This is not just the inability of so many workers to find housing in our city today, but also how the income inequality that we have created in the city , is affecting every decision that we make. We keep acting as though the housing crisis is entirely separate from the growth of income inequality. Going back to that research that the Directors Team produce. In 1990, folks that made over 200,000 made up 9 of the city residents. Today they make over 27 of city residents, adjusted for inflation. That is a dramatic change that affects how housing crisis are affected. It affects displacement, it affects land costs, a city that sees land costs going up by 23 every year. That is where i would put my money. It affects the rate of construction. Right now, we build for that top 27 . We built actually for the top 10 earn more than 200,000. When that limit is reached, if you look at all of the newspaper articles right now, building slows down. Until we address that, we are not going to solve this problem. That is the kind of leader that we need who will be addressing these lifechanging issues. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is mary lynne durand, i am a people organizer. Hi im also born and raised san franciscan. This will be an interesting dating profile you guys are going to have to create for this planning director. There is a lot to think about. Some of the things i want to bring forward, a lot of our Community Members do not have the technical knowledge. I appreciate a lot of folks presenting that, even i dont know about. Some things that are important to them is being heard, being a no space where they are open to collaboration. We need a planning director that can collaborate with our Community Members. Someone who can understand what is happening in the Affordable Housing crisis today. A lot of our Community Members are low income, members of color, who have not seen an opportunity to shine in the city. Tenants who are living, homeless houses, people in the streets, who really want someone who is looking out for them. That is what im here to talk about today. We feel like we have been able to move forward with our current planning director to have some open collaboration, to be able to learn and talk about how we can continue to put forward the needs of tenants, the needs of those who are really struggling in San Francisco. What we are looking for in the future, as we want someone who supports organizing low income communities. Its not easy to come here and talk to you all about the issues they are facing every day. We get really vulnerable and personal. We want to planning director that listens to that. We want one who embraces diversity and culture. I dont know how many times you have to come and talk about how communities of color we are fighting white supremacy, in San Francisco. We want to make sure a director is looking out for our culture and community. We want one that values people over profit. We dont want somebody that talks about supporting construction workers, we want somebody to support Community Members repercussions that the planning director has currently put forward. I will be here 6070 years in the future to see what the next planning director puts forward and hopefully that is something i can be proud of, that our community can be proud of and i can live, and afford. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Hi everyone. Jordan davis area i think i just have two words for the next planning director. Just two words for two very important words, equity lends. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I think the new planning director needs to consider a number of things about the Planning Department. Many reports have been created that show many issues around San Francisco. A lot of those have been asked for by the members of the Planning Commission. Not offered by the Planning Department. A lot of the times, from the neighborhood perspective, the Planning Department does not plan. It addresses facades, layouts, number of rooms, number of units. It is a joke when we talk about Community Stabilization. It is a joke when we talk about the housing. San francisco should have neighborhood planners. San francisco Planning Department should be funded by the general budget, not developer fees. I would like to see a planning director that would take on these kinds of challenges. Increasing Property Values manners mainly to investors, not to us who live here. You know, we are living here, our house is not primarily an investment. Proposals that the Planning Department looks at should be evaluated on their value to San Francisco, not their value to investors. I would like to see a planning director that would implement those kinds of things, really the quality of life, we need to stop exporting San Francisco residents. People should be able to live here and live here all their lives. Workers, people who make lower incomes should be able to live here, too, because we cannot run the city without janitors, baristas, people who fix our cars. Schoolteachers do not earn that much either. People are doing it to work here. So, neighborhood planners, i would like to request that. From time to time it has been raised. People that get to know the neighborhood, et cetera, and know our issues. Lets make San Francisco not a place where you can get more streamlined housing permits, for houses and units that arent even getting built. Lets instead, prioritize get things getting built for people of middle income and low incomes. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is kevin ortiz i am with the San Francisco latino club. Im a San Francisco native. I was fresh out of the city when i was ten years old. You know, i have lived these experiences of being displaced. I just want to first off take time to thank the commissioners. I know the work that you do is thankless. At the same time, i want to thank the years of service that john ramm has put forward for the city and county of San Francisco. Thankful for the innovative policies including the map 2020 process. We have to recognize the changes that have hit the city. With a Record Number of residents, the mission, bayview, fillmore. We need a champion with a vision for housing. We need a director that is going to speak for San Francisco and not implement topdown state policies for sacramento. Those are impacting us viciously. Gentrification is ethnic cleansing and we need to make sure we are protecting these residents and we need a planning director that is going to make sure that they are going to hold developers accountable, make sure that they are predicting, preserving us and not just a produce, produce, produce model. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners. I am the chair of the San Francisco local revolution grew. I want to thank you for holding this very important hearing. This is the future of our city. I wanted to talk to you about a lot of the challenges. You may note that the top 1 of income earners make 44 more than the bottom 19 . We have several billionaires. There are deep concerns about income inequality in our city. A lot of the way the city has been approaching planning, construction has been catering to that top 1 and not exactly catering to the rest of us in the bottom. I grew up in public housing, section eight housing, it is important that we are building a city that belongs to all of us, not just a playground for the wealthy and the rich. I am hoping while you consider the next head of the Planning Department, that you really or we really take in mind how to get someone who really addresses a bottom up model and helps us to move away from a topdown model of housing construction. The latest data shows 3,690 for a onebedroom bedroom apartment, which is pretty insane. It makes me think that we need to move away for the from the forprofit housing on moving to a nonprofit housing structure. Vienna is a great example of how social housing can prioritize folks. I also would love to see changes in areas we develop, if you look at things especially treasure island. You know, we have three wonderful golf courses that are not environmentally friendly, too. Maybe having the head of the Planning Department who tackle some of that underutilized would be ideal. Thank you so much for holding this hearing. I really want to stress how important it is that we address income inequality in our city. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello everyone. I am larry martin, i am a south market residents in a college student. I just want to say, i think it is important that the next director be not biased, you know what im saying . Have an open heart to the low income residents of San Francisco. It seems like the politicians, and the people that are in position of power, it seems like they cater to the wealthy all the time. I think it is important, and would be in the best interest of you guys to select someone who is going to be openminded, and fair, to everyone. Not just the wealthy, the developers, and the people that have all the money, you know what im saying . I think it is important that you guys select someone, it would be better for not only the low income people, it would be better for you guys also, you know, to select someone that is going to be fair to everyone, not just the rich. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. No . Okay. [laughter] any other Public Comment on this item . Okay. Thank you very much. Commissioners, anybody have comments . Commissioner richards . It is hard here straddling this whole. This pole. For a city that prides itself on looking forward in being innovative, San Francisco is always trying to catch up. It is an embarrassment to me, it really is. The director that we will select a serves the pleasure of this commission we forwarded our nominees to the mayor, and the mayor picks one, the mayor may reject them, we go back and forth until this actually works. The director is the ceo of the Planning Department, and we are the board of directors. I came from private industries, this is how it works. Whatever we do, i really want to make sure that we have somebody that is collaborative both up and down the organization and the commission with the board of supervisors, mayor, as well as all of the community people, white brown, yellow, purple, everybody. I think the director has done a great job with the map 2020 plan. I think there is a lot of good things he has done. The city is now at an inflection point. Where do we go from here . Because the director works for the commission, i want to make sure that we set goals for him that a realistic and reflect our values. We have yearly performance evaluations, in private, with him or her. I keep saying him. Them, they. I want to make sure that the director sets the tone for the organization as well. We are all in this together. We are all trying to make the best city possible. We have to be responsive to the residence. City planning, i dont mean the department of city planning, i mean, planning itself in general generic terms has failed why . We never saw uber at lyft coming. We never saw the rise of airbnb, we never saw plan for these additional residents. We keep approving buildings, we do this ten year capital plan. The world is moving fast, and we are standing still. That is not the kind of director i want to hire. I want 70 who is a visionary and who can understand and appreciate that planning is for the future, not to with the present. I think the new director needs to have a different philosophy, especially around enforcement. I am honestly getting very sick and tired of sitting up here and watching people break the law, committed fraud, lie to us, as long as you are abating the ship that you pole, you get off scott free which creates the lack of trust in the building inspection commission, the Planning Commission that there is two sets of rules in the city. Those that have money, and those that do not. I do not want a techno cracked. Someone that knows the planning code, and good at urban design, that is not what we need. We need 70 thats going to lead this city into the future. Who knows a lot, but also. Lastly we need to director thats going to come out swinging at sacramento. Sacramento is pulling ship on us, because they say we are not doing things that palo alto, or some other city is, and we are like the little kids that have to stay after school because soandso passed a note and it was not us, but we are going to be penalized. I want a director that stands up for San Francisco. Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner koppel . I will try to follow that. Good speech, commissioner richards. First and foremost i would like to see a director that can very clearly relate to the past, the present on the future of San Francisco. We do have a definite past that is dwindling away from us. Also, the same time i would like to see us focus a lot more on our current residence as opposed to our potential future residents. A lot of my friends and people i know, and the public come to me with the same comments week after week. Another large concern of mine and ours is what were doing doing about climate change. I think an emergency is a very understated word, one that could come to something being this catastrophe oriented. I think more planning on more foresight is definitely a need. Just so we can all feel safe about where we live, and work. That will entail a lot of other work, within the city, the word is decarbonization. Were going to look at making our transit fleets, and our downtown buildings more efficient. Those are the highest producers of these greenhouse gases. What is it going to take, its not going to be an easy undertaking for all of these Downtown Office buildings to get rid of their natural gas, electrifies much as possible. Put more car chargers in the parking lots and whatnot. That needs to be steered in the right direction to give us the most effective outcome. Also, i want a new director to prioritize displacement and displacement of all income levels, all of us are potentially facing displacement. If you live in the city, and if you work in the city, i dont want you to leave the city. I want you to stay here, keep working here, keep spending your money here. That goes for all income levels. We still havent really seen any movements on middle income housing. I understand it is not subsidized. Weve got to get creative and make something happen. Weve got items on here later today, that has to do with, you know, creating less displacement for people, with jobs. That is the thing that is heading in the right direction addressing our massive middleclass displacement. Also something i think all of us might mention is better coordination between the other departments. Even having joint hearings with certain departments, we are not walking out of here feeling like we got a lot accomplished sometimes. If one or two people could make it a lot easier for us to communicate better, and get more results, we will be happier and you guys will. Thank you. Commissioner trent 24 . Fung . I would stress that we move as soon as possible. Having gone through this process in terms of hiring a department head. Before we know it, february will be here. As an example, we looked at a rough schedule between now and february. Were probably looking at a month to take care of finalizing the qualifications. Another month just to be able to send it out to those of interest, whether it is professional associations or individuals. Another month or to hold, then a month to do the negotiations. By that time were already in february. I recommend perhaps as a starting. Starting point, we ask of the assistance of a to provide us with two things. One is the current job qualification statement on file. Secondly to develop a more detailed schedule for when things need to be done by this commission. And then go through either a participatory process as we develop the qualifications and the schedules, but to be able to move on it expeditiously. Time will be short. Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner moore . What do we look for in the future planning director . May acknowledge everything you said. I could restate everything and say yes, yes, yes, thank you for using inspiring words and compassion to be here and having prepared profound statements which i think is important to what we are looking at. Im going to pick up on a couple because they strongly resonate with me. What is extremely important to me is something, somebody, who has who is creative and a visionary. We need somebody who is secured with his stand in the profession, the basic understanding of what is required here. We do not want this to be a training for a resume of the future, a legacy project on its own for new plans and ideas are being thrown around to make something bigger, without really understanding, starting where we start and where we stand. Ive got to say that, because that is the very beginning. The next thing they are looking for is indeed a leader. Somebody secure about himself, who is humbling. Who is trustworthy, and who understands a participatory process. Participatory in the city means a lot of things. That means being engaged with the communities and the voices of the neighborhood which are the essence of good planning in the city. Being in sync with the Historic Preservation community. Something this commission has asked for again, and again. There are only so many hours where many of the things that this Commission Holds hi have just not been attended to in the past few years. We want somebody who understands urban design and Histori