City, especially anywhere somewhat close to us and finding housing for my son, he wanted to be a neighbor he grew up with and theres very little housing. I know that this development wont help my father whos passed away or my son, because its going to be a few years before its here, but it will help the neighborhood and it will help the area given the transportation node. Im i in support of the retail. As it is now, off can do is the bank and market. You have to walk down to philmore enjoy vibrant retail. I urge you to support this development, thank you. Next speaker. Good evening, supervisors, staff and members of the community. Im the director of organizing for the Northern CaliforniaCarpenters Union and here to talk on two issues. One is housing. California is short 3. 5 Million Units of housing. We build roughly 100,000 units a year. Were falling behind. Yet we put on hold 744 units, of which 187 of the units are affordable to seniors. Half of those units were designed with a familyfriendly design and 15,000 square feet of childcare, five acres of open space and it also has efficient and Renewable Energy systems and Waste Management that will minimum highs in the projects carbon footprint. The use of green roof, storm water capture systems, solar panel to improve the ecofriendliness of this project. So how can this appeal stand . Second issue, jobs. We have a chance to find jobs, job for apprentices, jobs for women and minorities, good head of household jobs with healthcare for whole families. The gc on this job will be web core. This is a big user of city build. Its an organization that you helped to establish. You see, there is to worker shortage, only an opportunity shortage. And we, the construction trades want the opportunity to build this project. As the do, i meet with directors from all over the country and we are blessed here in San Francisco with the Development Dollars and capable of construction hands, leaders that get it and all eyes are on us. Lets not scannedder this opportunitsquander thisopportund quality homes. Please deny the appeal on 3333 california, california future rests in your decision tonight. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Good evening. I realize im probably toward the end effort comments so ill be quick. Im on the board of northern neighbors and we are a district 2 organization, lively, walkable, safe and affordable throughout our district and we are out here to support this project whole heartedly. We think that more people building more housing is a great thing and it enlivening the neighborhood and its safer and it increases the businesses and creates a Great Organization like the jcc and we think that the shopping and the open space and the walkability will be greatly improved by having this project here. We urge you to approve this project without any further delay and also approve the 186 Affordable Homes for lowincome seniors which would be a great benefit because district 2 has built no lowincome Affordable Housing in the past ten years. Lastly, thank you, supervisor stephanie for your leadership here. Thank you very much. Thank you, next speaker. Im eddie seagel. Ive lived here my entire adult life. Like the previous speaker, im a board member at northern neighbors and i love living in in neighborhood and in strong support of this project and hope you deny the appeal. I along with many people in this room who arent homeowners in sanfrancisco face the progress inspects of increasing affordable rent and buying something to ensure longterm stability, we can forget about it. I have the privilege of a good job and housing security and district 2 has not just built no Affordable Housing but experienced a net loss because weve destroyed some of those units, a necessary loss. Snet loss. I know many supervisoe concerned about the concentration of Affordable Housing in your districts. Please help us to do our fair share. Theres 186 units from seniors. Almost nothing is better for putting people in the environment in carbon secularization. I take the 38r to work is and i hope to see my new neighbors on the bus with me and if we dont build this, there 744 worth of humans commuting in San Francisco via car. I look forward to meeting my new neighbors and hope you support this project. Thank you, next speaker. We neednt look further than one week ago for a proposition a e. And we also have a homeless crisis here in the city. Its gut wrenching to read stories about hardworking construction workers that find themselves homeless. If this bill starts today, its too late that they might find themselves homeless but how long will we delay projects like this when the people are calling before its too late for more and more people, thank you. Next speaker. Im so excited 3333 california has gotten this far. We have not done our fair share. In district 2, we are the most affluent district, the highest incomes of the entire city and put all of the growth in supervisors ronan and haineys and that means if my Property Value goes down, thats ok because we are in a housing crisis and so many people are struggling because we have a 4. 3 million housing deficit that we need to make up because we didnt allow this earlier. We didnt allow this 30 years ago. I know that these units off the bat will not be affordable but when my child who is 2 years old now, when shes at the age of potentially owning a home, perhaps they will be affordable. I hope we have many more projects like this in the future and i would like to see us doing more in district two and thank you, supervisor stephanie. Next speaker. Im nico nagel. Im representing the San Francisco housing coalition, for all homes of affordability. This organization was creating 20 years ago because we had this problem 40 years ago, which is that we delay housing and dont build enough of it and suddenly were surprised when we have a resulting crisis in displacement and a lack of affordability. These are ecentral to be building. 744 units is nothing to laugh at and a 25 affordability rate is brutal to build in this city. This project is doing it and they cant do it if we delay it too far. I want to address one thing that we heard from lots of folks which is that do trees have rights . Fair enough. Its a fair question. Trees are beautiful and theyre certainly a resource but this project addresses housing as a human right and i think that is the crisis that were seeing. Beyond that, a little more specifically, the site already has a large section that is paved. So i think that as an argument is ineffective and to an even greater degree, a lot of that pavement is a parking lot. The national se sierra clubs ags the best thing to do to mitigate our climate issues is to create housing dense housing near transit. Again, this project does that, 744 units worth of it. I thinks tha think thats all ir you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good evening, supervisors. Im robert fruckman and i would like to mention that district 2, where i think most, if not all of it is considered a high opportunity neighborhood by california which means the people have the highest cancer e of receiving quality healthcare and this is an area where we should prioritize housing. I would like to say one name to you, tracy. Its not the name of a person but it is the name of a city and i would like you to consider that there are 120,000 super commuters in the San Francisco bay area and that means theres 120,000 people who commute three miles or more per day and i want you to consider how far away that is. Maybe 55, 60, 70 miles away and now consider Greenhouse Gases emitted by all of the cars on the freeway everyday of the week. And think about 200 trees compared to 120,000 super commuters, many of whom are driving alone in their cars on the freeway, spewing Greenhouse Gases out of their tailpipes. What is the action to our Climate Emergency . To insist the status quo of people commuting from tracey and from north bay is the right answer . We are underbuilt home for decades and our Greenhouse Gas crisis is a result of that. I would like to ask, is a threehour meeting to approve dense infill with Affordable Housing a good solution to answer our crisis, because we have multiple crises. As far as im concerned, the longer we wait, the more feet we put in the grave. Thank you. Networknext speaker. Im owen. Im a sophomore student at the bay school and i am here to provide support for the approval of this project and the rejection of the appeal. This semester i have been working on researching the housing crisis we have in San Francisco. My biggest take away from the interviews i have conducted and studies i have looked at is that San Francisco is currently and chronically under building housing for years. And demand for housing far outpaces supply, which is why we have seen price increases that have pushed many from their homes and made San Francisco a city which is increasingly less successful. To solve this crisis, we head to build significantly more housing at all income levels. This project allowed muchneeded housings to the housing market. All these 744 total units, including 186 onsite affordable home for seniors wont serve or crisis alone but will be part of the solution. We need to stop demonizing developers and holding up new development for periods. This is necessary to make housing more affordable and accessible. This helps no one except to establish homeowners. Sanfrancisco has been definedded for being diverse, inclusive and welcoming to all but the housing crisis we have is threatening that reputation. Planning commission and all of you, do you care about these defining values, give your support to the approval of the project. If we dont build more housing, this problem will worsen, driving out more people and threatening the access to the city of cute and future generations. Thank you for listening. Thank you, next speaker. Each new housing unit created may open an existing housing space to a new resident speak ag vacancy and i hope everyone present will consider the possibility of either requesting that a tree be planted in front of their residence. Residence or volunteer with an organization and continue doing so or that they might plant appropriate trees in their backyards if their yard is presently absent such growth for their personal and responsible enjoyment, and also, subpoena environments are highly apprized by prospective tenants. Any other Public Comments . Thank you very much for the public for making comments. Ill now close Public Comments on this issue. Supervisor stephanie, theres five minutes for the right buttal. I would like to ask a question of staff before the rebuttal takes place. Go ahead. Through the chair, there has been a lot of comment about the trees and i just want to get very clear on it because, of course, its very important, so i would like someone from the city to come up and clarify this and based on our discussions, ken from the office of economic and workforce development, if you could please speak to the tree issue. Supervisor ken rich from oed. Weve been working closely on this project and i want to go back over and put into a Good Organization and context what youve heard and then bring up some more information, as well. So lets talk about the trees in groups. So first of all, there are the street trees and we understand from miss short that there are 15 street trees currently on the street at this site. Those are under this jurisdiction of the department of public works. To the extent those trees need to be moved because of the construction, they will be replaced by 88 new street trees under the direction of public works. The project sponsor will work with public works and get those planted and you heard from miss short some of the species considered. The second group of trees are what are called significant trees as miss short explained. The definition are those on private property within ten feet of the public rightofway and meet size qualifications. Currently, there are 18 tree expose 17 are in faiand17 are id there will be 49 new trees and those are the first two groups. The third group, which i think weve heard a bit about in the public testimony and iity i thik theres confusion is the site as a whole. What i would do so youre fully informed is ask the project sponsor to comeup and describe his plan for dealing with the rest of the trees on the site and then miss short will come up with one final thing to add to the conversation. As mr. Rich said, on the lefthand side of this image, those are the trees that weve been discussing that were within the jurisdiction of the city, the 15 street trees along california street and then the 17 significant trees. On the righthand side, you can see a few different colours. You can see the street trees around the site that will be installed with the proposed project, which total 88. And then you also see the dark green areas with the larger circles and those are 11 different trees that are on the site that are what were calling key trees that are being retained. And then the gold, which is inside the center of the site are the additional trees that were adding to the project will total over 500 trees and were more than doubling the number of trees on the site. This is an image of key trees. You can see there are large oak trees, cypress trees, monterey pine tree at the corner, at the top of the euclid green and the redwood trees that are on the east end of the site where were going to be adding a exhibit number of redwood trees. This is the overall site plan and you can see a significant number of trees and over five acres of open space and open area and just to be clear, the trees are incredibly important to us. We incorporated the existing trees into the initial Landscape Architecture of the project to design the buildings around those trees and also make those key areas publically accessible points. The current site, as you know, is really a walled off island. To give you an example of one image of what the project will look like when its completed, we are providing a large number of trees, more than two times as i mentioned and bio diversity and sustainability are designed into the project hav and have bn from the beginning. Thank you. Im carla short with the sanfrancisco public works. Its rare that we have a project that works with an arborist before the project is designed to identify which trees are considered noteworthy and important to preserve. So i feel like they should get some positive credit for that. 11 trees that theyre calling key trees and theyre all california native trees. There are native oaks, cypress and pine and i think working with an arborist to identify which trees are worth retaining is something we would like every project to do this San Francisco. But these trees are particularly important because theyre california natives and the oaks are San Francisco natives from a habitat perspective so they worked to try to preserve those significant key trees. Thank you. Anything else, supervisor stephanie . Then, lastly, i would like to invite the appellant to present a rebuttal argument. You will have up to five minutes. Thank you. Our expect alternative does not destroy over head, please does not destroy the california street tree. We keep the development within the Property Line. And here are the trees. Theres not a shred of evidence that theres anything infirm about these trees and i dont believe the arborist report dealt with the street trees. Theyre very, very robust. We had to raise money to determine whether the site was eligible for listing and to nominate it and thats why we raised early money. We obtained 800 signatures on a petition of residents against the rezoning supporting all residential use of the site and retaining green space. And the project is not transit oriented because it has four passengerloading zones on the perimeter that will attract uber and undermine the loading goals. They should be removed from the perimeter and theres no evidence that the developer demonstrated a need for these in the normal application process should be follo followed. When a project has been changed, case law makes it clear its not an excuse if a shifted project has the same footprint, location and environmental impacts. Because you need know the nature of a project to for formulate alternatives. A shifting project is an omission of law, which is a question of law. It is only factual issues that are determined under these substantial evidence rules. Sequa obtained many legal issue, such as is the evaluation of the significant effects adequate . Or is the range of alternatives reasonable and the court can review those. The misstatements of the Community Alternative were made by an employee of the developer who was not an expert and whose credentials are not in the record and this report was then taken to public works and they relied on it and their report expressly says that they relied on his report. Weve explained why it was a completely inaccurate misstatement. So here, you see has been renting the property for 5 million a year from the developer and also during their occupancy, he did not have to pay property tax. So he was not in any hurry to develop it. That accounts for some of the time, as does the historical nomination. To me, its very disturbing that the destruction of the street trees is symbolic of the wanton and unnecessary destruction of the historic site. So we hope that youll send this back to the drawing board to revise the project in accordance with the design standards. And as our expert explained, you used all of them that apply and many of them apply. You dont necessarily evaluate them independently as the city argued. Also, theres absolutely no evidence that the california street sidewalk needs to be widened. I measured it, its 15 feet wide. The better street only requires 15 feet at that location. So the construction can be kept inside the Property Line and doesnt need to be b widened whh was a justi