually doesnt even fill up all the available land on their own campus and theyve proposed a number of very large buildings and some very intense Capital Projects to revitalize their campus so actually what weve been doing is collaborating with them to make sure when we design our site plan, its cohesive and the Access Points are aligned and theres really a good flow for pedestrians and traffic back and fourth. Our new public park will actually be directly accessible from a pedestrian pathway that the college is planning on their site to enable Community College members to use our public park and so theyve been very supportive of the project. We have been talking with them primarily about a two or three issues. Number one, the cohesive Site Planning i already described and creating sort of an academic village. Number two, the notion of providing potentially some of our Affordable Housing as indicatededicated to educators. And given that we do have 550 affordable units on this project, at a range of a. M. I. Levels, we have been talking to the college about potentially dedicating some of the two educators, specifically city college and other educators we think that faculty and staff being able to live adjacent to their workplace is a great benefit for many reasons and the third topic is the shared parking which we can talk more about if desired. In the parking, i mean, we heard a lot about the usage on the existing lot. What are the statistics on that or do we have them or is city college at capacity . Sure, so, the situation as it is today you can sort of see on this slide the college has 2,000 surface Parking Spaces on their property and they through a license use 1,000 spaces on the city parcels that this project will occupy and we made it very clear from the beginning based on what we have heard from the community that our project will accommodate some sort of Parking Solutions to any overflow need that exists once our site is developed. We have been observing usage in the overflow lot and it is generally less than a quarter full from any given time and weve been with that general feedback has actually been reinforced by a very thorough transportation and t. D. M. Study that the College Published earlier this year. They did a very intensive survey of their population and found that actually most students do not drive alone to campus. Only about a third of students drive to campus. Most of the students are taking transit, carpooling and walking and biking. On the employee side, about twothirds of the employees do drive to campus. Now in terms of the usage, these charts are dense so excuse me. The college looked at doing some basic t. D. M. And they looked at a potential 25 growth in their community. And so theyve modeled that based on the assumptions that the thousand spaces of the Lower Reservoir are replaced with our Housing Development project and what they found is that the unserved demand in a typical day this year, lets say, the balboa project was already in place is only about 91 spaces of unmet demand. With 25 Growth Without the college doing any sort of t. D. M. , it could look like 600 spaces of unmet demand. With some very basic t. D. M. Measures and a 25 growth in the city college community, the Lower Reservoir would only need to accommodate about 200 spaces. This is in 2026. So were pretty confident that obviously all 1,000 spaces are not necessarily utilized and that we can come up with a shared Parking Solution working with the college to a reasonable level that actually replaces the actual demand that we think will occur. Thank you, very much. Our commissioners beat me to the punches i was going to throw on the alternatives on the impact of the college. It looks like the city folks have done homework on this. I was on the i could picture myself out there coming up to the podium saying some of the things that some of the folks have said today and i have because we rezoned my neighborhood and there was a lot of fear, there was a lot of doubt, why would you want to get rid of that gas station on the corner. Why put a sixstorey building up there and we went through multiyear processes. We started to be really understanding of what the goal was. We understood the planning folks who were creditable and the city folks were creditable and theres no fixes in and were all trying to solve a big Public Policy issue and there were a lot of parcels on my neighborhood and you can come around and ill show you. Weve had a lot of density added. Weve had 3,000 units just in the vicinity of where i live and it works. Its a vibran vibrant neighborh. If we can accommodate the Affordable Housing, the additional housing we need to create as well as make sure it doesnt negatively impact city college, we have a winner here. I challenge everybody to troy to change your thinking around this is a real solution in search of a real problem. Commissioner moore. For this stage of the project, i find the study very interesting and very thorough particular low because it is anchored in realities with a types of questions you ask when you do quantitive study i feel theres a lot of soul search to go do the right thing. Bringing it into the context of the individual of the college and the future by itself i think its just the right way to start and i have to believe that the e. I. R. Process shapes the project based on mitigate circumstances. I believe the general set up is taking a look into looking at the challenges we face and every small or large project each serves as we sit here. The fact its the larger site it provides a significant amount of open space and it is an increase in density and it sensitively mitigates the impression of density by setting it into a green setting so i myself would ask that we all keep an open mind and this project shaped itself by the process that we use with any large project that is the, i. R. Process and charges and new parameters to move into the future. I command the department and everybody who participated in it including the pack that this project has come as far as it has and i personally appreciate what i heard today. Thank you commissioner. I will also end by saying thank you to the project team oewd. The cac and all the neighbors. My neighbors who have come out to speak on this project. This is my neighborhood. I take the 49 to work everyday. You know, it stroke strikes me d a lot of similar arguments when the avalon and also the development and its actually been great for the neighborhood i think. I worry a lot about the ocean corridor. Most of the businesses that are farther i think those developments have been good for the business corridors. Theres newer businesses, new restaurants, people are coming and going and some of the older storefronts further west are struggling. Retail is changing. For folks to pencil out a business that needs improvements because the storefronts are old and its a challenge. I do think that you know, having this development will help the corridor. I also think it will help city college and i think the density is appropriate for the future. I have a bunch of kids. I have kids and i also am raising other peoples kids. I have a niece who lives with me who attends city college. I have a child who went to local lowell and i think that what our neighborhood has is that we have really great schools. Density is appropriate. It equalizes the access to resources in terms of race and economics in our city. I think this is the right thing to do. I like the project. I like the architecture of it. I think its appropriate. That being said, because i also live in this neighborhood, i can tell you that our transportation infrastructure sucks. And i dont want the presentation you said the city family is working on these things. I heard about a bond for infrastructure for city college. Its not going to do it. In an e. I. R. I would like to see specific mitigation to what will happen here because i think its all connected. I would drop off my kid at school and the other kid at city college and i am amazed that people dont get killed. Every morning theres hordes of people getting off of bart and muni, crossing without a crosswalk over the elevated median and no one takes that pedestrian thing you up but you have to go a millio