Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 13, 2024

He said do you want to be principal and i said heck, no and you could put another word if for heck and i couldnt imagine taking mr. Truetts place and being there. Hes done such a fabulous job. And i said, if you say i have to do it, i have to do and its been the greatest honor of my life for certain. I have to thank all of the teachers, the faculty and you asked about the new shoes. So miss mccambey has taken over and shes been there many, many years and mission is in great hand. The antiracist teaching work, the social justice work will continue, will only deepen and get stronger and i couldnt be prouder of that. I also just have to say personally, as a child, my grandmother went to girls high school, which is the First High School for young women in San Francisco. My father, he went to sherman and marina and lowell and he went to schools in the city, as well. I was born in the city and it has been such an honor for me to be there and to be ail to d ablo the antiracist work but i do it on a personal level. Speaking of my family, my daughter was a tiny baby when i moved to mission and she literally took her first steps there and graduated from mission. Shes now studies creative writing and literature and feminist studies and said she couldnt have done it she said, i couldnt have done it without a Mission High School education. So what else can i say . It was time to move on but i love it deeply and i am humbled and incredibly grateful for this honor today, thank you. applause . That brings us to our last commendation by supervisor hainey. Thank you supervisor stephanie for declaring november veterans month or veterans awareness month. Yesterday was a day we were recognising the service of so many people to our country and also looking critically at some of the ways in which our veterans are often failed when they return home. And recommitting to be able to honor them and support them and celebrate them appropriately. With that, i have the privilege today to honor del seymour, one of our cities and one of my districts most wellknown and accomplished Community Leaders and also a veteran. Mr. Seymour served in the United States army, 82n 82nd airborne from june of 1967 to may of 1969. He was ranked as a specialist, five at the time of discharge, having received several soldier of the months awards and served during the washington riots of 1968 and a dustmethod in the com bode ycambodia region. Hes run the gamut from living on the streets, workings a taxi driver and becoming the advocate and leader we know him as today. Over the last decade, he has worked closely with organizations like glide memorial church, st. Anthonys and using his Life Experience to help inform and guide the service providers, many whom service veterans. Dale has served as the cochair of the local homeless coordinating board and has an appointed position with the sanfrancisco tl hip board. Dels deep love for the tenderloin is evidence to all that know him or have heard him speak. I heard him give a sermon at glide. He educated people and to set the record straight on an often ignored part of our city. It highlights the tenderloins rich Cultural Heritage and supports longtime residents and relative newcomers. In 2015, del cofounded tenderloin to perform the outstanding quality he saw in his neighborhood. A startup workforce, trains exprepares and places Community Members into Community Jobs and at the midmarket Tech Companies and businesses. Given the tremendous amount of work that del has done for the tenderloin, its no wonder that many know him as the mayor of tenderloin and this tight has beetitle hasbeen well earned. Its a rare day i walk around the tenderloin and dont see you. Youre always there as someone who is bringing people together and acknowledging and respecting and valuing everyones experience in our community, whos trying to get people to see each other and connect with each other and understand each other better. And youve you, to me, represent the best of San Francisco is and the neighborhood i live and andi know its something from your own experience as a veteran and in service and taking that experience, the good and the bad, the hard parts, the trauma, the suffering and also the commitment that came with that and bringing it in the way that you have to our community. So im really excited and grateful to be able to honour you today and also the many other veterans in our community. Thank you. Thank you. Ive been all around the world, arrived in the tenderloin 35 years ago, got out of my car and i thought they were shooting a movie. Point by 8 00 that night, i was in that movie. I went on to star in that movie for 18 years, life in the tenderloin. As a medic, a combat medic, i wasnt required to fight, didnt fight, my fight started when i got to the tenderloin. 18 years, i fought my addiction, most of the time. I fought my dignity, lost most of the time. I fought for my selfeesteem and lost most of the time and went on and on and on and i was able to get my military development and put my life on the right track. When you talk about del seymour, thats just a force. Hes my crew and thats where del seymour is. Im just the leader, or one of the members of a force that we tried to do. Some of the supervisors have been here for awhile, like supervisor peskin, and youll remember me coming here yelling and screaming years ago about Workforce Development and it didnt work. And i decided to go to work on it, because my idea of the way to manage homelessness is a paycollectpaycheck, not a wellfk but a paycheck, thats quality we havent had in the tenderloin for a long time and i want to thank the board here for that support of a lot of the things that i do in the tenderloin, special thanks to supervisor hainey. Hes like a oneman show that does everything when he was running for supervisor he was a friend i mean, i knew him as a friend before he decided to run. When he decided to run, i was thinking, will this be another politician that will promise a thousand things to do nothing . He promised a thousand things and hes done 999. And so its a pleasure to work with someone like him. And i work with a lot of other members on this board and i will continue to work on this board and i want to say this is an honor. In the last three yearses, i received an accommodation at the state capitol, the u. S. Capitol and at the white house and this is important to me. I have a space on my wall because this is from my folks, my family and my city and they know all about everything. So thank you so much for this opportunity, sir. [cheers and applause] so thank you. That includes our special commendations for today and well go to our special order, 3 00 p. M. Special order. Since we have three appeals before us relate red t to the pg departments Environmental Impact report, a conditional use authorization and a public works tentative map approval on the same project at 333 california street, please call items 2233 together. Ok. Items 2225 comprise the public hearing of persons interested in the certification of a final Environmental Impact report for the proposed mixed use project and project varient at 3333 california street. Item 23 is the motion to affirm the departments certification of the feir, item 24 is the motion to conditionally reverse the departments certification and item 25 is the motion to direct preparation of the findings. Items 2629 is the hearing of persons interested in the certification of a conditional use authorization for the planned development for the proposed project at 3333 california street. And items 27 is the motion to approve the decision of the Planning Commission to approve the conditional use authorization and item 28, conditionally approves the apartment approval of that conditional use and item 29 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings. Items 3033 compromise the hearings of persons interested in public works approving a tentative map for a 15 lot vertical subdivision and six 75 residential and newused projects at 3333 california street and item 31 is the motion to approve the public works decision, approving the tentative map and and item 32 to conditionally disapprove public works decision and item 33 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings. So again, colleagues, we have before us three appeals for the project at 3333 california street in district two. And we will hear all three appeals together. After the hearing, the board will vote on the planning departments final Environmental Impact reports certification and it takes six votes to either affirm or reverse the Planning Commissions determination. If the environmental determination is rejected, the conditional use authorization becomes moot. No other approval actions can take place and we will table those items. If the environmental determination is upheld, we will then vote on the conditional use authorization and then the tentative map determination. It requires eight votes to overturn the planning departments conditional use authorization or impose additional conditions. For this combined hearing, we will be considering whether to approve the Planning Commissions certification of the final Environmental Impact report for 3333 california street. Then the Planning Commissions conditional use authorization and then lastly, the public works determination of the tentative map. Since we are combining appeals, we revise our normal hearing procedures to provide speakers with a bit more time. So without objection, we will proceed as follows. Up to 15 minutes for a presentation by the appellants or appellants recipient an repe and i will ask speakers in support of the appeal to come up and speak for two minutes, if they want. Then after that, there will be up to 15 minutes for a presentation from the city departments. And then after that, up to 15 minutes for the project sponsor or the representative to present. Then i will ask speakers in opposition of the appeal, in order in support of the project, and give them two minutes per speaker and finally, up to five minutes for rebuttal by the appellants or appellants representative. So from the public, that want to make comments, please Pay Attention to when youll be coming up and i wont be asking if you miss that turn, then well going to have to skip that. So please note that you are here to speak at 3333 california, now would be the time, not the general public later in the meeting. Colleagues, any objections to proceeding this way . Seeing no objections, the public hearing is now open. Supervisor stephanie, would you have any opening remarks that you would like to share . Thank you, president yi. I want to thank you for explaining the appeals from us and laying out the process. I will reserve my comments until after the presentation ands will have questions on all three of these appeals, but out of respect to all of those who are here for Public Comment, i plan to reserve my questions until after Public Comment is finished, unless, of course, i need to clarify something. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no more names on the roster from my colleagues, i will now ask the appellant to come forward and to present their case. You have up to 15 minutes. President yi, before that starts, i conferred with counsel. So i want to let everybody know that because of the horrifically violent incident in chinatown, the mayor and i are doing a gathering in chinatown and so ive been and so i have to leave for that. I was completely prepared to come back, but ive been advised if i am not from the for a not a portion of the hearing, i should not be there for voting. So through the president to deputy city givener, in i can come back, but i wont be back for an hour. John giveneringner, if every supervisor who votes at the end of these hearings must be present for the full hearing or have watched the full hearing, that the board votes today and you miss a portion of the hearing, you cannot participate in the vote. If the board completes the hearing today and continues the items and votes next week and you watch the tape of the hearing over the course of the next week, then you could vote on the motions next week. Whatever the boards will is. Thank you. Why. There to site can be redeveloped with 744 Housing Units while preserving the significant features rather than destroying them. But the eir presented an inaccurate and inadequate analysis. Our association was the first to support the increase to 744 Housing Units, but it has opposed the new retail uses as unnecessary because the site is directly adjacent to laurel village. The firesmans front office is designed with a landscape that is integrated with building forums to create a seamless connection between indoor and outdoor spaces, a kind of green surround. Its listed on the california register of historical resources, which identifies the resources that deserve to be protected. And the landscaping was designed by the famous firm of williams with a terrace of the city, trees and beautiful shrubs and brick aligning with the window frames. We make the terrace Public Open Space that could be used for picnics and its the first thing the developer would tear down. And the site was designed with 110 varieties of trees, plants and ground cover to give it a parklike aspect and its believbeloved by the community. Theres 195 trees on site of 48 different species. The lawns and terrace banks along laurel are historically significant with views of the city and Golden Gate Bridge and have been used by the public for years. Although its prior owner had a 2011 survey, stating that it was eligible for listing as a historic resource, they concealed the historic significance from us until the eir scoping process began in september of 2017. By this time, the developer had designed the project without regard to the historic guidelines. When i last met with the developer, i said, you concealed this historic significance from us, but now weve got the site listed and the historic readaptation rules apply. They said forget the rules, do you like it. I said, yes, i thought that the seamless connection between the indoor spaces and landscaping was a brilliant idea. But they stated you wont resign this project. However, this process has run afoul of state sequa law but they admit the proposed project would cause a significant adverse change in the significance of the resource. Under sequa, use of the historic prescribed guidelines is the method of mitigating effects on a resource. Thats what theyre designed for but they were lawfully omitted from the mitigation section of the eri. Ir. These are called the secretary standards including specific guidelines that explain how adverse impacts on the resources can be mitigated. For example, a onestory addition on a multistory is acceptable. The eir is defective because it failed to describe mitigation measures that would reduce or avoid the proposed project exhibit impact on the resource through the use of these guidelines. Both mitigation measures and alternatives are required to be discussed in an eir and theyre both different things. And the eir only considered photographing and documenting the resource that would be destroyed, but this was insufficient to mitigate the effect. The emission of mitigation measures was prejudicial because it deprived the Decision Maker and the public of the full collection of Design Guidelines that could be used to mitigate the impacts by selecting some or all of the measures in the standards and guidelines to attaalter the design. This is evaluated as a fixed site plan and the alternative in the eir all have flaws and they do not present a full collection of the historic Design Guidelines. The city acknowledges that alternatives are more limited and refers to them as a package. Based on these omissions, the findings that were feasible, changes incorporated into the project to reduce significant effects and all significant effects have been substantially lessened are false and not supported by substantial evidence. The eir also inadequate analyzed alternatives to the project. After the Comment Period ended on the draft eir, the project dropped the fiveunit proposal and only included the 744 unit change to that being the project. However, the draft failed to analyze any alternative with approximately 744 units or anything close to that. The eir only presented alternatives witha 558, 629 and fewer residential units. The eir erroneously complained that two Community Alternatives, one of which is a 744unit, which im showing you here, were substantially similar to those discussed in the eir, but theyre not because there was nothing there 744 units, evaluatedded ievalevaluated in. About 5,000 square feet of office space in the Main Building and built New Buildings along california street including familysized fourstory flats. And it would involve less excavation of green space on laurel hill and be built in approximately four years rather than the 7 to 15 years that the developer would take. And giving the developer 15 years to build does not address the citys current housing crisis and will have no effect on reducing the price of housing if new housing is phased in over 15 years. The Community Alternative has much detail as the alternatives presented in the eir and sequa does not require an alternative to contain architectural drawings. They are assuming it would be larger than the Developers Unit sizes and have double corridors, excessive space and other things that they didnt have. So they would fit with two and threeusthreebedroom units andt use bigger units. Much adieu is made about the pathway the developer wants to cut through the middle of the Main Building, which is being used as an inadequate and ambig

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