Flexible retail concerns me. I dont think businesses should be open past 11 00 p. M. In the neighborhood. That was a recent addition. I would like to look out for the interests of the neighborhood when considering the nature of the retail. Related to that we need to consider if this is a Retail Destination clogged with traffic with people coming to shop. Is that appropriate for the neighborhood . The proposed lengths of time for the project. I have a 6 yearold daughter. When i saw 15 yearold timeframe my daughter will be a junior in college when this is finished. That is mind bo mindboggling. 15 years of disruption to the neighborhood for that amount of time, i would argue this is not a fair or equitable or just or project to the neighbors currently living there. Lack of affordable is a justice and equity issue. We cant solve that in a way that is just or equitable to the People Living in the neighborhood. I would ask you look out for the rights of the people in the neighborhood is the retail too much of a destination . Is the timeframe of the project appropriate for the neighborhood. Thank you for looking out for all of San Francisco including this neighborhood in your decision. Next speaker, please. I am barbara. I live a block andahalf from the project. I have lived here over 50 years. I qualify as senior. I hoped to be able to live in my house for many more years. However, given the amount of construction proposed, amount of traffic incurred because of the retail and the late hours, i dont know if i want to keep living in this neighborhood. Those are consideration to be made and i support having the extension, 30day extension on review of this project. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I am Christina Ortega morris, i live in the heights. Fan does not represent all of the residents of the height. We are diverse and we dont necessarily agree with what mr. Ferguson said. I oppose the project as proposed by the developer. I do support the Community Alternative for the following reasons one, no retail. We dont need any more retail. Target and trader joes are overwhelming us. We have the village. The merchants are very concerned about the impact on their strip. Some of them are considering leaving because they feel this over whelms them. I know they have submitted comments as well. The neighborhood cannot support a 15 year project as the developers have envisioned. We want the historic green space protected, honor the historic nomination as classic mid century architecture. There is nothing wrong with that. It is beautiful. Think about the traffic and congestion if the plans are not modified. Evaluate seriously whether the developers reliance on tech dominated economy supported this concerning the future economy of the city. Many new developments are selling because the market is over saturated. More people are fleeing San Francisco due to taxes, expense, crime, political mismanagement. Many businesses are out of state. I have two Adult Children in the city and two are thinking of living. One lives out of state and one in southern california. They dont think San Francisco is livable. Not because of housing but the environment is not supportive of their life goals any longer. I ask for a 30day continuance so the proponents of the Community Alternative can present arguments against the flexible retail idea which is totally unacceptable to the quiet neighborhood. The idea social services and the facilities are being considered. Theser not considered in the original e. I. R. Finally, please consider what the residents want. We know the neighborhood better than any developer. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am barbara brenner. My husband and i live a few blocks from the proposed development site. We support a plan to provide for the same number of units as the Developers Plan. If you are concerned about the impact on the environment and the neighborhood, have the Developers Plan reduce the size, itthetic and scope. It leaves a larger Carbon Footprint by excavating deeper to the hill and demolishing more buildings and removing more trees in exchange for increased paining. It takes twice as long to complete as the sensible neighborhood alternative. Please allow for 30day extension to renew the plan. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. I am a lifelong resident of San Francisco. I live in the Laurel Heights neighborhood. I ask you consider regarding the proportioned alternatives. I ask you support the plans for the same number of housing units. They are supper your because they do not build an historic green and they limit disturbance to seven years rather than 15 years proposed buyer developers. Protracted construction would jeopardize locally owned businesses in the shopping area. Regarding flexible uses which the e. I. R. Did not evaluate they fail to evaluate the impact on traffic, noise and air quality from sharing the same retail space. They only evaluated single use and restaurant. Flexible retail is not allowed in district two. The e. I. R. Needs to be revised to consider the impacts of flexible retail uses. Regarding the limit on Retail Operation hours, the hours every tail operation should be limited from 6 00 a. M. To 11 00 p. M. To not allow retail to operate to 2 00 a. M. Prohibit the outdoor amplification of sound, prohibit not respect uses fast foot restaurants and fast food restaurants and i request you continue to allow time to review impacts on information and the final e. I. R. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, i am gabriel. I am an outsider. We moved to the city three years ago. We have been living right by civic center bart. Previously we lived at buchanan street in a Big Development there. As a young person who is eager to start a family and eager to establish a lifestyle that can be sustained, i would surge the committee to avoid delaying projects like this as much as possible. It is so difficult for people in our position. I am a freelance artist. My husband works for nonprofit. We are spending a ridiculous amount of income on rent. We can barely afford a one bedroom let alone a two bedroom. Projects like this with housing for seniors and child care are so important for People Like Us to stay in the city. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. I am wendy. I have lived in San Francisco for 30 years. I have lived in Laurel Heights for almost 20 years. I live directly across from where the development will occur. I am absolutely in support of housing as is everybody in the heights improvement association. Get that clear for the record. We are not opposed to more housing that is not what we are objecting to at all since we learned about the development. As i have been sitting here. To live hear what does that mean to live in a place . I live in this place, my neighbors live in this place. To say this property is disconnected from the neighborhood could not be further from the truth. We know our neighbors because of this place. We are on the green space, on the top big open flat of the green space, all of us several times a week, many of us we know the neighbors walking up and down the sidewalks. It is connected. I know who is on the bottom part with dogs in the afternoon, who is in the top later in day. It is very connected. My kids went to jcc preschool. I used to cut through the parking lot that comes out in front of the jcc. I think i am taking issue with the idea this is an eyesore and disconnected. There are all kinds of ways to be integrated to make it livable. What makes it livable are the large sidewalk that allow people to walk on them that are inviting and open to us. I am a little concerned the developer is saying they want to integrate the property to the community because if you have been to the location. I dont know how many of you have been there. There are signs all over the place saying we reserve the right to keep you out. That was in direct response to understanding this has been used as public space. Some of our neighbors lived here for over 50 years and have grown up using this space as part of the community. I am a little concerned they dont really want the community to use this space and dont really understand what does it mean to use the space . Families dont want to just walk on hard scape. Families need grass, open areas, kids need to be able to run and take dogs out somewhere besides a little batch of grass next to a tree next to thousands of feet of hard scape. I think that there are all different approaches to making a place livable and becomes part of the neighborhood, again, when i think what that means to be livable especially for one who wants to raise a family that is what they are interested in doing in this neighborhood. We take issue with mixed use retail. We dont want a lot of activity in the neighborhood late at night. It is not the flavor of the neighborhood. Thank you. Your time is up. Thank you we support the Community Plan. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you for your patience. I live in district two. I represent the group of residents who promote lively neighborhoods. We support this project. We believe the project provides more places for people to live, to eat, enjoy, to shop, and this will be a boone and asset to district two. On a personal note as someone who came to the city as an adult, people sometimes ask how long do you stay in often times as a young person in the city it is an expiration on how long you can enjoy San Francisco. At some point you might want to buy a place and find housing security. It is hard to find that here. Most of the homes in the heights are unaffordable to people who are under 35. Please consider the needses the younger folks when you think about this project. This has been discussion for over three years with so Much Community input. I implore you to respect that and to respect the time that went into it and approve the project. The Community Alternative as far as i know did not have an analysis of financial feasibility. It is possible that without the retail this project will not pencil. Therefore, instead of any housing we will have no housing on his site. The last thing to say. I hope you have time is i have an overhead. This is the citys housing balance report which i am sure you are familiar with from april. I want to call your attention to the past 10 years district two build no low income housing. For a city that says we need more housing, the fact districts two because of the zoning and project has no Affordable Housing that is a real shame. In front of usa chance to build 186 units of Affordable Housing for seniors. If there is something the highlights and people opposed are able to at turn the lots into Affordable Housing. Because of zoning in the 1960s and 1970s this has not happened. This is one of the few places in district two to build Affordable Housing immediately without delay. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am jay. For the purposes of today i am a board member and resident of richmond. I am familiar with this location. I go by it quite a bit. I am speaking in support of the 744 proposed homes and specifically in support of the plan. I hope you will approve them as is. I want to share a couple quotations from a book that i have been reading recently. The review process is highly political. The people with the greatest steak in the outcome stake in the outcome plan play no part i. We dont know who they are. They may be people coming from elsewhere. Also, hearings like this they demonstrate there is no local constituency for the people who will live there. People talked about considering the people already there. I agree. That is an important consideration. We need to consider the people who will be there in the future. I came to San Francisco six years ago. This is the place that called to me. It is a place i knew i wanted to live and be my best self and fully live. I didnt know about the housing challenges other than offhand jokes. There were reasons to be here. There are so many people like me. They want to come contribute to the fabric of the city. They want to be a part of San Francisco. So many of them have come and gone in my time. I have seen so many friends get here and leave with the same hopes and goals. There is a lot of people who contributed to the city for a long time who need Affordable Homes like Senior Housing. There are people in need. We need to say yes to projects like this. This book calls the future residents of new homes like the ones we are discussing today unorganized probably unorganize ability. That is not the case. I come before you to speak on behalf of them. So many others have come before you. I was that person. I know what that feels like. I was lucky. I found a place here. I want the next generation to say they have lived here for 40 years to have that opportunity. I implore you to approve these homes. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am adam mic done notice. I live across the street. I support the construction of new housing in the community especially senior Affordable Housing and look forward to welcoming new neighbors to the hood. I dont support the loss of green space, removal of trees, the density, traffic, additional retail flexible retail and 15 year construction. If you are prohousing you should be for the Community Alternative plan to get housing on the market faster, not in 15 years. The special use district filing which came out after the draft e. I. R. Was published allows for flexible retail on california street. Flexible retail includes adult and nighttime entertainment. We need a 30day continuance to study the impact. Until then the e. I. R. Is not complete. The community has proposed an alternative plan to get housing sooner and save trees and wont jeopardize the Retail Businesses. I am not why that is not getting attention. I urge you to listen to the community and send this back for redesign taking into account the tremendous advantages of the Community Alternative plan. The urgent calls for more housing are drowning out housings in support of neighborhood character this is an opportunity to satisfy both sides. Get housing faster and preserve neighborhood live ability. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am caroline bush. I am a part of northern neighbors. I want to first talk about supervisor sevstephanie. I was touched by her story about her father diagnosed with an illness and that was importance of Senior Housing to her. I have recently tried to keep my mother housed over the last three years investors have bought her Property ThreeTimes Leading her to experience stressrelated psychosis and hospitalization related to schizophrenia. This is relevant because the nice thing is here we all agree we have a housing crisis. My mothers experience and supervisor stephanies fathers experience we need more housing. That is refreshing about this hearing today. Second point i would like to make we disagree how it will get done. Last week the uc berkeley wrote a paper about if it would pencil. This will explain better than i can why i support the development. I believe the Community Alternative plan will not get financed or built. I leave this with you guys to look over. This goes back to the second point why my mothers story is relevant. Investors bought her properties they were unable to build properties of their own. If you cannot make a return on properties. You buy existing properties and buy natural leo curing Affordable Housing and effect tenants like my mother three times. I implore you to look at that study and to accept Developers Plan as is. Thank you. Than thank you thank you ver. I will read a few more names. Patrick kirby, adam, cathy, drew, jared davis, natalie, herbert wiener, larry mat matth. I am linseed way. I lived in San Francisco and in the area of this project. I am a real estate and urban economist. I am here in support of the project. I am very impress pressed with the developers. I have seen their work. They are here for the long run, which is important. This project addresses both major city and community needs. I urge you to approve this project. It is the highest and best use from the standpoint of the city and the community. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Commissioners, good afternoon. I am jake. I am here as a neighbor. I lived on Fourth Avenue and lake street in town. I was born at 3800 california street. My grandparents met at the old jcc across the street from this project. I commute past this site twice a day two and from work at least. This used to be a cemetery. I dont see what they are doing right now as any different than what happened in 1939 and 1940 when bodies were exumed and the land was repurposed. I support more housing in district two and this is long overdue. This developer was putting forward this project long before the increased affordability legislation was proposed by supervisor peskin. They got hung out to dry on the grandfathering provisions. Who knows this may already be in the ground if that hadnt happened. This should be a certified e. I. R. And we should move forward. Next speaker, please. I am bob. I live in the Richmond District and frequent california street in this particular area a fair amount. I am here speaks in favor of the proposal as proposed by the De