Districtdistricts, theyre suppo reassess in the rezoning district, the transbay and lower those. We know adding all of that access parking and every one has gone in with one per parking unit. These are all on top of the transit station where the sidewalks will be congested and the streets are congested and Pedestrian Safety is an issue. One thing we ask you to do is to look at how much parking youre putting in these districts and create parity. I was looking at the terminal and in row of buildings, this should be a plaza where there is a pedestrian street and instead its turned into a port. The automobile entrance comes out and in on catoma. Theyre slicing, it looks like a loading entrance to the bike lane on howard street. Its vehicle access from two different sides and you messed up every frontage. So i would ask, maybe, to consolidate those into one less parking in the projects. Again, people literally live in the terminal and that could be a parkfree project, and this seems to be a good place and secondly would be minimizing the impact, creating a nice share for luxury hotel guests is one thing but you compromise public spaces in a neighborhood where its crowded in the ground four public space and the piatsas become supported. Im here representing the project sponsor. Im sorry, youre here with the project sponsor team, your opportunity to speak was during the presentation. Ok. Thank you. We may have questions for y you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . Ok, with that Public Comment is closed. Commissioner moore . I would like to clarify that what is in front of us is the general plan amendment, not the specifics of the project. Every concern, voiced over shadow on tolerance is extremely important to us with a full commitment i made when we reviewed sales a few years ago and i voted against it because it cast a shadow that said any of the concerns are valid and extremely important to keep on the radar as we move forward, examining the project more closely and i hope that all Public Comments which were made today will be repeated during the meeting when we hear the project itself. What is in front of us today is simply to looking at the consolidation of designated zoning pe parcel and that is im appreciative of the public talking time to come out today and really comprehensively expressing all of their concerns. Im repeating myself, repeated, repeated. In november, when this project comes up for full approval, im in support of all of them and im aware and very concerned. However, at this moment, what i am looking at is the support for general plan amendments to bring this project forward, which on its own is a really interesting and good project. As a compositional piece, this is an extremely welldesigned building and very interesting and complements every we have done in the Transit Center. However, the concerns surrounding the specifics is very important to me and should be considered later next month. Commissioner fung . When i read the draft of the ordinance, is there anything in that that i missed that relates to either shadow or some of the other issues brought forth. Its the future. Thats what the commissioner eluded to. I want to make sure the draft does not reflect any comments on this. No, there will be a draft motion before you on or after november 21st, adopting the recommendation from the rec and park commission. You might note for my fellow commissioners that its highly unlikely ill be here on november 21st. I may be out of the country. Well, we need you. Good to know. Commissioner richards. Weve got a building thats fully baked. Zero tolerance means zero so im not in support of this and i wouldnwouldnt be able to go tp at night. November 21st is only 30 days away. Its not like theyll resign the whole project. So im going to say no. Commissioner moore . Im very disappointed to hear that if im correct, if i heard it correctly, that park and rec made a decision without consulting with us. Normally they have a joint meeting and discuss this matter. Can you clarify that, mr. Foster . In was a zero tolerance park and in 2012, when tcdp, the planned area was adopted, the ac ls for seven parks was increased from 0 to. 03 which would create a budget for parks ntcd, inclusive of this project. Presidenpresident procedurally, a commission. This was approved at on september 19th this year. This doesnt increase the amount of shadow, just the location, is that correct. Well, there is a net increase in shadow,. 01 . Its when you adopted the plan in 2012. When you meet with the when the two commissions meet jointly, its to look at the shadow budgets on each of the parks and you did that in 2012 for all of the parks affected by the towers and the Transit Center plan. This project is within this budget. Commissioner moore. Perhaps we should replay that meeting and on the awesomions presented because height limits in the transbay have been lifted or hired since that time. Someonsomeone needs to make a motion anyway. Commissioner johnson. So i am absolutely sympathetic and very concerned with the issues that have been brought forward by the community. I also think that on balance, this is a good project. I know that today, we are initiating a general plan amendment and i know that the community and the parties are continuing to have conversations about this project. And so, i think when i look at this project, it makes sense that we initiate the general plan amendment and actually hear the full project and give an opportunity to have a Community Conversation about the project before us. And therefore, i would move to initiate the general plan amendment. And schedule a hearing on or after november 21st. Yes. Is there a second, commissioners . I hear no second. Is there an alternative motion . Commissioner richards . I move to not initiate and not hold a hearing. Commissioner here . Could you procedurally explain to us what that means . I mean, if you dont initiate, then youre not initiating. Commissioner fung. I move to continue this until after november 21st. Second. You want to continue the initiation until after november 21st. Yes. So that would be december 5th. I would hope that in that initiating hearing, you can come back with different designs. [ laughter ] please. May i speak to that. Yes, go ahead. I wanted to be clear with the commission, its not possible to resign the building. To my point. Its fully baked. Thats not the problem. We would have to reduce it a 39 from a of 60. We heard from the chinatown communities that they have issues, with the willie woowoo, and so, i think that for me to support this, i would want it to have the full support of the community or at least neutral. I also heard mr. Dulavich say some things that were pretty important to me in terms of were impacting a playground in a community that is vastly underserved by open space for parking for hotel guests. So i think that, you know, theres other options to mitigate the impacts and i think if we give you a little bit of extra time that we may be able to work with the community and with folks to see what can be done. , to address their issues. Can i make one more procedural point . If the commission does not initiate the general plan amendments today, then we wont be able to hear the general plan amendments. They will not be before you so theyou onthe remainder of the entitlement. Im sorry. Can you explain that, jonas. I think they understand that. The initiation today prevents project from coming to you on november 21st. So that, basically, on december 5th, is for you to come back again for initiation of general plan amendments in a scheduled hearing in the future. There has to be a threeour fouryear gap and probably coming in 2020 as a result. For the balance of the entitlements. Thats right. Well that is certainly a disappointing outcome today. Thank you. Commissioners, theres a motion seconded to continue the general plan initiation to december 5th. On that motion, commissioner f fung. role call . So moved and that passes 50. Commissioners, case 2017 20170000565cwp for the Community Stabilization, policy and Program Inventory and informational presentation. For several years they have been working on expect stabilization issues and its fair to say that we started in a more kin kind of detailed and unknowing way with the 2020 work and we have taken that and expand it citywide with whats in front of you today. I think its fair and ive written me memos on this issue t the impacts of displacement with the citys growth is affecting the entire city right now. I think its fair to say that as a city in general, we are doing a substantial amount of work on Community Stabilization and were doing it in a number of different ways from across a number of different departments. And we also believe, of course, that we have do more. But i think we need to give ourselves a little credit in that the city is doing, frankly, fomore than i see any country in the city doing. And we probably should give the magnitude of the crisis here. I believe we can produce new housing, as well as stabilize our existing neighborhoods. As ive said many times, the department spends about 90 of its time on 10 of the city, on the production side of the house, if you will, and this work is about spending more of that time on the other 90 of the city that is being affected by the changes in the city. So we do need to do more on the other two peas, preservation and existing residence. This work andy will present is a daft, which essentially compiles and has no one place everything the city is doing to date and trying to move to the next level and understand how and where to expand those efforts. So with that, ill turn it over to andy nelson who will make a presentation. Thank you. Thank you, john. Good afternoon, commissioners. I want to apologize, we seem to have a bit of a technical snafu. Wait, theyre solving it. So im going to go ahead and start with the presentation and then we can pull it up and you all should have a copy of the presentation. Good afternoon, commissioners, im Andrea Nelson, planning staff with the citywide equity team. Im excited to share the public draft with you today. Before i start, lets to take a moment to think about our Broader Vision for the vulnerable populations we serve, such as people of colour, low income households, seniors, people with disabilities and people experiencing homelessness, among others. While it is a citywide responsibility, it is critical that we as the Planning Department take action to stabilize our communities and prevent displacement. This initiative is an opportunity for us do just that. So here is a general overview of what i will be covering today. First, i will set the context by touching on a few challenges facing the city and sharing a few of the citys existing policies and programs that seek to address these programs. Then i will share our process to assess the citys existing efforts in collaboration with Agency Partners, Community Stakeholders and the public. Last, i will share the key priorities moving forward. Im sorry, andy. If sf gov can go to the computer. Lets start with challenges. As we know, San Francisco continues to experience a vulnerability crisis. Over the past several years, we have seen demographic changes that illustrate these challenges. They have gained households and the city has undergone additional dem graphic changes, including the loss of the black population and hous households h children. Housing is the biggest challenge but nonprofits and artists are also pushed outside of our city. Im going to highlight three examples of our efforts. First, this is an Important Program in the city, preserving an affordable unit and removes housing insecurity issues for tenants on the other and generally less costly to acquire housing rather than build it and more effective to stabilize tenants rather than relocate them. Since 2014, 308 units have been acquired. When we talk about stabilization, its not just about housing, the city is defined by the diversity, culture and art. The Cultural Districts Initiative seeks to strengthen the unique cultural identities of San Franciscos neighborhoods. And to preserve and promote the cultural assets. There are currently seven districts partnering with a plan. In addition to this, the city manages numerous programs to retain and stabilize businesses. This is just one example. It is designed to retain didnt stabilize longstanding anchor businesses and institutions. Legacy businesses and their landlords are eligible to apply for business assistants and business stabilization rent stabilization grants. It includes dogeared books, the Cole Hardware and the roxy theatres, among others. Among the city efforts, we took stock as a city and looked to assess the citys existing portfolio of tools. Were wanted to unify them no one and identify priorities moving forward. We have very thankful to mohcd and the rent board, dbi, the department of homelessness and supportive housing, the art agency commission, among a number of others for their continued involvement. We also worked with representatives from 40 Community Organizations that implement, utilize or interact with the citys existing programs and policies that help to stabilize and prevent displacement. These include, but are not limited to the San Francisco apartment association, the sr collaborative, and the tenants union. We undertook broader efforts and more than 2300 residents pratted iprattedparticipated in the cit. We determined that there are three goals that we wanted to address in this initiative. The first is to protect and stabilize communities and we seek to mitigate ongoing displacement and we want to help vulnerable populations thrive and contribute to the citys culture and economy. So to achieve these goals, we worked with our Agency Partners to organize all of the citys existing efforts into four main categories ranging from tenant protects to Economic Development and a benefit of this is that we are able to share everything the city is doing no one place. This initiative primarily focuses on the citys work to protect tenants and preserve housing. The Housing Production houses are identified in element 2022. So there are two primary components of this initiative. The comprehensive policy are and program invent tor inventory ine assessments. Each of those ideas are qualified by the complexity, the quality, by the implementation resource needs and a couple of other qualities. And the ideas to future consideration have the potential to increase Community Stability and are available in an interactive website for people to understand them better and to sort. They have not been fully vetted for Legal Funding and feasibility consideration. And then out of that inventory, we summarize primary components into a report and an executive summary focusing on key elements for implementation which i will go over. But first i wanted to give you a sense of what one of these assessments looks like because there are a lot of them. This protects sros and tenants. The strengthening enforcement and we go into details on how that could happen. Moving on to key priorities. Based on Community Input and close yar coordination, key priorities are established listed on the slide. Two examples of specific key priorities are to expand rent subsidy programs which we currently have the city programs but mocd is working to expand it and incentivize the pdr or production and repair spaces and explore a lufi option. They are looking at this is a part of the citywood strategy. Citywide strategy. In addition, key priorities and potential city programs and policies. And while complex and challenges could substantially contribute to Community Stability, in the coming year, the city will assess the implementation of these different key priorities. So over the next couple of months, we will be gathering and compiling input on the public draft. The final report will be released by the end of the year and all of this will feed into the Housing Affordability strategy in 2022. But i want to end with commissioners, our city is you undergoing a great challenge. This is one of the most difficult issues most major cities are grappling with. How do we grow while protecting our most vulnerable populations. The Community Stabilization presents a decision for the decisionmakers and city agencies to take a strong stance and commit to new, bold policies and programs. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Any comments . We will take Public Comment on this item. Im the policy and planning developer and i wanted to talk some time to come out to support this initiative and also to provide some feedback on it. So a few years ago, tndc convene add group of neighborhood stakeholders in a group called the tenderloin Development WithoutDisplacement Initiative where we met for about a year, looked at data and worked with Andrea Nelson in the Planning Department to think about strategies unique to out neighborhood to ensure that the rate of displacement doesnt continue. And were really excited to see that. The strategies that we came up with are contained in this document. The two that we focused on in particular are expanding tenants rights education and also preservation. We have a goal of reaching a total of 40 of the tenderloin preserved as affordable housing, which is a big goal but were further ahead in that regard, at least. And so, to that note, one comment i want to provide is that i know in the city and in this document, theres a lot of talk around the small sites preservation but we want to ensure were talking about larger sites, the type of sites we see in the tenderloin and other densely populated places in the city that should be preserved. T