Structure. Im just in complete opposition. I think that there should be more. I also wanted to go back to what saved had spoken to about his friend who traveled here from sacramento starting her commute at 4 00 a. M. In the morning and it took her five years to find housing in San Francisco. I think thats because she couldnt find Affordable Housing in the first place and i dont think that this project would have met that need and it took her five years of struggling to find it and i think this is just the complete end to what would work. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is emma sterns. I lived in the city my whole lyft life. I am here in opposition to the 400 divisadero project as proposed. This project failed to meet the needs of divisadero community. 20 affordability in new housing is not enough for 37 units of Affordable Housing out of 186 units. This project is seeking five conditional use approval yet contains no benefit, Community Members. The project fails to meet neighborhood needs as articulated in the 2016 Community Plan and created by over 500 Community Members which calls for 50 affordability project and the developers also consistently ignored community demand and claiming Community Engagement for this site. At the end of the day we node more Affordable Housing and i urge you to pleats not support this project until theres a higher percentage of Affordable Housing. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, im rachel fishman. I lived in d5 for nine years. I am a mom of two very young children. Im here in support of 400 divisadero. In addition to the fact that we need more housing, our neighborhood is dirty. Trash everywhere and im on the board of asna and we discuss these things and i believe this development will 100 help start to clean up and create a Larger Community for us in our neighborhood and ultimately will make it safer for my children who are stepping on glass and concerned about prime. We are impressed. My husband and i. With david. He has taken the time to reach out to so many Community Members to get input and its 100 collaborative and we really appreciated that and finally, we node more housing. The more housing we have the more affordable this city becomes. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello everyone. My name is geo costa and i am in support of 400 divisadero. I lived in lower hate for nine years. I served on the Neighbors Association and i also organize the art walks on the lower merchant corridor. I believe the 400 will address a big issue which is helping connect the gap between divisadero and the lower hate core doers. While the huge gap that touches car wash while presents doesnt seem significant it does give the illusion the corridor on divisadero and at oak and divisadero and this effects merchants on divisadero leading up to hate street as well as folks in lower haide. Adding additional retail and affordable units within four middle income residents i think will help everyone and increase foot traffic in nearby neighborhoods. In addition, the 170 bike Parking Spaces and limit of. 5 parking spots per units will encourage units to take advantage of the wiggle, use muni and explore all of divisadero street and lower hate merchant corridor. The additional residents will have a more positive impact than negative. Lastly, david, the developer, i believe is truly gone out of his way to really meet and talk to everyone. I know not everyone is always able to make it out to all the meetings but frankly, he has been around too much. I find him to be adding a lot to the neighborhood and trying to help with the arts and he even helped out with the art walks. Even though it may not help to his end goal. I think that he will add personality to our neighborhood rather than takeaway from it. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, everybody. So my name is chris cook im a local artist. Im in support of this project. Ive been working with david and these guys doing some art stuff. Sf. Org and its an addition to the neighborhood. A beautiful project and beautiful building and im looking forward to seeing it built. Please approve this. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is chris davis. Im a pastor and division 5. I have seen firsthand the 400 divisadero team gather people to get feedback at our church on multiple occasions. The community has come into ask questions and some tough questions to give, tough feedback and so i really believe this this project and i think we need more housing. I believe in Affordable Housing and market rate housing i believe in both. I also understand this project cant do anything and so im in support of this project. I hope you pass it or push it forward. Thank you. Negligence speakernext speaker,. Corey smith. Im speak on behalf of the ashbury neighbors. Were the district 5emb group. We support avocados because we need more housing at all levels for affordable ability all over the city. I live in the upper haiti so this is one neighborhood away from me and its an awesome commercial corridor. Theres so much to do. And im pumped about how this is going to continue to improve the neighborhood. We have a Climate Crisis here on our planet and the only way that we are going to solve that and fight back and really improve the lives for future generations is by reducing carbon emissions. We can do that by replacing gas stations with homes for people. Speakers earlier talked about some of the bus lines that go through the neighborhood as on opposition point. Theres so many bus lines and train lines that go right through here its really well connected with the rest of the city and just makes sense. A number of folks said we want as much Affordable Housing as possible and its a absolute shared goal of everybody here. This project to be financed at 75 subsidized Affordable Housing everybody would be supportive of it but its a really sophisticated way of saying that we dont want any housing here. If its 100 affordable ok but we dont want any marketrate housing or any private development and what that in turn does is it turns our backs on people that want to call this place home. One out of every 100 applicants for subsidized Affordable Housing get lucky enough to win the lottery. If the only way you can live in the city is wing a lottery, were going to lose that soul and lows lose that future. 50 of zero housing is zero housing. So it might be good politics, it might play well with certain audiences, it is a position that at the end of the day results in pulling up the drawbridge in San Francisco and not welcoming folks and its not something i can support. Please approve the project today. Thank you. Thank you mr. Smith. Im going to call a few other speaker cards. Debra esther, coo dan fedderman. Go ahead. Good afternoon. First, i just have to to be in favor of Affordable Housing is not exclusive. It is in fact an attempt to be inclusive for all classes of people, all groups of people. So i am loraine. Im almost lifelong residents of the western edition and Affordable Housing advocate. This project, as you know, will have an enormous impact on the neighborhood. Its all in the dis representative sense with car traffic, additional demands on transit and other cities services. General congestion. I believe more housing is definitely needed. But what kind of housing. I do not believe we need a project with 80 which is massive amount of market rate housing. For all the advantages given to this developer already, greater being sought and profits in the future, the Community Needs and deserves more Affordable Housing than just bear minimum. We need much more. The greatest and most Important Community benefit, the developers should be offering, and commissioners should be requiring is more affordable units. Thats what will benefit the community and help compensate the city for all the extra infrastructure demands. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Laura foot. I spent yesterday about two hours trying to help a friend navigate getting on a bunch of b. M. R. Lists in order to get into they have a disability so they need a new unit. They hed an a. D. A. Compliant uniunit and theyre in the midde income but market rate housing is expensive but there arent many b. M. R. Units and figuring out how to get into a home that they can get physically around. Theyre not many days when i get really depressed. That is a hard one to spend time with someone on craigslist and on the Mayors Office of housing welcomwebsite trying to figure t what the options are. We need projects like this. We need projects like this especially in highincome neighborhoods. We need to legalize building Affordable Housing everywhere. We dont have time. The four years this project has been debated and like the yoga walk, i dont know what that is but that sounds really nice and im glad they had a nice time with their Community Engagement process, my friend is not probably going to be able to stay in San Francisco. That is a process that you guys have made where we dont just approve housing and make these decisions at a higher level of government. We havent just decided to streamline and approve projects like this and four years is too long. Four years is too long. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. My name is mark cornblat. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. Ive been a 30year resident of San Francisco. Many of them spent in d5 literally around the coshe cornm the development. Ive seen changes occur in the city and ive seen stagnation when it it comes to stage and quite frankly you are never going to be able to please everybody with every project. Theres such a wonderful Diverse Community here that theres no way you can please everyone. But that space at 400 divisadero has been pretty much an open wound in the neighborhood for as long as i can remember and it is time to make a change there and to create housing instead of this carbased gas station and car wash. The mix of affordable and market racing is an easy compromise when you consider the net benefits of the neighborhood of changing and getting rid of that car wash. Im the cofounder of a nonprofit dedicated to education, Stem Education for kids with technology. The museum of future sports and i originally met david when we were lackin looking for space ie city. David was tireless in helping us find and continues to help us find locations, make introductions for us to Community Benefit organizations and helping to introduce us to some of the communities around the city, not just in d5. He has been so tireless helping us that it didnt occur to me that he was actually the person spearheading this process. I think it just speaks to davids sincerity in working with the local communities, not just around this corridor where this project is going on but throughout the city. And that it speaks to his sincerity and trying to make San Francisco a better place for all and whatever way he can and i think this project speaks to that so i encourage everyone on the board to endorse this project. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is dan fedderman and im lucky enough to own a condo five blocks from 400 divisadero. Id like to work. I do not own a car. The city has declared theres a climate emergency. There are over 100,000 people who commute more than 90 minutes daily to get to work in the bay area. We need more people out of their cars and living closer to where they work. We cant solve our Climate Crisis without more homes. Replacing a gas station with homes is the best way to solve our Climate Crisis without displacing anybody. Folks commenting today say that building this housing will cause gentrification. The only people i know under 40 in this city who are planning on station for more than a couple more years have a seven figure net worth. If thats not gentrification i dont know what is. We need more homes and we need more homes today raising the affordability requirement means we will end up with zero Affordable Homes and zero market rate homes. We really node to do better than zero. Please approve this project as is and as soon as you can. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is brandon ream. I live in district 5. Ive been i live at belvedere and ive been there for a few years and ive been in district 5 for nine. I just wanted to voice my support for the proposed project. I think it hits a lot of markers for what a positive Infill Development should meet. I think after meeting with david and seeing him at many of the community meetings, i think he has a strong sense of community and place and how this development fits in functionally and contextually with the community and it will be a net benefit. Thats all i have, thank you. Thank you. Are there anymore speakers in the audience . Steve with defend Public Education and how many students and talking about needing young people. Students cant afford to live in San Francisco. Theyre being driven out. There is a way of having public working class housing. Very mysterous ways. Guess whats you make the billionaires pay for it. San francisco has more billionaires than any other city. The mayor of San Francisco and the politicians are not interested in going after the billionaires. Now there is a city that solved the problem, vienna. If people want to google how vienna solved its housing crisis they had a housing crisis worse than San Francisco in 1919 and they did build working class housing. They built 200,000 units in vienna by taxing the wealth i. But that seems to be off the table. 20 is more gentrification. Thats what that is. Only 20 and those affordable units, im sure, that poor working class students at city college and other places are not going to be able to have get into those affordable units. Affordability by your standards excludes poor, working class people. There are a lot of signs up in San Francisco for workers. Workers are needed. But theyre not able to get them. Why is that . They cant afford to live here. Were not talking about highpaid workers, were talking about regular, working people. Service workers, hotel workers, they cant afford to live here so theyre forced to commute. You are forcing people to commute to live in San Francisco because they cant afford to live here. This had been rejected. We should demand 100 affordability and say the billions should pay for it and it should be Public Housing and not developed on the developers who want to make a large profit in San Francisco. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Calvin. Steering committee of affordable divisadero. Im very concerned about the process or the lack of process that the Planning Department went through in evaluating this project. In evaluating the initial rezoning that more than doubled the allowable density with no recommendation for increased affordability. All of the pressure for increased affordability came from the community. Now were being told enough is enough. 20 is fine. Shut up. Step aside. No, its not fine. We cant imagine Something Better and we should get something berrien and it should start with your staff. How can you possibly consider giving not one, not two, not throw but five continual use permits which are predicated upon the notion that they are necessary and beneficial to a community when your staff has not addressed or analyzed a legitimate Community Plan that lays out a comprehensive development. No one is talking about not developing this site. No one is talking about not building housing on this site. Thats horse cookie. Were all about housing. Were all about creating communities that work. Were all about dealing with Climate Change. Building more market rate housing to add to the 70,000 units we have approved but not been built because most people cant afford them is not a solution. Its a slogan. Its a narrative. Were about solutions. You should have addressed a legitimate concern on the part of 500 residents of this part of the world who want housing able to be accessed by them. Next speaker, please. Thank you, good afternoon, commissioners. My name is cheryl brinkman. I serve on the sfmta board of directors but im here as a private citizen and neighbor to speak in approval. The live in a fantastic neighborhood. I agree with the gentleman who owns the bar de barbershop its friendly. Were transit rich. Wore walkable, bike able. Theres so many neighborhoods serving businesses. I am quite confident that the new neighbors that will welcome in arent going to be driving a lot because you can really accomplish so much of your life without getting into a car in our neighborhood. So i just want to say im totally in support of this project and i look forward to the gas station which is a big cara tractor going away and to welcoming new neighbors to our neighborhood and thank you so much for your service because i know serving on a commission is a labor of love and it takes a lot of time and it is frequently very thank less so thank you all for doing this and we look forward to more neighbors in our neighborhood. Thank you. Im l