My Community Engagement began in 2015 with neighborhood walks, beer with a developer, smart go smart go dinner salons, and design meetings. Then i produced the faces of divisadero videos promoting the merchants, a retail workshop, it Community Yoga program and art trail, and 18 yearolds working with local artists and supervisor Browns Office. I also organized the stem program with drones for youth with the Human Rights Commission , the museum of future sports and seven c. B. O. , and all i had, over 1,000 meetings. I tried to meet everybody, and unfortunately, all but a few refused. It was a great experience. We have been endorsed by the associations of divisive darrow of divisadero merchants, lower haight neighbors, the improvement association, and over 120 neighbors and merchants , which i guess with marys update, it is now up to 140. The reason this matters is emily lund, who manages the San Francisco prostatic shop that has been on divisadero since 1953, she shared with me her commute here from sacramento, leaving home at 4 00 a. M. , returning at 9 00 p. M. , which took her five years until she could find an apartment here in the city, and if you remember, just one thing about my remarks, it is this. We just need housing. I am going to have will duncan share share our proposed design, and ill be happy to take questions afterwards. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, commissioners my name is will duncan. The project before you is the results of many meetings and feedback from stakeholders, community leaders, analysis of the area, as well as info from planning staff. All of this dialogue was critical to crafting a project that we are proud of, and we think will serve the neighborhood well. The tran to transform the site from this to this, we have widened the sidewalks for the use of extended bulb outs, we have eliminated five of the six curb cuts currently on the project, maintaining only one to access our parking, trash, and loading, which is completely enclosed within the building. That driveway is flush with the sidewalk, which will offer an unimpeded experience to pedestrians. You will see outside of the residential lobby on oak street, a passenger loading zone. The uses have been ordered based on their compatibility. Were we are putting all the commercial uses, flexible format retail, on divisadero street, and concentrating the residential uses on oak street, which include the lobby, amenities, a couple of ground floor at grade units. In addition to the oak street being the primary access point for residents, we are providing a secondary access point on the Northern BoundaryProperty Line for residents who that will take them and provide them with good access to their bike storage, including family bikes, and and it is courted coordinated with the building elevator. On the rear poppy tee line, were providing access. There is additional open space provided on the second floor. The mapping for the project has been designed to maintain light and air for the midblock open space. You come into the site at three stories and ultimately down to one story. We are maintaining rooftop terrace at the far corner of divisadero and oak. There will be a 65foot art wall as you will see as you approach the project, walking south on divisadero, as well as retail which will stitch together the blocks to the north and south of the site. The architecture of the side addresses three things. The divisadero, the oak condition, and the nexus for these conditions where they emerge. The architecture is while modern , is referential to 1920s architecture with a clear base, middle top, vertical base structures, punch windows. As we transition around to the oak street architecture, the project stepped down to a lower residential scale, with threestory bays that reflect materiality and scale of the residential neighborhood. Both of these things come together to create a diana dynamic corner with opening bays , would you like me to go on or stop . Can you finish in a minute or less . Sure. Thanks. These create undulating bays on the corner, creating contrast and interest, and bringing a new expression to the neighborhood. That concludes our presentation. We are open for comments. Thank you very much. Thank you. With that, we will take Public Comment on this item. I have quite a few speaker cards please come on up when i call your name. We will have two minutes for Public Comment for each person because we have so many folks here. [calling names] come on up please. Dont be shy. Thank you. I wasnt called, but i have to go back for a meeting. My name is gisele, i am a Small Business owner on divisadero street. Im also the president of the Divisadero Merchants Association i am in favor of this project because i believe that San Francisco needs housing. I also like that these units are not condos. And i appreciate theres 20 Affordable Housing available. The developer, david, has been talking to the community for years. He has been seeking our input and feedback and incorporating our wishes into the plan. He has also been contributing directly to the community, with art trail San Francisco, which has put a lot more public art in the neighborhood, and we really appreciate that. The Divisadero Merchants Association also likes that the retail spaces are geared toward Small Businesses, and also, we think that this project will connect the divisadero corridor between oak and page, which will have the merchants on the south side of divisive darrow of divisadero get all the foot traffic. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners my name is kyle. I am a neighbor of the project. I live three blocks to the east of it. I support replacing the gas station with the proposed project with housing and 20 affordable, and with all those improvements. Lots of other people will go on at length about the merits of the projects, so i want to talk about equity. In 2015, this Commission Approved the five mean project, that was a census tract with a median Family Income of 45,000, at a 70 2 minority, primarily low income asians. In 2017, this Commission Approved the notorious historic laundromat project at 2018 mission street. This project is a census tract of a median family Family Income of 121,000 that is primarily nonhispanic, white. A lot of people talk about how it will cause gentrification, all this stuff. That is simply not true. If this project, if a project like this was good enough for those places, theyre good enough for this location, too. I hope you will not all for the fear mongering about gentrification that this project will cause, and approve it as is thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, commissioners. David wu with affordable business. This project has consistently failed to meet the needs of the divisadero community. Community members have, for three years, demanded this project contain a much higher percentage of Affordable Housing then has been proposed. This demand is captured in the 2016 Divisadero Community Plan that is being passed right now which was created with the input of over 500 residents that occurred over several months, culminating in a detailed plan that includes a requirement for any development of ten units or more to contain 50 Affordable Housing. No references made to the Divisadero Community Plan during this planning process for this project. It shows that the Planning Department and the commission, in addition to the developer, do not take seriously the needs, desires, and demands of existing Community Members that make up the neighborhoods that are being planned in. This is at the same time that the city itself is undertaking the Interagency CommunityStabilization Strategy aimed at preventing and mitigating displacement, and ensuring that Economic Growth offers benefits to existing communities. This process included Community Meetings across the entire city. I worked how our community are Community Members supposed to take this strategy seriously when exactly that contains the same goals that has already been created and exists, is now being ignored in this project . This Community Planning process itself was spurred by the topdown planning process of the original divisadero and c. T. Rezoning that was a complete giveaway to developers, leaving the community with no increase in Affordable Housing. This is planning on top of communities, not with them. It is only through Community Organizing organizing and pushback that any increase in affordability to this rezoning occur at all. We ask you to not continue planning on top of the community , and instead, plan with us. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is shayna. My family owns the metro hotel. We have been on divisadero for 35 years, and have seen the change in a much less livable community. My concerns about the proposed project there is an underground stream or stream that bottoms out to the site that is most likely toxic. Divisadero his is arctic just with traffic, writers, lack of zoning, loading zones were bars that restaurants and businesses. The new construction and toxic cleanup will make it worse or years. Most importantly, we need more Affordable Housing for people who actually live in the neighborhood and make an investment in its future. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Isaac johnson. I live on 1040 oak street. I have tried to get in touch with these guys, the developers, since the beginning of the year. I have been stonewalled. We had two different times or we would have meetings, and the cancelled the meetings on me. This past monday, with mary woods, i was able to talk with david, the head developer here, and i had a chance to ask them some questions, which i have a copy here. I would like this added on record. I have a number of issues. None of them have been cleared up except for what they are saying, i dont believe a word they are saying. Number 1, the Historical Building being moved right next door to me, and the impact of redeveloping my property at some point. Also, the backyard, we have a retaining wall that is 4 feet tall. I havent heard from them at all what they want to do with that. I also want to talk they said nothing about how they will make this project green. They had no answer for me at all about making this project green. The meeting i feel very rushed. We had to use the office or Something Else at 4 30 p. M. , so we were rushing through my questions at the end. I need them to actually answer all this stuff in writing, you know, besides that, the loss of light in my building, the Foundation Problem that we will run into, and future i need to have these issues answered at some point, so i will ask for an extension of at least 30 days. Thirty days. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commission. My name is debra, i live at mcallister and baker. I am neutral on whether the building goes up or not, but i was at a meeting where the planners brought it to the community and i saw something that is potentially very dangerous. Does that show up . It is right at the corner of oh, and divisadero, and im sure all of you are familiar with the wall or wiggle, which is it takes thousands of bicycles. It starts on scott, right there. The planners have an exit for the bicycles over here on south street, and they want to the bicycles to take a left over here, a left on divisadero, and a left on oak, but, there is an in entrance to the parking garage, not that close, right in the middle of the block, so imagine i am not me. I imagine i am a millennial, i have to go work down on Market Street or south of market, i am late for an interview at 7 00 a. M. In the morning, and i am one of those 184 bicycle owners in the building. Do i go this way and this way and this way and that way . Or do i jet across the street, right as someone else is trying to make the light, and boom. Somebody dies right there. There are 184 bicycle spaces, and people work five days a week , and they are all going in and out. If they would move the entrance to the corner and put in one of those bicycle lights, then people would go out, get the light and go down oak, and onto this safely. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I grew up in the bay area. I am in support of this project. I am a homeowner, im extremely lucky to be able to afford to live here. A lot of my friends and family cant and they have moved out. The reason i cant afford it is we havent been building enough housing. There have been exactly three things that have lowered rent prices in San Francisco. Earthquakes, recession, and building records amount of market rate housing from 2016 to 2018. Rents and evictions both dropped the flipside of this is every time we dont have one of those events, rents go up. I do not want rent to go up. We need to give built these units so that we can give newcomers a place to live that doesnt involve pushing people out of town. This is a rich area of the city. If we dont build housing, we will just push put more pressure on to the mission, more pressure on oakland, more pressure to the bayview and more pressure onto san bruno to make up for this shortcomings in rich areas. Finally i hope that we can shorten the timeline for approving new housing in San Francisco. It is extremely expensive to build here. Imagine process, the amount of negotiation required to get any projects done pushes up the cost of housing even further. The outreach for this project started in 2015 and Construction Costs were lower in 2015. If the developer was able to break ground in 2015, you could have gotten 25 . Thanks to negotiations, this is the best we can do now. We should build it now. We should not delay any further. We have seen the price of delay. I biked by an auto shop across the street from zeitgeist on valencia street. The shop was supposed to turn into housing. The Planning Commission ordered additional shadow studies, negotiated a height down and resulting in additional loss of units. Did not end up getting built. By the time they got permits, they could not make the math work on the project. It is still an auto shop today. I hope you will not delay this project and you can turn it into housing instead of a gas station thank you. Next speaker, please. I second what he said well done. I am born in born and raised in San Francisco. This is my second time having the privilege to speak in this room. I met david probably about a year ago and once he walked into my barbershop, and again, i live on peers. This project is right down the say bow down right down the street. We started conversation, and from that moment on, i felt like i met a friend for life. He has introduced me to so many people in my neighborhood that i am born and raised in, that i honestly say i have to take my hat off to him. Im glad he walked into my barbershop because i now have more friends in the neighborhood that i did not know, because all i do is rock from my house to the barbershop, and from barbershop to my house. I have never walked into the other businesses. But they didnt lie to me about the other businesses. I was blown away at how nice people were. From being somebody who was born and raised and seeing the neighborhood change, nobody would take the time to extend a hand and say, hey, i am such and such, blah blah blah. Long story short, i would like to say again, i did meet a friend for life. I am we much more happy or working in the neighborhood that i than i was before i met them. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Before you start speaking, i will call a few more speaker cards. [calling names] go ahead, sir. Good afternoon, commissioners i live on golden gate avenue near baker and lyon. I just realized today that i have been living in the d5 for almost three decades. I am approaching o. G. Status, i guess you could say in the neighborhood. I was one of the founding members of the neighborhood and merchants association, if you are familiar with that. We looking at this corner for so many years. Im on the board, i was on the board of the p. T. A. For new traditions elementary, im now on the board for roosevelt. I was on the board for the friends of urban forest, now on the board for San Francisco parks alliance. I say all that not to self aggrandize, but to say i care about the community. We need housing. It is time to just move on. Some people want a blue house, some people want a green house, the people wanting to sorry, 16 stories, some people ten affordability. It is just time to stop the bickering and move on, and i really, really respectfully but firmly ask you to approve this project and move on. We are living in housing, and drinking from water systems, and using wastewater systems that were built by our elders, our grandparents. We are just bickering. It is time to Start Building and do what is right. I think these folks have spent a lot of time, four years talking in the community and getting input, is it perfect, is it my dream building . No, it is not, but it will never be my dream building. I support this. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Hello, commissioners, i am a San Francisco