Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

When we can provide a high number of subsidized hopes and put it next to a station, we thin thats think thats a win. Thank you. Put. Good afternoon, commissioners. Im here with bodere. At a hearing in this room several months ago, i heard one of the commissioners say the district has a target on its back. Pot our community is feeling pressure of unaccount be development for some time and were here before you today because we have solutions and we need your support. They had a neighborhood strategy and one of the clear recommendations that emerged from that strategy process was to create a housing plan for the neighborhood. One that would consider the incomes of local residents that would account for displacement that is occurring in our neighborhood. Two years later, the housing plan has not happened and so we are stuck responding to market rate after Market Rate Development at the same time that Affordable Housing projects weve advocated for have met delay after delay. The proposal of 65 ocean is a visible example of this, the largest ever development proposed in the development and it promises to make the same failed momodel several blocks a. You have to earn three times the Household Income in this neighborhood in order to afford to move in. More than a year after opening its doors, it still has more than 5,000 square feet of empty ground floor space and more than five empty Apartment Units while Homeless People live on the sidewalk outside. So what we know is that market demand for high incomes is met just fine but for people doing daycare, teaching in our schools, working at nonprofits, cooking in our kitchens, these market rate projects are only making the problem worse. It is not enough for the 65 ocean project for a procedural bay ventures to debt the support oget support of alocal homeowne. It crit a critical to address tl businesses, youth, neighborhood families share so we say no to luxury housing at this site and asking you to ensure the Community Voices heard and asking that a project be held in the neighborhood, not at city hall at times to be accessible to youth to ensure that the community whose have most at stake are at the table involve d in making decisions. We look forward to your response. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is harry bette better bi would like to speak about two items. I recently received the subsequent draft eir for the balboa reservoir project. Theyre still collecting comment. The only thing i want to point out to you is i believe its 500page document with about 1,000 pages in the appendix in the back, in a disc. The most striking part is the cover. The cover shows a lot which is 800 to 1,000 parking space and virtually empty with six cars. I just came from there today and city college is this session and it was almost impossible to get a space and thats the spillover parking lot. The er no longer dealing with parking issues but its very strange youre having this distorted picture when the reality is quite different. So consider that in the future. I would also like to speak in support of some of the speakers. I went to observe the demonstration recently from the 65 ocean and they met at the chesial properties where the twodetermine units are going for 4500 a month and the onebedroom units for 3500 a month. And the people who are speaking to you are rightly concerned because that was an example of something that has already been approved. The site theyre talking about 65 ocean, has already gone through the sequa hearing and so its virtually approved and you are not hearing their voices. Youre not hearing their need more affordable rather than luxury. The chesial project on Mission Street was almost entirely luxury, as well. And you know, its a systemic problem, not just the problem of this, but theyre faced with one problem at a time and being thrown out of where they live, where they grew up and im not sure what you can do, but you have to hear their voices. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is marlin dran and im a Community Organizer. Im here today to support the Excelsior Community in asking for a Planning Commission hearing in the neighborhood. We know that having these in the neighborhood brings out Community Members as you have seen. You get to hear the heart and soul of communities where they feel safe in the environment theyre in versus city hall, where you hear and city the lives of the people who want to tell you that they do want luxury apartments in their neighborhood. They really need Affordable Housing. Reach people won. We say no to s of 16 says this Planning Commission hearing should be in the neighborhood because saw the success and heard the stories and changed your minds. This should be another example. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I work work as a community orgar in excelsior. I would like to appreciate the eye contact ive seen throughout the comment from all of you. Unlike other governmental people, youre making eye contact and listening to the community and so i encourage you to come down to the excelsior and have a town hall with everybody here to speak to you and passionately about defending their community and everybody else who could not be here because they are at work and students and because they cant afford to come down here at this time. I would like to echo everything that was said before me and i would also like to include that we are not in a housing crisis. We are an in Affordable Housing crisis. We have an abundance of market units empty, and what we need is Affordable Housing to get people off the street, to stabilize our community so people can go to work and school. People here do not want anything for free but be able to live with a roof over their heads. Next speaker. My name is katrina lee and im the Community Organizer but today im speaking as a Community Member as a longtime volunteer for the philippino Community Member in the excelsio resource. Excelsior. Im here with all of those who cannot afford to be here to say no to the 65 ocean avenue development. The excelsior is one of the last makeneighbors in sanneighborhoo. This neighborhood over the years has learned not only to coexist but stand by each other and hold one another down, despite it being seen as the new hot place to live. 65 ocean does not fit with the rest of the neighborhood in that the developers do not possess it to work aside Community Members. It had to learn about this evil on their own or communitybased organizations. The development knows this will come with the mobilization with hundreds of people who do not see themselves in luxury housing or studio apartments and who do not see themselves in a project that will set a dangerous precedent against the childcare and preschools next to this proposed development. That is why i u yo urge you allo push for a development at 65 ocean. And the concerns are genuinely heard and acted upon and we hope you can be a champion for the te Excelsior Community residents. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . With that, general Public Comment is closed. So i will then ask director rand about the planning process and where were at with that. We heard about that over a year ago and i think it would be a good thing to hear it. Sure. I will get back tow on a report on the status and, perhaps, we can schedule a hearing on that process. Ok, thank you. Any other commissioner comments . Commission johnson. Of course, i think its important to just recognise all of the folks that did come out and who did come out to hear or to share sorry, its hot to share your lived experience, your concern and hopes for your community. We have heard a clear call that you are looking for a response from us and we look forward to sending that response. Thank you. Thank you so much and thank you, everyone, for coming. speaking spanish . Commissioners, given the heat, i have had a request to look into the board of supervisors given the heat in this room, ive had a request to see if the board of supervisors chambers are available. It would require, probably, a half hour break in the hearing to move us down there. But if thats desirable, then lets do it we need permission from the clerk directly so ill look into that as we proceed with that hearing, please. Can we take a break, then, while youre doing that . Oh, youre just doing that. Under your regular calendar for case903pha for the subphase 1c, c. 2. 1 and 4 and this is a presentational hearing. Im Kristy Alexander and were here to provide a presentation on your Treasure Island Development Project which was approved by the board of supervisors in join of 2011 punt t20 punt20pursuant to a developt agreement. This is required when any building is proposed over 70 feet in height. That qualifies to the development. Because this is the first time coming before the commission since it was approved, i have provided in the Commission Memo a brief overview of the Treasure Island project as a whole, including the amount of market rate and Affordable Housing and Community Benefits proposed anniandapproved to date. Except for projects seeking a major modification to the Design Standards and guidelines, planning staff reviewing all projects and confirms compliance with the special utilization district and the Development Agreement. We make recollections put in a staff report and sent to the planning terror. Director. He approves the project design based on compliance. In may of this year, the first Schematic Design proposals were submitted for two buildings over 70 feet in height which required this type of informational hearing. You will be hearing from us in the future, as well, when other buildings are submit ed this ar. We ask the Public Commission to bring your focus to the design of the two residential buildings which are referred to as block c2. 1 and c2. 4. The proposal for block c2. 1 includes a 31story, 315foot top building with 265 residential unit and 190 parking spaces. The Building Materials proposed include folding glass fiber, reinforced concrete on the tower and masonry material at the residential base with recessed balconies. The proposal for block c. 24 includes new construction of approximately 19 stories, 204foot building with 248 residential units, ground floor rotatretail and it includes pann the tower and thin brick at the residential base with a storefront with the portion. Both buildings comply with this and the city to approve an application is limited to its application of the quality that is subjective elements in the deparde, such as related to the Building Materials. Section 4 of the Development Agreement states that the city does not have the discretion to disapprove or recommend modification to the aspects of a building that meets the quantity daytive or objective standards. So the project sponsor would now like to make a presentation and then planning staff would like to gather comments from the public and commission on the proposed design of these two buildings that qualify as large projects before we take them to the planning director for review and this concludes my presentation and ill be available, as well as our staff architect who is also in attendance to answer my questions you may have. Thank you. Thank you. First, a particular thank you for hearing us in this heat. Its going to be a long day for you. Im here on behalf of Treasure Island community development, the joint venture partnering with sanfrancisco on the redevelopment of Treasure Island. We have been before you and other policy makers many times over many years. But we are particularly pleased to be here today to discuss the first vertical buildings plan that is the very key on Treasure Island. We call this the First District. To recap our history before you, we began the current effort to master plan Treasure Island and the formal master planning effort kicked off in 2006. The project completed its Environmental Review and was entitled in 2011. The project is a plan that sought to put in place a master plan and then have a series of steps master plan approval followed by with its Development Agreement, followed by a series of major phases so that we could take the project in bites. Today, we have processed the first major phase. We are doing the utility and infrastructure work on the island today. We have started the first building on your buena island and what we are here to talk about the first New Buildings that will be constructed on Treasure Island. We look forward to delivering new homes in 2021 and 2022. To briefly recap the master plan, it provides us to develop 8,000 new homes in what will be a transformative neighborhood in sanfrancisco and 24 are affordable. Those are accomplished in two ways, both through inclusionary and 100 affordable buildings built in partnership with the Mayors Office of housing. Theres 300 acres of open space san the projecand the project hn designated lead and deed platinum. There are multiple modes of Public Transportation that will serve Treasure Island, but the ferry connection to the Ferry Building in San Francisco is an important centrepiece of that plan, certainly a romantic centrepiece and you see before you a rendering of what the fully builtout d for d plan would look like from the city shore. So we talked about the whole master plan and what you see highlighted before you is actually on this slide, is actually the First District. Thats a portion of which were here to talk about today. If you were stand on the embarcadero today and look across the water, that area is currently under construction. Emthithis is a blowup of this e area and you see that it begins with what we Call Building one, the historic passenger terminal. On right side, the small chapel repumperepumped as a park and tr buildings. There are ten residential building pads. Of those ten pads, consistent with the Affordable Housing plan for the project, there are two parcels that are set aside in being developed in 100 affordable project and the other eight are being developed as market rate with inclusionary homes. So were here to talk about only two buildings today. But it is our first time to come before you and we want to share a process that weve been going through now for a fairly long time with staff and one that, frankly, we think has served us very well. If you can go to the next slide for me, please. Ill start by giving a bit of context here. In our many years of discussions with so many of the various stakeholders at the city, the cab, this commission and others, the staff, i think all of us involved in this project developed a desire as an authentic place, a place that is of our time, but one that was designed by many hands. And so, for the First District, we were fortunate enough tone to engage one of San Franciscos first architect. Go back one. As much of these people are in the room today and theyre here to support the team thats up in front of you, each team is designing a different building but the process had them come together to really engage in a dialogue that we found to be really, really additive. So while were here to talk about two buildings, im going to quickly ill go right to left at the top of the page. Behind building one, natoma architects, stanley fatowitz designed that residential building and mark determinant ovenyercovenye rockand we did ne design of the Affordable Housing projects. That one of the things we love is that the target the architecs volunteered to participate in our process and were super active in engaging with us and so that included both dan solomon and his crew and paulettetaggart and well hear from david baker today and perkins and will in partnership with the kennerlys and ed pujeron with gonzalez targets. Architect. We have completed design on nine which have been taken up as a piece. So were about to show you two of those buildings in detail so that we can take your comment. These are the renderings of the buildings that have so far been conceptual designed when seen with ghosted in behind it, the desire d for d footprint and the next rendering shows you the buildings that have been designed in this First District without that ghosting in of the future and finally, the four buildings that will be built first by us and then the Affordable Housing project by swords to plow shares next store and thats what you will see next. So with that, and thank you for allowing me to provide that context. With t

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