So the young people in the front of the room can you have a seat. Join me in welcoming the hefty free bay area and carol lito and stewart fong are here on behalf of this organization. The reason im bringing them here today is to highlight this important effort. One of 12 Pacific Islanders are infected with hepatitis b and one of four of the individuals will die of liver cancer without monitoring or liver failure. There are almost 81,000 bay area residents infected by hepb and are likely unaware of their conditions because of many of the symptoms can be undetectable. That is why testing is key in 2007 the hepb Free Campaign was started to turn San Francisco into the first hepatitis b free city in the nation. For 12 years sf hepb free bay area has continued to be in the forefront in the battle against hepb and liver cancer. They continue to provide free and lowcost hepatitis b testing, raise Public Awareness on the issue of hepatitis b and promote routine testing and vaccination for Pacific Islander adults and its expanding to San Mateo County to serve hundreds of mongolian residents and filipino americans. Populations both at high risk of infection. Next friday, october 18, sf hepb bay area will be hosting their 12th annual be a hero awards gala. We will be voting on the resolution today to recommit our citys effort to support this critical work to save lives especially to in hard to reach areas and im imploring all to spread the word and encourage your friends and loved ones to be test. On behalf of the citizens of the San Francisco and the board of supervisors id like to thank the staff, governance, council, volunteers and supporters of sf hepb free bay area to ensure residents are free of hepatitis b and liver cancer. I want to thank you, staff and leadership, please carol and i id like to introduce our Council Members and staff and a want to thank president yee for recognizing our gala and i want to recognize the department of Public Health has shared our priority with us and we have worked closely over the 12 years. What id like to do now is introduce the two other Council Members. Were a small group. Were a small engine that can and have nine members on the board and only two staff but we do a lot and youll hear more from stewart fong. I want to introduce sharon li and Francis Tsang and i want to thank them because they help bring the resolution before you today and id like to introduce richard sao and stewart fong our executive director and have stewart say a few more words because hes a founding members from 2007. He really has the history and can brief you in terms of where we came from and where were going. Thank you. We were the first city to come up with a hepb free program and campaign in the city and now we have this proclamation we can use to continue our efforts across the nation in order to eliminate hepatitis b. As the greatest asian Health Disparity in the united states. It affects the asians more than any other ethnic group and we have the largest liver cancer. Since our program, weve seen a marked decrease in hepatitis b and our tagline is be sure, be test and be free. Thank you very much. Thank you. That concludes our 2 30 accommodations. We have our 3 00 p. M. Special order items 25 through 28. Madame clerk. Clerk they comprise the public hearing and a determination of evaluation under the California Environmental quality act also known as ceqa issued on may 30, 2019 for the proposed project at 344 14th street approved on july 25, 2019 and construction of a sevensto sevenstory 78foot Tall Building and year yard and item 26 is the affirming of the proposed project is exempt from further Environmental Review under a Community Plan evaluation. Item 27 is to reverse that determination. Item 28 is to determine the appropriation of findings. Commissioner colleagues, were now convening as a committee as a whole and opening the hearing. We have before us an appeal on the Community Plan evaluation for the project at 344 14th street. For this hearing, we will be considering the final decisions made by the Planning Department. Without well proceed as follows the appellants or appellant representatives will have up to five minutes for presentation. Then up to two minutes per speaker in support of the appeal. Up to 10 minutes for a presentation from the Planning Department up to 10 minutes for the project sponsor or their representatives and two minutes per speaker in opposition to the appeal and in support of the project. Finally, a total of three minutes for the appellant or appellants rs to provide a rebuttal. Colleagues, are there objection to proceeding this way . Seeing no objection, public hearing is now open. Supervisor ronen would you like to have opening remarks . No. Commissioner okay. I see nobody else on the roster. So i will now ask the appellant or their representative to come forward and present their case. Have you a total of 10 minutes. Good afternoon, supervisors. Ie our mission no eviction request you require a current accumulative Environmental Review prior to further consideration of this project. The process of tiering or using a base Environmental Review to assess Environmental Impacts is intended to streamline Environmental Review for a proposed project of current cumulative conditions have been already been assessed through thorough study. This allows project to avoid redone d redo redundant as spebltpects and us process to perform supplemental study. This is all well and good if the base Environmental Review or peir is based on accumulative study but what happens when its woefully outdated or the assessment of mitigation and infrastructure updates arent keeping pace with Current Conditions . For the residents of the eastern neighborhoods, the process of using an outdated base peir while denying the fundamental issue is having unprecedented harmful impacts drowning us. It is inequitable for the people drowning to provide their other cumulative described that proves otherwise. It has three gross options in the eastern neighborhoods and recommended a preferred alternative amount of Housing Units to meet expected growth. However, 11 years later and six more years left in the tiering time frame we have more than double the amount of units in the pipeline, each project another washing over us trying to tow us under. This project with its low percentage of 13. 3 onsite affordability further the disproportionate market rate units and further exacerbate the displacement of workingclass residents surrounding the site. When the peir was adopted we didnt know tncs would exist. Who knew incomes of those coming into the city would be so vastly disproportionate or the highincome earners would opt to have everything they ever want delivered to their doors. The Community Asked for further study but were told our observations of environmental changes has no basis and ac ras data was being used. We now know that our daily observations of these harmful environmental changes were accurate and the data in recent studies including a joined analysis by uber and lyft shows how outdated the assessments were because tncs account for twice the amount of vehicle miles traveled than the sfcta estimated. And still it continues. Theres no loading demand analysis in this cpe and assumptions in the trip generation studies vastly under state the number of delivery vehicles relying on outdated guidelines. Environmental planners are saying only 7. 68 deliveries a day will come to the 60 units of this building with five commercial units. Seriously. 7. 68 deliveries a day. It sits on a zero High Injury Network and insufficient loading jones and a study needs to be done. A recent study has shown the increased tnc congestion correlates directly with the pedestrian injuries and deaths. We asked for a minimum of 80 feet of loading be implemented at the site during daytime hours and asked for Bicycle Safety improvements yet these mitigation not includes not inc. The project learns in the urban watershed one of the largest. Its a high liquefaction zone with the greatest property at risk for significant flood damage. Its on the old arroyo delores and its on the registry of National Historical places and ceqa needs to assess Environmental Impacts and assess the potential for substantial adverse change to our Historic Resources. Despite the requirements no cumulative study and Current Conditions related to hydrology and geology has been done. Geotechnical work was done in outlier conditions after a long period of severe drought. One of the core samples closest to the Historic Resource could not be obtained because the effort was blocked by deb bris. Likely the remnants of the original Brick Foundation which was abandoned in 2016 when the perimeter elevation was updated likely to vide water issues on the site. Within 600 feet of the proposed site theres six buildings continually dewatering the watershed. They were created after the study being used to supplement this outlier incomplete soils testing. The six buildings pump ground water day and night. We know nothing about the cumulative affects or changes in ground water changes in the area because no study has been done. No study has been done on the cumulative effect of our stew we are storm water system along with the increased amount of water waste water and for instance still has pipes over 80 years old with limited capacity that get overwhelmed with heavy rains. Neighbors have historically complained of sewer issues when events were at the u. S. Armory and its about to reopen for business. Whats the unstudied impact of that increased load . What will happen to the surrounding areas and the potential for flooding. Engineers ac knowledge they dont know the capacity of the drainage system or if its properly functioning. The cpe lifts mitigation measures agreed to by the project sponsor. There are mitigations for archaeology, construction noise and scheduled responsibility for implementations but nothing monitor or protect the infrastructure in the area and histor historic and they didnt adhere to the what was recommended to the geotechnical engineers. Sink holes have been appearing that were watering sites. Theyre adjacent to the project site and something we havent seen before in the area. This sig signals shifting soil. It is critical this be studied. It will likely require dewatering of the project site during the site. Will it result in shifting soil or erosion in sewers and affect the gas line sites 150 feet from the project . Eastern neighborhood communities have historically received marginalized environmental planning. For years weve been raising alarm about insufficient study of gentrification, displacement, traffic patterns and pollution and other adverse conditions occur in our community and at each turn we have been pushed off by Government Agencies telling us our observations and changes that we are seeing in our environment are nothing to worry about. We are tired of being ignored. The impacts have been worse than we could have ever imagine. How much longer are we going to continue this inequitable pattern . Please dont rubber stamp another cpe and tell us this fight and its permitting process and oversight will capture any mitigation. If the underlying environmental methods have been used so far for the project are so reliable, why is the nearby arkansas project still in an evacuated pit pumping out ground water and if the same process was used for 88 arkansas is the same process, why do they have to revise their Structural Engineering of the foundation and submit for new plan and new permits . Officials love to tell how the city is striving toward equity even creating an office of Racial Equity but where the equity in asking the working Class Community of color to provide their own data and prove our observations and conditions deserve study the process was created to allow for official thorough assessment not to en den ger citizens and disenfranchise them. Thank you. Were not quite done. This is the ground water being pumped continually down the street at 863 mission. They had a huge problem where the water us welcome back dumped on the street. We have photos. I want you to get the full visual and sound. Thank you. Thank you very much. I dont see any names on the roster for questions. I will open up for Public Comment specifically for those who would like to speak in support of the appeal. Come on up. Supervisors, again and again the astute advocates and environmentalists, people who know something about dewatering come over here and speak the truth. We have an an ti antiquated smithsonian planning which continues to approve with shenanigans. This must stop. It is em imperative you take into consideration the cumulative impacts and you dont. You dont understand about dewatering. What do you think happened at the millennium building and the salesforce dewatering millions of gallons into our system. Dont understand dewatering plays a reel in destabilizing foundations. Besides that, in general, this city does not have a real time tally of our carbon footprint. We dont have it. We speak in generalities. The presentation is one of the best ive heard and ive been here many years. On this cumulative impact ive been speaking about for many years and has been discarded. Please take it into consideration. Thank you very much. Commissioner thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, im Carlos Bocanegra in a building in the Historic District mentioned in the appellates presentation next to the project being proposed. Theres significant and unknown issues with the shallow ground water and poor soils on the site. Without a current geotechnical report all monitoring must be included and expanded not just for the safety of the project for the adjacent building and the lives of neighbors like myself. The surrounding buildings on three sides of the project are all historical. Its incredibly important we preserve them and add distance to the buildings being monitored should be greater than 25 feet. 25 feet doesnt include the other buildings across the street and near the armory and the armory is not only a landmark but on the National Register of historic places. Its imperative to conduct a new and current geotechnical report. Allowing the project to proved proceed without this is neglect. And theyll have to take out years of backfill. The original Core Drilling wasnt even able to penetrate the area. The shallow excavation claim is also unfounded at this time. I ask we all be prudent and conduct further investigation before we proceed and cause unintended damage to Historic Buildings and to the lives of neighbors as well. Thank you. In my undergrad i studied with a focus on sustainability develop and have a masters degree in Community Organizing and development and worked for a variety of communitybased organization. With my education and experience after reviewing the effects of the new Luxury Development of 344 14th street and the impact on the neighborhood and community and ecologically. Theres bain total of 44 recorded evicts within 300 feet of the project. 16 Housing Units on woodward street, seven on stevenson street with 22 tenants, one housing unit on mission with a multiunit building with an owner movein, lmi eviction. Lmi building is one door from the Mission Street project and up for sale with the now vacant omi unit. Were in an Affordable Housing and poverty rate crisis and this project should include more affordable units. Second, we all know we live and build on top of an historic water said with water ways used by ancestors. New building are pumping ground water and dumping it into the water system. No study has been done to understand what this meens for our system and whether it will cause more flooding than we already see. What if this erodes foundation and i urge the supervisors to not approve the project on 344 14th street. Next speaker. I used to live on the neighborhood of stevenson street. Im here to oppose the development because it only assured 13 affordablity. San francisco is already a street people cannot live in and teachers and educators republic displaced from neighborhoods and and on top of that as most people already spoke its going to be a hazard not only for the neighbors for the community but im here to oppose this type of development and would like the supervisors to support this. Thank you. Commissioner thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Ill read some paragraphs, prior to the dropping of the ir assumptions were made to predict the rate of growth in the economy and the increase in population and jobs and infrastructure. Those predictions have been proven to be woefully inaccurate. How can a neighborhood plan e. I. R. Adequate when based on erroneous and inaccurate data and calculations. Were living in 2019, not in 2008. Were living with a lot of mistakes and the calculations that have turned our city into a national embarrassment. 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