Also my boss litellally. I had the opportunity to work with poly at goldfarb and litman. Shes an excellent lawyer with far more tolerance for reviewing loan documents than i ever had. She was an extraordinary mentor for younger lawyers at the firm. I know there are past and present lawyers, especially women lawyers who persisted as practitioners and made their on contributions and public law because they have the great good luck to work with and for polly. She worked there for 30 years serving as council to non profits and public agencies helping build thousands of units Affordable Housing across the bay area and beyond. Along the way, she wrote or co wrote a number of publications including several additions of a legal guide to california redevelopment, a real page turner and a guide of housing which came out in 2003 and i think i worked on that with you and then in 2010 after i left. Excellent a lawyer as she is, even when i was, it was clear her true passion was her service on the San Francisco rent board and her work with San Francisco tenants. In 1981 she was a Founding Member of the Affordable Housing alliance that helps educate voters and endorses and campaigns for renterfriendly candidates for flick office. In 1983, diane feinstine appointed her to the rent board and for the neck three decades, more than three decades, she put her legal acumen to use appearing before that board helping generations of San Francisco renters assert their rights and achieve just resolutions. As a result of her work, she has received awards, numerous a words including Senior Action Network and the Northern California association for nonprofit housing unhung hero award and shes been inducted into the San Francisco tenant hall of fame. Policy marshal, you are a civic treasure. In 2009, policy took up a different fight when she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. The experience motivated policy to do more for others struggling with the disease so when she retired from gold farb in 2014, seeking a healthier worklife balance she began working as a Breast Cancer prevention advocate focusing on the environmental causes of the Breast Cancer. She founded Breast Cancer overtime in 2014 and serves as a executive director and is the Principle Investigator on two communitybased Breast Cancer prevention study funded by the state of california Breast Cancer research program. It is my great privilege, poly, to offer you this certificate of honor from the San Francisco board of supervisors on the things you have done so far but also on account of the extraordinary work i know you will continue to do for this city and its most vulnerable residents. Now, my notes say i now offer the microphone to you to speak but i see that some of my colleagues want to also say some things. Supervisor yee supervisor ronen. Yes, look behind you at this amazmazing groupamazing group oe come to honor you. It speaks more than any words anyone can say. I just wanted to personally thank you. I want you to know that being your official representative on the board of supervisors, it touched activists, you know, are my constituents. I just wanted to say that your work is extraordinary. Youve touched every single one of our districts. I know that you did incredible work with bernal gateway, for example, im sure we all have Affordable Housing buildings in our districts that you have touched in some way and then on top of that, the south tenants whose back you have had who you have fought for. Your work for the city is absolutely extraordinary and i wish we could have, you know, at least had you for another decade on the rent board that was a real shame to lose you but man, were we luckily and i didnt know diane feinstine appointed you which says a lot. We were lucky to have you for throw and a half decades and cant thank you if you have for that work. Supervisor yee supervisor fewer. Yes, i just wanted to thank you for your decades of service to the people of San Francisco and in particular to our tenants community. Thank you for being the light shining hope and assistance to renters in San Francisco. Thank you for your decades long work of advocacy and activism which is rare nowadays actually in San Francisco and i just want to say on behalf of my neighborhood, 65 of which. Thank you to everybody who came. I have mixed feelings for being honored on the rent board because im not done. I refuse to fade into the background. I will still here and i will work to save the homes of the thousands and thousands of people protected by rent control that are the heart and soul of the city i love. I was 22yearsold in 1979 when i fought alongside and worked for proposition r. Precursor of todays rent ordinance. I was 24yearsold when i co founded the forward abl affordag alliance. I was 28 when i was appointed by mayor feinstine as a rent board commissioner. While on the board, i had and raised two children. Built a legal career and Affordable Housing development. I fought and survived diagnosis of Breast Cancer. I was and i still am 62yearsold when i was removed from the board in a petty act of revenge by someone who doesnt know me or my work and i fear doesnt understand the work of the board. Rent control in San Francisco has been my lifes work. And will continue to be. Today, i want to thank all of you who came out to support me and to remind us all of the incredibly important work that the rent board does and urge and maybe even inspire all of you, all of us, to keep doing this work with diligence and integrity. Remembering the greater purpose of the work that the rent board does. For the rent board is more than a neutral arbitrary of economic and social relationships between landlords and tenants. We do more than smooth the bumps and soothe the conflicts that emerge in the often contentious relations of people in this city who have vastly different incomes, assets, property interests and economic and political power. The rent boards is described to safeguard tenants from excessive rent increases. And at the same time, to assure landlords fair and adequate rent. In my mind, this mission should be the boards touch stone to safeguard tenants from excessive rent increases to go the extra smile to interpret the ordinance always to safeguard tenants and their homes. To rent stabilization and through eviction protections, to prevent displacement of our less economically advantaged residents while being fair to landlords to maintain adequate rents. As ive said at so many rent board meetings, we arent just tenant commissioners furthering the interest of tenants and lard lord commissions furthering the interest of the landlords and newt tral commissions trying to keep the peace, we are an institution. Rent board staff and commissioners alike, tasks with enforcing a Consumer Protection tenant protective, anti displacement ordinance for the benefit of the entire population of our city all income levels, all races and ethnicity, all ages. All san franciscans. Six mayerthe six may ma mayors. Very few shared my ideals and few were supported by me when they ran for election but all of them, apparently, understand the importance of having strong articulate experienced Community Connected ten at representatives. I won some important battles at the board and i lost more than i won but i kept on working. All of us in the tenant community kept on working. We started in 1979 with an ordinance that was six pages long, had a twoyear sunset and was only adopted by the board of supervisors to head off a strong multi facetted rent control condo conversion and Affordable Housing ballot measure called prop r. But now, 40 years since the adoption of our rent control law, the ordinance has been amended 113 times by the board of supervisors in eight times by ballot measures. Its gone from six pages to 131 pages. It has gone from a week semblance of rent control called rent stabilization to the strongest rent control and eviction protection law it can be in a state that has cost hawkins holding us back. And this is happened because we have strong organizations like the tenants union, the Housing Rights Committee and the old saint marys housing committee, saint peters housing committee, the Community Tenants association and the Golden GatewayTenants Association and the stones town Tenants Associations and organizations too numerous to name and stayed within any kind of time limit. It has happened and its also happened because we have had electoral organizations like the Affordable Housing alliance whose elected supervisors like you who truly cared about low income residents and Affordable Housing. And had the principles and the guts to amend the rent ordinance time and again. All of you, and you, keep up the good work. I will too. [please stand by] 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.